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Speaker 2: All right, guys, welcome back, ey l. We got a

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Speaker 2: special episode. We're gonna be talking about the most essential

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Speaker 2: thing in this world.

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Speaker 3: Which is laughter.

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Speaker 4: That's a fact.

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Speaker 3: Man. He can't survive without water.

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Speaker 2: You can survive without food for a certain maria of time,

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Speaker 2: but it's gonna be difficult.

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Speaker 5: If body needs water.

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Speaker 1: The world needs water seventy percent of the playing this

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Speaker 1: water sure an essential necessity for sure.

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Speaker 2: Brad Simmons and Terrence Walker, they have a company called

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Speaker 2: Live alkaline water.

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Speaker 3: This is actually it right here.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, if you can see h glass bottle beat

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Speaker 2: the glass for sure.

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Speaker 3: So we're gonna we're gonna be talking about it. You know.

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Speaker 2: It's an interesting journey as far as invest fast. You

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Speaker 2: guys were a water sponsor for VIP Night this year.

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Speaker 4: That was important, Yes, sir, importunate man.

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Speaker 6: Look, we're gonna we're gonna talk about it, you know,

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Speaker 6: but no, that was an honor. Were grateful to even

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Speaker 6: be brought into the fold because originally, matter of fact,

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Speaker 6: I ran into y'all in Charlotte.

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Speaker 4: Y'all did the event in Charlotte, and.

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Speaker 3: That's where you're where you're from from Charlotte.

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Speaker 6: Right, we're from North Carolina, from down East Carolina, kind

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Speaker 6: of close to Wilmington, from omens Aslo County. And I

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Speaker 6: ended up at A and T and that's how I

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Speaker 6: Charlotte only an hour away, hour and a half away.

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Speaker 6: So when I found out y'all was coming, it was

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Speaker 6: a no brainer. Pulled right up, pocket full of business cars,

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Speaker 6: got me a couple of waters in the tuck just

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Speaker 6: in case I get to y'all, and I ended up

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Speaker 6: connecting with y'all. Y'all was getting up out of there

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Speaker 6: at the end, and I just stopped you real quick, Yo.

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Speaker 4: We got the water.

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Speaker 6: We're trying to be the water sponsor, and we're just

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Speaker 6: trying to connect and see how we can bring our

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Speaker 6: resource and value to the investments. And then that next

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Speaker 6: Monday Market, Mondays or something y'all, you know, doing y'all thing,

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Speaker 6: and then you get to everybody to do Aventis.

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Speaker 4: Charlotte was great and all of that.

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Speaker 6: We was making good connections and all that, but certain

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Speaker 4: A little you know, sideways a little bit.

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Speaker 6: But it was this one brother. He came with the

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Speaker 6: water with an offering and bringing value, and that's how

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Speaker 6: y'all need to move. I was like, oh, that's me

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Speaker 6: about me, okay. Respect And a lot of what we've

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Speaker 6: been doing is being like trial and error. We haven't

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Speaker 6: necessarily seen no one build no multimillion dollar corporation.

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Speaker 4: So we just be following the soul.

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Speaker 6: That's our nonprofit Soul Society, but it's really the lifestyle.

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Speaker 4: We follow the soul.

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Speaker 6: So that connection and to wrap that up, I'm sending

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Speaker 6: the emails. I ended up getting the Zoom that year

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Speaker 6: with one of the representatives, and it was an astronomical.

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Speaker 4: Number that they asked for for us. It was like,

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Speaker 6: I'm like, nah, I ain't gonna make it this time.

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Speaker 6: But I ended up coming just to be a participant.

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Speaker 6: Matter of fact, I got locked in with Keys to

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Speaker 6: do his VIP experience and whatnot. And ultimately fast forward

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Speaker 6: the next year, I was still this past year, I

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Speaker 6: was still thinking about the astronomical number that I wasn't

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Speaker 6: I'm like, all right, let me just shoot shot again.

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Speaker 5: See what to do.

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Speaker 4: I'm shoot my shot, you hear me?

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Speaker 6: And next thing I know, they was like, look were

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Speaker 6: I'm like, we got the water, easy money.

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Speaker 4: And this the last thing.

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Speaker 6: By the time I talked to that was probably the

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Speaker 6: brother ab and they were saying like, okay, we need

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Speaker 6: about two thousand bottles of water. I'm like, we got

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Speaker 6: that easy, got off the phone, started calculating.

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Speaker 4: Ooh, that's how much. Okay. Nonetheless, we're not stopping.

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Speaker 6: And then as we was trying to get what we

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Speaker 6: it was getting close, and we was like.

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Speaker 4: I don't know how we're gonna do it. You feel me?

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Speaker 6: And I put a couple of call to actions out

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Speaker 6: to our audience. But then the last one matter fact,

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Speaker 6: I know the people that watch the Pie know about

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Speaker 6: net thirties. So in net thirties you get a chance

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Speaker 6: to get your product with thirty days to pay.

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Speaker 4: So I'm lining up everything to get the bottles, and

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Speaker 6: They told me I had thirty days to pay. But

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Speaker 6: then it was coming up like two days out, like,

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Speaker 6: oh nah, you actually don't. It ain't all the ways situated.

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Speaker 6: You gotta pay what you thought you had thirty days

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Speaker 6: to pay. You gotta pay that in like two days.

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Speaker 6: I ain't no how I was gonna do it, but

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Speaker 6: I put the call to action out there.

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Speaker 4: Defense. I'm telling you, I put a call to action.

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Speaker 6: I made it playing and straight vulnerable, and within an hour,

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Speaker 6: I had like six hundred dollars in our crowdfund campaign.

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Speaker 6: By the end of the day, we had like eight

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Speaker 4: Hundred dollars, and that is what made sure we could

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Speaker 6: And y'all would never know, you know, it's just everything

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Speaker 6: happened smooth and presented smooth, and it was a great experience,

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Speaker 6: you know, but it was a great journey that you know,

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Speaker 6: we had to build some thicker skin and big it

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Speaker 4: So much appreciated it was.

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Speaker 1: It was definitely a warm night, yeah, yeah, sure, So

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Speaker 1: I was actually under the weather. So the only thing

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Speaker 1: this is it. I can't do anything else. But you know,

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Speaker 1: a lot of times people underestimate that, especially when you're

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Speaker 1: having a good time and then you obviously have alcohol,

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Speaker 1: they forget the most important component exist. It's something that

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Speaker 1: I understood like I got a hydrate.

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Speaker 5: I got a hydrate.

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Speaker 1: Most people don't even realize that even when you're drinking water,

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Speaker 1: sometimes you still can be Deydre. So this is going

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Speaker 1: to be a powerful episode because I'm starting to learn

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Speaker 1: a lot about more about just my personal body, how

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Speaker 1: to react and the impact.

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Speaker 4: That water has on it.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, go ahead.

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Speaker 2: Also, I wanted to just piggyback on that because it

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Speaker 2: is a good story as far as how the network properly.

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Speaker 2: And the reason why that was perfect time and when

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Speaker 2: you came up to me was because that that year before,

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Speaker 2: we ran out of water and it was like one

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Speaker 2: we didn't have enough water. So going into the next year,

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Speaker 2: Vip Night, that was one of the main things. He's like,

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Speaker 2: we got to make sure we have enough water for sure.

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Speaker 2: So when you came and you're like, yo, I got

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Speaker 2: the water, da da value you had a value added,

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Speaker 2: it made sense. I'm like, all right, yeah, that that's

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Speaker 2: a perfect alignment of what we actually needed. So for

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Speaker 2: know that. But I'm just saying, like, see where you

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Speaker 2: can add value. So I always say see where you

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Speaker 2: can add value, right, and don't necessarily make it about you,

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Speaker 2: like the low reciprocity. You're going to get your blessings

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Speaker 2: later on. But it's like you came and you had

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Speaker 2: and now we're here for sure.

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Speaker 4: Now that's love.

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Speaker 7: We got a chance to see how much it was needed.

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Speaker 7: We pulled up to the VIP night and you know,

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Speaker 7: we were looking for where the water was placed and

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Speaker 7: we didn't see a place, so we be like all right,

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Speaker 7: and then somebody was like they got to go to

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Speaker 7: the bar and ask for it. So we're like, all right,

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Speaker 7: you know, and nobody's going to the bar and asking

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Speaker 7: we're like, all right, we're gonna figure this out. And

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Speaker 7: Bessie from Cocos Cookies, you know, she's wan y'all sponsors,

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Speaker 7: that's the homegirl.

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Speaker 5: She from Carolina.

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Speaker 7: She was there and she had a booth set up

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Speaker 7: and we were like, hmm okay, so how we gonna

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Speaker 7: make sure people get this water cause they drinking, they

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Speaker 7: ain't gonna ask for it. So brother was like, I

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Speaker 7: think we're about to go get the water and just

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Speaker 7: start passing it out.

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Speaker 1: Nah.

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Speaker 6: Look, so I hit my couple points of contact, like

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Speaker 6: They're like nah, it's cool, We're gonna get it together.

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Speaker 6: Next thing I know, I seen like three girls taking

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Speaker 4: So I fall right in line and follow them.

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Speaker 6: Next thing I know, I see where we had all

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Speaker 6: the day before, and that joint was still stacked up,

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Speaker 6: and I'm like the event coming close to an end.

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Speaker 6: I'm like, ain't no way were leaving here without people

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Speaker 7: And I just went back to the bar and like

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Speaker 5: I'm like, all right, bet after.

