Speaker 1: Logo.
Speaker 2: But we have time and a big brothers and big sisters.
Speaker 3: How you doing, man, Hey, I'm doing good, glad to
Speaker 3: be here.
Speaker 1: Hey, what's shaken? I think we've got a little bowling
Speaker 1: action coming up.
Speaker 4: We've got a lot of bowling action coming up. Yeah,
Speaker 4: bull for kid's sake. First Bowl date is this month.
Speaker 4: So yeah, we're getting ready for it. We're getting that
Speaker 4: lane fash. Yeah, it came around quick. Yeah, getting the
Speaker 4: lanes fired up, getting the getting them oiled and ready
Speaker 4: to go.
Speaker 1: Now I understand that we have some days that are
Speaker 1: already filled up.
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, So the March seventh date, it's already booked.
Speaker 4: It's it's full. The lanes are lanes are all full.
Speaker 4: So we've got two more dates at Red Apple. So
Speaker 4: if you want to pick one, you need to sign
Speaker 4: up today.
Speaker 2: What dates are those?
Speaker 3: That's going to be the twenty eighth and March sixth.
Speaker 2: There you go.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you got that going yep. But boy boy,
Speaker 1: that's filling up quick.
Speaker 2: That's good. That's a good problem to have.
Speaker 4: It's a great problem to have. Yeah, we're we're sitting
Speaker 4: at sixty teams right now, so so so happy about
Speaker 4: the community coming together, putting these teams together. But the
Speaker 4: good news is, hey, there's still time.
Speaker 1: It's Bull for Kid's Sake and this is something that's
Speaker 1: been going on for many, many years and it's got
Speaker 1: a grand tradition, and this is the biggest, one of
Speaker 1: the biggest fundraisers of the year.
Speaker 4: This is our biggest fundraiser here in Bartlesville for Big
Speaker 4: Brothers and Big Sisters.
Speaker 1: Yeah, my Heaven's sakes. And you can only have fun,
Speaker 1: that's right, I mean, what's the downside? There is no downside.
Speaker 2: You have fun.
Speaker 1: We raise some money, We make sure that the organization
Speaker 1: stays afloat, and it's a good way to actually learn
Speaker 1: a little bit more about big brothers big sisters, especially
Speaker 1: if you're kind of new to the Bull for Kid's Sake.
Speaker 1: And it's not a bad way to recruit mentors either.
Speaker 3: No, Yeah, so it is. It's pretty awesome. And it's
Speaker 3: so I think last time we.
Speaker 4: Were here, yeah, we needed we had thirty three waiting littles.
Speaker 4: We're down to twenty nine, so that number is shrinking. Yeah,
Speaker 4: so we still have twenty nine we're waiting on. But
Speaker 4: the community is stepping up and when we're getting some
Speaker 4: littles match with some bigs. People are hearing about what
Speaker 4: we're doing. And we actually had a new report come out.
Speaker 4: I thought this was really interesting. So they did a
Speaker 4: thirty year report where they took littles and then kind
Speaker 4: of mash them up against their peers. They found out
Speaker 4: that the littles were making fifteen percent over their lifetime
Speaker 4: versus their peers, and it was one hundred percent due
Speaker 4: to this mentorship.
Speaker 2: That's great.
Speaker 1: On all mentorship is if you can be a friend,
Speaker 1: you can be a big that's right. And what happens
Speaker 1: is what I've learned is that these littles actually get
Speaker 1: to see life through a different lens, you know, because
Speaker 1: you only know what you know.
Speaker 3: You only know what you know. That's right.
Speaker 4: And Yeah, unfortunately, we've got a lot of kids in
Speaker 4: our community that they don't have that person to kind
Speaker 4: of show them the ropes and show them what's going on.
Speaker 4: And so yeah, we need some people to kind of
Speaker 4: step in and say, hey, here's how you you change
Speaker 4: the oil in a car, Here's how you balance a
Speaker 4: check book, Here's how you go grocery shopping.
Speaker 3: You know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know a lot of these littles are coming
Speaker 1: from single parent households and they're watching that parent do
Speaker 1: everything and and they don't have really time to show
Speaker 1: or teach right, And this is a way to you know,
Speaker 1: take that time right, invest in a little bit of learning.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know that.
Speaker 1: It doesn't take a whole lot, It just takes a
Speaker 1: hard Yep.
Speaker 4: We are we're currently working on our Every year we
Speaker 4: do an impact report and we yep and we just
Speaker 4: we look at just just Bartlesville. What is the impact
Speaker 4: of big brother, big sister on our current littles. So
Speaker 4: we don't have all the details done, but one detail
Speaker 4: that we already have that just floored me. One percent
Speaker 4: of our littles avoided just the negative with the police.
Speaker 3: And so that's just a that's a huge number.
Speaker 4: I mean, that's a shocking impact to a lot of
Speaker 4: these kids that are constantly surrounded about around you know.
Speaker 2: The police may be justice involved.
Speaker 3: Yeah exactly.
Speaker 4: So to see that mentor step in and say kind
Speaker 4: of show them a different way and to see that
Speaker 4: impact of one hundred percent avoiding those negative interactions with
Speaker 4: the police, man, this is making a huge impact.
