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Speaker 1: Obviously you've created your own formula. How do you protect

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm telling you I got the business right before

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Speaker 5: All right, guys, welcome back, e y l back home.

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Speaker 5: Traveling around the world, And this is something that we've

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Speaker 5: And we've covered the marijuana industry a few times. To

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Speaker 5: Al Harrington, shout out to a few people that we've

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Speaker 5: covered in the space, but this is something that's interesting.

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Speaker 5: I just told him the only thing that I do

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Speaker 5: smoke is hookah. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah. So you know,

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Speaker 5: I'm not sure who introduced this to us this interview.

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Speaker 1: God perhaps God did so black also known as black tatted.

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Speaker 5: Uh, he's killing it in New Orleans, from New Orleans,

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Speaker 5: and then it just spread all over the map and

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Speaker 2: So it's a.

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Speaker 5: Black owned sheisha sheisha company, which is the that's the

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Speaker 5: real name for kah right. Sure. So, but then he

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Speaker 5: they always say. It's like smoking hookahs, like smoking a hundred.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's bad for your lungs. So and then but

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Speaker 5: he's killing it. So he just had two million dollars

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Speaker 2: Yeah, seven man, congratulations.

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Speaker 1: Don't discount this point seven.

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Speaker 5: So he got he got a lot of rap artists

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Speaker 5: So this is gonna be a dope conversation. We're going

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Speaker 5: to talk about, you know, how he got into the industry,

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Speaker 5: how he was able to scale a brand, marketing, social

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Speaker 2: Thank you for having me many Yeah, yeah for sure.

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Speaker 1: Yeah double to shout out to the Governor building.

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Speaker 5: When's the episode coming.

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Speaker 1: Treehouse Live from the Treehouse.

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Speaker 2: Shout out to the Treehouse baddies.

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Speaker 5: All right, so let's get into this. So how do

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Speaker 5: How did that even happen? Because I've never really even

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Speaker 3: Yeah, just like yourself, Like me, I love hookah. You know,

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Speaker 3: that's just something I love to do. But I never smoke, Mariana,

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Speaker 1: So you got a vision, right, You love hookah, but

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Speaker 5: So how long ago did you start?

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Speaker 3: Wow, That's how I got into Instagram because I was

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Speaker 3: So yeah, Like when I really think back, like all

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Speaker 3: So when the ships are so heavy and carrying all

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Speaker 5: Interesting. So all right, so you get the idea to

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Speaker 2: It's made one hundred percent fruit, all right.

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Speaker 5: So it's made out of fruit. You get the idea

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Speaker 2: This is like good birder.

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Speaker 2: So that's the thing that was the trigger part.

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Speaker 3: That's what became the most complicated part for me because

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Speaker 3: So that was the most complicated part of literally finding

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Speaker 2: But now it helped come to life clearly.

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Speaker 1: So you're building a team around it because I'm figuring like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you're building with fruit, but it takes some like expertise

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Speaker 5: Just how when you started selling it? Who did you?

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Speaker 3: Right before I opened my company, and I was like, lord,

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Speaker 3: I just can't keep up with the man. So now

444
00:18:48,440 --> 00:18:51,720
Speaker 3: this is a world exclusive. I never even had enough

445
00:18:51,800 --> 00:18:54,919
Speaker 3: room to have the demand which I needed. I'm a

446
00:18:54,960 --> 00:18:56,920
Speaker 3: new business a year old. I had a little, small,

447
00:18:56,960 --> 00:18:59,640
Speaker 3: little warehouse, and now it's so crazy that I feel

448
00:18:59,680 --> 00:19:02,399
Speaker 3: like I'm operating like Amazon. I just closed on can

449
00:19:03,119 --> 00:19:07,159
Speaker 3: make a million like head quarters. So now I'm feeling

450
00:19:07,200 --> 00:19:09,600
Speaker 3: good about that because I appreciate that. I feeling good

451
00:19:09,600 --> 00:19:13,280
Speaker 3: about that because my problem with making money and running

452
00:19:13,280 --> 00:19:16,840
Speaker 3: my businesses always it stops and starts because I'm literally

453
00:19:16,880 --> 00:19:19,000
Speaker 3: the problem is I'm running out of inventory. So now

454
00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:20,680
Speaker 3: I feel like, what I run out of inventory, the

455
00:19:20,720 --> 00:19:22,440
Speaker 3: sky's the limit. I could just keep rolling.

456
00:19:22,440 --> 00:19:23,160
Speaker 2: I can keep going.

457
00:19:23,440 --> 00:19:24,920
Speaker 3: All the money that I made, I feel like I

458
00:19:24,920 --> 00:19:27,160
Speaker 3: could have made double and triple that because the whole

459
00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:29,439
Speaker 3: time of me making that much money, I've been sold

460
00:19:29,440 --> 00:19:31,040
Speaker 3: out one, two and three months at a time.

461
00:19:31,600 --> 00:19:33,960
Speaker 1: I mean it's a process. But let's go back to

462
00:19:34,160 --> 00:19:36,520
Speaker 1: that day. Yeah, go back to that day. So you

463
00:19:36,600 --> 00:19:39,960
Speaker 1: sell out, Uh, you're making the money in your mind,

464
00:19:40,040 --> 00:19:42,280
Speaker 1: is it like all right, let me reinvest it? Or

465
00:19:42,400 --> 00:19:44,679
Speaker 1: is it like let me let me get let me

466
00:19:44,680 --> 00:19:46,120
Speaker 1: get some of the things I've always wanted.

467
00:19:46,160 --> 00:19:47,520
Speaker 2: Absolutely reinvested.

468
00:19:47,600 --> 00:19:51,639
Speaker 3: Still to this day, I reinvest pretty much everything, like

469
00:19:52,200 --> 00:19:53,240
Speaker 3: I really feel like.

470
00:19:53,240 --> 00:19:56,800
Speaker 6: Except for the jewelry, I say a lot of raising

471
00:19:57,160 --> 00:19:58,159
Speaker 6: you know what I'm saying.

472
00:19:58,080 --> 00:19:59,639
Speaker 1: But like a lot going on.

473
00:20:00,480 --> 00:20:03,240
Speaker 2: It took a while. This is hey, it's been. It's been.

474
00:20:03,400 --> 00:20:04,520
Speaker 2: It's been almost two years.

475
00:20:04,560 --> 00:20:06,400
Speaker 3: And I just got this jurory like two months ago,

476
00:20:06,760 --> 00:20:09,480
Speaker 3: two months ago. No cap, look like I'm just getting it,

477
00:20:09,520 --> 00:20:12,240
Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying, Like, let me keep reinvesting.

478
00:20:12,280 --> 00:20:15,760
Speaker 2: Do that, but real talk, like it takes a lot.

479
00:20:15,800 --> 00:20:19,720
Speaker 3: And I really feel like, no matter what how much

480
00:20:19,760 --> 00:20:22,199
Speaker 3: you reinvesting, you not kept with. I feel like, as

481
00:20:22,280 --> 00:20:25,560
Speaker 3: long as you have inventory, you are not broke. Inventory

482
00:20:25,680 --> 00:20:27,320
Speaker 3: is money, you know what I'm saying. You don't got

483
00:20:27,320 --> 00:20:29,320
Speaker 3: to see that liquid and have that money, that cash

484
00:20:29,359 --> 00:20:31,320
Speaker 3: flow in your hand. But you got money right there.

485
00:20:31,359 --> 00:20:34,159
Speaker 3: You could literally make a post, get an influencer, do

486
00:20:34,240 --> 00:20:36,399
Speaker 3: something any day, and take that inventory and turn it

487
00:20:36,400 --> 00:20:38,479
Speaker 3: into dollars yet again, so I feel as long as

488
00:20:38,480 --> 00:20:41,320
Speaker 3: you gotta, I can have twenty dollars in my bank account,

489
00:20:41,320 --> 00:20:42,840
Speaker 3: but I got a million dollar worth of product in

490
00:20:42,880 --> 00:20:45,720
Speaker 3: the inventory, you know worth the inventory in that warehouse.

491
00:20:45,720 --> 00:20:47,840
Speaker 2: I'm rich. I got a million dollars and it's right there.

492
00:20:48,080 --> 00:20:49,679
Speaker 3: I just got to figure out a way to, you know,

493
00:20:49,880 --> 00:20:52,320
Speaker 3: strategically turn it into dollars again.

494
00:20:52,880 --> 00:20:55,080
Speaker 5: So let me ask you this as far as marketing,

495
00:20:56,480 --> 00:20:58,480
Speaker 5: how do you market You just go on social media?

496
00:20:58,600 --> 00:21:02,520
Speaker 5: Like you got hookah? Like is it is it skits

497
00:21:02,560 --> 00:21:05,960
Speaker 5: that's built out? Do you get other influencing celebrities? Like

498
00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:08,080
Speaker 5: how do you market it? You have a follow up?

499
00:21:08,160 --> 00:21:09,639
Speaker 5: Like how do you push it on social media?

500
00:21:09,760 --> 00:21:13,159
Speaker 3: So, and the best thing that could happen to me,

501
00:21:13,320 --> 00:21:16,080
Speaker 3: hookah is such a popular thing already. People already love

502
00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:19,520
Speaker 3: to hookah, and so I kind of have to influence

503
00:21:19,560 --> 00:21:21,520
Speaker 3: them to do something that they already love to do.

504
00:21:21,720 --> 00:21:24,080
Speaker 3: The only thing I gotta do is like influence them

505
00:21:24,119 --> 00:21:26,920
Speaker 3: on why you should do it with mine instead of theirs.

506
00:21:27,040 --> 00:21:29,560
Speaker 3: And the things that I use is so easily use

507
00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:33,000
Speaker 3: because it's actually the truth, A healthy turnative literally made

508
00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:35,240
Speaker 3: from fruit, and you can do it without the nicotine

509
00:21:35,280 --> 00:21:38,720
Speaker 3: the tobacco. Like you like the smoke hookah a lot,

510
00:21:38,760 --> 00:21:40,359
Speaker 3: so I know you could even agree that when you

511
00:21:40,400 --> 00:21:43,000
Speaker 3: smoke that hookah in the club, everything your could be hurting.

512
00:21:43,280 --> 00:21:45,000
Speaker 3: You could get a hair rush, you get a headache,

513
00:21:45,040 --> 00:21:46,440
Speaker 3: that'd be that nicotine, that tobacco.

514
00:21:46,520 --> 00:21:48,760
Speaker 1: So he only smokes hookah. The R and B's playing

515
00:21:48,760 --> 00:21:50,080
Speaker 1: you don't smoke it a lot.

516
00:21:50,840 --> 00:21:58,679
Speaker 3: Especially Confessions album, right, but yeah talk so yeah, it's

517
00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:03,360
Speaker 3: kind of like the consumers pretty much market the product

518
00:22:03,520 --> 00:22:05,680
Speaker 3: for you and then they be excited to get it.

519
00:22:05,760 --> 00:22:08,760
Speaker 3: You kind of get like free free promo all day,

520
00:22:08,880 --> 00:22:12,320
Speaker 3: just NonStop, you know. And the thing about it, as

521
00:22:12,320 --> 00:22:15,240
Speaker 3: far as the celebrities and stuff like that, it's really

522
00:22:15,320 --> 00:22:18,840
Speaker 3: crazy that these people be You be thinking that these

523
00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:21,000
Speaker 3: these are people that you really can't touch, a people

524
00:22:21,040 --> 00:22:23,359
Speaker 3: that you can't reach, but you find out when you

525
00:22:23,359 --> 00:22:25,520
Speaker 3: have a business and a popping product that they really

526
00:22:25,560 --> 00:22:27,640
Speaker 3: sitting there on their phone, scrolling and looking at the

527
00:22:27,680 --> 00:22:30,840
Speaker 3: next best thing, just like us. They slily your DM

528
00:22:31,200 --> 00:22:33,840
Speaker 3: LEARC said, what's up, King, I gotta get you get

529
00:22:33,840 --> 00:22:36,320
Speaker 3: some of that. I'm like, I'm saying to my soul,

530
00:22:36,480 --> 00:22:38,800
Speaker 3: look like but I'm like, oh, write no thing, you know,

531
00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:41,320
Speaker 3: trying to cool calling my team like.

532
00:22:41,280 --> 00:22:42,840
Speaker 2: Stripped that out right now overnight.

533
00:22:43,240 --> 00:22:43,439
Speaker 5: You know.

534
00:22:43,960 --> 00:22:47,480
Speaker 3: Look, I'm just saying, but but yeah, that's just really

535
00:22:47,480 --> 00:22:50,639
Speaker 3: how it go. And it started with with love and

536
00:22:50,760 --> 00:22:53,720
Speaker 3: organic like relationships. And then they post it. I don't

537
00:22:53,800 --> 00:22:56,240
Speaker 3: I don't care if a celebrity post me on the instantore.

538
00:22:56,240 --> 00:22:59,080
Speaker 3: I just send the free product. They still use their influence.

