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Car Talk Podcast 6-6-2024 · One on One With a Professional

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And good Thursday morning. It is, of course Thursday, which means one
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thing. Here on K one and fourteen ninety three point three and ninety five
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point one, it's time for car talk with Brad Dungeons of Dungeons Family.
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Good morning, how are you, bro, I'm doing great. Good morning
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friends out there. It's great to have you with us today. I've got
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my friend John Panel here from the Dungeons Ford Indians and welcome John Sallo.
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Hey, good morning everybody. Brad, glad to be here. Nathan,
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thank you, absolutely good to see you, my friend. Yeah. I
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want to before we get going on baseball, I want to say thank you
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to Jason from out of Barrowsville Bikes who came in last week. It was
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great to get to know him better. It's a little bike store in the
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mall that I stumbled across and needed work on my bike, and I thought
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he was pretty cool. Invited him to come beyond the show. We're off
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and running into June, and that means it is baseball season. Glad for
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the break and the rain and the storms. Looks like weather. It be
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okay this weekend. Probably at least they do finger six games coming up and
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a lot of other stuff going on. So yep, it seems like a
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really strong team this year, too. Talented young men. We're young.
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We're young. We're off to a good start. We're six and two and
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looking forward to just keeping good things going. Yeah. No, it's our
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eighty fourth year, John sponsoring baseball and Bartlesville here every summer since my grandfather
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bought the Ford dealership in nineteen forty one, and one of the first things
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he did was buying a baseball team to sponsor because he had been on sports
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teams as a youth and a little bit west of here in Oklahoma, and
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they were sponsored by the dealer there. And he knew when he got this
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opportunity that that's that was what he wanted to make his legacy. Well,
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he didn't waste any time, No, he does. He that was one
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thing about him. He very rarely wasted time. He was a busy fellow,
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those of you who remember him, he was. He was quite active
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and went to most of the games and and for for decades and uh,
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you know, traveled with the team a lot. And oh yeah, and
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you know, back in the day, insurance wasn't quite so crazy. And
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we win the team cars and everything, and it's just amazing to think all
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the lives impacted over all those years and eighty four years. We did the
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math before the show times. If it was twenty five games a year,
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I don't know how many games they really played, but that's probably plus or
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minus pretty close. He could probably average about forty forty years. So well,
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that'd be like thirty five hundred games. Yeah, Well, run a
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legacy, I'm telling yeah. I mean, just well in the dungeons people
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who know too, it's not really about dungees, you know, I think.
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I mean, it's just something we try to stay in the background,
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really because it's about those young men every summer out there getting their opportunity to
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perform in front of their families and the community and all the stuff you learn
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playing games and being part of a team, and especially these high, higher
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level competitive teams that they're play for regionally and were great to be back in
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the American Legion too, at least I assume that this is our this is
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our first year back in the American Legion in several years. When COVID hit,
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we didn't know if we're playing baseball at all, and then you know,
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it's trying to make a comeback, so we buy. This has been
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a part of American Leagues of Baseball in Barbiesville since before Dungeons. Yeah,
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that's right. I think this is ninety DearS with old Mike tupa put but
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you know he certainly would know shout out to my good friend Mike. Yes,
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good morning Mike. Yeah, So that's that's amazing stuff. You know.
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It was also recognized by the Guinness Book of Records as the longest corporate
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sponsorship of a sports team in the world. At the time they phrased it,
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it was American Legion Baseball. So I don't know technicalities, maybe if
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it ended when we drive up, and I don't think so. I think
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that that's not the important thing. It's about the Nundes Auto Dealership and the
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team and really about those families and the kids and all the work it goes
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into ago. Yeah, I don't need to remind me that, but yeah,
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I know that all the but I really want to focus on, you
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know, the volunteers, the people that do all the work and you know,
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from preparing the field and working the gates and doing all the stuff,
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and you know, families getting their kids to the games and going and traveling
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with the team, so there's somebody there cheer and then yeah, it's great
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stuff. You know, that's nice. When we're on the road sometimes it's
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we will have a bigger crowd than the home team will. Yeah, and
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so that's that's always a good feeling at least for our guys. You know,
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it's nice to have a parents that have that kind of support. Yeah.
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I think it's been like that for years. Yeah, that's a it's
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a big deal in Bartlesville. If you haven't been to one of the games,
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this is a great opportunity this weekend to get out. There's tell us,
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let's the schedule, win of the game start and who are we playing?
