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Speaker 4: All right, guys, welcome back e y L. So this

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Speaker 4: is exciting. This is gonna be an exciting conversation for

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Speaker 4: a few different reasons. The industry that we haven't covered yet,

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Speaker 4: explain the story. But first and foremost, Paul McCarthy an

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Speaker 4: entrepreneur out of Queens Queens please get the money, Queens,

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Speaker 4: get the money Brooklyn.

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Speaker 7: Correction, I love Queens, however, has raised me.

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Speaker 5: Okay, okay, be connection.

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Speaker 4: So this is interesting because so Paula owns a water plant.

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Speaker 5: Is that?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm a water manufacturer.

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Speaker 4: A water manufacturer. We'll explain the whole story. But she

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Speaker 4: was teaching financial literacy originally before you did that. Yes,

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Speaker 4: And it was crazy because you said, like, you know,

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Speaker 4: just going on Instagram while financial literacy, you saw me

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Speaker 4: teaching financial literacy at the same time.

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Speaker 7: Yes, and I followed you. Then I following.

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Speaker 2: We'll get into that.

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Speaker 7: I was so engulfed in what you were doing.

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Speaker 7: I couldn't do what I needed to do because I

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Speaker 5: Blockout, block out the noise.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I appreciate that. I am.

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Speaker 3: All those those those hot summer days paid off.

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Speaker 4: So, so it's an interesting story where she she found

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Speaker 7: Yes, it is a trillion dollar industry.

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Speaker 4: So it's crazy somebody in this space is an entrepreneur.

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Speaker 3: I mean, we've done over one hundred and twenty five

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Speaker 5: For sure weout further Ado. Thank you for joining us.

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Speaker 7: Appreciate it, No, thank you for having me. I'm excited

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Speaker 7: to be on the platform. I think what you guys

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Speaker 7: All right? So twenty seventeen September, my twin boys were

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Speaker 7: on a rant. The assistant principle was like, look, we

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Speaker 7: little girl was like, Ms McCarthy, I wasn't going to

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Speaker 7: The school had a candy drive. After that, a little

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Speaker 7: boy came up to me. He was like, Miss McCarthy,

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Speaker 7: you changed my life. You really inspired me, and that

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Speaker 7: I'm a nurse by profession, so it was on my

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Speaker 7: excuse me. So I would do my three hours, try

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Speaker 3: And the reason I'm bringing it up because I just

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Speaker 3: of mine and I'm like, the next time I talked

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Speaker 3: to you, I want to hear about what you created.

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Speaker 3: And even though you've had a full time career. Like

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Speaker 7: I really want to.

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Speaker 7: But I did it again. I fell into it right.

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Speaker 7: So I came back, we did the workshops. Other schools

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Speaker 7: about just financial literacy, my first class actually was about

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Speaker 2: And so when you started with one program, how did

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Speaker 7: No other schools, so you know how they're breaking up

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Speaker 5: Well what water were they selling?

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Speaker 4: So the grocery stores couldn't get it cheaper than what

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Speaker 4: Yeah, right, that's one hundred percent. Yeah profit margins, Yeah,

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Speaker 7: They couldn't get in. If you remember the lines, so

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Speaker 5: They let your sons in priority.

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Speaker 7: Because because we were buying so much water. I went

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Speaker 5: And worked out the deal.

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Speaker 2: Yeah I'm getting flash bands. I remember how it was.

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Speaker 5: It was a scarcity toilet paper.

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Speaker 2: That was the first thing exactly.

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Speaker 3: Then you had to wait, like I remember my mom

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Speaker 4: And I don't know, if you didn't live in New York,

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Speaker 5: And it was bad.

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Speaker 4: Like it was just like I don't our cloud over

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Speaker 4: It was continuent in real life, it was. It was

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Speaker 7: Yes, you know. What happened was they were letting them

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Speaker 7: up one hundred pallets, he would pick up a hundred pallets,

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Speaker 7: They're twins. They're gonna be twenty one on the thirty first.

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Speaker 2: Thought one hundred percent markup was crazy.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Atlanta Water boys like twenty and not get a bottle.

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Speaker 7: It's a little different.

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Speaker 4: So you're doing this and you're not doing this hand

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Speaker 7: Exactly what we did. Once they did that when they

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Speaker 5: So what is the supermarket Association? I even know that

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Speaker 7: Yeah, supermarket associations a couple of things that I just

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Speaker 7: label water to funder a nonprofit? So they loved our

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Speaker 4: Master p jeans and he told us that. Shout out

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Speaker 4: the rap snacks, they told us. And that's the first

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Speaker 7: I didn't know that.

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Speaker 3: And the location inside of it, right, So you could

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Speaker 7: For thirty five thousand dollars and upwards?

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Speaker 7: Upwards?

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Speaker 5: Wow?

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Speaker 7: If you want to have a space on a shelf,

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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00:22:03,320 --> 00:22:06,840
Speaker 7: Right, So and I had to learn that I had.

444
00:22:06,880 --> 00:22:09,080
Speaker 7: I learned that through water though, so I didn't even

445
00:22:09,160 --> 00:22:11,320
Speaker 7: know that when we first started. They were like, yeah,

446
00:22:11,359 --> 00:22:13,760
Speaker 7: they'll just carry it because it was more so they

447
00:22:13,880 --> 00:22:16,320
Speaker 7: liked what the water would represent and do for the community.

448
00:22:16,400 --> 00:22:18,960
Speaker 4: Right, So you had private you So this is when

449
00:22:18,960 --> 00:22:20,720
Speaker 4: you're starting a water company.

450
00:22:20,760 --> 00:22:24,040
Speaker 7: This is when once they told me yes, I was like,

451
00:22:24,080 --> 00:22:27,160
Speaker 7: all right, let me start sourcing some water companies, right

452
00:22:27,320 --> 00:22:30,000
Speaker 7: to do a private label water brand. I didn't have

453
00:22:30,040 --> 00:22:32,560
Speaker 7: a water brand at that time. I had nothing. It

454
00:22:32,680 --> 00:22:35,320
Speaker 7: was just like, all right, they'll do it, right. I

455
00:22:35,359 --> 00:22:41,360
Speaker 7: had the I had the company before I had the product.

456
00:22:41,640 --> 00:22:43,679
Speaker 2: Okay, so it's like I'm not we're doing this for

457
00:22:43,720 --> 00:22:45,560
Speaker 2: this company, right, let.

458
00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:46,560
Speaker 3: Me try to do it on my own because I

459
00:22:46,600 --> 00:22:48,360
Speaker 3: mean even when you said the private label, the last

460
00:22:48,359 --> 00:22:51,720
Speaker 3: time we heard that was Amazon. Josh Chrish out to

461
00:22:51,760 --> 00:22:53,760
Speaker 3: him and it was like we would they would find products,

462
00:22:53,760 --> 00:22:56,000
Speaker 3: whether it be a comb or a hairclip, and that

463
00:22:56,200 --> 00:22:57,120
Speaker 3: that was private label.

464
00:22:57,160 --> 00:22:59,399
Speaker 2: But never thought whe'd you come up with the idea

465
00:22:59,520 --> 00:22:59,960
Speaker 2: like water?

466
00:23:00,080 --> 00:23:03,280
Speaker 7: And that was my friend, my friend who was a pastor.

467
00:23:04,040 --> 00:23:07,960
Speaker 7: He used to do water distribution in South Africa. So

468
00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:11,159
Speaker 7: this was him doing it with the boys. And then

469
00:23:11,440 --> 00:23:13,960
Speaker 7: in turn, I'm like, hmm, could I do this?

470
00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:17,159
Speaker 4: Like so way to get the private label. It's just

471
00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:18,560
Speaker 4: this company that just sell water.

472
00:23:18,760 --> 00:23:22,320
Speaker 7: So what we did was we found this, we started calling.

473
00:23:22,400 --> 00:23:24,719
Speaker 7: We went on the Department of Help and we found

474
00:23:24,800 --> 00:23:28,760
Speaker 7: companies based on their quality of water. So we started

475
00:23:28,760 --> 00:23:30,919
Speaker 7: calling people based on how great the water was.

476
00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:31,280
Speaker 2: Right.

477
00:23:32,359 --> 00:23:34,320
Speaker 7: Review it tells you, it tells you in the Department

478
00:23:34,320 --> 00:23:36,719
Speaker 7: of Health and reviews. Right, so it tells you what

479
00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:38,879
Speaker 7: kind of water, tells you what's in the water. They

480
00:23:38,920 --> 00:23:41,959
Speaker 7: all have lab reporting that you have to do so

481
00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:45,560
Speaker 7: you can see the content in water, right, which we

482
00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:47,399
Speaker 7: don't really pay much attention to, but.

483
00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:48,919
Speaker 2: I think New York has one to It was like

484
00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:51,320
Speaker 2: Greater number three. It's like the state about.

485
00:23:54,280 --> 00:23:56,480
Speaker 5: Yeah, please don't averaging tap water.

486
00:23:56,840 --> 00:24:00,920
Speaker 7: Oh man, we're going to get into tap waters, still

487
00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:02,479
Speaker 7: water and all these other waters.

488
00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:05,320
Speaker 4: Yes we shall so all right, so this so let's

489
00:24:05,359 --> 00:24:08,920
Speaker 4: bring this back a little bit for people. Private label

490
00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:10,320
Speaker 4: and like I said, shot that Josh Wills, he's the

491
00:24:10,359 --> 00:24:12,120
Speaker 4: first one that told us about this. This is important

492
00:24:12,119 --> 00:24:14,480
Speaker 4: for people to understand what you're talking about. So there's

493
00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:18,080
Speaker 4: companies that sell and his thing he does Amazon. So

494
00:24:18,119 --> 00:24:21,200
Speaker 4: he was saying, like, you know, you just see random

495
00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:27,800
Speaker 4: things like nail filers, staplers, lint rollers. It's good to

496
00:24:27,840 --> 00:24:31,119
Speaker 4: sell on Amazon because you can nobody. Nobody's looking for

497
00:24:31,119 --> 00:24:34,040
Speaker 4: a Gucci lint roller, unless you're like a rapper.

498
00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:36,720
Speaker 5: That's a different it's a different story.

499
00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:39,000
Speaker 4: But you just buying a lint roller, right, So I

500
00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:42,840
Speaker 4: could just putra shav Allow lint rolling company. But there's

501
00:24:42,880 --> 00:24:45,399
Speaker 4: there's a company in China that just makes lint rollers

502
00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:47,959
Speaker 4: in bulk and then you privately, so you buy it

503
00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:50,200
Speaker 4: and now you can just put your thing and now

504
00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:53,200
Speaker 4: it's like nobody knows that you didn't make it. It's

505
00:24:53,240 --> 00:24:55,199
Speaker 4: just this private label. And when he said that, it

506
00:24:55,280 --> 00:24:58,439
Speaker 4: was so genius because there's like thousands of items like

507
00:24:58,520 --> 00:25:00,760
Speaker 4: that where a label does not matter.

508
00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:04,520
Speaker 7: No, So like we do, we could do manufacturing right

509
00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:09,120
Speaker 7: now our factory. We can do private labeling. So again

510
00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:11,600
Speaker 7: we will kind of get into that too, but we

511
00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:14,760
Speaker 7: can do private label water. So if you want earn

512
00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:16,840
Speaker 7: your leisure water, we can do.

513
00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:21,520
Speaker 5: Derek Grace, shout out to Derek Grace. He got great

514
00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:22,280
Speaker 5: essential water.

515
00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:25,520
Speaker 7: You know him, No Essential water.

516
00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:30,399
Speaker 5: Shout out to him. So all right, all right, so

517
00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:31,639
Speaker 5: now how.

518
00:25:31,480 --> 00:25:33,919
Speaker 4: Do you find a company that you can get the

519
00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:35,520
Speaker 4: private label for most the process for that.

520
00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:39,400
Speaker 7: So I literally just call these people up. We find

521
00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:41,720
Speaker 7: their number and we're just randomly cold calling.

522
00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:43,560
Speaker 5: From the Department of from.

523
00:25:43,359 --> 00:25:46,240
Speaker 7: Healthy, Department of Health, and I'm calling their numbers on there. Right,

524
00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:50,120
Speaker 7: So what's We're in the midst of COVID as well, right,

525
00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:53,200
Speaker 7: So most of the water companies number one are owned

526
00:25:53,240 --> 00:25:57,600
Speaker 7: by larger companies like Coca Cola owns like the Something

527
00:25:57,880 --> 00:26:03,919
Speaker 7: and Aqua Fina, right, Pepsi owns smart Water. So a

528
00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:07,760
Speaker 7: lot of these big companies own these smaller companies, right.

