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CAR TALK w BRAD DOENGES and Hopestone Cancer Support Center · One on One With a Professional

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  Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning, welcome, welcome, welcome, and
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  Speaker 1: he is at time now for our car Talk program
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  Speaker 1: with it Brad Dungeons from Dungeons to good morning, Brad,
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  Speaker 1: how are we doing today.
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  Speaker 2: Asked a loaded question. Yeah, I don want to talk
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  Speaker 2: about it. I don't thank you, Thank you everyone for
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  Speaker 2: joining us. I'm glad you're here with us today. We'll
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  Speaker 2: get changed subject out. We don't have to change our password.
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  Speaker 3: To do this too. No passwords, no security measures.
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  Speaker 2: That's driving in. The Geese seem to have taken over Bartlesville.
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  Speaker 2: There's a couple crossing the road with their two new babies,
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  Speaker 2: and and after your morning, there's.
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  Speaker 4: There.
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  Speaker 2: And then we've had them in our neighborhood too. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know that that was kind of unusual. They're walking
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  Speaker 2: around in the different yards and I haven't seen them
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  Speaker 2: nesting up yet. But then there were two at first,
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  Speaker 2: and then a couple of days later there were four.
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  Speaker 2: So they're around. I'm sure quite where they've settled down.
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  Speaker 3: Hopefully not in your yard.
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  Speaker 2: No, that would be I hear that's not good. But
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't appear there in our yard. But last year
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  Speaker 2: we had them at the dealership.
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  Speaker 3: They were that would coming.
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  Speaker 2: Up every year onto the on the pad, will go
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  Speaker 2: through our gardens and then down in the little between
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  Speaker 2: the dealership and the road that there's a ditch with
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  Speaker 2: a nice tall grass in it, and he would watch
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  Speaker 2: her eat. And then you know were behind the walgreens,
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  Speaker 2: there's a nice pond. I think they like they like that,
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  Speaker 2: and then I guess our grass was extra tasty.
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  Speaker 1: So it's always greener on the other side side.
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  Speaker 2: And then we have Earth Day yesterday, Yes, that is
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  Speaker 2: good day.
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  Speaker 5: We can't do it without our.
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  Speaker 3: Earth, It's true, that's true. We got to keep it clean.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. And I've got Debbie Happen here from Robstone, yes
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  Speaker 2: going on.
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  Speaker 3: Good stuff coming up.
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  Speaker 4: Our Arts of Hopestone is next Sunday, May third, from
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  Speaker 4: four to six. Bring in a lot of local artists.
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  Speaker 5: So it's a great informal event.
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  Speaker 4: Very informal, Sinco de Mayo theme, very laid back, easy going.
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  Speaker 4: We have our Hopestone Potters, We have a lot of
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  Speaker 4: artists from the Bartlesville Art Association.
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  Speaker 3: Taking part. This year we had some really cool.
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  Speaker 4: Hand painted porcelain that was really very interesting. Silversmith Cherokee silversmith,
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  Speaker 4: So just a lot of.
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  Speaker 3: Really cool art pieces and.
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  Speaker 4: Then our friend Chris Antel is going to come up
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  Speaker 4: and he's gonna paint live. He hasn't done that in
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  Speaker 4: a while, so he's going to do that for us,
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  Speaker 4: and then we'll be auctioning that off. We've got some
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  Speaker 4: live auction items so local businesses.
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  Speaker 5: Art.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, the all the art with the silent auctions. So
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  Speaker 4: the live auction is all food, okay, so it's kind
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  Speaker 4: of neat. Melody from Melodies Catering she's donated a cast
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  Speaker 4: role of the month, so you can go in any day, anytime,
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  Speaker 4: pick out a cast role and it's yours to take home.
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  Speaker 4: You can do that once a month. So that's one
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  Speaker 4: of our auction items. Hillary Kamplan from Lunette has offered
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  Speaker 4: a twelve person charcouterie or a appetizer's fancy appetizer's free,
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  Speaker 4: which is a dinner and than a five of.
