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CAR TALK · One on One With a Professional

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  Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning, Welcome, welcome, welcome, the
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  Speaker 1: bright sunshiny turnsday.
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  Speaker 2: And you know what that means.
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  Speaker 1: It's time for Car Talk with Brad Duness with Dungeons Toyota.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Brad, Good morning Tom. It is a beautiful
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  Speaker 2: day out.
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  Speaker 1: There today, the the as you have said before, the
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  Speaker 1: sun glistening off the new cars.
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  Speaker 2: And I need my foster grain.
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  Speaker 1: You got some sunglasses here there you go, my my pupils.
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  Speaker 1: I just well, that's uh, we're we had this brainstorm
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  Speaker 1: this week. We're thinking about changing the name of the
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  Speaker 1: show from Car Talk to something else, maybe Welcome Home.
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  Speaker 1: Oh wait cool and not like that, maybe a little better.
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  Speaker 1: I I just I mean car Talk is kind of
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  Speaker 1: was a thing at one point, right.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think they're a thing anymore, so you don't
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  Speaker 2: care that much.
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  Speaker 1: But but it is we talk about cars a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: b little bit.
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  Speaker 2: A little bet uh you know, I thought takes you
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  Speaker 2: from home to home.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe get get a little bit more uh more personal.
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  Speaker 1: I like it's because it's really not about cars so
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  Speaker 1: much is Bartlesville and what's going around on around Bartlesville community.
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  Speaker 1: And we've got I have some friends from Young Professionals
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  Speaker 1: here today Amanda French and Sarah Glenn.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome, thank you for coming. There's I've you guys have
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  Speaker 2: been on.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't had you guys on the show, but I've
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  Speaker 1: had the Young Professionals many times as for different events,
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  Speaker 1: and it's always fun to catch up and hear what's
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  Speaker 1: going on with the YP because there is.
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  Speaker 2: Always stuff going on.
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  Speaker 1: You guys are very active in our community and I
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  Speaker 1: think it's a great organization and and love to get
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  Speaker 1: it to hear what you have happening. And I know
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  Speaker 1: you guys are involved in the Wall and helping with
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  Speaker 1: that this weekend, I guess, And so let's start there.
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  Speaker 2: What's what is happening sure with the wall? And what
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  Speaker 2: is the wall?
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  Speaker 3: Well, the Wall that heels is a wall that they
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  Speaker 3: the Veterans Network at Phillip sixty six has organized to
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  Speaker 3: bring into town. So we are just helping fill some
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  Speaker 3: of their volunteer slots with it. But if you've if
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  Speaker 3: you've ever gone to like DC or any of those
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  Speaker 3: other places, it's the Vietnam War veterans listed on the
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  Speaker 3: wall and it's out there for it's at Lee Lake.
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  Speaker 3: Anyone can go out there and look at it, see
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  Speaker 3: what it's got going on. There were volunteer slots because
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  Speaker 3: it requires twenty four to seven support to keep the
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  Speaker 3: ball here in Bartlesville all the way from Tuesday to
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  Speaker 3: when the wall comes down on Sunday, and so people
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  Speaker 3: can go out and just look at it. But it
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  Speaker 3: does require and there are four hour volunteer slots if
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  Speaker 3: you can go in any four hour.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So a lot of the community is coming together. But
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  Speaker 3: it was so unique that Bartlesville got chosen. And those
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  Speaker 3: are the things that why he likes to highlight, right,
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  Speaker 3: like what makes our community unique. That's where we want
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  Speaker 3: to show up and that's where we want to have a.
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  Speaker 2: Price do a great job of that.
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  Speaker 1: And I know you're volunteering and across all around the
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  Speaker 1: community all yeah, every month, it seems like and and
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  Speaker 1: but this one with Memorial Day coming up, is a
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  Speaker 1: great opportunity for people out there and recognize the veterans
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  Speaker 1: that we've lost.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, it is a.
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  Speaker 3: Special opportunity, absolutely, and they still need help on Sunday.
