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CAR TALK w Agape Mission Empty Bowl · One on One With a Professional

• 0:09
  Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning, welcome, welcome, welcome, bright
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  Speaker 1: sunshiny Thursday, and the cars are gleaming at the parking
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  Speaker 1: lot there and Dungeons Toyota get his car, talk Brad
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  Speaker 1: dungeas and you brought friends?
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  Speaker 2: How are you serious? I did? Good morning everyone. It's
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  Speaker 2: so glad you're with us this morning.
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  Speaker 3: My friends today are Sherry Smith and Brenda Willison here
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  Speaker 3: from Agape Mission and Empty Bowl. Yeah, the great a
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  Speaker 3: big event. It's that time of year.
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  Speaker 4: When it gets hot outside enough empty bo.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah that's right.
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  Speaker 3: And you guys been planning this event now for a
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  Speaker 3: few months at least.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, if not all year. I think.
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  Speaker 5: Well now parts of you start all year, but we
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  Speaker 5: get to commit together like in April, start the running restaurants.
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  Speaker 3: And now it's time to pull it all together and
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  Speaker 3: everybody to get ready to go get a bowl and
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  Speaker 3: filling up with our very generous restaurants and food. And
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  Speaker 3: it's a chance to kind of get a taste of
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  Speaker 3: every lots of different places in town and.
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  Speaker 6: Tell everybody don't bring your tup aware now this is
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  Speaker 6: a tasting lunch and not a come all you can
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  Speaker 6: eat the fet and.
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  Speaker 5: There are no there's no to go boxes for dinner. No,
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  Speaker 5: if you cannot stay and eat with us, you have
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  Speaker 5: to go to work. We do have to go boxes
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  Speaker 5: and you can get one, but that's only if you
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  Speaker 5: can't state and eat.
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  Speaker 3: Hey do both can't do that. It's quite an event,
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  Speaker 3: you know, hundreds of people will be there again.
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  Speaker 6: I'm sure we usually have between four and six hundred people.
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  Speaker 6: The time is eleven thirty to one thirty August of
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  Speaker 6: twenty six right, there was a I ended up posting
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  Speaker 6: the wrong one, a poster that had the twenty seventh no, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 6: and I keep if I find it on my Facebook,
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  Speaker 6: I'm hurting.
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  Speaker 4: No, this is the wrong one. Here's the right one boasted.
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  Speaker 6: And so it's it's always, always, always the last Tuesday
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  Speaker 6: in August. We've done that for fifteen, sixteen, seventeen years now.
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  Speaker 4: But this year it's special.
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  Speaker 6: Because we're celebrating Agapees twenty fifth anniversary in twenty twenty five,
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  Speaker 6: and so we want everybody to come out and do
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  Speaker 6: some tasting. We have some new restaurants that's joined us
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  Speaker 6: this year, and we have new ones to town, and
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  Speaker 6: so we want everybody to come. It's a social gathering
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  Speaker 6: as much as it is a fundraiser because people haven't
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  Speaker 6: seen each other in a long time.
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  Speaker 4: It's hot outside, it's cool in there. They can have
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  Speaker 4: a nice lunch and go over.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 6: We always have ice cream and desserts and so it's
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  Speaker 6: a fun time.
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  Speaker 2: That's great.
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  Speaker 4: Silent auction.
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  Speaker 2: Silent auction. Don't forget about those events.
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  Speaker 4: And always had an en giant. We don't have a
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  Speaker 4: big one because there's not a lot of time for
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  Speaker 4: a lunch.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, yeah, quick, yeah, there's a few things there.
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  Speaker 3: And of course it's all to support the programs that
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  Speaker 3: are got paid missions and we have it's always going
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  Speaker 3: on at a goat paid for twenty five years.
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  Speaker 4: Twenty five years. You know, we've served.
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  Speaker 6: Probably a million and a half meals in those twenty
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  Speaker 6: five years, which is amazing. We've had just sixty four thousand,
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  Speaker 6: almost sixty five thousand just last year.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, So we have two programs.
