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CAR TALK 12-5-24 · One on One With a Professional

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Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning. Welcome, welcome, welcome. It
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Speaker 1: is time now for car talk. We due just toy
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Speaker 1: own it. Brad Doness is in the house in Brad.
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Speaker 1: You brought briends, of course I did every morning. Good
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Speaker 1: morning friends. Thank you for joining us this morning. We're
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Speaker 1: so glad you're with us.
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Speaker 2: We're a difference at day makes it's quite quite quite
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Speaker 2: a bit chillier than yesterday. And that I Hello, Amanda.
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Speaker 2: I brought my friend Amanda Carhern here from the Frank
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Speaker 2: Phillips Historic Home here in Bartlesville.
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Speaker 3: Yes, thanks for having me.
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Speaker 2: Welcome. Glad you're here today.
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Speaker 3: I'm glad to be here.
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Speaker 2: It's a great time of year at the home. I know, uh,
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Speaker 2: you know, probably going back to the beginning right when.
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Speaker 2: I'm sure Frank and his family had a lot of
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Speaker 2: great Christmas. Is there.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely, we have some of the original family's Christmas ornaments.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we're going to put out on display pretty soon. Yeah. No.
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Speaker 2: I love the open house and the Christmas party atmosphere
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Speaker 2: and getting to it's kind of a more casual tour
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Speaker 2: that day because you kind of get to wander around the.
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Speaker 3: Realm around at your own pace. It's a good time.
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Speaker 3: And it's only five dollars a person, five dollars for adults.
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Speaker 3: Kids are free.
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Speaker 2: That's great.
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Speaker 3: And that's happening the seventeenth and the nineteenth starting at
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Speaker 3: five o'clock I'm sorry, six o'clock, six o'clock, with the
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Speaker 3: last admission at eight. Okay, so come see yus. Every
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Speaker 3: room has at least one Christmas tree in it. Oh cool,
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Speaker 3: you're going to want to see that.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I've been to a bunch of those. It
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Speaker 2: is a great time. And yeah, we've been busy at
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Speaker 2: the dealership getting ready for Christmas stuff too. We're going
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Speaker 2: to get in this week. We've been getting ready for
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Speaker 2: the parade, which is Saturday night downtown Bartlesville, six thirty pm.
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Speaker 2: We're going to take our shame Model A replica out.
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Speaker 2: They've been decorating it. It's an old looks like a
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Speaker 2: Model A, but it's actually I think a Mustang two
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Speaker 2: underneath from the late seventies.
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Speaker 3: That's going to be good.
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Speaker 2: It's kind of cool because it's I don't know if
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Speaker 2: i'd trust the actual Model A to go in the parade,
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Speaker 2: but this one runs pretty good drive than the original,
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Speaker 2: and we'll have a Tundra out there too, and so
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Speaker 2: happily some of the team are excited to participate and
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Speaker 2: we'll be out there. We'll be looking for you. We're
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Speaker 2: going to be doing the prey on one. Yeah, that'll
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Speaker 2: be a great chance for people to If you can't
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Speaker 2: go out, we'll be sure to watch it and you
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Speaker 2: can watch it day after Yeah, over and over again
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Speaker 2: if you want to see that. Shay, it's uh. It's
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Speaker 2: a great car and we've been we've had it on
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Speaker 2: the Toyota showroom here for a few weeks now since
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Speaker 2: we've sold the Ford Dealership and brought over an old
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Speaker 2: Ford hack truck that was built by an insurance agent
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Speaker 2: here in town. Jim Stein was his name, and he
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Speaker 2: he this was one of his projects. And it's fascinating
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Speaker 2: to me to watch these old Fords and the people,
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Speaker 2: the Toyota owners fascination with them because there it's like
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Speaker 2: it's a great to talk to people. They're getting their
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Speaker 2: service done and stuff as they're looking at these old cars.
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Speaker 2: It's pretty fun. Other stuff going on this month at
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Speaker 2: the dealership. This is our big when we sold Ford.