539
00:22:59,119 --> 00:23:00,760
Speaker 3: I'm gonna take that. It's a story and I'm a

540
00:23:00,760 --> 00:23:03,320
Speaker 3: screen recording and I'm gonna post on my page. Not now,

541
00:23:03,320 --> 00:23:05,040
Speaker 3: they gave me a post and that post is going

542
00:23:05,119 --> 00:23:08,080
Speaker 3: to go all all over social media and so influences.

543
00:23:08,160 --> 00:23:10,679
Speaker 3: What what's the key you know to to turn it

544
00:23:10,680 --> 00:23:11,399
Speaker 3: into dollars?

545
00:23:11,440 --> 00:23:11,760
Speaker 2: Right now?

546
00:23:12,320 --> 00:23:16,080
Speaker 1: That's the commercial right there. So yeah, obviously I'm figuring

547
00:23:16,119 --> 00:23:19,080
Speaker 1: your marketing as the healthy hookah right this is a

548
00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:22,239
Speaker 1: healthy alternative. If you're going to do hookah, obviously you've

549
00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:25,240
Speaker 1: created your own formula. How do you protect it from

550
00:23:25,280 --> 00:23:28,400
Speaker 1: somebody who's saying like, oh, I can do the same thing.

551
00:23:28,480 --> 00:23:30,080
Speaker 1: Is it Is it something that you try to patent

552
00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:31,400
Speaker 1: or that word.

553
00:23:31,440 --> 00:23:34,160
Speaker 2: It is pat nobody nobody can you know?

554
00:23:34,440 --> 00:23:36,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm telling you I got the business right before

555
00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:38,840
Speaker 3: I got the business right, you know what I'm saying,

556
00:23:42,920 --> 00:23:43,440
Speaker 3: the trenches.

557
00:23:44,440 --> 00:23:46,199
Speaker 2: It took a while lot to get here, but come

558
00:23:46,280 --> 00:23:46,720
Speaker 2: take it from me.

559
00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:50,760
Speaker 5: So, like what's the makeup of sales. Is it mostly

560
00:23:50,840 --> 00:23:53,639
Speaker 5: through individuals or is it a lot moving through night

561
00:23:53,720 --> 00:23:54,280
Speaker 5: life clubs?

562
00:23:54,280 --> 00:23:58,840
Speaker 3: And so it's only available online, like it's not I

563
00:23:58,840 --> 00:24:01,800
Speaker 3: didn't even get into that world. No wholesale, no distributors,

564
00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:07,280
Speaker 3: like eventually, like you know, it's just it's my baby

565
00:24:07,320 --> 00:24:07,680
Speaker 3: right now.

566
00:24:07,760 --> 00:24:08,600
Speaker 2: Like I knew.

567
00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:10,119
Speaker 3: That's why I was just saying, like what you were

568
00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:11,840
Speaker 3: just saying with the investors and all that stuff, you

569
00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:15,320
Speaker 3: kind of teaching me knowledge because I didn't know about

570
00:24:15,320 --> 00:24:15,720
Speaker 3: any of this.

571
00:24:15,840 --> 00:24:17,600
Speaker 2: And you you know, in the.

572
00:24:17,560 --> 00:24:21,639
Speaker 3: Black community, we be so guarded and everything, and we

573
00:24:21,680 --> 00:24:24,000
Speaker 3: feel like if we share a percentage of something that

574
00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:25,960
Speaker 3: we're doing everything and we got to be mochraman, we

575
00:24:25,960 --> 00:24:28,080
Speaker 3: got to do it by ourselves or it's more rewarded

576
00:24:28,119 --> 00:24:30,280
Speaker 3: to us to say I did this by myself, so

577
00:24:30,359 --> 00:24:33,840
Speaker 3: you'll really feel like we feel better having one hundred

578
00:24:33,880 --> 00:24:38,040
Speaker 3: percent of two million dollars than having fifty percent of

579
00:24:38,119 --> 00:24:40,520
Speaker 3: five billion dollars, you know what I'm saying. So that's

580
00:24:40,960 --> 00:24:43,240
Speaker 3: the world that I'm really starting to learn now, and

581
00:24:43,440 --> 00:24:45,080
Speaker 3: that's the game that I'm really trying to get more

582
00:24:45,080 --> 00:24:47,480
Speaker 3: into and have a better understanding of. And I really

583
00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:51,000
Speaker 3: feel like, if I can take it this far by myself,

584
00:24:51,040 --> 00:24:53,200
Speaker 3: just imagine what I could do with a machine bombing

585
00:24:53,280 --> 00:24:53,480
Speaker 3: you know.

586
00:24:53,680 --> 00:24:56,399
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean based on your NLS. So are the

587
00:24:56,440 --> 00:25:00,359
Speaker 1: sales coming domestically, meaning like you seeing it happen dominate

588
00:25:00,359 --> 00:25:02,320
Speaker 1: in the States? If so, like what parts of the

589
00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:04,440
Speaker 1: country Like obviously we're in Atlanta a lot, and that's

590
00:25:04,560 --> 00:25:07,159
Speaker 1: like it's part of the fabric. But yeah, from an

591
00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:09,399
Speaker 1: international standpoint, where in the Middle East and these countries,

592
00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:12,520
Speaker 1: this is part of their culture. Do you have visions

593
00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:14,280
Speaker 1: to expand it from an online space to getting out

594
00:25:14,320 --> 00:25:14,720
Speaker 1: to those parts?

595
00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:15,600
Speaker 2: That's what's crazy.

596
00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:20,439
Speaker 3: Those are the people like Barbados and Dominican Republic and

597
00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:24,600
Speaker 3: all those kind of places they buy bulk. I'm like, yeah,

598
00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:27,000
Speaker 3: I'm like, who is this person who is these people

599
00:25:27,080 --> 00:25:30,679
Speaker 3: like we shipped so much like overseas that is that's

600
00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:34,760
Speaker 3: like it's insane and like I just don't didn't never imagine,

601
00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:37,000
Speaker 3: you know, within one year that I go from the

602
00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:39,760
Speaker 3: States into overseas and things and people like that. But

603
00:25:40,119 --> 00:25:41,960
Speaker 3: I feel like when I get into whole sale and

604
00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:43,280
Speaker 3: distributed it, that's when.

605
00:25:43,800 --> 00:25:46,879
Speaker 2: Really like the world is really go have black smoke.

606
00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:47,159
Speaker 2: You know.

607
00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:51,520
Speaker 5: So what is the most popular flavor?

608
00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:53,280
Speaker 2: You know what's crazy?

609
00:25:53,359 --> 00:25:56,440
Speaker 3: The most popular flavor is all of them, the bundle

610
00:25:56,520 --> 00:26:00,760
Speaker 3: cells you know what I'm saying, the most the flavors,

611
00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:02,560
Speaker 3: all of them. So you get the bundle, you gonna

612
00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:05,240
Speaker 3: get all all ten of the flavors of the Hookah

613
00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:07,840
Speaker 3: Pin and the Bundle of the She Show, which comes

614
00:26:08,119 --> 00:26:12,119
Speaker 3: comes with fifteen flavors. Whenever somebody get one, they be

615
00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:15,000
Speaker 3: mad because now they love it. You know, you always

616
00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:17,320
Speaker 3: wanna try one and try it first. Now they love it,

617
00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:19,359
Speaker 3: and now they want more. But now it's been sold

618
00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:21,040
Speaker 3: out for so long and you gotta wait, and you know,

619
00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:23,399
Speaker 3: waited so long trying to survive that one pen, and

620
00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:25,760
Speaker 3: then when it it came back and stopped, you couldn't

621
00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:27,359
Speaker 3: get it again. And it's sold out again. So now

622
00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:30,920
Speaker 3: they just buy bundles all day. That's the most favorite thing.

623
00:26:31,560 --> 00:26:35,879
Speaker 5: So how does this work? It's already inside of it.

624
00:26:35,920 --> 00:26:36,879
Speaker 5: You have to light something?

625
00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:40,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, Actually, it's just look opening. How about you

626
00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:41,880
Speaker 2: right now?

627
00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:43,440
Speaker 5: The first ever?

628
00:26:43,520 --> 00:26:45,680
Speaker 1: All right, all right, let's do it.

629
00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:47,000
Speaker 2: But you're like, man, we're.

630
00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:52,840
Speaker 1: Gonna go green apple, green apple. Governor you're he already

631
00:26:52,880 --> 00:27:00,800
Speaker 1: got his governor? Has there? We go up here?

632
00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:05,040
Speaker 2: Tear from the sun side. Smell it right now?

633
00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:07,480
Speaker 1: Smells great? What were we doing?

634
00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:08,600
Speaker 2: All you do?

635
00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:12,680
Speaker 3: How to do is take the plastic. Yeah, take that

636
00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:17,200
Speaker 3: rub out and it's bread activated. You just puffed, blow

637
00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:17,840
Speaker 3: it out your mouth.

638
00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:23,480
Speaker 5: Don't worry, it's just fruit that.

639
00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:26,560
Speaker 1: He doesn't smoke much. This is this taste, good man,

640
00:27:27,560 --> 00:27:28,199
Speaker 1: that's abob.

641
00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:37,240
Speaker 2: This is what I'm in the minute. It's goudstalf gudstalfas

642
00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:40,520
Speaker 2: just like green apple. Doesn't it does absolutely does the

643
00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:44,359
Speaker 2: lights up? Yea. And you just you don't hear. You

644
00:27:44,359 --> 00:27:45,440
Speaker 2: don't hear? Who can like weed?

645
00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:48,679
Speaker 5: Bro?

646
00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:48,240
Speaker 3: You?

647
00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:51,200
Speaker 2: Yeah? You just hit it, You hit it and blow

648
00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:51,439
Speaker 2: it out.

649
00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:53,080
Speaker 1: You're trying to don't put that in your lungs.

650
00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:57,000
Speaker 2: I'm trying to blow guns and I blow out.

651
00:27:57,200 --> 00:27:57,720
Speaker 1: Oh boy.

652
00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:01,879
Speaker 6: So so then a right, so take the conversation. So

653
00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:04,159
Speaker 6: this this is this is good actually all right? So

654
00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:06,240
Speaker 6: so all right, so now let's say I'm done for

655
00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:08,600
Speaker 6: the time. I put this back in like this.

656
00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:12,760
Speaker 3: You have to leakproof. Leak yes, leakproof, turn it upside down,

657
00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:13,960
Speaker 3: I promise you, man in my word.

658
00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:18,400
Speaker 5: So just you just all right, okay, and then you're

659
00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:19,159
Speaker 5: just smoking into this.

660
00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:20,920
Speaker 2: No more smoking to us, no more you good.

661
00:28:21,119 --> 00:28:22,160
Speaker 1: This is probably last day.

662
00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:22,879
Speaker 2: I knew the women.

663
00:28:23,119 --> 00:28:24,960
Speaker 3: I knew the women was gonna want it all in

664
00:28:25,040 --> 00:28:26,880
Speaker 3: their purses and stuff like that. So I didn't want

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Speaker 3: to be like, that's leaking all online.

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Speaker 1: The fact that that lights up, I mean, this is

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Speaker 1: gonna go crazy. It's it's gonna go crazy.

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Speaker 5: And so m hmm. Interesting. And then Glowrilla had it

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Speaker 5: in her video.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and tomorrow to video with Glorial featuring Card.

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Speaker 5: Part Yeah, you knew that that was gonna happen or.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I definite kly what was gonna happen because Glorida

673
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Speaker 3: had literally taste the pins already. Everybody was tagging me

674
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Speaker 3: and sending me videos of Glorrida like literally having a

675
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Speaker 3: pin in her hand while she was on stage, so like,

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Speaker 3: I'm friends with someone who worked with gloriala shout out

677
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Speaker 3: to and I was like, look, it really like the pins.

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Speaker 2: That's so sending Glorida pins.

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Speaker 3: She made the video whatever the case in Beasts Witness

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Speaker 3: like clothes, was like her friends love these pins so

681
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Speaker 3: much they could smoke them in a video.

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Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, we send them eight more bundles.

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Speaker 1: Bundles like bundles, So how much is it?

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Speaker 3: These are thirty nine nine nine much the bundle?

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Speaker 2: The bundle is two nine and nine two hundred and

686
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Speaker 2: nine nine dollars.

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Speaker 3: And what you saving like over one hundred dollars by

688
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Speaker 3: getting a bundle?

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Speaker 1: How many come in a bundle?

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Speaker 2: Ten comes in a bundle?

691
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Speaker 1: Now okay, okay. Now we saw Jewel just this Eastern

692
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Speaker 1: great company and we sold at the laws food and

693
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Speaker 1: the incentence marketing in to teens and you know it's

694
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Speaker 1: really dangerous. But you actually said that that loss will

695
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Speaker 1: help you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Well I didn't know about that part.

697
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Speaker 3: I just knew about the part of Jewel being banned

698
00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:55,840
Speaker 3: and they were talking about the higher levels of nicotine

699
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Speaker 3: and tobacco. So I didn't even do like interviews or

700
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Speaker 3: nothing on that. But I go on Google and I

701
00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:04,440
Speaker 3: see so many right of saying that jewels has been

702
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Speaker 3: banned for nicotine tobacco, open up the doors for black

703
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Speaker 3: smoke and no nicotine, no tobacco.

