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CAR TALK DONEGES INDIANS BASEBALL · 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 for car talk with the Dungeons family. Water's Dunges, Toyota.
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Speaker 1: I am Tom Davis. Welcome aboard, and my goodness, golic
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Speaker 1: sun is shining.
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Speaker 2: He it must mean it's Thursday.
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Speaker 1: How you doing there?
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Speaker 2: You wow? And friends, thank you for joining us this morning.
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Speaker 2: I brought a bunch of props today. I've got got
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Speaker 2: John Panel here from the morning. Just Toyota Indians gotta
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Speaker 2: used to saying that the seniors baseball team here since
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Speaker 2: nineteen forty one. Yes, pretty amazing legacy we've got here,
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Speaker 2: don't you? Thank John?
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Speaker 3: It isn't and it's you know, even crazier to think that.
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Speaker 3: I mean, that's what eighty I can't do the matter
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Speaker 3: eighty forty years. But then it's ninety years this year
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Speaker 3: of American League baseball here in Bartlesville. Yeah, so we're
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Speaker 3: excited to get going. We had tryouts last Saturday and
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Speaker 3: our first practice last night, and there's going to be
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Speaker 3: some exciting things to come.
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Speaker 2: It's a great time of year and as we head
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Speaker 2: into summer and Memorial Day, it's a big weekend. This weekend,
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Speaker 2: we've got a bunch of sales at the dealership and
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Speaker 2: great great deals on new Toyota's and our used cars,
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Speaker 2: and everybody's planning a busy summer, but we don't want
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Speaker 2: to forget about baseball. You've got your schedule lined out
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Speaker 2: and their team is practicing and getting ready to start.
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Speaker 2: So tell folks about the schedule. Let's just start there,
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Speaker 2: and when does when do things kick off? And what
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Speaker 2: do we have on store for this year?
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Speaker 3: We're all set. We don't last any time. In May
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Speaker 3: twenty seventh, we'll we'll hit the roads for a nine
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Speaker 3: any game in which toile against a team called the
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Speaker 3: Kansas Curve. They're out of the College of the Kansas
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Speaker 3: Collegian League. And then on the thirtieth fact Kansas Curve
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Speaker 3: team will come over here to Bartlesville for doubleheader.
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Speaker 2: That that evening.
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Speaker 3: I think we start at four four pm on that
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Speaker 3: Then we do play in the d BAT League now,
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Speaker 3: which is a college league, so the majority of our
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Speaker 3: games are Dungeons Stadium.
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Speaker 2: But we will travel to Stroud and meet.
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Speaker 3: Teams from Oklahoma City halfway play at Rogers State University,
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Speaker 3: so we'll get some guys in front of some college
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Speaker 3: scouts there.
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Speaker 2: You got a number of home games throughout the year,
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Speaker 2: and we do.
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Speaker 3: We do in the first two weeks in June, we
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Speaker 3: hit the road two tournaments, but then we'll be home
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Speaker 3: for a majority of the rest of the summer in
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Speaker 3: June through July. The wind it so it looks to
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Speaker 3: be a good summer.
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Speaker 2: You know, we'll have the fireworks show again.
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Speaker 3: It's a great time to bring the family out, good atmosphere,
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Speaker 3: kids can p get a hot dog.
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Speaker 2: It's a great time down at the stadium. It always is.
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Speaker 2: And you know, if people haven't been down to the
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Speaker 2: to the stadium, they really need to come out down
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Speaker 2: and check out the baseball. It's great, great league you're in.
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Speaker 2: You know, there's these young men in mature and start
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Speaker 2: to look for their college careers, and many of them
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Speaker 2: are in their first year of college and finishing it up.
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Speaker 2: You know, tell us about the team you've got this
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Speaker 2: year and where they come from and their background a
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Speaker 2: little bit.
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Speaker 3: You've been I mean, our guys are we are fifteen
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Speaker 3: to nineteen. You know, the youngest guy ever took was
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Speaker 3: fourteen years old, and that's that's Brendan Asher, who's now
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Speaker 3: you know, starting pitch for l Roberts University, and he's
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Speaker 3: still eighteen years old, so you know, to watch his
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Speaker 3: maturity and go up, it is just an amazing thing.