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  Speaker 6: We have the on site program, which you can come
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  Speaker 6: five days a week and get a prepared, nutritious meal.
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  Speaker 6: And then we have the Food for Kids program that
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  Speaker 6: actually supplies those children in every school in Washington County
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  Speaker 6: a sack of nutritional food items, to get them through
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  Speaker 6: the weekend, because many kids over the weekend don't have
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  Speaker 6: anything to eat or they are at risk of not
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  Speaker 6: having anything to eat. And we do between six hundred
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  Speaker 6: and six hundred and fifty sacks a week in that program.
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  Speaker 4: And so it takes a lot of funds, takes a
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  Speaker 4: lot of manpower to get this done.
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  Speaker 6: But I have teachers that tell me every year with
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  Speaker 6: tears in her eyes, please don't ever stop this program
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  Speaker 6: because it truly makes a difference. So here we are,
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  Speaker 6: twenty five years later, still chucking on.
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  Speaker 2: That's awesome.
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  Speaker 3: It's a great story, another great example of how Bartlesfille
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  Speaker 3: really steps up and Bartletill's important.
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  Speaker 6: Greatest community I've ever been a part, and truly they
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  Speaker 6: have the most generous people, the most caring people, and
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  Speaker 6: many times if you're physically not able to serve, you
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  Speaker 6: can give money, but many times people give money as
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  Speaker 6: well as volunteer several times a month. I just never
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  Speaker 6: cease to be amazed at our community of how they
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  Speaker 6: step up to meet the need.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it is, it is, and there's just examples of
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  Speaker 3: it all over And you guys have.
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  Speaker 2: Certainly filled a great need.
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  Speaker 3: And continued to as you mentioned, and this event has
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  Speaker 3: been really a great one for many years now, Brenda,
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  Speaker 3: you've been working on it for I think I've.
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  Speaker 5: This thirteen years. I came, they've been going three years.
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  Speaker 6: But we've been true to Credit Union actually was the
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  Speaker 6: one through their marketing department, which helped me. I had
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  Speaker 6: struggled trying to get the thing on the road and
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  Speaker 6: all the stuff, and they actually created our logo for us,
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  Speaker 6: and it was it was through them that we actually
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  Speaker 6: got started. And we appreciate them so much and they're
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  Speaker 6: still sponsors of empty Bowls and.
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  Speaker 4: It's just amazing.
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  Speaker 2: We had a great list of sponsors. Yes, we do
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  Speaker 2: pattered online.
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  Speaker 3: And it's just a it's a it's a hall of
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  Speaker 3: fame parts well, it truly is generous corporations and and
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  Speaker 3: you know, I think it's also a unique event because
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  Speaker 3: a lot of the the corporate campuses downtown really populate.
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  Speaker 2: These people that come to each other.
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  Speaker 4: Well they do.
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  Speaker 6: Everybody has any lunch, and it's hot, you don't want
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  Speaker 6: to be out walking the streets too much, you know,
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  Speaker 6: and a lot of times the people they like it downtown.
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  Speaker 6: We in fact, were two almost macs of where to
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  Speaker 6: hold it because you know.
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  Speaker 2: The food gets to food cool, and it's like.
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  Speaker 4: We don't want to move it anywhere.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, you got the casino out there, but he
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  Speaker 6: wants to drive west of town and you know on
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  Speaker 6: our lunch hower.
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  Speaker 5: But not on that you we have to have a
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  Speaker 5: place with a kitchen because of a food in some
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  Speaker 5: places you have to use their kitchen, right food, So
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  Speaker 5: this wouldn't work.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, so you know, and the casino's great, they come.
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  Speaker 6: They actually are one of our vendors. But you know,
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  Speaker 6: we just try to make it work. It's a come
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  Speaker 6: and go thing. A lot of people sometimes stay, especially
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  Speaker 6: if they got bids in the silent auction, but truly
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  Speaker 6: it is a lunchtime come and go visit.
