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Entrepreneur: Two African American Men launch a gourmet Popcorn Company with flavors like Crab Legs, Banana Puddin', Red Velvet Cheesecake by Popcorn Remix, Greg Bowman and Ryan Richmond. · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: we come how this is Rasean McDonald. Welcome to money
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  Speaker 1: Making Conversation master Class. If I have the Popcorn Remixed Kings,
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  Speaker 1: can I say that Popcorn Remix King? I mean just
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  Speaker 1: it's the regardless, it's the remix, the remix remix. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I love black people. We know we know how to
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  Speaker 1: put a spin on the name. You know, Popcorn Remix.
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  Speaker 1: You know we're gonna put it. They've taken popcorn and
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  Speaker 1: made the hip hop it mean to hip hop? It
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  Speaker 1: mean to hip hop. Well, it's Greg and Greg Bowman
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  Speaker 1: and Richard Raymond. They're in the studio and they're Popcorn
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  Speaker 1: Remix on I want to hear that story, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I take you that popcorn and invite them into the
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  Speaker 1: studio Premium Gomet Popcorns. It's in Metro Atlanta and you
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  Speaker 1: can arder online. Correct, yes, you can at popcorn Remix
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  Speaker 1: dot com. See they quick, see they quick. None don't
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  Speaker 1: to talk to these folks. What started out as a
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  Speaker 1: boutique popcorn shop and now snowball into the place to
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  Speaker 1: be it has to be. In less than sixteen months
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  Speaker 1: of doing business, Popcorn Remiss has has secured residencies at
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  Speaker 1: the Maple Howse Amphitheater that's in Atlanta, right, yes, okay,
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  Speaker 1: the g I c C, which is the Georgia International
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  Speaker 1: Convention Center that's by the airport, yes, sir Hartsville Airport.
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  Speaker 1: Cose okay cool? And then the Gateway Arena which is
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  Speaker 1: the home of the Atlanta Dream Yes, and the cost
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  Speaker 1: is that where the okay cool? And then the that's
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  Speaker 1: the g League right, yes, that's the Ignite right, No,
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  Speaker 1: Ignite is another city. Another city is the Skyhawks. The
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  Speaker 1: Skyhawks right, that's the Atlanta team right right, the Skyhawks.
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  Speaker 1: Okay cool? Just try and get everything together with over
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  Speaker 1: fifty flavors. You know, a more name the basket, Robbins
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  Speaker 1: a pop, the basket, Robbins a pop. Hey man, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: they gave me a card. It is how they did already. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I got more shoes and you got you got design
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  Speaker 1: of socks. No no, no, no, no no no, ain't
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  Speaker 1: gonna please work with the money Making Conversations Masterclass, Greg Bowman,
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  Speaker 1: who I do know. And then Richard rich Ryan right right, Richmond,
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  Speaker 1: who I finally know, the money Making Conversations master Class,
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  Speaker 1: the Popcorn Remixed Kings. That's my that's my new uncle.
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  Speaker 1: For the record, this is my new uncle right here.
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  Speaker 1: You know this. You know we we already here for
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  Speaker 1: Romney three times. I don't talk to him, and I
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  Speaker 1: talked to my own father and I just know I'm
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  Speaker 1: fifteen minutes. Hey, But I appreciate that because it's about
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  Speaker 1: a confidence zone. It is. First of all, I'm just
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  Speaker 1: telling you something. I'm talking to get their voices together
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  Speaker 1: because you know, Greg, and then I'm talking. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: say their names before they talk a lot of times,
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  Speaker 1: so you reference with that for those nuggets they're gonna
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  Speaker 1: drop on you on this call. It's coming from when
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  Speaker 1: I start with you, Ryan, Okay, you have a currently
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  Speaker 1: have a business in the Atlanta market. Correct, Correct, I
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  Speaker 1: do have a business, another business called Extreme Paintball. Conyer's
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  Speaker 1: on by to myself and two other gentlemen. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: also an analyst or Coca Cola. That's my job, you know,
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  Speaker 1: my nine to five. You're an analyst? What do you
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  Speaker 1: mean for Coca Cola logistics analysts. I do a lot
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  Speaker 1: of the transportation for Coca Cola on the West Coast
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  Speaker 1: in California, shipping and delivery of the products that they
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  Speaker 1: that they give to all the stores and so forth.
