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CAR TALK with United Way · One on One With a Professional

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  Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning, welcome, welcome, welcome int
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  Speaker 1: this time now for Car Talk. Brad dungeas and here
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  Speaker 1: from Dungeons Toyota and you brought friends.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, of course, good morning to all of you out
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  Speaker 2: there listening to us. Thanks for joining us this morning.
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  Speaker 2: You're so We're so glad you're with us.
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  Speaker 3: It's a beautiful morning out there today is it's very
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  Speaker 3: busy at the dealership. We've been taking care of our
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  Speaker 3: customers and having lots of fun. And I've got Katie's
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  Speaker 3: on here from the Bartlesville Regional United Way.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you for having me. I'm so excited to be here.
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  Speaker 2: Glad you're here.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a United Way season and kind of schools
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  Speaker 3: off and running, and you guys have kicked off the campaign,
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  Speaker 3: had some big events already with more to come and
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  Speaker 3: a golf tournament soon.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yes, that's the big thing we're gearing up for
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  Speaker 4: now is our golf tournament, and that's going to come
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  Speaker 4: in just a couple of weeks. I'll be here before
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  Speaker 4: we know it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: No, it's always a big event, one of the biggest fundraisers,
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  Speaker 3: you guys.
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  Speaker 4: Do I think, yes, absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you to all the sponsors and all the people
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  Speaker 3: that play in that I know that come from all
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  Speaker 3: over and this is one of the ways we draw
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  Speaker 3: in a lot of funds from other people that may
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  Speaker 3: have business relationships with corporations in town and such.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so we bring in over nine hundred and fifty golfers,
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  Speaker 4: and I want to say over ninety five percent of
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  Speaker 4: those golfers come from out of town. They are vendors
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  Speaker 4: that work with Contago Phillips, with Phillips sixty six. They
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  Speaker 4: come in, they play golf for a week, They buy
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  Speaker 4: food from our local restaurants, They drink beer at Cooper
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  Speaker 4: and Mills and for other local bars. They go to
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  Speaker 4: Moxie on Second. They spend their dollars here and it
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  Speaker 4: brings a lot of people in that haven't been.
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  Speaker 2: A market really back in town.
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  Speaker 4: Randy John comes back into town for a week. Stresses
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  Speaker 4: him out, but we're so excited he always comes back.
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  Speaker 2: It's good to have you back in town.
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  Speaker 3: And I know he works really hard to help this
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  Speaker 3: golf tournaments lots of money for his old his old home.
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  Speaker 3: And that's that's awesome. Thank you Randy for all that
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  Speaker 3: work for Bartlesville. And and you know, so the campaign
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  Speaker 3: did kick off and you guys had the Luau party.
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  Speaker 2: Out of that.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, so we had on July twenty sixth, we had
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  Speaker 4: our first Aloha after Dark. That was the first time
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  Speaker 4: we've kind of done like an evening fundraiser and we
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  Speaker 4: had a blest with it. Tom can attest to that,
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  Speaker 4: he was there. It was it was fun.
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  Speaker 2: Tom.
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  Speaker 4: I remember we raised just shy of seventy five thousand dollars,
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  Speaker 4: which we're pretty proud of that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a great.
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  Speaker 4: Yea for our first year fundraiser. We're pretty excited about that.
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  Speaker 4: So it'll be back next year.
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  Speaker 2: Awesome.
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  Speaker 3: And then you know, it's so much going on, and
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  Speaker 3: we'll talk about that all the different organizations and and
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  Speaker 3: you know how they support Bartlesville, and you know, there's
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  Speaker 3: so much process behind that too, you know, because they
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  Speaker 3: have to meet certain standard and do lots of things
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  Speaker 3: where you we were talking beforehand about how rich Bartlesville
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  Speaker 3: is in these organizations and they're all kind of interconnected
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  Speaker 3: and you help, you guys, help help with that in
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  Speaker 3: a way and help help you know, well, we we
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  Speaker 3: directly support a lot of these organizations and but you
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  Speaker 3: guys allow for individuals and everybody to kind of support
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  Speaker 3: them all in a broader way and help focus activity.
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  Speaker 2: Like we chose to be the the.
