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We get back in our second home, Atlanta, Georgia. 0:01:12.080 --> 0:01:14.759 Every time we come in a different location, man shout 0:01:14.800 --> 0:01:16.560 out to all the good people of Atlanta, shouts all 0:01:16.560 --> 0:01:18.600 the good people in Georgia, everybody in the South. So 0:01:18.680 --> 0:01:19.720 our second biggest market. 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:21.040 That's a fact. That's a fact. 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:23.080 So we got allowed to love out here. 0:01:23.280 --> 0:01:26.240 So you know, on Instagram, we kind of gauge things 0:01:26.240 --> 0:01:30.560 to see, like the public interest. So we first a 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:33.959 few months ago put a story up that a town 0:01:34.160 --> 0:01:37.520 was for sale, like tom I think it was Tom'sborough Toombsboro, 0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:40.320 and everybody was going crazy. It wasn't really too much 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:42.960 details about it. Everybody was going crazy like yo, you 0:01:42.959 --> 0:01:46.640 should buy that Black Wall Street. Da Da da, And 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:48.600 then kind of just died down, nothing happened. 0:01:48.960 --> 0:01:52.880 And then like a couple of weeks ago, put his story. 0:01:52.640 --> 0:01:57.600 Up about nineteen black families that actually purchased ninety seven 0:01:57.880 --> 0:02:04.640 acres I think outside of that in Wilkinson County, Georgia, 0:02:05.200 --> 0:02:06.400 and it went crazy. 0:02:06.400 --> 0:02:08.400 It went viral like what's going on? 0:02:08.440 --> 0:02:11.160 And everybody was It was all kinds of comments like 0:02:11.200 --> 0:02:12.600 this is dope, this new Black Wall Street. 0:02:12.600 --> 0:02:14.440 People like no, this is racist, it's all black. 0:02:15.280 --> 0:02:17.919 Definitely, social media is crazy. 0:02:17.919 --> 0:02:19.800 It was definitely social media is crazy. 0:02:19.840 --> 0:02:21.720 It was like it was like a thousand comments, like 0:02:21.760 --> 0:02:24.480 going back and forth with each other. So you know, 0:02:24.600 --> 0:02:27.600 time had passed and Troy had actually reached out to 0:02:27.639 --> 0:02:30.640 me to ians too. 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:33.560 As as I was watching it, she texted me the 0:02:34.680 --> 0:02:37.720 CNN video that you had. I was like, oh, I'm 0:02:37.760 --> 0:02:39.280 ready on this. I was like, we got a shot 0:02:39.320 --> 0:02:42.200 to see this. Yeah, And so part of it was 0:02:42.240 --> 0:02:44.560 like we said, yo, who wants to get them on? Like, yo, 0:02:44.600 --> 0:02:47.280 if y'all know them, hit us up. And our good friend, 0:02:47.520 --> 0:02:49.720 our partner, Ian Dunlap, was like, yo, I know one 0:02:49.720 --> 0:02:51.560 of them, do is? And he got me the number. 0:02:51.680 --> 0:02:54.240 He screenshot at me. He's like, yo, here's the number 0:02:54.360 --> 0:02:56.680 to one of them. My name is Ashley. And I 0:02:56.760 --> 0:03:00.000 was like, mat, I'm on it. I said, I'm on it, 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:02.840 And so I hit Ashley up and she was like, hey, 0:03:03.760 --> 0:03:07.440 how you doing. I'm like, hey, Alisia. I knew she 0:03:07.440 --> 0:03:10.720 didn't know who he was about to respond. And so 0:03:11.280 --> 0:03:13.280 when we finally got to talk and she said, listen, 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:15.400 I just spoke to my team and they know you 0:03:15.600 --> 0:03:18.760 and they love, love, love the show, and they said 0:03:19.040 --> 0:03:21.800 we would love to do it and they have to come. 0:03:22.200 --> 0:03:24.040 They have to come. So shout out shout out to 0:03:24.080 --> 0:03:27.600 Greg and shout out to to Kevin pumping us up 0:03:27.639 --> 0:03:30.240 and following that man because that led to this and 0:03:30.280 --> 0:03:32.399 your story is incredible. So I can't wait to share 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:34.800 it with the world. Yeah yeah, yeah. 0:03:34.800 --> 0:03:35.480 Yeah for sure. 0:03:35.560 --> 0:03:40.280 So yeah, So nineteen black families purchased ninety seven acres 0:03:40.280 --> 0:03:45.440 of land and they're actually building a community and it 0:03:45.480 --> 0:03:48.600 was interesting. So this is with the conversation that we're 0:03:48.600 --> 0:03:51.160 going to have. Now we have three members of the community. 