529
00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:11,119
Speaker 7: So I found like some independent companies. So they do

530
00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:14,560
Speaker 7: about eighty six thousand gallons of I mean eighty six

531
00:26:14,600 --> 00:26:20,200
Speaker 7: thousand gallons of water per hour. Pepsi, Coca Cola, they're

532
00:26:20,240 --> 00:26:24,720
Speaker 7: not going to take stop their production line to do

533
00:26:24,800 --> 00:26:28,399
Speaker 7: one hundred bottles for you for earlier leisure water one thousand,

534
00:26:28,440 --> 00:26:32,800
Speaker 7: They're not doing that. So I called companies after companies

535
00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:35,040
Speaker 7: that are like, no, thank you, that's not what we

536
00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:38,520
Speaker 7: do that. Those orders are way too small, right, So

537
00:26:38,560 --> 00:26:42,520
Speaker 7: I find this one company They're called Maxie's Lama's water works.

538
00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:42,840
Speaker 5: Right.

539
00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:45,399
Speaker 7: I go out there and I'm like, all right. I

540
00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:47,719
Speaker 7: call her and she's like, I'm in El Salvador. She's

541
00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:49,720
Speaker 7: stuck in Out Salvador. She can't come back because there's

542
00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:52,119
Speaker 7: no flights coming in out in and or out in

543
00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:55,040
Speaker 7: or out of the country. So she's like, call me

544
00:26:55,119 --> 00:26:57,600
Speaker 7: back in May. So I'm like, all right, I'm waiting,

545
00:26:58,560 --> 00:27:02,680
Speaker 7: but I'm thinking, let's call other companies because I don't

546
00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:05,119
Speaker 7: know if the water tastes anything like what I'm used to,

547
00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:09,320
Speaker 7: and you and I just spoke about what our standard is, right,

548
00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:12,280
Speaker 7: so I'm comparing it to this one water. And I

549
00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:14,320
Speaker 7: call her back in May and she's like, you know,

550
00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:17,120
Speaker 7: I still can't come back, but you could come if

551
00:27:17,160 --> 00:27:19,600
Speaker 7: you want to. My parents are at the factory. You

552
00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:21,560
Speaker 7: can go to the factory. Because my thing is I

553
00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:23,960
Speaker 7: need to taste the water. We're waiting on this water company,

554
00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:26,960
Speaker 7: and we don't know if we like the water because

555
00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:30,919
Speaker 7: I am a water snob, like water tastes different, right, true.

556
00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:34,199
Speaker 7: So I go out there, I pack my family in

557
00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:35,960
Speaker 7: the car, and I'm like, let's go taste water. We

558
00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:38,360
Speaker 7: have nothing to do. We're looking at each other let's

559
00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:41,360
Speaker 7: go taste water. We go out there and the company

560
00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:44,080
Speaker 7: is being ran by a seventy nine year old and

561
00:27:44,119 --> 00:27:47,159
Speaker 7: an eighty one year old, and I'm like, look, I

562
00:27:47,200 --> 00:27:50,360
Speaker 7: want to do this from my financial literacy court.

563
00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:51,080
Speaker 5: Where would you go?

564
00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:55,760
Speaker 7: I went Upstate New York. Okay about it's twenty minutes

565
00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:56,480
Speaker 7: outside of all that.

566
00:27:56,600 --> 00:27:57,679
Speaker 2: I want to say to town, but I know I'm

567
00:27:57,680 --> 00:27:58,160
Speaker 2: a batch.

568
00:27:57,960 --> 00:28:04,520
Speaker 7: Of skill and kill and kill yeah, posting kills, right.

569
00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:09,359
Speaker 7: So we go out to Post and Kill and we

570
00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:11,199
Speaker 7: meet the seventy nine year old and an eighty one

571
00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:14,359
Speaker 7: year old and they're like, yeah, we're in the mountains,

572
00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:17,520
Speaker 7: and they're like, we would love to do this, but

573
00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:19,840
Speaker 7: we don't have the capacity. They don't have They have

574
00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:23,120
Speaker 7: one person who comes in who volunteers to help them,

575
00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:25,360
Speaker 7: and they don't have the capacity. We needed two track

576
00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:28,440
Speaker 7: the trailers to support our order with us with the

577
00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:33,679
Speaker 7: Supermarket Association. So I'm like, okay, fine, We literally go

578
00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:38,160
Speaker 7: back up there for weeks on end to help them.

579
00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:40,400
Speaker 7: To start with my kids and I started going up

580
00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:43,360
Speaker 7: there and helping them to bottle because they just had

581
00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:46,959
Speaker 7: no help. At this point, we knew that they couldn't

582
00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:51,240
Speaker 7: support our bottling. We just knew that they needed help, right.

583
00:28:51,520 --> 00:28:55,400
Speaker 7: Their business was suffering and they were having their own issues.

584
00:28:55,440 --> 00:28:59,080
Speaker 7: So we started helping them with that. Once we go

585
00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:02,880
Speaker 7: up there, they're like, look, we can't do it, but

586
00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:06,960
Speaker 7: we could sell it to you. And I'm like the plant,

587
00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:09,360
Speaker 7: the plant. I'm like, I don't want to buy a water.

588
00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:11,360
Speaker 5: What's in the water plant?

589
00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:16,520
Speaker 7: So they sold. They were selling fifty acres of land.

590
00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:23,720
Speaker 7: An aquaifer is an underground lake, so to speak.

591
00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:25,880
Speaker 5: Right, Our water that grows underground.

592
00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:37,360
Speaker 7: Yeah, it doesn't worrow, but water underground right, So water

593
00:29:38,280 --> 00:29:42,440
Speaker 7: water that flows underground, right, that's the word. Yeah. So

594
00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:45,600
Speaker 7: what happens is we're in a valley, so the water

595
00:29:45,680 --> 00:29:48,520
Speaker 7: from the tops of the mountains come down and it

596
00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:51,520
Speaker 7: goes under this you know, just like these underground caves

597
00:29:51,560 --> 00:29:54,040
Speaker 7: so to speak. They're underground, like you don't know they're there.

598
00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:57,840
Speaker 5: Don't blame me, blame the school system exactly. I'm just

599
00:29:57,920 --> 00:30:04,320
Speaker 5: a product. So earth science.

600
00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:07,320
Speaker 2: I definitely failed the.

601
00:30:07,360 --> 00:30:11,600
Speaker 7: Visions earth science. I don't know. I was really good

602
00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:14,520
Speaker 7: at science, but more anatomies. That's that's my thing.

603
00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:16,280
Speaker 2: I was body physical therapy major.

604
00:30:16,360 --> 00:30:17,360
Speaker 7: Oh yeah yeah, yeah.

605
00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:21,240
Speaker 4: So water grows they comes it comes from the mountains yep,

606
00:30:21,560 --> 00:30:23,800
Speaker 4: and it comes not valley valley.

607
00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:28,280
Speaker 3: How does they go underground down down the valley.

608
00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:31,880
Speaker 7: It goes through the soil through the goes down and

609
00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:36,320
Speaker 7: it's like a big reservoir. It's just a natural reservoir underground, like.

610
00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:37,880
Speaker 2: When people swim in fresh water caves.

611
00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:38,200
Speaker 7: Yep.

612
00:30:38,320 --> 00:30:38,840
Speaker 2: Exactly.

613
00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:42,040
Speaker 7: I've been to Mexico, you know, whole Mexico, the whole

614
00:30:42,920 --> 00:30:46,880
Speaker 7: cha Na right around those those Mayan ruins. The whole

615
00:30:47,080 --> 00:30:50,440
Speaker 7: entire city was built around the water sources. And if

616
00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:54,560
Speaker 7: you know anything, like most civilizations were built around water sources, right,

617
00:30:55,280 --> 00:30:57,600
Speaker 7: so very important. So, and you can tell a lot

618
00:30:57,640 --> 00:31:02,600
Speaker 7: about the economies usually flourish around places that have really

619
00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:05,680
Speaker 7: well established water sources.

620
00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:05,960
Speaker 2: Right.

621
00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:09,040
Speaker 7: So even America, our water sources started out in New

622
00:31:09,120 --> 00:31:11,800
Speaker 7: York and on on on the coast, right and then

623
00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:12,840
Speaker 7: right so on the port.

624
00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:18,160
Speaker 2: Here the coast lake.

625
00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:21,320
Speaker 7: Yeah, so you could tell a lot about a country

626
00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:22,640
Speaker 7: based on its water source.

627
00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:22,880
Speaker 2: Right.

628
00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:26,480
Speaker 7: It's essential to everything that we're doing, right so, if

629
00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:29,680
Speaker 7: and that's interesting in itself because as I got into

630
00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:33,120
Speaker 7: this water space and I started to do research, that's

631
00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:35,200
Speaker 7: when I found out about the scarcity of water. Because

632
00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:37,240
Speaker 7: I knew nothing about water. Just like many of us,

633
00:31:37,320 --> 00:31:40,120
Speaker 7: we're not talking about water. We drink it, we use it,

634
00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:43,840
Speaker 7: and that's it, right. We actually abuse it and that's it.

635
00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:47,280
Speaker 7: We don't even understand that most of the planet is

636
00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:53,520
Speaker 7: ninety seven percent water, right, but it's salt water, right,

637
00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:57,880
Speaker 7: most of the planet is I'm incorrect, it's seventy percent water, right,

638
00:31:57,960 --> 00:32:01,560
Speaker 7: seventy percent water. But of that, ninety seven percent of

639
00:32:01,560 --> 00:32:05,840
Speaker 7: it is salt water. Two percent of it is in

640
00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:09,520
Speaker 7: glaciers and ice caps, so it's not usable for us.

641
00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:14,320
Speaker 7: But less than one percent of water is fresh, drinkable, attainable,

642
00:32:14,320 --> 00:32:19,600
Speaker 7: accessible water, and that in itself is crazy because of

643
00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:23,720
Speaker 7: that one percent, seventy percent of that goes to agriculture,

644
00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:29,080
Speaker 7: twenty percent of that goes to industries, and the rest

645
00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:30,560
Speaker 7: is human consumption.

646
00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:34,280
Speaker 4: And this is why it's like people in America have

647
00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:37,920
Speaker 4: such a disconnect with the rest of the world because

648
00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:42,640
Speaker 4: it's like we just like having random water slides in

649
00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:51,840
Speaker 4: our rice bucket challenge, so reckless size, ice working, super

650
00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:52,560
Speaker 4: soaka fier.

651
00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:56,680
Speaker 5: But there's people that's really like starving for water.

652
00:32:56,480 --> 00:32:59,480
Speaker 2: Like it's just six miles to get a bucket. It's different.

653
00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:02,760
Speaker 7: Yeah, two thirds of the world don't have access to

654
00:33:02,840 --> 00:33:06,560
Speaker 7: clean drinking water. That's more than one point two billion

655
00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:11,880
Speaker 7: people not having access to clean drinking water. So when

656
00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:14,480
Speaker 7: I got into the space again, I didn't recognize how

657
00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:20,520
Speaker 7: valuable what I had was. I thought, hey, I'm going

658
00:33:20,560 --> 00:33:23,480
Speaker 7: to taste water. I keep saying this. I did not

659
00:33:23,560 --> 00:33:26,360
Speaker 7: go to buy anyone's water plan. I went to taste water,

660
00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:29,480
Speaker 7: and when they told me about buying the plant, I'm like, look, miss,

661
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Speaker 7: I am a nurse. I had no money to first

662
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Speaker 7: buy your plan, Like, there's no way. This is not

663
00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:41,240
Speaker 7: nothing that I thought that I could even attain, right,

664
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Speaker 7: And I've never even heard about anyone purchasing or buying

665
00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:49,120
Speaker 7: or owning a water plant, and nobody black to that, right,

666
00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:51,360
Speaker 7: So I'm not think I'm not thinking anyone in our

667
00:33:51,360 --> 00:33:58,480
Speaker 7: community could own something like this because we're known as consumers, right, So.

668
00:33:57,120 --> 00:34:00,000
Speaker 3: How long did that process from you helping to them

669
00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:01,120
Speaker 3: far from you to buy.

670
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Speaker 2: Was it a couple of weeks?

671
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Speaker 3: Cause I mean I'm thinking to myself, I'm from Queen's

672
00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:06,920
Speaker 3: I'm driving an Albany that's like a three hour drive,

673
00:34:07,120 --> 00:34:09,960
Speaker 3: three hour drive every week almost I mean dark Corona,

674
00:34:10,200 --> 00:34:12,680
Speaker 3: So I mean it really wasn't much to do anyway.

675
00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:14,439
Speaker 7: But we're the only ones on the road.

676
00:34:14,640 --> 00:34:16,960
Speaker 3: But how long did the process take for them? Was

677
00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:18,839
Speaker 3: there like a trust built with you now that you're

678
00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:20,440
Speaker 3: helping and you're volunteering.

679
00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:20,600
Speaker 2: To say, you know what?

