1 00:00:00,840 --> 00:00:03,720 Speaker 1: Live from the Mercedes Benz Interview Lounge. 2 00:00:03,760 --> 00:00:06,279 Speaker 2: You know you have that friend or two in your life. 3 00:00:07,760 --> 00:00:11,360 Speaker 2: You can go a month or two, maybe six months, 4 00:00:11,800 --> 00:00:13,840 Speaker 2: maybe a year without seeing them or talking to them, 5 00:00:13,880 --> 00:00:16,440 Speaker 2: But once you see them again, it's as if time 6 00:00:17,440 --> 00:00:20,960 Speaker 2: didn't pass. Yes, yes, Barbara Corquin is not that person. 7 00:00:21,040 --> 00:00:26,119 Speaker 2: Oh please, I am still Barbara Corkran. We start over 8 00:00:26,200 --> 00:00:29,160 Speaker 2: fresh every time we see each other. It's a new friendship. 9 00:00:29,320 --> 00:00:31,880 Speaker 3: We like siblings. We raise each other and we love 10 00:00:31,880 --> 00:00:32,280 Speaker 3: each other. 11 00:00:32,440 --> 00:00:34,320 Speaker 2: We do. We love you, we miss you, and we're 12 00:00:34,360 --> 00:00:35,200 Speaker 2: so glad you're here today. 13 00:00:35,200 --> 00:00:36,440 Speaker 3: Barbara, so happy to be here. 14 00:00:36,640 --> 00:00:39,559 Speaker 2: Sorry, my my allergies are like. 15 00:00:39,640 --> 00:00:43,560 Speaker 3: Oh, you're forgiven. People love you anyway. 16 00:00:43,600 --> 00:00:45,320 Speaker 2: And you did. You came in the first thing you 17 00:00:45,320 --> 00:00:47,120 Speaker 2: did was you grabbed my crotch. No, I did not 18 00:00:47,240 --> 00:00:49,120 Speaker 2: you did my crotch? Well, then let me tell you 19 00:00:49,159 --> 00:00:56,279 Speaker 2: there was nothing there yet, there's something there were just 20 00:00:56,720 --> 00:00:59,320 Speaker 2: it takes time. It takes time. It takes time to 21 00:00:59,400 --> 00:01:01,200 Speaker 2: find it. 22 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:02,279 Speaker 3: It's time to find it. 23 00:01:02,360 --> 00:01:04,399 Speaker 2: Barbara, so much to talk about. Let's first of all, 24 00:01:04,440 --> 00:01:06,640 Speaker 2: this started out with Shark Tank of Course, season sixteen, 25 00:01:07,280 --> 00:01:10,959 Speaker 2: of Course Friday's nationwide on ABC eight Central in eight 26 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:14,560 Speaker 2: East coast time, whatever we'll find it. This is a 27 00:01:14,560 --> 00:01:17,520 Speaker 2: lot of seasons in under your belt with Shark Tank. 28 00:01:17,600 --> 00:01:19,080 Speaker 3: When I went out there, I thought I'd give you 29 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:21,120 Speaker 3: two seasons. I'll go on to something else because I 30 00:01:21,160 --> 00:01:23,760 Speaker 3: love change. That I'm still there's unbelievable. 31 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:25,640 Speaker 2: Why are you still there? Why why don't you change 32 00:01:25,640 --> 00:01:26,360 Speaker 2: and do something else? 33 00:01:26,800 --> 00:01:29,000 Speaker 3: I love the entrepreneurs most of all, and I love 34 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:31,400 Speaker 3: my fellow sharks. You get to be a family, just 35 00:01:31,440 --> 00:01:33,399 Speaker 3: like you guys leaving each other. You know what to 36 00:01:33,440 --> 00:01:35,320 Speaker 3: do with yourself. You're part of a unit. Have you 37 00:01:35,360 --> 00:01:37,959 Speaker 3: ever thought about leaving when I get tired? 38 00:01:38,080 --> 00:01:38,640 Speaker 2: For sure? 39 00:01:38,840 --> 00:01:40,280 Speaker 3: Yeah, it doesn't really work. 40 00:01:40,680 --> 00:01:41,400 Speaker 2: I don't want you to leave. 41 00:01:41,440 --> 00:01:43,280 Speaker 3: You're my favorite sharks. Thank you very much. You've got 42 00:01:43,319 --> 00:01:44,560 Speaker 3: good taste. I thought so. 43 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:46,880 Speaker 2: She does, thank you, except for, you know, coming to 44 00:01:46,920 --> 00:01:49,240 Speaker 2: work with us. Yeah, that was her bad taste moment, 45 00:01:49,280 --> 00:01:52,480 Speaker 2: not a choice. On a sad note, and I want 46 00:01:52,480 --> 00:01:54,320 Speaker 2: to hear from you. Of course you have to go 47 00:01:54,320 --> 00:01:57,760 Speaker 2: out to Los Angeles to shoot sharks. You lost your 48 00:01:57,760 --> 00:01:59,200 Speaker 2: home in the fires. 49 00:01:58,920 --> 00:02:02,480 Speaker 3: I did, among many And yeah, and what'd you say 50 00:02:02,960 --> 00:02:03,720 Speaker 3: among many people? 51 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:05,760 Speaker 2: Among many? I think you said you lost many homes? 52 00:02:05,840 --> 00:02:06,000 Speaker 3: No? 53 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:08,720 Speaker 2: No, And you actually had a camera with you, and 54 00:02:08,760 --> 00:02:11,160 Speaker 2: you were showing bits and pieces of what was left, 55 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:15,320 Speaker 2: and how heartbreaking was that for you and heartbreaking for 56 00:02:15,480 --> 00:02:17,760 Speaker 2: other people that you know out there that lost their homes. 57 00:02:17,840 --> 00:02:19,760 Speaker 3: It was a killer because I love the community I 58 00:02:19,800 --> 00:02:22,040 Speaker 3: was in. I never knew, being in New York that 59 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:24,280 Speaker 3: your neighbors mean a lot, because in New York you're 60 00:02:24,320 --> 00:02:26,680 Speaker 3: not really friendly with your neighbors. Out there, I knew 61 00:02:26,760 --> 00:02:30,240 Speaker 3: every single person around me. They invited me into play checkers, 62 00:02:30,520 --> 00:02:33,040 Speaker 3: have a glass of wine, let's play bingo. I mean, 63 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:36,000 Speaker 3: they were so authentic and they lost everything. Everything they 64 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:38,200 Speaker 3: had was in their little trailer home. For me, it 65 00:02:38,240 --> 00:02:40,640 Speaker 3: was a piet of terror and it was heartbreaking. But 66 00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:44,360 Speaker 3: I just kept telling myself, look what everybody else has lost. 67 00:02:44,440 --> 00:02:46,200 Speaker 3: I mean I couldn't. I didn't feel I had the 68 00:02:46,280 --> 00:02:49,160 Speaker 3: right to complain. But have I lost a lover something 69 00:02:49,200 --> 00:02:51,360 Speaker 3: I loved so much? I sure did. That was the 70 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:54,040 Speaker 3: only place my husband wasn't allowed. It was the only 71 00:02:54,080 --> 00:02:56,120 Speaker 3: place I had no TV or no radio that I 72 00:02:56,160 --> 00:02:58,520 Speaker 3: could find peace every day of the week. But I 73 00:02:58,560 --> 00:03:00,880 Speaker 3: really dearly miss it. But don't think they'll be building 74 00:03:00,880 --> 00:03:01,240 Speaker 3: it again. 