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  Speaker 3: So if anybody wants to come out on Sunday to
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  Speaker 3: help tear the wall down, it is Mother's Day, but
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  Speaker 3: bring your mom.
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  Speaker 2: With how they what do they do? If they how
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  Speaker 2: do they sign up for that?
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  Speaker 3: As you can? You can, Yeah, you can go to
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  Speaker 3: our Facebook or there is a website for it. I
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  Speaker 3: believe it's the Wall that Heals dot org. But you
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  Speaker 3: could go to our Facebook and find it for and we.
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  Speaker 1: Have a data our website too at partial Radio dot
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  Speaker 1: com and twenty four to seven.
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  Speaker 2: So this is a major project tech and dozens of people.
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  Speaker 1: That man it for thousands thousands okay, yeah, And of
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  Speaker 1: course that's not all that's going on YP. It's got
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  Speaker 1: events every it seems like all the time. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: tell us about what else yp's got coming up.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, So we we have kind of a multifaceted mission statement, live,
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  Speaker 3: work and play in Bartlesville. So every month we try
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  Speaker 3: and do an event around living here, working here, playing here,
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  Speaker 3: and so the playing here is our socials. So on
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  Speaker 3: May fourteenth, we actually have two opportunities. Usually we only
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  Speaker 3: have one, but at nine am at Outposts, we will
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  Speaker 3: have a coffee social. YP pays for your first coffee
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  Speaker 3: to come and just network and meet other young profession
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  Speaker 3: in the community. But we do know that there are
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  Speaker 3: those jobs that you can't get away at nine am.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe you work the night shift and you're trying to
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  Speaker 3: go to sleep at that time. So we're also offering
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  Speaker 3: this month a happy hour at Cooper and Mill from
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  Speaker 3: five to seven. Also on the fourteenth, same thing. First
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  Speaker 3: Drink is on us. Come network with other people, get
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  Speaker 3: to hear what other people your age are doing in
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  Speaker 3: the community, or hear about what opportunities are out there.
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  Speaker 3: We've been able to yeah, other events, we've been able
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  Speaker 3: to network people and get new jobs and get new
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  Speaker 3: board positions secured and all of those things. But it
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  Speaker 3: takes you showing up, right, that's the big pation first.
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  Speaker 1: Step, right, Yeah, that's the cool thing about YP. It
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  Speaker 1: is just about networking and building relationships, building community, supporting
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  Speaker 1: the community, and kind of making those introductions.
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  Speaker 2: So if you're new to town, it's a great way
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  Speaker 2: to get to.
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  Speaker 1: Know people and then to get in different different organizations,
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  Speaker 1: learn more about the community. We really get to experience
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  Speaker 1: all the different things because you do you guys work
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  Speaker 1: with nonprofits throughout the year, different organizations and I know,
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  Speaker 1: do things like a softball tournament I heard.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, So we just wrapped up our Emerging Stars where
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  Speaker 3: YP gave three thousand dollars back to the community. So
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  Speaker 3: each winner got to designate a charity of their choice
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  Speaker 3: and we wrote the check for them. But coming up
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  Speaker 3: on August eighth, we have a softball tournament. This will
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  Speaker 3: be the second one we've done, and so we are
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  Speaker 3: going to be looking for sponsors. We have sponsorship levels
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  Speaker 3: two fifty to one thousand dollars, and we're also looking
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  Speaker 3: for teams that want to play again. We've done this
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  Speaker 3: a variety of different ways, where like a company can
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  Speaker 3: sign up and play company versus company. We actually had
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  Speaker 3: a good bit of people that just secured their own
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  Speaker 3: friends and signed up as a team, and then we
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  Speaker 3: tried the concept of a sandlot team last year. We're like, hey,
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  Speaker 3: I'm new to town, I don't know anyone still want
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  Speaker 3: to play. So we'll look at doing that again this
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  Speaker 3: year if there's enough interest.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, So, and how do they find out about that?
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  Speaker 2: I guess on your on our Facebook page.
