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CAR TALK · One on One With a Professional

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  Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.
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  Speaker 1: Here is time now for our community, the connection that
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  Speaker 1: we call car talk, and we're going to connect with
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  Speaker 1: Brad Dungeas and Brad brings friends in always.
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  Speaker 2: And how are you doing it? I'm maned Tom, I'm
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  Speaker 2: doing great. Good morning friends out there listening to us.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us this morning. We're so glad you're
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  Speaker 2: with us. It's a great time of year, everybody's getting
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  Speaker 2: ready for the holidays. And got my good friend George
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  Speaker 2: Hocky it us here. Say hello George.
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  Speaker 3: Hello, glad to be here, Thanks for coming, Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: I'm glad to have you here.
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  Speaker 2: I've known George for a long time through Rotary and
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  Speaker 2: and all your good works around town. You've been involved
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  Speaker 2: in so many great organizations, and just thank you for
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  Speaker 2: all you do for all of us here in town.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate that spirit you have.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you. I'm glad to be here with you and thanks.
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  Speaker 2: Today we're going to feature something George has been involved
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  Speaker 2: in for a long time and that I have tried
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  Speaker 2: to help you a lot with turkeys every year for
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  Speaker 2: the friend indeed Christmas Day luncheon and it's a great
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  Speaker 2: tradition here in Bartlesville, and I think a lot of
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  Speaker 2: people maybe don't even know about it, but I know
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  Speaker 2: you've always explained it to me about as you know,
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  Speaker 2: not wanting anybody to spend their Christmas alone and have
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  Speaker 2: the opportunity to share a Christmas dinner with in the
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  Speaker 2: community for free, is here in Bartlesville exactly.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, And you've been great, Brad. I don't know how
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  Speaker 3: many years. There's been a lot of years you've provided
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  Speaker 3: us turkeys, and you're doing it again this year. And
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  Speaker 3: what we do is every year and it's been going
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  Speaker 3: on for this will be the twenty first year. We
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  Speaker 3: had a skip one year because of the pandemic. So
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  Speaker 3: we it's from eleven thirty to two o'clock. It's free
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  Speaker 3: to everyone, invite everyone. Our goal, like you say, is
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  Speaker 3: we don't want anyone to be home alone for Christmas.
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  Speaker 3: We invite everyone to come to the Adam School of
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  Speaker 3: our Church of Christ. If you can't make it, we'll
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  Speaker 3: deliver food, we'll provide to ride to bring you there.
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  Speaker 3: And we've served as many as nine hundred meals in
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  Speaker 3: we passed, and we think we'll do that many this year.
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  Speaker 3: We've provided meals to our county jail. This year, we're
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  Speaker 3: even planning to go to provide some meals to Pahusca
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  Speaker 3: County Jail. No wa to county jail. But anyway, it's
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  Speaker 3: a turkey dressing ham. It's a traditional and we'll have
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  Speaker 3: some entertainment. It's a good time. And then you're not
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  Speaker 3: having a meal on styrofoam. It's on through china. It's
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  Speaker 3: uh and you come in, you're seated, and we have volunteers.
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  Speaker 3: We have over one hundred volunteers that help out.
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  Speaker 2: And I was going to say, it must take a
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  Speaker 2: lot of people to cook all the meals to serve
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  Speaker 2: nine hundred people.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, And the thing is so wonderful about it is
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  Speaker 3: that I have volunteers that just call me up and said, George,
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  Speaker 3: I want to help. I want to help. And sometimes
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  Speaker 3: we have, you know, people that come to me and
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  Speaker 3: they you know, we have so many volunteers, they said,
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  Speaker 3: I don't have anything to do. I said, look, folks,
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  Speaker 3: you can come. If we have too many volunteers, then
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  Speaker 3: just sit down, have a meal, you know, yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 3: visit and everyone. The great thing is we're all smiling,
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  Speaker 3: having a good time. That's the important thing. It's Christmas Day.
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  Speaker 3: Enjoy yourself and have fun. You know, that's the spirit
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  Speaker 3: of the day. You know, why are we here for Christmas?
