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Speaker 4: Here, everybody, Welcome to another episode of butter Nomic. Tommy

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Speaker 4: host Brandon Butler found the CEO of butter ETL And

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Speaker 4: today we got somebody special up in the podcast. Man,

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Speaker 4: we got somebody special in the building, the one the

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Speaker 4: only Miss Sarah O Kim. You gotta say the whole

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Speaker 4: thing like a tribe called quest Sarah, how you doing it?

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Speaker 2: I'm good.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for having me, Brandon.

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Speaker 4: Thanks throwing up. It's always good to see you well.

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Speaker 4: The one of the friendliest people in Atlanta.

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Speaker 1: I know, really absolutely, that's a lot you know a

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Speaker 4: It's always it's always good. It's always good. So, Sarah, man,

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Speaker 4: I appreciate you pulling up.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 4: We were talking a little bit before we got on,

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Speaker 4: you know, so I did look you up on Chat.

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Speaker 4: I said, write me a bio for Sarah, tell me

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Speaker 4: And look, it came back with some stuff. Really so

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Speaker 5: Oh, like I hope not bad stuff.

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Speaker 4: No, No, it's all amazing stuff. Let's do this thing,

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Speaker 4: so it says Sarah Okim is a co founder and

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Speaker 4: co owner of Our Bar, a vibrant you know as

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Speaker 4: Shack says Vibrant, a vibrant bar and kitchen located on

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Speaker 4: Edgewood Avenue in southeast Atlanta's Old Fourth warf over seventeen

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Speaker 4: years of experience in Atlanta nightlife and hospitality industry, she

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Speaker 4: Our Bar was established in twenty twenty by Kim and

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Speaker 4: Kim Sarah, how you doing?

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Speaker 5: Oh my god.

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Speaker 4: Well, I appreciate you pulling up. So let's start this

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Speaker 1: HiT's a bar, HiT's a headache, But no, I love it.

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Speaker 1: It's it's a bar, kitchen and on Edgewood. It's owned

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Speaker 3: I'm proud of that one.

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Speaker 4: People ask me the same thing about Butter all the time.

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Speaker 4: They're like, how'd you come the name Butter? And like,

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Speaker 1: There's all kinds of butter, and butter is good for you.

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Speaker 1: And I think that's the culture that's making those decisions

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Speaker 4: No, absolutely, you know, one of my favorite authors is

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and so.

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Speaker 4: When I think about Atlanta, right, like what do people

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Speaker 4: You know, we'll we'll go to waffle house for breakfast, lunch,

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Speaker 4: We all love living pepper wings. So there's just these

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Speaker 1: I think they're making efforts to clean it up right now.

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Speaker 1: an increased police presence. I think it starts with just

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Speaker 1: even having the manpower to.

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Speaker 5: Crowd control.

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Speaker 1: I think when you go to places like Bourbon Street,

442
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Speaker 1: they have certain things in place, like for instance, last call.

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Speaker 1: You know, they have these street sweepers that come and

444
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Speaker 1: they kind of push everybody out gently, Whereas before you

445
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Speaker 1: would see some of these APA officers.

446
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Speaker 3: It's so combative and you've got three or four officers.

447
00:16:38,920 --> 00:16:41,280
Speaker 1: They're screaming at you and like people are drunk already,

448
00:16:41,400 --> 00:16:44,280
Speaker 1: and you're honestly outnumbered, and they just don't really have

449
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Speaker 1: a good way of exiting people or even kind of

450
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Speaker 1: like showing them what the program is. It's changed, or

451
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Speaker 1: it's been so lawless that people are working on top

452
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Speaker 1: of cars, there's horses, there's all kinds of and there's

453
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Speaker 1: no control. But now I can see that they're making

454
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Speaker 1: an effort to take back some of that control now

455
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Speaker 1: that they have more manpower behind the police force, but

456
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Speaker 1: it is going to take some time. I think we

457
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Speaker 1: are very close in proximity to the Bend stadium and stuff,

458
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Speaker 1: but I don't know what's to take. I think it's

459
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Speaker 1: just I just think we have to make it that long,

460
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Speaker 1: you know, we just have to make it to next

461
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Speaker 1: year to see if we can get a piece of that.

462
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Speaker 1: But I think there will be money in the city.