704
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Speaker 2: I'm like, what, thank you?

705
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Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, Like so many people came over,

706
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Speaker 3: came over, was literally right in my comments, like so

707
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Speaker 3: glad I found this healthy turnover. I've seen this jewel

708
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Speaker 3: got banned and you guys are the next best thing.

709
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Speaker 2: It was just like free promo, you know, best press,

710
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Speaker 2: best bread. So so this.

711
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Speaker 1: Is just.

712
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Speaker 2: One percent fun fact, no negative. Listen.

713
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Speaker 3: It's made up of miracle bearriers, which is actually a

714
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Speaker 3: very popular thing in West West Africa, Like they take

715
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Speaker 3: miracle bearer bearriers to help keep their blood float well,

716
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Speaker 3: bodily functions and everything like that, which is what's deathly.

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Speaker 1: This is made up of natural fruits and fruits to America.

718
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Speaker 2: Yep.

719
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Speaker 5: So what's your plans on scaling? Like how do you

720
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Speaker 5: take this to the next level?

721
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Speaker 3: And that's literally when I'm in my bubble right now

722
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Speaker 3: trying to figure out because I'm to a level that

723
00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:09,360
Speaker 3: I wouldn't even fathom, right, So my thing is literally

724
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Speaker 3: I'm feeling like I really need to get a machine

725
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Speaker 3: behind me.

726
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Speaker 2: Like I have seen pretty much what I can do.

727
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Speaker 2: I have reached the culture.

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Speaker 3: I have this something that hasn't been done yet, Like,

729
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Speaker 3: you know, I have targeted our people. But literally, I

730
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Speaker 3: just really want to disguise the limit on some you know,

731
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Speaker 3: and I'm really trying to figure that out. I really

732
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Speaker 3: feel like I just need to be in the right

733
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Speaker 1: Yeah. I like that, man. So you're doing it online?

736
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Speaker 1: I know. We kind of had a little conversation about

737
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738
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739
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Speaker 2: trying not to think the same way. I'm trying to

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Speaker 2: think outside of box. You know. It's kind of like

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Speaker 2: I feel like, if it's not broke, you know why

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Speaker 2: I fix it?

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Speaker 3: If I'm I feel like if I'm on line touching

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Speaker 3: so many peoples, Like when you're online, you can reach Dominican,

814
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Speaker 3: you can reach New York, La, Atlanta or whatever. But

815
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Speaker 3: if I have a store base, it's just literally for

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Speaker 3: the population of which is around me. So I'm just

817
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Speaker 3: feeling like, how, you know, how beneficial could that be

818
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Speaker 3: for me? Also, but I guess having it insight, like

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Speaker 3: literally rolling down the street and always being able to

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Speaker 3: see black smoke, it's still kind of beneficial. And then

821
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Speaker 3: also I'll be trying to not to think from such

822
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Speaker 3: a large scale, right just thinking that since I'm making

823
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Speaker 3: X amount of dollars online, the fact that I could

824
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Speaker 3: probably make fifty k from a storefront isn't beneficial to me,

825
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Speaker 3: but that fifty k may add up. I just got

826
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Speaker 3: to realize it's different levels, you know what I'm saying.

827
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Speaker 3: It's different ways to you know, break the ice, and

828
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Speaker 3: it could be successful over here. Even if it's not

829
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Speaker 3: the same level of success, that still be considered success

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Speaker 3: and all that adds to the pot. You know.

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Speaker 1: It's just like one of the things we spoke about

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Speaker 1: with like the Marathon store recipes in it, but like

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Speaker 1: it became an attraction, right, So you put it in

834
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Speaker 1: a place where you're from, Now people come. You can

835
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Speaker 1: have limited releases, limited items, exclusive items just for the area,

836
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Speaker 1: all kind of like what Pinky's done, where it's like

837
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Speaker 1: there's a chance I might meet you if I come

838
00:37:15,200 --> 00:37:17,799
Speaker 1: to the store, right, because your personality becomes a thing

839
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Speaker 1: where yeah, she has a product, which is the food,

840
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Speaker 1: but people just come sometimes just to meet her. And

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Speaker 1: then obviously there's incentives when you come and get there.

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Speaker 1: And also the other side of it is that there's

843
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Speaker 1: a real estate play too, right, So when you bring

844
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Speaker 1: that type of value, you're bringing continuous customers to an area,

845
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Speaker 1: the appreciation on the area goes up. But there's a

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Speaker 1: couple of things where I see like it could be benefiticial,

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Speaker 1: especially like if it's where you're from.

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Speaker 3: Right, right, Gota Yeah, So y'all, it's y'all advice. If

849
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Speaker 3: I open up a store front, a store front definitely

850
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Speaker 3: got to start a new audience.

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Speaker 5: Well, I'm not I don't really think. I don't think

852
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Speaker 5: a brick and mortar might not be the best idea,

853
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Speaker 5: but I do think getting it into clubs is a

854
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Speaker 5: good idea, Yeah, because I feel like that's something like

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Speaker 5: you can have like the premire like in every club,

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Speaker 5: mean like have like on the menu, like you know

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Speaker 5: when you go to clubs and you order bottles and

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Speaker 5: like every club has rose, every club has Don Julio,

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Speaker 5: or every club has you know, tequila or whatever. So

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Speaker 5: now it's like they have different hookah options, and then

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Speaker 5: they'll have your option as one of the hookah options.

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Speaker 3: And then I'll be sitting back in the cutting and

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Speaker 3: realizing the clubs it's such an inconvenience with those hookahs

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Speaker 3: because everybody's crowded, everybody bucked up. The girls can't even

865
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Speaker 3: get through that because somebody about to get burnt like.

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Speaker 5: That, And this would definitely makes it a lot. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: that's a fact, because like you said, even in restaurants,

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Speaker 5: like you know what I mean, you gotta the thing

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Speaker 5: is like you gotta pass it. Yes, you got like

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Speaker 5: duck and they knocking cools down.

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Speaker 1: Burn the floor, the sofa, somebody and the mouthpiece and

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Speaker 1: much more convenient.

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Speaker 5: This is that's where I see I see a lot

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Speaker 5: of scalability in that because, like you said, you got

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Speaker 5: the clubs, you got the lounges, and you have the restaurants.

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Speaker 5: They all serve hookah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you do both, right, because even like

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Speaker 1: Burner with cookies, like that becomes a brand that just travels.

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Speaker 1: We know cookies, even if we don't know Burner, we

880
00:39:08,239 --> 00:39:09,920
Speaker 1: know what cookies is. And so like when they see

881
00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:12,400
Speaker 1: the store, it's like, oh, we know what's inside, right,

882
00:39:12,640 --> 00:39:14,479
Speaker 1: we know the level of product. But if you become

883
00:39:14,680 --> 00:39:18,600
Speaker 1: that that brand, especially for this space, I mean, the

884
00:39:18,680 --> 00:39:19,600
Speaker 1: possibilities are endless.

885
00:39:19,719 --> 00:39:21,520
Speaker 5: The only thing with cookies are you I don't think

886
00:39:21,560 --> 00:39:22,920
Speaker 5: you're allowed to mail marijuana.

887
00:39:24,040 --> 00:39:26,960
Speaker 1: You are in California, you can, but I'm saying you

888
00:39:27,040 --> 00:39:29,200
Speaker 1: can't mail ithause that's.

889
00:39:29,120 --> 00:39:32,640
Speaker 5: Why it's like those stores are cash cows, because it's

890
00:39:32,680 --> 00:39:34,200
Speaker 5: like you, if you want to buy the weed, you

891
00:39:34,360 --> 00:39:37,560
Speaker 5: gotta do it right, correct, got a business, but you

892
00:39:37,640 --> 00:39:40,480
Speaker 5: can actually ship it, ship it across state line. So

893
00:39:40,840 --> 00:39:43,200
Speaker 5: and like you said, the hookah thing is interesting because

894
00:39:43,760 --> 00:39:45,759
Speaker 5: you could just smoke hookah just on a random like

895
00:39:45,960 --> 00:39:48,239
Speaker 5: I just see people on with pins like it's those

896
00:39:48,280 --> 00:39:49,719
Speaker 5: fake pins and all that. You could just be like

897
00:39:49,760 --> 00:39:50,399
Speaker 5: on a golf course.

898
00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:52,200
Speaker 1: We don't know what it is. We assuming this hohoker,

899
00:39:52,760 --> 00:39:54,480
Speaker 1: but this is That's what I'm saying. But I'm just saying,

900
00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:59,360
Speaker 1: just those portables everywhere. Yeah, people are smoking at everywhere.

901
00:40:00,200 --> 00:40:03,239
Speaker 1: I don't know what's in all of them. They're very

902
00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:06,600
Speaker 1: popular right now. That is actually something that's beneficial.

903
00:40:06,719 --> 00:40:09,600
Speaker 3: Man, I try to puff on those things. I don't

904
00:40:09,600 --> 00:40:14,600
Speaker 3: know how people do it, like the marijuana, like those nose,

905
00:40:14,680 --> 00:40:18,120
Speaker 3: like those big jewel and all that stuff. Like, Man,

906
00:40:18,160 --> 00:40:19,640
Speaker 3: I'm talking about list.

907
00:40:19,480 --> 00:40:21,359
Speaker 1: That we want it dangerous too. I know some people

908
00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:21,880
Speaker 1: who try them.

909
00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:23,800
Speaker 2: I never tried rollers.

910
00:40:24,080 --> 00:40:24,640
Speaker 1: You don't want to go on.

911
00:40:24,760 --> 00:40:27,880
Speaker 5: So are there other people that's making fruit based hookah? No,

912
00:40:28,120 --> 00:40:29,480
Speaker 5: you're the only person that makes fruit.

913
00:40:29,320 --> 00:40:32,600
Speaker 2: Based person that make fruit based yes, thank you.

914
00:40:34,360 --> 00:40:37,360
Speaker 5: You don't so you don't have any competition. No, do

915
00:40:37,480 --> 00:40:38,839
Speaker 5: you foresee competition coming?

916
00:40:40,120 --> 00:40:42,920
Speaker 3: I'm I'm you know, I'm the blueprint of something, right,

917
00:40:43,080 --> 00:40:45,759
Speaker 3: So it's only right that when people see something and

918
00:40:46,120 --> 00:40:48,000
Speaker 3: you do it like it's going to be others coming

919
00:40:48,040 --> 00:40:50,400
Speaker 3: behind you just try to duplicate it like I'm aware

920
00:40:50,440 --> 00:40:53,279
Speaker 3: of that, and that doesn't even affect me in any

921
00:40:53,360 --> 00:40:53,759
Speaker 3: kind of way.

922
00:40:53,880 --> 00:40:56,400
Speaker 2: Like I just know what I make, what I create.

923
00:40:57,960 --> 00:41:00,840
Speaker 3: That's just literally if you love your your grandma or

924
00:41:00,880 --> 00:41:04,719
Speaker 3: your mama gumbo, and they just probably tell you how

925
00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:05,399
Speaker 3: you get in the play.

926
00:41:05,520 --> 00:41:07,640
Speaker 2: Like I put a little couple of sausage in there,

927
00:41:07,840 --> 00:41:09,760
Speaker 2: put a little you know, trumpy laid baby.

928
00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:11,560
Speaker 3: You could sit there and do it the same way.

929
00:41:11,640 --> 00:41:13,560
Speaker 3: But it's gonna probably be good for you. But it

930
00:41:13,600 --> 00:41:14,760
Speaker 3: ain't gonna be your mama.

931
00:41:14,560 --> 00:41:15,600
Speaker 1: Gummy ain't gonna be the same.

932
00:41:15,680 --> 00:41:16,800
Speaker 2: And that's what black smoke is.

933
00:41:18,960 --> 00:41:19,960
Speaker 1: No, not that I haven't either.

934
00:41:21,320 --> 00:41:21,440
Speaker 5: Man.

935
00:41:21,440 --> 00:41:23,280
Speaker 2: You gotta come to Muros and get some gumbo.

936
00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:24,400
Speaker 1: Gotta come.

937
00:41:24,680 --> 00:41:25,799
Speaker 5: We make it without pork though.

938
00:41:27,760 --> 00:41:29,920
Speaker 1: We got to seafood seafood gumbo.

939
00:41:30,600 --> 00:41:33,120
Speaker 2: Couldn't believe Monday is not open on Tuesday.

940
00:41:33,760 --> 00:41:39,719
Speaker 5: Monday is not open on Tuesdays. I just not get it,

941
00:41:39,800 --> 00:41:41,480
Speaker 5: Like I mean, I can only have it yesterday, right,

942
00:41:41,520 --> 00:41:46,440
Speaker 5: all right? The reset, Let's talk about Dwayne Carter had it.

