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CAR TALK with B-the Light · One on One With a Professional

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Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.
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Speaker 1: It's timed out for car talk right here on K one,
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Speaker 1: the one you trust. Brad is on the slopes. We
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Speaker 1: have Lynn in here with us today. How are you doing,
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Speaker 1: young lady.
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Speaker 2: I'm doing good.
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Speaker 3: Brad put me on this one today.
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Speaker 2: So here we go, and you brought friends, I bring
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Speaker 2: some friends.
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Speaker 3: Yes, today we're talking about be the light in Bartlesville,
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Speaker 3: and not in just words but with action, and so
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Speaker 3: I kind of want to give them, obviously their space
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Speaker 3: to speak to what they've got going on, and we'll
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Speaker 3: just kind of roll with it. So when people think
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Speaker 3: of Bartlesville, they don't always think of homelessness typically, right,
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Speaker 3: So it has been a growing problem and a need
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Speaker 3: in our community. So what's really on the ground right
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Speaker 3: now with what you guys are.
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Speaker 4: Seeing, Well, we're Keith and Christie macfail by the way,
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Speaker 4: I'm sorry, don't worry about people.
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Speaker 5: We're not joeing somebody else.
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Speaker 4: No, we we have been doing We started doing warming
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Speaker 4: shelters five years ago and that that's kind of what
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Speaker 4: got us into helping the homeless.
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Speaker 6: And so because we all saw it increasing around Bartisville, sadly.
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Speaker 4: And so we we've had a lot of people, We
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Speaker 4: did a lot of warming shelters, or this year we
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Speaker 4: finished our twenty first warming shelter, and so we we've
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Speaker 4: been involved.
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Speaker 5: In the homelessness for over five years.
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Speaker 4: And so when this opportunity came up, the hospital had
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Speaker 4: this big building over on Virginia and they end up
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Speaker 4: donating this building to us, fifty eight thousand square foot building.
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Speaker 4: And I cried, sure I would too. She asked, what,
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Speaker 4: what's the cost of the electric bill work brain works?
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Speaker 4: So yeah, anyway, it was it's it's been good. We
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Speaker 4: are we have residents there now full time. I think
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Speaker 4: we're up to about.
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Speaker 2: Sixteen well yes, so yeah, yeah, and a child.
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Speaker 4: We have a seven year old child. So we have
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Speaker 4: five women, nine men and a child.
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Speaker 3: What's your max because I know I have a personal.
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Speaker 2: Friend who is yes, okay, yes.
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Speaker 3: And I know that he reached out, so I was
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Speaker 3: just curious kind of like, what is your maximum capacity?
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Speaker 4: We can hold twenty two men and we can hold
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Speaker 4: up to about twelve women on the first floor.
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Speaker 5: On the first floor.
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Speaker 6: So the difference in ours is we have the lighthouse
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Speaker 6: and bartisol We love the lighthouse.
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Speaker 2: We're so thankful.
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Speaker 6: They help us so much, and you know, we have
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Speaker 6: great communication because we're dealing with all the same people,
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Speaker 6: but they are a little different in philosophy. We call
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Speaker 6: ourselves a poverty reduction center, so they got.
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Speaker 2: To work to stay with us.
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Speaker 6: And it's a twelve month time limit on our first
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Speaker 6: and so that's another difference. So we can you know,
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Speaker 6: when you say twenty two men, well that's twelve months,
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Speaker 6: and then we move on to the next and of
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Speaker 6: course that's rotating because not everybody came on the same day,
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Speaker 6: but we have you know, we talk about how many
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Speaker 6: we have now, but we've had nine leave and we've
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Speaker 6: been open with our residents for one hundred and fifteen days,
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Speaker 6: well hundred and.
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Speaker 5: Sixteen November fifth, third, November three.
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Speaker 3: Days.
