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Car Talk with Brad Doenges and Bartlesville Softball Head Coach Holden Yoder 8-27-2026 · One on One With a Professional

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Speaker 1: Hey, good morning.
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Speaker 2: Welcome to Car Talk here on K1, AM 1400, FM 93.3, 95.1.
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Speaker 2: Also on Facebook Live and K1TV. com. Nathan Thompson, Brad Dunges
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Speaker 2: with Dunges Toyota in studio. How are you doing this morning, Doug?
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Speaker 1: Good morning, Nathan. I'm doing great. Good morning to everybody
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Speaker 1: out there listening, too. There you go. And you've got
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Speaker 1: a great guest today. I'm excited to hear about this one.
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Speaker 1: My new friend, Nathan. Holden Yoder, who's fairly new at
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Speaker 1: this point. I mean, you're not brand new anymore because
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Speaker 1: your season is well underway. This is. For Bartlesville Bruins softball.
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Speaker 1: First season at the helm of that great program. And
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Speaker 1: I'm really glad to have you here and get a
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Speaker 1: chance to hear what's going on with the start of school,
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Speaker 1: start of softball, and everything else that we can uncover.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely. I appreciate you guys letting me come in.
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Speaker 1: Welcome to Bartlesville. It's a great community. We're proud to
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Speaker 1: have you here. Your season is underway. You've got a
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Speaker 1: number of games under your belt already. How's it going?
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Speaker 4: About a week ago, I would have had a very
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Speaker 4: different answer for you. We started out 7-1. The expectations
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Speaker 4: we had coming into the season. We're right in the
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Speaker 4: middle of a four-game losing streak right now. That's been
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Speaker 4: That's been one of those things that obviously you don't
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Speaker 4: want to have to go through something like that. What
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Speaker 4: I will say, I've been extremely proud of how we've
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Speaker 4: handled it. We talk all the time about being consistent
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Speaker 4: in the way we do things on and off the field,
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Speaker 4: being process driven, not results driven. And so we've had
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Speaker 4: the opportunity to practice what we preach a little bit.
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Speaker 3: And so obviously that is.
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Speaker 1: So important in sports and in life and business to
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Speaker 1: learn to To be resilient and focus on the processes.
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Speaker 1: I like that, too. That's really what we do at
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Speaker 1: Dungest Toyota. For young people learning about life and doing that,
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Speaker 1: success all the time isn't going to teach you everything
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Speaker 1: if you've got to have some hard work and go
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Speaker 1: through those times to realize what you've got and what
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Speaker 1: it takes to to be successful.
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Speaker 4: And I will say, I'm one of the things I've
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Speaker 4: been very encouraged by. I've been extremely proud of how
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Speaker 4: we've handled that as a team. Um, I feel like
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Speaker 4: as a whole, the girls have responded very well to that,
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Speaker 4: that obviously there's some discouragement there when you start to struggle,
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Speaker 4: but that we have continued to stick to the process
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Speaker 4: and do things the way we want them to be done.
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Speaker 4: And just trusting that over the course of time, things
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Speaker 4: do start to go our way and we'll start to
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Speaker 4: see the results of that.
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Speaker 1: Well, I got a chance to meet a couple of
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Speaker 1: your players a few weeks ago, and they came in
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Speaker 1: and selling sponsorships, and that's how I got you on
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Speaker 1: the show eventually here. I will say they were great
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Speaker 1: representatives of the program, really enthusiastic and knew what was
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Speaker 1: going on. I like to ask them questions and see
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Speaker 1: what they have to say, and they were great. They
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Speaker 1: are a great representation of Bartlesville. It's not unique in Bartlesville.
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Speaker 1: We have so many great young people and they do
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Speaker 1: you know but then it's a great community for that
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Speaker 1: and I know they've been supporting your this team for
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Speaker 1: a long time and it's very very happy to have
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Speaker 1: you here you came from where'd you come from.
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Speaker 4: I was an assistant coach at Wyandotte last year which
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Speaker 4: is way up in the corner of northeast Oklahoma so
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Speaker 4: I was there for one year and then this is
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Speaker 4: this is year two year one at Bartlesville So you've.