0:03:51.240 --> 0:03:53.960 We have actually Scott, we have Kevin James, and we 0:03:54.040 --> 0:03:59.640 have Greg Mullins and very close, very close shout out 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:03.360 to g he has he has a brother named Greg Millings. Yeah, 0:04:03.360 --> 0:04:05.920 it's very close. So this is just a really a 0:04:05.960 --> 0:04:09.240 really encouraging story. And you know, if you follow earnerly, 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:10.760 you know, we like to give the back stories. And 0:04:10.800 --> 0:04:13.160 I'm sure when people heard about this, it's one thing 0:04:13.200 --> 0:04:16.440 to say, Okay, that's inspirational, that's motivational, but like, what's 0:04:16.480 --> 0:04:18.640 the technical side, Like how do you just buy a community? 0:04:18.720 --> 0:04:21.960 Like how do you you know, have plumbing, how do 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:23.839 you have how do you have a farm? How do 0:04:23.880 --> 0:04:25.240 you have all this stuff? So these are you know, 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:28.239 hopefully the conversation that we can have. So first and foremost, 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:30.159 thank you guys for for joining us. 0:04:30.240 --> 0:04:31.640 Appreciate it, thank you. 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:34.000 Thank you, thank you. 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:36.480 Yeah, yeah, for sure. 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:38.520 So let's jump right into it, all right, So how 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:41.800 do we get the idea to buy a community? Because 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:43.800 I was reading some some research and it was like 0:04:43.920 --> 0:04:48.440 around the time I believe around George Floyd situation, and 0:04:48.520 --> 0:04:51.039 you know, it was obviously a lot of still is 0:04:51.240 --> 0:04:53.880 a lot of civil unrest and defund the police, and 0:04:54.400 --> 0:04:58.080 you know, group economics is a common theme. So how 0:04:58.080 --> 0:05:00.360 did this come about to say, okay, you know what, 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:03.920 we're gonna buy a community and build a community. 0:05:04.000 --> 0:05:05.919 Because before you, I'll be honest with you, when I 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:09.240 saw the meme, I was like, ain't real. But y'all 0:05:09.279 --> 0:05:12.560 saw it and said, let's take gotch what happened? 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:14.919 But well, first off, I always have to correct people 0:05:15.000 --> 0:05:20.679 first and foremost, we didn't actually buy the town of Toombsboro. Okay, yes, 0:05:20.800 --> 0:05:27.600 we bought eight minutes away from Toombsboro in unincorporated Wilkinson County, 0:05:27.960 --> 0:05:30.120 And so when we first got down there, we were 0:05:30.200 --> 0:05:32.599 just going to be nosy. We was like, somebody fitting 0:05:32.600 --> 0:05:35.960 to buy town. Let's go see what's up. Myself, my 0:05:36.000 --> 0:05:39.960 good friend Renee, my friend Q and her lover Steve 0:05:40.520 --> 0:05:43.000 we all got on the got in the car and 0:05:43.000 --> 0:05:45.279 we was like, we're gonna go. I'm a real estate agent. 0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:48.039 And it's always so important the network, and there was 0:05:48.120 --> 0:05:50.000 so much going on. I'm like, this is my neck 0:05:50.040 --> 0:05:54.040 of the woods. I'm going down there. So when Renee. 0:05:53.720 --> 0:05:57.680 Brought it to us, because we're firm believers and affirmations 0:05:58.040 --> 0:05:59.320 and so we were. 0:05:59.360 --> 0:06:00.880 She's my account ability partner. 0:06:01.160 --> 0:06:04.640 So on the morning when Toombsboro first went viral, we 0:06:04.640 --> 0:06:07.120 were doing our affirmations and she was like, did you 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:10.160 see the email I sent you about the Tombsborough going viral? 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:11.520 I was like, nope, but. 