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  Speaker 3: Course plated meal for four. So we're going to do that.
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  Speaker 4: Tri County Tech Seth Day is going to do his
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  Speaker 4: cooking experience for ten so you get to go to
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  Speaker 4: Try County Tech and prepare your own meal.
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  Speaker 3: Basically, learn to do it, yeah, learn to do it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So we're excited about that.
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  Speaker 4: Bob Dunbar, who owns the New York Pizza Experience. It's
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  Speaker 4: a gourmet pizza party for twenty so you know, he
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  Speaker 4: can do the regular you know, cheese pizzas, margarite pizzas,
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  Speaker 4: that kind of stuff, but he specializes in gourmet pizzas.
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  Speaker 4: So they're like rageing Cajun and which is a spicy
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  Speaker 4: kind of Cajun pizza with shrimp, and he does a
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  Speaker 4: surfing turf and all different kinds of really cool combinations.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a very big thing in Tulsa, a very
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  Speaker 4: big thing in Tulsa. They go for a lot of
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  Speaker 4: money his feats of parties because he makes.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of food.
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  Speaker 4: I'm a lot of food. And then of course Chris
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  Speaker 4: Mantle's painting, so yes, really cool live auction items that
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  Speaker 4: everybody can participate in. And as just said, it's just
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  Speaker 4: a really very chill, lay back eventre too great food.
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  Speaker 4: Our friends at the Eatery take extremely good care of us.
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  Speaker 4: They're wonderful. Chef Marjorie is just the best. She's the best.
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  Speaker 4: So yep, they're doing the food for us again this year.
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  Speaker 2: And it all goes to support the Hopstone Yes, it's
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  Speaker 2: stuff that's going on all year round, all the families
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  Speaker 2: and friends, and yeah, helping them through that process.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, make sure their prescriptions are taken care of that,
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  Speaker 4: you know, if they need to go down to Houston
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  Speaker 4: or go up to Chicago or wherever. Their doctor says, hey,
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  Speaker 4: there's this clinical trial here. I think you're a good
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  Speaker 4: candidate for this. You know, we can make sure that
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  Speaker 4: they have a flight to get there. We can make
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  Speaker 4: sure that their hotel expense is taken care of.
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  Speaker 3: We don't want there to ever be barriers to care.
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  Speaker 2: That's I think that's not that's.
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  Speaker 5: Really what you guys do is remove the barriers.
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  Speaker 2: And yes, kind of provide support and comfort to people who.
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  Speaker 4: Get that feeding tube stuff. That's been a biggie. We're
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  Speaker 4: getting a lot of head and neck.
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  Speaker 3: Cancers and I don't know if that's.
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  Speaker 4: Because there's a lot of chew or whatever, tobacco that
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  Speaker 4: it's usually a tobacco alcohol kind of a cancer, you know.
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  Speaker 3: And virus HPV virus type of thing.
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  Speaker 4: And so, you know, back in the day, there was
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  Speaker 4: no you know, vaccine or anything you could do to
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  Speaker 4: even try to prevent it.
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  Speaker 3: But so there's a lot a lot of head and
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  Speaker 3: neck cancers.
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  Speaker 4: So we're dealing with a lot of feeding tubes, a
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  Speaker 4: lot of feeding tubes, and for some reason, insurance will
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  Speaker 4: improve the feeding tube being put in, but they don't
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  Speaker 4: want to pay for the food.
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  Speaker 3: So we're we're we've.
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  Speaker 4: Been fighting that battle for a hot minute. But you know,
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  Speaker 4: people who no longer need the feedings or whatever, they'll
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  Speaker 4: bring it down.
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  Speaker 3: So we have a very large stash.
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  Speaker 4: Of food that we can give them until they work out,
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  Speaker 4: you know, until they work out the issue.
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  Speaker 3: Because the case of the food only lasts four days,
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  Speaker 3: you know.
