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CAR TALK - Samaritan Counseling Service · One on One With a Professional

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Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning, welcome, welcome, welcome in
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Speaker 1: time now born cor talk with it, Brad, don't just
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Speaker 1: saying Dutch toyo. Good morning, Brad. You brought friends once again.
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Speaker 1: Good morning, Tom, Yes, I did. As usual. I prefer
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Speaker 1: to have company for the radio show. It's always a
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Speaker 1: little better or the podcast for those of you watching
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Speaker 1: us on your phones or computers.
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Speaker 2: I've got Kristen, Kurt and Ben Ames here representing Samaritan
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Speaker 2: Counseling and Growth Center and having us.
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Speaker 1: Thank you for coming.
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Speaker 2: It's great to you know, you guys have been around
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Speaker 2: Bartlezil for over fifty years now, and I know.
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Speaker 1: You guys. You're there when people really need it.
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Speaker 2: And you know, I've had the unfortunate times where I
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Speaker 2: had employees were kind of in a moment of crisis.
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Speaker 1: I've referred them to you guys.
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Speaker 2: They didn't know what to do, they didn't think they
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Speaker 2: could afford counseling and that kind of stuff, and you
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Speaker 2: guys figured all that out really in a great way.
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Speaker 1: I think.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it took us, it took about fifty years.
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Speaker 1: No, no, what's evolved years ago?
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Speaker 4: They you know, several pastors from the community got together
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Speaker 4: and decided that there needed to be one single place
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Speaker 4: for their parishioners to go to get counseling, and it
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Speaker 4: just kind of evolved from there, and we're we're fifty
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Speaker 4: two years old this year.
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Speaker 1: It's just a we're so glad.
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Speaker 4: To be able to be a part of the Barblesville
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Speaker 4: community and to be able to provide that support to
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Speaker 4: folks in there, you know, in their some sometimes their
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Speaker 4: darkest moments and then sometimes it's just in those moments
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Speaker 4: where they don't know what to do. So yeah, we're
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Speaker 4: we love being able to provide that support and a
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Speaker 4: lot of times at a significantly reduced rate.
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Speaker 1: Now you do kind of match that up with the
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Speaker 1: resources they have.
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Speaker 4: And yeah, so we you know, we do accept all
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Speaker 4: major pretty much most major health insuran, private health insurance companies.
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Speaker 4: We do work with Medicare. We're not medicate, we don't
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Speaker 4: accept Medicaid at this point. But where we're able to
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Speaker 4: subsidize that is we are a program partner with the
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Speaker 4: Barblesville Regional United Way right and as part of that partnership,
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Speaker 4: they're able to help help with some subsidization for us,
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Speaker 4: and so we're able to take those take those funds
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Speaker 4: and significantly reduced.
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Speaker 2: Folks, that's wonderful and uh, you know, it takes a
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Speaker 2: lot of support. You have staff, you have volunteers, great board,
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Speaker 2: lots of uh, you know, the charitable event coming up
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Speaker 2: here in a month or so.
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Speaker 1: At more than a month, we're a month.
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Speaker 2: Sports spectacular those people who A lot of people remember that.
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Speaker 1: It's been a great event for many years. And this
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Speaker 1: year twentieth year four big.
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Speaker 3: This year we're so big.
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Speaker 2: It's kind of a big year for sports. We had
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Speaker 2: the KWN night at the ballpark last night.
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Speaker 1: That was really fun. I was I was down there
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Speaker 1: for a little while.
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Speaker 2: I had to get out of there and go watch
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Speaker 2: USA soccer play in the World Cup.
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Speaker 1: That was quite a match. That was a lot of fun.