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  Speaker 4: Get your role.
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  Speaker 6: This year is going to be a little different because
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  Speaker 6: we are celebrating our twenty fifth anniversary. We're going to
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  Speaker 6: have and I'm gonna let Brenda tell a little bit
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  Speaker 6: more about it. But when you get your bowl, there's
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  Speaker 6: going to be a little wooden point in there that.
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  Speaker 4: Has a number on it. She's going to what those
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  Speaker 4: numbers mean.
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  Speaker 2: Little wouldn't put Oh, I see, okay, it's a little.
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  Speaker 4: Well, just thank Andrew at PDG for making.
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  Speaker 3: Numbers.
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  Speaker 4: I told him, I said, we only had like six
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  Speaker 4: hundred people. We'll get eight hundred in cases do that.
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  Speaker 5: But he came up. He came up with this idea
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  Speaker 5: of for our twenty anniversary, twenty five reasons to give,
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  Speaker 5: And his idea was for Sherry to find twenty five
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  Speaker 5: volunteers with the people who attend or use a GOPI
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  Speaker 5: and do a little by on iiO on them to bring.
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  Speaker 2: Bring it to life.
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  Speaker 4: Why pay a little more in depth of is Agafi
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  Speaker 4: even here? Yeah? What have we done over the last
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  Speaker 4: twenty five years?
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  Speaker 3: I went to an event out of the lighthouse a
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  Speaker 3: few weeks ago that was that was about like that
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  Speaker 3: and it was really.
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  Speaker 4: Uh dis inspirational.
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  Speaker 2: So meet the people.
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  Speaker 3: There that are, you know, looking for help and find
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  Speaker 3: it a place to give them some structure and opportunities
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  Speaker 3: to better themselves.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, oh, I don't know what you do.
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  Speaker 5: This year, all the bowls will have a one of
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  Speaker 5: these little numbers in the bowl. So when you pick
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  Speaker 5: up your bowl, you'll find your number. And we have
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  Speaker 5: those strips to give out to everybody that tells them
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  Speaker 5: what to do. Okay that you take your number when
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  Speaker 5: you go back to the table. Find this on your table,
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  Speaker 5: look up your number and see what is your reason
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  Speaker 5: for giving? And this reason is for Testany She's.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Testy, she's twenty five. She's eating at Agapi for
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  Speaker 3: two years. Favorite a gopi meal, chicken and rice. Favorite hobby, hobby,
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  Speaker 3: listen to music and watching TV. And the other needs
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  Speaker 3: a job, transportation, housing and food stamps, which yeah, that
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  Speaker 3: would is true in two years.
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  Speaker 2: And so is there a waiting list? How do you
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  Speaker 2: become a client? Is anyone just shows up?
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  Speaker 4: You can show up.
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  Speaker 6: We don't ask any financial information. I think the Good
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  Speaker 6: Lord fed his people and he.
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  Speaker 4: Didn't ask him for how much did you make today
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  Speaker 4: or you know whatever. But you just come in the door.
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  Speaker 6: You need to give him your name, address, and your
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  Speaker 6: birthday because the birthday in our computer. The only reason
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  Speaker 6: we have it is just to keep track of ages,
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  Speaker 6: because we have demographics we have to take care of.
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  Speaker 6: But you come in, give your name, they give you
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  Speaker 6: a ticket. You're going get picked up your mail and
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  Speaker 6: set out and eat. So there you know, and we
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  Speaker 6: it it's a very neutral place. We try to you know,
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  Speaker 6: some people might have a beef with somebody else, but
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  Speaker 6: you better not show it there because you have the
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  Speaker 6: risk of not getting to eat there if you're going
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  Speaker 6: to cause problem. And to really be honest, over the
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  Speaker 6: last twenty five years, I always just tell people have
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  Speaker 6: real big aims, Joseph, because it's really been at a
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  Speaker 6: minimum considering how many people that we serve. You know,
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  Speaker 6: the last week of July we've had three hundred and
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  Speaker 6: fifty people every.