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Speaker 6: Me being backstage for forty five minutes and whatnot, I'm

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Speaker 6: getting like the bartend I'm the water sponsor, got the

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Speaker 6: water shirt on. Let me get one of those boxes,

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Speaker 6: Like all right, sure, And I couldn't even get nowhere.

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Speaker 4: I'm passing out the water like oh thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 4: I needed I needed it.

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Speaker 6: So it were so many people that were appreciative of

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Speaker 6: that water. It was so many people that was like

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Speaker 6: lifted by that water that night, you know. So I

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Speaker 6: know they felt the presence. We already giving good love

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Speaker 6: and energy. So by the time I flooded the backstage. Look,

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Speaker 6: when I first went back there, it was real scarce.

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Speaker 6: By the time I love it was live akalne water

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Speaker 4: So we made the connection. I went to the land,

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Speaker 6: So right outside of Winston Salem and yeah, Canville. It's

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Speaker 6: And I promise you that next day, after I was

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Speaker 4: Give my labor.

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Speaker 6: I ain't asked what I'm gonna get what I'm nah,

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Speaker 6: I just went and helped them. They had two two

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Speaker 1: Hold a real quick because the family that's on the land,

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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah, they got We got the bottle in

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Speaker 1: Got you got you so, Yeah, when you got there,

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Speaker 5: Right?

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Speaker 4: Got you got you?

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Speaker 2: So your partners with them, Yeah, they had the water

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Speaker 3: And you came in. You said, I want to help out.

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Speaker 6: And initially as well, me and him, we were we

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Speaker 4: It was taken. It was like I need to jump

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Speaker 3: So y'all had a water.

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Speaker 4: No, we had an idea.

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Speaker 7: We actually before that we were when we were looking

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Speaker 7: We were just thinking land somewhere where you can farm,

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Speaker 7: somewhere where you can teach young people to be self sustaining,

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Speaker 7: because as adults you sometimes got so many more responsibilities

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Speaker 7: Water uppeared and it was like, oh, this is a

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Speaker 7: it's like, we don't got time to really try to

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Speaker 7: make it perfect. We got, but we got time to

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Speaker 5: So who was it all?

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Speaker 7: I think Black Dot had shouted the water out on

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Speaker 4: Well Blue Pill did first, and that's how Black Dot

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Speaker 7: So once Black Dot, I had literally so I built

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Speaker 5: And so I'm over here trying to.

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Speaker 5: I'm like, all right, let's get this site up.

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Speaker 7: Thank god we got the sight up, because by the

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Speaker 5: I'm like, Bron, we got boxes that need to be

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Speaker 7: But the orders coming in so crazy that Bro just

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Speaker 7: But the thing for me was that proper preparation prevents

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Speaker 5: But if we didn't have that particular thing already in place.

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Speaker 2: The family that owns the land, right, did they have

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Speaker 2: the brand already? Yeah, yeah, they had the Live Alkaline

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Speaker 2: Water brand. It just needed more promotion. Yeah, it needed

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Speaker 6: He built the foundation and he constantly working on the

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Speaker 7: We were already used to doing that because right before

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Speaker 7: we were doing music. We had the programs. What's his

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Speaker 7: name of chief? Yeah, Chief Robert McCrae.

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Speaker 2: So how do you approach him? Like, how does that work?

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Speaker 2: Like how do you approach him and say, look, I

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Speaker 5: He just gave his time.

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Speaker 6: So, like I said, initially I made a connection and

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Speaker 3: So the work.

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Speaker 6: By the time I got back to the land, I'm like,

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Speaker 6: however much water I can fit in this car, little

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Speaker 6: black toil to Corolla. I need it and we got

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Speaker 6: eighty gallons in there. They were sold in three days

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Speaker 6: and the rest was history.

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Speaker 4: So you've just seen the work and the results.

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Speaker 3: Once the plug got the work off, That's what I said.

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Speaker 5: You got, you got the work, you came back.

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Speaker 4: I need to reacted everything I can fit. Yeah, So

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Speaker 4: I mean, how is his chief? And we just came

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Speaker 4: come back? Like, what's his reaction?

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Speaker 2: Right?

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Speaker 1: Because he's looking at it like, you know, this thing

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Speaker 1: is kind of moved slow it come y'all with this

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Speaker 1: marketing plan, this grit, this hustle.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you moved that word quick. You need to re up.

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Speaker 4: How is he reacting to this?

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Speaker 3: Well?

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Speaker 5: It was a matter of action. When you see it,

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Speaker 3: YO, So break this down.

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Speaker 2: What's the science behind this alkaline there's spring water, there's

490
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Speaker 2: tap water, and it's alkaline water. I here, everybody's got

491
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Speaker 2: their own opinion about what's the best, what's not good

492
00:22:21,440 --> 00:22:25,359
Speaker 2: for you? So this is alkaline water. Yeah, explain the

493
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Speaker 2: different variations of water.

494
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Speaker 6: Yeah, So generally speaking, even more important than it being

495
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Speaker 6: alkaline water is the fact that it's coming from a

496
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Speaker 6: living source. So you got a lot of alkaline waters

497
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Speaker 6: that a lot of times it's tap water that they

498
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Speaker 6: run through an artificial induced process to make it alkaline.

499
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Speaker 6: This is from a natural living spring where rich crystal

500
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Speaker 6: mineral based land, So it's got that life source in it,

501
00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:54,000
Speaker 6: packed with living minerals versus synthetic or induced or brought

502
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Speaker 6: in minerals.

503
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Speaker 4: You know, you can't beat gods very own.

504
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Speaker 6: So, like I said, the first thing is from a

505
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Speaker 6: living source, so it's life and the bottle, and then

506
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Speaker 6: the second thing far as alkalinity goes. For those who

507
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Speaker 6: don't know, it's based on the Pight scale, So seven

508
00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:12,000
Speaker 6: is neutral. Anything under seven is a city. Above seven

509
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Speaker 6: is alkaline. And at first I assume the higher the

510
00:23:16,920 --> 00:23:19,840
Speaker 6: alkalinity the better, but I come to find out that

511
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Speaker 6: you can get it too high. Our bodies usually resonate

512
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Speaker 6: around seven seven point one, seven point two, so you

513
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Speaker 6: want something that's kind of close to.

514
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Speaker 4: Your body levels.

515
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Speaker 6: So a lot of these waters you see in stores

516
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Speaker 6: nine nine point five and all of that good.

517
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Speaker 4: It's too high.

518
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Speaker 6: And that's usually an indicator that it's artificially induced. So

519
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Speaker 6: ours resonates around seven point five, which is a good

520
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Speaker 6: equalizer for your body.

521
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Speaker 2: What'sfely alkaline and spring water because spring is from a

522
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Speaker 2: natural source to it's from a spring, right, yeah, yeah.

523
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Speaker 6: Yeah, So any water source, the alkalinity or the acidity

524
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Speaker 6: is based on the pH. So a whale could be alkaline,

525
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Speaker 6: it could be a city. A spring could be alkaline,

526
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Speaker 6: it could be a city.

527
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Speaker 4: The spring.

528
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Speaker 3: Though.

529
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Speaker 6: The thing that's great about the spring is it's a

530
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Speaker 6: moving water source, so it's got that connecting energy. It's

531
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Speaker 6: got that energetic flow, that electricity in it, you know

532
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Speaker 6: versus whales can be good depending on the quality of

533
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Speaker 6: the land in the water, but it's still the spring

534
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Speaker 6: is moving, so it's got that electric energy.

535
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Speaker 1: When you said that the pH, if the pH is

536
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Speaker 1: too high in the alkaline water, what are the effects

537
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Speaker 1: Because I was noticing there, I'll drink some alkaline water

538
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Speaker 1: and I've got to go to the bathroom all the time.

539
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Speaker 1: It's like there's no point even drinking it. This is

540
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Speaker 1: which I realized was making me dehydrated. Yeah, because I

541
00:24:35,840 --> 00:24:38,720
Speaker 1: would drink the water and my body wouldn't retain it.

542
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Speaker 1: Then I'll drink other water and it's not the same effect.

543
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Speaker 1: I'm actually retaining the water. I'm feeling better. Is it

544
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Speaker 1: because the pH level was too high? Is that one

545
00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:48,280
Speaker 1: of the part of it?

546
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Speaker 5: Is it being too high batteries of alkaline?

547
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Speaker 1: You know?

548
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Speaker 5: So I mean, you know, you just electric shocking your body.

549
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Speaker 5: So think of you know what happened.

550
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Speaker 7: Now it's got to expel you know what's not meant

551
00:24:58,680 --> 00:25:00,440
Speaker 7: to be there, whether it's the false man rules, whether

552
00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:02,800
Speaker 7: it's the pH being too high, because I mean, it's

553
00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:04,440
Speaker 7: good for your hair, your skin, your eyes, right, But

554
00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:07,200
Speaker 7: once you get too high, same way with the citity,

555
00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:09,240
Speaker 7: it begins to eat those things up. It begins to

556
00:25:09,320 --> 00:25:12,080
Speaker 7: go backwards. So your body is naturally going to begin

557
00:25:12,160 --> 00:25:14,800
Speaker 7: to reject what isn't needed, what isn't supposed to be there.

558
00:25:14,840 --> 00:25:16,840
Speaker 7: It's gonna fight, so it's gonna force you to get

559
00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:19,720
Speaker 7: it up out of there, but some of it is

560
00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:21,720
Speaker 7: gonna still stay. It's just gonna eat up your inside.

