Latest / The Steve Harvey Morning Show / Restaurateur, Host of "Fish, Grits & Politiks," and Motivational Speaker, Marcus Davis celebrates 20 years as Founder & CEO of The Breakfast Klub.

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Restaurateur, Host of "Fish, Grits & Politiks," and Motivational Speaker, Marcus Davis celebrates 20 years as Founder & CEO of The Breakfast Klub. · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: those people. On my show, I interview celebrities, CEOs, entrepreneurs,
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  Speaker 1: next guest is Marcus Davis. He's an HBCU graduate of
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  Speaker 1: Texas Southern University. He is chief steward of the Breakfast Club,
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  Speaker 1: host of Fish, Grits and Politics. It's entrepreneur, restaurant owner
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  Speaker 1: and what I love about him, He's a motivational speaker,
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  Speaker 1: the spirited entrepreneur on mastermind behind the Breakfast Club Reggaehud Cafe.
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  Speaker 1: Marcus Davis is best known for his charismatic and you
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  Speaker 1: see it too. I love this dude for many years
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  Speaker 1: when I had my comedy clube, I just love listening
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  Speaker 1: to Motor Radio. He's the love laughing at me, but
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  Speaker 1: I love listening to him on Sunday mornings. He's authentic.
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  Speaker 1: He loves customers who really understand the value of what
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  Speaker 1: he's trying to do from them. He's committed. Everything starts
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  Speaker 1: with a K commitment community he serves. The success of
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  Speaker 1: his restaurant has led to the development of branding consumer
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  Speaker 1: with a K products for the home that include the
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  Speaker 1: Breakfast Club Coffee, which I got along with the waffle
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  Speaker 1: and pancake mix, which I don't have no more have
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  Speaker 1: to re order because I used it all. I ate it. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: It's that easy to make. So for a savory season
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  Speaker 1: he mixed I got some mixing. If you got the video,
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  Speaker 1: you're watching us on TV Video one. I got it
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  Speaker 1: all on my desk because I love promoting something that
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  Speaker 1: is successful. He's not celebrating. Get to check this out
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  Speaker 1: in September or one. It all started twenty years restaurant
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  Speaker 1: service to the community with a cave. Please welcome to
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  Speaker 1: money making conversation. I like to call him the chief
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  Speaker 1: steward of the Brakfast Club. My friend Marcus Davids, Hey, Marcus, Hey, Marcos?
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  Speaker 1: Was that too long, man? Because you know we're battling
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  Speaker 1: off a man. Don't say that long intro? Because I
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  Speaker 1: like to think of christ Mattick when I introduced people. Man,
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  Speaker 1: how was that? Man? You laid it out, brother, and
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate it. You laid it out way. I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate it much. We think the thing. I gotta
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  Speaker 1: go way back, you know, to twenty one. I knew
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  Speaker 1: I was in l A at the time. Steve Harving,
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  Speaker 1: I was doing radio in l A. So we were
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  Speaker 1: starting our dream. And when you start a dream, it
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  Speaker 1: always is just something just doing. There's no set where
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna be five years from now, ten years from now,
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  Speaker 1: or even twenty years from now what you are right now?
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  Speaker 1: What was the plan when you just owned those stories
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  Speaker 1: twenty years ago of the breast? What was the plan? UM?
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  Speaker 1: You know? In in nine nine, I set out and
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  Speaker 1: and UH wrote the vision and made it plain. I
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  Speaker 1: envisioned us being a staple for the city of Houston.
