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Speaker 1: lot of people question, Okay, why are you gonna do

428
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Speaker 1: it that way? Because sometimes you have to look past

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Speaker 1: people who want to understand your vision and don't see

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Speaker 1: the final results. That's okay, But I had to have

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Speaker 1: a team to create this kind of bring them in

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Speaker 1: what you think and trust them. That makes sense. That

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Speaker 1: makes sense. That makes sense because just because you write

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Speaker 1: to check through me, that you have to be there

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Speaker 1: with making all the final decisions because sometimes I can

436
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Speaker 1: see something different and make your check be better and

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Speaker 1: your value are like greater. Then October nineteen, I was

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Speaker 1: I was sitting in the world. I would have because

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Speaker 1: I got a lot of talents past the mike. And

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Speaker 1: this is what it runs into a lot of people

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Speaker 1: that go, man, you talent, what you're gonna do? I

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Speaker 1: told God this man, I said, God listening, if you

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Speaker 1: allow me to utilize my talents, and I will give

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Speaker 1: you max effort, max effort and all my talents, said

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Speaker 1: I give you max effort. I stopped. You know, I'm

446
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Speaker 1: not a rapper, I'm not an athlete. I stopped trying

447
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Speaker 1: to pay basketball. I stopped trying to act like I

448
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Speaker 1: can say, okay, out writing, producing. You know what I'm saying, branding, marketing.

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Speaker 1: That's what I focused on. I stopped trying to act,

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Speaker 1: and then I walked away from stand up comedy. I said,

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Speaker 1: you know something, this ain't what I do. I focused

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Speaker 1: on what I do. And that's what a lot of

453
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Speaker 1: people make a mistake are They get caught up in

454
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Speaker 1: the dream but not the results. Is that dream of reality.

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Speaker 1: And so in the eighteen ninety I regard you give

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Speaker 1: me mat I'm gonna give you max effort. And he said,

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Speaker 1: look here, you give me max effort. You can accomplish

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Speaker 1: your dreams. And that's through hard work, as through relationships,

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Speaker 1: and through accomplishing thing that you're not supposed to. And

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Speaker 1: that's what you're doing your life today. That's why I

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Speaker 1: love your energy because of the fact that we are

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Speaker 1: different age groups, we're living in different cities, but one

463
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Speaker 1: thing we do share in common faith, hard work and relationships. Yeah, absolutely,

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Speaker 1: relationships to everything. And I want to free somebody right now,

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Speaker 1: because you touched on something that I think we have

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Speaker 1: to kill, debunk and demystify in our culture. And that's

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Speaker 1: this uh, that's this punishment of being talented, and multiple

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Speaker 1: areas with there's a there's a remnant of people. I

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Speaker 1: used to say a generation, but that limits us to

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Speaker 1: age group. I want to say a remnant. There's a

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Speaker 1: remnant or a tribe of people that are rising, who

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Speaker 1: are um, who have an ambidextrous anointing. They're blessed in

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Speaker 1: both hands. They can write and sing or produce and create,

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Speaker 1: you know. And there's a quote that we say that

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Speaker 1: we say wrong. It says to be a jack of

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Speaker 1: all trades is to be a master of none. That's

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Speaker 1: an incomplete statement because the original quote is to be

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Speaker 1: a jack of all trades is to be a master

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Speaker 1: of none, but to be better than that which has one,

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Speaker 1: which means I may be able to do a lot

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Speaker 1: of stuff and I may not master everything, but I'm

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Speaker 1: better at what I do. Think the people who think

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Speaker 1: they mastered it. And so for you, you said something

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Speaker 1: that was critical. And I was talking to somebody yesterday

485
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Speaker 1: and there was like, man, seeing you do all this stuff,

486
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Speaker 1: has to be so mind blowing. I said, I want

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Speaker 1: you to succeed. It's a guy who's close to me.

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Speaker 1: I said, I want you to succeed in music the

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Speaker 1: same way I'm exceeded. But at some point you gotta

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Speaker 1: stop and say, God got his hand on this. You

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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. I'd like to to go. They

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Speaker 1: told me, no other artists in the history of gospel

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Speaker 1: music has ever went from New Artists of the Year

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Speaker 1: their first year two Artists of the Year their second year.

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Speaker 1: You can't write that script. That's God. You know. There

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Speaker 1: is no um there. I tell everybody. When you look

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Speaker 1: at Joel those things with fifty thou people pre pandemic

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Speaker 1: in an arena, there is no fifty thousand persons sermon,

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Speaker 1: or you look at Steve Harvey, there is no uh,

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Speaker 1: twenty thousand seat arena joke. At some point, God just

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Speaker 1: blesses it, you know. And I think what we got

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Speaker 1: to stop. As black people, and not just people in general,

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Speaker 1: we tend to we tend to downplay the writer and

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Speaker 1: celebrate the speaker. So a lot of us are falling

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Speaker 1: in love with artists who didn't even write the song.

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Speaker 1: They just sunk it. And don't even realize the artists

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Speaker 1: broke and the person who wrote it living in a

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Speaker 1: mansis of its. Hey, that's me for the past of Mike.

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Speaker 1: You know, like I said, you know you might not

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Speaker 1: recognize me because it recognize the record that we may

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Speaker 1: not recognize you. But when a Negro ship with a

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Speaker 1: shiny ball head, five TV screens, a microphone, and a

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Speaker 1: smart water with a basketball right there, man, I got it,

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Speaker 1: I got it, got it? Okay, Artists of the Year

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Speaker 1: pastor Mike performing in the closing games of the World

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Speaker 1: Games of twenty twenty two all Like, I just say this,

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Speaker 1: those honors were for one when a lot of people

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Speaker 1: feeling sorry for themselves, a lot of people were complained

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Speaker 1: about life. He was accomplishing those tasks in to be

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Speaker 1: ardered in one. And so I say that before we

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Speaker 1: go over to the World Game, conversation is this? It's

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Speaker 1: when is always opta you? Some man? I remember when

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Speaker 1: I was on Sending Hall and I was writing his

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Speaker 1: sitcom and it got canceled and I want one of

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Speaker 1: my best suits into the building. The guy said, man,

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Speaker 1: why are you all dressed up? I said, why shouldn't

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Speaker 1: that be I said, it's not a sad day for me,

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Speaker 1: and so a lot of people take sadness. I remember

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Speaker 1: I did the eulogy for my mom and my dad,

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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And I did that because

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Speaker 1: of the fact I wanted to make sure that the

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Speaker 1: message of how great they were and how important they

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Speaker 1: worked for me and my family was told. I was told.

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Speaker 1: And so when I look at you the World Game

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Speaker 1: two that didn't come about based on something you did

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Speaker 1: last year, that was just like you were saying. Joe

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Speaker 1: Osten used to write. I used to write the uh

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Speaker 1: the sermons for his dad. That's hen't want to preach.

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00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:48,919
Speaker 1: He don't want to preach. He started writing. And when

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Speaker 1: your dad suddenly passed away, he was pushed to the

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Speaker 1: forefront and his ready Steve Harvey, didn't he didn't want

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Speaker 1: to do family few. That wasn't his option because he

543
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Speaker 1: didn't want to be a traffic cop. And then him

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Speaker 1: and made him the greatest star on television in America today. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: look at you, World Games with part of your journey.

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Speaker 1: But guess what when the opportunity to present itself, you

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00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:12,800
Speaker 1: didn't run from us. Tell us about the World Game,

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00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:15,600
Speaker 1: Tell about your role in pastor Mike, and let's keep talking.

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Speaker 1: I'm so excited about the World Games. They come around

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00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:22,400
Speaker 1: every four years after the Summer Games. Man, I'm telling

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Speaker 1: you it is so INCREDI and I want to read

552
00:28:23,840 --> 00:28:25,280
Speaker 1: this to you because I want to make sure I

553
00:28:25,359 --> 00:28:27,119
Speaker 1: get this right. I want you to catch it. There

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00:28:27,119 --> 00:28:30,600
Speaker 1: are six categories of sports competition. Man, I'm telling you

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Speaker 1: what's so incredible about the World Games is all the

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Speaker 1: people that come from across the world. Over thirty six

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Speaker 1: hundred athletes will come will converge on Birmingham, Alabama, from

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Speaker 1: air sports to archery, two billers to gymnastics. This was

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00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:49,240
Speaker 1: so important to me because I have four boys. My

560
00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:52,160
Speaker 1: top three boys played football. They're starting on the football team.

