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Speaker 1: Taylor Swift, Lavender Hayes here one or two point seven.

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Speaker 1: You're on a Kiss FM. So this a portion of

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Speaker 1: the show on a Friday where we spotlight a local business.

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Speaker 1: Jasmine and Vernon Chapman out of Long Beach. Listen to this.

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Speaker 1: If you ever dreamed up a wild flavor of popcorn,

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Speaker 1: they've made it a reality, right. So they've been thinking

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Speaker 1: about this. They realized that there were I mean, you

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Speaker 1: love popcorn, and you just picture if you've ever seen

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Speaker 1: in a mall or a shop a popcorn store, right,

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Speaker 1: or just picture in a cartoon or a movie, I've

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Speaker 1: being stored with a bunch of different bags and bins

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Speaker 1: of popcorns. It sounds it's like a candy store, but

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Speaker 1: popcorn store. So they realized there were no real popcorn

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Speaker 1: stores in their area in Long Beach, and they teamed

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Speaker 1: up and launched Popcorn World Long Beach Fun. I mean,

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Speaker 1: we go to museums for ice cream. They created a

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Speaker 1: store for popcorn and I've got them on with us now.

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Speaker 1: Jasmine and Vernon Chapman, how are you hi? We're good?

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Speaker 1: How are you come grand? And of course you're good.

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Speaker 1: You have a Popcorn Universe shop. Yes, we do. Indeed,

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Speaker 1: so Popcorn World there. Now let me tell you where

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Speaker 1: this is. This is Atlantic Boulevard between Carson Roosevelt in

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Speaker 1: Long Beach, north of the four oh five. I want

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Speaker 1: to hear what were the two of you doing before

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Speaker 1: you had the popcorn shop? So I was and still

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Speaker 1: am a speech language pathologist and Vernick and go ahead

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Speaker 1: and give you some background on what do you used

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Speaker 1: to do. I was in construction and I was a

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Speaker 1: railroad engineer. I mean that's real stuff. You guys are

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Speaker 1: both doing real work. And do you find your happier

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Speaker 1: now that you have this store Popcorn World? Oh? Absolutely.

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Speaker 1: I mean it's such a fun idea that we never

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Speaker 1: get any disgruntled customers because their first reaction is, wow,

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Speaker 1: how do you have so many popcorn flavors? It's so

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Speaker 1: interesting if you think about snacks, foods, desserts that you

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Speaker 1: cannot not double negative to your un You cannot not

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Speaker 1: be mad at yogurt, donuts, pizzas, burgers, and popcorn. It

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Speaker 1: doesn't matter you're having a fight with your spouse, you

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Speaker 1: go to the Popcorn World shop. Everything's good. You're gonna

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Speaker 1: walk out problem solved, I promise you. I promise you that.

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Speaker 1: So here's what I love the flavors that you have made.

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Speaker 1: Tell me about the unique flavors and how you came

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Speaker 1: up with this concept, Jasmine and Vernon. Yeah, so we

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Speaker 1: have over two hundred and sixty flavors. We keep about

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Speaker 1: ninety at all times in the store, and so go

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Speaker 1: ahead and tell us about how we come up with

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Speaker 1: those flavors. So we're originally from Chicago and a friend

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Speaker 1: of mine came across this store in Chicago and he

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Speaker 1: brought it to my attention. Me and Jasmine moved to

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Speaker 1: California about a year and a half ago, and we

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Speaker 1: noticed that there was a big boy for popcorn in

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Speaker 1: the LA and Long Beach area. So we thought it

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Speaker 1: would be fun to bring a part of our culture

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Speaker 1: being from Chicago out to Long Beach in LA. And

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Speaker 1: now you're making a living doing it. What are some

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Speaker 1: of the popular flavors there? So we have two a

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Speaker 1: separate corn. So the first corn is a savory corn

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Speaker 1: and then the other corner score mate. So for the

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Speaker 1: popular savories, you've got flavors like dirty deal, crab legs,

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Speaker 1: loaded baked potato, Wow Wings with branch, Hlapino, cheddar ranch

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Speaker 1: and then on the gourmet side, some of your popular

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Speaker 1: flavors are strawberry cheesecake, butter, salted caramel, Snickers, Oreo cheesecake,

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Speaker 1: cinnamon toast crunch. So those are some of the fan

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Speaker 1: favorites we found so far. Do you do gift bags

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Speaker 1: and do you ship them? So we do what we

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Speaker 1: call sample boxes. So most of the time when people

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Speaker 1: come in, they just want to try everything, but of

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Speaker 1: course they don't have time to UM. So we have

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Speaker 1: a little small bag that we pack in the quantities

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Speaker 1: of twenty five, fifty, seventy five or one hundreds. And

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Speaker 1: if you are interested in trying all of those flavors,

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Speaker 1: you can go on our website in order a sample

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Speaker 1: box and we will ship it right to you. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I that is a How great of a gift is

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Speaker 1: that for anybody? Exactly like a birthday gift? Sure that

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Speaker 1: comes birthday gift, Christmas gift, whatever, whatever you want it

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Speaker 1: to be. Um, I like you, guys, Yeah, I like

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Speaker 1: you both. Jasmine and Vernon Chapman, our hometown hustlers in

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Speaker 1: Long Beach have a good time where I don't go

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Speaker 1: see them get in there and snack on that different

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Speaker 1: popcorn and chaste those flavors. What is the crab popcorn

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Speaker 1: tas like a salty buttery Yeah, so it's more buttery

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Speaker 1: than anything with um, A little bit of that crab

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Speaker 1: taste as an aftertaste once you favorite. A lot of

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Speaker 1: our favorites fla are actually like that. So you'll find

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Speaker 1: that once you kind of tow it for a little

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Speaker 1: bit and it kind of settles. You get all of

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Speaker 1: those flavors that just kind of burst in your mouth

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Speaker 1: at the same time. All right, let's blow out their system.

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Speaker 1: Go to the popcorn world dot com and check them

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Speaker 1: out and go in there and see him. Thank you

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Speaker 1: guys for coming on. Congratulations, Thank you so much. Ryan.

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Speaker 1: All right, bye, bye bye. It is a great gift.

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Speaker 1: Imagine that comes to the door. Delicious, all those flavors

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Speaker 1: savory and m I like the sweet. All right, we'll

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Speaker 1: kiss a. Paying your bills thousand dollars coming up next