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  Speaker 1: I envisioned us being UM synonymous with the city. I
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  Speaker 1: envisioned us being known from UH coast to coach, from
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  Speaker 1: the Pacific to the Atlantic. I envisioned us being an
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  Speaker 1: intricate part of the community. I envisioned us being a
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  Speaker 1: source of inspiration for community. Knowing where we stood in
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  Speaker 1: this industry and what the opportunities UH were. UH, I
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  Speaker 1: envisioned to feel that that that void. So I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to create this concept UH step out on faith UM
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  Speaker 1: and give Houston and and the after CORECT community what
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  Speaker 1: it deserves. Well the what it deserves, what you brought
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  Speaker 1: to the table. But when all when you have a
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  Speaker 1: product and you have to charge people for that product,
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  Speaker 1: that always leads to mixed emotions because especially in our
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  Speaker 1: community and on the beauty of the breakfast club is
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  Speaker 1: that if you get in line, it is one of
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  Speaker 1: the diverse lines in the world is everybody that lined
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  Speaker 1: his Spanish Whites, sometimes more whites in lives than blacks. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so he's serving that international customer that he wants and so,
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  Speaker 1: but it didn't start out like that. And so making
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  Speaker 1: that price point, how did that come into play? So
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  Speaker 1: you can make sure you're comfortable with it because you
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  Speaker 1: gotta make money, but you also have to make sure
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  Speaker 1: the customer doesn't feel offended. So let me let me
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  Speaker 1: address the first half of that. Right, you talked about
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  Speaker 1: the diversity. I mentioned just a second ago that I
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  Speaker 1: wanted to be uh synonymous with the city. I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to be an ambassador reflection of my city, and the
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  Speaker 1: city of Houston is was and is a microcosm of
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  Speaker 1: the United States. It is a very diverse, diverse city,
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  Speaker 1: and I wanted the concept to be just as diverse.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you something. I remember driving bankers and
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  Speaker 1: potential investors crazy. When you know this as a businessman,
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  Speaker 1: you know this. I will go into the banking or
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  Speaker 1: business plan and uh, they would ask who is your
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  Speaker 1: target audience, who's your target demographic? And I told them
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  Speaker 1: anyone and everyone that wants to participate. We are inviting
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  Speaker 1: to participate, and they would try and drill me down
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  Speaker 1: or no, you gotta idementify target demographic, and I insisted
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  Speaker 1: that I didn't that I wanted to do something different.
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  Speaker 1: I wanted the city of Houston to be reflected in
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  Speaker 1: the breakfast Club. And here's the example that I told
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  Speaker 1: the bankers that never gave me any money. I wanted
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  Speaker 1: a place where. I wanted a place where UH college
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  Speaker 1: students from Malmma to Texas Southern and you have AGED
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  Speaker 1: and Rice, and you have AGED Downtown and St. Thomas,
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  Speaker 1: all surrounding UH universities surrounding the Breakfast Club. I wanted
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  Speaker 1: them to sit in the same space where Fortune five
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  Speaker 1: hundred vps and c e O s sat for breakfast.
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  Speaker 1: Because we're on the outskirts of of of downtown. I
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  Speaker 1: wanted the folks in the medical center to come and
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  Speaker 1: have lunch with the people who work on the light poles.
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  Speaker 1: I wanted any and everybody that wanted to participate in
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  Speaker 1: this concept called UH Fellowship. I wanted them in and
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  Speaker 1: so UH that that's where that idea of the version.
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  Speaker 1: Let me tell you something funny. I knew we had
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  Speaker 1: arrived at what I had envisioned the bankers over Hill.
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  Speaker 1: Now the investorgs to me Hill. Now, maybe that's why
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  Speaker 1: none of them gave me any money, right right, right right.
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  Speaker 1: I never forget one day seen um one of my
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  Speaker 1: marketing folks. She could say, come here, you gotta see this.
