WEBVTT - HAPPY ICE - You can't go wrong with Baked Beans and Hot Dogs 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:03.280 Solo mare, thank you so much for cooking us up 0:00:03.320 --> 0:00:07.000 this meal today and spending time with us to eat 0:00:07.280 --> 0:00:10.320 while broke. I'm sure, So what are we eating again? 0:00:10.480 --> 0:00:13.960 So we're eating my famous, my famous big beings and 0:00:14.000 --> 0:00:17.840 hot dogs. This recipe was passed down from generation to generation. 0:00:18.400 --> 0:00:22.000 Came from my came from my pop Pope who passed away, 0:00:22.200 --> 0:00:24.160 and I used to always eat it with him, and 0:00:24.320 --> 0:00:25.880 my mom made it and now I'm making it. And 0:00:26.000 --> 0:00:29.000 it's just keep on going down down down to the family. 0:00:29.200 --> 0:00:33.520 All right, cool, walk us through this dish, And I'm 0:00:33.560 --> 0:00:35.720 just curious, when was the last time you ate this meal? 0:00:36.120 --> 0:00:39.320 I actually had this meal last night. That's the funny part, 0:00:39.440 --> 0:00:40.720 you know what I'm saying. I had the meal last 0:00:40.800 --> 0:00:43.440 night because even it don't matter, It don't matter how 0:00:43.640 --> 0:00:46.159 probably rich I get, Like I'm I think I'm always 0:00:46.159 --> 0:00:50.000 gonna come back to my baking hot dogs, Okay for sure. 0:00:50.680 --> 0:00:53.440 So I mean to start off, I got a boy 0:00:53.520 --> 0:00:56.520 the hot dog, so I'm gonna go ahead take these. 0:00:56.560 --> 0:00:58.800 I can tell the difference between beef and turkey and turkey, 0:00:59.120 --> 0:01:02.440 go ahead, drop beak ones in here? Can you drop 0:01:02.480 --> 0:01:04.560 one turkey? And oh yeah, I got you a matter 0:01:04.560 --> 0:01:06.680 of fact. No, we can drop both of them. Yeah, 0:01:07.080 --> 0:01:08.640 I was trying to be the healthy when I was 0:01:08.640 --> 0:01:13.440 trying to sneak it into your gar I make sure 0:01:13.480 --> 0:01:15.560 that I make sure they're separated. To boil the hot 0:01:15.560 --> 0:01:18.759 dogs first, um, get them nice and ready, and then 0:01:18.800 --> 0:01:22.039 once you get finished boiling the hot dogs, we gotta 0:01:22.319 --> 0:01:24.199 chop them up in the pieces. So I'm gonna go ahead, 0:01:24.200 --> 0:01:29.440 and you're good. You're good. We're gonna break them down. 0:01:29.480 --> 0:01:31.640 We're gonna break it down in the small pieces. They 0:01:31.680 --> 0:01:33.440 once see breaking it out in the small pieces. I'm 0:01:33.440 --> 0:01:35.240 gonna go ahead and dump the bake bean. I'm gonna 0:01:35.280 --> 0:01:37.520 take the water out of its pot pitted here and 0:01:37.560 --> 0:01:39.960 put the big beans in. Then I'm gonna put the 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:42.000 bake things in. I'm gonna seizing them up real good. 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:45.399 You know. Uh, it's a certain ratio of butter to 0:01:45.640 --> 0:01:48.360 catch up to sugar. You gotta pi. But you don't 0:01:48.440 --> 0:01:50.800 use a measuring cup. No, no measuring cup. I'm black, 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:52.680 so you know, black people, we we more. We more 0:01:52.720 --> 0:01:56.160 so just like it's an eyeball game for us. That's like, 0:01:56.520 --> 0:01:58.880 and just keep going to that thing tastes good. So yeah, 0:01:58.880 --> 0:02:02.040 we're gonna go ahead. And just you know, go off 0:02:02.040 --> 0:02:05.040 in memory and uh, and then get them. We're gonna 0:02:05.040 --> 0:02:07.160 get them big beans, good nice and seasoned up. And 0:02:07.160 --> 0:02:09.040 then I'm an dump the hot dogs inside of there 0:02:09.800 --> 0:02:11.639 and then it's gonna be all together and one thing. 