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CAR TALK with Brad Doenges and George Halkiades · 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 2: It is Thursday, time for card talk with Brad Dunderson
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Speaker 2: DoD just to you. Good morning, Brad, Good morning Tom.
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Speaker 1: How are you today?
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Speaker 2: Wonderful Dodge and rain drops just like everybody else, he.
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Speaker 1: Said, it's not raining too hard at this point. They
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Speaker 1: will get some later.
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Speaker 3: Got my good friend George hockey Itis here today. Welcome George.
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Speaker 3: Thank you, Rad. Glad to be here. It's great to
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Speaker 3: have you back again. A few things we can talk
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Speaker 3: about young scholars and see, I don't know, does friends
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Speaker 3: indeed have anything going on this time of year?
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Speaker 1: No, no, no, it's just I'm resting for that. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's oh, young young scholars at Barlin. It's where I'm
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Speaker 1: spinning my efforts now. Yeah, Tom, about that. We're interviewing
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Speaker 1: youngsters for coming into the program for next year. Next year, yep.
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Speaker 1: And because of that, we're now looking for mentors. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: we're going to need a couple of males and four
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Speaker 1: female mentors. So okay, that's what our need right now.
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Speaker 1: Is that's awesome. My wife Kimberly is one. Yeah, sure,
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Speaker 1: and oh yeah, she really gets a lot out of it.
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Speaker 3: She enjoys her time with her a little And it's
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Speaker 3: part of the Big Brothers Big Sisters program, but enhanced
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Speaker 3: and it kind of puts these young people on pathway
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Speaker 3: to college and careers.
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Speaker 2: And yet scholarships available.
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Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, we've had twenty seven students go through the
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Speaker 1: program and become a college graduates now and so and
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Speaker 1: we've had so many now that are in the program
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Speaker 1: in some manner, you know, they're in the high school
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Speaker 1: or in college and so. Uh. And it's not just
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Speaker 1: handing out scholarship, No, it's a.
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Speaker 2: Matter of a lot of work.
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Speaker 1: The kids. They you know, what we always say is
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Speaker 1: what we're preparing them for is success in life. And
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Speaker 1: that's the that's the idea. It's not just getting a college.
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Speaker 2: In my opinion, that's what college is about.
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Speaker 3: I think you know that there's sure been a lot
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Speaker 3: of press about colleges recently, and I know that a
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Speaker 3: lot of them are under stress with.
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Speaker 2: Changes in the world.
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Speaker 3: And we were out at Trick County a few weeks ago,
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Speaker 3: and you've got you know, those kinds of options where
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Speaker 3: you're really uh, you know, tech schools are great and
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Speaker 3: they you know, if if you're but sometimes people don't
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Speaker 3: know what they want to do. And college is a
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Speaker 3: great way to go learn how to learn, and and
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Speaker 3: you know, and you never know what it will lead to.
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Speaker 3: I was an English major in college, and and I
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Speaker 3: use English every day, but I don't, you know, I
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Speaker 3: don't necessarily write papers anymore. And it's a you know what,
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Speaker 3: all those things I learned, really, I know, I know
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Speaker 3: I do use them every day.
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Speaker 2: And you know what, did you know what you were
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Speaker 2: going to do when you went off to college?
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Speaker 1: Well you had a different kind of Yeah. I actually
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Speaker 1: before I went to college, I wanted to be in television,
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Speaker 1: behind the scenes, behind the scenes. I wanted to be
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Speaker 1: a technical director. But a cousin of mine that said, well,
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Speaker 1: you you should go become an electrical engineer, but then
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Speaker 1: you can go in television. Well I went and got
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Speaker 1: a degree in electrical engineer and never went into television
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Speaker 1: when and came to work for Phillips And well, that's
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Speaker 1: that's my point.
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Speaker 2: And sometimes he's a winding path life.
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Speaker 3: It's good to have some options, I think exactly college,
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Speaker 3: that's that's interesting.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, it's and young scholars. We did.