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  Speaker 4: Day was the end of the month. Ish, it's have
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  Speaker 4: you been to grocery store land? You know?
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  Speaker 6: Have you paid gas lite, have you paid rent? Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: it's just amazing how the numbers are growing.
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  Speaker 4: And then.
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  Speaker 6: The housing problem in Barnesville, we have one because there
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  Speaker 6: is none. You know, we have no blow and everything
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  Speaker 6: is full. And if you're going to try to get
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  Speaker 6: in a section eight halfing, it's a two year wait.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 4: It's just it's tough everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 4: And So basically agape is A is a Christian place.
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  Speaker 4: We have Christian music that's playing.
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  Speaker 6: Everybody that volunteers with it us know that we start
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  Speaker 6: the day off with prayer and our day seems to
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  Speaker 6: go busy but.
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  Speaker 4: Good and they can come in and have a good meal.
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  Speaker 6: Sometimes people have extenuating needs and we try to either
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  Speaker 6: give them a resource to go to that has whatever, or.
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  Speaker 4: You know, we have extra little things that sometimes we
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  Speaker 4: can help them. We just try to assess each individual.
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  Speaker 6: As we can help them, which is as different as
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  Speaker 6: are as people.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, oh sorry, back to the twenty five reasons. This
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  Speaker 5: is a card that's going to be on the table,
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  Speaker 5: and the twenty five dollars that you pay for a
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  Speaker 5: ticket will feed five meals for a person. So we're
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  Speaker 5: going to try to have a little mini fundraiser during
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  Speaker 5: the event. Mike Wilk's going to help us with that.
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  Speaker 5: And so if you donate twenty five dollars, you know
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  Speaker 5: that you could feed one of these people, or any
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  Speaker 5: five meals if you do fifteen ten meals. So we're
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  Speaker 5: trying to bring it all together and maybe do a
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  Speaker 5: quick fundraiser there to see how much we can get
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  Speaker 5: that day.
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  Speaker 2: It's kind of like a paddle raising.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah I can get hurry, Yeah, yeah, he's he's good.
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  Speaker 5: So I'm glad he volunteered. I promised him I wouldn't
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  Speaker 5: make him dress up in a costumes.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a little hard after.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I was just going to ask about volunteer opportunities
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  Speaker 3: and I know that's so important to what makes it
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  Speaker 3: all come together?
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  Speaker 4: Is it truly is.
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  Speaker 2: With all the other stuff going on, you can't afford
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  Speaker 2: to be paying.
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  Speaker 6: Staff and now and and you know you have to
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  Speaker 6: have I mean for everything that needs everything, no getting
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  Speaker 6: the food to the to.
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  Speaker 2: The community center. I'm sure that she's.
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  Speaker 6: Well, it's a neat thing that we do because you know,
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  Speaker 6: because we're a United Way anciency, there's a day of caring.
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  Speaker 6: And oh, I don't know, it's.
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  Speaker 4: Probably ten and twelve year years ago.
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  Speaker 6: I had the like come on in my head, you know,
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  Speaker 6: one morning at a United Way dinner a meeting, monthly meeting,
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  Speaker 6: and it was like, oh, I could use my day
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  Speaker 6: of caring for empty bowls and we can have a
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  Speaker 6: conical Phillips group or Phillips the Trillium group come in
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  Speaker 6: and anyway it'll worked. Now it's a coveted thing. They're
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  Speaker 6: up till midday as soon as they're going to put
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  Speaker 6: those day of carrying projects on them because they want
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  Speaker 6: they're inside. It's cool, they get to serve meal, they
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  Speaker 6: get to visit. You know, it's a win win thing.