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Speaker 4: Yes, yes, and that's yeah, that's the big what Christy said,
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Speaker 4: that's the big difference. And we went we went to Dallas,
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Speaker 4: we went to Oklahoma City, we went to Muskogi, we
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Speaker 4: went to Joplin, and we looked at all these different
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Speaker 4: places and we just brought what we thought would be
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Speaker 4: good here for Bartlesville. And so it's only a twelve
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Speaker 4: to fifteen month program first phase and the second phase
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Speaker 4: is another twelve to fifteen months and so and then
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Speaker 4: we were blessed and had the oldest church in Bartlesville
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Speaker 4: donated to us.
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Speaker 5: So, now which is church the Bible Church?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Caddy corner across the street.
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Speaker 4: Now and it's a beautiful church. And now that's where
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Speaker 4: the women and children for the second phase.
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Speaker 5: Will go to the church and the man will go upstairs.
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Speaker 4: And the second phase is Yeah, the second phase is
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Speaker 4: basically you have a full time job.
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Speaker 5: Now you're on your own.
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Speaker 4: You probably have a car by now, and you're able
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Speaker 4: to come and go as you want. You cook for
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Speaker 4: yourself upstairs, and it's just a it helps you get
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Speaker 4: back on your feet. You don't you pay us a
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Speaker 4: minimum rant of two hundred dollars a month, which is nothing,
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Speaker 4: all bills paid, and then we put your money back
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Speaker 4: into an account. And so when you graduate the second
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Speaker 4: phase of the program, you've got eight nine ten thousand
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Speaker 4: dollars saved up.
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Speaker 5: Nice.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, So I mean my question would be, I
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Speaker 3: mean you've already answered a few of them that I
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Speaker 3: had them. Yeah, No, I love it.
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Speaker 2: I love it.
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Speaker 3: What are the root causes that you are seeing locally? Like,
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Speaker 3: is it addiction, is it job loss?
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Speaker 2: Mental health?
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Speaker 3: Like, what is kind of the dynamic of the community
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Speaker 3: that you guys are supporting.
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Speaker 6: Well, you know, it's never what you think it is,
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Speaker 6: and it's different with each individual.
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Speaker 2: But the it's all of the above part of it.
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Speaker 6: We don't have as many addiction issues because if that's
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Speaker 6: the case, we send them on and we'll say, let's
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Speaker 6: get you to treatment and then come back and then
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Speaker 6: you'll be ready to go a lot of mental health.
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Speaker 6: But many of them when they come to us, they
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Speaker 6: know they need to be on a working well with
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Speaker 6: grand have a good system in place already with you know,
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Speaker 6: on medication seeking, counseling following that, because unless they're doing that,
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Speaker 6: they're really not ready for us yet.
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Speaker 5: Either.
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Speaker 2: We are pretty.
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Speaker 6: Fast paced, we've got classes to attend, we've got you know,
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Speaker 6: we go throughout our days in with structure. But the
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Speaker 6: hardest thing that I wasn't expecting is, you know, the
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Speaker 6: boundaries are hard for people. Expectations become too much, even
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Speaker 6: if they're just because it's not something they're used to
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Speaker 6: and so you know, we're the bossy parents they'd never
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Speaker 6: wished for. And it's one of those things where I'm
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Speaker 6: just like, no, we're doing X, Y and Z today
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Speaker 6: and we're getting this done, and some of it they
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Speaker 6: can't do it, or maybe they're just not ready to
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Speaker 6: have a certain boundaries set.
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Speaker 3: Typically people would obviously go to treatment and then in
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Speaker 3: with you guys, you were kind of the mitigator getting
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Speaker 3: their feet on the ground, figuring out how to get
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Speaker 3: them a job.
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Speaker 4: Yes, educating these get their ged get whatever certifications they
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Speaker 4: want to get, get their birth certificates, all the things
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Speaker 4: that you're missing to be someone out there. To get
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Speaker 4: a job, you have to have two forms of ID
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Speaker 4: to get a job, and so a lot of these people.
