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Brian Orakpo & Michael Griffin Full Interview · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: heart or text I Heeart to five hundred, five hundred
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Speaker 1: my next two guests. It all started in February seventeen.
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Speaker 1: Two very talented NFL football players and a banker. Almost
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Speaker 1: sounds like a joke. Two dudes walking the ball, you know,
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Speaker 1: and I decided they wanted to open their own g
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Speaker 1: GS cupcake store. So the three, both from the University
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Speaker 1: of Texas graduates. I'm from Houston, Texas, so I have
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Speaker 1: an affinity to these Texas boys, decided to start a
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Speaker 1: business plan to bringing their own cupcake store to Austin, Texas, which, naturally,
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Speaker 1: you know, go to your roots, go to your base
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Speaker 1: of your popularity. You have seen this dispair on a
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Speaker 1: very popular Microsoft pro commercials been in heavy rotation than
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Speaker 1: the NFL season and the playoffs. Please work on the
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Speaker 1: money making conversation the very talented former teammates of the
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Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans, Brian A. Rock Pope and Michael Griffin. How
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Speaker 1: do you doing That's that's a great introduction. Well, I
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Speaker 1: have to because I'm excited about, you know, entrepreneurs That
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Speaker 1: shows about entrepreneurship is EPI. What's about letting people know
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Speaker 1: that you can reinvent yourself. And I have a when
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Speaker 1: I the guests to come on this show, and it's
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Speaker 1: allowed me to meet a lot of influential people. I
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Speaker 1: consider you influential because of the fact that you're athletes.
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Speaker 1: And that's why I have to bring up the fact
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Speaker 1: that you're graduates of the University of Texas, because a
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Speaker 1: lot of people don't especially African American athletes, they don't
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Speaker 1: see the educational component being successful in our lives. And
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Speaker 1: so when bringing you on this show and being a
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Speaker 1: young entrepreneurs like I ad justested a vote on the
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Speaker 1: show this past week and he was just talking about
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Speaker 1: after his six year in the league, he started looking
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Speaker 1: around in the locker room and people started disappearing and
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Speaker 1: so he had to make a plan. And so now
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Speaker 1: he's opened up tramp Polin's amusing the trampoline in the
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Speaker 1: state of New Jersey. Now, YO, got your story. I
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Speaker 1: seek you guys out to be on my show and
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Speaker 1: I'm so thankful you on my show. So tell us
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Speaker 1: about that relationship from that that transcended from the football
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Speaker 1: field to sitting in a restaurant talking about we want
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Speaker 1: to get in business together. Well, I mean, Rac, I
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Speaker 1: think you're going in for not to each other. Story
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Speaker 1: better mean it was, it was pretty much his idea.
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Speaker 1: I was already kind of on the way on the
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Speaker 1: outsid'll just finished year ten. But I think Rat can
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Speaker 1: pretty much explain more of what that what happened was
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Speaker 1: transpired that day. Thank you. Yeah, when uh we're need,
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Speaker 1: we need and grins um. We obviously played the texts
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Speaker 1: together for a long time. We all started very young.
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Speaker 1: When when we got to the professional rubble um we
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Speaker 1: had the opportunity to play together with the Tenergy titles
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Speaker 1: when I signed over. But we were both you know,
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Speaker 1: with the circum saved um getting posts. We're starting starting
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Speaker 1: to think about our post career, post life after football,
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Speaker 1: to do just kids cutting last forever we knew we
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Speaker 1: can't complaining at the high or whatever. Who we gotta
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Speaker 1: start to see thinking about what we're gonna do afterwards.
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Speaker 1: So we are only gevery off season. I wanted to
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Speaker 1: get together with the other Sustin's part of the Brian
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Speaker 1: has a Vegan friends. We always get together just come
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Speaker 1: up with planks from and come up with ideas. What
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Speaker 1: can we do? I think for that blanks together, come
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Speaker 1: up with some great eventsive ideas around the you know,
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Speaker 1: around Texas and uh right, long sto much short. We
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Speaker 1: were eating cupcakes at the time and um, and and
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Speaker 1: then we just a line folk to because it came
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Speaker 1: to my head and was like, hey, let's let's let's
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Speaker 1: do a t t same times right here and Alton,
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Speaker 1: they never really touched the off the monkey yet let's
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Speaker 1: go ahead and reach out, um and see what happens.
