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Yeah, congratulations, finally 0:01:17.040 --> 0:01:22.959 get something this This was a dope one though. When 0:01:22.959 --> 0:01:24.760 I when I saw this story, it was it was 0:01:24.840 --> 0:01:27.320 very unique and very interesting. I'm like, we definitely gott 0:01:27.319 --> 0:01:30.640 to cover this. This is dope. So Jasmine Crowe entrepreneur 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:33.560 and it's really dope. So she's a founder of a 0:01:33.600 --> 0:01:38.680 company name Gooder Got good her And it's interesting because 0:01:39.560 --> 0:01:42.720 I realized that after doing some research, that there's seventy 0:01:42.760 --> 0:01:45.679 two billion pounds of food that ends up in landfills 0:01:45.680 --> 0:01:51.680 every year. One out of seven people suffer from food insecure, 0:01:52.600 --> 0:01:53.279 and I think now. 0:01:53.120 --> 0:01:56.120 It's even like one out of five. Because of everything 0:01:56.120 --> 0:01:59.360 that's going on with coronavirus and the pandemic, just so 0:01:59.400 --> 0:02:02.720 many more people are going hungry. And what's crazy is 0:02:02.760 --> 0:02:06.800 that seventy two billion pounds that's just from businesses. So 0:02:06.800 --> 0:02:08.880 that doesn't include the food that we throw away in 0:02:08.880 --> 0:02:11.600 our households. That's something like one hundred and sixty one billion. 0:02:11.960 --> 0:02:17.280 So this is like grocery stores, colleges, restaurants, you know, stadiums. 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:20.000 That's who throws away that seventy two billion pounds. 0:02:20.280 --> 0:02:22.480 And that's that's just the United States. That's not even 0:02:22.480 --> 0:02:22.960 a world. 0:02:22.800 --> 0:02:23.640 That's just the US. 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:28.120 Yeah, crazy, that's definitely enough food to in hunger is. 0:02:28.040 --> 0:02:28.720 In the landfill. 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:31.520 And then also there's a two hundred and eighteen billion 0:02:31.560 --> 0:02:36.320 dollar annually spent on in the US to grow, process, 0:02:36.520 --> 0:02:40.320 and transport food that's actually disposed enough eating. So I 0:02:40.360 --> 0:02:42.320 say that to say, obviously, there's a lot of food 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:44.720 that's wasting. There's a lot of people that's hungry. So 0:02:45.080 --> 0:02:48.480 Jasmine came away with a company that actually takes the 0:02:48.520 --> 0:02:52.240 food that's actually being that would be thrown away and 0:02:52.720 --> 0:02:56.400 actually feeds it to people in need. So we're going 0:02:56.440 --> 0:02:57.679 to talk about that. We're going to talk about the 0:02:57.680 --> 0:03:00.000 business models. It's interested and the whole story is interested 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:04.000 and this very unique business. But first and foremost, thank 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:05.080 you for joining us. Appreciate it. 0:03:05.200 --> 0:03:06.359 Thank you guys so much for having me. 0:03:06.400 --> 0:03:09.959 I feel honored and welcome to Atlanta's great city. You 0:03:10.000 --> 0:03:13.160 guys may never want to leave. You know, I'm pretty 0:03:13.200 --> 0:03:15.920 sure in different times we could show you even much 0:03:15.960 --> 0:03:18.600 more fun. But as you can see, Atlanta is still 0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:19.160 kind of. 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:22.239 Nothing. 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:27.040 Kind of feels like old times out here. 0:03:27.680 --> 0:03:30.440 You have to wear your mask inside places, and that's pretty. 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:31.239 Much about it. 0:03:31.240 --> 0:03:34.880 Depends on what places you're in, as we've learned as 0:03:34.880 --> 0:03:35.520 a fact. 0:03:36.120 --> 0:03:38.480 All Right, so how did this start? How did this start? 0:03:38.520 --> 0:03:39.800 How did good To start? 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:42.280 Because, like I said, I mean, it seems like such 0:03:42.280 --> 0:03:44.760 a brilliant idea, but I haven't heard of anybody else 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:48.120 doing it. So what gave you the idea to actually 0:03:48.360 --> 0:03:50.840 think like this is actually something that could be a business. 