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CAR TALK · One on One With a Professional

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  And money. Good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome
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  in his time. Now for a car talk right here on K one,
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  the one you try to stand. Hey Jason, how you know? Hey
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  Tom, I'm uh good to see you. I'm uh substituting for Brad who
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  is uh out skiing on spring Brey and uh I'm excited for him. I'm
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  I'm barely walking. I'm I'm I'm just recovering from from a little surgery.
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  Tom. I thought you were dancing down the hall. No, no,
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  no, no, I gotta learn that step little foot surgery. Uh,
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  it's been a rocky road, uh to recovery, you know. Uh the
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  pint, Uh sometimes two pints a night of rocky road. There you go.
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  I I worked on that the whole whole trip up here. There you
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  go, There you go. How we do it with cars? My friend?
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  Cars are doing great. Uh So Toyota uh is just kicking off a
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  promotion and uh we have a great inventory over there. And then of course
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  on the fard side, dungeus Ford, it is truck month and everybody is
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  celebrating truck month. So one of the great things about both promotions, interest
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  rates are down, they're back to Yeah, what what we expected pre cough
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  cough hack hack. Yeah. Yeah, it's uh, it's it's nice to
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  uh, you know, sell cars and in a relatively normal environment. There
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  you go. Yeah, hey brought friends today. I sure did. Jason
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  Barta from Boys and Girls Club of Bartlesville is here with us. One of
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  the things I'm curious about, Jason, is it just now Bartlesville or do
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  you change the name to include your Dewey facility. We currently have two names
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  right now, so that's working. Depends on which subject we're talking about.
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  But yeah, we have Boys and Girls Club of Dewey and Boys and Girls
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  Cup of Bartlesville. Organization name is still Boys and Girls Club Bartlesviell, but
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  we we use our site names with respect to which club we're talking about.
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  So yeah, So if you don't know the club in Bartlesville or the Club
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  and Dewey just opened what three months ago? Yeah, beginning January, right
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  after the Christmas break, we opened up for the for the kiddos. So
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  how how big is the facility up there? It's about seventeen thousand square feet.
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  It's got similar faces to Bartlesville. It's got a gym and stem center
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  and game room and computer lab, got a little teen area for our teenagers.
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  And we do the food program the same as Bartlesville. Every night we
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  do an evening dinner and this summer we'll roll into breakfast, lunch, and
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  snack in the in the summer program. So it's good. We got almost
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  two hundred kids signed up out there, and do we already and running about.
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  We turned over one hundred kids in the building here last week, so
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  it gets uptick every week when we pull those numbers. It just grows a
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  little bit every week. So that's going really well. The sasas phenomenal out
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  there. They're doing a great job and the kids are having a blast.
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  That is so awesome. I've been up to do you a few times.
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  So it seems like a real walkable city. Most of the kids just walk.
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  Yeah, it's real walkable for the kids because it's right in the backyard
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  of the school, so pretty easy walk flat. Yeah. Yeah, it's
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  a lot easier than running a bus back and forth, I'll tell you that.
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  So yeah, we we send the staff over to the elementary school and
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  get the kids and walk them over to the club after the school and the
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  older kids trickle in as they mosey their way over there. But yeah,
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  it's it's working out well, and it's we're getting adjusted to the new space
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  and getting everything figured out. And we'll roll into summer program here before long.
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  So during summer it's it's it's basically day and night. It'll be it'll
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  be full house, Yeah, it'll be. We'll open up seven thirty and
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  close down at five thirty to be there and the kids can come every day,
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  or they can come three days a week, or afternoons only, or
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  you know whatever. So we'll do a plethora of field trips out there.