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  Speaker 3: And that's another one where the top three teams yp
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  Speaker 3: cuts a check to the cheerity.
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  Speaker 2: I want to say this is a fundraiser in a way,
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  Speaker 2: it is.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it'll be a fundraise.
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  Speaker 1: You give the money back out and that's how a
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  Speaker 1: lot of your events are are really built around raising
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  Speaker 1: some money but then putting it back out in the
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  Speaker 1: community in one form or another. Yep.
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  Speaker 3: We try to raise just enough to cover our coffees
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  Speaker 3: and our drinks, and we give the rest back.
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  Speaker 1: We used to be big sponsors of the Hot Street Party. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that was a fun time, lots of fun.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it should be a sponsor to the Blue Gallon
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  Speaker 2: next year.
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  Speaker 1: We love those kinds of events that get people out
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  Speaker 1: and have a lot of fun. And I remember a
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  Speaker 1: few of those back back in the day. The truck
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  Speaker 1: drop uh street party. You guys, probably that probably may
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  Speaker 1: predate you. You were probably not young professionals at.
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  Speaker 2: That point, but.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, some people out there listening will remember the truck Drop.
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  Speaker 2: Go YouTube dungeus truck Drop and.
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  Speaker 1: You'll you'll see it was one of the largest attended
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  Speaker 1: street parties in Bartlesville. There was a there was a
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  Speaker 1: rumor that they were going to drop a truck off
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  Speaker 1: the price tower, and the marketing guy at the dealership
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  Speaker 1: put a kind of created the room, I think, and
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  Speaker 1: then the newspaper, back when we had real newspapers, ran
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  Speaker 1: with it and put a front page story on it.
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  Speaker 1: And so we had to go talk to the editor
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  Speaker 1: and say, look, we don't this would not.
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  Speaker 2: Be a good idea.
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  Speaker 1: Actually yeah, and uh but by then it kind of
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  Speaker 1: had a life of its own, and so we we
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  Speaker 1: came up with, uh, you know, we kind of came
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  Speaker 1: up with we kind of decided, well, we may as
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  Speaker 1: well lean into it, and we fed the fire a
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  Speaker 1: little bit, and uh, you know, eventually, uh, we dropped
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  Speaker 1: a banner off the Price Tower that said we dropped
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  Speaker 1: the price of the truck, and we put we put
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  Speaker 1: a few dollars in balloons and.
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  Speaker 2: Dropped them so people could can fight.
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  Speaker 1: Over that, and gave away t shirts that I still
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  Speaker 1: have that they're a collector's item for sure. That had
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  Speaker 1: a quote of Franklin right that said, the truth is
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  Speaker 1: more important than the facts.
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  Speaker 2: So think about that.
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  Speaker 1: You know. Anyway, I'm a little afraid of what I've
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  Speaker 1: done here to bring that back up witness.
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  Speaker 2: I thought trucks could fly.
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  Speaker 1: But there were there were a couple thousand people at
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  Speaker 1: the base of the Price Tower, and it was right
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  Speaker 1: before the street party.
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  Speaker 2: So it was a very well attended street party.
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  Speaker 4: I bet you'll have an email.
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  Speaker 2: There were some people were not very happy with me,
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  Speaker 2: I would say for that, but it shows I'm afraid.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not afraid kind of.
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  Speaker 1: That's one of the things you have to be in
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  Speaker 1: the car business these days. Only in any business, I guess.
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  Speaker 2: But we were on just a little bit of car
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  Speaker 2: business stuff. We're on to May.
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  Speaker 1: We've got our new incentives out, new inventory just got released.
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  Speaker 2: We got some really.
