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CAR TALK w Brad Doenges and The Lighthouse Outrech Center · One on One With a Professional

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  Speaker 1: That's what we're dealing with right now. It seems like
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  Speaker 1: they sell so fast I can't really keep them on
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  Speaker 1: the ground. But that's all right, that's good business. And
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  Speaker 1: we've got that. We are helping you guys with a
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  Speaker 1: little lunch and learn event here next week or two weeks,
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  Speaker 1: I guess, right, huh. And so that this is a
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  Speaker 1: cool event, I thought because of it, you know, really
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  Speaker 1: getting that in and seeing what happens in the center
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  Speaker 1: and meeting the people and putting a face on this
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  Speaker 1: issue and.
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  Speaker 2: The impact that you guys have on people's lives.
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  Speaker 3: It'll be July the twenty first to Thursday, from twelve
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  Speaker 3: o'clock to one o'clock.
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  Speaker 4: And we're calling it. I had no idea to her.
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  Speaker 3: And basically, people drive by the lighthouse and they have
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  Speaker 3: no idea what goes on there. And I like the
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  Speaker 3: fact that we do interactive. It's not like you tour
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  Speaker 3: an empty building and see what goes on and you
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  Speaker 3: can see it. You set and eat with the business
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  Speaker 3: and they're very open to share their stories and you
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  Speaker 3: get to realize what they've gone through and how God's
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  Speaker 3: working their life now. And so it's a very good time.
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  Speaker 3: I appreciate just sponsoring this one. We have different sponsors
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  Speaker 3: from time time to help pay for the meal, so
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  Speaker 3: we could be bringing about twenty thirty people in outside
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  Speaker 3: guests to serve the meal too, So looking forward to
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  Speaker 3: that with you guys.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you for sponsoring it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we're really proud to do that, you know. That's
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  Speaker 1: one of those things. A couple of weeks ago, I
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  Speaker 1: went to a Toyota meeting in Dallas and we did
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  Speaker 1: a lot of work on growing and what in the
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  Speaker 1: dealership environment, but we talked about the Toyota Way and
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  Speaker 1: there's a part of one of the four pillars of
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  Speaker 1: that is called gin Chi gimbutsu, which is go see
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  Speaker 1: and see what's really happening and you know, and get
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  Speaker 1: you know, put your walk in someone else's shoes a
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  Speaker 1: little bit and understand their perspective on things. And I
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  Speaker 1: think that lunch has got a lot of that in it.
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  Speaker 3: It's been very successful and over the years, Dungeas has
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  Speaker 3: helped us. We had years ago we had a fundraiser
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  Speaker 3: called Dancing for a Cause. Remember that we sponsored that
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  Speaker 3: at your showroom there and you spawdored it there and
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  Speaker 3: that was a fun time and then we bought cars
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  Speaker 3: from you.
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  Speaker 4: We bought two cars from you, and you're.
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  Speaker 3: Talking about the waiting list, you know, And this was
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  Speaker 3: back when cars were There was quite a long delay.
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  Speaker 4: And we had a grant to buy a van. And
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  Speaker 4: then a lady came into.
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  Speaker 3: The office a week before with a sizeable check from
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  Speaker 3: her dad's inheritance and she wanted to.
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  Speaker 4: Give it to us.
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  Speaker 3: I said, well, can I take part of that and
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  Speaker 3: buy a car, And so went out there and one
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  Speaker 3: day bought a car and a van and got him
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  Speaker 3: that week. And so it does happen. You can get
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  Speaker 3: quickly along with that. I saw Armadillergate Clark across.
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  Speaker 4: The miracles do happen.
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  Speaker 3: But the car gets it's a hybrid, gets fifty miles
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  Speaker 3: to gallon. Is a Toyota Corolla and an excellent car.
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  Speaker 3: And we bought the car because we take people out
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  Speaker 3: of town just we're smaller groups and so we needed that.
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  Speaker 3: And then we need a van to transport people here.