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Speaker 4: What's fascinating to me is the homeless steal from each
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Speaker 4: other and what I've ever seen in my life and
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Speaker 4: I do not understand it. I will never understand that
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Speaker 4: our building, building, we have.
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Speaker 6: Everything, well, we do, you know, we help them with that.
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Speaker 6: It's the basic, it's the basic everyday things that are
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Speaker 6: really hard, and you don't know that till you live
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Speaker 6: with them, you know, and you see their struggles and
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Speaker 6: just getting along with others and being able to have.
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Speaker 4: You have to make your bed, you have to take
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Speaker 4: a shower every day, you have to wash your clothes.
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Speaker 5: Yes, yeah, and.
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Speaker 2: They don't like it.
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Speaker 6: You know, we have to clean them back theirs, so
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Speaker 6: they get an infraction. You know, they get a warning first,
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Speaker 6: but then we'll say this is going to be and
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Speaker 6: they sign that when they come in and they realize that.
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Speaker 6: But even simple things like push your cheer in when
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Speaker 6: people come into the building for a tour.
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Speaker 2: We greet everyone, We say hello, we make eye contact.
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Speaker 6: I mean, simple things that seem really easy for us,
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Speaker 6: but that they've just they.
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Speaker 2: Don't realize the importance of that.
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Speaker 6: And then also probably the biggest thing is just motivating them,
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Speaker 6: like nope, keep going, don't We don't all feel good
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Speaker 6: in the morning, we still get.
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Speaker 4: Up and when we see work, we I mean we
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Speaker 4: kind of it could be sewing, it could be would work,
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Speaker 4: it could be there's all kinds of things.
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Speaker 5: When we say you have to work three hours a day, it's.
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Speaker 4: Not like you're digging a ditch, but you might be
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Speaker 4: mowing the lawn when the grass starts growing.
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Speaker 5: So anyway, that's practical things.
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Speaker 4: And you know, one of the things too, I think
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Speaker 4: our hearts is that you know, I was a former
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Speaker 4: drug addict, So next month I'll be nineteen years clean
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Speaker 4: from cocaine. Amen, Yes, yes, so. And this woman stuck
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Speaker 4: by me when she didn't have to. And I was
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Speaker 4: homeless one time in my life too. So and then
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Speaker 4: we've lost our oldest son, Tyler, who was accidentally shot
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Speaker 4: sixteen years ago.
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Speaker 5: And so we know about loss, addiction, homelessness.
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Speaker 4: We've lived through it, and so we just want to
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Speaker 4: give back to the people because no one at this,
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Speaker 4: no one at be the Light Mission, makes any salary,
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Speaker 4: nobody makes any money.
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Speaker 5: It's all done by volunteers.
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Speaker 6: And I'll tell you our volunteers are amazing and we
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Speaker 6: couldn't afford him no if we had to pay them,
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Speaker 6: because they are.
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Speaker 2: But yeah, how many volunteers do you guys have?
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Speaker 6: Oh gosh, our list now is up to about twenty,
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Speaker 6: I believe. But you know, Corps volunteers, we've got a
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Speaker 6: good five or six that are just in it to
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Speaker 6: win it.
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Speaker 2: And I would say, you're.
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Speaker 4: Going to give a shout out to Sylvia McFarlane. She's
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Speaker 4: she's eighty three years old. Oh and she cooks every day,
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Speaker 4: she runs, She runs the place basically, so.
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Speaker 5: She's she's the boss.
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Speaker 6: Play she is she is, and everybody loves her, she's
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Speaker 6: got a lot of wisdom.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's awesome.
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Speaker 3: Well, how can you know we talked about churches and
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Speaker 3: the donation there, How can the community support you guys
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Speaker 3: more other than just getting awareness out there, like is
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Speaker 3: there needs your needs?
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Speaker 4: You know, when we had the last warning shelter open,
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Speaker 4: we were kind of running low on supplies, really low,
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Speaker 4: and we just put it out on Facebook, and I'm
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Speaker 4: telling you, the city of Bartlesville stepped up in a
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Speaker 4: humongous way.