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  Speaker 3: Youth Opportunity sponsor one of those this year, and just
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  Speaker 3: because that's one of the themes we'd love to promote
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  Speaker 3: youth opportunity in Bartlesville. And so how's that that's a
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  Speaker 3: little different approach to to sponsorships.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so the way that Yeah, so the way that
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  Speaker 4: we work is we all the money that is raised
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  Speaker 4: from our annual campaign goes towards funding a percentage of
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  Speaker 4: programs from these partner agencies. So we like to say
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  Speaker 4: we fund programs and not agencies because certain certain partner
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  Speaker 4: agencies have different programs that they apply to get funding for.
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  Speaker 2: So it's specific to a part of their operation run.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, and so it is they are programs that enter
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  Speaker 4: into health, financial security, youth opportunity, and then community resiliency.
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  Speaker 4: So those are things like Boys and Girls Club that
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  Speaker 4: falls under youth opportunity. We also have Boys and Girls
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  Speaker 4: Club and no WATA Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, just to
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  Speaker 4: name a few. And so that is a whole process
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  Speaker 4: that we just actually wrapped up. We are wonderful CiCe
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  Speaker 4: Committee just wrap those up and we're meeting with partner
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  Speaker 4: agencies now. But it's a committee of over ninety that
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  Speaker 4: vet these applications for these programs and they decide do
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  Speaker 4: they get full funding, do they get partial funding? What
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  Speaker 4: do we want to give them?
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  Speaker 3: So it's specific to programs and they apply for come
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  Speaker 3: up with something, commit.
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  Speaker 4: Meet a specific and it is at very stringent process
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  Speaker 4: because we want to make sure that any money that
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  Speaker 4: we give them is going to be used for the
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  Speaker 4: things that we want it to be used for. We take,
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  Speaker 4: you know, the donor dollars very seriously, and so we
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  Speaker 4: make sure that if they say they're going to use
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  Speaker 4: it for the kids that come through their programs, then
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  Speaker 4: that's what they do with it. And so we make
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  Speaker 4: sure that every dollar is accounted for with these with
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  Speaker 4: these programs. And so we just wrap that all up
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  Speaker 4: and now we're back into the annual campaign to fundraise
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  Speaker 4: for next year.
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  Speaker 3: Well that's a great segue to the next question I had,
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  Speaker 3: which is what is the goal this year?
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  Speaker 2: What's the annual campaign goal?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so this year it is two point two five million.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so we're it's it's a high number, but we
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  Speaker 4: are excited and we think that the community will rally together.
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  Speaker 4: We've got you know, we just did our Louwout fundraiser.
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  Speaker 4: We've got the golf tournament coming up in two weeks,
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  Speaker 4: and then we're going to be doing a Pie in
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  Speaker 4: the Face contest coming up too. So yeah, we did
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  Speaker 4: that last year. We got to bring it back this year,
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  Speaker 4: and we're excited to see if the community will rally
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  Speaker 4: together for that.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, there's stuff going on all through a lot
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  Speaker 3: of different organizations have their own campaigns going and all
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  Speaker 3: kinds of opportunity for matching gifts and things like that
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  Speaker 3: that people need to leverage and their organizations and and
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  Speaker 3: you know, so anyway, that's everybody get behind that. I
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  Speaker 3: know you mentioned all the people that help vet the organizations.
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  Speaker 3: It's a lot of volunteers involved in what you guys do,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, it really takes the whole community to
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  Speaker 3: kind of do do that.
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  Speaker 4: Just yeah, so we have over ninety people and they
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  Speaker 4: get divided into these different committees, these subcommittees, but it's
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  Speaker 4: all run by Warren Result and John Saltzman. They do
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  Speaker 4: an incredible job every year with keeping track of everything,
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  Speaker 4: making sure everything is going as smoothly as it can.
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  Speaker 4: Questions are being answered. But yeah, it's ninety people in
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  Speaker 4: our community that come together and say, hey, I want
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  Speaker 4: to help.
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  Speaker 2: That's awesome.
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  Speaker 3: And I was thinking this morning too about the parallel
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  Speaker 3: between what you guys do and what we do at
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  Speaker 3: the dealership was not obvious, obvious and necessarily but you know,
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  Speaker 3: we've been, you know, working to our customers.
