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CAR TALK 3-2-25 · One on One With a Professional

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Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.
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Speaker 1: Guess what, folks, it's Thursday and it's a beautiful day
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Speaker 1: and it's time for our car Talk program with Brad
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Speaker 1: Dungeus and Dungeons Toyota.
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Speaker 2: Hey doing Brad, I'm doing great. Tom.
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Speaker 3: Good morning friends. Thank you for joining us this morning.
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Speaker 3: We're so glad you're with us. I'm kind of sorry
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Speaker 3: we missed out on that rain this morning.
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Speaker 2: It was this close.
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Speaker 3: It looked like for a minute they we'll get some
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Speaker 3: more later this weekend. Perhaps it kind of looks fit
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Speaker 3: and mess again. But my guest today's Ken Dawsett.
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Speaker 2: Welcome.
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Speaker 4: Ken, Hey, thank you for inviting me. I appreciate sure,
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Speaker 4: thank you for coming.
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Speaker 3: Ken is the co director and founder of Bartlesville's Own
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Speaker 3: on the Rock Ministries, and I just a great organization
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Speaker 3: and been around for a long time here in Bartlesville.
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Speaker 3: And it's a one of a kind thing. I think
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Speaker 3: it's really a one off and another great example of
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Speaker 3: the kind of the.
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Speaker 2: Support in Bartlesville for our youth and.
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Speaker 3: For you know, because I don't know how anybody slips
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Speaker 3: through the cracks and Martlesville we are.
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Speaker 4: There's a lot of wonderful organizations in town that serve
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Speaker 4: the kids. You know, Walliam c A and k Life
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Speaker 4: and Boys and Girls Club and Salvation Army. They're nationally known,
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Speaker 4: but we're home born here in Barcelila.
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Speaker 3: So and unique really, I mean because some of the
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Speaker 3: same kinds of things, you know, giving kids a place
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Speaker 3: to go after school, helping them getting engaged in learning.
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Speaker 3: And I knew things, but stuff like skateboarding has been
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Speaker 3: around a long time.
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Speaker 5: That's true.
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Speaker 4: We started twenty six years ago and we wanted I
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Speaker 4: was the youth minister at First Methodist at that time,
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Speaker 4: and we wanted to build something off campus from the
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Speaker 4: church that would attract kids, necessarily Mephist kids, you know.
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Speaker 4: And uh so we formed the board and we found
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Speaker 4: the property and pat Roy gave us the old rock
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Speaker 4: building MGM was next door, and a few years later Buzz,
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Speaker 4: the owner, then asked if we wanted to buy his property,
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Speaker 4: and I said, you bet, we don't have any money,
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Speaker 4: but we'd like to have it. And so we waited
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Speaker 4: a few years and now we have probably half the block.
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Speaker 4: We've been there twenty six years.
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Speaker 5: And uh but those early years were wild West days.
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Speaker 4: The kids were just skating all over town and and uh,
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Speaker 4: we wanted to provide them a Christian place where they
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Speaker 4: could come. And so we used the skate park as
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Speaker 4: a as a like a mouse trap, a bait to
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Speaker 4: drink during in these little guys and uh and so
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Speaker 4: we uh we're the oldest and longest running skate park
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Speaker 4: indoor in oklahom Really. Yeah, there's been a great big
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Speaker 4: park in Jumping, Missouri that since closed down.
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Speaker 5: There's been in Oklahoma City, in Tulsa, they've all closed.
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Speaker 4: So we're the longest running, uh indoor skate park in Oklahoma.
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Speaker 4: So that's really really incredible and we're very small, but
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Speaker 4: it's something unique for us.
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Speaker 3: Yes, that is incredible. That a little bit of car
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Speaker 3: business stuff. As we'll come back to the on the
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Speaker 3: rocks it is. We're at the end of March, another
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Speaker 3: end of the month push. We've got to deliver as
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Speaker 3: many toyotas as possible. Uh.
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Speaker 2: It is an interesting time.