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:14.280 If I'm down, if we can buy a town for 0:06:14.400 --> 0:06:17.920 one point seven million dollars, let's figure it out. And 0:06:18.000 --> 0:06:22.000 so when we got down there, it was interesting because 0:06:22.400 --> 0:06:24.640 I was like, let's going to be a lot of work, 0:06:24.800 --> 0:06:29.720 Like the buildings are in complete need of renovation, except 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:32.880 for some of the residents. It was like thirty it's 0:06:32.960 --> 0:06:37.160 thirty six parcels and was called an assemblage of land 0:06:38.279 --> 0:06:42.280 on forty six acres, and they were mostly commercial properties 0:06:42.320 --> 0:06:43.360 that needed some work. 0:06:43.400 --> 0:06:45.360 And one thing about commercial. 0:06:44.839 --> 0:06:49.320 Properties is it costs a lot more money to fix 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:54.279 up a commercial property than a residential property because the 0:06:54.520 --> 0:07:00.800 fees for contractors are substantially higher, and the permits, impact fees, 0:07:00.920 --> 0:07:03.800 all of the stuff that goes on with a commercial 0:07:03.880 --> 0:07:09.880 renovation is exorbitant. So we were like, Okay, it's potential 0:07:09.920 --> 0:07:13.240 here for sure. It's about four hundred and ninety five 0:07:13.280 --> 0:07:15.760 people who actually live in the city of Tombsboro. 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:20.000 It's predominantly black. They have a black mayor, black chief 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:20.680 of police. 0:07:21.040 --> 0:07:24.200 So in my mind, I was like, there's definitely something here. 0:07:24.520 --> 0:07:28.200 There was like fifty other black real estate agents investors 0:07:28.200 --> 0:07:30.920 who were there at the open house that day, and 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:33.480 from what we've heard through the grapevine is that a 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:38.400 black woman from Philly actually ended up purchasing that assemblage. 0:07:38.640 --> 0:07:41.480 But it didn't come with the town, like it wasn't 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:44.640 the city. There's still a mayor, they got their own 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:46.880 city hall, there's a whole bunch of other people who 0:07:46.960 --> 0:07:50.680 still lived there. It was just thirty six different commercial 0:07:50.720 --> 0:07:54.880 spaces and a few residential units, and in my eyes, 0:07:54.960 --> 0:07:57.520 for one point seven million, I was like, this is 0:07:57.560 --> 0:08:00.680 still going to be a long haul to innovate. And 0:08:01.120 --> 0:08:03.040 we were like, let's look and see what else might 0:08:03.080 --> 0:08:05.680 be available, because somebody gonna do it might not be us. 0:08:06.200 --> 0:08:08.160 Somebody's gonna do it. So it was just like, let's 0:08:08.160 --> 0:08:12.320 see what opportunity might be available. So right down the street, 0:08:12.360 --> 0:08:15.600 eight minutes away, we found this ninety six acres of land. 0:08:16.520 --> 0:08:18.000 It was at a price that I was like, you 0:08:18.000 --> 0:08:20.280 know what, if we get enough people together, we can 0:08:20.640 --> 0:08:25.000 easily afford this. And Renee, that's my ace and we 0:08:25.160 --> 0:08:28.320 always talk about how important it is to have you know, 0:08:28.400 --> 0:08:32.800 one or two or three together can go further faster, right, 0:08:33.160 --> 0:08:36.280 So she was like, yo, I'm definitely down. 0:08:36.320 --> 0:08:37.360 We can do this ourselves. 0:08:37.400 --> 0:08:39.800 And I was like, well it was raw land, like 0:08:40.360 --> 0:08:46.280 ninety six acres of nothing but trees and land Georgia 0:08:46.360 --> 0:08:49.320 red dirt. And so we were like the infrastructure, Like 0:08:49.360 --> 0:08:52.319 you said, how would we put water in electricity? 0:08:52.640 --> 0:08:55.360 It was there is some road frontage on. 0:08:55.400 --> 0:08:58.600 The main side of the street, but on the other 0:08:58.679 --> 0:09:01.200 side of the street it's a dirt. We would have 0:09:01.320 --> 0:09:03.880 to either work with the county to get paved or 0:09:03.920 --> 0:09:07.600 pave ourselves. So me, being a business person, a real 0:09:07.679 --> 0:09:09.640 estate agent, I was like, it's gonna be a lot 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:14.240 more infrastructure beyond just the purchase and acquiring of the land. 