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Uh, Friday, we are playing doubleheader starts at five forty five.
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We're playing the Diamond Dogs, which is a team out of the d BAT
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Collegiate League, which we actually played in last year. And then coming in
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on Saturday, we have a doubleheader against the Independence Cardinals which starts at four,
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and then we will play Tulsa Sandlot on Sunday, another doubleheader at five
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forty five. Said. Tulsa Sandlot is another part of the d BACK Collegiate
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League. Okay, we'll actually have we will have a few college pictures with
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us joining us on that because some of the guys might be twenty three years
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old. Well oh wow, we have some fifteen year old kids that start.
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So I've always believed in playing up and playing above your competition. So
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these young kids that get to play against college guys, it's a it makes
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them up their game. I better ball players. Yeah no, that's what
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it's all about, isn't it. And yeah, it's a great time of
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year, and so hopefully people will get out and with the doubleheader, you
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got an opportunity there to to you know, to check it out, you
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know, go to get dinner and come down to the field if you know,
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there's no pressure to see the whole thing. Oh yeah, oh no,
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oh no, no, I'm excited that. You know, Saturday is
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one of the dads. I had coached twelve U little league team last year,
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a T ball team, and so one of the dads kids, he's
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bringing his son out Saturday to be a bat boy. Oh cool, So
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excited about that. You know. It's fun when the kids come down there
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and I tell our guys when they get to the team for the first time
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I go, if a little kid ask for your autograph, they thank you,
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guys, are big lad I did that when I was young, younger
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young. It was a lot of fun hanging out in the dugout with with
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the team. I do remember that. That that made a big impression on
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it. I was always one up in the stands I was. Now I
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didn't play baseball, but well I didn't know I be I was the bat
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boy close enough to him. And you know, we see I wasn't even
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good enough to be the bat boy. I was just rarely. That was
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a rare opportunity. Sure, my grandfather pulled up. That's a lot of
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fun. It's a good family time down there. So and it's you know,
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thank you to the Dentist family for responsoring for all these years. And
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that's been a great thing for the community. Well, we're really proud to
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do it. I'm proud of you guys, and uh really looking forward to
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another great summer of baseball here in Bartlesville. It's uh, we've got a
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lot going on with the dealership too. It's been h We're often running into
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June and got great incentives and inventory. We've got lots of great interest rates
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right now. Obviously with standard interest rates for being a little higher, it's
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kind of put pressure on car payments and everybody's trying to figure that out,
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but feeling that our ward has got some great rates right now on SUVs.
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We've got zero for sixty on Escape plus one thousand dollars, so you get
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to read and zero for sixty and that zero for sixty. People don't realize
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how much that saves them. You think of taking that money, say you're
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borrowing thirty or forty thousand dollars and zero percent interest, and you know if
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you put that in the in a bank and a CD and right now you'd
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be getting five percent back too. And you know, so they're they're giving
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you a lot of money. And the standard rates right now are often in
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that range five point nine and on up. And we see a lot,
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you know, a lot of good credit people you know that can qualify for
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seven percent rates is unfortunately what has become the normal again. But with zero
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percent, like I said on Escape, Bronco sport explore all for sixty months
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and then they've got additional rebates on top of that one thousand dollars on the
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Bronco Sport and Escape and seven hundred and fifty dollars on the Explore. Those
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are twenty three models, and then our Bronco has a one thousand dollars rebate
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and if you own a Jeep, they'll give you one thousand dollars in conquest
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money too, So great rebeats on Bronco. And we finally have a lot,
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a great selection of Broncos after a couple of years where they were really
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hard to get, we've got really cool Broncos and they're kind of becoming available
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and that's really exciting for people, better value for them, and lots of
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excitement around that vehicle. The Bronco Sport too, is one that's become really
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popular. Yeah, and it's a smaller version of the Ronco but has a
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lot of the same off road capabilities and technology in it and a small package
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and you can accessorize it really well for all the lifestyle stuff people like to
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do with their vehicles these days, whether it's getting on the road to go
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to watch a baseball game somewhere or going off to the lake camping and fishing,
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whatever you do in your vehicle, there's a lot a lot of flexibility
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there and vehicles like that. We've got a lot of buzz right now around
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the Toyota land Cruiser that's come back, coming back, Yeah, coming back.
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It's been off the they didn't build them for a couple of years there.
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It had become kind of a premiere flagship SUV for Toyota, at the
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top of the line luxury vehicle, you know, back in the fifties.
