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CAR TALK w Brad Doenges and CONCERN · One on One With a Professional

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  Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning. Welcome, welcome, welcome.
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  Speaker 2: The sun is shining and it means it's Thursday and
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  Speaker 2: it's car Talk Day. We've got Brad Dungeons and he
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  Speaker 2: brought for you morning Tom.
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  Speaker 1: I did.
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  Speaker 3: I've got my good friends Denise Tucker and Melody Cox
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  Speaker 3: from Concern, one of our long term favorite organizations in Bartlesville.
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  Speaker 3: And you guys do such a good work sixty years
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  Speaker 3: and that's pretty amazing. That's a good start, helped a
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  Speaker 3: lot of people through.
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  Speaker 1: Those years we have.
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  Speaker 3: It's one of those things and you have a big
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  Speaker 3: event coming up in a few weeks, the Annual lip
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  Speaker 3: Sync Battle. Five years of that. Now that that's unique.
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  Speaker 4: Some of the different songs that are already picked out.
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  Speaker 3: Some entertainment, the entertainers picked their own songs, and you
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  Speaker 3: just throw okay.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, we're gonna have a good mix this year.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I think we are too.
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  Speaker 6: I think we've got some Lady Gaga in there and
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  Speaker 6: some fl Mode.
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  Speaker 1: And is it hard to get people to volunteer and
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  Speaker 1: you have to twist arms much time?
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  Speaker 4: So the first year, I think at least my husband
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  Speaker 4: was volunteered.
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  Speaker 6: Did Billy Ray Cyrus that you're breaking Heart, But ever
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  Speaker 6: since then it's pretty much. So we have some loyal
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  Speaker 6: people like Mike. Robert's been in it a few years.
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  Speaker 1: And I bet Tom could do it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Tom's very talented anyway, but.
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  Speaker 1: They probably don't want me doing it, that's my opinion.
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  Speaker 4: The beautiful part is that you don't actually have.
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  Speaker 1: To see you just yeah.
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  Speaker 3: It is one of those things that you got to
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  Speaker 3: kind of pretend to say, yeah, so you need a
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  Speaker 3: little bit.
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  Speaker 1: Of ham in you. I think probably I got that covered.
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  Speaker 3: At this great event, the Battle in Barlsville is coming
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  Speaker 3: up September twelfth at the Hilton Garden.
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  Speaker 1: End six pm. Get dinner and exciting entertainment.
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  Speaker 4: Going to do a taco bar. Yeah, taco bar and
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  Speaker 4: really no.
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  Speaker 3: That's great stuff, no doubt. And of course back to
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  Speaker 3: concern itself, which is this is this organization he said,
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  Speaker 3: is nearly sixty years old. You know, through my life
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  Speaker 3: I've heard lots of stories about my grandmother and her
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  Speaker 3: involvement and the churches united and bringing it together. And
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  Speaker 3: you know, well you you mentioned just sixty years and
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to see if I can connect you with
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  Speaker 3: my uncle Bob and get him to come and bring
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  Speaker 3: bring some more fact that story.
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  Speaker 1: Someone I remember.
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  Speaker 5: We've got records and we've got all the news articles,
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  Speaker 5: but nothing is like getting sitting with somebody who has
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  Speaker 5: that living memory.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah you can share those stories.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, those things I know. You know.
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  Speaker 3: It was a bunch of friends, I mean in Bartlesville.
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  Speaker 4: From different churches, different churches. That's the main thing.
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  Speaker 5: That's what's so unique is it's coming together just across denominations.
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  Speaker 5: People saw a neat and they said, let's work together
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  Speaker 5: to take care of the sneaed, to take care of
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  Speaker 5: our neighbors.
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  Speaker 1: And then and what did Concern too? So I tell us,
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  Speaker 1: let's talk about the mission and how you support people.
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  Speaker 4: So we're a food bank.
