Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.
Speaker 1: It's time now for our community connection. We have OKM
Speaker 1: and my goodness sakes, we are colorful today. We've got
Speaker 1: all kinds of beautiful flyers here for Octoberfest.
Speaker 2: Good morning, ladies. Are you doing?
Speaker 3: Good morning Tom?
Speaker 2: How are you all doing? Okay? How you doing?
Speaker 3: Rose?
Speaker 2: I'm doing great, of course you are. I know you are.
Speaker 2: What we got cooking.
Speaker 4: We have so much cooking, but we'll start with Octoberfest.
Speaker 4: Octoberfest is coming up on Saturday, October fifth. It will
Speaker 4: be over at our office on Dewey and fourth, Fourth
Speaker 4: and Dewey between fourth and fifth, I should say. And
Speaker 4: so if you know where the Harvest Bank is, if
Speaker 4: you know where RSU you can find us. We are
Speaker 4: just right there on the corner. So we invite everyone
Speaker 4: to come out. Children eighteen and under are free, Adults
Speaker 4: are ten dollars. You can buy your tickets at the gate.
Speaker 4: You can buy your tickets at okmmusic dot org. And
Speaker 4: so we encourage everyone to buy their tickets early. Just
Speaker 4: to speed up the process of getting in. We'll just
Speaker 4: scan you right in. You can also come in and
Speaker 4: see Rose at fourth and Dewey or myself and she'll
Speaker 4: sell you a ticket. You can also call in on
Speaker 4: the phone if you can't use your computer. Don't feel
Speaker 4: like getting out at nine one eight three three six
Speaker 4: nine nine zero zero. So that's what we have going
Speaker 4: on immediately, and you don't want to miss out because Tom,
Speaker 4: I know you like food like I like food. Where
Speaker 4: foodies and so we have an amazing new food truck
Speaker 4: called Get Toasted.
Speaker 3: Everyone.
Speaker 4: I have the sticky on my door and everyone who
Speaker 4: walks by sees it and they think the wrong thing
Speaker 4: Get Toasted, and I'm like, no, no, no, it's not alcohol.
Speaker 3: You would think that for Octoberfest.
Speaker 4: But it's actually French toast with a twist, so like
Speaker 4: you know chicken and waffles, it's like chicken and French toast.
Speaker 4: So everyone has to come out and see the new
Speaker 4: Get Toasted food truck. We have Prices Meat Market of course,
Speaker 4: bringing all the beloved German food with the brots and
Speaker 4: the sausages and the sours and all of that wonderful
Speaker 4: stuff that everyone loves. We have Jack's Barbecue, which is
Speaker 4: also new for us this year.
Speaker 3: We're excited to have them.
Speaker 4: Palace Rooms is bringing their delicious pizza from Lollipops as
Speaker 4: well as their yummy pretzels, so we can't wait to
Speaker 4: try those. They're also going to have wine anything, Bent cake,
Speaker 4: bunt Cake will also be.
Speaker 3: There, Cooper and Mill, Scissor Tail, and so much more.
Speaker 5: So.
Speaker 4: There is going to be good drink, good home brewed beer.
Speaker 4: There's going to be or I guess I should say
Speaker 4: craft brood beer. I don't think they make it at home.
Speaker 3: I have, yes there. We're going to fit them all
Speaker 3: in because we have that whole street.
Speaker 2: That's true, you do You got even more room than
Speaker 2: you think. Yeah.
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 4: Gateway Bank is so kind to partner with us. They're
Speaker 4: across the street from us. We use their parking lot
Speaker 4: where you drive through with the teller to put all
Speaker 4: the food trucks, and then we have the tents in
Speaker 4: the parking lot that's next to our building as well
Speaker 4: as in the street. That's our root Beer Garden tent
Speaker 4: for families and kids this year, and of course the
Speaker 4: stage goes in the big main tent.
Speaker 3: And so that brings me to entertainment.
Speaker 4: We have the German American Society of Tulsa Dancers Gust
Speaker 4: Dancers coming the Blascapella Polka band, the Mack Schnell Polka Band,
Speaker 4: and of course everyone's favorite King Cabbage is also making
Speaker 4: a return. And Octoberfest wouldn't be Octoberfest without the Chicken Dance,
Speaker 4: So you have to come and do the Chicken dance.
Speaker 2: Rosi Chicken dance for us.
Speaker 3: Oh, I don't know, I don't know about that. Rose
Speaker 3: is going to do the beer Stein Competition.
Speaker 2: Muscles right exactly.
