February 6, 2025 • 10 mins
Today we are talking with our OHS school nutrition team and a student who is using artistic talents to bring great fun and joy to others each day during lunch.
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SPEAKER1:
Each and every student in the OSD has unique interests,
talents, and passions. (00:03):
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One of the best things about being a superintendent is having a front row seat to watching our kids pursue their interests and what is important to them.
Today, we are talking with our OHS school nutrition team and a student who is using her talents to bring great fun and joy to others each day
(00:29):
through lunch art.
SPEAKER2: Welcome to this episode of Inside the OSD podcast, where it's all about the kids. (00:32):
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Here is your host, lifelong educator and our superintendent, Doctor Leslie Bergstrom.
SPEAKER3: Hello, and welcome to the OSD. Could we please introduce yourself to our listeners? (00:47):
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SPEAKER4: Um, hello. My name is Calvin J. Pettit. Um, that's my name. (00:53):
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Yes.
SPEAKER3: Very nice to meet you, meet you, Calvin. (00:59):
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SPEAKER4: It's a pleasure to meet you, Doctor Bergstrom. (01:00):
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SPEAKER3: Thank you. So you are illustrating the lunch menus at OHS every day? (01:02):
undefined
SPEAKER4: Well, yes. Yes, I have for the past few months, I believe. (01:07):
undefined
SPEAKER3: Okay, so tell us how you started doing this and what it entails. (01:10):
undefined
SPEAKER4: So I started doing this just because, you know, I feel, you know, that, um, I just felt like, (01:14):
undefined
you know, when I was younger, I remember going into--I had a teacher.
I forgot her name, but she was an English teacher, and she, you know, she had this large bulletin board in her room next to her
(01:37):
chalkboard. And on it, she would she would decorate it for different seasons and different holidays.
So she had a paper, Halloween decorations and Christmas decorations and I, I always remembered that.
And I always loved going in and seeing that.
So what happened was, is, is that it was it was October and it was coming up on our homecoming game.
(01:59):
And I was like, "well, let's do some fun things for homecoming, some fun themed things," because we had themed days going up to homecoming,
right? So I asked if I could start doing the board and start doing art on it, and they said yes.
So I've been, um, drawing illustrations and writing down the weekly lunch menus on this whiteboard over there and
(02:23):
doing fun illustrations. And I've been doing it ever since, and I've been loving it.
SPEAKER3: Well, you started to share a little bit about why it's important to you, but tell us more about that. (02:27):
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Why is it important to you to dedicate that kind of time?
I mean, you're doing really cool stuff. Thank you.
What makes this something that you want to spend your time on?
SPEAKER4: Well, as I said, um, it's it's mainly just because, you know, I want to make people happy. (02:40):
undefined
You know, I look around every day and I see, you know, lots of people as I walk through the halls of this building and,
you know, walk down the street or ride my bike.
And I've, you know, I've realized that a lot of people, you are-- yeah, I, I don't want to say sad,
(03:03):
but a lot of people are just, you know, just like, "eh," you know?
SPEAKER3: You want to add more joy. (03:07):
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SPEAKER4: I want to I want to add more joy to people's lives. (03:08):
undefined
You know, I, you know, humans live for only about, you know, let's say 100 years.
SPEAKER3: So that's generous. (03:16):
undefined
SPEAKER4: That's a generous amount. That's a generous amount. (03:18):
undefined
But, you know, I just I, I want to spend, you know, I want to spend each day of my life making other people's lives
happier and making others lives, you know, better.
So if that means using my, um, artistic abilities to, um, you know,
(03:44):
do that, then it's just what I gotta do.
SPEAKER3: Yeah. You're making people smile, right? (03:46):
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SPEAKER4: Yeah. (03:48):
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SPEAKER3: Thank you. Yeah. So what will you take from this experience if you look back, look back on this ten years from now, (03:49):
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what do you think you'll think about your your illustrations brightening people's days?
