WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.399 --> 00:00:06.599 We do today. I always look forward to we're talking to OLI, of 2 00:00:06.639 --> 00:00:11.720 course, because whenever we get together, we kind of we giggle a little 3 00:00:11.720 --> 00:00:15.160 bit. We try to give a little bit of information on what's going on 4 00:00:15.240 --> 00:00:19.160 with OLI through Oklahoma State University. How you doing? First of all, 5 00:00:19.640 --> 00:00:22.480 I'm doing fun. But if you don't get an elevator here or something for 6 00:00:22.559 --> 00:00:26.160 those stairs, yeah, I've I've been lobbying for it myself, if you 7 00:00:26.199 --> 00:00:29.559 know what I mean. Keep going really strong, because I'm a age out 8 00:00:29.600 --> 00:00:37.039 on that one. It's Mount k one. Well, we've got registration that's 9 00:00:37.079 --> 00:00:40.359 coming up right now, and the OLI classes they're a lot of fun, 10 00:00:40.399 --> 00:00:46.520 a great way to socialize too and as well as get informed and really stretch 11 00:00:46.560 --> 00:00:51.920 your mind a little. So which we got going on here, Well, 12 00:00:52.079 --> 00:00:58.280 the summer session is getting ready to start this month, and we've got kind 13 00:00:58.280 --> 00:01:03.159 of a short scheduled this summer. But what we've got going is good. 14 00:01:03.079 --> 00:01:12.519 We have Paul Gustison. He's very interested in saving bees, so he's gonna 15 00:01:12.560 --> 00:01:19.519 do a class on saving the bees. He's very interested in that. Well, 16 00:01:19.599 --> 00:01:23.079 we were, actually we all should because if the bees go away six 17 00:01:23.120 --> 00:01:26.640 weeks later, we're going right they I don't think people realize how important they 18 00:01:26.640 --> 00:01:30.840 are to the food chain. They are and probably many other things as well, 19 00:01:30.879 --> 00:01:37.200 but not to mention the lovely honey. Oh yeah, there you go, 20 00:01:37.680 --> 00:01:41.640 put me down for a gallant. Yeah. I was in the store 21 00:01:41.680 --> 00:01:42.920 and they had small bottles and I said, do you get this bigger? 22 00:01:42.920 --> 00:01:48.159 And I said, unfortunately, he will bottle bigger. And I said, 23 00:01:48.599 --> 00:01:53.760 okay, well we understand that. Yes, then we have Gary Nilus is 24 00:01:53.760 --> 00:01:57.959 gonna do a series on our wild Earth. Cool, and I think everybody 25 00:01:59.000 --> 00:02:02.560 should identify with that right now. Yeah, it doesn't get much wilder than 26 00:02:02.599 --> 00:02:07.439 what we've had this week. Yes, he did a really good series on 27 00:02:08.240 --> 00:02:13.439 the out in the universe. Huh. And so now he's going to do 28 00:02:13.520 --> 00:02:15.680 the Earth, and you never know what he's going to put together. It's 29 00:02:15.680 --> 00:02:22.280 always really interesting. But he'll do a four summer session. Is only four 30 00:02:22.319 --> 00:02:28.000 weeks, so he'll have four weeks on that one. And then we've got 31 00:02:28.000 --> 00:02:31.240 some field trips planned. Oh good. We're gonna go up to Coffeeville and 32 00:02:31.520 --> 00:02:37.719 visit the Dalton Museum and the Brown Mansion. Both of those are you can 33 00:02:37.759 --> 00:02:43.120 spend a day in each of those, You certainly can. So then of 34 00:02:43.120 --> 00:02:46.319 course we'll have lunch up there as well, and we're gonna go over to 35 00:02:46.360 --> 00:02:53.840 No Water. We'll go through the glasshouse and I haven't seen any of these, 36 00:02:53.120 --> 00:03:00.360 and then the Presbyterian Church with the beautiful windows, and the museum useum 37 00:03:00.520 --> 00:03:04.199 is quite a quite a piece there. They get a lot of things from 38 00:03:04.199 --> 00:03:06.919 the smith Oni and in that little museum, in that little one, yeah 39 00:03:07.120 --> 00:03:12.240 they do so. Yeah, and then get this one. There's gonna be 40 00:03:12.280 --> 00:03:22.759 another tour and it's gonna have go to a butterfly farm in the Honey Creek 41 00:03:22.800 --> 00:03:30.479 Farm which does lavender, that's the interest there, and the Franco mar pottery. 