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CAR TALK w/ Big Brothers, Big Sisters of Bartlesville 6-19-2025 · One on One With a Professional

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  Speaker 1: Big shoes for the last six months, trying to pick
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  Speaker 1: up where Charlene do left off after I think three
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  Speaker 1: decades of.
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  Speaker 2: This thirty five years. Yeah, yeah, yeah, amazing.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's great to have you here and to find
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  Speaker 1: out what's going on, changes and stuff continuing to happen.
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  Speaker 1: It's such an important program in our community. Reaches so
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  Speaker 1: many lives, and I love the you know, I was
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  Speaker 1: looking at this on the way over. The inspiring, igniting
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  Speaker 1: and powering potential and what a great theme and certainly
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  Speaker 1: something we talk about on the show here almost every week.
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  Speaker 2: That's it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, exactly exactly what we do, just that one
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  Speaker 3: one mentoring, taking those kids and really pulling out their
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  Speaker 3: full potential.
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  Speaker 2: It's great.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, no, it is. It is good.
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  Speaker 1: And I was Kimberly spent some time yesterday with her
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  Speaker 1: a little and and I think our little little.
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  Speaker 4: Sister too, So yeah, it's awesome.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we appreciate him coming and she.
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  Speaker 1: Really enjoys it. It's been getting to know her and
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  Speaker 1: I have other friends that I know are at the
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  Speaker 1: other end of the jour learning because Kimberly is a
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  Speaker 1: little is a little bit. It just started, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: I have a other friend who's taken them and they're
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  Speaker 1: off in college and stuff, and what a journey. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: these volunteers get to make with these young lives.
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  Speaker 2: It's awesome.
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  Speaker 3: So Daniel, he's the program specialist who helps the mentors
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  Speaker 3: kind of go along in the littles and everybody.
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  Speaker 2: We want to provide all the support we can.
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  Speaker 3: Was just talking to Kimberly's little the other day and
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  Speaker 3: just hearing what an impact she's already making.
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  Speaker 2: It's amazing.
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  Speaker 4: That's great.
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  Speaker 1: And so I know you've always got stuff going on too,
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  Speaker 1: and I know you've got big plans for your big
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  Speaker 1: event so to speak, that's what it's always been called before,
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  Speaker 1: but you've made some changes in that this year.
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  Speaker 2: We did, Yeah, made a lot of changes. The big
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  Speaker 2: event did really good. But just all the new changes.
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  Speaker 3: What a time to kind of maybe reinvent it, just
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  Speaker 3: kind of bring something new. And so yeah, we're going
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  Speaker 3: with the Bartlesville Mystery Gaalo this time. It is a
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  Speaker 3: clue inspired theme events where you don't just come to
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  Speaker 3: the event. You're gonna be able to be a part
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  Speaker 3: of this event. And that's it's gonna be on August sixteenth. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: tickets are on sale now and it's going to be
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  Speaker 3: a good time. We have a new venue, a new caterer,
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  Speaker 3: new themes, so we're really going to try to turn
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  Speaker 3: this thing up to eleven this year.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Well, let's get some people out there. It
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  Speaker 1: sounds like fun. It should be exciting, I think, so.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, we hired six professional actors from Tulsa come
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  Speaker 3: down and they're going to give us one of those
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  Speaker 3: Clues style evenings. So it should be a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 4: Well we'll hear more about that. Yeah, I was out
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  Speaker 4: last week during the show.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I had to go to Toyota meeting down
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  Speaker 1: in Frisco, Texas with Toyota USA National Headquarters. Is his
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  Speaker 1: first time I had been there since they moved a
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  Speaker 1: few years ago.
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  Speaker 4: It was really a great time.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, one thing I reading this, the whole theme
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  Speaker 1: of the meeting was pretty much you're inspiring night empowering
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  Speaker 1: potential around Toyota and the Toyota Way. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if you've heard about that, but it's a thing that
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  Speaker 1: that has been you know, studied in business schools for
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  Speaker 1: years and it really, uh, it was a great event.