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Speaker 1: My third son, my middle son, Michael, is um is

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Speaker 1: on the spectrum of autism. He has Asperger syndrome. So

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Speaker 1: a lot of times in the African American community where

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00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:06,240
Speaker 1: we speak, sports is either football or basketball, football, basketball, music.

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00:29:06,520 --> 00:29:08,120
Speaker 1: I was able to look at him. We have a

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Speaker 1: pool table downstairs. He's falling in love with pool. I said, Mike.

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Speaker 1: Guess what he said, Well, Dad, you can get an

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Speaker 1: Olympic medal for billards. The World Games is so vital

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Speaker 1: to our coach. I'm telling you, the entire world is

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Speaker 1: coming to Birmingham, Alabama. It's a new generation of sports.

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Speaker 1: We get a chance to witness history, a once in

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Speaker 1: a lifetime event. Look at this. I want to get

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Speaker 1: this right. There will be two hundred plus metal competitions

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Speaker 1: at the World Games in two and many of the

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Speaker 1: events are the sports World Championship. That's critical. Take, for instance,

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Speaker 1: the female team USA Baseball softball team. They're competing now,

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Speaker 1: but they will also be competing at the World Games.

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Speaker 1: It's such an honor into somebody who's dreaming big right now.

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Speaker 1: I never in my life thought I would be a

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Speaker 1: part of the World Games. Here's what's crazy, big bro.

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Speaker 1: If you catch this. They asked me to perform on

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Speaker 1: the clothes and ceremony of the World Games and help

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Speaker 1: with the opening ceremony of the World Games. But before

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Speaker 1: they ever asked me that, they asked me to be

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Speaker 1: an ambassador for the World Games. And I want you

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Speaker 1: to catch this. Not because of the songs, I say,

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00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:15,640
Speaker 1: not because of the billboard chart placements, not because of

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Speaker 1: the Stellar awards, but because I've been spending the last

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Speaker 1: twelve years in my city loving people, and I want

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00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:24,840
Speaker 1: to submit to somebody right now. You are so busy

591
00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:29,760
Speaker 1: trying to blow up that God will oftentimes check your motives.

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Speaker 1: Let me give you this lesson and I'm gonna let

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Speaker 1: you go. Okay, here it is. God has two jobs.

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Speaker 1: He either exalts or he humbles. I'm saying, either God

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00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:43,120
Speaker 1: exalts or he humbles. Make that makes sense, pastor Mike.

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Speaker 1: If you humble yourself, God will exalt you. But if

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00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:50,440
Speaker 1: you exalt yourself, God will humble you. And one thing

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Speaker 1: I love about what you're saying and with all that

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Speaker 1: you've done, and I really feel I've not just gained

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Speaker 1: a friend or a big brother, but I've gained a

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Speaker 1: mentor and an advisor who I can run some stuff

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00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:03,640
Speaker 1: by and say, no, young blood, chill right there, because

603
00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:06,320
Speaker 1: you give me something, and I want all your listeners

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00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:09,400
Speaker 1: to catch us. These are money making decisions. You give

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00:31:09,480 --> 00:31:12,760
Speaker 1: me something I can't pay for with your speed, if

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00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:15,800
Speaker 1: you're able to give me advice about everything you learned

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00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:19,040
Speaker 1: in thirty years and thirty minutes, I just gained the

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00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:22,080
Speaker 1: speed of moving at a pace that I normally couldn't move.

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00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:24,880
Speaker 1: That so for me, man, like you said, working with

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Speaker 1: the World Game. That's such an honor. Shout out to

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Speaker 1: our Mayor Randall Wolfan, who was just realistic to the

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Speaker 1: entire board, re elected to the entire board, the entire committee,

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00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:39,800
Speaker 1: who's absolutely phenomenal. Birmingham, Alabama is being put on a

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Speaker 1: national stage and we will not disappoint. From building a

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00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:49,080
Speaker 1: new stadium to upgrading uptown. Downtown is beautiful. We're renovating

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00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:52,120
Speaker 1: all over the place. Go get your ticket because this

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00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:54,960
Speaker 1: is going down at the World Game. We're shutting it down.

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Speaker 1: And man, first of all, Man, I gotta come cause

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Speaker 1: I do dream lands and we gotta do right this guy. Okay,

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00:32:04,520 --> 00:32:06,480
Speaker 1: we're gonna go either way. We're gonna We're gonna just

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Speaker 1: go what we're gonna do. Another one I got, I

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Speaker 1: got another one o uh and and a place called

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Speaker 1: your Mama. Can you go say your money. It's gonna

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00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:22,480
Speaker 1: make you slap your mama faster. Mike, Man, thanks for

625
00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:25,000
Speaker 1: coming on money make conversations. Brother. I appreciate you. Man,

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Speaker 1: we will see each other. You're a blessing brother. And

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00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:31,160
Speaker 1: this this show has allowed me to meet so many

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Speaker 1: new friends man, and so many people that I have

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Speaker 1: started to mentor because I've told everybody, man, I'm not

630
00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:39,480
Speaker 1: gonna leave this world with knowledge that I can share,

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Speaker 1: and I'm not gonna if if you take if you

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00:32:42,360 --> 00:32:44,720
Speaker 1: take my information and make a million dollars with it,

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00:32:44,840 --> 00:32:46,920
Speaker 1: it's your money, it's your dream because I couldn't do it.

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Speaker 1: So that's what the blessing of me being in your

635
00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:52,480
Speaker 1: life is that I'm not here to gain. I'm here

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Speaker 1: to give and understand that cool. Thank you for coming

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Speaker 1: to money Making Conversation. We will be right back with

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Speaker 1: more money making conversation with Rashaan McDonald. If dog people

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Speaker 1: My next kist is Chef Ed McFarlan, and it is

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Speaker 1: the executive chef and owner of EDS Lobster Bar, Locald

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Speaker 1: New York City one of my favorite shities. Y'all just

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Speaker 1: and raised, and there's an upscale fish restaurant that specializes

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Speaker 1: in lobster. Youah mean, lobster loves the lobs a lot.

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Speaker 1: Don't there. Don't go there, try to get no chicken.

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Speaker 1: Lobster lives to lobster. He grew up in an American

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Speaker 1: Italian household in Brooklyn and Stadn Island and got his

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Speaker 1: balls on the menu at Ed's Lobster Bar. To this day,

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Speaker 1: there are no restaurants who focused on making lobster to

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Speaker 1: star of the show where it's a star to show

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Speaker 1: it is lobster bar. Come on that he's a successful

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Speaker 1: lan restaurant entrepreneur or he's also talk about building your dream.

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Speaker 1: Please welcome to mighty making conversation, the ultimate authority on

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Speaker 1: lobster chiff Ed McFarland, how are you doing it? Very good,

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Speaker 1: so happy to be here with you today. This is

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Speaker 1: fantastic and I appreciate your time and wonderful, wonderful accolades

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Speaker 1: up to the image you're just portrayed of me. Well,

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Speaker 1: you know, let's let's talk about because a lot of

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Speaker 1: people get into business. Even even a specialty can be

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Speaker 1: a curse, but also can lead you around the right

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Speaker 1: path of success because you can open a restaurant trying

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Speaker 1: to be good at a lot of things. What made

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Speaker 1: you make the decisions that lobster, which some people may

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Speaker 1: proceed to be expensive out of their price range when

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Speaker 1: they look at the menu, it's not like it's shrimp,

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Speaker 1: it's a lot like it's cod or some catfish. Why

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Speaker 1: did you settle on lobster? You know, it's interesting because

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Speaker 1: when I was working in restaurants, I had an affinity

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Speaker 1: to cook fish. I really enjoyed the delicatenus and I

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Speaker 1: really enjoyed the fact that you didn't have to do

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Speaker 1: a lot to it. The flavor is all about the

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Speaker 1: lobster itself. So for me, it was about one of

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Speaker 1: my mantras, which is always keep it simple. And I

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Speaker 1: like to keep all of my stuff simple and let

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Speaker 1: the ingredients speak for itself. So for me, lobster was

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Speaker 1: just a natural choice. It was a very niche specific item.

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Speaker 1: It is expensive, and it continues to get more expensive

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Speaker 1: as the years go on, and you know, for various reasons.

