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Rugged Evolution Beard Care founder Arrington Gavin talks new products, podcast & 2nd Annual Back to School Backpack Drive · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: to podcasts. By ex guest is Jay Arrington Gavin while
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Speaker 1: doing research for the right ingredients for his beard in
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Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, I don't have a beard like him. He
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Speaker 1: got a beard, you know. I'm just happy to what
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Speaker 1: I got. Jay Arrington began to share his findings and
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Speaker 1: use his family and friends as human testers. He then
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Speaker 1: went on to receive his bachelor's degree in Wellness, Recreation
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Speaker 1: and Sports and twenty seventeen, his passion for the art
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Speaker 1: of human body left him with a burning desire to
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Speaker 1: help individuals accomplish their personal best by living a healthy
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Speaker 1: lifestyle through fitness and wellness. From that desire gave birth
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Speaker 1: to Rugged Evolution, a beer Carolina products that he makes
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Speaker 1: available to other men of distinction. He's a good friend
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Speaker 1: of mine, a young friend of mine, and I've been,
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Speaker 1: like to believe, I've been mentoring and and helping him
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Speaker 1: along the way. Please welcome to money making Conversation The
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Speaker 1: CEO and founder of Rugged Evolution, Jay Arrington Gavin, Hey don, sir,
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Speaker 1: I'm doing my friend. How are you being well? First
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Speaker 1: of all you you're smiling man, And uh, it's been
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Speaker 1: a fun journey. I first of all, house your mom.
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Speaker 1: I gotta I gotta say how the mom. Okay, my
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Speaker 1: mom is doing awesome, she's doing everyone's doing great, healthy vaccinator,
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Speaker 1: everybody's doing growing all right. I know that's that's really key.
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Speaker 1: And Uh in the business, did your end is dealing
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Speaker 1: with look is dealing with facials, dealing with people are
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Speaker 1: in close quarters? Sometimes? Talk about your business during the
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Speaker 1: COVID and did you have to make any adjustments during
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Speaker 1: the pandemic when the country shut down? Did it impact
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Speaker 1: you positively did you do a P P P. We'll
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Speaker 1: talk about the whole process in Well, we were very fortunate. Um,
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Speaker 1: for one, where are an e commerce site, but we
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Speaker 1: are located in our products are sold in uh selective
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Speaker 1: brick and mortar stores in Hampton Roads, Virginia. But actually
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Speaker 1: during the during that time, I was moving into a
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Speaker 1: much larger office space in March of so when when
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Speaker 1: the whole shutdown was going, I was moving on up
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Speaker 1: to a much bigger office and warehouse space. Uh, you know,
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Speaker 1: continue to grow and grow. Sales were still you know,
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Speaker 1: still steady. But we're very fortunate. UM uh yeah, we were.
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Speaker 1: We were very blessed really doing during COVID, But it
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Speaker 1: was still an adjustment because you had to get creative.
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Speaker 1: I think whenever a new obstacle comes upon comes my way,
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Speaker 1: it helps me grow as a business owner and as
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Speaker 1: an entrepreneur. So with that being said, we we got
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Speaker 1: more creative with things. UM did stuff a lot more virtual.
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Speaker 1: We did a lot of Facebook Live during the during COVID,
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Speaker 1: just to continue to stay relevant to people that do
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Speaker 1: follow us, almost kind of like a que theme style
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Speaker 1: of Facebook Live. So we were doing very good and
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Speaker 1: adjusting and getting really creative during during the COVID Well,
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Speaker 1: I would tell you now and this two we talked
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Speaker 1: about a long time ago about you being the face
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Speaker 1: of your brain and at the time, you know a
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Speaker 1: little little bit the confidence for them there, you know.
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Speaker 1: I mean one time we did an interview and you said,
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Speaker 1: you know so many times and hold on, hold on,
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Speaker 1: hold on, hold on, Yeahvin, Look, we want to do
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Speaker 1: this interview again. I'm not putting you out there like that,
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Speaker 1: young man. And you understood what I was talking about
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Speaker 1: because I had your best interests and you did again
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Speaker 1: and look at you now you got a podcast. I
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Speaker 1: won't get you farther in the interview. I can see
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Speaker 1: the confidence and how you're talking in articulation. Talk about
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Speaker 1: that growth, man, and then also talk about the responsibility
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Speaker 1: of becoming the face of your brand and being able
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Speaker 1: to articulate the value of your brand from your personal
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Speaker 1: point of view. Well, you said the the very first
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Speaker 1: interview that I had with you, Ms McDonald, I was nervous.