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Speaker 3: We had a big event a couple of weeks ago
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Speaker 3: or I mean it's probably a couple of months ago
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Speaker 3: now one of your big fundraisers and uh, you know
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Speaker 3: that's such a cool event because you get to hear
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Speaker 3: from the the one of the graduates from the program
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Speaker 3: and uh kind of celebrate the whole situation. And for
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Speaker 3: people who don't know, this is a low family, uh
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Speaker 3: program that started uh.
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Speaker 2: Exactly by by the low Lord bottlesills.
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Speaker 3: Low Family created a scholarship fund and now it's known
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Speaker 3: as Young Scholars And you know, I think it it's
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Speaker 3: just one of it's a great, great program.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Mary and Karen Lowe started the program and taken
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Speaker 1: off from there and it's uh now run by a
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Speaker 1: board and we have you know, like say it partners
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Speaker 1: with Big Brother Big Sisters. They do the front end
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Speaker 1: of the finding, helping us with the mentors. And then
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Speaker 1: I say, we recruit mentors and we have volunteers, a
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Speaker 1: lot of volunteers help us. And then we recruit families
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Speaker 1: and the students and work with the kids, and we
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Speaker 1: partner with several organizations helping with volunteer in different events around.
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Speaker 2: In fact, the students.
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Speaker 1: Will be have been helping out like Kitty Park cleaning
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Speaker 1: up at Kitty Park. There'll be one of events later on.
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Speaker 1: They'll be helping with pack the backpacks and different things
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Speaker 1: of that nature. And our goal is to teach our
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Speaker 1: youngsters to give back to the community in whatever manner
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Speaker 1: they can.
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Speaker 3: Well, you're certainly a great example of that, i'lso I'll
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Speaker 3: just say, George, for all the things you support and
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Speaker 3: your continuous efforts to make Bartlesill a great place to
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Speaker 3: live and grow up.
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Speaker 1: And Martinville is a great place.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I know that's why you do it.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, but you had mentioned it's that time of year
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Speaker 3: where you're going through the the bringing the kids on
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Speaker 3: board that may to enter the program next year. When
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Speaker 3: does what is the age of those when you start
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Speaker 3: bringing them into the program.
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Speaker 1: We start with basically sixth graders, and they can sixth
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Speaker 1: graders through around tenth graders and so, and generally we
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Speaker 1: try to focus on the younger age because we would
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Speaker 1: like for them to be in the program. A little
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Speaker 1: longer they are in the program, the better off, because
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Speaker 1: they can experience more going through some of the classes
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Speaker 1: that we have, classes on finance and different programs like that.
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Speaker 3: It's more than just school and mentoring. You actually did
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Speaker 3: some foundational exactly. Yeah, we have programs such as like say,
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Speaker 3: they learn about budgeting and financing, and then we work
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Speaker 3: with now what usual the West Side Community Center with
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Speaker 3: the program.
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Speaker 1: Out there too. They learn about things such as how
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Speaker 1: to set a table and how to you know, properly
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Speaker 1: e that you know, in manners and interview and things
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Speaker 1: of this nature. So there's all these types of things.
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Speaker 1: Like to say, the goal is we prepare them to
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Speaker 1: get ready to go to college and then be successful
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Speaker 1: in college. Our students, you know, a lot of students
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Speaker 1: when they go to college, the success rate we've measured
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Speaker 1: this is somewhere around ten percent the college go go
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Speaker 1: kids go to college, it's like ten percent they make it,
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Speaker 1: you know. Left about that ours is seventy five percent.
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Speaker 1: That's you know, when our kids go there, they're successful.
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Speaker 1: They graduate and not.
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Speaker 3: Only planning that yeah, for a long time, Yeah, and
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Speaker 3: for years working towards that goal, and you know, and
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Speaker 3: without that, they maybe they you know, they don't know,
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Speaker 3: you know, what the opportunities are they may not have,
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Speaker 3: that may not be something they end up doing.
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Speaker 1: And not only that, the vast majority of our students
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Speaker 1: when they graduate, they graduate with little or zero debt
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Speaker 1: because they're getting scholarships through our program. Yes, but we're
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Speaker 1: working with them to get other scholarships because they're you know,
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Speaker 1: we don't give them the one hundred percent of their funding,
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Speaker 1: but we work with them to get other scholarships. So
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Speaker 1: we're constantly pointing out other scholarships they can get and so,
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Speaker 1: and they can get scholarship through our program to either R.