0:02:11.720 --> 0:02:14.520 Then dumping in the bowl and that's it. Awesome. So 0:02:14.560 --> 0:02:18.080 while we're waiting for this boiling water to boil hopefully 0:02:18.160 --> 0:02:22.400 sooner than later. Um, where are you from? Originally I'm 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:26.160 from Philly. Is that where the love for Italian ice 0:02:26.400 --> 0:02:31.399 came in? Yeah? So, uh, happy ice is Philadelphia water ice. 0:02:31.720 --> 0:02:34.680 So it's it's a product I was raised on. So 0:02:35.160 --> 0:02:37.000 you know, when I came out here and noticed that, 0:02:37.080 --> 0:02:39.560 you know, the product wasn't here, I was like going 0:02:39.600 --> 0:02:43.000 through withdraw. I was like, oh man, like, no way, 0:02:43.040 --> 0:02:46.120 I gotta I gotta introduce, you know, I gotta introduce 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:48.760 California to authentic fill water ice on top of me 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:51.760 just wanting it for myself. So um yeah, so that's 0:02:51.760 --> 0:02:53.920 when happy Ice came to life, the idea, and uh 0:02:54.320 --> 0:02:57.120 I just went right for it. Yeah. Growing up and 0:02:57.160 --> 0:02:59.480 I'm from New York and growing up in New York, 0:02:59.600 --> 0:03:02.560 that is the signature treat I didn't I did not 0:03:02.760 --> 0:03:05.519 know originally until I was older that it was from Philly. 0:03:05.840 --> 0:03:07.760 I don't know if it originated from Philly or Philly 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:09.520 had their own and then New York had their own. 0:03:09.560 --> 0:03:13.320 I think, I think, I think honestly, like there's no 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:16.040 real history on time. I mean, like Philadelphia water is 0:03:16.080 --> 0:03:18.080 to be honest with you, if you look it up. Um, 0:03:18.160 --> 0:03:21.040 but I think it's just that Philly just does it 0:03:21.120 --> 0:03:24.160 a certain way. Because Italian ice and you know New 0:03:24.240 --> 0:03:26.520 York Italian ice and whatter ice is different, Like what 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:29.080 do ice has like a certain texture to it. You 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:32.400 know what I'm saying. Oh, there's a differences in a texture. 0:03:32.480 --> 0:03:37.160 So like Italian ice is more like icy, and then 0:03:37.240 --> 0:03:40.760 like Philadelphia water ice is more so like I find 0:03:40.880 --> 0:03:45.119 like almost cream like, like smooth like texture. That's why 0:03:45.120 --> 0:03:46.840 when I eat yours, it never has a chunk in it. 0:03:47.040 --> 0:03:49.920 Right in New York, if you eat them, there's a 0:03:50.000 --> 0:03:53.200 chunk like you'll you'll bite until like a harder piece 0:03:53.200 --> 0:03:55.560 of it. But when I eat yours, it's smoothed all 0:03:55.600 --> 0:03:58.520 the way there. It's like a smooth texture. It's like 0:03:58.560 --> 0:04:00.960 it's just it's a difference. It's a difference. So you 0:04:01.000 --> 0:04:05.960 have perfected that. I definitely perfected that. Um So, you 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:08.880 know that has been that has been our our our 0:04:08.960 --> 0:04:11.400 state one happy ice, that texture. A lot of people 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:15.360 have been blown away by that. Yeah yeah, m So 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:18.400 did you always know since you were a little you 0:04:18.400 --> 0:04:20.719 were gonna get into happy ice? Or they're like pivots 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:23.880 along the way? No, see, I wanted, like a lot 0:04:23.920 --> 0:04:27.360 of people kind of like, I'm not stuck to one thing. 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:32.159 Um Like, for me, I think I'm a hustler. I 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:35.080 called myself a hut. Entrepreneur is a word, but I'm 0:04:35.120 --> 0:04:36.640 a hustler, you know what I'm saying. So it don't 0:04:36.640 --> 0:04:39.560 matter what I sell. I feel like whatever I set 0:04:39.600 --> 0:04:41.880 my mind to, I'm gonna do it. So like, you know, 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:44.159 happy actually just an idea that I felt like I 0:04:44.360 --> 0:04:47.320 was filling a void in the market of California. So 0:04:47.360 --> 0:04:49.520 that's why I did that. But you know, no, it's 0:04:49.520 --> 0:04:51.480 not I didn't grow up thinking I was gonna do happy. 