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Speaker 1: Got the leadership, but now, what's that like? How do
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Speaker 1: you like being the head coach?
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Speaker 3: It's very different.
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Speaker 4: I knew that coming in, I knew that that would
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Speaker 4: be a transition. What I will say, I've had a
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Speaker 4: lot of people who've made that transition easier. Obviously, administration
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Speaker 4: has been very supportive, providing me the resources that I need.
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Speaker 4: I have good assistant coaches. Parents have been willing to
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Speaker 4: help out with the things we need to do. So
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Speaker 4: that's made my life a lot easier. but also the
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Speaker 4: fact that Coach Minton is still around. He's still on
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Speaker 4: staff at the school, and he has been a really
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Speaker 4: good sounding board. I've probably had, I don't want to exaggerate,
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Speaker 4: I've probably had 400 or 500 questions for him over
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Speaker 4: the last couple months, and he's been extremely good to
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Speaker 4: answer those questions and to just kind of be a
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Speaker 4: voice of reason when I'm trying to figure stuff out
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Speaker 4: that I haven't really had to deal with before, so.
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Speaker 4: all in all, you put those things together that has
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Speaker 4: made this transition a lot easier than what it otherwise.
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Speaker 1: Would have been. Where are you from originally? Where'd you
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Speaker 1: go to school?
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Speaker 3: I'm originally from Adair, Oklahoma.
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Speaker 4: So this is my first experience in any capacity at
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Speaker 4: a big school. I grew up in a small school.
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Speaker 4: I was employed at a small school last year. And
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Speaker 4: so that has been different. So it's been it's been good,
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Speaker 4: but yeah, there's definitely, definitely some differences there.
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Speaker 1: What drew you into coaching and teaching too?
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Speaker 4: I had a lot of really positive influences in my
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Speaker 4: life from coaches and teachers. And obviously I'm passionate about
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Speaker 4: softball or I wouldn't be doing this, but more than anything,
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Speaker 4: I would say that's, that's why I got into this
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Speaker 4: is I want to be able to spend time around
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Speaker 4: my students, around my players, and just be able to
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Speaker 4: have a positive impact on their life. One of the
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Speaker 4: other things we talk about, obviously success in softball is great,
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Speaker 4: but at the end of the day, this stuff is
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Speaker 4: not as important as we make it out to be.
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Speaker 4: Like if all we do for these girls or if
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Speaker 4: all I do for my kids is teach them how
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Speaker 4: to be successful now, that really doesn't matter. And so
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Speaker 4: just obviously wanting to do the best we can, but
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Speaker 4: using this as a tool to prepare them for, being
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Speaker 4: good family members, being involved in their community, being good bosses, employees,
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Speaker 4: whatever the case may be. In my mind, that's really
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Speaker 4: what this is about. And if we get to win
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Speaker 4: some games and accomplish some things along the way, then
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Speaker 4: so be it.
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Speaker 1: Awesome. Well, that is the story. I mean, that's the
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Speaker 1: story of our dealership in a lot of ways. My
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Speaker 1: grandfather was on a basketball team for a Ford dealer
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Speaker 1: in Tonkawa. in 1924, and he and two of his
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Speaker 1: brothers were on that team. Their father had passed away.
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Speaker 1: They moved to Tahoe from Blackwell and played on this team,
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Speaker 1: worked at the dealership. After he graduated from college a
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Speaker 1: few years later, the dealer helped them buy that car dealership,
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Speaker 1: and they ended up being Ford dealers for decades, and
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Speaker 1: they were done just Toyota as a legacy from that.