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:16.040 And that's when we were in the car. We just 0:09:16.040 --> 0:09:17.439 looked at each other. I was like, I'm gonna get 0:09:17.480 --> 0:09:19.800 ten of my friends. She's like, I'll get ten of 0:09:19.800 --> 0:09:22.240 my friends, and let's go ahead and by this land 0:09:22.280 --> 0:09:24.840 and let's do this together. Let's build our own subdivision, 0:09:24.880 --> 0:09:28.480 let's build our own community. And so at the time 0:09:28.600 --> 0:09:31.880 in the car, I didn't know that it wasn't Toombsboro. 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:35.760 After we started doing our due diligence period, that's when 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:38.840 we found out it was an unincorporated Wilkinson County. 0:09:38.880 --> 0:09:42.239 So what's the difference between unincorporated and incorporated. 0:09:42.679 --> 0:09:46.440 The big difference is the taxes and whether or not 0:09:46.480 --> 0:09:49.240 it has a charter. And when you have a charter 0:09:49.480 --> 0:09:52.720 for an actual city that's recognized by the state, you 0:09:52.800 --> 0:09:56.960 now get state funding in state income that comes from 0:09:57.040 --> 0:09:59.560 your being a city. So all of the money that 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:03.760 the state collects from sales tax blows all the different 0:10:03.800 --> 0:10:06.760 ways that the state makes money. When you are actual 0:10:07.000 --> 0:10:10.600 charter based on your population, you get a piece of 0:10:10.640 --> 0:10:15.800 that money for your city. And so typically the county 0:10:15.840 --> 0:10:20.760 and the unincorporated parts that is the jurisdiction of the 0:10:20.800 --> 0:10:23.800 county and you only have to deal with the county 0:10:23.880 --> 0:10:26.640 and the state and not the city. And then when 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:29.480 you have an actual charter city, you got the city 0:10:29.520 --> 0:10:32.080 that makes the rules, has its own budgets, has its 0:10:32.120 --> 0:10:36.040 own city police, has its own fire departments. So by 0:10:36.480 --> 0:10:40.520 getting in that unincorporated part, that gives us the ability 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:44.920 to start write a charter, to start creating our own jurisdiction. 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:47.199 So then you would be able to create your own 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:49.679 police force, your own fire department, your own schools. 0:10:49.880 --> 0:10:52.640 Yes, gotcha, and you'll be able to have your own 0:10:52.960 --> 0:10:54.920 political how's that working. 0:10:55.160 --> 0:10:57.000 So it would be a mayor and a city council. 0:10:57.120 --> 0:11:00.320 You'd have your city manager, your county clerk, or it's 0:11:00.320 --> 0:11:03.120 not your county, your city clerk, your city judge. 0:11:03.240 --> 0:11:05.960 So pretty much, it was a plot of land that 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:10.560 was under the counties. It's in the county, but it wasn't. 0:11:10.520 --> 0:11:11.760 Under a city's jis. 0:11:12.120 --> 0:11:13.960 It was juris at all. 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:17.800 Under the county and the state. So some counties have 0:11:17.880 --> 0:11:19.360 more restrictions than others. 0:11:20.080 --> 0:11:23.960 And the good thing about being in the South is 0:11:24.000 --> 0:11:25.439 that we. 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:31.200 Have this idea of not being involved in big government. 0:11:31.400 --> 0:11:33.880 That's really what the South really was fighting for. It's 0:11:33.920 --> 0:11:36.400 fighting for a lot of stuff, but this idea that 0:11:36.440 --> 0:11:37.800 you can't tell me what to do. 0:11:38.400 --> 0:11:40.720 I get to determine for myself. 0:11:40.320 --> 0:11:43.679 How I treat my property, how I treat my my business, 0:11:43.800 --> 0:11:45.800 my livelihood, my justice. 0:11:45.559 --> 0:11:46.200 My property. 