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CAR TALK w Youth and Family Services · One on One With a Professional

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  Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning, Welcome, welcome, welcome me
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  Speaker 1: this time now for car Talk with some Brad Dungeons
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  Speaker 1: from Dungeons Toyota. Welcome board, Brad you brought friends.
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  Speaker 2: Has always dead once again, Happy uh Thursday to everybody
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  Speaker 2: out there. Thank you for joining us. We're so glad
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  Speaker 2: you're here. It's another beautiful morning in Bartlesville. Thankful for
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  Speaker 2: the rain last night. Finally got a good.
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  Speaker 3: Amount of brain and absolutely it.
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  Speaker 4: Was much needed.
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  Speaker 2: A little less wind, but the rain, and there was
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  Speaker 2: some stuff always comes with that in springtime in Oklahoma.
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  Speaker 2: You get then well then we'll probably get real cold
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  Speaker 2: and then real hot and then rain some more.
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  Speaker 4: That's that's that's what we're in for springtime.
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  Speaker 2: And I got my friend Scott Carmichael and Katie Wilson
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  Speaker 2: from the Youth and Family Services of Washington County.
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  Speaker 4: Welcome to the.
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  Speaker 2: Show to car Talk's so glad to have you guys
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  Speaker 2: here and uh uh.
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  Speaker 4: Learn more about what's going on this year.
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  Speaker 2: This is a big year for Youth and Family Services
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  Speaker 2: fiftieth anniversary, and you know, it's a great honor to
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  Speaker 2: have such an important organization that's part of the fabric
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  Speaker 2: of our community that creates that support network for people
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  Speaker 2: that are in need, and.
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  Speaker 4: You guys have done that now for five decades.
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  Speaker 3: Congratulations absolutely, Yes.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, fifty years is a long time to be in
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  Speaker 5: an amazing community like this. We're very best blessed to
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  Speaker 5: continue to serve the youth and families of this wonderful
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  Speaker 5: community and just excited to celebrate fifty years with everybody.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and you've got some celebrating to do. You're going
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  Speaker 2: to have an event, a race, I.
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  Speaker 5: Guess yes, Yeah, June twenty seventh, we are going to
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  Speaker 5: have a five k and a one mile fun run,
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  Speaker 5: and it's going to be a glow run. It's actually
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  Speaker 5: going to be in the evening time, so we're going
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  Speaker 5: to light people up and have fun running. It starts
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  Speaker 5: at eight o'clock PM at Unity Square and the one
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  Speaker 5: mile will start just thirty minutes after that, from seven
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  Speaker 5: to eleven at Unity Square.
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  Speaker 3: We are just going to.
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  Speaker 5: Have a huge celebration. So whether you sign up for
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  Speaker 5: the race or not, we're going to have a huge
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  Speaker 5: celebration in that space to just enjoy the fact that
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  Speaker 5: we've been here for fifty years and thank everybody and
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  Speaker 5: have the kids having some fun on some bouncy houses,
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  Speaker 5: have some entertainment for the adults and just food trucks,
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  Speaker 5: just all kinds of fun things.
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  Speaker 4: That sounds awesome.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the Intercye Square is such a great asset to
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  Speaker 2: our community.
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  Speaker 4: It's such a beautiful space there.
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  Speaker 2: Between the Community Center and the Price Tower, and that's great.
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  Speaker 5: It's a beautiful space, a beautiful space that's listening to
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  Speaker 5: our community and a great place for us to be
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  Speaker 5: able to have this event.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Well it's it's April. Finally the weather is
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  Speaker 2: finally giving us some blessing rain. We got through March
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  Speaker 2: at the dealership to say we were number four in
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  Speaker 2: the entire Gold States region, five states, all of Texas, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Arkansas,
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  Speaker 2: and Louisiana. We were number four dealer and percentage growth
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  Speaker 2: from the prior year one hundred and eighty four percent
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  Speaker 2: of last year's new Toyota business. We've been going through
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  Speaker 2: that kind of growth. It's people ask where are the cars, Well,
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  Speaker 2: it's because they're selling so fast.