680
00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:23,400
Speaker 7: So when I went there, they offered to sell it

681
00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:25,799
Speaker 7: to me the first time. They were like, look, if

682
00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:28,120
Speaker 7: we love what you're doing, if you want it, we'll

683
00:34:28,120 --> 00:34:30,439
Speaker 7: sell it to you. I'm like, there's no way could

684
00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:32,399
Speaker 7: I could even afford this, So it wasn't a thought.

685
00:34:32,440 --> 00:34:34,319
Speaker 5: So I was just going to want to sell it for.

686
00:34:34,640 --> 00:34:38,799
Speaker 7: It was a couple of million, okay, all right, yeah, okay.

687
00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:42,000
Speaker 2: So that's right. So it's coming with the plant and

688
00:34:42,160 --> 00:34:43,080
Speaker 2: the land as well.

689
00:34:43,560 --> 00:34:47,439
Speaker 7: Again, this is where you kind of gotta So when

690
00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:50,240
Speaker 7: I first went there, it was fifty acres of land,

691
00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:55,680
Speaker 7: an aquifer and this water plant. The minute I agreed

692
00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:59,320
Speaker 7: to purchase it, and went from fifty to fifteen acres

693
00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:05,560
Speaker 7: of land, the aquafer and the water plant.

694
00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:07,640
Speaker 4: So they cut back on the acres of land. They

695
00:35:07,719 --> 00:35:10,160
Speaker 4: kept everything else, but they cut back on the land. Okay,

696
00:35:10,239 --> 00:35:12,719
Speaker 4: they meaning the owners owners, So you agree to that.

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00:35:13,080 --> 00:35:15,719
Speaker 7: I agreed to it because at that point, so my

698
00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:19,440
Speaker 7: kids and I. We moved up there in July and

699
00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:22,359
Speaker 7: I worked with them for five months for free. We

700
00:35:22,600 --> 00:35:26,400
Speaker 7: literally helped. I would bottle, my kids would do all

701
00:35:26,440 --> 00:35:30,760
Speaker 7: their deliveries and they had no help. So me thinking

702
00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:32,560
Speaker 7: that I'm helping, it's it's like.

703
00:35:32,920 --> 00:35:34,320
Speaker 2: What's happening in Queens?

704
00:35:34,320 --> 00:35:36,239
Speaker 3: Are we still doing the supermarket deliveries out there since

705
00:35:36,239 --> 00:35:39,319
Speaker 3: we moved up Are you still a nurse at the time?

706
00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:41,160
Speaker 2: Okay, we're full in.

707
00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:45,839
Speaker 7: So I'm fully in the leave of absence. Don't tell them.

708
00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:48,280
Speaker 2: I don't think it's about that.

709
00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:55,400
Speaker 7: I took a medical Uh, so I'm doing that and

710
00:35:55,480 --> 00:35:58,799
Speaker 7: I'm up here and I'm helping, right, So I'm fully in.

711
00:35:58,840 --> 00:36:02,200
Speaker 7: I'm doing the administrative things. My boys are doing their deliveries.

712
00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:05,200
Speaker 7: And my friend who's also a pastor, moves up here

713
00:36:05,239 --> 00:36:08,160
Speaker 7: with us, and I brought them him and his family again,

714
00:36:08,239 --> 00:36:09,640
Speaker 7: his family, I didn't, I don't think.

715
00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:10,000
Speaker 2: I said.

716
00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:13,440
Speaker 7: His family was just got here like three days before

717
00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:18,879
Speaker 7: they shut down for traveling Corona. So I got them

718
00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:22,279
Speaker 7: apartment upstairs. We got an apartment, we started renting out there,

719
00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:24,160
Speaker 7: and we all started going out there and helping.

720
00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:24,600
Speaker 2: Right.

721
00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:28,080
Speaker 7: So the plan was at this point, let us learn

722
00:36:28,160 --> 00:36:31,000
Speaker 7: the business to see if we can do this. While

723
00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:33,600
Speaker 7: we're in the process, I'm trying to get the money

724
00:36:33,640 --> 00:36:37,560
Speaker 7: to start this business. So eventually I used my house

725
00:36:37,560 --> 00:36:41,320
Speaker 7: as collateral to put a down payment on this property.

726
00:36:41,640 --> 00:36:43,280
Speaker 5: So you refinanced your house.

727
00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:50,200
Speaker 7: I've refinanced my house something like that. Not really, OK

728
00:36:50,560 --> 00:36:51,840
Speaker 7: So I.

729
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Speaker 5: Took what did you do? But that was my question.

730
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Speaker 5: How did like, did you get a bank loan?

731
00:36:57,400 --> 00:37:00,600
Speaker 7: Like nope, I did all of this without a bank loan. Okay,

732
00:37:00,680 --> 00:37:04,200
Speaker 7: So this is the dope part. I went to people

733
00:37:04,239 --> 00:37:06,560
Speaker 7: and I'm like, look, I was able to raise one

734
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Speaker 7: hundred and thirty thousand dollars in two days.

735
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Speaker 5: From people from people, friends, friends, and family.

736
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Speaker 3: It's not with all friends, man, every time somebody they

737
00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:18,600
Speaker 3: got friends buying, No, yeah, we got good friends.

738
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Speaker 2: Now, I'm just saying, like ten years.

739
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Speaker 5: Ago, Well it's not ten years ago.

740
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Speaker 2: Your oh yeah, got new friends?

741
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Speaker 7: No new friends.

742
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Speaker 2: Sorry.

743
00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:34,439
Speaker 7: I literally went out and I was able to raise

744
00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:37,440
Speaker 7: one hundred and actually it was more like one fifty

745
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Speaker 7: because I tried to keep twenty for working capital.

746
00:37:40,960 --> 00:37:44,359
Speaker 5: Did they become owners of the company just like a loan?

747
00:37:44,560 --> 00:37:44,759
Speaker 2: Yep.

748
00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:47,000
Speaker 7: I got one hundred and thirty thousand dollars in two

749
00:37:47,080 --> 00:37:49,840
Speaker 7: days and I came back to them and I'm like, look, okay,

750
00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:51,480
Speaker 7: I'm going to do this. I'm going to buy it

751
00:37:51,520 --> 00:37:56,560
Speaker 7: from you. But at that point he changed the deal again. No,

752
00:37:56,760 --> 00:37:58,720
Speaker 7: that's when he changed it to when I got.

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Speaker 7: He thought I was playing right. So when I came

802
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Speaker 7: back and I'm like, okay, I could do this right

803
00:40:56,800 --> 00:40:59,520
Speaker 7: now again, It's really hard for me because I'm like,

804
00:40:59,760 --> 00:41:07,400
Speaker 7: they were really gracious and at the same time very

805
00:41:07,760 --> 00:41:12,520
Speaker 7: I don't know, they were very vicious business people. I

806
00:41:12,600 --> 00:41:15,920
Speaker 7: was I am always going in and thinking the best

807
00:41:15,920 --> 00:41:21,360
Speaker 7: of people, and these were shrewd business people. And because

808
00:41:21,400 --> 00:41:24,480
Speaker 7: they were older, I was pretty much like, oh, they're

809
00:41:24,520 --> 00:41:27,600
Speaker 7: so nice. I think everyone's so nice, but they were

810
00:41:27,719 --> 00:41:31,120
Speaker 7: shrewd business people. And at the end, when we got

811
00:41:31,160 --> 00:41:35,640
Speaker 7: to the closing table October first, we closed, they changed

812
00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:41,360
Speaker 7: again to what so a couple things. I bought everything.

813
00:41:41,360 --> 00:41:44,480
Speaker 7: I bought the trademark, I bought their license in I

814
00:41:44,520 --> 00:41:47,719
Speaker 7: bought everything. I bought a twenty five year old company.

815
00:41:48,239 --> 00:41:51,959
Speaker 7: I bought two hundred and fifty customers and a truck. Right,

816
00:41:52,040 --> 00:41:55,440
Speaker 7: so that all came with fifteen acres of land, an

817
00:41:55,520 --> 00:41:57,000
Speaker 7: aquafer and a factory.

818
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Speaker 5: Right. So you bought the company, You didn't start a

819
00:41:59,040 --> 00:41:59,520
Speaker 5: new company.

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00:41:59,600 --> 00:42:02,000
Speaker 7: No, about a twenty five year old Company's the name

821
00:42:02,040 --> 00:42:06,000
Speaker 7: of the company, Moxie Lama's Waterworks. But when we got

822
00:42:06,040 --> 00:42:11,359
Speaker 7: to the closing table, they told me that one I

823
00:42:11,400 --> 00:42:12,520
Speaker 7: don't look like a CEO.

824
00:42:13,280 --> 00:42:13,799
Speaker 5: Are you white?

825
00:42:14,080 --> 00:42:18,200
Speaker 7: Yes? And two I don't look like a good representation

826
00:42:18,440 --> 00:42:21,440
Speaker 7: of the brand that their family has built for the

827
00:42:21,480 --> 00:42:22,759
Speaker 7: past fifty years.

828
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Speaker 5: Okay because you're black. Okay did they say you because

829
00:42:26,680 --> 00:42:27,440
Speaker 5: you're black? I would have.

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Speaker 7: Actually, they just said, my children and I don't look

831
00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:30,440
Speaker 7: like a good.

832
00:42:30,040 --> 00:42:32,480
Speaker 5: But did you actually did Actually I did it.

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00:42:33,280 --> 00:42:36,560
Speaker 7: I was hurt because I rolled up my sleeves and

834
00:42:36,560 --> 00:42:37,200
Speaker 7: I helped them.

835
00:42:37,360 --> 00:42:40,319
Speaker 4: So they flat out said, like, that's that's hard, Like

836
00:42:40,360 --> 00:42:42,040
Speaker 4: that's that's kind of crazy if you think about it,

837
00:42:42,120 --> 00:42:43,400
Speaker 4: Like they ain't even sugarcoated.

838
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Speaker 5: You don't look like you don't look like it. That's crazy.

839
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Speaker 7: But it was their daughter more than them.

840
00:42:50,040 --> 00:42:50,799
Speaker 5: The daughter said it.

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00:42:51,040 --> 00:42:52,960
Speaker 2: She made it back from the top of doors just

842
00:42:54,520 --> 00:42:55,160
Speaker 2: because I'm trying.

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00:42:55,560 --> 00:42:57,239
Speaker 7: Everything changed when she came.

844
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Speaker 5: She came back, so she's like, what whoa what's the Oh?

845
00:43:00,239 --> 00:43:02,200
Speaker 2: No, how she get because they didn't live in travel then,

846
00:43:02,320 --> 00:43:03,720
Speaker 2: so they did and June.

847
00:43:04,160 --> 00:43:05,360
Speaker 7: He came back in June.

848
00:43:05,200 --> 00:43:07,480
Speaker 2: So she came nine.

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00:43:07,719 --> 00:43:10,160
Speaker 7: So I think, what are y'all doing? They did not

850
00:43:10,360 --> 00:43:13,960
Speaker 7: want to tell tell the family that they were selling

851
00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:14,600
Speaker 7: the water.

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00:43:14,440 --> 00:43:17,920
Speaker 5: Plant to a black person, so I don't.

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00:43:17,719 --> 00:43:19,840
Speaker 7: Even know if it had anything to do with black

854
00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:22,400
Speaker 7: or white at that point. I think the family wanted

855
00:43:22,440 --> 00:43:26,400
Speaker 7: to keep the water plant, but they wanted to sell.

856
00:43:27,560 --> 00:43:30,200
Speaker 7: And I guess the relationship that them and I had

857
00:43:30,280 --> 00:43:33,319
Speaker 7: foster and I was helping them. They were trying to

858
00:43:33,360 --> 00:43:36,239
Speaker 7: sell this company for ten years, and no one could

859
00:43:36,239 --> 00:43:39,920
Speaker 7: see the value in what they had because on paper

860
00:43:40,160 --> 00:43:43,680
Speaker 7: it didn't make sense. On paper, it looked like a

861
00:43:43,719 --> 00:43:45,839
Speaker 7: seventy nine year old and an eighty one year old

862
00:43:45,920 --> 00:43:48,680
Speaker 7: were running a company. They were self employed. They were

863
00:43:48,680 --> 00:43:52,120
Speaker 7: not in business. They were self employed. And I think

864
00:43:52,160 --> 00:43:54,959
Speaker 7: people need to understand there's a big difference between being

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00:43:55,040 --> 00:43:59,200
Speaker 7: self employed and running a business, and many of us

866
00:43:59,440 --> 00:44:02,439
Speaker 7: in our own in our communities, we're self employed. Even

867
00:44:02,440 --> 00:44:05,680
Speaker 7: when you have a business, we're self employed. When you trade,

868
00:44:05,840 --> 00:44:08,279
Speaker 7: when you trade your time for money.