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Speaker 3: The news has certainly been all about automotive in the
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Speaker 3: last few days.
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Speaker 2: And I still don't know what to make of the tariffs.
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Speaker 3: I think we're have to wait till all the directives
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Speaker 3: come out and the manufacturers figure out how to respond.
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Speaker 2: It's going to affect all the cars.
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Speaker 3: I think at some level, and and of course the
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Speaker 3: manufacturers will adjust, so you know, we'll have to wait
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Speaker 3: and see what happens. But right now, I'm the only
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Speaker 3: thing I know for sure is that we've got a
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Speaker 3: great selection of Toyota's on the ground over there right now,
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Speaker 3: more coming, and you really need to buy some used cars.
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Speaker 2: It's been a great used car month for us.
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Speaker 3: We've sold more than we have on the ground now
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Speaker 3: and we need to get to restock. So if you've
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Speaker 3: got a vehicle you're looking to offload, we'd give you
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Speaker 3: a great offer for that. And you know, I do
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Speaker 3: think as we go into this next short midterm, you're
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Speaker 3: going to see prices probably rise a bit. And you know,
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Speaker 3: I think of reading about it this morning. You know,
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Speaker 3: some of the some vehicles that are imported only you know,
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Speaker 3: may not be available in for a while. Niche vehicles,
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Speaker 3: things that are you know, Toyota makes some cars just
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Speaker 3: in Japan that are sent out worldwide that aren't really
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Speaker 3: big sellers, to be honest, those aren't what aren't we
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Speaker 3: sell our volume. Most of those vehicles are actually manufactured
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Speaker 3: in North America. Or in the USA and Camery and
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Speaker 3: Kentucky and the Tundra and Texas, and they've got lots
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Speaker 3: of other plans. But you know, so those little one
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Speaker 3: off cars that aren't as common that are imported will
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Speaker 3: be I have to figure out how to play that out,
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Speaker 3: but I think, you know, it could have a little
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Speaker 3: maybe boost the value of your used car. But who
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Speaker 3: knows on supply and demand how that's going to play out.
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Speaker 3: Like I said, we do have a great stock right
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Speaker 3: now and none of those price increases have happened. So
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Speaker 3: that's one thing for sure. You can come get a
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Speaker 3: great deal still now Atuneus Toyota. And I want to
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Speaker 3: go back to the On the Rock story and what's
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Speaker 3: going on down there because it has since those wild
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Speaker 3: West days as you described it. Which, Yeah, it's just
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Speaker 3: amazing to me to think it's been twenty over twenty
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Speaker 3: five years, almost thirty years that you guys have been
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Speaker 3: doing this in Bartlesville and really impacting kids' lives, and
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Speaker 3: you know, in such a unique way. And now you've
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Speaker 3: got school programs, after school programs and elementary, middle school
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Speaker 3: and high school level.
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Speaker 4: We see about six hundred kids a week and we
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Speaker 4: bring them in from all the schools in town elementary schools,
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Speaker 4: high school, middle schools, and we try to divide up
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Speaker 4: each day with a certain school and to serve those
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Speaker 4: those students. And our building is pretty small. We have
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Speaker 4: a nice campus with outdoor gym for dodgeball, and we
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Speaker 4: have an obstacle course, and we have all kinds of
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Speaker 4: things outside, but the inside where our video games are
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Speaker 4: and our worship center is kind of small. So if
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Speaker 4: you crowd one hundred and fifty kids in there per day,
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Speaker 4: you know, that makes it pretty tough. This weekend we're
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Speaker 4: having some of the schools have their after proms this cerita.
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Speaker 4: I think maybe Kingey Valley is coming in and next
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Speaker 4: weekend another school.
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Speaker 5: And so we have weekends we have birthday.
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Speaker 4: Parties going on, and so people come in and use
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Speaker 4: the facility when we're not there for after school programs.
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Speaker 3: Right, okay, And you have other programs too, like tutoring.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, for our Camp Rock kids that's third through fifth grade.