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Speaker 2: Of course, we used to celebrate our anniversary in April
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Speaker 2: because that was when my grandfather purchased the Ford dealership
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Speaker 2: here in town. Was in the April nineteen forty one,
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Speaker 2: right and then so but Toyota came later, but it
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Speaker 2: was in December. So now that we were exclusively Toyota dealership,
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Speaker 2: we're going to celebrate our anniversary this month in December,
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Speaker 2: and we're going to continue with our giveaway to charities
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Speaker 2: that we've been doing the last few years, and we've
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Speaker 2: spiced it up this year. We've got we're going to
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Speaker 2: everybody the buys a car gets to select a charity
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Speaker 2: and we'll make a fifty dollars donation to that charity.
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Speaker 2: But then the charity that gets the most selections, we're
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Speaker 2: actually going to make a twenty five hundred dollars gift
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Speaker 2: to them with and actually match that with the Toyota
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Speaker 2: corporate match. So there'll be a total of at least
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Speaker 2: over five thousand dollars given away, probably closer to seven
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Speaker 2: or eight thousand to local charities, and we're getting help
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Speaker 2: from Toyota for that. And so I just encourage everybody,
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Speaker 2: if you're in the market for a car, there's no
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Speaker 2: reason not to shop at Dungeons and support your local charities.
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Speaker 2: You know, the last couple of years, as we've done
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Speaker 2: this in April, Hopestone Downtown has gotten the most votes
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Speaker 2: and we've been happy to support them. I'd love to
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Speaker 2: do that again or one of the other great So
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Speaker 2: there's so many that, you know, and we typically the
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Speaker 2: Boys and Girls Club, the Y, the four HFFA, Frank
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Speaker 2: Phillips definitely gets votes, definitely gets votes, and we've made
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Speaker 2: several gifts to them in the last couple of years
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Speaker 2: through the anniversary gift. And yeah, we don't want to
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Speaker 2: leave Kevin and the team at Frank Phillips Foundation. And
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Speaker 2: that's such a great thing to talk about because the
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Speaker 2: Woolarock and the Frank Phillips Home are now kind of together.
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Speaker 3: They are under the umbrella of the Frank Phillips Foundation, right, and.
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Speaker 2: So back to where you know, kind of Frank's Frank stuff, right.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know that family's back together, that's right.
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Speaker 2: And you know, for a long time the home had
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Speaker 2: been cared for by the State of Oklahoma and in
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Speaker 2: part of their historic mission, but their game of time
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Speaker 2: where they were looking for, you know, a way to
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Speaker 2: move on, I think, and the Frank Phillips Foundation stepped
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Speaker 2: up and took back care.
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Speaker 3: For that, and oh yeah, we were very thankful for that.
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Speaker 2: I was in twenty eighteen. And you know, the home
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Speaker 2: itself though, was built back in two thousand and nine
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Speaker 2: or nineteen oh.
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Speaker 3: Nine, right, It started in nineteen oh eight and completed
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Speaker 3: in nineteen oh nine. So we're well over one hundred
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Speaker 3: years old.
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Speaker 2: That's amazing. And you know, I know you have another
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Speaker 2: event we want to talk about coming up too, that's
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Speaker 2: very unique coming up on called the Tuba Christmas Tube Christmas.
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Speaker 3: That's going to be Sunday, December the fifteenth at three o'clock.
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Speaker 3: That is a free event. It happens outside on our lawn.
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Speaker 3: Mister Lindsay from the high school does a fantastic job
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Speaker 3: getting tuba players from all over. We have some high
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Speaker 3: school students, we have adult tuba players. They come from
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Speaker 3: all over and it's basically just a concert Christmas concert.
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Speaker 2: Of tuba music.
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Speaker 3: How interesting, Tuba Christmas is actually a nationwide program and
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Speaker 3: we very lucky that we have an event we can
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Speaker 3: do here in Bertlesvielle.
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Speaker 2: That's neat and it's been going on a long time.
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Speaker 3: It has been happening at our home for fifteen years.
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Speaker 2: That's crazy, fifteen years. And again that's next. It's a
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Speaker 2: week from Sunday, a.
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Speaker 3: Week from Sunday, three o'clock.