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Speaker 1: S u Okwu or OSU. Now we do have some
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Speaker 1: other scholarship money. If they decide they didn't gon't want
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Speaker 1: to go to those three schools, they go to other schools,
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Speaker 1: but the money that we have available is limited if
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Speaker 1: they go to any other school. And people ask, well
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Speaker 1: why only those three schools for those are where we
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Speaker 1: have endowments. The individuals have funded endowments there. And if
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Speaker 1: someone wants to come up with some endowment funds at
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Speaker 1: other universities, who you have, happy to do that, but
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Speaker 1: that's where endowment funds are located.
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Speaker 3: Now that's so cool, and that's another one of these
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Speaker 3: things that started here in Borrosville and somebody's idea and
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Speaker 3: their passion for children, and now it's you've got, like
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Speaker 3: I said, twenty seven graduates and how many people kids
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Speaker 3: are in the program and right around the avenue all.
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Speaker 1: Told, there's like one hundred and ten between high school
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Speaker 1: and college in the program them right now. That's amazing. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's really good.
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Speaker 3: So are there any other requirements they you know, where
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Speaker 3: they live.
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Speaker 1: They have to be a part of our books. They
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Speaker 1: have to be in the Bartletill school school system. Right
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Speaker 1: now we're we're limiting the Bartlefield School system. And that's
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Speaker 1: simply because, uh you know, our program of funding and
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Speaker 1: the mentoring side of it, that's just it's tough to.
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Speaker 2: Mentoring.
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Speaker 1: You know. We've talked about maybe in the future we
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Speaker 1: could expand the program. But that's good. Some more money.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it is a you know, I know it's always
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Speaker 3: a struggle with nonprofits and organizations like this. The fundraising
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Speaker 3: is a is a never ending thing. It's got to
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Speaker 3: go on throughout the year. You're wanting one event, can't
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Speaker 3: raise all that the money you need. And uh so
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Speaker 3: if people are inspired by this reach out and what's
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Speaker 3: the best way to be involved. I mean you mentioned volunteers.
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Speaker 3: We know that fundrate funds are needed.
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Speaker 1: Always, yes, and we have a website and they can
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Speaker 1: go to the website UH and.
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Speaker 2: And the search for Young Scholars of Bartlesville.
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Speaker 1: It's easy to find. Lot of the.
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Speaker 3: Students juggle being in school and doing all their like
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Speaker 3: schoolwork or for work and.
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Speaker 1: Then also do all the activities and skills that you
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Speaker 1: guys are in groups. Well, typically they have four volunteer
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Speaker 1: events that they do a year and four quarterly meetings.
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Speaker 1: These are on Saturdays, and we schedule them and they
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Speaker 1: know about them, and we work with them and schedule
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Speaker 1: them so that they and if they conflict with like
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Speaker 1: band UH, we work with them on that they get
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Speaker 1: extra used from from our events if if they if
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Speaker 1: they conflict with school events, but we try to work
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Speaker 1: with them so that they h you know, we can
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Speaker 1: schedule around some of their other events. But that's one
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Speaker 1: of the things that when they're interviewed, it's understood, you
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Speaker 1: know that they have those UH commitments that they have
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Speaker 1: to make to the program when they join. So you know,
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Speaker 1: they just have to understand that that those are some
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Speaker 1: things they have to do if they're going to be
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Speaker 1: part of the program. That's part of the learning process. Yes, yes,
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Speaker 1: and so you know they may have to give up
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Speaker 1: some other UH something that they don't you know, maybe
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Speaker 1: they don't want to do or something like that, but
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Speaker 1: this is important and it's important to their life. So
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Speaker 1: that's part of a different.
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Speaker 3: Experience the mintors and the participants also, they they developed
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Speaker 3: these relationships and a lot of I think a lot
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Speaker 3: of times there's a lot more going on where they're
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Speaker 3: getting together, going to you know, if you're on a
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Speaker 3: sporting team or on a band, you know, the mineral
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Speaker 3: go to those things that you know, the mintors will
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Speaker 3: invite them to things they have going on. I mean,
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Speaker 3: it becomes a real relationship and and over years and
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Speaker 3: and you know, kind of gives you that that that
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Speaker 3: outside support, knowing and and from someone you know that
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Speaker 3: just as investing in in your life, and that that's
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Speaker 3: for some kids. That's a that's really important, I think.