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Speaker 3: I'ts go through the list of guys. So Jackson's one
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Speaker 3: from Bartlesville. Brett Eases from Bartlesville. Cale Seemers is a
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Speaker 3: Barnsville guy. Brendan Asher huntershe Leam Clark, Grant Clark, he's
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Speaker 3: a College of the Ozarks a picture but coming back.
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Speaker 3: Owen Dumb he's a younger one at Bartlesville. Sam Marcella
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Speaker 3: Eli Winters is from Blinpool. His brother also helped us coach.
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Speaker 3: Ben Spilman is from Kanie, Kansas, played high school ball
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Speaker 3: up there. Bryce Slough is a Bartlesville guy. Uh so
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Speaker 3: we keep it like with them traditions. So his uncle
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Speaker 3: is Matt Sedorris who used to United Lennon here and
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Speaker 3: then used to coach. So Matt and I go way back,
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Speaker 3: and so it's exciting to have guys like Bryce.
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Speaker 2: We have a lot of multi generational players through the
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Speaker 2: years and oh yeah, oh yeah families and they have
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Speaker 2: been involved in in a number of ways.
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Speaker 3: So we got another Pascal kid, Kaden Williams. So we're
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Speaker 3: excited about him as a young a young and Zane
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Speaker 3: Strickland from Copain, Bryce Stickler from Dewey, Tucker Wootin from Worcester, Oklahoma.
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Speaker 3: He was a freshman of Carl Albert and and I
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Speaker 3: played he his father and I played together at Southeastern
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Speaker 3: Oklahoma State, So there's that connection there. Adrian O'Dell's from
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Speaker 3: No Water. Leith Griggs and Zane Griggs, so we have brothers.
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Speaker 2: Zane is the older one.
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Speaker 3: He's in college already late is going to be a senior,
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Speaker 3: I believe it. Dewey, but exciting. Good things to come
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Speaker 3: from those guys. And then lastly, but definitely not least
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Speaker 3: Pitcher Justin Schwart. We just graduated from Barbsville. So we're excited.
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Speaker 3: Even down to the coaching staff.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it take the coaches and and a lot of
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Speaker 2: times the parents and all the family to help pull
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Speaker 2: all this off through the season.
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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, so it's fun with all the coach I
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Speaker 3: think we have six coaches, five of them played for me.
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Speaker 3: It's so it's bad when you have one of your
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Speaker 3: old coach your coaches called an old coach who played
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Speaker 3: for me. But he's even got gray hair too.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 3: So that's like, oh my god, I am feeling really old.
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Speaker 2: Well and something that's been going on since nineteen forty
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Speaker 2: one that happened brought, you know, just to show it
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Speaker 2: for people who want. And this is our Guinness World's
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Speaker 2: Record certificate. It's the record for the longest corporate sponsor
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Speaker 2: of a sports team at this time. It was sixty
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Speaker 2: six years. Was achieved by dungeus Ford sponsoring American Legion
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Speaker 2: Baseball at the time since nineteen forty one in Bartsville, Oklahoma, USA.
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Speaker 2: And I approved by the Guinness World Records And yeah,
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Speaker 2: it's you know, things change over time, or not really
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Speaker 2: playing American Legion exactly anymore.
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Speaker 3: I think we are actually back playing that BIBAT is
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Speaker 3: not an American league. We're kind of a hybrid. Okay, so
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Speaker 3: we are officially registered in the state of Oklahoma's American
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Speaker 3: Legion team. So we will play in the Oak or
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Speaker 3: the American Legion playoffs.
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Speaker 2: Okay, so you playing the same advance into the same
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Speaker 2: tournament round for the playoffs, and we end up in
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Speaker 2: the stand usual I think they call it.
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Speaker 3: Right, Yes, yes, yes, yes, So we have a couple
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Speaker 3: of different things we play in and it's just.
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Speaker 2: Baseball has evolved and and you.
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Speaker 3: Know, baseball has evolved greatly here. It's the number of
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Speaker 3: you call them prospect teams or travel teams that's that's
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Speaker 3: come up. The hometown teams, you know, us going down
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Speaker 3: to Claremore for UH Thursday night game at seven o'clock,
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Speaker 3: it's nine innings doesn't exist anymore.
