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CAR TALK w Ray of Hope · One on One With a Professional

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  Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome
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  Speaker 1: idiots at time now for car Talk presented by the
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  Speaker 1: Dungeons family of Boughs Dungeon. Just to you O the
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  Speaker 1: Brad Dungeons in the house and he brought freends of
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  Speaker 1: course I did. Good morning, tom Good morning to all
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  Speaker 1: of you out there listening to us today. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: for joining us this morning, sir. We're so glad you're
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  Speaker 1: with us today. We're getting on with the finish of May.
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  Speaker 1: This in twenty twenty five schools out summer baseball tomorrow
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  Speaker 1: night at Dungeess Stadium and vacations and what a game
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  Speaker 1: by the thunder last night was that exciting? I stayed
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  Speaker 1: up a past my bedtime to watch that whole thing.
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  Speaker 1: Even though we demolished them. I was like something else.
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  Speaker 2: Today.
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  Speaker 1: My guest Ronda Hudson from the Ray of Hope Advocacy
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  Speaker 1: Center Center and Domestic Violence Services, Salo Rondo High.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, how are you well.
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  Speaker 2: How are you doing? Thanks much for having me today,
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  Speaker 2: of course. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's a good time to check in kind of halfway
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  Speaker 1: through the year between the Hops for Hope, you know,
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  Speaker 1: so right, and the rest of the work and the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the work you do, and I know it
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  Speaker 1: goes on all year. It's just go to your great
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  Speaker 1: event every fall, just get all our attention and.
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  Speaker 2: Remind everybody what you do.
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  Speaker 1: It kind of you know, your services are often kind
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  Speaker 1: of in the background, I think, and you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, yeah, I think it's Ray of Hope is one
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  Speaker 3: of those organizations that if you maybe if your family
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  Speaker 3: doesn't need some of the services, it's easy to forget
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  Speaker 3: that we're in the community and and here to help
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  Speaker 3: those families that do need some of the work that
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  Speaker 3: we do. And so yeah, every time that we get
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  Speaker 3: the opportunity to come on the radio or you know,
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  Speaker 3: host hops for Hope so that we can just share
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  Speaker 3: a little bit more about the the really important work
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  Speaker 3: that we're doing the rest of the year, you're.
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  Speaker 1: Sich a big part of that safety net we have
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  Speaker 1: in our community here.
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  Speaker 3: We are really fortunate in Bartlesville. I tell people all
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  Speaker 3: the time, even even though at Rate of Hope we're
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  Speaker 3: often serving people in crisis with you know, child abuse
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  Speaker 3: or domestic violence or sexual assaults. We rely on the
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  Speaker 3: rest of the nonprofits in our community to to be
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  Speaker 3: that safety net. So when we have families who are
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  Speaker 3: in crisis, we are referring them to a GAPE or
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  Speaker 3: to the Boys and Girls Club for services, or you know,
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  Speaker 3: on the Rock for after school p you know, all
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  Speaker 3: of these programs work together.
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  Speaker 2: To keep it is one of those things. I hope
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  Speaker 2: that works that way, right.
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  Speaker 1: I know it works that way where everything Yeah, it's
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  Speaker 1: not you know, like perfectly orchestrated.
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  Speaker 2: But it's pretty close. Yeah. It really is the structure
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  Speaker 2: of the United Way.
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  Speaker 1: All the organizations that fill in the gaps around those
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  Speaker 1: core organizations, and you know, and many of them been
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  Speaker 1: here for decades and now you guys we are have
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  Speaker 1: a long history here.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: We actually speaking of May, we didn't even plan this,
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  Speaker 3: but twenty years ago, in May of two thousand and five,
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  Speaker 3: we saw our very first kiddo at Ray of Hope.
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  Speaker 3: So we I was hired in two thousand and four
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  Speaker 3: to kind of get the organization up and running, and
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  Speaker 3: we had the opportunity to start serving kids and families
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  Speaker 3: in May of that year, and I think we served
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  Speaker 3: so twenty years we've been serving kids and families. I
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  Speaker 3: think that first year we served around fifty four kids,
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  Speaker 3: and this past year that we just wrapped up that
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  Speaker 3: we served over one thousand individuals in our community who
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  Speaker 3: were experiencing some sort of you know, family violencey the
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  Speaker 3: child abuse, or domestic or maybe sexual assaults.