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00:44:08,080 --> 00:44:10,319
Speaker 5: No systems in place, that's a fact.

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00:44:10,520 --> 00:44:14,200
Speaker 7: When you trade your time for money, your self employed systems.

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00:44:14,440 --> 00:44:17,400
Speaker 2: Yes, save your time, save yourself time, energy.

872
00:44:17,120 --> 00:44:18,320
Speaker 7: And money, energy and money.

873
00:44:18,520 --> 00:44:25,560
Speaker 5: Right, save yourself time, energy and money, save yourself. Yourself

874
00:44:25,600 --> 00:44:28,280
Speaker 5: is going to work. This is another school system.

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Speaker 3: This is this is I know yourself is gonna work.

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Speaker 2: It's one of those.

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00:44:36,200 --> 00:44:36,759
Speaker 5: It's one of those.

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00:44:37,680 --> 00:44:39,640
Speaker 2: It's one of those. As was like, all right, well

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00:44:40,280 --> 00:44:42,240
Speaker 2: you remember that, you remember that create system?

880
00:44:42,360 --> 00:44:44,080
Speaker 7: Yes, yes, yes, what.

881
00:44:46,400 --> 00:44:47,400
Speaker 5: But it's not correct.

882
00:44:47,600 --> 00:44:48,919
Speaker 7: I know, but it's alwayard a member.

883
00:44:49,560 --> 00:44:50,239
Speaker 2: You never heard that.

884
00:44:50,680 --> 00:44:51,800
Speaker 5: Yes, but it's saved.

885
00:44:52,280 --> 00:44:55,960
Speaker 4: It's saved you stress, time and energy.

886
00:44:58,080 --> 00:45:03,279
Speaker 5: He's a teachers, you.

887
00:45:03,280 --> 00:45:07,040
Speaker 7: Know the E B E B I L squadrant that

888
00:45:07,719 --> 00:45:13,000
Speaker 7: Robert Kawasaki from Rich Dad. Yeah, so really good book.

889
00:45:13,040 --> 00:45:15,560
Speaker 7: I have my kids reading in our program, like I

890
00:45:15,600 --> 00:45:18,480
Speaker 7: think the cool thing to do is give them literature

891
00:45:18,520 --> 00:45:22,480
Speaker 7: that they would not ordinarily read. And that's what I

892
00:45:22,560 --> 00:45:26,000
Speaker 7: did in the financial literacy program. It wasn't necessarily about

893
00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:28,879
Speaker 7: teaching them about money. It was about this very thing

894
00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:32,759
Speaker 7: is teaching them how to manage their resources. And that's

895
00:45:33,239 --> 00:45:37,280
Speaker 7: that That was super important for me. So when long

896
00:45:37,360 --> 00:45:41,320
Speaker 7: story short, we closed finally on October first?

897
00:45:41,680 --> 00:45:44,520
Speaker 4: So how did all right? So they said that they

898
00:45:44,680 --> 00:45:47,359
Speaker 4: universen't a new representation. How did they get over that?

899
00:45:49,000 --> 00:45:51,719
Speaker 7: They needed my money and they took it. That's how

900
00:45:52,680 --> 00:45:53,600
Speaker 7: my money was great?

901
00:45:54,480 --> 00:45:58,319
Speaker 4: But I mean, how would that call? Like you say, okay,

902
00:45:58,320 --> 00:45:59,839
Speaker 4: well I'm not buying and they think, okay, we changed.

903
00:46:00,680 --> 00:46:03,560
Speaker 7: So when we were at the closing table, it's a lot.

904
00:46:04,200 --> 00:46:06,400
Speaker 7: There's a lot that I don't want to like expose

905
00:46:06,520 --> 00:46:08,759
Speaker 7: because it's their personal stuff. So I don't really want

906
00:46:08,760 --> 00:46:10,560
Speaker 7: to get too much into that. I want to be

907
00:46:10,640 --> 00:46:14,960
Speaker 7: respectful of that. But they needed the money, okay, okay,

908
00:46:15,080 --> 00:46:15,680
Speaker 7: So it was just.

909
00:46:15,600 --> 00:46:18,960
Speaker 5: Something when they thought about it, it's like, you know what,

910
00:46:19,560 --> 00:46:20,040
Speaker 5: it's not.

911
00:46:20,080 --> 00:46:23,839
Speaker 7: They took my money, they needed my money. They took

912
00:46:23,880 --> 00:46:28,720
Speaker 7: my money. And then after they gave me a very

913
00:46:28,760 --> 00:46:32,840
Speaker 7: hard time, after you took your money, how did it

914
00:46:32,960 --> 00:46:36,399
Speaker 7: Why I didn't want to sign over the LLC which

915
00:46:36,400 --> 00:46:36,960
Speaker 7: I paid for.

916
00:46:37,600 --> 00:46:39,000
Speaker 5: What they say, we're not given to you.

917
00:46:39,200 --> 00:46:42,719
Speaker 7: They just drunk their feet, right, they I have to

918
00:46:42,760 --> 00:46:46,400
Speaker 7: wait on them, so legally they held onto those documents

919
00:46:46,719 --> 00:46:47,759
Speaker 7: and I just had to wait.

920
00:46:48,320 --> 00:46:50,319
Speaker 2: And you can't even operate the business even though you

921
00:46:50,360 --> 00:46:51,719
Speaker 2: have bought or but.

922
00:46:51,800 --> 00:46:54,680
Speaker 7: We were doing everything. I knew which way right. Yeah,

923
00:46:54,719 --> 00:46:59,759
Speaker 7: so because technically in my clothing, the minute that I

924
00:46:59,800 --> 00:47:02,439
Speaker 7: ad for it, they have to effectuate it and they're

925
00:47:02,520 --> 00:47:08,279
Speaker 7: supposed to sign. So that was That was just very

926
00:47:08,320 --> 00:47:11,000
Speaker 7: interesting and the hardest part of this whole thing, because

927
00:47:11,120 --> 00:47:14,279
Speaker 7: what I did was foster relationship with them. It wasn't

928
00:47:14,320 --> 00:47:16,160
Speaker 7: even so much. I didn't go there to buy a

929
00:47:16,200 --> 00:47:18,560
Speaker 7: water plant. I didn't I didn't know that their water

930
00:47:18,560 --> 00:47:21,440
Speaker 7: plant was for sale. I didn't go there for those purposes.

931
00:47:22,880 --> 00:47:25,319
Speaker 7: But I understand that the God that I serve is

932
00:47:25,320 --> 00:47:29,640
Speaker 7: also a purpose. I'm very much in this space where

933
00:47:29,680 --> 00:47:31,960
Speaker 7: I understand that I was being positioned and it was

934
00:47:32,000 --> 00:47:34,960
Speaker 7: for purpose much bigger than me. Yeah.

935
00:47:35,000 --> 00:47:38,040
Speaker 4: So, okay, so all of that's done you but so

936
00:47:38,120 --> 00:47:40,040
Speaker 4: you put your house? Can you talk about that? Like,

937
00:47:40,360 --> 00:47:42,040
Speaker 4: what does that mean? You put your house for collateral?

938
00:47:42,120 --> 00:47:43,200
Speaker 4: Did they take your house.

939
00:47:43,160 --> 00:47:44,799
Speaker 7: Or I took a loan out?

940
00:47:44,840 --> 00:47:47,080
Speaker 4: I guess took a loan against your house and then

941
00:47:47,080 --> 00:47:48,840
Speaker 4: you paid the loan back over the course of time.

942
00:47:49,320 --> 00:47:52,520
Speaker 5: Okay, yeah, so you have you have the situation. Now

943
00:47:52,520 --> 00:47:53,320
Speaker 5: you're up and running.

944
00:47:53,480 --> 00:47:53,719
Speaker 7: Yep.

945
00:47:53,960 --> 00:47:54,320
Speaker 5: Okay.

946
00:47:55,000 --> 00:48:00,440
Speaker 7: Now, so we closed October first, twenty twenty and in

947
00:48:00,480 --> 00:48:02,359
Speaker 7: the state of New York, I'm the first black woman

948
00:48:02,440 --> 00:48:05,279
Speaker 7: to own and run a spring water bottling plant. So

949
00:48:05,760 --> 00:48:09,440
Speaker 7: I'm thinking this is great. This must be, like, you know,

950
00:48:10,680 --> 00:48:14,000
Speaker 7: going to be easy. He stays on contractually for six

951
00:48:14,040 --> 00:48:18,200
Speaker 7: months to help us through this transition, and then he

952
00:48:18,360 --> 00:48:21,759
Speaker 7: decides not even he I go to the bank and

953
00:48:21,800 --> 00:48:25,480
Speaker 7: try to get a loan. I purchased this company. It's

954
00:48:25,560 --> 00:48:28,000
Speaker 7: twenty five years old, and I'm thinking I should be

955
00:48:28,080 --> 00:48:31,160
Speaker 7: able to get a loan. It has been the hardest

956
00:48:31,800 --> 00:48:35,239
Speaker 7: thing ever. Number One, it was in the midst of

957
00:48:35,280 --> 00:48:38,200
Speaker 7: Corona when they if you didn't have a business prior

958
00:48:38,239 --> 00:48:42,279
Speaker 7: to Corona, the banks were not loaning or lending money right,

959
00:48:42,400 --> 00:48:47,640
Speaker 7: so that became an issue. Secondly, they would not give

960
00:48:47,719 --> 00:48:53,200
Speaker 7: me the LLC, so I had to I had to

961
00:48:52,560 --> 00:48:53,840
Speaker 7: get a lawyer.

962
00:48:54,600 --> 00:48:58,240
Speaker 4: Yeah that was that. Do you have now, Yeah? Okay,

963
00:48:58,920 --> 00:49:00,800
Speaker 4: did the bank ever give you a loan? No, we

964
00:49:00,920 --> 00:49:01,720
Speaker 4: still haven't given.

965
00:49:02,200 --> 00:49:04,880
Speaker 7: So everything we've been doing. We've been doing on my

966
00:49:05,040 --> 00:49:05,560
Speaker 7: on my own.

967
00:49:06,400 --> 00:49:06,720
Speaker 5: Wow.

968
00:49:06,920 --> 00:49:09,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, So all right, so what's the day to day

969
00:49:09,120 --> 00:49:11,240
Speaker 4: operations of running a water water company?

970
00:49:11,280 --> 00:49:11,920
Speaker 5: Water company?

971
00:49:12,560 --> 00:49:16,640
Speaker 7: So cool thing is, so when they were in business,

972
00:49:16,640 --> 00:49:19,960
Speaker 7: they were only working at five percent capacity this business.

973
00:49:20,280 --> 00:49:23,080
Speaker 7: They were working on a Monday for four hours, sixteen

974
00:49:23,120 --> 00:49:25,560
Speaker 7: hours a month, and they were grossing about one hundred

975
00:49:25,560 --> 00:49:30,040
Speaker 7: and thirty thousand six month. Yes, but they were seventy

976
00:49:30,120 --> 00:49:31,719
Speaker 7: nine and eighty one. But they were living off of

977
00:49:31,760 --> 00:49:32,840
Speaker 7: the money that they were making.

978
00:49:33,040 --> 00:49:34,880
Speaker 2: What's five percent capacity? What's that the equivalent?

979
00:49:34,960 --> 00:49:37,520
Speaker 7: So what do you have? Our factory is about twenty

980
00:49:37,560 --> 00:49:41,920
Speaker 7: five thousand square feet. Yeah, we have two production lines.

981
00:49:42,360 --> 00:49:46,000
Speaker 7: One production line does five gallon bottles, four gallon bottles,

982
00:49:46,040 --> 00:49:49,720
Speaker 7: three gallon bottles. It's adjustable, right, that's that one line.

983
00:49:49,840 --> 00:49:53,480
Speaker 7: There's another line that does one gallon bottles, your one leaders,

984
00:49:53,600 --> 00:49:55,960
Speaker 7: your sixteen ounce bottles, your eight ounce bottles. So they're

985
00:49:55,960 --> 00:50:00,640
Speaker 7: two production lines. They were only utilizing the five gallon bottles.

986
00:50:01,600 --> 00:50:04,200
Speaker 7: So those are your five gallon reusable bottles. You'll see

987
00:50:04,239 --> 00:50:06,719
Speaker 7: them at your local doctor's office. And you know, like

988
00:50:06,840 --> 00:50:10,439
Speaker 7: if you go to your range Rover dealership, it's where

989
00:50:10,440 --> 00:50:12,120
Speaker 7: you go press your hot and cold, get your coffee.