463
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Speaker 1: I see the belt line already, you know, putting out

464
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Speaker 1: brands and stuff. But that's I don't pay a beltline

465
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Speaker 1: tax where I'm at. I think it's like maybe a

466
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Speaker 1: few businesses down where it ends. But do people from

467
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Speaker 1: that belt line exit by boulevard? Do they even make

468
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Speaker 1: it down to me?

469
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Speaker 3: Not really?

470
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Speaker 1: That trolley that sits in front of our stop, like

471
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Speaker 1: nobody's riding that thing, But hopefully they will, Like I

472
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Speaker 1: don't know, I see them trying. I see everybody scrambling.

473
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Speaker 1: I see budgets being released where they do. They just

474
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Speaker 1: did like a couple billion dollars, like the largest grant

475
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Speaker 1: or the largest budget ever for city council. Where does

476
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Speaker 1: that go?

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Speaker 5: I don't know.

478
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Speaker 1: I feel like belt line would definitely be a priority though,

479
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Speaker 1: and then maybe us we can get like the leftovers

480
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Speaker 1: of it.

481
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Speaker 4: Get more than just left over.

482
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Speaker 5: Yeah.

483
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Speaker 1: I think it's very unique too, though, because you have

484
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Speaker 1: the historical district that's there, you have the neighborhoods, and

485
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Speaker 1: then you have the businesses, and they're all kind of

486
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Speaker 1: kind they're all kind of at odds. They don't really

487
00:18:07,119 --> 00:18:09,200
Speaker 1: come to an agreement on anything, but we're going to

488
00:18:09,280 --> 00:18:10,919
Speaker 1: have to if we want to make this work. So

489
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Speaker 1: hopefully that you see some changes, there's more conversations happening.

490
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Speaker 1: I think Liliana is doing a great job. I know

491
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Speaker 1: Emir is probably leaving out this year, right hear, But

492
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Speaker 1: hopefully that some of this stuff can pick. I think

493
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Speaker 1: it just has to be consistency, and it just hasn't

494
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Speaker 1: been consistent enough to stick.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: One of the things you said a little while ago

497
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Speaker 4: was that you know, you all, can you consider yourself

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Speaker 4: to be like guests on Edgewook? Yeah, right, Like, what

499
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Speaker 4: are some of the things that you all have done

500
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Speaker 4: that really, you know, made the people in that community

501
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Speaker 4: feel welcomed at our bar and just and really appreciat

502
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Speaker 4: and support what you all are doing.

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Speaker 1: So, like I guess let's let's go back a little

504
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Speaker 1: bit too, like just a personal gripe of mine, right,

505
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Speaker 1: Like so many Asian business owners have come into black neighborhoods,

506
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Speaker 1: whether they're nail salons, whether they're little food marks and stuff,

507
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Speaker 1: and I feel like a lot of the Asians don't

508
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Speaker 1: feel like they are a part of that community. They

509
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Speaker 1: think they come and they set up shop and they

510
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Speaker 1: live somewhere totally different. I think it's black dollars that

511
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Speaker 1: kept food on a lot of these Asian households tables,

512
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Speaker 1: yet none of it goes back to that direct community.

513
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Speaker 1: And I've always had an issue with that. I don't

514
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Speaker 1: know if it's a language barrier. I don't know if

515
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Speaker 1: if it's because they're immigrants or whatever the excuse may be,

516
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Speaker 1: but I've always gone on my way to be conscious

517
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Speaker 1: of that. I want to hire within my community. I

518
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Speaker 1: want to do events for my direct community. I want

519
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Speaker 1: to help the people that I see every day. I

520
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Speaker 1: want to learn everybody's name, whether they're in house or not.

521
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Speaker 1: I want to write letters and show it for people

522
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Speaker 1: at court, whatever the case may be. If I can

523
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Speaker 1: help for somebody directly within our bars, like property, like

524
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Speaker 1: I will do that, you know, but I think that's

525
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Speaker 1: just something that hasn't happened and I just have an

526
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Speaker 1: issue with it. So I think just moving forward with knowing,

527
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Speaker 1: like what can I do to help my direct community first,

528
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Speaker 1: has always kind of put us at a put us

529
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Speaker 1: at an advantage or at least being excited did by

530
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Speaker 1: our community.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, because it's important.

532
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Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, to your point, like you know, it

533
00:20:04,040 --> 00:20:06,560
Speaker 4: was funny we were actually in here talking about you know,

534
00:20:06,600 --> 00:20:08,679
Speaker 4: things like property and taxes and like that stuff earlier.