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Speaker 1: when he first got to Bartlesville, one of the first
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Speaker 1: things he did was start sponsoring American Legion baseball and the,
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Speaker 1: the now the Dunge's Toyota Indians. And, uh, we've sponsored
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Speaker 1: them since 1941. And, uh, we, it's so that, uh,
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Speaker 1: and the reason we keep doing that is because of
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Speaker 1: what you just talked about, uh, his passion for that,
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Speaker 1: how it impacted his life. And, uh, you know, it just, uh,
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Speaker 1: it's one of those things that, uh, that goes on
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Speaker 1: and on. And, uh, we're real happy to have you
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Speaker 1: in Burroughsville and I'm in Dunge's Toyota is proud to
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Speaker 1: sponsor your team this year and hopefully wish you a
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Speaker 1: lot of success.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely. I appreciate it. Thank you.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, and, uh, you're also teaching in school.
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 1: What do you teach?
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Speaker 4: I teach eighth grade history over at central middle school.
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Speaker 1: Oh, central. Okay. My kids both went there. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: But no, that's been, that's been good as well.
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Speaker 1: Uh, yeah.
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Speaker 4: Again, I would say the same thing that I said
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Speaker 4: on the softball side. I've had a lot of help there.
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Speaker 4: I've had a lot of people support me and make
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Speaker 4: this transition easier.
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Speaker 3: The other history teachers in the.
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Speaker 4: Department have been extremely helpful with providing resources, being there
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Speaker 4: to bounce ideas off of. And so a lot of
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Speaker 4: people have gone into making that an easy transition.
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Speaker 1: Great. And you've got Game tonight, right? At home here.
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Speaker 1: And what else? I mean, let's talk about what you
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Speaker 1: expect and what's going on. What's next? How long does
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Speaker 1: the season go? I mean, you know, what's out there
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Speaker 1: for you?
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Speaker 4: If things go the way we want them to, the
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Speaker 4: season goes until the middle of October. That's when the
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Speaker 4: state tournament is. And like I said, regardless of how
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Speaker 4: good or how bad things are going at the moment,
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Speaker 4: that's always our end goal. Yeah, we play at home
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Speaker 4: tonight against Sepulpa. This is a district game for us,
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Speaker 4: so this is a game that has playoff implications. I'm
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Speaker 4: really excited for it. I felt we had a really
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Speaker 4: good day of practice yesterday. Like I said, I feel
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Speaker 4: like the girls have been doing a good job of
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Speaker 4: staying mentally tough, staying focused on the processes that we
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Speaker 4: have in place, and I'm excited for it. I think
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Speaker 4: once we get one out of the way, get going
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Speaker 4: back in the right direction, I think we're going to
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Speaker 4: start to roll. So we're at home tonight, and It'll
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Speaker 4: be a really good opportunity for us. We're home again
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Speaker 4: on Tuesday, I believe. We have another district game Tuesday night. And, yeah,
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Speaker 4: like I said, I'm excited. I think once we get
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Speaker 4: going in the right direction, I think this is really
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Speaker 4: going to take off.
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Speaker 1: And I know if people are interested in the games,
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Speaker 1: they can follow you somewhat on Facebook and get schedules.
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Speaker 1: What's the best.
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Speaker 4: Way to engage with what's going on? Yes, we have
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Speaker 4: social media on Facebook and Instagram. We have pages for
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Speaker 4: the softball program. all of our schedule updates, all of
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Speaker 4: our final scores, everything you would need will be on
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Speaker 4: both of those pages so yeah that's that's something that
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Speaker 4: we have people that work really hard to put that
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Speaker 4: out brandy harper is actually the one who's kind of
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Speaker 4: taking the lead on that this year um among a
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Speaker 4: host of other things, she's done a great.
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Speaker 3: Job with that.
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Speaker 1: It does take a community.
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Speaker 3: It takes a lot of people.
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Speaker 4: But, yes, that's something we put out, and we hope
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Speaker 4: that people will use to be involved in.
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Speaker 1: What we're doing. Yeah, I hope everybody will come out
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Speaker 1: and support the team this season. It is an exciting
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Speaker 1: time of year as school gets going. I know they're
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Speaker 1: very busy balancing all the work they have to do
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Speaker 1: for the team and for getting school going. We've been
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Speaker 1: very busy at the dealership this summer, this spring, August
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Speaker 1: in particular has been a great month so far. We're
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Speaker 1: on track to hit about 150% of our objective, which
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Speaker 1: will be the third month this year. We've been close
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Speaker 1: to 150%. That's great. It's been a big, big year,
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Speaker 1: really focusing on our customers and the experience they have
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Speaker 1: as we just continue to– Somebody asked me again this week,
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Speaker 1: so what's it like after you sold the Ford store?