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  Speaker 1: We got to see it, you know, it wasn't really
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  Speaker 1: product oring. It was more people oriented. And that's a
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  Speaker 1: big part of what Toyota does. And you know, certainly
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  Speaker 1: a dunge just Toyota. That's a big thing for us
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  Speaker 1: is it is about our people in the community and
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  Speaker 1: being a small, family, community based dealership.
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  Speaker 4: That's really our you know, what our passion is.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, I know we try to you know, build
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  Speaker 1: that you know, great relationship with our customers for lifetime
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  Speaker 1: and the really serve them.
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  Speaker 4: And the community.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, and we certainly missed you last week.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we got stuck with Jason, Jason, and we're glad
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  Speaker 1: to have William back.
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  Speaker 4: He's he was a little surprised when Jason asked him to.
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  Speaker 5: Go and forget about that.
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  Speaker 2: You feel like he was prepared.
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  Speaker 5: He did great, He did great. Jason on the other end,
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  Speaker 5: I'm kiddy.
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  Speaker 4: He's been there in marketing for too long. I think
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  Speaker 4: hopefully he's listening.
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  Speaker 6: To I hope, so, Jason, we're kidding to you, by
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  Speaker 6: the way.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, lots of stuff going on though.
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  Speaker 1: We've got today it's Juneteenth, and this weekend out of
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  Speaker 1: our friends at the West Side Community Center will be
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  Speaker 1: celebrating Saturday with a great event, and we had Chavon
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  Speaker 1: on a few weeks ago to talk about that. But
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  Speaker 1: five oh one South Bucy west Side Community Center three
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  Speaker 1: to eight pm Saturday night, go out there and learn
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  Speaker 1: more about what's happening out at Westside.
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  Speaker 4: There's so many great new things happening out there.
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  Speaker 1: With Chavon, you're bringing it back to life and it's
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  Speaker 1: really a great, great story there.
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  Speaker 4: And uh, you know, we've got just the n I
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  Speaker 4: k W.
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  Speaker 5: N Night at the ballpark that's next week, next week,
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  Speaker 5: next week.
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  Speaker 1: It was coming up, but we've got but the team
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  Speaker 1: is coming back into town and and we'll be having
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  Speaker 1: some home games right and where they been struggling a
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  Speaker 1: little bit. The weather is crazy and they're playing some
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  Speaker 1: awfully tough teams that.
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  Speaker 5: That d BAT League.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's it's it's tough when you're playing those college levels.
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  Speaker 6: Evan far back with saying last night, you know, they
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  Speaker 6: played a team that had NCAA Division two players, But
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  Speaker 6: I tell you that the Indians did did well against
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  Speaker 6: the level talent.
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  Speaker 1: They're playing well despite some tough losses and it's great
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  Speaker 1: to see the their.
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  Speaker 6: Strength and results they're playing in Indye today in India.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, so they're going to go.
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  Speaker 6: Up to Independence and play there this evening and then
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  Speaker 6: they'll be back at home with Indy again for o
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  Speaker 6: K one night at the ballpark.
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  Speaker 5: That's gonna be a great event.
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  Speaker 4: No, well, and so it's next Thursday.
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  Speaker 5: I think that's correct.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Thursday. Yeah, pretty sure. That's good. We need to
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  Speaker 4: hit some home runs that night.
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely free admission.
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  Speaker 6: You know, we'll take care of your admission and get
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  Speaker 6: the hot dogs and of course your chance to.
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  Speaker 5: Win fourteen hundred dollars worth of money as well. I'm
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  Speaker 5: telling you, it's a great time.
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  Speaker 4: Have you ever been to one of those games?
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  Speaker 2: It's awesome. It just to daily out. Yeah, the field
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  Speaker 2: is beautiful, it's awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, it's it's great. We're really proud of that sponsorship.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, that was something a few years ago.
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  Speaker 1: One of the employees went to great effort to get
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  Speaker 1: the Guinness Book of Records to look at this sponsorship
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  Speaker 1: and they said it was the longest corporate sponsor of
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  Speaker 1: a sports team in the world.
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  Speaker 2: That is awesome.
