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Speaker 1: So they had a Minnesota No Kings Rally, which is

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Speaker 4: Hello, Minnesota in America too. I guess it's your Boysimmy

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Speaker 1: I have to tell you, Andrew. I maintained that everybody

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Speaker 6: R and R Just over two years?

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Speaker 6: My daughter is a crazy story. My daughter's a bartender.

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Speaker 6: We did all the things that you just mentioned. I

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Speaker 1: For the right people. Hold on a second, it's hard

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Speaker 1: Because you know, with Chris Colin when you walk into

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Speaker 6: So actually, I mean I don't even know that call.

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Speaker 6: I worked the floor Friday and Saturday nights. I do

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Speaker 6: I have another job.

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Speaker 1: Do you get paid?

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Speaker 6: Sure?

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Speaker 6: I get I get an hourly rate when I'm on

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Speaker 6: I take care. I am a turf manager. I take

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Speaker 1: People are fascinating. You are so atypical, non conventional people

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Speaker 1: You do, Rauz, that you're probably the last white guy

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Speaker 6: You know, it's funny because my partner in crime that

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Speaker 1: Are you lost? Are you the beating? That is fantastic.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna come see it. R and R Okay, Andrew,

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Speaker 1: Thank you for bragging on Russell because he does that

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Speaker 1: It's very cool. Zamira. I spoke to Zamira during the break.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, what did you want to say, dear.

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Speaker 3: Just to do no talking about the restaurant life and

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Speaker 1: Where did you get the money to buy Brunos alone?

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Speaker 3: From the bank?

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Speaker 1: Which one?

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Speaker 1: How much was the loan?

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Speaker 3: The loan was like around two hundred thousand.

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Speaker 1: And uh, that's for the least that's for tenant improvements

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Speaker 1: and product and employees.

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Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, the equipment and all that.

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Speaker 1: The restaurant already operating.

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Speaker 2: No, he was.

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Speaker 3: The building was previous restaurant, but the owner sold everything

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Speaker 3: out and you know it was just the walls here.

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Speaker 1: Oh wow, did he give you tenant improvements to do

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Speaker 1: the build out?

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Speaker 3: Not really?

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Speaker 1: Now who said landlord? Is it? He was Van Lee?

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Speaker 3: And now we have Charlie Holder.

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Speaker 1: Did you say Van Lee.

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Speaker 3: Lee?

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Speaker 1: Brian Lee? Okay? And you've been in business for two years.

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Speaker 3: Oh no, nine, and we're in a ninthier.

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Speaker 1: Oh ninth year okay, and it's doing well.

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Speaker 3: He's doing great.

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Speaker 1: Is your husband the chef one of them?

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Speaker 3: Yes, sir.

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Speaker 1: Do you'all have kids, two.

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Speaker 3: Boys, both of them grow up in the restaurant too,

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Speaker 3: And my youngest is bartender here and people. I've never

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Speaker 3: seen the show teers, but you were talking about the

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00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:33,400
Speaker 3: show tiers earlier. That's what he does. Like everybody knows,

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Speaker 3: you know, we know all our customer's name.

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Speaker 1: And what's his wallet? Red? Red?

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Speaker 3: Yes, Red John, and we call him red just like

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Speaker 3: the color.

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Speaker 1: Is that a traditional?

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Speaker 3: Uh? Red?

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Speaker 5: Yon?

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Speaker 1: Albanian a traditional?

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Speaker 3: Yes, sir.

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Speaker 1: I mean Albanians you think live in Beaumont.

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Speaker 3: I'm not sure. Yeah, I know few, but I'm not

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Speaker 3: sure how many.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to send my friend Corey Crenshaw in to

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Speaker 1: eat there. He spends. He's got a lot of money

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna send him.

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Speaker 3: We know he is my friend, yeah, really like.

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Speaker 1: He's rich and he likes to flaunt it. So that's

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Speaker 1: that's pretty good.

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Speaker 6: We know.

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Speaker 3: He's one of our clients.

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Speaker 1: We're good and y'all do lunch and dinner?