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Speaker 2: Three o'clock and on the lawn. So depending on the
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Speaker 2: weather this time of year, you never know.
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Speaker 3: If bad weather happens, keep an eye on our Facebook page.
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Speaker 3: If bad weather happens, it will be moved to the
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Speaker 3: Bertlesville High School auditory.
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Speaker 2: Okay, all right, that's good.
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Speaker 3: So such in the past fifteen years, that's only happened
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Speaker 3: one time.
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Speaker 2: Well, I look at the day today. I mean, a
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Speaker 2: little bit of cold is I'm going to bother you, I.
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Speaker 3: Expect, and hopefully by three o'clock at a warm up.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I mean I think their chances are pretty
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Speaker 2: good in the middle of December to Halven nice after
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Speaker 2: nice Sunday afternoon.
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Speaker 3: So it's an excellent, excellent concert.
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Speaker 2: It's a lot of fun. Yeah, And that's on Sunday.
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Speaker 2: And then the open house is actually.
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Speaker 3: Two nights now, Tuesday and Thursday. Again, that's the seventeenth
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Speaker 3: and nineteenth starts at six o'clock, goes the last admission
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Speaker 3: is at eight o'clock.
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Speaker 2: Do you need tickets or anything to that or can
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Speaker 2: you buy tickets.
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Speaker 3: Purchase tickets that honestly, just come to the gift shop
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Speaker 3: night of and get your tickets.
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Speaker 2: Okay, And those are five dollars for five.
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Speaker 3: Dollars for adults. So if you're doing some Christmas shopping,
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Speaker 3: come by our gift shop. It's open nine thirty to
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Speaker 3: four thirty Wednesday through Saturday. We've got Bartlesville merch.
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Speaker 2: Oh really, you got what you guys. I didn't even
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Speaker 2: know you had a gift shop something. Really.
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Speaker 3: The gift shop is located in the six car garage.
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Speaker 3: It's behind the mansion, and then our parking lot is
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Speaker 3: directly behind the six car garage.
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Speaker 2: Okay, all right, so secrets there. The garage is cool.
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Speaker 3: The garage is very hard.
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Speaker 2: I remember that, But somehow I missed the gift shop.
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Speaker 2: Has that been there around long?
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Speaker 1: Oh?
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Speaker 3: It's been there as long as I've.
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Speaker 2: Okay, well, I guess I just somehow ignored. Yeah, we've
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Speaker 2: got you're going straight inside? No, I I tend to
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Speaker 2: want to go inside and explore the home and.
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Speaker 3: Center, especially at Christmas time. It's absolutely beautiful.
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Speaker 2: It does look great and so festively decorated, and as
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Speaker 2: you said, you've got trees everywhere and original Christmas stuff
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Speaker 2: back from the Fan.
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Speaker 3: Family and you know, you know, ninety five percent of
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Speaker 3: the items inside the home our original to Frank and
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Speaker 3: jain Well.
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Speaker 2: And that's really important because it was you know, care
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Speaker 2: for by the family for so long, I think until the.
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Speaker 3: Seventies seventy three, Yeah.
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Speaker 2: And then the state took over and of course it
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Speaker 2: was you know, it's been preserved and protected by the
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Speaker 2: foundation now for several years. And are there plans to
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Speaker 2: or does it need more help or anything?
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Speaker 3: I mean, what's oh, we could always use help. We
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Speaker 3: are a nonprofit trying to keep this gem going in
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Speaker 3: Bartlesville forever and ever and ever. So any gift shop purchases,
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Speaker 3: we take donations, tour tickets. That all helps. It goes
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Speaker 3: right back into the.
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Speaker 2: Home, Okay, And you do do tours.
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Speaker 3: Regularly, right We do on the hour pretty much Wednesday
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Speaker 3: through Saturday. You can call and make reservations to make
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Speaker 3: sure you get a spot, or you can just walk
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Speaker 3: right in.
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Speaker 2: Our guess you can probably volunteers and people we do.
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Speaker 2: We do the tours.
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Speaker 3: They're guided tours, so you're going to hear all kinds
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Speaker 3: of stories about the family as you're going through the home.