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  Speaker 6: And so we have a group of Phillips that comes
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  Speaker 6: in on that on the empty balls day and they
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  Speaker 6: decorate the tables, they serve.
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  Speaker 4: The meals, they help us clean, they take out the drives,
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  Speaker 4: they do all that.
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  Speaker 2: That's great, Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And we get money for it. They get for so many.
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  Speaker 6: Hours a volunteer time for every twenty hours a GOPA
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  Speaker 6: gets five hundred dollars.
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  Speaker 4: So wor's that great?
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  Speaker 3: That is a great story and just kind of doubles
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  Speaker 3: and multiplies all the efforts.
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  Speaker 4: That and then we need of course volunteers every day.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: No, we would love to get started with a second.
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  Speaker 6: I kind of keep it as a hush hush kind
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  Speaker 6: of program that way do because if I advertise that
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  Speaker 6: like I probably ought to, I'd need five or six
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  Speaker 6: groups teams to deliver. We do a senior meal program
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  Speaker 6: every day, five days a week, and I have a
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  Speaker 6: group of one person does it one day a week,
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  Speaker 6: and I only have enough people to do to do
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  Speaker 6: what and that's about twenty to twenty one meals, and
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  Speaker 6: so I really need another group. I need five to
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  Speaker 6: ten people. Sometimes husband and wife.
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  Speaker 4: Does it together. Sometimes it's just a single person. It
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  Speaker 4: takes about an hour, hour and a half to deliver,
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  Speaker 4: you know, twenty meals. It's all in Bartlesville. You don't
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  Speaker 4: have to go outside of.
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  Speaker 6: Bartlesville and about ten forty five and you're usually done
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  Speaker 6: twelve thirty one.
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  Speaker 4: Depends on how the best you drive. But we've made
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  Speaker 4: the route to.
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  Speaker 6: Where it's smooth, and if I get the team together,
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  Speaker 6: then I can open it up for more meals. But
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  Speaker 6: at this point, I just you know, I don't have
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  Speaker 6: enough people. And then you can come in a couple
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  Speaker 6: hours a day and volunteer. You know, we're chopping salads,
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  Speaker 6: fixing tea and coffee, and washing dishes and you know,
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  Speaker 6: serving the meal from eleven to bolding towels, you know,
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  Speaker 6: getting sacks. We have a table.
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  Speaker 4: We go to those grocery stores.
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  Speaker 6: We're basically feeding the world on what the grocery stores
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  Speaker 6: cannot sell at this point. So we go to the
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  Speaker 6: grocery stores and pick up five days a week.
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  Speaker 4: One story we pick.
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  Speaker 6: Up five days a week, one story we pick up
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  Speaker 6: one day a week, another story we pick up two
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  Speaker 6: days a week, another story we pick up three days.
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  Speaker 6: So we're gathering all this stuff in and whatever we
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  Speaker 6: can't use. Then daily we'll mark through the bar coats
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  Speaker 6: and we we have like a little snack table that's
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  Speaker 6: open till one and we give them three items, you know,
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  Speaker 6: to be able to take home with them. So you know,
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  Speaker 6: I mean we're just trying to be good stewards of
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  Speaker 6: everything the Good Lord gives us to help somebody else.
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  Speaker 2: What a great story.
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  Speaker 3: I mean that's coming from the grocery stores.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, just everybody working together.
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  Speaker 6: You know, First Church out on Price Road, they grow
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  Speaker 6: a garden for us every year, and so it's such
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  Speaker 6: a blessing to come in and we've got okra and cucumbers.
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  Speaker 4: We do cucumber.
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  Speaker 6: Salads every day. We do a salad every day. We
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  Speaker 6: get you know, fresh herbs.
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  Speaker 4: All those different things. So we love garden time.
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  Speaker 6: I grew up with grandparents that had two gardens every year,
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  Speaker 6: and so you don't know how you miss those things
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  Speaker 6: that you don't have it anymore. And gardens was such
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  Speaker 6: a blessing.