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Speaker 1: But the one thing I really love about it is

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Speaker 1: nobody was exploring all the different things you could do

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Speaker 1: with it, and it really is an untapped market. You know,

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Speaker 1: other than lobster roles, which you can find everywhere. Now

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Speaker 1: you're not seeing people make true lobster raviolis where it's

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Speaker 1: just lobster in the ravioli. You're not seeing people make

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Speaker 1: lobster meat balls. You don't see lobster nachos everywhere. We

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Speaker 1: do a lobster ramen now where we get unbelievable flavor

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Speaker 1: and the broth from lobster stock and reductions. So I

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Speaker 1: really just wanted to exploit that uh factor that nobody's

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Speaker 1: experimenting with it, because it does end up being an

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Speaker 1: expensive ingredient, especially if you don't get stuff right, and

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Speaker 1: you know, you don't get everything right on the first try.

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Speaker 1: You're really experimenting and doing all different things until you

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Speaker 1: get the dish right. You know, it's not like I

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Speaker 1: threw together the lobster meat ball together in the first try.

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Speaker 1: It was perfect, so and the same thing with the

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Speaker 1: lobster on and so your R and D tends to

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Speaker 1: get a little expensive as as you're working on well,

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Speaker 1: you know, I can always tell you when I when

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Speaker 1: when you eat good food and all lobsters. Not to

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Speaker 1: say that's why I wanted to interview you because of

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Speaker 1: the fact that we have so many you you have

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Speaker 1: lost it on different coasts. You have lost that that

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Speaker 1: that some people say it's tender, have eating lobster in

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Speaker 1: the Hawaii, which they say is a little sweeter. So

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Speaker 1: I'm talking to the authority and and this is really

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Speaker 1: some serious question. I'm asking you because I want to

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Speaker 1: educate my audience. It will just educate myself on how

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Speaker 1: do you why is it different taste for lobs on

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Speaker 1: different parts where you buy it? And also is it

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Speaker 1: is the texture change? Is a change in the type

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Speaker 1: of water that our lobsters raised versus free versus uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, and you know in a in a in

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Speaker 1: a in in in a cultivated environment, is there a

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Speaker 1: difference in the lobster. So there's there's a huge difference

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Speaker 1: in lobster. First, nobody's farm raising lobster. So we'll just

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Speaker 1: throw that out of the equation. It's too expensive to

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Speaker 1: farm race. It's much it's much cheaper, even even at

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Speaker 1: the high prices, for for the lobster to be wild caught.

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Speaker 1: They've done experiments um where they've tried to raise lobsters

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Speaker 1: to a pound and a half. It's just too time

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Speaker 1: consuming and and too much money. Just takes too many years.

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Speaker 1: They do, however, hatch them in Maine and up in

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Speaker 1: the Northeast for the what is in my opinion, the

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Speaker 1: greatest lobster, which is the North American law through what

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Speaker 1: we tend to call main lobster. They do pull the

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Speaker 1: lobsters visibly showing eggs out of the water, bring them

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Speaker 1: to hatcheries. They'll hatch them and distribute them across rocky

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Speaker 1: ocean bottom so they have the best chance of survival.

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Speaker 1: But there is a big difference in the lobster. You know,

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Speaker 1: our lobsters here that we use at eggs and the

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Speaker 1: traditional main lops or that you get on the northeastern

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Speaker 1: Canada as well that we have philopster roles. We're using tail,

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Speaker 1: knuckle and claw, although most lobster roles use knuckle and

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Speaker 1: claw meat exclusively. There is a difference. Our lot our

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Speaker 1: lobster is from colder, sweeter water. When you're using the

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Speaker 1: rock lobsters that you find across South America's South Africa,

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Speaker 1: Australia and far to stuff like that where you know

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Speaker 1: the guys are diving down and pulling up these you

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Speaker 1: beautiful big lobsters because you're just eating the tails. In

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Speaker 1: my opinion, the meat tends to be a little tougher,

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Speaker 1: not that they're not the just you wouldn't use them

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Speaker 1: for a lobster role um. If we're talking specifically lobster

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Speaker 1: is one of the biggest differences you would find in

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Speaker 1: the product that you're getting is whether people are cooking

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Speaker 1: lobsters where we cook and chill all of our own

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Speaker 1: lobster meat in the house, or they're buying the stuff

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Speaker 1: out of the processing plants that comes from the main shedders.

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Speaker 1: And you know, I don't know how in detail you

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Speaker 1: want me to to talk about that. Shedding season is

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Speaker 1: when you kind of if you've ever taken a whole

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Speaker 1: lobster and you can be crushed it with your hands,

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Speaker 1: that's a shedder, and the shedders can be very sweet,

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Speaker 1: but there's also less meat in the shell. But what

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Speaker 1: happens is they'll send those to the processing plants because

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Speaker 1: they don't live a long time out of the water

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Speaker 1: and they can't withstand the shipping um. So what will

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Speaker 1: happen with those is they'll go to processing plants. And

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Speaker 1: that's the traditional stuff you see when you're on the

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Speaker 1: main coast or you're getting a less expensive lobster roll

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Speaker 1: and the texture is kind a weird and stringy. That's

825
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Speaker 1: because the meat has been frozen already. And that's how

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Speaker 1: you kind of know the difference in in the Northeast

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Speaker 1: lobster if you get that beautiful lobster and it's big

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Speaker 1: chunks and you're biting it, kind of like what we

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Speaker 1: do here and some of the other places that I've

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Speaker 1: worked at across New York City before up in my

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Speaker 1: own place, or you go to like the shack type

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Speaker 1: style place and you're taking a lobster roll to go

833
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Speaker 1: and you're noticing meets a little stringy or it's more watery.

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Speaker 1: That's because they're using the frozen lobster meat. And that's

835
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Speaker 1: kind of the more traditional way to make it because

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Speaker 1: it's the less expensive way than having labor where somebody's

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Speaker 1: busting lobster out of the shell all day and that's there,

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Speaker 1: that's their job. Well, the whole thing is the experience.

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Speaker 1: Now that the experience is the restaurant experience. Going in

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Speaker 1: the great and great, We're gonna get to the menu

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Speaker 1: because I'm a foodie. I gotta get to the menus.

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Speaker 1: But when you're talking about the you know, the tortilla

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Speaker 1: chips and the peak of the gayo and the lops

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Speaker 1: of chiese jobs, the cilantro. You know, I gotta get

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Speaker 1: there because nothing like nacho. That's what we're about to

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Speaker 1: get to you in a minute. But but but the experience, man,

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Speaker 1: is where I really get out of a restaurant. I

848
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Speaker 1: don't care what the food is, but if I don't

849
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Speaker 1: get the experience of walking in and feeling great serveys,

850
00:44:10,760 --> 00:44:15,040
Speaker 1: the ambiance. Talk about the ambiance of your locations. I'm

851
00:44:15,080 --> 00:44:18,239
Speaker 1: talking to chef and mcfallen. He owns It's Lobster Bar,

852
00:44:18,320 --> 00:44:20,680
Speaker 1: which is an institution in the New York Marketings now

853
00:44:20,760 --> 00:44:23,520
Speaker 1: has one outside of the city is sag Harbor. But

854
00:44:23,600 --> 00:44:25,880
Speaker 1: let's talk about the experience and why it's so important

855
00:44:26,200 --> 00:44:29,040
Speaker 1: for you to create becoming an authority on lobsters, but

856
00:44:29,160 --> 00:44:32,440
Speaker 1: also to have the experience to be unique to your facility,

857
00:44:32,520 --> 00:44:35,839
Speaker 1: to your restaurants. You know, it all starts at the top,

858
00:44:35,960 --> 00:44:39,320
Speaker 1: and it's important to create an atmosphere that's warm and

859
00:44:39,400 --> 00:44:42,760
Speaker 1: friendly for everybody. And you know, listen, every single restaurant

860
00:44:42,880 --> 00:44:46,960
Speaker 1: is not for everybody. Uh, we specialize in something very specific.