SPEAKER4: Well, you know what I think is that I--You know, I'd hope that it made somebody's day happier. (04:00):
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You know, I, you know, I just, you know, I go and I do this and I really and I don't know if
that many people notice it. You know, I don't know if many people care, but, you know,
(04:21):
if it makes at least one person's day a little bit brighter, a little bit happier.
SPEAKER3: Yeah. (04:26):
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SPEAKER4: Then that's all I need. (04:26):
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SPEAKER3: Absolutely. Calvin you don't--It doesn't need to impact everybody. Sometimes just one person is enough, (04:29):
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right? Yes I love that. Thank you. And now we're going to move to our school nutrition team.
So could you two please introduce yourselves and your background in the OSD?
SPEAKER5: I'm Erica Kypreos. I am the lead here at the high school kitchen. (04:44):
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I am also a mom of four students in the district.
I am
SPEAKER6: Bri Noyce. I am a cook at the Oregon High School. (04:53):
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I also graduated from Oregon, and I have three kids going to the Oregon School District as well.
SPEAKER3: I love that you not only work here, but your kids are here. (05:03):
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And I know you're a graduate because I was your assistant principal, so I love that.
Yeah. Um, when Calvin came to you to offer this service, what was your reaction?
SPEAKER5: Absolutely. I mean, it took it took something off of our day, you know? (05:18):
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SPEAKER3: Yeah. (05:22):
undefined
SPEAKER5: Some days we were writing when the kids are walking in and. (05:23):
undefined
SPEAKER6: Um, you got, like, a joy to it. (05:27):
undefined
SPEAKER5: Yeah. He did. (05:29):
undefined
SPEAKER6: I mean, during Christmas time, every day. (05:30):
undefined
It was a different Christmas movie up there.
It was so cool. I loved it.
SPEAKER5: Yeah. I mean, just all the homecoming, like you said, was was always a fun, uh, (05:37):
undefined
creation, but it was it kind of started with Calvin coming in every day and like,
"oh, the kitchen smells good. What are you making today?" And us having conversations around the lunch and food and,
you know, and him just coming in.
SPEAKER3: And spreading joy. (05:57):
undefined
SPEAKER5: Yeah. Just having a conversation with us. (05:58):
undefined
And so that's kind of how I feel like it morphed into this.
"Well, can I do this?" I was like, "yeah, have it.
Like, go for it. Let's, you know, you enjoy it.
I'm happy you enjoy it." Thank you. It makes me happy to see you enjoying it.
SPEAKER4: I'm happy. I'm happy (06:14):
undefined
SPEAKER5: you're happy. (06:15):
undefined
SPEAKER6: You also like to come in with new ideas. (06:17):
undefined
Yes, yes. He was thinking about doing getting kids excited about all different food and gives us great ideas to think about maybe doing a raisin day?
SPEAKER4: Yeah. (06:29):
undefined
SPEAKER6: Raisin day. Excited about (06:29):
undefined
SPEAKER4: raisins (06:31):
undefined
SPEAKER6: again. (06:31):
undefined
SPEAKER4: Raisins-- (06:32):
undefined
SPEAKER6: Okay, tell me about this. (06:32):
undefined
SPEAKER4: Um, well, Raisin Day is a concept I thought of. (06:35):
undefined
I, I realized that we had a surplus of raisins in in our, like, stock.
Um, and when students would buy them, if they would buy them, they wouldn't buy them for,
you know. "Oh, raisins. I'm gonna eat these." It's "oh raisins.
(06:57):
I'm gonna use this so I can actually, you know, get lunch at a good price" because it comes as,
like, a package deal. You have to--anyway.
So they're like. And then they would just, you know, discard them or throw them around,
you know, not like, like classic, like, food fight stuff, but, you know, they just discard them.
And I was like, "well, your raisins used to be liked.
Raisins used to be cool." You know?
SPEAKER3: I still like (07:18):
undefined
SPEAKER6: them. (07:19):
undefined
SPEAKER4: Yeah. So I was like, "what do we what--what can we do to both get rid of the surplus of raisins and actually have students eat them?" I thought of this (07:19):
undefined
thing. It's like, I believe it's April 30th.
