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Hiring Indeed is 0:00:57.440 --> 0:00:58.240 all you need. 0:00:58.720 --> 0:01:00.680 You know before I start a good ahead company called 0:01:00.720 --> 0:01:03.240 Black Celebrity Giving, which I'm actually going to revamp, and 0:01:03.280 --> 0:01:05.520 I would work as you can guess with Black Celebrities 0:01:06.000 --> 0:01:08.840 worked with a host of celebrities, so I started Futures Foundation, 0:01:09.840 --> 0:01:12.840 Candy Burusts, so many more and I would help them 0:01:12.920 --> 0:01:16.320 do their community giving right, so defining their giving blueprint. 0:01:16.640 --> 0:01:20.119 And what I realized is I was extremely busy around Christmas, 0:01:20.280 --> 0:01:22.880 Thanksgiving and back to school, like that's when everybody wanted 0:01:22.920 --> 0:01:24.760 to do something, and then throughout the rest of the 0:01:24.800 --> 0:01:27.280 year I would kind of just be void of work. 0:01:27.560 --> 0:01:30.480 And so I started an initiative called Sunday Soul and 0:01:30.520 --> 0:01:32.679 I started going out and feeding people right here in 0:01:32.720 --> 0:01:37.000 downtown Atlanta every two weeks that were homeless, and started 0:01:37.040 --> 0:01:39.240 then taking it to senior homes and just feeding and 0:01:39.280 --> 0:01:42.039 senior homes, and mind you, I was just taking donations 0:01:42.200 --> 0:01:44.800 using my own money, coupon and price matching, cooking all 0:01:44.840 --> 0:01:48.160 the food, going out, feeding five hundred people every two weeks, 0:01:48.320 --> 0:01:50.360 you know, coming back, cleaning up my kitchen. So this 0:01:50.440 --> 0:01:54.440 process would take me like forty hours every single every 0:01:54.720 --> 0:01:57.600 week to do this. And so a video from one 0:01:57.600 --> 0:01:59.960 of my pop up restaurants that I would host when 0:02:00.040 --> 0:02:03.120 Vira on Facebook, and I woke up one morning thousands 0:02:03.160 --> 0:02:06.480 of comments, friend request views and you know, millions of 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:08.400 views later. I'm reading through the comments one day and 0:02:08.400 --> 0:02:10.040 people were saying, Oh, this is so amazing. 0:02:10.280 --> 0:02:13.120 Who donates the food and the reality was like nobody. 0:02:12.800 --> 0:02:14.880 And I'm like, dang, Like it would make a lot 0:02:14.919 --> 0:02:17.280 more sense if I could get this food donated so 0:02:17.320 --> 0:02:18.960 that I want to have to cook it and price 0:02:19.040 --> 0:02:21.160 match and go to five and six different grocery stores. 0:02:21.440 --> 0:02:23.600 And that's just a simple Google search. You know what 0:02:23.680 --> 0:02:26.440 happens to extra food at the end of the night 0:02:26.480 --> 0:02:29.480 from restaurants. I stumbled across food Ways and I'm like, 0:02:29.680 --> 0:02:32.160 I really, quite honestly got upset because I'm like, dang, 0:02:32.240 --> 0:02:34.880 like all this food, seventy two billion pounds of food 0:02:34.919 --> 0:02:37.320 is going to waste. I'm you know, robing Peter to 0:02:37.320 --> 0:02:39.839 pay Paul, taking fight all our donations here and there, 0:02:40.320 --> 0:02:43.040 trying to feed you know, hundreds of people, and at 0:02:43.080 --> 0:02:45.400 the same time, these businesses are throwing away all this food. 0:02:45.639 --> 0:02:48.000 And I think that's really where that first initial idea 0:02:48.120 --> 0:02:49.000 kind of came from. 0:02:49.080 --> 0:02:53.800 So the Soul Sundays was an idea at first, and 0:02:53.840 --> 0:02:56.960 then it moved into sold restaurants sold Sunday restaurant. 0:02:57.000 --> 0:02:57.160 Yeah. 0:02:57.200 --> 0:02:58.320 And you know the reason why I did that is 0:02:58.360 --> 0:03:01.200 because people would sometimes be lined around the block, I 0:03:01.240 --> 0:03:03.120 mean hours in line for like an hour and a 0:03:03.160 --> 0:03:05.800 half two hours sometimes to eat, and I always used 0:03:05.840 --> 0:03:08.079 to let women and children go first, and one time 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:09.800 this man, you know, there was a little argument. I 0:03:09.840 --> 0:03:11.679 noticed kind of at the line. I think he was 0:03:11.800 --> 0:03:13.760 arguing with somebody. And I went back and I was like, no, sir, 0:03:13.840 --> 0:03:16.079 you know I've been cooking for three days. I promise 0:03:16.120 --> 