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Speaker 2: the first time, Ryan if from Merimid, the chief financial

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Speaker 2: officer over there, it's great to have you back with

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Speaker 2: this hat on. I mean you're via zoom before we

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Speaker 2: get into the hat and the whole thing. Merrimid did

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Speaker 2: a great thing, you guys. They basically reenacted the Boston

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Speaker 2: Tea Party when it comes to cannabis. I want you

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Speaker 2: to listen to this. If you're watching on YouTube, you

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Speaker 2: right now, Connor.

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Speaker 3: Wow, hear ye, hear ye ye, faithful Mayor med Patriots.

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Speaker 3: Two hundred and fifty years ago, at this very same

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Speaker 3: Boston Harbor, our colonial ancestors held the most famous tax

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Speaker 3: protest in our great nation's history, the Boston Tea Party.

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Speaker 3: Today we have storm Miss Schooner to protest an unfair tax.

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Speaker 3: It's a tax that burdens of beloved cannabis industry and

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Speaker 3: it hurts the American consumers we serve. Because of Section

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Speaker 3: two eighty e, cannabis businesses in our fine country pay

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Speaker 3: this fair wan pay higher prices for the safe and

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Speaker 3: effective products we produce. At Meyrimed, we say no more more,

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Speaker 3: tell your representatives in the federal government to repeal irs code.

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Speaker 4: To eighty eight.

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Speaker 3: Now. Until they do, we say, no taxation without down with.

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Speaker 2: To aee and they throw boxes. They're all on a boat,

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Speaker 2: you guys, and they're throwing boxes. Go back to it

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Speaker 2: real quick, down.

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Speaker 1: With a.

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Speaker 2: Wow, very great, this is awesome.

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Speaker 3: Taxation without representation, down with too eighte no taxation without.

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Speaker 2: And I believe that's pretty much the gist of it,

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Speaker 2: right Ryan. It doesn't go anymore except a couple more

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Speaker 4: Well, two hundred and fies hold.

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Speaker 5: The most famous tax protest in history, in this land's

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Speaker 2: So Merrimid is out there looking after the folks. How

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Speaker 2: great is that Ryan? That was such a cool reenactment.

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Speaker 4: You know, I think it's passion.

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Speaker 2: mean re enacting something like the Boston tea party from

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Speaker 6: Our chief financial officer suit that was also there and

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Speaker 6: And you know, there was a lot of lenses to

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Speaker 6: And and I think overall, I'm very very proud to

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Speaker 2: That's right, We talked about that Boston party as well,

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Speaker 2: we're going to do, because Ryan, what you guys did

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Speaker 2: right here. When I seen this and read this, I'm

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Speaker 2: You guys dressed the part. You rented a fucking ship,

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Speaker 2: Merrimid cares about this industry so much. It just goes

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Speaker 2: real quick and come back Ryan. And my question to

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Speaker 2: I do? Ryan? You guys did all this Merrimids stepping

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Speaker 2: up for me? Why? Because they can lower my prices

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Speaker 2: And as an industry. You guys taking a leading role

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Speaker 2: from Merrimid and Ryan, I was just talking before we

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Speaker 2: how did you guys even come up with this? And

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Speaker 2: him to say, great idea, let's go rent this boat,

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Speaker 2: get all these costumes and do this.

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Speaker 6: You know, John, John, I give him all the credit

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Speaker 6: in the world. He's a he's a forward thinker, you know.

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Speaker 6: And and he's our leader and and we've got a

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Speaker 6: great leadership team uh in you know, John leads it

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Speaker 6: and and supporting cast. And I think you know Howard Shacter,

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Speaker 6: who's our chief communications officer, and you know, his resume

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Speaker 6: before coming to Merrimate is deep and and he's got

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Speaker 6: a lot of great PR experience at some really huge companies.

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Speaker 6: I think John has a lot of trust in Howard

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Speaker 6: and Howard, uh, you know, has done a phenomenal job

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Speaker 6: thinking about, you know, how to make an impact. Uh

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Speaker 6: you know, and you know this stunt although it was costly,

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Speaker 6: it didn't it didn't break the bank by any means.