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  Speaker 1: So that's my job. I've been there ten years working
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  Speaker 1: for Coca Cola as well. Okay, cool, Greg, Yes, sir,
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  Speaker 1: tell us a little background.
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  Speaker 2: On you, background on me, Greg Bauman. I'm twenty five
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  Speaker 2: year music veteran, you know, walked away about two and
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  Speaker 2: a half years ago. Just wasn't really interested or feeling
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  Speaker 2: the content on the direction in which the music industry
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  Speaker 2: was going.
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  Speaker 1: So what is the I'm just what is the direction?
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  Speaker 1: Because when I was because I tied to music two thousand,
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  Speaker 1: Steve Harvey and I we was on the morning Drive
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  Speaker 1: in La then syndicated nationally, which Steve Harry Morning Show.
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  Speaker 1: Record labels had a voice in the industry.
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  Speaker 2: Now social media, social media runs it and it's it's
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  Speaker 2: so independent. It's like, you know, I come up from
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  Speaker 2: the era when lyrics matter, you know what I mean,
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  Speaker 2: like when songs have substance, Like you think about it.
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  Speaker 2: Can you Stand the Rain? Is what thirty eight years old? Now, guys,
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  Speaker 2: that's a popcorn remix?
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  Speaker 1: I got the record remix Popcorn Love.
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  Speaker 2: Guys are still touring off that one album basically, So
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  Speaker 2: it's like, right, I'm just the content.
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  Speaker 1: You you you you bro, you bro? Can you stand
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  Speaker 1: the ring?
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  Speaker 3: Can you? Boy?
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  Speaker 1: You almost turned these conversation somebody else because I.
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  Speaker 4: Want to hit the moves.
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  Speaker 1: I got two records of the same Any Heartbreak, I
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  Speaker 1: got two albums, right you know that? That that that's
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  Speaker 1: the beauty. How did y'all come up? Ryan and Greg?
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  Speaker 1: Popcorn remix? How did you come up with that name?
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  Speaker 1: The names in that story? Okay, the name actually my
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  Speaker 1: wife came up. My wife came up with the with
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  Speaker 1: the name. That's my my bugul wife. She's actually our
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  Speaker 1: third partner. She's her name is Kid the shear. Richmond
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  Speaker 1: she's an educator. She loves, loves, loves the kids. She's
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  Speaker 1: actually the youngest principal Evan Rockdale County started starting this
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  Speaker 1: starting this month, Yeah, started graduations. So yeah, she actually
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  Speaker 1: came up with the name after the whole concept and
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  Speaker 1: the idea after I brought the idea and the concept
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  Speaker 1: to her. Now I got to go back to the story.
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  Speaker 1: Everything starts with an idea concept, you know, quality, quality control.
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  Speaker 1: You brought some of the popcorn samples to the staff.
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  Speaker 1: They you know, it was like, you know, it was
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  Speaker 1: that that that oliver it more more put their hands
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  Speaker 1: out and cup for match.
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  Speaker 4: For it did it? Did boom? Popcorn filled up?
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  Speaker 1: Refiel, popcorn ref refiel before we get started. How did
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  Speaker 1: you come up with the idea? And then you took
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  Speaker 1: it to Greg Popcorn remix before popcorn remixed, just the
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  Speaker 1: whole idea long, it's only sixteen months old. Sixteen months old.
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  Speaker 1: May twenty first, twenty twenty two is when we opened
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  Speaker 1: our doors for a shop and Kanye's Kanye's Georgia. My
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  Speaker 1: grandfather passed away, beautiful, wonderful man. And I've never seen upset,
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  Speaker 1: never saw Raise's voice worked as a trash man all
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  Speaker 1: his life. But he's a wonderful, wonderful man, wonderful father
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  Speaker 1: to my mother and her sisters and her brothers. But
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  Speaker 1: I went to his funeral in Peoria, Illinois, last January.