0:03:18.360 you there's more than enough food for everybody. And he 0:03:18.480 --> 0:03:20.040 really checked me, and he said, you know, I've been 0:03:20.080 --> 0:03:22.239 waiting in line for almost an hour if I don't 0:03:22.280 --> 0:03:24.079 eat today, and I don't know when I'm going to 0:03:24.120 --> 0:03:26.600 eat again, because nobody ever comes out here during the week, 0:03:26.720 --> 0:03:28.680 so you know, I was out there on Sundays, and 0:03:28.720 --> 0:03:30.760 I just started thinking, like dang, Like how often do 0:03:30.800 --> 0:03:32.680 I wait for like an hour and thirty minutes to 0:03:32.720 --> 0:03:34.960 get food? Like never, right, Like, if it's I can't 0:03:34.960 --> 0:03:37.080 get a reservation, I'll go to a different restaurant. Like 0:03:37.520 --> 0:03:40.600 I really rarely would ever wait someplace and stand up 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:42.760 an hour and thirty minutes to get a plate. And 0:03:42.800 --> 0:03:44.480 then I realized I wasn't giving them a place to 0:03:44.520 --> 0:03:46.640 sit down. You know, I just wasn't doing it right. 0:03:46.680 --> 0:03:48.119 I was doing it from the heart, but I could 0:03:48.160 --> 0:03:50.520 do it better. And so then I started running tables 0:03:50.520 --> 0:03:52.560 and chairs and linens, and I would make these little 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:55.000 menus and print it out and let people kind of 0:03:55.000 --> 0:03:59.080 sit down and dine with dignity. So that restaurant and 0:03:59.120 --> 0:04:00.880 then if we were on a way, you know, I 0:04:00.960 --> 0:04:03.119 feel like come back in thirty minutes. And the thing 0:04:03.240 --> 0:04:06.120 is everything was ready, so the food came out really quickly, 0:04:06.160 --> 0:04:07.880 but it was a five course meal to start with 0:04:07.920 --> 0:04:12.320 an appetizer super salad, I'm sorry, soup and salad, then 0:04:12.360 --> 0:04:14.520 an entree, two side items and desserts. 0:04:14.600 --> 0:04:15.720 And I mean people loved. 0:04:15.520 --> 0:04:17.039 It, like I had to send you guys some pictures 0:04:17.080 --> 0:04:19.520 and videos. It just was huge, and so the first 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:22.479 one I ever did went viral and the. 0:04:22.560 --> 0:04:23.239 Rest was history. 0:04:23.520 --> 0:04:25.039 When I was reading a story, it was like kind 0:04:25.040 --> 0:04:26.360 of a line because that's kind of what we were 0:04:26.360 --> 0:04:29.039 doing in the summer with our kids. We would go 0:04:29.120 --> 0:04:31.599 to my church because we had a homeless outreach and 0:04:31.600 --> 0:04:34.440 we would feed the homeless every Saturday. And it was 0:04:34.480 --> 0:04:37.360 like the feeling of giving is just like incredible, and 0:04:37.400 --> 0:04:39.800 like watching the kids be fulfilled by it made it 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:40.279 even better. 0:04:40.320 --> 0:04:41.960 And that thing was like, yo, can we do this again? 0:04:42.000 --> 0:04:42.760 Can we do this again? 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:45.560 And when you said that phrase done with dignity, it 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:48.880 was like, that's it, because nobody in that room ever 0:04:48.920 --> 0:04:49.800 expects to be in that. 0:04:49.800 --> 0:04:50.800 Room exactly, you know. 0:04:50.839 --> 0:04:52.280 And one of the things I liked to I used 0:04:52.320 --> 0:04:55.000 to always do with Sunday Souls is I always had options, 0:04:55.160 --> 0:04:57.680 you know. And I've had to check my mom friends 0:04:57.839 --> 0:05:00.000 because they'll say things like, oh, you know, they're homeless. 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:01.760 You could feed them anything, and I would be like, no, 0:05:01.880 --> 0:05:04.520 you know, your homelessness is just something that you're going through, 0:05:04.640 --> 0:05:06.359 just like hunger is something you're going through. You're not 0:05:06.440 --> 0:05:08.359 always going to be homeless, You're not always going to 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:08.760 be hungry. 0:05:08.760 --> 0:05:11.160 But you could lose your job, you know, businesses could close. 0:05:11.160 --> 0:05:14.040 I mean, look what we're seeing happening right now with coronavirus. 