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Speaker 4: On Monday and Tuesdays, we see about forty students that
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Speaker 4: are struggling in school and we match them up with
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Speaker 4: a tutor that was set.
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Speaker 5: With them that whole period. It's about forty.
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Speaker 4: Minutes and they go online, they see where they're deficient
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Speaker 4: and they help them to catch up, whether it's reading
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Speaker 4: or it's math or whatever.
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Speaker 2: And so those are volunteer community members.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, we always need more because we have more students
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Speaker 4: that we have adults to sit with them.
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Speaker 5: So that's a real need for us.
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Speaker 4: But we have a reward system so that every time
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Speaker 4: they complete their assignment, they ring the bell and they
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Speaker 4: get what we call rock bucks, and they take these
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Speaker 4: rock bucks up and there's a treasure chest of prizes
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Speaker 4: and awards and they can purchase those things, you know,
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Speaker 4: for their hard work and tutoring.
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Speaker 2: He worked with the schools to find the kids.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, we help.
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Speaker 4: We have I think a good association with our schools
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Speaker 4: in that I know that we particularly we Cane. One
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Speaker 4: time a teacher came out and she said, I'm having
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Speaker 4: a little trouble with this young man. And he said, okay,
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Speaker 4: if if I tell him, he can't come to the rock,
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Speaker 4: And I said, well, we we don't want to prevent
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Speaker 4: kids from coming to the rock, but please use us
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Speaker 4: as a carrot or stick.
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Speaker 5: You know.
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Speaker 4: And uh so that if the kids are not behaving
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Speaker 4: and respectful with class, tell them that they may lose
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Speaker 4: their privilege to come to the Rock that day. And
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Speaker 4: so I think she appreciated knowing that they could use
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Speaker 4: us as a reward to come after school. And and
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Speaker 4: of course we've been doing this a long time. Yeah,
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Speaker 4: we want to we want to certainly cooperate with with
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Speaker 4: the schools and the teachers.
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Speaker 3: The going back to the beginning, it was you and
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Speaker 3: your wife primarily that had this vision, right and.
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Speaker 4: Is her name, Yeah, my wife, Sandy is an educator
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Speaker 4: in our young son Andy, who now you know works
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Speaker 4: in the newspaper and does.
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Speaker 2: A lot of Thank you to Andy.
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Speaker 3: I was a journalist and young Yeah, and Andy's uh,
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Speaker 3: I've been following his stories about the Price Tower with.
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Speaker 2: Great interest, And thank you to Andy.
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Speaker 3: For covering that so well and really putting the time
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Speaker 3: in to go to those hearings and things and give
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Speaker 3: us all a glimpse of what's going on with that
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Speaker 3: great reason.
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Speaker 4: He was sixth grade when we came to the rock,
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Speaker 4: and uh, so it was a really neat time for
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Speaker 4: us to uh to my board asked me, h, since
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Speaker 4: I wasn't with the church any longer. My boyd asked,
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Speaker 4: what kids do we want, I said, I want them all.
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Speaker 4: If they have need of the Lord, we want them,
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Speaker 4: you know. And so we've been striving after that this summer.
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Speaker 4: Of course, we have unique things that we do, like
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Speaker 4: next week, I think we're having our haystack, where we
10:19
Speaker 4: get ten bales of hay. We flow them up about
10:22
Speaker 4: six seven, you know, I feet high. We throw a
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Speaker 4: bunch of money in there, and then when we say go,
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Speaker 4: the kids dive in and they come out with hay
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Speaker 4: all over them.
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Speaker 5: But I also can earn some money.
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Speaker 4: And then we started our bike trip in May for
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Speaker 4: back when I was at the Message Church.
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Speaker 5: About thirty six years.