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  Speaker 4: And so.
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  Speaker 3: While we're we never celebrate those numbers because that represents
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  Speaker 3: real people who are having real life challenges and difficulties.
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  Speaker 3: We are so grateful for the opportunity to serve them
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  Speaker 3: and the investment that our community has made in Ray
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  Speaker 3: of Hope so that we can continue to provide services.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, now that's amazing. I didn't know that there you
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  Speaker 1: serve that many people.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's amazing.
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  Speaker 1: And I want you to tell us about how that works.
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  Speaker 1: How to you know, I know there's multiple aspects of
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  Speaker 1: this and lots of different programs, So go over some
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  Speaker 1: of the major world how you guys, how it works
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  Speaker 1: in the end of people, you know, how they access.
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  Speaker 3: You and yeah, So when we first started, we started
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  Speaker 3: as a child advocacy center, and so we were responding
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  Speaker 3: to cases where there were some severe allegations of child
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  Speaker 3: abuse and so often that was like severe child abuse
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  Speaker 3: or witness to some sort of violent event, or even
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  Speaker 3: child sexual abuse and soe so that was the full
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  Speaker 3: range of child abuse. And so we weren't often involved
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  Speaker 3: in in you know, kind of minor cases. It was
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  Speaker 3: really something that was going to arise, maybe to a
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  Speaker 3: level of criminal and so we so still for our
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  Speaker 3: Child Advocacy Center program, we only take referrals from law
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  Speaker 3: enforcement or child protective services. And that's because in Oklahoma
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  Speaker 3: everyone is a mandated reporter of child abuse and state
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  Speaker 3: law requires that if you suspect child abuse, that you
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  Speaker 3: report that to law enforcement or the Department of Human Services.
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  Speaker 3: And so we don't want to interrupt that process or
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  Speaker 3: or let people or give people the idea that they
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  Speaker 3: can report to a way of hope instead of to
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  Speaker 3: the state hotline or law enforcement. And so if somebody
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  Speaker 3: is concerned about the safety of the child, we tell
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  Speaker 3: them all the time, you need to make a report
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  Speaker 3: to the proper authorities. And then if there's some service
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  Speaker 3: that we can provide, then law enforcement or child protective
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  Speaker 3: services will let us know. And then a few years ago,
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  Speaker 3: just at the very end of I think it was
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  Speaker 3: twenty eighteen, the domestic violence program in our community shut
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  Speaker 3: down unexpectedly and we had just moved into the old
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  Speaker 3: Grace Upworth Methodist Church. It's our new home, just right
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  Speaker 3: up the road here, and so we had some extra space,
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  Speaker 3: and we were already serving crime victims through the child
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  Speaker 3: abuse program, and so we felt like we had an
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  Speaker 3: opportunity to step in then and assist with domestic violence,
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  Speaker 3: and so it took us a little bit of time
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  Speaker 3: to get up and running. During twenty nineteen, we took
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  Speaker 3: over that program and so we became the Domestic Violence
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  Speaker 3: Program serving Washington, Osage, and Now counties. We serve the
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  Speaker 3: same area for our child abuse program. Our domestic violence
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  Speaker 3: program is certified by the Attorney General's Office, and so
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  Speaker 3: that means we go through some pretty rigorous standards to
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  Speaker 3: make sure that we're meeting expectations, that we're following all
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  Speaker 3: of the legal guidelines on serving domestic violence and sexual
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  Speaker 3: assault survivors. And we have the same thing for our
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  Speaker 3: child advocacy program. We're nationally accredited by the National Children's Alliance,
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  Speaker 3: and so that means that we meet some very specific
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  Speaker 3: standards that demonstrate demonstrate best practice and the work that
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  Speaker 3: we do. So we take this work very seriously. We
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  Speaker 3: know that sometimes it's life and death for some people,
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  Speaker 3: and so we work very hard to keep our staff
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  Speaker 3: and our community trained and make sure that they know
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  Speaker 3: how to do the very best job they can in
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  Speaker 3: responding to these types of cases because we know that
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  Speaker 3: people's lives depend on it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, hopefully we never want to need that kind.
