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Speaker 1: of two point seven Kiss FM. Good morning. What what what? What? What? What? What?

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Speaker 1: That song so much? Everything about it is I just

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Speaker 1: it slows me down. And if that slow me down,

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Speaker 1: but yeah, it's like my old care bears. Yeah it

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Speaker 1: makes you think. Yeah, all right. I want to bring

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Speaker 1: in Caesar and Mitchell McDowell mcdowal's Soul Food in Barbecue

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Speaker 1: restaurant in Long Beach. I don't know if you've seen

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Speaker 1: it before, but the location if you're in Long Beach,

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Speaker 1: it's Ninth Street and Long Beach Boulevard there in Long Beach. Um.

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Speaker 1: So they're doing something really cool. They're co owners brothers,

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Speaker 1: and they first opened during the height of the pandemic.

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Speaker 1: They were forced to shut down. Remember we were on

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Speaker 1: the air talking about everything that was closed. Still. I

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Speaker 1: just remember like every day, business owners calling us saying

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Speaker 1: in the next week. And we're trying to promote, you know,

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Speaker 1: to come to that place, to keep them open, to

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Speaker 1: keep them alive. And so mcdowells was forced to shut down.

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Speaker 1: Then they reopened, and when they reopened they decided to

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Speaker 1: do something a little bit more purpose and that's why

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Speaker 1: I wanted to talk about highlight. Mcdowalls takes pride in

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Speaker 1: participating in the Pacific Gateway mentoring programs for at risk

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Speaker 1: youths between fourteen and eighteen. Hello, Caesar and Mitchell. Nice

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Speaker 1: to meet you guys. Thanks for coming on. Hey, nice,

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Speaker 1: I'm very excited to talk to you guys because I'm

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Speaker 1: a foodie and I'm tasting some of the food through

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Speaker 1: the images I'm looking at on Instagram. It's better in person,

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Speaker 1: that's the problem. But I wanted to sort of highlight

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Speaker 1: when you guys reopened out of the pandemic and I

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Speaker 1: was talking about this here, you did it with a

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Speaker 1: greater purpose in mind. Tell us about that, Caesar, Well,

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Speaker 1: what we wanted to do, man, We do a mentoring

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Speaker 1: program with the year long Beach Specific Gayway, and what

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Speaker 1: we wanted to do. We wanted to bring the youth

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Speaker 1: in and mentor them, but not only mentor them. We

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Speaker 1: wanted to be able to give them tools to use

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Speaker 1: to take something from this experience and be able to

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Speaker 1: use it, you know, down the line. Let you know,

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Speaker 1: if they're if they're life is hard, they need a job,

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Speaker 1: They're going to know one thing they did, get a

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Speaker 1: skill set something they can use for the rest of

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Speaker 1: their lives. From mcdalso food and barbecue, and you work,

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Speaker 1: you make money. You know, it's not like going to

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Speaker 1: school and learning. Okay, it's actual life experience. You know.

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Speaker 1: That's the thing I'm just thinking for for youth, many

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Speaker 1: life skills, entrepreneur skills, um how to do it in

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Speaker 1: the world of a working place. They don't teach that

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Speaker 1: in school. That's no classroom. I mean, there's a real

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Speaker 1: void I thought, right and that and that's what we're

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Speaker 1: trying to cover. You know, Mention nine. A lot of

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Speaker 1: people don't know this, but Mention nine lost our father

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Speaker 1: to gun violence when we were kids. And one of

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Speaker 1: the things that you know, our father was murdered at

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Speaker 1: his business being robbed, right and we were left out there. Man.

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Speaker 1: We had to figure it out. We had to figure

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Speaker 1: out what we could do, you know, in order to

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Speaker 1: make a living. So what we did know was everything

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Speaker 1: that he taught us about business as a kid. And

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Speaker 1: so that's what you know, grew with us as we

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Speaker 1: got older and that's what helps make us, you know,

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Speaker 1: do what we do today. And so that's what we

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Speaker 1: do for them. Caesar and Mitch here Mitchell McDowell McDowell's

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Speaker 1: Soul Food and Barbecue restaurant in Long Beach. Now, you

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Speaker 1: guys also have a nonprofit which offers affordable legal help

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Speaker 1: to people. Yeah, we have a nonprofit organization called Unite

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Speaker 1: the People INK and we promote social justice throughout the

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Speaker 1: United States as well as we provide affordable legal services

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Speaker 1: to the underserved community. And we bring the kids in

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Speaker 1: and we do a mentoring program with them there. Also,

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Speaker 1: we have a facial spa called Amber m Aesthetics. It's

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Speaker 1: in downtown Long Beach too, and my girlfriend and I

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Speaker 1: and they we bring in the young women and she

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Speaker 1: shows them everything about running the business there and it's

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Speaker 1: it's a women empowerment thing going on there at Amber

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Speaker 1: am Aesthetics. You guys are creating some great, great community

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Speaker 1: energy in Long Beach. And not to mention that food

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Speaker 1: looks so good. What's the most what's the most commonly

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Speaker 1: or popular thing on the menu. I think it's the

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Speaker 1: Bubba's Fried Chicken. Bubba's Fried Chicken, which that's my brother

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Speaker 1: Mitch's nickname is Bubba's fried chicken is out of this world.

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Speaker 1: People love that. And Caesar's fried catfish. Our fried catfish

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Speaker 1: is famous. It can't be tested here in the state

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Speaker 1: of California. I'm gonna send people your way Ninth Street

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Speaker 1: in Long Beach Boulevard and Long Beach. Thank you for

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Speaker 1: sharing what you're doing. Keep up that great work. It's

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Speaker 1: making a difference, you guys. I appreciate Minia absolutely right.

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Speaker 1: Anybody that comes in from listening to your radio station,

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Speaker 1: from from your show gets a free banana putting all

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Speaker 1: the way from now until Friday. If they mentioned they

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Speaker 1: heard about us on your show. Okay, Bubba, calm down,

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Speaker 1: Caesar and Mitchell here mcdowns. So you heard that mcdowal's

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Speaker 1: Soul Food Barbecue. You get a bunch of free stuff

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Speaker 1: for dessert now through Friday. Some extra sauce too. I

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Speaker 1: don't know chicken as. We appreciate you guys. You guys

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Speaker 1: take care well done. It is so great to have

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Speaker 1: a business that's good, but a business with the purpose

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Speaker 1: in a mission. You know, they're a good time. I go. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: thousand dollars coming next up, pay build and Orange County