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It started out as a rugged, absolutely tough vehicle that you know. Of
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course, Toyota is known for making great vehicles and high quality vehicles that last
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forever, and a land Cruiser has been one of those. And so we've
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got a new model coming back, and it's going to be uh, you
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know, i'd say more like the Bronco than like the old land Cruise or
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the last generation of land Cruiser, and a really cool looking vehicle, a
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lot of great technology in it. Yeah, it's we've had calls from all
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over the country on that because everybody who gets one of these first edition models,
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which there's only five thousand of them made, and uh, you know
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we you know, through COVID in the last few years, was we've gotten
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these special vehicles. It's been a challenge to I don't want to say this
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is wrong, figure out who to sell the cars, but when from all
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over the country, yeah, it's it's kind of weird, and and you
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know, and sometimes there were huge markups on these vehicles, and you know
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that, uh, that's not typically how we operate. You know. We
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try to treat everybody the same and go offered great simple prices on all our
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vehicles. And the name of the Just Deal was just out there and people
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were offering us, you know, thousands over MSRP and I don't even know
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when I'll have the vehicle, to be honest, so it's kind of crazy
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to me. So what we decided to do is have people apply for the
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opportunity to get you know, create a list basically of people interested in our
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first edition. There's we're likely to only get one of those this year.
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We do have two others that are allocated, so we're gonna have plenty of
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land cruisers on that list. Are you gonna is it a random drawing or
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well, we're gonna, well, there as we're going to look for a
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local home. Let's put it that way. We're gonna you know, there's
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a couple of questions on the application what's your history with Toyota, what's your
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history with done? Just so we'd really like, you know land cruiser history,
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people who've owned a bunch of those, uh, maybe been a loyal
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customer of ours or love Toyota and had a lot of those through their lives.
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We just want to hear your story and and uh, you know,
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we're going to pick a winner that's there on a truth on that, but
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everybody who applies, as we get more of these allocated, we're going to
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start with the first applicant and offer them to the applicants in there. So
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it's really a way to create a buzz and you know, have an organized
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list of people that are interested in our first rounds of the land cruiser.
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And of course once they start hitting the lot and we have them, you'll
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go back to normal of course. Yeah, but we've had great customers applying
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already, many great loyal customers, so it's going to be a lot of
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fun. Not that many, truthfully, so I think there's still like maybe
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five or six people have applied. So you know, if you can still
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get in there early and have a chance at one of these land cruisers,
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pretty good chances. It sounds like, yeah, the latest news is,
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here's the bad news at the vehicles on hold. Of course it's been held
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at the distribution centers. If Toyota hadn't really said publicly why, but I
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heard that it was the skid plates where they ran out in the production cycle.
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So they're sending them to the distribution centers to have them installed there.
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So that will take a bit to get through each vehicle. So that's just
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on two of the models that there's a trim level called nineteen fifty eight that
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I understand. If those start to arrive, those are going to go on
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out to dealers and be ready for sale. And we have one of those
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that's supposed to be here. I think hit the vehicle processing center on June
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eighteenth, so it'll probably be on the lot or in Bartlesville around July first,
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so we'll have one here you can look at. I know a lot
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of people, you know, they want to they're maybe hesitant to apply even
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though there's no there's no risk and apply for there's show commitment. You don't
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have to do anything. We'll work with you and help you get the right
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vehicle. But just raise your hand and let us know you're interested we're asking,
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Yeah, just the buzz that that generates. And I mean it's going
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to be an extremely popular vehicle. I think so. And you know that's
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there's always tension at this point when we have these really nice vehicles coming out
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and everybody wants to get their hands on one, So bear with us a
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little bit, especially when they're on hold. It's a little bit. Didn't
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you go through a lot of the similar stuff with the Bronco when it came
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back out, Oh, yes, we did. I mean and during the
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pandemic. I mean, those were those were even more challenging in some ways
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because we had pre orders that were in there and you're not built for over
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a year. I mean, people waited and waited and waited for their Bronco
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and there were some many thousands more orders placed than were possible to build in
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the first round, so it was it was crazy. Toyota doesn't operate with
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with retail orders like that, so it's a little bit different just in the
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manufacturing philosophy and how they allocate vehicles. But uh, you know we do.
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We can get you exactly what you want with Toyota's it's just we have
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to they have to be in the production flow and we can say, hey,
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I'll give you this wrap for for that one that's exactly what you want,
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and we kind of trade them out of the cycle and they get us.