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  Speaker 3: Remember it's the birth of Christ and that's what we're
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  Speaker 3: enjoying that day. And we're a non denominational group and
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  Speaker 3: so but you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, remember the day though, and it's so generous and
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  Speaker 2: it's such a great tradition, right one years, that's yeah, amazing.
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  Speaker 3: And like I say, we get donations, like say from you, Brad,
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  Speaker 3: but we also get donations from other individuals, from from
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  Speaker 3: other organizations, financial and people. People call me up and
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  Speaker 3: say what do you need. We get a lot of
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  Speaker 3: and instill. If anyone out there, if you want to
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  Speaker 3: bring some desserts, that's what we always can use desserts
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  Speaker 3: and anything that nature. And you're easy to on Christmas Day,
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  Speaker 3: tell folk where you hold this, Oh, Adams Boulevard, Church
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  Speaker 3: of Price, It's always tell them. If you can't find it,
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  Speaker 3: remember the hot, warm and cold water. That's great.
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  Speaker 4: You'll be right there in the neighborhood thirty seven Adams Boulevard.
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  Speaker 2: If you don't know what he's talking about there on.
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  Speaker 3: The on the water tower. Yeah, yeah, most people do.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure and uh, I now have a sign out
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  Speaker 3: front that announces that in there.
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  Speaker 2: That's great and uh once again it's Christmas Day, eleven
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  Speaker 2: thirty to two thirty Adams Boulevard Church of Christ. You
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  Speaker 2: can get a ride or volunteer and UH called George basically, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: We we have someone that we with that answers the
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  Speaker 3: phone nine eight nine one four one one five two.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, call that number and uh or come see us
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  Speaker 2: out at the dealership. We've got flyers for that posted around.
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  Speaker 2: We've got information out there if that people want to
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  Speaker 2: come check it out.
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  Speaker 3: It's a great event.
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  Speaker 2: And and there's say it is a busy timing year,
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  Speaker 2: there's so much other stuff going on.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: You know when tomorrow we have the Great Futures Lunch
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  Speaker 2: out at the Boys and Girls Club, which is one
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  Speaker 2: of my favorite events. We get to uh find out
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  Speaker 2: who the Youth of the year is for the club,
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  Speaker 2: and it's the first year where the Dewey Club gets
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  Speaker 2: to join in that and and it is the seventieth
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  Speaker 2: year I believe of the club in Bartlesville. Such a
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  Speaker 2: great another one of these organizations that really provides that
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  Speaker 2: that you know what we call them dunge just the
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  Speaker 2: sparks and education around here, and I know you there's
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  Speaker 2: some there's a thread through a lot of the organization's
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  Speaker 2: you support of that uh passion for education and and
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  Speaker 2: the h and making sure that there are no no
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  Speaker 2: children are left behind. And you know, I know, whether
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  Speaker 2: it's Education Promise or or the Young Scholars program, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, all these organizations you support, and you know
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  Speaker 2: that's a great threat.
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  Speaker 3: And what do you attribute that passion to? Well, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I just you know, I feel I was given the opportunity.
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  Speaker 3: You know, Lord has been very good to me, and
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  Speaker 3: down through the years I was given my of course
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  Speaker 3: I had wonderful parents, but I also I had the opportunity.
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  Speaker 3: I had coaches. I was not an athlete, but I
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  Speaker 3: was an equipment manager in high school and college and
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  Speaker 3: coaches that pushed me and gave me opportunities. But the
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  Speaker 3: biggest thing I had the opportunity was education, right And
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  Speaker 3: I just feel that that's the best thing we can
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  Speaker 3: do for our youth is put them in a position
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  Speaker 3: where they can learn and anything any of us can
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  Speaker 3: do to help them, uh and and and constantly let
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  Speaker 3: them know that the most important thing they can do
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  Speaker 3: is continually learn, you know, and whatever they want to do.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's not not they all aren't going to
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  Speaker 3: go to college. That's okay, we understand that. That's why
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  Speaker 3: I'm involved with career Tech. I'm on the board a
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  Speaker 3: career tech you know business.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you don't think of the car business as
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  Speaker 2: a place for people to connect to things like that,
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  Speaker 2: but it certainly is right.