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Speaker 4: Now, we've been taking these annual bike trips. It's one
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Speaker 4: of the unique things that we started back then and
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Speaker 4: we continue today. This year we're going to Ohio and
10:54
Speaker 4: for our twenty fifth anniversary. Some years ago we wanted
10:58
Speaker 4: to do something special, so we we bust everybody out
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Speaker 4: to Santa Monica Pire with a trailer uh U haul
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Speaker 4: carrying luggage and food and and a bike trailer with
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Speaker 4: all the bikes on. And we started there and we
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Speaker 4: rode back the old route sixty six, my goodness, went
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Speaker 4: through the desert out there in California and and uh
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Speaker 4: tried to do fifty miles in each state before we
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Speaker 4: got back to Oklahoma. And that was uh, you know,
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Speaker 4: kind of signature for twenty five years. We're approaching thirty six.
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Speaker 4: Now we've been to Canada, we've been to uh.
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Speaker 2: Texas.
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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, and it's a it's a very it's
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Speaker 4: like a boot camp.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: No, I would say you it's a lot. There's a
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Speaker 3: lot going on in a trip like that. You got
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Speaker 3: to be able to ride the back. You got you
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Speaker 3: got a lot of planning and logistics involved. They've got
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Speaker 3: a whole bunch of moving parts.
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Speaker 4: I mean for the kids, you know, it's really uh,
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Speaker 4: it's difficult because you you put them on the bike
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Speaker 4: and they used to maybe going in town for a
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Speaker 4: few miles, and we ride fifty sixty miles a day.
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Speaker 4: And and I've seen them, you know, even myself, you know,
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Speaker 4: as a man, I don't know if I can make this,
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Speaker 4: you know. But but it's like a lesson in life.
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Speaker 4: You don't have to sit in Sunday school to learn
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Speaker 4: that lesson. You can put it to practice and say
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Speaker 4: I can do all things through Christ, who will strengthen me.
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Speaker 4: And at night, we have devotionals and we stay up
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Speaker 4: late and then we get up early in the morning,
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Speaker 4: six o'clock and we put them back on the road.
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Speaker 4: And we've we've flown over the Grand Canyon, We've been
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Speaker 4: to Canada, We've been you know, all over the world,
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Speaker 4: you know, well the United States.
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Speaker 2: How many kids go on this we'll.
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Speaker 4: Have from thirty to sixty, depend on the season that
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Speaker 4: we're in, and we have half of them are adults
12:43
Speaker 4: and staff members. They go and it's a very it's
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Speaker 4: whenever I get alumni together and wherever they come from.
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Speaker 4: Now they're you know, already married and had children. But
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Speaker 4: it won't take but a few minutes we're sitting together
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Speaker 4: and the conversation will turn to the bike triops.
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Speaker 5: Kid, do you remember whenever you know?
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Speaker 4: And it's a it's a great tie that ties us together.
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Speaker 3: Uh huh, that's super great story and and uh, such
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Speaker 3: a great experience for those kids, I would think. And yeah,
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Speaker 3: and then you've got you know another program you've come
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Speaker 3: out with.
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Speaker 2: It's the Creamer.
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Speaker 5: I mean, my goodness, we were we The lady that
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Speaker 5: that owned it.
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Speaker 4: Was talking to different people about purchasing when she decided not.
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Speaker 5: To use it, and so.
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Speaker 4: Finally she talked to some relatives and said, well, let's
13:38
Speaker 4: give it away, you know, for tax purposes, I guess.
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Speaker 4: And so I had looked at that building before I
13:45
Speaker 4: found the rock, and it belonged to Phillip sub Belie
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Speaker 4: and Uh and they had a low price tag on it,
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Speaker 4: I found out, and I went to Charlie Boarman and
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Speaker 4: offered him a dollar for it, and I got turned down.
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Speaker 4: But then and now you know, so many years later
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Speaker 4: it was given to us. I didn't even have to
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Speaker 4: spend a dollar for it. And so we walk in
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Speaker 4: and there's windows busted out, there's a hole in the
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Speaker 4: roof where it had snowed in, and birds of flying
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Speaker 4: through there. And people said we ought to just tear
14:19
Speaker 4: it down.
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Speaker 5: So when they offered it to us.
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Speaker 4: We said, well, okay, we don't have good sense, so
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Speaker 4: we'll take it. And we spent two years refurbishing that
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Speaker 4: old building.