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Speaker 1: And that's an important part of this is what the
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Speaker 1: mentor brings to the program, especially in the as the
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Speaker 1: student becomes, you know and close to their senior year.
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Speaker 1: They can help. You know, we're talking about students that
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Speaker 1: their parents maybe never went to college, so they get
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Speaker 1: to learn, oh what about filling out the forums about
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Speaker 1: going to college and all that. But the other is
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Speaker 1: the uh, they you know, they get to see a
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Speaker 1: mentor in their social life seeing oh with what they're doing,
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Speaker 1: you know, I you know, they can get to go
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Speaker 1: see them and maybe working at Conical Phillips or working
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Speaker 1: at Dungeons or you know, Toyota or I can see
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Speaker 1: them doing something like that and I want to do
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Speaker 1: those kind of jobs. And so they get to experience
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Speaker 1: real life. And so that's another part of the mentor
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Speaker 1: student relationship. And that's that's what we want want them
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Speaker 1: to experience. You know, they get to see something beside
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Speaker 1: just their parents. Okay, and we'll get me wrong.
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Speaker 2: It's good, you know, good.
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Speaker 1: To have that parent relationship, but a lot of time
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Speaker 1: there may be a single parent. So they get to
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Speaker 1: see another side of life. So that's that's what we're
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Speaker 1: looking for with the mentor.
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Speaker 3: How do you find the participants? Are they recruited or
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Speaker 3: do they come to you? I mean the mentors. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: this is part of it right now.
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Speaker 1: We're trying to get the word out any way we can.
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Speaker 1: We we're constantly recruiting mentors. Were spread the word as
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Speaker 1: best we can. We're out there any event that we
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Speaker 1: have our fundraiser where we're out there in the community
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Speaker 1: constantly talking about the need for mentors. We joke about it.
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Speaker 1: Anytime we're out there we see someone, we grab them
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Speaker 1: by the arm and say, don't you want to be
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Speaker 1: a mentor? But I'm joking aside it. Really it's not
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Speaker 1: a major commitment. We tell people we're talking about a
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Speaker 1: few hours a month, quite frankly, and it's not a
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Speaker 1: major commitment. And the amazing thing about it is when
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Speaker 1: and just like your wife will tell people after they've
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Speaker 1: done it, they'll say they've gotten more out of it
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Speaker 1: than they put into it. And this is the any
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Speaker 1: of us have been around kids will say the same thing.
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Speaker 1: You know, it's more of a receiving than it is
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Speaker 1: a giving kind of thing.
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Speaker 3: So it's a shared experience and it's something that both
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Speaker 3: sides get a lot out of I think it is.
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Speaker 1: So it's a you know, uh so that's that's what
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Speaker 1: we constantly and we you know, will go to different
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Speaker 1: organizations and businesses and have you know, recruiting efforts to
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Speaker 1: try to find mentors whatever it can. And again we're
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Speaker 1: working with big brothers, big sisters, you know, they are
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Speaker 1: doing the same thing and they will say, well, hey,
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Speaker 1: we found someone that will better suited for what you're doing,
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Speaker 1: you know, because we're both doing the same thing. It's
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Speaker 1: a great partnership to come to exactly. Yes, I think.
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Speaker 1: And by the way, I'm on the board a big
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Speaker 1: brothers the state board, so I know you are involved
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Speaker 1: in so many things.
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Speaker 3: We're members of the new Rotary Club together, longtime friends
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Speaker 3: and the Rotary Club.
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Speaker 1: And you know.
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Speaker 3: That's a great organization that a lot of people don't
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Speaker 3: really understand how how powerful.
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Speaker 1: It is around the world.
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Speaker 3: I mean thousands of members around the world in each
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Speaker 3: but really local too. It's it's it's one of those
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Speaker 3: things where it's both just you know, we get to
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Speaker 3: lunch every week and break bread together and develop those relationships.