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  Speaker 3: And it's a hybrid. Also, it gets thirty.
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  Speaker 4: Six miles to gown.
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  Speaker 3: The hybrid about two years ago and we got eighty
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  Speaker 3: thousand miles already, so wet and it's been a great
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  Speaker 3: thing cut our gas expenses for the lighthouse significantly.
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  Speaker 4: We saw the next month a big drop in the
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  Speaker 4: gas expenses.
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  Speaker 1: We still have a lot of people a little skeptical
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  Speaker 1: of highbrid they're great, and you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, I do recommend you check it out. Getting fifty miles.
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  Speaker 4: To the gallon that's highway in town.
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  Speaker 2: There's a great, great experience.
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  Speaker 1: And my son drives a camera that gets fifty miles
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  Speaker 1: to the gallon.
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  Speaker 2: It's a wonderful car. And but thank you for that.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, so our relationship does go back
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  Speaker 1: a long time.
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  Speaker 2: The lighthouse has been around so long, tell us about.
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  Speaker 3: Nineteen ninety two, thirty three years now we've been serving
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  Speaker 3: the committee who've helped over five thousand people.
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  Speaker 4: And almost weekly I.
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  Speaker 3: Get a phone call or an email or see somebody
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  Speaker 3: in person. They used to live the lighthouse and now
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  Speaker 3: they got the life turned around. And so it's exciting
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  Speaker 3: to see we're not just feeding them for a few
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  Speaker 3: days and giving some clothes, but their lives are.
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  Speaker 4: Being changed and that's that's rewarding.
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  Speaker 3: And we appreciate the people of Bartlesville, businesses, individuals that
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  Speaker 3: give regularly and consistently.
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  Speaker 4: It really keeps us going, we couldn't do it without
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  Speaker 4: the help of the community.
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  Speaker 2: Well, so much happens like that in Borrows.
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  Speaker 1: Will to be honest and that all these many decades
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  Speaker 1: that you guys have been serving this community. But tell
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  Speaker 1: folks about what you guys do every day and how
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  Speaker 1: and if people need help, you know how this really happened.
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  Speaker 3: We provide first of all housing and a place for
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  Speaker 3: people to say. People can stay there for a night
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  Speaker 3: or two, or they can stay there for up to
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  Speaker 3: two or three years. And people say, well, why do
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  Speaker 3: they stay so long? Well, if you've been in addiction
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  Speaker 3: for twenty years, it's going to take a while to
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  Speaker 3: get out of that. And so and I'm excited. We're
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  Speaker 3: getting ready to start a new class on finances. Pat Moore,
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  Speaker 3: who as a financial advisor, has offered teach a class
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  Speaker 3: for us, and he is going to come and teach
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  Speaker 3: a class for us and help them with their savings
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  Speaker 3: and how to manage their money and help them because
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  Speaker 3: if a person quits their addiction but doesn't know how
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  Speaker 3: to manage their money, they're still in trouble. And so
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  Speaker 3: we're trying to help them. I told them in chapel
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  Speaker 3: the other day as I announced this new class. Next
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  Speaker 3: to getting saved, this will probably the most life transforming.
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  Speaker 4: Class you'll ever have here because if you can learn
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  Speaker 4: to manage them.
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  Speaker 3: We've got people living there on fixed incomes SSI checks.
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  Speaker 3: If they could manage it, they could live on it,
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  Speaker 3: but they aren't able to because they weren't taught how
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  Speaker 3: to manage their money.
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  Speaker 4: So it's going to be a very benefit.
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  Speaker 3: We're really encouraging all of our people to get a
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  Speaker 3: savings account because if you're living a light house, it
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  Speaker 3: costs you twenty percent of your income to stay there,
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  Speaker 3: but you've got eighty percent of disposed of income because
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  Speaker 3: most of everything's provided meals, laundry, all that, things like that.
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  Speaker 3: So you should be saving money while you're there, whether
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  Speaker 3: you have a job or just a jet coming in.
