Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.
It is time now for our community connection right here on K one.
Though one you try some We are having some fun today because we're gonna be
talking about something wild with the Wild Brew as it benefits Sutton Navy and Research
Center. Audre, it is great to have you back. It seems like
it's been a long time since I've seen you. Well, thank you,
it's going to be back. Well, you know, it's always great to
have a good time and a good thing to benefit that good time. And
with wild Brew, this is really something. It's something you do every year,
isn't it. It is? Tell us a little bit about it.
So Wild Brew is the annual fundraising event for the Suttonnavian Research Center and the
Sutton Center. I'm hoping that everybody that's listening to this radio show knows about
the Sutton Aavian Research the better. We've done great things, But our bald
eagle is what we're known for. And I think I say that every time
because it's always true. But this year we have more eagles than ever in
the state of Oklahoma. That's great. And so when you come to Wild
Brew, literally you're when you drink a beer, you save a bird.
Huh, all right, what I tell you what, Dad, This is
one thing that's really pretty cool that it goes on here. And in fact,
you guys got a little help from a certain human eagle Once upon a
time did Don Henley Donley eagle of a different feather in thesis supporter and helped
the Sutton Center fly when we almost crashed. Wow, that's an interesting story.
Our executive director had had a motorcycle accident, was hurt badly, and
one of our volunteers wrote Don Henley a letter and he responded and supported and
because of him, we were able to go on some of the national news
shows with our eagles and really spread the word about the program. Well,
that is amazing. That is just really amazing. Now we do more than
just eagles. We did. We talk about birds of all kinds of heavy
wee We do all kinds of things. The Sutton Center. We work with
rare and endangered birds. So right now we are captive breeding two of North
America's most critically endangered birds. So it's a little tiny quail called the masked
bob White and it's a Sonoran desert bird um and we are helping to restore
that bird. And if we weren't working with that bird, it would be
extinct by now. So we're making a pretty good difference in that bird.
And then the other one is the Outwater's prairie chicken. And when you think
of chicken dance, think of prairie chicken. They guy there are crazy little
birds. They do a fun dance. That the Outwater's prairie chicken is also
critically endangered. It's a Texas coastal bird and because of the Sutton Center,
we're making efforts to restore that species as well. You know, and people
sometimes they're like, ow, why do we care? Well, because biodiversity
matters, and we want to have a diverse, diverse wildlife, diverse plants
on our planet so that ultimately what happens to the birds and the wildlife will
happen to people. And so we are working to keep our world healthy and
we like to collaborate with as many people as possible. And so Wild Brew
Um, it's Tulsa's oldest craft beer festival, biggest restaurant crawl. It's been
going on. This is our twenty fifth anniversary. Ye I've been doing this
event. I know it's hard to believe. It just gets better and better
every year. But this year we have the Wild Brew Beer is fantastic.
It's brewed by Dead Armadillo. It's called a Sutton Summer Wheat and the can
is is awesome. Um. But there's even a ride up about the Sutton
Center on the side of the cans in. It's in restaurants everywhere. It's
in several of the liquor stores. In fact, if any Bartlesville liquor stores
are listening, we would love for you to carry the Wild Brew beer restaurants,
we'd love to have it on tap. It's a it's a really easy
drinking beer. Um. But Debt Armadillo brews it to support the Sutton Center
and we'll have the Wild Brew Beer and about two hundred other beers or more
to sample at the Wild Brew Event. Now, where's the Wild Brew Event
going to take place? Because I know you can sample where you can,
yeah, but where it's going to be. So the event is at the
Cock's Business Center in downtown Tulsa, easy to find, easy to find,
right off the highway, and it's air conditioned. And so sometimes when you
think beer festival you think heat and bugs and hot not Wild Brew. Wild
Brew's air conditioned in the Cox's Business Center. It's in Exhibit Halls B and
C, which is a ginormous space, and it will be full of restaurant,
restaurants, breweries, and whenever you buy your ticket, everything inside the
event is free, and so you can sample. You will not be able
to sample all of the food, and you shouldn't drink every single beer as
you might not be able to leave. Yes, but there are so many
different things. I think right now, by the end of our recruitment beer,
you know, everybody's really starting to sign up right now. But we'll
have about fifty breweries that come on board, and every brewery brings around three
to four beers to sample. And then we also have participation from some of
the distributors. Wow real but the food, So even if you're not a
beer drinker, you should come to the event because for the food. But
we also have wineries that will participate, We have distilleries that will participate,
and we even have some of the local movement is huge, and so we
have some local sodas that will be there. Soda companies, we have coffee
companies that will be there, so there are all kinds of things to drink,
even if you're if you're not a beer drinker. Lots of the Pepsi
Corporation they're participating, so we'll have Pepsi products there, so it's just great.
And while you're drinking your beer and eating your food, um, you
also have lots of things to see and do biscuits and gravy. A new
band this year will be playing for us. Shelby Ker will still be there
during the Patron's hour, but live music the silent auction is huge. This
year, we're adding an element of a live auction, so we'll have five
special items in the live auction. We've never done that before, but we
think we think that people will love being able to watch a live auction and
just a few items, so it's something we're trying this year. A little
hybrid, little hybrid. And then we also have several of our local artists
who are supporting us this year, and so we'll have all kinds of artwork
that we'll have buy it now pricing. Some of them will be available online,
which if you go to the Wild Brew website you can sign up for
auction updates and so even if you're not able to attend the event, you
can bid on auction items and then they'll even bring them to you. Yeah,
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The first conversation I have with someone's loved one, I don't care if it's
three o'clock in the afternoon or three o'clock in the morning. That first conversation
is mister X, this is tim How with Arnold Moore Nie Funeral Home.