April 31st is National Raisin Day in the United States.
Okay. So what I thought of is have I'm gonna it's like, you know, have people wear purple--challenge people to wear purple.
(07:46):
Then they come in, you get free boxes of raisins, you get like, um, food with raisins in,
like, raisin bread, oatmeal raisin cookies.
I have a ton of those. You know, those little, like the ads for raisins with the dancing
SPEAKER3: raisins singing. For sure. The Motown, the grapevine. (08:01):
undefined
Yeah yeah.
SPEAKER4: Yeah. The Motown. Yeah. I have a ton of those figures and those little, like, puppets, (08:04):
undefined
the stop motion ones, I, I, I'm a, I'm a puppeteer.
I build stuff like that. Wow. So I decorate it with that.
I have a, I have a costume from Halloween a few years ago.
Well, not a few years ago, but a while ago of one of those raisins.
(08:25):
And I was thinking about dressing up and, you know, doing the dance, you know, having the music playing.
SPEAKER3: I have to put this on my calendar because I want to see people (08:31):
undefined
SPEAKER4: love raisins again. Right. We had the same problem in the 80s. (08:35):
undefined
We had this problem now . Let's do Raisin Day!
You know, it's just something dumb I thought of in class.
SPEAKER3: Dumb, but not dumb. This can be really cool, right? (08:47):
undefined
Yes, exactly.
SPEAKER4: I just--it was just one of those thoughts, like a shower thought kind of. (08:52):
undefined
So that's that's that's my concept of Raisin Day.
SPEAKER3: We'll have to find more ways for you to spread joy, Calvin, because you've certainly spread it to me today. (09:00):
undefined
I really love that conversation.
SPEAKER5: Just having conversation with him every day like this. Yeah. (09:07):
undefined
Is like, we look forward to it.
SPEAKER4: So thank (09:13):
undefined
SPEAKER5: you. You say you hope you bring joy to one person. (09:13):
undefined
You bring a test to the kitchen every day when you step in.
Thank you.
SPEAKER6: Sometimes we look out there. (09:19):
undefined
SPEAKER5: Calvin. (09:20):
undefined
SPEAKER6: Yeah. Yeah, yeah. (09:21):
undefined
SPEAKER3: Is there anything the two of you would like to add about our school nutrition program? (09:24):
undefined
SPEAKER5: Um, no, I mean, not really. We enjoy what we do. (09:28):
undefined
We enjoy these kinds of connections with our students.
SPEAKER3: Absolutely. (09:34):
undefined
SPEAKER5: Um, aside from, you know, being the ones that feed them, we like having relationships and friendships and getting to know each individual (09:35):
undefined
student as much as we can.
SPEAKER3: And it makes it all worthwhile, doesn't it? (09:44):
undefined
SPEAKER5: It does. (09:47):
undefined
SPEAKER3: It really (09:47):
undefined
SPEAKER5: does. Parents here and we kind of I feel like, "how do I want other schools to treat my kids?" So, (09:48):
undefined
you know, that's how I want to go about our day and with everybody else's students.
So.
SPEAKER3: Well, thank you both for that very much. (10:01):
undefined
And thank you, Calvin. Um, like I said, you made my day, and I'm coming back on Raisin Day.
Thank you. I can't wait to see it.
SPEAKER4: We'd love to have you. (10:11):
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SPEAKER3: Thank you. (10:12):
undefined
SPEAKER4: At least I (10:12):
undefined
SPEAKER3: would. I appreciate that. (10:13):
undefined
SPEAKER1: Remember that you can find links to all episodes of Inside the OSD and submit topic ideas on our website at Oregon (10:16):
undefined
SD.org/podcast. You can find this podcast anywhere you can find podcasts.
Make sure to subscribe if you're listening on one of these apps to get notifications on the most recent episodes.