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  Speaker 3: But they have to learn every day they do. You know,
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  Speaker 3: every time I go talk to the youth, I tell
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  Speaker 3: them I'm a d I'm going on eighty three years.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to be in January, Beave two years old.
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  Speaker 3: I learned something every day and we all learn some,
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  Speaker 3: especially in today's environment with the way technology is changing.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we're sitting here in front of equipment. Believe me,
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  Speaker 3: this equipment is changing dramatically. Well, we better be prepared
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  Speaker 3: to change, and so our youth. I don't want. I
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  Speaker 3: want to give them every opportunity to learn. And so
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  Speaker 3: that's you know, I'm not going to be around very
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  Speaker 3: much longer, but I want to set the stage for them.
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  Speaker 3: And that's that's that's why I do what I do.
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  Speaker 3: And so every you know, anything I can do to
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  Speaker 3: help them is you certainly.
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  Speaker 2: Do a lot.
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  Speaker 3: And I know, you know, the community appreciates that.
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  Speaker 2: I know through Rotary we've known each other for a
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  Speaker 2: long time, and that is another great organization that really
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  Speaker 2: does have accomplished so much around the world and.
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  Speaker 3: Locally here too.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, and you know, if people want to find out
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  Speaker 2: more about that, come on down to the Noon Rotary,
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  Speaker 2: Yeah and say lo to us and find out more
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  Speaker 2: about all these things.
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  Speaker 3: In fact, it's coming Monday. Deanna Cameron is going to
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  Speaker 3: be speaking about young scholars of Bartleville and then come
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  Speaker 3: there and if they'll come there, I'll buy them lunch. Okay. Hey,
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  Speaker 3: by the way, you mentioned Boys and Girls Club. I
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  Speaker 3: was there just the other day and I gave Jason
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  Speaker 3: Barda some flyers. We're looking for students from Bartleville High
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  Speaker 3: School to participate in the robotics program out at Tri
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  Speaker 3: County Texts. So, hey, any students Bartleville High School students
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  Speaker 3: that are interested in participating in the robotics program eight.
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  Speaker 2: And that's a that's where they actually build a robot
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  Speaker 2: and to compete in competition.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, it's a fun thing to do. They can work
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  Speaker 3: with their other students teamwork, they design and build, and
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  Speaker 3: they learn some things that will really help them in
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  Speaker 3: their future. And they can have access to scholarship money. Also,
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  Speaker 3: how do they get more information on that?
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  Speaker 2: If they want to find out about the broader robotics program, well, uh,
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  Speaker 2: they hy reach out to Try County.
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  Speaker 3: They can reach out to Try County. Uh. And we've
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  Speaker 3: got some of these flyers that we've been around the
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  Speaker 3: high school counselors and such. Yes, and and like say
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  Speaker 3: at the Boys Girls Club on the Rock. We've been
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  Speaker 3: scilating these flyers all over wherever we could. That's awesome.
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  Speaker 2: And at Dungeus Toyota two it is Toyota th On
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  Speaker 2: this month, which is a great time for us in
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  Speaker 2: the Toyota world. We have great incentives and great inventory
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  Speaker 2: and we're celebrating our fifty sixth anniversary this month and
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  Speaker 2: we're going to give away some money for every car
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  Speaker 2: that sold. George, this is kind of cool we do it.
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  Speaker 2: We've didn't do it in our anniversary month in April
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  Speaker 2: for four of the last few years, but since we
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  Speaker 2: sold the Ford Dealership, we're going to celebrate in December now.
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  Speaker 2: Since it's since nineteen sixty eight. My grandfather got the
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  Speaker 2: Toyota dealership here in town, and one of the things
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  Speaker 2: we love to do is support organizations in our community.
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  Speaker 2: And so we're going to donate fifty dollars for every
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  Speaker 2: vehicle we sell this month to the organization our customer picks,
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  Speaker 2: and the one that gets the most is picked the most.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to donate twenty five hundred dollars too, and
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  Speaker 2: they'll be eligible for a match from Toyota to bring
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  Speaker 2: it up to five thousand dollars total gift.