561
00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:23,879
Speaker 7: It's gonna eat up your organs over time. So when

562
00:25:23,920 --> 00:25:26,520
Speaker 7: you see something that's alkaline nine point five, I would

563
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Speaker 7: leave it on the table. I would, well, I'm going

564
00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:31,680
Speaker 7: to anyway, because we got live. But that's why it's

565
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Speaker 7: called live, because it's coming from a living source and

566
00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:36,399
Speaker 7: it's moving and you want something like that. So anything

567
00:25:36,480 --> 00:25:38,240
Speaker 7: done with the machines, like when people say they have

568
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Speaker 7: them in their houses, it's cool because I mean, it's

569
00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:42,760
Speaker 7: better than your tap. But to ingest it, I just

570
00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:45,520
Speaker 7: wouldn't suggest it because again you're gonna you're gonna reject it.

571
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Speaker 4: Let's due.

572
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Speaker 1: It is really an artist every line I'm here, I

573
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Speaker 1: wouldn't suggest it to ingest it become natural something.

574
00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:54,600
Speaker 5: Yeah, living sourceage.

575
00:25:55,240 --> 00:25:56,119
Speaker 3: Does this happen all?

576
00:25:56,200 --> 00:25:56,320
Speaker 1: Right?

577
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Speaker 2: You have do you just put the water from the

578
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Speaker 2: spring to the bottle? Does it have to get purified? Like,

579
00:26:03,119 --> 00:26:06,720
Speaker 2: is it a process that FDA requires to Absolutely?

580
00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:10,280
Speaker 6: Yeah, we do the basic FDA filtrations and all of that,

581
00:26:10,920 --> 00:26:13,560
Speaker 6: but yeah, we definitely keep it to a minimum because

582
00:26:13,560 --> 00:26:16,320
Speaker 6: the water is naturally like you can drink it right

583
00:26:16,359 --> 00:26:18,520
Speaker 6: out of the spring. But we do go through the

584
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Speaker 6: processing for the legalities and the corporate lanes that we

585
00:26:23,119 --> 00:26:24,120
Speaker 6: push into as well.

586
00:26:24,280 --> 00:26:26,760
Speaker 7: So yeah, and of course you got your people that

587
00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:29,680
Speaker 7: are what they call themselves, what the snobs and things

588
00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:32,320
Speaker 7: like that, So to make sure you know what's good

589
00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:34,280
Speaker 7: for everybody, because you got some people that want to

590
00:26:34,320 --> 00:26:36,359
Speaker 7: take it home and test it theyselves. I encourage it.

591
00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:38,159
Speaker 7: I just want you to record it and send me that,

592
00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:41,480
Speaker 7: you know at the same time. So yeah, do that,

593
00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:42,920
Speaker 7: but we do that especially for that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

595
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Speaker 1: The first thing we started episode by saying, was it

596
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Speaker 1: be the glass. So talk about the importance of having

597
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Speaker 1: this in the class.

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Speaker 5: I know we grew up.

599
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Speaker 1: It was like there's other water brands that came in

600
00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:55,560
Speaker 1: those water bottles, and you recycle those water bottles. But

601
00:26:55,680 --> 00:26:58,280
Speaker 1: water sharely shouldn't be kept in plastic. Yeah, talk about

602
00:26:58,280 --> 00:27:00,960
Speaker 1: the important and they are drinking out the hose and sink.

603
00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:02,399
Speaker 1: Let's be let's be honest.

604
00:27:02,440 --> 00:27:06,920
Speaker 4: We'll talk about generation. Yeah, some of the best water

605
00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:08,000
Speaker 4: we had, what you mean?

606
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Speaker 7: But when you get to those plastics, so think about

607
00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:13,760
Speaker 7: a All right, so there's the BPA free plastic, right

608
00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:16,000
Speaker 7: you know, I mean, whereas it's not as soft. If

609
00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:18,360
Speaker 7: you can crush your plastic, if you can just get

610
00:27:18,359 --> 00:27:19,720
Speaker 7: that thing in your hand and crush it like that,

611
00:27:20,119 --> 00:27:21,720
Speaker 7: it ain't no good for you because for one, you

612
00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:24,000
Speaker 7: got the microfibers that's going to be in your water too.

613
00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:26,160
Speaker 5: As the sun is penetrating that thing.

614
00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:28,400
Speaker 7: The plastic is also going to be able to begin

615
00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:30,760
Speaker 7: to melt into your water, so that's why you have

616
00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:33,959
Speaker 7: that different type of taste. We do also bottle in plastic,

617
00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:36,720
Speaker 7: but it's BPA free, you know, which is a more

618
00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:38,280
Speaker 7: cost affordable option, you know.

619
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Speaker 5: For some of our audience.

620
00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:42,760
Speaker 7: Glass is the way though, you I mean, because you

621
00:27:42,840 --> 00:27:45,440
Speaker 7: don't have those fibers, you know, being and there's other

622
00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:47,800
Speaker 7: ways like we do also have like a can option

623
00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:52,600
Speaker 7: as well. Some people prefer like copper you know as

624
00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:55,000
Speaker 7: well for the energetic and magnetic feel of it, but

625
00:27:55,119 --> 00:27:57,040
Speaker 7: glass is really the way to go because you don't

626
00:27:57,080 --> 00:27:59,560
Speaker 7: have those fibers being bled into your water. Now you

627
00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:01,880
Speaker 7: do have, you know, be specific with your glass too,

628
00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:03,880
Speaker 7: because you know there's the lead you know thing which

629
00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:06,560
Speaker 7: I've just began to like get knowledge on as well.

630
00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:11,840
Speaker 7: But always suggesting the glass, especially for a living water source,

631
00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:13,639
Speaker 7: so you can keep that live and it's into it.

632
00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:16,600
Speaker 7: And I will say as well, even with the plastic,

633
00:28:17,080 --> 00:28:19,840
Speaker 7: it's freshly bottled weekly, so like a lot of the

634
00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:23,160
Speaker 7: other bigger corporations, it might be sitting in the warehouse

635
00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:26,080
Speaker 7: for three, four, five six months breaking down. So I

636
00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:28,240
Speaker 7: was just freshly bottled. It's not sitting.

637
00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:32,879
Speaker 2: So what's some challenges as far as being like an

638
00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:36,360
Speaker 2: independent water brand as opposed to most waters. It's owned

639
00:28:36,359 --> 00:28:38,880
Speaker 2: by like three companies, right, and they kind of have a.

640
00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:42,800
Speaker 3: Monopoly on it. So being independent, what's some of the

641
00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:44,000
Speaker 3: challenges that you face.

642
00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:46,680
Speaker 7: I think one of the challenges that I can think

643
00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:50,760
Speaker 7: of off top is, let's say, some of these other

644
00:28:50,840 --> 00:28:54,080
Speaker 7: companies who are million billion dollar companies, they getting their

645
00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:59,000
Speaker 7: bottles in mass quantities, so the cost of the bottles

646
00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:01,640
Speaker 7: is cheaper. So we're not getting them in those quantities,

647
00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:04,640
Speaker 7: so we are paying a different you know, price and

648
00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:06,480
Speaker 7: working our way into being able to get it in

649
00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:08,280
Speaker 7: such a mass way that we are also able to

650
00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:11,080
Speaker 7: bring the price down even for the customer, you know,

651
00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:13,640
Speaker 7: because while the idea is to make money, it isn't

652
00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:17,200
Speaker 7: to charge astronomical numbers and things of that nature.

653
00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:17,360
Speaker 5: Right.

654
00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:20,040
Speaker 7: So that's really one of the challenges at this moment,

655
00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:23,200
Speaker 7: which is becoming a good challenge because we are continuing

656
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Speaker 7: to increase, you know. So it's like, all right, we

657
00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:28,760
Speaker 7: got we need two thousand bottles. We got to figure

658
00:29:28,760 --> 00:29:30,479
Speaker 7: out how we're going to get that two thousand bottles

659
00:29:30,520 --> 00:29:32,120
Speaker 7: quick and in masks. But that was good to be

660
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Speaker 7: able to call on community, you know, with that as well.

661
00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:37,760
Speaker 7: But that's one of the challenges that I think of

662
00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:38,680
Speaker 7: right off top.

663
00:29:38,960 --> 00:29:41,720
Speaker 1: What's the most cost intensive part? Right If we have

664
00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:44,800
Speaker 1: the water, which is natural, is it the bottling? Is

665
00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:48,560
Speaker 1: it the trying to manufacture and export.

666
00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:54,000
Speaker 6: It balances out between the actual bottles, the labor force

667
00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:59,200
Speaker 6: and transportation. So initially, at first we're trying to go everywhere.

668
00:29:59,280 --> 00:30:02,800
Speaker 6: We're trying to be you know, worldwide, nationwide. But the

669
00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:05,480
Speaker 6: more we learn, the more it was like, no, we

670
00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:08,360
Speaker 6: need to hone in on our backyard right here. And

671
00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:10,840
Speaker 6: I'm doing certain numbers, like I think it was like

672
00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:13,640
Speaker 6: a study in twenty nineteen said American spending average of

673
00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:16,080
Speaker 6: ten dollars per month on bout the water. And then

674
00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:18,840
Speaker 6: I'm doing my you know, looking up the census numbers

675
00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:21,400
Speaker 6: and whatnot, and I'm seeing right here in the county

676
00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:23,400
Speaker 6: we end not even the state, the county we in,

677
00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:27,240
Speaker 6: it's over a million people, just black people. It's over

678
00:30:27,280 --> 00:30:30,360
Speaker 6: two hundred thousand. So I'm like ten dollars per month,

679
00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:33,920
Speaker 6: that's two million dollars monthly right in this county.