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Speaker 6: It was more the creativity and aligning everything to make

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Speaker 6: to make it happen and have an impact. But you know,

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Speaker 6: I give John all the credit in the world for

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Speaker 6: you know, allowing our team, you know, to do this,

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Speaker 6: and then and then furthermore, not just to do it,

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Speaker 6: but to make it such a positive interaction for our employees,

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Speaker 6: right like pulling all the employees of the month together

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Speaker 6: and enabling them to participate with us and and see

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Speaker 6: the passion in their eyes as we all did this.

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Speaker 6: And I think it's going to become you know, just

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Speaker 6: kind of viral internally as we as we get more

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Speaker 6: confidence around doing these types of things as a group,

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Speaker 6: you know, and and really incentivizing employees to participate with

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Speaker 6: the exec team. You know, I can't say enough good

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Speaker 6: things about Howard and and the way John Levine has

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Speaker 6: led from the front.

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Speaker 2: I love that you say that that you actually got

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Speaker 2: employees from uh. Was it only from the Boston area,

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Speaker 2: From the other states as well?

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Speaker 4: No, from the other states as well. These folks flew

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Speaker 4: in UH that's dope.

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Speaker 6: You know, if they were in retail in Illinois, then

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Speaker 6: they spent time in our retail in Massachusetts. If they

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Speaker 6: were in production or cultivation, they spent time in our

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Speaker 6: cultivation in Massachusetts. You know, we brought them around town,

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Speaker 6: showed them Boston, you know, did some of the historic

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Speaker 6: stuff in Boston and then and then got to business

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Speaker 6: yesterday on the Liberty Star schooner right and through some

480
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Speaker 6: weed in the water box is a week. So no,

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Speaker 6: I mean, look, the passion is real, and uh it's

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Speaker 6: it's infectious at the company. And and and John is

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Speaker 6: doing you know, allowing us to do these things and

484
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Speaker 6: lead from the front. So you know, I can't say

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Speaker 6: enough good things about him, his leadership and and how

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Speaker 6: infectious this is going to become.

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Speaker 2: I think not only that though, but I can just

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Speaker 2: only imagine myself and I mean even you two just

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Speaker 2: thinking if you know, we're sitting there working at a

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Speaker 2: company and you know, you find out that they're doing

491
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Speaker 2: something like this, and you're like, oh my god, how

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Speaker 2: cool and crazy would that be? And then Ryan, me

493
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Speaker 2: and you are going to go to Boston to go

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Speaker 2: meet with our corporate CEO, the CFO. This that the

495
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Speaker 2: big wins of the company, all because I've been doing

496
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Speaker 2: a good job and they're really trying to support something good,

497
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Speaker 2: which is you know the two ADC, the IRS Tax

498
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Speaker 2: Code two ADE Act because it's unfairly with this cannabis.

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Speaker 2: And I see what they're meaning, and look what the

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Speaker 2: company could save and not only that, all these other companies.

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Speaker 2: It's got to be a great morale booster as well, because,

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Speaker 2: like you said too, this stump by no means, I

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Speaker 2: don't think broke the bank, but it's you know, it

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00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:32,720
Speaker 2: was a few grand let's just face it. The boat,

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Speaker 2: the costumes, the boxes, this and that wasn't two fifty

506
00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:39,200
Speaker 2: thousand when you had explosions and everything else. But you know,

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00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:42,119
Speaker 2: it wasn't a movie set by no means, but it

508
00:25:42,280 --> 00:25:45,920
Speaker 2: was something that I take my hat off to and go, wow,

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00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:49,240
Speaker 2: you guys had to use some real good creativity. People

510
00:25:49,359 --> 00:25:53,400
Speaker 2: really had to commit. And even the writing of when

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Speaker 2: I think that was John that spoke during the video, right,

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Speaker 2: was that John?

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Speaker 4: That was actually Tim Shaw was chiming.

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Speaker 2: So even that though the way he did that was

515
00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:08,600
Speaker 2: so committal into character so to speak right with everyone

516
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Speaker 2: on the boat and speaking the way he did it

517
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Speaker 2: was just so applaudable that Merrimid is taking a front

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Speaker 2: and a stand on doing something like this. So if

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Speaker 2: you're a cannabis company out there listening to this podcast

520
00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:24,159
Speaker 2: and you want to get involved, to like look up

521
00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:26,119
Speaker 2: these guys and see what they're doing, and try to

522
00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:29,160
Speaker 2: get involved in doing something, because they're not just trying

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Speaker 2: to help them sellves. Folks, it's not just a Merrimid plug.