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  Speaker 6: Concern originally started a daycare, which we don't have anymore,
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  Speaker 6: but we still do food, We do financial assistance. Now
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  Speaker 6: I feel like I'm thinking of not things. We help
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  Speaker 6: with Christmas toys. We also to Thanksgiving Basket. We serve
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  Speaker 6: around two hundred and twenty five families. Thanksgiving abb supplies
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  Speaker 6: our turkeys and then all the churches. Again, you go
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  Speaker 6: back to the churches, they supplies, They supplies every they
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  Speaker 6: supply everything else.
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  Speaker 4: We also have a representative payee program.
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  Speaker 5: For folks who need a little assistance managing their SSI income.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, well, I mean it is.
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  Speaker 3: It's another example and I say this it seems almost
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  Speaker 3: every week on the show about how Bartlesville has these
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  Speaker 3: great organizations and they fit that need and they find
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  Speaker 3: people to serve. And it's one of the coolest things
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  Speaker 3: about Bartlesville.
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  Speaker 6: Is another really good thing is that most of our
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  Speaker 6: charities here in bartizwell work together.
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  Speaker 3: No, that's what That's part of it, because I mean
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  Speaker 3: I think, no, it's so hard, there's limited resources for everybody,
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  Speaker 3: and fundraising is so critical. And then but and you know,
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  Speaker 3: needs change and evolve. But but you it is kind
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  Speaker 3: of like a puzzle that comes together in Bartlesville where
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  Speaker 3: the different organizations well they you know, it sounds like
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  Speaker 3: they do similar things and they do, but they you know,
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  Speaker 3: they find you know, they find their niche and their
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  Speaker 3: way to find their people they can serve and and
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  Speaker 3: it is one of those uh special things where especially
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  Speaker 3: community our size.
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  Speaker 6: And I think our businesses here like DUNGEU, we couldn't
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  Speaker 6: do what we do if we didn't have sponsors like
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  Speaker 6: you guys, right, you know, like ABM B S Plan turkeys.
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  Speaker 1: That's awesome.
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  Speaker 3: And it does take a lot of different organizations and
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  Speaker 3: and you have great sponsors, a lot of the the
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  Speaker 3: names that are on a lot of them, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: so those good A shout out to Truity and DSR
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  Speaker 3: and Conicco, Phillips and we're proud to be sponsors again
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  Speaker 3: and Phillips sixty six or just run here.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm sure.
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  Speaker 6: That those are the those are the bigger sponsors. That
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  Speaker 6: doesn't include some of those smaller rooms.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, we've also got Ascension, Saint John, Jane Phillips, We've
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  Speaker 5: got Gorman Management, and we've got Skyway Honda.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, awesome.
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  Speaker 4: Again, this is just.
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  Speaker 1: For everybody who wants to help.
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  Speaker 4: There's always a need.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, and we've always been really blessed with concern that
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  Speaker 6: is between corporate.
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  Speaker 3: And and how do people get involved?
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure.
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  Speaker 3: I mean it takes a lot of volunteers and different
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  Speaker 3: people to help support.
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  Speaker 4: I have been I have been greatly blessed.
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  Speaker 6: When I came in during COVID, I had twenty five volunteers.
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  Speaker 6: I still have almost the exact same volunteers that come
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  Speaker 6: in weekly, not monthly weekly, they come in weekly and
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  Speaker 6: so it's been very they do. So we have we
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  Speaker 6: have people that take care of our intake and our
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  Speaker 6: you know, take care of the clients. Then we have
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  Speaker 6: people that just pack the food, and then I have
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  Speaker 6: people that repackage, so we'll get like a big bag
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  Speaker 6: of sugar and repackage it down the smaller, better cost effective.
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  Speaker 6: And so I have people that come in and do that.
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  Speaker 6: And then we have corporate groups and stuff that come in,
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  Speaker 6: like we've got a day of carry and coming up
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  Speaker 6: tomorrow they're going to repaint some walls and stuff.