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  Speaker 4: I wish to everybody grew a gardener.
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  Speaker 6: I wish I had a big old where we just
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  Speaker 6: pres Oh, yes, absolutely so. We even had They even
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  Speaker 6: had candle this year that I think always tried to
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  Speaker 6: grow in. But you know, with the weather and different
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  Speaker 6: things and rain, it's hard to sometimes this year, we've
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  Speaker 6: had some really nice handling.
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: Great well, it has been a heck of a summer.
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: We're into hot stretch here this weekend, right, yeah, I
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: mean all the rain and everything else. We finally at
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: the dealership. We had the sign on the front of
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: the building kind of blew off at one point on
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: a strange, strange event because it was an odd kind
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: of north coming out of the northeast wind that and
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: it pulled it off and next thing I know, it's
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: bouncing on the on the ground. Luckily it didn't damn
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: any any vehicles. That's finally been replaced. In the last
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: week or so, we're off and running at the dealership
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: into our August big national sales event for Toyota. We've
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: got our probably our best inventory of the year and
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: its model year in out time so and actually our
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: region is going through their fiscal year in so.
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: They try to ship every vehicle they.
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: Can in August, get them all out and we're in
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: the switchover time from twenty fives to twenty six is
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: so you've got kind of the best.
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: Of both worlds. Great deals on.
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: The on the twenty twenty fives, the best incentives and
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: discounts of the year, plus you've got some twenty six
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: is starting to show up. If you're looking for the
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: latest model and I want to check things out. I
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: saw we had our first twenty twenty six as we're arriving,
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: just as I got in the car to come over
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: here a Prius. A couple of Priuses on the ground
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: this morning, and continuing to sell about half our cars
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: out of the pipeline, so they're unfortunately a lot of
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: them we're selling before they actually even hit the lot
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: and you get a chance to look at them. But
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: that makes for a pretty healthy turn rate on the
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: toy oners and.
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: Selling a lot and are earning more.
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: We'll get our next allocation next week and have more.
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: Twenty twenty six is in that, including things like the
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: Grand Highlander and Highlander and some of our best models.
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: And we do have a great inventory right now. I
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: mentioned that we stuff like a Tundra, a TRD Pro.
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: We've got a couple of rab fours available, some lots
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: of Tacomas to other Tundras, the all new four Runner,
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: which really people need to check it out.
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: It's a great vehicle.
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: You can get them for a four by four kind
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: of a middle of the road one for in the
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: mid forties. It's really nice value for a lot of vehicle.
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: And then you can obviously look also at the land
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: Cruiser or the Sequaia.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: Which are step up from the fore Erunner, and if.
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: You want a little bit smaller vehicle, the RAB four
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: and the Corolla Cross and our great Crown Insignia and
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: then the Crown and Camery Corolla. You know. So all
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: of those are great choices and they're all availab Bolt
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: now a Dungeons.
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: We are the.
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: Oklahoma's oldest Toyota dealer and proud to be that, and
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: and proud to sport organizations like Agape and the empty bowls.
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: And another unique thing about the event is the bulls themselves, right,
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: we haven't talked about that.
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: Well, you get a unique bowl. In fact, we've had
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: people ask us if we could.
• 20:25
  Speaker 6: If we could, you know, do you have another bowl
• 20:28
  Speaker 6: like this? It's like, no, they are all one of
• 20:31
  Speaker 6: a kind. You have the original. Cindy Keeler from No
• 20:35
  Speaker 6: Wada and her ladies do this every year.
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: They've done it. I don't know that. Yeah, yeah, a
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: long time.
• 20:45
  Speaker 6: In fact, we wore out her first kill and we
• 20:47
  Speaker 6: had to buy her another one. But she does a
• 20:50
  Speaker 6: great They do a great job every year and and
• 20:53
  Speaker 6: that's a that's another thing that everybody can't wait. In fact,
• 20:55
  Speaker 6: they'll come in the door, give their ticket, go turn
• 20:58
  Speaker 6: their chair up and head to the bolt because they
• 21:01
  Speaker 6: want to get their bowl. That's right, and we you know,
• 21:05
  Speaker 6: we we pray that you every time you look at
• 21:08
  Speaker 6: that bowl, you remember that there's hungry people in Bartlesville.