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  Speaker 3: And I think hopefully.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I don't know that it'll tip the scale
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  Speaker 2: and a vehicle purchase something big like that, but it
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  Speaker 2: certainly should take advantage of this opportunity and shop shop
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  Speaker 2: at Dungeons. Yeah, see if we can put something together.
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  Speaker 2: If you test drive a new Toyota now you get
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  Speaker 2: a chance to win a free fifty five inch TV. Also,
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  Speaker 2: and I've got some vouchers just on the radio show
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  Speaker 2: I thought i'd offer. I've got a few vouchers for
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  Speaker 2: the Nutcracker coming up the next week. The week next weekend,
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  Speaker 2: the twenty first and twenty second. The people come in
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  Speaker 2: and test drive a new Toyota and ask for the
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  Speaker 2: Nutcracker vouchers.
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  Speaker 3: I'll give you two of those.
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  Speaker 2: The first three people that come in and test drive
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  Speaker 2: a Toyota and ask for a Nutcracker voucher. I've got those.
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  Speaker 2: We've got Green Country Christmas tickets that were given away
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  Speaker 2: with vehicle purchases too, which we'll have a big promotion,
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  Speaker 2: big prizes when we start giving away those prizes, right Tom,
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  Speaker 2: that's gonna be a big, huge When is the giveaway?
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  Speaker 3: Nineteenth? Nineteenth?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I got to get that on my calendar. And
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  Speaker 2: you know, it is a busy time of year. We've
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  Speaker 2: got we had the folks from the Frank Phillips Home
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  Speaker 2: out last week, and they've got their Tuba Christmas coming
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  Speaker 2: up this Sunday, and if you want to that's been
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  Speaker 2: happening in Bartlesville I think for two decades also, and
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  Speaker 2: they've got their open.
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  Speaker 3: Houses next week.
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  Speaker 2: And I got mentioned Nutcracker next Saturday and Sunday on
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  Speaker 2: the twenty first and twenty second, and all the other
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  Speaker 2: Christmas stuff going on. It's hard to keep track of
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  Speaker 2: the so, but don't forget. If you want those Nutcracker tickets,
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  Speaker 2: you can come test drive a Toyota and I'll give
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  Speaker 2: you a couple of vouchers to the way to the.
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  Speaker 3: Nutcracker, which is such.
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  Speaker 2: A great event and o the great Partlesville tradition that's
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  Speaker 2: been going on for so long. And uh, once again,
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  Speaker 2: I want to, you know, let's talk a little bit
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  Speaker 2: more about Friends Indeed. Uh, it's an interesting name for
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  Speaker 2: an organization, is is Is it only for the Christmas
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  Speaker 2: dinner or does it? Does Friends Indeed do anything else?
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  Speaker 3: No, we only do the Christmas dinner. It's a big undertake. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: that's uh, like I say, it was something that was started.
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  Speaker 3: Actually I didn't get I wasn't involved for the first
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  Speaker 3: three years I got. I volunteered and then next thing,
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  Speaker 3: I know, I charge and uh you know well, uh,
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  Speaker 3: actually Paul Gustuson and Wayne's God and were the two
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  Speaker 3: people that they they just felt that they needed something
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  Speaker 3: to you know, yeah that uh you know again, they
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  Speaker 3: just thought there were people that were home alone that
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  Speaker 3: they needed to get out and be with other people.
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  Speaker 3: And so that was the start of it. And the
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  Speaker 3: first two or three were held at the Old American
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  Speaker 3: Legion and in fact, the first two that I went
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  Speaker 3: to it was kind of interesting.
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  Speaker 5: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: In fact, the last one that I went to at
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  Speaker 3: the American Legion. Uh, they kept blowing fuses out there
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  Speaker 3: that merrily could you know, had hot plates and things
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  Speaker 3: like this. It was it was uh and in fact, uh,
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  Speaker 3: it got to the point we were running out of
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  Speaker 3: food and they were out buying hot dogs to find people.