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00:29:15,360 --> 00:29:18,360
Speaker 3: Yes, sir, seven days.

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Speaker 1: What is the thing on your menu that if I have,

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Speaker 1: if I try one? Your meat balls look good on

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Speaker 1: the on the site, But what is the thing delicious?

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Speaker 1: What's up?

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Speaker 3: Yes, the meatballs are delicious. One of the tradiou it's

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Speaker 3: a red snapper here that everybody loves.

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Speaker 1: It's funny. I had red snapper Saturday night at Federal American.

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Speaker 1: I love, love, love red snapper. Yeah, how many days, sir?

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Speaker 3: I'm sorry?

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Speaker 1: How many days a week? Are you there? Pretty much?

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Speaker 3: Seven days a week? You know?

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Speaker 1: That's That's the other thing I don't think as consumers

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Speaker 1: most people realize is the hours it takes to do

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Speaker 1: what you do. It's it's a brutal, but it really. Yes,

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Speaker 1: I tell people before they go into it, you need

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Speaker 1: to spend some time at one and realize the hours

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Speaker 1: that you spend because to do what you do, the

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Speaker 1: owner operated family restaurant where everything's betting on that it

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Speaker 1: is rough. Is your husband listening to us, No he's not.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to send you the clips so he can

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Speaker 1: hear it later. What do you think he's doing. Oh

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Speaker 1: he's breakfast.

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Speaker 3: I think it's right now. One of my customers actually

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Speaker 3: send me the link. She said you should call it.

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Speaker 3: You know, you know all about Restaura.

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Speaker 1: Well, that's true, you do. And y'all live there in

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Speaker 1: Beaumont or Lumberton.

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Speaker 3: We live in Nederland actually, were just buying a house,

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Speaker 3: in the process of buying a house here in Beaumont.

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Speaker 1: All good for you, okay, all right? And so when

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Speaker 1: you and your husband came from Albania in seven is

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Speaker 1: that right, yes, sir, so y'all had kids already, Yes, sir.

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Speaker 3: The oldest was ten and the youngest was seven.

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Speaker 1: And where do the kids? Where did the kids go

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Speaker 1: to school here in Beaumont at.

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Speaker 3: Which we guess, really guess they were in elementary school, you.

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Speaker 1: Know, really guess what high school?

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Speaker 3: All just went to Vincent High School here for a while.

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Speaker 3: Then we moved to Nederland and they went to a

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Speaker 3: Nederland High school.

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Speaker 1: It's a good school. We used to go walk the

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Speaker 1: Central Mall there in Nederland because it was carpeted. We

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Speaker 1: thought that was the coolest thing. Well, I appreciate you

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Speaker 1: sharing your perspective, and I look forward to coming and

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Speaker 1: visiting your restaurant. I love your stolo.

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Speaker 3: We look forward to having you.

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Speaker 1: You know. It's not a knock on white people or

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00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:38,520
Speaker 1: a knock on Americans. I'm not Viveka. I don't think

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00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:41,040
Speaker 1: Americans are lazy because our kids don't win spelling bees.

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00:31:41,560 --> 00:31:44,720
Speaker 1: But there is an immigrant mentality. When you come here,

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Speaker 1: you give everything up, so you don't mind working twenty

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Speaker 1: four to seven. Most Americans just don't want to do

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Speaker 1: That doesn't make Americans bad people, it's a different perspective.

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Speaker 1: But when you realize if you take out of the

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Speaker 1: restaurant mix a number of ethnic restaurants that are run

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Speaker 1: by families that are immigrants at work twenty four seven,

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Speaker 1: three sixty five, and you're left with with who's lea

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Speaker 1: I mean Matt Bryce, I tell him all the time,

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Speaker 1: you need you need a day off, you need hit

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Speaker 1: a sight of this infection. At one point and I said,

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Speaker 1: you got to have a day off. You've got to heal.

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Speaker 1: Talk about a rough business. All I'm saying is if

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Speaker 1: you go into a restaurant, thank these people for what

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Speaker 1: they do and appreciate them because it is brutal