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  Speaker 3: Of service, but if you do, you do it's it's.
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  Speaker 1: Awfully important to have those people there. You you folks
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  Speaker 1: at Grave of Hope. It is a great, great name.
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  Speaker 3: Too, Yeah, appropriate, So we that wasn't our original name.
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  Speaker 3: Many years ago, we were donated a building where the
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  Speaker 3: cottage is now, so actually just kind of across the
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  Speaker 3: way from where we're at. And when we were first incorporated,
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  Speaker 3: it was the Child Safety Network, which was.
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  Speaker 2: Kind of a little you know, and spific.
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  Speaker 3: It was specific, but it didn't have, you know, not
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  Speaker 3: not much heart behind it.
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  Speaker 2: And so.
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  Speaker 3: The organization that donated that building to us was called
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  Speaker 3: a Place of Hope and they worked with breathed children
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  Speaker 3: and so if children have lost a loved one or
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  Speaker 3: a parent or a sibling, they had a specific little
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  Speaker 3: program that dealt with that. And so they were closing
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  Speaker 3: down and the director of that program was relocating, i
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  Speaker 3: think to Texas, and so they donated that building and
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  Speaker 3: at the same time we had doctor Ray Harris who
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  Speaker 3: was a part of our organization and he was instrumental
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  Speaker 3: in getting us up and running and getting started. He
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  Speaker 3: served as the pediatrician that advised our program for a
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  Speaker 3: long time, and so we decided to honor doctor Ray
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  Speaker 3: Harris and a Place of Hope that donated our first
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  Speaker 3: location to us, and kind of mashed those two up
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  Speaker 3: and so Ray of Hope. How, Yeah, that's how we
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  Speaker 3: came up with that name.
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  Speaker 2: That's awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And we talked earlier about the big party coming
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  Speaker 1: up in November. Every year you're sixteenth Hoops for Hope
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  Speaker 1: and the theme this year is Yetti to Party.
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  Speaker 3: We are YETI to party. We got such a great
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  Speaker 3: committee that it is my boy, fun, Oh my gosh,
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  Speaker 3: such a great board. We are so fortunate. But this
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  Speaker 3: year's event, we is scheduled for November first, and we're
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  Speaker 3: at that point in the year that we're starting to
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  Speaker 3: send emails to our brewers and our sponsors asking them
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  Speaker 3: to get involved because, as you know, a big event
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  Speaker 3: like this, because I think last year we had about
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  Speaker 3: eight hundred and fifty.
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  Speaker 1: People and they take a deal and that we need
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  Speaker 1: to Yeah, some folks out there listening don't know what
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  Speaker 1: we're talking about.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so hot what happens there, because it's pretty amazing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. So Hops for Hope is a it's our one
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  Speaker 3: and only fundraiser. It's the only event that we do
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  Speaker 3: each year, and it is a home brewing competition where
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  Speaker 3: all of the attendees get to judge and taste all
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  Speaker 3: of the beer. So we give little tasters and they
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  Speaker 3: just go around the room and taste the different and.
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  Speaker 2: We're not talking a dozen beers.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, like there's twenty some sometimes thirty some beers that
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  Speaker 3: you can you know, and they're not big boards, but
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  Speaker 3: little taste give you enough so that you can, you know,
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  Speaker 3: get a feel for which ones you like. There's some
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  Speaker 3: favorites who come every year.
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  Speaker 2: And and lots of food.
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  Speaker 3: Last year, the Eatery catered the event and they did
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  Speaker 3: such a phenomenal job and it is it's really fun.
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  Speaker 3: This is another one where years ago, and this is
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  Speaker 3: our sixteenth year, there was a board note do you
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  Speaker 3: remember Tracy Harlowe? Sure, Yeah, So she was on our
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  Speaker 3: board and we were looking at kind of coming up
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  Speaker 3: with a creative fundraiser for Rey of Hope, something that
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  Speaker 3: was not just the regular gala or event. That just
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  Speaker 3: how can we do something a little bit different, And
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  Speaker 3: so she called me one day and she's like, I
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  Speaker 3: had an idea. I kind of wanted to run past you.