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Speaker 1: We used to have the Ford dealership here. And, you know, it's,
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Speaker 1: you know, we miss Ford. And, of course, the Ford
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Speaker 1: blue oval was a big part of our family for
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Speaker 1: a long time. But I tell you what, I'm really
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Speaker 1: happier and happy to focus on Toyota. Just having one.
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Speaker 1: And having one and being able, you know, we're, it's
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Speaker 1: kind of unique in the car business today is that,
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Speaker 1: you know, so many big, corporations are involved in it
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Speaker 1: there's consolidation going on all the time it's happening in
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Speaker 1: the whole world you see this everything gets bigger and
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Speaker 1: bigger but we we want to stay small you know
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Speaker 1: we're one family a family owned and operated independent company
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Speaker 1: my office is on the showroom.
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Speaker 2: You can't hide from anybody Brad our customer was frustrated
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Speaker 2: a couple days ago and ran right out there and
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Speaker 2: talked to him.
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Speaker 1: And you know, you don't get that everywhere. That's what
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Speaker 1: we want to be, is that, you know, be the
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Speaker 1: face of the dealership, be there to represent, lead the team.
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Speaker 1: Our employees are so important. We can't do it without them.
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Speaker 1: And our customers, you know, I was reading, I got
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Speaker 1: a notice from Google last night. Somebody left a review
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Speaker 1: and I looked at it and And he started, what
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Speaker 1: a great dealership. Oh, you know what? It's always good
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Speaker 1: to get those, right? And we have had so many lately.
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Speaker 1: We just get, you know, we've been focused, like I said,
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Speaker 1: on that customer experience, being transparent and how you sell cars,
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Speaker 1: not playing a bunch of games with the numbers. You know,
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Speaker 1: we give you tools where you can do the, what
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Speaker 1: they call the desking of the deal yourself really, you know,
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Speaker 1: and calculate the payment, look at what happens with down
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Speaker 1: payment changes and term changes and, you know, select your
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Speaker 1: credit level. And, you know, so it's number one, it
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Speaker 1: makes everything faster. Yeah. Yeah. So you don't really have to,
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Speaker 1: it doesn't take as much time to go back and forth.
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Speaker 1: And of course, with the technology today, there's really no
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Speaker 1: reason that it should take that long. And, you know,
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Speaker 1: it is just simple math. We, you know, we take
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Speaker 1: all the games out of it, and we don't do
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Speaker 1: any dealer add-ons, no dock fee, nothing that makes it
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Speaker 1: more complicated.
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Speaker 2: You know, that sets you apart, Brad, because, you know,
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Speaker 2: what you see on the website is what you're going
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Speaker 2: to get.
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Speaker 1: That's true.
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Speaker 2: And you have the non-commissioned salespeople, so there's no surprises
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Speaker 2: in there. And, you know, in the car world, that's
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Speaker 2: a big, big differentiator.
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Speaker 1: I think so. And, you know, but it goes beyond that.
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Speaker 1: It goes to, you know, to really... having a relationship
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Speaker 1: with our customers. Totally, totally. You know, and that's, you know,
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Speaker 1: like with the community and through the softball team, this
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Speaker 1: is where we live. It's what we focus on and
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Speaker 1: want to, want to do, and we've done it for
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Speaker 1: so long this way, I don't know any other way
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Speaker 1: to do it. That sets you guys apart.
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Speaker 2: Toyota is consistently the top-selling vehicle manufacturer in the United States.
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Speaker 1: It's a big company.
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Speaker 2: It's a big company, and there is so much demand
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Speaker 2: for Toyota vehicles right now. I know that a lot
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Speaker 2: of people may come by and say, well, I don't see.