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  Speaker 4: We're kind of.
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  Speaker 2: Lucky, I think in the Toyota business to have a
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  Speaker 2: very high demand, low supply kind of situation. It's not
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  Speaker 2: that they're not trying to build them. They're building just
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  Speaker 2: as many as they can, adding shifts to plants, building
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  Speaker 2: new plants, you know, just continually reinvesting.
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  Speaker 4: But the product is so outstanding. The you know, I think.
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  Speaker 2: People that have driven Toyotas before know the resale.
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  Speaker 4: Value, the quality of the vehicles those it's.
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  Speaker 2: Really top notch. And more and more with our great
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  Speaker 2: hybrid system. So we Toyota hybrids have been around since
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  Speaker 2: the late nineties. And actually Toyota was one of the
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  Speaker 2: first manufacturers to have a battery electric vehicle in the
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  Speaker 2: mid nineties, also a long time ago.
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  Speaker 4: And and but Toyota.
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  Speaker 2: Has all the power trains from internal combustion engine to hybrid,
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  Speaker 2: which a lot of people still ask, what is that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I have to plug it in. No, hybrid
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  Speaker 2: really is a It's an electric battery that recharges itself.
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  Speaker 2: It captures energy from breaking and and internal systems, so
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  Speaker 2: it actually is self contained. It.
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  Speaker 4: Toyota puts a.
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  Speaker 2: Ten year warranty on the battery system, so they have
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  Speaker 2: a lot of faith that it's going to keep working
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  Speaker 2: and and uh, you know that. And then it has
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  Speaker 2: an internal combustion engine with it, so the two combined, uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it started out and the Prius is really
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  Speaker 2: being designed to maximize fuel economy, and it can be
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  Speaker 2: tuned that way. But now we have a full range
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  Speaker 2: of hybrid vehicles that are summer tuned for maximum fuel economy,
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  Speaker 2: some for performance, and you know, tone capacity. One great
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  Speaker 2: thing about electric power is it's very fast to the ground,
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  Speaker 2: so it's it can give you lots of horsepower and torque,
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  Speaker 2: so it's kind of you get a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: the best of everything with that.
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  Speaker 4: That and then we have plug in hybrids where you
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  Speaker 4: do plug the vehicle in.
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  Speaker 2: It's got a battery that it can be charged, it
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  Speaker 2: goes a little full electric. Further, the hybrids can go
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  Speaker 2: full electric for just you know, a few miles really
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  Speaker 2: and that they can do that and then not use
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  Speaker 2: any fuel. But the plug in hybrids will go around
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  Speaker 2: fifty miles without using any gasoline. So if you're driving
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  Speaker 2: around Bartlesville, you can have an electric car. But then
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  Speaker 2: when you're on a trip going to you know, rural
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  Speaker 2: Oklahoma somewhere, or for further afield, you can fill it
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  Speaker 2: up with regular gasoline and keep driving and not have
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  Speaker 2: to worry about spending time filling charging the vehicle. And
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  Speaker 2: then of course we do have battery electric vehicles too.
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  Speaker 2: We've got the redesigned BZ, just getting the full the
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  Speaker 2: new CHR later this year, we'll have the all new Highlander.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to have an electric land.
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  Speaker 4: Cruiser before long.
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  Speaker 2: So the toyotas you know, a lot of manufacturers are
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  Speaker 2: kind of backed away from battery electric vehicles. Toyota continues
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  Speaker 2: to reinvest in the product and you know, building for
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  Speaker 2: the future and really want to give everybody a choice
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  Speaker 2: of power train so that they can get the best
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  Speaker 2: thing that works for them. And our team is trained
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  Speaker 2: to work through that with you and help you get
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  Speaker 2: the best of all those options.
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  Speaker 4: Good.
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  Speaker 6: The question for you and your Toyota is do they
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  Speaker 6: call it with the manufacturing? Is the majority of it
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  Speaker 6: done in the US so that they actually qualify for
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  Speaker 6: the new tax credit?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, most of them are.