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Speaker 5: We had trucks being delivered.
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Speaker 4: We got probably two thousand bags of chips because we
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Speaker 4: got fifty four gallons of water.
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Speaker 5: We got more i mean milk, and then we got
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Speaker 5: catters and cases and cases.
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Speaker 4: But our biggest drive is we need five hundred people
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Speaker 4: in Bartlesviil, Oklahoma to give twenty dollars a month that
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Speaker 4: pays for our bills.
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Speaker 6: That would be our operational costs for the year, and
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Speaker 6: that would help us not have to push the fundraising
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Speaker 6: and do all the things we have to do. Enough
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Speaker 6: of that for the build out the church that he
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Speaker 6: was talking about, it's great that it's the oldest church
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Speaker 6: has also got a lot of stuff to be done
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Speaker 6: to it to make it work for what we needed
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Speaker 6: to work.
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Speaker 5: And we have to give a lot of credit to
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Speaker 5: John Kaine. It's a Line Foundation, all the guys, all
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Speaker 5: of them.
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Speaker 4: But the Line Foundation and the Parsons Foundation, even though
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Speaker 4: maybe foundation out of Tulsa has given us money to
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Speaker 4: get the building where it's at today. And if you've
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Speaker 4: never been into Be the Light Mission, you have to
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Speaker 4: come in there because you don't get it until you
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Speaker 4: walk in the doors. It's amazing what we've done of
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Speaker 4: that building in the last three years.
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Speaker 6: I'll say to what people don't realize is we're also
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Speaker 6: almost like a Tulsa day center when a lot of
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Speaker 6: people are familiar with that because every day people can
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Speaker 6: come in off the street for showers and food and
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Speaker 6: resources and clothing, and we are super busy from ten
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Speaker 6: to two. Like when we leave here, it's a packed house.
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Speaker 2: Yes, So that we're.
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Speaker 6: Doing besides the residents and getting them you know, off
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Speaker 6: the ground.
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Speaker 2: So we're doing we're covering a lot of ground.
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Speaker 3: What does the application process look like for someone who
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Speaker 3: is in need of you know, shelter.
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Speaker 4: Essentially it's about eight pages and then they have to
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Speaker 4: be interviewed by us. We have fifty nine people in
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Speaker 4: the wedding liss.
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Speaker 6: Right now, wow, now who have filled out the application,
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Speaker 6: So who have come in, filled out the application, turned
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Speaker 6: it in and so that's.
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Speaker 2: Those are the people that yes, you want to.
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Speaker 6: Be yeah, And it's now through some of them and
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Speaker 6: we read it and we're like, you're not ready for this,
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Speaker 6: but let me tell you where I think would be
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Speaker 6: a good fit to get you off the street. And
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Speaker 6: so then you know, we'll turn them to a sober
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Speaker 6: living home or to somewhere else, because.
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Speaker 5: We don't want to leave someone out on the streets.
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Speaker 5: That's the opposite of what we want.
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Speaker 2: I actually have.
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Speaker 3: A friend that I just met here and he called
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Speaker 3: me the other day and he's like, can I just
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Speaker 3: bring my bike to your house because he's living in
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Speaker 3: a mice infested home. He's staying at Johnstone Park. He
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Speaker 3: put his tin up and I'm like, I, I mean,
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Speaker 3: I have a heart for that too, Like you just
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Speaker 3: you can't like sleep on my couch.
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Speaker 6: You know, it's very hard, but it's very You just
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Speaker 6: have to be so careful. I mean, we've learned too,
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Speaker 6: and we get it a lot. The other day, you know,
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Speaker 6: screamed at we've had death threats. We've had all the
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Speaker 6: things he's been sure before because he turned us back
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Speaker 6: on because we do know them well. We've you know,
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Speaker 6: we're four years into like we know their mom, know
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Speaker 6: where they came from, we know when their parents got divorced.