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  Speaker 5: So one of our newer programs is delivering to some
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  Speaker 5: of the senior living facilities. We have these USDA boxes
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  Speaker 5: and so that's another opportunity. We have people who will
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  Speaker 5: come on a Friday morning and gather up and deliver it.
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  Speaker 4: And we deliver about seventy five senior boxes. So yeah,
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  Speaker 4: just yeh food.
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  Speaker 6: We take it to them. We call and get their
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  Speaker 6: orders and then we take it to them on a
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  Speaker 6: certain day in time.
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  Speaker 1: So awesome.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it does take a whole community to make these
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  Speaker 3: things come together.
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  Speaker 1: And I've always been fascinated by the lips in Battle.
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  Speaker 1: It's so it's so unique.
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  Speaker 3: It's one of those one of those things that you've got.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I don't know how you thought of this,
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  Speaker 3: but it's might.
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  Speaker 6: Be I will I will shout this out. Mark Wahlburn
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  Speaker 6: at Truity thought of it. He was on the board
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  Speaker 6: at the time and put it out there and he
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  Speaker 6: performed the first year. So yes, he was the inspiration
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  Speaker 6: and then we've won with it since.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, I knew it had to have an origination.
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  Speaker 3: These things those don't happen. So and do you have?
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  Speaker 3: So you've got already got some performers lined up.
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  Speaker 1: And I think so much.
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  Speaker 4: Seven.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, I think you're waiting to hear on the seventh.
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  Speaker 1: How many does it take to fill it up?
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  Speaker 6: We do six, We've done six to eight.
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  Speaker 4: Eight, it's the highest we want to go.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's a taco or as you said, and
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  Speaker 3: got a little bar going on there.
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  Speaker 6: So tickets are seventy five dollars. That includes your meal
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  Speaker 6: to drink tickets and then of course there's always a
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  Speaker 6: cash bar out and it's like I said, at the Hilton.
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  Speaker 6: So they have pretty good bartenders.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, if you need a.
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  Speaker 5: Drink provided by local bakers.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, So Sugarika is lovely they've donated every year, always
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  Speaker 6: donate cookies and then Melodies usually donates.
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  Speaker 4: So yes, it's very very good stuff.
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  Speaker 1: So and of course Tony, you're on the board or the.
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  Speaker 5: Chair now, yes, I'm the board president.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, and everyone has a little different take on chair
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  Speaker 3: or president. But how how did you get involved?
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  Speaker 1: What?
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  Speaker 5: Well? I originally got involved with the church. Every church
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  Speaker 5: is a member of Concern. We'll send a representative to
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  Speaker 5: serve on the board, and that way the church has
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  Speaker 5: a direct connection to what Concern is doing. And from
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  Speaker 5: that group, then you have an executive committee who helps
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  Speaker 5: with some of the decision making and such. So after
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  Speaker 5: serving as a member for several years, uh, there was
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  Speaker 5: a vacancy for the presidency and I was begged. Did
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  Speaker 5: not exactly beg, but I think there were tears, few tears.
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  Speaker 2: I can't say no.
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  Speaker 4: To these people.
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  Speaker 5: I think that's one of the things when you you
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  Speaker 5: come to work at Concern, whether you're a board member
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  Speaker 5: or a volunteer, you don't want to leave that the
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  Speaker 5: work is too good, the people are too fun. It's
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  Speaker 5: it's just a wonderful way to use what God has
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  Speaker 5: given you to serve others.
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  Speaker 3: Very inspiring it is, and I know we've got people
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  Speaker 3: listening out there. Some know what it is and may
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  Speaker 3: have maybe volunteers, others are just finding out about it.
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  Speaker 3: How do they if they want to help? I mean,
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  Speaker 3: obviously they can come to the battle in Bartlesville, but
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  Speaker 3: what else can they do?