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Speaker 3: But then the impact of the organization is as scale
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Speaker 3: that you just can't imagine when you're there, and and
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Speaker 3: the programs every week we learn something new.
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Speaker 1: About stuff going on in the community around here. And
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Speaker 1: some of our members tonight are going to be helping
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Speaker 1: serve dinner for bridges out of poverty.
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Speaker 3: The same type thing volunteering continues right as an adult.
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Speaker 3: And and I mentioned your role in Friends indeed, uh,
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Speaker 3: you know, which is another one of those unique Bartlesville things.
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Speaker 3: Or and folks who don't know, and we're it's we're
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Speaker 3: six months away from it. Yeah, I doubt if you've
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Speaker 3: started preparing yet. You haven't called me for turkeys yet?
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Speaker 1: No, Yeah, about another month and I will start starting
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Speaker 1: to do it a little bit of ground.
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Speaker 3: It's a it's a free uh Christmas dinner for anyone
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Speaker 3: in the community.
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Speaker 1: You just show up.
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Speaker 3: They'll take you the dinner to your home if you
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Speaker 3: can't get there.
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Speaker 2: And there's volunteers, uh.
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Speaker 3: But were providing the food, providing the meals, so cooking
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Speaker 3: the food, uh, you know, serving the food.
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Speaker 2: You know, it's a sit down dinner. It's a it's
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Speaker 2: a really really great.
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Speaker 3: Program and on real real China out on it's a
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Speaker 3: it's a it's a true Christmas dinner and the spirit of.
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Speaker 1: Christmas friends, indeed Christmas Day dinner and some Christmas Day
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Speaker 1: I always because that's the first question people always ask me. Now,
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Speaker 1: what day is it? Home?
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Speaker 3: And I know I mentioned Try County earlier. You're also
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Speaker 3: on the board out there. I'm not mistaken.
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Speaker 1: We just had graduation tuesday. We had we went close
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Speaker 1: to Career Fair a few weeks ago and had a
21:21
Speaker 1: booth there. Got to meet all.
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Speaker 3: Out great, great folks and it's such a I mean,
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Speaker 3: there's so many programs going on at Trick County now
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Speaker 3: and so many adults and young folks, and I mean,
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Speaker 3: it is a wonderful school here in Mallsville.
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Speaker 1: People just you know, it's a.
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Speaker 3: And it's uniquely situated, the oldest school of its type
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Speaker 3: in our state and doesn't doesn't I learned at Broadary
21:52
Speaker 3: last week that it doesn't take federal funding and it's
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Speaker 3: pretty much all locally funded, much from your endowments and
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Speaker 3: from local UH sponsorships.
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Speaker 1: And so that's that makes it even more unique.
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Speaker 3: So, but not to stray too far from from the
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Speaker 3: youth of our community and what's going on with that.
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Speaker 3: If you're interested in mentoring or working with the in
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Speaker 3: this program we were talking about, to reach out to
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Speaker 3: the organization on the website, or you can called Gianna.
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Speaker 3: You know, she's she's the executive director of the program.
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Speaker 1: UH and UH.
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Speaker 3: Or if you have a young person who might be
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Speaker 3: suited for that or or you want to get them involved,
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Speaker 3: how does that work?
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Speaker 1: They contact you young scholars and yeah, always and you know,
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Speaker 1: we primarily we work through the school system. They're the
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Speaker 1: ones that let us know. But if any parent that's
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Speaker 1: interested can contact us, and yes, absolutely, any from sixth
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Speaker 1: grader through tenth graders just let us know and we'll
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Speaker 1: we'll always listen to you and really interesting. Any Bartlefield student, Yes,
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Speaker 1: well I know.