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  Speaker 3: She's like, there's this whole subculture of people who make
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  Speaker 3: their own beer at home and it's kind of getting
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  Speaker 3: some traction and people really enjoy it, and I think
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  Speaker 3: maybe we could have an event where people could come
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  Speaker 3: and taste that. And I was like, you think people
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  Speaker 3: are going to pay money to taste beer that someone
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  Speaker 3: made in their garage? And she was like, yeah, I
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  Speaker 3: think maybe they will, and she was she was right.
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  Speaker 3: Tracy was right a lot of about a lot of
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  Speaker 3: So we've been doing this our sixteenth year and we've
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  Speaker 3: had some really amazing brewers. In fact, some of the
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  Speaker 3: local breweries here started at Hopsford Hope, So before Cooper
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  Speaker 3: and Mill or before Scissortail got started, they were homebrewers
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  Speaker 3: in our at our.
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  Speaker 1: Event, and so well, the microbrew culture is certainly a
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  Speaker 1: big thing in Oklahoma and.
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  Speaker 3: That's been it's really expanded.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's really exciting and it would be a
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  Speaker 1: great event, and it is time to to get your
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  Speaker 1: sponsors lined up, and I know you can you can
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  Speaker 1: get information on that at your website and all the
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  Speaker 1: other information about all your programs and how it all works.
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  Speaker 1: Are there volunteer opportunities or if someone's interested in helping.
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  Speaker 3: There are absolutely volunteer opportunities. We takes about thirty volunteers
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  Speaker 3: to pull off that event outside of the committee and
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  Speaker 3: board members who are working on it, and so if
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  Speaker 3: somebody would like to get involved, we split the shift
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  Speaker 3: so you have time to enjoy the event. Yeah, So
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  Speaker 3: you get in for free and you get to enjoy
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  Speaker 3: the event too. It's a win win there. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And the location is so unique too. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So we're out at the Bartlesow Municipal Airport. I think
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  Speaker 3: we'll be back in Hangar number one again, just down
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  Speaker 3: at the end of the road. And that's a cool
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  Speaker 3: just venue that you get to be in a little
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  Speaker 3: bit different spot too. So we're excited about our sixteenth year.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, all right, well and that's coming up November first,
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  Speaker 1: and we are.
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  Speaker 2: But we're in May.
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  Speaker 1: Now and we got, as I said, baseball at DUNGEUS
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  Speaker 1: Stadium get off tomorrow night.
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  Speaker 2: We got SunFest. I think the mist is going to
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  Speaker 2: clear and the weekend looks really good for some. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I bet it's a rough setup probably, oh yeah. So
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  Speaker 2: good luck to those out.
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  Speaker 1: There setting up, and it would be a little soupy,
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  Speaker 1: I would think, but.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure it'll cut off and have some sun tomorrow help.
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  Speaker 1: And as I said too, we're just six Toyotas away
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  Speaker 1: from our goal, and so the team is out there
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  Speaker 1: putting deals together. We have a great selection, although they
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  Speaker 1: are turning faster than ever, you know, I think the
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's something about ninety percent of the available
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  Speaker 1: Toyotas to sell are selling on our lot and virtually
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  Speaker 1: every other Toyota dealer's lot this month. There's just a
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  Speaker 1: really high demand, and on particular vehicles, there's just you know,
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  Speaker 1: we just can't build enough of them.
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  Speaker 2: The We had a big reveal this week on the
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty.
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  Speaker 1: Six RAV four brand new view coming out our best
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  Speaker 1: selling vehicle. It's really the sixth generation of the RAT four.