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Speaker 1: Where are the cars? Where are the cars? Exactly.
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Speaker 2: And so that's one thing that people notice about Toyota
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Speaker 2: dealerships is, okay, we may not have it here on
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Speaker 2: the lot, but I can get it for you.
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Speaker 1: We can. And we get allocated cars twice a month.
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Speaker 1: They take a snapshot of our inventory. And they allocate
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Speaker 1: more of what sells. It's a formula and it's based on,
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Speaker 1: you know, where the cars need to be. And every
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Speaker 1: dealer is treated the same. And believe me, in our
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Speaker 1: part of the world and the whole nation, really, we're
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Speaker 1: all growing like Dunge's is. And most of us are
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Speaker 1: turning our cars, you know, at around 85, 90 percent
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Speaker 1: a month selling cars. Most of the cars are available
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Speaker 1: to be sold. That's incredible. Yeah, it's great. It is great. And,
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Speaker 1: you know, in a way, it helps us to sell
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Speaker 1: cars for less so we don't have a big holding
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Speaker 1: cost on cars that are sitting on the lot or
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Speaker 1: aging vehicles, if you think about that. And I've been
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Speaker 1: there where sometimes where cars age and you end up
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Speaker 1: selling them for, a big loss and you've paid all
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Speaker 1: this money on interest to have the car sitting there
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Speaker 1: on the lot. What is that called? Floor plan. Floor plan. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's it. Floor plan interest. Because we are all, most
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Speaker 1: car dealers in America, Tesla's a little different, but most
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Speaker 1: other brands have, dealers are independent businesses. And, you know, back,
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Speaker 1: you know, 50 years ago, there were about 50,000 auto
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Speaker 1: dealers in America. Yeah. You know, 20,000, 20 years ago,
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Speaker 1: maybe there were 25,000. Now there's about 6,000 dealers in America.
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Speaker 1: And that's not because there's less dealership. It's just consolidation.
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Speaker 1: They've consolidated. You know, when I came to Bartlesville from
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Speaker 1: working at the Dunges Brothers Ford store in Tulsa in 2000,
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Speaker 1: I came. Every store here was owned by a local
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Speaker 1: guy and independent, not connected to other stores and.
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Speaker 2: I remember that Dungeons Brothers store right there at Memorial.
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Speaker 1: 34th and Sheridan.
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Speaker 3: Oh, that one.
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Speaker 1: Okay. There was one at Memorial, too. That was Fred Jones.
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Speaker 1: Fred Jones. See? And we all, all of them, the
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Speaker 1: Tulsa Auto Collection happened. Yeah. People who have been around
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Speaker 1: a long time. Oh, yeah. We're telling stories now, Nathan,
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Speaker 1: that age us. Oh, come on now. Well, it was 95. Okay, okay, okay. What,
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Speaker 1: do you remember 95, Alden? No. No. I was not
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Speaker 1: even alive. He wasn't even alive. He wasn't even alive. Okay, well. 95,
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Speaker 1: I got in the car business a couple years later. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: The auto collection came in and consolidated the Tulsa market.
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Speaker 1: And I think there were three or four markets where
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Speaker 1: Ford did that, where we went to selling what they
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Speaker 1: call one price, where there was no negotiation and the
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Speaker 1: brand kind of evolved. It didn't last very long. In
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Speaker 1: some ways, it was not a great well executed but
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Speaker 1: I did learn a lot working there and you know
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Speaker 1: in some ways the one price at Harkin style we
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Speaker 1: sell cars at the dealership now where we do market
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Speaker 1: based price our cars out front we don't we aren't
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Speaker 1: stuck in saying that's the you know we can't negotiate
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Speaker 1: but there's not that much room we try to put
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Speaker 1: them at a great price up front so that you
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Speaker 1: don't have to come in and start high and We're
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Speaker 1: back and forth a bunch of times. We call it
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Speaker 1: simple price. Because every deal is a little different. We
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Speaker 1: want to be fair to everybody. Of course. That was
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Speaker 1: one of the principles of one price. You got the
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Speaker 1: same price that Holden got and that your mother got
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Speaker 1: and that your neighbor or your daughter got. And that's fair.