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  Speaker 1: Richer Pride Country, Richard Pride Country called my mom out
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  Speaker 1: of name when when she when she was sixteen on
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  Speaker 1: we Enam Street. But uh, and it was snowing. And
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  Speaker 1: I've been in Georgia twenty three years, so I don't
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  Speaker 1: drive in snow anymore. I don't do snow. And I
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  Speaker 1: got snowed into a popcorn shop. You got snowed into
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  Speaker 1: a popcorn shop. So it was snow was so bad
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  Speaker 1: that you just ran in, just hunking there. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if it was so bad, but I wasn't driving
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  Speaker 1: in it, you know, I wasn't going nowhere, not in
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  Speaker 1: a rental car, nothing my name, But yes, but it
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  Speaker 1: was snowing enough for me to say, I need to
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  Speaker 1: sit down for a couple hours in the popcorn in
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  Speaker 1: a popcorn shop. And it's on by two wonderful people,
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  Speaker 1: and I was just speaking with them and just looking around,
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  Speaker 1: asking a lot of questions, and a light turned on
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  Speaker 1: and I was like, man, you know, I think I
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  Speaker 1: can do this and brought the idea back to Atlanta
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  Speaker 1: told my wife, I got a crazy idea here and
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  Speaker 1: I need you to follow me. And she said, baby,
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  Speaker 1: I got your back. And okay, now there's always recipes.
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  Speaker 1: Like I said, you know, everybody who followed me on
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  Speaker 1: social media, no, I cook. I'm a foodie, and I
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  Speaker 1: made you my version of the crack of Jack's Popcorn.
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  Speaker 1: Nowhere near what y'all doing, not even close. And this
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  Speaker 1: mine is good, But what y'all doing is something else.
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  Speaker 1: How did y'all, you know, not giving away secrets? How
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  Speaker 1: did y'all sat down and come up with a recipe
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  Speaker 1: or formula for the brand that you're distributed in this
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  Speaker 1: right now? Everybody that's swing demand that popcorn remix. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: but first off, let me see so you know how
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  Speaker 1: to fry them cube steak and leave a little crumbs
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  Speaker 1: in the skillet and add a little water and the
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  Speaker 1: onions and get that for and get that gravy. You
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  Speaker 1: know how to do that?
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: I just want to make sure you said it was
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  Speaker 1: a foody, Okay. I just wanted to make sure we
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  Speaker 1: went just on steak and shrimp. And I'm living on
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  Speaker 1: these guys. Okay, okay, okay, I just want to make
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  Speaker 1: sure that first. But with the people that I met,
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  Speaker 1: like I said, they were very very supportive. We talked,
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  Speaker 1: you know, about a strategy from me to kind of
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  Speaker 1: do that here. Yeah, so you know, we partner, so
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  Speaker 1: to speak. And but so they are doing that up
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  Speaker 1: and Pero. They have popcorn, right, but they're not the remix.
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  Speaker 1: Oh so, it's a lot of popcorn in the world.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the G word, you know, the the G
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  Speaker 1: the G the G word that everybody knows about. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it's in the airports and and so forth. It's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of popcorn. But you know, we've it's not the remix.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we've you know, we have Jambalaya. We have
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  Speaker 1: Jerk Chicken King, Crableggs, high Wing and lemon Pepper. That's
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  Speaker 1: Greg background. Yeah, he's doing the sweet, he's doing the specialties.
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  Speaker 1: I was doing the sweet and savoris. But we're moving
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  Speaker 1: fast here. Let's go back to because you went to
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  Speaker 1: your wife, and you know, whenever you come with a
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  Speaker 1: good idea, all bad idea, there are dowters. Of course, popcorn,
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  Speaker 1: get popcorn, popcorn. You're gonna make a living selling popcorn.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know what it is. It's like you've been
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  Speaker 2: stuck in trafficking here in Atlanta and you just look.
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  Speaker 1: You don't know, that's kind of redoubted stuck in trafficking.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody stuck.
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  Speaker 4: You look to your left and you see the HOV
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  Speaker 4: Lanes just zooming.
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  Speaker 1: Right right with Lambart. And that's why when I came
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  Speaker 1: to Gred because once again it's you have a lot
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  Speaker 1: of friends, but you never know who's going to raise
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  Speaker 1: support you. I know, I know you, you're aware of this,
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  Speaker 1: and you've got people who act like they're there for you,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and then but they don't really support you.