0:03:51.160 --> 0:03:51.920 You know, Before I. 0:03:51.840 --> 0:03:54.120 Started good Or, I had this company called Black Celebrity Giving, 0:03:54.120 --> 0:03:56.440 which I'm actually going to revamp, and I would work, 0:03:56.440 --> 0:03:57.440 as you can guess. 0:03:57.200 --> 0:03:59.960 With black celebrities, worked with a host of celebrities. 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:04.640 So I started Futures Foundation, Candy Burusts, so many more, 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:08.000 and I would help them do their community giving rights, 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:10.760 so defining their giving blueprint. And what I realized is 0:04:10.800 --> 0:04:15.240 I was extremely busy around Christmas, Thanksgiving and back to school, 0:04:15.280 --> 0:04:17.520 like that's when everybody wanted to do something, and then 0:04:17.560 --> 0:04:19.440 throughout the rest of the year I would kind of 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:22.640 just be void of work. And so I started an 0:04:22.640 --> 0:04:25.360 initiative called Sunday Soul, and I started going out and 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:28.760 feeding people right here in downtown Atlanta every two weeks 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:32.279 that were homeless, and started then taking it to Senior 0:04:32.360 --> 0:04:34.520 homes and just feeding and senior homes, and mind you, 0:04:34.880 --> 0:04:37.880 I was just taking donations, using my own money, coupon 0:04:37.960 --> 0:04:41.000 and price matching, cooking all the food, going out, feeding 0:04:41.040 --> 0:04:43.719 five hundred people every two weeks, you know, coming back, 0:04:43.760 --> 0:04:46.039 cleaning up my kitchen. So this process would take me 0:04:46.520 --> 0:04:50.200 like forty hours every single every week to do this. 0:04:50.640 --> 0:04:53.200 And so a video from one of my pop up 0:04:53.240 --> 0:04:56.880 restaurants that I would host went viral on Facebook and 0:04:56.920 --> 0:04:59.160 I woke up on more thing thousands of comments, friend 0:04:59.200 --> 0:05:02.520 request views and you know, millions of views later. I'm 0:05:02.560 --> 0:05:04.600 reading through the comments one day and people were saying, Oh, 0:05:04.600 --> 0:05:05.520 this is so amazing. 0:05:05.800 --> 0:05:06.920 Who donates the food? 0:05:07.040 --> 0:05:09.159 And the reality was like nobody, And I'm like, dang, 0:05:09.240 --> 0:05:11.359 Like it would make a lot more sense if I 0:05:11.360 --> 0:05:13.680 could get this food donated so that I want to 0:05:13.720 --> 0:05:15.440 have to cook it and price match and go to 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:18.360 five and six different grocery stores. And that's just a 0:05:18.440 --> 0:05:21.680 simple Google search, you know what happens to extra food 0:05:21.839 --> 0:05:23.920 at the end of the night from restaurants. I stumbled 0:05:23.960 --> 0:05:27.040 across food Ways and I'm like, I really quite honestly 0:05:27.080 --> 0:05:29.479 got upset because I'm like, dang, like all this food 0:05:29.560 --> 0:05:32.400 seventy two billion pounds of food is going to waste. 0:05:32.600 --> 0:05:35.159 I'm you know, robing Peter to pay Paul, taking five 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:38.120 dollar donations here and there, trying to feed, you know, 0:05:38.279 --> 0:05:41.120 hundreds of people, and at the same time, these businesses 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:43.400 are throwing away all this food. And I think that's 0:05:43.480 --> 0:05:46.200 really where that first initial idea kind of came from. 0:05:46.240 --> 0:05:51.159 So the Soul Sundays was an idea at first, and 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:54.440 then it moved into sold restaurants sold Sunday restaurant. 