Speaker 4: So yeah, you can come do the beer Stein Competition.
Speaker 4: You can do the beer Stein Relay. We have a
Speaker 4: raffle that we do every year. It's a yetti, so
Speaker 4: every year we do a new color and it's filled
Speaker 4: with all kinds of German goodies, so to have schwetzla
Speaker 4: and sauerkraut and brats and just all kinds of fun things,
Speaker 4: gift cards and certificates. This year also our big Raffle
Speaker 4: is a trip to Bigfoot Country in Broken Bow, Oklahoma.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you.
Speaker 4: Can stay for three nights with your family in an airbnb.
Speaker 4: You're gonna get some cash, some restaurant gift certificates, and
Speaker 4: you're just going to have a swell time looking for Bigfoot.
Speaker 1: And remember you can get a big foot hunting license
Speaker 1: and you can only bring in bigfoot bigfoots willing to
Speaker 1: come in.
Speaker 3: There you go, and I kind of hoot. I hope
Speaker 3: that no one's sponsored, but maybe you want to spot.
Speaker 4: Just wait, there you go and Broken Bow is beautiful
Speaker 4: if you have. If people haven't been there, they really
Speaker 4: need to go. It's just it's a fantastic little town,
Speaker 4: a beautiful park, beautiful lake.
Speaker 3: It's just it's fantastic.
Speaker 2: Rose what you got over there?
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 5: Well, beginning at twelve thirty with the kids in the afternoon,
Speaker 5: there's going to be a marrying Aunt peppet show the
Speaker 5: circula and it's got with a little doc see it's
Speaker 5: a little wiener dog.
Speaker 2: Oh my.
Speaker 5: And we're going to have pepercorn decorating and pretzel necklaces
Speaker 5: that they can put together and wear or they can eat.
Speaker 5: We'll have the shilty bags, and we have storytelling with
Speaker 5: books and stories of four great things. And we're going
Speaker 5: to have two times for the puppet show, one at
Speaker 5: twelve thirty and the other at six.
Speaker 2: Okay, so you need to see it twice or.
Speaker 5: Time or pick your time, and it will be in
Speaker 5: Amber Hall, nice and air conditioned.
Speaker 3: Well, we can't have all the puppets.
Speaker 2: Outside, you know, I know it happens there.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 4: We want to get a really big shout out. I
Speaker 4: need to address all of my corporate sponsors. But while
Speaker 4: Rose is talking about children's revo and John Nettles is just.
Speaker 3: A huge sponsor for Okay Music.
Speaker 4: And he helps make all of the kids games and
Speaker 4: activities and puppet shop possible. So thank you so much,
Speaker 4: John for all that you do for Okay and music.
Speaker 3: No, no, you are fine.
Speaker 5: We're also gonna have a sausage toss and a gnome hunt.
Speaker 5: They're gonna be like all over here, a little moans
Speaker 5: so and so we have a root beer garden, which
Speaker 5: means root beer floats. Oh yeah, so come out and
Speaker 5: join us for that. And I have to think Bronx
Speaker 5: they're gonna furnish our ice cream like they did for
Speaker 5: the Unity uh Fornali for the kids on for the festival.
Speaker 2: Boy, they liked so much. You're coming back like that.
Speaker 3: I think they are.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 5: We have other things, you know for the older kids,
Speaker 5: you know, like axe throwing and off and yeah.
Speaker 3: All kinds of painting, all kinds of things.
Speaker 1: So these kids are gonna be like worn out by
Speaker 1: the time, they're gonna sleep good a lot.
Speaker 5: That they have a wonderful, wonderful time because we have
Speaker 5: lots and lots of good things for them.
Speaker 2: Man, it sounds like it's going to be great.
Speaker 3: All they have to do is scan.
Speaker 5: The little flyers are going out the first part of
Speaker 5: the sixteenth.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just yere in a few days. Yeah.
Speaker 4: In the public school and all the private schools, home
Speaker 4: school associations, everyone, every child will get a flyer and
Speaker 4: tell us all about what's.
Speaker 3: Going on, and so over over five thousand flyers.
Speaker 4: Going out to our local kids.
Speaker 3: It is a lot of kids. But we're excited. We
Speaker 3: are excited.
Speaker 2: We should be the community.
Speaker 5: I have come together and we've had people that have
Speaker 5: notified me and we have like over the pretty close
Speaker 5: to five.
Speaker 3: Thousand of those flyers.
Speaker 5: And in the school system, every child gets what one
Speaker 5: as well as boys and Girls.