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  Speaker 1: Cool vehicles, and we get two allocations a month with
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  Speaker 1: Toyota and and with our Toyota continues to sell more cars,
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  Speaker 1: lead the nation in sales. But I really have low inventories,
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  Speaker 1: which is kind of a conundrum. But we were selling
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  Speaker 1: seventy eighty percent of what we have available every month,
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  Speaker 1: which just leads a few vehicles on the ground at
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  Speaker 1: any one time. I think this morning, there's maybe eighteen
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  Speaker 1: or so on the ground. We'll probably sell thirty or
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  Speaker 1: so vehicles. So it's a it's one of these very
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  Speaker 1: fast paced things, and I have to remind people of that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the old days of coming in and kicking
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  Speaker 1: the tires has changed a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: But the you know, we do.
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  Speaker 1: Have a great selection of vehicles coming and on the
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  Speaker 1: and on the ground, great selection to Tacoma's Cameras Tundra.
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  Speaker 2: We've got a land cruiser you can come look at.
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  Speaker 1: We bought one to be a company vehicle that could
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  Speaker 1: be so people could experience it, and then we use
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  Speaker 1: that to try to sell the incoming ones, because the
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  Speaker 1: way it works is once you sell it, they think
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  Speaker 1: consitu another one, so it's important not to have them
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  Speaker 1: sit on the ground. We've got another special vehicle got
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  Speaker 1: alk was a Tacoma TRG Pro, so very nice vehicle.
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  Speaker 2: And another Sequaia Capstone.
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  Speaker 1: So if you're interested in something like that, reach out
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  Speaker 1: to our team. We do have some really interesting used
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  Speaker 1: cars right now too.
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  Speaker 2: They turned in a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Of ways just as fast as those new vehicles that
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  Speaker 1: we've got lately.
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  Speaker 2: Some really great used cars.
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  Speaker 1: We've got Alexis g X four sixty at twenty three,
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  Speaker 1: great higher end luxury SUV twenty eighteen Tacoma several used
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  Speaker 1: Tacoma's that's.
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  Speaker 2: A limited model, so one of the higher term levels.
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  Speaker 1: We've got to use Tacoma TRD Pro that's a twenty seventeen.
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  Speaker 1: It is a six speed manual, but some people look
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  Speaker 1: for those, and especially in the TRD Pro series, that's
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  Speaker 1: a very desirable vehicle. And then a twenty three Tacoma
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  Speaker 1: TRD Sport which is a little later model, so great
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  Speaker 1: selection to use Tacomas. We had somebody also traded in
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  Speaker 1: a twenty three Lexus ES three fifty Ultra Luxury, so
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  Speaker 1: one of the top Lexus sedans and the Ultra Luckcue package.
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  Speaker 2: Really nice car as every.
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  Speaker 1: Option you could ask for, just a few years old,
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  Speaker 1: and you can save.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of money on that off a new one.
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  Speaker 1: I've got less than fifty thousand miles on a really
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  Speaker 1: beautiful car owned by a local gentleman. Here on the
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  Speaker 1: other end of the spectrum, we've got some great lower
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  Speaker 1: price vehicles twenty nineteen Jeep Cherokee for just twelve thousand,
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  Speaker 1: seven hundred, twenty eighteen Ford Expedition for just twelve five,
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  Speaker 1: Honda CRB twenty nineteen for twelve two sixty five, and
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  Speaker 1: a twenty one Honda Insight for thirteen six fifty, So
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  Speaker 1: great value.
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  Speaker 2: Vehicles and you know the full sol.
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  Speaker 1: So be sure to check all that out on our
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  Speaker 1: website or come in and talk to the to the team,
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  Speaker 1: or you know.
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  Speaker 2: Our our specialty is helping you buy a car.
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  Speaker 1: We have a non commissioned sales team so they're not
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  Speaker 1: going to push you into something that makes them more
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  Speaker 1: money or anything. They're just there to help you and
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  Speaker 1: serve the community. Uh and uh. You know, so our
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  Speaker 1: sales representatives as well as the managers are paid differently
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  Speaker 1: than most other dealerships, and we don't charge a dock
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  Speaker 1: fee or do any of the dealer add ons.
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  Speaker 2: We continue to see those proliferate.