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Speaker 3: We you know.
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Speaker 4: And it's not just a Christie talks about talk about
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Speaker 4: the generational because when people look at the homeless and Marlsville,
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Speaker 4: we have generations of families here.
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Speaker 2: Yes, and I went to school.
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Speaker 6: We went to school with a lot of them, but
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Speaker 6: some of them as far back as elementary And I'm
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Speaker 6: just like, what you know. But it's nice because that's
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Speaker 6: how we build on it. I'll say, remember so and so,
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Speaker 6: remember that time at school when this happened, or you know,
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Speaker 6: different things that you can relate to them and just
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Speaker 6: build on that relationship.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, because it is all relational. How you can help someone.
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Speaker 6: It's not a transaction of a monetary thing, even food
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Speaker 6: or clothes. At the end of the day, it's the
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Speaker 6: relationship that they're lacking. That's where they are truly bankrupt.
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Speaker 6: Is the relationship aspect of life. And so we just
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Speaker 6: try to build on that however we can. If it's
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Speaker 6: not with us we're going to find somebody else.
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Speaker 3: Sure, how do you go about like the difference between
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Speaker 3: enabling someone and structuring into, you know, the life that
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Speaker 3: they need to live.
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Speaker 2: So, yeah, that's a hard question. I learned when he was.
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Speaker 6: On drugs, which I didn't know anything about it. And
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Speaker 6: then he tells me this, you know, yeah, four days
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Speaker 6: before I give birth to our seventh child. And so
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Speaker 6: I'm like, Okay, I don't know what that means, but
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Speaker 6: this is not how this story's going to end. So
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Speaker 6: you need to go away and do whatever you need
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Speaker 6: to do. And then two classes learned about I learned
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Speaker 6: a lot about just drug addiction and how it's very
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Speaker 6: similar across the board, and how enabling is super common,
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Speaker 6: and so.
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Speaker 2: Learned a lot with that.
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Speaker 6: Now when people come in and they are struggling with
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Speaker 6: drugs and or if they're recovered, he cries with them.
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Speaker 2: Nine times out of ten.
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Speaker 6: I'm like, okay, you ready to get on the path though,
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Speaker 6: And I'll give you a plan because I'm not here
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Speaker 6: to be your friend.
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Speaker 2: You know, I'm not here.
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Speaker 6: To make you happy. I'm here to help you and
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Speaker 6: it doesn't always work out. Maybe you'll like me later.
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Speaker 6: So a lot of people especially are volunteers. Some of
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Speaker 6: them don't like the way we do things because we
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Speaker 6: are not enablers and we're nothing's a hand out, it's
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Speaker 6: all a hand up, and so that's kind of our
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Speaker 6: bottom line.
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Speaker 2: And they work for every little thing.
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Speaker 6: But at the end of the day, they end up
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Speaker 6: appreciating great and they feel confident in who they are.
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Speaker 2: And that's how you have to go about it.
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Speaker 3: I mean, you can't you can't enable somebody, you can't
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Speaker 3: pick somebody. They have to make that choice theirselves.
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Speaker 2: But it's hard to watch.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, you've got to want to change, and a lot
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Speaker 4: of people and we've seen it over the last four
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Speaker 4: and a half five years, we've seen a lot of
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Speaker 4: people get their lives together and make changes.
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Speaker 5: And now they're living in their own.
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Speaker 4: Apartments, they have a job, they got a car, and
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Speaker 4: if we didn't take the time just to give them
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Speaker 4: a hug or give them a sandwich, just.
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Speaker 2: One thing, one thing, you never know. It is a
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Speaker 2: fine line.
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Speaker 4: And really these people too, they don't they're not on
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Speaker 4: their medications, and so that's really one of the things
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Speaker 4: that we try to do more anything, is to get
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Speaker 4: them on back on their medications where they were living
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Speaker 4: somewhat of a normal life before they got off the medications.