0:05:54.480 --> 0:05:54.680 Yeah. 0:05:54.680 --> 0:05:55.919 And you know the reason why I did that is 0:05:55.920 --> 0:05:59.600 because people would sometimes be lined around the block hours 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:01.360 in life, for like an hour and a half, two 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:03.960 hours sometimes to eat, and I always used to let 0:06:03.960 --> 0:06:06.560 women and children go first. And one time, this man, 0:06:06.640 --> 0:06:08.400 you know, there was a little argument I noticed kind 0:06:08.400 --> 0:06:10.680 of at the line. I think he was arguing with somebody, 0:06:10.680 --> 0:06:11.960 and I went back and I was like, no, sir, 0:06:12.080 --> 0:06:14.400 you know I've been cooking for three days. I promise 0:06:14.440 --> 0:06:16.840 you there's more than enough food for everybody. And he 0:06:16.880 --> 0:06:18.520 really checked me, and he said, you know, I've been 0:06:18.560 --> 0:06:20.840 waiting in line for almost an hour. If I don't 0:06:20.839 --> 0:06:22.760 eat today, you know, I don't know when I'm gonna 0:06:22.800 --> 0:06:25.400 eat again, because nobody ever comes out here during the week, 0:06:25.480 --> 0:06:27.520 so you know, I was out there on Sundays and 0:06:27.600 --> 0:06:29.680 I just started thinking, like dang, Like how often do 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:31.719 I wait for like an hour and thirty minutes to 0:06:31.760 --> 0:06:32.240 get food? 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:32.640 Like never? 0:06:32.760 --> 0:06:35.000 Right, Like, if it's I can't get a reservation, I'll 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:36.040 go to a different restaurant. 0:06:36.200 --> 0:06:39.719 Like I really rarely would ever wait someplace and stand 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:41.919 up an hour and thirty minutes to get a plate. 0:06:42.160 --> 0:06:43.920 And then I realized I wasn't giving them a place 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:46.280 to sit down. You know, I just wasn't doing it right. 0:06:46.320 --> 0:06:47.840 I was doing it from the heart, but I could 0:06:47.839 --> 0:06:50.320 do it better. And so then I started running tables 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:52.440 and chairs and linens and I would make these little 0:06:52.480 --> 0:06:54.960 menus and print it out and let people kind of 0:06:55.000 --> 0:06:56.640 sit down and dine with dignity. 0:06:56.720 --> 0:06:58.680 So that love that restaurant. 0:06:58.880 --> 0:06:59.640 Yeah, And then if. 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:01.920 We were on wait, you know, I'd like come back 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:05.040 in thirty minutes. And the thing is, everything was ready, 0:07:05.160 --> 0:07:06.919 So the food came out really quickly. But it was 0:07:06.920 --> 0:07:10.520 a five course meal to start with an appetizer, super salad, 0:07:11.480 --> 0:07:14.280 I'm sorry, soup and salad, then an entree, two side 0:07:14.280 --> 0:07:16.680 items and desserts, And I mean people loved it like 0:07:16.760 --> 0:07:18.440 I had to send you guys some pictures and videos. 0:07:18.600 --> 0:07:20.840 It just was huge, and so the first one I 0:07:20.880 --> 0:07:24.440 ever did went viral and rest wasty. 0:07:24.720 --> 0:07:26.320 When I was reading a story, it was like kind 0:07:26.320 --> 0:07:27.680 of a line because that's kind of what we were 0:07:27.680 --> 0:07:30.480 doing in the summer with our kids. We would go 0:07:30.560 --> 0:07:33.160 to my church because we had a homeless outreach, and 0:07:33.160 --> 0:07:36.080 we would feed the homeless every Saturday. And it was 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:39.120 like the feeling of giving is just like incredible, and 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:41.680 like watching the kids be fulfilled by it made it 0:07:41.720 --> 0:07:43.520 even better. And their thing was like, Yo, can we 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:45.400 do this again? Can we do this again? And when 0:07:45.400 --> 0:07:48.040 you said that phrase done with dignity, it was like, 0:07:48.240 --> 0:07:51.880 that's it because nobody in that room ever expects to be. 0:07:51.880 --> 0:07:53.160 In that room exactly, you know. 