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Speaker 2: That we got that red card and I wasn't sure
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Speaker 2: what that was going to do, and then a lot
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Speaker 2: of pressure and then we got that other goal. Now,
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Speaker 2: my sons both played college soccer, and I didn't understand
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Speaker 2: soccer when they started, and and I followed them around
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Speaker 2: enough now that that I'm kind of obsessed with it
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Speaker 2: like they are. All I know is red card bad,
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Speaker 2: Red card bad, yeah, and yellow card is not quite
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Speaker 2: so bad. The red card is that I think was
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Speaker 2: kind of a an unfair red card. But we'll leave
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Speaker 2: that for the the blogosphere or whatever.
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Speaker 1: We got big holiday weekend coming up.
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Speaker 2: Weet tournament starts today this wedding eight o'clock celebrating two
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Speaker 2: hundred and fifty years.
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Speaker 1: Great July fourth celebration. You know, it's quite a time,
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Speaker 1: very great time to celebrate and think of and early
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Speaker 1: big year for it's a lot of it's a big year.
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Speaker 1: It's all of those things.
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Speaker 2: You know, we should take a moment and think about
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Speaker 2: the you know, everything that goes into being two hundred
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Speaker 2: and fifty years and you know, the Declaration of Independence,
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Speaker 2: who were celebrating the signing of that and the how
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Speaker 2: that you know, the the foundational principles that our country
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Speaker 2: was based on and that you know, it just is
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Speaker 2: it's where America is unique. And you know that's a
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Speaker 2: time you mentioned Bartlesville. Bartlesville's unique to it ends like Samaritan,
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Speaker 2: you know, and so many other great organizations in our
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Speaker 2: community are are really uh, you know kind of you know,
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Speaker 2: they're a product of our community. They're there, they support
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Speaker 2: our community, make it stronger and for for.
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Speaker 1: A you know, a small city, big town like Bartlesville.
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Speaker 1: It's uh, it's just unique.
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Speaker 2: We have so many great organizations and the community supports
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Speaker 2: it the way that they do.
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Speaker 1: And then they mentioned the.
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Speaker 2: Churches that help get you guys uh founded and and
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Speaker 2: really have supported you through the years and united way
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Speaker 2: and then the event coming up, so it all works
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Speaker 2: together exactly.
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Speaker 4: We we are, like I said, we are so glad
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Speaker 4: to be a part of the Bartlesville community. We are
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Speaker 4: grateful for the churches that are that are helping support
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Speaker 4: our mission. And there's there's several that are still part
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Speaker 4: of that original original group of churches that helped originate Samaritan.
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Speaker 1: You know. Through those, through the support, we're able to provide.
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Speaker 4: Counseling to children, adults, couples, to provide marriage counseling, family counseling.
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Speaker 4: We have a plate therapist on staff now we have
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Speaker 4: six six clinicians that are able to provide in a
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Speaker 4: ray of services.
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Speaker 1: We're excited to be able to provide just new new
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Speaker 1: modes of.
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Speaker 3: Services like E M, d R, dance movement therapy.
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Speaker 4: There's several different several different styles of counseling that.
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Speaker 1: We're able to provide. But the biggest thing for us
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Speaker 1: is just being.
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Speaker 4: Able to get in there and help folks just meet
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Speaker 4: the needs, meet the needs.
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Speaker 1: Of our community. People have a need, how did they
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Speaker 1: find you? Guys? What is the process to get involved?
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Speaker 4: They can call us at three three six fourteen sixty three,
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Speaker 4: or they can hop on our website at smaritanbarblesbel dot
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Speaker 4: org or if you see us on the street.
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Speaker 5: Just what do we do?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a pretty pretty simple process.
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Speaker 4: They just pop in, fill out a little bit of
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Speaker 4: paperwork and we put them on and get them on
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Speaker 4: the schedule. Or our goal is to have folks in
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Speaker 4: and scene within less than a week from that initial
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Speaker 4: phone call. So and in most cases we're able to
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Speaker 4: see some folks within two to three days, which.
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Speaker 6: Is incredible because a lot of places you have weeks
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Speaker 6: of a waiting list, so two months.
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Speaker 3: So that's our goal is to get people in when
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Speaker 3: they need it.