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  Speaker 1: In the industry where they'll say, if you know that
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  Speaker 1: the car is this, but then we're going to add,
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  Speaker 1: you know, like a protection package or some kind of
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  Speaker 1: other stuff to it. And some of that might be
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: stuff you want. A lot of times it'll come with
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  Speaker 1: window tent and cup holder protectors and paint and fabric
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  Speaker 1: protection and stuff. But that should be your choice, I think,
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  Speaker 1: rather than just packaging it up.
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  Speaker 2: And then the doc fee is something that you know,
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  Speaker 2: dealers can charge.
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  Speaker 1: It does cost money to process the paperwork on a
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  Speaker 1: car deal.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, we.
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  Speaker 1: Historic we did have one previously and it was not
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  Speaker 1: you know, we didn't charge very much. And then we
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  Speaker 1: kept seeing other dealers just keep adding to that and
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  Speaker 1: a lot of them now are are six to eight
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  Speaker 1: hundred dollars, and and we thought, well, let's just go
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  Speaker 1: the other way and eliminate it all together and just
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  Speaker 1: continues to differentiate us from our competition.
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  Speaker 2: And that's what we really want to do. Make you
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  Speaker 2: you know, we're almost one.
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  Speaker 1: Hundred year old, family owned business and focused on the community.
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  Speaker 1: Just you know, we just have a dealership here in Bartlesville.
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  Speaker 1: That's all we do is or and at this point
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  Speaker 1: just the Toyota Brandt. So really proud of that and
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  Speaker 1: love to have people like the young professionals around Bartlesville
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  Speaker 1: because it just makes our community richer.
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  Speaker 2: We feel like you guys are I love.
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  Speaker 1: How you you involve people in the community. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I guess you guys are a kind of an offshoot
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  Speaker 1: of the chamber if I remember correctly, how.
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  Speaker 2: Does that work?
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  Speaker 3: So we're a branch under the Chamber, which means ultimately
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  Speaker 3: we are guided by the same things they are. So
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  Speaker 3: we are not a five oh one C three, We're
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  Speaker 3: a five oh one C six. That's some fancy terminology
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  Speaker 3: for how you file your taxes and stuff. But again,
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  Speaker 3: we try to keep our uh, everything that we earn,
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  Speaker 3: we're trying to put it back into the community in
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  Speaker 3: a better way. So we do that through a variety
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  Speaker 3: of our different things where we want people to get
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  Speaker 3: involved in the community because people who are active members
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  Speaker 3: of their community tend to stay. So it's a good
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  Speaker 3: retention tool for Bartlesville. So we try to provide the
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  Speaker 3: events that are going to keep young professionals coming out
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  Speaker 3: getting engaged so that they can open small businesses, so
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  Speaker 3: that they can join boards and get on nonprofits and
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  Speaker 3: just find a deeper connection.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's really important and part of so because
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  Speaker 1: we have a lot of people come come to town
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  Speaker 1: for a job and we work at one of the
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  Speaker 1: large corporations downtown, and it gives them an opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: really get roots in the community and get involved.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And you're as you mentioned all the volunteer opportunities and
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  Speaker 1: your volunteer driven you know, your leadership and you don't
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  Speaker 1: have it. Do you have any staff.
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  Speaker 3: At all or we don't. We are all volunteers, so
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  Speaker 3: we we Yeah, we don't have a single paid board
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  Speaker 3: position or committee position or anything like that. We we
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  Speaker 3: volunteer our time to put on the events and then
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  Speaker 3: we ask for volunteers along the way to help keep
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  Speaker 3: things going. Because these events are great, but they're only
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  Speaker 3: great if we bring people out to make them and
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  Speaker 3: have them live up to their whole potential.
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  Speaker 1: Right, And it's something like this. It's always changing with
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  Speaker 1: getting new people and new leadership, so it keeping it
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  Speaker 1: going is Yeah. Probably one of the most important things
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  Speaker 1: is just keeping that new people coming in and getting
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  Speaker 1: involved so that you have people to.
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  Speaker 2: Kind of replace the people that are that are moving on.