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Speaker 2: It's sad or going up to Arc City or running
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Speaker 2: over to Miami with some of those old old competitive
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Speaker 2: rivalries aren't necessarily yeah, all you know, everybody, almost everybody
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Speaker 2: and then literally almost everybody is just a tournament team now,
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Speaker 2: and so they planned the weekends.
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Speaker 3: We still got a great full schedule throughout the week
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Speaker 3: and we'll go play tournaments on the weekend and got
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Speaker 3: some weekends series. So it's it's fun. We'll get over
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Speaker 3: fifty games and guys will get their money's worth.
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Speaker 2: I'm sure it's a great thing and it's always fun
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Speaker 2: every summer. And it's a great value for people that
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Speaker 2: can get a season pass.
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Speaker 3: Get a season pass for fifty dollars amidst two adults
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Speaker 3: on that gets you into any home game no matter
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Speaker 3: what's going on on the back is UH is a
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Speaker 3: coupon free onion strings with the purchase of two entrees
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Speaker 3: from our good buddy Landing Kurd, who is one of
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Speaker 3: my former players that owns Dinks.
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Speaker 2: Now you know him and his dad.
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Speaker 3: May occurred, uh, you know, great friends of the program
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Speaker 3: and family. So it's you know, the connection dround bars
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Speaker 3: was a good time.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, and what else is going on? Any other
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Speaker 2: big baseball news or anything you want to announce about
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Speaker 2: the team. I know you've had some changes in how
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Speaker 2: things operate. Are you are you raising money for anything
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Speaker 2: in particular? You're dragging it out? You know that we
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Speaker 2: always we have a platform here John, this is and
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Speaker 2: I don't Yeah, I think it's important to know that
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Speaker 2: this takes a big operation. We're glad to sponsor you,
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Speaker 2: and I hope we can get that match we talked
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Speaker 2: about from Toyota. That would be great to get them
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Speaker 2: to support the team too. And yeah, it's but I
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Speaker 2: know you need additional resources to be able to pull
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Speaker 2: off what what you do, and we do.
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Speaker 3: I mean it's you know, we have you know, a
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Speaker 3: league fee and then this year we do have a
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Speaker 3: stadium lease feed that we do pay the bars and schools.
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Speaker 3: It was kind of shocked we have done in the
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Speaker 3: past because the majority of our team is barsweall guys,
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Speaker 3: and that's fine, but there is expenses that come. You know,
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Speaker 3: nobody can tell me, you know about expenses to the stadium.
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Speaker 2: Yea, I understand that. I understand that there is. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: I mean, into the past, a lot of times with
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Speaker 2: their parents and everybody else, the coaches would go out
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Speaker 2: there and do that.
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Speaker 3: You're right, So we we had so I've reached out
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Speaker 3: to a couple of players, you know, Curtis Shaw being
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Speaker 3: being one of them. Of so he suggested, let's let's
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Speaker 3: set up and go fund me, you know, kind of
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Speaker 3: send that out to older players. So the league fee,
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Speaker 3: the fee is fifty five hundred dollars. So we started
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Speaker 3: to go fund me. It's on our Facebook page. It's
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Speaker 3: got some good tracks. I think we're over fifteen hundred
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Speaker 3: dollars now towards that towards that goal.
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Speaker 2: I want to encourage everybody to support it and come
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Speaker 2: out and support the team. These guys really work really
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Speaker 2: hard to get this point in their careers. I mean,
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Speaker 2: that's the thing that's so incredible. Here they're at the
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Speaker 2: kind of the pinnacle of their youth baseball career. Many
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Speaker 2: of them go on to play in college and have
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Speaker 2: have you know, learned into all those skills. And I
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Speaker 2: know that's why my time's working on a swing over
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Speaker 2: my grandfather started, I still got a chance. Yeah no, Tom.
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Speaker 2: Tom played youth baseball too, And you know that's why
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Speaker 2: my grandfather started sponsoring the team that first spring when
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Speaker 2: he came to town. He I'm sure I don't know
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Speaker 2: exactly what had happened to the sponsor before, but that
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Speaker 2: opportunity came available. That's April when he first came to town.