0:05:14.080 --> 0:05:16.320 And I always would have, you know, a beef option, 0:05:16.480 --> 0:05:19.440 a pork option, a fish option. And I mean people 0:05:19.520 --> 0:05:23.279 used to people have religious convictions, they had dietary restrictions, 0:05:23.520 --> 0:05:26.240 and that level of just giving people dignity, like what 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:28.400 would you like? Not just here's a sandwich that I 0:05:28.480 --> 0:05:30.520 made for you, but like what would you like? And 0:05:30.560 --> 0:05:32.920 that is why I think. I mean people used to come. 0:05:32.960 --> 0:05:34.839 I had a family I'll never forget. There was like 0:05:34.920 --> 0:05:37.520 six kids. They had a house. But they used to 0:05:37.520 --> 0:05:39.440 have to sell their food stamps to pay their rent 0:05:39.600 --> 0:05:41.120 and they would get on the Martyr and they knew 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:42.440 I would be out there and they would come and 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:44.359 get food for the kids and get like extra to 0:05:44.400 --> 0:05:47.240 go plates. Like that's how busy and how popular it 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:49.560 had got that families were starting to come through. I 0:05:49.560 --> 0:05:51.279 mean maybe like a year or two after that, like 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:53.200 two chains ended up getting them a house for the 0:05:53.279 --> 0:05:55.400 family to live in. So just like that, you know, 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:57.119 just to see how it all kind of turned around. 0:05:57.120 --> 0:05:59.000 But they used to sell their food stamps to pay 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:01.520 their rent on the bus with all their kids just 0:06:01.560 --> 0:06:04.440 to come down because they had options for their kids. 0:06:04.720 --> 0:06:07.600 The should never be a choice between food or bills 0:06:07.640 --> 0:06:08.000 like that. 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:10.760 That's crazy and everybody that's what you said. I mean, 0:06:10.760 --> 0:06:13.640 that's a critical choice that everybody makes going to pay 0:06:13.640 --> 0:06:15.680 and then what we find as food always goes first 0:06:15.960 --> 0:06:18.159 because people could say like, oh, I could go without food, 0:06:18.279 --> 0:06:21.200 or what they do is the parents the adult will 0:06:21.200 --> 0:06:21.960 go without food. 0:06:22.720 --> 0:06:23.960 And I've had tons of friends. 0:06:24.120 --> 0:06:26.320 I mean, I think Jeezi even was talking about it 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:28.119 in an interview, like he used to see his mom 0:06:28.520 --> 0:06:30.880 like split a cheeseburger between him and I think his 0:06:30.960 --> 0:06:33.640 sister whoever his other sibling was, And just like if 0:06:33.640 --> 0:06:35.360 you guys think back to that, Like I don't recall 0:06:35.440 --> 0:06:37.679 being hungry, but you know, I'm pretty sure my parents, 0:06:37.880 --> 0:06:39.960 our parents could have been hungry just to see us 0:06:40.000 --> 0:06:41.800 have I think that happens a lot. 0:06:41.960 --> 0:06:43.159 Yeah, we hear those stories all the time. 0:06:43.360 --> 0:06:44.920 It made me think of the line like most when 0:06:45.520 --> 0:06:47.599 was it see them said most nice ain't sleep for dinner. 0:06:47.800 --> 0:06:48.800 Yeah, you know what I'm saying. 0:06:49.080 --> 0:06:51.000 That's great you think of you know, meal talking about 0:06:51.000 --> 0:06:53.200 noodles and noodle kids. I mean, that's so many. I 0:06:53.240 --> 0:06:55.279 have a program right now in Atlanta. If you guys 0:06:55.279 --> 0:06:57.039 are still here, y'all should come out every weekend. I 0:06:57.080 --> 0:07:01.120 feed in this community is called Forrest COVID, probably one 0:07:01.120 --> 0:07:04.520 of the most destitute communities I've ever seen. And you know, 0:07:05.200 --> 0:07:08.000 I've been doing this work for over a decade. But 0:07:08.120 --> 0:07:10.480 a lot of the buildings, roofs are off and everything else. 