75 00:03:01,520 --> 00:03:04,320 Speaker 4: No, No, but your husband really wasn't allowed never. 76 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:06,280 Speaker 3: I told him on David, this is a girl's house. 77 00:03:06,320 --> 00:03:07,239 Speaker 3: You can never come out. 78 00:03:07,400 --> 00:03:09,160 Speaker 2: Well, and that's okay if you have your own it's 79 00:03:09,160 --> 00:03:11,000 Speaker 2: like you're having your own treehouse, you know, in the backyard. 80 00:03:11,040 --> 00:03:11,480 Speaker 4: You got it. 81 00:03:11,520 --> 00:03:14,000 Speaker 3: And he's used to rejection, he said, okay, he knew 82 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:14,800 Speaker 3: he didn't have a chance. 83 00:03:15,560 --> 00:03:18,880 Speaker 2: I like that. You did, you did well. I don't know. 84 00:03:18,919 --> 00:03:20,639 Speaker 2: You said that that's the only place your husband was 85 00:03:21,240 --> 00:03:23,880 Speaker 2: not allowed. Yes, but let's not forget your pants. 86 00:03:25,280 --> 00:03:27,280 Speaker 3: Oh, this is true. He's not allowed in my bedroom, 87 00:03:27,320 --> 00:03:30,200 Speaker 3: in fact, except by invitation, which never comes. 88 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:33,400 Speaker 2: But you know where his bedroom's located, so you can 89 00:03:33,440 --> 00:03:34,000 Speaker 2: always find it. 90 00:03:34,040 --> 00:03:37,119 Speaker 3: I'm never looking for it. There's such a good guy, 91 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:38,720 Speaker 3: but I'm never looking for that bedroom. 92 00:03:38,720 --> 00:03:39,560 Speaker 2: Really, Oh my. 93 00:03:39,520 --> 00:03:41,160 Speaker 1: God, does he have a man cave that you're not 94 00:03:41,160 --> 00:03:41,800 Speaker 1: allowed to come into? 95 00:03:41,880 --> 00:03:44,000 Speaker 3: Yeah? His bedroom? Okay, no, I'm allowed in, but I 96 00:03:44,040 --> 00:03:45,840 Speaker 3: never invite myself. He invites, you know, I say a 97 00:03:45,840 --> 00:03:48,280 Speaker 3: little bit later, honey and seping. 98 00:03:48,760 --> 00:03:51,160 Speaker 2: He's he's a great guy though, and I know you 99 00:03:51,280 --> 00:03:52,320 Speaker 2: love him very much. 100 00:03:52,440 --> 00:03:54,680 Speaker 3: And every day I crawl in his bed at night 101 00:03:54,720 --> 00:03:56,040 Speaker 3: and I give him a kiss good night. I have 102 00:03:56,080 --> 00:03:58,200 Speaker 3: to crawl up because he's got safety bars on the 103 00:03:58,200 --> 00:04:01,160 Speaker 3: side of his bed because he has Parkinson's disease that 104 00:04:01,160 --> 00:04:02,920 Speaker 3: I'm afraid he'll full out of the bed. So I 105 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:06,080 Speaker 3: crawl up and each crawl gets so much harder every day. 106 00:04:07,120 --> 00:04:07,600 Speaker 3: That's love. 107 00:04:08,160 --> 00:04:10,480 Speaker 2: That is love. Hey. So there's so much going on. 108 00:04:10,640 --> 00:04:14,680 Speaker 2: And I know that people who know you, Barbara Corkoran, 109 00:04:14,760 --> 00:04:17,440 Speaker 2: they know that you are plugged into all things financed 110 00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:20,320 Speaker 2: and all things investment, this and that, entrepreneurial lives and 111 00:04:20,360 --> 00:04:23,200 Speaker 2: things and that. But with what's going on right now 112 00:04:23,240 --> 00:04:26,880 Speaker 2: with the economy, and it's affecting everyone in different ways, yes, 113 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:32,000 Speaker 2: at all levels of income, and say, people who have savings, 114 00:04:32,040 --> 00:04:35,560 Speaker 2: people who don't, whatever, what is your number one go to? 115 00:04:35,680 --> 00:04:38,880 Speaker 2: And so it asks you to how to weather this storm. 116 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:42,920 Speaker 3: I think it's more attitude than it is factuality because facts, 117 00:04:42,920 --> 00:04:45,240 Speaker 3: because if you look at the facts, there's nothing to 118 00:04:45,279 --> 00:04:49,120 Speaker 3: be optimistic about. Honestly, everyone's struggling. The more lower class 119 00:04:49,160 --> 00:04:51,839 Speaker 3: you are, the more you pick up the burden of inflation, 120 00:04:52,360 --> 00:04:54,320 Speaker 3: of not being able to find a home for yourself 121 00:04:54,360 --> 00:04:57,800 Speaker 3: at an affordable rate. Everything really sits on your chest 122 00:04:57,880 --> 00:04:59,280 Speaker 3: more than they have a person. But even if you're 123 00:04:59,279 --> 00:05:01,760 Speaker 3: a rich person. People are afraid to invest because the 124 00:05:01,760 --> 00:05:04,160 Speaker 3: stock markets full in ten percent in two days. So 125 00:05:04,240 --> 00:05:07,320 Speaker 3: everybody's feeling the pain. But who's feeling the pain the most, 126 00:05:07,360 --> 00:05:09,480 Speaker 3: I can tell you are the entrepreneurs themselves, a little 127 00:05:09,520 --> 00:05:12,159 Speaker 3: businessmen that are working by themselves. I have a staff 128 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:15,000 Speaker 3: of three people. They're firing people. They don't know how 129 00:05:15,040 --> 00:05:17,479 Speaker 3: to order their goods differently, they can't call the SBA, 130 00:05:17,520 --> 00:05:20,720 Speaker 3: they don't answer their phone. They've reduced their people by 131 00:05:20,760 --> 00:05:23,640 Speaker 3: forty six percent. I think as of saying and cutting 132 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:25,960 Speaker 3: off more people, there's no way to turn. They are 133 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:28,880 Speaker 3: so alone, and they're so panicked and needy. And these 134 00:05:28,920 --> 00:05:31,520 Speaker 3: are really great people who have their heart in the 135 00:05:31,560 --> 00:05:34,600 Speaker 3: right place. They employ half of Americans are employed by 136 00:05:34,600 --> 00:05:37,200 Speaker 3: some will businesses. Everybody gives the credit to the big businesses, 137 00:05:37,400 --> 00:05:39,400 Speaker 3: but they pick up the phone and negotiate their rates 138 00:05:39,400 --> 00:05:41,800 Speaker 3: with their suppliers in China. Little guys don't have the 139 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:44,240 Speaker 3: option to do that. So they're left alone, and they're 140 00:05:44,279 --> 00:05:46,599 Speaker 3: struggling so hard. And they just came through COVID and 141 00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:49,200 Speaker 3: made it through and now they get hit by a cyclone. 