And good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome at that time now for our community connection. And we're right here Lyne with a whole bunch of folks who are very physically fit, and I'm not so you know, I don't like sitting there going hey, can I be like with you guys? We were talking with our friends from CrossFit and of course with a Project A Tribute and Kristen gart is with this year. She set this all up. You guys are just busy, aren't check tell us
about it. We like to do things for the community, so we do across at Bartlesville a dry athlon fundraiser each year and just a different nonprofit foundation organization from the community to benefit from any of the donations that we received. So this year we have Project Tribute Foundation. We're thrilled to partner up with them. Well, I'll tell you what. With the Project A Tribute, we got John Beckloff here and John, you've been kind of busy, kind
of you make a lot of miles. Yeah, yeah, I just this week delivered to a couple different sorry, so that's ture you go. Um, delivered to a couple of different towns and then tomorrow go into Blaine County, which will hit Blaine O'Keene with Tonga several others. Um so yeah, what we do is that we just go fundraise for anything that can save a life, and our focus is rule first responders. Yeah. So, and one hundred percent of donations go right out to to the purchase of the gear
that they've requested from us. So like the funds the cross Fit teams raising is just going to completing the requested items. Show some of the things you got here. You first of all, you got a kid here. Yeah. Yeah. So Refuge Medical out of Spiral, Oklahoma. It's so it's an Oklahoma company. Um, this is primarily what first responders that are asking for. It's an individual first aid kids. So it's got the tourniquet, gloves, all the stuff for like if you had a bad car wreck or
a gunshot or something where you're bleeding out. Um this this has everything within it and it so our our cost is much lower than what the agencies can go get. So that's a discount that Refuge Medical provides to us. But from just these kits alone, we've saved nine lives and we've put about one hundred and eighty thousand dollars of tourniquets or kits out in the field at first responders because a lot of them, especially volunteer firefighters, they're arriving in their
private vehicle from their job or whatever work site. So if you've got a big blood loss, you can die in five minutes. Well, the average response time in Oklahoma for EMS is eleven So if the firefighter, police officer, somebody has one of these in their car, now they can buy you
hours of time in time for the ambulance to actually arrive on scene. So that's where the nine lives have been saved, is just somebody showing up on scene that had a kit from us and allowed that time for the secondary services to get there. Now, John, with CrossFit, you guys do a lot of great things for individuals each and every day, getting fit and everything. But you're also a great community partner there because you're helping out great organizations
like Project Tribute. Yeah. Sure, and every year we do somebody, you know, we work with a different organization, And I didn't know anything about Project Tribute until maybe a month ago, But what a what a wonderful organization. It is just hearing some of the stories before we came on air, and and the things that they're doing, and we're just I'm I'm really excited about the partnership that we've got being able to raise money and continue to
raise awareness for them ongoing well. And and Kristen, we've got this a dry at the lawn. Okay, I'm not the smartest guy, but something tells me that you're not going to stay all that dry too long. Yeah, it might be hot, you might sweat, but there's no swimming. No, it's okay, dragons, but yeah, because I swim like a rock. Um it will be at Crossfitt Bartlesville. All the equipment will be provided by Crossfitt Bartlesville, so you don't you know, people don't need to
bring anything with them to show up. Um, it'll be a five mile row stationary row, and then seven mile run and then a ten mile bike stationary bike. And you can partner up with you could have a team of two people all the way up to a team of ten people. So it's not something that you're you're launching into by yourself. So, UM, if you just want to come out and have a good time, let it be kind of a social workout. Then you just share that work anyway you want,
so it can be a kind of a conversational pace. This isn't you by yourself doing all this work unless you want to tell. But you see you're talking about teams. I'm really good at pointing to people where the equipment is. Yeah, yeah, if they do the coaching, can tell you the cheerleader want to fetch the water, you know. Um, if anybody wants to, you know, just come and see what crossfits about. Or he just wants to donate to a good cause that they don't necessarily want to
participate, that's fine too. Um we do you know, we have a recommendation of twenty dollars U as a donation, but you know, anything is appreciated. And um, I would love to see anybody and everybody from the community right where you located were. The gym is directly behind the Hampton in on Highway seventy five. Easy to find, easy to find. Wow, you've been back there for what three? Four years? Twelve years? Weel years? Ye see, I want you been here for four I thought you
were. Yeah. Yeah, if you want to come and spectate that that'd be great too. Like if you don't not interested in doing the actual work, and we just gonna take a little one to hang out. I can see you doing that. Come hang out, bring a cup of coffee, and just to enjoy it and cheer people on. So yeah, any kind of donation would be appreciated. I would, you know, limit your donation to ten thousand dollars. Okay, yeah, we gotta have leverage. Okay.