943
00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:48,880
Speaker 5: He's is he He's the most famous person to ever

944
00:41:49,040 --> 00:41:50,000
Speaker 5: come from the Wornes.

945
00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:52,719
Speaker 1: Absolutely one thousand. That's my guy.

946
00:41:53,040 --> 00:41:57,720
Speaker 5: So he he's uh smoked. Your Yeah, how that happened.

947
00:41:57,800 --> 00:42:00,759
Speaker 2: You know what's crazy? Uh? I think it was.

948
00:42:01,160 --> 00:42:03,960
Speaker 3: It's crazy because you always think about you know, we

949
00:42:04,080 --> 00:42:06,560
Speaker 3: always said we hear that light a flick and.

950
00:42:06,640 --> 00:42:07,319
Speaker 2: That Wayne song.

951
00:42:08,040 --> 00:42:09,560
Speaker 3: So now I'm like, damn it not we hear that

952
00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:15,000
Speaker 3: that's black smoke, but that that relationship actually came from Larry.

953
00:42:15,080 --> 00:42:16,040
Speaker 2: My got right here, man.

954
00:42:16,440 --> 00:42:21,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, Larry his good friends with mc mahon, which is

955
00:42:21,120 --> 00:42:24,200
Speaker 3: you know, uh litt Wayne right and man and Larry

956
00:42:24,280 --> 00:42:25,440
Speaker 3: always that's one thing he gonna do.

957
00:42:25,560 --> 00:42:26,239
Speaker 2: He go talk to you.

958
00:42:26,320 --> 00:42:28,759
Speaker 3: He can be like, look, you probably know some good

959
00:42:28,800 --> 00:42:30,799
Speaker 3: ship up. You probably know some people, but you got

960
00:42:30,920 --> 00:42:32,480
Speaker 3: to meet my dog. You got to meet blahlah blah.

961
00:42:32,520 --> 00:42:34,000
Speaker 3: He said, hooka pans and this, that and that and

962
00:42:34,080 --> 00:42:36,320
Speaker 3: the other. So you know, we all got got to

963
00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:38,160
Speaker 3: talk and got on phone calls. And Wayne had a

964
00:42:38,239 --> 00:42:41,680
Speaker 3: birthday coming up. McMahon was saying he was gonna make

965
00:42:41,719 --> 00:42:44,040
Speaker 3: sure way ain't get the product. Way ain't got the product,

966
00:42:44,200 --> 00:42:46,800
Speaker 3: Try the product. Love the product was part of his birthday.

967
00:42:46,840 --> 00:42:48,880
Speaker 3: Bad She actually had black smoke on this menu as

968
00:42:48,960 --> 00:42:50,280
Speaker 3: the as the hookah appetized.

969
00:42:50,600 --> 00:42:52,720
Speaker 1: What that feel like? Man, you're from New Orleans, obviously

970
00:42:52,800 --> 00:42:55,680
Speaker 1: we shared in the you know we love Wayne obviously,

971
00:42:55,760 --> 00:42:57,200
Speaker 1: like what that feel like when you see the guy.

972
00:42:57,680 --> 00:42:59,839
Speaker 3: I don't talk the same only talking golden, not bad

973
00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:03,279
Speaker 3: like you understand, like you know what I'm saying.

974
00:43:03,600 --> 00:43:04,840
Speaker 2: It gets no bigger than that.

975
00:43:06,640 --> 00:43:11,960
Speaker 1: From Louisiana. So when you uh, you're building right, Yes,

976
00:43:12,280 --> 00:43:14,239
Speaker 1: I'm assuming at some point it's not just you. You

977
00:43:14,320 --> 00:43:16,640
Speaker 1: got to build a team right now, How did that

978
00:43:16,719 --> 00:43:19,479
Speaker 1: work out? We grabbing family or we got our friends?

979
00:43:19,719 --> 00:43:21,440
Speaker 1: How you're building a team out to just go?

980
00:43:21,719 --> 00:43:24,239
Speaker 3: Yeah, So it's crazy us with my friend right here,

981
00:43:24,320 --> 00:43:26,520
Speaker 3: which is Dais and day we've been we've been listen,

982
00:43:26,719 --> 00:43:27,240
Speaker 3: it's crazy.

983
00:43:27,600 --> 00:43:30,680
Speaker 2: I love backstory. We was friends like when we was

984
00:43:30,760 --> 00:43:32,960
Speaker 2: like and I were late teens and stuff like that, right,

985
00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:35,800
Speaker 2: and we always had this goal in this motive that

986
00:43:36,120 --> 00:43:38,440
Speaker 2: we need to be rich one day. We don't know

987
00:43:38,520 --> 00:43:39,400
Speaker 2: how we're gonna be rich.

988
00:43:39,480 --> 00:43:41,359
Speaker 3: So we used to be sitting back in our living

989
00:43:41,400 --> 00:43:44,320
Speaker 3: room writing on envelopes, trying to figure out how to

990
00:43:44,400 --> 00:43:46,719
Speaker 3: build a my Space app and a Facebook. A Wheel

991
00:43:46,719 --> 00:43:48,480
Speaker 3: was like, we gotta put we gotta put time out

992
00:43:48,480 --> 00:43:50,160
Speaker 3: of business. We can do our own app, right, So

993
00:43:50,719 --> 00:43:54,440
Speaker 3: coming for a circle, she was running all the insurance

994
00:43:54,520 --> 00:43:57,120
Speaker 3: companies all over the world. I started being off show.

995
00:43:57,200 --> 00:43:59,120
Speaker 3: Then I started my hookah and stuff like that. And

996
00:43:59,239 --> 00:44:02,480
Speaker 3: then as things was growing and I was realizing the

997
00:44:02,840 --> 00:44:05,560
Speaker 3: day you came to my house one day, she was like, I'm.

998
00:44:05,400 --> 00:44:07,000
Speaker 2: Proud of you, but what the hell is you doing?

999
00:44:07,120 --> 00:44:10,360
Speaker 3: Like I was doing my own marketing, my own customer service,

1000
00:44:10,480 --> 00:44:13,360
Speaker 3: my own social media, like I was running everything, shipping

1001
00:44:13,440 --> 00:44:13,640
Speaker 3: all this.

1002
00:44:13,760 --> 00:44:16,320
Speaker 2: She was like, let me help you, my baby. So

1003
00:44:16,560 --> 00:44:18,080
Speaker 2: DA just came over here and listen.

1004
00:44:18,200 --> 00:44:20,360
Speaker 3: It was started with one conversation in my office in

1005
00:44:20,440 --> 00:44:22,279
Speaker 3: my house, and it became the best thing that could

1006
00:44:22,320 --> 00:44:24,680
Speaker 3: have ever happened to me. Like so days, just like

1007
00:44:24,800 --> 00:44:28,000
Speaker 3: my right hand man, she helped me run everything. Like days,

1008
00:44:28,040 --> 00:44:30,600
Speaker 3: you have more access to my life than me. You

1009
00:44:30,719 --> 00:44:31,560
Speaker 3: asked me something about me.

1010
00:44:31,560 --> 00:44:32,720
Speaker 5: I'm like, I don't know, x Dasia.

1011
00:44:33,200 --> 00:44:33,360
Speaker 3: You know.

1012
00:44:34,120 --> 00:44:36,400
Speaker 2: So my team is very, very small right now, but

1013
00:44:36,480 --> 00:44:40,719
Speaker 2: it's definitely started with my friends. Yes, yes, So.

1014
00:44:40,920 --> 00:44:43,680
Speaker 5: Talk about retaining customers, because that's the most important part

1015
00:44:43,719 --> 00:44:45,520
Speaker 5: of a business is once you get a customer, you

1016
00:44:45,520 --> 00:44:48,839
Speaker 5: want to make a customer for life. So what's your

1017
00:44:48,920 --> 00:44:53,280
Speaker 5: plans to make sure that customers return and keep buying product?

1018
00:44:53,440 --> 00:44:56,240
Speaker 2: You know, I feel like It's all about the connection

1019
00:44:56,800 --> 00:44:57,560
Speaker 2: with a customer.

1020
00:44:57,600 --> 00:44:59,640
Speaker 3: Don't make a customer feel like they're just a customer,

1021
00:44:59,680 --> 00:45:01,720
Speaker 3: like an the person that's just spending money in buying

1022
00:45:01,760 --> 00:45:04,000
Speaker 3: something from you. That's one of I think that was

1023
00:45:04,040 --> 00:45:06,680
Speaker 3: one of my most my most successful ways of going

1024
00:45:06,719 --> 00:45:09,839
Speaker 3: about things that I connect with everybody. Like literally every

1025
00:45:09,880 --> 00:45:12,759
Speaker 3: customer that that buy from me buy for me, they

1026
00:45:12,920 --> 00:45:14,920
Speaker 3: literally feel a connection with me. I talk to them,

1027
00:45:15,200 --> 00:45:18,120
Speaker 3: I gonna live, I answer questions. I literally talk to everybody.

1028
00:45:18,160 --> 00:45:21,520
Speaker 3: I repost everybody. It could be beyond saying how y'all

1029
00:45:21,600 --> 00:45:24,359
Speaker 3: are repost and I also post little Jenny that's sitting

1030
00:45:24,680 --> 00:45:26,560
Speaker 3: in her Ford focus. You know what I'm saying, Like,

1031
00:45:26,600 --> 00:45:29,279
Speaker 3: I literally make everybody feel I appreciate it because they

1032
00:45:29,320 --> 00:45:32,160
Speaker 3: truly are. And I always feel like the people that

1033
00:45:32,280 --> 00:45:35,800
Speaker 3: consider those selves themselves the little people, those are actually

1034
00:45:35,840 --> 00:45:38,040
Speaker 3: the biggest spinners. Those are the people that are sitting

1035
00:45:38,080 --> 00:45:39,680
Speaker 3: down there working they nine to five and getting they

1036
00:45:39,760 --> 00:45:42,200
Speaker 3: checking buying themselves something that they feel good about, which

1037
00:45:42,239 --> 00:45:44,080
Speaker 3: is a hookah, a hookah pin and stuff like that.

1038
00:45:44,200 --> 00:45:46,319
Speaker 3: So those are the consumers. That makes the most sense

1039
00:45:46,400 --> 00:45:48,799
Speaker 3: to me. So I just think it's all about making

1040
00:45:48,840 --> 00:45:51,560
Speaker 3: every customer feel value I appreciated and loved.

1041
00:45:51,840 --> 00:45:55,080
Speaker 1: So are we looking at more, more products or more flavors?

1042
00:45:55,680 --> 00:45:57,200
Speaker 1: How are we going to keep the business going?

1043
00:45:57,360 --> 00:45:57,480
Speaker 5: Right?

1044
00:45:57,800 --> 00:45:59,600
Speaker 1: So you got fifteen know how many flavors? You know?

1045
00:45:59,640 --> 00:46:03,760
Speaker 3: I got ten hookah pen flavors and fifteen hookah sheesh

1046
00:46:03,760 --> 00:46:04,320
Speaker 3: your flavors.

1047
00:46:04,440 --> 00:46:08,120
Speaker 1: So what's the plan? More products or different or different flavors?

1048
00:46:08,400 --> 00:46:09,480
Speaker 2: You gotta follow my Instagram.

1049
00:46:09,560 --> 00:46:11,080
Speaker 3: I told you I don't say nothing to just dry,

1050
00:46:11,600 --> 00:46:13,920
Speaker 3: but I'm gonna just say this, king, I'm never not working,

1051
00:46:13,920 --> 00:46:14,560
Speaker 3: you understand me?

1052
00:46:15,480 --> 00:46:17,279
Speaker 2: So Wayne like that switch right?

1053
00:46:18,920 --> 00:46:21,600
Speaker 5: So the warehouse that's going to be where all of

1054
00:46:21,680 --> 00:46:24,280
Speaker 5: the the product is held and where all the products

1055
00:46:24,280 --> 00:46:25,719
Speaker 5: is getting shipped out of and all this stuff.

1056
00:46:26,040 --> 00:46:30,880
Speaker 3: Yes, forty thousand squb feet like it's mega thirty offices

1057
00:46:31,000 --> 00:46:31,799
Speaker 3: like I'm talking about.

1058
00:46:31,880 --> 00:46:34,480
Speaker 2: Listen, it's crazy, y'all should come do an episode of

1059
00:46:34,480 --> 00:46:35,360
Speaker 2: Early Lesion.

1060
00:46:35,520 --> 00:46:39,160
Speaker 5: And we gotta stop bobbing. Sure, So are you thinking

1061
00:46:39,200 --> 00:46:39,960
Speaker 5: about diversity?

1062
00:46:40,200 --> 00:46:40,239
Speaker 3: Like?

1063
00:46:40,280 --> 00:46:42,560
Speaker 5: All right, so you're getting money with the hookah? Are

1064
00:46:42,600 --> 00:46:44,920
Speaker 5: you interested in other aspects? Of you looking about our

1065
00:46:44,920 --> 00:46:47,480
Speaker 5: real estate? You're looking at invest in other businesses restaurants

1066
00:46:47,520 --> 00:46:48,680
Speaker 5: like you're looking to do that? Or you just focus

1067
00:46:48,760 --> 00:46:49,400
Speaker 5: on what you're doing right now.