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  Speaker 1: This is this is what you envisioned. And I walked
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  Speaker 1: outside and in the parking lot was a convertible Lexus
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  Speaker 1: coop and the brother got out of He was clean, right,
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  Speaker 1: That's like what Sean and I was like, is that
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  Speaker 1: Rashawn mcdonne stopping. He was clean, And right next to
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  Speaker 1: him this brother pulled up in a back home and
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  Speaker 1: in his overalls and his boots, and he got out
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  Speaker 1: and he stood writing line with that brother that was
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  Speaker 1: in that our money. So now it's like that's the
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  Speaker 1: breakfast club. Absolutely, But you know, it's really tragic how
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  Speaker 1: people will everybody each food, you know what I'm saying, Marcus,
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  Speaker 1: But still they act like, you know, okau, your food
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  Speaker 1: has to have a certain market, you know. I I
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  Speaker 1: don't know anybody who just don't eat breakfast, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I think everybody eats breakfast, you know, but when you're
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  Speaker 1: African American mayor walking in there, you must be just
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  Speaker 1: targeting black people, Okay, And then once you say that,
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  Speaker 1: then they're gonna trap you even more because they're gonna
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  Speaker 1: tell you how much you they think you can make it.
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  Speaker 1: Once you say you just targeted, I marketed, they don't value.
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  Speaker 1: So that's always smart to hear that on this show,
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  Speaker 1: and coming from a person who said, no, I my
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  Speaker 1: brand and my customer base will be everybody if you
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  Speaker 1: hold on to that dream and don't let anybody just
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  Speaker 1: do your dream. That's why I say up top, don't
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  Speaker 1: let nobody alter your dreams and your plans. You know,
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  Speaker 1: so going I started this thing off talking about bitch
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  Speaker 1: and a couple of concepts. I want to make sure
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  Speaker 1: that we worked through today. Brother. You know, I'm a
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  Speaker 1: son and grandson and great grandson of Baptist preachers, so
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  Speaker 1: I have I have my points, right, I got my
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  Speaker 1: not absolutely, I love it. You know. When you called me,
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  Speaker 1: said rich Shot that we're talking Mark David based and
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  Speaker 1: used to Texas. So you get part great breakface and
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  Speaker 1: part motivation depending on what day you get him. When
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  Speaker 1: he called me to shop, you said the twenty years
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  Speaker 1: is coming up. I can come back. I said, Marcus,
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  Speaker 1: you don't have to push this conversation when you want
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  Speaker 1: to come on, so get the preacher brother. And and
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  Speaker 1: here's why I thought that was important. Man, When I
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  Speaker 1: when I started this business, when I started working on
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  Speaker 1: the plan, I ran into all the statistics, right, all
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  Speaker 1: the statistics that see it restaurants has the highest failure
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  Speaker 1: rate along along with clubs and bars. Right. Uh, it's
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  Speaker 1: a miracle to make it pass the first twelve months.
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  Speaker 1: It's a miracle to make it past twenty four months.
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  Speaker 1: If you hit five years, you're doing something miraculous. And
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  Speaker 1: here we are four times that, sitting on our twenty
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  Speaker 1: year anniversary, twenty years of inspiring entrepreneurship in the city
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  Speaker 1: of Houston. And that's a testament to a number of concepts.
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  Speaker 1: And that starts with the first thing that you said
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  Speaker 1: opening was vision right and believing whole hardening who you
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  Speaker 1: are and what you've been called and created to be,
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  Speaker 1: and not letting anybody deter you, because absolutely positively, folks
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  Speaker 1: will try to deter you. Now, it's not out of anything.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm not big on this hater thing and people
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  Speaker 1: hating on you and stuff like that. What I am
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  Speaker 1: big on is understanding why they don't agree with you
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  Speaker 1: or why they don't see what you see. Your vision
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  Speaker 1: that was gave to you, that was given to you,
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  Speaker 1: was only given to you. The Creator made it, Taylor
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  Speaker 1: made specifically for you, and it is not and it
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  Speaker 1: has not been exposed to the rest of the earth
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  Speaker 1: because you're the one responsible for developing it. You're the
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  Speaker 1: one responsible for going into the dark room, taking that