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:49.880 That's the ideology of the South is that we want 0:11:49.960 --> 0:11:54.200 smaller government and more control over our local politics, our 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:58.440 local economy. That's that ideal. So the county doesn't have 0:11:58.520 --> 0:12:02.360 a lot of rules. They got Aroozona no ordinances beyond 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:06.200 a two page subdivision ordinance. So when you are thinking 0:12:06.240 --> 0:12:09.800 about doing a concept like this, that gives you the 0:12:09.920 --> 0:12:14.160 room and the ability to create what you want, create 0:12:14.200 --> 0:12:17.640 your own laws, and we have the ability to do that. 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:20.320 That's the American dream is that we can create what 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:23.600 we want. We can pursue liberty and justice how we choose, 0:12:24.000 --> 0:12:26.520 and being a law maker is all right. So we 0:12:26.679 --> 0:12:29.760 have to start making our own rules, making our own laws, 0:12:29.800 --> 0:12:32.800 and letting the law serve us for a change. 0:12:32.880 --> 0:12:34.439 And so I didn't come up with this. 0:12:35.000 --> 0:12:37.480 What happened was I watched the city of Stonecrust do 0:12:37.559 --> 0:12:40.480 it two years ago, and they've got a ninety eight 0:12:40.520 --> 0:12:43.479 point nine percent African American population. 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:46.120 We got a dope black mayor named Mayor Jason. 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:48.920 Larry, ninety eight point nine. 0:12:48.800 --> 0:12:52.080 Percent, the one like, what is that. 0:12:52.080 --> 0:12:54.120 It's a couple of white folks, you. 0:12:54.080 --> 0:13:00.400 Know, before we came and started building our city. 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:03.199 Because it's it's on the outskirts. 0:13:02.480 --> 0:13:06.000 It's not it's an east it's east of Atlanta, and 0:13:06.040 --> 0:13:10.360 it's got beautiful landscape, Arabia Mountain, it's got the Stonecrust Mall, 0:13:10.640 --> 0:13:13.720 and had industry, had resources, and we just took. 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:17.240 It over essentially called Stonecrust City of Stone, CT. 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:17.880 How big is that? 0:13:19.080 --> 0:13:21.000 Don't give me the lion right now because I don't 0:13:21.000 --> 0:13:24.679 want to miss close, but it is. It's a it's 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:27.240 a decent size if I'm not mistaken. It is one 0:13:27.240 --> 0:13:30.520 of the largest cities in the in the county of 0:13:30.559 --> 0:13:34.120 the Cab County. And so yeah, so the Cab County 0:13:34.200 --> 0:13:37.839 still has the jurisdiction too, and some counties are more 0:13:38.360 --> 0:13:41.280 hands on the others, Like the Cavs got big government here, 0:13:41.400 --> 0:13:45.040 Like they got a police department in jail, Yeah, like 0:13:45.080 --> 0:13:48.760 they got So you have to be strategic. And so 0:13:48.840 --> 0:13:53.640 Wilkinson County, we've been having great, exceptional experiences with the 0:13:53.640 --> 0:13:54.760 sheriff there, with the. 0:13:54.720 --> 0:13:55.800 County manager there. 0:13:56.400 --> 0:14:01.680 They're all black and they're cool, intelligent, Black excellence is 0:14:01.720 --> 0:14:05.160 what we found in Wilkinson County already and it's a 0:14:05.240 --> 0:14:08.679 little slower, yes, but and it's in that mode of 0:14:08.720 --> 0:14:11.320 wanting to develop. So we get to come here and 0:14:11.360 --> 0:14:13.800 we can help develop this county, which is really exciting. 0:14:13.840 --> 0:14:16.040 So when you decide like, yeah, we're going to do this, 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:18.080 you're going to Wilson County to say like, yes, we 0:14:18.120 --> 0:14:18.800 want this land. 0:14:19.960 --> 0:14:21.160 No, it's not that I. 0:14:21.080 --> 0:14:23.680 Go to Wilkinson County. Wilkinson County doesn't own the land. 