990
00:50:12,160 --> 00:50:15,040
Speaker 7: You know those big jugs. They're in that business, right,

991
00:50:15,760 --> 00:50:19,680
Speaker 7: So we were delivering and picking up those waters. We recycle,

992
00:50:19,760 --> 00:50:23,080
Speaker 7: we re rent, and we reuse those bottles. It's a

993
00:50:23,280 --> 00:50:27,600
Speaker 7: very lucrative business because you get to recycle the bottles.

994
00:50:28,360 --> 00:50:32,560
Speaker 4: You recycle used water bottles, the water bottles. What does

995
00:50:32,600 --> 00:50:34,800
Speaker 4: that mean? You recycle it to make new bottles?

996
00:50:34,880 --> 00:50:38,000
Speaker 7: No, no, no, no, So our bottles go onto a conveyor belt,

997
00:50:38,120 --> 00:50:41,319
Speaker 7: they're washed, and they're reused refill. So a lot of

998
00:50:41,800 --> 00:50:44,880
Speaker 7: times when you drink water from those those big jugs,

999
00:50:44,880 --> 00:50:49,000
Speaker 7: they're five gallon jugs. They go through our factories, they

1000
00:50:49,080 --> 00:50:53,080
Speaker 7: go in through a machine and then they're sanitized and

1001
00:50:53,120 --> 00:50:54,680
Speaker 7: then they're all those jugs.

1002
00:50:55,239 --> 00:50:56,880
Speaker 5: So you don't drink from those jugs.

1003
00:50:56,920 --> 00:51:01,360
Speaker 2: So you not, We should? We should.

1004
00:51:02,440 --> 00:51:05,560
Speaker 3: So when you when you get that, so you're I'm thinking, now,

1005
00:51:05,640 --> 00:51:09,000
Speaker 3: since those people were already and this is those customers,

1006
00:51:09,239 --> 00:51:10,400
Speaker 3: did you get all the customers that.

1007
00:51:10,400 --> 00:51:13,080
Speaker 7: They one hundred and fifty customers? We have some really

1008
00:51:13,120 --> 00:51:19,280
Speaker 7: big customers. Walmart's our customer. Toyota for Ford Fish Farm.

1009
00:51:19,480 --> 00:51:21,600
Speaker 7: We have a fish farm, so like a lot of

1010
00:51:21,640 --> 00:51:25,080
Speaker 7: the fish that we consume are in our supermarkets. They're

1011
00:51:25,120 --> 00:51:30,000
Speaker 7: farm raised, so they're not unless you buy wild caught.

1012
00:51:30,160 --> 00:51:34,840
Speaker 7: Their farm raised. So we have huge, huge fish fish.

1013
00:51:34,680 --> 00:51:36,719
Speaker 5: So what does Walmart buy from you?

1014
00:51:37,360 --> 00:51:41,280
Speaker 7: The same tank, the same thing, like what five gallon bottles?

1015
00:51:41,480 --> 00:51:43,600
Speaker 5: Five gallon, it's not labeled anything.

1016
00:51:43,680 --> 00:51:45,440
Speaker 7: Yeah, they're maximam water water.

1017
00:51:45,520 --> 00:51:46,879
Speaker 5: They buy your they buy your water.

1018
00:51:48,440 --> 00:51:51,719
Speaker 4: The customers, do you do you have can you like

1019
00:51:51,800 --> 00:51:53,480
Speaker 4: if we want to do earn your leisure water, can

1020
00:51:53,520 --> 00:51:54,200
Speaker 4: you give us.

1021
00:51:54,480 --> 00:51:56,799
Speaker 7: Absolutely could do earn your leisure water? Because what we

1022
00:51:56,840 --> 00:52:00,200
Speaker 7: are as a manufacturer, right, so I do have custom

1023
00:52:00,480 --> 00:52:03,040
Speaker 7: Like through Way Beverage is one of our customers. We

1024
00:52:03,120 --> 00:52:06,279
Speaker 7: simply just fill their water bottles. They come in, they

1025
00:52:06,320 --> 00:52:08,440
Speaker 7: bring their water bottles. They'll come with the tractor trailer,

1026
00:52:08,520 --> 00:52:11,319
Speaker 7: drop their truck, their their bottles off. We do the

1027
00:52:11,320 --> 00:52:14,160
Speaker 7: same thing. They'll come up and pick up. About I

1028
00:52:14,239 --> 00:52:16,640
Speaker 7: want to say about ten palette you.

1029
00:52:16,880 --> 00:52:17,320
Speaker 2: The labels on?

1030
00:52:17,840 --> 00:52:22,480
Speaker 7: Yeah, our machine, not me a machine, Yeah, our machine.

1031
00:52:22,520 --> 00:52:25,719
Speaker 7: So what happened, Well, that's for if you come in

1032
00:52:25,760 --> 00:52:28,720
Speaker 7: with a five gallon bottle, I would purchase the bottles

1033
00:52:28,719 --> 00:52:32,080
Speaker 7: for you, and our bottling company will have them pre

1034
00:52:32,160 --> 00:52:33,960
Speaker 7: labeled so they could be silk screen or we'll put

1035
00:52:33,960 --> 00:52:37,239
Speaker 7: them on. So it depends on what we're doing for you, right,

1036
00:52:37,480 --> 00:52:40,880
Speaker 7: So I have this one through Way Beverages. They do

1037
00:52:40,920 --> 00:52:44,439
Speaker 7: about two thousand bottles a week, so they'll bring two

1038
00:52:44,440 --> 00:52:47,000
Speaker 7: thousand bottles, drop them off on a Monday, we fill them,

1039
00:52:47,080 --> 00:52:49,080
Speaker 7: they come back on a Tuesday Wednesday, and they'll pick

1040
00:52:49,120 --> 00:52:51,560
Speaker 7: them back up. So we have a lot of beverage

1041
00:52:51,600 --> 00:52:53,520
Speaker 7: warehouses that do just that.

1042
00:52:53,719 --> 00:52:55,600
Speaker 3: So when you at the closing table, we'll come back

1043
00:52:55,640 --> 00:52:57,840
Speaker 3: to this for a second because this originally started with

1044
00:52:57,840 --> 00:52:58,840
Speaker 3: the New York water Boys.

1045
00:52:58,920 --> 00:52:59,920
Speaker 7: This originally started.

1046
00:53:00,080 --> 00:53:00,840
Speaker 5: Are the New York.

1047
00:53:00,719 --> 00:53:02,799
Speaker 2: Water Boys at the table? Are they owners of this

1048
00:53:02,880 --> 00:53:03,279
Speaker 2: as well?

1049
00:53:03,360 --> 00:53:06,760
Speaker 3: Or is this mom and now my sons are working

1050
00:53:06,800 --> 00:53:08,600
Speaker 3: here with the potential to have equity down the road.

1051
00:53:08,640 --> 00:53:12,400
Speaker 7: So this is me. I owned the factory, the water plant,

1052
00:53:13,280 --> 00:53:17,799
Speaker 7: and the land the business. My partner and I went

1053
00:53:17,840 --> 00:53:21,279
Speaker 7: in fifty to fifty on the business, but I've since

1054
00:53:21,400 --> 00:53:24,720
Speaker 7: bought him out, and my boys are in charge of distribution,

1055
00:53:24,840 --> 00:53:28,640
Speaker 7: of course, but my boys are in charge of distribution,

1056
00:53:28,920 --> 00:53:32,120
Speaker 7: so they're in charge of logistics and roots. So every

1057
00:53:32,200 --> 00:53:35,960
Speaker 7: time water goes out, that's what they're in charge of.

1058
00:53:36,640 --> 00:53:41,080
Speaker 7: So okay, there's still new York Waterboys the the distribution

1059
00:53:41,600 --> 00:53:42,480
Speaker 7: leg of our company.

1060
00:53:42,760 --> 00:53:47,239
Speaker 4: So now you're sitting on water, so the water keeps

1061
00:53:47,280 --> 00:53:49,320
Speaker 4: re furbishing itself.

1062
00:53:49,040 --> 00:53:52,320
Speaker 7: Right exact, right, Well, we have and we had a

1063
00:53:52,400 --> 00:53:55,719
Speaker 7: hydrology report that was done about twenty five years ago.

1064
00:53:55,719 --> 00:53:57,200
Speaker 7: We're kind of due for a new one that gave

1065
00:53:57,239 --> 00:53:59,400
Speaker 7: us a three hundred year lifespan. And we get about

1066
00:53:59,440 --> 00:54:03,120
Speaker 7: eighty nine million gallons of water in this aquafer that

1067
00:54:03,400 --> 00:54:07,840
Speaker 7: passes through every year. So we never deplete our aquifer,

1068
00:54:07,920 --> 00:54:12,759
Speaker 7: which is pretty interesting because most aquifers, Like again I

1069
00:54:12,800 --> 00:54:15,160
Speaker 7: was telling you about the different way that waters dispersed

1070
00:54:15,160 --> 00:54:19,480
Speaker 7: and access to water. So we have about three percent

1071
00:54:19,600 --> 00:54:22,719
Speaker 7: of water that's underground, zero point three percent of water

1072
00:54:22,800 --> 00:54:26,320
Speaker 7: that's underground. But with this aquafer, ours are is always

1073
00:54:26,320 --> 00:54:29,440
Speaker 7: replenishing because of where we are a lot of places

1074
00:54:29,480 --> 00:54:32,839
Speaker 7: just have reservoir with reservoirs and these aquifers and they

1075
00:54:32,920 --> 00:54:35,759
Speaker 7: dry up over time, but hours because of where we

1076
00:54:35,800 --> 00:54:39,600
Speaker 7: are in New York, where we get a lot of rainfall,

1077
00:54:40,080 --> 00:54:42,600
Speaker 7: and where we are we get our water just continues

1078
00:54:42,640 --> 00:54:46,560
Speaker 7: to fall. We also have an artesian well artesian stream,

1079
00:54:46,640 --> 00:54:52,360
Speaker 7: I should say, on our property. Artesian water is water

1080
00:54:52,400 --> 00:54:54,920
Speaker 7: that has minerals in it, so it's just a regular

1081
00:54:54,960 --> 00:54:58,719
Speaker 7: stream water, mineral water. So you know, is Ourtesian water,

1082
00:54:58,920 --> 00:55:03,319
Speaker 7: your Fiji water, s Artigan water, okay, right, and what

1083
00:55:03,400 --> 00:55:05,680
Speaker 7: I have is spring water. And in order for us

1084
00:55:05,719 --> 00:55:08,400
Speaker 7: to be spring water, that this aquifer has to naturally

1085
00:55:08,480 --> 00:55:10,600
Speaker 7: spring up to the top into the surface. And that's

1086
00:55:10,640 --> 00:55:13,439
Speaker 7: what I have. So these this couple had this land

1087
00:55:13,440 --> 00:55:16,720
Speaker 7: for fifty years. Then you started hurting lamas. The lama

1088
00:55:17,200 --> 00:55:19,320
Speaker 7: kept going to this one spot and he couldn't figure

1089
00:55:19,320 --> 00:55:22,000
Speaker 7: out why this lama kept going to this one spot,

1090
00:55:22,200 --> 00:55:24,280
Speaker 7: and then he figured out that the water was springing

1091
00:55:24,360 --> 00:55:27,840
Speaker 7: to the surface. So that's how he found out he

1092
00:55:27,880 --> 00:55:28,480
Speaker 7: had that spring.

1093
00:55:28,920 --> 00:55:30,600
Speaker 2: So this is incredible.

1094
00:55:30,600 --> 00:55:35,439
Speaker 4: What's the process of all right, you have the water

1095
00:55:35,640 --> 00:55:38,000
Speaker 4: in your spot and then it goes you have to

1096
00:55:38,040 --> 00:55:40,799
Speaker 4: clean the water to actually get you know, it just

1097
00:55:40,840 --> 00:55:41,760
Speaker 4: goes straight into a bottle.

1098
00:55:42,239 --> 00:55:45,719
Speaker 7: So the water does go through an ozonation process, and

1099
00:55:45,880 --> 00:55:48,960
Speaker 7: it does go through you know, like the ozone layer,

1100
00:55:49,840 --> 00:55:53,520
Speaker 7: So it does that kills nine of bacteria and viruses.

1101
00:55:53,920 --> 00:55:56,719
Speaker 7: It's not a chemical actually, but there is an oznation

1102
00:55:56,840 --> 00:56:02,040
Speaker 7: process that happens. It goes through so the water. I

1103
00:56:02,120 --> 00:56:04,000
Speaker 7: just did a video on this too yesterday. I'm going

1104
00:56:04,080 --> 00:56:06,799
Speaker 7: to put it up. So we have a well that

1105
00:56:06,880 --> 00:56:10,880
Speaker 7: pumps to the actual spring. What they did was cemented,

1106
00:56:11,000 --> 00:56:14,200
Speaker 7: so it can be contaminated. Right, So it's actually cemented.