535
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Speaker 4: And I think that's one thing that even it happens

536
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Speaker 4: a lot of times with police. And that's why I

537
00:20:12,880 --> 00:20:15,280
Speaker 4: think that, you know, what Atlanta is doing well. Again,

538
00:20:15,320 --> 00:20:17,440
Speaker 4: there's definitely some aspects of cops say that I don't

539
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Speaker 4: agree with. One of the things I think is important

540
00:20:19,080 --> 00:20:21,280
Speaker 4: in a city like Atlanta is we do have a

541
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Speaker 4: police force that represents the broader community. Yeah, right, because

542
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Speaker 4: what ends up happening in a lot of cities is

543
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Speaker 4: we're just being honest with ourselves. A lot of police

544
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Speaker 4: are ex military, you know, because they've had that structure

545
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Speaker 4: for so long. They come into a city, they police

546
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Speaker 4: that area. But then to your point, they live somewhere else,

547
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Speaker 4: and so it's almost like you're basically paying somebody to

548
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Speaker 4: come down here and bust your head, give you a

549
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Speaker 4: hard time, right, And then as soon as they're done,

550
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Speaker 4: they pack up and they go to Marietta, they go

551
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Speaker 4: to Alpharetta, right, And that's where they're actually spending their

552
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Speaker 4: tax dollars at, that's where they live at, that's where

553
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Speaker 4: their property taxes are being paid, and they just come

554
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Speaker 4: down here to kind of keep the peace right. And so, like,

555
00:20:55,840 --> 00:20:58,480
Speaker 4: I think it's important, you know, to definitely have people

556
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Speaker 4: that are you know, in that area, that are living

557
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Speaker 4: in that area. You know, Atlanta does a lot of

558
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Speaker 4: good work and making sure that police actually live in

559
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Speaker 4: some of these areas, are actually helping give them houses

560
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Speaker 4: and cars, right, because again, like it's it's it's hard

561
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Speaker 4: for you to sit here and harass somebody if you

562
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Speaker 4: live in that same neighborhood. Like I had a friend

563
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Speaker 4: of mine, I'm not going to say his name, but

564
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Speaker 4: I had a friend of mine who, you know, he

565
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Speaker 4: was coming home one night from being out and he

566
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Speaker 4: maybe had a couple of drinks and you know, but

567
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Speaker 4: the police live in his neighborhood, and so he ran

568
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Speaker 4: a stop sign and the policeman pulled him over. Well,

569
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Speaker 4: that policeman knows him, oh yeah, and that policeman has

570
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Speaker 4: a relationship with him. That's not just a random guy

571
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Speaker 4: getting stopped that night. So while that situation could have

572
00:21:34,040 --> 00:21:36,919
Speaker 4: went one way, because that policeman is in the neighborhood

573
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Speaker 4: and you see each other every day, he knows this person.

574
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Speaker 4: He just made sure he got home safely. Right, And

575
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Speaker 4: I think community, yeah, And that's community, right, And I

576
00:21:44,400 --> 00:21:46,480
Speaker 4: think that's so to your point, right, Like it's about

577
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Speaker 4: coming into these communities and not just extracting everything you

578
00:21:50,359 --> 00:21:54,080
Speaker 4: can from whatever whoever you are. You know, whatever you are, well, white, Black, Asian,

579
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Speaker 4: anything in between.

580
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Speaker 2: Right.

581
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Speaker 4: And I think that's where people get a lot of

582
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Speaker 4: stuff wrong. Is they come in these communities, they see

583
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Speaker 4: the opportunity, they set up shop. They just extract and

584
00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:03,000
Speaker 4: take and take and taken. What I see you y'all

585
00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:05,320
Speaker 4: doing is is giving and doing things back, Like I said,

586
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Speaker 4: whether it's housing, community forums, from from you know, from

587
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Speaker 4: the Atlanta City Council or you know. I remember actually

588
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Speaker 4: we did a partnership when I'm the we're running for

589
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Speaker 4: city council.

590
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Speaker 1: Some of the mayor stuff, Yes, I think we did

591
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Speaker 1: the post one at large interview.

592
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Speaker 3: There did you moderate them? You help moderate that, you know,

593
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Speaker 3: his birthday.

594
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Speaker 4: Yeah, And so it's actually important right to kind of

595
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Speaker 4: have those moments where again, it's not just about also

596
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Speaker 4: turning up, but it's also about giving those people an

597
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Speaker 4: opportunity to come in and showcase how the bar shows

598
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Speaker 4: up in different ways. And one of the things I

599
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Speaker 4: really love that y'all do is also like the NARCAN

600
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Speaker 4: training And in my life, where did that part come from?