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  Speaker 4: So we just got a delivery yesterday of i think
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  Speaker 4: for like forty two cases so.
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  Speaker 3: To add to our supply.
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  Speaker 4: So we're able to just say here you go, here's
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  Speaker 4: you know, a couple of cases, and call us if
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  Speaker 4: you need more, you know, So things like that, all
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  Speaker 4: that kind of stuff obviously are program is huge, up
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  Speaker 4: to sixty on our meal program, and so that.
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  Speaker 3: Is really huge.
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  Speaker 4: We prepare for different meals every week, package them up
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  Speaker 4: and deliver.
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  Speaker 3: Them to their homes or they can come and pick
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  Speaker 3: them up. So it's it's a lot.
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  Speaker 4: We do a lot more than people realize, you know,
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  Speaker 4: and that's kind of been the the conversation some people
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  Speaker 4: some people do I.
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  Speaker 2: Mean, I know, yeah, I mean, you guys have been
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  Speaker 2: selected multiple times in our annual anniversary, yeah, where we
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  Speaker 2: celebrate in December by donating to charities. For every purchase
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  Speaker 2: of a vehicle, we make a donation and you guys
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  Speaker 2: have gotten the most a couple.
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  Speaker 4: Of times, and that takes care of our people. You
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  Speaker 4: literally those donations save people's lives. So three people's lives.
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  Speaker 2: What's need is those are our customers, local community picking
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  Speaker 2: you guys, and then of course we love supporting all
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  Speaker 2: the great oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah, you know that
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  Speaker 2: allows them to kind of direct that, yes, And and
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  Speaker 2: then we get a match from Toyota yes, in order
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  Speaker 2: to help with that and they gives it a nice boost.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, it's just it's really it's Hope Stone is
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  Speaker 4: all about people helping people.
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  Speaker 3: Know, there's no event.
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  Speaker 5: Since the great community you.
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  Speaker 4: Have there and yeah, and we're really excited about it
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  Speaker 4: this year. And then tonight Moxie on Seconds doing a
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  Speaker 4: fashion show which sold out and I have two of
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  Speaker 4: my cancer survivors are in that fashion show to so
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  Speaker 4: very excited about that. Every year for the last five years.
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  Speaker 4: I think Christy at Moxie has been doing that and
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  Speaker 4: then donating all the proceeds to Hopstone.
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  Speaker 3: So we have that tonight, and.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I just love it because it gives people an
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  Speaker 4: opportunity to give back, you know, and there's no strings attached,
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  Speaker 4: there's no you know, it's not our.
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  Speaker 3: Building is paid for. We don't have any debt.
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  Speaker 4: We're not paying our you know, paying big salaries or
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  Speaker 4: anything like that for for our volunteers.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just great. Those really cool.
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  Speaker 5: It's a great organization.
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  Speaker 2: And it's Bartlesville's you know uniquet.
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  Speaker 3: Doctor Jennifer MCKISSI, Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Who fell into that need.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and then kind of thought, I think I never imagine,
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  Speaker 2: but well, other people the same support.
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  Speaker 4: And yeah, she was born and raised here and so
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  Speaker 4: she came back and that was her that was her thing.
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  Speaker 3: She and she pushed and pushed and pushed and got
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  Speaker 3: people on board. And it's grown. Boy, is it grown.
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  Speaker 3: It's grown. It is amazing. You know, I'm just so blessed.
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  Speaker 4: I'm like, how did how did I get so blessed.
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  Speaker 3: You know to be able to do this?
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  Speaker 4: And I think, you know, little experiences in my life,
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  Speaker 4: you know, my dad had cancered numerous times.
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  Speaker 3: My brother had cancer.
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  Speaker 4: I had cancer just geneticcessible, you know, and and.
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  Speaker 3: This is what he chose for me to do. This
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  Speaker 3: was my purpose and I found it. So it's very exciting. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I love it. I love what I do.