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  Speaker 3: So we're really trying to get them to get some money.
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  Speaker 3: SAI someone have somebody saved up.
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  Speaker 1: There's really a structure of successful and when they leave
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  Speaker 1: going forward so that they don't need your support. Yeah always, yeah, no,
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  Speaker 1: that's great. And how many people are typically there?
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  Speaker 4: Last night we had eighty three people there.
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  Speaker 3: That's in our main facility, and then we have three
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  Speaker 3: transitional houses where people move from there to the next
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  Speaker 3: step toward independence. And so we have eleven people living
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  Speaker 3: in those three facilities right now. So we're trying to
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  Speaker 3: meet the people's needs, and we're full right now. Almost
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  Speaker 3: every day we get a phone call or somebody come
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  Speaker 3: by wants a place to stay, and I say, well,
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  Speaker 3: keep checking with us, because we're full right now. We
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  Speaker 3: had a vagacy last night occur someone came this morning
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  Speaker 3: and filled it up, so it's very We're almost constantly full.
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  Speaker 2: That's amazing.
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  Speaker 1: And if people, I mean you must take an army
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  Speaker 1: of volunteers and people to get to make the meals
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  Speaker 1: and make all this happen.
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  Speaker 3: We have about twenty employees and most of them are
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  Speaker 3: residents who live there, and so they don't make near
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  Speaker 3: as much as you would they make somewhere else, but
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  Speaker 3: it's part of their ministry and paying back.
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  Speaker 4: And then we have a volunteers coming to classes for us.
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  Speaker 3: They do help with the meal preparation and so we
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  Speaker 3: have volunteers to help out there, and that's a very
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  Speaker 3: big important part.
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  Speaker 1: Sure it is, and you know that's great that the
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  Speaker 1: people staying there also good to work and get some
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  Speaker 1: of them.
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  Speaker 3: It's a very big boost of their self esteem, because
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  Speaker 3: if you've been going for job applicating job applications, you
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  Speaker 3: don't have the resource or their resume, you're gonna get
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  Speaker 3: turned down many times. And being turned down, even though
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  Speaker 3: they expect it, it hurts.
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  Speaker 4: And so some of them have.
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  Speaker 3: Said when I hired them to start working there, it
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  Speaker 3: really gave them a big boast and self esteem. And
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  Speaker 3: some of them continue to work there, some of them
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  Speaker 3: move on to another job later on. But just that
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  Speaker 3: being able to feel like you're giving back when you've
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  Speaker 3: taken or received and taken so much.
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  Speaker 2: All your life.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's great, great, and I love love that idea
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  Speaker 1: of building the responsibility and starting with the foundation of
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  Speaker 1: like you guys do, taking care of their basic needs
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  Speaker 1: and then building from there.
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  Speaker 2: That's that's outstanding.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, another one of the pillars of the
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  Speaker 1: Toyota Way is respect for people. And that's you know,
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  Speaker 1: that's certainly a lot of involved at.
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  Speaker 3: The Lighthouse, and they no idea to her helps build
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  Speaker 3: that respect for people because when you see somebody standing
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  Speaker 3: outside of a store with a sign will work for
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  Speaker 3: food or need help and in a bad situation, and
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  Speaker 3: they look very uncapped you have an opinion about them, sure,
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  Speaker 3: but when you get to meet with them, say, well,
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  Speaker 3: they've had three years of college, they have an addiction
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  Speaker 3: that took it all away, or they lost.
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  Speaker 4: Their family and now they're the only one.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of times I ask people on their enrollment form,
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  Speaker 3: I need a person to contact you in case something
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  Speaker 3: happens to you, and they have nobody to list. You know,
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  Speaker 3: you and I have probably one hundred people that will
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  Speaker 3: be notified if something happened to us. They have nobody
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  Speaker 3: or they have no contact.
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  Speaker 4: They know how to get in.
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  Speaker 2: Touch with them.