(10:37):
We'll see you next time on Inside the OSD, where it's all about the kids.
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One of the best things about being a superintendent is having a front row seat to watching our kids pursue their interests and what is important to them.
Today, we are talking with our OHS school nutrition team and a student who is using her talents to bring great fun and joy to others each day
(00:29):
through lunch art.
SPEAKER2: Welcome to this episode of Inside the OSD podcast, where it's all about the kids. (00:32):
undefined
Here is your host, lifelong educator and our superintendent, Doctor Leslie Bergstrom.
SPEAKER3: Hello, and welcome to the OSD. Could we please introduce yourself to our listeners? (00:47):
undefined
SPEAKER4: Um, hello. My name is Calvin J. Pettit. Um, that's my name. (00:53):
undefined
Yes.
SPEAKER3: Very nice to meet you, meet you, Calvin. (00:59):
undefined
SPEAKER4: It's a pleasure to meet you, Doctor Bergstrom. (01:00):
undefined
SPEAKER3: Thank you. So you are illustrating the lunch menus at OHS every day? (01:02):
undefined
SPEAKER4: Well, yes. Yes, I have for the past few months, I believe. (01:07):
undefined
SPEAKER3: Okay, so tell us how you started doing this and what it entails. (01:10):
undefined
SPEAKER4: So I started doing this just because, you know, I feel, you know, that, um, I just felt like, (01:14):
undefined
you know, when I was younger, I remember going into--I had a teacher.
I forgot her name, but she was an English teacher, and she, you know, she had this large bulletin board in her room next to her
(01:37):
chalkboard. And on it, she would she would decorate it for different seasons and different holidays.
So she had a paper, Halloween decorations and Christmas decorations and I, I always remembered that.
And I always loved going in and seeing that.
So what happened was, is, is that it was it was October and it was coming up on our homecoming game.
(01:59):
And I was like, "well, let's do some fun things for homecoming, some fun themed things," because we had themed days going up to homecoming,
right? So I asked if I could start doing the board and start doing art on it, and they said yes.
So I've been, um, drawing illustrations and writing down the weekly lunch menus on this whiteboard over there and
(02:23):
doing fun illustrations. And I've been doing it ever since, and I've been loving it.
SPEAKER3: Well, you started to share a little bit about why it's important to you, but tell us more about that. (02:27):
undefined
Why is it important to you to dedicate that kind of time?
I mean, you're doing really cool stuff. Thank you.
What makes this something that you want to spend your time on?
SPEAKER4: Well, as I said, um, it's it's mainly just because, you know, I want to make people happy. (02:40):
undefined
You know, I look around every day and I see, you know, lots of people as I walk through the halls of this building and,
you know, walk down the street or ride my bike.
And I've, you know, I've realized that a lot of people, you are-- yeah, I, I don't want to say sad,
(03:03):
but a lot of people are just, you know, just like, "eh," you know?
SPEAKER3: You want to add more joy. (03:07):
undefined
SPEAKER4: I want to I want to add more joy to people's lives. (03:08):
undefined
You know, I, you know, humans live for only about, you know, let's say 100 years.
SPEAKER3: So that's generous. (03:16):
undefined
SPEAKER4: That's a generous amount. That's a generous amount. (03:18):
undefined
But, you know, I just I, I want to spend, you know, I want to spend each day of my life making other people's lives
happier and making others lives, you know, better.
So if that means using my, um, artistic abilities to, um, you know,
(03:44):
do that, then it's just what I gotta do.
SPEAKER3: Yeah. You're making people smile, right? (03:46):
undefined
SPEAKER4: Yeah. (03:48):
undefined
SPEAKER3: Thank you. Yeah. So what will you take from this experience if you look back, look back on this ten years from now, (03:49):
undefined
what do you think you'll think about your your illustrations brightening people's days?
SPEAKER4: Well, you know what I think is that I--You know, I'd hope that it made somebody's day happier. (04:00):
undefined
You know, I, you know, I just, you know, I go and I do this and I really and I don't know if
that many people notice it. You know, I don't know if many people care, but, you know,
(04:21):
if it makes at least one person's day a little bit brighter, a little bit happier.