1068
00:46:49,440 --> 00:46:51,640
Speaker 3: Absolutely no, I'm looking to do that because I'm a

1069
00:46:51,800 --> 00:46:53,680
Speaker 3: fan of you. Gotta get it while it's hot, Like

1070
00:46:53,800 --> 00:46:57,920
Speaker 3: you know, like everything doesn't last always. Some things got

1071
00:46:58,000 --> 00:47:00,279
Speaker 3: his phases, some things got his time. So I just

1072
00:47:00,320 --> 00:47:02,160
Speaker 3: feel like, while you're in the game, you just literally

1073
00:47:02,239 --> 00:47:05,000
Speaker 3: gotta sprang your wings and be a ball eager. You

1074
00:47:05,040 --> 00:47:07,000
Speaker 3: can't literally just focus on one thing, have all your

1075
00:47:07,040 --> 00:47:08,799
Speaker 3: ags in one basket. And I feel like you don't

1076
00:47:08,840 --> 00:47:10,839
Speaker 3: have this kind of success and literally stick to one

1077
00:47:10,880 --> 00:47:14,160
Speaker 3: thing like you you know, you got people as far

1078
00:47:14,200 --> 00:47:16,400
Speaker 3: as like, for instance, you got jay Z, which was

1079
00:47:16,440 --> 00:47:18,520
Speaker 3: a rapper and now he owned a basketball game and

1080
00:47:18,600 --> 00:47:18,799
Speaker 3: now he.

1081
00:47:18,880 --> 00:47:20,680
Speaker 2: Own his own lick up, like you know what I'm saying.

1082
00:47:20,760 --> 00:47:23,560
Speaker 3: So I literally look for people like that as blueprints

1083
00:47:23,600 --> 00:47:25,839
Speaker 3: and understanding like I don't ever want nobody to put

1084
00:47:25,880 --> 00:47:27,480
Speaker 3: me in a box. So it starts with me. I

1085
00:47:27,520 --> 00:47:28,960
Speaker 3: don't want to be in no box. I may have

1086
00:47:29,120 --> 00:47:31,200
Speaker 3: started with black smoke, but that's not going to be

1087
00:47:31,239 --> 00:47:32,160
Speaker 3: the last thing you hear of me.

1088
00:47:32,480 --> 00:47:35,080
Speaker 1: So you started out with that crazy first day, but

1089
00:47:35,400 --> 00:47:38,680
Speaker 1: this Black Friday was pretty monumental as well. We're gonna

1090
00:47:38,680 --> 00:47:40,120
Speaker 1: get to the amount, but let's talk about the lead

1091
00:47:40,200 --> 00:47:43,400
Speaker 1: up to it. You said the marketing is Instagram. Are

1092
00:47:43,600 --> 00:47:47,160
Speaker 1: you taking in inventory and getting pre orders or waitless?

1093
00:47:47,520 --> 00:47:50,680
Speaker 1: How do people you know build up to that. You

1094
00:47:50,760 --> 00:47:52,759
Speaker 1: know that's super successful Black Friday, And like I said,

1095
00:47:52,760 --> 00:47:54,680
Speaker 1: we talk about numbers later, but what was the build

1096
00:47:54,760 --> 00:47:55,720
Speaker 1: up in two Black Friders?

1097
00:47:55,920 --> 00:47:58,640
Speaker 2: Yeah? I never do pre orders. I really feel like

1098
00:47:59,880 --> 00:48:02,920
Speaker 2: my advice to any business don't do pre orders because

1099
00:48:03,280 --> 00:48:05,520
Speaker 2: you can may have it on on the website, you

1100
00:48:05,600 --> 00:48:06,600
Speaker 2: can post it on Instagram.

1101
00:48:06,640 --> 00:48:08,640
Speaker 3: You could verbally say this is the pre order blah

1102
00:48:08,640 --> 00:48:10,960
Speaker 3: blah blah. But all people know once day pre order

1103
00:48:11,080 --> 00:48:12,800
Speaker 3: is I spent my money and I don't have my

1104
00:48:12,920 --> 00:48:15,799
Speaker 3: product at no matter what if you say it's coming

1105
00:48:15,840 --> 00:48:17,800
Speaker 3: in three weeks on a seventh day, they would be like,

1106
00:48:17,880 --> 00:48:20,279
Speaker 3: you scammed me. I don't got it yet. So I

1107
00:48:20,440 --> 00:48:22,480
Speaker 3: just really don't feel like it's worth a headache. So

1108
00:48:23,239 --> 00:48:27,080
Speaker 3: the thing about it is, I even like the last

1109
00:48:27,120 --> 00:48:29,959
Speaker 3: time when I made headlines, when I made one point

1110
00:48:31,360 --> 00:48:33,600
Speaker 3: what it was one point four million dollars and nine

1111
00:48:33,680 --> 00:48:36,480
Speaker 3: hours one point four million dollars and nine hours. That

1112
00:48:36,640 --> 00:48:39,040
Speaker 3: was just on a regular day on a restot. I

1113
00:48:39,239 --> 00:48:41,680
Speaker 3: was out of inventory for two months and I dropped

1114
00:48:41,719 --> 00:48:44,960
Speaker 3: it and it did that. So I literally never had

1115
00:48:45,000 --> 00:48:48,080
Speaker 3: a sale before. So me being able to make a

1116
00:48:48,160 --> 00:48:50,040
Speaker 3: million dollars with no sales just on a regular day,

1117
00:48:50,080 --> 00:48:50,719
Speaker 3: it was literally.

1118
00:48:50,560 --> 00:48:53,120
Speaker 2: Like a Tuesday dog Like it was a Tuesday, you know.

1119
00:48:53,400 --> 00:48:56,320
Speaker 3: So I was anticipating that Black Friday was going to

1120
00:48:56,360 --> 00:48:58,680
Speaker 3: be successful, but I didn't know the kind of success

1121
00:48:58,840 --> 00:49:01,440
Speaker 3: that it would have brought. Like she was actually telling me,

1122
00:49:01,520 --> 00:49:03,920
Speaker 3: Dave was actually telling me like, you know, Black Friday

1123
00:49:03,960 --> 00:49:06,560
Speaker 3: gonna be crazy. I'm like, ah, but yeah, nah, but nah,

1124
00:49:06,680 --> 00:49:07,920
Speaker 3: she was like, are you insane?

1125
00:49:08,000 --> 00:49:12,520
Speaker 2: Are you sick? Listen my ge? Oh my god. It was.

1126
00:49:12,680 --> 00:49:14,839
Speaker 2: It was insane. I didn't expect it in the main years.

1127
00:49:14,880 --> 00:49:18,439
Speaker 3: Bro, they took advantage of the Selle Like I said,

1128
00:49:18,480 --> 00:49:20,760
Speaker 3: like they bold to tell forty percent.

1129
00:49:22,320 --> 00:49:24,279
Speaker 2: They took all my ship. Could you believe that? That

1130
00:49:24,440 --> 00:49:27,080
Speaker 2: damn the half of I'm so mad. I never do

1131
00:49:27,200 --> 00:49:31,000
Speaker 2: that again. But nah, it was love, man. It was

1132
00:49:31,040 --> 00:49:33,319
Speaker 2: a beautiful feeling. Man made me feel back.

1133
00:49:33,320 --> 00:49:35,080
Speaker 3: I was giving make me feel bad like I was

1134
00:49:35,120 --> 00:49:36,839
Speaker 3: giving back to the community because I'm giving you out

1135
00:49:36,880 --> 00:49:37,600
Speaker 3: forty percent.

1136
00:49:37,600 --> 00:49:38,160
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.

1137
00:49:38,640 --> 00:49:41,880
Speaker 5: So, what what is your biggest markets in America. My

1138
00:49:41,960 --> 00:49:44,759
Speaker 5: biggest market is it's just the people. Like I said,

1139
00:49:44,840 --> 00:49:47,320
Speaker 5: like everywhere, no region's bigger than others.

1140
00:49:47,360 --> 00:49:48,280
Speaker 2: It's really worldwise.

1141
00:49:48,360 --> 00:49:49,880
Speaker 3: We look at that just saying like if you if

1142
00:49:49,920 --> 00:49:53,600
Speaker 3: you look at our analytics, like it's just look at

1143
00:49:53,640 --> 00:49:55,560
Speaker 3: the map. I mean we touched Like I feel like

1144
00:49:55,640 --> 00:49:58,480
Speaker 3: I'm the I'm the dope deal of like ghost don't

1145
00:49:58,480 --> 00:49:59,080
Speaker 3: got nothing on me.

1146
00:49:59,600 --> 00:50:01,719
Speaker 5: Boy, if you think about who's one of these things,

1147
00:50:01,719 --> 00:50:04,440
Speaker 5: because you know we travel a lot. So Atlanta is

1148
00:50:04,480 --> 00:50:08,399
Speaker 5: a heavy hookah hub. New York City like you said,

1149
00:50:08,400 --> 00:50:11,160
Speaker 5: you spoke about the Dominican influence. So New York City

1150
00:50:11,360 --> 00:50:17,200
Speaker 5: is heavy on hookah. Yeah, Atlanta, for la people smoke hooker.

1151
00:50:17,520 --> 00:50:19,080
Speaker 5: So yeah, it's one of these things where no matter

1152
00:50:19,120 --> 00:50:22,840
Speaker 5: where you live, hookah.

1153
00:50:23,040 --> 00:50:26,600
Speaker 2: I love Houston hooker. Yeah. New Orleans is heavy with

1154
00:50:26,640 --> 00:50:28,879
Speaker 2: the hookah. You know what's crazy. That's the thing. Well,

1155
00:50:29,160 --> 00:50:31,520
Speaker 2: I know a lot of people always.

1156
00:50:31,239 --> 00:50:34,799
Speaker 3: Be like your hood don't support you know the hook

1157
00:50:34,840 --> 00:50:37,160
Speaker 3: would be the last people New Orleans be showing up

1158
00:50:37,239 --> 00:50:39,759
Speaker 3: and showing out for me. Like everywhere we go in

1159
00:50:39,840 --> 00:50:44,040
Speaker 3: New Orleans, you see they smoking hookah pans Like uh,

1160
00:50:44,400 --> 00:50:48,520
Speaker 3: even Larry, my friend Larry right here he have establishment,

1161
00:50:48,560 --> 00:50:50,680
Speaker 3: which is my favorite place on the plug again treeouts,

1162
00:50:50,960 --> 00:50:55,319
Speaker 3: you know, treehout, shout out to the baddest uh. Lara

1163
00:50:55,520 --> 00:50:58,240
Speaker 3: was at Treehouse watching the game and Larry FaceTime because

1164
00:50:58,280 --> 00:51:00,759
Speaker 3: I gave Larry some hookah pans and he bought some

1165
00:51:00,800 --> 00:51:01,600
Speaker 3: of hooka pans with.

1166
00:51:01,680 --> 00:51:03,040
Speaker 2: Him to the Treehouse.

1167
00:51:03,160 --> 00:51:05,719
Speaker 3: And once people see he had blecks Mo hooka pans,

1168
00:51:05,760 --> 00:51:08,080
Speaker 3: like they was boaging him. Like everybody was like lyrics

1169
00:51:08,120 --> 00:51:10,319
Speaker 3: like I just don't get it because we have Hookah Hill,

1170
00:51:10,400 --> 00:51:12,239
Speaker 3: Like why did they act like that behind blex mooth.

1171
00:51:12,400 --> 00:51:14,279
Speaker 2: But my city is no matter why you go in

1172
00:51:14,320 --> 00:51:15,920
Speaker 2: the city, you're going to see people in the smoking

1173
00:51:15,920 --> 00:51:17,759
Speaker 2: they blexs Mo hooka pans. They definitely show up.

1174
00:51:17,800 --> 00:51:18,080
Speaker 5: Yo.

1175
00:51:18,239 --> 00:51:20,000
Speaker 1: How you're looking at Miami because I feel like that

1176
00:51:20,440 --> 00:51:23,279
Speaker 1: that's a city that there's a parties almost every day.

1177
00:51:23,440 --> 00:51:26,040
Speaker 2: That's what's crazy. Miami is looking very good. That's why

1178
00:51:26,040 --> 00:51:27,160
Speaker 2: I've been talking about Miami.

1179
00:51:27,200 --> 00:51:29,160
Speaker 3: I see, I really got to do something in Miami,

1180
00:51:29,280 --> 00:51:32,440
Speaker 3: and I've been I visited Miami a couple of weeks ago.

1181
00:51:32,360 --> 00:51:34,239
Speaker 2: And now I'm like, I gotta find a penhouse out here.

1182
00:51:35,200 --> 00:51:38,360
Speaker 2: It's different Miami. It's just different vibes.