• 21:11
  Speaker 6: And do I need to go volunteer this week or
• 21:14
  Speaker 6: do I need to give some money?
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: That's great? And they're really beautiful balls, they are.
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: They truly are.
• 21:23
  Speaker 6: I painted one one time because I am not a
• 21:25
  Speaker 6: I'm a I'm a crafter, but painting and drawing is
• 21:29
  Speaker 6: not my forte.
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: And I thought, oh, this thing's gonna be terrible.
• 21:32
  Speaker 6: But after she put it in that killn that come out,
• 21:34
  Speaker 6: it was like I did that.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: I do I have to think about making six hundred.
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: Balls or more. I'm mistakes sometimes some unique things.
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: There's some doggy bowls that we've had.
• 21:50
  Speaker 6: We've had cups, plates, saucers, Christmas decorations, you know, when
• 21:57
  Speaker 6: we give the do the silent Auction have a lot
• 22:00
  Speaker 6: of the bigger unique items in there. And and it's
• 22:04
  Speaker 6: not just bowls or plates or pictures or whatever, but
• 22:08
  Speaker 6: there's also little goodies that some of our sponsors in
• 22:14
  Speaker 6: town will donate, like a gift card to you, don't
• 22:17
  Speaker 6: I think, uh boomerang. They do, like burgers in a
• 22:24
  Speaker 6: little car thing like burgers for a year. You get
• 22:27
  Speaker 6: a burger Hamburger, Yeah for a week for a year.
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: And we get like crank and lolos at a gift
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: card and lollipops and slot skis and see who.
• 22:38
  Speaker 6: So we put those in the in the silent option
• 22:40
  Speaker 6: things to make it a little more and autolutely coffee.
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: Gave me coffee I asked for I said, we do
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: donate a pounty. Gave me five.
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: Let's talk about the logistics a little bit again. When
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: does it start. It's August twenty.
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: It's August twenty six at the community.
• 22:57
  Speaker 6: Well at the center, I think is the official name
• 23:01
  Speaker 6: now from eleven thirty to one thirty.
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: If you don't have tickets, you can buy your tickets online.
• 23:08
  Speaker 6: Go to our website at gafe Bartlesfel dot com, hit
• 23:11
  Speaker 6: the donate button, tell us in the little memo you
• 23:14
  Speaker 6: know seventy five dollars. I want three empty bowl tickets.
• 23:18
  Speaker 6: We will put them in the will call box. They'll
• 23:19
  Speaker 6: have them at the table before you can buy tickets there,
• 23:24
  Speaker 6: and they're twenty five dollars apiece.
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: So come and to have a good time that day.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and the food is great too. You've got a
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: lot of restaurants you mentioned new ones coming.
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: Now let's talk a little bit about who's going to
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: be represented there.
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: Okay, let's see. Well we've got.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: Wheezis Weezy there for many years.
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: Right, and Chef Nook such one the noodle truck I
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: am taught, that is the noodle truck I used to
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: call the new Link truck. And Pop's going nuts is
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: Then there are a couple of your dinks. Then there
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: for Epper Bombinas, Shorties, Panda Express, La Fiesta, Taco Marias,
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: New China, Bricktown, Mazios, Chick fil A, Crossing secut Karen
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: Linon does this great Salad, Siboras, Taco Ficha, Chickofish, Chili's
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: haid Away, fresh Market, Price In Fresh Market's hen Tulsa,
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: and Price Meats, Painted Horse. And then there we've got
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: Asher Point Copan truck Stop, Green Country Village, Broms, Sugar
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: Rico and the Eatery all do desserts, and Dusty Roads
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: and Osage Casinos brings out at lunch. McAllister's and Hto
• 24:42
  Speaker 5: donates the tea. So we have a lot of great
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: restaurants donating food and you get a little bit of everything,
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: a little taste of everything.