SPEAKER3: Yeah. (04:26):
undefined
SPEAKER4: Then that's all I need. (04:26):
undefined
SPEAKER3: Absolutely. Calvin you don't--It doesn't need to impact everybody. Sometimes just one person is enough, (04:29):
undefined
right? Yes I love that. Thank you. And now we're going to move to our school nutrition team.
So could you two please introduce yourselves and your background in the OSD?
SPEAKER5: I'm Erica Kypreos. I am the lead here at the high school kitchen. (04:44):
undefined
I am also a mom of four students in the district.
I am
SPEAKER6: Bri Noyce. I am a cook at the Oregon High School. (04:53):
undefined
I also graduated from Oregon, and I have three kids going to the Oregon School District as well.
SPEAKER3: I love that you not only work here, but your kids are here. (05:03):
undefined
And I know you're a graduate because I was your assistant principal, so I love that.
Yeah. Um, when Calvin came to you to offer this service, what was your reaction?
SPEAKER5: Absolutely. I mean, it took it took something off of our day, you know? (05:18):
undefined
SPEAKER3: Yeah. (05:22):
undefined
SPEAKER5: Some days we were writing when the kids are walking in and. (05:23):
undefined
SPEAKER6: Um, you got, like, a joy to it. (05:27):
undefined
SPEAKER5: Yeah. He did. (05:29):
undefined
SPEAKER6: I mean, during Christmas time, every day. (05:30):
undefined
It was a different Christmas movie up there.
It was so cool. I loved it.
SPEAKER5: Yeah. I mean, just all the homecoming, like you said, was was always a fun, uh, (05:37):
undefined
creation, but it was it kind of started with Calvin coming in every day and like,
"oh, the kitchen smells good. What are you making today?" And us having conversations around the lunch and food and,
you know, and him just coming in.
SPEAKER3: And spreading joy. (05:57):
undefined
SPEAKER5: Yeah. Just having a conversation with us. (05:58):
undefined
And so that's kind of how I feel like it morphed into this.
"Well, can I do this?" I was like, "yeah, have it.
Like, go for it. Let's, you know, you enjoy it.
I'm happy you enjoy it." Thank you. It makes me happy to see you enjoying it.
SPEAKER4: I'm happy. I'm happy (06:14):
undefined
SPEAKER5: you're happy. (06:15):
undefined
SPEAKER6: You also like to come in with new ideas. (06:17):
undefined
Yes, yes. He was thinking about doing getting kids excited about all different food and gives us great ideas to think about maybe doing a raisin day?
SPEAKER4: Yeah. (06:29):
undefined
SPEAKER6: Raisin day. Excited about (06:29):
undefined
SPEAKER4: raisins (06:31):
undefined
SPEAKER6: again. (06:31):
undefined
SPEAKER4: Raisins-- (06:32):
undefined
SPEAKER6: Okay, tell me about this. (06:32):
undefined
SPEAKER4: Um, well, Raisin Day is a concept I thought of. (06:35):
undefined
I, I realized that we had a surplus of raisins in in our, like, stock.
Um, and when students would buy them, if they would buy them, they wouldn't buy them for,
you know. "Oh, raisins. I'm gonna eat these." It's "oh raisins.
(06:57):
I'm gonna use this so I can actually, you know, get lunch at a good price" because it comes as,
like, a package deal. You have to--anyway.
So they're like. And then they would just, you know, discard them or throw them around,
you know, not like, like classic, like, food fight stuff, but, you know, they just discard them.
And I was like, "well, your raisins used to be liked.
Raisins used to be cool." You know?
SPEAKER3: I still like (07:18):
undefined
SPEAKER6: them. (07:19):
undefined
SPEAKER4: Yeah. So I was like, "what do we what--what can we do to both get rid of the surplus of raisins and actually have students eat them?" I thought of this (07:19):
undefined
thing. It's like, I believe it's April 30th.