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  Speaker 4: Right here, it's nineteen forty one.
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  Speaker 1: My grand One of the first things my grandfather did
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  Speaker 1: when he got to town was sponsor a baseball team
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  Speaker 1: because he had been as a young man, he had
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  Speaker 1: been on a basketball team sponsored by a four dealership
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  Speaker 1: in Tonkawa, Oklahoma, and ended up he and his brother
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  Speaker 1: played on that team and ended up owning the dealership
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  Speaker 1: a few years later. And then he moved the family
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  Speaker 1: here in nineteen forty one, and I went for dealership
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  Speaker 1: and wanted to, you know, help really, I mean, it
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  Speaker 1: was an is this inspiring, uniting, empowering, potential thing for
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  Speaker 1: in his life around that team and what it and
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  Speaker 1: the Forder sponsorship and then the opportunities getting into the
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  Speaker 1: car business and and then moving to Bartlesville. You know,
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  Speaker 1: so it's a that's awesome for my family And yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: no it is. It's great and so and it's one
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  Speaker 1: of those things that you know, is is really a
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  Speaker 1: common theme on the show is that is how do
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  Speaker 1: we are the great resilience of Bartlesville and how we
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  Speaker 1: have so many of these great organizations like yours that
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  Speaker 1: that provide the network that lifts everybody up and inspires
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  Speaker 1: the potential and.
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  Speaker 3: The sponsors like like Dungeons. So yeah, we appreciate it.
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  Speaker 3: Can't do without you guys.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, we talked about the event a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: but there's stuff going on all the time, tell us
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  Speaker 1: you know, and I know you're it's kind of in
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  Speaker 1: the summer now, and so what's happening.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, there's big sisters and what's the big stuff going on?
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  Speaker 3: Really picked up a ton, So we went to SunFest.
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  Speaker 3: We had a booth there.
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  Speaker 2: Really fantastic turnout.
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  Speaker 3: Right now though we have four girls waiting on a
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  Speaker 3: big to come in and we have sixteen boys waiting,
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  Speaker 3: so they still.
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  Speaker 1: Really need yeah men or somebody that wants to work
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  Speaker 1: with a boy.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, yeah, exactly, So lots of activity.
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  Speaker 3: That SunFest really kind of spurred everything, kicked it up.
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  Speaker 3: So a lot of back to school nights coming up,
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  Speaker 3: so excited about that and just yeah, a lot of growth.
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  Speaker 2: We've had a ton of growth in the last three months.
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  Speaker 3: But with the growth, just the more awareness we have,
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  Speaker 3: more littles coming in, we have more volunteers.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's always evolving and ye there it seems like
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  Speaker 1: there's always the need for more volunteers to be the.
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  Speaker 2: Bigs there is, yep, and especially those guys.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, talk about.
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  Speaker 1: The process and what and you know how first you
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  Speaker 1: know what it is to be a big and and
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  Speaker 1: what you know, how you become one.
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  Speaker 3: First thing, best way to start is just going to
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  Speaker 3: big Oklahoma dot org and you fill out an application.
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  Speaker 3: We take those applications from the littles and from the
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  Speaker 3: bigs and say, who's going to make a good match?
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  Speaker 4: So really trying to match them up personally really.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and so yeah, we look at what are their likes,
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  Speaker 3: what are their dislikes. We're not just going to give
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  Speaker 3: a kid to somebody and say here, just go have
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  Speaker 3: fun with them. We're gonna make sure this is a
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  Speaker 3: good match. What we want is just long term success
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  Speaker 3: commitment and so but when we know that takes a
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  Speaker 3: good match from the very beginning. So there's a big
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  Speaker 3: application process. We let you meet, everybody decides you I
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  Speaker 3: think this would be a good match. And then what
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  Speaker 3: we ask is about an hour a week, about an
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  Speaker 3: hour every other week to go meet and just hang out. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: for the last six months, I've really pushed hard on
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  Speaker 3: creating partnerships to make it easier to be a big.