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  Speaker 1: So Greg came, I talked, I talked to him about it,
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  Speaker 1: and he was full steam. He was like, what can
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  Speaker 1: I do? And now it's one thing for you to
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  Speaker 1: ask what can I do? But it's another thing for
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  Speaker 1: you to put endless hours time bring resources to Anthony
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  Speaker 1: Hamilton's the case. The Big Daddy came all this to
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  Speaker 1: make this brand what it really is, which is the remix.
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  Speaker 1: And that's why we say that, Okay, that's my boy,
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  Speaker 1: Anthony Hamilton. So what involvement did they have with the
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  Speaker 1: popcorn Remix? Orleans banana pudding. That's Charlene's charing in here.
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  Speaker 1: I won't leave right now, can't you stand the ring
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  Speaker 1: and Charlee Charlee, which by the way is my favorite
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  Speaker 1: Anthony Hamilton song, by the way. Yeah, but he allowed
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  Speaker 1: us I have we have video on our phone. He's
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  Speaker 1: we met him several times and he's allowed us to
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  Speaker 1: use his name for the betterment of the business, just
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  Speaker 1: for just believing in us. You got a good product,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, I'll let you call it back. And
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  Speaker 1: that's all we could ask for from anybody. It's just
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  Speaker 1: give us a chance, and within that it's become one
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  Speaker 1: of our best sellers. And you know those other Big
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  Speaker 1: Daddy came he has the Karma Calma nuts and chocolatecolate.
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  Speaker 1: To me, y'all, funny, I say funny to me because
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  Speaker 1: y'a are so comfortable talking about what is happening in
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  Speaker 1: your life. There's no stress tattoo, there's no fear, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and a lot of people who who I won't use
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  Speaker 1: the word stumble because, like I said, I could say
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  Speaker 1: that because you kind of like the snowstorms stumbled you
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  Speaker 1: into PORI into you know what I'm saying. And then
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  Speaker 1: but you but you were brand aware to understand this
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  Speaker 1: is something that you could bring down to Atlanta, which
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  Speaker 1: is gourmet. So what exactly I say gourmet popcorn? What
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  Speaker 1: exactly is that? Ryan? Gourmet popcorn is Like you said,
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  Speaker 1: when first thing you come to Atlanta, you think about
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  Speaker 1: you know, everybody, and everybody had their own business of Atlanta,
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  Speaker 1: whether it be Magic City, whether it be the Hawks,
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  Speaker 1: the Falcons, and it was like, we're gonna make a
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  Speaker 1: hot wing of lemon pepper popcorn. And that's what we did.
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  Speaker 1: That was the first thing. Hot wing and limon pepper.
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  Speaker 1: That's what y'all did. That was the first crazy that
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  Speaker 1: in the crab legs, the crazy flavor that we that
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  Speaker 1: we came about. Your first two flavors were well, you
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  Speaker 1: know what I mean. We had the carameld and the
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  Speaker 1: cheese and stuff like that. But that's but we had
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  Speaker 1: to remix it.
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  Speaker 4: We start living on the edge right right right everybody.
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  Speaker 1: You know, even when you make the electric car, everybody
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  Speaker 1: got the car and cars like they all got engines,
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  Speaker 1: so that's the car. They all got a stay a
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  Speaker 1: whel that's the cheese. And we went and said we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna do some other things. Some collar greens and corn
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  Speaker 1: bread and some chipling popcorns, and we have those. You know.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I love about people who are gifted,
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  Speaker 1: And y'all are gifted and gift of gifted and personality
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  Speaker 1: gifted and speech, gifted in charisma. Yes, you got a
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  Speaker 1: great product, but y'all have a likability. Man, it's off
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  Speaker 1: to change, brother. I mean, like, who wouldn't want to
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  Speaker 1: want to say, hey, how can I help point you
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  Speaker 1: in the right direction? How can I not help you
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  Speaker 1: guys be successful? That that's a blessing man. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: and like I said, he knows from the music side.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you've been an entrepreneur. You have a wife
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  Speaker 1: who's in the educational field, you know, and you've been
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  Speaker 1: raised by people who have mentored you to be who
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  Speaker 1: you are today. Absolutely, Now you have these opportunities not
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  Speaker 1: only with your popcorn, but people can get engaged through
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  Speaker 1: fundraising activities. Correct. Correct, let's talk about the other. Great segue.