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  Speaker 3: So realize there are people just like us that have
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  Speaker 3: made some wrong choices and had some bad things happen
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  Speaker 3: in life.
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  Speaker 4: As you get to know them, you begin to gain.
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  Speaker 3: That respect for people, and you see there's a good
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  Speaker 3: person inside there that's heart and has trouble.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, how long have you been doing this ere.
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  Speaker 3: I've been the director since twenty fourteen, so I'm on
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  Speaker 3: my eleventh year.
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  Speaker 4: I guess it is.
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  Speaker 3: But I was on the board three different times and
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  Speaker 3: then started volunteering about thirty years ago. Our church did
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  Speaker 3: a meal once a month, and I did a sermon
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  Speaker 3: at the chapel and that's one way churches could get
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  Speaker 3: involved is sign up to do a meal once a month,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and if you'd about sixty people at that's.
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  Speaker 4: The meal and you get to sit eat with the
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  Speaker 4: people and you get to see them.
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  Speaker 3: Does it gives the church people an opportuny to do
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  Speaker 3: a mission without having.
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  Speaker 4: To have a passport to go out the country to
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  Speaker 4: do it. So it's a beautiful way.
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  Speaker 3: And there are some churches that really did a good
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  Speaker 3: job of interacting with the people there and it it
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  Speaker 3: relieves our budget tremendously because I think about eleven or
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  Speaker 3: twelve churches right now, and you know, there's enough church
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  Speaker 3: in town to every meal to be provided, and that'd
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  Speaker 3: be a great thing.
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  Speaker 4: So that's an oportunity for.
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  Speaker 3: Churches to get involved, to just sign up to do
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  Speaker 3: a meal once a month.
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  Speaker 2: That's awesome.
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  Speaker 1: I saw you had another fundraiser coming later this fall September.
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  Speaker 4: We've got a big one. It's called Impact five.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: It's our most aggressive campaign we've ever done. We're praying
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  Speaker 3: and expecting to raise one hundred thousand dollars. We'll have
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  Speaker 3: a silent auction. We have a special speaker coming, doctor Loggins,
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  Speaker 3: who's spoke at our thirtieth anniversary.
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  Speaker 4: Tremendous amount of god.
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  Speaker 3: Blake and Jenna Boulderjack will be bringing the music and
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  Speaker 3: it's gonna be top class. It's gonna be held at
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  Speaker 3: East Cross Church and we're really working.
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  Speaker 2: To it a get there.
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  Speaker 3: We have a silent Auction, Like I said, we're collecting
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  Speaker 3: items for that, and we've got one of the things
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  Speaker 3: on the siland is an airplane ride over Bartlesville for
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  Speaker 3: thirty minutes. A man from Bartle, from Blackwell, friend of
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  Speaker 3: mine who's a former Continental Airline pilot.
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  Speaker 2: He has a private plane he's gonna.
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  Speaker 3: Come and fly. Whoever buys is that package for a
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  Speaker 3: thirty minute fight over bartle Some fun things like that
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  Speaker 3: are being planned. We've got a two nights stay in
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  Speaker 3: Eureka Springs at a hotel there, and so we've got
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  Speaker 3: some other things coming up too. And that's the that's
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  Speaker 3: gonna be the thirteenth of thirteenth. Yeah, we've got Saturday night,
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  Speaker 3: the thirteenth of September at East Cross Church six Actually
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  Speaker 3: doors open at six so you can start rousing for
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  Speaker 3: the Silent Auction. You've got a great mc gonna be
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  Speaker 3: doing that for us. His name's Tom Davis. I don't
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  Speaker 3: ever heard of him. He's gonna be there sharing and
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  Speaker 3: keep the thing going smoothly. I appreciate that Tom very much.
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  Speaker 1: All right, come on, excellent time, good job. Now that's
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  Speaker 1: that's outstanding stuff. And you know there's an a a
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  Speaker 1: lot of other great stuff going on right now in
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  Speaker 1: bartlesviel And Rotary. On Monday, we had the kids come
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  Speaker 1: from Children's Musical Theater and and do the so quite
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  Speaker 1: a bit of the the whole.