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Speaker 4: Absolutely, And I.
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Speaker 2: Hear from everybody about how welcoming you are, all are,
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Speaker 2: And that's so important in this thing, because it's got
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Speaker 2: to be hard in some ways just to make that
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Speaker 2: call right.
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Speaker 1: So it's a big it's about how do I get
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Speaker 1: up the nerve to do that? And then you certainly
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Speaker 1: want to help welcome them, and that is our biggest goal.
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Speaker 4: I feel like I think from day one, whenever Kristen
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Speaker 4: and I met, I said, you know, my goal is
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Speaker 4: once a person makes.
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Speaker 1: That phone call, they've already they've already won a.
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Speaker 4: Battle, They've already beat one issue. Let's not have them
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Speaker 4: set and wait, because you know, things can change. Life
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Speaker 4: can change, situations change, and that need may not be
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Speaker 4: there anymore, or they may have found a different way
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Speaker 4: to fix that, and we want to be able to
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Speaker 4: help them as soon as possible.
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Speaker 1: That's really important that I know.
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Speaker 2: I mentioned the sports Spectacular coming up in August August
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Speaker 2: and twenty second.
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Speaker 6: If I correctly, on Saturday August twenty second.
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Speaker 1: Big plans for this year, yes, so yeah.
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Speaker 6: It's it is the twenty fifth year, so we want
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Speaker 6: to go big this year. We are excited to announce
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Speaker 6: our speaker. Our keynote speaker this year is coach Matt
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Speaker 6: Hennessey oh Man. Yes, so be a new head football
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Speaker 6: coach for the Bartosol Bruins.
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Speaker 2: So.
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Speaker 3: He will be great.
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Speaker 6: He's a known statewide as a program builder, culture changer,
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Speaker 6: and as you know, we are looking for our first
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Speaker 6: winning season. Since twenty fifteen, so excited to hear from him,
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Speaker 6: see what he's planning to do, you know around culture
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Speaker 6: and accountability and.
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Speaker 3: Just doing the little things right and what he's doing
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Speaker 3: with our team. So I'm looking forward to the year.
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Speaker 2: But of course there's great things to bid on, all
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Speaker 2: kinds of sports, memorabilia, tickets and all kinds of things.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we are.
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Speaker 4: We have been neck deep all working on getting with
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Speaker 4: getting with donors and folks to really make sure that
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Speaker 4: we are able to bring our best this year for
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Speaker 4: for auction items have.
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Speaker 3: Some great things both live and silent auctions.
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Speaker 6: So some great items sports tickets and signed memorabilia, condo stays.
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Speaker 3: Different things like that.
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Speaker 6: So local community always comes out and represents their businesses
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Speaker 6: and donations.
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Speaker 3: And we appreciate that.
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Speaker 6: So we also have cash bar Raffle, dessert Dash and
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Speaker 6: then of course Thinks Barbecue doing the catered dinner as well.
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Speaker 1: So awesome. Yeah, yes, and it's where is it this
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Speaker 1: year's good?
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Speaker 6: It is at the Hilton Garden End, Yes, downtown Bartlesville,
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Speaker 6: six o'clock pm PM.
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Speaker 1: And how do you get tickets?
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Speaker 4: They can go to our website Samaritanbartlesville dot org. Or
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Speaker 4: just hop on our Facebook Samaritan Bartlesville and there's a
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Speaker 4: link that will take them directly there, or if they
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Speaker 4: want to go to the old fashioned away and just
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Speaker 4: give us a call nine one eight three three six three.
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Speaker 1: Awesome.
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Speaker 2: The website, it's a great resource. I checked it out
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Speaker 2: this morning. It's got all kinds of information about the
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Speaker 2: services you provide, the history of the organization, and how
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Speaker 2: to access the different services that you do offer people.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, we're and we're so proud of our website. We
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Speaker 4: did a full revamp. I guess it was late last
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Speaker 4: year and it went we went from ninety.
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Speaker 1: Five six so that it was just like that.