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  Speaker 2: About sixty five percent of the Toyotas that we sell
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  Speaker 2: are made in the USA.
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  Speaker 4: Some are not.
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  Speaker 2: Some are imported from Japan or Mexico or Canada. That's
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  Speaker 2: typically where all our.
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  Speaker 4: Vehicles come from.
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  Speaker 2: But Toyota has continues to invest in the US and
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  Speaker 2: and builds a lot of our best selling vehicles, Highlander, Tundra,
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  Speaker 2: Camery and all those are built in the USA and perfect,
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  Speaker 2: so they would qualify for the big beautiful bill acts.
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  Speaker 6: Where now the are now, Yeah, we've done some study.
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  Speaker 4: It sounds like.
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  Speaker 6: Absolutely I own Prespas Taxi Consultants.
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  Speaker 3: Oh okay, definitely something that's been top of mind.
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  Speaker 2: You're you're on the board at Youth and Family Services, Yes, sir,
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  Speaker 2: I am welcome.
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  Speaker 4: And how did you get involved with Youth and Family Service.
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  Speaker 3: I've actually shared this story with Katie.
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  Speaker 6: When I was younger, the actually was a client of
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  Speaker 6: Youth and Family Services. Youth and Family doesn't just do
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  Speaker 6: your traditional counseling. They also work with the domestic violence
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  Speaker 6: type thing and the abuser side, doing the counseling on
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  Speaker 6: that and the aggression training and kind of learning to
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  Speaker 6: mitigate that. And my mother suffered with a bipolar disorder
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  Speaker 6: and so she was prone to a little bit of
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  Speaker 6: violent rages sometimes and she had an altercation with my
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  Speaker 6: stepdad and got sentenced to some counseling with Youth and
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  Speaker 6: Family Services and it was a great experience, really helped
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  Speaker 6: her out tremendously and I saw that impact, and so
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  Speaker 6: when I graduated.
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  Speaker 3: College and was working for Mshrombank trying to.
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  Speaker 6: Find, you know, a local nonprofit to get involved with
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  Speaker 6: youth and family Naturally came to mind because I saw.
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  Speaker 3: The impact they made directly on my.
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  Speaker 6: Family, and the more I dug into it, the more
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  Speaker 6: I got to know about the center and all the
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  Speaker 6: services they provide, from being in the school counseling to
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  Speaker 6: you know, the drug counseling, to UI counseling, you know,
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  Speaker 6: anger management, suicide prevention, all the different avenues that they're
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  Speaker 6: finding ways to impact people directly in our community.
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  Speaker 3: And I just really wanted to be ruining a crisis. Absolutely, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you know.
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  Speaker 2: That's the time when people need it the most, and
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  Speaker 2: the counseling services provide that, I guess, a safe place
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  Speaker 2: for these people to go and talk about what's going
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  Speaker 2: on and then get real help from professionals that can
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  Speaker 2: help them through that process of.
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  Speaker 6: Absolutely sometimes it helps just you know, you don't feel
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  Speaker 6: comfortable talking to family members or close friends about some
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  Speaker 6: of these specific issues, and so going to somebody independent
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  Speaker 6: and independent, third party giving you feedback, but also.
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  Speaker 3: Having them having the training to kind of help you
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  Speaker 3: get to the root cause of the issue.
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  Speaker 6: Because so many times it's not what I'm feeling right now,
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  Speaker 6: it's deeper than that, and helping them find a way
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  Speaker 6: to get to that deeper problem so that it can
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  Speaker 6: be addressed and we can actually get it fixed and
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  Speaker 6: have some mending and some healing going on. You know,
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  Speaker 6: it's hugely impactful for people's lives. And that's one thing
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  Speaker 6: that I can speak for for all the counselors and
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  Speaker 6: youth and family is they take pride in that, and
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  Speaker 6: you know, not just let's not just diagnose what's going
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  Speaker 6: on today, Let's figure out what the root problem is
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  Speaker 6: so we can really get lasting help and lasting impact
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  Speaker 6: to help with those problems.