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  Speaker 2: Final part of the show they're doing this weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Where they do base most of the songs in the
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  Speaker 1: show again and it's Joseph and the amazing technical or
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  Speaker 1: dream Coat. There were probably forty of them in there
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  Speaker 1: singing to us. It was outstanding. If if you've got time,
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  Speaker 1: it starts tonight and they've got matinee shows on the
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  Speaker 1: weekend and you can get more information at the Community
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  Speaker 1: Center and buy tickets to that. But if you, if you,
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  Speaker 1: I mean those who know Children's Musical Theaters is just
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  Speaker 1: such a great program here in town. So many kids
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  Speaker 1: get to learn a lot about performance and preparation for
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  Speaker 1: a big event, and some of them go on to
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  Speaker 1: be great artists and and they've got alumni now coming
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  Speaker 1: back to manage the program and to direct this performance,
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  Speaker 1: and I think it's a great story. And I mentioned
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  Speaker 1: that the Dungeons Toyota Indians are taking a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of time off this weekend, but they've got a big tournament,
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  Speaker 1: the World stam Usual World Series next week in Bartlesville
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  Speaker 1: and won the wings at tournament, and so the team actually,
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  Speaker 1: you know, really I think got much better this summer
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  Speaker 1: and we're looking forward to see how they play next
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  Speaker 1: week and going on to the state tournament later. So
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  Speaker 1: good good luck, John, and to the team. I know
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  Speaker 1: that you guys have been playing really hard. They're playing
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  Speaker 1: a lot of college teams this year and it's been
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  Speaker 1: really a challenge. But they won a lot of their
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  Speaker 1: last games and really started to put it together such
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  Speaker 1: that I don't know why the forfeits happened.
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  Speaker 2: But I guess that we were getting too good sometimes rain, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I did.
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  Speaker 1: I was looking at our new Toyota inventory that's just
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  Speaker 1: been some of it's.
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  Speaker 2: Rolling out every couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 1: With Toyota, we get allocation twice a month, and so
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  Speaker 1: we get you can now see about forty toyotas that
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  Speaker 1: are headed our way. There's all kinds of great stuff
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  Speaker 1: if you're looking for a land Cruiser, Sequaia rab for
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  Speaker 1: Camery Corolla, the Tacoma and Tundra. Of course, we've got
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  Speaker 1: lots of Tacomas and many more coming. We do really
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  Speaker 1: well with Tacoma in our area. We've got a really
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  Speaker 1: special limited edition one called the new the Trail Hunter Edition,
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  Speaker 1: which is a new trim level. It's got a lot
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  Speaker 1: of of it literally looks great, but it's got a
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  Speaker 1: lot of good stuff for people who like to go
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  Speaker 1: out and do stuff, whether it's fishing, camp and uh,
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  Speaker 1: just adventuring, paddle boarding.
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  Speaker 2: Whatever you do out there.
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  Speaker 1: This get you there and get you back erl You
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  Speaker 1: could use one for this weekend, I think coming up,
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  Speaker 1: couldn't you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the new all new four Runners out. We've got
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  Speaker 2: one of those on the ground. You know.
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  Speaker 1: One thing I noticed about the four runner is it's
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  Speaker 1: really you know, it's not as expected as expensive as
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  Speaker 1: it seems like a lot of vehicles are these days.
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  Speaker 1: It's four runners actually in there under the land Cruiser
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  Speaker 1: and the Sequalia. You can get a nice four by
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  Speaker 1: four four runner in the forty forty five thousand dollars range,
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  Speaker 1: which is really a great value right now, especially considering
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  Speaker 1: how all the toyotas retain their value and you know,
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  Speaker 1: maintain that resale value.
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  Speaker 2: Because they do have that great QDR reputation for really.