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  Speaker 1: Great talk to us.
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  Speaker 4: Well with a fundraising Oh hold up, we're about to
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  Speaker 4: go to a break.
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  Speaker 1: Should we go to a break? I tell you we
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  Speaker 1: go to the break because I don't want to mess
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  Speaker 1: that up. If you want to talk to the Popcorn
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  Speaker 1: Remix Kings. I sing to you if you're a lady,
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  Speaker 1: not if your lady.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, come on, you've seen me?
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  Speaker 5: Brother?
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  Speaker 1: Come on, can't you stand the right?
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  Speaker 4: That's my song?
• 13:26
  Speaker 1: Now, that's my song. We actually if we had a
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  Speaker 1: camera and there, they're gonna do this step. This is
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  Speaker 1: my boys here, Popcorn Remix Kings. It's about following your dream.
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  Speaker 1: Is about being an entrepreneur. It's about taking the idea,
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  Speaker 1: getting people around you, believe in your idea, and believing
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  Speaker 1: in yourself. This is what this interview is about. You
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  Speaker 1: know you can beat them, but you also need to
• 13:48
  Speaker 1: have a support group to beat them as well. The
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  Speaker 1: Popcorn Kings. Greg and Ryan be right back. Want Making
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  Speaker 3: Now let's return to Money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rashaan McDonald.
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  Speaker 1: Hi. This is Rashon mcdonaland welcome back to Money Making
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  Speaker 1: Conversation Masterclass. As I stated earlier, I have the owners
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  Speaker 1: of Popcorn Remix is popcorn remix dot com, Greg Bowman
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  Speaker 1: and Ryan Richmond. I've had a long term relationship with Greg.
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  Speaker 1: This is the first time I officially have met Ryan.
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  Speaker 1: And then there's charismatic personality he's been singing on the air.
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  Speaker 1: She's Charlene shy, I can't stand the rain. I'm shy.
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  Speaker 1: Say you shy?
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  Speaker 4: You shot?
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  Speaker 6: Oh?
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  Speaker 4: Really?
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  Speaker 1: Really?
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  Speaker 4: What the shot?
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  Speaker 3: Feller?
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  Speaker 1: Let me go over and talk to Grig talk about
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  Speaker 1: the fundraisers and foundations and how you guys really engage
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  Speaker 1: yourselves in the community and give other people the opportunity
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  Speaker 1: for uplift.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Well, one of the things that we do is
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  Speaker 2: we do have a fund with the fundraiser program where
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  Speaker 2: we give fifty percent of all proceeds back to the foundation,
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  Speaker 2: which is which is great. It helps out you know,
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  Speaker 2: like the sports teams with uniforms. It also helps the
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  Speaker 2: parents so that they don't have to spend as much
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  Speaker 2: money for these particular programs.
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  Speaker 4: So, you know, fundraising, we've adopted how many.
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  Speaker 1: High schools too, Yeah, too high schools that we've adopted
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  Speaker 1: Federick Dellas in the ninth grade Academy over there. And
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  Speaker 1: a fundraiser can be you know, for you to buy
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  Speaker 1: some gators. If you want to do a fund raiser,
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  Speaker 1: go buy some gators. You can do a fundraiser too,
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  Speaker 1: as long as you just might have bout a popcorn.
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  Speaker 1: But honestly, we really like getting in for the like
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  Speaker 1: the youth football teams that's in the in the inner city,
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  Speaker 1: because those are the ones that always you see them
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  Speaker 1: on the corners, you know, out there dancing and stuff
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  Speaker 1: like that. Let's not do that. Let's against people buy
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  Speaker 1: some popcorn back, Let's give right right.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 1: The interesting thing about it is that you know, that's
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  Speaker 1: what it was a number of reason I brought them
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  Speaker 1: on the show. One was the fundraising and giving back,
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: which I think is important and because we just celebrate
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  Speaker 1: your success, but how do you How does that benefit
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  Speaker 1: other than you and your family? And this is the
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  Speaker 1: way you're doing that and benefit And that's one of
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  Speaker 1: the and I commend you guys because because what y'all
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: are there be their business sixty month it's only your
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: website right now, that's something you see a Chick fil Ay,
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  Speaker 1: that's something you see at.