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Speaker 2: And it's really worth your time to do that. I
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Speaker 2: know a lot of visitors to town do it, but
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Speaker 2: maybe people who live here kind of take it for
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Speaker 2: granted and may may.
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Speaker 3: Not know the come and visit us because you're gonna
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Speaker 3: you're really going to get the full story of Frank
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Speaker 3: and Jane.
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Speaker 2: That's great. Well, and tell them. Some people may not
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Speaker 2: even know where you're located. Where is the home?
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Speaker 3: Okay, eleven o seven Cherokee Avenue.
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Speaker 2: Okay, So as you're driving between downtown and the high school,
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Speaker 2: it's easy to see.
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Speaker 3: On between basically between Central High School, Central Middle School,
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Speaker 3: and Bartlesville High School, we are right.
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Speaker 2: There, awesome well and right there in the historic part
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Speaker 2: of town. And it's a beautiful Frank Philip historic home
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Speaker 2: and lots of great stuff going on down there. And
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Speaker 2: and as I mentioned, lots of good stuff going on
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Speaker 2: the dealership too. I mentioned the charity giveaway. We're going
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Speaker 2: to give away over five thousand dollars to the charity
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Speaker 2: of your choice. If you purchase a vehicle from DUNGEUS
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Speaker 2: this month, you'll help us pick the charity that gets
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Speaker 2: the big gift. We're also going to if you come
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Speaker 2: in and just test drive a new Toyota. You can
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Speaker 2: register to win a new TV. We were as always
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Speaker 2: looking to buy cars. We've been recently became a Kelly
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Speaker 2: Bluebook instat cash offer buying center because it'll help us
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Speaker 2: access more more individual cars. We really prefer to buy
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Speaker 2: them off the street from individuals rather than go to
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Speaker 2: auction and fight for the unknowns that come with that.
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Speaker 2: But we need to stock our lot with more used vehicles,
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Speaker 2: so we're in the process of buying more now. If
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Speaker 2: you have one that you're looking to sell or if
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Speaker 2: you're trading, give us a shot. We've got a great
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Speaker 2: tool on the website which makes it really simple to
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Speaker 2: get an instant offer on your vehicle. Then if we
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Speaker 2: when we bring it in, we'll often be able to
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Speaker 2: beat that and offer you a little bit more. If
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Speaker 2: it's in great shape. We do want to inspect it
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Speaker 2: and make sure we give you every penny that you
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Speaker 2: deserve for your vehicle. We've got a great selection right now.
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Speaker 2: I was it was almost late this morning because I
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Speaker 2: was in there pricing and lower in the cars for
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Speaker 2: Toyota th On. But we've got he takes mighty I
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Speaker 2: do it and I talk about it every week. You know,
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Speaker 2: a lot of the pricing I do myself. We're in
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Speaker 2: there always making sure our vehicles are market based priced.
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Speaker 2: And and really.
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Speaker 3: I drove my Toyota today to get here. Awesome, and
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Speaker 3: I bought it from you guys.
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Speaker 2: That's great. And you know, of course we try to
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Speaker 2: We say we're the oldest. We are the oldest in
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Speaker 2: Oklahoma and the most trusted because we treat everybody well.
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Speaker 2: Try to be transparent in the purchase process, try to
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Speaker 2: keep everything simple and like I said, have those good
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Speaker 2: upfront prices on the cars, right up front, without any
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Speaker 2: hidden fees or ons that that you confuse things. And
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Speaker 2: we're very competitive on interest rates. Typically don't mark up
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Speaker 2: our interest rates at all. We pass through the buy
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Speaker 2: rate from our selection of lenders. We've got a dozen
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Speaker 2: or so lenders that will compete for your business. So
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Speaker 2: it's an opportunity for you to get the best rate
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Speaker 2: and know you're getting a good shot. And you can
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Speaker 2: do a lot of that on our website, going without
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Speaker 2: even pulling your credit or if you want to actually
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Speaker 2: go through the whole process of buying the car online,
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Speaker 2: you can practically do that these days. Well, we'll deliver
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Speaker 2: or go to you, whether we're looking to purchase your
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Speaker 2: vehicle or want to your buying one from us. From
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Speaker 2: we deliver all over the country. We've had a lot
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Speaker 2: of people from it's crazy how that continues, but from
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Speaker 2: all overcoming, people from North Carolina and Georgia to buy,
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Speaker 2: buying things like old Forerunners and stuff like that. It's fascinating,
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Speaker 2: but that's the car business these days. We've got a
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Speaker 2: I mentioned to our great inventory right now on the lot.