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:54.720 And one of the things I liked to I used 0:07:54.760 --> 0:07:57.520 to always do with Sunday Souls is I always had options, 0:07:57.720 --> 0:08:00.760 you know, And I've had to check my mom because 0:08:00.760 --> 0:08:02.880 they'll say things like, oh, you know, they're homeless, you 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:04.600 could feed them anything, and I would be like, no, 0:08:04.720 --> 0:08:07.480 you know, your homelessness is just something that you're going through, 0:08:07.600 --> 0:08:09.400 just like hunger is something you're going through. You're not 0:08:09.440 --> 0:08:11.440 always going to be homeless. You're not always going to 0:08:11.480 --> 0:08:13.400 be hungry, but you could lose your job. You know, 0:08:13.440 --> 0:08:15.680 businesses could close. I mean, look what we're seeing happening 0:08:15.760 --> 0:08:18.920 right now with coronavirus. And I always would have, you know, 0:08:19.000 --> 0:08:22.320 a beef option, a pork option, a fish option. And 0:08:22.360 --> 0:08:25.600 I mean people used to people have religious convictions, they 0:08:25.600 --> 0:08:29.720 had dietary restrictions, and that level of just giving people dignity, 0:08:29.920 --> 0:08:32.160 like what would you like? Not just here's a sandwich 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:34.400 that I made for you, but like what would you like? 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:36.800 And that is why I think. I mean people used 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:38.760 to come. I had a family, I'll never forget. There 0:08:38.880 --> 0:08:41.200 was like six kids, they had a house, but they 0:08:41.200 --> 0:08:43.120 would they used to have to sell their food stamps 0:08:43.160 --> 0:08:44.840 to pay their rent, and they would get on the 0:08:44.880 --> 0:08:46.360 marta and they knew I would to be out there, 0:08:46.400 --> 0:08:48.040 and they would come and get food for the kids 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:50.600 and get like extra to go plates. Like that's how 0:08:50.679 --> 0:08:53.160 busy and how popular it had got that families were 0:08:53.200 --> 0:08:55.360 starting to come through. I mean maybe like a year 0:08:55.440 --> 0:08:57.439 or two after that, like two chains ended up getting 0:08:57.440 --> 0:08:59.520 them a house for the family to live in. So 0:08:59.720 --> 0:09:01.280 just like that, you know, just to see how it 0:09:01.320 --> 0:09:03.160 all kind of turned around, but they used to sell 0:09:03.200 --> 0:09:05.640 their food stamps to pay their rent, get on the 0:09:05.640 --> 0:09:07.839 bus with all their kids just to come down because 0:09:07.840 --> 0:09:09.959 they had options for their kids. 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:13.240 There should never be a choice between food or bills 0:09:13.320 --> 0:09:13.680 like that. 0:09:13.679 --> 0:09:16.520 That's crazy and everybody that's that's what you said. I mean, 0:09:16.559 --> 0:09:19.559 that's a critical choice that everybody makes going to pay 0:09:19.559 --> 0:09:21.800 and then what we find as food always goes first 0:09:21.960 --> 0:09:24.240 because people could say like, oh, I could go without food, 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:27.400 or what they do is the parents, the adult will 0:09:27.440 --> 0:09:28.199 go without food. 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:30.280 And I've had tons of friends. 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:32.800 I mean, I think Jeezi even was talking about it 0:09:32.800 --> 0:09:34.600 in an interview, like he used to see his mom 0:09:35.080 --> 0:09:37.520 like split a cheeseburger between him and I think his 0:09:37.600 --> 0:09:40.400 sister whoever his other sibling was And just like if 0:09:40.400 --> 0:09:42.160 you guys think back to that, like I don't recall 0:09:42.280 --> 0:09:44.600 being hungry, but you know, I'm pretty sure my parents, 0:09:44.840 --> 0:09:46.959 our parents could have been hungry just to see us 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:48.880 have and I think that happens a lot. 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:50.839 Yeah, we hit those stories over the time. It made 0:09:50.880 --> 0:09:52.920 me think of the line like most when was it? 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:53.360 See them? 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:53.680 Said? 0:09:53.679 --> 0:09:55.760 Most nice a sleep for dinner. Yeah you know what 0:09:55.760 --> 0:09:57.360 I'm saying, that's great, you think of. 0:09:57.440 --> 0:09:59.520 You know, meat meal talking about noodles and noodle kids. 