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  Speaker 3: So for instance, Remy's down here, it's they give free
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  Speaker 3: wristbands for the arcades for littles. The Bowling Alley also
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  Speaker 3: littles can bowl for free, you can go to the zoo,
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  Speaker 3: the aquarium, we have tickets for that climb Tulsa, and
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  Speaker 3: there's a lot of other just places here in Bartlesville
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  Speaker 3: that have said, yeah, we'll partner with you. So we've
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  Speaker 3: been making it a lot easier.
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  Speaker 1: So you don't have to worry about like the serious stuff.
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  Speaker 1: You really just are gonna have fun and experience things
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  Speaker 1: with your And that.
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  Speaker 3: Was one of the big things I heard was I'm
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  Speaker 3: just not sure if I'm going to know what to do. Great,
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  Speaker 3: We're gonna make that easy for you. Here's a whole
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  Speaker 3: bunch of things to do. And so really all you
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  Speaker 3: have to do is just really show up, have.
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  Speaker 2: A good time.
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  Speaker 3: I guarantee, like the big will be impacted, the little
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  Speaker 3: will be impacted.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to impact everybody's lives with this.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you guys, A little bit of caring, help us,
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of compassion problems, right is the key?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Well that's awesome and so many great things going
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  Speaker 1: on there. And I know, so how do once they
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  Speaker 1: go and apply, then is there what else happens?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, it just starts and the and they're.
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  Speaker 3: Come in, come in, they'll apply they'll come into the
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  Speaker 3: office and meet with with Daniel. He's of the program specialist,
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  Speaker 3: kind of walks through everything. Then Daniel also he'll he'll
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  Speaker 3: make meetings once a month on a phone call and.
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  Speaker 4: Just say stay in touch with them through time.
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  Speaker 3: Stay in touch with everybody. How's it going? Are you
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  Speaker 3: coming up with anything? Because we have so many resources
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  Speaker 3: on the back end. If one little says, oh, bring
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  Speaker 3: up a question, how long sure? How to answer that,
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  Speaker 3: we probably have a resource to help with that to
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  Speaker 3: make it easy for you to be that big brother
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  Speaker 3: or that big sister. And then yeah, monthly check ins
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  Speaker 3: with us, hang out with that little couple times a month,
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  Speaker 3: a couple hours of you know a month is all
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  Speaker 3: we really look for and have a good time.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah and so And on the little side, where do where?
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  Speaker 1: How do you find them? What does what's the pathway.
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  Speaker 2: To become the same way?
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  Speaker 3: Well, when you come to the website big Oklahoma dot org,
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  Speaker 3: they'll be I'm applying to be a big or I'm
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  Speaker 3: applying to be a little in kind of that exact
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  Speaker 3: same process.
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  Speaker 2: We ask about the same questions.
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  Speaker 3: Like I said, we're going to make sure we match up,
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  Speaker 3: you know, good matches awesome.
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  Speaker 4: And how many pairs are there in Bartlesville? How many? Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, right now we are serving sixty eight kids in
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  Speaker 3: the community.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, that's great. And you've got another twenty or
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  Speaker 1: so waiting.
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  Speaker 2: Twenty five waiting.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, that's that's incredible.
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  Speaker 1: Well, if you folks are interested in that, reach out
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  Speaker 1: to the Big Brothers Big Sisters.
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  Speaker 4: Ask questions.
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  Speaker 1: So go to the website and find out and Todd
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  Speaker 1: and the team are great and you know, so just
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  Speaker 1: give him a shout. I know he'd answer any of
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  Speaker 1: your questions. And it is such an impactful organization our community.
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  Speaker 1: So I did want to talk about a few other
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  Speaker 1: things going on with the dealership. We've got a new
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  Speaker 1: allocation this week that it will become visible later today
• 12:22
  Speaker 1: or tomorrow. With our last month, we were the fastest
• 12:25
  Speaker 1: turning Toyota dealership in the state of Oklahoma. And we
• 12:29
  Speaker 1: actually were over one hundred and ten percent of our objective.
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  Speaker 1: And I know it, it's hard to believe sometimes when
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  Speaker 1: you drive by and they're not any cars on the load. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: where we pull them all in right the other night.