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  Speaker 4: I love being able to help people. I love being
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  Speaker 4: able to help families, you know, and talking people off
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  Speaker 4: the ledge because cancer is a really scary word, you know,
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  Speaker 4: and just sitting down and having a conversation and taking
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  Speaker 4: away some.
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  Speaker 3: Of that fear.
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  Speaker 2: We'll tell them the people are listening that may not
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  Speaker 2: know where you are and how to access the support
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  Speaker 2: services that you have, because that's really the first step
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  Speaker 2: down there.
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  Speaker 4: Just stop by, yeah, and make an appointment. We're at
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  Speaker 4: two O six Southeast Frank Phillips Boulevard, so right on
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  Speaker 4: Frank Phillips Boulevard between O Sage and Dewey.
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  Speaker 5: Beautiful building.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, people are very surprised. It's an old, historic building.
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  Speaker 4: We kept, you know, the brick walls and the high
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  Speaker 4: tin ceilings.
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  Speaker 3: We kept as much.
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  Speaker 4: As we possibly could level buildings, and so it's a
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  Speaker 4: beautiful facility. We have a little boutique in there. We
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  Speaker 4: have an exercise area. We have a beautiful pottery area
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  Speaker 4: where Hopstone Potters do all of their pottery. And then
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  Speaker 4: upstairs is just our our kitchen and our lymphatic massage and.
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  Speaker 3: Just to really chill.
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  Speaker 4: Our meeting space and that's where we'll hold our event
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  Speaker 4: is up on the second floor. But we do have
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  Speaker 4: an elevator of course, and yeah, it's just a great place.
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  Speaker 3: Come on in and let us help you, you know,
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  Speaker 3: let us help you.
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  Speaker 4: We have gas cards, we have nutritional supplies, all different
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  Speaker 4: kinds of things, wicks, starts, whatever you need.
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  Speaker 5: If you think of something else, I'm sure you'd figure.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, if I don't have it, I'm a really good beggar.
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  Speaker 4: And I'll get it somewhere.
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  Speaker 5: I'm sure you can. And that great support.
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  Speaker 3: Connect community is amazing.
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  Speaker 2: The event supports all that throughout the year, helps draw
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  Speaker 2: attention to what you do, but it also it raises
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  Speaker 2: money to provide for the resources required.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we have got.
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  Speaker 5: You mentioned before the show.
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  Speaker 2: You have great sponsors, double sponsors this year.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Conco Phillips, Phillip sixty six, Ascension, Saint John Jane Phillips,
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  Speaker 4: Truity and then Prosperity Bank, you know, and a lot
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  Speaker 4: of individual people. Of course, my husband know how that works.
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  Speaker 4: Jamie Kirkpatrick, Stephen, Joan Hidorn, DeBie and Mark Haskell, the
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  Speaker 4: Walmart distribution center. They they support us. They jumped on
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  Speaker 4: board with the Arts of Hoopestone this year. They usually
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  Speaker 4: help us with Dad's Walk Price Connor, Marty Smith, the
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  Speaker 4: Bartlesville print Shop, Moxie of course and few doors.
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  Speaker 3: Down bartles Will want in Spirits. So we had a huge.
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  Speaker 4: Support network this year which was really great, a good
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  Speaker 4: combination of individuals and businesses, you know, and then of
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  Speaker 4: course you you know, you let me come on here
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  Speaker 4: and at least four or five times a year any time.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's such a great thing because I know
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  Speaker 2: the reason you get the support is because you touched
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  Speaker 2: so many lives.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, and you know a lot of times that's kind.
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  Speaker 2: Of hidden in a way. I mean, it's find the scenes.
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  Speaker 2: People don't necessarily want to talk about that. You know,
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  Speaker 2: it is something that is personal and private, but at
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  Speaker 2: the same time, you know it's you can tell it's
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  Speaker 2: abroad that these organizations and individuals have been touched by that.