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  And one of the cool things we have this summer is in both our in
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  both clubs in Bartlesville and and Dewey, the Oklahoma State University College of Engineering
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  and Architecture is going to come in with their college students for a week and
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  they're going to do a STEM camp at both sites with the kids in our
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  new stem center that we got with all our new equipment that I don't know
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  what any of it does, but it looks cool when the kids are doing
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  it. Yeah, good company. The STEM center really is intriguing. I
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  probably well, I would love to play, but as a kid I would
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  have just been all over that. What exactly what candidate? Oh gosh,
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  there's uh oozo bots. We have a three D printer in both of the
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  locations, so they can tinker around with that, and there's all sorts of
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  equipment that they're able to use. And we uh were blessed to have the
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  Coward Consenior Foundation come in. They partnered with Conico Phillips and the Coward Consenior
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  Foundation on upgrading those STEM centers and they came in and did some training with
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  our staff to show us how to use and how to how to operate this
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  stuff and teach just the things to the kids. So but we're excited about
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  Oklahoma State coming in. There's there's college kids do a really good job and
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  engaging the kids and the program and it's a pretty cool deal. They walk
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  out with some T shirts and swag bags and stuff like that from Oklahoma States.
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  That's great. But yeah, it's it's exciting time and we'll roll some
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  enrollments out here the beginning of April. We'll start signing up for that summer
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  program and those spots won't won't last long, I'm sure. But three D
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  printer, Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's uh, it's pretty cool.
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  Just got to keep the right staff on there to know how to use it
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  and teach the kids and stuff. Because it's not for it's not for everybody.
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  It's gone over my head. So how do you staff? How many
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  people are staff in Dewey we run we have twenty to one ratios. We're
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  below that in Dewey right now. We have about ten on the ten minimum
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  on the floor every day. We have a site director at each site that
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  kind of runs the day to day operations, and then we have part time
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  positions that we employed. We'll bring in some additional summer employees for the summer
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  program because we run a ten hour day program versus in the after school program
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  we run four hours, so we have a lot more of the day that
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  we need to staff it. So we'll we'll hire some positions in all the
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  areas in both clubs for for our summer program. Or is it like a
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  college Yeah, yep, we do. We get quite a few college kids.
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  We get a few kids that have recently graduated graduated high school, just
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  the little graduate this may and then we have obviously our year round staff that
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  stay with us in the summer program. And stay on for the after school
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  so but yeah, well we'll staff it up and we'll we'll start the applications
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  for that summer program on the kids side of it at the beginning of April.
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  Yeah, so what what are the uh what are the qualifications for a
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  kid to join the club? Got to be seven seven years old and then
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  they age out at eighteen. So other than that we do with our summer
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  we will start with our our kids that are with us all year. They
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  get first round of sign ups and we'll see what comes in from that and
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  with the interest, and then we'll go beyond that. But we we uh,
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  we don't want to turn our backs on the on the kids that are
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  in there during the after school program every day and rely on the club and
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  and the programs that we do. So we'll start and we'll give them an
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  early sign up phase to get signed up for the summer program. So that
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  is but other than that, age seven and that's about the minimum qualification.
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  So tell me a little bit about funding. How does this how do how
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  do you operate? Well, yeah, it's uh, we're very active in
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  the grant world. We have into April coming up, we have our Harley
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  party. That's huge for us. That helps really give us what we need
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  to for the summer program that we have as our main fundraiser. Place it
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  at a good time the end of April, April twenty seventh, if you
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  want to get that on your calendar, we'll we'll have that again, and
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  that's a big piece of our puzzle. We're a United a Way organization,
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  so we get United Way funding as well, and then we're you know,
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  our board is very active, Our board is very generous, and there's a
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  lot of a lot of generous people in Bartlesville that want to help kids and
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  you know, we're we're fortunate enough to be in the position that we feel
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  like we can do that with their support, and you know, this community
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  has responded. We do twenty dollars memberships for the kids, so we don't
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  have any fee based programs. So uh, you know, the community,
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  the businesses here, the individual people done just being one of those are supportive
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  of what we're doing and that helps. But we're we're we're active in that
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  world for sure, because the twenty dollars that we charge for for the kid
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  doesn't quite don't quite get them to see it covering. Yeah, all the
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  end, which is right maybe right. So, if if somebody wants to
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  plug in either as a volunteer or a donor, what's what's the best way
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  for them to see? Yeah, they can give us a call Beth at
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  the Boys and Girls Club for if someone wants to get engaged as a supporter,
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  as a donor, and then Haley and Bartlesville and Marianna and Dewey if
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  they want to get engaged as a volunteer. If they have you know,
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  hobbies or passions that they want to share with with kids, we'd love to
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  have them involved. We obviously probably have a group of kids that share that
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  passion and we try to just match them up with you know what they what
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  they love as a volunteer and match them up with a group of kids who
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  also has a hobby or interest in that area and and let that develop a
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  program out of that. So but yeah, it's we'll, uh we do.