680
00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:35,840
Speaker 4: It's a million of us in the state.

681
00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:38,920
Speaker 6: That's ten million dollars monthly that we just as a

682
00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:43,320
Speaker 6: community value to the water company, the water industry. So

683
00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:46,800
Speaker 6: at that point it was like, rather than spending time

684
00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:51,040
Speaker 6: and energy that we going other places, let's double down

685
00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:54,240
Speaker 6: right here, you know. So we heavily concentrated on North Carolina,

686
00:30:55,080 --> 00:31:01,080
Speaker 6: South Carolina, Atlanta, surrounding areas Florida, and in Virginia and DC,

687
00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:04,720
Speaker 6: so basically the Southeast America. Instead of trying to be everywhere,

688
00:31:04,840 --> 00:31:07,200
Speaker 6: we're just trying to hone in on our backyard.

689
00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:09,640
Speaker 7: With him saying that, it makes me think of another

690
00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:12,600
Speaker 7: one of our challenges, which is shipping. So we good

691
00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:16,640
Speaker 7: in our area, but after something like this today or

692
00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:20,760
Speaker 7: after other places we've been, you're gonna have people in Cali, Portland, Maine,

693
00:31:20,800 --> 00:31:24,920
Speaker 7: and that shipping cost because I mean it's thirty four

694
00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:27,720
Speaker 7: pounds per case, you know of the water. So to

695
00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:29,960
Speaker 7: send out that Cali, you know, that's fifty dollars in

696
00:31:30,040 --> 00:31:32,120
Speaker 7: shipping if they want to pay it.

697
00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:32,720
Speaker 3: You know.

698
00:31:32,840 --> 00:31:34,440
Speaker 7: Now, of course we want to be able to you know,

699
00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:37,920
Speaker 7: get it to everybody, but just trying to figure out that,

700
00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:39,560
Speaker 7: you know, in the same way that one of these

701
00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:42,640
Speaker 7: other companies like an Amazon has a warehouse in these

702
00:31:42,680 --> 00:31:44,680
Speaker 7: other places and figuring out how to wearhouse and these

703
00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:46,920
Speaker 7: other places so that we can set up distributors that

704
00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:49,959
Speaker 7: can handle shipping and things like that and these other places.

705
00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:54,000
Speaker 7: But it's a challenge, but it's still one of those

706
00:31:54,080 --> 00:31:56,080
Speaker 7: good challenges of like, all right, they want it out there,

707
00:31:56,200 --> 00:31:57,680
Speaker 7: we really need to figure out how to get it

708
00:31:57,760 --> 00:31:59,120
Speaker 7: out there at a cost.

709
00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:02,120
Speaker 5: Effishent price you said the logistics that makes a lot

710
00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:02,440
Speaker 5: of sense.

711
00:32:02,640 --> 00:32:04,720
Speaker 1: I was thinking when you talked about this is a

712
00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:08,560
Speaker 1: living product, right, Obviously, is there a life expectancy of

713
00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:12,240
Speaker 1: how long the spring will be running or because I

714
00:32:12,280 --> 00:32:14,080
Speaker 1: know we've had a water episode before and they were

715
00:32:14,120 --> 00:32:16,840
Speaker 1: trying to how long that they expected that spring to

716
00:32:16,920 --> 00:32:17,800
Speaker 1: be live and functioning.

717
00:32:18,080 --> 00:32:19,360
Speaker 4: Is there a study on that one for y'all.

718
00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:23,280
Speaker 6: So generally we know it's like four major water veins

719
00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:27,240
Speaker 6: that flow into this spring. So to be honest, like

720
00:32:27,840 --> 00:32:29,960
Speaker 6: the whole state will probably be at a state of

721
00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:33,960
Speaker 6: emergency for water before we would be, you know, because

722
00:32:34,080 --> 00:32:36,160
Speaker 6: as long as it's raining, like it would have to

723
00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:40,040
Speaker 6: be a serious hard desert drought or something like that,

724
00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:44,120
Speaker 6: But long as it's raining, it's constant flow of this

725
00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:46,280
Speaker 6: natural system that's refueling itself.

726
00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:48,520
Speaker 7: It's coming from what like eight hundred feet on the

727
00:32:48,560 --> 00:32:51,320
Speaker 7: ground they did the sonic Yeah yeah, yeah, so yeah,

728
00:32:51,320 --> 00:32:52,440
Speaker 7: they'd have to drain the earth.

729
00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:55,040
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's on the foothills or the mountains of western

730
00:32:55,080 --> 00:32:57,920
Speaker 6: North Carolina, so it's like a lot of waters being

731
00:32:58,000 --> 00:32:59,840
Speaker 6: concentrated to perfect that's perfect.

732
00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:02,280
Speaker 3: How did he get how did the owner? How did

733
00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:03,480
Speaker 3: he originally acquire the land?

734
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:07,120
Speaker 4: So, I mean so far back we don't even really know,

735
00:33:07,280 --> 00:33:10,040
Speaker 4: but it was an indigenous family there, so they literally

736
00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:11,200
Speaker 4: got nobody ever took it.

737
00:33:12,160 --> 00:33:14,840
Speaker 6: So he said it was originally like six thousand acres

738
00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:17,920
Speaker 6: that they were occupying, and it's down to some few

739
00:33:18,040 --> 00:33:21,760
Speaker 6: hundred of a thousand or something, you know. So yeah,

740
00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:25,120
Speaker 6: it has been different chunks being taken out, you know,

741
00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:27,560
Speaker 6: but at this point it's been this thousand that's been

742
00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:33,480
Speaker 6: maintained and there's been generations that it went dormant, but

743
00:33:34,040 --> 00:33:37,280
Speaker 6: he came back rebirthed the life into it. But yeah,

744
00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:40,120
Speaker 6: at this point, this corner that we maintained and now

745
00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:43,360
Speaker 6: they've had far back as they know, you know, over

746
00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:44,160
Speaker 6: four hundred years.

747
00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:44,640
Speaker 5: Yeah.

748
00:33:44,760 --> 00:33:47,560
Speaker 1: So one of the things with logistics is you got

749
00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:51,280
Speaker 1: to get partnerships. See the first black owned water company

750
00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:55,640
Speaker 1: to be inside of Walmart. How did this relationship come about?

751
00:33:55,760 --> 00:33:57,680
Speaker 1: How did y'all force that? How y'all maintaining that?

752
00:33:58,120 --> 00:34:01,640
Speaker 6: So that was right before we connected with the actual

753
00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:04,800
Speaker 6: land and the CEO running it. But he said his

754
00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:08,080
Speaker 6: actual goal was to use that as a launching pad

755
00:34:08,280 --> 00:34:12,279
Speaker 6: for validation for certain people and for that promo, but

756
00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:15,080
Speaker 6: he kept it limited to a few in Florida because

757
00:34:15,120 --> 00:34:17,920
Speaker 6: his real goal was to keep it grassroots and deal

758
00:34:18,080 --> 00:34:20,799
Speaker 6: directly with the people. You know, So we are real

759
00:34:20,880 --> 00:34:24,800
Speaker 6: big on the director consumer, although we do do deals

760
00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:29,000
Speaker 6: in partnerships with stores and different businesses. But just for example,

761
00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:30,880
Speaker 6: in the lane we in and what we're doing with

762
00:34:31,040 --> 00:34:34,240
Speaker 6: it wouldn't even be needed if he went nationwide with Walmart,

763
00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:36,200
Speaker 6: the it would have just been him and Walmart making

764
00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:40,200
Speaker 6: all the money. So saluting him, but yeah, he's created

765
00:34:40,280 --> 00:34:43,200
Speaker 6: a blessing of a lane for a lot of young entrepreneurs,

766
00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:45,840
Speaker 6: movers and shakers to be able to find our space

767
00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:47,319
Speaker 6: in this and.

768
00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:50,120
Speaker 7: You find that, you know, sometimes all people need that validity.

769
00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:52,800
Speaker 7: So even though you know, we not into Walmart anymore

770
00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:55,839
Speaker 7: because of whatever type of clauses they had contractually. It's

771
00:34:55,920 --> 00:34:57,920
Speaker 7: like you say that to somebody, like let's say we've

772
00:34:57,960 --> 00:35:00,319
Speaker 7: in it somewhere and you say, the first black water

773
00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:02,920
Speaker 7: company to enter a Walmart and they like huh and

774
00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:05,239
Speaker 7: they stop right there. So sometimes you can still use that,

775
00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:07,319
Speaker 7: you know, and then you know they get the rest

776
00:35:07,360 --> 00:35:08,879
Speaker 7: of the story and everything from there.

777
00:35:09,840 --> 00:35:11,640
Speaker 2: What's the process to actually make the water? Like how

778
00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:14,680
Speaker 2: many people have to be employed? Is it like like

779
00:35:15,360 --> 00:35:18,400
Speaker 2: there's a plant, like from the spring to the bottle?

780
00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:19,120
Speaker 3: What's the process?

781
00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:22,320
Speaker 6: So it's like a big water tank truck come to

782
00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:27,239
Speaker 6: the land, plug up to the system. Often well they

783
00:35:27,320 --> 00:35:30,759
Speaker 6: come so it's a few different lanes of distribution. So

784
00:35:31,040 --> 00:35:34,000
Speaker 6: on the MAD scale that's probably once a week, once

785
00:35:34,080 --> 00:35:37,879
Speaker 6: every other week, and it's like six thousand gallons worth

786
00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:40,120
Speaker 6: that'll you know, come plug up and take it to

787
00:35:40,200 --> 00:35:42,440
Speaker 6: the plant and then they making all types of other

788
00:35:42,520 --> 00:35:46,640
Speaker 6: stuff with it, drinks, juices, We got a protein tea

789
00:35:46,760 --> 00:35:48,480
Speaker 6: drink that we just released.