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Speaker 1: You can hear you can hear the nerves. Like you said, Um,
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Speaker 1: I definitely took all your advice to hard learn grow
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Speaker 1: more of the vending shows that I attended. I looked
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Speaker 1: at that as a form of you know, working on
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Speaker 1: my speaking, talking in public with people promoting my brand.
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Speaker 1: That confidence booster. I mean it was everything was growth,
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Speaker 1: whether it was especially being the face of my business
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Speaker 1: and of my brand. Um, if I don't show that confidence,
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Speaker 1: Nobody's gonna believe in my brand. So I had to
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Speaker 1: build up that confidence and had to uh definitely continue
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Speaker 1: to educate myself. I educate myself every day with my products,
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Speaker 1: the type of gredients I put in my products. Uh,
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Speaker 1: you know, new things, old things, making sure I'm not
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Speaker 1: behind but ahead of the game at all at all times.
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Speaker 1: And um, that's really how I continue to grow and
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Speaker 1: grow every day. And this is I always think of
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Speaker 1: the first the first time I was on the show,
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Speaker 1: and it's it's it's it's always always a lat myself.
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Speaker 1: So well, there's just by growth. You know, it's about
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Speaker 1: being able to be honest. And that's what I've done
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Speaker 1: all my life. You know, I always are like mentored
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Speaker 1: and uplift and made sure that people understand their skill.
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Speaker 1: You you didn't saw you didn't see what I saw
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Speaker 1: you at the time. You know, you were you were
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Speaker 1: a guy who it was the CEO of a company.
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Speaker 1: He was very young when you started it. You know,
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Speaker 1: you've been wearing you've been having a full beer since
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Speaker 1: you were fourteen years old, and then so all these
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Speaker 1: things God put you in a position. Then you had
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Speaker 1: to understand how you can create value from that, you
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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So, but but what I've know
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Speaker 1: just the most is before we even get into the products,
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Speaker 1: and I'm just gonna do the word evolution, is how
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Speaker 1: beards have taken on a life of their own, kind
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Speaker 1: of like what Michael Jordan did with the ball hair
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Speaker 1: ball head when he shaved his head playing basketball. Talk
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Speaker 1: about that. Then, you know, you have a lot of
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Speaker 1: famous people in the NBA who have really marketed their
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Speaker 1: beards and things like that. So but outside of them,
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Speaker 1: just the it's cool to wear a beard. It always
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Speaker 1: was kind of cool, but it feeds like it's really
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Speaker 1: come out to the forefront. And that's why our brand,
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Speaker 1: like yours, is starting to benefit because you're providing beer
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Speaker 1: care beard care products. Yeah. So I always love to say,
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Speaker 1: you know, in previous years, beards were always, like you said,
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Speaker 1: was always cool, but it was still a form of
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Speaker 1: like you know, if you have this interview, be sure
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Speaker 1: to shave that off. If you have this job, be
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Speaker 1: sure to save this all. So I've always wanted to
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Speaker 1: promote that whether you were work in corporate America or
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Speaker 1: whether you are a label worker, you can still be
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Speaker 1: a man of distinction while rocking a well groomed beard. Um,
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Speaker 1: it's not a it's not a trend now, it is
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Speaker 1: a movement. Um. You see men of higher power, you
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Speaker 1: see men at you know, uh, mid level jobs, or
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Speaker 1: even all all jobs. They're rocking facial hair, beers, mustache,
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Speaker 1: go tee. It's nothing wrong with it. So Um, as
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Speaker 1: far as the evolution of growing, it is starting to
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Speaker 1: grow and show that you can still be a man distinction,
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Speaker 1: have that confidence while rocking a well grown beer. Well,
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Speaker 1: like I said, now that they're there are different layers
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Speaker 1: of beer. You have to go tee talk about you know,
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Speaker 1: we say beard beard care products, but you have gotees,
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Speaker 1: in that care Caroline, because you should take care of
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Speaker 1: your must dad. You should take care of all this stuff.