142 00:05:49,200 --> 00:05:51,640 Speaker 3: I'm like, wow, where do we turn? Actually, I'm bringing 143 00:05:51,640 --> 00:05:53,880 Speaker 3: all my entrepreneurs into New York next week the middle 144 00:05:53,920 --> 00:05:57,120 Speaker 3: of next week, and we're brainstorming like crazy, because more 145 00:05:57,160 --> 00:06:00,440 Speaker 3: than coming up with actual solutions to their problems, Jewel'll 146 00:06:00,520 --> 00:06:02,440 Speaker 3: share and we'll get them. What I want them to 147 00:06:02,480 --> 00:06:04,400 Speaker 3: do is share the support for each other. 148 00:06:04,520 --> 00:06:06,920 Speaker 2: You know, there's a trickle down issue going on to 149 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:09,960 Speaker 2: You're talking about entrepreneurs who are already struggling to get 150 00:06:09,960 --> 00:06:12,520 Speaker 2: their businesses still get their businesses off the ground this 151 00:06:12,560 --> 00:06:14,400 Speaker 2: and they are letting people go. Keep in mind that 152 00:06:14,480 --> 00:06:17,400 Speaker 2: people they're letting go are people who are struggling with 153 00:06:17,520 --> 00:06:19,800 Speaker 2: the day to day problems of trying to find money 154 00:06:19,839 --> 00:06:23,320 Speaker 2: to put food on the table. So it is affecting everyone. 155 00:06:23,920 --> 00:06:28,839 Speaker 2: And but I hear from others saying, Okay, no, this 156 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:31,200 Speaker 2: is temporary, It's going to be great before you know it. 157 00:06:31,279 --> 00:06:33,599 Speaker 2: Just just buck up, sister. I'm like, well, it's not 158 00:06:33,720 --> 00:06:36,080 Speaker 2: easy for everyone to buck up every times. 159 00:06:36,120 --> 00:06:38,920 Speaker 3: I'm the most optimistic person I know, bar none. But 160 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:40,520 Speaker 3: I don't think you can buck this up. I think 161 00:06:40,560 --> 00:06:41,919 Speaker 3: you got to look as straight in the face, you 162 00:06:41,960 --> 00:06:43,400 Speaker 3: got to deal with the best you can. And I 163 00:06:43,440 --> 00:06:45,840 Speaker 3: think it's a hard time, hard time for everybody. And 164 00:06:45,880 --> 00:06:50,240 Speaker 3: coupled over the actual changes that are affecting everybody. Attitude 165 00:06:50,520 --> 00:06:51,120 Speaker 3: is so bad. 166 00:06:51,240 --> 00:06:53,200 Speaker 2: Talk about that, talk about how we need to turn 167 00:06:53,240 --> 00:06:54,320 Speaker 2: that around and what that looks like. 168 00:06:54,400 --> 00:06:56,080 Speaker 3: Well, I don't know how to turn it around. I'm 169 00:06:56,160 --> 00:06:58,679 Speaker 3: making my attempt to turn around by being bringing people 170 00:06:58,680 --> 00:07:01,479 Speaker 3: together who are having the similar problems talking about it. 171 00:07:01,520 --> 00:07:03,480 Speaker 3: What can we do? Feeling like they have some control 172 00:07:03,520 --> 00:07:05,839 Speaker 3: and they're proactive and can make a difference to their 173 00:07:05,839 --> 00:07:09,200 Speaker 3: own selves, their business, their lives. So that's my little 174 00:07:09,240 --> 00:07:11,600 Speaker 3: piece of what I That's the only thing I thought of. 175 00:07:11,960 --> 00:07:14,360 Speaker 3: But if you're by yourself, you're paying more for your goods, 176 00:07:14,440 --> 00:07:19,280 Speaker 3: you can't find housing, whatever typical day that people go through, 177 00:07:19,640 --> 00:07:22,600 Speaker 3: how do you stay optimistic? I think you just should 178 00:07:22,640 --> 00:07:25,080 Speaker 3: know that in the end it passes. I mean, I said, 179 00:07:25,400 --> 00:07:27,680 Speaker 3: it sounds like something my mother would tell me, which 180 00:07:27,760 --> 00:07:29,720 Speaker 3: is terrible, But in the end it passes. But how 181 00:07:29,720 --> 00:07:31,800 Speaker 3: do you keep your attitude? What I do is I 182 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:34,800 Speaker 3: don't read the paper unless I'm preparing for something like 183 00:07:34,800 --> 00:07:37,160 Speaker 3: this that I read, I get up to date. I 184 00:07:37,200 --> 00:07:39,920 Speaker 3: don't let that kind of attitude affect me. I keep 185 00:07:39,960 --> 00:07:42,760 Speaker 3: in my little place of happiness and come out when 186 00:07:42,840 --> 00:07:43,560 Speaker 3: I have to do. 187 00:07:43,640 --> 00:07:45,960 Speaker 4: You think we should be looking at our four oh 188 00:07:45,960 --> 00:07:48,280 Speaker 4: one k's and stuff, because you know a lot of 189 00:07:48,280 --> 00:07:50,000 Speaker 4: people this week are like I looked at my four 190 00:07:50,040 --> 00:07:53,640 Speaker 4: oh one k. Oh my gosh, or don't even bother right. 191 00:07:53,640 --> 00:07:55,320 Speaker 3: Don't even look at it. Even worse than that, a 192 00:07:55,360 --> 00:07:57,240 Speaker 3: lot of people are having a knee jerk reaction and 193 00:07:57,280 --> 00:07:59,400 Speaker 3: taking from their four oh one k. And if you're 194 00:07:59,400 --> 00:08:01,560 Speaker 3: fifty nine or or older that you won't get a 195 00:08:01,560 --> 00:08:03,760 Speaker 3: penalty anything out of fifty nine. You get ten percent 196 00:08:03,760 --> 00:08:06,280 Speaker 3: penalty to begin with. But why take out a four 197 00:08:06,480 --> 00:08:08,440 Speaker 3: h one k when it's diminished by ten percent in 198 00:08:08,480 --> 00:08:10,840 Speaker 3: the stock market? It doesn't make sense. Why not wait 199 00:08:10,960 --> 00:08:13,440 Speaker 3: that out? I mean that's a matter of holding still. 