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Speaker 2: We've got about twenty Toyotas on the ground right now,
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Speaker 2: about two more that are on the trucks on the way,
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Speaker 2: eight more that have been allocated to us that we
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Speaker 2: can see, and eleven more that we got this week
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Speaker 2: that are going to be become visible to us in
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Speaker 2: the next few days. And you know that. So the
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Speaker 2: Toyota inventory is always unfolding and we're never going to
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Speaker 2: have you know, those are one hundred on the ground
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Speaker 2: or something, but there's about forty right or fifty right
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Speaker 2: now do you can select from. And some of the
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Speaker 2: most desirable ones, the ones that people are looking for,
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Speaker 2: will go really quickly. So if you're looking for something special,
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Speaker 2: just reach out to us. We can see what's coming
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Speaker 2: in the pipeline. We can work to do a dealer
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Speaker 2: trade with another dealer if we need to find something
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Speaker 2: slightly different. But you know, you know, things like for
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Speaker 2: Runner has been really difficult to get. A land Cruiser
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Speaker 2: is a brand new model, so it's finding a specific
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Speaker 2: one is kind of difficult. We've got a brand new
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Speaker 2: four Runner coming, so the old one's kind of rare
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Speaker 2: and the new one didn't hear yet. You've got things
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Speaker 2: like Wrap four even our most popular vehicles. Wrap four
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Speaker 2: is our most popular, but they sell so quickly that
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Speaker 2: finding the exact one you want is difficult. Right now,
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Speaker 2: I do have a really great selection of Tacoma's a
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Speaker 2: great little truck. Toyota's really bread and butter truck. Not
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Speaker 2: to disparage the tun drawer or anything, it's a great
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Speaker 2: truck too, But but Tacoma has got a great reputation
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Speaker 2: and it's it's one of our best sellers in our
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Speaker 2: area here. And we've got I think right now about
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Speaker 2: ten of those on the either on the ground or
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Speaker 2: on the way, and and the next allocation had some
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Speaker 2: of those also. Tundra is there is great too. Right now,
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Speaker 2: there's some interest rates on Tundra. You can get as
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Speaker 2: low as I think it's one nine and then two
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Speaker 2: nine at seventy two and eighty four months, so really
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Speaker 2: great interest rates they've got. Toyta has zero percent on
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Speaker 2: just one model, I think that on the BZ four X,
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Speaker 2: but rates going up from there on a wide selection
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Speaker 2: of our vehicles, and there's always a great lease deals.
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Speaker 2: Toyta has great lease payments, and that's another thing to
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Speaker 2: consider is to keep your payment down. With inflation has
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Speaker 2: kind of driven up the cost of the new vehicle,
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Speaker 2: and interest rates have been higher over the last couple
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Speaker 2: of years too, so payments have gone up. In one
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Speaker 2: of the ways you can keep your payment down and
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Speaker 2: avoid things like extended term loans that really make it
16:48
Speaker 2: difficult to get equity in your car. If you don't
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Speaker 2: put a bunch of money down up front, it often
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Speaker 2: takes years to build up where your act the car
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Speaker 2: is actually worth as much as you owe on it,
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Speaker 2: and at least never has that issue, so you can
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Speaker 2: if you lease seek a car, you're committed to it
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Speaker 2: only for the term of the least twenty four to
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Speaker 2: thirty six thirty nine months, whatever it is. In a
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Speaker 2: certain number of miles. At the end of your lease,
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Speaker 2: you have the choice to whether to keep the vehicle.