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  Speaker 1: Lasting a long time and being so well engineered and
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  Speaker 1: so that. But those that that resale value on the.
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  Speaker 2: Forerunner, I think the.
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  Speaker 1: Residual value after about three years is over seventy percent
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  Speaker 1: of its original value.
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  Speaker 2: So it's a really great uh.
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  Speaker 1: I means it makes sense from a financial point of view,
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  Speaker 1: just like supporting the lighthouse. And so I want to
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  Speaker 1: remind people of I have to lunch and learn. Is
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  Speaker 1: this something where you need to be invited or can
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  Speaker 1: people want to come?
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  Speaker 4: How does everyone is invited through the radio?
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: We send that postcard and just word of mouth, but
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: really need you to call in and tell us if
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: you're coming.
• 15:53
  Speaker 4: Just called the lighthouse number and there's nine one eight
• 15:55
  Speaker 4: three three six nine zero two five.
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  Speaker 2: I think that I got right here.
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: You don't call it that much nine three six nine
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: zero nine.
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: Sorry about that.
• 16:06
  Speaker 4: That's good, But let us know you're coming and watch
• 16:08
  Speaker 4: your name down.
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: So we have a list and usually have about twenty
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: twenty five people come and that and you know, we
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: can comment more if we need to. But it's been
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: great again done just providing the meal this time. I
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: appreciate that very much for your support of that.
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: Sure and you check it out also at Bartlesville Lighthouse
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: dot org and on Facebook and stuff like that.
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: You've got a great.
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: Website there which has all kinds of information about how
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: to access your services if you need help, and how
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: to support the organization of the history and.
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: All all that is there.
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: And you know, it cost us one thousand and seven
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: hundred eighty six dollars a day to run the lighthouse,
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: and that sounds like a lot of money, but that's
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: for eighty three people.
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: You divide that eighty three that's pretty cheap around twenty
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: dollars or less per person.
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: And providing meals, transportation to and from work to doctor's appointments,
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: we take them out of town if you've got to
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: go to Tulsa to a quarter appearents, and we do transport.
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: Our drivers start about five o'clock in the morning, we
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: run about ten o'clock and.
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: That's where these vehicles we got from or make a big.
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: Difference because they are hybrids. And we've had no trouble
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: with U's rather been great.
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: So I mean, and how how does that really work?
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: People get you help them get started and get their
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: job and hire them.
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: We help them, We help them to get jobs.
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: We've got case managers, two case managers for men and
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: one for ladies, and they help them get a job.
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: Some of them aren't able to get jobs, are on disability,
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: some of them are coming off of surgery or have
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: other issues that they aren't able to get jobs. And
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: so those we try to help them as much we can,
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: getting their other needs to taken care of. But if
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: they're employable, we try to get them to a job,
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: and we'll give them transportation. The first two weeks is
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: free and then we charge them twenty dollars a week
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: after that for get pick them up or take them
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: to work. And we've got several of them work at
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: ops and different places.
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: Some work at McDonald's.
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: And one of our former residents who will be speaking
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: at our Impact twenty twenty five as the manager of
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: one of McDonald's are in town, usually with the Lighthouse.
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: Now she's a manager of McDonald's and doing great.
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: So we do.
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: It's not a requirement to have a job while you're there,
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: but if you're employable, we try to a lot of
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: people get day work. We got people calls meet somebody
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: come and just rake our yard day. We have people
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: need to help build a fence, and so we send
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: people out of regulates. So if you've got work to
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: be done, need somebody to come help out with a job,
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: maybe maybe just two or three days, or maybe just
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: a day unloaded furniture from moving vantage with that were
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: willing to do that. We try to send out people
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: that represent as well, and we get a lot of
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: good reports and people saying the people you sent from
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: Lighthouse really did a good job.
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: So we want to help them by getting them some.
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: Temporary jobs like that, but also help the community by
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: getting someone to help them do and work they can
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: count on. So we try to work together with the
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: community and also with individuals to help them get work jobs.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: And you mentioned it costs seventeen hundred dollars a day
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: approximately to do this.