42 00:03:30.879 --> 00:03:35.319 That'll all be in one day trip. My goodness. You go to 43 00:03:35.400 --> 00:03:42.680 get around well, yeah, we do. I know. It's amazing for 44 00:03:42.759 --> 00:03:47.560 the folks who've never been you know, informed or bothered you with. Look, 45 00:03:47.840 --> 00:03:51.680 this is your chance to do this now because you're gonna say, wow, 46 00:03:51.759 --> 00:03:54.439 there's a lot of opportunity here and this is all good stuff. This 47 00:03:54.560 --> 00:03:58.400 is all you know, things you need to know and things you just might 48 00:03:58.520 --> 00:04:05.039 want to know. Yeah, we're we're venturesome. We're very social and always 49 00:04:05.120 --> 00:04:11.520 always out there to learn. Yeah, well I had a meeting Insteaday's staff 50 00:04:11.560 --> 00:04:16.120 meeting. Excuse men. So we were talking about snacks and what different groups 51 00:04:16.199 --> 00:04:19.000 like, and I said, my group likes sugar. We gotta have cookies. 52 00:04:21.720 --> 00:04:29.920 So and that's a big part of it. Okay, oh man. 53 00:04:30.199 --> 00:04:33.839 But the thing is this OLI stands for something really kind of cool. And 54 00:04:34.040 --> 00:04:38.639 every time I have you in here, I have you refresh everybody's memory. 55 00:04:38.720 --> 00:04:44.040 What does allie stand for? Well? OLI was created by a retired gentleman 56 00:04:44.639 --> 00:04:48.439 back east who decided, you know what, just because I'm retired doesn't mean 57 00:04:48.720 --> 00:04:54.720 I have to just retire from everything. So he started This is a grant. 58 00:04:54.800 --> 00:05:00.480 It was originally started with a grant Oceer Lifelong Learning Institute started by mister 59 00:05:00.560 --> 00:05:06.680 Osher. And here we have still Water has a group, Oklahoma City has 60 00:05:06.680 --> 00:05:12.319 a group, Tulsa and Bartlesrill. Of course Bartlesville is a small group, 61 00:05:12.399 --> 00:05:18.319 and we're kind of removed from still Water, but we still We managed quite 62 00:05:18.360 --> 00:05:26.000 well. We managed and of course I'm always there for my people. That's 63 00:05:26.000 --> 00:05:28.600 what I call it. They laugh when I say that, but there are 64 00:05:28.639 --> 00:05:30.839 my people. Okay, no kidding, no kidding. You had a great 65 00:05:30.879 --> 00:05:38.000 spring, didn't you. We did? You really brought it home. From 66 00:05:38.000 --> 00:05:43.240 what I understand, folks were really impressed with that, especially with the count 67 00:05:43.240 --> 00:05:46.480 Hall things that were going on. That has been a big hit. And 68 00:05:46.560 --> 00:05:48.519 what I'm trying to do there is now we're not having it this summer. 69 00:05:48.560 --> 00:05:51.959 We understood in the fall. In the spring, everybody retired by the way 70 00:05:51.959 --> 00:05:59.319 he left. That's another thing. It's hard to catch people in the summertime 71 00:06:00.519 --> 00:06:04.120 because they're shakers and movers, always on the go. You gotta get awaken, 72 00:06:05.079 --> 00:06:10.560 yeah you do. But yeah, it was. It was really a 73 00:06:10.600 --> 00:06:13.279 great group, and it's always been a big hit. What I try to 74 00:06:13.279 --> 00:06:17.519 do with the town hall is to bring people in who have either businesses, 75 00:06:17.680 --> 00:06:25.959 organizations or whatever that as part of our everyday life and or one of the 76 00:06:26.120 --> 00:06:32.839 organization or companies that maybe people don't know much about. So anyway, that's 77 00:06:32.959 --> 00:06:39.800 it's really interesting for myself as well. So but that'll be coming up in 78 00:06:39.800 --> 00:06:43.399 the fall. I'm already, needless to say, working. I have to 79 00:06:43.399 --> 00:06:46.399 get these in really early. Yeah, so I'm already right like six months 80 00:06:46.439 --> 00:06:50.920 ahead, you know at least, and that gets people time to change jobs 81 00:06:51.000 --> 00:06:55.519 or whatever, and then I got to do it all over again. Yeah, 82 00:06:56.360 --> 00:06:58.959 how do people actually sign up for this? I mean they're hearing this, 83 00:06:59.040 --> 00:07:00.079 they're going, well, this sounds prett interesting. What do we do? 84 00:07:00.120 --> 00:07:05.560 How do we Well, we're online, and of course the university is 85 00:07:05.560 --> 00:07:09.839 trying to get us to go all online. Of course they are. I 86 00:07:09.920 --> 00:07:15.399 mean, yes, but we're from the generation we like paper, Yes, 87 00:07:15.639 --> 00:07:21.000 we like to read it, so we continue. But I have the the 88 00:07:21.079 --> 00:07:27.839 course offerings at the library. And where else did I put them? Anyway? 