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Speaker 3: So this is going to be another hard question. I'm
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Speaker 3: just curious, what is one uncomfortable truth our community needs
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Speaker 3: to hear about homelessness, and how do you balance that
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Speaker 3: with accountability and compassion for those with your advocates and
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Speaker 3: the delight residents.
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Speaker 4: Well, I sometimes can what's the word I'm looking for.
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Speaker 5: I'm very.
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Speaker 4: Upfront, and you're always going to know how I feel
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Speaker 4: when you leave me. It's not that I'm better than
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Speaker 4: anybody here, but I've went through what you're going through.
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Speaker 4: I've got more needle marks on my body than you
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Speaker 4: have hair on your head. So my compassion for the
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Speaker 4: drug users and the people out there is very high.
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Speaker 5: But also I'm not gonna I'm not gonna sugarcoat sugarcoated.
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Speaker 4: And and she's kind of like that too. But I
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Speaker 4: think the hardest thing that people need to realize is that, yes,
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Speaker 4: we've been you know, seven years ago, we didn't have
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Speaker 4: anybody homeless on the east side of town. Now they're
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Speaker 4: all on the east side of town, and they're all
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Speaker 4: over Bottles Viel now, and so you know, I think
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Speaker 4: the city does a pick count, they call it pick
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Speaker 4: which they're here one day and they just find people
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Speaker 4: who are homeless. And I think the city says fifty five,
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Speaker 4: it's sixty. It's way over one hundred and thirty people.
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Speaker 5: That are homeless.
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Speaker 4: I'm on the board at a GOPI and we feed
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Speaker 4: about three hundred thirty people.
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Speaker 2: You probably know my friend that I was mentioning, probably,
17:47
Speaker 2: I'm sure, yeah.
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Speaker 4: And so every day we feed three twenty five people.
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Speaker 4: Not every one of those people are homeless. But just
17:54
Speaker 4: because you you might be living in a shelter or
17:57
Speaker 4: a home, it might not have running water.
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Speaker 5: You were talking, yeah, yeah, and so you know you
18:03
Speaker 5: have a roof over your head. If that so.
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Speaker 2: I think the other hard thing.
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Speaker 6: Just being really honest, brutally honest with someone, but also
18:14
Speaker 6: not continue to just give them money. I mean, we
18:17
Speaker 6: always tell people please don't please, don't please donate to
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Speaker 6: a GAPE or the Lighthouse or US or Mary Martha's
18:25
Speaker 6: or people that have been helping them for a very
18:28
Speaker 6: long time and have a plan of action, because if
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Speaker 6: you're going to give them a twenty, it's probably not
18:32
Speaker 6: going to go well, it's just not I mean, why
18:34
Speaker 6: would it all of a sudden change their life, and
18:38
Speaker 6: you know, if God tells you to do it, do it.
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Speaker 6: We're not saying that, but for the most part, please
18:43
Speaker 6: let the organizations.
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Speaker 5: Runna McDonald's and give them a hamburger and some.
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Speaker 2: Food and then be ready for them to go. I
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Speaker 2: don't want to.
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Speaker 3: I mean, I think this we are sitting here for
18:52
Speaker 3: whatever reason. Because this guy that I'm talking about I'm
18:56
Speaker 3: not going to say his name, but he came over
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Speaker 3: and he was like, can I just have fun and like,
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Speaker 3: here's my car?
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Speaker 6: Oh gosh, I don't know if you know.
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Speaker 3: I mean, so.
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Speaker 2: Okay.
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Speaker 3: So if someone was obviously listening right now, or if
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Speaker 3: this was we're obviously going to push it out on
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Speaker 3: social media and everything like that. If they're stirred for
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Speaker 3: help and support, what is their next step?
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Speaker 2: What does that look like?
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Speaker 4: Well, we love people to come by and take a toure.
19:31
Speaker 4: We love showing off the building and that's one thing that.
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Speaker 5: We love to do.