1183
00:51:38,520 --> 00:51:42,000
Speaker 5: So let me ask you this, New Orleans is an

1184
00:51:42,080 --> 00:51:47,240
Speaker 5: interesting place because, like you said, it's on culture even historically,

1185
00:51:47,400 --> 00:51:49,600
Speaker 5: like you know what I mean, Like everything is different,

1186
00:51:49,760 --> 00:51:54,160
Speaker 5: like the music, the food, even the language, like the

1187
00:51:54,280 --> 00:51:56,000
Speaker 5: creole everything, like you know what I'm saying, Like that's

1188
00:51:56,000 --> 00:51:58,799
Speaker 5: a whole different culture that historically has been different from

1189
00:51:58,800 --> 00:52:00,720
Speaker 5: a lot of other places, every other place in America.

1190
00:52:01,080 --> 00:52:04,440
Speaker 5: But there's also a lot of issues violence, murder, rate,

1191
00:52:04,560 --> 00:52:08,279
Speaker 5: stuff like that. So how has your experience been, Like

1192
00:52:08,440 --> 00:52:12,040
Speaker 5: have you had issues or has it just been really

1193
00:52:12,120 --> 00:52:14,080
Speaker 5: like a positive because a lot of New Orleans want

1194
00:52:14,080 --> 00:52:17,320
Speaker 5: of those places where there's a lot of negative news.

1195
00:52:17,840 --> 00:52:19,480
Speaker 5: For people hear about New Orleans and they're like, oh,

1196
00:52:19,560 --> 00:52:21,879
Speaker 5: it's murders. You know what I'm saying, it's a lot

1197
00:52:21,920 --> 00:52:24,319
Speaker 5: of crime. Like how what's your thoughts on the city

1198
00:52:24,400 --> 00:52:24,680
Speaker 5: right now?

1199
00:52:25,040 --> 00:52:27,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, So my thing is I pretty I stay out

1200
00:52:27,680 --> 00:52:30,080
Speaker 3: the way, you know, I stay out the way. I

1201
00:52:30,560 --> 00:52:32,920
Speaker 3: almost don't leave a house unless I'm probably going the treehouse.

1202
00:52:33,560 --> 00:52:34,480
Speaker 2: You know, I stay out the way.

1203
00:52:34,560 --> 00:52:37,000
Speaker 3: So but for the most part, I would say, I

1204
00:52:37,080 --> 00:52:39,319
Speaker 3: know my city be painted in such a negative way,

1205
00:52:39,840 --> 00:52:42,320
Speaker 3: but it's really love in New Orleans, Like you know

1206
00:52:42,360 --> 00:52:44,680
Speaker 3: what I'm saying like, I mean, every place have crime,

1207
00:52:44,760 --> 00:52:46,000
Speaker 3: every place got they they.

1208
00:52:46,040 --> 00:52:47,719
Speaker 2: You know their negatives and their positives.

1209
00:52:47,800 --> 00:52:50,080
Speaker 3: But I can say I can speak for myself and

1210
00:52:50,640 --> 00:52:53,200
Speaker 3: for my circle of friends, which I have a successful

1211
00:52:53,200 --> 00:52:59,200
Speaker 3: circle of friends like me, Super sent Larry Moreau, Jessica Dupart.

1212
00:52:59,360 --> 00:53:02,600
Speaker 3: Like when we come to our city, our city respect

1213
00:53:02,760 --> 00:53:05,879
Speaker 3: us and look at us as like pretty much as

1214
00:53:06,120 --> 00:53:09,399
Speaker 3: their way out, and they blueprint. So I really feel

1215
00:53:09,480 --> 00:53:13,560
Speaker 3: like we are respected in a sense that it's just

1216
00:53:13,719 --> 00:53:15,840
Speaker 3: so much love and it's just like you make you

1217
00:53:15,960 --> 00:53:18,279
Speaker 3: give me hope. We give them that bit of hope

1218
00:53:18,320 --> 00:53:21,000
Speaker 3: that sometimes you don't even get to see these kind

1219
00:53:21,000 --> 00:53:22,960
Speaker 3: of things, and you don't even think these kind of

1220
00:53:23,000 --> 00:53:25,719
Speaker 3: things are possible to achieve. So you can look on

1221
00:53:25,840 --> 00:53:29,000
Speaker 3: TV all day and see puff Daddy a billionaire. You

1222
00:53:29,040 --> 00:53:31,120
Speaker 3: look on TV all day and see jay Z a billionaire,

1223
00:53:31,120 --> 00:53:33,239
Speaker 3: even though somebody else achieved it, you're going to feel like, Okay,

1224
00:53:33,320 --> 00:53:35,480
Speaker 3: that's them. But if you see the same person that

1225
00:53:35,520 --> 00:53:37,360
Speaker 3: you're stood next to in the crawfish line getting a

1226
00:53:37,440 --> 00:53:40,600
Speaker 3: dackery and they became a billionaire billing and hold on,

1227
00:53:40,719 --> 00:53:43,800
Speaker 3: wait a minute, now, you give me hope for real protection.

1228
00:53:45,480 --> 00:53:48,920
Speaker 2: Protected king and you know what I'm saying.

1229
00:53:53,440 --> 00:53:58,680
Speaker 1: You're buying a warehouse. Obviously ridiculous. Congratulations on Black Friday

1230
00:53:59,600 --> 00:54:03,200
Speaker 1: business booming, But so do expenses. So how will you

1231
00:54:03,280 --> 00:54:05,120
Speaker 1: managine that? Because as you as you grow more, you

1232
00:54:05,160 --> 00:54:07,400
Speaker 1: got to get more inventory, there's more expenses. How you

1233
00:54:07,520 --> 00:54:11,520
Speaker 1: manage that balance between profitability? First, what you have to spend?

1234
00:54:11,880 --> 00:54:13,640
Speaker 2: My CPA in danger shout out to day.

1235
00:54:13,880 --> 00:54:18,319
Speaker 3: I don't got time. I know works works on a TP.

1236
00:54:19,760 --> 00:54:21,799
Speaker 3: I say, luke me and the meetings when you really

1237
00:54:21,840 --> 00:54:23,719
Speaker 3: need me there because I got them to do. You know,

1238
00:54:25,239 --> 00:54:26,960
Speaker 3: I gotta go to the treehouse. Let me know what

1239
00:54:27,000 --> 00:54:31,400
Speaker 3: they say. You know, but yeah, we always want to

1240
00:54:31,440 --> 00:54:34,200
Speaker 3: make sure that we stay at a certain threshold and

1241
00:54:34,239 --> 00:54:36,640
Speaker 3: a certain number, and like you know, our profit got

1242
00:54:36,719 --> 00:54:37,560
Speaker 3: to be a certain amount.

1243
00:54:37,680 --> 00:54:39,440
Speaker 2: Like you know, we we we.

1244
00:54:39,520 --> 00:54:44,080
Speaker 3: Spend two million dollars on inventory this month. We we

1245
00:54:44,280 --> 00:54:47,360
Speaker 3: gross blah blah blah amount of millions. And you know,

1246
00:54:47,440 --> 00:54:49,400
Speaker 3: we spend this much on production. We got to make

1247
00:54:49,440 --> 00:54:51,640
Speaker 3: sure we had this much left in accounting, spend this

1248
00:54:51,800 --> 00:54:54,359
Speaker 3: much on expenses, like she break down every single thing.

1249
00:54:54,440 --> 00:54:56,920
Speaker 3: It's times when she a call and say, how did

1250
00:54:57,000 --> 00:54:59,920
Speaker 3: you spend two hundred dollars that look, I need a

1251
00:55:00,120 --> 00:55:03,200
Speaker 3: some gas gas. You spent two hundred you know what

1252
00:55:03,239 --> 00:55:05,640
Speaker 3: I'm saying, So definitely keep that bannage. But other than that,

1253
00:55:05,840 --> 00:55:08,279
Speaker 3: I mean as far as the ap and stuff they

1254
00:55:08,400 --> 00:55:10,840
Speaker 3: just found out after, she would have never approved of it.

1255
00:55:11,400 --> 00:55:14,000
Speaker 3: You know, sometimes you gotta be a little irresponsible to

1256
00:55:14,040 --> 00:55:14,879
Speaker 3: get responsibility.

1257
00:55:17,760 --> 00:55:21,960
Speaker 5: So this employee that you had that drove two hours.

1258
00:55:21,719 --> 00:55:24,880
Speaker 3: To work one hour, yes, yes, yes you brought you

1259
00:55:24,920 --> 00:55:27,840
Speaker 3: brought my house. Yes, that was my very very first employee.

1260
00:55:27,880 --> 00:55:30,719
Speaker 3: Her name is Keisha, and uh, I just knew I

1261
00:55:30,880 --> 00:55:32,240
Speaker 3: was you know, like I told you I was gonna

1262
00:55:32,280 --> 00:55:33,879
Speaker 3: drop this product, but I ain knew it was gonna

1263
00:55:33,920 --> 00:55:35,920
Speaker 3: do this. So Keisha was the first person that came

1264
00:55:35,960 --> 00:55:38,600
Speaker 3: on the Black Smoke. I haven't even released it. I

1265
00:55:38,680 --> 00:55:40,480
Speaker 3: told the world I was releasing it. Yet me and

1266
00:55:40,600 --> 00:55:42,879
Speaker 3: her was like inside of the inside of the room,

1267
00:55:43,160 --> 00:55:45,440
Speaker 3: stacking up the hookahs together whatever the case may be,

1268
00:55:45,600 --> 00:55:47,120
Speaker 3: was like we go clear this room out one day.

1269
00:55:47,920 --> 00:55:50,480
Speaker 3: So Keisha was the very first employee. And she lives

1270
00:55:51,160 --> 00:55:53,359
Speaker 3: on the West Bank and I live on the North Shore,

1271
00:55:53,440 --> 00:55:55,560
Speaker 3: which is like an hour drive, and she drive to

1272
00:55:55,640 --> 00:56:00,279
Speaker 3: work an hour every morning and back every every knowing

1273
00:56:00,320 --> 00:56:02,960
Speaker 3: and Keisha is always the first one at work and

1274
00:56:03,080 --> 00:56:05,520
Speaker 3: always the last one to leave. Even when she like

1275
00:56:05,680 --> 00:56:07,640
Speaker 3: not on the clock no more, she's still like, just

1276
00:56:07,719 --> 00:56:09,879
Speaker 3: to get a hay for tomorrow, I gotta be doing

1277
00:56:09,920 --> 00:56:12,200
Speaker 3: address corrections, I gotta be doing this, gotta be doing that.

1278
00:56:12,520 --> 00:56:14,520
Speaker 3: It's times where we have so many artists, and Keisha

1279
00:56:14,600 --> 00:56:16,239
Speaker 3: was pushing out the artists by herself because she was

1280
00:56:16,320 --> 00:56:19,960
Speaker 3: my first to own the employee that she would literally

1281
00:56:20,280 --> 00:56:22,680
Speaker 3: not see her kids for two, three and four days.

1282
00:56:22,719 --> 00:56:25,080
Speaker 3: She'll literally sleep on the nortill Well warehouse at just

1283
00:56:25,160 --> 00:56:26,880
Speaker 3: so she could wake up three in the morning go

1284
00:56:27,000 --> 00:56:29,960
Speaker 3: start artists and leave out that twelve am. Like, that's

1285
00:56:30,000 --> 00:56:31,680
Speaker 3: the kind of commitment that she had to me. And

1286
00:56:31,840 --> 00:56:33,960
Speaker 3: she started that from the beginning, before she knew what

1287
00:56:34,000 --> 00:56:36,160
Speaker 3: the company was going to become. You know, it's easily

1288
00:56:36,560 --> 00:56:40,120
Speaker 3: easy to find employees now that will probably won't come

1289
00:56:40,280 --> 00:56:43,360
Speaker 3: just ship and pack with black smoke because it's the

1290
00:56:43,440 --> 00:56:43,960
Speaker 3: popular thing.

1291
00:56:44,000 --> 00:56:45,640
Speaker 2: A probably seemed like the cool thing to do.

1292
00:56:46,000 --> 00:56:48,440
Speaker 3: But to have somebody else believed in me before I

1293
00:56:48,520 --> 00:56:51,200
Speaker 3: truly even believed in myself, before I even knew all

1294
00:56:51,200 --> 00:56:53,360
Speaker 3: the witness what this was gonna become, it's like a

1295
00:56:53,440 --> 00:56:56,080
Speaker 3: different kind of love and admiration that I will always

1296
00:56:56,120 --> 00:56:58,200
Speaker 3: have for Keisha. So still to the day, she was

1297
00:56:58,280 --> 00:57:01,279
Speaker 3: driving to work every morning and even every evening driving it.

1298
00:57:01,360 --> 00:57:03,160
Speaker 3: I win and never complained about it. It was just

1299
00:57:03,239 --> 00:57:04,800
Speaker 3: the fact in the back of my mind that I

1300
00:57:04,920 --> 00:57:07,520
Speaker 3: was realizing that she's still doing this. So what kind

1301
00:57:07,560 --> 00:57:08,840
Speaker 3: of other way that I could repair her?