1107
00:56:14,480 --> 00:56:17,400
Speaker 7: But they ran a pipe and the pipe then pumps

1108
00:56:17,400 --> 00:56:19,520
Speaker 7: the water back to the factory and then we have

1109
00:56:19,640 --> 00:56:24,360
Speaker 7: a thousand gallon uh you know container that has the water.

1110
00:56:25,320 --> 00:56:28,640
Speaker 7: Once the water goes in there, it's then filtered through

1111
00:56:29,160 --> 00:56:32,920
Speaker 7: a coal system, a charcoal system, and then it goes

1112
00:56:32,960 --> 00:56:34,480
Speaker 7: through an ozonation process.

1113
00:56:35,120 --> 00:56:38,360
Speaker 5: What is the ogenation process.

1114
00:56:36,920 --> 00:56:40,759
Speaker 7: It's just the ozone is a chemical is oxygenated in

1115
00:56:40,840 --> 00:56:48,080
Speaker 7: ozone and it's like a gas. Nothing inside the water,

1116
00:56:48,160 --> 00:56:52,360
Speaker 7: So it's like a gas the water goes through. I

1117
00:56:52,400 --> 00:56:54,200
Speaker 7: don't know even how to know to explain it better.

1118
00:56:54,440 --> 00:56:56,719
Speaker 2: I'm trying to visualize it. So it's going through a process.

1119
00:56:56,840 --> 00:56:59,479
Speaker 2: It went through the cold. Now it's really just because

1120
00:56:59,480 --> 00:57:00,040
Speaker 2: it's a pure of.

1121
00:57:00,040 --> 00:57:02,880
Speaker 7: It's so purifying, right. But our water quality is a

1122
00:57:03,000 --> 00:57:05,680
Speaker 7: high premium. Again I found them because of the premium.

1123
00:57:05,719 --> 00:57:06,719
Speaker 7: The quality of the water.

1124
00:57:06,880 --> 00:57:08,759
Speaker 2: Was it rated you said that you were going to

1125
00:57:08,800 --> 00:57:09,320
Speaker 2: taste it.

1126
00:57:09,320 --> 00:57:11,359
Speaker 7: It was rated a five out of a five, right,

1127
00:57:11,840 --> 00:57:14,759
Speaker 7: so it's really high quality. So it's what that it

1128
00:57:14,880 --> 00:57:18,440
Speaker 7: means is the TDS level. It has very low TEDS

1129
00:57:18,640 --> 00:57:22,800
Speaker 7: total dissolve solutes, So there's a lot that's not much

1130
00:57:23,120 --> 00:57:26,280
Speaker 7: in the water. Naturally because of where it is, it's

1131
00:57:26,400 --> 00:57:29,280
Speaker 7: naturally filtrated through a sand and gravel pit. I also

1132
00:57:29,320 --> 00:57:31,920
Speaker 7: have a gravel pit too on my property, so it

1133
00:57:33,640 --> 00:57:38,280
Speaker 7: is naturally filtrated through the sand and gravel. So by

1134
00:57:38,320 --> 00:57:41,919
Speaker 7: the time it gets to this aquifer, it's so refined, right,

1135
00:57:42,400 --> 00:57:46,400
Speaker 7: but it does go through a satitation process, very minimal, right,

1136
00:57:46,440 --> 00:57:49,000
Speaker 7: So we don't add any chemicals, no chlorino so nothing,

1137
00:57:49,840 --> 00:57:52,439
Speaker 7: you're ready, so pure, but we do like hit it

1138
00:57:52,520 --> 00:57:55,240
Speaker 7: with this gas to just just to make sure there's

1139
00:57:55,240 --> 00:57:57,000
Speaker 7: no viruses or bacteria in there.

1140
00:57:57,080 --> 00:57:58,840
Speaker 3: And so from that point does it go into the

1141
00:57:58,880 --> 00:58:01,080
Speaker 3: bottles And so they will run it at a five

1142
00:58:01,120 --> 00:58:02,000
Speaker 3: percent capacity?

1143
00:58:02,120 --> 00:58:02,920
Speaker 2: Ye, what is it?

1144
00:58:03,200 --> 00:58:05,000
Speaker 3: What's the number when it's at I guess are you

1145
00:58:05,040 --> 00:58:06,040
Speaker 3: running it at one hundred percent?

1146
00:58:06,080 --> 00:58:08,040
Speaker 2: Yet? Not yet? So where are we at?

1147
00:58:08,560 --> 00:58:12,680
Speaker 7: So we're at we're not even nearly up to capacity.

1148
00:58:13,480 --> 00:58:16,560
Speaker 7: We've just been servicing our clients, right, So while we're

1149
00:58:16,600 --> 00:58:19,680
Speaker 7: in the position, we're rebranding because I am not going

1150
00:58:19,680 --> 00:58:24,160
Speaker 7: out in the world as MAXI. So we're rebranding. We

1151
00:58:24,200 --> 00:58:26,919
Speaker 7: need to update our machinery. There's a lot that needs

1152
00:58:26,920 --> 00:58:28,200
Speaker 7: to it's super antiquated.

1153
00:58:28,280 --> 00:58:29,760
Speaker 5: Right, what's the what's the new name?

1154
00:58:30,280 --> 00:58:33,480
Speaker 7: So it's going to be yes Water, Yes Water, y

1155
00:58:33,520 --> 00:58:36,240
Speaker 7: s S. So it's Youth Saving Society.

1156
00:58:36,280 --> 00:58:36,560
Speaker 5: Okay.

1157
00:58:36,640 --> 00:58:38,640
Speaker 2: So that was the original name for.

1158
00:58:38,640 --> 00:58:43,000
Speaker 7: The Financial Literacy Courses Saving Society, So it'll be yes

1159
00:58:43,080 --> 00:58:44,080
Speaker 7: Water Okay.

1160
00:58:43,880 --> 00:58:47,880
Speaker 5: Uh huh okay. How are people working?

1161
00:58:48,640 --> 00:58:50,800
Speaker 7: So this was a dope part. So we need a

1162
00:58:50,880 --> 00:58:54,040
Speaker 7: day laborers. And I went to a local church and

1163
00:58:54,040 --> 00:58:55,800
Speaker 7: I'm like, hey, I need some guys. Can you send

1164
00:58:55,840 --> 00:58:59,840
Speaker 7: me some guys. I get to guys and I never

1165
00:59:00,240 --> 00:59:02,120
Speaker 7: I didn't do a background check. I'm just like, you know,

1166
00:59:02,240 --> 00:59:05,200
Speaker 7: we just need DAI labors. So they come in. They

1167
00:59:05,440 --> 00:59:09,640
Speaker 7: actually end up being formally incarcerated guys, and they started

1168
00:59:09,640 --> 00:59:12,320
Speaker 7: coming in to work with us. I'm like, I didn't

1169
00:59:12,360 --> 00:59:14,440
Speaker 7: know that. Even I asked him to pick up some

1170
00:59:14,520 --> 00:59:17,880
Speaker 7: furniture from New York City, they couldn't go. He kept

1171
00:59:17,880 --> 00:59:19,800
Speaker 7: giving me the run around. Then he comes and tells

1172
00:59:19,800 --> 00:59:21,720
Speaker 7: me that he has an ankle bracelet and he needs

1173
00:59:21,760 --> 00:59:24,880
Speaker 7: to get permission from his parole officer in order to

1174
00:59:24,920 --> 00:59:28,200
Speaker 7: go Once he does this, it opens up another can

1175
00:59:28,200 --> 00:59:31,160
Speaker 7: of worms. So we have financial literacy on the first end.

1176
00:59:32,040 --> 00:59:34,840
Speaker 7: The water is supposed to support our financial literacy. And

1177
00:59:34,880 --> 00:59:37,760
Speaker 7: now I'm doing something else with programming with the Department

1178
00:59:37,760 --> 00:59:41,600
Speaker 7: of Corrections to create a system where they can actually work.

1179
00:59:42,040 --> 00:59:45,720
Speaker 7: And I don't have a living quarter, so it can't

1180
00:59:45,720 --> 00:59:49,080
Speaker 7: be a halfway house. But we're creating programming so they

1181
00:59:49,120 --> 00:59:52,440
Speaker 7: can have substantial amount of money to transition back into society.

1182
00:59:52,800 --> 00:59:55,640
Speaker 7: So I'm in the process of working through do C

1183
00:59:55,880 --> 00:59:56,800
Speaker 7: with that right now too.

1184
00:59:57,080 --> 00:59:57,480
Speaker 5: That's good.

1185
00:59:57,960 --> 00:59:58,400
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1186
01:00:03,760 --> 01:00:06,120
Speaker 7: I'm a doer though, so even if I don't know

1187
01:00:06,160 --> 01:00:09,680
Speaker 7: how to do it, I'm that person who understands, like

1188
01:00:09,760 --> 01:00:11,320
Speaker 7: I need to put the right people in place to

1189
01:00:11,360 --> 01:00:13,240
Speaker 7: do Like that's just I'm the doer.

1190
01:00:13,320 --> 01:00:16,200
Speaker 5: So you got two people that's working there that's actually bottling.

1191
01:00:15,920 --> 01:00:17,400
Speaker 7: The water on our what it is.

1192
01:00:17,480 --> 01:00:21,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, and there's machines that's actually doing they just like

1193
01:00:21,360 --> 01:00:22,280
Speaker 4: doing the lake workers.

1194
01:00:22,400 --> 01:00:24,360
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, yeah.

1195
01:00:24,600 --> 01:00:26,640
Speaker 3: I would just saying so that the boys are distributing,

1196
01:00:26,720 --> 01:00:30,520
Speaker 3: what's the distribution, what's the radius of how far they're going.

1197
01:00:30,360 --> 01:00:34,000
Speaker 7: With upstate New York and they go as far as

1198
01:00:35,400 --> 01:00:37,680
Speaker 7: Lake Georgia. Are you familiar with Lake Georgia upstate New York.

1199
01:00:38,240 --> 01:00:39,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's the largest lake in the state.

1200
01:00:40,040 --> 01:00:40,280
Speaker 5: Yeah.

1201
01:00:40,400 --> 01:00:44,840
Speaker 7: So interestingly, like we supply most of Lake George, Lake George,

1202
01:00:44,840 --> 01:00:47,400
Speaker 7: we even have Great Adventures as one of our clients.

1203
01:00:47,800 --> 01:00:52,000
Speaker 7: So Lake George six Flags. Great Adventures own Great Escapes

1204
01:00:52,080 --> 01:00:54,160
Speaker 7: upstate New York, so we don't come down to Jersey.

1205
01:00:54,200 --> 01:00:57,960
Speaker 7: They own Great Escape upstate, so they're also are clients.

1206
01:00:58,280 --> 01:01:01,240
Speaker 7: So he had to really substanti show business. And our

1207
01:01:01,280 --> 01:01:05,880
Speaker 7: clientele was really great as well. It was just he

1208
01:01:06,000 --> 01:01:09,120
Speaker 7: was just not maximizing what he had and again for him,

1209
01:01:09,200 --> 01:01:11,840
Speaker 7: it was maxed, right, So they only could do so much.

1210
01:01:11,920 --> 01:01:15,760
Speaker 7: They Where we are it's very rural. We're in the mountain,

1211
01:01:15,880 --> 01:01:19,520
Speaker 7: so it's very hard to get people to come up

1212
01:01:19,560 --> 01:01:22,439
Speaker 7: and work and stay up there unless you live up there. Right.

1213
01:01:22,600 --> 01:01:30,360
Speaker 4: So so okay, so the natural resource play, All right,

1214
01:01:30,440 --> 01:01:33,280
Speaker 4: let's talk about this water. There's no types of water, right,

1215
01:01:33,400 --> 01:01:38,400
Speaker 4: Distilled water, spring water, what's the science behind that?

1216
01:01:40,040 --> 01:01:43,320
Speaker 7: Just basically the source of it? Right, So our teesing

1217
01:01:43,400 --> 01:01:46,040
Speaker 7: water just mean it has minerals in it, and that's

1218
01:01:46,120 --> 01:01:49,200
Speaker 7: usually from a lake. It has to be spring and water.