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:13.119 And we'll feed the kids, and you know, they will 0:07:13.200 --> 0:07:15.400 will have excess food for them to take home, and 0:07:15.440 --> 0:07:17.240 they just always want the noodles. They always want like 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:19.360 you know, we try and give them green beans and 0:07:19.400 --> 0:07:22.080 like mashed potatoes. They don't ever like that. They don't 0:07:22.120 --> 0:07:23.760 like it because it's just they haven't had it. So 0:07:23.840 --> 0:07:26.440 like we're out there every single week really trying to 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:28.360 push this on them for them to have like healthy 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:31.160 food and healthy access, but so many kids go without, 0:07:31.200 --> 0:07:34.200 and for kids and children of color, which is why 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:36.640 it's super important for me to be in this position 0:07:36.720 --> 0:07:38.760 and trying to do what I'm doing with gooder. You know, 0:07:38.920 --> 0:07:41.720 people like us have to solve the problems too long. 0:07:41.840 --> 0:07:43.360 You know, people write. 0:07:43.200 --> 0:07:45.120 The statistics, they get all the money, they get all 0:07:45.120 --> 0:07:48.440 the grants, and they're solving problems that they never experienced before. 0:07:48.480 --> 0:07:50.920 Whereas I have friends, I have family members that have 0:07:50.960 --> 0:07:53.760 been hungry. I know, I mean, very few people that 0:07:53.840 --> 0:07:56.160 don't look like me are going to go into Forest Cove, 0:07:56.480 --> 0:07:59.720 you know, a Section eight housing community where you know 0:07:59.760 --> 0:08:02.040 they're drugs, there's crime, and really try and get to 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:02.720 those children. 0:08:02.760 --> 0:08:04.080 But that's who gets all the money. 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:06.760 You know, that's I mean billions and billions of dollars 0:08:06.880 --> 0:08:09.160 is spending grants. You know, at the start of COVID, 0:08:09.240 --> 0:08:11.920 Jeff Bezos gave a hundred million dollars to Feed in America. 0:08:12.480 --> 0:08:14.720 And it's not to say that feeding America, you know, 0:08:15.120 --> 0:08:17.920 doesn't serve a purpose, but they've been around since the seventies. 0:08:18.080 --> 0:08:21.000 They've gotten billions and billions of dollars doing the same thing, 0:08:21.280 --> 0:08:23.360 you know, just get you know, having food bangs, giving 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:26.680 food to nonprofits, and it's always just whatever is donated, 0:08:26.960 --> 0:08:29.040 and then they end up giving people, you know, peanut butter, 0:08:29.160 --> 0:08:32.920 no jelly, spaghetti noodles, no spaghetti sauce, and people can't make. 0:08:32.840 --> 0:08:34.760 A meal from what it is that they receive. 0:08:34.880 --> 0:08:37.080 And so what I've tried to do with Gooder is 0:08:37.120 --> 0:08:40.040 actually get people meals or if nothing else, if I'm 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:42.720 giving them groceries, everything that they're getting in that grocery 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:44.760 bag is gonna make a meal. They're gonna get a 0:08:44.760 --> 0:08:46.920 taco kit, they're gonna get you know, peanut butter and 0:08:47.040 --> 0:08:49.760 jelly and bread like the things that they would actually need. 0:08:50.160 --> 0:08:53.280 And it's it's a hard, you know, curve to get 0:08:53.320 --> 0:08:57.760 around because unfortunately, I sometimes think people want to pacify 0:08:57.880 --> 0:09:00.480 hunger rather than solve it. Because if you saw of hunger, 0:09:00.720 --> 0:09:03.160 then there's no more hundred million dollar donations. 0:09:04.040 --> 0:09:06.560 Let me ask you this, because it was it was 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:08.040 interesting as far as like I said, I don't think 0:09:08.040 --> 0:09:11.319 people realize how much food gets thrown away before you 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:12.600 even ask that question. I just want to make that 0:09:12.640 --> 0:09:15.200 point because it's like in New York, Uh, there's two 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:17.840 million rats. 