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Speaker 3: It was a great a great addition to the center.
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Speaker 1: So awesome, and yeah, we did.
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Speaker 2: I want to talk a little bit about the car
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Speaker 2: business stuff. We got a finished up June really strong.
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Speaker 2: We're up one hundred and forty over one hundred and
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Speaker 2: forty percent of last year half way through the year
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Speaker 2: this year. Great, great results at the company. We still
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Speaker 2: are Toyota business. Supply and demand. It's kind of an issue.
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Speaker 2: It's a good problem to have when there's higher demand
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Speaker 2: than you have supply. We're turning over ninety percent of
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Speaker 2: our vehicles every month year to date, so they just
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Speaker 2: keep selling like crazy. We got a new allocation yesterday
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Speaker 2: and those that will be rolling out over in the
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Speaker 2: next probably forty eight hours. We'll get more detail on them.
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Speaker 2: We know what models they'll be now, but then we
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Speaker 2: get it gets narrowed down to the color and term
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Speaker 2: level of options in the next forty eight hours or so.
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Speaker 2: You know. I think a lot of what's going on
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Speaker 2: with toyotas comes down to the kind of.
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Speaker 1: The powertrain choices that we have, hybrid.
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Speaker 2: Vehicles, the conditional traditional internal combustion engines, even electric vehicles,
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Speaker 2: and we've got them all. You know, we're seeing more
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Speaker 2: and more people interested in in the fuel economy that
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Speaker 2: the hybrids can provide. You know, great, you know, mainstay
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Speaker 2: vehicles like the camera get over fifty miles to the
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Speaker 2: gallon and that's really a great, great, great way.
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Speaker 1: To save money.
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Speaker 2: The other thing about toyotas is because of their great
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Speaker 2: residual value, the way they retain their value, they just
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Speaker 2: don't lose value very quickly, and that gives you some advantages,
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Speaker 2: you know, whether you're just trading it in or if
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Speaker 2: you're looking to lease.
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Speaker 1: We do an analysis every month on.
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Speaker 2: Different options, and on one of the tacomas I looked
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Speaker 2: at yesterday, in the first thirty six months, for three
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Speaker 2: years on the lease, you can save over three hundred
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Speaker 2: and fifty two dollars a month. It's about half of
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Speaker 2: the price of a retail sixty month purchase of the vehicle.
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Speaker 1: I have four point nine.
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Speaker 2: Percent, So it's really comparing apples to apples with the
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Speaker 2: same amount of money cash up front, right, and the
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Speaker 2: payment on the lease is just three hundred and fifty
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Speaker 2: eight dollars a month for and.
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Speaker 1: So at seven hundred and ten on.
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Speaker 2: A sixty month loan at four point nine to nine percent,
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Speaker 2: so it saves you about twelve thousand, six hundred dollars
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Speaker 2: in that three year period. And you know, we don't
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Speaker 2: lease a lot of vehicles around this part of the world,
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Speaker 2: but it is something to consider.
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Speaker 1: We see a lot of people.
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Speaker 2: Obviously in today's world, the cost of everything has risen
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Speaker 2: and with it's just you know, people are looking for
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Speaker 2: great value and we try to provide that with our
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Speaker 2: simple price, keeping everything straightforward. Don't play a lot of
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Speaker 2: show games in the purchase process. Noncommissioned sales team, no documentation, fees,
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Speaker 2: no dealer add ons. Very try to make it as
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Speaker 2: just straightforward as possible and give everybody a great deal.
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Speaker 2: You know, over ninety seven years now we've been selling
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Speaker 2: cars in Oklahoma, so it's a great legacy. And really
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Speaker 2: stick to that small business, family owned and operated kind
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Speaker 2: of value centered approach to selling cars and supporting the community.
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Speaker 1: Things like the baseball.
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Speaker 2: Team that done just Toyota Indians and the kind of
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Speaker 2: kind of he used to saying Toyota.