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  Speaker 1: Great redesign looks really good, kind of reminiscent of the
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  Speaker 1: new Grand Highlander in a smaller package, so it looks
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  Speaker 1: it looks really good as that great front end kind
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  Speaker 1: of look to it. It will be only available in
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  Speaker 1: hybrid power trains and the plug in hybrid electric vehicle
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  Speaker 1: version of that will have a fifty mile electric vehicle
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  Speaker 1: range in addition to a traditional hybrid vehicle, So within
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  Speaker 1: Martlesville you'd be full electric most of the time, you'd
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  Speaker 1: still have a gas engine, so you could head off
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  Speaker 1: to the ski trip to Colorado the And what you
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  Speaker 1: also get with that plug in hybrid electric vehicle some
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  Speaker 1: increased performance because the electric power train paired with that
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  Speaker 1: hybrid system really can produce a lot of torque and horsepower.
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  Speaker 1: So you get three d and twenty horsepower engine in
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  Speaker 1: that fifty mile electric driving range, and even in the
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  Speaker 1: standard hybrid you get two thirty six horsepower, which is
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  Speaker 1: planning for.
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  Speaker 2: Most people, and the usual usual.
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  Speaker 1: Driving pattern and other great stuff new. I mentioned the
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  Speaker 1: new design, but there's going to be new trim levels.
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  Speaker 1: The Gazoo Racing team is going to put their touch
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  Speaker 1: on a WRAP four finally, and so you'll get a
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  Speaker 1: gr sport trim, and so those people who know what
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  Speaker 1: Gazoo is will definitely know what that is.
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  Speaker 2: Toyota Gazoo Racing.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to look at that.
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  Speaker 1: There's kind of an offshoot of the TRD Racing development thing,
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  Speaker 1: but it's more tuner and sport a little smaller vehicles
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  Speaker 1: and not necessarily aimed at at the NASCAR type enthusiasts,
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  Speaker 1: but more of a tuner type enthusiasts, you know, small
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  Speaker 1: cars with lots of power and drift brakes and things
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  Speaker 1: like that.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I will say our family has driven a Toyota
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  Speaker 3: Highlander for years, like that's yeah.
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  Speaker 2: They their favorite.
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  Speaker 1: They're they're awesome and they you know, the the great
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  Speaker 1: thing about Toyotas is that, you know, how they retain
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  Speaker 1: their resale value.
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  Speaker 2: They it's it just blows my mind out much more.
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  Speaker 1: They maintain their value over time and well maintained Toyota.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I was a driving in the last few
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  Speaker 1: days a tunder of about one hundred and thirty five
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  Speaker 1: thousand miles that was involved in a recall, got a
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  Speaker 1: brand new engine installed in it. When Toyota steps up
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  Speaker 1: when there's a problem, they really do.
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  Speaker 2: Fix ahead of it. But I've been driving it to
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  Speaker 2: make sure everything's good.
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  Speaker 1: It's a vehicle for us, but it is so nice
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  Speaker 1: and and it's uh.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like it'd be hard to part with.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, But lots of great stuff going on this month
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  Speaker 1: at the dealership.
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  Speaker 2: We are going to finish strong.
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  Speaker 1: I've been buying lots of cars and on their use
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  Speaker 1: for a used car lot and have a great selection
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  Speaker 1: now everything from from luxury vehicles to to older trucks
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  Speaker 1: and low cost vehicles.
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  Speaker 2: If you're looking for that, We've got still.
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  Speaker 1: Have some low interest rates and great lease deals out there,
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  Speaker 1: so you can check that out at our website at
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  Speaker 1: DUNGEUS Toyota dot com. And we have some great tools
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  Speaker 1: on there where you can uh unlock a special discount.
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  Speaker 1: You can go in and play with the rebates and
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  Speaker 1: incentives to you know, if you have a question, okay,
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  Speaker 1: well what is the what is a lease payment versus
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  Speaker 1: a traditional loan? A lot of times they are less,
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  Speaker 1: but you can compare that right there on the using
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  Speaker 1: your information. So you put in your credit information. There's
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  Speaker 1: no credit poll or anything, so it's all you driving it.
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  Speaker 1: You get our Dunge just simple price and you're when
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  Speaker 1: you're ready for help, our non commissioned sales associates, the
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  Speaker 1: great team out there is ready to help you go
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  Speaker 1: forward with that.