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  Speaker 2: That's great, And you mentioned all the different programs you have.
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  Speaker 2: What tell us more about just how that works and
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  Speaker 2: what kind of programs you do have and how people
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  Speaker 2: get to your services?
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  Speaker 4: Sure?
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  Speaker 3: Sure, so I'll start off.
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  Speaker 5: I think what makes us unique in the community as
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  Speaker 5: far as behavioral health services is that we have a
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  Speaker 5: heavy what we call prevention where we're trying to get
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  Speaker 5: to these kids and families before it gets to the
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  Speaker 5: next level, the counseling level. So we go into the
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  Speaker 5: schools and we work with the kids on life skills,
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  Speaker 5: substance abuse prevention, just an array of things, anger management
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  Speaker 5: with kids for their Yes, we just go into those classes.
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  Speaker 3: The schools usually tell us this is what.
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  Speaker 5: The issues we're having, bullying, you know, maybe kids are vaping,
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  Speaker 5: things like that. They tell us what they need. We
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  Speaker 5: find evidence based curriculum that we teach to these kiddos
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  Speaker 5: and try to prevent them from taking the next step
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  Speaker 5: where it gets either involved with law or they need
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  Speaker 5: therapy or things like that.
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  Speaker 3: So we're really heavy on that.
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  Speaker 5: We want to get in there and get those kids
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  Speaker 5: the skills they need to be successful in their future,
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  Speaker 5: because we all know it's hard. We're in a hard
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  Speaker 5: society right now. Things have been very difficult since COVID
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  Speaker 5: for these kids and being isolated and then going back
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  Speaker 5: to school. So being in there teaching them and giving
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  Speaker 5: them the skills so that we don't get like I said,
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  Speaker 5: to that next level is very important then we do.
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  Speaker 5: You know, obviously, our behavioral health services with our therapists
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  Speaker 5: that like you said, deal with crisis mode, they deal
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  Speaker 5: with them on a regular basis. Maybe they've seen them
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  Speaker 5: for years and years and are still working, but we
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  Speaker 5: just want them to be successful in their daily lives, healthy, happy, thriving,
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  Speaker 5: and that's what our goal is at Youth and Family Services. Thirdly,
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  Speaker 5: and most probably importantly, we run the emergency youth shelter here.
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  Speaker 5: There are several in the state of Oklahoma, but we
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  Speaker 5: run obviously one of them.
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  Speaker 3: Here.
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  Speaker 5: We're taking kids that probably are having the worst day
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  Speaker 5: of their lives. They've been removed from their homes, whether
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  Speaker 5: it be just family issues, abuse, neglect, and we take them,
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  Speaker 5: provide them a safe place to stay, warm, meals, love.
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  Speaker 3: All the things.
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  Speaker 5: We do.
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  Speaker 3: Call it a shelter, but it's a home.
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  Speaker 5: We provide them a safe place and we try to
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  Speaker 5: get them stable until they can get a more permanent placement,
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  Speaker 5: because the goal at a shelter is not to be
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  Speaker 5: there forever. Although we have kids from one night, so
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  Speaker 5: we've had kids stay years at our shelter. So it's
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  Speaker 5: a very important, important part of what we do in
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  Speaker 5: the state of Oklahoma because unfortunately there are kids without
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  Speaker 5: places to go. There's not enough foster homes, there's not
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  Speaker 5: enough group home, there's not enough places, and so we
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  Speaker 5: really pride ourselves on taking those kids and trying to
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  Speaker 5: deal with their issues so that they can go into
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  Speaker 5: a place that's healthy and safe for them. We find
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  Speaker 5: it very unique to our facility that we deal with
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  Speaker 5: a lot of kids with difficult situations, whether it's intellectual disabilities,
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  Speaker 5: physical disabilities, are high medical needs. Not a lot of
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  Speaker 5: the shelters on this in the state want to take
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  Speaker 5: on those situations understandably, so, actually Kay's.