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Speaker 1: It's how you buy milk. We don't go in and say, hey,
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Speaker 1: I'll give you... $ 2 for that guy. Now, see, Holden,
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Speaker 1: don't you wish you were alive in 1995 for that? Anyway,
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Speaker 1: it didn't last very long. In 2000, they wanted me
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Speaker 1: to move to Rochester, New York, and that was not unlikely.
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Speaker 1: Highly unlikely.
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Speaker 2: Well, we're glad that you stuck around here. Yeah, we're
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Speaker 2: glad you stuck around here. We talk about the supply
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Speaker 2: of Toyota vehicles. I mean, you can find it, forum.com.
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Speaker 2: May not just be right there. It takes a couple
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Speaker 2: of days.
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Speaker 1: But it doesn't take that long. The truth is because
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Speaker 1: we get two allocations a month, there's always a bunch coming.
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Speaker 1: And when the first are given to us, we can
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Speaker 1: make certain changes in them. We can change the color,
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Speaker 1: a lot of the options, and all that. And then
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Speaker 1: even after they get serialized, they get a VIN. Then
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Speaker 1: we can still do some minor changes or we can
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Speaker 1: switch them while they're still in production. And then we
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Speaker 1: can do dealer trades. And if there's something that's just
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Speaker 1: not out there, we can do what they call a
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Speaker 1: special order vehicle request and often get those kind of
19:58
Speaker 1: really rare vehicles, or they're maybe not typically sold in
20:02
Speaker 1: our region. I can go get those for somebody. That's
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Speaker 1: what it's all about. Well, and what's unique is we
20:11
Speaker 1: take the time really to explain that to our customers.
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Speaker 1: A lot of the bigger places, I think, don't really
20:17
Speaker 1: want to take that time. And, you know, we train
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Speaker 1: our sales team on how this works, how to help
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Speaker 1: people navigate that and get the car they want rather
20:28
Speaker 1: than just trying to sell them something we have on
20:30
Speaker 1: the lot. And And, you know, of course, we'd love
20:34
Speaker 1: to sell something that we have on the lot. Of course.
20:36
Speaker 1: But that's not our highest priority. Our highest priority is
20:39
Speaker 1: taking care of you as a customer. How's it going
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Speaker 1: on the used car side of things? Well, it's been incredible.
20:45
Speaker 1: We've had all kinds of just keeping enough cars in
20:50
Speaker 1: that environment is really tough. That's a nationwide issue, demand
20:54
Speaker 1: for used cars with inflation as it is and the economy.
21:01
Speaker 1: It's not weak, certainly, but the prices are high and
21:05
Speaker 1: interest rates are high. So affordability on automobiles is tough.
21:11
Speaker 1: New cars are more expensive than they were a few
21:14
Speaker 1: years ago. And with interest rates, that payment is out
21:18
Speaker 1: of reach for some folks, so they're looking at used cars.
21:21
Speaker 1: And we have been trying to keep a stock of
21:25
Speaker 1: Toyota-certified vehicles. Okay. I say trying because they are selling
21:30
Speaker 1: really fast. At the beginning of the week, we had,
21:33
Speaker 1: I think, four, which isn't a lot, but four. We
21:36
Speaker 1: have one left now. We're trying to go get some more.
21:40
Speaker 1: If you have a car you're wanting to either sell, trade,
21:45
Speaker 1: extra car, whatever, give us a shot. We'll give you
21:49
Speaker 1: a no-pressure valuation on the vehicle, advise you on what
21:53
Speaker 1: it's worth. We can We use Kelly Blue Book Instant
21:58
Speaker 1: Cash Offer and have lots of other resources to help
22:02
Speaker 1: you market the car. We can even take it and
22:07
Speaker 1: put it on nationwide auction platforms where thousands of dealers
22:12
Speaker 1: have a chance to bid on it. You have three
22:15
Speaker 1: days to decide if that's the right price. A lot
22:18
Speaker 1: of times, That's for some stuff that we don't want
22:22
Speaker 1: or need, but that's another way to sell and find
22:26
Speaker 1: the market for your car if you have that. Boy,
22:29
Speaker 1: if we could just go back to 1995 prices, I
22:31
Speaker 1: would be happy. Yeah, I don't think that's happening right now. No,
22:37
Speaker 1: darn it. You know, with this, there are parallels between
22:42
Speaker 1: what we're talking about and what you guys do, Holden, too. How.