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  Speaker 1: negative and turning into a positive. I know, I'm speaking
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  Speaker 1: foreign language because we don't develop a lot of feeling anymore,
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  Speaker 1: but you get the concept right, that picture that the
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  Speaker 1: creator gave to you. You are the person responsible for
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  Speaker 1: going into the dark room and developing it. So the
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  Speaker 1: people that that that don't say a man in your corner,
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  Speaker 1: the people that do not agree with you, the people
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  Speaker 1: that are not backing you up, it's not because they
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  Speaker 1: have any ill will. It's because they haven't gotten the
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  Speaker 1: picture that you're responsible for painting. And that's the most
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  Speaker 1: important thing is that you have to be willing to
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  Speaker 1: understand that it all from fall back on you. So
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people, when they have their dream, they
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  Speaker 1: want people to or sorry for him when they're doing bad,
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  Speaker 1: and they want to be excited for them when they're
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  Speaker 1: feeling good. I keep a medium roll in my whole
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  Speaker 1: approach to life. And plus I don't try to share
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  Speaker 1: too much excitement. And I never share failure because sharing
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  Speaker 1: failure with somebody when they feel you're supposed to be successful,
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  Speaker 1: will only create doubt in your circle. And so that
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  Speaker 1: is what happened a lot during the pandemic, because we
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  Speaker 1: had a year Twitter where there was nothing but doubt,
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  Speaker 1: there's nothing but uncertainty. They shut down your business, like
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  Speaker 1: all businesses around this country for two months. How did
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  Speaker 1: you come out of that with the same enthusiasm that
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  Speaker 1: that that natural enthusiasm I see all the time, and
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  Speaker 1: you for your business to breakfast club that was your
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  Speaker 1: primary business, of course, but how did you survive? So
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  Speaker 1: you know, it was only one of the things that
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  Speaker 1: I'm grateful for. There's a there's a thing going around
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  Speaker 1: on social media and and and it's interests and said
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  Speaker 1: I I asked for courage, so I was giving things
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  Speaker 1: that would frighten me in order to develop the courage.
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  Speaker 1: I asked for uh strengths, so I was giving heavy
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  Speaker 1: weight to carry in order to make me stronger. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know where it came from, but I thought it was.
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  Speaker 1: It was, it was pretty elegant. The reality of it
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  Speaker 1: is the Breakfast Club. Not only we celebrating twenty years
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  Speaker 1: in business, two decades of inspiring entrepreneurship on the corner
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  Speaker 1: of Travis and Alabama, but we are also proving what
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  Speaker 1: it means to be battle tested. Right. The pandemic was significant, right.
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  Speaker 1: It was a very significant, spectacular event and and detrimental
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  Speaker 1: to a lot of businesses. One of the things that
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  Speaker 1: I am grateful for is that it was not our
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  Speaker 1: first rodeo was at our first pandemic, of course, but
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  Speaker 1: we opened this business underpression. We opened this business when
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  Speaker 1: the streets we wanted construction. We opened this business on
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  Speaker 1: the heels of Hurricane Allison, which hit our building before
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  Speaker 1: we got to serve sale one grid. We opened this
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  Speaker 1: business when Hurricane I was here and Hurricane Harvey came through.
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  Speaker 1: We opened this business and in ruin crashed. We opened
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  Speaker 1: two weeks before UH nine eleven hit, which was a
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  Speaker 1: big deal because because downtowns in a lot of it
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  Speaker 1: is took a decline because folks are scared to go
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  Speaker 1: into work if you work in a major metropolitan city.
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  Speaker 1: So we on the on the heels of in run
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  Speaker 1: crashing uh nine eleven happening, Uh, Alison. Then I then
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  Speaker 1: you had that little thing in two thousand and seven
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  Speaker 1: where gas was sky high. Yeah, the other thing where
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  Speaker 1: food jumped up two thousand seven, two thousand and eight,
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  Speaker 1: bringing in the recession where folks are getting laid off
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  Speaker 1: left and right. Uh. You move on down to Hurricane
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  Speaker 1: Ike where we were closed for five whole days, and
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  Speaker 1: then Hurricane Harvy. We are battle tested at thirty seven eleven, Travis,
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  Speaker 1: and that's what prepared us for what came forward in one.