861
00:44:47,040 --> 00:44:49,719
Speaker 1: We're not a diner, and not that there's anything wrong

862
00:44:49,760 --> 00:44:52,120
Speaker 1: with that food, but there's places for everything, and you

863
00:44:52,280 --> 00:44:56,160
Speaker 1: cannot be everything to everybody. So first and foremost, we

864
00:44:56,320 --> 00:45:01,040
Speaker 1: wanted to create an atmosphere that was nantu Get meets

865
00:45:01,480 --> 00:45:04,799
Speaker 1: New York City meets Maine. So you get a little

866
00:45:04,800 --> 00:45:06,880
Speaker 1: bit of the shacky element, you get a little bit

867
00:45:06,960 --> 00:45:11,520
Speaker 1: of the upscale beach culture, but thrown into a casual,

868
00:45:11,640 --> 00:45:15,600
Speaker 1: fast paced New York atmosphere where you're coming in. We're

869
00:45:15,800 --> 00:45:23,000
Speaker 1: very very bright white looking marble, stainless steel accents, and

870
00:45:23,480 --> 00:45:26,040
Speaker 1: but you want to be swept away to the beach.

871
00:45:26,160 --> 00:45:28,960
Speaker 1: That's the whole purpose of the concept. You're walking off

872
00:45:29,040 --> 00:45:31,200
Speaker 1: of the New York City street, getting out of the

873
00:45:31,320 --> 00:45:34,040
Speaker 1: hustle and bustle, and you want to be somewhere where

874
00:45:34,080 --> 00:45:36,480
Speaker 1: you're welcomed in a friendly atmosphere. And you know that

875
00:45:36,560 --> 00:45:40,520
Speaker 1: starts from the top. It's all about mindset and creating

876
00:45:40,600 --> 00:45:43,080
Speaker 1: the environment that you want your customers to enjoy. And

877
00:45:43,480 --> 00:45:46,120
Speaker 1: you know, I like an environment where it's friendly, casual.

878
00:45:46,239 --> 00:45:49,040
Speaker 1: You sit down at the bar, you're chatting with the bartender,

879
00:45:49,080 --> 00:45:51,800
Speaker 1: you're chatting with the server, you're chatting with the people

880
00:45:51,840 --> 00:45:55,200
Speaker 1: sitting next to you, and anybody could be walking through

881
00:45:55,280 --> 00:45:57,920
Speaker 1: the door and we get anybody in the restaurant from

882
00:45:58,440 --> 00:46:02,120
Speaker 1: you know, the restaurant owner, chef, casual person of the city,

883
00:46:02,640 --> 00:46:07,200
Speaker 1: two celebrities, and everybody's in this tight little boxing area

884
00:46:07,400 --> 00:46:11,359
Speaker 1: and wonderful. You know, there's nobody's hiding and eds lots

885
00:46:11,400 --> 00:46:13,480
Speaker 1: of our it's all for the open. There's no hidden

886
00:46:13,520 --> 00:46:15,719
Speaker 1: booths or anything like that. And even in the new

887
00:46:15,800 --> 00:46:18,640
Speaker 1: space that's not going to exist either, because we're moving

888
00:46:18,680 --> 00:46:21,279
Speaker 1: down the street from our older location to a new

889
00:46:21,400 --> 00:46:23,799
Speaker 1: owner spot just one block down, and soho at one

890
00:46:24,480 --> 00:46:28,000
Speaker 1: Grand Street. So you know, it's it's all about creating

891
00:46:28,600 --> 00:46:31,640
Speaker 1: an experience. It starts. It's the experience. You're right when

892
00:46:31,680 --> 00:46:34,160
Speaker 1: you say you want to go in somewhere. I my

893
00:46:34,320 --> 00:46:37,719
Speaker 1: staffs do with me forever. The customers come back and

894
00:46:37,800 --> 00:46:40,480
Speaker 1: they come back because it truly is a place where

895
00:46:40,520 --> 00:46:43,719
Speaker 1: the servers do know you. But let's let's talk about

896
00:46:43,760 --> 00:46:46,840
Speaker 1: the beginning here. You know, you know you wanted to

897
00:46:46,880 --> 00:46:49,239
Speaker 1: be a chef because I love your personality, because you're

898
00:46:49,239 --> 00:46:51,000
Speaker 1: a good talker. First of all, you're a good talker.

899
00:46:51,360 --> 00:46:53,759
Speaker 1: You have a great personality, So you could have been

900
00:46:53,760 --> 00:46:56,520
Speaker 1: a lot of things other than the chef. Why did

901
00:46:56,600 --> 00:46:59,800
Speaker 1: you Why did you become a chef? You know, it's interesting,

902
00:47:00,040 --> 00:47:02,520
Speaker 1: And I called my epiphany story. Because I had a

903
00:47:02,600 --> 00:47:05,120
Speaker 1: bunch of jobs. I was working in the pizzeria, I

904
00:47:05,200 --> 00:47:07,960
Speaker 1: had a job working on the docks. At the time.

905
00:47:08,040 --> 00:47:09,759
Speaker 1: I was working at the Board of Elections in New

906
00:47:09,840 --> 00:47:12,400
Speaker 1: York City as a part time job. I had just

907
00:47:12,640 --> 00:47:16,719
Speaker 1: dropped out of college. And I woke up. I woke

908
00:47:16,840 --> 00:47:19,520
Speaker 1: up one morning and I went, I want to cook.

909
00:47:21,360 --> 00:47:23,759
Speaker 1: In the morning, I said, I want to book and

910
00:47:24,280 --> 00:47:26,680
Speaker 1: I went I was. I was driving the Board of

911
00:47:26,719 --> 00:47:29,160
Speaker 1: Elections trup. I was driving people from Staten Island to

912
00:47:29,239 --> 00:47:32,160
Speaker 1: the city and I stopped at the magazine sam while

913
00:47:32,160 --> 00:47:33,400
Speaker 1: I was sitting in the truck because I had to

914
00:47:33,440 --> 00:47:37,000
Speaker 1: sit outside in the van, and I grabbed. I said,

915
00:47:37,040 --> 00:47:38,920
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm gonna grab a cooking magazine. I grabbed.

916
00:47:39,239 --> 00:47:42,279
Speaker 1: I literally grabbed the issue of Gourmet magazine. And you

917
00:47:42,320 --> 00:47:44,640
Speaker 1: know they were we had Gourmet magazine in the house,

918
00:47:44,680 --> 00:47:46,800
Speaker 1: food and wine. I never really picked them up, but

919
00:47:47,160 --> 00:47:49,040
Speaker 1: I said, you know what, I'm going to culinary school.

920
00:47:49,280 --> 00:47:51,200
Speaker 1: I'm gonna cook. I'm gonna start working in the city.

921
00:47:51,239 --> 00:47:54,120
Speaker 1: I grabbed the magazine. I started flipping through it and

922
00:47:54,560 --> 00:47:57,000
Speaker 1: there was an ad in there for the French Culinary Institute.

923
00:47:57,080 --> 00:48:00,200
Speaker 1: I mean, this is this is one true under ridge

924
00:48:00,280 --> 00:48:03,759
Speaker 1: version of what happened. I pulled the magazine boom boom, boom,

925
00:48:03,800 --> 00:48:06,439
Speaker 1: boom boom, and you know, at that time we didn't

926
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Speaker 1: have cell phone yet. So the next day when I

927
00:48:09,640 --> 00:48:12,120
Speaker 1: got out of bed, I picked the magazine up and

928
00:48:12,160 --> 00:48:14,000
Speaker 1: I made the phone call. I made an appointment to

929
00:48:14,040 --> 00:48:16,600
Speaker 1: go and see the school. Within three months, I was

930
00:48:16,640 --> 00:48:20,360
Speaker 1: in school. Within nine months, I had graduated the culinary

931
00:48:20,440 --> 00:48:23,560
Speaker 1: program and I was working appecially in the New York City.

932
00:48:23,920 --> 00:48:26,320
Speaker 1: I mean, that is literally how fast it happened. But

933
00:48:26,840 --> 00:48:29,520
Speaker 1: the one thing I have to say is that without

934
00:48:29,640 --> 00:48:31,719
Speaker 1: knowing it. I mean I've studied mindset now over the

935
00:48:31,760 --> 00:48:36,120
Speaker 1: past couple of years, but without knowing it, my subconscious

936
00:48:37,320 --> 00:48:40,880
Speaker 1: from all the years was working in that passion, pushing

937
00:48:40,920 --> 00:48:44,400
Speaker 1: me in that direction, and I just ten xt myself,

938
00:48:44,520 --> 00:48:47,359
Speaker 1: you know, like all the self help guys everything all

939
00:48:47,400 --> 00:48:50,840
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940
00:48:50,960 --> 00:48:54,040
Speaker 1: went all in. That was it. Boom, I decided it.