0:04:51.480 --> 0:04:53.120 I just always knew I was gonna grow up and 0:04:53.120 --> 0:04:55.640 do something, and this just happening to be, you know, 0:04:55.880 --> 0:04:57.520 one of my one of my first steps, and it 0:04:57.640 --> 0:04:59.680 happened to be a big step for me. What caused 0:04:59.760 --> 0:05:04.080 Mike from Philly to call. Uh, you know a lot 0:05:04.240 --> 0:05:06.880 just the environment that I was in, you know where 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:11.560 I'm from. It's like, uh, it's just rough, you know 0:05:11.600 --> 0:05:13.200 what I'm saying. It's rough. You know. I lost a 0:05:13.200 --> 0:05:15.240 lot of I looked at, like basically the history of 0:05:15.240 --> 0:05:17.480 my family, and a lot of people in my family 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:20.039 like got life in jail or even got killed. My 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:23.760 dad got life in jail. Um, his brother died in 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:26.560 jail from life in jail, you know. Um, So it's 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:28.200 like and then a lot of my friends got killed 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:30.599 growing up. And then the last, the last thing that 0:05:30.640 --> 0:05:33.280 made me jump from Philly to l A was my 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:35.760 brother passed away, not from getting killed, but died in 0:05:35.800 --> 0:05:39.600 a motorcycle accident. And um, Like, basically my brother was 0:05:39.640 --> 0:05:42.800 a risk taker. So when he passed away, I was like, damn, 0:05:42.880 --> 0:05:46.040 you know, that's one of the things I took from him. 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:48.760 And I was like, he died at twenty seven, and 0:05:48.800 --> 0:05:51.360 I decided, Man, I don't know when I'm going passed away, 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:53.279 so I need to go after the things that I 0:05:53.360 --> 0:05:55.080 told myself I want to do. And I like, it 0:05:55.120 --> 0:05:56.400 was one of the things in my list that was 0:05:56.440 --> 0:05:58.640 a dream, and so I was like, man, I'm going 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:01.039 for it, you know, so I just literally jumped here 0:06:01.600 --> 0:06:04.360 with nothing um. I had a friend of living colarbasses. 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:07.720 It's just like super far um too. It was too 0:06:07.720 --> 0:06:09.240 far from where I was trying to work at, which 0:06:09.240 --> 0:06:11.640 is on myl Roads, where the story is like at today, 0:06:12.240 --> 0:06:14.400 and so I used to sleep in the tattoo shop 0:06:14.960 --> 0:06:19.720 on myl Roads, a little bit of like send my homelessness, 0:06:19.720 --> 0:06:21.760 and there I was, send my homelessness. It was some 0:06:21.800 --> 0:06:24.560 days where I was actually actually really homeless too, where 0:06:24.600 --> 0:06:26.080 I was like why I really had to sleep in 0:06:26.120 --> 0:06:27.680 the tattoo shop because I had to sleep in the 0:06:27.720 --> 0:06:30.080 tattoo shop, like I didn't have no other other place 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:33.400 to go. Okay, okay, So you went from tattoos and 0:06:33.400 --> 0:06:36.240 then you were like this need is this this void 0:06:36.320 --> 0:06:38.760 is here? Yeah, and I just went after it. What 0:06:38.839 --> 0:06:41.800 did that transition look like? Was there? Semi? Was it 0:06:41.920 --> 0:06:46.520 just stacking chips on the tattoo side to really so 0:06:46.640 --> 0:06:48.920 like part of me sleeping inside of the tattoo shot 0:06:49.120 --> 0:06:51.839 was the fact that you know, I had cash, but 0:06:51.880 --> 0:06:54.760 I didn't have cash to spend. I needed all the 0:06:54.760 --> 0:06:57.520 money that I had to pick towards you know, the 0:06:57.960 --> 0:06:59.600 dream or a goal. You know what I'm saying I 0:06:59.640 --> 0:07:02.320 didn't have have like I didn't have cash flow coming in, 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:05.240 but I had cash flow. I had cash saved from 0:07:05.279 --> 0:07:07.599 when I was in Philadelphia. So I didn't want to 0:07:07.640 --> 