601
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Speaker 1: Well, I mean, obviously, uh, we're in the night life

602
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Speaker 1: seeing you know, people party and people overdose. There's a

603
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Speaker 1: huge fatanyl problem right now or it's been. And uh

604
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Speaker 1: I partnered with the Atlanta harm Reduction Coalition age YEP

605
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Speaker 1: and Sarah she came and taught classes and then we

606
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Speaker 1: were like, man, this is so informative, and we were like, well,

607
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Speaker 1: let's see if we can as nightlife people, you're always

608
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Speaker 1: kind of like right there, first you see somebody passed out,

609
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Speaker 1: you see somebody overdose, and like you're it would be

610
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Speaker 1: how cool would it be if we could train three

611
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Speaker 1: hundred hospitality professionals from bars all over Atlanta? So that way,

612
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Speaker 1: on any given night, at any party, somebody might be

613
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Speaker 1: there that has already taken the class at Arbor.

614
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Speaker 3: So we were able to hit that goal and we

615
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Speaker 3: trained three hundred people.

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Speaker 1: We worked with the night life mayor at the time,

617
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Speaker 1: and did some stuff at city Hall as well too.

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Speaker 1: We did stop the bleed classes for any type of

619
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Speaker 1: shooting or just any type of trauma to you know,

620
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Speaker 1: kind of stop the bleed and stuff because a lot

621
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Speaker 1: of times the police response is not that not that fast,

622
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Speaker 1: and we've had to run to the firehouse a few

623
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Speaker 1: times and bang on their door as their first responder

624
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Speaker 1: squad for or their badasses though, so they were able

625
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Speaker 1: to bring the fire truck out. But there's been a

626
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Speaker 1: couple of times we witnessed some shootings and people are

627
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Speaker 1: bleeding out and they're right there at that light. Our

628
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Speaker 1: security is right there, you know, and we have turnkits,

629
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Speaker 1: we have everything. We'll gauze it, will you'll stuff it,

630
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Speaker 1: and then we'll run to the firehouse and try to

631
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Speaker 1: save a life. But I think a lot of hospitality

632
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Speaker 1: people are it should be it would behoove you to

633
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Speaker 1: be equipped in that sense, you know, especially because people

634
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Speaker 1: are overdose and everywhere off of everything.

635
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Speaker 4: Well that's important Again, it's important that you all are

636
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Speaker 4: again in that space because yeah, there are people they

637
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Speaker 4: probably wouldn't be here right now if Barba wasn't right there.

638
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we did get a couple of text messages and

639
00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:12,760
Speaker 1: it was definitely tear jerking. It was nice to know

640
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Speaker 1: that they were like, I had a Narcan on me.

641
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Speaker 1: So yeah, she dropped off maybe a thousand doses of

642
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Speaker 1: Narcan for us, and we passed them out on our

643
00:24:18,480 --> 00:24:20,879
Speaker 1: industry nights. People were welcome to grab as many as

644
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Speaker 1: they want, keep them in your car. They don't really expire.

645
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Speaker 1: I think they say like thirty something years, but it

646
00:24:25,359 --> 00:24:27,720
Speaker 1: can go beyond that. But people were just sharing them,

647
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Speaker 1: you know, and I feel like it's just I think

648
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Speaker 1: a question that came up was like can I get

649
00:24:31,040 --> 00:24:33,399
Speaker 1: in trouble for even having this on me? You know,

650
00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:35,520
Speaker 1: like is it incriminating if I get, you know, pulled

651
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Speaker 1: over by the police, Which is a valid question. But

652
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Speaker 1: I think the more you desensitize people to that and

653
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Speaker 1: just having it and it's just a norm, it's just

654
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Speaker 1: a part of my kit, my survival kit, keep it

655
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Speaker 1: in my car, you never know. I think it's now

656
00:24:44,720 --> 00:24:46,560
Speaker 1: the stigma has kind of gone away a little bit,

657
00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:47,440
Speaker 1: which is nice.

658
00:24:47,520 --> 00:24:49,240
Speaker 3: You know, it does save lives.

659
00:24:49,119 --> 00:24:51,400
Speaker 4: Has it been hard to kind of balance all those

660
00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:53,520
Speaker 4: things that wants to be a safe space, to be

661
00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:56,600
Speaker 4: a cultural hub and still you still run the business

662
00:24:56,600 --> 00:24:57,320
Speaker 4: at the same time too.