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:01.839 I mean, that's many. I have a program right now 0:10:01.880 --> 0:10:03.920 in Atlanta. If you guys are still here, y'all should 0:10:03.920 --> 0:10:06.720 come out every weekend. I feed in this community. It's 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:11.079 called Forest COVID. It's probably one of the most destitute 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:13.960 communities I've ever seen. And you know, I've been doing 0:10:14.000 --> 0:10:16.640 this work for over a decade. But a lot of 0:10:16.679 --> 0:10:19.400 the buildings, roofs are off and everything else. And we'll 0:10:19.440 --> 0:10:22.160 feed the kids and you know, they will will have 0:10:22.360 --> 0:10:24.280 excess food for them to take home, and they just 0:10:24.320 --> 0:10:26.520 always want the noodles. They always want, like you know, 0:10:26.520 --> 0:10:29.120 we try and give them green beans and like mashed potatoes. 0:10:29.520 --> 0:10:31.400 They don't ever like that. They don't like it because 0:10:31.400 --> 0:10:33.839 it's just they haven't had it. So like we're out 0:10:33.840 --> 0:10:36.160 there every single week really trying to push this on 0:10:36.240 --> 0:10:38.600 them for them to have like healthy food and healthy access. 0:10:39.000 --> 0:10:41.559 But so many kids go without, and for kids and 0:10:41.679 --> 0:10:44.719 children of color, which is why it's super important for 0:10:44.800 --> 0:10:46.720 me to be in this position and trying to do 0:10:46.760 --> 0:10:49.280 what I'm doing with gooder. You know, people like us 0:10:49.280 --> 0:10:52.200 have to solve the problems too long. You know, people 0:10:52.679 --> 0:10:54.800 write the statistics they get all the money, they get 0:10:54.800 --> 0:10:57.360 all the grants, and they're solving problems that they never 0:10:57.480 --> 0:11:00.880 experienced before. Whereas I have friends, have family members that 0:11:00.920 --> 0:11:03.800 have been hungry. I know, I mean, very few people 0:11:03.880 --> 0:11:06.480 that don't look like me are gonna go into Forest Cove, 0:11:06.800 --> 0:11:10.200 you know, a Section eight housing community where you know 0:11:10.240 --> 0:11:12.439 there are drugs, there's crime, and really try and get 0:11:12.480 --> 0:11:13.280 to those children. 0:11:13.320 --> 0:11:15.000 But that's who gets all the money. 0:11:15.080 --> 0:11:17.480 You know, that's I mean, billions and billions of dollars 0:11:17.600 --> 0:11:20.000 is spent in grants. You know, at the start of COVID, 0:11:20.080 --> 0:11:22.880 Jeff Bezos gave a hundred million dollars to Feed in America. 0:11:23.480 --> 0:11:25.800 And it's not to say that feeding America you know, 0:11:26.200 --> 0:11:29.040 doesn't serve a purpose, but they've been around since the seventies. 0:11:29.320 --> 0:11:31.719 They've gotten billions and billions of dollars. 0:11:31.400 --> 0:11:33.600 Doing the same thing, you know, just get you know, 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:37.120 having food bangs, giving food to nonprofits, and it's always 0:11:37.160 --> 0:11:39.920 just whatever is donated, and then they end up giving people, 0:11:40.000 --> 0:11:43.520 you know, peanut butter, no jelly, spaghetti noodles, no spaghetti sauce. 0:11:43.760 --> 0:11:46.000 And people can't make a meal from what it is 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:48.120 that they receive. And so what I've tried to do 0:11:48.160 --> 0:11:51.720 with Gooder is actually get people meals or if nothing else, 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:54.360 if I'm giving them groceries, everything that they're getting in 0:11:54.360 --> 0:11:56.920 that grocery bag is gonna make a meal. They're gonna 0:11:56.920 --> 0:11:59.040 get a taco kit. They're gonna get you know, peanut 0:11:59.040 --> 0:12:01.440 butter and jelly and bread like the things that they 0:12:01.480 --> 0:12:05.120 would actually need. And it's it's a hard, you know, 0:12:05.280 --> 0:12:09.800 curve to get around because unfortunately, I sometimes think people 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:12.720 want to pacify hunger rather than solve it, because if 0:12:12.760 --> 0:12:16.280 you solve hunger, then there's no more hundred million dollar donations. 0:12:17.240 --> 0:12:19.840 Let me ask you this because it was it was 0:12:19.880 --> 0:12:21.400 interesting as far as like I said, I don't think 0:12:21.400 --> 0:12:23.359 people realize how much food is thrown. 0:12:23.120 --> 0:12:25.520 Away Before I even ask that question. 