790
00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:53,640
Speaker 7: Sparkling water with different flavors blood, orange, pineapple, ginger, cucumber, mint,

791
00:35:53,719 --> 00:35:54,600
Speaker 7: and lemonade.

792
00:35:55,040 --> 00:35:57,880
Speaker 6: Right, and then there's other companies that white label because

793
00:35:57,880 --> 00:36:00,279
Speaker 6: we got the source, so you can put whatever a

794
00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:00,880
Speaker 6: name on it.

795
00:36:01,160 --> 00:36:04,120
Speaker 4: You know, so y'all out there, you know, let's partner up.

796
00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:09,080
Speaker 6: But nonetheless, so they got a few people on the

797
00:36:09,200 --> 00:36:11,919
Speaker 6: on the grounds at the factory that received the water.

798
00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:14,240
Speaker 6: Once it comes in, they plug it up to the factory,

799
00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:17,440
Speaker 6: run the bottles through the system. So I don't know

800
00:36:17,520 --> 00:36:19,840
Speaker 6: exactly it's a few people in there, but being at

801
00:36:19,880 --> 00:36:22,640
Speaker 6: a mainly machines, you just got a few people doing

802
00:36:22,719 --> 00:36:26,080
Speaker 6: a mass production and stacking up the boxes on pallets

803
00:36:26,120 --> 00:36:28,360
Speaker 6: and things of that nature. Then we got the smaller

804
00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:32,000
Speaker 6: operation on the land where were directly bottling on the land,

805
00:36:32,560 --> 00:36:35,760
Speaker 6: and that's a little more labor intensive where we because

806
00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:39,840
Speaker 6: what equals the machinery at the factory, we got an

807
00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:42,600
Speaker 6: equal and man power on the land when we're doing

808
00:36:42,680 --> 00:36:46,000
Speaker 6: our smaller scale things. So I actually started a young

809
00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:51,040
Speaker 6: entrepreneurs in training program and I got three young brothers

810
00:36:51,080 --> 00:36:55,160
Speaker 6: that been a monumental help that's been helping us label

811
00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:56,799
Speaker 6: package like them two.

812
00:36:56,719 --> 00:36:58,319
Speaker 4: Thousand bottles we had to bring down there.

813
00:36:58,719 --> 00:37:02,879
Speaker 6: We had about four days to label by hand two

814
00:37:02,960 --> 00:37:04,960
Speaker 6: thousand bottles bottless up.

815
00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:05,240
Speaker 5: Okay.

816
00:37:05,280 --> 00:37:08,040
Speaker 7: We did a special label to earn your yeah yeah, yeah.

817
00:37:08,080 --> 00:37:10,120
Speaker 4: We did the invest vest labels on them and all

818
00:37:10,200 --> 00:37:11,759
Speaker 4: of that so we had to do that by it.

819
00:37:12,680 --> 00:37:14,800
Speaker 4: But yeah, that was a grind. We called in everybody

820
00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:16,080
Speaker 4: just on that order alone.

821
00:37:16,120 --> 00:37:22,600
Speaker 6: We probably had a good eight to ten people on labeling, bottling, package.

822
00:37:22,560 --> 00:37:26,760
Speaker 1: Storing, and four of us ran the booth all weekend.

823
00:37:27,480 --> 00:37:30,439
Speaker 1: As y'all have, I mean, obviously turned out for the brand.

824
00:37:30,719 --> 00:37:33,520
Speaker 1: Sure has your role inside the brand change. It feels

825
00:37:33,560 --> 00:37:35,960
Speaker 1: like you started out as like, hey, here it's how

826
00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:38,880
Speaker 1: I can add value almost one internship basis, but now

827
00:37:38,920 --> 00:37:41,600
Speaker 1: it feels like, y'all, what is the exact role that

828
00:37:41,719 --> 00:37:43,680
Speaker 1: you have now since y'all didn't turn this thing up?

829
00:37:43,840 --> 00:37:48,359
Speaker 6: Yeah, so again another situation of us just lending our

830
00:37:48,480 --> 00:37:53,040
Speaker 6: love and labor without really asking for all, right, what

831
00:37:53,080 --> 00:37:55,720
Speaker 6: we're gonna get? All right, we know we're doing the sales,

832
00:37:56,400 --> 00:37:58,919
Speaker 6: and we get our price point for the wholesale price,

833
00:37:58,960 --> 00:38:01,680
Speaker 6: and we get our profit off the sale. But we're

834
00:38:01,719 --> 00:38:04,759
Speaker 6: doing more than just selling. We promote in, we ambassador in,

835
00:38:05,440 --> 00:38:08,080
Speaker 6: we're doing a lot. So he actually gave us some

836
00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:10,520
Speaker 6: steak in the company, you know. So that was a

837
00:38:10,560 --> 00:38:13,439
Speaker 6: beautiful blessing which gave us more motivation to go even

838
00:38:13,520 --> 00:38:14,600
Speaker 6: that much further and harder.

839
00:38:14,680 --> 00:38:14,800
Speaker 1: You know.

840
00:38:14,920 --> 00:38:17,279
Speaker 7: So the equity plus yeah, but even with that, it's

841
00:38:18,680 --> 00:38:20,880
Speaker 7: anything we want to do. So we host festivals and

842
00:38:20,960 --> 00:38:24,440
Speaker 7: retreats and everything on the property, so it's not a

843
00:38:24,520 --> 00:38:28,080
Speaker 7: matter of overhead. It's like we are in full control

844
00:38:28,160 --> 00:38:29,839
Speaker 7: of that as long as we just kick something back

845
00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:33,080
Speaker 7: to the land, which we have a percentage that we discussed.

846
00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:36,920
Speaker 7: But I tell people all the time, like people waiting

847
00:38:36,960 --> 00:38:38,960
Speaker 7: for God to come down with this magical voice and

848
00:38:39,040 --> 00:38:41,080
Speaker 7: be like, now is your time to do this? I'm like, nah,

849
00:38:41,160 --> 00:38:44,080
Speaker 7: sometimes he's speaking opportunity. So it was the opportunity with

850
00:38:44,160 --> 00:38:46,320
Speaker 7: the water, and now it's a whole nother opportunity with

851
00:38:46,440 --> 00:38:50,239
Speaker 7: the land all together, you know, from the festivals that

852
00:38:50,320 --> 00:38:53,359
Speaker 7: we host, to the farmers market now that we have open.

853
00:38:53,480 --> 00:38:54,719
Speaker 5: Because it's not just the water.

854
00:38:54,840 --> 00:39:00,960
Speaker 7: It's cucumbers, mushrooms, collar greens, kill care, it's beats. So

855
00:39:01,160 --> 00:39:04,560
Speaker 7: it started with the water and it bloomed into everything

856
00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:08,640
Speaker 7: that the water actually you I mean helps produce, you know,

857
00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:10,520
Speaker 7: so it's bigger than water.

858
00:39:10,640 --> 00:39:11,399
Speaker 3: How much is the water?

859
00:39:12,040 --> 00:39:14,480
Speaker 7: The glass bottles are four dollars, you're doing by the

860
00:39:14,560 --> 00:39:17,680
Speaker 7: case for forty Our plastic bottles are three dollars each.

861
00:39:17,719 --> 00:39:19,600
Speaker 7: We do a case of twenty four for forty five

862
00:39:20,120 --> 00:39:22,120
Speaker 7: or on subscription, we do it for forty dollars and

863
00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:24,640
Speaker 7: we shipping deliver all over the country. We also do

864
00:39:25,760 --> 00:39:28,400
Speaker 7: gallons as well, so the gallons are seven dollars each.

865
00:39:28,360 --> 00:39:29,120
Speaker 5: Or four for twenty.

866
00:39:29,560 --> 00:39:31,040
Speaker 3: The gallons coming plastic.

867
00:39:31,239 --> 00:39:33,640
Speaker 7: They come in plastic, and we're working on that glass.

868
00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:35,960
Speaker 7: You know, we need more people that need it in glass,

869
00:39:36,160 --> 00:39:39,279
Speaker 7: you know, because that's a whole different type of logistical thing.

870
00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:42,080
Speaker 7: And then we do the five gallon containers as well.

871
00:39:42,160 --> 00:39:44,319
Speaker 7: And we have a special right now called we are

872
00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:47,800
Speaker 7: the Gold which is something we started what was that

873
00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:50,880
Speaker 7: about ten Yeah, where we had David Banner host that

874
00:39:50,960 --> 00:39:53,080
Speaker 7: experience and I was doing something with Miss Black America.

875
00:39:53,560 --> 00:39:56,520
Speaker 7: But we are the Gold Special with twenty dollars for

876
00:39:56,600 --> 00:39:59,440
Speaker 7: the five gallon container and we bring it right to

877
00:39:59,480 --> 00:40:01,920
Speaker 7: your doorste up. Currently, we only really doing that in

878
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:05,040
Speaker 7: the Southeast area because we we drop off your new

879
00:40:05,080 --> 00:40:07,120
Speaker 7: one and then replace your old one, and so it

880
00:40:07,160 --> 00:40:08,880
Speaker 7: it'll be hard for us to do that in Minnesota

881
00:40:08,960 --> 00:40:12,000
Speaker 7: or Cali, you know, until we got the infrastructure set up,

882
00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:13,960
Speaker 7: which is the future that's part of our plan, you know,

883
00:40:14,080 --> 00:40:14,760
Speaker 7: moving forward.