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  Speaker 4: I think we've done that ten times now this year.
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  Speaker 1: Where we brought we brought them all inside and then
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  Speaker 1: put them back out the next day, and.
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  Speaker 4: Sometimes I have to bring them right back in it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: we've been lucky, fingers crossed. We haven't had any damage
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  Speaker 4: this year, and that's good.
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  Speaker 1: We've got a nice selection of great cars and just
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  Speaker 1: this allocation, we got i think six more four by
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  Speaker 1: four tacomas, four more rat fours, so well, they're not
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  Speaker 1: sitting there on the lot always, they're always in the
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  Speaker 1: pipeline and coming.
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  Speaker 4: So if you're looking for Toyota of any type, let
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  Speaker 4: us know.
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  Speaker 1: We've got allocation can really get just about anything. You know,
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  Speaker 1: some just take a little longer market. But the allocation
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  Speaker 1: system at Toyota rolls out twice a month, so we
• 13:25
  Speaker 1: get new fresh units every couple of weeks and that's great.
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  Speaker 1: So it really they they it's such a fast environment
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  Speaker 1: right now with sales, it's hard to imagine that it
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  Speaker 1: could get much faster. But they keep saying that it's
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  Speaker 1: that it's going to be like this for the rest
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  Speaker 1: of the year. And yeah, I think a lot of
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  Speaker 1: folks are making those big purchases right now. Some of
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  Speaker 1: them are happening now. But you know, I'm telling with Toyota.
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  Speaker 1: It just seems like it's going to keep going. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the tariff stuff is still kind of looming out there,
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  Speaker 1: but Toyota isage on that.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, one of the executives.
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  Speaker 1: Was there briefly talking to us last week, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: they they can't predict what's going to happen, and.
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  Speaker 4: There's going to go ahead and do what they plan
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  Speaker 4: to do.
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  Speaker 1: And that's how Toyota operates, is we have a plan,
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  Speaker 1: We're going to go to market and do what we do,
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  Speaker 1: and and you keep building all the cars and shipping them,
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  Speaker 1: and you know they will adjust, you know, as things
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  Speaker 1: settle out and to keep prices competitive. And and you know,
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  Speaker 1: Toyota's got such a great value story anyway, with the
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  Speaker 1: quality of the vehicles.
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  Speaker 4: And the residual values.
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  Speaker 1: How much in other words, how they maintain their value
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  Speaker 1: over time?
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  Speaker 4: Oh sure, sure, it really is.
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  Speaker 1: You know, in any economy, in any environment, it's going
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  Speaker 1: to be a you know, relative to other depreciating assets
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  Speaker 1: like an automobile, going to be a good investment.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: And well, it's just it's just that quality that that
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  Speaker 6: Toyota has.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, that reputation related to Toyota. I mean that
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  Speaker 5: that's where that's where that reason. And it doesn't mean
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  Speaker 5: they're perfect now, no question.
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  Speaker 1: It's amazing to me. It's how they respond when they
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: do have an issue. And yeah, the the you know,
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: I've got a there's a used Tundra on the lot
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: now that we just put a brand new engine in
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: that had a recall and the entire engine assembly was replaced.
• 15:17
  Speaker 4: I mean it was wow, it was you know, under
• 15:19
  Speaker 4: under a recall.
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: Probably at a customer pay if you had to replace
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: that engine, it would have been twenty twenty five thousand
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: dollars probably an Toyota's just doing that to make sure.
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: I mean on one hundred and fifty thousand miles truck
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: that you know, a lot of brands, would that.
• 15:39
  Speaker 4: Be the end of life? Exactly right? And for Toyota,
• 15:43
  Speaker 4: it's like, well, it's only like you know.
• 15:47
  Speaker 6: Affix it good, good quality items always coming from a Toyota.