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  Speaker 3: So it was it was not like it is now.
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  Speaker 3: And that's when the Adams School of our Church of
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  Speaker 3: Christ was very gracious to allow us to use their
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  Speaker 3: facilities and beautiful, beautiful facility. The kitchen is just fabulous,
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  Speaker 3: and then the gym is huge, and we set up
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  Speaker 3: twenty seven tables, so we've got plenty of room that
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  Speaker 3: we can you know, set up. And so ever since
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  Speaker 3: then we've been using that facility and I say, they're
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  Speaker 3: very gracious to let us use it so that.
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  Speaker 2: We just.
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  Speaker 3: In fact, when I leave here, I'm going to go
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  Speaker 3: meet with them and make arrangements to start setting up
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  Speaker 3: those turkeys. Yeah, so it started. How many turkeys does
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  Speaker 3: it take to about thirty turkeys and ten hams and
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  Speaker 3: then get around close close to forty of the large
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  Speaker 3: cans of green beans and corn and and all these
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  Speaker 3: kind of things that Yeah, I got the Yeah, the taters,
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  Speaker 3: and got got the I get getting this stuff from
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  Speaker 3: different sources, and I store the I've got all the
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  Speaker 3: decorations and things of this nature. Fortunately I've got room
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  Speaker 3: at my house and I stored store there and so
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  Speaker 3: I'm starting gathering those right now. They're in my living room.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, I'll start moving them.
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  Speaker 2: The process I'm cooking. How long does it take when
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  Speaker 2: you start?
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  Speaker 3: She will start that on the nineteenth and Rita Beavers
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  Speaker 3: and her and and and she starts that and they
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  Speaker 3: start cooking and and then gets everything prepared. And then
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  Speaker 3: she's got a process you don't you know, and she's
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  Speaker 3: got it well orchestrated. Well.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you to her and to all the other volunteers
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  Speaker 2: and you for help helping put this on every year
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  Speaker 2: in Bartlesville.
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  Speaker 3: It's such a great event.
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  Speaker 2: On Christmas Day from eleven thirty to two thirty, free
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  Speaker 2: Christmas dinner for anybody who desires to come out and
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  Speaker 2: hang out, help or just be part of the Christmas spirit. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's a great.
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  Speaker 3: Like I say, we encourage to get the word out
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  Speaker 3: to people. We you know, we don't want anyone you know.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I've had people that will tell me that
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  Speaker 3: oh my gosh, you know, first time they come to it,
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  Speaker 3: I didn't know this was going on. I said, well,
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  Speaker 3: get the word out to people, you know, spread the word.
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  Speaker 3: That's why we're here about it right now.
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  Speaker 2: Even if you're listening and you don't you've got a
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  Speaker 2: family coming, you don't necessarily need a place to go.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe you know somebody, maybe a neighbor to yeh know, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: go check on and find out and make sure they
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  Speaker 2: know about it.
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  Speaker 3: And sometimes people, you know, they have family coming in
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  Speaker 3: and they say, well, we don't want to cook, and
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  Speaker 3: I said, come on, you know, it's an enjoyable place.
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  Speaker 3: And one of the things we do we invite our
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  Speaker 3: you know, we have our volunteers that seat people. We say,
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  Speaker 3: if someone comes in by themselves, seat them with someone else.
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  Speaker 3: Let them, you know, have an opportunity to visit and
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  Speaker 3: talk and enjoy.
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  Speaker 2: And so I know we mentioned another organization you and
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  Speaker 2: I are involved in the Young Scholars of Borrowsville, and
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  Speaker 2: there was an event coming up in February.
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  Speaker 3: I want to have everybody just hold the eight.
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  Speaker 2: For February twenty second, twenty twenty five. Uncork your support.
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  Speaker 2: And it's such a neat organization, and it's grown from
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  Speaker 2: just being scholarships and helping people get into college to
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  Speaker 2: being a real structure and a mentoring program right through
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  Speaker 2: school up into college. And tell us a little bit
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  Speaker 2: about as the Young Scholars of Bartlesville.