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  Speaker 2: Supporting us locally.
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  Speaker 3: Is what's allowed us to be around for ninety five
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  Speaker 3: years as a small business, small family owned business for
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  Speaker 3: four generations. Is the world's changed through all kinds of
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  Speaker 3: things that you know we are.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I.
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  Speaker 3: Can't even begin to list them all in ninety five years, right,
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  Speaker 3: but just think over the last ten and you know,
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  Speaker 3: you think about think about that and the choices people
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  Speaker 3: make to buy from a local business, and they need
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  Speaker 3: to make these same choices and funding local organizations that
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  Speaker 3: make this community strong.
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  Speaker 2: You know that the.
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  Speaker 3: Buying local and supporting local organizations is so important in Bartlesville.
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  Speaker 3: And I just we do not take that for granted
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  Speaker 3: at DUNEUS Toyota. And you know, I think that's just
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  Speaker 3: that was what I wanted to say. We don't take
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  Speaker 3: you guys for grantity.
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  Speaker 4: Either well, and I think COVID really showed us that,
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  Speaker 4: you know, you could be in a really good position
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  Speaker 4: one day and then the next day, you know, something
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  Speaker 4: like COVID could come along, and then you could find
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  Speaker 4: yourself without a job, without you know, access to groceries,
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  Speaker 4: and then you need these partner agencies that you've been
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  Speaker 4: funding before. So everybody could end up in a position
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  Speaker 4: where they need help.
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  Speaker 2: Of course.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know, and there are so many great
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  Speaker 3: organizations in our town that meet that need.
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  Speaker 2: And that's how many organizations are.
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  Speaker 3: Does the United Way support or programs at these organizations now?
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  Speaker 4: So right now I believe that we sit at fifteen,
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  Speaker 4: But then we do have our Rise grant that opens
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  Speaker 4: up and about October. October November is when we typically
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  Speaker 4: open it up, and that is a smaller grant and
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  Speaker 4: that allows us to help other nonprofits that are not
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  Speaker 4: part of our partner agency network for smaller things. You know,
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  Speaker 4: perhaps they need some transportation for kids to get to
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  Speaker 4: a program. Some of those things that.
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  Speaker 2: Each size grants are those times.
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  Speaker 4: So those technically are kind of mini grants, but it's
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  Speaker 4: ten thousand dollars are under and so that is something
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  Speaker 4: that is pending board approval. You know, we hope every
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  Speaker 4: year that we're able to do it.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, you got to raise the money.
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  Speaker 4: Exactly, so it's all depending on the money. But you know,
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  Speaker 4: our whole goal is to help as many people as
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  Speaker 4: we can through as many programs as we can. So
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  Speaker 4: you know, our board is fantastic and really pushes for
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  Speaker 4: these grants.
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  Speaker 2: That's outstanding. I didn't know that those were around. That's
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  Speaker 2: that's cool.
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  Speaker 3: I mean there's been a lot of change in these
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  Speaker 3: last few years, and you know, i'd ways continue to evolve,
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  Speaker 3: just like we do at the dealership. That's what one
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  Speaker 3: thing about not taking that for granted is you've got
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  Speaker 3: to continually be trying to we do our focused on
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  Speaker 3: you know, the service we provide our customers, giving them
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  Speaker 3: a great experience when they buy their car, you know,
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  Speaker 3: focused on really delivering to their expectations. And and you know,
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  Speaker 3: I know that's you know, again parallel to what you
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  Speaker 3: guys are trying to do with the vetting of the
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  Speaker 3: organizations and trying to really connect and support the community
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  Speaker 3: in a great way and make those dollars kind of multiply.
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  Speaker 3: I think a way through the giving that we do
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  Speaker 3: and yeah, that's really cool. Another thing going on with
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  Speaker 3: the dealership we are it is the model year end season,
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  Speaker 3: So as the United Way kicks off, we start getting
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  Speaker 3: our twenty twenty six toyotas and we've had a few
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  Speaker 3: arrive already, I think Prius and a few others, and
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  Speaker 3: then we got we've got our first allocation of the
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  Speaker 3: twenty six corollas and cameras. It'll keep going for a
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  Speaker 3: few months. Everyone is interested in the new Rat four,
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  Speaker 3: which will be here probably closer to the end of
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  Speaker 3: the year. We've getten lots of questions about that. It's
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  Speaker 3: been redesigned and it's one of our best selling vehicles already.