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Speaker 2: And in nineteen forty one, he and my grand mother
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Speaker 2: came from Tonkawa and I bought the Ford Dealership here
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Speaker 2: and you know, I've got my pen for seventy five
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Speaker 2: year Ford Dealer on today on my little pel and
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Speaker 2: brought the World Series plaque. We also have this cool
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Speaker 2: you know, why would he sponsor a baseball team? And
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Speaker 2: this is one of those things I love to tell
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Speaker 2: this story because this is what we call the Sparks
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Speaker 2: Fishure and it's a picture of a basketball team from
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Speaker 2: Tonkawha Ford in nineteen twenty five and it's got three
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Speaker 2: dungeus men on it. My grandfather and two of his brothers,
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Speaker 2: and they worked at the dealership. Their father had actually
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Speaker 2: passed away and they moved from from Blackwell where they
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Speaker 2: lived and he had my great grandfather was the grand
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Speaker 2: the Methodist minister there, and he passed away and they
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Speaker 2: moved to Tonkawha so they could work, and my grand
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Speaker 2: great grandmother ended up teaching at the college there. And
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Speaker 2: it's got all the My grandmother wrote all the scores here,
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Speaker 2: the games they played and who played on it and
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Speaker 2: all that. But you know, that opportunity he got to
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Speaker 2: be part of that team, and he went on and
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Speaker 2: played college sports at Oklahoma City University, was a letterman
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Speaker 2: in football and basketball and tennis, and on the Browse
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Speaker 2: Award for their Athlete of the Year, and came back
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Speaker 2: and ended up being the dealer in talk a Lot
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Speaker 2: and then moved to Bartlesville in nineteen forty one. So
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Speaker 2: that that whole idea of sponsoring the team and being
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Speaker 2: part of that, you know, it's so important in business.
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Speaker 2: You know that that team mentality and working together to
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Speaker 2: accomplish a goal that you guys, you know that you
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Speaker 2: can't play baseball without without all the pieces and without
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Speaker 2: that that kind of cohesion as a group, or you can,
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Speaker 2: but you're not going to be very successful. No, no, no,
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Speaker 2: and that's true.
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Speaker 3: I mean even to think back to the Dungeon's name
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Speaker 3: and the legacy that your grandfather built, just it's mind
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Speaker 3: blowing just the number of kids that it has helped.
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Speaker 3: You know, some of the kids may come from a
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Speaker 3: troubled situation that where baseball's their outlets to grow, you know,
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Speaker 3: where you can get around some good man and some
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Speaker 3: coaches that that's going to help him.
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Speaker 2: And learn, learn to win and lose and and go
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Speaker 2: through the process.
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Speaker 3: Baseball is a sport, you know that it's it teaches
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Speaker 3: us adversity because it is a game of failure, you know,
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Speaker 3: and the greatest hitter of all time failed six out
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Speaker 3: of ten times. You know, you're gonna get fired from
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Speaker 3: any other job in the world baseball player. Ted Williams.
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Speaker 3: You yeah, you he.
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Speaker 2: Failed six out ten times before successful.
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Speaker 3: We'll take that in the cart, you know a little
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Speaker 3: bit about that.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's good. That there are many parallels, No that
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Speaker 2: I think there are. There are a lot, and that
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Speaker 2: certainly our team at Dungeons is uh, you know, a
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Speaker 2: belt like that and we look at ourselves as a
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Speaker 2: team and and proud to help you guys every year.
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Speaker 2: And really, uh, it's one of those parts of the
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Speaker 2: legacy that's so important or really cloud to be proud
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Speaker 2: to continue it. And yeah, the fact that you were
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Speaker 2: a part of the team you know before and now
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Speaker 2: I've come back and helped manage it here for an
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Speaker 2: ear years. Thank you for your for your dedication to
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Speaker 2: the youth around here in Barcela. Here You're welcome.
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Speaker 3: You're welcome then, you know, it's even we're thinking like
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Speaker 3: even being in communication with guys. We have guys in
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Speaker 3: Alabama right now.
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Speaker 2: We have a player in Florida.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know Kansas, Arkansas so well.
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Speaker 2: And as you mentioned, this has been going on for
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Speaker 2: a long time, back to the many of the old
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Speaker 2: managers you know, I know you guys gathered at some
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Speaker 2: point recently. You told me a lot, you know, we did.
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Speaker 3: Tud Bond, who who meant a ton to me.