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Speaker 1: That great thing was and a big test we do
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Speaker 1: obviously with tennis entraining, and that's all you had to
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Speaker 1: feel that built this business from grounds up and the
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Speaker 1: very successful awesome. So let me remind everybody to tendency.
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Speaker 1: Titan football team is based in Nashville, Tennessee, and uh correct,
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Speaker 1: So that's why we live to get a content with them,
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Speaker 1: pass and get this thing going. Okay cool. Now here's
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Speaker 1: the thought process. You have subways out there, you have UH,
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Speaker 1: you have UH Jersey Mix, you have all these different
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Speaker 1: places that you can dunk and done nut franchises. Why
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Speaker 1: g cupcakes? Who doesn't love cupcakes? There you go, Well,
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Speaker 1: you talk to you talking to a baker. Now I
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Speaker 1: I bake. I just finished my big up banking program.
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Speaker 1: Or I searched for the top bakers around the country
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Speaker 1: every every eight months. So I'm a fan of you
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Speaker 1: opening Gis cupcake. But why you know, for s of
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Speaker 1: a business person? You know, I just want to wrap
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Speaker 1: that around. It is because they always say if you
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Speaker 1: gonna invest in stock, invest in the stock that you
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Speaker 1: buy that you're using your personal life. If you go
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Speaker 1: to home depot and that's where you don't that's just
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Speaker 1: that's the place you go. So it's because you like
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Speaker 1: the GGS brand is what lead to the investment opportunity idea. Well,
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Speaker 1: you gotta look at like this, what is one thing,
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Speaker 1: no matter no matter what happens each and every day,
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Speaker 1: what is something that every year something comes around. It's
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Speaker 1: your birthday and you know, the way that you celebrate
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Speaker 1: your birthday is always a cake or cake. Whoever it
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Speaker 1: is you go to. You go to a restaurant, you
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Speaker 1: ask and can I see you dessert menu? It's it's
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Speaker 1: not significant other, it's my daughter, whoever may be, it's
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Speaker 1: their birthday, and you always see, is there some type
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Speaker 1: of cake that I can put a candle in wherever
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Speaker 1: it may be? And the one thing and in going
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Speaker 1: through and developing and looking at this whole process, we
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Speaker 1: we looked in at an area where that's very highly
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Speaker 1: populated with a lot of families, a lot of a
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Speaker 1: lot of stay at home mothers who pretty much you know,
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Speaker 1: run the household. And I think, uh, Brian Henton and
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Speaker 1: Brown Rappo chose a very great developing area that's developing.
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Speaker 1: I mean people think Austin's probably within the top five
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Speaker 1: growing cities and special in the area. Sooner or later
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Speaker 1: they're gonna have to build more schools. I know they
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Speaker 1: are build another elementary school in the area and as
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Speaker 1: sooner it's gonna be a middle school and the high
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Speaker 1: school and saw so it's a growing area. Um, we
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Speaker 1: also have a trampoline park that's gonna be right behind
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Speaker 1: us called Urban Air. So there's a great location looking
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Speaker 1: forward to what's going to be coming in the future.
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Speaker 1: And um, it was just something that we looked at
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Speaker 1: it that no matter what the economy is, people are
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Speaker 1: gonna always you know, it's something that people. It's it's
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Speaker 1: like a necessity even though it's not a need, it's
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Speaker 1: a necessity that people no matter what the market is,
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Speaker 1: it's always, hey, you know, birthday is coming around. We
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Speaker 1: need to make a cake or we need cup kicks
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Speaker 1: or whatever it is. And then you have so many
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Speaker 1: different holidays, whether it's Halloween, whether it's Valentine's Day, Christmas, Thanksgiving,
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Speaker 1: Mother's Day. You have so many different holidays that people celebrate.