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  Speaker 3: We're real excited to have that vehicle out. We've got
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  Speaker 3: a great inventory right now because, uh, you know, we
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  Speaker 3: just we've been growing this year and it uh you know,
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  Speaker 3: not necessarily keeping more vehicles on the ground, but we
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  Speaker 3: keep growing the number we're selling. The selling a lot
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  Speaker 3: of them out of the pipeline, and but we're starting
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  Speaker 3: to get a few more that that kind of make
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  Speaker 3: it through that process and are sticking around. We got
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  Speaker 3: just some really cool vehicles recently a new Tacoma Trail Hunter,
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  Speaker 3: which is a brand new trim level with a bunch
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  Speaker 3: of really great accessories.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's unique, isn't for everyone. It's out.
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  Speaker 3: It has a snorcle on it with that actually is
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  Speaker 3: an operating thing that ties to the air airflow of
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  Speaker 3: the vehicle, and you can actually hear it when you're driving.
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  Speaker 3: So it's kind of if you've ever driven a turbocharged
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  Speaker 3: car with a with the blowoff valve, it kind of
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  Speaker 3: sounds like that.
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  Speaker 5: You know, it's not for everyone, but it is really
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  Speaker 5: fun to drive, and it's got great equipment on the
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  Speaker 5: bed where you can put all of your stuff, whether.
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  Speaker 3: It's a you know, I don't know, kayaks or paddle boards,
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  Speaker 3: bike racks, tents, uh, you know, sleeping arrangements of all
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  Speaker 3: sorts of crazy what people do in their cars. Now,
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  Speaker 3: another one I like a lot is the TRD Pro Tundra.
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  Speaker 3: We actually have two really nice Tundras right now, a
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  Speaker 3: TRD Pro White.
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  Speaker 2: It's beautiful.
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  Speaker 3: TRD Pro again, specialized vehicle, not for everyone. Has a
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  Speaker 3: modified suspension system, a lift kit, all kinds of off
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  Speaker 3: roading equipment. It really is a sporting vehicle meant to
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  Speaker 3: be used, fun to drive.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I have a TRD bro Squaia I'm driving now.
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  Speaker 2: At first I was like a.
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  Speaker 3: Little I thought it was a little rough and you know,
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  Speaker 3: because it is built to be used like that. But
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  Speaker 3: then when I took it to Colorado this summer, I
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  Speaker 3: was like, I think, I think I'm going to keep this.
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  Speaker 3: The other Thunder is seventeen ninety four and a really
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  Speaker 3: unique color. I can't remember what it's called that. It's
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  Speaker 3: kind of a pastel green muted though not bright at all.
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  Speaker 3: I'm really a cool, cool looking under seventeen ninety four
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  Speaker 3: to the year. The Tundra where the ranch where the
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  Speaker 3: Thunder is built in San Antonio actually was called that
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  Speaker 3: seventeen ninety four. And we're actually sending one of our
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  Speaker 3: our managers, damned.
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  Speaker 2: To the Toyota to a thunder a plant in Octo
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  Speaker 2: early October.
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  Speaker 3: He's going to get a chance to go down there
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  Speaker 3: and watching being built, get to drive them on a
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  Speaker 3: specialized road, and really learn about the tundra and how
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  Speaker 3: it's going to be awesome when he comes back and
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  Speaker 3: can share as I've been down there a few years
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  Speaker 3: ago when they opened up the thunder plant and it's
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  Speaker 3: really incredible how Toyota builds vehicles. The plant, it's pretty
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  Speaker 3: much all the parts suppliers around it, so they there's
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  Speaker 3: not I mean, some things are shipped in to them,
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  Speaker 3: but they're assembled there and it's it's uh, they're famous
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  Speaker 3: for their manufacturing systems, but it's it's just in time delivery,
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  Speaker 3: so there's not a lot of inventory.
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  Speaker 2: Laying around there. Everything is moving. You know.