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Speaker 2: Was a great guy and good customer and friend of
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Speaker 2: my grandfather's for sure. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: We were at was with his grandson Jared, and we
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Speaker 3: went to the journey home and say goodbye and myself
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Speaker 3: Tug Carbrooks and Stan Walton in one room and that
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Speaker 3: you know, that goes back to So that was that
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Speaker 3: was managers and coaches from seventies to today, that much
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Speaker 3: in generation.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I remember, I remember those. I mean we would
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Speaker 2: remember like the van and stuff. They had the Indians
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Speaker 2: van and we're gonna do that again, brad Well Insurance
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Speaker 2: made that more difficult. They don't really want to. We
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Speaker 2: could spawn and put our logo on one and you guys,
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Speaker 2: you know, but the days of of loaning it, Oh yeah,
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Speaker 2: I know that gone. Yeah, yeah, that was with the
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Speaker 2: vans and the way the team traveled then, because travel
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Speaker 2: was very different back in those days. And the families
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Speaker 2: would all go together and and uh, you know then
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Speaker 2: we had the vans and and team parties and things
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Speaker 2: out at the ranch at times, and and I remember
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Speaker 2: I was particularly my memories are going with my grandfather
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Speaker 2: to the games and and you know, going in and
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Speaker 2: he he kind of had this routine where he wouldn't
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Speaker 2: stay for the whole game, but he would go to
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Speaker 2: virtually every game, and he would go in and he'd
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Speaker 2: talk to the team and the manager real quickly. Then
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Speaker 2: he'd go up into the stands and sit down for
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Speaker 2: a minute, and then, as was his way, he would
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Speaker 2: be restless and move on and keep going.
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Speaker 3: Now, it's according to Jim Bowle, who was a dear
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Speaker 3: old friend and played back in the fifties. You know,
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Speaker 3: he told great stories of your grandfather of like he
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Speaker 3: would get on and ride.
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Speaker 2: The bus and that. Oh yeah, well definitely if he
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Speaker 2: went with the team that was back in the day.
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Speaker 2: I guess they had a bus man.
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Speaker 3: I was like, they did, yeah, but it was he said,
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Speaker 3: he goes. If a player needed cleats, he'd go by him.
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Speaker 3: The player needed a glove, they would go by him.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: He was just a very generous man when it came
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Speaker 3: to the kids and whatever it took for them to succeed,
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Speaker 3: he was going to do it.
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Speaker 2: So that's that's awesome, That's what that is, what it's
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Speaker 2: all about. And it's yeah, he'd love to love the
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Speaker 2: team and loved to be a part of that. I
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Speaker 2: think it was special to him and that so that's
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Speaker 2: why I started doing it all those long ago. And
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Speaker 2: the picture of him and his brothers is just a
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Speaker 2: it's a great testament to that the kinds of opportunities
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Speaker 2: that can give you and and I know he wanted
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Speaker 2: to make sure everybody had those, and he and my
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Speaker 2: grandmother had that.
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Speaker 3: Nineteen twenty nine was twenty four is this that's twenty
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Speaker 3: four and so it.
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Speaker 2: Was in twenty nine nine is when the dealership first started.
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Speaker 2: So we're in like ninety five ninety six a year
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Speaker 2: in Tankola and started in Tonqua. The first Done just
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Speaker 2: that was Solan and my grandfather Bill Done just had
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Speaker 2: that dealership. So one ended up being a dealer in
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Speaker 2: Colorado and uh and was also a great guy. And
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Speaker 2: the other brother was actually a coach in Guthrie and
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Speaker 2: football coach in high school for many many years for decades.
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Speaker 2: And then of course my grandfather there and they started
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Speaker 2: out there in Tonkawa, had another little store and Brahmin
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Speaker 2: that wasn't particularly successful. I didn't last very long. And
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Speaker 2: oh the stories are incredible. There's everything from the the
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Speaker 2: they're in the depression, when the banks closed down my
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Speaker 2: grand They say, my grandfather went up and tried to
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Speaker 2: make a deposit at the bank and the teller wouldn't
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Speaker 2: take the money and somehow kept him from depositing his
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Speaker 2: cash and ate it and they shut they cloth, you know,
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Speaker 2: the bank, and he couldn't have withdrawn it the next day,
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Speaker 2: but he had cash to help keep his business going.