0:07:09.560 I didn't want to like burn all of that trying 0:07:09.560 --> 0:07:12.360 to you know, lift this Los Angeles lifestyle. I was like, man, 0:07:12.360 --> 0:07:14.640 I gotta figure something out so I can actually you know, 0:07:14.720 --> 0:07:18.880 be comfortable here. So, um, I basically took all the 0:07:18.920 --> 0:07:21.880 money I had from tattooing and invested it all in 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:24.240 the AMPI ice what I'm saying. So it was like 0:07:24.680 --> 0:07:27.040 I think at the time, I probably had like around 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:29.960 like I would say, like right from because I was 0:07:29.960 --> 0:07:33.160 a popular tattoo artists in Philly and it cost seventy 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:35.240 five to get hack that I started. So I was 0:07:35.320 --> 0:07:38.640 like tattooing, flying back the Philly tattoo and just going 0:07:38.640 --> 0:07:40.720 through the whole struggle like trying to get the rest 0:07:40.720 --> 0:07:42.800 of that money to get to what I needed to do. Now, 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:45.120 how did you predict that it would cost seventy five grand? 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:50.880 By the way, your food smells good already, Yeah, yeah, 0:07:51.320 --> 0:07:53.720 hopefully we won't set off some sprinklers in this building, 0:07:53.760 --> 0:07:58.080 but we should be good. Um, So how did you 0:07:58.120 --> 0:08:00.240 predict that. Were you a business, like, did you start 0:08:00.320 --> 0:08:03.760 writing business plans the business element there? No, No, I 0:08:03.800 --> 0:08:07.040 had no business experience. I struggled the whole way. I 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:09.920 made so many mistakes. Started Happy Ice. I made a 0:08:10.000 --> 0:08:12.560 mistake from the moment I started Happy Ice. The first 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:15.480 mistake I made was I went down to the city hall, 0:08:15.560 --> 0:08:17.760 I mean city all down here, and I registered for 0:08:17.840 --> 0:08:20.280 the name Happy Ice. Like when I first thoughted, I 0:08:20.320 --> 0:08:25.000 did see but for new business owners, new business owners, uh, 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:28.120 if you ever want to like just ensure that you 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:31.160 can have a name, like just go reserved the name. 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:34.080 Reserving the name is like that the city will just 0:08:34.120 --> 0:08:35.560 hold it for you and you pay like a little 0:08:35.559 --> 0:08:39.120 small fear and be like, just reserve the name. I 0:08:39.160 --> 0:08:42.400 went down there and I actually got the name like officials. 0:08:42.400 --> 0:08:46.120 So when I did that, it's basically when I did that, 0:08:46.400 --> 0:08:50.000 it was saying I'm open for business. So it took 0:08:50.040 --> 0:08:51.800 me a year and a half to get Happy Ice open. 0:08:52.120 --> 0:08:54.000 So when I want to go file taxes for the 0:08:54.040 --> 0:08:58.360 first time, I had all these penalties because I didn't 0:08:58.520 --> 0:09:01.000 you know, I never filed from when I from the 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:03.280 initial time when I started a business, So I had 0:09:03.320 --> 0:09:06.880 like three grain and penalties like tax. Now I thought myself, 0:09:07.080 --> 0:09:10.040 I thought the first year you filed because I did 0:09:10.120 --> 0:09:13.280 the same thing a bunch of times, and they eventually 0:09:13.280 --> 0:09:14.839 caught up with me and I got leans on all 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:17.760 my stuff. But I heard that the first year or 0:09:17.760 --> 0:09:20.040 I was able to and this could have been prior 0:09:20.120 --> 0:09:24.080 to your or after somewhere over there, But the first 0:09:24.160 --> 0:09:28.520 year usually they have a forgivable Yeah, it's like, so 0:09:28.600 --> 0:09:30.360 some of this stuff they forgave me on, but some 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:33.000 stuff not. They