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  Speaker 6: I mean, so there's always so I always tell people
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  Speaker 6: to go to concerncares dot com. You can go on
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  Speaker 6: there and see any volunteer opportunities. We try to keep
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  Speaker 6: that updated. And of course there's like a PayPal and
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  Speaker 6: stuff if you need to do monetary, but we can
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  Speaker 6: always use food. We had a lady in Yeah donations.
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  Speaker 6: We had a lady not too long ago that her
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  Speaker 6: birthday party. She says, I don't need presents, everybody being
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  Speaker 6: her food item. We got two hundred and eighty pounds
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  Speaker 6: of food from her birthday party and it was peanut
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  Speaker 6: butter and you know, canned vegetables and stuff. So you know,
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  Speaker 6: if you don't need anything for your birthday and you
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  Speaker 6: want to have something fun, that was a great idea.
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  Speaker 4: She's one of our lovely ladies that did that.
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  Speaker 3: So that's good. And of course Peggy couldn't be here
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  Speaker 3: this time. I was going to say she's going to
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  Speaker 3: be your grandmother.
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  Speaker 6: She's she's preparing to make the very fast drive Klahoma City.
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  Speaker 3: So all right, well, shout out to Peggy and good
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  Speaker 3: luck with that process.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, it's it's warm.
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  Speaker 3: As you mentioned at the start of the show, Tom,
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  Speaker 3: you know the the the sun is shining, and it's
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  Speaker 3: the weather report said it's going to be the hottest
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  Speaker 3: weather of the year.
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  Speaker 1: But it seems pretty similar to.
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  Speaker 2: You in the porches. You're pretty much set, and I
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  Speaker 2: think we're gonna be there for a couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 2: Und I won't tell you what it feels like.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I know you can look at your phone and
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  Speaker 3: get that somewhere yesterday. Despite all that, we've been very
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  Speaker 3: busy at the dealership. It's been a great August so far.
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  Speaker 3: Are lots of activity. I don't know, sometimes it just
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  Speaker 3: ebbs and flows, but it's been very busy lately.
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  Speaker 4: And he's enjoying her new Highlander.
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  Speaker 1: Good well, I'm glad to hear that.
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  Speaker 3: I know she she raves about it, and that's good
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  Speaker 3: to hear.
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  Speaker 1: That's our goals.
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  Speaker 3: Have happy customers, keep it simple in the process of
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  Speaker 3: selling cars.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I hear from people it seems like almost
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  Speaker 1: every day now that we're.
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  Speaker 3: Just sticking to that is coming through and the customers
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  Speaker 3: appreciate it. It doesn't need to be complicated that the
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  Speaker 3: old stereotype of a car salesman doesn't doesn't necessarily apply it.
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  Speaker 3: Dounge justs we hope and we want to be very
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  Speaker 3: u you know, transparent and straightforward, help you make a decision,
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  Speaker 3: not put pressure on you. Our team's not paid on commission,
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  Speaker 3: so they're not driven to to you know, squeeze out
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  Speaker 3: the last dime of profit. They want to really serve
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  Speaker 3: our customers and are and be a part of the team.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, it's allowed us to attract different kind
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  Speaker 3: of people into the roles and sales and you know,
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  Speaker 3: and that's where we've been selling cars in Oklahoma since
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  Speaker 3: nineteen twenty nine now my family has and so it's
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  Speaker 3: a long legacy and that you know, that's important that
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  Speaker 3: we we've continued to evolve and and you know the
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  Speaker 3: world is changing and we're not blind to that. We
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  Speaker 3: could try to stay on the forefront of technology and
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  Speaker 3: how how did our customers expect and truly try to
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  Speaker 3: match up to that? And uh, you know that we're
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  Speaker 3: at to sit while we're we lean forward. We also
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  Speaker 3: you know we kind of you know, try to keep
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  Speaker 3: it like it always was. You know, we're a single dealership.