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Speaker 5: But it's an iconic, iconic it is beautiful place.
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Speaker 4: And we had older people come by and say, you know,
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Speaker 4: my husband got out of World War two and this
14:39
Speaker 4: was the first place he took me to to get
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Speaker 4: ice cream. And so a lot of older people remember
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Speaker 4: getting fights in ice cream there at the creamer, and
14:48
Speaker 4: so we devulted it into a school for kids dropping out.
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Speaker 4: We have an esports program to help kids get out
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Speaker 4: of their small bedroom and come together to learn teamwork
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Speaker 4: and sportsmanship and will play esports.
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Speaker 5: I don't understand it, but they can get.
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Speaker 2: It's probably better than sitting aloud at home doing the
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Speaker 2: same thing.
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Speaker 4: I think that that's and they can get a scholarship
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Speaker 4: without even putting tennis shoes on, you know, to go
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Speaker 4: to college. And so it's really neat for them. And
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Speaker 4: we have a food court. We thought, you know, kids
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Speaker 4: coming in, we need something to eat, so we put
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Speaker 4: in a sweet spot because we serve a really good
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Speaker 4: ice cream and other food. But passed Independence who work
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Speaker 4: with autistic children. They approach us about managing that for us,
15:36
Speaker 4: and so they supply the labor and we supply the
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Speaker 4: location and the food. And so it's open from eleven
15:44
Speaker 4: to two o'clock every day on the weekdays, and that's
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Speaker 4: doing well. And so we have a local artist in
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Speaker 4: the back that makes artwork out of junk and stuff,
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Speaker 4: and that's going to be featured on this art crawl that.
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Speaker 5: They're doing there. You know next week.
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Speaker 4: I think, so the Creamer would be part of the
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Speaker 4: locations where people can go to and to see what
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Speaker 4: he's doing and other people, you know, can enjoy what
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Speaker 4: we tried to do the last few years.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, he builds stuff out of junk.
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Speaker 5: Yes, Josh, Yeah, yeah, Josh.
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Speaker 4: Yeah. Josh is a great guy and fun to be
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Speaker 4: with and uh is need to have a hobby that
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Speaker 4: you can do and enjoy and provide your living expenses.
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Speaker 4: So yeah, so he's he's now part of the Creamer.
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Speaker 2: That's awesome.
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Speaker 3: And you know, I think there's a pattern here, isn't
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Speaker 3: it That you guys have built a lot of really
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Speaker 3: fun and attractive activities, you know, make the kids interested
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Speaker 3: and to participate it on the Yeah, that was kind
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Speaker 3: of the plan. It sounds like it certainly seems to
16:50
Speaker 3: have worked. Yet, I really it's a great organization. Well
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Speaker 3: we they think of all the lives and people that
16:57
Speaker 3: have been through there that you've had answer to impact.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, when we we came, you know, twenty six years ago. Uh,
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Speaker 4: these kids, you know, we found our niche Boys and
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Speaker 4: Girls Club, Uh, Salvation Army, Uh your k life. You know,
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Speaker 4: they all have great kids that are come into their
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Speaker 4: great programs, and we found that when the bus leaves,
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Speaker 4: the kids standing there with nothing else to do because
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Speaker 4: they don't belong to sports, so they don't you know whatever. Uh,
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Speaker 4: those are the kids that we attracted have not too
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Speaker 4: many other options, and so we're thankful to have those
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Speaker 4: kind of kids.
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Speaker 2: That's our niche thank goodness.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that network of great organizations in Barlowsville. Yeah, not
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Speaker 3: not really unique and just kids services either.
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Speaker 2: We have a rich community.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a great legacy you guys have created at
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Speaker 3: on the Rock, uh these these years and uh, all
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Speaker 3: all the time you guys have spent resources. I just
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Speaker 3: thank you, I'll say for all of us here in
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Speaker 3: Bartlsville for all that you've done.
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Speaker 5: Can it's really it's been that's been our pleasure.