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  Speaker 3: But our three big events a year, which are the
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  Speaker 3: Blue Gala, the Softball Committee, and Christmas Crawl. We've started
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: doing committees for those for people who are interested to
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: be on the Young Professionals Board. They can join and
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: they can show their dedication, their planning, their organization skills.
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: They might bring some specific skill set to the table.
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: And we look at those committees when we're looking for
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: new board members.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, and it's Young Professionals, but is there any age
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: requirement or anything.
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  Speaker 2: And how does that look?
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: So it's pretty soft. We do say twenty one to
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: young at heart because we do offer things like happy hours,
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: which you need to be twenty one to attends, right, Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm beer with us.
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  Speaker 3: We do not cap on who can attend or and
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  Speaker 3: we will never ask anyone to leave. We also have
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  Speaker 3: had a variety of people who because we're young, childcare
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: can be challenging at times, and we don't ever want
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: childcare to be a reason someone is not getting involved
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: in the community. We're networking, so we do say if
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: you need to bring your children, you can.
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  Speaker 4: I brought my own kid to multiple.
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  Speaker 1: Events, yes, And how many people are involved, how many
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: young professionals are there?
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 4: So we have a board right now of six nine
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: nine nine nine, sorry guys, a board of nine. And
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: then we have a list of corporate members for us,
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: and then we have a list of associate members and
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: right now our associate membership is sitting at about fifty
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: team and those are just members of this community that
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: feel very passionate about YP and support us with an
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: annual membership and that's grown in the last two years.
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: We're very proud of it. And then in regards to
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: YP community members, those that attend, we have a list
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: of a couple of hundred, and then those who are
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: very involved and we see them at every coffee event,
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: every volunteer event.
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  Speaker 2: To be a community so it's just yeah, to show
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: up exactly what you put. What you put in is
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: what you get.
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we do have a sign up form to become
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: a member and that so you receive a monthly newsletter
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: so you know about all of the things YPE has upcoming.
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: And so there's no requirement. Again, Sarah mentioned our associate
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: membership that's only one hundred dollars a year, and we
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: have a lot of people who age themselves out of
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: YP that say, we love what you're doing. Here's one
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: hundred dollars, but I can't make the events or or
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: don't want to or whatever, but just kind of the
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: we love what you're doing, keep going kind of mentality there.
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: But we're we're seeing growth across all of our events.
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: So our coffees, there's probably about thirty people who regularly
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: are coming to coffees, So we take over outpost on
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: that second Thursday of every month. I'm yes and that
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: right now.
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: And then our big events we sold out our Blue Gala,
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: which is two hundred and sixty four and softball is
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: kind of unlimited because it's an outdoor thing. We need spectators,
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: we need players, we need sponsor you know. So, and
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: then Christmas Prawl we had have one hundred and twenty
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: five attend which we pick five small businesses and we
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: and we crawl through downtown going to them. So that
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: brought a lot of support to our local community.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: What a great story, and thank you for everything you
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: do in our community.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: I think that's great.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: It's so great to hear your stories and thank you
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: again for what you do here. You know what, how
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: did you guys end up in Barstow? Are you guys
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: from around here or did you come?
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so I'm one of those big downtown corporate transplants.
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: I joined Phillip sixty six eleven years ago, and then
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: I left and went to Houston and I came back.
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: When I left, I had no kids. When I came back,
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: I had a couple of kids. So what I was
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: looking for was very different when I came back the
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: second time, and I just wanted to be a part
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: of the community where I was going to be raising children.
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: I am married into Native Portions from here. They own
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: a small business that they've grown for fifty three years,
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: so very big, very big into the community and our involvement.
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: And so then I joined the company four years ago
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: and I was like, Hey, it's time to get involved.
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: And I actually my first group was YPE and from
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: there I just networked very well and joined a couple
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: of other boards. But because of YP that fire that started,
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: like we've given back into the community and it's just
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: a very great involvement.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: Well, thank you for sharing that. I thought it might
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: get people an example that.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: It really works here, because it is amazing.