1219
01:01:49,240 --> 01:01:50,960
Speaker 7: For it to be spring water, it has to spring

1220
01:01:51,040 --> 01:01:54,120
Speaker 7: to the surface for it to be spring water. Distilled

1221
01:01:54,120 --> 01:01:58,200
Speaker 7: water is processed water. That means it's just boiled and

1222
01:01:58,240 --> 01:02:02,480
Speaker 7: they use a process of osmosis to separate your salutes,

1223
01:02:02,520 --> 01:02:05,440
Speaker 7: which are your solids, from your water, and then they

1224
01:02:05,480 --> 01:02:08,040
Speaker 7: take the solid. So you would hear a lot of

1225
01:02:08,080 --> 01:02:11,439
Speaker 7: companies say and and again, oh it's better because it's

1226
01:02:11,480 --> 01:02:15,560
Speaker 7: more refined. We would beg to differ, right, So our

1227
01:02:15,600 --> 01:02:18,960
Speaker 7: water should have some elements and some natural elements and

1228
01:02:18,720 --> 01:02:21,480
Speaker 7: and and in it, because that's we're made up of

1229
01:02:21,520 --> 01:02:24,560
Speaker 7: those natural metals, right, So you do need some sorts

1230
01:02:24,560 --> 01:02:28,160
Speaker 7: of metals in your water. So I would definitely look

1231
01:02:28,200 --> 01:02:30,240
Speaker 7: at that too. You don't want water that is so

1232
01:02:30,520 --> 01:02:34,360
Speaker 7: refined that you take out all of the properties that

1233
01:02:34,400 --> 01:02:37,120
Speaker 7: your body actually needs. And that's my nursing met telling

1234
01:02:37,160 --> 01:02:38,760
Speaker 7: you that same thing.

1235
01:02:38,920 --> 01:02:39,240
Speaker 2: Different.

1236
01:02:39,320 --> 01:02:40,880
Speaker 7: Purified is pretty much the same.

1237
01:02:41,320 --> 01:02:43,439
Speaker 5: The best water is spring water.

1238
01:02:44,080 --> 01:02:47,960
Speaker 7: No, there's no best water, right, So best water natural

1239
01:02:48,000 --> 01:02:49,520
Speaker 7: spring water is natural.

1240
01:02:49,360 --> 01:02:51,000
Speaker 5: Natural water is better than distilled water.

1241
01:02:51,120 --> 01:02:51,400
Speaker 2: Right.

1242
01:02:51,480 --> 01:02:56,800
Speaker 4: So again, okay, so it's like, yeah, like the periodic table.

1243
01:02:56,560 --> 01:02:57,560
Speaker 5: All the stuff is coming.

1244
01:02:57,400 --> 01:03:02,800
Speaker 4: Back to cool. I remember, yeah, I don remember, I

1245
01:03:02,800 --> 01:03:06,240
Speaker 4: remember what you're talking about. I should have paid more attention.

1246
01:03:06,480 --> 01:03:07,160
Speaker 2: I tried.

1247
01:03:08,440 --> 01:03:14,680
Speaker 4: So like in Texas when people like strike oil and

1248
01:03:14,720 --> 01:03:16,720
Speaker 4: it's like they can get brought out by like Egxon

1249
01:03:16,760 --> 01:03:18,880
Speaker 4: and get like one hundreds of millions of dollars, Like

1250
01:03:19,240 --> 01:03:21,280
Speaker 4: can something like that happen in the water business as well?

1251
01:03:21,680 --> 01:03:25,120
Speaker 7: I have been offered millions and millions of dollars for

1252
01:03:25,600 --> 01:03:28,480
Speaker 7: your from my factory already already.

1253
01:03:28,440 --> 01:03:32,000
Speaker 5: What those But how come to other people? Were they

1254
01:03:32,160 --> 01:03:33,320
Speaker 5: not offered that?

1255
01:03:33,320 --> 01:03:38,000
Speaker 7: That's right? So they were poland Spring tried to buy them,

1256
01:03:38,120 --> 01:03:41,000
Speaker 7: and so just Water tried to buy them. So some

1257
01:03:41,040 --> 01:03:43,000
Speaker 7: companies did try to buy them, but he didn't want

1258
01:03:43,000 --> 01:03:46,000
Speaker 7: to buy it out. So I'm we're one of very

1259
01:03:46,040 --> 01:03:51,480
Speaker 7: few independent water companies left. We have these large conglomerates

1260
01:03:51,520 --> 01:03:54,520
Speaker 7: that are buying up water sources and they're vaulting them.

1261
01:03:55,280 --> 01:04:00,960
Speaker 7: So what does that look like? December seventh, twenty twenty.

1262
01:04:01,200 --> 01:04:04,040
Speaker 7: Water is a commodity and it's being so traded on

1263
01:04:04,080 --> 01:04:04,640
Speaker 7: the Nasdaq.

1264
01:04:04,880 --> 01:04:05,479
Speaker 5: That's a fact.

1265
01:04:05,560 --> 01:04:08,000
Speaker 2: That is a fact, right, Yeah.

1266
01:04:07,480 --> 01:04:12,640
Speaker 7: So that's something to look at. Goldman Sachs in two thousand,

1267
01:04:13,040 --> 01:04:16,160
Speaker 7: I want to say eighteen said that water will be

1268
01:04:16,200 --> 01:04:20,360
Speaker 7: the new petroleum. That's very scary too, right, So there's

1269
01:04:20,440 --> 01:04:23,960
Speaker 7: obviously something that they see and they know, and we're

1270
01:04:24,000 --> 01:04:25,920
Speaker 7: always the last to find out.

1271
01:04:26,240 --> 01:04:28,520
Speaker 2: So this is a I mean it's a water story,

1272
01:04:28,520 --> 01:04:29,640
Speaker 2: but this is like a goban.

1273
01:04:30,440 --> 01:04:33,960
Speaker 5: Yeah, so you're opposed to selling.

1274
01:04:34,840 --> 01:04:37,840
Speaker 7: I am not going to sell like we come from.

1275
01:04:37,920 --> 01:04:39,920
Speaker 7: I'm going to move and change this narrative that we

1276
01:04:39,960 --> 01:04:44,720
Speaker 7: don't own anything if there is going this so water

1277
01:04:44,920 --> 01:04:49,640
Speaker 7: so scarce. We saw what happened in Flint, right, we

1278
01:04:49,680 --> 01:04:53,400
Speaker 7: saw what happened in even New Mexico. We see what

1279
01:04:53,600 --> 01:04:58,560
Speaker 7: happened in Africa, in northern Africa, all parts of Africa.

1280
01:04:58,760 --> 01:05:01,160
Speaker 7: So again I was telling you before that the largest

1281
01:05:01,160 --> 01:05:04,120
Speaker 7: part of the clean water source goes to our agriculture

1282
01:05:04,200 --> 01:05:10,240
Speaker 7: seven percent. So if we don't have clean water, if

1283
01:05:10,240 --> 01:05:14,080
Speaker 7: we don't have clean life for our water essential it's essential.

1284
01:05:14,680 --> 01:05:18,920
Speaker 5: Is you hear what they're doing. What they're taking salt

1285
01:05:19,200 --> 01:05:22,600
Speaker 5: watering and then turned it into drinking water.

1286
01:05:22,720 --> 01:05:22,959
Speaker 2: Yep.

1287
01:05:23,520 --> 01:05:28,560
Speaker 7: But again that's an amazing, amazing right, but if you

1288
01:05:28,560 --> 01:05:31,960
Speaker 7: look at desalination, it's super expensive, takes a long time

1289
01:05:32,000 --> 01:05:34,840
Speaker 7: to do, and the amount of energy that it costs

1290
01:05:34,840 --> 01:05:37,440
Speaker 7: to do that. It doesn't make sense because they're taking

1291
01:05:37,480 --> 01:05:40,600
Speaker 7: their clean water to exact so industry is the second sector.

1292
01:05:40,680 --> 01:05:43,600
Speaker 7: So the first sector most of our money goes to,

1293
01:05:43,640 --> 01:05:47,400
Speaker 7: I mean, our water goes to is agriculture. The second

1294
01:05:47,440 --> 01:05:54,560
Speaker 7: sector industry. So your clothes, your technology, your computers, your cameras, ourself,

1295
01:05:54,720 --> 01:05:59,320
Speaker 7: everything goes through this and we oil, steel, all of

1296
01:05:59,320 --> 01:06:03,240
Speaker 7: these things. You clean water, and then what do they do?

1297
01:06:03,440 --> 01:06:06,640
Speaker 7: They in turn then dump that pollution back into our

1298
01:06:06,680 --> 01:06:10,200
Speaker 7: clean water systems, which even like so we have a

1299
01:06:10,280 --> 01:06:14,440
Speaker 7: real problem, we only have how bad is the problem?

1300
01:06:14,680 --> 01:06:16,000
Speaker 7: We have a real problem.

1301
01:06:16,000 --> 01:06:18,480
Speaker 4: I think people need to know, like how like if

1302
01:06:18,480 --> 01:06:21,440
Speaker 4: they can understand, like, okay, in one hundred.

1303
01:06:21,240 --> 01:06:27,960
Speaker 7: Years, we're dead, like all right, So they're predicting wars

1304
01:06:28,000 --> 01:06:31,160
Speaker 7: are going I've heard and I'm bred and you guys

1305
01:06:31,160 --> 01:06:33,600
Speaker 7: can look at it. Look this up yourself. The next

1306
01:06:33,640 --> 01:06:36,760
Speaker 7: war will be over water because if we cannot make

1307
01:06:36,840 --> 01:06:41,560
Speaker 7: food to sustain ourselves, we're going to start fighting for survival.

1308
01:06:42,560 --> 01:06:42,800
Speaker 5: Right.

1309
01:06:43,120 --> 01:06:45,120
Speaker 7: So these are the things that we need to really

1310
01:06:45,120 --> 01:06:48,000
Speaker 7: look at and really take really really serious, very.

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Speaker 4: Serious crisis outside of America, Israel, Palestine, that's a major issue,

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Speaker 4: and that's why they're doing that with the salt order.

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Speaker 4: But that's one that they have a lot of issues

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Speaker 4: obviously with that that's one of the main issues. Palestinians

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Speaker 4: don't really have fresh water, and that's an issue Africa,

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Speaker 4: for sure, it's an issue. I watched these documentaries, I

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Speaker 4: watched these things, and it's like, you know, it's something

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Speaker 4: that Americans a lot of times get jaded because we

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Speaker 4: don't have that issue, that issue, so it's like it's

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Speaker 4: not happening to me an effect, I.

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Speaker 3: Feel that there was at one point where they had

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Speaker 3: the Water for Life campaign and we started we start

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Speaker 3: to see it and paid more attention to it, and

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Speaker 3: it was like once we didn't hear about Water for

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Speaker 3: Life anymore.

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Speaker 2: It was like people just kind of forgot about it.

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Speaker 2: But the crisis has only gotten worse.

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Speaker 7: Ye look at California right with the drought. So these

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Speaker 7: are the things that create the scarcity, so drought, pollution, population.

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Speaker 7: We have the same amount of water that we did

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Speaker 7: one hundred years ago, and we'll have the same amount

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Speaker 7: of water one hundred years from now, right, and we

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Speaker 7: continue to grow as a people, and we consume a lot.

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Speaker 7: It takes fifteen thousand liters of water to make two

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Speaker 7: pounds of beef, and we consume a lot of beef.

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Speaker 7: So when I say, agriculture is not just growing food.

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Speaker 7: Its meat consumption is the highest. Wheat is about I

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Speaker 7: want to say, one point five leaders. There's wheat, there's rice,

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Speaker 7: is about three point five leaders of water. But the

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Speaker 7: largest fifteen thousand leaders of water go into two pounds

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Speaker 7: of beef.

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Speaker 4: And it's like, you know, people like Elon Musk talk

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Speaker 4: about colonizing Mars. It may sound like he's fantasizing, but

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Speaker 4: he's dead serious. And it's like for a lot of

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Speaker 4: different reasons, but we're we're already destroying earth and raping

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Speaker 4: its resources at a vicious rate. So either we stop

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Speaker 4: or we find somewhere else to live. So he's like,

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Speaker 4: all right, we got to live somewhere else. I might

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Speaker 4: fossil what else that has resource colonized this situation, take

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Speaker 4: the resources, and by the time they get tomorrow, they'll

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Speaker 4: already be the landlord.

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Speaker 5: They have to pay me to just live here, be

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Speaker 5: the real It's crazy until it happens. Yeah, that's a fact.

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Speaker 3: No, I'm thinking about the agriculture because even if you

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Speaker 3: look in some of these the Middle American cities and states,

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Speaker 3: you just see that water just running and running all day,

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Speaker 3: all day, just wasting water.

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Speaker 7: But what we see is like so big business. I

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Speaker 7: have been approached by these larger companies like Saratoga Water

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Speaker 7: was brought up by I Wanta se Pepsi a few

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Speaker 7: years ago. So we're one of very few, and like,

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Speaker 7: my goal is to stay an independent, minority water source

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Speaker 7: because we see what our future, well not even our future.

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Speaker 7: We've seen what history has history has shown us. We're

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Speaker 7: at the bottom of the totem pole. We saw that

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Speaker 7: in Flint. We see what again. I bring up Flint

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Speaker 7: because water is there, but it was the infrastructure, which

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Speaker 7: is another issue. America's infantstructure when it comes to water

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Speaker 7: is over one hundred years old, right, and they say

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Speaker 7: there's five trillion dollars to upgrade that. We're never ever

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Speaker 7: ever going to be in a good space if we're

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Speaker 7: relying on them to provide us with something as something

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Speaker 7: as natural as not even as natural, as essential as water.