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:26.680 There are people who own the land like regular folks 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:30.240 own the land. And so this particular piece of land 0:14:30.320 --> 0:14:33.240 was for sale, was listed for sale. It had been 0:14:33.360 --> 0:14:37.480 owned by released By Lumber company. So this is very wooded, 0:14:37.760 --> 0:14:44.320 very it's raw land, and it's six minutes away from 0:14:44.360 --> 0:14:48.680 the Oconee River. Six it's right along the balls Ferry 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:53.680 National Park, which is a newly named national park. So 0:14:53.720 --> 0:14:57.360 there's just certain things as far as development is concerned, 0:14:57.360 --> 0:14:59.800 that makes this an exciting opportunity. 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:01.080 Worter is a big one. 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:03.920 So let me ask, Let me ask Kevin. Let me 0:15:03.960 --> 0:15:04.560 ask you this question. 0:15:04.600 --> 0:15:08.480 Because you're an entrepreneur, So all right, I think everybody 0:15:08.480 --> 0:15:11.600 has like different skill sets, right, so you you agreed 0:15:11.640 --> 0:15:14.480 to be you know, a founding member in this community. 0:15:15.120 --> 0:15:19.640 And but as an entrepreneur, you know, like no community 0:15:19.640 --> 0:15:23.880 can thirst can flourish without business. So did you think, Okay, 0:15:24.240 --> 0:15:27.080 I'm gonna buy into this, but we need to have 0:15:27.120 --> 0:15:29.200 a store. We eventually we need to have a bank. 0:15:29.280 --> 0:15:32.920 Like what's your thoughts on how to develop from the 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:36.400 economic side of things, Like, as far as right now, 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:38.960 it's just it's just land and then you guys are 0:15:39.000 --> 0:15:41.920 gonna build, So like, what's the steps to actually get 0:15:41.960 --> 0:15:45.440 it up and running the houses, stores, things that nature. 0:15:45.920 --> 0:15:49.400 To answer your first question, yes, I immediately started going into 0:15:49.520 --> 0:15:52.560 entrepreneurial mode and I was just like, okay, well, let's 0:15:52.560 --> 0:15:53.600 start connecting the dots. 0:15:53.720 --> 0:15:53.880 You know. 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:55.840 Its sound like you're building a house where you need 0:15:55.840 --> 0:15:58.480 to lay the foundation. That foundation is the land check. 0:15:58.960 --> 0:16:01.360 Now you need to put in your beams, your studs, 0:16:01.360 --> 0:16:03.880 your drywall, things of that nature. So we're kind of 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:08.600 dressing it up. Definitely need local businesses. You know, we 0:16:08.840 --> 0:16:10.920 said that we want to be the change that we 0:16:10.960 --> 0:16:13.520 want to see in the world, and we said it 0:16:13.520 --> 0:16:15.800 all the time, even in the Zoom. You know, we 0:16:15.840 --> 0:16:17.600 need an assistant, we need an accountant, we need this, 0:16:17.640 --> 0:16:20.720 we need that, we let's work from it inside first, 0:16:20.720 --> 0:16:23.440 inside the group internally, and then if we don't have 0:16:23.520 --> 0:16:25.520 the skill set to do that, then we can go 0:16:25.560 --> 0:16:28.200 ahead and reach outward, you know. 0:16:28.600 --> 0:16:30.000 And that's the same thing with any business. 0:16:30.080 --> 0:16:32.800 You know, if you have somebody in your family that 0:16:32.880 --> 0:16:35.440 makes cupcakes, why are you going down the street to 0:16:35.720 --> 0:16:38.080 go buy cupcakes? You know, go have your auntie naked 0:16:38.120 --> 0:16:40.360 or what have you. So that was my whole thing 0:16:40.400 --> 0:16:43.880 when I got put onto it, like cool, this is 0:16:43.920 --> 0:16:45.640 I'm already doing this. Now we get to do this 0:16:45.720 --> 0:16:47.360 with eighteen other people. 0:16:48.480 --> 0:16:50.400 I want to go with that number eighteen or nineteen 0:16:50.440 --> 0:16:53.120 because I'm prior to hearing it. When I heard the story, 0:16:53.120 --> 0:16:54.960 I'm like, oh, okay, And as you kind of said it, 0:16:55.000 --> 0:16:56.840 like I'll find out of my friends. You find none 0:16:56.840 --> 0:16:58.960 of your friends, and it sounds great, like none of 0:16:58.960 --> 0:17:01.080 your friends, and like, okay, and that's eighteen and we'll 0:17:01.080 --> 0:17:01.600 do this together. 0:17:01.640 --> 0:17:03.080 But you guys didn't know each other. 0:17:03.720 --> 0:17:07.080 What was that process of getting to know these these 0:17:07.119 --> 0:17:09.600 these gentlemen and these these families. 