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  Speaker 3: Little too modest.
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  Speaker 6: We're one of the few facilities in the surrounding states
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  Speaker 6: area that will take these severely profound kids with very
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  Speaker 6: very high levels of need and care, you know, disabilities
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  Speaker 6: both mental and physical. You know, we don't turn away
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  Speaker 6: from those kids. We invite them in, We love on them,
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  Speaker 6: We find a way to get them the care they
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  Speaker 6: need and the help they need. You know, we make adjustments, and.
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  Speaker 2: Our staff incredible expertise to do that and resource.
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  Speaker 5: Well what happens is they come in and we're like, Okay,
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  Speaker 5: this is what we have to deal with, and I
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  Speaker 5: go get a nurse or I go get training or
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  Speaker 5: whatever it takes, because we're going to get trained to
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  Speaker 5: do it feeding to We're going to get trained to
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  Speaker 5: deal with diabetic issues. We're going to get trained to
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  Speaker 5: make sure we can take care of these kids the
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  Speaker 5: best that we can.
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  Speaker 3: That's the only way to do it.
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  Speaker 2: Back down from even and it's something you've never seen before.
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  Speaker 5: Kids don't deserve to be back.
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  Speaker 3: They don't deserve that or.
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  Speaker 5: To sit in an office building because honestly, that happens
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  Speaker 5: in the state of Oklahoma when they don't have a
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  Speaker 5: place to go. And so if that happens, we're going
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  Speaker 5: to open our home to them. And that's what leads
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  Speaker 5: us to our fiftieth and fiftieth anniversary. We're really announcing
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  Speaker 5: the fact that we want to build a brand new shelter,
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  Speaker 5: or we're starting to. We've saved some money, but we
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  Speaker 5: need to raise probably about equal as much as we've saved.
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  Speaker 5: We need to raise that kind of money so we
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  Speaker 5: can start. We have the land, the land where the
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  Speaker 5: shelter is right now has plenty that we can build
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  Speaker 5: in the backside of it. But we really want a
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  Speaker 5: specialized place that we can you know, we're meeting their needs, yes,
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  Speaker 5: but can you imagine a place that we can and
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  Speaker 5: really you know, be great for these kids and have
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  Speaker 5: the facilities that that make them, you know, be able
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  Speaker 5: to survive and thrive in this uh you know environment.
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  Speaker 2: It is so you have this dream of building units
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  Speaker 2: facility and in our campaign.
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  Speaker 6: Now the fundraiser in the fiftieth anniversary is actually the
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  Speaker 6: kickoff of our fundraising campaign.
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  Speaker 3: We were still.
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  Speaker 6: Trying to finalize numbers, but you know, we through exactly,
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  Speaker 6: not exactly we know it's going to be in this
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  Speaker 6: in the seven figures, we just don't.
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  Speaker 3: We're trying to figure nail down exactly how much.
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  Speaker 6: Through you know, diligent work on the board and on
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  Speaker 6: Katie's behalf, we've been good stewards of what we've been provided.
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  Speaker 3: We've we've saved and saved and saved.
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  Speaker 6: Leading up to this so that we're not just begging
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  Speaker 6: people for every dollar we're we're putting already. Yeah, we're
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  Speaker 6: putting our money where our mounts.
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  Speaker 4: Having a lead gift in a way. Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, we've been very very constrained with our finances so
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  Speaker 6: we can say even being a nonprofit, so we are
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  Speaker 6: really diving into this wholeheartedly and putting our money where
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  Speaker 6: our mouth is. And we're just looking for people that
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  Speaker 6: want to partner with us to help donate towards this
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  Speaker 6: cause and give these kids that really don't have anybody
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  Speaker 6: else an opportunity to have a place to go.
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  Speaker 2: Great corporate and individual sponsors already.
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  Speaker 4: I know you do, and if you, I mean.
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  Speaker 3: If it's appropriate, give them some credit.