19:34
Speaker 6: And if they want to volunteer, because then they can
19:36
Speaker 6: see like, here's all these opportunities to volunteer. I mean,
19:38
Speaker 6: we do, like he was saying, sewing classes, piano lessons, gardening.
19:42
Speaker 6: We have chickens, we you know, landscaping, all these things
19:46
Speaker 6: that we would love people that maybe retired and this
19:48
Speaker 6: was an all love of theirs and they want to
19:50
Speaker 6: work with people.
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Speaker 2: Because it's all about.
19:53
Speaker 6: Community and when people want to help someone. Again, Yes,
19:57
Speaker 6: donating is great and all that, and please pick your
20:00
Speaker 6: your cause, but to actually get involved with someone and
20:03
Speaker 6: see the change that you can produce and someone else
20:05
Speaker 6: by giving you your time because they love to see. Oh,
20:08
Speaker 6: these people actually care about me and they want to
20:10
Speaker 6: have a conversation.
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Speaker 2: They love that more than anything.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and you know, follow us on Facebook. Once a
20:17
Speaker 4: month we do a pop up shop. She does a
20:19
Speaker 4: pop up shop. I don't do.
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Speaker 2: People donate really nice things and parties. Sometimes I like
20:24
Speaker 2: that he lifts things and live things.
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Speaker 4: But yeah, we do that every month to raise money
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Speaker 4: for the mission, because we're always raising money for the mission.
20:32
Speaker 5: That's one thing that.
20:33
Speaker 4: We found out over the last couple of years is
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Speaker 4: that we're you know, when it takes nine thousand dollars
20:39
Speaker 4: a month to run that building, you've got to you
20:41
Speaker 4: gotta raise money.
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Speaker 5: And so that's we have a really good pop up shop.
20:45
Speaker 2: It's fun. People don'tate great things that you can't give
20:48
Speaker 2: to the homeless. You can't.
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Speaker 6: But I'm like, we could make a cute little fun
20:52
Speaker 6: shop and and you know that way, you're everybody.
20:54
Speaker 2: It's a win win for everybody.
20:56
Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah, So how do people donate?
20:59
Speaker 2: What's the easiest way? Is it true your website?
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Speaker 6: Yes, we have a little QR code too on our
21:04
Speaker 6: card which I did not bring in.
21:06
Speaker 5: I can get your way or phone number.
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Speaker 6: Yes, and our phone number nine one eight two eight
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Speaker 6: eight zero zero zero nine or info at b dashthlight
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Speaker 6: dot org.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and falls from Facebook and messages on Facebook. Be
21:21
Speaker 4: the Light mission on Facebook. And that's the king sacking.
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Speaker 2: Unfortunately.
21:30
Speaker 6: Well we won't be there twenty four seven, but someone
21:32
Speaker 6: will be there.
21:32
Speaker 3: Well.
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Speaker 5: One thing that all we always say is that I
21:36
Speaker 5: know how it is.
21:36
Speaker 4: I know how it feels to be hungry when your
21:39
Speaker 4: stomach eats itself. And so we did not turn anybody
21:43
Speaker 4: away for food.
21:44
Speaker 6: I've tried to make the cutoff eleven that night it's twelve.
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Speaker 4: It's twelve, because it you know, people are hungry out there,
21:52
Speaker 4: and I know we've got a lot of good.
21:53
Speaker 5: We got so many good resources in the city.
21:56
Speaker 4: It's unbelievable with the resources that we have and a
21:59
Speaker 4: lot of people think, well, well, because Bartleswooll has so
22:01
Speaker 4: many good resources, we're going to go up there and
22:04
Speaker 4: we're getting people from Tulsa or wichitaal or all these
22:06
Speaker 4: different cities. It's not really happened that way. It's not
22:09
Speaker 4: we might get one out of.
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Speaker 6: One hundred if that would be surprised. We've got several.
22:16
Speaker 6: Like you said, they've been here for generations.
22:20
Speaker 2: It's very sad.