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Speaker 2: I heard, you know, the stories are he was able
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Speaker 2: to help the city keep going and other businesses and
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Speaker 2: things by making loans and things and helping people get
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Speaker 2: through that period when there was access to money. And
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Speaker 2: another story was the when a friend, Don mclannon, was
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Speaker 2: going through Bartlesville in nineteen fifty four. Don mcclannon was
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Speaker 2: the founder of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and he
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Speaker 2: was coming into Artlesville and he had a car that
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Speaker 2: had a thousand dollars loan on it at from a
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Speaker 2: bank that he'd borrowed. Take him out the loan to
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Speaker 2: get some money. He'd start to get momentum going for
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Speaker 2: the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. And he had heard about
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Speaker 2: my grandfather and he and his wife had been praying
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Speaker 2: about it, and we're planning to ask him for money,
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Speaker 2: and he ended up giving him twenty two hundred dollars
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Speaker 2: and he paid off the loan and then he had
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Speaker 2: some money left and they planned this trip to Pittsburgh
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Speaker 2: to meet branch Rickey, who had Don had met before
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Speaker 2: and had kind of inspired him with his vision of
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Speaker 2: the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, and so the idea was
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Speaker 2: to get some athletes up there to Pittsburgh and raise
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Speaker 2: some money and start this organization really getting going. And
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Speaker 2: so they did. My grandfather went with Don and some
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Speaker 2: athletes from the state of Oklahoma to to this to
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Speaker 2: meet with Branch and he introduced them to some people.
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Speaker 2: They ended up getting a ten thousand dollars donation that day,
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Speaker 2: I think, and that was really the beginning of the
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Speaker 2: Fellowship of Christian Athletes and really just you know, can
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Speaker 2: other one of those stories of things that get started.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, generous people helping people. It's a great story.
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Speaker 2: And no, that is that is that is an amazing story.
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Speaker 3: You know, I was thinking, those are two jagganic things
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Speaker 3: that you know, Bran Tricky was a part of. And
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Speaker 3: then also having your grandfather part of Brand Tricky, who
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Speaker 3: people don't know that he's the one that signed Jackie
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Speaker 3: Robinson to break the color barry right in Ajor League Baseball.
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Speaker 3: And then also to be a part of essentially the
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Speaker 3: beginning of Fellowship of Christian Athletes.
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Speaker 2: Which still goes on today and so many kids and
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Speaker 2: my grandfather was on the original board. And that's a great,
20:53
Speaker 2: great organization. And you know, but again just one of
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Speaker 2: those legacies. I brought a ball too. Here of the
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Speaker 2: nineteen eighty two team you mentioned Carl who was the
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Speaker 2: manager at the time. Carl Brooks is the manager. There's
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Speaker 2: names here like Kevin Fields, Greg Brewer. You know, I
21:12
Speaker 2: don't know. I'm not even spar Breda Maddox eighty two.
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Speaker 2: So I would have John hart Is on there is
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Speaker 2: you know there he is right there, number thirteen, and yeah,
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Speaker 2: I would have been. I graduated in high school in
21:27
Speaker 2: seventy nine, so this is a couple of years after
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Speaker 2: these guys are all seventy five a. You know, you're
21:37
Speaker 2: getting percentage wise, you're getting much closer to my age
21:40
Speaker 2: than already up.
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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, this is you know like this, you know,
21:46
Speaker 3: I remember chasing me and getting these balls. He's diamond
21:49
Speaker 3: ball has been around forever, but you know, seeing just
21:52
Speaker 3: this the professional league, the diamond logo, and this is
21:57
Speaker 3: it was so cool to go chase a foul ball,
21:59
Speaker 3: you know, seven, eight, nine, ten years old. So if
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Speaker 3: you give him back, you can get a pop or
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Speaker 3: a slash or something. Sometimes I'll sneak him off and
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Speaker 3: throw in the back of my dad's pick up bed
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Speaker 3: so you can play with them at home. But yeah,
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Speaker 3: these are you know, so many kids. Phil Pasqual Took Kramer,
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Speaker 3: So Took Kramer was my coach.
22:21
Speaker 2: Also played with his son Mark in Pony Leagues.