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  Speaker 1: We've been through the Royal rain, We've been through the storm,
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  Speaker 1: and my team, uh, we we've developed a certain amount
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  Speaker 1: of diligence where we can perform under the pressure. Our
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  Speaker 1: metal has been tested. I'm so grateful uh that we
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  Speaker 1: that that we had the ability to uh to perform,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm extremely grateful. Catch the is that the community
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  Speaker 1: right uh saw fit to sustain us during that time.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what good will would do for you. After
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  Speaker 1: you do good and writing just by the people, then prayerfully,
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  Speaker 1: most times off times they will respond, they will. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm fortunate that the people responded uh to what we
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  Speaker 1: needed them to respond to. But let's just change something
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  Speaker 1: about Marcus Davis and his his personality, his willingness to
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  Speaker 1: answer the call for promotional opportunities. You know, when I
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  Speaker 1: just Steve harvest Shaw owned National Syndication called Marcus, he
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  Speaker 1: didn't like, go let me think about it, what time?
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  Speaker 1: What do you want me there? Because he you understood
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  Speaker 1: the value of the moment and a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: understand the value of the moment. But more importantly about Marcus,
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  Speaker 1: he knows how to take up possitively advantage of that moment.
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  Speaker 1: And that's really I'm not saying that's one of the
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  Speaker 1: rememberable moments in your business, but you have a lot
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  Speaker 1: of them in there, like with Oprah, Steve Harvey's talk
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  Speaker 1: about how you and let me just tell y'all strategically,
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  Speaker 1: I may have asked him to come on to Steve
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  Speaker 1: Harvey talk show, but he had a strategy as to
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  Speaker 1: why he was coming. My correct, Marcus, But I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you're you're absolutely correct. And I know this is I
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  Speaker 1: know this sounds a little far um, but there was
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  Speaker 1: a time where you didn't have the world at the
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  Speaker 1: touch of a button. That was a time when you
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  Speaker 1: didn't have the East Coast and the West Coast available
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  Speaker 1: to you via Twitter, re Instagram, their Facebook. That was
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  Speaker 1: a time where you had to bust your butt in
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  Speaker 1: order to get that type of recognition, and you had
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  Speaker 1: to also be lucky, uh as a result of the
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  Speaker 1: good work that you've done, right, So the hard work
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  Speaker 1: that we put in, uh, combined with relationships that we
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  Speaker 1: had built, uh allowed us to have opportunities where someone
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  Speaker 1: like yourself did pick up the telephone and say here
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  Speaker 1: we go. Yeah, it was it was, It was all
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  Speaker 1: right real quick. So at the time they had this
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  Speaker 1: morning show on on radio, was the time John the
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  Speaker 1: Morning right now? That that was I don't were you
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  Speaker 1: in radio then, because it's a one or two point one? Yeah? Yeah, so,
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  Speaker 1: uh the time Join the Morning Show. And I sat
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  Speaker 1: there and thought, Man, how in the heck am I
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  Speaker 1: gonna get on the tom join the morning Show. I
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  Speaker 1: ain't got to them joining the money, right. I know,
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  Speaker 1: as I continue my conversation with restaurant tour motivational speaker,
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  Speaker 1: Marcus Davis. See strategy, I always tell you you haven't
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  Speaker 1: that's what I have a proper you're popular, but they
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  Speaker 1: to say that too. You know, black restaurants can't get
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  Speaker 1: and I'm not stating what you're saying is is untrue.
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  Speaker 1: It's absolutely true. But it's also true of none black restaurants.
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  Speaker 1: So I went to a restaurant. I went to a
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  Speaker 1: believe about the other uh business all. All I'm saying
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  Speaker 1: miss it. You mentioned you mentioned about the product, right,
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  Speaker 1: you you mentioned about having the product getting in that
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  Speaker 1: national recognitions one thing. But having the product to get
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  Speaker 1: you there is a whole another thing. And the three
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  Speaker 1: things that that that I share with my team from
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  Speaker 1: day one, these are my my key principles for success.