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  Speaker 4: Uh that don't that place? What is the name of
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  Speaker 4: Christy Green? Christy Green? You know they do a lot
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  Speaker 4: of stuff with the fund raiser type things.
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  Speaker 1: And so to say that you guys just sixteen months
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  Speaker 1: in the business have the same implement this this two
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  Speaker 1: what's that say about you? First reference to you, Ryan,
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  Speaker 1: and it was to say about you Grig would you Ryan?
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  Speaker 1: We did that from day one, honestly because we wanted
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  Speaker 1: to give back. I wasn't raised with a silver spoon
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  Speaker 1: raising PEERI Illinois single mother food stamps used to go
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  Speaker 1: to the food bank, standing the line, I don't eat
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  Speaker 1: hot dogs right now and salmon croquettes because that's what
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  Speaker 1: they gave us for free back when I was young.
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  Speaker 1: But so you know, we come back from very humble,
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  Speaker 1: very humble beginnings. But with this business. That was a
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  Speaker 1: goal when we first started, was to be able to
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  Speaker 1: give back. My first week in business, somebody showed me
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  Speaker 1: a cheerleader cheerleading squad and MacDonough that sold fifty six
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  Speaker 1: thousand dollars in popcorn and they made in four days.
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  Speaker 1: And they made twenty six thousand for their organization in
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  Speaker 1: four days. In four days. That's how big. If you
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  Speaker 1: really got the if you really got the team or
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  Speaker 1: the group around you a push, and you do a push,
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  Speaker 1: you can make money. And guess what, there's no upfront costs.
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  Speaker 1: So what as you said, one bag, three bags, five
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  Speaker 1: hundred bags, you still make something and you didn't have
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  Speaker 1: to invest anything. So what's better than what's better than free? Right? Right?
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  Speaker 3: This?
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  Speaker 1: This is this is the plap. This is the approach
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  Speaker 1: that you have with your business model for people who
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  Speaker 1: want to raise funds for the organization, for organization, for
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  Speaker 1: your business for anything. Nobody want to go on vacation.
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  Speaker 1: Actually have somebody wanted to go on vacation.
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  Speaker 2: So they said, instead of me just going out begging
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  Speaker 2: and asking my family members to send me to Spain,
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  Speaker 2: let me just do a fundraiser where they can walk
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  Speaker 2: away with.
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  Speaker 1: Something and they get something. Wow. You know, we people
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  Speaker 1: go to church in the pastor be like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: everybody put twenty dollars, now put twenty dollars. But you're
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: gonna get a back a popcorn with it. You're gona
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  Speaker 1: get something. You're gonna get something.
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  Speaker 4: You know, you're gonna be able to see you You're
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: gonna see something.
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  Speaker 1: I love these guys.
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  Speaker 4: I'm telling something.
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  Speaker 6: Man.
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  Speaker 1: Y'all thinking so out of the box is just blowing
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  Speaker 1: it away. Let's get back to this popcorn because I
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: know we have like seven minutes level. They tell me
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: when I you know, they stopped the music, they stopped
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: the jazz. Just let me talk. There's no music played
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  Speaker 1: because the information I give to the community is important.
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  Speaker 1: Now let's talk about the different flavors you have, man,
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  Speaker 1: Can we can we break that down? We talked about
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: the lemon, We talked about the craft, but then you
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: then I said fifty and you looked at me like
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: we shout that was not being salted. You got the
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  Speaker 1: garlic parmesan with the fresh as the fresh egged garlic man.
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  Speaker 1: We got that watermelon, the hot wing and lemon pepper
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  Speaker 1: with the lemon pepper sprinkles, cookies and creag We got
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  Speaker 1: the jerk chicken, the birthday cake, the jumble lion man,
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  Speaker 1: the sin City mixed. I saw the lady dancing on TikTok.
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  Speaker 1: But now a pudding. No, no, no, no, let me
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  Speaker 1: correct you. Okay, she bought one of each. She bought
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  Speaker 1: one of eaven walked away with two bags. She bought
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  Speaker 1: at a concert. She was looking greedy at a console
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: at a concert. She walked away. Now took her wig.