941
00:48:54,120 --> 00:48:56,879
Speaker 1: I went all in. Within within a couple of months,

942
00:48:56,920 --> 00:48:59,759
Speaker 1: I was there. Within six months, I was done. Are

943
00:49:00,160 --> 00:49:02,520
Speaker 1: working in New York City. I was working in a

944
00:49:02,600 --> 00:49:05,680
Speaker 1: three star restaurant and I was going to work six

945
00:49:05,800 --> 00:49:07,279
Speaker 1: days a week and if they needed me there more,

946
00:49:07,280 --> 00:49:09,719
Speaker 1: and they said come, I went. That was no question.

947
00:49:10,080 --> 00:49:12,000
Speaker 1: I just kept showing up and showing up and showing

948
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962
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968
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969
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970
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Speaker 1: the AD Council. What chef I I I just caught

975
00:50:46,840 --> 00:50:48,719
Speaker 1: slow everybody down. First of all, when I when I'm

976
00:50:48,719 --> 00:50:51,520
Speaker 1: doing when I'm doing an interview and I'm engaged, just

977
00:50:51,640 --> 00:50:53,279
Speaker 1: there's a lot of chefs come out of the kitchen

978
00:50:53,320 --> 00:50:56,120
Speaker 1: and talk to you. You know the restaurant. Now Yopa

979
00:50:56,160 --> 00:50:58,359
Speaker 1: had come on. I want you to sit down. How

980
00:50:58,480 --> 00:51:01,120
Speaker 1: did do you engage? Are you? I'm saying a stupid

981
00:51:01,239 --> 00:51:03,960
Speaker 1: question because I know you do. The customers have to

982
00:51:04,040 --> 00:51:06,520
Speaker 1: love you, man, You have to have a loyal base.

983
00:51:07,120 --> 00:51:09,200
Speaker 1: When you come out, they probably put it. You probably

984
00:51:09,239 --> 00:51:11,920
Speaker 1: put people smile on people's face because they know you

985
00:51:12,040 --> 00:51:14,439
Speaker 1: love the business, they know your passionate about the food.

986
00:51:14,719 --> 00:51:17,319
Speaker 1: They know you're an expert. And your celebrity too because

987
00:51:17,320 --> 00:51:19,200
Speaker 1: you appear of TV all the time, you judge on

988
00:51:19,280 --> 00:51:22,440
Speaker 1: different shows and things like that. How do your customers

989
00:51:22,480 --> 00:51:25,239
Speaker 1: react to you? Because you are I would like to say,

990
00:51:25,360 --> 00:51:27,920
Speaker 1: a celebrity, but also you are down the earth guy.

991
00:51:28,000 --> 00:51:31,360
Speaker 1: Because this personality, I can see myself walking in the

992
00:51:31,480 --> 00:51:36,360
Speaker 1: pizza pizza re you go. I can see that happening

993
00:51:36,400 --> 00:51:38,800
Speaker 1: to you. It's it has to be a fun atmosphere.

994
00:51:38,960 --> 00:51:41,360
Speaker 1: It's lobster. You know what it has to be, and

995
00:51:41,520 --> 00:51:43,920
Speaker 1: you know what it's all about, smiles on people's faces,

996
00:51:43,960 --> 00:51:47,399
Speaker 1: And it starts with the staff. Smiling smiling staff makes

997
00:51:47,480 --> 00:51:50,120
Speaker 1: customers small. But I talked to customers all the time.

998
00:51:50,160 --> 00:51:52,360
Speaker 1: I love engage and it's hard to get me to

999
00:51:52,400 --> 00:51:54,399
Speaker 1: sit down. I don't say still for that very long.

1000
00:51:54,480 --> 00:51:56,600
Speaker 1: But if you're sitting at the bar, I'm happy to

1001
00:51:56,640 --> 00:51:59,640
Speaker 1: go stand beyond the ball and chat and and have

1002
00:51:59,719 --> 00:52:02,040
Speaker 1: a rank and kind of stuff. Whatever you want. And

1003
00:52:02,280 --> 00:52:04,919
Speaker 1: it's interesting, you know, I've I've always tried to take

1004
00:52:04,960 --> 00:52:07,360
Speaker 1: the ego out of it and um and and it

1005
00:52:07,600 --> 00:52:09,839
Speaker 1: gets hard sometimes. And I'm not a big ego guy.

1006
00:52:09,920 --> 00:52:11,840
Speaker 1: And that's one of the things I've kept out of

1007
00:52:11,880 --> 00:52:14,520
Speaker 1: the restaurant is that you know, like this is an

1008
00:52:14,560 --> 00:52:18,520
Speaker 1: industry full of egos. Uh, Servers have egos, Cooks have egos,

1009
00:52:18,600 --> 00:52:22,080
Speaker 1: bartenders have egos, chef's have egos, manager of egos and

1010
00:52:22,200 --> 00:52:24,279
Speaker 1: you know, if if it comes from the top where

1011
00:52:24,680 --> 00:52:28,080
Speaker 1: it's not about one individual but it's about the whole

1012
00:52:28,200 --> 00:52:32,720
Speaker 1: success of the of the staff together, it really changes

1013
00:52:32,800 --> 00:52:34,840
Speaker 1: the way things go. And I get people come in

1014
00:52:34,920 --> 00:52:37,439
Speaker 1: and they go, chef, take a picture with me, showing

1015
00:52:37,480 --> 00:52:39,480
Speaker 1: no problem with people that I know who looking and go,

1016
00:52:39,760 --> 00:52:42,320
Speaker 1: are you really taking a picture with somebody? And you know,

1017
00:52:42,840 --> 00:52:44,640
Speaker 1: and I know your videotaping me, But this is what

1018
00:52:44,760 --> 00:52:51,280
Speaker 1: they get double clubs. Yes, yes, I'm taking a picture

1019
00:52:51,320 --> 00:52:53,480
Speaker 1: with them because they asked me to take a picture.

1020
00:52:54,840 --> 00:52:56,800
Speaker 1: People they know me, they want to break them and

1021
00:52:57,040 --> 00:52:59,400
Speaker 1: that's what they literally get. And that's that's me walking

1022
00:52:59,440 --> 00:53:02,160
Speaker 1: through the dieting room. It's this, you know, go stick

1023
00:53:02,200 --> 00:53:04,320
Speaker 1: it to yourself and be don't like it, But you know,

1024
00:53:04,680 --> 00:53:06,520
Speaker 1: I wanted to be big, I wanted to be loud,

1025
00:53:06,600 --> 00:53:08,839
Speaker 1: I wanted I wanted to be boisterous and I wanted

1026
00:53:08,880 --> 00:53:11,759
Speaker 1: to reflect who I am, and you know I'm I'm

1027
00:53:11,840 --> 00:53:15,040
Speaker 1: a fun guy. I'm always joking around. I like to

1028
00:53:15,239 --> 00:53:18,400
Speaker 1: tone it down. I am a disruptor, right, my guys.

1029
00:53:18,560 --> 00:53:22,080
Speaker 1: You know, the first five six years the restaurant was open,

1030
00:53:22,440 --> 00:53:25,640
Speaker 1: I cooked on the line every day, lunch and dinner.

1031
00:53:26,120 --> 00:53:29,000
Speaker 1: Then I expedited the food until I got to the

1032
00:53:29,040 --> 00:53:31,080
Speaker 1: point where I was comfortable and I was ready to

1033
00:53:31,160 --> 00:53:33,880
Speaker 1: start expanding and move myself out of the kitchen and

1034
00:53:34,040 --> 00:53:37,239
Speaker 1: be that personality outside. But my guy's man, they've been

1035
00:53:37,239 --> 00:53:38,920
Speaker 1: with me forever. They got to chef, get out of

1036
00:53:38,920 --> 00:53:42,319
Speaker 1: the kitchen because they're cooking and it's busy, and if

1037
00:53:42,360 --> 00:53:45,239
Speaker 1: I'm back there, they're like, chef, stop, stop, because I'm

1038
00:53:45,320 --> 00:53:47,160
Speaker 1: chirping in their ear what are you doing? And I'm

1039
00:53:47,440 --> 00:53:50,560
Speaker 1: I'm disrupting them as I'm helping them put the food out,

1040
00:53:50,920 --> 00:53:52,839
Speaker 1: and it makes it quite comical. But you know, they're

1041
00:53:52,840 --> 00:53:55,360
Speaker 1: getting frustrated because they got to do their job. And

1042
00:53:55,400 --> 00:53:59,880
Speaker 1: then they got me kind of absolutely so that I go,

1043
00:54:00,000 --> 00:54:01,239
Speaker 1: what are you doing? Come on, pick up the pace.