663
00:24:57,480 --> 00:24:59,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, it's really expensive. You know a lot of

664
00:24:59,240 --> 00:25:01,000
Speaker 1: the stuff that we do, especially some of the stuff,

665
00:25:01,119 --> 00:25:02,480
Speaker 1: a lot of the charity work, and a lot of

666
00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:05,080
Speaker 1: the drives and especially Hugby Block. It does cost a

667
00:25:05,119 --> 00:25:07,000
Speaker 1: lot of money, but it's so well worth it. I

668
00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:09,560
Speaker 1: think our staff get a big, big kick out of it.

669
00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:10,520
Speaker 3: They enjoy it.

670
00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:12,399
Speaker 1: You know, people that aren't even our staff, it's just

671
00:25:12,440 --> 00:25:14,280
Speaker 1: some of our regulars that are from that neighborhood want

672
00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:15,679
Speaker 1: to be involved. If you have a if you have

673
00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:17,760
Speaker 1: a group of people that want to do it, then

674
00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:20,119
Speaker 1: I think why would we not you know, do everything

675
00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:22,560
Speaker 1: we can. Like It's really about the customers, right, So

676
00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:24,240
Speaker 1: if this is stuff that interests them, and this is

677
00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:26,320
Speaker 1: stuff that they want to do and participate in, and

678
00:25:26,320 --> 00:25:28,159
Speaker 1: they're proud to talk about it and they're proud to

679
00:25:28,160 --> 00:25:30,320
Speaker 1: be a part of it, then why would I Why

680
00:25:30,320 --> 00:25:32,760
Speaker 1: would I combat that and do something totally different. It's

681
00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:34,560
Speaker 1: you know, you have to actively be listening and just

682
00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:36,320
Speaker 1: kind of like observe and see, like what do people

683
00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:38,119
Speaker 1: what do people really want to do if they if

684
00:25:38,119 --> 00:25:40,200
Speaker 1: they're given the opportunity and they had the way to

685
00:25:40,280 --> 00:25:42,560
Speaker 1: just show up and be a part of something and help,

686
00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:44,960
Speaker 1: I think most likely they will. You just have to

687
00:25:45,040 --> 00:25:46,280
Speaker 1: kind of like feed it to them a little bit.

688
00:25:46,280 --> 00:25:47,919
Speaker 1: You got to bring them to the water or whatever.

689
00:25:48,119 --> 00:25:51,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, bring some list, you have to bring, bring a

690
00:25:51,080 --> 00:25:52,720
Speaker 4: horse to the water, bring in something like that.

691
00:25:52,880 --> 00:25:53,040
Speaker 1: Yeah.

692
00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:53,480
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah.

693
00:25:53,800 --> 00:25:55,320
Speaker 4: People to get the people where they're at.

694
00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:57,040
Speaker 1: And that's and I feel like that's something I always

695
00:25:57,119 --> 00:25:58,800
Speaker 1: learned too. When I had this mentor, she was just like,

696
00:25:58,840 --> 00:26:00,560
Speaker 1: you know, when you call, you know, when you come

697
00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:02,439
Speaker 1: to me with something, you know, put it in a

698
00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:04,280
Speaker 1: yes or norm form, like so I could just answer

699
00:26:04,359 --> 00:26:06,960
Speaker 1: yes or no. So I would package everything and I'm okay, hey,

700
00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:09,040
Speaker 1: this happened, but I can do this yesterday, you know,

701
00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:10,639
Speaker 1: and just kind of present it to her in a

702
00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:11,920
Speaker 1: way that all she had to do was say yes

703
00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:12,159
Speaker 1: or no.

704
00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:13,640
Speaker 5: So she just picks up.

705
00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:15,879
Speaker 1: The phone, Hey, thinking about this damage control, whatever the

706
00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:17,280
Speaker 1: case may be. So I try to do that even

707
00:26:17,280 --> 00:26:18,720
Speaker 1: with the events, Like how could I just have people

708
00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:20,840
Speaker 1: show up and just either enjoy it or not. Yeah,

709
00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:22,600
Speaker 1: they don't have to really do any thinking. There's really

710
00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:25,480
Speaker 1: no homework or like less less work for them.