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  Speaker 5: I know that's one reason why.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's so popular among our customers, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: we have people with the dealership that have been needed
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  Speaker 2: your organization supporting their families. So yeah, it is Uh,
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  Speaker 2: it's something that touches the whole community.
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  Speaker 5: Really.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's why discriminate while you're you're you're a successful back.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it doesn't discriminate.
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  Speaker 4: You know, we've got from four month old to le
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  Speaker 4: got a lady in the other day and she's an
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  Speaker 4: eighty four year old former teacher.
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  Speaker 3: In Bartlesville and uh, she just said.
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  Speaker 4: I heard about you, I know about you, but I
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  Speaker 4: had absolutely no idea of the extent until I stopped
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  Speaker 4: by for a visit.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's what I would encourage people to do. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you're interested in this, if you want to help, you
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  Speaker 2: always need volunteer.
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  Speaker 4: You always need volunteers for things like ours of Hopestone.
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  Speaker 3: We have our.
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  Speaker 4: Dad's Walk, that's.
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  Speaker 5: That's going to be a region.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and that's going to be October fifteenth to the
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  Speaker 4: seventeenth this year, so we'll be gearing up for that.
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  Speaker 4: So I'll be looking for you again to promote that.
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  Speaker 4: Who knows, we may even get mister Brian in on.
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  Speaker 2: That to come on board, but he's busy.
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  Speaker 3: I know, he's busy.
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  Speaker 4: He's running all over the country world actually, but that's
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  Speaker 4: none of his.
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  Speaker 5: Son keeps him busy.
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  Speaker 3: He does keep him busy, tries to keep him out
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  Speaker 3: of trouble.
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  Speaker 5: That's what I know. That's why it's so cool with you,
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  Speaker 5: the yes and the musicians that come.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, but it's a great story because he does
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  Speaker 5: this walk.
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  Speaker 4: Every year and born and raised in Copan, and he
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  Speaker 4: does this walk for cancer and raises you know, oh
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  Speaker 4: my gosh. I think this year it was probably between
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  Speaker 4: us Saint Clair Past to Independence is the other organization that.
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  Speaker 3: They support, probably close to three hundred thousand.
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  Speaker 5: Wow.
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  Speaker 4: And it's great again because last year we decided to
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  Speaker 4: get our community involved, so we had a lot of
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  Speaker 4: restaurants that donated food for the event on Saturday, you know,
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  Speaker 4: cranky planks and crossing Second and painted whorse, Bambinos, the eatery,
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  Speaker 4: all of these local businesses that gave.
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  Speaker 3: For the food. So no expense there we didn't have.
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  Speaker 4: We had very very minimal expense, Walmart distribution center, you know,
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  Speaker 4: all of these these local businesses gave so we had
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  Speaker 4: didn't have expense for food and so all of that money,
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  Speaker 4: you know, all of that money goes right to Claire
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  Speaker 4: and I and so that's it's a big deal. It's
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  Speaker 4: a really big deal, and it impacts.
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  Speaker 5: A lot of lives ourselves because that's way off.
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  Speaker 3: In October, right, Come have some fun.
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  Speaker 5: Should be a great evening.
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  Speaker 3: We'll be there, yes, yes, excited.
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  Speaker 5: To come see the art and bid on some things.
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  Speaker 4: Get some tickets online at w w W cancer dot org.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know me.
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  Speaker 4: I don't limit stuff, no limit, right, fill it up.
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  Speaker 4: The more the merrier. So they can get tickets online
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  Speaker 4: on the website. They can get tickets the day of
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  Speaker 4: at the door. We prefer that we kind of know
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  Speaker 4: ahead of time. For the eatery, you know, we don't
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  Speaker 4: want to be stress and Marjorie and Brian and Annie ow.
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  Speaker 3: Too badly, but they take really good care of us.
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  Speaker 4: I love the Eatery. I can't say enough. Wonderful things
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  Speaker 4: and melodies doing our.
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  Speaker 5: Desserts coincides with this year, so a little bit of fun.