200 00:08:13,520 --> 00:08:15,120 Speaker 2: Yeah, holding still, and don't just don't look at it. 201 00:08:15,400 --> 00:08:18,240 Speaker 2: They don't looking at it's not tear it out anything, tear. 202 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:19,320 Speaker 3: It up, put blinders on. 203 00:08:20,320 --> 00:08:22,720 Speaker 1: So let's say you have saved some money and this 204 00:08:22,920 --> 00:08:24,600 Speaker 1: was your moment, you know it's going to be this year. 205 00:08:24,680 --> 00:08:27,160 Speaker 1: You've got let's say ten thousand, fifteen thousand dollars and 206 00:08:27,200 --> 00:08:29,080 Speaker 1: you want to do something with it. What do you 207 00:08:29,120 --> 00:08:30,560 Speaker 1: even recommend doing with something right now? 208 00:08:30,560 --> 00:08:31,920 Speaker 3: Well, you could put in a four to one k. 209 00:08:32,040 --> 00:08:33,640 Speaker 3: It's probably a good thing and lock it up so 210 00:08:33,679 --> 00:08:36,559 Speaker 3: that you can't be tempted to use it. Or it's 211 00:08:36,559 --> 00:08:38,760 Speaker 3: certainly not enough for any down payment on the house. 212 00:08:39,520 --> 00:08:41,440 Speaker 3: Maybe you could buy a two family house with a 213 00:08:41,480 --> 00:08:43,880 Speaker 3: partner and get two units in it and have them 214 00:08:43,880 --> 00:08:45,920 Speaker 3: pay off the mortgage. I mean, there are things you 215 00:08:45,960 --> 00:08:47,720 Speaker 3: could do, but it's for the brave of heart. People 216 00:08:47,760 --> 00:08:49,679 Speaker 3: want to take a risk. But I think right now 217 00:08:49,760 --> 00:08:53,320 Speaker 3: people are risk aversive. They're waiting and seeing and with 218 00:08:53,440 --> 00:08:55,960 Speaker 3: so much coming out of Washington that's so wacky, they 219 00:08:55,960 --> 00:08:58,160 Speaker 3: don't know what's coming next. They feel like they're living 220 00:08:58,200 --> 00:09:00,240 Speaker 3: on a funny farm, and I think they are, well. 221 00:09:00,840 --> 00:09:02,720 Speaker 2: Not very funny right now. I'm going to tell you, though, 222 00:09:03,160 --> 00:09:05,040 Speaker 2: keeping this in mind, if you will look at everything 223 00:09:05,160 --> 00:09:11,160 Speaker 2: from a broad perspective. Uh, the overarching theme I'm thinking 224 00:09:11,200 --> 00:09:14,920 Speaker 2: of if if this is affecting everyone, from the wealthy 225 00:09:15,040 --> 00:09:20,280 Speaker 2: to the struggling, everyone's going to be down. Everyone is 226 00:09:20,360 --> 00:09:23,080 Speaker 2: down everyone, and it's gonna it may get a little worse. 227 00:09:23,120 --> 00:09:25,000 Speaker 2: And so to be aware of that and to try 228 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:26,800 Speaker 2: to lift people up as best as you can through 229 00:09:26,880 --> 00:09:29,160 Speaker 2: the things you say to them, the way you treat them. 230 00:09:29,520 --> 00:09:30,720 Speaker 2: It's needed now more than ever. 231 00:09:31,800 --> 00:09:35,560 Speaker 3: Everyone but it's not enough optimists, not enough reaction. 232 00:09:36,760 --> 00:09:41,360 Speaker 2: You know who's here, you know you know Andrew, Andrew, Andrew. 233 00:09:44,800 --> 00:09:47,360 Speaker 2: We'll get you over to look like a chipmunk exactly. 234 00:09:49,679 --> 00:09:51,280 Speaker 3: Who doesn't like a chip I. 235 00:09:51,240 --> 00:09:57,640 Speaker 5: Don't know. 236 00:09:58,840 --> 00:10:04,760 Speaker 2: Ship monks, Kim and I will, I will, I'm a chipmunk. 237 00:10:05,320 --> 00:10:07,800 Speaker 2: We know this about Andrew. Chipmunks are rodents as well, 238 00:10:09,080 --> 00:10:15,640 Speaker 2: all right now, So entrepreneurial Andrew the chipmunk is what 239 00:10:15,679 --> 00:10:21,240 Speaker 2: we called. He started a business and did his best 240 00:10:21,280 --> 00:10:25,200 Speaker 2: to like scrape and beg and plead and whatever to 241 00:10:25,240 --> 00:10:27,560 Speaker 2: start this business. And tell tell her what he's not 242 00:10:27,679 --> 00:10:29,200 Speaker 2: pitching you. He's gonna tell about something else. 243 00:10:29,679 --> 00:10:31,480 Speaker 5: This is Ince twenty twenty three. Me and two of 244 00:10:31,520 --> 00:10:33,680 Speaker 5: my friends. We started a business. It's called brew Pants. 245 00:10:34,400 --> 00:10:37,360 Speaker 5: We sell on Amazon. It's a baby bottle plus a koozie. 246 00:10:37,400 --> 00:10:41,360 Speaker 5: So look, it's like you're drinking Duncan. The baby looks 247 00:10:41,360 --> 00:10:44,760 Speaker 5: like it's drinking like dunkin Donuts. See like little muchkin. 248 00:10:44,880 --> 00:10:45,360 Speaker 3: It's cute. 249 00:10:45,520 --> 00:10:48,080 Speaker 5: But the problem is that now with the tariffs, we 250 00:10:48,160 --> 00:10:51,679 Speaker 5: don't know what we're going to do because we get 251 00:10:51,720 --> 00:10:55,040 Speaker 5: all over our inventory from China, so we're kind of 252 00:10:55,120 --> 00:10:58,400 Speaker 5: just in a position right now where we're waiting to 253 00:10:58,400 --> 00:11:00,600 Speaker 5: see what to do next. You have any advice, I. 254 00:11:00,600 --> 00:11:02,240 Speaker 3: Would have to ask you two things. What do you 255 00:11:02,240 --> 00:11:03,560 Speaker 3: pay for this little cup holder? 256 00:11:03,920 --> 00:11:08,120 Speaker 5: So we pay probably like two bucks dollar fifty yeah, 257 00:11:08,200 --> 00:11:10,280 Speaker 5: way less, like maybe fifty cents at most. 258 00:11:10,440 --> 00:11:12,000 Speaker 3: So, and what do you charge for the cup when 259 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:13,080 Speaker 3: you sell it to the consumer? 