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  Speaker 2: Off, look wig off out, pulled it out and put
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: it in, put it in a shirt.
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  Speaker 1: But honestly, yes, I know, we don't have a lot
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  Speaker 1: of time, but we make what people what people want
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  Speaker 1: to eat.
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  Speaker 4: She keep talking, Hold on, you keep.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: Talking your staff on the other side of my friends,
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  Speaker 1: my producers, if they laughing so hard, they've never heard
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: nothing like that, if they want to see them. When
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: the woman take off her hair, two things you don't
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  Speaker 1: do with a woman, you know, asking her wait, and
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  Speaker 1: you don't mess with her hair missing.
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  Speaker 4: So the popcorn was so good.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: She came up out that hair, she came up that
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: hat and put it in the bra like she had
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  Speaker 1: it looked like she had a hairy chest.
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  Speaker 4: Put it.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: She put it in the bra. But we will try
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: to make it. We gonna whether it be a pork
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: steak and Graven Flavor were working on. We just did
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: this week loaded baked potato. We did everything bagel. We're
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: trying to do German chocolate cake, soonever pie. We're trying
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: to do all German chocate cake. Come to Thanksgiving, look,
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: come to come to things. The pictures. That's your hair.
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  Speaker 1: This lady right here picture well she came up out
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  Speaker 1: her hair and some things giving. It's gonna be a
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: chilling flavor, chilling, chilling, hog malls, popcorn, collar, greens and
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: corn bread. I love chilling. So you the kitchen on
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  Speaker 1: that right, We are the we are the remix is
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  Speaker 1: Germany Chocolate Cake.
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  Speaker 4: And that's my favorite cake I need make.
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  Speaker 1: We are the Remix at eighteen twenty Highway twenty southeast
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  Speaker 1: and Kanya's Georgia three Zail zero one three and a
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  Speaker 1: Dollar Tree Plaza. We are at Popcorn Remix dot Com, Instagram,
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  Speaker 1: pop Quorn Remix, Kanye's and.
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  Speaker 2: I just want them to go see the testimonies for themselves.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we've had people shout, We've had people faint,
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  Speaker 2: We've had people cry, We've had people.
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  Speaker 1: Maxwell and Maxwell and we're fighting. Maxwell the singer was
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: fighting over.
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  Speaker 4: Over over that red velvet chee.
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  Speaker 2: Maxwell Maxwell cool Maxwell something something yeah, something well, I
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  Speaker 2: was about to say, give it to them.
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  Speaker 4: Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on.
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  Speaker 1: Get us out there, come on, come on, come on,
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  Speaker 1: come on, live time, work it all out.
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  Speaker 5: This time.
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to go light scanning in my voice. I'm
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: dust y'all can't see me. I'm darn scared. I'm dun skinned.
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  Speaker 1: I was trying to go light skinning in my voice.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: I can't hit the high you know. But no long,
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  Speaker 1: but thank you. But as as he said, though, our personalities,
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  Speaker 1: who we are as a person, that's why we stepped
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: in rooms and they gave us contracts like the gy
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: c C he was a contract on the spot, didn't
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  Speaker 1: even didn't wait five minutes, just because they believed in us,
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  Speaker 1: because of who we are. And we are eternally grateful
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  Speaker 1: to anybody that goes buys popcorn, anybody that come by
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  Speaker 1: and just taste the popcorn because they can't get it online.
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  Speaker 1: We share it to the world popcorn remix dot com.
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  Speaker 1: Now let me ask you this, what is the future.
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  Speaker 1: You know, because y'all have big personality, y'all have a
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: product that people are buying. You shocked at the growth
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: You have a store. Correct, how big is the store?
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  Speaker 1: The store by fourteen hundred square fifteen hundred square feet.
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  Speaker 1: And they can walk in and buy all the flavors,
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: walk in bottom for meat to cook meat, meat, Lori.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: They can meet Uncle Rick, dance with us. Uncle Rick,
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  Speaker 1: he got a chef coat on he back there playing
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  Speaker 1: the oldies, seventies, eighties, you know, every single day you
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: come in the store. So it's always music playing. It's
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  Speaker 1: it's a great experience.