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  Speaker 5: I do that. We already have sponsors for the fiftieth anniversary.
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  Speaker 5: I mean there's a long list of others that donate regularly,
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  Speaker 5: but so far Stump Funeral Home, they've always been a
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  Speaker 5: very good supporter of our services. Truity Credit Union also
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  Speaker 5: great supporters. Phillip sixty six, Shrogman, Financial Bag of Oklahoma,
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  Speaker 5: bussy Ie Care, jim Or State Farm, He's always been.
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  Speaker 3: A huge supporter of us as well.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, City Church, Walmart distribution Center, Quick Trip, and then
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  Speaker 5: we've got a few more that if committed. We just
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  Speaker 5: haven't gotten checks in, but we're still, you know, trying
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  Speaker 5: to get those sponsorships to come in for this and
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  Speaker 5: get people on board, whether it be you know, doing
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  Speaker 5: a sponsorship or just coming and doing the run and
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  Speaker 5: being a part of, you know, our celebration.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm sure that'll be a great opportunity to learn
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  Speaker 2: more about what's going on and continue that support going forward.
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: So I began to fell listen more about the event,
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: when it's going to be, how people can sign up,
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: do you need volunteers, stuff like that.
• 17:32
  Speaker 5: Yes, all of the things. So June twenty seven, the
• 17:36
  Speaker 5: celebrations from seven to eleven at you need the square.
• 17:39
  Speaker 5: The run starts at eight the five k timed competitive
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: people glow run. Yeah, so where your glow gear. We
• 17:46
  Speaker 5: will have things like low sticks and stuff for our runners.
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: The fun run starts at eight thirty and you can
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: sign up on our website. It's www dot Youth Andfamilyinc
• 17:57
  Speaker 5: Dot com. Otherwise, we do have a Facebook page, Youth
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: and Family Services of Washington County where you can find
• 18:03
  Speaker 5: the link, and I think that's we're as far as
• 18:07
  Speaker 5: signing up goes. Tator Racing is the one sponsoring the race,
• 18:12
  Speaker 5: so they also have a website that we are listed
• 18:14
  Speaker 5: on as well.
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so people who run around of races are familiar
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: with them and how that works. Got to have good
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: timing and event management if you're running a race, so that.
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: You still do a lot of running site. I've been
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: involved with that before.
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: I can't do it anymore, but my feet started hurting
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: too much to run a lot. So anyway, too much
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: information there, but I did a couple other things at
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: the dealership. We're excited to announce that starting April first,
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: we got rid of our documentation fee altogether done just Toyota.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: You know, for years we've said, you know, no dealer
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: add ons and just had one hundred and forty nine
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: dollars doc fee, which is about twenty five of the
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: typical one in today's car business. And we just decided
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: that in spirit of keeping it simple at our simple.
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: Price, we'd get rid of that.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: We think it gives us a competitive advantage to be
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: transparent and keep things really simple in the purchase process
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: our you know, to our to our mind, people deserve
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: that kind of uh you know treatment when you're buying
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: a car and not a lot of games or dealer
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: add ons.
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: We don't add.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: Things to cars that and if we if we do
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: do an accessory or something, it's clearly posted and part.
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: Of the vehicle price.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: We don't have any requirements to get a price you
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: know that we post. It's not like, well you have
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: to trade in your vehicle or finance to do that.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: And you know, frankly, a lot of that stuff isn't
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: allowed under the law. So, uh, you know, I think
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: we're and it's a shame that we're not. That is
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: more common in our This I think will be the
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: There's an one other Toyota dealer in the state, my
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: friend Scott Northcut and Heeded, they had they don't have
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: a dock fee there, but every other Toyota dealer has
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: them and I don't. I'm not disparaging them. There's a
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: lot of cost of processing the documentation in a car
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: deal but uh, you know, truthfully, to kind of create
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: an extra fee and add it to.