1302
00:57:08,920 --> 00:57:09,080
Speaker 6: You know?

1303
00:57:09,239 --> 00:57:10,799
Speaker 3: So I had to make sure I got Kesha by

1304
00:57:10,840 --> 00:57:14,240
Speaker 3: that way out to Keisha, shout out to you, Keisha,

1305
00:57:15,080 --> 00:57:15,680
Speaker 3: you're real one.

1306
00:57:17,440 --> 00:57:19,280
Speaker 5: No, that's important, man. You gotta take care of your

1307
00:57:19,560 --> 00:57:23,600
Speaker 5: your support. Yeah, because you're only as good as a team.

1308
00:57:23,440 --> 00:57:25,800
Speaker 2: As the people around You're absolutely, man, that's a fact.

1309
00:57:26,000 --> 00:57:30,360
Speaker 5: So let me ask you this. As far as you

1310
00:57:30,560 --> 00:57:34,560
Speaker 5: have the hookah, are there other like ancillary products that

1311
00:57:34,640 --> 00:57:36,520
Speaker 5: you could produce, like from the hook Like are you

1312
00:57:36,640 --> 00:57:39,240
Speaker 5: selling like what's it actually called? Those big things where

1313
00:57:39,280 --> 00:57:42,600
Speaker 5: you smoke hooker out of the hookahs? That's the hookah.

1314
00:57:42,680 --> 00:57:44,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's so, that's the hookah pen.

1315
00:57:45,280 --> 00:57:50,200
Speaker 5: So what you're smoking is the shesha correct hookah is

1316
00:57:50,240 --> 00:57:52,120
Speaker 5: the name of the machine? The machine?

1317
00:57:52,440 --> 00:57:52,800
Speaker 2: Correct?

1318
00:57:53,000 --> 00:57:55,120
Speaker 5: Okay, I never heard that. I thought was actually what

1319
00:57:55,160 --> 00:57:55,720
Speaker 5: you're smoking.

1320
00:57:55,920 --> 00:57:57,560
Speaker 1: No, no, you got that's what I say. You got

1321
00:57:57,600 --> 00:57:59,479
Speaker 1: fifteen shesha fifteen sheh.

1322
00:58:00,120 --> 00:58:03,720
Speaker 5: All right. So do you sell hookah? Yes, you sell those? Yes, okay,

1323
00:58:03,760 --> 00:58:04,840
Speaker 5: So you sell a hookah.

1324
00:58:04,840 --> 00:58:06,440
Speaker 3: And I got and I sell the fruit she should

1325
00:58:06,440 --> 00:58:08,360
Speaker 3: have put inside the hookah instead of the nicotine.

1326
00:58:08,440 --> 00:58:10,400
Speaker 5: To back over, So what's your whole what's all your

1327
00:58:10,440 --> 00:58:13,640
Speaker 5: product life? Like, what's all the products that you sell?

1328
00:58:13,720 --> 00:58:16,920
Speaker 5: You sell? You sell them? Yes, yeah, sheisha.

1329
00:58:17,120 --> 00:58:20,200
Speaker 3: I sell a hookah, the hookah pen, the hookah shisha,

1330
00:58:20,520 --> 00:58:23,280
Speaker 3: the hookah charcoals. I got one hundred percent of what's

1331
00:58:23,360 --> 00:58:25,560
Speaker 3: that the coconut charcoals. That's the black things that all

1332
00:58:25,640 --> 00:58:27,400
Speaker 3: to sit on top in the club when he said

1333
00:58:27,800 --> 00:58:29,680
Speaker 3: on top of the fall, I have the I sell

1334
00:58:29,720 --> 00:58:31,919
Speaker 3: a hookah foil you. I sell the tips to smoke

1335
00:58:31,960 --> 00:58:34,440
Speaker 3: the hooka. I have candy tips, even have hookahs that

1336
00:58:34,520 --> 00:58:36,520
Speaker 3: light up. So I have my own batteries called black

1337
00:58:36,600 --> 00:58:38,040
Speaker 3: power to go inside of the hookahs.

1338
00:58:38,360 --> 00:58:38,959
Speaker 5: You know what it's meaning.

1339
00:58:39,000 --> 00:58:43,760
Speaker 2: The whole merchandise, merchandise like you're talking about like clothes.

1340
00:58:43,480 --> 00:58:47,439
Speaker 1: Clothes when we talked about and shout out to my brother.

1341
00:58:47,680 --> 00:58:49,360
Speaker 1: But like when you see that sea, you know what

1342
00:58:49,480 --> 00:58:51,400
Speaker 1: it is, right you? Like I would imagine when we

1343
00:58:51,440 --> 00:58:53,640
Speaker 1: see this logo, people just want to support it, right

1344
00:58:53,680 --> 00:58:56,360
Speaker 1: because it's something that brings us together. This is enjoyable.

1345
00:58:56,440 --> 00:58:58,480
Speaker 1: This is like a moment. So when I see him

1346
00:58:58,520 --> 00:59:01,280
Speaker 1: wearing I know it's connect it because he's on the

1347
00:59:01,320 --> 00:59:02,080
Speaker 1: same time I'm.

1348
00:59:01,960 --> 00:59:04,040
Speaker 2: On WI yeah pret shirt.

1349
00:59:04,560 --> 00:59:06,080
Speaker 3: It was crazy as when I go on Live and

1350
00:59:06,080 --> 00:59:07,720
Speaker 3: stuff and talk to him, I always have on my

1351
00:59:08,160 --> 00:59:10,240
Speaker 3: shirt of my hat. But we just make him within

1352
00:59:10,560 --> 00:59:12,240
Speaker 3: our you know, I were coming off team like I

1353
00:59:12,280 --> 00:59:13,960
Speaker 3: think you got on a black smoke hood it right now.

1354
00:59:14,480 --> 00:59:16,640
Speaker 2: Yeah see, And people be like put them on the side.

1355
00:59:16,640 --> 00:59:18,720
Speaker 2: We cannot buy him in it. I just be like,

1356
00:59:19,320 --> 00:59:20,400
Speaker 2: we got too much going on.

1357
00:59:20,480 --> 00:59:20,800
Speaker 5: I can't.

1358
00:59:22,040 --> 00:59:24,880
Speaker 2: We can better keep artists, we can better keep up

1359
00:59:24,880 --> 00:59:26,840
Speaker 2: with this artist. I'm not about to stress me, y'all.

1360
00:59:26,840 --> 00:59:27,400
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.

1361
00:59:27,480 --> 00:59:29,160
Speaker 3: So, but I feel like, as you know, as the

1362
00:59:29,200 --> 00:59:32,360
Speaker 3: team grow, and you know, as as the business constantly grow,

1363
00:59:32,440 --> 00:59:35,320
Speaker 3: we could touch other you know, avenues and stuff like that.

1364
00:59:35,480 --> 00:59:37,200
Speaker 2: But right now I think we overwhelmed.

1365
00:59:39,760 --> 00:59:42,120
Speaker 5: So, so where's the name? Black Tannic used to be

1366
00:59:42,120 --> 00:59:42,840
Speaker 5: a tattoo artist.

1367
00:59:43,200 --> 00:59:45,520
Speaker 2: Man, No, man, let me tell you, I'm so crazy, bro.

1368
00:59:46,520 --> 00:59:48,840
Speaker 2: I always had a wild imagination. I guess that's why

1369
00:59:48,880 --> 00:59:49,960
Speaker 2: I became successful, right.

1370
00:59:50,160 --> 00:59:54,880
Speaker 3: So I was literally creating my instagram when I came

1371
00:59:54,920 --> 00:59:57,040
Speaker 3: from All Show and I went to the tattoo shot.

1372
00:59:57,080 --> 00:59:58,919
Speaker 3: When I got All Show, I was at this point.

1373
00:59:58,960 --> 01:00:00,600
Speaker 3: I was all Show for like a money. I had

1374
01:00:00,680 --> 01:00:02,720
Speaker 3: some money to blow in me. I was like to

1375
01:00:02,760 --> 01:00:04,600
Speaker 3: give it to the tattoo man. That's why I'm giving

1376
01:00:04,640 --> 01:00:07,160
Speaker 3: to So I was in there and I was creating

1377
01:00:07,200 --> 01:00:09,680
Speaker 3: my instagram to make one when I'm going back on shore,

1378
01:00:10,000 --> 01:00:12,200
Speaker 3: and I was like what to call myself? I already

1379
01:00:12,240 --> 01:00:14,600
Speaker 3: called myself black. My whole family called me black. Nobody

1380
01:00:14,680 --> 01:00:16,720
Speaker 3: called me by my government. They hold My whole family

1381
01:00:16,800 --> 01:00:18,920
Speaker 3: called me black. So I'm like black, what though, I

1382
01:00:18,960 --> 01:00:20,800
Speaker 3: can't just say black because then people just called me

1383
01:00:20,920 --> 01:00:22,880
Speaker 3: like the color. I was like, oh, I'm about to

1384
01:00:22,920 --> 01:00:25,360
Speaker 3: get all these sleeves, about to get my legs tatted,

1385
01:00:25,480 --> 01:00:26,200
Speaker 3: my arm, tatted my.

1386
01:00:26,240 --> 01:00:28,920
Speaker 2: Neck, tatty black, tatty that boy, because you go to

1387
01:00:28,960 --> 01:00:31,480
Speaker 2: say that boy black tatted after today? Guess what?

1388
01:00:31,600 --> 01:00:33,480
Speaker 5: But I had never had a tattoo. Yeah, got all

1389
01:00:33,480 --> 01:00:34,360
Speaker 5: those chats on one day.

1390
01:00:34,800 --> 01:00:38,280
Speaker 2: Fuck No, that's my point. I had never had a tattoo.

1391
01:00:38,360 --> 01:00:39,680
Speaker 2: Nobody told me that shit hurt.

1392
01:00:40,000 --> 01:00:41,960
Speaker 3: So when I made the name Black Tatty before I

1393
01:00:42,000 --> 01:00:43,520
Speaker 3: got in the chill once he gave me that ink

1394
01:00:43,600 --> 01:00:45,880
Speaker 3: one time, I was like, I never got it finished.

1395
01:00:45,920 --> 01:00:46,640
Speaker 5: I never went back.

1396
01:00:46,720 --> 01:00:47,720
Speaker 1: You didn't have any tattoos.

1397
01:00:47,880 --> 01:00:50,440
Speaker 2: You got a half of sleeve. Yes, I got to help.

1398
01:00:50,440 --> 01:00:52,000
Speaker 3: I went back and got this a couple of years

1399
01:00:52,040 --> 01:00:54,880
Speaker 3: after that. But I made the name black Tatty thinking

1400
01:00:54,920 --> 01:00:57,360
Speaker 3: I about to be tatted up. I paid the man full.

1401
01:00:57,480 --> 01:00:59,120
Speaker 3: He still followed me on Instagram to the day.

1402
01:00:59,200 --> 01:01:01,480
Speaker 2: So we never finished. I said, we never is that

1403
01:01:01,600 --> 01:01:03,160
Speaker 2: ship hurt? I don't know how people do that, bro,

1404
01:01:03,240 --> 01:01:04,120
Speaker 2: I'm never going back.

1405
01:01:04,720 --> 01:01:07,840
Speaker 1: No, indeed, no, indeed.

1406
01:01:09,840 --> 01:01:13,280
Speaker 5: So are you you doing anything with essence Fest?

1407
01:01:14,360 --> 01:01:17,760
Speaker 3: Oh? So with men and Larry was already talking about

1408
01:01:17,840 --> 01:01:20,360
Speaker 3: making sure I'm a part of essence Fest next year.

1409
01:01:20,720 --> 01:01:23,160
Speaker 3: This year I kind of missed my miss my mark because,

1410
01:01:23,200 --> 01:01:24,880
Speaker 3: like I said, you know, the business is fairly new,

1411
01:01:25,000 --> 01:01:26,760
Speaker 3: so it would have took so much. But now I

1412
01:01:26,800 --> 01:01:29,840
Speaker 3: got more little knowledge and understanding. So definitely gonna be

1413
01:01:29,840 --> 01:01:31,800
Speaker 3: a part of uh Essenfest.

1414
01:01:32,600 --> 01:01:37,959
Speaker 5: Let's make sure that the biggest we spoke about that okay, culture.

1415
01:01:37,640 --> 01:01:41,480
Speaker 1: One in the studio without that, So you got some

1416
01:01:41,560 --> 01:01:44,600
Speaker 1: pretty big influences obviously little Wayne Tapelain. Is there anybody

1417
01:01:44,720 --> 01:01:47,400
Speaker 1: that on your whishlers? Like if I can get my

1418
01:01:47,560 --> 01:01:50,160
Speaker 1: product in their hands, this would be even crazier.

1419
01:01:50,640 --> 01:01:54,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm talking about I have I know this, this

1420
01:01:54,400 --> 01:01:55,640
Speaker 2: is wild. You know what I'm saying.

1421
01:01:55,720 --> 01:01:59,080
Speaker 3: I'm like, I know, hove and be proving to smoke

1422
01:01:59,160 --> 01:02:02,240
Speaker 3: son before you know what I'm saying. They cool people.