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Speaker 2: It's not go buy their products and all the different

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Speaker 2: states that they're in. And I'm not even asking Ryan

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Speaker 2: about what's the biggest skew and you guys are doing.

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Speaker 2: And we already know about his edible company that he

528
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Speaker 2: sold if you listen to our podcast before. I've interviewed

529
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Speaker 2: Ryan before, and you know he's an edible master, so

530
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Speaker 2: to speak. But he made it this and they already

531
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Speaker 2: made this and that they do fine. They do a

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Speaker 2: good job. And that to be even said, Merrimid's doing

533
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Speaker 2: a good job where you guys didn't need to do this.

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Speaker 2: It's not like you're the small company. Are a bigger

535
00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:03,040
Speaker 2: company making money going well, they're taking so much of

536
00:27:03,040 --> 00:27:05,600
Speaker 2: our money because we're making money. We need to help

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00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:09,760
Speaker 2: ourselves and help other companies. So folks, look at these

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00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:13,400
Speaker 2: leaders out here, because in my mind Merriman is a leader. Ryan,

539
00:27:13,520 --> 00:27:16,159
Speaker 2: you're a leader out there speaking on it, your CEO,

540
00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:19,679
Speaker 2: everybody else out there. Kudos to you guys, everyone that

541
00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:21,960
Speaker 2: was on the boat, and for all the employees that

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00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:23,760
Speaker 2: are working over there. You know you're working at a

543
00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:26,119
Speaker 2: good place. Is there anything else Ryan before we let

544
00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:27,840
Speaker 2: you go that you want to talk about? As you

545
00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:30,080
Speaker 2: guys reenacted this Boston party.

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Speaker 6: On average Joe Rising tides raise all ships, right, and

547
00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:37,320
Speaker 6: it was camaraderie. You know, I'm proud of the team

548
00:27:37,760 --> 00:27:40,000
Speaker 6: and I'm proud of what we did. And thank you

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Speaker 6: to you and Cannabis one on one for covering this

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Speaker 6: with us.

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Speaker 2: No doubt, baby, Cannabis Talk one oh one. You know

552
00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:48,320
Speaker 2: we care, we know we care about everybody out there

553
00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:50,159
Speaker 2: in the industry, and if you're doing something good, you

554
00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:52,119
Speaker 2: had to find out who we are or get a

555
00:27:52,119 --> 00:27:54,040
Speaker 2: good PR agency like they do and let us know

556
00:27:54,119 --> 00:27:56,080
Speaker 2: what they're doing because their PR let us know what

557
00:27:56,080 --> 00:27:58,520
Speaker 2: they're doing. And we're like, we got to talk about this.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Ryan for coming on again. And

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Speaker 2: how's everything else going with you? Man? The last time

560
00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:05,440
Speaker 2: we talked, it was great. Did you watch that UFC

561
00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:08,720
Speaker 2: fight the other week? That was just a man Minno?

562
00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:10,639
Speaker 2: Did you watch Minno the other day? I thought Marino

563
00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:11,200
Speaker 2: was gonna win.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, be crazy, pretty crazy.

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Speaker 2: Event, right, It was good, man. I've been watching so

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Speaker 2: many good Teddy Teddy, Teddy Teddy, take it easy, My

567
00:28:20,560 --> 00:28:22,480
Speaker 2: dog's over here, just barking at people walking up in

568
00:28:22,520 --> 00:28:25,280
Speaker 2: the studio. He gotta love it. Teddy the show dogged

569
00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:28,520
Speaker 2: a little golden doodle, the Mini, and he's such a

570
00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:30,639
Speaker 2: he's a puppy, but he barks at everybody like he's

571
00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:33,119
Speaker 2: gonna bite him, and everybody gets all freaked out. He's

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Speaker 2: the best. Ryan. I can't wait to slap hands with

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00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:37,600
Speaker 2: you and actually see you in person. I feel like

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Speaker 2: you're my brother from another mother, and I love you

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00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:41,959
Speaker 2: and I love everything that they're doing over there. Man,

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Speaker 2: God bless you and stay up.

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Speaker 4: God bless Joe.

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