1044
00:54:01,320 --> 00:54:03,400
Speaker 1: But that's not the way you do that. And you know,

1045
00:54:03,560 --> 00:54:05,120
Speaker 1: my staff, my kitchen. He has been with me and

1046
00:54:05,160 --> 00:54:07,719
Speaker 1: my guys on the line most of every ten years.

1047
00:54:08,080 --> 00:54:11,160
Speaker 1: I'm opened fourteen years. Most of those guys really ten years. Um.

1048
00:54:11,280 --> 00:54:13,239
Speaker 1: Over the years the service have changed, but I still

1049
00:54:13,239 --> 00:54:16,160
Speaker 1: got a few people with me about that have been seven, eight, nine,

1050
00:54:16,200 --> 00:54:17,919
Speaker 1: ten years as well out in the front of the house.

1051
00:54:18,400 --> 00:54:21,440
Speaker 1: So you know, I've created an environment that the people

1052
00:54:21,520 --> 00:54:24,080
Speaker 1: do well. They want to come to work every day,

1053
00:54:24,600 --> 00:54:27,000
Speaker 1: but you know they must perform me out talking to

1054
00:54:27,040 --> 00:54:31,799
Speaker 1: the customers. Then everybody, I don't gonna get the food.

1055
00:54:32,120 --> 00:54:34,680
Speaker 1: Get food the enemy the tickets on the board of

1056
00:54:34,719 --> 00:54:36,799
Speaker 1: the enemy. Right, I want to coot off the lawn,

1057
00:54:36,920 --> 00:54:39,719
Speaker 1: let's go. I love it. And you know, hear the

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00:54:39,800 --> 00:54:43,000
Speaker 1: word family, hear the word relationships, and and so what

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00:54:43,120 --> 00:54:45,840
Speaker 1: happened because of New York City became the epicenter of

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00:54:45,960 --> 00:54:49,640
Speaker 1: COVID nineteen and see you know city I love shut

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00:54:49,760 --> 00:54:54,360
Speaker 1: down and seeing Broadway shut down? How did that impact

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00:54:54,440 --> 00:54:57,360
Speaker 1: your business because this is family and suddenly you couldn't

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00:54:57,360 --> 00:55:00,360
Speaker 1: do what you do normal. Your energy hand to change

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00:55:00,400 --> 00:55:02,640
Speaker 1: is shift out. I'm sure that was probably the most

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00:55:02,719 --> 00:55:05,000
Speaker 1: dramatic part of your life in the fourteen years that

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00:55:05,080 --> 00:55:08,720
Speaker 1: you own a lab Sabar and Soho talk to everybody

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00:55:08,800 --> 00:55:12,000
Speaker 1: about how do you dealt with it emotionally? How did

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00:55:12,040 --> 00:55:14,880
Speaker 1: you woke up one day, hey man, stop crying your

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00:55:14,920 --> 00:55:17,840
Speaker 1: own you know, yeah, this is this is this is

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00:55:17,880 --> 00:55:19,759
Speaker 1: a this is a good story because I had I

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00:55:19,920 --> 00:55:23,279
Speaker 1: had the high and the low during this period and

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00:55:23,560 --> 00:55:25,239
Speaker 1: and then you know, kind of build it back up.

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00:55:25,320 --> 00:55:28,560
Speaker 1: And I never concerned myself with take out as a

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00:55:28,600 --> 00:55:32,360
Speaker 1: cost center. I never concerned myself with the delivery apps

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00:55:32,520 --> 00:55:34,759
Speaker 1: because the restaurant was busy and I didn't think my

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00:55:34,920 --> 00:55:39,080
Speaker 1: food traveled well. I literally went from having customers in

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00:55:39,160 --> 00:55:43,120
Speaker 1: my restaurant to getting one order a day, and it

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00:55:43,239 --> 00:55:46,080
Speaker 1: was my friend delivering food to his office and that

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00:55:46,200 --> 00:55:49,240
Speaker 1: was my only order for the first week of COVID

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00:55:49,280 --> 00:55:51,719
Speaker 1: when we shut down, and I said to myself, if

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00:55:51,760 --> 00:55:54,480
Speaker 1: I shut this restaurant down, I'm shutting my life down.

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00:55:54,520 --> 00:55:57,040
Speaker 1: I'm shutting down what I do, I'm shutting down who

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00:55:57,080 --> 00:55:59,560
Speaker 1: I am, and I'm shutting down where I go every day.

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00:55:59,640 --> 00:56:02,520
Speaker 1: So I refused to close. I refused to close. I sai,

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00:56:02,520 --> 00:56:05,640
Speaker 1: I'm gonna figure this out. And I doubled down my efforts,

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00:56:05,719 --> 00:56:07,799
Speaker 1: and you know, I went back to showing up at

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00:56:07,840 --> 00:56:10,920
Speaker 1: work eight am and staying until the door was locked.

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00:56:11,480 --> 00:56:15,120
Speaker 1: And I sat there with my computer out and and

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00:56:15,239 --> 00:56:19,080
Speaker 1: I sat there with a budget, a budget calculator. And

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00:56:19,200 --> 00:56:21,760
Speaker 1: I went to my guys and in the kitchen, because

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00:56:22,040 --> 00:56:24,759
Speaker 1: you know, truly these people are family, because they've been

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00:56:24,800 --> 00:56:27,360
Speaker 1: with me for so long. These aren't transient employees at

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00:56:27,400 --> 00:56:30,000
Speaker 1: work for six months and leave. Most of my weight

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00:56:30,080 --> 00:56:32,439
Speaker 1: staff didn't want to work, and I, honestly I didn't

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00:56:32,440 --> 00:56:34,839
Speaker 1: have a job for them. So I kept a couple

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00:56:34,920 --> 00:56:36,759
Speaker 1: of them on and I said, listen, this is what

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00:56:36,880 --> 00:56:38,600
Speaker 1: I can afford to give you for hours. And I

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00:56:38,719 --> 00:56:41,640
Speaker 1: gave my front of the house manager a few a

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00:56:41,719 --> 00:56:43,879
Speaker 1: certain amount of hours to work with. And I went

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00:56:43,920 --> 00:56:45,640
Speaker 1: to my guy in the kitchen. I said, you know,

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00:56:45,800 --> 00:56:47,799
Speaker 1: we went from my thinking the kitchen from like four

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00:56:47,880 --> 00:56:50,840
Speaker 1: hundred hours a week too. I gave him a hundred

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00:56:50,880 --> 00:56:53,399
Speaker 1: and forty hours. And I literally said to him, I'm

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00:56:53,440 --> 00:56:57,520
Speaker 1: giving you a hundred and forty hours. You talk to everybody,

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00:56:57,920 --> 00:57:00,759
Speaker 1: you guys, divvy up the hours however you want. If

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00:57:00,840 --> 00:57:03,080
Speaker 1: you want three guys to work, the three guys are

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00:57:03,080 --> 00:57:05,520
Speaker 1: gonna work the hours. If you want to split it

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00:57:05,680 --> 00:57:09,200
Speaker 1: between everybody equally, everybody's gonna do it, I said, but

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00:57:09,280 --> 00:57:12,200
Speaker 1: we're getting rid of the cleaning service. Anybody who works.

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00:57:12,440 --> 00:57:16,320
Speaker 1: We're back to old school restaurant. Every night, everybody cleans,

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00:57:16,480 --> 00:57:20,720
Speaker 1: every morning, everybody cleans, everybody does every job. Everybody's a dishwasher,

1112
00:57:20,760 --> 00:57:24,880
Speaker 1: everybody's a cook, everybody's a prep guy, everybody's packaging food

1113
00:57:24,920 --> 00:57:27,880
Speaker 1: to go until we figure this out. And and I said,

1114
00:57:27,920 --> 00:57:31,240
Speaker 1: when when when we figure out how the PPP stuff

1115
00:57:31,280 --> 00:57:34,080
Speaker 1: is gonna work, and we'll make some changes at that point.