1423
01:02:02,280 --> 01:02:03,960
Speaker 3: I'm like, damn be you know you know, you know,

1424
01:02:04,120 --> 01:02:06,680
Speaker 3: been holding a Tesla bag like you know they hold

1425
01:02:06,720 --> 01:02:10,760
Speaker 3: the black smoke. But like people like jay Z, Beyonce,

1426
01:02:11,120 --> 01:02:14,720
Speaker 3: Nicki Minaj, Cardi B, and Drake those kind of people.

1427
01:02:15,000 --> 01:02:18,840
Speaker 2: I'm looking at y'all, I'm looking at it. This makes sense,

1428
01:02:18,960 --> 01:02:21,120
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying at this point?

1429
01:02:21,280 --> 01:02:22,960
Speaker 5: Like who else?

1430
01:02:23,360 --> 01:02:24,640
Speaker 1: I think it was brought a place out in the

1431
01:02:24,720 --> 01:02:29,520
Speaker 1: Orleans too. Oh yeah yeah, write that down, y'all. Put up.

1432
01:02:29,960 --> 01:02:34,520
Speaker 5: Yeah, just just joking. Sister loves you used to love

1433
01:02:34,560 --> 01:02:37,680
Speaker 5: this as long as used to live. No, it's a

1434
01:02:37,720 --> 01:02:39,880
Speaker 5: good it's a good story, and I feel like it's

1435
01:02:39,920 --> 01:02:42,480
Speaker 5: something that you know, there's so many different places that

1436
01:02:42,480 --> 01:02:44,880
Speaker 5: I see people smoke, even though like back because you know,

1437
01:02:45,000 --> 01:02:46,680
Speaker 5: like some of some of basketball in New York is

1438
01:02:46,720 --> 01:02:48,560
Speaker 5: really big, like in the street like street ball stuff

1439
01:02:48,600 --> 01:02:50,920
Speaker 5: like that, and they starting to they're starting to have

1440
01:02:51,040 --> 01:02:55,840
Speaker 5: hookah on the court. Yeah see today, So this is

1441
01:02:55,960 --> 01:02:59,000
Speaker 5: way more convenient because it's like yeah, like they literally

1442
01:02:59,080 --> 01:03:01,720
Speaker 5: have the hook those big hookah machines, Like wow on

1443
01:03:01,840 --> 01:03:03,120
Speaker 5: the court, people smoking.

1444
01:03:03,600 --> 01:03:07,000
Speaker 1: Somebody come to get the balls, right yeah right New York.

1445
01:03:07,320 --> 01:03:09,640
Speaker 5: Like even like this is way more convenient than having

1446
01:03:09,720 --> 01:03:10,600
Speaker 5: that big hookah.

1447
01:03:11,200 --> 01:03:12,680
Speaker 1: Do you ever thought about having ambassadors?

1448
01:03:14,360 --> 01:03:16,600
Speaker 3: I didn't, but I mean I'm open to it. Like

1449
01:03:16,680 --> 01:03:19,240
Speaker 3: I'm saying, like everything just happened so fast, bro.

1450
01:03:19,440 --> 01:03:22,840
Speaker 5: The Black Smoke Girls, Oh yeah.

1451
01:03:24,320 --> 01:03:24,760
Speaker 1: We did.

1452
01:03:26,800 --> 01:03:28,600
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, but I'm saying, we never do it. We

1453
01:03:28,720 --> 01:03:30,760
Speaker 3: made a list, like you know, we thought about it,

1454
01:03:30,800 --> 01:03:32,800
Speaker 3: but we never did it. And people be writing all

1455
01:03:32,880 --> 01:03:35,400
Speaker 3: day asking how could I become ambassador? Can I get

1456
01:03:35,560 --> 01:03:38,240
Speaker 3: on the ambassador list? It's like yeah, I'm like, adam

1457
01:03:38,240 --> 01:03:39,920
Speaker 3: to the list and we got this long list that

1458
01:03:40,000 --> 01:03:41,160
Speaker 3: we just never did nothing with.

1459
01:03:41,960 --> 01:03:44,000
Speaker 2: But I'm going to get twenty twenty three. I'm coming

1460
01:03:44,080 --> 01:03:44,240
Speaker 2: for you.

1461
01:03:44,400 --> 01:03:47,280
Speaker 1: Boy won a trade. You know.

1462
01:03:48,040 --> 01:03:49,600
Speaker 5: So before we wrap, what's some of your what's some

1463
01:03:49,680 --> 01:03:51,200
Speaker 5: of your plans like for the for next year, Like

1464
01:03:51,200 --> 01:03:52,880
Speaker 5: what do you What are you looking forward to in

1465
01:03:53,000 --> 01:03:53,680
Speaker 5: the next year too?

1466
01:03:53,840 --> 01:03:56,640
Speaker 3: What I'm looking forward to because it has become this

1467
01:03:56,760 --> 01:03:59,960
Speaker 3: whole social media thing that people always talk about how

1468
01:04:00,560 --> 01:04:03,040
Speaker 3: they love going to hookah spots, right, and they go

1469
01:04:03,200 --> 01:04:05,560
Speaker 3: to hookah spots and they're willing to pay for the

1470
01:04:05,640 --> 01:04:07,920
Speaker 3: hookahs there. They don't mind paying for it, but they

1471
01:04:08,000 --> 01:04:10,440
Speaker 3: literally want to put the black smoke sheeshes. They want

1472
01:04:10,440 --> 01:04:12,160
Speaker 3: to smoke the black smoke sheesha. Only they were like,

1473
01:04:12,400 --> 01:04:14,520
Speaker 3: I even pay your price for your shisha, but can't

1474
01:04:14,520 --> 01:04:16,560
Speaker 3: you put the black smoke in it? So it was

1475
01:04:16,640 --> 01:04:20,600
Speaker 3: this funny thing I was tagged in on Instagram, this

1476
01:04:20,920 --> 01:04:23,880
Speaker 3: hookah spot in North Carolina. It was so properlar when

1477
01:04:23,920 --> 01:04:26,120
Speaker 3: people bringing black smoke to it. They literally had a

1478
01:04:26,160 --> 01:04:28,640
Speaker 3: sign by the door say no black smoke products allowed.

1479
01:04:29,040 --> 01:04:31,200
Speaker 3: So they be literally saying, black, you got to give

1480
01:04:31,280 --> 01:04:33,360
Speaker 3: us some black smoke hookerh spots. We don't want to

1481
01:04:33,360 --> 01:04:35,680
Speaker 3: go to the hookah spots, all that nicotine, all that tobacco.

1482
01:04:35,760 --> 01:04:37,400
Speaker 3: So I just want to say, I'm never not working.

1483
01:04:37,680 --> 01:04:39,200
Speaker 3: I hear you can't get queens.

1484
01:04:39,000 --> 01:04:41,880
Speaker 5: Well that's what I was saying. I feel like if

1485
01:04:41,920 --> 01:04:44,840
Speaker 5: you get those, because yeah, there's so many hookah spots

1486
01:04:44,920 --> 01:04:47,760
Speaker 5: that's out there and they can have a healthy alternative

1487
01:04:47,840 --> 01:04:51,280
Speaker 5: that still tastes good. I would, I would go there

1488
01:04:51,320 --> 01:04:51,640
Speaker 5: for sure.

1489
01:04:52,280 --> 01:04:55,600
Speaker 2: Yeah. So that's that's that's my big goal and big

1490
01:04:55,680 --> 01:04:57,560
Speaker 2: playing for twenty twin. I'm very excited.

1491
01:04:57,680 --> 01:04:59,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, that distribution is gonna be crazy. Man, I'm sure

1492
01:05:00,120 --> 01:05:02,200
Speaker 1: that the people listen here, like, we got to get

1493
01:05:02,240 --> 01:05:02,840
Speaker 1: this in our spot.

1494
01:05:02,920 --> 01:05:06,160
Speaker 5: So if you're a restaurant owner, a clown, a club owner,

1495
01:05:06,840 --> 01:05:08,760
Speaker 5: you should be early. You should reaching out all right

1496
01:05:08,800 --> 01:05:10,280
Speaker 5: now our restaurant own is reaching.

1497
01:05:10,080 --> 01:05:13,120
Speaker 2: Out everyone you could probably think of. Man, it's crazy,

1498
01:05:13,880 --> 01:05:14,840
Speaker 2: even the strip clubs.

1499
01:05:16,320 --> 01:05:18,680
Speaker 1: Yes, everybody reaching out man for black businesses.

1500
01:05:23,680 --> 01:05:25,680
Speaker 5: Yeah, well it's been a pleasure.

1501
01:05:25,720 --> 01:05:26,960
Speaker 2: My brother's a pleasure.

1502
01:05:27,320 --> 01:05:30,400
Speaker 5: Thank you. How can the people follow you on social media, website,

1503
01:05:30,440 --> 01:05:31,080
Speaker 5: all of that stuff.

1504
01:05:31,680 --> 01:05:34,400
Speaker 3: You can follow me at black Tatted and Black Smoke.

1505
01:05:34,640 --> 01:05:37,160
Speaker 3: So the thing that people having a problem with at

1506
01:05:37,240 --> 01:05:39,480
Speaker 3: Black tatt and Black Smoke is because they spelled black

1507
01:05:39,560 --> 01:05:42,280
Speaker 3: with the b L a c K. There's no c's

1508
01:05:42,360 --> 01:05:45,800
Speaker 3: b l a kk tatted and b l a kk smoke.

1509
01:05:46,040 --> 01:05:49,280
Speaker 3: And also the website is black smoke dot com and so.

1510
01:05:49,440 --> 01:05:51,120
Speaker 5: Black Tatted is your personal page.

1511
01:05:51,160 --> 01:05:54,200
Speaker 2: Person. Smoke is your business pace correct.

1512
01:05:54,320 --> 01:05:54,640
Speaker 5: Got it?

1513
01:05:55,400 --> 01:05:57,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, highly recommended, highly respect him.

1514
01:05:57,680 --> 01:06:02,320
Speaker 5: Thank you, appreciate that we've actually tried the product live.

1515
01:06:04,080 --> 01:06:06,120
Speaker 1: They didn't disappoint then, and then we're gonna have to

1516
01:06:06,120 --> 01:06:06,920
Speaker 1: get a bundle over him.

1517
01:06:06,960 --> 01:06:07,640
Speaker 5: Yeah, I need the bundle.

1518
01:06:09,440 --> 01:06:11,400
Speaker 2: I told you that's the most popular flavor of the bundle.

1519
01:06:13,560 --> 01:06:15,680
Speaker 1: You see that that's not really good.

1520
01:06:16,520 --> 01:06:27,160
Speaker 5: That's the most popular flavor every That's what that Troy.

1521
01:06:27,240 --> 01:06:28,160
Speaker 5: I'll keeping on show.

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Speaker 1: Shout to everybody on E y L University, shout everybody

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Speaker 1: on pictreon dot com, and shout out to all the

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Speaker 1: earners that are worldwide. I say worldwide because it's just

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Speaker 1: that man. We got love from a lot of places

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Speaker 1: throughout the world. Shout to you and shoutut the black

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Speaker 1: Man like this is a really good p I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: go upstairs with this and now this will probably done tonight,

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Speaker 1: So I'm gonna try some new flavors. Man. We we're

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Speaker 1: gonna help support this man, and we got some business

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Speaker 1: to do.

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Speaker 2: Smoker is the movement.

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Speaker 5: Baby smokers on our way out.

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Speaker 3: Please, that's puffing on E y L the biggest talking

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Speaker 3: little wings. Go ahead, appreciate y'all. Man, did y'all get

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Speaker 3: that on video?

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Speaker 1: Out? Peace?

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Speaker 4: My graduates from my school being force back drop bag drop,

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Speaker 4: Mike drop backdrop.

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Speaker 7: An illegal alien from Guatemala charged with raping a child

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Speaker 7: in Massachusetts. An MS thirteen gang member from Al Salvador

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Speaker 7: accused of murdering a Texas. Man of Venezuelan charged with

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Speaker 7: filming and selling child pornography in Michigan. These are just

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Speaker 7: some of the heinous migrant criminals caught because of President

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Speaker 7: Donald J. Trump's leadership. I'm Christy nom the United States

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Speaker 7: Secretary of Homeland Security. Under President Trump, attempted illegal border

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Speaker 7: crossings are at the lowest levels ever recorded, and over

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Speaker 7: one hundred thousand illegal aliens have been arrested. If you

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Speaker 7: are here illegally, your next you will be fine nearly

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Speaker 7: one thousand dollars a day, imprisoned and deported, you will

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Speaker 7: never return. But if you register using our CBP home

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Speaker 7: app and leave now, you could be allowed to return legally.

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Speaker 7: Do what's right. Leave now. Under President Trump, America's laws,

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Speaker 7: border and families.

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Speaker 2: Will be protected.

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Speaker 1: Sponsored by the United States Department of Homeland Security,