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  Speaker 3: We're not a part of a big corporate chain. We
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  Speaker 3: have it's a family throughout the company and lots of
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  Speaker 3: long term employees, people that started there and you have
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  Speaker 3: stayed there their whole careers. And in the body shop
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  Speaker 3: and service and parts, people move around. My Joe Dylan
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  Speaker 3: and a lot of people know Joe. He's been there
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  Speaker 3: over fifty five years.
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  Speaker 4: And now I was about to say.
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  Speaker 3: My car, Yeah, I know Joe is He's great. He
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  Speaker 3: didn't uh it doesn't work on the cars anymore. Run
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  Speaker 3: the body shop. He's done.
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  Speaker 1: He's worked in every department and through the years.
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  Speaker 3: But now he he helps shut all customers around and
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  Speaker 3: does some inventory work and and I had cooks cookies
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  Speaker 3: and popcorn for our customers every day.
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  Speaker 6: It's the fun part when you get to be you know,
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  Speaker 6: you've been there long enough you can.
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  Speaker 4: Just kind of do yeah, a little bit of a
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  Speaker 4: little everything.
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  Speaker 3: But it's part of the you know, having that kind
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  Speaker 3: of a family legacy business and.
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  Speaker 1: Try and keeping it keeping it simple.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's about values and and what we can
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  Speaker 3: do together as a team, not unlike what what'd you
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  Speaker 3: guys do it Concern And I know it's a little
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  Speaker 3: different in the car business, but at the same time
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  Speaker 3: we're still people and and and how we relate to
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  Speaker 3: each other as in the organization into our customers.
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  Speaker 1: And that's kind of.
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  Speaker 3: The inspiration of Concern when it comes down to it.
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  Speaker 3: That way the churches came together and uh and and
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  Speaker 3: it's so cool that it continues that way and that
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  Speaker 3: you guys that on the board all come from those churches.
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  Speaker 6: And well, it's still amazing that the churches that we
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  Speaker 6: still have that started. You know, we have a few
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  Speaker 6: that we've had a couple of clothes that were original,
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  Speaker 6: but you know, we but they even the legacies when
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  Speaker 6: the churches closed, so we've been blessed and you know
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  Speaker 6: they were like we sold our buildings, so there's some
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  Speaker 6: of them.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's so such a I could say, inspiring story.
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  Speaker 3: And once again, your event is September twelfth at the
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  Speaker 3: Hold and Garden end the Lip Sync Battle in Bartlesville.
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  Speaker 3: It's a casual event, come out, have fun, eat tacos, where.
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  Speaker 4: Your jeans because I will be I'm not just enough.
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  Speaker 3: Hopefully it'll cool off a little by then, right, And
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  Speaker 3: you know, there's what else any other events is this year?
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  Speaker 1: What other fundraisers?
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  Speaker 4: This is the only one we have done this year.
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  Speaker 6: Next year we're probably looking at some different fun things
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  Speaker 6: for the sixtieth, so stay tuned for that. On the
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  Speaker 6: new we kind of everybody's trying to get social media
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  Speaker 6: up and running, and we had a couple of Facebook
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  Speaker 6: pages so we've kind of switched down to just one
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  Speaker 6: at Concern.
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  Speaker 4: Concern of Bartlesville is our new Facebook page.
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  Speaker 6: And I can't tell you the Instagram bad I don't
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  Speaker 6: do Instagram, but yeah, concerncares dot com always has our
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  Speaker 6: updated stuff and we'll be keeping stuff updated, especially with
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  Speaker 6: people like you who has been giving.
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  Speaker 4: To Concern and doing things for Concern for sixty years.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so important that we keep this going and make
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  Speaker 3: sure that everybody in town knows about it.
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  Speaker 1: So everyone go get your tickets to the battle in Bartlesville.
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  Speaker 3: Let's support Concern and and bring this, you know, help
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  Speaker 3: raise up our community. It just is, it's a continual
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  Speaker 3: process and for sixty years, that's that's really amazing.