711
00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:28,800
Speaker 4: Yeah. What would have been some of your favoritablest memorable

712
00:26:28,840 --> 00:26:30,639
Speaker 4: moments since you all been doing our bar? I know

713
00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:32,880
Speaker 4: a lot of amazing stuff's happens again, y'all do these

714
00:26:33,320 --> 00:26:35,920
Speaker 4: special events, everything from tofting classes and all kind of

715
00:26:35,920 --> 00:26:38,359
Speaker 4: stuff like karaoke Night's always fun like this some of

716
00:26:38,440 --> 00:26:39,800
Speaker 4: your favorite moments up there?

717
00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:42,879
Speaker 1: Man, I feel like on a weekly event level, I

718
00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:45,360
Speaker 1: guess I love karaoke. I think that's the I see

719
00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:47,280
Speaker 1: a lot of people's families come in on them. They're

720
00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:48,840
Speaker 1: like my mom's in town, my aunts in town, my

721
00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:51,760
Speaker 1: grandma's in town. People are coming to celebrate graduations. It's

722
00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:55,000
Speaker 1: probably the most like entry level, like effortless, great vibes.

723
00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:57,520
Speaker 1: Everybody knows everybody. Night is probably a Sunday. I like

724
00:26:57,520 --> 00:27:00,400
Speaker 1: the Spades tournament two on Wednesdays. I think that's always

725
00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:02,919
Speaker 1: just it feels like a family cookout type vibe. I

726
00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:04,960
Speaker 1: think some of the bigger events we've done, or just

727
00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:07,600
Speaker 1: like one offs would be like a field day where

728
00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:09,360
Speaker 1: we do just all kinds of like field day games.

729
00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:11,879
Speaker 3: It's fair childlike a lot of child like play.

730
00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:15,560
Speaker 1: Some of the nonprofits stuff Hug the Block is obviously

731
00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:17,280
Speaker 1: up there, but we've done some other stuff too. When

732
00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:21,400
Speaker 1: it goes a few times, there were no shelters available.

733
00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:23,199
Speaker 1: When it dropped below freezing, I want to say, it

734
00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:25,480
Speaker 1: was like two Christmases ago and it just came out

735
00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:27,359
Speaker 1: of nowhere. It was like below it was like below

736
00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:30,280
Speaker 1: five or something. The staff wanted to stay overnight and

737
00:27:30,359 --> 00:27:32,920
Speaker 1: let some people sleep over. Yeah, yeah, that was probably.

738
00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:35,000
Speaker 1: Oh I get emotional thinking about it. It was so nice.

739
00:27:35,280 --> 00:27:35,880
Speaker 4: Oh it was good.

740
00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:37,560
Speaker 1: So yeah, we do what we can, but that that

741
00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:39,200
Speaker 1: was really cool. We cooked soup, a lot of the

742
00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:42,000
Speaker 1: pop up chips came and brought food. Last minute people

743
00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:44,720
Speaker 1: came home with they went home and got their blankets,

744
00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:48,320
Speaker 1: and we probably housed like sixty something people that night.

745
00:27:48,520 --> 00:27:48,800
Speaker 4: Wow.

746
00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:49,240
Speaker 5: Yeah.

747
00:27:49,359 --> 00:27:51,200
Speaker 3: And they were just spread out everywhere, but they were comfortable.

748
00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:54,800
Speaker 1: We watched deaftm comedy, you know, they played cards, we drank,

749
00:27:54,880 --> 00:27:57,639
Speaker 1: we smoked, We we just had a ball, you know.

750
00:27:57,720 --> 00:27:59,720
Speaker 3: And that and I think we bonded a lot that day.

751
00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:01,760
Speaker 1: Got to stay up with mister Mike and talk about

752
00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:03,359
Speaker 1: what his you know, you just kind of got to

753
00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:05,720
Speaker 1: learn people's stories. Yet we know their names, but we

754
00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:07,680
Speaker 1: don't really know their background and their stories. And a

755
00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:09,760
Speaker 1: lot of them are from the old fourth Ward Grady

756
00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:12,200
Speaker 1: Holmes and stuff, and they had they had some stories

757
00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:14,680
Speaker 1: for sure, but even those at those moments, they stay

758
00:28:14,760 --> 00:28:15,000
Speaker 1: with me.

759
00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:15,600
Speaker 2: Yeah.

760
00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:19,199
Speaker 4: I mean again, like it sounds like like none of

761
00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:20,520
Speaker 4: that was probably in the business plan.

762
00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:22,040
Speaker 3: No, no, not at all.