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Speaker 1: So after after all those years, they were eighty years
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Speaker 1: it was.
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Speaker 2: A Ford sponsorship, but now it's Toyota, so that's all
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Speaker 2: the same to me. A great baseball team, and being
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Speaker 2: down there last night was so great, Tom.
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Speaker 1: It was a lot of fun. It was a lot
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Speaker 1: of fun. There was a great crowd there always.
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Speaker 2: Is for the k W N Knight at the Mall
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Speaker 2: Park with with the give away Kevin, you give away
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Speaker 2: some of Kevin's money, and you know, he he was
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Speaker 2: some of those I'm not sure every ticket got got
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Speaker 2: their money, but a lot of people did.
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Speaker 1: I sure did. And lots of runs scored so he
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Speaker 1: probably had to had to pay out a lot. So
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Speaker 1: that's always good.
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Speaker 2: But I do want to thank Kevin, I mean his
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Speaker 2: you know that I was talking to him last night
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Speaker 2: about the unique nature of the broadcasting those games and
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Speaker 2: you know, they really the focus on the team and
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Speaker 2: our community, the great stadium, you know, but just the
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Speaker 2: fact that they are on the radio for every game
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Speaker 2: of the year now since Kevin got here over thirty years.
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Speaker 1: And no other team and no anywhere has that. I don't,
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Speaker 1: you know, they just don't have that.
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Speaker 2: And you know, they have great teams, and their family
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Speaker 2: support them and every and they have a following. But
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Speaker 2: Bartlesville is unique in so many ways and that's just
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Speaker 2: another one that I think we should all be proud of,
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Speaker 2: and we certainly are done just that. You know, that
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Speaker 2: eighty six year sponsorship is a big deal to us,
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Speaker 2: and they've been recognized by the Guinness Records is the
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Speaker 2: longest corporate sponsor of a sports team in the world.
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Speaker 2: So pretty cool, I think, like to get that out.
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Speaker 2: So back to the the Samaritan approach to counseling and growth.
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Speaker 2: You know, this is a use it, like we talked
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Speaker 2: about over fifty years in Bartlesville.
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Speaker 1: The you know, it.
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Speaker 2: Started because there were needs and you know what, where's
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Speaker 2: that what what do you need today? What is the
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Speaker 2: what's the next your next vision? I mean, you know
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Speaker 2: you're you've been doing this a couple of years in
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Speaker 2: Bartlesville now, but uh, what do you where do you
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Speaker 2: see this way?
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Speaker 1: I've got hopes and dreams for but I mean, you
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Speaker 1: know what you do for a little bit, yeah, without
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Speaker 1: you know that being called to it absolutely.
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Speaker 4: I mean this is this is my twenty third year
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Speaker 4: in nonprofit, which I still can't believe. But I think
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Speaker 4: the biggest thing for us is just support from our community.
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Speaker 4: You know, if you've got a friend, their family member
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Speaker 4: that's going through a situation, just to have them give
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Speaker 4: us a call.
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Speaker 1: We would love to be able to help them in
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Speaker 1: any way.
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 4: One of the biggest things for us. Like I said,
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Speaker 4: we're grateful that we're a partner with the United Way
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Speaker 4: and other organizations in the community that have been.
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Speaker 1: A constance with it with financial gifts throughout the years.
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Speaker 4: We really pride ourselves on being able to kind of
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Speaker 4: be that organization that meets those folks who kind of
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Speaker 4: get stuck in the middle.
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Speaker 1: They don't qualify for state for state assistants.
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Speaker 4: But they don't they don't may not have public or
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Speaker 4: private health insurance through their employer or who just can't
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Speaker 4: afford it. And so we really want to be that
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Speaker 4: organization that folks can come to and say, you know,
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Speaker 4: I don't have I can't afford this, what how can
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Speaker 4: you help? And we don't We don't ever want to
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Speaker 4: turn away somebody because of their inability to pigh. We
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Speaker 4: want to be able to provide that support to folks
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Speaker 4: anyway possible. So so for us in order to be
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Speaker 4: able to continue to do that, that's why we do
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Speaker 4: the Sports Spectacular. That's why we're very very up with,
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Speaker 4: you know, asking for donors, reoccurring monthly donors. If if
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Speaker 4: folks have money at the end of the year and
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Speaker 4: don't know where to turn, they can give us a
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Speaker 4: call and.