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00:57:34,160 --> 00:57:36,640
Speaker 1: But this is what I have to focus on. I

1117
00:57:36,760 --> 00:57:39,040
Speaker 1: have to focus on budgeting and figuring. I I'm gonna

1118
00:57:39,080 --> 00:57:42,080
Speaker 1: stretch this money until we start to do business again.

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00:57:42,720 --> 00:57:45,720
Speaker 1: And I went from I went from doing one order

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00:57:45,800 --> 00:57:49,000
Speaker 1: a day and take out two over the course of

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00:57:49,320 --> 00:57:52,880
Speaker 1: six weeks to doing over a hundred orders a day

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00:57:52,880 --> 00:57:55,960
Speaker 1: and take out. And you know, it's just you know what,

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00:57:56,120 --> 00:57:59,600
Speaker 1: where And it's really true, where you focus your attention

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00:58:00,080 --> 00:58:03,040
Speaker 1: is where you build. And as soon as we went

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00:58:03,120 --> 00:58:06,440
Speaker 1: back to opening and my attention went away from the

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00:58:06,520 --> 00:58:10,360
Speaker 1: takeout and delivery, the takeout and delivery dropped off and

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00:58:10,440 --> 00:58:13,480
Speaker 1: we started getting customers back in the restaurant. Uh. But

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00:58:13,640 --> 00:58:15,240
Speaker 1: but it was it was really interesting. I mean I

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00:58:15,400 --> 00:58:18,600
Speaker 1: was driving deliveries to New Jersey. I was dropping deliveries

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00:58:18,640 --> 00:58:22,320
Speaker 1: to Westchester to Brooklyn myself because I would say, like,

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00:58:22,400 --> 00:58:23,800
Speaker 1: you know what, if I had somebody that was willing

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00:58:23,840 --> 00:58:25,720
Speaker 1: to do a big order, I was gonna take it

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00:58:25,760 --> 00:58:28,400
Speaker 1: to them, because you know what, there's nothing more humbling

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00:58:28,480 --> 00:58:30,840
Speaker 1: than going, I have a full restaurant to have I

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00:58:30,920 --> 00:58:33,520
Speaker 1: have one order fright day one or what am I

1136
00:58:33,560 --> 00:58:36,880
Speaker 1: gonna do? And I kept the key people on site.

1137
00:58:37,480 --> 00:58:39,880
Speaker 1: But it was interesting because I literally went back to

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00:58:40,000 --> 00:58:44,080
Speaker 1: working seven days a week. And and you know when

1139
00:58:44,200 --> 00:58:46,040
Speaker 1: when you start working seven days a week and I

1140
00:58:46,120 --> 00:58:48,840
Speaker 1: have family at home and I have small kids, and Daddy,

1141
00:58:48,840 --> 00:58:50,360
Speaker 1: where are you going? Daddy? Were you know? They were

1142
00:58:50,440 --> 00:58:52,280
Speaker 1: used to me being home in the morning. I was

1143
00:58:52,360 --> 00:58:55,080
Speaker 1: hold every morning with them, dropped them off at school,

1144
00:58:55,360 --> 00:58:59,280
Speaker 1: and I went to work. And I wasn't home anymore.

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00:59:00,120 --> 00:59:02,840
Speaker 1: I was leaving at seven am and I was getting

1146
00:59:02,880 --> 00:59:05,840
Speaker 1: home at ten o'clock. And you know, it was FaceTime

1147
00:59:05,920 --> 00:59:08,440
Speaker 1: phone calls. But I got to the point I worked

1148
00:59:08,720 --> 00:59:11,479
Speaker 1: seven days a week. It was fifty nine straight days,

1149
00:59:12,160 --> 00:59:15,920
Speaker 1: and I literally snapped like a twig. The delivery guys

1150
00:59:15,960 --> 00:59:18,479
Speaker 1: are outside, you know, they started, you know, the rules

1151
00:59:18,520 --> 00:59:21,800
Speaker 1: were ever changing for us. You could sell liqu or,

1152
00:59:21,880 --> 00:59:24,920
Speaker 1: you couldn't. You could let people inside, you couldn't let

1153
00:59:24,960 --> 00:59:28,120
Speaker 1: the delivery guys inside. This one mask, no mask, the

1154
00:59:28,200 --> 00:59:31,200
Speaker 1: whole thing. Now, I got six tablets in here. I've

1155
00:59:31,240 --> 00:59:34,680
Speaker 1: never done this before. The things are beeping. The delivery

1156
00:59:34,720 --> 00:59:37,160
Speaker 1: guys are trying to pick up from five restaurants at

1157
00:59:37,200 --> 00:59:40,320
Speaker 1: the same time so they can make more money, and

1158
00:59:40,440 --> 00:59:43,680
Speaker 1: they yelling in the restaurant, where's my order, Where's this?

1159
00:59:43,840 --> 00:59:46,640
Speaker 1: Where's that? And and I'm I'm trying to be there

1160
00:59:46,720 --> 00:59:49,160
Speaker 1: by myself during the day, have an assistant at night

1161
00:59:49,600 --> 00:59:51,200
Speaker 1: to help me in the front. And I'm sitting in

1162
00:59:51,240 --> 00:59:53,680
Speaker 1: the computer, I'm trying to punch orders, and I'm trying

1163
00:59:53,680 --> 00:59:57,040
Speaker 1: to coordinate something in the back. And I literally, literally

1164
00:59:57,080 --> 00:59:59,480
Speaker 1: no joke, I lost it. I literally lost it. I

1165
00:59:59,560 --> 01:00:03,520
Speaker 1: went from being like this massive mindset guru, like yeah,

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01:00:03,600 --> 01:00:06,200
Speaker 1: we're all working together. Everything is great, We're gonna figure

1167
01:00:06,240 --> 01:00:10,800
Speaker 1: it out. To shut the f of when I get it.

1168
01:00:11,360 --> 01:00:15,680
Speaker 1: If you don't like it, leave and and and then

1169
01:00:15,720 --> 01:00:19,280
Speaker 1: I literally was screaming. I afterwards, I apologized everybody I

1170
01:00:19,400 --> 01:00:22,120
Speaker 1: walked in the kitchen. It was a Saturday, it was

1171
01:00:22,160 --> 01:00:24,880
Speaker 1: a Saturday. It was a Saturday afternoon. I walke in

1172
01:00:24,920 --> 01:00:27,200
Speaker 1: the case. I apologized to my whole staff, and I said, guys,

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01:00:27,840 --> 01:00:32,400
Speaker 1: we're all off on Monday. The restaurants closed. I need

1174
01:00:32,440 --> 01:00:36,520
Speaker 1: a day And literally, from that point, I said to myself,

1175
01:00:36,880 --> 01:00:39,959
Speaker 1: I'm I'm I'm I'm gonna lose it because I can't

1176
01:00:39,960 --> 01:00:42,880
Speaker 1: afford to put people on, but mentally, I can't afford

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01:00:42,920 --> 01:00:44,520
Speaker 1: to be here. My kids are at home crying when

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01:00:44,560 --> 01:00:47,840
Speaker 1: I leave the house. I'm frustrated that, you know, these

1179
01:00:47,880 --> 01:00:50,440
Speaker 1: guys outside in the street are trying to work, but

1180
01:00:50,680 --> 01:00:53,280
Speaker 1: you know it's you know, we're all trying to figure

1181
01:00:53,320 --> 01:00:55,920
Speaker 1: it out. And we're not a takeout restaurant, and and

1182
01:00:56,200 --> 01:00:58,600
Speaker 1: and my guys in the kitchen aren't used to doing

1183
01:00:58,680 --> 01:01:01,760
Speaker 1: takeout either. They used to play the meals, serving customers

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01:01:02,080 --> 01:01:05,200
Speaker 1: and now we're just throwing it all together. And and

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01:01:05,360 --> 01:01:06,880
Speaker 1: I literally was like, you know what, We're closed on

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01:01:06,920 --> 01:01:08,360
Speaker 1: Mondays for the next three weeks. I have to have

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01:01:08,400 --> 01:01:12,200
Speaker 1: a day off. Everybody's off and and and uh. And