were like, no, so it was some 0:09:33.080 --> 0:09:35.960 stuff for sure, they gave me a break on. They 0:09:35.960 --> 0:09:37.640 gave me a break on some stuff because it was 0:09:38.240 --> 0:09:40.280 like you said, the first year, but it was some 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:43.319 parts of it. No, it wasn't forgivable. So you lost 0:09:43.360 --> 0:09:47.040 money right there. From day one, I lost money. Was 0:09:47.080 --> 0:09:49.800 there ever like a movie you made where you're like, Okay, 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:52.240 that's it, the pot is empty, We're done. We're not 0:09:52.240 --> 0:09:53.880 gonna be able to get this ship off the ground, 0:09:53.960 --> 0:09:55.400 or did you get it off the ground? And then 0:09:55.480 --> 0:09:59.600 it was a point where I was scared. Man. I 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:03.640 I always shedding tears. Um. So when I got here, 0:10:04.240 --> 0:10:07.719 my idea was to ship product from Philly to l 0:10:07.800 --> 0:10:11.760 A and so I thought that all I needed. So 0:10:12.240 --> 0:10:17.120 when I got here, I made the decision of Okay, 0:10:17.280 --> 0:10:19.319 I actually want to make the product myself. Then I 0:10:19.360 --> 0:10:22.200 don't have to rely on somebody to send me product 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:25.920 because if if they slip up, then it has shut 0:10:25.960 --> 0:10:27.640 down the whole business. Because I want to have a product, 0:10:28.480 --> 0:10:31.720 So I invest. I had to get save the money 0:10:31.800 --> 0:10:34.640 up to get the machines, and a long story short, 0:10:35.080 --> 0:10:37.360 the first day that we UM decided to do like 0:10:37.400 --> 0:10:40.360 a little soft opening with our friends or whatever, Um, 0:10:40.480 --> 0:10:45.640 the machines didn't work. So it was like I was 0:10:45.720 --> 0:10:49.120 already getting like hammered so bad by health department. Um. 0:10:49.200 --> 0:10:50.920 When I first got the truck. I had got the 0:10:50.920 --> 0:10:53.240 truck built from Philly and bring it here and the 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:56.920 health code regulations are totally different, so the truck wasn't 0:10:56.960 --> 0:10:59.080 able to get pass from health inspection. They made me 0:10:59.160 --> 0:11:00.920 like redo all this off in the truck. I didn't 0:11:00.920 --> 0:11:03.280 have the money for that, you know. So like so 0:11:03.320 --> 0:11:05.719 now I'm like I'm like losing my mind, like I'm 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:08.400 stressed the hell out, and it's like you know, um, 0:11:08.559 --> 0:11:10.440 so I had to go. I had to like grind 0:11:10.520 --> 0:11:12.120 up try and make some more money to pay for 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:13.920 the renovation to the truck so it can pass home. 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:17.480 And when you're grinding, you're tattooing. The whole time. I'm tattooing. 0:11:17.840 --> 0:11:20.160 So I'm like either like trying to fly here. I'm 0:11:20.200 --> 0:11:22.920 like not sleeping honestly, Like I'm like flying to this 0:11:22.920 --> 0:11:25.160 this football player to tattoo him because they like paying 0:11:25.240 --> 0:11:27.440 chunks to cash. I'm like going back to Philly. I'm 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:29.160 like going here, and then I go and spend the 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:31.120 money and I'm like and it's like so I'm like 0:11:31.200 --> 0:11:34.880 making It's all these things that just like hit me 0:11:34.920 --> 0:11:38.040 at one time, and like the truck happened, this happened, 0:11:38.080 --> 0:11:39.800 and then I go to have like a little soft 0:11:39.840 --> 0:11:42.920 opening and like the machine is not working, so like 0:11:43.440 --> 0:11:47.120 we got people there no product at the little soft opening, 0:11:47.679 --> 0:11:49.680 and like we had to get electrician and try and 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:51.520 figure this out and figure it out to see what's 0:11:51.520 --> 0:11:54.160 wrong with the machine. And finally got one like one 0:11:54.160 --> 0:11:55.720 of the machines that work a little bit, and we 0:11:55.800 --> 0:11:58.040 had it still wasn't good because we brung down like 0:11:58.080 --> 0:12:01.400 slush ice, like it wasn't like it wasn't it was 0:12:01.480 --> 0:12:04.160 like all bad and it was just thing after the thing, 0:12:04.200 --> 0:12:06.760 and I just remember like sitting there and my grandmama 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:08.360 and them flew out and I just been sitting there. 