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Speaker 3: Another thing I know about you is you have a
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Speaker 3: RAP four and we have a brand new RAP for
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Speaker 3: and they've been really hard to get. They're starting to
23:30
Speaker 3: become more available now. We just got four in an
23:33
Speaker 3: allocation and I wanted to explain to people how this
23:37
Speaker 3: is working. If you've been have you've seen the vehicle,
23:40
Speaker 3: the commercials are out there. Twitter is really intentional about
23:44
Speaker 3: releasing new product. They don't want to They want to
23:47
Speaker 3: make sure it's perfect, and so they don't release them
23:51
Speaker 3: in volume until they go through a whole bunch of
23:54
Speaker 3: quality checks. And they're starting to build an allocation. Our
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Speaker 3: region got over two thousand of them and this allocation
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Speaker 3: we're getting this week, and we our share was for
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Speaker 3: not huge, but those four are available. We'll get details
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Speaker 3: on those probably later today, so we'll start to know
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Speaker 3: the trim levels and the different options they have. And
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Speaker 3: this happens every two weeks, so as these build now
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Speaker 3: we're going to have some availability. We get a lot
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Speaker 3: of people wanting to come and drive them and experience
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Speaker 3: the new vehicle.
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Speaker 2: Unfortunately they've all been sold.
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Speaker 3: Before they've really reached the dealership at this point, but
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Speaker 3: you know, we're working on that. Hopefully as the allocation increases,
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Speaker 3: we'll be able to have some in stock for you
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Speaker 3: to come experience. But our sales team can really help
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Speaker 3: you work through that even if you're not ready to
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Speaker 3: commit to purchase the vehicle. There's a process where we
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Speaker 3: can go by and what they call preference the vehicle
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Speaker 3: and kind of set it up the way you might
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Speaker 3: I like it. So we're happy to help you with
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Speaker 3: that process and if we as goes from preferencing to
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Speaker 3: pipeline trades and other ways to get that perfect vehicle
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Speaker 3: for you. So don't be frustrated if you're looking for that.
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Speaker 3: We've got great Toyota selection on the ground and vehicles
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Speaker 3: coming now. I think about fifty two of them either
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Speaker 3: on the ground or allocated to us at this point,
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Speaker 3: and like I said, we'll get several Another allocation become
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Speaker 3: visible tomorrow or later today, and it'll happen again at
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Speaker 3: the beginning of June, and it happens every two weeks,
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Speaker 3: So just reach out to our team. They're happy to
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Speaker 3: walk through you with that if there's something special year after.
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Speaker 3: As a small dealer, there's no way we can stock everything,
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Speaker 3: even in a perfect situation. And we're always working for
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Speaker 3: our customers to make that purchase experience be be great
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Speaker 3: and you know, simple, uh, transparent, fun to buy a car.
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Speaker 3: We say and uh and that you know that's our
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Speaker 3: goal is to help help you buy a car and
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Speaker 3: in a very great way. Our noncommissioned sales team and
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Speaker 3: our sales management or are really focused on taking care
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Speaker 3: of you. We don't have a doc fee or any
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Speaker 3: dealer add ons. We we've we just try to keep
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Speaker 3: it as simple so that way when you're if you
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Speaker 3: look online or see an ad, the prices the same
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Speaker 3: there as it is in the showroom or or in
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Speaker 3: any any process we make.
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Speaker 2: And I know that's working were We continue.
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Speaker 3: To get more and more great reviews and our sales
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Speaker 3: are up quite a bit this year as we lean
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Speaker 3: into being Toyota specific and only having the Toyota brand
26:53
Speaker 3: has been a great move for us. With almost a
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Speaker 3: one hundred years of our family selling cars in Oklahom
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Speaker 3: really proud of that, and we're just excited to help you.
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Speaker 1: If you are interested in.
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Speaker 3: A Toyota or a great used car, we've got a
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Speaker 3: great used car selection as well, and always looking to
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Speaker 3: buy used cars. If you have something you're looking at,
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Speaker 3: an extra vehicle, or even if you're buying somewhere else,
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Speaker 3: give us a shot. We'll make the best deal we
27:26
Speaker 3: can to purchase your vehicle. And so anyway, let's we
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Speaker 3: want more time with young scholars is what you want
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Speaker 3: to search for Young scholars of Bartlesville. If you're interested
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Speaker 3: in either mentoring or if you have a young person
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Speaker 3: between sixth and tenth grade that might be interested in
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Speaker 3: the program, reach out. And I thank you George for
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Speaker 3: coming on again, and thank you great guests, and for
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Speaker 3: all the things you do for Bartlesville.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you for well need me here,