Speaker 3: Club and you know they have a club.
Speaker 2: Over in doing now, Oh yeah you do. It's a
Speaker 2: beautiful one, yes, brand new.
Speaker 5: And the school over there and then the preschool so
Speaker 5: exactly parents, and don't forget that on the back of
Speaker 5: the flyer is the scan you can scan to RSVP,
Speaker 5: so that I know approximately how many children are there,
Speaker 5: so that we can plan ahead for each event that's
Speaker 5: going on.
Speaker 3: Happening children are for you.
Speaker 4: We do ask that you go ahead and reserve your spot,
Speaker 4: just to make sure that we know. And we have
Speaker 4: plenty of arts and crop supplies, We have plenty of
Speaker 4: love cushion cookies to decorate, plenty of seating for the
Speaker 4: puppet show. And again there are two settings for that.
Speaker 4: You can go on our website okaymusic dot org and
Speaker 4: check out all the schedules and then if I can, Tom,
Speaker 4: can I mention our corporate sponsors or.
Speaker 3: Make this possible?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 3: I'm under I had to read this so I didn't
Speaker 3: forget anybody.
Speaker 4: Bank, First Stride Bank, Chowan Cohen, Gateway Bank, our Vest,
Speaker 4: Matt Spence Insurance, Spears Travel, Schwegman Insurance, Truity, Jim Moore
Speaker 4: with State Farm. Of course, the very one and only
Speaker 4: Bartlesviell Radio, So thank you very much, The Potter Family, Walmart, Moxie's,
Speaker 4: Honey's Flowers, Sal's Daylight Donuts, Barbara and John Cain, Jane
Speaker 4: Phillips Society, Melinda Mallett, Price Connors, kelliher architects, Cassie and Schafer, Kimball,
Speaker 4: the print Shop, the Lions Foundation, Ambler's architect and then
Speaker 4: we have a few anonymous that would like to remain silent.
Speaker 3: But we think those corporate sponsors as well. Gosh, I'm
Speaker 3: losing my voice.
Speaker 4: And then also going back to John Nettles with Rivo Financial,
Speaker 4: the Chapman Foundation also helps us every year. And we
Speaker 4: are just so grateful to all of our corporate sponsors
Speaker 4: and foundations.
Speaker 2: By tea what they make it happen, don't they?
Speaker 3: They do, they do.
Speaker 4: So if you want to be a corporate sponsor, please
Speaker 4: go onto our website again Okaya music dot org.
Speaker 3: There's still some time to do that.
Speaker 4: If you want to have a corporate event out there,
Speaker 4: you can get a table for your you know, associates,
Speaker 4: or if you want to take clients out there.
Speaker 3: It's a good opportunity. So we welcome and invite everyone.
Speaker 2: All right, they have to do just call the office,
Speaker 2: walk in, talkt to.
Speaker 3: Rose right, yes, six nine nine zero zero.
Speaker 2: Wow, you guys got an all tied up here? Pretty dark?
Speaker 4: Kight?
Speaker 2: Nice? I like that. It is going to be a.
Speaker 4: Yes, it is a street party, but it's family fantastic.
Speaker 4: It's very family friendly. It is the family Octoberfest in Oklahoma.
Speaker 2: You know, it's grown so much.
Speaker 1: Yes, it'll almost doubled the you know, at least a
Speaker 1: one and a half time size and double every year.
Speaker 3: It seems to get bigger.
Speaker 4: So weather knock on wood permitting, we expect a good crowd.
Speaker 2: Well, you'll get one. You want to know why, because
Speaker 2: everybody likes.
Speaker 3: Okay, Oh, thank you.
Speaker 1: You guys provide wonderful educational programs outing for the week
Speaker 1: of the festival, but also going into the schools and
Speaker 1: everything else, and the scholarships that is provided through OKAM.
Speaker 1: I mean you're there for the community, communities, there for
Speaker 1: there for you. So I think this is probably a
Speaker 1: marriage maid in Bartlesville.
Speaker 3: Well, we appreciate everyone's support.
Speaker 1: All righty, well, I want to thank you very much,
Speaker 1: and once again, folks, if you will go to their
Speaker 1: website that is.
Speaker 2: Ok M dot dot org dot org. I'm so hung
Speaker 2: up on the organ for that's the music. How how
Speaker 2: dare me? That's all right, take care and thank you
Speaker 2: very much.
Speaker 1: Pat will slowly change over the next day or two
Speaker 1: and bring slightly warmer weather back through southern Kansas.