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:21.880 Yeah you know what we're speaking of, hunk. We'll get 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:22.360 into that with. 0:09:23.320 --> 0:09:23.480 Yeah. 0:09:23.559 --> 0:09:26.080 So here's how that comes about. That's New York City. 0:09:26.160 --> 0:09:28.280 This came about we were at an establishment, well leave 0:09:28.280 --> 0:09:30.760 their name anonymous, and they were closing their doors and 0:09:30.800 --> 0:09:32.959 they were like, we're like, yo, y'all closing I know 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:34.480 you're going to throw the food away. This is like 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:35.760 before we knew that we were going to do this. 0:09:36.120 --> 0:09:38.120 And he was like, yeah, we're going to throw the food. 0:09:38.240 --> 0:09:40.240 He was like, yo, we'll just buy some of you 0:09:40.320 --> 0:09:43.120 right now. And the conversation got brought up like, yo, 0:09:43.240 --> 0:09:45.440 you know what's happening in the city since the restaurants 0:09:45.480 --> 0:09:48.160 are closed, Like the mice have nowhere it goes, they're 0:09:48.200 --> 0:09:50.199 just like doing all that out in the streets. 0:09:50.240 --> 0:09:53.040 They're eating each other. And so I came up with 0:09:53.040 --> 0:09:54.319 a number that was wrong. 0:09:55.000 --> 0:09:57.480 I'm saying that on tapes that was wrong, and I 0:09:57.559 --> 0:09:59.480 was like, yeah, city has this many rats. 0:09:59.720 --> 0:10:01.160 So he looked it up and it was two million 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:02.120 rats in New York city. 0:10:02.240 --> 0:10:03.800 Yeah, because he said it. 0:10:04.000 --> 0:10:06.480 Actually, I've seen quite a few rats in New York. 0:10:08.559 --> 0:10:12.000 Not expected. It was actually a bet because. 0:10:12.000 --> 0:10:13.479 There's sixteen million people. 0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:15.640 In New York eight so there's eight almost nine million. 0:10:15.679 --> 0:10:17.000 There's eight nine million. 0:10:16.760 --> 0:10:21.280 So there's almost like for every of the population. Okay, 0:10:21.280 --> 0:10:23.120 so for every rat, there's like four people. 0:10:23.559 --> 0:10:25.520 Yes, yeah, so so yeah, it was it was a 0:10:25.520 --> 0:10:28.240 wager that Troy. Troy told me that there was more 0:10:28.320 --> 0:10:29.920 rats than people in New York. So I just found 0:10:29.920 --> 0:10:31.880 that hard to believe. So we googled it and we 0:10:32.240 --> 0:10:34.280 realized that it was two million, but it's still a lot. 0:10:34.320 --> 0:10:36.000 That's a lot, so I said, have to say, So. 0:10:36.000 --> 0:10:37.120 That's more than the city of Boston. 0:10:37.480 --> 0:10:38.080 That's crazy. 0:10:38.480 --> 0:10:40.040 There's there's two million rats in New York. 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:42.840 So what's happening is that, you know, there's a lot 0:10:42.840 --> 0:10:44.960 of restaurants in New York City obviously, so at the 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:47.079 end of the night they throw they throw the food 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:48.720 in like you know, the trash. 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:50.360 They just throw them the alley ways and all that. 0:10:50.520 --> 0:10:53.760 So what happened is that it's created a whole ecosystem 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:56.240 for rats to eat, Like they know what time the 0:10:56.280 --> 0:10:57.840 food is going to go, and they eat the food 0:10:57.880 --> 0:11:01.559 on the streets. But once over hit all the restaurants closed. 0:11:01.920 --> 0:11:05.160 So now they had videos of rats actually turning to 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:07.800 cannibals and it was actually eating each other because there 0:11:07.840 --> 0:11:09.400 was no food for them to eat and it just 0:11:09.440 --> 0:11:12.280 got so desperate, like they was starving to death. And 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:14.280 some of them actually like they showed like there's a 0:11:14.360 --> 0:11:16.040 videos online they actually eating each other. 0:11:16.200 --> 0:11:18.880 No, I gotta go watch these tonight. The craziest thing. 0:11:19.320 --> 0:11:21.720 So I say that to say, I mean, you got 0:11:21.720 --> 0:11:27.640 a whole like you know system that animals are actually something, you. 0:11:27.600 --> 0:11:29.640 Know, I'd rather the food go to an animal, even 0:11:29.679 --> 0:11:32.320 if it's a rat, right good Er. We take our 0:11:32.400 --> 0:11:34.480 number one thing is hunger first, right, so our goal 0:11:34.559 --> 0:11:37.400 is to get anything that's edible and give that to 0:11:37.480 --> 0:11:39.360 someone that can actually eat it before it ever makes 0:11:39.360 --> 0:11:40.040 it to landfill. 