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Speaker 3: He was my coach and then as I moved up,
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Speaker 3: he was our assistant coach on the Indians. So Took
22:34
Speaker 3: was awesome. He worked at Phillips and calm up, say, Took,
22:36
Speaker 3: can I come get the key? You're bad, I'll meet
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Speaker 3: you downstairs. So he'd be in the Phillips building and
22:41
Speaker 3: you go to the lobby and you get the key
22:43
Speaker 3: to the stadium and don't get early work in, so
22:46
Speaker 3: just oh, may just bring.
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Speaker 2: Back to the swimmers. So it's fun. Well, it's good stuff.
22:51
Speaker 2: I wish you a lot of luck this season. I
22:53
Speaker 2: probably won't see a lot of you. I know you're
22:56
Speaker 2: a busy, busy man this time of year. And yeah,
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Speaker 2: let's uh we'll be out there to help you need
23:03
Speaker 2: to get our dungeus night going. I know there's a
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Speaker 2: kW N night coming up to this year too. You
23:08
Speaker 2: have big sponsor nights there.
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Speaker 3: He is, I never wrap up here, but uh, June
23:13
Speaker 3: twenty seventh is Remax night. And then there it is
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Speaker 3: in Yeah see I'm getting old Brad June nineteenth, nineteenth.
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Speaker 2: Everyone can get in Kevin's pocket that night.
23:26
Speaker 3: So yeah, come down on out on the night Kevin
23:29
Speaker 3: Kevin pottery writing checks, giving money out for a strack
23:32
Speaker 3: ass we get is on defense. And then every hit
23:35
Speaker 3: we get and somebody hits over the K one sign,
23:37
Speaker 3: Kevin will give away fourteen dollars.
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Speaker 2: Slip those kids up. I'm close at the top of
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Speaker 2: the wall.
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Speaker 3: I think he gave you one hundred and forty on
23:46
Speaker 3: that one, because I really want to see him.
23:48
Speaker 2: Round check for one hundred and forty dollars. And of
23:50
Speaker 2: course there's the big Winget tournament also don't figure out
23:53
Speaker 2: that around the fourth of July, and uh, all kinds
23:58
Speaker 2: of other stuff going as we lead on into the
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Speaker 2: playoffs and and potentially on into the series and such.
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Speaker 3: And you know, and you talk about the legacy, I
24:06
Speaker 3: keep going back to your grandfather's like, you know, the
24:08
Speaker 3: Safari Smiles six or six Gleni Safari Smiles owners is
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Speaker 3: John Lindblum who's a former player of mine. So he's
24:16
Speaker 3: been so generous to us giving back. So he help
24:20
Speaker 3: sponsored part of the you know, besides the widget, it's
24:23
Speaker 3: that money goes towards the fireworks we have to try,
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Speaker 3: which is almost six thousand dollars John uh for that.
24:29
Speaker 3: So yeah, he does awesome. Man. I you know so
24:32
Speaker 3: many guys around town that who have played not just
24:35
Speaker 3: for the Engines, that playing for me.
24:36
Speaker 2: But it's well, that's why I brought good. That's a
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Speaker 2: good story of that one hundred and one of you.
24:41
Speaker 3: You know, things have just it just keeps coming back around.
24:44
Speaker 3: And that's the fantastic thing about every year.
24:47
Speaker 2: Every year there's a new team and it starts over
24:50
Speaker 2: and uh and so I move on and a few
24:53
Speaker 2: stay and and it just regenerates and there's new families
24:56
Speaker 2: coming in every year that you know, new dynamics, and
24:59
Speaker 2: you know, it's just it is. Uh. It's one of
25:02
Speaker 2: those great things about oh yeah, summer in Martlesville. You know,
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Speaker 2: it's fun.
25:06
Speaker 3: So the guys on the team this year, I had
25:07
Speaker 3: to tell him, I go, okay, so Brendan, Brendan will
25:10
Speaker 3: be pitching on TV. I'm as sure so he'll be
25:13
Speaker 3: back playing with us. It's so weird to think about that.
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Speaker 3: I told the guys, I go okay, listen, guys, do
25:20
Speaker 3: not ask for his autograph during the season. He is
25:24
Speaker 3: one of your teammates. I go, it's gonna be weird.