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  Speaker 3: They're famous for the quality of their build and if
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  Speaker 3: something is wrong, they stop building things and fix it
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  Speaker 3: before they keep going. You know, I just so impressed
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  Speaker 3: with them and how they got deal with warranty and
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  Speaker 3: things like that. You know, if you know, all vehicles
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  Speaker 3: have problems occasionally, but when when a Toyota does, Twitter
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  Speaker 3: really steps.
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  Speaker 2: Up and backs that vehicle. I'm really proud to represent them.
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  Speaker 3: They're great brand, very dependable, right, they sure are, and
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  Speaker 3: great value too. They do hold their resale value among
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  Speaker 3: the best of all all brands, and particularly the Coma.
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  Speaker 2: That's one of those.
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  Speaker 3: Anomalies that it's so odd that it just doesn't seem
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  Speaker 3: to lose its value.
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  Speaker 2: And I think Tacoma residual after two years the.
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  Speaker 3: Technical term in the car business, but it's seventy percent
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  Speaker 3: of it's a really regional value after two years. A
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  Speaker 3: lot of vehicles lose that first thirty percent in the
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  Speaker 3: first few months of pretty.
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  Speaker 6: Much around the block exactly.
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  Speaker 7: Well, the thing is, it's tough and it looks good. Yeah, no,
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  Speaker 7: it's great, and it goes and it's functional. It's the
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  Speaker 7: right size truck these days. You know, it's not too big,
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  Speaker 7: not too small.
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  Speaker 3: It's got a lot of functionality, it's comfortable to drive,
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  Speaker 3: it's different ways to set it up.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: It comes to ranges in price from I mean the
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  Speaker 3: trail Hunter is all fixed up. It's I think around
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  Speaker 3: sixty something like that. But you can get nice tacomas
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  Speaker 3: in the in the thirty five thousand and thirty seven
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  Speaker 3: thousand dollars range and get me to buy it.
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  Speaker 4: To come yes, well, I mean he just goes.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know, you know where we are out of
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  Speaker 3: our vehicles.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt about it. And you know that's one
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  Speaker 2: great thing about too, is they do.
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  Speaker 3: Demand has exceeded supply for quite a while now, and
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  Speaker 3: for for since really before COVID, and I guess the
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  Speaker 3: fast sales are really what we've got to get used to,
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  Speaker 3: and it's going to be kind of different.
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  Speaker 2: From now on.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but anyway, back to the United Way, I want
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  Speaker 3: to go over what you've got planned for the rest
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  Speaker 3: of the year and and other events that are coming up.
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  Speaker 3: I know you mentioned, I know the golf tournament is
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  Speaker 3: next or it's and it's big. Takes tons of planning
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  Speaker 3: and logistics. Probably pretty much set on who's going to
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  Speaker 3: play at this point.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, So, as far as I know, it is sold out.
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  Speaker 4: I think there's still a handful of people who are
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  Speaker 4: still trying to get in.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, so they're on the bubble. They are little playing action.
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  Speaker 2: Some we could call Kobe out of the dealership. I
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  Speaker 2: think he's still assembling our team.
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  Speaker 3: Well, there you go.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so it is sold out. The goal this year
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  Speaker 4: is to break a million. We did that last year,
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: so I think we're hoping to do that again and
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: exceeded a bit. You know, we always wow, don't him
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: too too high? Yeah, but well it's.
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: An awfully big part of this that total. Yeah, when
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: you think about it, Yeah, this is a big, big,
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: important part of the whole campaign.
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: Yes, And when Randy first brought this up and he
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: started it, it only raised about eight thousand dollars. So
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: we went from eight thousand dollars I believe twenty two
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: years ago to now being I think last year was
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: one point two million that was raised.
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: Such probably one of the largest fundraisers in Bartersville every year.
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: Probably, yeah, and one of the highest ones for United
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: Ways in Oklahoma. I think Tulsa farser passed us. But
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: for some of the smaller United Ways, it's it's a
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: pretty big one. And again, like you know, I said previously,
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: it's a big deal for our town too. So it's
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: not just as that benefits well, that's.
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: Back to the by local and support the sponsors of
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: these organizations in our community and the United Way to
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: really I want to.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: Encourage everybody to take note of that, and really it.
