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Transcription: [00:37:07]
{SPEAKER name="Jan DeLap/Shirley Schultz (interpreter)"}
Hello, testing, testing, 1, 2, 3. Yeah is it alright? Also, I want to introduce our interpreter Shirley, yeah. Schultz. If a man comes on and you hear a lady's voice ignore that. Listen to what we have to say.

[00:37:35]
Can you hear alright? How many of you are deaf?
{SILENCE}

Here, one deaf. Welcome, welcome, how many of you are hearing then?

[00:37:54]
Oh a big group. Do any of you know finger spelling or signs?
[00:38:03]
Finger spelling, what's that?
See those letters along the side of the tent? Those are, those hands, maybe you can spell, you may try to spell your own name a little later with your hand.
[00:38:20]
We have finger spelling and we have sign language.
Our show will be presented in sign language mostly, and we'll have some finger spelling jokes.
[00:38:37]
A lot of this is humor, maybe you may not understand but I'll be happy to explain if possible.

[00:38:48]
I have two people with me who are deaf, from deaf homes. Their parents are deaf, their grandparents are deaf, and I have one hearing man in our group. No deafness in his family but he works with a lot of deaf people, and I myself come from a home whose father is hearing, whose mother