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  Speaker 1: Quality product, quality service, all the time. Quality product, quality service,
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  Speaker 1: and do it every freaking time you unlock that do
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  Speaker 1: that's not the same. Mistakes are not gonna happen. But
• 22:28
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  Speaker 1: every time you unlock the door, you deliver the quality
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  Speaker 1: it each and every single time. Now, why is that important?
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  Speaker 1: Because if folks come to the breakfast club today and
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  Speaker 1: that they got that there. You know that they aren't
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  Speaker 1: told them around or that they got last time. And
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  Speaker 1: so you have to be able to deliver those things.
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  Speaker 1: When I say quality product, whether that there is an attempt,
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  Speaker 1: there's a temptation right to want to change and move
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  Speaker 1: things around just because somebody come to you and tell you, hey, man,
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  Speaker 1: I can beat you some cheaper, cheaper wings, and that
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  Speaker 1: are they the same size, are they the same quality
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  Speaker 1: of meat? Right? And will they be consistent? Those three
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  Speaker 1: things are important to me before I before I jumped
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  Speaker 1: to price, because price is one side of it. But
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: if you've given me eight ounces wings one day and
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  Speaker 1: two ounce squeens the next day, I can't deliver that
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  Speaker 1: to my guests. If you're delivering me, you know, high
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  Speaker 1: quality wings one day, or catfish one day and low
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  Speaker 1: You have to stay consistent in the quality that your
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  Speaker 1: you know, twenty years the quality product, quality of service
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  Speaker 1: It works great, baked because I hit I hit it
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  Speaker 1: what I said to y'all. He see he just got fried,
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  Speaker 1: great fish. All that is beautiful. I put my I
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  Speaker 1: put my season right here on my beans. That's why
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  Speaker 1: I just love it. Because see, I would after myself
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  Speaker 1: the other day because my wife wants sound that. She
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  Speaker 1: was at the office and I made some beans, some
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  Speaker 1: red beans, and I made some corn bread. He s's
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  Speaker 1: what you put like? She said. She's a perfect clue.
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  Speaker 1: She said, it's that that place he used to. I said, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: she said, poor you get everything. I said, that's my boy, Marcus. Seriously,
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  Speaker 1: I use your stuff. And she asked me what I
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  Speaker 1: put in it because she's she's now she'sn't like meat
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  Speaker 1: in her beans anymore. So I just put this in here.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I throw a little hallapeenions in there, you know,
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  Speaker 1: pickle hallerpeen. It's a little stanger in there, and brother outstanding.
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  Speaker 1: But you make a great product. You make a great
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  Speaker 1: We got we got a food truck coming out, so
• 26:43
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  Speaker 1: I had to get that out grid tacking my teeth.
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  Speaker 1: But look what I'm saying, uh and and and more. Man,
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  Speaker 1: a little tour. I might even stop in your seat. Well,
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  Speaker 1: first of all, just let me know something, come get
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  Speaker 1: I do just this side of love it. I love
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  Speaker 1: week was Rick Ross. Just some of the names I feature.
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• 27:45
  Speaker 1: have three hurricanes, a pandemic, street construction, and got now
• 27:48
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• 27:51
  Speaker 1: celebrate you my own way with a big thank you
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: because when you started social media wasn't there, but it's
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: here now. So what's right a way for a friend
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: and to say thank you to another friend and an
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: entrepreneur who's making a difference in the community with a
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: k my Man Marcus lives Hey building with kinda one
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  Speaker 1: grid at the time. That's what we're doing over here. Hey, Marcus,
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  Speaker 1: thank you for calling me man. I always appreciate your brother,
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  Speaker 1: you know I do what I say. Man. But again, everybody,
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• 28:23
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• 28:26
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• 28:29
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• 28:31
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• 28:33
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• 28:35
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• 28:38
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• 28:40
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• 28:45
  Speaker 1: If you're a fish person, outstanding fish. If you want
• 28:49
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• 28:52
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• 28:55
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• 28:59
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