0:12:25.520 --> 0:12:26.920 I just want to make that point because it's like 0:12:26.960 --> 0:12:31.640 in New York, Uh, there's two million rats. 0:12:33.120 --> 0:12:35.839 Yeah, you know what, we're speaking of hunger. We'll get 0:12:35.840 --> 0:12:38.920 into that withah. So here's how that comes about. City 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:40.920 Day that's in New York City. This came about we 0:12:40.920 --> 0:12:43.400 would add an establishment, we'll leave the name anonymous. And 0:12:43.440 --> 0:12:46.679 they were closing their doors and they were like, we're like, yo, 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:48.480 y'all closing I know you're going to throw the food away. 0:12:48.520 --> 0:12:49.920 This is like before we knew that we were going 0:12:49.960 --> 0:12:52.280 to do this, and he was like, yeah, we're going 0:12:52.280 --> 0:12:54.160 to throw the food. He was like, yo, we'll just 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:57.319 buy some of you right now. And the conversation got 0:12:57.320 --> 0:12:59.240 brought up like, yo, you know what's happening in the 0:12:59.240 --> 0:13:01.840 city since the rest some rounds are closed, Like the 0:13:01.920 --> 0:13:04.120 mice have nowhere to go, so they're just like doing 0:13:04.160 --> 0:13:06.240 all that out in the streets. They're eating each other. 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:09.640 And so I came up with a number that was wrong. 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:12.960 I'm saying that on tapes that was wrong, and I 0:13:13.000 --> 0:13:15.000 was like, yeah, what the city has this many rats? 0:13:15.280 --> 0:13:16.800 So we looked it up and it was two million 0:13:16.880 --> 0:13:17.760 rats in New York City. 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:21.000 Yeah, because he said I actually have seen quater few 0:13:21.080 --> 0:13:25.120 rats or not expected. 0:13:25.120 --> 0:13:26.160 It was actually a bet. 0:13:27.600 --> 0:13:29.840 Because there's sixteen million people in New York. 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:31.839 There's eight so there's almost nine million. 0:13:31.920 --> 0:13:32.840 There's eight nine. 0:13:32.640 --> 0:13:34.719 Million, so there's almost like. 0:13:35.080 --> 0:13:37.400 For every of the population. 0:13:37.480 --> 0:13:39.680 Okay, so for every rat, there's like four people. 0:13:40.120 --> 0:13:42.160 Yes, yeah, so so yeah, it was it was a 0:13:42.200 --> 0:13:45.000 wager that Troy. Troy told me that there was more 0:13:45.080 --> 0:13:46.720 rats than people in New York. So I just found 0:13:46.760 --> 0:13:48.800 that hard to believe, so we googled it and we 0:13:49.200 --> 0:13:50.720 realized that it was two million. 0:13:50.720 --> 0:13:52.439 But it's still a lot. That's a lot, So I 0:13:52.480 --> 0:13:53.160 said to say. 0:13:53.120 --> 0:13:54.319 That's more than the city of Boston. 0:13:54.640 --> 0:13:55.280 That's crazy. 0:13:55.720 --> 0:13:57.320 There's two million rats in New York. 0:13:57.400 --> 0:14:00.240 So what's happening is that, you know, there's a lot 0:14:00.280 --> 0:14:02.400 of restaurants in New York City obviously, so at the 0:14:02.520 --> 0:14:04.640 end of the night, they throw they throw the food 0:14:04.679 --> 0:14:06.360 in like you know, the trash. 0:14:06.480 --> 0:14:08.080 They just throw them the alley ways and all that. 0:14:08.240 --> 0:14:11.640 So what happened is that it's created a whole ecosystem 0:14:11.720 --> 0:14:14.240 for rats to eat, Like they know what time the 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:16.000 food is gonna go, and they eat the food on 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:19.760 the streets. But once COVID hit, all the restaurants closed. 0:14:20.120 --> 0:14:23.520 So now they had videos of rats actually turning to 0:14:23.560 --> 0:14:26.280 cannibals and they was actually eating each other because there 0:14:26.320 --> 0:14:27.920 was no food for them to eat, and it just 0:14:27.960 --> 0:14:30.960 got so desperate, like they was starving to death. And 0:14:31.000 --> 0:14:33.000 some of them actually like they showed, like there's a 0:14:33.080 --> 0:14:34.840 videos online they actually eating each other. 0:14:35.600 --> 0:14:36.320 Watch these tonight. 0:14:38.280 --> 0:14:40.800 So I say that to say, I mean, you got 0:14:40.800 --> 0:14:46.720 a whole, like, you know system that animals are actually something. 0:14:46.800 --> 0:14:48.840 You know, I'd rather the food go to an animal, 0:14:48.880 --> 0:14:51.840 even if it's a rat, right Gooder, We take our 0:14:51.920 --> 0:14:54.240 number one thing is hunger first, right, so our goals 0:14:54.280 --> 0:14:57.480 to get anything that's edible and give that to someone 0:14:57.520 --> 0:14:59.240 that can actually eat it before it ever makes it 0:14:59.280 --> 0:14:59.840 to landfill. 