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Speaker 1: They like to celebrate with with sweets and uh, you know,
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Speaker 1: we already have something that started Nashville called Tips Treats
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Speaker 1: um that you may be aware. I know you said
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Speaker 1: you're from the city of Houston. But again another another
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Speaker 1: atmospe another you know, um area with cupcakes. And you
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Speaker 1: know we had some called Sprinkles and got Hey cupcakes
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Speaker 1: and all those different things. But this was a brand
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Speaker 1: that wasn't in the Austin area. That was something new
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Speaker 1: and we know in the Austin area. We like to
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Speaker 1: grasp on the things that are new and build upon it. Uh,
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Speaker 1: all three of us being graduates from the University of
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Speaker 1: Texas and knowing you know, what our names brought to
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Speaker 1: the table and the people that we do know. Um,
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Speaker 1: it just helped out tremendously. And then again this Microsoft
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Speaker 1: thing came out of nowhere and and it just continuously
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Speaker 1: just propelling us going forward. And I think I work
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Speaker 1: ethic altogether, working together as a team, being real good friends. Uh.
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Speaker 1: They were my grooms men at my wedding, and we
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Speaker 1: have that type of relationship with our families and things
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Speaker 1: that nature. I think it was just something that we
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Speaker 1: just hit the ball. This this this hit it rolling
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Speaker 1: and and it's been we have a lot of great success.
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Speaker 1: The funny thing about that Microsoft commercial is that, first
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Speaker 1: of all, I'm gonna used some terminal. It's very female friendly, no,
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Speaker 1: and it's very family friendly. Every time I see it,
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Speaker 1: I mile you both of you guys are very engaging,
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Speaker 1: you know. You know, it's like it's like it's these
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Speaker 1: big old guys are a little bit of cupcake. You know.
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Speaker 1: It's really Uh, can you tell us how that came about?
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Speaker 1: Because you said it came out of nowhere, because it
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Speaker 1: is a monster a monster success for me personally, a
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Speaker 1: guy who's a really into marketing and branding. It's amazing. Man. Congratulations,
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Speaker 1: Oh go ahead if you want to go ahead, I
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Speaker 1: mean I can. I mean, I guess my standpoint it was,
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Speaker 1: it was it kind of came out of nowhere. We
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Speaker 1: started getting reached out. Uh was getting phone calls off
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Speaker 1: the phone calls, and our man just said somebody from Microsoft,
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Speaker 1: that somebody and somebody, and I keep trying to tell
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Speaker 1: them that y'all are not here, you know, keep saying
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Speaker 1: that Brian rack Poles is playing with the Titans right now.
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Speaker 1: And you know I was at the time, I was
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Speaker 1: doing the Longhorn Network, so I'm doing broadcasting, so I
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Speaker 1: wasn't in the store all the time. And Brian inst
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Speaker 1: you know, he has his job also, so one day,
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Speaker 1: you know, let me just get him a call and
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Speaker 1: see what's going on. Then I gave him a call
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Speaker 1: and they were like, hey, you want to sit down
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Speaker 1: and talk and discussing things. And again I was like, okay,
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Speaker 1: this must be a joke. And then I guess, um
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Speaker 1: from that standpoint, relay the message over to Brian and
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Speaker 1: somebody my name is Sandy Sandoval contacted him. Okay, this
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Speaker 1: maybe this may be serious because you know, people are
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Speaker 1: trying to get ahold of us. But from there we
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Speaker 1: was trying to It was something very quickly. Um. You know,
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Speaker 1: Brian of course was in he was in the season
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Speaker 1: that he played over in London first San Diego, charges
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Speaker 1: flew straight back. We filmed the commercial in less than
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Speaker 1: forty eight hours and there was not non scripted. Hey, Michael,
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Speaker 1: hold that thought. Hold that thought, Michael, because this is fantastic.
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Speaker 1: You listen to money making conversation. We're gonna extend this
10:47
Speaker 1: conversation to another break. Come on back, y'all, don't go nowhere. Hi.