0:17:09.640 --> 0:17:12.520 Well, it was, it was it just definitely a different process. We, 0:17:12.880 --> 0:17:14.640 like you said, a lot of different personalities are coming 0:17:14.680 --> 0:17:17.880 into a mix, and we were actually being introduced through 0:17:17.960 --> 0:17:19.720 zoom and so you know, you don't really get a 0:17:19.720 --> 0:17:21.560 good feel of like how this person really is, how 0:17:21.560 --> 0:17:23.199 they talk when they're you know, when you're around them, 0:17:23.200 --> 0:17:24.200 and shaking hands. 0:17:24.040 --> 0:17:25.919 And all that good stuff. So you know, in the beginning, 0:17:25.960 --> 0:17:26.920 it was it was always loved. 0:17:27.280 --> 0:17:30.159 We always have the same motivation, you know, to become 0:17:30.440 --> 0:17:32.200 just to make to make this thing really really big, 0:17:32.560 --> 0:17:35.199 and so it was we had that going and then 0:17:35.240 --> 0:17:38.000 you know as time went time goes on, you sort 0:17:38.000 --> 0:17:40.080 of learned the personalities and stuff like that, so you 0:17:40.080 --> 0:17:42.600 get used to people and then you know, most of 0:17:42.600 --> 0:17:44.760 the people are coming with their spouses, so you know, 0:17:44.840 --> 0:17:46.760 you know, like you have the me and my wife 0:17:46.760 --> 0:17:49.879 are there, and my wife knows Ashley, so through me 0:17:50.720 --> 0:17:52.680 through her, I met Kevin and all the other guys 0:17:52.680 --> 0:17:54.800 and stuff like that. So you know, we had a 0:17:54.920 --> 0:17:57.240 former bond and kind of just go from there. It's 0:17:57.280 --> 0:17:59.320 like like I said, we always have the same we 0:17:59.400 --> 0:18:02.239 have the same wavation, so we we just stick with 0:18:02.280 --> 0:18:06.199 that kind of you know, kind of just happened. We had 0:18:06.200 --> 0:18:09.399 the same extracurricular activities as well. You know, we like 0:18:09.440 --> 0:18:12.359 the same books and the same fun things that we 0:18:12.400 --> 0:18:14.040 do outside of work, you know, that kind of stuff. 0:18:14.080 --> 0:18:15.399 So so this started as a Zoomian. 0:18:16.359 --> 0:18:23.879 Yeah, you know what, I didn't get that, like we did, 0:18:24.040 --> 0:18:25.560 we miss that. 0:18:26.119 --> 0:18:28.320 A lot of people felt the same way though, Like 0:18:28.359 --> 0:18:30.639 there's a lot of people who looked up and was mad. 0:18:30.400 --> 0:18:31.800 At us, like a man. 0:18:32.640 --> 0:18:34.200 You know what, I noticed a lot of people wanted 0:18:34.320 --> 0:18:35.439 more for me. 0:18:35.520 --> 0:18:36.840 A lot of people, I feel a lot of people 0:18:36.840 --> 0:18:39.320 wanted more information than what we can give. 0:18:39.320 --> 0:18:40.080 But it wasn't but. 0:18:40.040 --> 0:18:41.720 It wasn't even that we had it to give. 0:18:42.480 --> 0:18:44.479 It was more like figuring out that, you know, we 0:18:44.480 --> 0:18:46.239 were figuring out that we were going on and if 0:18:46.560 --> 0:18:48.119 you weren't with that, then that you just went with that. 0:18:48.200 --> 0:18:49.480 And some people don't be with that. 0:18:49.600 --> 0:18:52.240 You know, there's different types of people that you got 0:18:52.280 --> 0:18:54.520 the people who just like, look, I just want to 0:18:54.560 --> 0:18:55.360 be with my friends. 0:18:55.400 --> 0:18:56.919 You got the people like I need to know all 0:18:56.960 --> 0:18:58.640 the facts. You got the people. 0:19:00.359 --> 0:19:01.560 I'm just wing to sound like, you know. 0:19:01.640 --> 0:19:03.480 And then at the time it was like, you know, 0:19:03.520 --> 0:19:05.320 it's like you know, like you were saying the George 0:19:05.320 --> 0:19:07.879 Floord thing, it was just so much happening, and for me, 0:19:07.960 --> 0:19:08.280 I just. 0:19:08.240 --> 0:19:08.800 Had to get away. 0:19:08.840 --> 0:19:11.080 I wanted to get to escape to I'm tired of 0:19:11.240 --> 0:19:13.119 having to travel of this here and there another just 0:19:13.119 --> 0:19:14.720 to get away for a little while. You know, I 0:19:14.720 --> 0:19:16.560 get to go two hours down the road to have 0:19:16.640 --> 0:19:19.800 that getaway to that so often need, like this is 0:19:19.840 --> 0:19:20.359 what I'm here for. 0:19:20.440 --> 0:19:21.560 That's how that's how it started. 0:19:23.240 --> 0:19:27.000