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Speaker 4: We've been very fortunate to to survive twenty six years
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Speaker 4: and uh to do what we hope the Lord is
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Speaker 4: pleased with.
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Speaker 5: And that's all we can answer.
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Speaker 3: And if people are interested in this, what I'm sure
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Speaker 3: you know you need tutors.
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Speaker 2: And volunteers and resources and you're you don't have, you
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Speaker 2: don't get where do you get your money? How does
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Speaker 2: this happen?
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Speaker 5: Well?
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Speaker 4: I don't know we had uh we only have about
18:37
Speaker 4: two hundred on.
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Speaker 5: A million list and uh uh.
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Speaker 4: And many of them are very you know, give sacrificially
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Speaker 4: to us. And we have a budget like like a
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Speaker 4: half million dollars a year, and if you divide that
18:54
Speaker 4: into two hundred people, that's you know, that's that's considerable. So,
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Speaker 4: but we have organizations and town like the Line Foundation
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Speaker 4: and uh, the Parson's Family, you know.
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Speaker 5: That that give.
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Speaker 4: They don't give to programs and to buy meals or
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Speaker 4: gasoline and things like that or salaries, but they give
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Speaker 4: to to help us build things with They've helped us
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Speaker 4: considerably to build a cream build and to build our programs.
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Speaker 5: Up with the with the structures that we have.
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Speaker 4: But we're still, you know, desperate to have people just
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Speaker 4: to think about us.
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Speaker 5: They have a good word to say to pray for.
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Speaker 2: Well, I know they are.
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Speaker 3: I mean each we've the last few years we've done
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Speaker 3: our anniversary donation event and you guys have been selected
19:41
Speaker 3: every time. That's great, and you know sometimes we've had
19:45
Speaker 3: other winners, right, but you guys have been one hundred
19:48
Speaker 3: percent one of our customers. They said, I want you
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Speaker 3: to support.
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Speaker 2: On the rock.
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Speaker 5: Well, that's good. We appreciate that.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it is a great testament for what
19:56
Speaker 3: you do. There are a lot of folks out there
19:58
Speaker 3: who do know about it, and and hopefully more out
20:01
Speaker 3: there learning about it today. And we'll get and we'll
20:04
Speaker 3: find you. Reach out and go down to the creamery
20:07
Speaker 3: or just come come by. I know that's a great
20:10
Speaker 3: way to find out how you might be able to
20:13
Speaker 3: help is just come see what happens, because I've been
20:16
Speaker 3: down there a few times when my kids.
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Speaker 2: Went down there some when they were around, but it's
20:21
Speaker 2: hard to it's such an attractive place for kids.
20:23
Speaker 3: They all kind of want to see what it's about.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you've done a great job.
20:30
Speaker 3: So I mentioned the great end of month deals we
20:34
Speaker 3: have on going on at the dealership. I'll switch back
20:37
Speaker 3: to being Oklahoma's oldest and most trusted.
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Speaker 2: Toyota dealer again. We are here to take care of
20:43
Speaker 2: you guys.
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Speaker 3: I know sometimes it's these last few years it seems
20:47
Speaker 3: like there aren't many vehicles on the lot. That is
20:50
Speaker 3: true in a relative sense to about five or six
20:54
Speaker 3: years ago. But Toys telling us we're going to need
20:58
Speaker 3: to sell about eighty percent of what we have on
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Speaker 3: the ground at any one time, and so it's a
21:02
Speaker 3: mad race to sell them all.
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Speaker 2: And we're nearing the end of the month.