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Speaker 2: You can purchase it for the lease in residual value
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Speaker 2: which is established before, or you can turn it back
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Speaker 2: to the lease company. Often we're going to want to
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Speaker 2: purchase it. If you're not interested in buying it, it
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Speaker 2: will be a great use car for us. And you know,
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Speaker 2: so it gives you that all the flexibility locked in
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Speaker 2: low payment based on the great resale value that toyeters have.
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Speaker 2: It really helps keep those lease payments down low. So
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Speaker 2: another event I wanted to remind people of, we'll be
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Speaker 2: out there next Friday at the Poison Girls cause Great
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Speaker 2: Futures Launching. It's really a special one this year because
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Speaker 2: and it's one of my favorite events. We've been helping
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Speaker 2: sponsor that for a number of years. But they're welcoming
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Speaker 2: the new Dewey Club and so it's a Bartlesville and
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Speaker 2: Dewey Club event since the seventieth year of the club
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Speaker 2: here in Bartlesville, and will announce the Youth of the Year,
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Speaker 2: which is what the Great Futures Luncheon is all about.
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Speaker 2: There's a whole process where the club members go through
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Speaker 2: a contest where they're selected and advanced to the final
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Speaker 2: round and then are reviewed and give speeches to the
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Speaker 2: judges and then so they've become the youth of the
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Speaker 2: year here in Bartlesville and move on to a state
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Speaker 2: and nationwide competition. Our club members have won the statewide
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Speaker 2: competition many many times, and it really is a great process,
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Speaker 2: and it's neat to hear from those kids that have
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Speaker 2: spent a few years in the club often and have
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Speaker 2: really grown in that process and how that them telling
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Speaker 2: their story. And this year the guest speaker is Jackie
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Speaker 2: Joyner Kersey, a six time Olympian, And I think it's
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Speaker 2: going to be a great event. That's next Friday at lunchtime,
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Speaker 2: eleven fifteen. I think it begins. And so busy, busy
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Speaker 2: week next week with all the stuff going on at
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Speaker 2: the Frank Phillips Home and kicking off this this Saturday
19:21
Speaker 2: night with the Christmas Parade.
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Speaker 3: And always a busy time around Christmas, it is, but
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Speaker 3: lots of fun.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, And let's remind him again about what's going on
19:31
Speaker 2: at the Frank Phillips Home as we get ready for
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Speaker 2: Christmas and the open house nights.
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Speaker 3: And Christmas December fifteenth, that's next Sunday, three o'clock on
19:43
Speaker 3: the lawn. Bring your lawn chairs, bring a blanket.
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Speaker 2: That's a free concert.
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Speaker 3: Pre concert absolutely and you're not going to be disappointed.
19:51
Speaker 3: It's they put on an amazing show and it's.
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Speaker 2: The fifteenth year here in Bartlesville. That's that's awesome.
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Speaker 3: Christmas open House December seventeenth and December nineteenth, six six
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Speaker 3: pm to nine pm. Last admissions sold at eight o'clock.
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Speaker 3: Just get your tickets at the gift shop when you
20:11
Speaker 3: get there.
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Speaker 2: It's a great way to experience the home, I think,
20:15
Speaker 2: because it is you know, the former tours are great,
20:18
Speaker 2: you're going to learn so much in that, but it's
20:21
Speaker 2: always kind of fun to have the party atmosphere and
20:25
Speaker 2: be able to just wander around the home and explore
20:27
Speaker 2: on your own and talk to people. Obviously know a
20:31
Speaker 2: lot about.
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Speaker 3: The home too, so it's not like see all of
20:33
Speaker 3: our amazing Christmas decorations. We have got some excellent volunteers
20:38
Speaker 3: that come in and do most of our Christmas trees.
20:41
Speaker 3: Some of us staff do fill in the gaps, but
20:44
Speaker 3: a lot is volunteer run and we're very thankful for
20:47
Speaker 3: our volunteers we.
20:48
Speaker 2: Have and if you are interested in volunteering, that's the
20:51
Speaker 2: best way to find out information on that or maybe
20:55
Speaker 2: other events.
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Speaker 3: Please taking more volunteers. Our volunteers do tours and we
21:00
Speaker 3: will train you so you don't need to know a
21:03
Speaker 3: lot about the family to be a volunteer. Come and
21:06
Speaker 3: we'll teach you. Okay, Yeah, just stop by the mansion
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Speaker 3: anytime we're open, or you can call her director. Her
21:12
Speaker 3: name is Michelle Swainey.