25:26
Speaker 3: I go, he's just like one of you. So it's
25:29
Speaker 3: funny how some of the younger guys.
25:31
Speaker 2: Look up to him so much.
25:32
Speaker 3: I'm like, yeah, this kid was just a fourteen year old, quiet,
25:36
Speaker 3: reserved brat when he started out, and you know, just
25:39
Speaker 3: to watch him grow, it's you know, I love it
25:42
Speaker 3: with all the.
25:42
Speaker 2: Guys that go off to college. So this is a
25:45
Speaker 2: great thing. And congratulations and good luck of this season.
25:49
Speaker 2: We'll be out as to as many games as we
25:52
Speaker 2: can get to and everyone what do they need to
25:55
Speaker 2: do to get get a season patch if they want
25:58
Speaker 2: to do that, or what are and tickets? Just if
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Speaker 2: you just want to walk up? How does that work?
26:03
Speaker 2: That's going to bring back up? So where where we
26:06
Speaker 2: at here? There's the pass if you wonder, if you're
26:09
Speaker 2: watching on Facebook live, get one of.
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Speaker 3: These reach out any player? Uh so what these passes do? Yes,
26:24
Speaker 3: so we have player sets associated there's a there's a
26:27
Speaker 3: player fee associated with the regular player, and then it's
26:30
Speaker 3: half priced for a guy who is just a picture
26:32
Speaker 3: on our team. So what these do is they if
26:35
Speaker 3: they sell all their a lot of passes. Regular guys
26:38
Speaker 3: got to sell thirty pictures, got to sell fifteen fifty
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Speaker 3: bucks each. If you can do the math that you
26:42
Speaker 3: know what a player fee costs. If they sell them all,
26:47
Speaker 3: they're they that player. Their families not out of pocket
26:51
Speaker 3: any money.
26:51
Speaker 2: Awesome. And so when we go on the road and
26:53
Speaker 2: we go to Brands and we go to.
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Speaker 3: Mountain Home, Arkansas for five days, you could seriously send
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Speaker 3: your kid with no money and they will stay fed,
27:04
Speaker 3: they will get drink, they will be taking care of
27:07
Speaker 3: the whole time there. They don't play any money for
27:09
Speaker 3: standing in the cabins of the airbnb's. If we stand out,
27:12
Speaker 3: we're staying in a hotel, doesn't cost It looks like.
27:14
Speaker 2: We have a lot of fun. We do watch Facebook
27:19
Speaker 2: a little bit. You see the occasional poach there, and
27:21
Speaker 2: I'm sure that's only the tip of the iceberg.
27:23
Speaker 3: Guys go fishing, and we were going to surprise them
27:26
Speaker 3: this year with uh, you know, we're playing Brands and
27:29
Speaker 3: it's prospect camp, so we'll be get guys frond of
27:32
Speaker 3: some uh college coaching coaches and some guys will be
27:35
Speaker 3: their first experience. But that Sunday, we were going to
27:38
Speaker 3: surprise them. Surprise. I doubt ain't of them are listening,
27:42
Speaker 3: but we're going to surprise them with We're gonna take
27:44
Speaker 3: them to Silver dar City.
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Speaker 2: For the day, lots of fun. Well, like I said,
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Speaker 2: good luck this season and to all our listeners out there,
27:51
Speaker 2: thank you for joining us today. It's great to have
27:54
Speaker 2: you aboard and let's have a great Memorial Day weekend.
27:59
Speaker 2: Very hope everybody be safe out there. If we can
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Speaker 2: us a shout. We got a new allocation of Toyota's
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28:21
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28:24
Speaker 2: of you. Our the team and parts and service in
28:28
Speaker 2: the body shop are also out there ready to help
28:30
Speaker 2: if you need something as you're getting ready for summer
28:32
Speaker 2: vacation and all the stuff that's going to start going
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Speaker 2: on as we get into summer. Really and it's almost
28:38
Speaker 2: you know, we'll get past this weekend and be on
28:41
Speaker 2: to SunFest and Okay, Mozart and baseball. Where can we
28:46
Speaker 2: find you, Brad, Well, look at you on the web.
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Speaker 2: You can go to just Dungeonstoyota dot com or we're
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