21:06
Speaker 3: The way the allocation system works that when the month closes,
21:10
Speaker 3: they take a snapshot of what's out there and what
21:12
Speaker 3: you sold and what's in your pipeline, and they redistribute
21:15
Speaker 3: the vehicles to get us what we need hopefully, And
21:19
Speaker 3: so we're kind of all the dealers are kind of
21:21
Speaker 3: in the same same situation. You can be a lot larger,
21:24
Speaker 3: but you're still going to have about the same day
21:26
Speaker 3: of supply on the ground and same number of vehicles
21:29
Speaker 3: relative domini you sell. So don't get frustrated. We can
21:34
Speaker 3: find it for you. More and more, we're doing lots
21:37
Speaker 3: of dealer trades and helping people find the vehicle they
21:40
Speaker 3: want a little bit further upstream in the in the
21:44
Speaker 3: vehicle pipeline whereas they're being built. We can reserve one
21:48
Speaker 3: for you if you know what you want, you know,
21:51
Speaker 3: I know it. Today we're working on getting a land
21:54
Speaker 3: cruiser for someone from Lufkin, Texas.
21:58
Speaker 2: And sending in one of our cars.
21:59
Speaker 3: So you know that's not the most efficient way to
22:02
Speaker 3: do it, necessarily, but.
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Speaker 2: We'll go to about the end of the earth to
22:06
Speaker 2: find your car for.
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Speaker 4: I'm not being paid to say this, but I drive
22:12
Speaker 4: a Tundra and bought it locally here from you well,
22:16
Speaker 4: and it's a great car and we really appreciate that
22:21
Speaker 4: making model.
22:22
Speaker 3: No, I'm really proud to be a Toyota dealer.
22:24
Speaker 2: You know.
22:25
Speaker 3: It's in ninety five years. My family's been in the
22:27
Speaker 3: car business now and started out as a Methodist minister
22:31
Speaker 3: sent to Oklahoma to my great grandfather, and of course
22:36
Speaker 3: my grandfather was a involved at First Methodists for many
22:39
Speaker 3: years and great church. And so anyway, we're looking forward
22:47
Speaker 3: to a great end of the month. And if you
22:49
Speaker 3: do use cars, new cars great incentives. There's a lot
22:52
Speaker 3: of lease deals out there. I know we traded this
22:55
Speaker 3: week for a really cool older Mustang convertible under one
22:59
Speaker 3: hundred thousand, really nice car.
23:01
Speaker 2: We also purchased a nearly brand.
23:03
Speaker 3: New twenty four Mustang with only seven thousand miles something
23:08
Speaker 3: who just wasn't driving it enough and felt like he
23:11
Speaker 3: wanted to get a pickup truck.
23:13
Speaker 2: So this car needs some help and need some love.
23:17
Speaker 3: We've got a great selection of less expensive vehicles, trucks,
23:22
Speaker 3: all kinds of cars, trying to buy more. If you
23:26
Speaker 3: have a car you'd look to sell, we definitely you
23:29
Speaker 3: can just go right on our website, put a little
23:31
Speaker 3: bit of information in. It'll give you a Kelly Bluebook
23:34
Speaker 3: instant cash offer almost immediately when you bring the vehicle in.
23:40
Speaker 3: We'll confirm everything. A lot of times we'll actually raise
23:43
Speaker 3: our offer a little bit from the Kelly blue Book.
23:46
Speaker 2: So give us a shot there.
23:48
Speaker 3: All that can be done at done just Toyota dot
23:51
Speaker 3: com or come on buy and see the team of
23:54
Speaker 3: great noncommissioned sales professionals we have out at the dealership.
23:58
Speaker 3: We really take pride and you know, keeping things simple
24:01
Speaker 3: and not playing a lot of games with hidden fees
24:06
Speaker 3: and add ons to the vehicles. I really try to
24:08
Speaker 3: be transparent on our pricing and the financing that we offer.
24:14
Speaker 3: Typically do not mark our rates up at all. We
24:17
Speaker 3: can pass on the buy rate to our customers so
24:20
Speaker 3: they get the very best interest rate that we can
24:22
Speaker 3: get them. And so we try to be competitive and
24:26
Speaker 3: and really earn your business. We use true market based
24:29
Speaker 3: pricing and a lot of times I price the vehicles
24:31
Speaker 3: myself and it's not me, it's Brian Ballard, our general
24:35
Speaker 3: sales manager, and we really want to keep make it
24:38
Speaker 3: simple and fast for you to buy a car. That's
24:41
Speaker 3: our motto is just to have it feel good to
24:45
Speaker 3: buy the car and know that you bought a great product.