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Speaker 2: We would we would access seeing insurance programs and other
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Speaker 2: things they can help with that because you definitely need
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Speaker 2: to have some expertise.
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Speaker 1: In that in today's world. And we're again, you know,
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Speaker 1: we're we're grateful for our community.
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Speaker 4: We are the preferred provider, preferred EAP provider for Chronicle
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Speaker 4: Phillips at sixty six and several.
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Speaker 1: Other larger corporations here in Bortlesville.
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Speaker 4: So We're grateful for that, that partnership, which also brings
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Speaker 4: in other folks. You know, maybe that person's going through something,
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Speaker 4: but their kids, their kiddo's dealing with some situations, some
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Speaker 4: stuff too, you know.
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Speaker 1: They just it's just kind of.
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Speaker 4: Like a domino, a domino effect for us, and we're
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Speaker 4: glad to be.
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Speaker 1: Able to help it. How did you get involved, Kristin'
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Speaker 1: what's that gosh?
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Speaker 3: I got involved back in twenty seventeen on the board.
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Speaker 6: Was on the board of directors for about six years
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Speaker 6: and the executive director left kind of had some turnover there,
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Speaker 6: and so I stepped in as the interim executive director
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Speaker 6: and wanted to find the best person for that role.
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Speaker 6: And of course I went to Ben because I know
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Speaker 6: he's going to be the perfect person, so try to
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Speaker 6: get him on board. And we're so glad that that
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Speaker 6: he said yes, So then I stepped back onto the board.
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Speaker 6: So love volunteering for the community and doing the fundraising.
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Speaker 3: Things, So.
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Speaker 1: Thank you for that.
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Speaker 2: Organizations like Samaritan just can't do without their volunteer boards, sponsors.
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Speaker 1: And I am. We are so grateful for our board.
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Speaker 4: We have a phenomenal board. They're incredibly active it's one
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Speaker 4: of those things I make a phone call and it's
21:09
Speaker 4: when do you need it?
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Speaker 1: And how soon?
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Speaker 4: It's not a well let me see, it's it's always
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Speaker 4: taken care of. So we're we're grateful for them.
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Speaker 1: Well, great deal, and again let's promote the.
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Speaker 2: Sports Spectaculator coming up August twenty second. Got a great
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Speaker 2: dinner from Drinks. We've got some great prizes items. Yes,
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Speaker 2: we've purchased an auction.
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Speaker 1: Yes, any anything what's going to be in the live auction.
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Speaker 6: So we have a couple of dinners, dinners that are
21:44
Speaker 6: you know, given away, whether that be a cooking class.
21:46
Speaker 6: Tray County Tech usually does a great job with those.
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Speaker 3: People love that.
21:51
Speaker 6: Being barbecue is also doing something in the live option.
21:56
Speaker 6: And then we have some sports tickets paired with signed memorabilia, so.
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Speaker 3: Those always go great.
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Speaker 6: People love to bid back and forth on those. And
22:05
Speaker 6: then of course John Lon Bloom always does a painting
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Speaker 6: for us. We look forward to seeing what he does.
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Speaker 6: So talented, so he is doing it for it, yes, yes,
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Speaker 6: and probably Bruins this year.
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Speaker 5: We'll see with the weaker So yes, met Tennessee and yeah,
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Speaker 5: we had him on the radio show a few weeks
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Speaker 5: ago and he was he was a great you know,
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Speaker 5: and I you know, there's no telling if you know
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Speaker 5: what the record will be.