260 00:11:13,440 --> 00:11:18,800 Speaker 5: We sell it for twenty bucks wow, fat cats. But 261 00:11:18,920 --> 00:11:21,000 Speaker 5: by the time we get it, we sell on Amazon, 262 00:11:21,040 --> 00:11:23,560 Speaker 5: so we have to give them their portion. All the 263 00:11:23,760 --> 00:11:26,400 Speaker 5: sales and everything. The hustle culture online makes it seem 264 00:11:26,440 --> 00:11:28,640 Speaker 5: like drop shipping all this stuff it's quick money. It's 265 00:11:28,679 --> 00:11:30,440 Speaker 5: really not, because you have to take so much and 266 00:11:30,480 --> 00:11:33,640 Speaker 5: reinvest it in. So we're selling it for twenty bucks, 267 00:11:33,679 --> 00:11:37,080 Speaker 5: but we're only seeing maybe like ten dollars of profit 268 00:11:37,200 --> 00:11:37,959 Speaker 5: out of that sale. 269 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:39,640 Speaker 3: But can I tell you that's still a wide margin 270 00:11:39,640 --> 00:11:41,240 Speaker 3: you should wantara up. But you know what the main 271 00:11:41,320 --> 00:11:43,480 Speaker 3: question is how many are you selling? How much do 272 00:11:43,600 --> 00:11:44,200 Speaker 3: people want it? 273 00:11:44,640 --> 00:11:46,840 Speaker 5: I mean they did go viral on TikTok, which is 274 00:11:46,840 --> 00:11:47,320 Speaker 5: really cool. 275 00:11:47,360 --> 00:11:49,000 Speaker 3: That lasts about a week or two exactly. 276 00:11:49,280 --> 00:11:51,360 Speaker 5: So we're kind of back to square one again, where 277 00:11:51,360 --> 00:11:53,520 Speaker 5: we have to come up with new designs and keep 278 00:11:53,679 --> 00:11:55,720 Speaker 5: on top of the market. But it's really hard to 279 00:11:56,240 --> 00:12:00,400 Speaker 5: know if we should be buying more product with everything 280 00:12:00,400 --> 00:12:02,480 Speaker 5: that's kind of going on. Last year, we did three 281 00:12:02,520 --> 00:12:03,559 Speaker 5: hundred thousand worth of profit. 282 00:12:03,800 --> 00:12:05,640 Speaker 3: Okay, not enough to really make a living at If 283 00:12:05,679 --> 00:12:07,320 Speaker 3: you did this exactly year, it's going to be a 284 00:12:07,320 --> 00:12:09,760 Speaker 3: tougher year. You could afford the margins is no problem, 285 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:12,320 Speaker 3: but I would really question how could I sell more product? 286 00:12:12,440 --> 00:12:14,160 Speaker 3: Three hundred thousand We'll never make go of it. 287 00:12:14,400 --> 00:12:19,600 Speaker 2: Yeah, it also suppliers. He needs to ship to supplier strategy, 288 00:12:19,679 --> 00:12:21,320 Speaker 2: So I mean, China's not it. 289 00:12:21,520 --> 00:12:24,000 Speaker 3: So no, Vinom's not it, Cabody is not it. You 290 00:12:24,040 --> 00:12:26,200 Speaker 3: have to look to America to'll cuss you twice as much. 291 00:12:26,320 --> 00:12:28,120 Speaker 2: Exactly. I've tried to do that and afford it. 292 00:12:28,120 --> 00:12:28,760 Speaker 3: You can afford it. 293 00:12:28,760 --> 00:12:31,040 Speaker 5: And what happened when you looked they were going to 294 00:12:31,080 --> 00:12:33,200 Speaker 5: do a dollar fifty for just one sided with no 295 00:12:33,280 --> 00:12:33,920 Speaker 5: color printing. 296 00:12:34,080 --> 00:12:36,040 Speaker 3: Oh, they're going to take advantage. But it sounds like 297 00:12:36,080 --> 00:12:37,800 Speaker 3: you only talk to one. You have to choke to six. 298 00:12:37,960 --> 00:12:39,360 Speaker 5: Six Okay, six is the minum? 299 00:12:39,480 --> 00:12:39,760 Speaker 2: Got it? 300 00:12:39,840 --> 00:12:49,080 Speaker 3: Good luck? I bet you don't find any You're not 301 00:12:49,120 --> 00:12:49,880 Speaker 3: going to do anything with this. 302 00:12:51,840 --> 00:12:53,440 Speaker 2: You're calling him a failing ship Monk. 303 00:12:54,400 --> 00:12:57,480 Speaker 3: No, it's a good product. Obviously, it's well made. I 304 00:12:57,520 --> 00:12:59,679 Speaker 3: how old to here my hand. It's phenomenal. Well not 305 00:13:00,360 --> 00:13:04,160 Speaker 3: but it's good, but it's cosy. But the question is 306 00:13:04,200 --> 00:13:06,200 Speaker 3: always how many people want it? You always have to 307 00:13:06,240 --> 00:13:08,680 Speaker 3: be real serious about that question. How many people will 308 00:13:08,679 --> 00:13:11,920 Speaker 3: buy it? What will they pay? That's it's all businesses 309 00:13:11,960 --> 00:13:14,199 Speaker 3: that way. Yeah, then worry about your overhead, you cast 310 00:13:14,320 --> 00:13:16,360 Speaker 3: blah blah blah blah. How many people will buy it. 311 00:13:16,360 --> 00:13:17,720 Speaker 3: It's got to be sold to a lot of people 312 00:13:17,720 --> 00:13:19,400 Speaker 3: to make a business a business. Other than that, it's 313 00:13:19,440 --> 00:13:22,439 Speaker 3: a hobby. Something wrong with a hobby if you take 314 00:13:22,520 --> 00:13:25,000 Speaker 3: join it, but you don't make a ton of money exactly. 315 00:13:25,120 --> 00:13:27,000 Speaker 5: We wanted to go to the next level and where 316 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:29,360 Speaker 5: we thought about maybe going off Amazon selling independently. 317 00:13:29,600 --> 00:13:32,440 Speaker 3: Try it. Nothing nothing solt by doing both at once. 318 00:13:32,679 --> 00:13:35,400 Speaker 3: That's true, there you go, but Amazon exposes it for 319 00:13:35,480 --> 00:13:37,360 Speaker 3: swamp business. It's hard to do it without them. 320 00:13:37,480 --> 00:13:39,240 Speaker 2: Very true, Andrew the Shipmunk. 321 00:13:39,320 --> 00:13:42,559 Speaker 5: Everyone to go find it on Amazon. 322 00:13:44,200 --> 00:13:44,840 Speaker 2: High question. 323 00:13:45,080 --> 00:13:47,800 Speaker 4: Yes, so when you're on the shark tank, right, there 324 00:13:47,800 --> 00:13:49,920 Speaker 4: were a couple of times you weren't there for like 325 00:13:49,960 --> 00:13:54,120 Speaker 4: some big ones like you weren't there for scot Daddy, Poppy, Like, 326 00:13:54,240 --> 00:13:56,720 Speaker 4: do you feel like if you were there, you would 327 00:13:56,720 --> 00:13:59,520 Speaker 4: have made you know, made a bit on these things? 328 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:01,200 Speaker 3: You know, I was there for scrub Daddy. 329 00:14:01,320 --> 00:14:01,440 Speaker 2: Oh. 330 00:14:01,800 --> 00:14:03,800 Speaker 3: When I looked at that stupid smiling face on a 331 00:14:03,840 --> 00:14:06,120 Speaker 3: spongers said who the hell would buy that thing? And 332 00:14:06,160 --> 00:14:08,400 Speaker 3: I was wrong? Eight million people bought it within the month. 333 00:14:08,480 --> 00:14:13,880 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, Laurie, I haven't talked to her since I. 334 00:14:13,880 --> 00:14:17,880 Speaker 2: Met scrub Daddy at Yeah, he gave me some great guys. 335 00:14:17,920 --> 00:14:19,240 Speaker 2: Scrub Daddy's still hustler. 