89 00:07:27.839 --> 00:07:31.199 I put them on in different different places, so you can go pick 90 00:07:31.240 --> 00:07:36.759 one up. You can go online. Just go to ali at Okay State, 91 00:07:39.000 --> 00:07:43.040 that's right, yeah, and then just go to the courses and you 92 00:07:43.040 --> 00:07:46.480 can sign up there. Now you can hit a year's membership and that starts 93 00:07:46.560 --> 00:07:54.199 in the fall. The summer session will end this year and we'll start July 94 00:07:54.279 --> 00:07:58.879 first is when the new membership starts, and you can get one for two 95 00:07:58.959 --> 00:08:05.639 hundred dollars and that'll get you into any of these classes. You can pay 96 00:08:05.639 --> 00:08:09.680 a forty dollars annual membership and then you would need to pay twenty five dollars 97 00:08:09.720 --> 00:08:16.319 for each class. There's also scholarships available for anyone who feels like they can't 98 00:08:16.319 --> 00:08:20.319 afford that forty dollars. Of course, they would still need to pay for 99 00:08:20.360 --> 00:08:24.480 the courses. But that is available to anybody that wants it. And like 100 00:08:24.519 --> 00:08:31.199 I said, it's good for a year. What else. That's the main 101 00:08:31.240 --> 00:08:35.679 thing. And then they notify you. This is where we have troublesometimes is 102 00:08:35.399 --> 00:08:41.559 people may have email, but they don't read them. Yeah, I got 103 00:08:41.639 --> 00:08:48.879 family like that, Yes, but they have two ways of being notified, 104 00:08:48.919 --> 00:08:56.080 like if something like we have an instructor or speaker that happens to get up 105 00:08:56.120 --> 00:09:01.399 that morning and they're sick, then we rush out either a text or it's 106 00:09:01.480 --> 00:09:05.320 usually a text, but to try to tell everybody. Sometimes we don't know 107 00:09:05.399 --> 00:09:11.679 soon enough, but we always do something. Always keep in contact. We 108 00:09:11.759 --> 00:09:15.960 all like to talk. So oh yeah, there you go. So we 109 00:09:16.039 --> 00:09:20.440 can we can do that and I can get I'm always open, needless to 110 00:09:20.480 --> 00:09:26.080 say, for some a speaker or a subject or whatever. And I try 111 00:09:26.159 --> 00:09:31.399 to glean this out of my people, and so we can do some of 112 00:09:31.399 --> 00:09:37.240 the planning like that if something happens. But and like I said, we 113 00:09:37.279 --> 00:09:41.080 have the books so far ahead, you know, and nobody plans on being 114 00:09:41.120 --> 00:09:45.159 sick, so nobody does no, Well, I don't know. There was 115 00:09:45.200 --> 00:09:50.480 this guy in eighth grade. Every time there was a test, you have 116 00:09:50.480 --> 00:09:54.399 the stomach ache or something something like that. I know in the real world 117 00:09:54.360 --> 00:09:58.399 where we're talking about you know, the one thing that's great about this is 118 00:09:58.559 --> 00:10:01.399 it's like we, you know, the the fellow who got this thing all 119 00:10:01.440 --> 00:10:05.279 started. And you know, once you retire from your job, doesn't mean 120 00:10:05.320 --> 00:10:09.840 you've retired from your life. And your mind's still going like it was going 121 00:10:09.000 --> 00:10:13.679 at thirty. Oh, I don't know about that, but well, but 122 00:10:15.960 --> 00:10:18.000 you know, but your your interests are pretty much the same. You know, 123 00:10:18.279 --> 00:10:22.559 you still have a strong desire to want to pick up on something new 124 00:10:22.679 --> 00:10:28.159 or something that just really interests you. Well, I just had this discussion 125 00:10:28.200 --> 00:10:31.440 with a friend the other day and because we travel together we work together and 126 00:10:31.519 --> 00:10:35.559 all this and talking about our adventures that we'd had, and she said, 127 00:10:35.559 --> 00:10:39.320 well, I pretty much threw with that, and I said, I'm not 128 00:10:39.399 --> 00:10:43.879 through with that, no doing that at all. Maybe when I get ninety 129 00:10:43.039 --> 00:10:46.879 I will be because I won't be able to. But yeah, as long 130 00:10:46.879 --> 00:10:50.679 as you're still moving around and you know able to, you know, add 131 00:10:50.679 --> 00:10:54.320 two and two and let let's go. Let's get those neurons firing. They 132 00:10:54.320 --> 00:10:58.320 say, young people keep you young, but they can also make you old. 133 00:10:58.480 --> 00:11:00.679 You know, think of wear you are and hurry what