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: The car, it's kind of it just seems silly to me.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: And then to be honest, Oklahoma has low doc fees
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: compared to around the whole country. So but just we
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: we just really believe in that pressure free buying experience,
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: keeping transparent Cardials are a non commissioned sales team and
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: sales management. They're not paid, uh, to squeeze more profit
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: out of you. They're made there to take care of
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: you through the process of buying car. Really like you guys,
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: to be an advisor in the pro in there the
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: taxes that you prepare for people and helping people through that.
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: Know, we are approach.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: We do need to make a profit and obviously be
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: there to be there to serve our community and our customers,
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: but we feel like we can do that and this
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: way and earn our customers trust through the process. And
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: you know, for that's worked for a long time for
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: us and at Dungeons and probably do that.
• 21:21
  Speaker 6: And it is important from a customer standpoint because it
• 21:24
  Speaker 6: reduces that pushy salesman mentality that gets stuck to a
• 21:29
  Speaker 6: lot of car dealers is feeling like I'm being pressured
• 21:32
  Speaker 6: into doing something I'm not given being given time to
• 21:35
  Speaker 6: make an informed decision, and feel like I'm working with
• 21:37
  Speaker 6: a partner.
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: And so having that no commission base.
• 21:40
  Speaker 6: Really allows yourself to partner with customers.
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: And develop relationships.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: In the car business, I'm as a family business. I
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: decided when I was younger, I didn't want to be
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: in the business. I sold cars for a while and
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: I met a lot of great people, but I saw
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: that side of it where it's like, you know, if
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: I get you to.
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: Buy this car, I make more money than if you
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: buy that car.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: And I didn't feel comfortable being in that position sort
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: of helping someone, and I went on and did other things,
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: and when I got in the business, I decided we
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: were going to.
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: Do it differently.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: No matter what I was going to do it in
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: a way that I thought was right. And we've been
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: we ever since I had the chance to not pay
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: commission in our sales team back to two thousand. Now
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: we've not paid commission at Dungeons and that and that,
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: and in recent years that's gone clear into the management
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: and you know, it does that we do have to
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: motivate our teams without using the pay plan quite as much.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: And uh, you know, but at the same time, it
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: helps create this great culture of of support and it
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: fits well with how we look at the community and
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: we're you know, we're a small, family owned business in
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: an industry that's full of conglomerates and big you know,
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: hyper scaling groups the you know, and you know, vending
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: machines for cars and stuff. And you know, in a
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: certain way, people expect that kind of convenience and they
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: can order their toothpaste and have it delivered to their
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: house this afternoon. But at the same time too, I know,
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: with a major purchase like a car, they you know,
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: they want to know they can count on somebody to
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: stand behind the car and you know, with done, just
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: you get that.
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: My office is on the showroom. If you have an
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: issue in the dealership.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: You call me if if you can not feel like
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: you're getting the help you need, I will make sure
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: you do. We try to be proactive about that. If
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: my team uh sees a problem that you know, they
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: haven't fixed the car, they tried to bring that to
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: me before.
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: The customer has to call and.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: And you know, so it just changes the culture as
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: the business and and that's that's just who we are.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: So anyway that we're proud to get rid of that
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: dock fee. So check us out if we can help.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: We've got all new allocation of toyotas yesterday. We'll get
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: more details on those in the next few days. We
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: get two allocations a month, continually turning over our inventory.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: There's some really hot product we've got right now. The
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: all new RAB four is just still super hot and
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: it's coming out kind of slowly. Toyota doesn't want to
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: rush things like that because they want it to be
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: a perfect vehicle and not have any issues. So if
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: they build them a little slower at first and release
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: them slower, they feel like it allows them if they
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: do have a problem, to get in front of it.
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: And I haven't heard.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: Of any but that's for sure, and you know, so
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: we're that if you are.
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: You know, we get a lot of inquiries. Where are they?