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Speaker 3: It is sad. It is sad, but you guys are
22:23
Speaker 3: doing the Lord's work. So yeah, we are super appreciative
22:29
Speaker 3: of your support. Talk a little bit about Dungeus and
22:34
Speaker 3: how we partner with them, But we at Dungeus, we
22:37
Speaker 3: obviously don't just sell cars.
22:38
Speaker 2: We're very invested in the community.
22:40
Speaker 3: We take care of our people, which is what Keith
22:44
Speaker 3: and Christy. Christy are doing in the community. So we
22:49
Speaker 3: want to make sure that they have the support that
22:51
Speaker 3: they need. So you know, we have you know, car
22:55
Speaker 3: inventory that you come in for service or.
23:00
Speaker 2: Or purchase a vehicle, you're going to be taken care of.
23:04
Speaker 3: Obviously it's a different market, but at the same time
23:07
Speaker 3: we kind of have the same standard.
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Speaker 2: So we have a great.
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Speaker 3: Sales team who is ready to meet you where you are,
23:15
Speaker 3: which is what Keith and Christie are doing. And we
23:19
Speaker 3: appreciate the community that we serve and we really do
23:22
Speaker 3: want to bring you the best service to you and
23:25
Speaker 3: your families from A to Z. So I think that
23:28
Speaker 3: translates really well with kind of your approach and we
23:32
Speaker 3: appreciate you listening in. And you can find Dungeus Toyota
23:36
Speaker 3: at nineteen eleven Southeast Washington Street. It's right across the
23:40
Speaker 3: street from Walgreens and then stopping to be the Light.
23:44
Speaker 3: The last question I have for you both is if
23:47
Speaker 3: you have seasonal events or donation events that are kind
23:52
Speaker 3: of I mean, obviously your door is always open, yes,
23:55
Speaker 3: but if you have something that is organized where people
23:59
Speaker 3: you know contribute, whether you know you talk about Angel
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Speaker 3: tree or whatever that looks like, Well, we.
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Speaker 4: Do every year we do a gift giveaway to children.
24:08
Speaker 4: This year we gave away six hundred and fifty.
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Speaker 5: There was last year it was thirteen thirteen hundred gifts toys.
24:16
Speaker 6: Yeah, but that's donated by Toys for Tots donates those.
24:22
Speaker 6: I'll tell you what our biggest donation need is right now,
24:24
Speaker 6: only because I was going through this yesterday. We get
24:28
Speaker 6: a lot of people think hats, gloves, socks, underwear. Yes, great,
24:32
Speaker 6: but we have plenty of those. Every man not every man.
24:35
Speaker 2: A lot of men are.
24:36
Speaker 6: Thirty two thirty four gene and we do not have
24:38
Speaker 6: any thirty two thirty four geens.
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Speaker 2: If you have any, please, yes, yes, I.
24:43
Speaker 6: Mean, but I'm happy with used jeens and so were they,
24:46
Speaker 6: so we cannot keep up with the jeans or the
24:48
Speaker 6: men's shoes.
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Speaker 1: So thirty forty twos aren't going too well.
24:52
Speaker 6: Hey, but I'll take them. We have some, and we
24:56
Speaker 6: do need all sizes. But yes, we just we run
24:59
Speaker 6: out of just a very practical thing. So I like
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Speaker 6: to say that and us is great.
25:03
Speaker 5: Yes, we're inviting you to come out and take a look.
25:06
Speaker 2: We'd love to.
25:07
Speaker 5: We'll have Brad come out too. Yeah, our family.
25:10
Speaker 2: Another generation as it doesn't fall on the ski slopes. No,
25:14
Speaker 2: absolutely not, come back all healthy and all one piece.
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Speaker 3: Well, we appreciate you guys so much, and if you
25:23
Speaker 3: guys have any questions, you can reach out to me
25:25
Speaker 3: or be the light directly. Obviously you know where to
25:28
Speaker 3: find us. So thank you for listening.
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