First of all, sir, let me say I'm very sorry we're having to
have this conversation right now. And to the nth degree, those people always
appreciate you taking a moment to just pause and say I'm aware that someone you
care about very much has just left you, and I'm sorry that we have
to do this, but we have to do this. And if it's three
o'clock in the morning, I try to be brief but concise and say do
you have any questions or anything I can do for you right now before we
meet at our arrangement conference. And sometimes I say, you know, can
you call my priest? Can you call my pastor? And I don't mind
doing that. It'll be all right. We'll walk through this together. Arnold
Moore and Knee Camp Funeral Home, seven Dewey, Martelsville. We will walk
through this together. Welcome back into our community. Connection more with Oudrivogel and
Jeez with the Sutton Avian Research Center, and of course Wild Brute, which
supports this. Tell us a little bit how this all kind of meshes together
here. We know that if we go to the event at the Cock Center
on the twenty six and we have fun. Money will go do the Sutton
Research Center. But this whole marriage with something else. Um, so the
Sutton Center, Um it really it really is important. The event is great
fun, but we rely on this event to really fund a lot of the
important work that we do. And so the event, you know, we
call it the greatest party ever hatched because it is. It's so much fun
there. They are all kinds of things to do. You know. When
I first came to the to the Sutton Center and Wild brew was a part
of my responsibilities, I thought, ah, this is gonna be a you
know, something awful. But it really is like a nice evening out.
I thought it was going to be a big drunk fest. It is not.
It is a very nice evening out. The brewers are there, so
you can talk to the brewers. The restaurants are there. You know,
you walk from place to place and get your food. The Sutton Center's education
program will be there in full force. And so Artemis are great. Um
a red tailed hawk. He stayed on glove for six hours. Artemis is
a rock star. She is a redtailed talk. She goes to the schools
and when we can bring live birds into the schools which we are in the
Bartlesville School System, we're participating in the Dewey School System in Nowada, We've
been in Bahuska, We've been in all of the area schools right here.
It really changes the conversation when you're talking about science, math, engineering,
technology, art. When we can bring a bird in and talk about flight,
when we can talk about feather structure, when we can talk about all
of those things about about how birds fit into and can help teach more about
science, more about math and trajectories and all of those kind of things.
You can see the kids just light up. And so we are working in
partnership with teachers in the area to really help help them teach what they need
to teach in exciting new ways. And at the same time we can talk
about the about conservation and why it's important to protect our world, and so
it really all goes together nicely. And so when you come to Wildbrow this
year, you'll be able to meet we'll have turkeys in tents. They are
loud, they're obnoxious, they like to show off their stuff and you're fun.
They are so fun. But they help us talk about heritage breeds and
about agriculture and the important it's just all works together. We'll have a golden
pheasant that Turbo is her name, and she will be there. She loves
people, and so it really is an opportunity to see the education program.
But if you can't go to Wildbrow and you want to see things like our
education program grow, you can make a donation. Go to our website,
the Sutton Center dot org make a donation, but you could donate an auction
item you could bid online, and every dollar that you donate goes directly to
help support programs like our education program. Our Breeding Bird Outlas is a statewide
survey. We just finished this year's survey, but we are looking at the
health and distribution of our birds in Oklahoma. Because to wait until something becomes
endangered, you want to it's too late, you want to stay out in
front. And so our Breeding Bird Outlas helps us then inform conservation actions that
might be needed. And so we've already seen some movement of new birds coming
into Oklahoma. We find out all kinds of cool things be relatively easy,
and yet everybody can play a role or things that we can do. We
do not have to throw up our hands and feel like we're powerless. We
can help. It's a while. Brew brings all of those things together,
you know. People come to drink beer and they learn about the birds.
People come to support the Sutton Center and they meet all these great brewers,
and so we feel like our restaurants and our brewers are parts they really help.
You know. Several have come even though restaurants and breweries are just their
thin years this year, this hard time finding staff. They want to come
to our event because they want to support the work that we do, and
we are very thankful for them. Indeed, where can we find the sut
Navian Research Center online? So Sutton Center dot org is our our website.
But we're talking about Wildbrew. So if people go to wildbrew dot org dot
wildbrew dot org, let me say at one more time wildbrew dot org.
You can buy your tickets on the site. You can make a donation if
you want to, and you can also connect to the Sutton Center from the
Wild Bruce ste You gain good and so drink a beer, save a bird,
buy a ticket, all right, it makes a difference. We want
to thank built absolutely. Conico Phillips is our presenting sponsor this year and We
are very thankful for them. They were significant supporters for our breeding bird outlast
this year, and so they are truly making a difference in what we find
in Oklahoma. To stay in front and keep our birds healthy because again,
whatever happens to birds eventually happens to humans. Keep that in mind, I
know. Thank you, Knicho Phillips, Thank you add Rafogel. We appreciate
you being with us here today. We'll see everybody at wild Bru