0:12:08.360 --> 0:12:11.720 I just like I just broke down. Curry, did you actually? 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:13.440 I was about to ask was there a point where 0:12:13.440 --> 0:12:15.839 you were like tears and everything cring? Like I just 0:12:15.880 --> 0:12:18.280 broke down? And then what were their words of encouragement 0:12:18.280 --> 0:12:20.280 at the time, because I know they had some kind 0:12:20.280 --> 0:12:23.360 of words, right, Yeah, my grandmom she's always been super supportive, 0:12:23.400 --> 0:12:26.439 even if even she also support me financially, like I know, 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:29.160 like it's it's multiple people in the world that got 0:12:29.200 --> 0:12:31.240 that one person that are like come through them something front. 0:12:31.280 --> 0:12:34.040 Sometimes that was my grandmam. So she just was more 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:37.640 so like she was a business on herself. So like 0:12:37.840 --> 0:12:41.000 I'm like breaking down crying, like I don't know about 0:12:41.040 --> 0:12:43.040 all the trials that you go through, right, and like 0:12:43.160 --> 0:12:45.200 she has been through those things. So she looking at 0:12:45.240 --> 0:12:47.280 me like, lat Mary, this is this is a part 0:12:47.320 --> 0:12:48.520 of it, you know what I'm saying, Like, and she 0:12:48.600 --> 0:12:50.600 just let me know, like like pull it together. This 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:52.320 is a part of the game. Like you wanted it, 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:54.360 you want to be in this life, this is a 0:12:54.400 --> 0:12:57.239 part of it. You gotta make it through these moments, right, here, 0:12:57.240 --> 0:12:59.120 like you got it, pull it together. She said, look, 0:12:59.840 --> 0:13:02.120 I gonna let you get five minutes, but in five minutes, 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:05.839 you better wrap this up and we gotta get back 0:13:05.880 --> 0:13:09.440 to it. Nice. Nice. She always she always been that 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:12.000 type of person. She she always said, like, okay, when 0:13:12.000 --> 0:13:14.680 you in those moments, give yourself, she said, give yourself 0:13:14.679 --> 0:13:16.760 a time limit. I'm gonna give you a time if 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:18.640 you're letting it out, and then when that time done, 0:13:18.760 --> 0:13:20.680 you gotta wrap it up and we gotta keep going. 0:13:20.840 --> 0:13:23.120 So I got my little five minutes, not wrap it up. 0:13:23.200 --> 0:13:25.559 We hopped up when we kept going nice. Now, was 0:13:25.600 --> 0:13:29.240 there ever a point you were driven to a scan like? 0:13:29.400 --> 0:13:33.360 Probably the most scanless thing, because I feel like on 0:13:33.400 --> 0:13:35.840 that journey you are always the depth. There's like the 0:13:35.880 --> 0:13:37.840 angel on one tide and the devil's on the other side, 0:13:37.920 --> 0:13:41.720 and you're at that crossroads and then you have the 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:43.720 devil knocking on the door, Like I have this one 0:13:43.880 --> 0:13:47.560 scanless opportunity that gets you over the milestone? Did you 0:13:47.600 --> 0:13:51.720 have one of those? And are you comfortable sharing scanless? 0:13:51.760 --> 0:13:55.679 Because like, I'm a firm believer in like things come 0:13:55.720 --> 0:13:58.600 back you I'm saying, so, like I don't steal from people. 