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Transcription: [00:20:02]
{SPEAKER name="Bill Wiggins"}
What you do is called stepping. Is that correct?

{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Well, yes.
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{SPEAKER name="Wiggins"}
When do you normally step? [[crowd noise in background]]
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
We step, uhh, like my line brother here Carleton says, he's my line brother because I pledged with him. I also pledged with John. It was 5 of us: the unbroken 5.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
We went over in '82, and see I'm talking right, right. Like Carlton said, we stepped everywhere; in the shower, anywhere.

If, you know it's, it's just a form of expression. We can do it any time like on the bus. Anywhere.

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{SPEAKER name="Wiggins"}
[background speaking] He said in the living room, where ever. But don't you have stepping contests or do you ever-

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{SILENCE}

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Yeah, we have various step competitions that we enter throughout the various years. Sort of keeps us in um practice.

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{SPEAKER name="Wiggins"}
Who would be involved in that? I mean, where would they be held?

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Um there are various organizations that give exhibitions or competition and um, you know they usually ask all the major organizations to you know come along and participate. The ladies and the gentleman.

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{SPEAKER name="Wiggins"}
How do they determine who wins?

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Um usually, the organization which comes out with the best step show and the most original, you know, routine is usually the winner.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
And that's determined by applause or what?

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Um, sometime by applause, most times by judges.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Alright.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 3"}
Does everybody know what stepping is?

Well, maybe we'll show you a little something right now.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Good. Go ahead, do a step.

{SPEAKER name="Speaker 4"}
[in background] Somebody give me a hand. Move those mics there. We need a little help here.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
We're going to move the mics.
We're going to move backwards.

{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
[to background] Is that enough? [to listeners] The step they are going to do is called the ultimate.
All of our steps have names and uh, you can check it out with the sayings and the wor-the words to the song.