336 00:14:19,320 --> 00:14:21,240 Speaker 3: Oh reason that product is sell them because of him, 337 00:14:21,400 --> 00:14:23,360 Speaker 3: as it always is, the entrepreneur every time. 338 00:14:23,800 --> 00:14:27,280 Speaker 2: Hey, So for those who are trying to think out 339 00:14:27,400 --> 00:14:29,760 Speaker 2: of the box unquote, with what's going on with the 340 00:14:29,800 --> 00:14:33,200 Speaker 2: economy right now and where it's going, what opportunities are 341 00:14:33,400 --> 00:14:35,680 Speaker 2: there right now? Is it best just to lock down. 342 00:14:35,920 --> 00:14:40,000 Speaker 2: If we lock down everything, the economy's really going to suffer. 343 00:14:40,360 --> 00:14:42,800 Speaker 2: But if people are ready to take some chances, if 344 00:14:42,840 --> 00:14:44,920 Speaker 2: they have a few dollars they want to spend and 345 00:14:44,960 --> 00:14:47,120 Speaker 2: they're saving right now just to see if it'll do something, 346 00:14:47,240 --> 00:14:48,560 Speaker 2: what are those opportunities? 347 00:14:48,720 --> 00:14:50,520 Speaker 3: You know, when you look back at COVID, we went 348 00:14:50,520 --> 00:14:53,800 Speaker 3: into COVID thinking everything was trouble. What really happened in 349 00:14:53,800 --> 00:14:57,040 Speaker 3: COVID people came out as new companies, winners, doing businesses 350 00:14:57,040 --> 00:15:00,320 Speaker 3: a different way. Every time there's a dramatic child in 351 00:15:00,360 --> 00:15:04,320 Speaker 3: a marketplace, there's a dramatic equally strong opportunity. What they 352 00:15:04,320 --> 00:15:06,200 Speaker 3: are right now, I don't know. But if you had 353 00:15:06,240 --> 00:15:09,080 Speaker 3: a passion for something you've been stolen about it, now 354 00:15:09,160 --> 00:15:12,800 Speaker 3: you can reinvent. Really, people are open to anything. You're 355 00:15:12,800 --> 00:15:15,120 Speaker 3: going to lose most of your competition. Many companies are 356 00:15:15,120 --> 00:15:16,880 Speaker 3: going to go under, and that happened in COVID, which 357 00:15:16,960 --> 00:15:18,920 Speaker 3: is good for the companies that came up. You know. 358 00:15:19,160 --> 00:15:22,200 Speaker 3: So I couldn't say to someone what's your specific opportunity, 359 00:15:22,240 --> 00:15:24,240 Speaker 3: But if it's an inkling in your mind that you 360 00:15:24,320 --> 00:15:28,080 Speaker 3: think of something like my little chipmunk friend over there, Andrews. 361 00:15:29,840 --> 00:15:32,480 Speaker 3: But no matter what happens with Andrew's business, you ask 362 00:15:32,560 --> 00:15:34,120 Speaker 3: him in a year from now, what do you think, angel 363 00:15:34,280 --> 00:15:36,960 Speaker 3: He'll never regret having that business. Now's the time to 364 00:15:37,080 --> 00:15:40,080 Speaker 3: try it, to try something and see what happens. And 365 00:15:40,200 --> 00:15:42,280 Speaker 3: it is that kind of environment. The world is open 366 00:15:42,360 --> 00:15:45,280 Speaker 3: to newcomers. It always is when the trouble times open 367 00:15:45,320 --> 00:15:48,040 Speaker 3: to newcomers. You have no excuse to say, wait all, 368 00:15:48,080 --> 00:15:49,840 Speaker 3: wait a year or so, what's going to you know, 369 00:15:50,520 --> 00:15:51,440 Speaker 3: just get it out there. 370 00:15:51,680 --> 00:15:53,680 Speaker 1: So, with what you know about everything that's going on 371 00:15:53,760 --> 00:15:56,280 Speaker 1: right now, do you see an end date to this? 372 00:15:56,520 --> 00:15:58,640 Speaker 1: Do you have any idea how long people are going 373 00:15:58,680 --> 00:15:59,320 Speaker 1: to be struggling? 374 00:15:59,840 --> 00:16:01,800 Speaker 3: More? No idea? I mean, I don't know. If the 375 00:16:01,840 --> 00:16:05,080 Speaker 3: politicians don't have an idea, unless stock market traders don't 376 00:16:05,120 --> 00:16:07,480 Speaker 3: have an idea, who the heck knows. I'll get a 377 00:16:07,520 --> 00:16:09,160 Speaker 3: pit and tail on the donkey and throw a dart 378 00:16:09,160 --> 00:16:10,320 Speaker 3: and tell you so. 379 00:16:10,320 --> 00:16:11,360 Speaker 2: It'll be over when it's over. 380 00:16:11,520 --> 00:16:15,520 Speaker 3: Yeah, So what it's your attitude in carrying your chest 381 00:16:15,600 --> 00:16:18,000 Speaker 3: in your heart the whole time between now and then. 382 00:16:18,040 --> 00:16:19,320 Speaker 3: That's that's the important part. 383 00:16:19,360 --> 00:16:21,600 Speaker 2: The getting there you are from, of course, the foundation 384 00:16:21,680 --> 00:16:26,800 Speaker 2: of real estate, that's where you start game. So what 385 00:16:27,200 --> 00:16:29,280 Speaker 2: what does this mean for people who are looking for 386 00:16:29,320 --> 00:16:32,880 Speaker 2: that first house right now or any property not maybe 387 00:16:33,040 --> 00:16:35,680 Speaker 2: maybe selling a property is now the time just to 388 00:16:35,720 --> 00:16:38,000 Speaker 2: put a lock on all of the above. Don't buy, 389 00:16:38,040 --> 00:16:39,960 Speaker 2: don't sell. Let's wait this thing out well. 390 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:43,400 Speaker 3: Buying and selling our opposite opponents in the marketplaces. You know, 391 00:16:43,760 --> 00:16:46,160 Speaker 3: most of the people two thirds of Americans are sitting 392 00:16:46,200 --> 00:16:48,320 Speaker 3: on four percent interest rates, So is now a time 393 00:16:48,360 --> 00:16:50,840 Speaker 3: to sell? And what is it six to seven percent 394 00:16:50,880 --> 00:16:51,560 Speaker 3: interest rates? 395 00:16:51,960 --> 00:16:52,120 Speaker 2: No? 396 00:16:52,600 --> 00:16:54,640 Speaker 3: Because who wants to give up the four percent interest 397 00:16:54,720 --> 00:16:56,760 Speaker 3: rate and sign up for a seven percent interest rate? 398 00:16:56,920 --> 00:16:58,600 Speaker 3: And that's the problem in the market. That's not enough 399 00:16:58,600 --> 00:17:01,920 Speaker 3: houses because sellers don't want to sell. Well, who's to blame, really, 400 00:17:02,280 --> 00:17:04,440 Speaker 3: But it's a good time for buyers. With the shortage 401 00:17:04,440 --> 00:17:06,119 Speaker 3: of listening, it's not good for them either. It's not 402 00:17:06,200 --> 00:17:09,439 Speaker 3: enough houses to go around. But right now, everybody's scared. 