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:00.480 I'm a honest person. You can under say in like so, 0:14:01.120 --> 0:14:03.920 but it's I did take one major shirtcut that if 0:14:03.920 --> 0:14:07.000 I did not do it, it probably wouldn't be happy. Yesterday, 0:14:07.320 --> 0:14:10.080 I had went and got a townhouse, like a little 0:14:10.120 --> 0:14:12.640 town house, like three story townhouse, and like, and I 0:14:12.679 --> 0:14:14.960 had and I already knew, I knew my plan. I 0:14:14.960 --> 0:14:17.760 had to find a townhouse that had a garage. You 0:14:17.800 --> 0:14:19.400 know what I'm saying. Because I was like, all right, 0:14:19.400 --> 0:14:21.000 if I get a townhouse, we can live in there, 0:14:21.160 --> 0:14:23.200 and also we can turn like the other couple of 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:28.000 floors into like inventory, like like holding stuff like cups, napkins. 0:14:28.480 --> 0:14:30.360 And then I was like, I need a garage because 0:14:30.360 --> 0:14:33.040 I need like a place to make the product. So 0:14:33.120 --> 0:14:36.360 of course, like everybody know, like you're not supposed to 0:14:36.400 --> 0:14:39.120 be making products side of a house, like health department, 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:43.400 that's not it. But I promised I was totally sanitary, 0:14:43.440 --> 0:14:47.160 Like the garage is probably more sanitary than people's stories. 0:14:47.200 --> 0:14:50.080 I get because people stories be raggedy. Like I had 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:52.840 this thing set up like a real laboratory, so you know, 0:14:52.880 --> 0:14:55.960 I couldn't afford to go get a story. So I 0:14:56.000 --> 0:14:58.800 had the house as like our office space. You know, 0:14:59.120 --> 0:15:01.400 to hold st are all our different cups and like 0:15:01.480 --> 0:15:04.480 products and inventory. And then also he's making products inside 0:15:04.520 --> 0:15:06.640 the garage and I had like freezers in the garage. 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:09.520 I had like three phase converters for the electric to 0:15:09.600 --> 0:15:12.440 like running machines, and like I turned into a full 0:15:12.520 --> 0:15:15.000 laboratory and like that's what I was able to. I 0:15:15.080 --> 0:15:18.320 use that for honestly, like for the first probably like 0:15:18.480 --> 0:15:21.040 year and a half, like two years of half the 0:15:21.120 --> 0:15:24.240 ice to like get it going. And yeah, that really 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:26.360 took me over the edge. Like sometimes you gotta do 0:15:26.400 --> 0:15:36.040 what you gotta do. You definitely what are the next 0:15:36.080 --> 0:15:39.800 steps in this? Meals next? All right? So now that's 0:15:39.880 --> 0:15:41.920 now we're really good. These are done and got to 0:15:41.960 --> 0:15:44.680 the point they don't bust open. So now they're supposed 0:15:44.720 --> 0:15:49.520 to look sure, especially I like it when they look 0:15:49.560 --> 0:15:53.840 like this. What we're gonna do now once they come out, 0:15:54.600 --> 0:15:57.000 I go ahead and I cut this up. He's already 0:15:57.080 --> 0:15:59.360 he's already like pretty much split. So I'm just gonna 0:15:59.400 --> 0:16:01.840 cut them down the middle. I'm just gonna break these 0:16:01.840 --> 0:16:05.480 in the little pieces. And they looks soft. Yeah, that 0:16:05.520 --> 0:16:12.000 looks good. So while you're breaking them. So I've seen 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:15.040 will Smith I've seen. Actually, I was at a party 0:16:15.080 --> 0:16:17.760 the other day at a friend's house and I was 0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:19.960 hanging out with the celebrity and I was talking about you, 0:16:20.920 --> 0:16:22.760 and I was like, oh, yeah, you guys got to 0:16:22.800 --> 0:16:24.880 bring your kids. You guys have to try happy Ice. 0:16:25.160 --> 0:16:27.760 It's amazing. Promise you won't regret it. And then she 0:16:27.880 --> 0:16:30.680 looked in her phone. She's like, wait a minute, Yes, 0:16:31.120 --> 0:16:33.400 we've been there. I'm tagged on the Instagram. I love 0:16:33.480 --> 0:16:36.520 this place. But what was the celebrity where you were like, 0:16:37.600 --> 0:16:39.440 oh my god, I got