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  Speaker 2: We love to you know if you start that way too.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: One of the great things is is we can kind
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: of take take it from there and keep going rather
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: than having to start over at the beginning process of
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: asking a lot of questions and figuring out what you're into.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: A lot of times people can narrow down there that
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: and it really is an opportunity to save a lot
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: of time. I did want to brag just a little
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: bit this week on the show. You know, Toyota does
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: an engagement survey with employees at Toyota dealerships all around
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: the country, and we participated in that this year, and
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: and it was amazing some of the results that we got.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just really proud of this, and I wanted to
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: mention it that, you know, one hundred percent of the
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: employees answered yes to these questions, so that answered that.
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  Speaker 1: The one hundred percent that answered the survey said we
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: place customers first in our decision making when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to offering products and services.
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  Speaker 3: That's amazing.
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  Speaker 2: Isn't that amazing?
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  Speaker 1: Our employees, you know, believe that, and that we provide
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  Speaker 1: transparency to customers regarding our pricing.
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  Speaker 2: You know, there's no games or gimmicks, and but it's
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: truly believed by our employees. So it happens every day
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  Speaker 2: that we care about our customers.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: That were committed to the success of our co workers matters.
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  Speaker 1: I sure though, and then this last one, I understand
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: how my work directly contributes to the overall seccess of
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  Speaker 1: the dealership. So not only do they care about their coworkers,
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: but they understand their impact on this thing. We've had
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: going here in Bartzoil for three generations.
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  Speaker 2: And I was just.
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  Speaker 3: Thinking, you need to add a question about whether or
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: not they see the impact that the dealership and the
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: work that they do has on their community.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I know.
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: That's when businesses support events and sponsor different things and
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: have nonprofits come and talk about, you know, their programs,
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: that has an impact. And you can only do that
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: because of the work that you're doing.
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  Speaker 2: That's totally true.
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  Speaker 1: And a lot of our team, you know, they do
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: get involved in those things and help us decide what
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  Speaker 1: to do. And because of our long term relationships with
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: so many things like the livestock show or the baseball
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: team we talked about and these this is so much
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  Speaker 1: a part of what we are and what we do
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: that they do.
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  Speaker 2: They do support it.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: They want to go to the events and participate and
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: represent and and you know, and that's that is I
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: think it's unique, you know, and that's and especially in
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: a car dealership. And I know their goal is to
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: be the best and to be the you know, and
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: that means you know, the best to us is that's
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: another thing. Toyota's theme is best in town and you know,
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: I think that's there's a lot of measures for that.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: I to me, it's it's more qualitative than quantitative, perhaps,
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: and you know, it has to do with the culture
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: and how our longevity and how the company supports its
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: employees and vice versa and uh, you know, and certainly
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: and being one of the best retail places to do
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: business and from a customer experience.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: More to view in the market. And they certainly felt
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: strongly about that too.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: We didn't quite get one hundred percent on that, but
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: but I think that's because they know we have you know,
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: there's always more to do and more and more to stretch,
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: and that we we want to be even better than we.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: Are today tomorrow.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: And I know that's what you know, a lot of
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: the themes on the radio show every week.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: And back to a ray of hope.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: And now you guys that safety in our community and
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: so important and let's so tell the folks that are
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: interested in more information about how to get more information
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: the website, anything any other ways to access.
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we're pretty active on social media, so if you
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: find us on Instagram or Facebook, you can follow a
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: lot of the different opportunities that we have to get
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: involved in real time.
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: Sometimes we'll put call to action to get donations for
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: our supply closet for failing crisis.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: You need to have a few things, Yeah, we've.
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: Got some things there. We make sure that the community
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: knows about our crisis line that's answered twenty four to
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: seven throughout the year.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: So that's a good point.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're not saying don't contact what we are saying if.
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: You share questions, if you need help, if you're not
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: sure what to do, we have a trained advocate who
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: answers that phone around the clock. And then you can
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: also visit our website to learn more about specific programs.