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They can get us anything pretty much that way, but it's not the
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same as ordering it, and then it starts to be built in the factory
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with your name stamped on it. Yeah, exactly. So that's that's a
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lot of fun. So you can check that out on our website at doneus
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Toyota dot com. We do have all new websites. We just launched in
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the last few weeks, and so if you haven't been out there in a
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while, go check it out. It's new, it's a little more interactive,
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it works better on the phone, it's a little bit faster. All
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the same great technology we had on the website before and even more, and
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we're looking to add other stuff. You know, we have our great digital
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retailing tool which allows you to go in and actually work your own cardial.
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You can you can see all the incentives, the interest rates I mentioned,
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rebates, rebates, and you know, play value your trade, look at
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your credit. Nobody else can see it. What's called a softball where you
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can actually get an actual credit call from a bank with an actual number without
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it pulling your credit so it has no effect on your credit score, doesn't
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show up on your bureau and it's a it's a you know, you can
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go in there and really dial in your payment, just like you know the
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sales manager and the you know would have to do in the office when it
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was calculating your deal and then them salesmen would come back and tell you so
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taking all that time out and all the frustration of what are they doing in
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the in that office, it's amazing what what technology will do. Right,
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But it is it's changing so fast. You know, we're seeing that in
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service too with with our pickup and delivery and forward and mobile service. You
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know, we did over fifty of those last month and and it's it's pretty
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amazing. As this is grown, people are realizing how much time it saves
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them. I mean, truthfully, if you think about it, if you
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come into a car dealership, any dealership, and they have to greet you,
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write you up, write a repair order, move your vehicle around to
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the back, dispatch the work to a technician, get the parts from the
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parts to park up and they hadn't even started working on your vehicle, and
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then the thing kind of happens again. When it's done. It's like the
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deck has to finish the vehicle, pull it out of the stall, get
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the ticket back to the parts department so they can close it out. Then
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it goes to the service advisor has to close it out, CA share you
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out and you're sitting in the lounge that whole time. It may take only
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what ten thirty minutes to do your service, but before that, there's another
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minutes or even longer if there's other people ahead of you in line, and
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then and then there's so you know, that same fifteen or twenty minutes at
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the end. By going one to you, that time is kind of on
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up right. We bring it to you, we do the service, and
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we're out of there and you can pay on your phone. It's for super
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simple. Uh, if it's if there's no A lot of the services we're
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doing on the mobile service are our recalls and over there updates of software and
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things like that. Those have become, you know, more ubiquitous as the
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vehicles have more software and of course and we're all familiar with that, yes,
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we are the that we can go out there and update your system and
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uh, we're on the road. It's incredible, incredible. That pickup service
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you're doing is out of the commercials and that's a that's a great timestay with
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some people or people who are not even that you might be a little older
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and have a little trouble getting out. Yeah. Man, that's a fantastic
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service for people. Yeah, and we're looking at expanding that as we go
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forward. It's give our team a call. It's not for every service obviously,
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and there's some limitations for how far we can go. Of course,
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we can take take out to the New York right now. I'm just kidding.
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I will, but give them a call and they'll walk you through it.
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It's really pretty simple. And if you want to go online, you
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can schedule the service online and request the pick them and delivery and robile service
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there too. Yeah. Great times, great times. Yeah, So let's
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get back to baseball. Well, we had a few minutes left, and
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you know, I know we mentioned the games this weekend. I think you
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have another round of home stand games that later in the month, and then
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we have the Winget tournament. Let's remind everybody about that because this is sixty
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fifth year. I think of Winet, isn't it sixty five years of the
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windsed once again left fireworks on sorry night, so you get them on the
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four fourth is on a Thursday this year, so you have to get the
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city fireworks. I forget who's doing Friday. Think when the Hillcraft or somebody's
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doing Friday. I mean, I think you can hit Sunday. I think
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you're gonna be able to hit in the area for fireworks show. So that's
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part of the way it's so it's fun in the Windy. We've gone to
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twelve teams and coaches now who since we've been doing this, they ask who's
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playing the fireworks game because it's so cool to finish your game and then have
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your team stay there in the dugout or they get right there on the turf
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and it's all right there and they think that is the neatest thing and it's
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become a great experience. Cool. But yeah, after this weekend we hit
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the road. We're gonna leave Wednesday. We're leaving the day early. We
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take a trip to Mountain Home, Arkansas. That's uh, you know,
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we do some trout fishing. We oh fun staying cabins. We do all
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the cooking there, the little team building. I know, you guys focus
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on that of the team and bonding and we do. The guys learned very
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quickly. We have a lot of new guys this year. We only returned
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five from last year's team. They were leaving the dugout Saturday after we just
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had a double header sweep, the great sweep and told them all to get
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back in there tridder or some trash. There are some balls out. Half
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the team was in there and we went out and we did some running and
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we did a wake up cause some of the older guys were scared because they've
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been there. But after that, we come back on the twentieth, Yeah,
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the twentieth, So June twentieth, we will be here at five for
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WEE five for doubleheader. June twenty sixth and twenty seventh, there's two more
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doubleheaders and then you have the widget which will run July fourth through the seventh.