this phone call for this 0:16:39.440 --> 0:16:42.200 gig um and you've done a lot. I've seen Will 0:16:42.240 --> 0:16:45.240 Smith's one, which was pretty about to say Smith that 0:16:45.440 --> 0:16:49.320 that right there, it's that one takes the kick, That 0:16:49.360 --> 0:16:51.200 one takes the kick. But you know, if I had 0:16:51.240 --> 0:16:53.120 to say one, that one takes the kicks. One head 0:16:53.160 --> 0:16:57.680 from Philly, right and like anybody moving from Philadelphia to 0:16:57.760 --> 0:17:01.720 California automatically people like refer that to a Will Smith story, 0:17:01.800 --> 0:17:06.440 Like yeah, but what's like, you know, like we get there, 0:17:06.440 --> 0:17:08.399 like and I'm from West Philly and he from Overbrook, 0:17:08.440 --> 0:17:10.880 which is in West Philly, so like it's like I'm 0:17:10.920 --> 0:17:13.600 from West Philadelphia by rade, so it's like the whole 0:17:13.720 --> 0:17:18.320 story matches like perfect though, right, So it's like, uh, 0:17:18.359 --> 0:17:21.479 you know, just to have interacted with them, and like 0:17:21.560 --> 0:17:24.359 that was just a big That was a big moment 0:17:24.359 --> 0:17:26.640 because that's like he's been inspiring to us the whole time, 0:17:26.760 --> 0:17:28.480 you know what I'm saying, Like he's been the most 0:17:28.560 --> 0:17:32.280 inspiring person for Philadelphia for like decades. You know, like 0:17:32.359 --> 0:17:34.760 we got Kevin Hart now and like Meek Mill and stuff, 0:17:34.760 --> 0:17:38.600 but like Will Smith is like the icon the the 0:17:38.640 --> 0:17:42.040 face of Philadelphia realistically. So what did that call look 0:17:42.119 --> 0:17:44.760 like when you got it? Man, it was for It's 0:17:44.800 --> 0:17:47.000 for Jada's it was for jada birthday. I wasn't even 0:17:47.040 --> 0:17:49.280 sure if you're gonna see Will Smith. It was for 0:17:49.359 --> 0:17:53.440 Jada's birthday. Um, And so I did, like I made 0:17:53.440 --> 0:17:55.680 a real spetshow I mean, like a menu for her, 0:17:55.840 --> 0:17:57.520 Like it's none of the stuff she requested. I just 0:17:57.560 --> 0:17:59.480 did it because I was like, man, it's Jada, like 0:17:59.760 --> 0:18:02.240 well Smith, Jada like everybody, you know what I'm saying, 0:18:02.280 --> 0:18:03.800 sounding like, man, I gotta go all out. So I 0:18:03.880 --> 0:18:07.040 made a special menu. I made a special flavor for 0:18:07.680 --> 0:18:10.920 red table raspberry, I mean, like a raspberry flavor water 0:18:11.000 --> 0:18:15.600 ice just for her. And we got there and we 0:18:15.600 --> 0:18:17.720 went to the crib. Crib is like super nice. They 0:18:17.800 --> 0:18:21.440 like basically like turned their house into a production facility, 0:18:21.480 --> 0:18:23.199 Like they turned into like a Warner Brothers. It's like 0:18:23.600 --> 0:18:26.520 crazy how they got to set up and yeah, and 0:18:26.520 --> 0:18:28.720 then we end up serving everybody. Then she comes out 0:18:28.720 --> 0:18:30.960 and I'm like, oh, snatch, Jada, you know what I'm saying. 0:18:30.920 --> 0:18:33.119 I like that, let's check out the menu. And she's like, oh, 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:35.639 she's super happy see the menu. And then when I 0:18:35.680 --> 0:18:39.720 see Will and I'm like, oh, Ship, he really he's here, 0:18:39.880 --> 0:18:41.240 Like you know what I'm saying, I thought you would 0:18:41.240 --> 0:18:43.160 be here too, like it's her birthday, Like why wou't 0:18:43.160 --> 0:18:45.240 he be here for a birthday? His wife? So it 0:18:45.320 --> 0:18:47.720 was just I was like, oh, Ship is happening right? 0:18:48.240 --> 0:18:52.840 And then we get to talking and like the producers 0:18:52.920 --> 0:18:55.560 like his producer that worked for Westbrook or whatever, like 0:18:55.640 --> 0:18:58.240 they are like super fans of Happy Ice too, so 0:18:58.240 --> 0:19:00.359 like they couldn't hold in the story of like my 0:19:00.400 --> 0:19:02.840 story and being from Philly, so they started like pretty 0:19:02.880 --> 0:19:04.840 much just like telling my whole story to like them, 0:19:04.880 --> 0:19:07.720 They're like damn, like for real and it's all about 0:19:07.720 --> 0:19:10.000