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: Is important that that's an important part of the fabric
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: of our community. And you know, these great long term
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: sponsors you guys have had for so many years, and
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: you know, it's shifted it through the years in decades
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: as the big companies have evolved and changed, but they
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: continue to support the United Way and all their employee networks.
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: I mean, that's another thing that we don't want to
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: forget about, is all the volunteer days and other opportunities
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: for people.
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: To give yeah, so, and we like to say, you know,
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: just because you you might not have a lot of
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: money to give, but you have time and you can volunteer.
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: And so one of our big things that we do
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: is Day of Caring and that is September twenty fourth.
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: This year. We had a little over sixty five projects
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: this year and I think we have a little less
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: than ten left. And it is groups of people from
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: these bigger companies. We've got groups of people from smaller
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: companies that they shut down the office on the day
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: and they go volunteer. But it's it's with any nonprofit.
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: Any five oh one seed three in town can sign
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: up for these and they just say, hey, we need
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: help with these projects. It's things that they might not
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: be able to do on their own where they don't
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: have time to do it. And so these teams of
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: volunteers get together. We give them a free T shirt.
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: We always like to you know, rep that a little bit.
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: We you know, people like free T shirts, So we
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: give them a free T shirt and we say, hey,
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: go spend some time volunteering. And everybody in our community
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: loves it. They look forward to it every year. It's
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: become quite a competition to get a project. We open
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: them at nine o'clock in the morning and they, I
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: want to say, probably about seventy five percent gets snagged
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: within thirty minutes.
• 20:04
  Speaker 6: Wow.
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: From our website. Yeah, it's become quite a competition. But
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: it's just really fantastic to see these companies say hey,
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: I want to pay you to go volunteer and to
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: make a difference, because, like we've been talking about, it's community,
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: building community and supporting those around us.
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: And does some of them match the time with money yes.
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that great. Yeah, and it's just saying like hey,
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: we might not be able to make a huge contribution,
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: but we can donate our time, we can donate our
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: employees time, and we can have a great time doing it.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah. That's really cool. Yeah that's so. Is there anything else?
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: Well, so we how much time to do?
• 20:46
  Speaker 6: Well?
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: We didn't. We didn't pack our our campaign too much
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: this year. But we do have Pine the Face contest
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: that's coming up, and I can say we have three
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: confirmed contestants so far. We're still working on the other three,
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: but Aaron Kirkpatrick from City Council is going to be
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: one of them. Yes, Cory Nelson from our Vest. Yeah,
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: we're big fans of hers. And then Chuck McCauley, he's
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: gonna kinda he's going to kick off his his last year.
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: He's gonna he's gonna go out with the bag.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: So I bet that raises some money.
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we're really excited. We've got some fantastic ideas from
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: some of our ktest.
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: If anyone wants to get a pie in the face,
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: they need to raise their hand and yeah, yeah sure,
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: I don't know when that is, but I don't think
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: I'm available.
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: Well we're very visible with you, but yeah, so.
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: We's so you you probably go find them and put there.
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: We do so yeah, so we So voting will begin.
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: Last year, we had Chris Batch Elder, he was the
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: one who got the least amount of votes. He was
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: a trooper. We had Jamie Yeah, it was fun. And
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: we had Jamie Immota from Connica Phillips. He took a
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: pie to the face from his lovely wife Jacqueline. That
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: was fun and I mean they were troopers. They were fantastic.
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: They enjoyed it as much as we did. And so
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: we're excited to have it back. But voting will be
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: September fifteenth through the thirtieth online, So just check out
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: our social media for more information. We'll keep you posted
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: all through there.
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: Awesome, we'll be checking that out and hope we can
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: avoid getting a pie in the face.
• 22:31
  Speaker 6: Wow, like getting plopped, you know.
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Lisa has fun doing it. Yeah, she does does.
• 22:40
  Speaker 6: She's got that kind of a little utery streak in
• 22:42
  Speaker 6: her anyway.
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: Yeah, she was really excited when she heard Chris Boucheldon
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: was getting the pie. She was like, oh, she was
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: excited about that one.
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: Well.
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: Shout out to Lisa and the rest of the staff
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: at the United Way. I know that you guys work
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: hard all year and thinking about Bartlesville.
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: All the time.