22:48
Speaker 1: We didn't start selling cars this way necessarily. And we
22:51
Speaker 1: started as a small family business, talking to our friends
22:55
Speaker 1: and neighbors and selling them cars. And it's evolved. We've
22:58
Speaker 1: learned through trial and error and new technology and, and, uh,
23:03
Speaker 1: being resilient and learn, you know, a lot of that, uh,
23:07
Speaker 1: that stuff you learned about process through your experience with
23:11
Speaker 1: sports is what we, we apply every day at the dealership.
23:15
Speaker 1: And it is, uh, That's one of those things that
23:20
Speaker 1: it was great to hear that that's your focus and
23:23
Speaker 1: passion in softball as well. What is it about softball
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Speaker 1: that you like so much?
23:31
Speaker 4: Well, so I coached softball and baseball last year. Obviously,
23:35
Speaker 4: growing up, my background was in baseball. I will say,
23:40
Speaker 4: as I started to be exposed to softball more, it's
23:42
Speaker 4: a lot faster than baseball. And I think that's why
23:46
Speaker 4: you start to see softball growing at the collegiate level
23:48
Speaker 4: as well, and it's really exploded within the last few
23:51
Speaker 4: years of how popular it's been.
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Speaker 1: Well, women's sports overall have, really. Yes, absolutely.
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Speaker 4: But just because it is so fast-paced, it is so engaging.
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Speaker 4: And so that's been, for a couple years now, this
24:05
Speaker 4: has kind of been something that I've been looking for
24:07
Speaker 4: an opportunity to get into.
24:09
Speaker 1: Awesome.
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Speaker 3: And so this job was a great opportunity to do that.
24:13
Speaker 1: Well, good luck in Bartlesville. And once again, welcome to
24:17
Speaker 1: our great community. If there's any or anything we can
24:19
Speaker 1: do to help the team or yourself in the process here,
24:23
Speaker 1: let us know. I'd be happy to help in any way.
24:27
Speaker 1: And good luck the rest of the season. Again, folks
24:29
Speaker 1: that are listening, another game tonight at the softball field.
24:35
Speaker 1: And you can get information on that on the Facebook
24:38
Speaker 1: or Instagram pages. And Search for Bruins softball and don't
24:45
Speaker 1: click on UCLA. We're not there yet.
24:48
Speaker 2: May I add, may I add that, you know, Bartlesville
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Speaker 2: has got one of the best softball facilities in the state.
24:56
Speaker 1: So hopefully you like that facility. Is that a little
24:59
Speaker 1: different than Wyandotte?
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Speaker 3: It has been.
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Speaker 4: Facilities were good there too, but yes, that has been
25:04
Speaker 4: a massive resource to be able to develop players and
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Speaker 4: do the things we want to do.
25:09
Speaker 1: So yes. once again, good luck to you and your team. And, uh,
25:13
Speaker 1: for those of you, uh, in the market for a car,
25:16
Speaker 1: come see us at the dealership or sales service, uh,
25:19
Speaker 1: body shop, anything you need. We're pretty much there for
25:23
Speaker 1: all your automotive needs and, uh, and come see us
25:27
Speaker 1: at dungeons, toyota.com or, or you can call us 9
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Speaker 1: 1 8 3 3 3 0 900 or 1911 Southeast
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Speaker 1: Washington Boulevard. And, uh, I'll be back out there in
25:38
Speaker 1: a few minutes.
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Speaker 2: All right, Brad and Coach Holden Yoder of Bartlesville Softball,
25:43
Speaker 2: thank you both for coming in.
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