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Speaker 2: Yep, I've had Michelle on the show. I love Michelle hopefully.
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Speaker 3: She said she was going to listen, so hello.
21:22
Speaker 2: All right, Well that's that's great. The event's going on
21:25
Speaker 2: down there, and we'll look forward to the open house
21:28
Speaker 2: this year and Tuba Christmas and all the other great
21:30
Speaker 2: stuff going on. And I know there's lots of events
21:33
Speaker 2: going on all throughout.
21:34
Speaker 3: The year that yeah, I hope to see both hill there.
21:36
Speaker 2: Oh well, we'll be looking forward to that. And like
21:42
Speaker 2: I said, there's a lot of great stuff going on
21:44
Speaker 2: with the dealership too, including the charity anniversary giveaway and
21:49
Speaker 2: you can select the Frank Phillips Home and the the
21:52
Speaker 2: Frank Phillips Foundation if if that's your choice, and we're
21:55
Speaker 2: going to make give away a bunch of money to
21:57
Speaker 2: charities for with every car we sell, uh this this month,
22:01
Speaker 2: and we've got Toyota matching part of our gift. So
22:05
Speaker 2: it's really a great opportunity just to give back a
22:08
Speaker 2: little bit. I know, you know that didn't going to
22:11
Speaker 2: sway anybody to if it's not a great deal. So so,
22:16
Speaker 2: but he is a chance to add on to to
22:18
Speaker 2: your purchase a little bit and keep the Christmas spirit
22:22
Speaker 2: which we like, we like to have it done just
22:24
Speaker 2: I know. We're getting also getting ready for our Christmas party,
22:28
Speaker 2: which is going to be that same crazy weekend next weekend.
22:31
Speaker 2: Whatever's going on. Really excited. Our team has really come
22:38
Speaker 2: together since we've all kind of focused on Toyota. It's
22:41
Speaker 2: been a really exciting time at the team. And and
22:44
Speaker 2: bringing back Brian Ballard on as our general sales manager
22:47
Speaker 2: has been really great. He's been a good fit for
22:50
Speaker 2: our team and provided some some experience in leadership that
22:54
Speaker 2: that is always helpful. And Uh, we've got lots of
22:57
Speaker 2: good stuff going on at the dealership and you know,
23:00
Speaker 2: great people and just looking to help you with your
23:04
Speaker 2: transportation needs. Good stuff going on in service too. I
23:08
Speaker 2: was talking to Angela about that there's great deals on tires, breaks, batteries.
23:16
Speaker 2: You can get discounts on our website where you can
23:19
Speaker 2: get preaching discounts as you spend a little bit more So,
23:23
Speaker 2: if you're needing automotive service, be sure to reach out
23:26
Speaker 2: to us on that too and we'll be happy to help.
23:29
Speaker 2: And we service any all makes and models at the
23:32
Speaker 2: Toyota Dealership have a great team of technicians. They were
23:36
Speaker 2: working on the Shay Model, a replica I mentioned that's
23:39
Speaker 2: going to be at the making sure it's tuned up
23:42
Speaker 2: and ready to roll at the Christmas Parade Saturday night,
23:46
Speaker 2: and we will be down there to see everybody at
23:49
Speaker 2: the parade and looking forward to all the fun stuff
23:53
Speaker 2: going on here as we get ready for Christmas. So
23:59
Speaker 2: and I guess we'll go back one more time through
24:02
Speaker 2: the Frank Philips Home events and just so people don't.
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Speaker 3: Forget, yes now if you want to come for a
24:09
Speaker 3: full guided tour, those are Wednesday through Saturday and mostly
24:16
Speaker 3: on the hour. We have a ten o'clock, eleven o'clock
24:18
Speaker 3: a Saturday, we at a one o'clock, A two, a three,
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Speaker 3: and a four, and those are excellent tours. That's where
24:27
Speaker 3: you're gonna Really.