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: It's awesome, great team to partner with, and that's why
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: there aren't many on the lot. I think great lease
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: deals too. We've got some great interest rate deals on
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: Tundra right now. So uh, talk to our team. You know,
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: our team too is uh you know, we're really proud
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: of our team that I know that they uh, you
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: know that the time I spent with Toyota last week,
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: it was really encouraging to see I was with a
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: bunch of other dealers from all over the country and
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: not dealers really more of them more managers and kind
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: of mid level people who work in dealerships, And you know,
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: I was just really proud of the Dungeons stuff and
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: ours matched up with what Toyota was talking about and
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: where they're going, uh, and the importance of of the
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: you know, what we do at retail and the importance
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: of their dealer network.
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: You know, we are the.
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: Representatives of Toyota in the community and they partner with us.
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: So we we've you know, Toyota's partners with us on
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: the baseball team absolutely a matching donation of our traditional
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: sponsorship of the team.
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: They're not going to match it, and you know they did.
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: They've done that with all kinds of other organizations. Are
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: when we do our anniversary event and we have people
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: pick a you know, a charity to support which they
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: have picked the Big Brothers, Big Sisters, many times the
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: winner of that gets matched by Toyota, and you know
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: they they're very generous. And I really believe that. You know,
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: that's the key is that you know, and we'd believe
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: it too. They've done just that. You know, that trust
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: you have in us is the most important, important most
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: we we were real proud to you know, we don't
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: pay our team commissions.
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: We don't.
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: We try to keep them focused on what the customer
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: needs and uh, you know, just keep you know, taking
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: care of people and and you know, I think that
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: builds good trust and good processes in the dealership. You know,
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: brit getting William back after his he went to Tulsa
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: and worked down there, got some experience. Uh, and uh,
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: you know it became you know, but we really missed him.
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: To be honest, I'm sure you did. He's great, not
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: just as a dad, I must say, as a boss.
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: He's you know, having that those young people that are
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: inspired and have all that potential are really important in
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: the business. And and you know that's surely important for
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: us as a fourth generation. Yeah, it kind of enters
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: our business now in our like ninety six years selling cars.
• 18:24
  Speaker 6: It's it's well, you know, going back to your first
• 18:26
  Speaker 6: generation with your grandfather and we moved here in nineteen
• 18:29
  Speaker 6: forty one.
• 18:30
  Speaker 5: My grandmother was your father's nanny.
• 18:37
  Speaker 6: Did you know that that the house was on a Delaware?
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: The house was on the Delaware. My grandmother was your
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: father's nanny.
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: I hear you know, I heard rotary a few weeks ago.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: I talked to I was doing the rounds where we
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: do our little social mid couple of minutes and the
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: wife of one of the guys as I see all
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: the time, said hey, do you know his mother or no? Yeah,
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: his mother took care of your great grandma.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: Wow, it is the community, right, that really is the community.
• 19:15
  Speaker 6: And you know that that drew down even to your
• 19:17
  Speaker 6: your car sales business because my grandparents didn't go anywhere
• 19:21
  Speaker 6: other than dungeons.
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: And you know that's that is what my grandpa.
• 19:28
  Speaker 6: Yeah, my grandpa went from a from an old beat
• 19:30
  Speaker 6: up four pickup truck and he was this is early
• 19:33
  Speaker 6: eighties okay, and he was actually Toyota wasn't that well
• 19:39
  Speaker 6: of the known brand, and it started the Towyter dealership
• 19:42
  Speaker 6: y eighty sixty sixty eight, okay, the really oldest Toyota.
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right.
• 19:46
  Speaker 6: So he was was like, I'm not driving Toyo, Yeah,
• 19:51
  Speaker 6: just a while he got he got himself a little
• 19:53
  Speaker 6: Toyota pickup truck.
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: And that thing is a literally I think it's I can't.
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: I think it's an eighty four that.
• 19:59
  Speaker 6: Is still in operation out at my sister and my
• 20:04
  Speaker 6: brother in laws place. Incredible, No there, they are great.
• 20:08
  Speaker 6: You know, it took it took me time to get to.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: Upper fords and yeah, for sure, and but no, they're
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: they're outstanding vehicles and that is what they're known for.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: That's why Takoma is and which is the small pickup truck.