April 31st is National Raisin Day in the United States.
Okay. So what I thought of is have I'm gonna it's like, you know, have people wear purple--challenge people to wear purple.
(07:46):
Then they come in, you get free boxes of raisins, you get like, um, food with raisins in,
like, raisin bread, oatmeal raisin cookies.
I have a ton of those. You know, those little, like the ads for raisins with the dancing
SPEAKER3: raisins singing. For sure. The Motown, the grapevine. (08:01):
undefined
Yeah yeah.
SPEAKER4: Yeah. The Motown. Yeah. I have a ton of those figures and those little, like, puppets, (08:04):
undefined
the stop motion ones, I, I, I'm a, I'm a puppeteer.
I build stuff like that. Wow. So I decorate it with that.
I have a, I have a costume from Halloween a few years ago.
Well, not a few years ago, but a while ago of one of those raisins.
(08:25):
And I was thinking about dressing up and, you know, doing the dance, you know, having the music playing.
SPEAKER3: I have to put this on my calendar because I want to see people (08:31):
undefined
SPEAKER4: love raisins again. Right. We had the same problem in the 80s. (08:35):
undefined
We had this problem now . Let's do Raisin Day!
You know, it's just something dumb I thought of in class.
SPEAKER3: Dumb, but not dumb. This can be really cool, right? (08:47):
undefined
Yes, exactly.
SPEAKER4: I just--it was just one of those thoughts, like a shower thought kind of. (08:52):
undefined
So that's that's that's my concept of Raisin Day.
SPEAKER3: We'll have to find more ways for you to spread joy, Calvin, because you've certainly spread it to me today. (09:00):
undefined
I really love that conversation.
SPEAKER5: Just having conversation with him every day like this. Yeah. (09:07):
undefined
Is like, we look forward to it.
SPEAKER4: So thank (09:13):
undefined
SPEAKER5: you. You say you hope you bring joy to one person. (09:13):
undefined
You bring a test to the kitchen every day when you step in.
Thank you.
SPEAKER6: Sometimes we look out there. (09:19):
undefined
SPEAKER5: Calvin. (09:20):
undefined
SPEAKER6: Yeah. Yeah, yeah. (09:21):
undefined
SPEAKER3: Is there anything the two of you would like to add about our school nutrition program? (09:24):
undefined
SPEAKER5: Um, no, I mean, not really. We enjoy what we do. (09:28):
undefined
We enjoy these kinds of connections with our students.
SPEAKER3: Absolutely. (09:34):
undefined
SPEAKER5: Um, aside from, you know, being the ones that feed them, we like having relationships and friendships and getting to know each individual (09:35):
undefined
student as much as we can.
SPEAKER3: And it makes it all worthwhile, doesn't it? (09:44):
undefined
SPEAKER5: It does. (09:47):
undefined
SPEAKER3: It really (09:47):
undefined
SPEAKER5: does. Parents here and we kind of I feel like, "how do I want other schools to treat my kids?" So, (09:48):
undefined
you know, that's how I want to go about our day and with everybody else's students.
So.
SPEAKER3: Well, thank you both for that very much. (10:01):
undefined
And thank you, Calvin. Um, like I said, you made my day, and I'm coming back on Raisin Day.
Thank you. I can't wait to see it.
SPEAKER4: We'd love to have you. (10:11):
undefined
SPEAKER3: Thank you. (10:12):
undefined
SPEAKER4: At least I (10:12):
undefined
SPEAKER3: would. I appreciate that. (10:13):
undefined
SPEAKER1: Remember that you can find links to all episodes of Inside the OSD and submit topic ideas on our website at Oregon (10:16):
undefined
SD.org/podcast. You can find this podcast anywhere you can find podcasts.
Make sure to subscribe if you're listening on one of these apps to get notifications on the most recent episodes.
(10:37):
We'll see you next time on Inside the OSD, where it's all about the kids.
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