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: I went to one coffee chat and I joined the board.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: I kind of I've heard that's kind of how it works.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: It was really sucked up into it and there you go.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: You're off and you're joining in other organizations, being serving
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: on boards, and.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: It really does work. It does.
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: It's a great launching pad for anyone who's looking to
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: get interested. We don't require board experience to join, but
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: that's why we ask that you look at one of
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: our committees so we can see what are your what
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: your work ethic is like. But a lot of people
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: do take one stint with young professionals and then they're
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: off to the races on other boards.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I've seen.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: That worked on boards that had RIP people on it,
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: and it's again, thank you for what you do and
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: excited to hear about what happens next time you're on.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: But I guess go ahead and tell them about the
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: upcoming events again in case they want to come to
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: the next coffee and social.
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so just upcoming, we have Sunday, the wall that
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: heals if you want to show up, even if you
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: can't find the sign up, just show up. They will
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: not turn you away. And then we have this Saturday,
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: the Good, the Bad, the barbecue volunteer opportunities. There were
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: a couple slots left, so make sure you find that
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: sign up. We have the socials, the coffee on the fourteenth,
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: and the happy hour on the fourteenth, and then we
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: have softball coming August eighth. So primarily at this point,
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: if you would like to be on the committee to
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: plan the event, reach out to yp Bartlesville at gmail
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: dot com.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: Or if you're.
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: Already wanting to secure your sponsorship and you don't want
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: to wait for us to come to you, you can
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: always reach out and we will definitely get you a
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: sponsorship lined.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: Up of course, And of course the coffees and socials
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: happen every month basically, right, so the look on your
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: Facebook page and you find out when that's.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: Going to happen.
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: And the second Thursday of every month, nine am outpost
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: nine am at out Loud. We make it easy so
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: you don't you don't even have to.
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: Think about it.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: Don't even think about it, just go show up. Well,
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: thank you Amanda and Sarah. I appreciate your time and
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: good for a great show. And thank you to all
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: our listeners out there.
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: We appreciate you.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: And there is a lot going on this Mother's Day
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: weekend in Barzil. You mentioned a couple of the things,
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: and I know there's even more with the chamber stuff
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: this evening, and and a lot of a lot of
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: always busy time in barsol Bit. But this springtime is
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: the best fun. We've got great weather right now and
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: we haven't had to do our our hail dance in
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: the last week or so, and that's good. That's fingers
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: crossed for tomorrow night, but it should be. It's a
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: little I think hopefully it's just rain.
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that hailed stuff and all like that. I'm over it,
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: you're over it, over it all right.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: Well, come see us at the dealership if you have
• 26:08
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• 26:10
  Speaker 2: We've got, as I said, a great selection.
• 26:12
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• 26:15
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• 26:19
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• 26:23
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• 26:26
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• 26:31
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• 26:34
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• 26:38
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• 26:43
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• 26:57
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• 27:01
  Speaker 1: that's on the website that we use in the dealership
• 27:04
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• 27:05
  Speaker 2: So it's it's really a great system. So check that out.
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: Is it okay?
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: If somebody comes in and buys a fleet a fleet, yeah, yeah,
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: you do not. It might take us. It depends on
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: how many you won in your fleet. You might take
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: us a minute to collect them up. I think I've
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: got a good Tacoma fleet right now. Look at that,
• 27:31
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• 27:34
  Speaker 1: and some highlanders and Grand Highlanders, and we got our
• 27:39
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• 27:43
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• 27:48
  Speaker 1: than the BZU. Still still making battery electric vehicles and
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: actually expanding their offerings there. Uh so they come check
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: that out with the it's a gas where it is.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: We've had a lot of people interested in hybrids and
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: exploring the battery electric vehicles.
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: Very good. I like the way they call the electric
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: vehicle the BEZ.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that one's been pretty popular.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: I bet it has. Where can we find you.
• 28:15
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• 28:19
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• 28:21
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• 28:25
  Speaker 2: All right, very very good.
• 28:26
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• 28:28
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