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  Speaker 1: I'm proud of that.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, it's well, like you said, your grandma was part
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  Speaker 6: of the beginning and so it's you know, your generational now.
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  Speaker 4: If you look at it that way.
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  Speaker 1: So cool.
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  Speaker 3: Well, and you've got so much other stuff to talk
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  Speaker 3: about the car dealership. I want to I do want
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  Speaker 3: to mention that we've got one of my guests from
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  Speaker 3: next week showed up that looked like but he maybe
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  Speaker 3: he had a different time. But the baseball team has
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  Speaker 3: done really well this season, the Dungeons, Toyota Indians, it's
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: what they're called these.
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  Speaker 1: Days, state champs, state champions.
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  Speaker 3: They won for the first time in many decades, about
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  Speaker 3: sixty years. Yes, it's awesome, and you know, so that
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  Speaker 3: we'll have them on. Tony will be on next week.
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  Speaker 3: Hopefully he can come back, and we've got you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's just that that's another part of the legacy, of course,
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  Speaker 3: is being able to sponsor team the team like that
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  Speaker 3: for so long. Yeah, we were honored by Guinness Records
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  Speaker 3: a few years ago for being the longest corporate sponsor
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  Speaker 3: of a sports team in the world.
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  Speaker 4: Wow, isn't that a wild That's really cool, you know, and.
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  Speaker 3: That you think about that's from nineteen forty one, so
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  Speaker 3: it's from the day they got to Bartlesville, my grandparents
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  Speaker 3: they'd come from moved from Tonkaware before over here and
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  Speaker 3: started sponsoring things and starting to help things organizations like
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  Speaker 3: Concern eventually.
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  Speaker 1: So there's more to that story.
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  Speaker 3: A couple other things I wanted to mention while we
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  Speaker 3: still have a few minutes, We've got, for the first
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: time in a while now a few Toyota certified vehicles.
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  Speaker 3: So this is a special type of vehicle. Certified vehicle.
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  Speaker 3: These are Toyotas that are just a year or two
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  Speaker 3: old up to three or four. They come with a
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  Speaker 3: two year limited warranty, a comprehensive warranty, and then a
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  Speaker 3: seven year hundred thousand mile powertrain warranty, seven year one
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  Speaker 3: hundred thousand mile roadside assistance. So it's a really great
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  Speaker 3: warranty and it all goes from the date of sale.
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  Speaker 3: So you've got a lot of value in those vehicles.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, with Toyotas, it's just a lot of peace
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  Speaker 3: of mind anyway, they're so well made. We've got a
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  Speaker 3: twenty twenty five Toyota Corolla Cross that vehicle when we
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  Speaker 3: has nineteen thousand miles, We've got a twenty twenty four
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  Speaker 3: RAB four Limited all wheel drive with just eighty.
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  Speaker 1: Eight hundred miles, really low mile RAV four, Toyota Tundra.
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  Speaker 3: Twenty five model with SR five Crew Max four wheel
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  Speaker 3: drive with is sixteen thousand miles, and also a four
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  Speaker 3: runner to Towyitto Premium I Force, which is the turbocharged
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  Speaker 3: engine with just ten thousand miles.
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  Speaker 1: That's also a twenty five.
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  Speaker 3: So those all come with those additional warranties.
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  Speaker 1: Somewhere right here I have that. We'll just leave that.
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  Speaker 1: Come check out those vehicles. They're they're very nice. We
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  Speaker 1: got to also have.
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  Speaker 7: Right now a twenty fifteen Lexus small little Lexus RC
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  Speaker 7: three fifty all wheel drive with just forty one thousand miles.
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  Speaker 3: It's a eleven twelve year old vehicle. It's been very
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  Speaker 3: well maintained. It's a beautiful car.
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  Speaker 1: It looks like new car.