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  Speaker 4: Sink flare definitely Sinco de Mayo flair. We're all about
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  Speaker 4: the flair, but it'll be good.
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  Speaker 3: What's going on with the dealership.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we do have a ton of stuff going on.
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  Speaker 2: We still don't have any wrap for I know.
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  Speaker 4: That's okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna question and the list.
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  Speaker 2: That's what we're trying to do. Get that one you want.
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  Speaker 2: But I think we've delivered about twenty or twenty five
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: of them.
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: Now they continue to just they're they're incredible.
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: We have people come drive through the lot every day
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: wanting to look at them, and it's like, well, they're
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: not here anymore. There's some coming and yeah, it's a
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: it's an incredible launch to that vehicle. You know. Hopefully
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: it'll settle down later in the year. We'll get them
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: where we can have some on the ground. If I
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: can get one to stay there for a minute, we
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: might buy one.
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: Just so we have a display vehicle. We've talked about
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: doing that.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: That crazy we'd have one to show people because because
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: people do want to take a look at it.
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: And drive it.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: Some of those our vehicles are some of those soyotas
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: are so popular right now it's really hard to keep
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: them on the ground. The Route four, the land Cruiser
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: sometimes the Forerunner or that way. We do have one
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: of our best inventories of the year or in a
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: long time, really in several years right now because we've
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: been growing pretty rapidly.
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: We were up.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: Dramatically in the first quarter of the year, doubling our business. Uh,
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: and that's that's really exciting. That's that's uh, we know,
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: it's it's working our great team at the dealership and
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: a non commissioned sales approach, which really means there's you know,
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: we don't put pressure on you to buy something certain
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: and that's not up to our team too. You know,
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: obviously we're a business. We need to make money for
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: our sell things. But it's that's not what it's about.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: It's about answering your questions, helping you buy a car.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: We have no documentation fee at all. We just believe
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: in simple pricing and keeping things straightforward. That there's been
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: some news on that in the last few weeks. We've
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: had both the Oklahoma MOVERI Vehicle Commission and the Federal
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: Trade Commission or really amping up their enforcement of laws
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: that are have already been out there. But uh, you know,
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: focused on dealers that don't have straightforward pricing, and there's
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: sometimes that I don't you know, I don't really like
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: talk about it this way, but sometimes it's not all
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: clear and the price you see online may not be
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: what you pay, and that's just what it should be.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: That you know, obviously, if you advertise a price under
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: the law, you're supposed to honor that price. And there
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: shouldn't be special requirements or hoops you have to jump
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: through to get that price. It's supposed to be available
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: to everyone at that at that value. And of course
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: it's negotiable that you can you can lower the price,
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: but you can't raise it. And and a lot of
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: times things like a documentation fee and other dealer add on.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: Some dealers do things like ad tent and and other accessories.
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: To vehicles before the you know, the vehicles sold, and
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: and you know you may or may.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: Not want that stuff, but you know so that that
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: stuff's got to be clearly marked and priced and to
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: the most prominent price of the vehicle that's out there.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: And things like rebates and other incentives that are conditional.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: In other words, you have to either be a part
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: of an organization or do a certain thing like trade
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: or finance on that purchase. Those cannot be in the
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: most prominent price. You can still offer those kinds of incentives,
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: of course, and every manufacturer does has rebates and things
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: that are choices, but we've got lots of those going
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: on in Toyta. But our price online is the same
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: price that we have on the vehicle at the dealership
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: or in the showroom. We have our team that has
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: great technology to help you with the process of answering
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: those questions that used to have to have that back
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: and forth in the dealership with the sales team or
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: what is the payment and how much down do I need?
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: And what's the financing rate, and you know all, what's
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: the trade costs. We've got all that to those tools online.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: Really a great system that allows our team to answer
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: a lot of those questions.
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: You can even do it at home on.