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: We have some education opportunities. If you would like to
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: learn more about how to recognize and report child abuse,
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: or if you want to better understand the domestic violence
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: dynamics and the impact that has on families, then we
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: have Yosi who Tom knows in our office and she
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: will come out and train any size group and help
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: them understand the role that we all have as a
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: community because just like those nonprofits in town are part
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: of that safety net, every single caring adult in our
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: community as part of the safety net for kids and families,
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: and we rely on neighbors and church members and family
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: and friends to help kids and families stay safe in
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: our community. And it's an important part of the work
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: that we do.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: That's awesome. And just to thank you for everything you do.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: I know it's a labor of love for you. You've
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: been doing that for twenty plus years.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: Congratulations on the twenty years.
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: We're very excited and we'll be doing not quite sure
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: yet what or when, but keep an eye out because
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: we're going to do something to really mark this twenty
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: years of SIRT good.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: Well, let us know on that and if people are
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: interested in helping, it's a great time to get your
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: sponsorships in.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: On the Ray of Hope. YETI party YETI are you
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: YETI to party?
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: Sixteenth Hops for Hope. So it's a kind of a
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: sweet sixteen party, it is. I guess I didn't get
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: the fund out I made about the party. I had
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: a sponsorship.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay, you've got different levels. Yeah, we've got.
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: Different levels going all the way up to presenting sponsor.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: And great shirts. This is one of the perks. So
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: you can remember your party absolutely.
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah. So if you sponsor, you get tickets and shirts
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: and lots of fun recognition. But one of the kind
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: of crazy things that's come out of this is everyone
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: loves the T shirts. One of the few long sleeve
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: T shirts.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: That's right.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: For years those road raced yes a long seat shirts
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: and recentponsored that and it was always a thing people.
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: Want to Yeah, so you don't always get a long
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: sleeve shirt at an event. And so anyway, it's been
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: a lot of fun and we're looking forward to celebrating
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: again this year.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: All right, Well, we'll be out there, and good luck
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: to your volunteers and as they get ready for the
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: event and everybody, let's get out there this weekend and
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: we're starting tomorrow night a big doubleheader for the DUNGEUS
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: Toyota Indians and the young men start their baseball.
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: Adventures for the summer here in town.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: They kicked it off last night, right I think, yeah,
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: two nights ago, and a couple of home games here
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: this weekend and then they're off for a few weeks
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: on tournaments and then they'll be back around. You can
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: check them out on Facebook too. Of course, SunFest is
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: right here this weekend and okay, Mozart next weekend, so
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: lots of stuff going on, and we'll be out there
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: at the dealership just a few new Toyotas away from
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: our goal. So if you are in the market, come
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: on out there, we'll put a deal together.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: It's a good time to buy. Used car values are
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: really high right now. We're at an.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: Interesting point now where the tariff stuff really impacted prices.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: Yet it has on some things like.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: Auto parts and stuff are in there right now, but
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: the cars that Toyota at least hasn't adjusted any pricing,
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: so there's no increases because of the anticipated price increases.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: Though.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: Use car values have crept up relatively high. So it's
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: a good time to trade. And if you want to
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: know your car's worth well, we can make an offer.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: Just bring it by, or you can go on our
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: website and do that too. We are part of the
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: Kelly Boubook instant cash offer. A lot of times we
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: can give one thousand to five thou more than the
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: instant cash offer. So that's the one way to definitely
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: just get started figure out what your car is worth
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: and all that can you can do at Dungeustoyota dot com.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: There's also manager specials there all are used cars. You
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: can schedule service appointments and get more information about the dealership.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: And so thank you again Rohnda for coming. I really
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: appreciate your time and learning more about what's going on
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: already for Hope.
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, thanks so much for inviting me.
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: This was fun.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you again and everything you do and hopefully
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: you can stay behind the scenes are.
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: And keep serving our Compeah.
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: Absolutely, that's our cool.
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Brad.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: Where can we find you well, of course at Dungestoyota
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: dot com or physically at nineteen eleven Southeast Washington Boulevard.
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: And I'll be out back out there in a few minutes.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: All right, folks, you've been watching and listening to our
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: car talk program right here on K one, the one
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: you rush.
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: Stay tuned. We've got news coming up.