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  Speaker 3: It was a local car, which sometimes you know, you
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: live in Bartlesville, you don't really drive that much and.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: Tool around ten you find everything you get to eat.
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  Speaker 3: She ended up getting a brand new RAB for and
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: so we've been selling more and more of those the
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: year's gone on, where we have a whole new model
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  Speaker 3: WRAP for and as the year's gone on, we've we're
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: getting getting more. They're still not staying on the ground
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  Speaker 3: right now. I was looking in the inventory this morning
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  Speaker 3: and all but one of the ones we've been allocated
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: has been pre sold, but there's still one available and
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: there's about eight there. So that's how quickly they're turning.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: So great, Brad, you told me a story once upon
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: a time that you had some vehicles coming in and
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: a couple of them weren't pre sold, but the moment
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: the tire touched the asphalt, the fellows started writing the check.
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  Speaker 3: Well, let's face it, some people don't want to buy
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: a car they can't see or.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: Well they saw it, imagine it going forward, and they
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: wrote the.
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  Speaker 1: Check right there.
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  Speaker 3: Well it's that you know, people often ask, what where's
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: your inventory, and it's it's just this way in Toyota
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: right now, it's across the entire country. Uh, you got
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: everybody's turning in our region about ninety of the cars
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  Speaker 3: they have on the ground every month, high hide demand,
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: low supply, or.
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  Speaker 1: We just can't build it up. Really, And you know,
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  Speaker 1: with the.
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  Speaker 3: The great hybrid systems that we have great fuel economy,
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  Speaker 3: great quality of vehicle.
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  Speaker 1: They definitely last a long time.
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  Speaker 3: They have a great value proposition too, because they maintain
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: their value so well that even when you're.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: Done with them, you know, they're worth more than a
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: lot of other vehicles and they last forever and they do.
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  Speaker 3: That's it's it's great to see them coming in that way,
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: and that's you know, and we want to like like
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: our customers, we don't want your cars to break.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: So that's why we're glad to be associated with Toyota
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: and so you.
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: Know, and when they are perfect, of course, sometimes they
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: do have issues, but Toyota stands up to the issues.
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: And is and they're quick to fix it.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: It's quick to fix it.
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: They do it before they're forced to by recall and
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: government systems.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: They they do they just attack the problem.
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  Speaker 3: And because they're they're they're focused on people and safety. Safety,
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: And yeah, that's a that's a good point because it
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: is about safety.
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  Speaker 6: And sometimes it's not necessarily safety issue, but when it's
• 25:14
  Speaker 6: your breaks, they make sure it's fixed quickly because of
• 25:17
  Speaker 6: safety issue.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: That's right.
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: And and the whole vehicle is and there's cars now
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: are so uh, the technology is there to help you
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: drive your car and sometimes I'm surprised at how much
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: it can do and all the different things sensors it has.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: Line, it will help you stay in line.
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: It will tell you there's a pedestrian coming from over here,
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: or or something behind you when you're backing up, and
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: it's really.
• 25:46
  Speaker 6: Evolved, which is a person that can't back up, that's
• 25:48
  Speaker 6: back at Cambros or the best it can be helpful.
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: We're seeing different kinds of work in the body shop
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: than we used to with less of that stuff. And
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: you know, still have things like acts dance that happened,
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: storm damage and stuff.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: Like that, and deer that like to dance. You're in
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: the We're getting into that scene. Boys.
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  Speaker 4: We say, last night I saw about twelve coming home.
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  Speaker 1: So getting into that season. I'm sure they're warm and
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: all of us.
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  Speaker 3: But again, thank you guys from Concern for coming Jennie
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: and Melody and good luck with the event once again
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: coming up in September.
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  Speaker 1: On September twelve, six pm, the Battle in Bartlesville.
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  Speaker 3: You can get tickets at concerncares dot com.
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  Speaker 6: Well, thanks Unsure, thanks always without you.
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  Speaker 1: Glad to be a boat.
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• 26:48
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