10:53
Speaker 1: Are you listening to Rashan McDonald and this is his
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Speaker 1: money making conversation and having a fantastic conversation with too
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Speaker 1: incredibly talented athletes who graduating from the University of Texas
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Speaker 1: in Austin. And they decided to franchise. They decided there's
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Speaker 1: more to our football, there's more to life there, there's
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Speaker 1: a life after football, should say. And they decided to
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Speaker 1: franchise a G G cupcake store, which is based out
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Speaker 1: of Nashville, that's where they met his teammates of the
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Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans out of Nashville, and they decided to be
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Speaker 1: smart about it. They took it back to where their
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Speaker 1: popularity was at a high level in college Austin, Texas.
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Speaker 1: And Michael, you're telling us you got all these phone calls.
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Speaker 1: You didn't know what you were walking into. And in
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Speaker 1: fourt eight hours YouTube delivered this amazing very um. I
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Speaker 1: was just saying, may a, very engaging, very fun, very
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Speaker 1: very um very it's just a commercial that I smile
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Speaker 1: every time I see a team. Yeah, I mean again
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Speaker 1: it was I said earlier. You know it was non scripted. Uh,
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Speaker 1: this is us. That's us being ourselves. I mean if
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Speaker 1: you call our social media, uh, each of every day,
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Speaker 1: So that's that's nothing. That's saying, hey, you know you
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Speaker 1: do this and you're gonna laugh a smile and do
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Speaker 1: this and you no. I mean that's us each and
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Speaker 1: every day at the bakery, at the shop, every day
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Speaker 1: we're working together. So um, it came out great. Um.
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Speaker 1: You know, you know we've been get a lot of
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Speaker 1: a lot of exposure from it, and you know we
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Speaker 1: sometimes we sit back with watching the game or you're weird.
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Speaker 1: I think Rack was at the Bahamas Is recently with
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Speaker 1: his wife and he's, you know, enjoying the next thing,
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Speaker 1: you know, there's a big TV playing and he's on
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Speaker 1: there and with some cupcakes. So it's I think that's
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Speaker 1: been going on for all three of us. Is everywhere
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Speaker 1: we've been, it's just been that commercials just playing over
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Speaker 1: and over and over against Get allows a lot more exposure.
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Speaker 1: And I think it's it's kind of funny because you
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Speaker 1: played the game of you played in the NFL, but
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Speaker 1: now that you know, you're kind of more known for
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Speaker 1: cupcakes compared to being this barbarian you know, Rack sacking
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Speaker 1: quarterbacks and things in that nature and hard hitting safety
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Speaker 1: don't present you don't forget your role in life. Now
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Speaker 1: by that's back there, that's a long time ago. Mr
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Speaker 1: Cupcake comment. Okay, Mr hard charge and smacking uh knock
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Speaker 1: him on there behind defensive player. Rack, tell me, are
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Speaker 1: you missed the cupcake too? Now? Yeah we can. I
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Speaker 1: kind of told the guys in the locker room don't
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Speaker 1: ever call me Mr Cupcake. So but you know that
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Speaker 1: I take you know, but now it's all funny games.
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Speaker 1: You know. The cool thing about this whole experiences. They
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Speaker 1: didn't believe, you know when when we when we told
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Speaker 1: me and Griffins was doing this, everybody was kind of skeptical,
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Speaker 1: you know, locker rooms like you guys over the cocaine,
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Speaker 1: are you serious with football players this and that? You
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Speaker 1: know this, that and the other. But they've seen how
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Speaker 1: serious the process was, and then we were really taking it. Um,
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Speaker 1: we're really taking them to the next level, to the
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Speaker 1: next step. And everybody was pretty much admired about what
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Speaker 1: we were doing and inspired. And it's just to go
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Speaker 1: the soul, like when you really have to dream, when
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Speaker 1: you really believe in something, you can build something ground up.
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Speaker 1: And now we're getting so many compliments from my peers
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Speaker 1: around the league about you know, how we were able
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Speaker 1: to do this thing? Um do this cup take shop.
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Speaker 1: We know. The thing about it is that, you know,
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Speaker 1: you know social media, everybody wants a viral video, everybody
14:19
Speaker 1: wants to know just rocket the popularity, and sometimes you
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Speaker 1: don't know how that's gonna happen. But what happened here
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Speaker 1: was you guys were just genuine and you made a
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Speaker 1: conscious effort to improve on your life after football and bam.