24:49
Speaker 3: And as you mentioned, you've got a lot of stuff
24:52
Speaker 3: coming out at the Rock. There's other stuff coming on
24:56
Speaker 3: in the community, the art walk you already mentioned. We've
24:59
Speaker 3: got the Educator Hall of Fame right around the corner. Next,
25:03
Speaker 3: I think it's Thursday night on at the community center
25:09
Speaker 3: You've got they're going to honor some other great educators
25:12
Speaker 3: in our community as opposed to your wife, which I
25:17
Speaker 3: went back to her time as a teacher here, but
25:19
Speaker 3: Cheryl Fentrist, Jane Sears, Cheryl Lansdowne, and the Legacy inductee
25:24
Speaker 3: Betty Jane Johnston. So really people that also had a
25:28
Speaker 3: great impact on the youth in our community. And we'll
25:32
Speaker 3: be out there that night. That's when we like to
25:35
Speaker 3: be involved in a lot. So back once again too
25:40
Speaker 3: on the Rock. And you know, if people want to
25:42
Speaker 3: know more information, what's the best way for them to
25:45
Speaker 3: do that.
25:47
Speaker 5: To get that, we always welcome people come by.
25:52
Speaker 4: When I talked to parents on the phone, you know,
25:54
Speaker 4: I say, hey, just don't send your kids to us.
25:57
Speaker 4: We'll pick them up on a bus and you pick
25:59
Speaker 4: them up after classes over. But come check us out,
26:02
Speaker 4: check and see if we're not true to what we say.
26:05
Speaker 2: You know.
26:05
Speaker 4: We want to make sure that we we can't do
26:08
Speaker 4: everything uh perfectly, but we want to do with excellence.
26:15
Speaker 4: And so we want people to Uh. Our office hours
26:20
Speaker 4: are like from nine till six Monday through Friday, and
26:23
Speaker 4: they can come by on Hensley our office, or they
26:27
Speaker 4: can come in during program time. Just walk for the
26:31
Speaker 4: kids and see what's going on, listen.
26:33
Speaker 2: To and basically downtown just.
26:37
Speaker 4: I'll park in Hinsley and uh listen to the lessons
26:42
Speaker 4: that we we we we teach and what should we
26:45
Speaker 4: do and make sure that this is a safe place
26:49
Speaker 4: where you want your kids to be.
26:51
Speaker 3: Uh.
26:51
Speaker 4: The people's are children the most precious thing that we
26:54
Speaker 4: have outside of our faith, you know, and and so
26:58
Speaker 4: we want to make sure that the kids are safe,
27:00
Speaker 4: they're well taken care of, that we teach them good values,
27:04
Speaker 4: that we'll serve them in life. And we want parents
27:07
Speaker 4: to be able to have confidence in us and come.
27:10
Speaker 4: So anybody's welcome to come anytime. We're open, and we we.
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Speaker 5: Have a website. I don't have a computer in my office.
27:19
Speaker 2: I was looking at it.
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Speaker 5: It's a great websit it Okay, I have nothing to
27:24
Speaker 5: do with computers.
27:25
Speaker 2: But Andy. I saw a picture of Andy with a
27:27
Speaker 2: flame on his hand.
27:29
Speaker 3: I'm not sure what was going on that was object anyway,
27:33
Speaker 3: check out the website, check out on the Rock.
27:36
Speaker 2: Thank you, mister Dawson, I thank you. It's been great
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Speaker 2: to hear the whole.
27:41
Speaker 3: Story and learn more about what's going on and stuff
27:43
Speaker 3: like the bike ride. And thank you all for listening.
27:46
Speaker 3: We've pretty much exhausted our time today and I'm glad
27:50
Speaker 3: to have you this this week listening to car Talk.
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Speaker 2: Folks, you've been watching and listening to Car Talk.
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