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  There's a brief training and a background check and we can get you started
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  with you know, a group of kids who who share the same passions that
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  that you share. So I think that's beautiful. Yeah, good way of
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  passing on some wisdom yea, And yeah, it is, Yeah, and
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  it gives the kids an opportunity to get in front of another positive adult and
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  you know, they're are our staff are in there with every day and every
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  hour of every day. And you know, getting some new programs and new
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  people involved in the program is always always a good thing. And you know,
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  we we uh make sure we are able to meet the volunteer schedule.
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  And obviously if they have a day or two days a week or something like
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  that and not you know, don't have all five days available, then we
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  can work with that. And uh so, yeah, there's plenty of opportunities
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  to get involved stand fitness, uh, computers, we have a game room,
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  you know, pool, ping pong, some of those if you're that's
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  right along. Yeah, well I was looking for people that know the trick
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  shots that. Yeah, it's very entertaining. One of the things I've observed
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  from going to luncheons at the UM uh that the kids have an opportunity to
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  see that there's there's a greater world. Yeah, there's a bigger world out
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  there, and uh yeah, that's a great opportunity for a young person.
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  Yeah. Yeah, they enjoyed the luncheon. Are you through the year Canadate's
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  get a little bit nervous speaking of we go Kiarny won our local youth through
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  the year. She goes to the middle of April to Oklahoma City to compete
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  at the state level. So, uh, she's got her all her packet
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  and everything submitted to the state competition and we'll go over to Oklahoma City the
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  middle of April and and let her compete for more scholarship money. So do
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  you have a tally on how much scholarship money you've hundreds of thousands. Yeah,
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  Yeah, we've had some success. There's a lot of people involved in
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  that. The judges do a great job at our local event of preparing them,
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  and then we have some people that lean in between the local and the
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  state event to get their speech ready and and really invest some time in the
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  kids to get them ready when they're at the state competition at the podium.
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  So but yeah, we've had We've had a good number of kids that had
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  some success, and it's provided a lot of college dollars for kids to go
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  on and do what they do. Just such an amazing program. Yeah,
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  it's cool, it's fun. Any chants anybody's working on an old guys club
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  where old guys can get together and no, it's not not going to happen.
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  Yeah, just poison CRUs Yeah. The other part of that qualification,
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  Jason is you've got to be seven, but you're also kind of down to
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  eighteen. Yeah, he's looking for a place to talk about the good old
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  day. I play with the printer I again. Yeah, thank you for
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  all of the work that you do here in town. Really, what you're
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  doing with young people, it's what Brad uh what the what the whole dealership
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  we like to call sparks in It's it's a way of launching humans and and
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  you guys really do a great job of giving kids an opportunity and you know,
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  no matter the circumstance, I hope launch them. Yeah. We're you
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  know, blessed to be in Bartlesville and blessed to you know, the businesses.
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  And I know Dungeus has been involved forever with the Boys Club and now
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  Boys and Girls Club supporting it so that that helps tremendously. And we couldn't
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  do what we're doing, and the kids wouldn't have the opportunities they have today
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  if it wasn't for the people in this community supporting it. And having a
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  high priority on young people and and getting them ready for life after age eighteen.
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  So that's ultimately what we're working for with with all the kids is getting
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  them ready for for life. So we appreciate you know, DUNGEUS and all
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  the other corporations and individuals and businesses in Bartlesville that that that support the club.
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  So thank you, thank you. Yeah, I know you have to
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  split. Yeah, yeah, So we really appreciate you giving us time.