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Speaker 1: And then another thing when people questioned you too about
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Speaker 1: this move into this business. You move forward with your
14:38
Speaker 1: first thought that this is something we want to do
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Speaker 1: that would benefit us. Now you and you mentioned about
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Speaker 1: why do you have to do to prepare to be
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Speaker 1: as the owner of GS Cupcake? What is that? What
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Speaker 1: are those steps? Because they just you just to sign
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Speaker 1: a contract and say we're the owners. You have to
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Speaker 1: know the business. Can you walk up through that? Michael Well,
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Speaker 1: I think what what the thing is that Brian Hinston
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Speaker 1: eat our third partner, think he helped us out tremendously
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Speaker 1: with that. Uh. You know, I think a lot of
15:03
Speaker 1: people recognize us and kind of look at us as
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Speaker 1: being these football players and they've known that, you know,
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Speaker 1: we were. We excelled at a high level for ten
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Speaker 1: plus years of playing the game in the National Football League.
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Speaker 1: But you know, you you gotta have somebody that you
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Speaker 1: trust and somebody that understands the things that you may
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Speaker 1: not understand. And again, everybody has their strong points and
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Speaker 1: you have to be able to work very well together.
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Speaker 1: And I think that's something that us three together, we
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Speaker 1: we've done very well. Um, you know, and we owe
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Speaker 1: a lot to Brian Inson because again he's he's he's been.
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Speaker 1: He's been the brains of the operation. A lot of
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Speaker 1: things that we didn't know. You know, me again for
15:38
Speaker 1: ten years just playing football and you know, you tell
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Speaker 1: me a route concept or you know what to come
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Speaker 1: and everything. I can tell you all that, Yeah, I
15:45
Speaker 1: can tell you that all day. But when you get
15:47
Speaker 1: to looking at numbers and graphs and you know how
15:50
Speaker 1: things work and everything else. I mean I think a
15:52
Speaker 1: lot of things like banking and stuff. That's the easy.
15:54
Speaker 1: You know, you follow steps one, two, three, the way
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Speaker 1: he would say it. But when you got to really
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Speaker 1: learn how to operate a business and work with other
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Speaker 1: employees and not have the same mindset that we have
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Speaker 1: his professional athletes, and learn how to talk to people
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Speaker 1: and deal with customers, and it's it's a big transition.
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Speaker 1: It's different than your day to day basis and playing
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Speaker 1: in the National Football League. So, um, I mean it
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Speaker 1: was a lot. It was, you know, going to meet
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Speaker 1: with corporate office. Um. And again it was great having
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Speaker 1: three of us because when one of us is not
16:21
Speaker 1: able to to be there, the other two is there
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Speaker 1: to to take that that slack on and continue to
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Speaker 1: go from there. So it's been a great partnership. A
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Speaker 1: great um that we all been able to work together.
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Speaker 1: And you know, we we started from the ground up.
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Speaker 1: I mean picking the location from Brian Rack and Brian
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Speaker 1: Henson too, Um, sitting down with corporate and going through
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Speaker 1: the whole process of learning. Uh. The reason why we
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Speaker 1: went where the franchise is because we believe that, you know,
16:50
Speaker 1: instead of open your own business and trying to build
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Speaker 1: your own brand, we were learning how the franchise actually works.
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Speaker 1: So we did decide to do something else. Um, we
16:58
Speaker 1: knew the ins and outs. We knew how to do
17:01
Speaker 1: our build out from you know, your electric company to
17:04
Speaker 1: your plumbers to this to that. We we learned the
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Speaker 1: whole process. So it was a whole year process that
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Speaker 1: we learned. Um, if you look at our store, me
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Speaker 1: and Brian Instant, Brian Raffle, we put our store together.
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Speaker 1: We unloaded the trucks ourselves and he was putting everything
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Speaker 1: based on the graphs and things putting our store together.
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Speaker 1: So it was a learning process. I think it was
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Speaker 1: just you know, showing us taking that next step in
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Speaker 1: life and showing that you know, we're more than just athletes.
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Speaker 1: And when you have that termin knowledge student athletes, we
17:34
Speaker 1: were actually we took schools very seriously and what we learned,
17:37
Speaker 1: we was able to transition onto the next life after football.