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Speaker 1: This year, but you can tell he's really doing it
22:33
Speaker 1: right in his development of the team and creating the culture.
22:38
Speaker 1: And you know that.
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Speaker 2: You know just what it takes for a team to
22:44
Speaker 2: succeed and to have a chance, and you know it
22:48
Speaker 2: is it's so competitive in today's world, and it is.
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Speaker 4: And we're excited to hear him speak. He when we
22:54
Speaker 4: met with him a couple of weeks ago, just to
22:56
Speaker 4: kind of iron out some final details, we gave him
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Speaker 4: some I d or some suggestions and he was like, nope,
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Speaker 4: I figured out he's he's he's excited to be a
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Speaker 4: part of that. And uh, just to kind of sure
23:11
Speaker 4: what he's doing with the team and how he's taken
23:13
Speaker 4: care of the team as a whole, not just not
23:17
Speaker 4: just the players and not just playing ball. It's how
23:21
Speaker 4: are they taking care of themselves physically and.
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Speaker 2: Athletes from other sports, right, And you know, it's really
23:30
Speaker 2: an inclusive approach and a culture approach to to playing
23:35
Speaker 2: a sport. And that's I think all of us who
23:38
Speaker 2: played sports get that. That's what it's it is really
23:41
Speaker 2: all about and you know in today's world that you
23:44
Speaker 2: know kind of we're rallying around the team USA or
23:47
Speaker 2: the Indians and it's a it's one of those things
23:52
Speaker 2: that drugs draw us all together and you know from
23:56
Speaker 2: all walks of life and every everything just kind of
23:59
Speaker 2: comes to gather when that when that that you're wearing
24:02
Speaker 2: that emblem and right, so it makes you proud, but
24:06
Speaker 2: also there's some responsibility that comes with a lot of
24:09
Speaker 2: life lessons that can happen but probably are you know,
24:14
Speaker 2: you guys do a similar thing and helping people, you know,
24:18
Speaker 2: when they are in that that moment of in their
24:20
Speaker 2: life of you know, whatever it is. And you know
24:24
Speaker 2: that I think, as you know, there might have been
24:28
Speaker 2: a time when that kind of need there might have
24:31
Speaker 2: been some kind of stigma with it, and you know,
24:34
Speaker 2: and but I think you know, we're getting hopefully.
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Speaker 6: Getting it's improved for sure, and it helps to talk
24:40
Speaker 6: about it. And that's partly what we try to do
24:43
Speaker 6: with this event. Make it fun sports related, but again
24:47
Speaker 6: same with the keynote speaker right tying in how athletics
24:52
Speaker 6: it does pertain to mental health and maybe what some
24:55
Speaker 6: of those athletes are going through and how we can
24:57
Speaker 6: as a community help out.
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Speaker 2: So you know, I mentioned I had referred employees to
25:03
Speaker 2: your program before, and then you know, it happens in life,
25:06
Speaker 2: you know, whatever it is, whether it's depression or you know,
25:10
Speaker 2: some kind of event or or addiction.
25:14
Speaker 1: Things like that just happened.
25:16
Speaker 2: And people a lot of times, you know, obviously they
25:19
Speaker 2: didn't wish that upon themselves, and it's a you know,
25:23
Speaker 2: you're in that moment in need, you do need, it's
25:26
Speaker 2: good or you need and it is good to have
25:28
Speaker 2: that support and that that that way to kind of
25:32
Speaker 2: help you get a plan and start building back towards
25:37
Speaker 2: towards uh, you know where you want to be, right exactly.
25:42
Speaker 1: Well, thank you guys for coming in.
25:44
Speaker 2: If you if those that are out there listening, you do,
25:47
Speaker 2: get your tickets for the Sports Spectacular. Or if you
25:51
Speaker 2: are someone who has knows someone in need, tell them
25:54
Speaker 2: to give Ben and and the team out at Samariton
25:58
Speaker 2: or call or come by and just explore what the
26:02
Speaker 2: options are there. They'll help you navigate that process.