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  Speaker 2: Like the whole thing is, it's an experience and the
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  Speaker 2: future is what the future is retail.
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  Speaker 4: So get ready, we're on our way.
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  Speaker 1: So you're talking about you talking about going into a
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: grocery store.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: You target, right, that's all. That's all the gas station. Well,
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: mister McDonald takers, that's what we go.
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  Speaker 1: I'll take care a lot of places, bro. You know,
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  Speaker 1: my whole thing is this with you two guys. First
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  Speaker 1: of all, I just love this conversation that we're having.
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  Speaker 1: We gauged in because it's providing information to the general public.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of dreamers out there. There's a lot
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: of dreamers.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: Well, you know what I say to the dreamers, and
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: I said all the time, but dreams don't expire. You know,
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  Speaker 2: Quincy Jones produced thriller at age fifty. Wow, what happens
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: if he stopped at forty eight forty nine? Now, So
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: no matter how old you are, man, just keep going.
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  Speaker 2: Dreams don't expire.
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  Speaker 1: And so if people are interested in the fundraising opportunity,
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: they go to your website popcorn remix dot com. There's
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: a fundraising tap that's fundraising info. And as I stayd
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: it's no upfront costs. You don't have to do anything.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: All you gotta do is say hey, somebody, hey, buy
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: this popcorn. Then they gonna know it and it'll put
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: you and put you and put and put your colde in.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: But you can call the number six seven eight eight
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  Speaker 1: zero six five eight five five, or you can just
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  Speaker 1: call up hear and speak to my man ra Sean.
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  Speaker 1: No no no, no, no no, keep the number.
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  Speaker 4: Keep number six.
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  Speaker 1: They're gonna be playing jazz. Six seven eight eight zero
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  Speaker 1: six five eight five five is the number to the store.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: We don't miss any calls. And that's how we do
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: every That's how we do everything. And the hours of
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: the store again from eleven to seven Tuesday through Saturday.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: We take off Sunday for the Lord's Day. We take
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: off Monday for our day. So so five days a week,
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: you're old. Five days a week. Hey brother, look at it,
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Chip for Laken?
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  Speaker 4: Do it?
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: Why can't? You'll? Absolutely, absolutely, because that means you have
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: a product that people are going now as you as
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: you as you come in there, and you capture these
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: special moments. Just quick, Ryan, what what has surprised you
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: the most about your success with this popcorn so far?
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: The response and honestly, the thing that's captured me the
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: most is the people who are in positions to help,
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: how much they have, how people have kept their word right,
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: you know, I guess I love that. Give me a
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: call and they actually answered wing we called.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 1: There's one thing I'll tell my children. People don't have
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: to do nice things, and when they do, it don't
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: have to be for you. So the people that actually
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: reached out and actually been true to their word and
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: the public, the honest responses and so forth, that's been
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: mind blowing to me.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: What about you, It's gonna be the fan reaction, Like
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: I love it. You know, I'm a people person. So on,
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: Like like we said, we batt in a thousand We've
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: never had a customer, and I probably stand on the
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: fact of saying, we've never had a customer to say
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: I just don't like anything. They may prefer one flavor
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: over another, but they've never said there's nothing here that
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: you have to offer that I just that's right.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: You're here right there, the Kings of Popcorn Remix. If
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: I'm raised an opportunity to go to Popcornremix dot com,
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: go there to order online. That's what you say as well. Again,
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: I want to thank everybody for listening to This is
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: a fun interview. By the way, I enjoyed myself. All
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: my interviews I enjoyed, but you have me laughing, and
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: you're so entertaining. Were you step away from them shot clubs?
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: I'm shy, but you are shy. Let's stick with that title. Okay.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: Thank y'all for listening to Money Making Conversations master Class,
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: and we will see y'all. Hear from y'all next week.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: Bye bye.
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: Let me tell you about the host of Money Making Conversations,
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: Rushan McDonald. Rushan's a two time Emmy Award winner, three
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: time n doubleacp Immage Award winner, sitcom writer, stand up comic,
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: and former IBM executive. Thank you for joining us for
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: this edition of Money Making Conversations Masterclass. Money Making Conversations
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