17:42
Speaker 1: Three people, three young men you went to college with,
17:45
Speaker 1: decided to go in. Talk a little bit about trust
17:48
Speaker 1: in this situation. You know that football they talk about
17:50
Speaker 1: you have to trust your teammates and you you're going
17:53
Speaker 1: in business. Two people, you know, but a lot of
17:55
Speaker 1: people they do that and something they lose that trust factors.
17:59
Speaker 1: Talking about trust than this relationship that makes you feel
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Speaker 1: so satisfying, I think that's the only way to grow
18:06
Speaker 1: is to have trust. UM. Without our trust myself buying
18:11
Speaker 1: and grip, I don't think we were able to get
18:13
Speaker 1: this far UM. We we all three player significant part
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Speaker 1: in the in this whole process for us going forward
18:21
Speaker 1: because we're not just gonna be settled with just one store.
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Speaker 1: We want to expand and do bigger and better things
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Speaker 1: UM in the future. And without trust, I think we
18:30
Speaker 1: would have we would need to be able to have
18:32
Speaker 1: this one build out. I don't think we would have
18:34
Speaker 1: been a successful we are today. And honestly think it
18:38
Speaker 1: has to be natural. Trusts have to be natural organic.
18:43
Speaker 1: I think it's hard to do business with people that
18:46
Speaker 1: you really can't count on they're they're always late or
18:49
Speaker 1: they're always you know, not responsible. Are are you know something?
18:54
Speaker 1: Do one thing and then do it a better It's
18:57
Speaker 1: with with our relationship. We've been knowing each other since
19:00
Speaker 1: through stain eighteen years old. So we built. We know
19:03
Speaker 1: our strength, we know our weaknesses, we know who you know,
19:07
Speaker 1: the downfalls the upside with with all three of us.
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Speaker 1: So um, I mean, person I think it's very very
19:15
Speaker 1: uh important once you go in the business with what
19:18
Speaker 1: other individuals. Here's a good the closing though, we've got
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Speaker 1: a couple of minutes here. Um. First of all, I
19:25
Speaker 1: want to congratulate you too, and that's a sincere Both
19:28
Speaker 1: of you guys are both articulate. The intelligence and your
19:31
Speaker 1: education shows through and so that's what comes across. I'm
19:34
Speaker 1: just gonna let you know from an African American perspective,
19:37
Speaker 1: how important what you guys are doing in those commercials
19:40
Speaker 1: because of the fact that you know, we're often misrepresented
19:44
Speaker 1: as to what we can do, especially when we're when
19:46
Speaker 1: our skills are tied to athleticism. You know, it's just
19:49
Speaker 1: like watching the lebron James does you know in the
19:52
Speaker 1: regular basis is it's awesome. It's awesome, and and so
19:57
Speaker 1: just just know that as as a fan of of entrepreneurship,
20:01
Speaker 1: as a fan of uh of watching NFL football, those
20:05
Speaker 1: commercials radio more than just beyond um just you guys
20:10
Speaker 1: talking about something for Microsoft talking which is an amazing
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Speaker 1: brand to be tied to talking about making cupcakes. You
20:16
Speaker 1: guys represent yourselves and what we do as African Americans
20:19
Speaker 1: in a very special way. I just want to make
20:21
Speaker 1: that comment to you. I hopefully you've heard it before
20:24
Speaker 1: and you're here again in the future more often because
20:26
Speaker 1: you guys are making a difference and a lot of
20:28
Speaker 1: young people and grown people's lives. I appreciate that. We
20:33
Speaker 1: appreciate that. Thank you very much. Appreciate what the good
20:38
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20:59
Speaker 1: we can be just be gard were back in there now, Yeah, y'all,
21:04
Speaker 1: y'all back for real. Man. You know I got we
21:06
Speaker 1: stole my coach, my head coach, stole my head coach.
21:10
Speaker 1: And now y'all back. We had to teach him how
21:13
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21:15
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21:16
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21:19
Speaker 1: You know, I'm in Atlanta, so Geohn, you got me
21:21
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21:23
Speaker 1: put that whooping on while I was proud of you man.
21:25
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21:29
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21:31
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