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: We are a small but mighty team. Lisa carries our
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: president CEO O. Shelley Dugan is executive assistant, and then
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: Jony Hall is our vice president. So and then there's me.
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: So we you know, are of us, but you know,
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: and we have a fantastic board and a fantastic network
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: of volunteers and fantastic sponsors like Dungeons Toyota to help
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: us out and to kind of fill the gaps where
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: we can't.
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: We love to support you guys and are glad to
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: be involved and all our employees, uh you know every year.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: You know, it's hard for us sometimes.
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: To get out and do the volunteer stuff and all that,
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: but they they love to be involved in all this stuff.
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: And believe me, they're behind everything we do.
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: And they are well, we love having you guys, you know,
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: to the golf tournament too.
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: Well, we'll be we'll be out there and excited to
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: see Randy again and welcome him back to town. And we'll
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: see how the golf gave that up a few years ago.
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: So I won't be out there scaring everybody. But uh,
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: you know, I got tired of going in the world.
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: It's looking through the ball.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: I always thought that was a ground rule double then
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: they said, no, this is golf.
• 24:08
  Speaker 6: That's a two stroke pedal.
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: Anyway that you guys can dream about that imagine that.
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: As I said, we're off and running at the dealership today.
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: If you need a service, be sure to you know,
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: I just recommend you go online and schedule your appointment there.
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: There's really an improved tool there to schedule your service appointment.
• 24:30
  Speaker 8: You can let us know through there what you think
• 24:32
  Speaker 8: you need, or if you don't know, tell us that
• 24:35
  Speaker 8: you can find your car if you've been in before,
• 24:38
  Speaker 8: really easily by just entering your phone number or email address,
• 24:42
  Speaker 8: so it's whatever you've given to us before.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: However, we communicate with you.
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: That appointment pops up right there in the scheduled with
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: our shops, so we know when we have availability through
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: that system, and it schedules you right there.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: They know who you're coming.
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: It's a little faster process when they write you up.
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: It should get you in and out much quicker. We've
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: got great new tools on our website too for buying
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: a car. You can go on and and pretty much
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: calculate your own deal everything about it. We've already got
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: the done just simple price on there, great on the
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: market value for our vehicles. But you can go in there,
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: look at your own credit, play with the payments, down
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: payment term of the loan, really answer a lot of
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: your questions about value. We call it, you know, keeping
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: the cardial, fast, transparent and fun, and it is we
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: focus on that. Our great professional noncommissioned sales associates. They
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: really are motivated by taking care of our customers and
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: and really you know, we focus on service and value
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: for our team and the customers and that's.
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: What we're here for this weekend. There's a lot of
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: stuff going on in town.
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: The sports Tacula Marthon and David Castillo will be back
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: in town. Shout out to David, and you can't wait
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: to watch him play basketball this year at Kansas State.
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: Hopefully you'll get a little more playing time. Oh he will,
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: I'm pretty certain. And then we've also got wild Brew
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: in Tulsa. Yeah, the big event for Suttonnavian Research Center.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: It really is a fun time too.
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: Samaritan is too, but wild Brew is great and a
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: lot of people don't realize that the great connection of
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: Sutton Navy and Research Center too are And there's some
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: tickets here, Oh yeah, magically appear give him away or
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: what's there?
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: If you want them, well, I'll tak I mean I'll
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: take them on. Want people there, Okay, Well I meny
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: to do Saturday. My wife is leaving town, so we'll
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: see you there.
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: I don't usually go out without or though we'll see
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: but anyway, thank you for coming, Katie, And we're near
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: and the end of our time. Is there anything else
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: we should say other than support the United Way and Bartlesville?
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: I mean, I think we pretty much covered it, but
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: I just want to say again thank you to DUNGEUS
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: Toyota for being our youth Opportunity Champion. It's a fantastic
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: thing that you guys do for our community, and every
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: single dollar that is raised for our campaign goes back
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: into our community and it helps tenfold.
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: Well, thank you a little proud to support to what
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: you guys do.
• 27:23
  Speaker 6: Where can we find you, Brad, We're out at.
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: Nineteen eleven Southeast Washington Boulevard at dungeus Toyota dot com.
• 27:29
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• 27:36
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