they can do. 134 00:11:00.919 --> 00:11:03.639 Yes, well, all of us we moved about the same pace. 135 00:11:05.440 --> 00:11:09.759 We all like to talk, we all like cookies, and nobody's in a 136 00:11:09.840 --> 00:11:13.440 hurry. Nobody's in a hurry. In fact, sometimes it's hard to get 137 00:11:13.440 --> 00:11:18.320 out of the classroom because we all got talking to do. Well. It's 138 00:11:18.320 --> 00:11:24.159 called communication, it's called socialization, and that's a grand thing, it really 139 00:11:24.240 --> 00:11:26.759 is, especially when you don't have to wear a watch or punch a clock 140 00:11:26.879 --> 00:11:31.039 or anything else. You get that that's your time. Yes, you earned 141 00:11:31.039 --> 00:11:37.879 it, Yes we have. Also thanks to COVID, we've been able to 142 00:11:37.039 --> 00:11:41.519 start some online classes. Yeah, kind of push that agenda did in a 143 00:11:41.600 --> 00:11:46.360 little bit, so we could get it done on the back burner for quite 144 00:11:46.360 --> 00:11:50.559 a while, but it had to move to the front burner then. And 145 00:11:50.720 --> 00:11:54.519 our bee class, incidentally, is going to be online. There are some 146 00:11:54.559 --> 00:11:58.799 people who might be thankful for that. Yes, I like the bees. 147 00:11:58.879 --> 00:12:01.360 I like looking at the bees of what to be near me. Though, 148 00:12:01.440 --> 00:12:05.679 thank you. Some people just think there's something still uprom that because it'll and 149 00:12:05.720 --> 00:12:09.360 they will hurt you. But only if you hurt then yes, yes, 150 00:12:11.320 --> 00:12:15.679 so I felt really good about providing that class that they were going to put 151 00:12:15.679 --> 00:12:24.120 out to everybody. And that's another thing you can there's ALI units all over 152 00:12:24.159 --> 00:12:31.039 the states and you can go into any of them as an OLI member with 153 00:12:31.159 --> 00:12:37.879 the online classes, so and so that gives you a lot of information. 154 00:12:37.519 --> 00:12:41.840 Great once again, folks. If you're looking for the online address, it 155 00:12:41.960 --> 00:12:50.080 is O L L I DOT Okay State dot E d U, which is 156 00:12:50.080 --> 00:12:52.600 short for education. That's right, man, this is gonna be good. 157 00:12:52.639 --> 00:12:58.200 And we got to get this done because classes start July first. Oh no, 158 00:12:58.320 --> 00:13:01.559 they start this month. That's fine, Okay, all right, that 159 00:13:01.720 --> 00:13:05.399 Mike, I got myself all confused. They say they start the twenty twentieth 160 00:13:05.440 --> 00:13:07.200 twenty first, Oh, twenty first. Yeah, I didn't hear that. 161 00:13:07.679 --> 00:13:11.840 I didn't hear the twenty part. I heard the first. They get twenty 162 00:13:11.840 --> 00:13:13.320 first. Well I didn't say it. That's why. Yeah, okay, 163 00:13:13.879 --> 00:13:18.440 bub But that's when they start. And this one's only for four weeks, 164 00:13:18.480 --> 00:13:22.639 and we don't have something going on class every day, okay, but we're 165 00:13:22.720 --> 00:13:26.480 kind of give them a little break, let them have their own adventures. 166 00:13:26.679 --> 00:13:28.440 I like that. And don't forget the field trips. To read up on 167 00:13:28.559 --> 00:13:31.480 that. If it's something that you're interested in. You sign up for the 168 00:13:33.039 --> 00:13:37.519 for that as well, the Dalton Museum and the Brown Mansion and also the 169 00:13:37.600 --> 00:13:39.320 No Lot of History thing. That's a that's gonna be a lot of fun. 170 00:13:39.360 --> 00:13:41.840 It's gonna be great interest, that's for sure. We love the field 171 00:13:41.879 --> 00:13:46.559 trips. Oh yeah, who doesn't get me out of town for a little 172 00:13:46.559 --> 00:13:52.000 bit here right Amy, Thank you very much for me with us today. 173 00:13:52.159 --> 00:13:58.639 There's something I might have looked over. I think we pretty much okay. 174 00:13:58.720 --> 00:14:01.360 Well, you see sometimes that take you far a field here, and I 175 00:14:01.000 --> 00:14:05.919 worry about that. Us standing here, sitting here having fun should be an 176 00:14:05.919 --> 00:14:11.720 example of what I'm talking about. This is how ALLI works. Well, 177 00:14:11.759 --> 00:14:16.120 thank you very much. Our program has been brought to you by Arnold Bourne 178 00:14:16.120 --> 00:14:18.840 and Nikam Federl Homan Kwan, the one you trust.