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Speaker 1: So let's not just say if you don't have if
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Speaker 1: you just have a beard, you you then that's what
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Speaker 1: your product. For your product is for any facial hair correct, Yes, sir,
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Speaker 1: thin shadow, whether you have just a mustache, whether you
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Speaker 1: have the Van Dyke, the gote, the beard is still
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Speaker 1: would change everybody. I I do use rugged evolution products. Uh.
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Speaker 1: He sent me that little round brush. I don't know
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Speaker 1: if you still because I got two of the little
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Speaker 1: round brush. That round and my wife would look at me,
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Speaker 1: she said, it really does you know? I would brush
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Speaker 1: my bridge. She said, it really does make a big difference.
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Speaker 1: And how I would of all my products? You not
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Speaker 1: got everything I got. I got the fark, I got
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Speaker 1: that a little small, but I get that little round
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Speaker 1: brush man, and it would make and I would. You
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Speaker 1: know a lot of people come to me try to
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Speaker 1: use their product, but nobody touches that brush man. We're
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Speaker 1: gonna talk about other products. I want to let you
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Speaker 1: know that brush that that that travels with me. I
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Speaker 1: got up aught another one. I keep one at the office,
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Speaker 1: I keep one at home. I keep one in my
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Speaker 1: travel back, I got three of them. Well that's goal
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Speaker 1: because see that brush, when you brush twice a day,
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Speaker 1: what that does that sell me? Looks the hair folical,
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Speaker 1: so you always wanna brush twice a day. Helps open
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Speaker 1: up those hair follicles. So that's a really great thing.
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Speaker 1: While you contine to maintaining why your wife so you said,
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Speaker 1: I see a difference by you know, I would do
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Speaker 1: it in the mirror right next tour and she goes,
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Speaker 1: if she could see this side, just laid my hair
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Speaker 1: down right and then you know, because your hair would
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Speaker 1: kind of like start separating, but it would bring it
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Speaker 1: all together, give me a fullness. I guess that's what.
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Speaker 1: It would give me a fullness to my beard no
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Speaker 1: matter what level. Now what I'm not trying to get
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Speaker 1: away into trade secrets. What made your brush one that
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Speaker 1: affected my beard versus other competition because that hair brush
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Speaker 1: is fantastic. Well, the key thing is the types of bristles.
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Speaker 1: I have one brush right here on the table that's
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Speaker 1: one of our album on brush. Those board bristles are
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Speaker 1: is what key. You never want anything too hard because
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Speaker 1: our skin is very sensitive, so you don't want to
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Speaker 1: have something you know scratching the skin at all. You
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Speaker 1: want to have a board burstle board bristles. It is
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Speaker 1: like almost in between. It's slightly hard but very soft.
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Speaker 1: So and it always stays consistent too, right. And then
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Speaker 1: and then I like to call a lot the little
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Speaker 1: eye dropper. You put the eye dropper putting on your
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Speaker 1: beard and make your beard shining. So I got a
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Speaker 1: little I can't never get your technical world, but I
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Speaker 1: know I pull that little I drop out man a
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Speaker 1: couple of my hand I feel like that putting up
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Speaker 1: my beer. If looking shot, I get that brush right
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Speaker 1: behind it. If I if I ain't looking good, I
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Speaker 1: think I'm looking good. Alright there, that's all I gotta say. Right,
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Speaker 1: that's right. What are you looking good? Miss down? You're
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Speaker 1: looking great. You're looking great. So so talk about some
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Speaker 1: of the products that you're having there, and then we're
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Speaker 1: also gonna go back to the backpacks. I want to
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Speaker 1: definitely talk about what you're doing up and happening brow
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Speaker 1: because I got such a really good restaurant. The reaction
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Speaker 1: when I posted about it last year on my social media,
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Speaker 1: you know, you contacted me, You say, could I posted?