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: Now they did that.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: There's been a lot of rumors about it even smaller
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: pickup truck.
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: And they teased that again last week when we were
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: at the meeting. Uh they you know, they didn't really
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: talk much about product.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: They did have the brand new RAV four there which
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: will be come out later this year. And there's a
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: kind of a museum, a Toyota Experience Center that that
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: takes you through the entire history of Toyota. And I
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: think it's open to the public. Sum but you had
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: to go with the Toyota somebody who worked the representative
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: and but it's so cool because it goes through the
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: very from the very beginning.
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: You know, Toyone didn't even make didn't start making cars.
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: They made they had an automated.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: Loom that they invented and was the how they started, uh,
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: you know, their manufacturing company, and and eventually moved on
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: to human transportation and mobility.
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: I mean, and you know, the Toyota.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: Way is uh, you know, it's really built around people
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: and you know that's their their whole thing is uh,
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: the Toyota Way is a kaisen, which is a continuous improvement.
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: Gimbo GIMBSI or.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: I think, but he means go see and tell, So
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: you go inspect what you out in there, you know.
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: So that's what you guys are doing. When you talk
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: to the bigs in the littles every month, you're you're
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: helping them move forward.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: And then there's respect for people and inclusivity, hearing all
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: the voices you know, to them, it really means understanding
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: everyone's perspective. Give and so you can make a really
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: great decision and keep improving, going back to the beginning,
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: keep improving, doing the guys and stuff and.
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: Then go see again.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: And you know it's and that's just so similar to
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: the sparks and stuff we have.
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: At the dealership.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: Yes, it was just inspiring and it's so inspiring and
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: similar to what you guys do.
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: So that's kind of I guess the theme of.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: All this, I guess it is. Yeah, that's awesome and.
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: Those connections that we make along the way, right, that's right.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: The community, Yeah, especially in Bartlesville and all the great
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: stuff going on. So and to you guys out there
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: and listening to us, we sure appreciate you. And and
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: I hear from people all the time that they do
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: listen to this show, and I'm very.
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: Proud of that.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: You glad to have loyal listeners. Absolutely, So Todd, let's
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: go through again about the event, because we really do
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: want to promote that and make it one of the
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: biggest events ever.
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: So tell us that you know that was a play
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: on words.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: I love it.
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's August sixteenth, and like I said, tickets are
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: out now. We have some sponsorships available if you want
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: to come sponsor. We're gon we're really working on our
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: silent auction in our live auction, So if you've got
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: some cool things you want to put in that auction,
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: that's always a fun way to also support us. But yeah,
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: we'd love to just have the community come out co
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: experience this new event that we're doing.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: We're pulling out all the stops.
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: You mentioned new venue.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: Whereas the new venue, yeah, the Johnstone Sayer, it'll be
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: on the on the top floor. With that, I feel
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: like they have the mystery vibe kind of going on. Yeah. Yeah,
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: So I think it's going to be a lot of fun.
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: It's a very old building. It's very old, so there
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: might be some ghosts around there.
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: There might be yeah, yeah, so yeah, the theme is
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: the case of the Missing Painting, so you're going to
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: have to come out and check that out and see.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, how's it, solf I.
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: Don't even know, I've they they haven't given me any clues.
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: I don't even know who's done it.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: It's a scripted Yeah. Yeah, Yeah, it's going to be
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: a ton of fun.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: And so you've got corporate tables sponsors stuff that.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: Corporate tables sponsorships.
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: Yep.
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: We have individual tickets so any of those are free
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: to go to are to come and get. You can
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: go to Bartlesville Gala dot org and that has all
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: the information to learn about any of that. And like
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: I said, August sixteenth, that'll be a lot of fun.
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: Awesome.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: Well, it should be a big night and hopefully we
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: can get everybody excited to get out there and support Bartlesvaria,
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: big brothers, big sisters, and you know, hopefully you have
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: a big summer recruiting session and get some more bigs
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: out there for.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: The It started out pretty hot.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: So yeah, so let's say if there are people out
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: there that want to be involved in this and you know,
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: do reach out to them and apply, get your information
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: in there, or if you have a little in need
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: of something, you know, that's a great time to reach out.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: As we're in the summer and getting things set up
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: for the fall and exactly rolling so.