• 24:51
  Speaker 6: Agapa even brings some to taste. We've done various different
• 24:56
  Speaker 6: things and we keep getting the request to do the
• 24:59
  Speaker 6: shepherd It's pine.
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: Now. I will tell you, I'm an.
• 25:01
  Speaker 6: Avid watcher a food network and when you use ground beef,
• 25:07
  Speaker 6: it's not called shepherd's pie. It's called cottage pie. F
• 25:12
  Speaker 6: y just learn that. So we actually have a cottage
• 25:16
  Speaker 6: pie that day. But everybody loves that, So come truck.
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: Well, we're really excited to get out there at My
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: employees love this time of year because I have a
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: few extra tickets to give out and we'll be out
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: there early and try to get a good bowl and
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: get to from line first.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: There were some lines last year at Yeah.
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: They start at one.
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: There is a somewhat limited amount of food at each
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: each restaurant they can't just bring.
• 25:51
  Speaker 6: I would suggest that people, if you you know, if
• 25:53
  Speaker 6: you frequent somewhere all the time, you already know what
• 25:55
  Speaker 6: their food tastes. I go to somewhere where you haven't
• 25:58
  Speaker 6: maybe tried, and then you might want to go eat
• 26:00
  Speaker 6: the something.
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: That's the whole gist of it. We want to.
• 26:04
  Speaker 6: Patronize our vendors that are generous enough to help sponsor us.
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: We want people to say, oh, that was good, and
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: we're going to go keep with them. On Tuesday night
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: or Wednesday night, a.
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: Little in that lobby area feels up shoulder to shoulder
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: waiting for us open the doors at eleven thirty, and
• 26:22
  Speaker 5: then we open and we just stand back.
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: Really come eleven the doors.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: Well, we'll be out there again.
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: It's Tuesday, August twenty sixth eleven thirty to one thirty.
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: It would be a great, great day to get lunch
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: and out there. And then a shout out to the
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: Big Brothers Big Sisters. Their mystery event is going on
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: this weekend and it should be quite an event out there, and.
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: I know they've been planning for a long time.
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: For that, and it sounds like a very exciting discovery
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: out different.
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: I think, very different.
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: And again at the dealership, we've bought a great selection.
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: Our great team of noncommissioned sales professionals are out there
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: to help you out.
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: We focus on.
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: Keeping things simple, transparent, fun as in your buying process.
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: Have some great new technology that's on the website and
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: we'll be rolling out in the showroom here pretty soon,
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: which empowers the salespeople to just to answer more of
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: your questions easier about vehicles, interest rates, payments, trade values.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: All that you think about the.
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: AI revolution, it's not so much AI is just connecting
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: tools and new tools to make it faster and more transparent.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: We love to do that and the team's been doing great.
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: We're going to have a great big month that this August,
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: sell lots of new toyotis.
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: If you've got a vehicle you need, come check it out.
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: At Dungeons DUNGEUS, Twitter dot com. We are also buying
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: used cars. We had one of our best used car months,
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: really our best since we sold the Ford Store.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: And think about it, we've kind of had double.
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: The two used car lots there in one that we
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: can find, but by far the best last month. We
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: need to replace that inventory. So if you've got to
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: trade in or something to sell, or even if you're
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: buying somewhere else, give us a shot. We'll make you
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: a great top dollar offer for your vehicle. Also shout
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: out to the guys at the body shop. They're booming
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: right now and scheduling lots of work and also service
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: in detail or doing a great job. And come see
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: us out there at Dungeons.
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: All right, where can we find you?
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: We're at nineteen eleven Southeast Washington Boulevard, or like I said,
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: online at Dungeustoyota dot com.
• 28:48
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