403 00:17:09,520 --> 00:17:11,600 Speaker 3: And what my gut always tells me in a real 404 00:17:11,680 --> 00:17:13,919 Speaker 3: estate market is when people get scared because of the 405 00:17:13,960 --> 00:17:16,800 Speaker 3: general economy, they stall. They don't put in the new kitchen, 406 00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:18,119 Speaker 3: they don't buy the new house, they don't buy the 407 00:17:18,160 --> 00:17:20,639 Speaker 3: new car. They just waited out. That's an opportunity to 408 00:17:20,640 --> 00:17:22,560 Speaker 3: have less competition. You could go in and put a 409 00:17:22,560 --> 00:17:24,520 Speaker 3: lower offer because the person hasn't heard her offer in 410 00:17:24,520 --> 00:17:27,360 Speaker 3: six weeks. You go into the spring break when everybody's 411 00:17:27,400 --> 00:17:30,480 Speaker 3: away and have no competition. That's the really best best 412 00:17:30,520 --> 00:17:32,240 Speaker 3: week of the year to shop. Nobody's out there because 413 00:17:32,240 --> 00:17:34,560 Speaker 3: it's too busy vacationing with the kids, of minding the kids. 414 00:17:34,640 --> 00:17:36,000 Speaker 2: So a good time to buy, not to sell. 415 00:17:36,080 --> 00:17:38,080 Speaker 3: Yeah, good time. Thank you for saying it. Why don't 416 00:17:38,080 --> 00:17:39,119 Speaker 3: you say that up front? I couldn't. 417 00:17:41,440 --> 00:17:42,639 Speaker 2: I wanted to know what you were going to say. 418 00:17:42,960 --> 00:17:44,040 Speaker 3: Well, you just said it better. 419 00:17:44,920 --> 00:17:47,600 Speaker 2: Here's nothing about Barbara. She doesn't care. And I'll tell 420 00:17:47,640 --> 00:17:50,399 Speaker 2: you I do care. I care deeply about you. She 421 00:17:50,560 --> 00:17:53,200 Speaker 2: cares about some important things. But she walked in and 422 00:17:53,200 --> 00:17:55,359 Speaker 2: it's all scary. And before she even said hi to 423 00:17:55,400 --> 00:17:58,560 Speaker 2: her to scary him, she punched him in his big belly. 424 00:17:59,119 --> 00:18:01,760 Speaker 3: I said, hold on, I did your favorite You look 425 00:18:01,840 --> 00:18:03,840 Speaker 3: so much better when you're holding your bellies. 426 00:18:05,640 --> 00:18:08,320 Speaker 2: Like the Pillsbury Dome boys have to say, what's up? 427 00:18:08,359 --> 00:18:10,320 Speaker 2: That's you said? 428 00:18:10,520 --> 00:18:13,119 Speaker 3: I never said it. I don't say that. It's like, 429 00:18:13,800 --> 00:18:17,199 Speaker 3: you know, I've been wanting to poke somebody in a 430 00:18:17,200 --> 00:18:18,480 Speaker 3: belly like us for a long time. 431 00:18:18,800 --> 00:18:19,200 Speaker 2: There you go. 432 00:18:19,680 --> 00:18:23,800 Speaker 5: I I. 433 00:18:25,400 --> 00:18:29,760 Speaker 2: Know that in about an hour or an hour from now, 434 00:18:29,800 --> 00:18:31,480 Speaker 2: you're going to be on the Jenniferdson Show today. 435 00:18:31,600 --> 00:18:32,000 Speaker 3: Yes, I am. 436 00:18:32,119 --> 00:18:32,679 Speaker 2: She's lovely. 437 00:18:32,800 --> 00:18:35,320 Speaker 3: She's really a nice interview. She makes you feel like 438 00:18:35,359 --> 00:18:36,879 Speaker 3: you're the most important girl in the world, and you 439 00:18:36,920 --> 00:18:38,480 Speaker 3: know she makes everybody feel that way. 440 00:18:38,920 --> 00:18:40,439 Speaker 2: So what are you talking about today with Jennifer? 441 00:18:40,760 --> 00:18:42,480 Speaker 3: I don't remember I taped it about him month ago. 442 00:18:43,720 --> 00:18:44,959 Speaker 1: Did you dance down the hallway? 443 00:18:45,040 --> 00:18:48,040 Speaker 3: Yes? Oh, thank you for reminding me. Dancing down the 444 00:18:48,080 --> 00:18:50,720 Speaker 3: hallway is the most fun part. But I can't dance, 445 00:18:50,720 --> 00:18:52,720 Speaker 3: so I looked really clumsy, and I felt it. I 446 00:18:52,800 --> 00:18:55,600 Speaker 3: knew how I looked stupid. They were pitting me take 447 00:18:55,840 --> 00:18:58,199 Speaker 3: my shoes. Well, I was the first one eliminated. Oh 448 00:18:58,200 --> 00:19:01,080 Speaker 3: that's remember that important. Okay, But I took off my 449 00:19:01,160 --> 00:19:03,800 Speaker 3: shoes and dance barefoot. And everybody took off their shoes 450 00:19:03,800 --> 00:19:05,879 Speaker 3: and dance barefoot, and that's what saved me. They were 451 00:19:05,880 --> 00:19:07,920 Speaker 3: giggling so hard they didn't notice how bad I was dancing. 452 00:19:07,960 --> 00:19:11,639 Speaker 2: There you go, perfect. Okay, what are you doing for 453 00:19:11,680 --> 00:19:15,639 Speaker 2: fun besides work? I know you love your friends and 454 00:19:15,680 --> 00:19:18,560 Speaker 2: you're a very friend centric person. I haven't had my 455 00:19:18,600 --> 00:19:20,359 Speaker 2: invitation to the house lately. I don't know why. 456 00:19:20,480 --> 00:19:22,920 Speaker 3: That's not true. I've invited you twice. I said, give 457 00:19:22,920 --> 00:19:25,280 Speaker 3: me two nights. I'll pick one. You did yes, twice. 458 00:19:25,320 --> 00:19:27,800 Speaker 3: I'll send you the email and I'll put on top. 459 00:19:27,920 --> 00:19:29,000 Speaker 3: Didn't you see this? 460 00:19:29,200 --> 00:19:31,280 Speaker 2: Okay, put it to the top. Okay, but what do 461 00:19:31,320 --> 00:19:34,359 Speaker 2: you do for fun? Are you still surrounding yourself with friends? 462 00:19:34,440 --> 00:19:37,119 Speaker 3: I always do, because the best time in life that 463 00:19:37,160 --> 00:19:40,240 Speaker 3: you never regret is around people you love. If you 464 00:19:40,280 --> 00:19:42,800 Speaker 3: have two friends only in your whole life, hang out 465 00:19:42,840 --> 00:19:44,680 Speaker 3: as much as you can with them. It's no fun 466 00:19:44,760 --> 00:19:48,280 Speaker 3: doing anything or discovering anything for me anyway alone. I'm 467 00:19:48,320 --> 00:19:51,159 Speaker 3: just a people person. So I would feel sad if 468 00:19:51,200 --> 00:19:54,439 Speaker 3: I discovered a new plant or pretty arrangement and nobody 469 00:19:54,440 --> 00:19:57,320 Speaker 3: looked at it and said, wow, you know it's terrible, isn't. 470 00:19:57,320 --> 00:19:59,560 Speaker 3: But I need that kind of feedback. And if my 471 00:19:59,640 --> 00:20:02,400 Speaker 3: friends happy, I'm thinking I'm contributing in life. And if 472 00:20:02,400 --> 00:20:04,560 Speaker 3: they're not happy, and you should come and contribute to me, 473 00:20:04,600 --> 00:20:07,320 Speaker 3: and I'll contribute you back at a dinner table, you're 474 00:20:07,320 --> 00:20:09,119 Speaker 3: never going to be happy. And that really is the 475 00:20:09,119 --> 00:20:09,959 Speaker 3: best shared experience. 