Now you know I'm a very former baseball player, right I say former, I mean former. So John, would you be there, like, you know if I had an ax in or something like that. Yeah, yeah, Dad, I'm gonna be in the spect here both just okay, okay, tell us a little bit more about prodrit Crewe. How did you get started. Yeah, so you've see the jeep around town, the jeep
the Tribute Chief's where I started in. On the back windows is the names of all the prior years in the line of duty debts, so first responders in police, military, fire ems, and canine. So I put the names on the back two windows. So if you ever see the gene to go check it out. If they're in ok the state of Oklahoma is behind their name, and so folks would say Hey, how do I donate to this? And I figured out a way, but I wanted to do it
in a way that was transparent and honorable. You can even go on our website and there's a transparency page right there where all of our finances are there for the public. But the biggest thing to me was that I had a family member get hurt in the line of duty because they didn't have the right gear because they couldn't afford it. So then it was well, let me take this request of how do I help and make it a true cause,
And so that's where we started. Kristen, you're very good bringing people together. She need this a lot of different situations. It's what you do, you know. It's it's kind of like magic here. You got to watch you guys, because the next thing you know, you're gonna be partnering up with everybody. But it's kind of fun to do this and see really nice
results, isn't it. Yes, Yeah, for sure. This community is amazing and when you can partner up together, it just brings such a larger span of awareness and um, you know, you can help brought he amount of people so and also Brian with the CrossFit here You never know who's going to come in that door, as they say, and your next person of interest or next customer, matter of fact. So it's kind of need to always make sure that that you're welcome and you tell everybody that you're helping out
other folks too. Doesn't know. Absolutely, we love that. You know, it's a big part of just being a part of a community is to give back, find people that that can benefit from what you're doing, raising awareness and um, you know, this is a big part of what we do. We love this and so we're excited about this, this partnership and
look forward to raising a lot of money. You know, what we're really looking for is people that are charitable, they want to give, they're looking for opportunities to give, and that like to work out and do that in a social way. And that's kind of what CrossFit is. That's kind of healthy all the way around. Healthy for the heart, healthy for the body, health for the soul. Absolutely, you're hitting on all the Yeah,
it can't be happy unless you're giving. You gotta be giving. So we want to create opportunities for people to give and then let them step into that space. So here we go. Now, Kristin, who's going to be on Saturday, July eighth, And it's going to be indoors, but part of it, part of it. Yes, the run can be outside, but the viking and rowing will be inside. You know, there are those purists that really like to go out there and say, hey, come on
Oklahoma, come get me. Yeah, and I understand that. Yeah, but it's all good. Yeah. We have four different eight times that people can sign up for um so starting at eight am on the hour, okay, at eleven am. And this is really a good thing. Now, do you have a Facebook page or I see we've got a long sign up sheet here, but is there somewhere Yeah, I'll have you post the links and people can easily get there. But we do have on the CrossFit Bartlesville
Facebook facebook page. There is an event created on Facebook that's going around. Good can easily get to it? That we can, We'll put that all over the place. Yeah, but yeah, come out, even if you're not going to work out. I think he'll be there maybe with an apparel We have sunset pops popsicles. We'll be there as well. So just to kind of cool off after a good run. Yes, delish and get some of those you know things back into your body like water. This is really
gonna be fun. Dry Apthleon fundraiser CrossFit Bartlesville. That's right behind the Hampton all right, agam, is it there? And that is Saturday, July the eighth, starting at eight o'clock. Call. Have everything posted on the website so that we can make sure that everyone knows about it and then everyone can contribute. And of course, you know you might contribute to your own
well being too. Once you get into CrossFit, it's kind of hard to say no because you're saying, they're going I feel pretty good being a little bit thinner that dropped that donut tubby. Come on, I'm talking to myself here. So anyway, it's gonna be a lot of fun. Again. I want to thank you guys from a cross CrossFit Bartlesville for coming in because we see you an awful lot about two or three times a year. You
got always got something cooking. Yeah, so that's always good. And John, you're never at rest, So we're gonna we're gonna try to do something so we can raise enough money so you can take at least, you know, like a two hour nap okay, okay, okay. We appreciate what you do for all of our communities. And didn't you see had requests all the way up from like Canada or something. Yeah, Montana, that's that's close as Canadas. I want to be all the way in Montana to Texas.
Huh yeah, yeah, I mean we cover the entire United States. We're based here out of Bartlesville. I've delivered to Georgia, South Texas, Kansas, we just did last week, so we'll go anywhere. All right, that's good to know. Hey, Kristin, thanks for bringing friend. Joey's due next scene. I'm sure all righty. Thank you very much, one and all. And we've got news coming up next from Mow and n