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Speaker 1: You know, I'll do anything for you and also going
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Speaker 1: to make a donation to you this year as wells
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Speaker 1: just making a difference. But let's talk about the product.
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Speaker 1: You know, he has some product in front of you.
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Speaker 1: If you're watching this on video, you can see it.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna be as as as uh as as creative
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Speaker 1: and descriptive as possible for people who are listening on
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Speaker 1: my podcast on my radio show. But tell us what
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Speaker 1: you got in front of us there. So I just
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Speaker 1: have a slight view of our products. So in total
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Speaker 1: of Regulolution Beercare, I started off actually with just four
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Speaker 1: cents of beard Bombs and beard Oil's and all natural
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Speaker 1: beer carelines. So now we now have sixteen cented beer
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Speaker 1: Bombs beard Oil. As you see right here, I have
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Speaker 1: my leaving I'm excuse me, our conditioning shampoo, who is
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Speaker 1: a beard watch that I recommend staying consistant, especially during
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Speaker 1: the summertime. And we just launched two new products. So
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Speaker 1: I have my leaving Beard moisturizer. It's a beard cream.
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Speaker 1: It's the scent of ginger. It is so good. It's
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Speaker 1: a very popular seller right now. We just launched that
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Speaker 1: about two months ago. And um it's mainly because again
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Speaker 1: for the for the summertime for this heat. I try
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Speaker 1: to adjust the routine when it comes to beard maintenance.
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Speaker 1: You don't want to apply too much a bomb, which
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Speaker 1: is still good because of great moisturize, but you don't
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Speaker 1: apply too much and have all that oil build up.
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Speaker 1: So have something that you know that's a non greasy,
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Speaker 1: uh substance onto that face. So this is our leading
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Speaker 1: beard moisturizer. And then we also have our our excuse me,
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Speaker 1: our smooth Stats are Smooth Stats. We just launched that
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Speaker 1: in March for Mustache Month, and it's a musta oil
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Speaker 1: serum right here. And what you do is just you
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Speaker 1: just apply this. You can do either five seconds to
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Speaker 1: ten seconds. You can go in small circles or right across.
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Speaker 1: We started it just for our mustache sporters. But as
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Speaker 1: long as you have like a nice repeat what you
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Speaker 1: just said there, Gavin, what was that you just had?
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Speaker 1: What was that down? This is this is the smooth
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Speaker 1: This is called Snooze Stats. Just a mustache serum. So
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Speaker 1: and it it comes in its dispense with this little
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Speaker 1: small robot and you can see that it's a small
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Speaker 1: robot at the time, and you just applied just like
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Speaker 1: that about five is ten seconds. You're all good to go,
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Speaker 1: and it actually comes in a black velvet bat with
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Speaker 1: our new rugged alution mustache comb. So right after you
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Speaker 1: finish that, you can apply that comb right there. You're
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Speaker 1: all good to go and you can bring it with
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Speaker 1: you and um at all time. It's very easy to travel.
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Speaker 1: Oh you got you gotta slick on me? I would
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Speaker 1: you know because sometimes listening to go, what do you
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Speaker 1: because it wasn't ball because it's got balled. It's a mustache.
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Speaker 1: I gotta I gotta get that. I gotta get that now.
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Speaker 1: Now I got the little the little can the canisters
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Speaker 1: were you know you open and then you put on
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Speaker 1: your face as well. Yes, yes, the beer bob talking
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Speaker 1: about so our beard bomb. Our beer bomb is mainly
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Speaker 1: for men with two inches or more for guys with length,
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Speaker 1: and it's used as a d tangler still as a
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Speaker 1: great moisturizer. But we have a sixteen cents cents of
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Speaker 1: the beard bombs. I always will say, like the thing
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Speaker 1: of the beer bombs like a dressing. So the beard
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Speaker 1: oil is made to treat the skin first, so you
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Speaker 1: always want to continue to use the beard oil because
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Speaker 1: you've gotta make sure that skin is taking care of
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Speaker 1: underneath the hair in order to help enhance and benefit
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Speaker 1: your your beard. So you apply the beard oil first,
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Speaker 1: and while you do that, get right there and good
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Speaker 1: in those roots to tip. Then you apply a little
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Speaker 1: bit of beard bomb, which I use everyday, beard oil
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Speaker 1: and beer bomb and uh. And then you you apply
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Speaker 1: one of our our accessories, one of our beard wooden combs,
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Speaker 1: and you're all good to go, looking great and smooth.