763
00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:24,520
Speaker 1: But there was a need there though, like the pandemic,

764
00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:27,119
Speaker 1: and that's where Dez came in. When we were because

765
00:28:27,119 --> 00:28:30,280
Speaker 1: we opened March first, and then the shutdown was March sixteenth.

766
00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:32,679
Speaker 1: Oh wow, so we did we didn't have nothing to

767
00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:34,520
Speaker 1: do after that point, but because we were I guess

768
00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:36,720
Speaker 1: we were deemed essential, but we had those strict curfews

769
00:28:36,720 --> 00:28:37,960
Speaker 1: and stuff, so we kind of was like what do

770
00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:41,680
Speaker 1: we do? And then at that point, you know, the

771
00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:43,280
Speaker 1: they would you know, at one point they would be

772
00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:45,520
Speaker 1: asking for a dollar, let me get some change, to

773
00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:48,520
Speaker 1: like do you have any water? So you you instantly

774
00:28:48,520 --> 00:28:50,760
Speaker 1: saw a shift in like what survival looked like at

775
00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:53,120
Speaker 1: that point because all the businesses were closed, so what

776
00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:55,880
Speaker 1: you know, their means of survival just got cut into

777
00:28:56,080 --> 00:28:58,240
Speaker 1: like it's there is none, So now you got people

778
00:28:58,240 --> 00:29:01,400
Speaker 1: asking for water. So Chef D was like, hey, we'll

779
00:29:01,440 --> 00:29:03,640
Speaker 1: meet at the bar. We'll stay have many feet apart,

780
00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:05,440
Speaker 1: and we'll just do an assembly line. And we made

781
00:29:05,440 --> 00:29:08,160
Speaker 1: a hundred brown bag lunches a day for like six

782
00:29:08,280 --> 00:29:10,400
Speaker 1: or seven months straight. Oh well, and we did that

783
00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:12,040
Speaker 1: and the bar wasn't open at that time, and this

784
00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:14,160
Speaker 1: is before the curfew, so we would do that and

785
00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:15,600
Speaker 1: at that point we just go on foot and just

786
00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:17,640
Speaker 1: pass it out and masked up Club Duff, you know,

787
00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:19,880
Speaker 1: temperature checks and all that. And at that point we

788
00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:21,880
Speaker 1: got to really know everybody, and that's when I think

789
00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:23,880
Speaker 1: we bonded the most with them. And then we you know,

790
00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:26,320
Speaker 1: slowly opened back up and stuff. And they're still there,

791
00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:27,560
Speaker 1: you know a lot of them. A lot of them

792
00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:29,720
Speaker 1: have passed away or have moved on and got housing,

793
00:29:30,240 --> 00:29:32,000
Speaker 1: but for the most part, the majority of them are

794
00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:32,400
Speaker 1: still there.

795
00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:33,160
Speaker 5: It's the same people.

796
00:29:33,520 --> 00:29:33,760
Speaker 2: Yeah.

797
00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:35,760
Speaker 4: I had another group that we were talking to and

798
00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:38,120
Speaker 4: they kind of had a similar situation where they launched

799
00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:41,320
Speaker 4: their business. I think literally days before kind of the

800
00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:43,560
Speaker 4: pandemic came in. The world kind of shut down right

801
00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:46,280
Speaker 4: like at that moment, you know, were you even thinking

802
00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:47,840
Speaker 4: was it was like, you know, what do we we

803
00:29:47,960 --> 00:29:50,080
Speaker 4: might be in over our heads or we're just going

804
00:29:50,160 --> 00:29:52,000
Speaker 4: to lean into this. Like what do you remember most

805
00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:52,600
Speaker 4: about that time?

806
00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:53,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was so scary.

807
00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:56,240
Speaker 1: But then honestly too, when we were doing that, like

808
00:29:56,440 --> 00:29:58,280
Speaker 1: the black boys still doing what the black boys did,

809
00:29:58,320 --> 00:30:00,400
Speaker 1: even the businesses, but they would come and met with us,

810
00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:02,040
Speaker 1: you know, they'd come and just kind of be like, well, shit,

811
00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:03,760
Speaker 1: let me buy a shot. You know, I got ten bucks.