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  Speaker 3: Young Scholars of Bartelefeld was founded by Barry and Karen Lowe,
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  Speaker 3: and the goal is to take youngsters starting in basically
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  Speaker 3: the sixth grade on through in the school system and
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  Speaker 3: primarily those who are academically promising and maybe they come
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  Speaker 3: from the lower classification economic and to give them an
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  Speaker 3: opportunity to go to college. Okay, but it's not a handout.
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  Speaker 3: They have to earn, and what we do is we
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  Speaker 3: give them. They have to go to quarterly meetings and
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  Speaker 3: learn about things such as financial literacy, how to balance
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  Speaker 3: a check book, how to learn to eat at a
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  Speaker 3: table properly, how to dress properly, how to go to
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  Speaker 3: an interview, write an essay, things of this nature, how
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  Speaker 3: to basically prepare to go to college. But as Barry
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  Speaker 3: corrected me one time, he said, our goal is not
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  Speaker 3: to go to college. It's to graduate from college, and
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  Speaker 3: even beyond that is to be successful in life. And
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  Speaker 3: as you said, to be a lifelong learner where we
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  Speaker 3: start to show exactly so what we were looking for
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  Speaker 3: successful citizens, Okay, good citizens, and that's what we're doing,
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  Speaker 3: is we're taking these youngsters. And since the program has started,
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  Speaker 3: we've had nineteen college graduates. They're now working. And in fact,
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  Speaker 3: we just now one of our students that went through
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  Speaker 3: the program is working. She's now joined our board. Effective
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  Speaker 3: January one, she will be a member of our board.
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  Speaker 3: So it's full circle. And we said, you know, we're
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: looking for people to be on the board that have
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  Speaker 3: gone through this experience. And she can help us as
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  Speaker 3: you know, as bored. She can tell us now, she
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  Speaker 3: can give us the full representation of the program. So
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  Speaker 3: that's awesome, you know. Anyway, So well we're this program
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  Speaker 3: is doing is you know we're taking right now the
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  Speaker 3: program is for Bartleville students in the Bartleville school system.
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  Speaker 3: People ask me, is it just Bartleville? Yes? Now will
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: we always be Bartleville? I don't know. We know we
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: may expand, but right now you know that our BiLaw
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: State Bartlefield, we you know, we don't.
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  Speaker 2: It's a great organization. And once again there is an
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  Speaker 2: event coming up next year in February that you want
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: you want to come to if you if you like
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  Speaker 2: the sounded that February twenty second at Saint John Church
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  Speaker 2: in other Lynch Hall, Wine and food tasting and all this.
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  Speaker 2: It really is we we went last year and you're
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  Speaker 2: going to be yes, help you out hosting one of
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  Speaker 2: the parties and uh so we'll be happy to.
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  Speaker 3: Be out there. Come see us out there at that event.
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  Speaker 2: My wife Kimberly's become a mentor and it's really enjoying
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  Speaker 2: it and she's excited to do that.
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  Speaker 3: And so we were we really want people to attend
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  Speaker 3: and I'm telling you the people who have attended, they
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: have loved it. And we we.
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: Like say put it on your calendar, and uh, we're
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: just about Christmas and Toyota Than is going on great incentives.
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  Speaker 3: You can check all that out on our website.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: Uh you don't forget to to uh to about the
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: Christmas uh friends. Indeed, free Christmas Day dinner that you
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: can get information on at the dealership or what was
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  Speaker 2: that number? We can call nine one eight four one
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  Speaker 2: one five two for to volunteer. If you have a question,
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: need transportation or need food delivered to you we've got tomorrow,
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: we've got the Great Futures Luncheon out at the Boys
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  Speaker 2: and Girls Club, and lots of other great events coming up.
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  Speaker 2: So anyway, thanks for coming George. It was great to
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  Speaker 2: talk to you, and it really is, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: inspiring all the work going on in Borrowsville or a
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  Speaker 2: great community and making it stronger, and appreciate all your
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: help doing that.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, Brad, Thank you.
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