Opening ceremony
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Oct 8, 2026
Mike McCabeHOST
Absolutely.
Mike McCabeHOST
Opening ceremony was fantastic.
Mike McCabeHOST
Why don't you talk a little bit about that and what that took to be put together?
Joshua HartmanHOST
Yeah, sure.
JayHOST
Fuck.
JayHOST
It's 3.26 and it looks like Hayden's about to start the opening ceremony.
JayHOST
So we are going to gather around the front.
JayHOST
So
Kevin QuigleyHOST
So that's just the athletes.
Kevin QuigleyHOST
So when Walt was, was planning the, the Opening Ceremonies, he said, "Nothing is more important than creating lasting goodwill among our visitors, and we shall do everything we can to, to make their stay a happy one." So the Opening Ceremonies included 5,000 entertainers.
Kevin QuigleyHOST
The release of, well, they said it was doves, but it was 20- 2,000 pigeons, uh, a military gun salute of eight shots, uh, and one for each of the previous Winter Olympics Games.
Kevin QuigleyHOST
So this was a huge, huge deal.
Alan GingrichHOST
So you go through it pretty quickly.
Alan GingrichHOST
And really by about 20 after five, we're ready to do opening ceremonies before they leave, get all that stuff out of the way.
Alan GingrichHOST
and that opening ceremonies is also a fun thing for me i love that you know it has some some stats put together you know the top sires represented here in the finals the the top dams and uh uh other things you know one of the new category ahead was the dog that shows up the sire that shows up the most or a male dog that shows up the most in three generation pedigrees of all of them combined and the same thing with the females you know it's uh I thought that was a cool category.
Alan GingrichHOST
You know, there's a rodeo who happens to be a world champion was one.
Alan GingrichHOST
And ironically, the female was the same.
AlexHOST
Spartans, Edinburgh City, Hibernian Hearts, Murrayfield, the Scottish Rugby Stadium, Falkirk, Stirling Albion and Ibrox, the home of Rangers.
AlexHOST
And Ibrox, of course, was around the corner from the opening ceremony venue.
SheldonGUEST
Which was
AlexHOST
where we start our story.
SheldonGUEST
Yes.
SheldonGUEST
I
AlexHOST
thanked her with a ticket to the opening ceremony.
SheldonGUEST
Yeah, that's what you did.
Angela CoreyGUEST
And Ruth put together photos and slideshows and PowerPoint.
Angela CoreyGUEST
And by the time it came to her ribbon cutting ceremony at the end of all this, and I'm skipping ahead, she had a portfolio of her whole project and the beginning and the end and the scratch notes and then the pictures of all the process.
Angela CoreyGUEST
And Greenstone connected us with Iggy's cement and just watching those guys wheelbarrow down cement to the raw piece of land and then Ruth getting to be able to help put in the cement and being able to smooth it she got to be a part of the cement process and just all these different timing of things and we actually saw one of the guys moving a sprinkler head that was in the way because the cement was where the sprinkler was So it's all these little details that she sees us do in our own yard.
Angela CoreyGUEST
But this was getting done by other people that are contracted to work in that HOA property.
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Ruth CoryGUEST
And so we got one of the guys' emails at CREM.
Ruth CoryGUEST
And my mom just went back and forth with him about a good time.
Ruth CoryGUEST
And then Chris and Joe from Altec came and I had three bikes donated to give away at the ribbon cutting.
Ruth CoryGUEST
And so I got to show what a bike looks like on the stand and like what the tools are.
Ben Van CampHOST
Yeah.
Ben Van CampHOST
We're really psyched about that and look forward to that ribbon cutting.
Ben Van CampHOST
That'll be fun.
Ben Van CampHOST
Yes.
Ben Van CampHOST
Awesome.
Ben Van CampHOST
That'd be a great time.
Ben Van CampHOST
And we'll have to come up with like a really fun way to do that ribbon cutting.
Ben Van CampHOST
I don't know.
CarissaGUEST
That's right.
CarissaGUEST
So you need to be there, I would say get there, not you, but if you wanna see Donovan be the MC of opening ceremony for this year's, the 140th year of the State Fair of Texas-
Donovan LewisHOST
And I have something special planned
CarissaGUEST
... be there by, yeah, be there by 6:30.
CarissaGUEST
He has something.
CarissaGUEST
It's gonna start off.
CarissaGUEST
You wanna be there right at the beginning of opening ceremony for what Donovan has in store.
Donovan LewisHOST
There we go.