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: And at the dealership we'll be I'll be out there
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: in a few minutes. Are we go.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: You're ready for summer vacations and all that coming up,
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: and you know, come check it out. We've got a
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: great selection. I mentioned that the rab Force and Tacomas
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: we had allocated. There's also Highlander on the ground. It's
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: a quality an allocation and we got a beautiful white
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: limited Tundra in Nice just yesterday that eating out on
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: the lot yet. Cameras Corollas Corolla Crosses. I think the
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: CNS we have already spoken for, but once they land,
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: they'll be that we'll get another one at allocation.
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: So get there. The fore runners are starting to move
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: much quicker.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: We have had now three or four of them come through,
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: including our TRG Pro and we sold just last week.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: Oh it was a beautiful thing. But we've got their
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: coming in volume now. So all new four runner you
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: definitely want to check that out.
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: It really is a great new new for erunner.
• 26:00
  Speaker 6: So yeah, well I'll tell you that that ur l
• 26:03
  Speaker 6: that you have bartleszil Gala dot com, that's priceless. Yeah,
• 26:07
  Speaker 6: because I mean, honestly, it's you know, Brad, and I know,
• 26:10
  Speaker 6: and I'm taught.
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: I'm sure you know too.
• 26:12
  Speaker 6: Bartles has so many events that go on and many
• 26:15
  Speaker 6: different gallas. So even though it's not a quote unquote
• 26:18
  Speaker 6: galla this year, it's an events right yep.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: Keep the bar gall Yeah, you love it.
• 26:24
  Speaker 5: Oh wow, that's that's incredible.
• 26:26
  Speaker 6: Well, Brad, before you get out to the dealership, people
• 26:29
  Speaker 6: want to beat you out there.
• 26:31
  Speaker 5: Where are you at?
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: We are at nineteen eleven Southeast Washington Boulevard or doungeus
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: Toyota dot Com if you want to check us out
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: on the web, and lots of tools there on the
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: website where you can value your trade price of card,
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: get your payment, compare different incentives.
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, look at a traditional purchase versus the lease.
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: It's really easy.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: You can chat without giving your personal information to go
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: in and work work or your own deal.
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: It's absolutely amazing. Why what you can do with technology.
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: No, it is, and that's getting even better.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: I mean a couple of weeks we're going to put
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: even put new level of technology in there so that
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: the tools you guys use, your consumers use on the
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: website are going to finally be the same tool we
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: use in the dealership of what they call our desking
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: tool where the card is actually calculated and then sent
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: to the lenders. And it's all going to come together
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: in one package. Really excited about that. It's going to
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: make a much faster.
• 27:29
  Speaker 6: And you know it just it just adds into the
• 27:31
  Speaker 6: different ways in which Tungents will help their customers.
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: I mean, I'm still one of those guys who will go.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: In transparency, speed. Those are the things people want, I
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: think right now, Yeah, to establish that trust.
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm still one of those guys who'll go in
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: and do it with a handshake.
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: That's what most of our customers actually are.
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: That's right.
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: They sure don't want to click buy now.
• 27:54
  Speaker 6: Absolutely absolutely well again, Todd Edwards, our guests here on
• 27:57
  Speaker 6: car talk with big brothers, big sisters. You're in Barlosville,
• 28:01
  Speaker 6: Brad Dungeons back from his big Toyota fun.
• 28:05
  Speaker 5: If you want to call it that, I know that
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: was actually a celles of it you guys have. That's
• 28:08
  Speaker 5: that's sale at the end of the year. Yeah, yeah,
• 28:10
  Speaker 5: there you.
• 28:11
  Speaker 6: Go, all news that you might have here at Dungeons
• 28:14
  Speaker 6: Toyota here in Barlowsville.
• 28:16
  Speaker 5: Thank you gentlemen for coming in today.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: Thank you, thanks for listening to one on one with
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: a professional, A paid presentation at fourteen hundred K one