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: So where does that money come.
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: From, Well, it comes from individuals. We have people that
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: regularly donate money to us. We get from foundations for
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: perching the vehicles and property and things like that, and
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: very little operation expense comes from foundating. We get some
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: once in a while, some of them will dot designate
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: that way. And then we have a businesses that donate regularly,
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: some of them. Some churches put us in their budget regularly,
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: send us a check. Some churches maybe take an offering
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: once a year for us, and so we have something
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: like that. And then I was on the radio about
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: a month ago talking about our our needs we had
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: this summer because our income is down, but our expenses
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: were staying up there. And we got a check in
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: the mail for twenty thousand dollars from a former board
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: member just wanted to help us out.
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: So God is providing.
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: We've had a lot of people coming with a thousand
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: dollars checks lately or mailing to us. So our income
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: for June is better than last June and our expenses
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: are less than last year's. We had a really good
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: financial report this month, so we just need two more
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: of those during the summer to get through the week time.
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: But this big Impact.
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: Twenty twenty five will really help put us over because
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: we need about one hundred thousand dollars more per year
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: right now. Insurance went way up last year we were
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: canceled that we were out without insurance for about month.
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: The tornado came within a mile of us when we
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: were uninsured, so we really scrambled finally.
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: Got some of it good.
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: Oklahoma's hard to get injured now because all the weather problems,
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: so we were fortunate to even get somebody us about
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: twenty thousand more than it was a year before. So
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: God's really provided for us in a very special way.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: Has any big things on the horizon, any plans for
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: the future or anything else.
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: Well, we've done a lot of expansion with a couple
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: of houses transition houses in the last couple years, so
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: this is sort of a catch your breath year to
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: get caught up, finish up some things, and then we'll
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: launch out a big capital campaign, probably to build a
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: women's shelter right there on the property too, which be
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: a separate facility, separate dining hall, separate chapel, separate administration.
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: So that's our big plan in the future.
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: Which will free up about forty beds in the men's
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: door for the men in the doorm because they could
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: be used ladies rooms can now be for men then,
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: so that's a big thing coming up. But we're not
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: ready for that right now. We're just setting the plans
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: for it and getting anticipated. But right now it's sort
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: of a catch your breath and get things finished up,
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: get things because you can get some messed up going
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: they don't get anything finished. And it's one thing to
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: have a building project to get done almost done, and
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: then there's that last we're trying to finish up stuff
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: like that. And one thing we got we've got a
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: lot of firewood. We've been collecting firewood all summer long
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: and we have a lot of firewood for this fall,
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: and we're going to run some specials, probably a fire
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: special in firewood, a fire sale on firewood.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: And you mentioned your facility and expansion and such that
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: that it's on Hensley Froteen eleven West Hensley Boulevard. If
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: you've been out in that part of town, it's there's
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: a nice it's a nice area.
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: It is nice and we're helping the community because we've
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: bought three houses right there picking fixing them up.
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: One of the first one who bought was a drug house.
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: In fact, when I went to the police about it,
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: they said they needed a search one.
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: So I know the owner.
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: He's a Christian gave a call and he gave you a
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: search one they did shut the thing down and we
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: bought it the next day. And a lot of our
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: people at the residence used to buy their drugs there
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: at that house. So that tay Clanfon Communities buy the
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: neighborhood and clean it up.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: Well, your dynamic person, Errol, and I appreciate all your
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: service from Bartlesville.
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: And for the Lighthouse.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: I know that it's been a long time passion for you,
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: obviously being involved as a volunteer before and through the
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: ministry that you do and and it's uh, it's obviously
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: had an impact on thousands of people and it's a
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: great story to tell. And if you want to come
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: learn more, reach out to the Lighthouse and you can
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: come to one of their lunch and learns.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: You do these regularly about every six weeks, right, so if.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: You're this isn't just the one that's a one time thing,
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: but the next one is July twenty fourth at noon
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: out at the Lighthouse if you want to come and
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: and get more information about it and really kind of
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: and do the gin Chi Gimbutsu the Toyota Way. Yeah,
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: calls for which which is a great thing to do.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: Go and see what really happens where you know, and
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: don't just judge it from outside.