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: I want to see one, and unfortunately we don't have
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: them for very long, but talk to the team. They'll
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: help you get connected with one. I know we have
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: a rep FO Woodland a brand new MAW vehicle that
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: is available still that just got allocated to us, and
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: we keep getting more information. There will be three or
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: four more I think in the next allocation. I don't
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: have details on those yet, but the process of our
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: team can explain how that works. But really what we
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: need to know is you get an idea of what
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: you're looking for a little bit in advance, and then
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: we can help you get that vehicle. Obviously, if it's
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: not right when it gets here, we can work through
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: that too, but we would do everything we can to
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: make it work for you. And we have designed our
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: whole process to be the way people want to shop
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: and get those great toyotas or used cars.
• 25:45
  Speaker 6: Of course, and for those people that are on the
• 25:47
  Speaker 6: fence of do I buy new, do I buy used?
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: Just remember that they do you know, big beautiful deal bid,
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: big beautiful bill did.
• 25:54
  Speaker 6: Put in that tax incentive to go with new, so
• 25:57
  Speaker 6: you know the interest if you have to. If you're
• 25:59
  Speaker 6: financing and there's a difference between the new and the use,
• 26:02
  Speaker 6: the interest on that.
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: New car is going to be tax deductible.
• 26:04
  Speaker 6: There's a used car, so there's some incentive there to
• 26:07
  Speaker 6: you know, go ahead and take that step and get
• 26:09
  Speaker 6: the new.
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: Car, and you'll want to talk to your tax absolutely. Yea,
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: we know we have some information, but we do recommend
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: all things from evolving taxes.
• 26:18
  Speaker 6: Yeah, there's a great website where you can actually use
• 26:21
  Speaker 6: the VEN number to look up the vehicle and you
• 26:23
  Speaker 6: straightforward whether or not you qualify.
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: It qualifies for that tax credit.
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: So definitely something.
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: To look into and keep in mind on our teams.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: Are you actually on our website you can look and
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: see the exact interest charge and how much the interest
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: you're paying is right there on the purchase tool on
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: our website, play with your own deal, compare the leases
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: to purchases. It's a lot in keeping with the transparent
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: purchase all that it's the same thing on our website
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: as the team uses to work your deal in the store.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: The sales people and the sales managers all use the
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: same thing.
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: That's on the website, so it keeps it.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: All transparent and to calculate and very straightforward. And you
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: play with your damn payment I to submit your own
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: credit value, your trade. All that's in one nice convenient
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: package for you on the website. What else we got, tom,
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: We got anything else happening today at the station?
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: Oh? Yeah, we got tons, we got Cardinal Baseball, we
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: got Tamsine Baseball starting up pretty soon.
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right.
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: We're excited to have another season of Indians baseball.
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: We got what year is this for you? Down?
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: Record ever since nineteen forty one, so you know it's
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: it's a long time.
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: I don't know, eighty seven years. Yeah, good luck anybody else?
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: Seven Guinness record longest corporate sponsor of a sports team
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: in the world.
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: Oh, isn't that amazing? Right here in Marblesville.
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: We're very proud of that and happy to help have
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: you guys on the show today. I hope people will
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: come out and sponsor and support the fiftieth anniversary celebration
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: and the race on June twenty seventh.
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: Is that right?
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: Yeh? Just one more comment.
• 28:07
  Speaker 6: We are still looking for our big presenting sponsor, so
• 28:11
  Speaker 6: we do have one slot open for the exclusive recognition
• 28:14
  Speaker 6: rights and being the presented sponsor of the event. If
• 28:17
  Speaker 6: you're interested in that, please feel free to reach out
• 28:18
  Speaker 6: to us. We have other sponsorship levels trying to accommodate
• 28:22
  Speaker 6: every budget, but we are still looking for our big
• 28:24
  Speaker 6: presenting sponsors.
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: So if you're interested in really.
• 28:27
  Speaker 6: Making an impact and the lives of the youth of
• 28:29
  Speaker 6: the Washington County and want to get involved with us
• 28:32
  Speaker 6: to help us out, definitely give.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: Us a call and hopefully more news soon on the
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: new facility other programs you guys provide, So thank you
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: for coming in and getting great information.
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: We appreciate it. Thank you,