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Speaker 1: Well you look well, thank you because you're you're you're
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Speaker 1: You're the reason I look great to smooth if I'm
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Speaker 1: looking great school because of Gavi. Let's just let y'all
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Speaker 1: know what now, Gavin, here's a deal man. Now talk
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Speaker 1: to me. Now, you gotta podcast now. And you know
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17:46
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18:19
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18:27
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18:37
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18:41
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18:50
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19:08
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22:50
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Speaker 1: start developing new products, who do you work with? Are
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Speaker 1: How do you go through the process of developing new products? Well,
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Speaker 1: that works strictly with their I'm you know, I'm making
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Speaker 1: my products, so as far as the testers are concerned,
23:18
Speaker 1: I will test on myself. I have a few other
23:20
Speaker 1: different beer types. I'll have uh you know, different age groups,
23:24
Speaker 1: white beards, uh, black, black beers, as far as the
23:28
Speaker 1: complection of the facial hair. And that's how I usually tested.
23:33
Speaker 1: And also, you know, I look around as far as
23:36
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23:38
Speaker 1: What is something that a lot of men asked for
23:41
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23:45
Speaker 1: So I put that on paper and then I'm like, Okay, look,
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24:09
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24:11
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24:14
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24:17
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24:20
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Speaker 1: whole process of evolving to a person who's giving back
24:32
Speaker 1: to the community and something that out of all this
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24:40
Speaker 1: not to think about yourself. Last year, you decided to
24:42
Speaker 1: think about others. What was the inspiration behind thinking about
24:46
Speaker 1: others and why did it becoming become important to do
24:49
Speaker 1: it again for the second year. Well, as you know,
24:52
Speaker 1: we would, We are very for sure. We had our
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Speaker 1: our Regnvovlution Foundation back to School drive we had we
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Speaker 1: had it in nineteen. It was a huge success. We
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Speaker 1: had a goal of giving out two hundred and fifty
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Speaker 1: backpacks fill with school supplies. We end up exceeding that
25:06
Speaker 1: goal to three hundred and like sixty three and still
25:09
Speaker 1: had extra supplies to hand out to the community. Um,
25:12
Speaker 1: but you know due to COVID last year, Uh, it
25:15
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25:17
Speaker 1: in the healthcare field and our physical therapy, and it was,
25:21
Speaker 1: you know, the first thing I knew was, you know,
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25:25
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Speaker 1: the first thing it was like the health of uh
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Speaker 1: well as young people as well. So that we decided
25:38
Speaker 1: not to do that and especially due to the crowd size.
25:42
Speaker 1: But we're fortunate to have our second annual this year. UM,
25:45
Speaker 1: it will be happening let me see August twenty eight,
25:48
Speaker 1: uh at a local arrect center in Chess Peak, Virginian
25:51
Speaker 1: in Indian River Community Center. UM. We're actually having a
25:54
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25:58
Speaker 1: gonna be partnering with us for this event. Um, and
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Speaker 1: they're actually affiliate with the HBC. They' affiliate with the
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Speaker 1: Norfling State Universities already. Yeah, we see you component is
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Speaker 1: tied into the campaign, right, So that's what I thought,
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Speaker 1: yeph in. Our goal this year is to give out
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26:17
Speaker 1: having free food, uh free Uh, let me see, free
26:20
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26:23
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26:26
Speaker 1: have a gentleman giving out popcorn, cotton candy, the slushies.
26:29
Speaker 1: We have fire trucks, para medics. We're gonna have the
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Speaker 1: sheriff department doing identities for the kids. UM. A couple
26:35
Speaker 1: of other local small organization organizations out coming out their music.
26:40
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a lot of fun and open to
26:41
Speaker 1: the community and also free haircuts too. Well. The thing
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26:47
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26:49
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26:51
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26:53
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26:56
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26:58
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27:03
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27:19
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27:32
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27:37
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