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: Yeah, your website, I was going to say. The website
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: is fantastic.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: I really goes work and you can get a quick
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: idea of what your trade is worth. You can put
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: your own information in there. You can even submit your
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: credit app and actually pretty much buy the car. And
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: we do that all the time. By time where we're
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: delivering cars all over the country it seems, but the
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: reality is most of our deals are done here in Bartlesville,
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: and and you know, so come on down talk to
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: our team. If it's something, if you don't see it
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: on the lot, be sure to tell us what you're
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: looking for. A lot of we get two allocations of
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: Toyotas a month. Those that are most popular are going
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: to get sell really quick. Yeah, and you know, I mean,
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: I think sometimes things like Tacoma, which is our best
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: selling vehicle right now, has been for the last couple
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: of years.
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: We have some of those.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: So it's not that all the most popular ones aren't available,
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: but those like the brand new Retfold. We have a
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: new model coming out and it's so it's in high
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: demand and short supply across the entire Toyota dealer world.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: And you know, we haven't really been affected at this
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: point by by the tariffs and supply chain things.
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: You know, Toyota does have great value vehicles.
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: We still make the Corolla and Cameray and those kinds
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: of vehicles. Corolla Cross and that are the start under
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: thirty thousand dollars, So you know, I know, when you
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: look at a lot of vehicles they're fifty sixty thousand
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: or more, and of course we have those two. But
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: the bottom line is to Ita, you can still get
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: a great vehicle like a four Runner SR five, you know,
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: around forty forty two thousand dollars, so great value still there,
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: great food economy with the price of gas up crazy
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: like it is, you know, with our hybrids and plug
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: in hybrids, battery electric vehicles, we have a great selection
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: of all kinds of power trains that all are very
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: feel efficient and so come talk to our team about that.
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I was happy.
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: Mark Saravey called me the minute I REB four came
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: in and he said, if you hurry up, you can,
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: you can just drive this to make sure this is
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: what you really want, you know. And he goes, make
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: sure this is what you really want, and you know,
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: and it was great. And he asked, so what other
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: what other vehicles are you looking at? He said, make
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: sure you drive them, go test drive them. And of course,
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: you know, I love at four. My daughter still has
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: hers that he sold us back in twenty fifteen. I think, yeah,
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: it's still going strong. We just had it repainted because
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: she had some hail damage. She's down with the c
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: and yeah, as long as.
• 26:54
  Speaker 5: You change, I don't know. I will make that decision
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: later in the afternoon. But we had to do it
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: last week and well, it was crazy.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: Is we sold a bunch of cars while we had
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: them inside, and so I don't know what the deal
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: is with that, but there we You know, there's a
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: chance we'll bring them in this afternoon, I think, because
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: the storms tonight looked like they could be severe if
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: they like they do.
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: And it will never know. We don't want to have
• 27:25
  Speaker 5: them hit by hail. We have.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: We'd rather have a no hail sale than that other otherwise.
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: And it doesn't take much.
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: No, it doesn't doesn't.
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: So hopefully we'll creak our fingers crossed on that and
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: for the rest of the weekend, hopefully we'll get by
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: without too severe weather and get some more rain and
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: make those geese happy.
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: There's stumbling around town.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: Oh my, folks really can fighting brand well.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: If you want to just look online at done just
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: Toyota dot com is a great way to start. We're
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: all in transit Toyotas and used cars are up there.
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: In stock vehicles, all the tools that we talked about.
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: Or even come by the dealership at nineteen eleven Southeast
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: Washington Boulevard and to come see us, and I'll.
• 28:16
  Speaker 5: Be there in a few minutes. Alrightie, Well, thank you
• 28:19
  Speaker 5: very much. Bolks, you've been watching and listening.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: To our car Talk program with Brad dungeas with dungeus Toyota.
• 28:26
  Speaker 5: Stay tuned.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: We're going to have a check of your forecast coming
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: up next Hopefully we won't have that here, but in case,
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: we'll keep you ahead of the storm depending on us