24:28
Speaker 2: I'm about the home, but not just the home. It's
24:30
Speaker 2: about the history of the family, and it's intertwined with
24:34
Speaker 2: the whole history of our community and really the state
24:37
Speaker 2: of Oklahoma, the oil industries beginning in America.
24:42
Speaker 3: You want a really in depth tour, Wednesday through Friday,
24:46
Speaker 3: we offer it's called the Director's Tour. It happens at
24:50
Speaker 3: let me see, nine thirty in the morning. It can
24:53
Speaker 3: go oh an hour and a half to two hours.
24:56
Speaker 3: That's where you're going to get to go down in
24:58
Speaker 3: the basement. Everyone always wants to see what's in the basement.
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Speaker 3: Only available on our Director's Tour that also takes you
25:05
Speaker 3: behind the Ropes, which is a pretty good tour. And
25:08
Speaker 3: the Director's Tour is only fifteen.
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Speaker 2: Dollars, great, great value.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely Our regular tours are ten dollars for adults okay,
25:16
Speaker 3: eight dollars for seniors and military, and then five dollars
25:20
Speaker 3: for children.
25:22
Speaker 2: Okay. Well, and those tours are going on, and I
25:25
Speaker 2: can get information on all that on your great website too.
25:28
Speaker 2: I know you all have a great website, So just
25:30
Speaker 2: google the Frank Phillips Historic Home in Martlesville and you
25:34
Speaker 2: can get all kinds of information and read about its
25:36
Speaker 2: history and it is fascinating and you know, really a
25:41
Speaker 2: great way to tell the story of Frank Phillips and Martlesville.
25:43
Speaker 2: And there's a great partner there with Willa Rock to
25:46
Speaker 2: bring in more and more visitors to our area.
25:49
Speaker 3: And if you don't have a lot of time, we
25:51
Speaker 3: have an Interpretive Center museum. It's attached to our gift shop.
25:55
Speaker 3: It's those other five garage bays now that is absolutely
26:00
Speaker 3: free to visit. So you only have to pay to
26:03
Speaker 3: tour the home. Okay, you can come through and tour
26:06
Speaker 3: that museum anytime you'd like to while we're open. If
26:09
Speaker 3: you've got kids with you, we've created a scavenger hunt
26:12
Speaker 3: for that museum and kids always really seem to enjoy that.
26:16
Speaker 2: Well, there's another free thing to do that sounds awesome. Yeah,
26:18
Speaker 2: come see, that's some fun, fun stuff. All right, Tom, Well,
26:22
Speaker 2: we've the time has flown as we've gone through another
26:25
Speaker 2: car talk here. It's another beautiful Thursday in Bartlesville, and
26:30
Speaker 2: I'll be headed back out to the dealership. I know
26:32
Speaker 2: the team's got all the cars shined up and ready
26:35
Speaker 2: to go, and we'll be out there to help you.
26:39
Speaker 2: If you need anything, give me a shout. I'll be
26:41
Speaker 2: out at the dealership in a few minutes and tell
26:43
Speaker 2: us where the dealership is located. Brand We're at nineteen
26:45
Speaker 2: eleven Southeast Washington Boulevard. And for the big Toyota model
26:51
Speaker 2: with there will be.
26:52
Speaker 1: And if folks want to go on the internet and
26:54
Speaker 1: get a look see you before they come out and
26:56
Speaker 1: see it in person.
26:57
Speaker 2: Where can they go? Excellent website it dounge just Toyota.
27:00
Speaker 2: There you can go schedule your service appointment or work
27:04
Speaker 2: your own car deal get their calculate payments, compare a
27:07
Speaker 2: lease to a purchase. See all the incentives and great
27:11
Speaker 2: deals on vehicles we have there on the website, pictures
27:14
Speaker 2: of everything, free car faxes in all our vehicles. Go
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Speaker 2: ahead and check that out at Dungeustoyota dot com.
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Speaker 1: And that's going to wrap up our car Talk program
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Speaker 1: for today with the DUNGEUS Toyota dealership right here at
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Speaker 1: Ian Barteleswille.
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Speaker 2: Folks, thank you for watching and listening.