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01:01:12,280 --> 01:01:14,800
Speaker 1: it was. It was a learning lesson because even if

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01:01:14,840 --> 01:01:17,000
Speaker 1: you're gonna go all in, you still have to have

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01:01:17,160 --> 01:01:20,480
Speaker 1: time for that mental reset. If you're not giving yourself

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01:01:20,640 --> 01:01:25,280
Speaker 1: the time to recuperate from your efforts each and every day,

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01:01:26,440 --> 01:01:28,960
Speaker 1: you're you're doing yourself a disservice because you're not at

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01:01:29,000 --> 01:01:32,280
Speaker 1: your best. And I wasn't at my best anymore, and

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01:01:32,520 --> 01:01:35,080
Speaker 1: and and and it wasn't because I wasn't spending enough

1195
01:01:35,120 --> 01:01:37,880
Speaker 1: time at home. It wasn't because I wasn't spending enough

1196
01:01:37,920 --> 01:01:40,920
Speaker 1: time at work. It was I wasn't giving myself enough

1197
01:01:41,000 --> 01:01:46,320
Speaker 1: time to rest and reset my brain for each every day. Absolutely,

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01:01:46,600 --> 01:01:48,280
Speaker 1: you know, I got a few men just left here,

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01:01:48,320 --> 01:01:50,800
Speaker 1: but I want to go through a couple of year. Fabie.

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01:01:50,800 --> 01:01:52,479
Speaker 1: I'm a food You've been saying that from the jump,

1201
01:01:52,560 --> 01:01:55,200
Speaker 1: and you know, and I went through your social media

1202
01:01:55,440 --> 01:01:59,040
Speaker 1: timeline and well got nervous because I could. I got

1203
01:01:59,080 --> 01:02:02,800
Speaker 1: nervous looking good. That's how I have a love sea

1204
01:02:02,840 --> 01:02:06,320
Speaker 1: good food. Make go wow, man, that's really tasty. I've

1205
01:02:06,320 --> 01:02:09,520
Speaker 1: mentioned earlier about the lobsters and the lachos and the

1206
01:02:09,680 --> 01:02:12,400
Speaker 1: cheese and the pia pika, the gaio and the cilantro.

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01:02:12,640 --> 01:02:15,360
Speaker 1: Tell me two of your favorite menu items that when

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01:02:15,440 --> 01:02:18,720
Speaker 1: someone goes to the its lobster bar, it is really

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01:02:18,800 --> 01:02:22,120
Speaker 1: it really is is a winner. So so listen, first

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01:02:22,160 --> 01:02:24,680
Speaker 1: and foremost if nobody's ever been to the Lobster Bar,

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01:02:24,880 --> 01:02:27,120
Speaker 1: I would literally say to them, if you've never been here,

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01:02:27,760 --> 01:02:29,840
Speaker 1: you should Somebody at the table should get a lobster role,

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01:02:29,880 --> 01:02:32,360
Speaker 1: even if you're gonna split it, because that's truly what's

1214
01:02:32,400 --> 01:02:35,800
Speaker 1: made the restaurant popular was the lobster role. However, to me,

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01:02:36,880 --> 01:02:39,000
Speaker 1: the best dish on the menu is the lobster avioli.

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01:02:39,360 --> 01:02:43,000
Speaker 1: It's all lobster inside. We make a lobster pasta, fresh

1217
01:02:43,080 --> 01:02:47,280
Speaker 1: made pasta with lobster paste in it, the cream sauce

1218
01:02:47,360 --> 01:02:50,400
Speaker 1: has a lobster reduction in it, and it just bursting

1219
01:02:50,440 --> 01:02:53,920
Speaker 1: with lobster flavor. That that's always something I tell people.

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01:02:53,960 --> 01:02:55,440
Speaker 1: Listen if you if you're looking to eat. It's a

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01:02:55,480 --> 01:02:59,640
Speaker 1: heavy dish, but that's my favorite dish on the menu. However,

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01:02:59,840 --> 01:03:02,760
Speaker 1: the lobster nachos, since I put them on and they've

1223
01:03:02,760 --> 01:03:04,520
Speaker 1: been on the menu for just over a year now,

1224
01:03:05,000 --> 01:03:07,320
Speaker 1: that was kind of creation out of COVID. You know,

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01:03:07,440 --> 01:03:10,040
Speaker 1: you can't sit still. You've got you've got to create

1226
01:03:10,120 --> 01:03:14,480
Speaker 1: stuff that travels. So nachos everything packed separate. That that's

1227
01:03:14,680 --> 01:03:19,280
Speaker 1: selling like crazy at the restaurant and we're frawing the

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01:03:19,400 --> 01:03:22,439
Speaker 1: chips in the restaurant, they're hot. We're making a cheese

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01:03:22,520 --> 01:03:24,840
Speaker 1: sauce that has a ton of lobster stock in it,

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01:03:25,200 --> 01:03:27,080
Speaker 1: so this way you're getting a lot, a lot of flavor.

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01:03:27,120 --> 01:03:29,840
Speaker 1: I use that same sauce in the lobster mac and

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01:03:29,960 --> 01:03:33,560
Speaker 1: cheese and then you know fresh piogo to gaio every day,

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01:03:34,000 --> 01:03:36,120
Speaker 1: shop lops or pickle the Hall of Painters. It's a

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01:03:36,160 --> 01:03:41,200
Speaker 1: tradicitional It is a tradicial Nzo dish, but with shop

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01:03:41,320 --> 01:03:44,440
Speaker 1: lobster in it and and and lobster reduction. So to

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01:03:44,520 --> 01:03:46,760
Speaker 1: me that that's like that's a go to dish now.

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01:03:47,440 --> 01:03:50,360
Speaker 1: And you know, we moved through so many fresh oysters

1238
01:03:50,400 --> 01:03:53,320
Speaker 1: in the restaurant. It's it's it's something you don't want

1239
01:03:53,360 --> 01:03:55,680
Speaker 1: to pass up eating oysters in the restaurant because we

1240
01:03:55,880 --> 01:03:59,920
Speaker 1: turned through oysters like crazy. Man, you got me with pickled.

1241
01:04:00,040 --> 01:04:02,960
Speaker 1: I listen to when people talk. When he said pickled hallapenio,

1242
01:04:03,040 --> 01:04:05,760
Speaker 1: I went, that's my man right there, because I hate

1243
01:04:05,840 --> 01:04:09,400
Speaker 1: it when people put fresh holla opinions, oh notches. I

1244
01:04:09,440 --> 01:04:12,240
Speaker 1: don't understand where it's coming from. But my man, it

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01:04:12,360 --> 01:04:14,240
Speaker 1: was great talking to you, and I really appreciate you

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01:04:14,320 --> 01:04:18,360
Speaker 1: coming on money. Fantastic. So if you're not there, and

1247
01:04:18,440 --> 01:04:21,320
Speaker 1: you hear somebody says, stephen A. Smith came into your restaurant.

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01:04:21,720 --> 01:04:24,919
Speaker 1: Know your boy Rashaan McDonald, because I'm not gonna be recognizable.

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01:04:25,160 --> 01:04:28,160
Speaker 1: He's gonna be recognizable, your boy, Rashan McDonald brought him

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01:04:28,200 --> 01:04:30,720
Speaker 1: in there. Okay, well I'm gonna recognize your RuSHA. And

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01:04:30,760 --> 01:04:33,560
Speaker 1: that's awesome. I really appreciate this day. It was fantastic,

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01:04:33,600 --> 01:04:35,560
Speaker 1: a lot of fun and I love the energy. I

1253
01:04:35,640 --> 01:04:37,280
Speaker 1: love the bar. If you gotta go and hey, man,

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01:04:37,320 --> 01:04:40,040
Speaker 1: your beast man. And I say that in a strong compliment. Man,

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01:04:40,160 --> 01:04:42,360
Speaker 1: and you stay successful and you will see me this

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Speaker 1: year in your restaurant. I promise you that. Thank you

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01:04:45,080 --> 01:04:46,880
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Speaker 1: tuned into the Money Making Conversations Minute of Inspiration with

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Speaker 1: Rushan McDonald. Hi ra Sean McDonald for Money Making Conversation

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Speaker 1: with your daily minute of inspiration. This week I sat

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Speaker 1: If you were the us into this full interview with

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