26:06
Speaker 1: If we can help with a car purchase, obviously, come
26:09
Speaker 1: talk to us. We've got a lot of stuff going
26:12
Speaker 1: on for July. We'll be very busy again trying to
26:17
Speaker 1: sell all the new toyotas.
26:18
Speaker 2: That's pretty much what we have to do to keep
26:20
Speaker 2: up this great sales growth we've been going on this year.
26:24
Speaker 1: You'll mention the United Way.
26:26
Speaker 2: Next week, I'm going to have Lisa Carrey come in
26:28
Speaker 2: and be our guest on the show, So those of
26:31
Speaker 2: you who we want to hear from her, be sure
26:33
Speaker 2: to listen back in next Thursday at nine thirty. And well,
26:38
Speaker 2: you know, if anyone out there ever has an idea
26:40
Speaker 2: for a good show or something they want to talk about,
26:43
Speaker 2: you know, that's I love just you know, talk about
26:46
Speaker 2: stuff going on in the community, big things, small things,
26:50
Speaker 2: things people are passionate about, or really really what it's
26:53
Speaker 2: all about. That's that that goes back all the way
26:56
Speaker 2: through the Dundas organization to the very very beginning when
27:01
Speaker 2: my grandfather got in the car business. His father had
27:05
Speaker 2: passed away and they moved from one small town in
27:08
Speaker 2: Oklahoma to another, and he went to work at a
27:11
Speaker 2: Ford dealership there, and the community county rally around them.
27:15
Speaker 1: And helped them get going.
27:17
Speaker 2: He went on to college, came back, and he and
27:19
Speaker 2: his brother bought that dealership in nineteen twenty nine, and
27:23
Speaker 2: that's that's how it got started.
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Speaker 1: So it's a great story and it's really you know,
27:29
Speaker 1: one of those things that I.
27:30
Speaker 2: Know has been recreated in our world, you know, many times,
27:36
Speaker 2: and you know, but it's something to celebrate in our community.
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Speaker 1: Well thanks again for coming in. Happy July. Forth every
27:48
Speaker 1: we will be closed, you know, kind of odd for
27:52
Speaker 1: a car dealer, but we're going to.
27:53
Speaker 2: Be closed tomorrow and Saturday, so our teams can go
27:56
Speaker 2: celebrate and have time with their families and you know,
28:00
Speaker 2: do that doesn't mean we don't want your business, so
28:03
Speaker 2: come on in today or come back this week.
28:06
Speaker 1: But I know our team is very excited to have
28:09
Speaker 1: a long weekend.
28:10
Speaker 2: That's that is unique in the car business, and I
28:14
Speaker 2: thought it was an opportunity to do that and help them,
28:17
Speaker 2: you know, just.
28:18
Speaker 1: Enjoy your balance in life, you know, and celebrate the
28:23
Speaker 1: July fourth, and you know what it all means.
28:28
Speaker 2: Back to the talk at the beginning, when we talked
28:30
Speaker 2: about the Declaration of Independence and how you know this
28:35
Speaker 2: is now two hundred and fifty years old, in that
28:37
Speaker 2: dream and you know it's not a perfect thing in
28:40
Speaker 2: our country, but it is always an aspiration of ours
28:44
Speaker 2: to always get better.
28:45
Speaker 1: And that's that's what you guys do. And our osholl
28:50
Speaker 1: is all about Brad. Where can we find you after
28:52
Speaker 1: the holidays.
28:53
Speaker 2: We're today, and we're today and at nineteen eleven Southeast
28:57
Speaker 2: Washington Boulevart and I'll be back there in a few
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Speaker 2: it's and my office is on the showroom.
29:02
Speaker 1: Come talk to me, and where you can check us out.
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Speaker 2: We'll be online even throughout the holiday at Dungeustoyota dot com.
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Speaker 1: There you can work your deal and handle most everything.
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Speaker 1: All right, folks, you've been watching Anathy to Car Talk