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  Thank you for the opportunity. Tell me rat next time he invited me to
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  skiing instead of radio shot, keep asking him, Jason, Jason BARTI,
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  thank you very much. Trying to score away to play with the three D
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  printer. Well, Tom mhm. We had we had a great things going
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  when we were kids and lots of opportunities. But a three D printer,
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  Uh, still seems like magic to me. Yeah. It so we should
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  probably spend a minute or two talking about maintenance for your vehicle. After all,
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  it is car talk. Well it is car talk. We have some
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  weather rolling in and uh, if you've got those flippy flappy wiper blades,
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  you're you're probably gonna want to have those swap. Doubt pretty quickly. Yeah,
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  I'm looking off to the west. I think, yeah, really quickly.
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  So Dungeons Family of Autos, Dungeons Toyota and Dungeons Ford. We make
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  it really easy to do maintenance on your vehicle. And in fact, if
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  you call us at nine three three three nine hundred, Dungeons Ford has a
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  new program where we'll actually pick up your vehicle, bring it back to Dungeons,
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  do the maintenance or service on it, and then return it to you.
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  And uh, it doesn't matter whether you're at home, whether you're at
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  work, out fishing. We will come to you, pick up your vehicle,
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  do the maintenance needed, and then deliver it back to you. It's
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  it's it's very convenient. If I didn't work at the dealership, I would
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  take advantage of it. There you go. We also have some specials going
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  in the in the Ford world. Again it's truck month. Can't beat that,
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  No, you really can't beat that. So right now we have interest
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  rates as low as one point nine percent on select vehicles. Shut the forward
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  door. That is something else? Can you do that? Wow? We're
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  also still doing a number of factory orders, custom orders. If there is
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  something that you are interested in that isn't on our website at dungeess Ford or
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  dungeons Ford online or dungeus Toyota Online. We'll find it for you. It's
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  it's pretty amazing the job that Kobe does to bring in vehicles. He is
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  connected like nobody else. He really is. We had a gentleman and spent
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  a well he's able to track down exactly what you're looking for. He's the
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  finder. Well, you know, we may need to give him that Moniker
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  er. We also have a pretty good selection of used vehicles right now on
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  the lot, so we've got a number of work trucks. We have a
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  twenty seven Ford F one f XLT. It is under twenty five thousand dollars.
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  It's actually I think Brad has it priced at twenty one to three fifty.
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  That is that's going to go fast. Yeah, it probably won't be
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  there by the time you get back to the office. It may not be
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  and I may not go back to the office. So that may make it
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  easy. Feel the medications roll well. One of the things that one of
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  the things that really has has my eye. One of the vehicles that we
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  haven't used lot. We have a twenty nineteen Audi A six plus. It's
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  it's it's a little rocket ship, very fast car, fifty two thousand miles
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  priced just under thirty thousand to twenty nine two fifty. Now, we don't
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  want your break in the speed limit, but if you have to be someplace,
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  it's reliable. It's it's definitely going to get you there. Yeah,
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  well that's pretty darn good. I like that. So we also have a
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  twenty two Jeep Gladiator, So it's a willis. It's a you kind of
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  get some of those on trade, don't you ever know? We do?
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  And this is kind of a cool little combo of a you know, it's
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  it's like a jeep that has a pickup truck tail and uh, pretty cool
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  is what it is. It really is. So if you are out there
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  looking for a nice used vehicle, please go to our website Dungeon's Choice dungeons
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  Choice dot com. It'll lead you to either Dungeons Toyota or dungeons Ford Online
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  and take a look at the used vehicle inventory that we have out there there.
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  You go every now and then you guys get things like a big ol'
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  hummers and stuff like that. Went fast. We do have one really you
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  know, talk about exotic. So we have twenty three BMW X five.
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  It's a plug in hybrid, which means you you plug it in, you
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  get battery life out of it. I think it'll run about forty five miles
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  on battery and then it switches over to gasoline. So it really is if
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  you've well, if you've got a distance trip, it's it's a great vehicle.