884
00:40:15,120 --> 00:40:16,880
Speaker 5: But yeah, that we are the Gold Specials.

885
00:40:17,520 --> 00:40:18,719
Speaker 3: What's still subscription.

886
00:40:19,880 --> 00:40:23,239
Speaker 7: Just go to the website twenty dollars monthly dollars a

887
00:40:23,280 --> 00:40:26,040
Speaker 7: month for that five gallon now forty for the case

888
00:40:26,080 --> 00:40:29,200
Speaker 7: of the twenty four pack and we ship and deliver that.

889
00:40:29,960 --> 00:40:32,320
Speaker 7: For the five gallon containing us either twenty five or

890
00:40:32,400 --> 00:40:35,239
Speaker 7: twenty on subscription for that we are the Gold Special YEP.

891
00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:39,840
Speaker 6: Go to Heavy Energy University dot com, backslash, Live dash Alkaline,

892
00:40:40,120 --> 00:40:43,160
Speaker 6: or you can go to our Instagram at live alkaline NC.

893
00:40:43,840 --> 00:40:45,359
Speaker 4: Go to the Lincoln bio shit.

894
00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:49,120
Speaker 1: They said that the bottling water business is a three

895
00:40:49,200 --> 00:40:52,040
Speaker 1: hundred billion dollar business here, three hundred.

896
00:40:51,880 --> 00:40:54,680
Speaker 4: Growing every year, billion every year growth.

897
00:40:54,840 --> 00:40:56,520
Speaker 1: It might feel like it's surprised to people, but it

898
00:40:56,560 --> 00:40:58,000
Speaker 1: makes a lot of sense when you talk about these

899
00:40:58,040 --> 00:41:01,040
Speaker 1: major corporations that do the violin. I wonder is the

900
00:41:01,480 --> 00:41:05,240
Speaker 1: sailing the selling of the water as profitable or equally

901
00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:09,000
Speaker 1: as possible profitable as potentially white labeling for other people

902
00:41:09,120 --> 00:41:09,600
Speaker 1: in bottling?

903
00:41:10,120 --> 00:41:11,600
Speaker 5: How does that vary right now?

904
00:41:12,080 --> 00:41:14,160
Speaker 7: Because we don't do a lot of white labeling, you

905
00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:17,480
Speaker 7: know at this second, I think, but white labeling is

906
00:41:17,520 --> 00:41:19,279
Speaker 7: on the way and we encourage it because we like,

907
00:41:19,320 --> 00:41:21,759
Speaker 7: we're not in competition with whoever else got water all

908
00:41:21,840 --> 00:41:24,080
Speaker 7: these other companies are literally right beside each other.

909
00:41:24,520 --> 00:41:27,399
Speaker 5: We the source. So come bottle your water.

910
00:41:27,440 --> 00:41:30,400
Speaker 7: If you got a company somewhere, come bottle it and

911
00:41:30,600 --> 00:41:32,440
Speaker 7: put your name on it, Slap your name on it.

912
00:41:32,800 --> 00:41:35,600
Speaker 7: Bottling and whatever bottle you want to, come holler at

913
00:41:35,640 --> 00:41:39,200
Speaker 7: the plug. So yeah, right now, our most profit is

914
00:41:39,280 --> 00:41:41,920
Speaker 7: definitely coming from the bottling you know, ourselves.

915
00:41:42,560 --> 00:41:44,280
Speaker 5: But if you want your own water, see.

916
00:41:44,160 --> 00:41:46,000
Speaker 4: What I just did that? See what I just did that?

917
00:41:46,120 --> 00:41:48,040
Speaker 4: We need that profession for sure.

918
00:41:49,040 --> 00:41:50,560
Speaker 5: I mean you throw the oop. We got a dunke

919
00:41:50,600 --> 00:41:51,000
Speaker 5: it from there.

920
00:41:51,440 --> 00:41:51,640
Speaker 4: Yeah.

921
00:41:51,719 --> 00:41:54,840
Speaker 6: Fact, so the sky's the limit. We're looking for big contracts.

922
00:41:54,920 --> 00:41:58,080
Speaker 6: We could fulfill any level, you know, all levels. We

923
00:41:58,160 --> 00:41:59,839
Speaker 6: do thousands of gallons in the day.

924
00:42:00,560 --> 00:42:04,239
Speaker 2: So they say like it's a water crisis, scarcity in

925
00:42:04,320 --> 00:42:07,960
Speaker 2: the world, and then some people say that that's not true.

926
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:11,800
Speaker 2: It's just that how it's being monopolized by corporations is

927
00:42:11,880 --> 00:42:15,080
Speaker 2: causing scarcity of water. What's your thoughts on this whole

928
00:42:15,160 --> 00:42:17,040
Speaker 2: water scarcity crisis.

929
00:42:17,160 --> 00:42:19,520
Speaker 7: I think it's definitely a matter of you know, the

930
00:42:19,640 --> 00:42:24,239
Speaker 7: monopoly of it, right, and if you fear always makes

931
00:42:24,320 --> 00:42:28,160
Speaker 7: people move in emotional ways, right, So if you talk

932
00:42:28,160 --> 00:42:30,240
Speaker 7: about it's a water crisis. Now you just got random

933
00:42:30,280 --> 00:42:33,239
Speaker 7: people going out and buying as much water as they

934
00:42:33,280 --> 00:42:36,920
Speaker 7: can possibly stock. And it's like, oh yeah, if it's

935
00:42:36,960 --> 00:42:39,640
Speaker 7: a water crisis, then what is that gonna do, because

936
00:42:39,640 --> 00:42:42,000
Speaker 7: you're gonna run out of that, you know. But they

937
00:42:42,120 --> 00:42:44,959
Speaker 7: just force some people to buy more water at one time,

938
00:42:45,080 --> 00:42:47,000
Speaker 7: which they can then use that and flip that money

939
00:42:47,040 --> 00:42:48,279
Speaker 7: and do whatever they're gonna do with it.

940
00:42:50,040 --> 00:42:50,880
Speaker 5: I ain't gonna say that.

941
00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:53,280
Speaker 7: I don't believe that there's not some sort of crisis

942
00:42:53,360 --> 00:42:57,800
Speaker 7: because we always have the dumping of trash in the

943
00:42:57,880 --> 00:43:00,719
Speaker 7: water and oil and things of that theatre as well.

944
00:43:01,560 --> 00:43:03,520
Speaker 2: So talk about that, like how does that impact because

945
00:43:03,560 --> 00:43:07,080
Speaker 2: that's a big thing. The pollution of our waterways from

946
00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:08,680
Speaker 2: oceans to rivers to lakes.

947
00:43:08,800 --> 00:43:10,359
Speaker 3: It's a lot of pollution.

948
00:43:10,480 --> 00:43:12,640
Speaker 5: Or even your Flint, Michigan like situations.

949
00:43:12,719 --> 00:43:15,279
Speaker 7: Right, So, we had a situation back home where I mean,

950
00:43:15,360 --> 00:43:18,040
Speaker 7: it's happening in East Greensboro, it's happening all over the country.

951
00:43:18,480 --> 00:43:20,160
Speaker 7: So on one of our partners, you know, we had

952
00:43:20,200 --> 00:43:22,320
Speaker 7: a situation where we were going to neighborhoods and literally

953
00:43:22,360 --> 00:43:25,040
Speaker 7: giving the water away, you know, and making sure people

954
00:43:25,080 --> 00:43:27,319
Speaker 7: were getting supplied, you know, with the water as well.

955
00:43:27,719 --> 00:43:31,560
Speaker 7: That increased some of ourselves in another way because other

956
00:43:31,640 --> 00:43:35,080
Speaker 7: people were donating to the calls, you know, so they

957
00:43:35,120 --> 00:43:37,640
Speaker 7: were essentially paying for the water and then ordering water

958
00:43:37,719 --> 00:43:41,279
Speaker 7: for themselves, you know, at the same time. So we

959
00:43:41,400 --> 00:43:43,759
Speaker 7: didn't like use that as a sales tactic, but I

960
00:43:43,840 --> 00:43:46,640
Speaker 7: mean we recognized that, like, as we were giving it away,

961
00:43:46,800 --> 00:43:49,360
Speaker 7: people were also wanting to support because sometimes people all

962
00:43:49,480 --> 00:43:50,359
Speaker 7: want to be a part of something.

963
00:43:50,360 --> 00:43:52,640
Speaker 5: It's why they tithe in church, right, you know.

964
00:43:52,719 --> 00:43:54,719
Speaker 7: They want to feel good about where their money going,

965
00:43:54,760 --> 00:43:56,239
Speaker 7: and it's cool this is a place to do that.

966
00:43:56,760 --> 00:44:00,400
Speaker 7: But as those things are beginning to happen for us,

967
00:44:00,480 --> 00:44:03,200
Speaker 7: it's a matter of how do we attack that on

968
00:44:03,320 --> 00:44:05,120
Speaker 7: our end, how do we make sure that people are

969
00:44:05,200 --> 00:44:07,840
Speaker 7: getting you know, water as well, but also in the

970
00:44:07,920 --> 00:44:10,239
Speaker 7: same way that people are Like every five cent of

971
00:44:10,280 --> 00:44:12,920
Speaker 7: the water that you buy goes towards this cause it's

972
00:44:12,960 --> 00:44:15,640
Speaker 7: a similar situation. We haven't pushed it like that, but

973
00:44:15,760 --> 00:44:17,520
Speaker 7: it's like you know, letting people know, like as you

974
00:44:17,880 --> 00:44:20,000
Speaker 7: buy and as you increase, we are still supplying and

975
00:44:20,080 --> 00:44:22,560
Speaker 7: giving away water to places where people need the water.