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:02.400 Not only did you turn this into an actual business, 0:15:02.520 --> 0:15:05.120 and Eve enlighten me that it's not a nonprofit. 0:15:04.600 --> 0:15:07.360 It's a b corp. Yeah all right, can you just 0:15:07.440 --> 0:15:09.160 explain what a b corp is for people? 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:12.520 Yeah, So B courp basically means for profit for good. 0:15:12.520 --> 0:15:14.720 It's super hard to become a certified to be corporate. 0:15:14.720 --> 0:15:17.440 It took us over a year and basically it just 0:15:17.680 --> 0:15:21.040 they check everything so like who our vendors are kind 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:24.560 of making sure that we're an ethical company. So for me, 0:15:24.680 --> 0:15:26.880 the reason why I turned this into and I have 0:15:27.120 --> 0:15:30.480 years of experience in nonprofits. I've started hundreds of nonprofits 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:33.040 for some of the top celebrities, so it wasn't hard 0:15:33.080 --> 0:15:35.640 for me to think I could just turn this into 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:38.600 a nonprofit. But why I chose to make it actually 0:15:38.600 --> 0:15:42.640 a business is because the business is these restaurants. Whoever 0:15:43.000 --> 0:15:45.640 they were already paying a waste management bill, So they 0:15:45.640 --> 0:15:47.840 were already paying to throw the food away. So that 0:15:47.960 --> 0:15:50.160 was very easy. It was a clear distinction for me 0:15:50.200 --> 0:15:52.840 to understand. I don't caay, listen, they're paying somebody to 0:15:52.920 --> 0:15:54.680 throw the food away. Then I went and I started 0:15:54.720 --> 0:15:58.120 looking at the waste industry. It's a trillion trillion dollar industry. 0:15:58.120 --> 0:16:01.560 And then nobody, ever, it never goes like all of 0:16:01.640 --> 0:16:03.440 us have been playing. Our parents have been paying a 0:16:03.480 --> 0:16:06.560 trash bill for forever. Every restaurant, every business plays a 0:16:06.600 --> 0:16:09.200 trash bill. So my idea was we would essentially be 0:16:09.240 --> 0:16:11.720 a food waste management company. We would focus on the 0:16:11.760 --> 0:16:14.360 food waste and so we would help businesses come up 0:16:14.400 --> 0:16:18.200 with better uses for their excess food and so you know, 0:16:18.240 --> 0:16:20.120 they didn't have to throw it in landfill, they didn't 0:16:20.160 --> 0:16:22.320 have to you know, let rats eat it. We could 0:16:22.440 --> 0:16:24.480 help them, and so we started with edible food and 0:16:24.520 --> 0:16:25.840 then we started composting. 0:16:26.160 --> 0:16:27.440 We have hog farms. 0:16:27.680 --> 0:16:30.360 We actually have worms that we feed food waste to 0:16:31.240 --> 0:16:34.520 that produces fertilizer that makes the soil better, so as 0:16:34.560 --> 0:16:37.040 we grow more fruit and vegetables, it's healthier for all 0:16:37.080 --> 0:16:40.240 of us. And now we have a partnership with Southern 0:16:40.280 --> 0:16:42.960 Power where we're actually taking food waste and we could 0:16:43.000 --> 0:16:45.680 turn it into energy. We're trying to really get into 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:47.720 to that more so the idea is to keep it 0:16:47.760 --> 0:16:50.480 out of landfill because food waste is the number one 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:54.520 so it's one of the leading causes number three cause 0:16:54.520 --> 0:16:55.800 of global climate change. 0:16:55.960 --> 0:16:57.680 I was just gonna get into that because that's one 0:16:57.680 --> 0:16:59.280 of the things that you're stressed, is like, this is 0:16:59.320 --> 0:17:01.920 not just a health issue. This is a social issues, 0:17:02.000 --> 0:17:05.600 economic issue, and that's an environmental So when we would 0:17:05.760 --> 0:17:08.439 and this is true, when you're talking about how kids 0:17:08.640 --> 0:17:11.120 like one out of five go to bed hungry, how 0:17:11.160 --> 0:17:13.600 that affects their learning, Yeah, didn't get into that little deal. 0:17:13.760 --> 0:17:15.639 Yeah, And I think, you know, I always have to 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:17.359