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Speaker 2: So being that it is a commodity, yep.

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Speaker 3: Long term, do you see yourself potentially going headed into

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01:10:25,760 --> 01:10:26,519
Speaker 3: the stock organ with this?

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Speaker 7: That could be a possibility. What we're doing super so

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Speaker 7: what I couldn't sleep the other night. I was like

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01:10:39,120 --> 01:10:42,599
Speaker 7: up for like two days I couldn't sleep. So something

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01:10:42,680 --> 01:10:45,160
Speaker 7: dropped into my spirit and I'm like, Okay, I'm going

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01:10:45,240 --> 01:10:47,759
Speaker 7: to do a Kickstarter campaign, but I'm going to attack

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Speaker 7: a coin to it. So for every something, yeah yeah,

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01:10:54,080 --> 01:10:57,680
Speaker 7: so for a water coin. So for every bottle, for

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Speaker 7: every dollar that you go to our kicks, start a

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01:11:00,360 --> 01:11:03,559
Speaker 7: campaign and help us with right, for every dollar, you'll

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01:11:03,560 --> 01:11:05,960
Speaker 7: get a coin, not a coin, you'll get a token.

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Speaker 7: For every ten tokens, you'll get a gallon of water.

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Speaker 7: That's about eight bottles, right, so seven and a half,

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Speaker 7: so I estimated to about eight bottles of water. So

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Speaker 7: every ten dollars you'll get a coin. So for every dollar,

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01:11:21,080 --> 01:11:22,840
Speaker 7: you get a token. For every ten you get a coin,

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01:11:23,200 --> 01:11:25,679
Speaker 7: and then you'll get a gallon of water. So I'm

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01:11:25,680 --> 01:11:29,280
Speaker 7: going to pre sell three million gallons of water.

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Speaker 2: It's a lot.

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01:11:33,640 --> 01:11:38,040
Speaker 7: I needed to figure out how I can raise money

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01:11:38,160 --> 01:11:41,200
Speaker 7: to keep this in our community.

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01:11:43,120 --> 01:11:45,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know that's what I mean.

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01:11:46,080 --> 01:11:48,720
Speaker 3: I'm thinking to myself, right, they give it to me

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01:11:48,760 --> 01:11:50,120
Speaker 3: for or they didn't give it to me. I got

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01:11:50,120 --> 01:11:53,639
Speaker 3: it for one point five yep, millions getting offered within

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01:11:53,800 --> 01:11:54,360
Speaker 3: four months.

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01:11:54,360 --> 01:11:58,479
Speaker 2: That's not typical. Less less than four months yep.

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01:11:58,600 --> 01:12:03,840
Speaker 7: Yeap upwards of twenty upwards of twenty.

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01:12:04,000 --> 01:12:04,800
Speaker 5: Better person to me.

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01:12:11,760 --> 01:12:14,360
Speaker 2: Love with the water, y'all, I'm out of here.

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01:12:14,439 --> 01:12:19,360
Speaker 5: A Lisia has been earned. Gotts go horrible yourself.

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01:12:23,080 --> 01:12:25,439
Speaker 7: I honestly feel like God has made me a servant

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01:12:25,479 --> 01:12:28,000
Speaker 7: of water and I don't know what it is. Again,

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01:12:28,120 --> 01:12:30,720
Speaker 7: from the very beginning, I do not want to be

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01:12:30,840 --> 01:12:31,879
Speaker 7: in the water business.

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01:12:32,120 --> 01:12:33,759
Speaker 2: He just went to get I want.

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01:12:33,760 --> 01:12:36,880
Speaker 7: To taste water. But I feel like I was positioned

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01:12:36,920 --> 01:12:38,760
Speaker 7: for such a time and I feel like I'm a

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01:12:38,800 --> 01:12:42,799
Speaker 7: small piece of a big puzzle. Right because earn your leisure.

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01:12:43,080 --> 01:12:47,360
Speaker 4: I feel like we should do all a fundraising campaign.

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01:12:47,479 --> 01:12:50,559
Speaker 4: We gotta do something earn Alesia water, something like that too.

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01:12:50,800 --> 01:12:53,000
Speaker 4: I feel like I believe in this situation. I'm thinking

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01:12:53,040 --> 01:12:53,840
Speaker 4: of massive pied too.

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01:12:54,040 --> 01:12:56,320
Speaker 3: I know we like with like like Harley Kennon, but

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Speaker 3: I'm if somebody's offering twenty mili, now imagine the five years.

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01:12:59,360 --> 01:13:02,799
Speaker 5: Imagine what really worse? What is that brain? They probably

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01:13:02,800 --> 01:13:04,240
Speaker 5: worth five hundred millions.

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Speaker 7: And those are the numbers that they were kind of

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01:13:07,800 --> 01:13:09,800
Speaker 7: kind of telling me. So he thought I was going

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01:13:09,880 --> 01:13:11,720
Speaker 7: to be real simple and be like, oh yes, sir,

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01:13:12,240 --> 01:13:17,000
Speaker 7: please give me a box. Sorry, no, like I understood

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01:13:17,640 --> 01:13:22,000
Speaker 7: what I understand what I have. I did it initially, right.

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01:13:22,040 --> 01:13:26,439
Speaker 7: I came into this super blind. But I think because

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01:13:28,080 --> 01:13:32,160
Speaker 7: I think of because of who I am and why

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01:13:32,200 --> 01:13:35,400
Speaker 7: I'm in this space to help people. I know why

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01:13:35,400 --> 01:13:38,720
Speaker 7: I'm here. I know what I'm supposed to do. And

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01:13:39,320 --> 01:13:41,479
Speaker 7: we don't know what the next ten years is going

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01:13:41,560 --> 01:13:44,720
Speaker 7: to look like. We saw what Corona looked like, right,

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01:13:45,160 --> 01:13:48,320
Speaker 7: and we saw the lack of access, and we understand

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01:13:48,400 --> 01:13:52,639
Speaker 7: that people who are in poverty will suffer the most

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01:13:53,880 --> 01:13:55,040
Speaker 7: and they look like us.

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01:13:55,520 --> 01:13:57,439
Speaker 5: That's a fact. That's a fact.

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01:13:57,520 --> 01:14:01,080
Speaker 4: No our solution on that, because that's definitely something that's commendable.

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01:14:01,680 --> 01:14:05,400
Speaker 4: And yeah, you know, keep your eyes and your ears

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01:14:05,439 --> 01:14:07,639
Speaker 4: open because you know, they play all kinds of games. Yeah,

1441
01:14:07,760 --> 01:14:11,200
Speaker 4: they try to fagle a situation and take the land.

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01:14:11,360 --> 01:14:12,120
Speaker 4: Happens all the time.

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01:14:12,280 --> 01:14:15,160
Speaker 7: They try, they try, they try.

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01:14:15,640 --> 01:14:16,920
Speaker 2: So you do y'all live up there now?

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01:14:17,560 --> 01:14:22,080
Speaker 7: I moved up there. I moved up there in July

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01:14:22,800 --> 01:14:24,400
Speaker 7: so I could be close to the factory. So I'm

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01:14:24,400 --> 01:14:26,920
Speaker 7: about twenty fifteen, twenty minutes away, and I'm up there

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01:14:26,960 --> 01:14:29,920
Speaker 7: every day. I drive back and forth. I come down

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01:14:29,920 --> 01:14:31,920
Speaker 7: to the city on a Thursday. I'm back up there

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01:14:32,400 --> 01:14:36,240
Speaker 7: on Sunday night. So that's that's what I need to

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01:14:36,280 --> 01:14:40,720
Speaker 7: do possible. So I understand what the company needs at

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01:14:40,720 --> 01:14:42,800
Speaker 7: this point to make it great, right, to make it

1453
01:14:43,160 --> 01:14:46,759
Speaker 7: be able in order for us to compete. I understand

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01:14:46,760 --> 01:14:48,519
Speaker 7: what it needs at this point because I've been in

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01:14:48,560 --> 01:14:50,960
Speaker 7: the business, I've been working it, I've been doing it,

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01:14:51,320 --> 01:14:54,080
Speaker 7: and I've sacrificed so much to be in this space.

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01:14:54,240 --> 01:14:58,400
Speaker 7: Right so this when this came to me, I couldn't

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01:14:58,400 --> 01:15:00,640
Speaker 7: sleep for two days. I'm like, get it. I'm going

1459
01:15:00,680 --> 01:15:02,800
Speaker 7: to just pre sell water like that's it. I'm not

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01:15:02,840 --> 01:15:05,640
Speaker 7: going to ask another person for a dollar. I'm going

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01:15:05,720 --> 01:15:08,160
Speaker 7: to sell water because that's what I have, that's what

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01:15:08,200 --> 01:15:11,680
Speaker 7: i'm that's what I have, and this is what we're

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01:15:11,680 --> 01:15:12,040
Speaker 7: gonna do.

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01:15:13,400 --> 01:15:17,240
Speaker 2: Can change your life, shine, that's the fact. Six months

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01:15:17,240 --> 01:15:17,880
Speaker 2: to change your life.

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01:15:17,920 --> 01:15:23,120
Speaker 3: Month Corona change your lives and obviously it's just's changed yours.

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Speaker 4: That's amazing, powerful, very enjoyable conversation. So how how can

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01:15:27,560 --> 01:15:30,679
Speaker 4: the people support? How can they find out more information?

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01:15:30,800 --> 01:15:33,439
Speaker 4: How can they buy the water? What's the social media website?

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01:15:33,479 --> 01:15:34,240
Speaker 5: All that information?

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Speaker 7: So I'm at on Instagram, I'm at Paula McCarthy that's

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01:15:39,840 --> 01:15:41,559
Speaker 7: p a U. I guess you guys will put it

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01:15:41,560 --> 01:15:44,040
Speaker 7: on there too, right p a U l l A

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Speaker 7: McCarthy m c c A r t h y. I'm

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01:15:48,200 --> 01:15:52,080
Speaker 7: at Paula McCarthy and then you can, I guess from there,

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01:15:52,120 --> 01:15:55,360
Speaker 7: we'll kind of funnel everything out of our instagram. My

1477
01:15:55,439 --> 01:15:59,960
Speaker 7: website is Youth Saving Society, and that's pretty much our

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01:16:00,120 --> 01:16:01,760
Speaker 7: I wanted to kind of keep these kind of things

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01:16:01,800 --> 01:16:05,240
Speaker 7: too a little separate, So Yes Water will have a

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01:16:05,320 --> 01:16:09,200
Speaker 7: landing page. It'll just be where you can go and

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01:16:09,280 --> 01:16:13,880
Speaker 7: see and get information about a fundraising. So that's yes

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01:16:14,000 --> 01:16:16,160
Speaker 7: Water dot com, y.

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Speaker 2: S S y s S.

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Speaker 5: Troy House keeping it on. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: First, I want to give a huge shout to our Boyfriencis.

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Speaker 3: He called me and said, true, I just met I

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01:16:25,800 --> 01:16:27,360
Speaker 3: just heard one of the most amazing people I've ever

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Speaker 3: heard speak.

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Speaker 5: Wait, he's here speak at Clubhouse.

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Speaker 3: He heard on co House and he was like, a

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01:16:33,120 --> 01:16:34,800
Speaker 3: story is so dope. You got to hear it. I said,

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01:16:34,800 --> 01:16:37,840
Speaker 3: all right, man, sure. Two days later, Jamol calls me

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01:16:37,880 --> 01:16:38,559
Speaker 3: and says, Troy.

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Speaker 2: You got I just heard the story you ever heard

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Speaker 2: of your life.

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Speaker 3: You got to meet this this this young lady and

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Speaker 3: I said, all right, cool, I'm gonna call it, and

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01:16:45,600 --> 01:16:47,559
Speaker 3: then Jamoal called me four days ladies like you ain't

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Speaker 3: calling I'm like, I'm gonna call it. So I want

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Speaker 3: to give those two gentlemen credit. H So shout out

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Speaker 3: to them and shout out to everybody on patreon dot

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Speaker 3: with all the growth that we're seeing from our earnest.

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Speaker 3: They're not just taking information to actually implying it and

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Speaker 3: putting it in the Facebook group. So we're actually watching

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Speaker 3: these stories and watching people create businesses and create their

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Speaker 3: own generational wealth. So we are tremendously honored to be

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Speaker 3: a part of that. So shouting to y'all, shout everybody

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Speaker 3: supporting the merch and yeah, man, we appreciate everything that

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Speaker 5: Yeah for sure, Thank you guys for rocking with us.

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Speaker 5: We'll see you next week.

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