976
00:44:22,920 --> 00:44:24,320
Speaker 7: So it's really a way to be able to like

977
00:44:24,480 --> 00:44:27,399
Speaker 7: utilize that unfortunately, But I mean it's there.

978
00:44:28,360 --> 00:44:31,239
Speaker 1: Yeah, y'all have I mean, this is groundbreaking, and it

979
00:44:31,280 --> 00:44:35,080
Speaker 1: seems like the information is just like ready and available.

980
00:44:35,400 --> 00:44:36,960
Speaker 1: I know people come to y'all for the water, but

981
00:44:37,080 --> 00:44:39,319
Speaker 1: do people come to y'all for the education part as well?

982
00:44:39,480 --> 00:44:43,040
Speaker 1: Because absolutely there's plenty of I'm sure natural springs throughout

983
00:44:43,080 --> 00:44:46,160
Speaker 1: the country. People don't really understand how to tap into

984
00:44:46,239 --> 00:44:48,680
Speaker 1: that and make that something that could be a business

985
00:44:48,760 --> 00:44:51,120
Speaker 1: or profitable. How many people are coming to y'all for

986
00:44:51,160 --> 00:44:51,680
Speaker 1: the education?

987
00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:52,160
Speaker 5: Man?

988
00:44:52,320 --> 00:44:54,880
Speaker 6: Pointing of this, let me say, the funny thing is

989
00:44:55,000 --> 00:44:57,080
Speaker 6: when I said I first made that connection and I

990
00:44:57,160 --> 00:45:00,520
Speaker 6: took two months to study that was doing the pandemic

991
00:45:00,680 --> 00:45:03,520
Speaker 6: on the back of the George Floyd's situation and the

992
00:45:03,560 --> 00:45:06,200
Speaker 6: Black Lives Matter and all that in twenty twenty, and

993
00:45:06,800 --> 00:45:08,840
Speaker 6: I took them two months to study. And by the

994
00:45:08,920 --> 00:45:12,080
Speaker 6: time I jumped off, the only question was how much

995
00:45:12,920 --> 00:45:15,240
Speaker 6: the point I'm like, hey, I did all this studying,

996
00:45:15,360 --> 00:45:19,279
Speaker 6: like I wanted some more questions at that point. But furthermore,

997
00:45:19,920 --> 00:45:23,400
Speaker 6: the further we got along, especially certain spaces and demographics,

998
00:45:23,480 --> 00:45:27,919
Speaker 6: may inquire and have more questions, but some people come

999
00:45:28,040 --> 00:45:31,080
Speaker 6: with the curiosity, And then you got the people that

1000
00:45:31,280 --> 00:45:34,440
Speaker 6: come just to support because they love our mission and movement.

1001
00:45:34,760 --> 00:45:37,879
Speaker 6: So I got this one lady in particular, she came like, look,

1002
00:45:37,960 --> 00:45:40,680
Speaker 6: I despised drinking water. I don't drink water. I'm gonna

1003
00:45:40,719 --> 00:45:43,319
Speaker 6: just buy some to support. That became one of our

1004
00:45:44,040 --> 00:45:46,319
Speaker 6: best customers. That was like, Yo, where y'all at?

1005
00:45:46,360 --> 00:45:47,080
Speaker 4: I need my water?

1006
00:45:47,719 --> 00:45:49,680
Speaker 6: And next thing, you know, she's telling us about how

1007
00:45:49,760 --> 00:45:53,120
Speaker 6: she's feeling better and she had some kidney issues and

1008
00:45:53,239 --> 00:45:55,520
Speaker 6: she was saying the doctor was telling her, whatever you're

1009
00:45:55,520 --> 00:45:58,520
Speaker 6: doing different, keep doing it, you know. So you got

1010
00:45:58,560 --> 00:46:01,120
Speaker 6: some people who are directly in acquiring for the knowledge.

1011
00:46:01,360 --> 00:46:03,520
Speaker 6: Then you got some people that just stumble into the

1012
00:46:03,600 --> 00:46:06,040
Speaker 6: knowledge because we make them a believer, you know.

1013
00:46:06,640 --> 00:46:09,320
Speaker 4: So well, yeah you got anything to add to that?

1014
00:46:09,560 --> 00:46:10,399
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah.

1015
00:46:11,280 --> 00:46:11,520
Speaker 4: People.

1016
00:46:11,840 --> 00:46:15,320
Speaker 7: So because that there are other springs where people are like,

1017
00:46:15,360 --> 00:46:17,120
Speaker 7: well we can go to the water, go there and

1018
00:46:17,239 --> 00:46:19,279
Speaker 7: just get the water, will make it different. And I

1019
00:46:19,480 --> 00:46:22,239
Speaker 7: just I don't know about that other space. I just

1020
00:46:22,440 --> 00:46:24,719
Speaker 7: let them know and educate them deeply about our water.

1021
00:46:25,200 --> 00:46:27,600
Speaker 7: But there are other people that have land that are like,

1022
00:46:27,640 --> 00:46:30,040
Speaker 7: all right, well, how do I go find a spring

1023
00:46:30,160 --> 00:46:30,719
Speaker 7: on my land?

1024
00:46:30,840 --> 00:46:32,680
Speaker 5: Or I have a spring? You know how do we

1025
00:46:32,840 --> 00:46:33,840
Speaker 5: you know, go about doing that.

1026
00:46:33,960 --> 00:46:35,920
Speaker 7: So because we are in this lane, I do get

1027
00:46:35,960 --> 00:46:37,879
Speaker 7: a lot of those different type of questions of people

1028
00:46:37,920 --> 00:46:40,160
Speaker 7: that have landing, like well, how do I discover water?

1029
00:46:40,719 --> 00:46:42,120
Speaker 5: I'm like, dig.

1030
00:46:44,080 --> 00:46:47,439
Speaker 3: I mean, that's what I got, So what's the what's

1031
00:46:47,480 --> 00:46:48,280
Speaker 3: the plan to scale?

1032
00:46:49,400 --> 00:46:52,520
Speaker 6: So in my mind, the first the next immediate thing,

1033
00:46:53,120 --> 00:46:57,200
Speaker 6: we just drilled down like our main concentrated areas, So

1034
00:46:57,320 --> 00:47:00,799
Speaker 6: we got like eight different area years that we want

1035
00:47:00,840 --> 00:47:03,759
Speaker 6: to build hubs at. So locking in our storage and

1036
00:47:03,840 --> 00:47:07,920
Speaker 6: warehousing and locking in our distribution team around that, and

1037
00:47:08,000 --> 00:47:10,560
Speaker 6: then up in the ante on the promotion. So we

1038
00:47:10,680 --> 00:47:13,120
Speaker 6: got a goal and our Bigger than Water campaign to

1039
00:47:13,200 --> 00:47:17,200
Speaker 6: get five thousand monthly subscribers spending twenty dollars monthly for

1040
00:47:17,320 --> 00:47:21,279
Speaker 6: our million dollar playing you know, but ultimately we're going

1041
00:47:21,360 --> 00:47:25,759
Speaker 6: to be approaching hotels, grocery stores, all of that. But

1042
00:47:25,880 --> 00:47:28,320
Speaker 6: I'm really trying to crack the code on this director

1043
00:47:28,360 --> 00:47:33,719
Speaker 6: consumer model and really locking in our five thousand loyal subscribers.

1044
00:47:34,520 --> 00:47:37,680
Speaker 1: You know, you mentioned it, and you mentioned it as well,

1045
00:47:38,040 --> 00:47:40,120
Speaker 1: it's Bigger than Water thing you kind of mentioned in

1046
00:47:40,200 --> 00:47:41,960
Speaker 1: different ways, like you said it was a campaign, but

1047
00:47:42,320 --> 00:47:44,799
Speaker 1: y'alls just more felt like it was. This is more

1048
00:47:44,880 --> 00:47:47,360
Speaker 1: than just a water company. This is more of like

1049
00:47:47,440 --> 00:47:50,560
Speaker 1: a lifestyle. I heard a little bit about agriculture as well.

1050
00:47:50,640 --> 00:47:54,840
Speaker 1: Talk to both of y'all really what the phrase means

1051
00:47:55,040 --> 00:47:56,440
Speaker 1: and with the purpose behind it.

1052
00:47:56,719 --> 00:47:59,560
Speaker 7: Yeah, Well, because sometimes people look at when they get

1053
00:47:59,640 --> 00:48:01,839
Speaker 7: what they like, it's just water. All water tastes the same.

1054
00:48:01,880 --> 00:48:04,080
Speaker 7: We like, Nah, it's bigger than water. This is about

1055
00:48:04,080 --> 00:48:06,520
Speaker 7: a lifestyle. This is bigger than the taste. This is

1056
00:48:06,520 --> 00:48:08,800
Speaker 7: about what you're putting in your body, you know, and

1057
00:48:09,160 --> 00:48:11,560
Speaker 7: how it's gonna affect your body. So what those other

1058
00:48:11,640 --> 00:48:14,320
Speaker 7: waters got going on is not what this has going on.