0:11:40.320 --> 0:11:42.200 You not only did you, you turn this into an 0:11:42.200 --> 0:11:45.040 actual business and even enlighten me that it's not a nonprofit. 0:11:45.080 --> 0:11:47.200 It's a decorp. All right. 0:11:47.320 --> 0:11:49.439 Can you just explain what a bee corp is for people? 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:49.800 Yeah? 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:52.680 So be court basically means for a profit for good. 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:54.760 It's super hard to become a certified to be corporate. 0:11:54.840 --> 0:11:57.760 Took us over a year and basically it just they 0:11:57.880 --> 0:12:00.920 check everything so like who are vendors? Are kind of 0:12:00.960 --> 0:12:04.200 making sure that we're an ethical company. So for me, 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:06.440 the reason why I turned this into and I have 0:12:06.640 --> 0:12:09.880 years of experience in nonprofits. I've started hundreds of nonprofits 0:12:09.920 --> 0:12:12.360 for some of the top celebrities, so it wasn't hard 0:12:12.400 --> 0:12:14.839 for me to think I could just turn this into 0:12:14.840 --> 0:12:17.680 a nonprofit. But why I chose to make it actually 0:12:17.679 --> 0:12:21.560 a business is because the business is these restaurants whoever, 0:12:21.880 --> 0:12:24.440 they were already paying a waste management bill, so they 0:12:24.440 --> 0:12:26.079 were already paying to throw the food away. 0:12:26.360 --> 0:12:27.480 So that was very easy. 0:12:27.600 --> 0:12:29.360 It was a clear distinction for me to understand, I 0:12:29.360 --> 0:12:32.120 don't caay, listen, they're paying somebody to throw the food away. 0:12:32.240 --> 0:12:34.320 Then I went and I started looking at the waste industry. 0:12:34.559 --> 0:12:37.319 It's a trillion trillion dollar industry. And then nobody ever, 0:12:37.559 --> 0:12:39.880 it never goes away like have us. All of us 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:41.800 have been playing, our parents have been paying a trash 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:44.960 bill for forever. Every restaurant, every business plays a trash bill. 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:47.440 So my idea was we would essentially be a food 0:12:47.480 --> 0:12:50.160 waste management company. We would focus on the food waste 0:12:50.280 --> 0:12:52.480 and so we would help businesses come up with better 0:12:52.640 --> 0:12:55.839 uses for their excess food, and so you know, they 0:12:55.840 --> 0:12:57.640 didn't have to throw it in landfill, they didn't have 0:12:57.720 --> 0:12:59.280 to you know, let rats eat it. 0:12:59.320 --> 0:12:59.960 We could help them. 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:01.920 And so we started with edible food and then we 0:13:01.960 --> 0:13:03.000 started composting. 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:04.520 We have hog farms. 0:13:04.720 --> 0:13:07.200 We actually have on worms that we feed food waste 0:13:07.280 --> 0:13:11.080 to that produces fertilizer that makes the soil better, so 0:13:11.160 --> 0:13:13.520 as we grow more fruit and vegetables, it's healthier for 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:16.040 all of us. And now we have a partnership with 0:13:16.440 --> 0:13:19.440 Southern Power, we're actually taking food waste and we could 0:13:19.440 --> 0:13:20.360 turn it into energy. 0:13:20.640 --> 0:13:22.760 We're trying to really get into to that more. 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:24.720 So the idea is to keep it out of landfill 0:13:24.920 --> 0:13:28.160 because food waste is the number one is one of 0:13:28.200 --> 0:13:31.720 the leading causes number three cause of global climate change. 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:33.439 I was just going to get into that because that's 0:13:33.440 --> 0:13:34.920 one of the things that you stress is like, this 0:13:35.000 --> 0:13:37.480 is not just a health issue, this is a social issue. 0:13:37.480 --> 0:13:41.480 It's economic issuance and environs. 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