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: And I almost say I really done just support for
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: the community over the years.
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: Well thank you with the ball teams everything else you're doing.
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: You know, it's it's one thing to come in and
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: make money like an outside dealers, you have no community.
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: Involvement, but you guys are here and you're part of
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: the community.
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: Well that's that's why we do it.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: Appreciate it. That's the legacy. Truthfully, it's not about making money.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: It's about the impact we have with our employees.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: In the community.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: And you know it's not we're not maybe doing it
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: the same way you do it. It's the Lighthouse, I
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: think that it's trying to we're trying to do it
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: in a similar way. And and uh, we certainly take
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: great pride in helping you guys at the Lighthouse and
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: and and all of Artlesfield. That's thinking real passion of
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: ours the whole. We are family business where we might
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: might you know, there's family all over the places, and uh,
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: you know it's a we're small in the car big
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: car business now and times are changing, but we we
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: keep doing it really just because we love the community
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: and and love to our customers and our employees and
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: and Bartlesville, you know. So it's a it's a great
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: place we live. Folks, don't take it for granted. It's
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: only here because of what what we make and and
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: and it just shows through things like the lighthouse and
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: the and the support you guys get from the community
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: through all these years and UH and so many other
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: organizations too.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: So thank you for what you do. Eryl. And so
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: if you are in need.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: Of a vehicle this summer, come check out our new toyotas.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: We've got to gret a great selection. Our our team
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: of noncommissioned salary sales professionals are out there to help
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: help you buy a car in a simple way with
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: a lot of transparency and and really just want to
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: help you through that process. That's real consistent too, I
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: think with how we treat the community and try to
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: impact that put that into the sales prost to process too.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: It is all about trust and relationships we build UH
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: in today's world, and.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: So that's a lot of the theme of the show too.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: So to all of you listening out there, thank you
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: for that, And I guess what else is going.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: On now We've got I'm getting ready to go on vacation,
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: that's one thing. So I don't know what Jason's got
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: cooked up for next.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: Week out.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: We'll see, but yeah, it's if you want to come
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: talk out the dealership.
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: I'll be back out there in a little bit.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: And like I mentioned, we've got a lot great selection toytos,
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: new and used vehicles. Working on a lot of great
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: new stuff at the dealership too. That will happen over
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: the next few weeks. More good technology that I like
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: to do that makes things go faster and smoother this time,
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: and starting in service with a new service write up system,
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: so they're going to have Apple iPads be able to
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: go to your vehicle and actually do the ride up there,
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: maybe do it inside when it's hot, we can move
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: it and move the proper us into the air conditioned
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: showroom without having to do it on the service drive.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: It'll all link to the appointment system online and our scheduler.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: So these things used to be kind of separate things,
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: the website thing and the scheduler, and then they how
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: they dispatch the work to the shop. Now they're all
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: combined to do one program. It should be much more
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: efficient for customers and for us, make it faster, quicker,
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: easier to do business. Same kind of stuff coming in sales.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: In the next month or two, we'll have a whole
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: new digital what they call digital retailing tool on the
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: website where you can not that people actually buy their
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: car online, but they can actually get a lot of
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: it done where you know the payment.
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: Calculations, trade valuation.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: Pretty much all of the questions can be answered on
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: multiple vehicles with all the incentives and all that.
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: So we'll talk about that on a future show.
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: Where can we find you.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: Well at dungeustoileter dot com out on at nineteen eleven
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: Southeast Washington Boulevard.
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: We'll be out there in a little bit.
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: All right, folks, you have been watching and listening to
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: Car Talk with Brad Dungeons right here on K one,
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: the one you trust.