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  And you know, we're starting to see a lot of that coming from
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  our OEMs, both Toyota and Ford. And I think over the next couple
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  of years, you're you're going to see some real crafty innovations from Toyota,
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  especially that are hybrid and all kinds of all kinds of new ways. It
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  used to be just the Priis, but boy, they've expanded that. Yeah.
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  One of my my favorite new vehicles on the Toyota side is the Toyota
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  Crown. It is it's a luxury vehicle and Car and Driver just named it
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  as possibly the best luxury vehicle of the year. So they're they're going to
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  tease it for you know, another nine months or so, but fantastic ride.
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  It is the deluxe coop that Toyota is making, and uh, you
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  know, it's it's almost rare to find, uh, like a landmark kind
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  of coup. Uh. Now uh in any line, Uh, we've sold
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  quite a few of those hybrid. They they are all hybrid, great gas
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  mileage. You would never know their hybrid. But uh, what a great
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  ride if you're if you're looking for a luxury car, Dungeons Toyota, Yep,
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  yeah nice. So they last forever, folks, I'm just telling you.
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  All you have to do is rotate the tires, get the oil,
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  change, check the belts once in a while, and you're good for good
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  twenty years. You know. This is why Toyota is such a good value.
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  You know, great resale. There's a whole lot of car left over
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  when you're done. They last twenty years and then you can turn around and
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  sell it. It'll still go another ten to the next one. Yeah.
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  Yeah, so tom a lot going on at Dungeons again. I want to,
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  you know, kind of urge people. If you are driving around with
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  floppy windshield wipers, if your tire pressure is a little bit low, if
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  your brakes are squeaky, yeah, please come into Dungeons. Get your vehicle
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  maintained. You can drive into Dungeons for or Dungeons Toyota. You can make
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  an appointment for either Dungeons Toyota or Dungeons Ford Online. Uh. And then
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  with Dungeons forward, as I was just mentioning, we are doing pickup and
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  delivery, and in fact we're not just doing pick up and delivery, Tom,
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  We're also doing a little bit of mobile service, especially if you have
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  something that's electronic that needs to be reset or tweaked, or something simple that
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  we can take care of, like exactly you've got to mash unit. It's
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  that is going to be the big push next quarter is basically the mobile service,
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  truck Man, this is great. Now we've got chances of brain all
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  the way through Monday. So if your tires are well bald, yeah,
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  you're not going anywhere on a wet road. In fact, you're just go
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  to the ditch. And you don't want to be doing that. And like
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  Jason keeps telling us about the wipers, you can't see the road, You're
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  not gonna You're gonna be in a lot of trouble too. So avoid trouble
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  before the rain hits. And to make that appointment of dungeons three three three
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  nine hundred. We'll come and pick up your car, we'll service it,
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  we'll bring it back to you. You get the deluxe treatment. I don't
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  think anybody else is doing that. Oh yeah, no, you just spoiling
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  us rotten and I love it. How many times in our lifetimes would that
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  have been? Like a godsend? Oh yes, yeah, probably at least
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  a dozen. I can foresee some lockout recoveries with our mobile units. Yeah
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  yeah, and a lot of a lot of wiper blades. There you go.
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  And then let's just remember these folks are fully trained. You don't have
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  to worry about some you know, weekend mcguy for coming out and working on
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  your car. These are top flight, certified, bona fide, got papers
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  on them. Professionals they are, Yeah, they are. They are.
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  Tom. Speaking of professionals, you're a professional. Thank you for no professional?
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  What? Thank you? Thank you for hosting us this morning, Thank
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  you for being here with us. Yeah, and tell everybody where we can
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  find you. First of all, in line online dungeons Ford Online dot com,
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  uh Dungeestoyota dot com or an easy one to remember dungeschoice dot com.
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  It will get you to both websites and there you can make an appointment for
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  service, you can price your own car, or you can come in and
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  see US Highway seventy five just south of No Water Road. All right,
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  Thank you, buddy. Thanks thanks for listening to one on one of the
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  professional a paid presentation in fourteen hundred K one