Speaker 1: You know, tell you what, that makes that first step
Speaker 1: into adulthood a lot easier when you don't have that
Speaker 1: following you. That's it, and you don't have that kind
Speaker 1: of shadow. Yep, next thing, you know, everything starts to
Speaker 1: be a little bit more positive.
Speaker 2: Is this how this is working out for the kids?
Speaker 3: Yep? Another huge one.
Speaker 4: Ninety percent of our littles had increased academic performance.
Speaker 2: I believe that.
Speaker 3: I mean I just time and time again.
Speaker 4: Every time I see these numbers, I'm floored and blown
Speaker 4: away what the impact of just one positive mentor can
Speaker 4: do in a child's life.
Speaker 1: Let's make it clear. We're not saying anything bad about
Speaker 1: mom or dad. No, no, not at all at all.
Speaker 1: It's just that you've got an adult there that's got
Speaker 1: some time and can maybe just have a conversation, maybe
Speaker 1: shed some light on you know, education is pretty important.
Speaker 3: It is.
Speaker 1: It's not just something you exist through and hope to
Speaker 1: gosh it passes quickly.
Speaker 2: This is something you could really use later on. That's right.
Speaker 1: Make it a value instead of a Thing's right, Oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, this is wonderful. You know, miracles happen, Like
Speaker 1: to quote the poet Gump, miracles happen every day.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 2: That's right, My gosh, what else did your study show?
Speaker 3: Well, that's that's about where I'm at with the full details.
Speaker 3: We're still still boiling with boiling it down.
Speaker 4: There's we do a lot of data collection because we
Speaker 4: want to make sure what we're doing is making an impact.
Speaker 4: And how do you know unless you're tracking that. You
Speaker 4: got to have some metrics, that's right, But the problem
Speaker 4: is when you track a bunch of metrics, there's a
Speaker 4: lot of data to sift through.
Speaker 3: So those are the two that I've I've.
Speaker 4: Got solid right now, and those are huge and they
Speaker 4: are huge, but we track about forty different metrics, so.
Speaker 2: We need to go on the positive. That is a plus.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, we're excited about it.
Speaker 4: But yeah, the good thing bull coming back in and uh,
Speaker 4: we're ready to get going.
Speaker 1: Now, how do we find out more about how to
Speaker 1: sign up? Where do we go, what do we do?
Speaker 1: Who do we talk to?
Speaker 4: Yep, So you can either call me directly nine one
Speaker 4: eight two one three four five two four, Uh, you
Speaker 4: can go to big Oklahoma dot org or of course
Speaker 4: find us online.
Speaker 2: Very good.
Speaker 1: Now, if you want to be a mentor if you
Speaker 1: know someone who probably has those mentor qualities, where do
Speaker 1: we direct our friends.
Speaker 4: The best place is to go to our website at
Speaker 4: big Oklahoma dot org.
Speaker 3: Mm hmm.
Speaker 4: And then so when you go on there, there'll be
Speaker 4: a little tap to say, hey, I'm interested in being
Speaker 4: a big and there'll be a little questionnaire and kind
Speaker 4: of fill it out and then we'll reach out to you.
Speaker 1: All Right now, for the folks who have been kind
Speaker 1: of hearing a little bit about Bowl for Kids sake,
Speaker 1: this is your chance to get rolling.
Speaker 3: That's right like now, like now, because you might get
Speaker 3: shut exactly.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 4: I think we're three weeks out from from that first
Speaker 4: that first day. Huh yeah, Grab some friends, grab some coworkers,
Speaker 4: some family members, get a team signed up and come
Speaker 4: have fun with us.
Speaker 2: And you know what that is.
Speaker 1: You turn the Red Apple into a big rock and
Speaker 1: place on the days that we have Bowl for Kids
Speaker 1: saying there's a lot of fun going on.
Speaker 4: Yep, yep, we're gonna take the whole place over. We're
Speaker 4: lighting it up. We've got some Strobe lights coming in.
Speaker 4: We got a bunch of Marty Gral beads. If you
Speaker 4: get a strike, we're gonna be throwing beads around. So yeah,
Speaker 4: we're gonna have a good time. We've got a lot
Speaker 4: of really good prizes this year. So one thing we're
Speaker 4: looking at this is brand new best dressed or just
Speaker 4: craziest dressed. So we're hoping teams can theme out, you know,
Speaker 4: come like it's prom coming a cowboy hat, come in
Speaker 4: an alien hat, whatever you want to come in. We
Speaker 4: want to see some crazy outfits, some cool teams come together.
Speaker 2: Do you have any trick shooters.
Speaker 3: I bet there's some that show up. I don't have
Speaker 3: any personally, but I wouldn't be surprised.
Speaker 1: I've seen some guys and gals who kind of put
Speaker 1: on a little bit of a show.
Speaker 2: They'll just sit there.
Speaker 1: They're pretty good bowlers to begin with, and sometimes they'll
Speaker 1: just do some of the darness things just to just
Speaker 1: to show off a little have fun.
Speaker 3: I like it.
Speaker 2: Just curious about that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I know, I know.
Speaker 4: Our board's got some some pretty solid shooters on there.
Speaker 4: So oh yeah, rollers, that's right, Yeah, we'll see.
Speaker 2: All right, Hey, thanks for being with us.
Speaker 1: Yeah all right, folks, both for kid's sake, look it
Speaker 1: up on the old computer and get yourself signed up
Speaker 1: before we run out of spaces.