1059
00:48:14,440 --> 00:48:16,640
Speaker 7: So it's bigger than water. This is you don't put

1060
00:48:16,680 --> 00:48:18,400
Speaker 7: the same type of gas in this car that you

1061
00:48:18,520 --> 00:48:20,160
Speaker 7: put in this type of car. You a premium car,

1062
00:48:20,239 --> 00:48:22,800
Speaker 7: ain't you? So you better put premium water in your body.

1063
00:48:23,280 --> 00:48:25,600
Speaker 7: But we also, like you said, we're on a crystal

1064
00:48:25,680 --> 00:48:28,239
Speaker 7: mineral based body of land. So the minerals in the

1065
00:48:28,280 --> 00:48:31,040
Speaker 7: water is one hundred percent natural pH balance naturally, but

1066
00:48:31,239 --> 00:48:33,359
Speaker 7: think about what's happening with the crops that are also

1067
00:48:33,480 --> 00:48:36,680
Speaker 7: grown on that same land that that water is coming from.

1068
00:48:36,880 --> 00:48:38,600
Speaker 7: So it's bigger than water, which is why we have

1069
00:48:38,719 --> 00:48:41,640
Speaker 7: a situation called the Bigger than a Farmer's Market farmers Market,

1070
00:48:42,040 --> 00:48:44,000
Speaker 7: because it ain't just a farmer's market. You're gonna come

1071
00:48:44,000 --> 00:48:45,640
Speaker 7: there and get your mushrooms, you could pick out your

1072
00:48:45,680 --> 00:48:47,960
Speaker 7: colleague greens. You're gonna see other type of vendors. But

1073
00:48:48,040 --> 00:48:50,520
Speaker 7: it's also gonna be workshops there. There's also we have

1074
00:48:50,640 --> 00:48:52,839
Speaker 7: a huge fire pit where we do a situation called

1075
00:48:52,880 --> 00:48:55,960
Speaker 7: fire for Therapy where people come do poetry, share stories

1076
00:48:56,000 --> 00:48:58,120
Speaker 7: and things like that. But the water bring them there.

1077
00:48:58,360 --> 00:49:01,000
Speaker 7: It's bigger than water. So have a festival that we

1078
00:49:01,120 --> 00:49:05,040
Speaker 7: do called the Alkalin Festival's three days and two nights

1079
00:49:05,080 --> 00:49:09,360
Speaker 7: of live music, yoga, meditation, camping, bonfire, food trucks, vendors

1080
00:49:09,400 --> 00:49:09,719
Speaker 7: and more.

1081
00:49:10,200 --> 00:49:13,200
Speaker 5: But it all started with the water. It's bigger than water,

1082
00:49:13,360 --> 00:49:13,520
Speaker 5: you know.

1083
00:49:13,640 --> 00:49:15,560
Speaker 7: So people come there for that and they get an

1084
00:49:15,760 --> 00:49:20,880
Speaker 7: entirely different holistic experience and all of the inspirational messages

1085
00:49:20,960 --> 00:49:22,759
Speaker 7: and things that we've heard from people that have come

1086
00:49:22,920 --> 00:49:26,000
Speaker 7: and experienced that. Because we build showers out there because

1087
00:49:26,000 --> 00:49:27,560
Speaker 7: people are going to be there for three days and

1088
00:49:27,600 --> 00:49:31,719
Speaker 7: two nights, so people need to wash, but they are

1089
00:49:31,840 --> 00:49:34,840
Speaker 7: showering into alkaline water as well, so they're not just

1090
00:49:34,960 --> 00:49:36,640
Speaker 7: drinking it, they showering in it.

1091
00:49:36,920 --> 00:49:37,839
Speaker 5: It's bigger than water.

1092
00:49:37,960 --> 00:49:41,080
Speaker 7: Your skin is your most exposed organ so what are

1093
00:49:41,120 --> 00:49:42,560
Speaker 7: you putting on your skin as well?

1094
00:49:42,719 --> 00:49:43,280
Speaker 5: It's bigger.

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Speaker 7: So people are starting to really understand, you know what

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00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:49,239
Speaker 7: we say when we say that it ain't just a

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00:49:49,360 --> 00:49:51,520
Speaker 7: water company. It started there, that was the seed, but

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00:49:51,600 --> 00:49:53,880
Speaker 7: the harvest is much more grand than that. You have

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00:49:54,000 --> 00:49:56,279
Speaker 7: the food, you have a space where you can come

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00:49:56,440 --> 00:49:59,680
Speaker 7: and release. You know, you have the festivals and things,

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00:49:59,719 --> 00:50:02,480
Speaker 7: but all started with the water facts.

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Speaker 4: And I'll just add to that where.

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Speaker 6: We got this summer program that we do a steam

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00:50:08,920 --> 00:50:12,040
Speaker 6: program where we get the kids out, they learn about agriculture,

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00:50:12,080 --> 00:50:17,560
Speaker 6: we build the garden boxes, doing entrepreneurship, arts, financial literacy,

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00:50:18,120 --> 00:50:21,200
Speaker 6: and just all things survival skills based, you know, so

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00:50:21,400 --> 00:50:24,640
Speaker 6: learning how to operate this land where we can put

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00:50:24,680 --> 00:50:27,320
Speaker 6: ourselves in a position to be independent and self sufficient

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00:50:27,600 --> 00:50:30,600
Speaker 6: in real life. And then so the youth and the

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00:50:30,760 --> 00:50:34,360
Speaker 6: education is the major thing because we're literally building community.

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00:50:34,719 --> 00:50:37,600
Speaker 6: So the foundation or where we started with Soul Academy

1112
00:50:38,160 --> 00:50:40,600
Speaker 6: is really coming to life where we got a community

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00:50:40,719 --> 00:50:42,960
Speaker 6: for these kids to dwell in, like to.

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Speaker 4: Be running through this land free man.

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00:50:45,680 --> 00:50:47,839
Speaker 6: They don't be knowing where they iPads and phones are

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00:50:47,840 --> 00:50:51,320
Speaker 6: add on this land because it's just endless acreage that

1117
00:50:51,400 --> 00:50:54,759
Speaker 6: they can just run with limitless boundaries, you hear me.

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Speaker 6: And then the last thing I'll say in reference to that,

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00:50:58,080 --> 00:51:00,960
Speaker 6: the more we push and move the water, we'll come

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Speaker 6: back to the land. It's fifteen fruit trees that we

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00:51:03,719 --> 00:51:06,879
Speaker 6: need to plant. It's a new machinery that we got

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00:51:07,000 --> 00:51:09,440
Speaker 6: to activate some more of this land. Like we can

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00:51:09,560 --> 00:51:11,520
Speaker 6: actually see where the fruit.

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Speaker 4: Of our labor is going.

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Speaker 6: And it ain't just for the CEO to put in

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00:51:15,880 --> 00:51:18,960
Speaker 6: his pocket and do him like he literally protecting this land.

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00:51:19,400 --> 00:51:22,920
Speaker 6: He denying one hundred million dollar deals, hundreds of million

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00:51:22,960 --> 00:51:25,960
Speaker 6: dollar deals to buy this land. And we see him

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00:51:26,000 --> 00:51:28,640
Speaker 6: putting this land in places and spaces that's gonna feed

1130
00:51:29,040 --> 00:51:31,520
Speaker 6: not just him, like he gonna be over to enjoy

1131
00:51:31,640 --> 00:51:34,359
Speaker 6: some of these fruit trees, but these fruit trees gonna

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00:51:34,400 --> 00:51:37,600
Speaker 6: live long past his lifetime, you know. So I see

1133
00:51:37,719 --> 00:51:42,160
Speaker 6: he's actually reininvesting the money into the community, you fear me.

1134
00:51:42,760 --> 00:51:46,319
Speaker 6: And ultimately we won't know what none of these other

1135
00:51:46,400 --> 00:51:48,799
Speaker 6: corporations doing. They probably doing the same thing with their

1136
00:51:48,840 --> 00:51:51,640
Speaker 6: family compound. But we ain't never gonna be at their

1137
00:51:51,680 --> 00:51:54,880
Speaker 6: family compound though you fear me, but y'all can come

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00:51:54,920 --> 00:51:56,680
Speaker 6: to ours though, right.

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Speaker 2: I want to thank you guys for coming in telling

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Speaker 2: them the website for Instagram all that man.

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Speaker 6: Well, first off, again, I want to salute y'all official

1142
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Speaker 6: salute appreciate y'all, y'all being diligent locking in pushing this

1143
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Speaker 6: financial literacy bringing all type of products and services and

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00:52:18,719 --> 00:52:22,920
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Speaker 6: I stumbled into. I ain't even I wasn't even looking

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Speaker 6: other day and I seen a message. I hit him

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Speaker 6: in like twenty eighteen just to say, salute y'all doing

1150
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Speaker 6: y'all thing off the beginning, you hear me. But yeah,

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Speaker 6: I'm just honored to be here and get the people

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we appreciate you. I just thought about that. Man,

1159
00:53:02,680 --> 00:53:06,400
Speaker 1: I gotta have an alkalin shower. I've never had that before.

1160
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Speaker 4: Let us be all supplier. You know, you go before

1161
00:53:10,520 --> 00:53:11,360
Speaker 4: we know, we're gonna have that.

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Speaker 6: That invests fast, earn your leisure water. You know what

1163
00:53:14,000 --> 00:53:17,240
Speaker 6: I'm saying, fat, You know the fact sounds I'm.

1164
00:53:18,760 --> 00:53:20,319
Speaker 5: Really I'm the plower by live.

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Speaker 3: Let's get it all right.

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Speaker 4: Appreciate it.

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Speaker 3: Thank you guys for rock on for see you next week. Peace.

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Speaker 4: Peace,