476 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:12,399 Speaker 2: I need some of that. Clam clam uh link anyway, 477 00:20:12,440 --> 00:20:14,600 Speaker 2: clamsaw I make the best, he does, she makes the best. 478 00:20:14,800 --> 00:20:18,600 Speaker 2: What's up? Nate? Okay, Mike, okay, quick question for you. 479 00:20:18,600 --> 00:20:20,800 Speaker 5: You are a big motivator for a lot of people 480 00:20:20,800 --> 00:20:22,200 Speaker 5: here in this room and a lot of our listeners. 481 00:20:22,600 --> 00:20:25,400 Speaker 2: What is your biggest source of motivation? 482 00:20:25,520 --> 00:20:31,480 Speaker 3: Barbara good question. God, I've never been asked that, certainly not. 483 00:20:31,920 --> 00:20:33,880 Speaker 3: You know what, I don't know what it is now 484 00:20:33,960 --> 00:20:36,560 Speaker 3: I have to take a second. I'm motivated by my 485 00:20:36,680 --> 00:20:40,680 Speaker 3: staff because I see them happy, getting ahead where teamanship 486 00:20:40,920 --> 00:20:43,000 Speaker 3: just like we have that. You have that spirit right here. 487 00:20:43,080 --> 00:20:46,240 Speaker 3: It's clear you're walking the door, you're feeling everybody wants 488 00:20:46,240 --> 00:20:47,919 Speaker 3: to come to work, not because of the work you do. 489 00:20:47,960 --> 00:20:50,080 Speaker 3: I don't think probably has to do with it, but 490 00:20:50,160 --> 00:20:52,520 Speaker 3: because of each other. When I walk into my office, 491 00:20:52,520 --> 00:20:55,200 Speaker 3: hey guys, you know how, I know how everybody likes 492 00:20:55,240 --> 00:20:58,320 Speaker 3: to feel love. Rub MIC's back because he likes physical touch. 493 00:20:58,359 --> 00:21:01,840 Speaker 3: I give a compliment to Emily. She likes compliments. We 494 00:21:01,880 --> 00:21:05,000 Speaker 3: have such a nice camaraderie going back and forth, and 495 00:21:05,320 --> 00:21:07,280 Speaker 3: that gives me great joy. Like I leave the work 496 00:21:07,359 --> 00:21:11,080 Speaker 3: day thinking everybody's happy. That's really what motivates me. That 497 00:21:12,400 --> 00:21:16,120 Speaker 3: sounds too soupy, I know, not at all, not at all. 498 00:21:16,240 --> 00:21:18,040 Speaker 2: You know a lot of people heard that just then 499 00:21:18,080 --> 00:21:19,800 Speaker 2: and just realize, oh my god, that's why I actually 500 00:21:19,840 --> 00:21:21,960 Speaker 2: like my life. I go to work and work with 501 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:24,120 Speaker 2: people just like she's talking about. So maybe we need 502 00:21:24,160 --> 00:21:25,959 Speaker 2: to be reminded of that from time. 503 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:27,919 Speaker 4: Maybe it made a boss think, oh my gosh, I 504 00:21:27,960 --> 00:21:29,680 Speaker 4: don't do that. Maybe I need to go to work 505 00:21:29,720 --> 00:21:30,280 Speaker 4: and do. 506 00:21:30,160 --> 00:21:32,280 Speaker 3: That for my forget it. They don't change. Your bad 507 00:21:32,320 --> 00:21:33,399 Speaker 3: boss is a bad boss. 508 00:21:33,560 --> 00:21:35,119 Speaker 1: Somewhere some boss heard it and they're like, oh, I'm 509 00:21:35,119 --> 00:21:35,920 Speaker 1: going to touch more people. 510 00:21:36,280 --> 00:21:41,359 Speaker 2: Today's a day for touching, all right, So today Jennifer Hudson, 511 00:21:41,920 --> 00:21:43,840 Speaker 2: and of course you're bringing your friends and we're not 512 00:21:43,840 --> 00:21:45,240 Speaker 2: invited to this, but you're bringing your friends in. 513 00:21:45,520 --> 00:21:47,640 Speaker 3: Thank you stated you might want to come to that. 514 00:21:47,640 --> 00:21:50,040 Speaker 2: That's your entrepreneurial will get away one. 515 00:21:49,960 --> 00:21:51,520 Speaker 3: Of the evenings. We're gonna have a lot of fun there. 516 00:21:51,680 --> 00:21:54,399 Speaker 2: So you're doing like a three or four day they yeah, of. 517 00:21:54,400 --> 00:21:56,680 Speaker 3: Course, come on, you can't discuss all your ideas and 518 00:21:56,760 --> 00:22:00,280 Speaker 3: one day it's too rushed. And besides which, we have 519 00:22:00,320 --> 00:22:03,399 Speaker 3: to drink a lot. That's the key to friendship. Drinking 520 00:22:03,480 --> 00:22:04,600 Speaker 3: and drunk. 521 00:22:04,760 --> 00:22:08,080 Speaker 2: Yeah, I know. I go to to Barbaro's house. We 522 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:09,360 Speaker 2: usually have a cocktail er too. 523 00:22:10,560 --> 00:22:12,240 Speaker 3: Stone by the time you're there for an hour. 524 00:22:14,600 --> 00:22:17,119 Speaker 2: Probably one time I walked into her kitchen she invited 525 00:22:17,119 --> 00:22:19,520 Speaker 2: me or for lunch, and there was no the sink 526 00:22:19,640 --> 00:22:23,399 Speaker 2: wasn't working. Yeah, there's no spig there's no spigott on 527 00:22:23,440 --> 00:22:25,919 Speaker 2: the sink. Who has a life in a kitchen with 528 00:22:25,960 --> 00:22:27,320 Speaker 2: no spigging on the sink? I said, where do you 529 00:22:27,359 --> 00:22:28,080 Speaker 2: go to get your water? 530 00:22:28,160 --> 00:22:28,760 Speaker 3: To the bathroom. 531 00:22:28,760 --> 00:22:31,479 Speaker 2: The bathroom. She's washing your dishes in the toilet. 532 00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:36,280 Speaker 3: I didn't. Oh, stop it, stopping now anyway. 533 00:22:36,400 --> 00:22:38,280 Speaker 2: We we love you, and I know even though you 534 00:22:38,640 --> 00:22:41,439 Speaker 2: started the day by grabbing my crotch and poking Scary 535 00:22:41,480 --> 00:22:43,360 Speaker 2: in the stomach and made fun of Chip. 536 00:22:43,359 --> 00:22:44,520 Speaker 3: But I shouldn't be arrested. 537 00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:47,000 Speaker 2: We love you, Barbara. 538 00:22:47,040 --> 00:22:47,760 Speaker 3: We love you.