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So check out the schedule. Where can people go to get more information
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and see the schedule on the team or there's there a place to get updates
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and stuff. Yeah, so if you have a smartphone than that you can
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get an app that's called Game Changer and you can search our team which is
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Dungeons Ford Indians, or you can go grab us on Facebook then just for
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Indians. Yeah, that's great. Great to check them out and do go
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out to the games this weekend. I think it'll be it's going to be
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a great time time and it should be great weather and a little bit warm
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on Saturday maybe, but Sunday. Yeah, if you haven't been in the
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stadium, oh my god, average ballpark, No, it's not. It's
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a gorgeous facility. One is classic ballpark. I mean, in my opinion.
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Now, now I've lived in Bartoso all my most of my life,
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I moved to Rapid City, South Dakota, where Legion Ball is very big
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there as well, and they just recently redid their main stadium. And I'm
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telling you, Bill Dungeon's Memorial Stadium still is the goat in my mind.
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I might be a little biased. I don't know. It's got that heritage
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of history too, of having so many great players. And I have some
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of the original paperwork and the bids that were oh yeah, I think is
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twenty some twenty eight thousand dollars was the winning bid to build that. Yeah,
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so you think like in these days, oh my gosh, and we've
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had a World of American Leisure World Series there. Yeah, three great back
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back in the day, I mean we had you know, actual MLB games
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going on. Wait wait, talk in some history. Well, you know
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Dungeons for Indians Baseball. I mean, what a great summer tradition that we
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have here in town. And of course we always want to thank the Dungeons
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family of Autos for their consistent sponsorship of that. You say, eighty four
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years four record breaking literally a relationship between a business sponsoring a great baseball team
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here locally. And you know we hear the radio station as well. We
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love we love that partnership as well because we get to go to those games
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and in broadcasting and just you guys, broadcasting games is such an important part
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of the team. I think through the years, the ability for the families
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to stay connected when they can't travel with the team, and for people who
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aren't going just to stay there and to really draw attention to the team.
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It's just a great, great partnership. Yeah, we love it, and
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we love talking to John all the time. I know he's always speaking with
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Evan Fahbach, our sports director, Chase mcdott, our assistant sports director,
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about everything going on. Of course, John and I go way out,
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way back. I want to talk about that. But one thing we do
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need to talk about, Brad, is if somebody wants to come and purchase
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a vehicle Ford or Toyota or I used vehicle, where are you at and
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how can they get to you? Nineteen oh one or nineteen eleven Southeast Washington
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Boulevard. We're right on the there. You see the Toyota monolith and the
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big Ford Blue oval and where you can check us out on the web at
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dungeus choice dot com. Our phone number is nine one eight three three three
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oh nine hundred. I'll be out there again in just a few minutes.
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Come see me, of course. All right, Well, Brad, of
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course, and he's always there, always running around town. I know,
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John, you're involved in so many things, and I want to personally,
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I want to thank you because you've taken on some responsibilities. Besides no,
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you're coaching duties with the Indians, You've got the management of the Price fields.
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And yes, yes, thank you, John, Yes, No,
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you're welcome. It's it is a lot, but it's when you see the
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kids playing in the smile. Yeah, snow cones going out and hot dogs.
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It is a it's a blast. We wanted the resurgency of our of
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our Little League program. Huh. Absolutely, it's great. It's great.
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Well again, thank you for all that you do. You've been listening to
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car Talk with Brad Dungeons and John Pinnell here on K one in fourteen hundred
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from ninety three point three and ninety five point one. Gentlemen, we'll see
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you next week. Thanks for listening to one on the Professional Paid Presentation in
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the fourteen hundred K one