812
00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:05,600
Speaker 1: And they'd see me every day. So that's when the

813
00:30:05,640 --> 00:30:08,360
Speaker 1: community kind of it worked both ways. We were helping

814
00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:10,680
Speaker 1: the un housed, they were helping us, and they'd be like, well,

815
00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:12,200
Speaker 1: let me jump in, and they'd come in and was like, oh,

816
00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:13,840
Speaker 1: you want me to go down then down to the

817
00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:15,880
Speaker 1: big Head Park. I'll pass them out there. They knew

818
00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:18,080
Speaker 1: where the spots were that we didn't. So then our

819
00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:20,240
Speaker 1: you know, our footprint got got a little bit bigger

820
00:30:20,440 --> 00:30:22,240
Speaker 1: and we were able to like cover more ground and

821
00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:24,880
Speaker 1: feed more people. And I don't know, at that point,

822
00:30:24,920 --> 00:30:25,920
Speaker 1: we just kind of be And then a lot of

823
00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:27,920
Speaker 1: them ended up working for me when we did open

824
00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:29,920
Speaker 1: back up, so I'd hire them a security or bar

825
00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:33,320
Speaker 1: backs or a sound engineer, some of them have sound experience,

826
00:30:33,360 --> 00:30:35,480
Speaker 1: some of them are rappers, you know, so it just

827
00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:37,040
Speaker 1: kind of and they're still around to this day.

828
00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:37,920
Speaker 5: I love them to death.

829
00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:40,680
Speaker 4: That's cool. That's cool. So what does growth look like?

830
00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:43,520
Speaker 4: I mean again, do you all think about expanding? Is

831
00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:46,600
Speaker 4: it more impact? Is it a bigger location? Is another location?

832
00:30:46,760 --> 00:30:46,840
Speaker 2: Like?

833
00:30:46,840 --> 00:30:48,240
Speaker 4: What does growth look like for our bar?

834
00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:49,880
Speaker 1: I feel like that's one thing I did learn is

835
00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:52,040
Speaker 1: that it's definitely not franchiseable. I think what makes our

836
00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:54,240
Speaker 1: bar special is the people that work there. Yeah, you know,

837
00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:56,080
Speaker 1: it is that family vibe that you talk about, whereas

838
00:30:56,080 --> 00:30:57,480
Speaker 1: people are kind of doing their own thing. But it's

839
00:30:57,520 --> 00:30:59,360
Speaker 1: like if we were to pop open in Miami, unless

840
00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:01,840
Speaker 1: the same people went and opened that place up, Like,

841
00:31:01,880 --> 00:31:03,120
Speaker 1: would it have the same magic.

842
00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:04,320
Speaker 5: I don't think so.

843
00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:05,520
Speaker 1: So it's you know, if you look at it from

844
00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:08,000
Speaker 1: a business sense, you know, there is no handbook, there

845
00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:11,200
Speaker 1: is no copy and paste where we could just pop up,

846
00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:14,080
Speaker 1: you know, thirty forty of them all across the nation.

847
00:31:14,320 --> 00:31:16,600
Speaker 1: I think it is a one and done type of situation,

848
00:31:17,320 --> 00:31:19,520
Speaker 1: which is which is said because you know you want,

849
00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:21,360
Speaker 1: you want. We went into it thinking like, oh my god,

850
00:31:21,360 --> 00:31:23,280
Speaker 1: we could do Miami. We could do Charlotte, we could

851
00:31:23,280 --> 00:31:25,640
Speaker 1: do all these places, but what it's turned into is

852
00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:27,000
Speaker 1: not really franchiseable.

853
00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:29,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's customer. But even with that though, I mean,

854
00:31:30,040 --> 00:31:32,200
Speaker 4: do you think this could exist? Just that's not always

855
00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:33,800
Speaker 4: going to ask myself because I get asked that question

856
00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:36,360
Speaker 4: about Butter all the time. Yeah, it's like, oh, would

857
00:31:36,360 --> 00:31:39,040
Speaker 4: you ever do a Butter La or a Butter NYC.

858
00:31:39,280 --> 00:31:41,240
Speaker 4: What happened to me is I've been when we launched Butter,

859
00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:43,920
Speaker 4: I end up having to go to Miami for a

860
00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:47,560
Speaker 4: family reunion, like literally at the launch party, like I

861
00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:50,560
Speaker 4: don't know, like on a Thursday, and that's Saturday. I

862
00:31:50,640 --> 00:31:52,520
Speaker 4: was in Miami and I was walking around in little

863
00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:54,680
Speaker 4: Haiti and I was looking I said, you know what, Yeah,

864
00:31:54,680 --> 00:31:56,440
Speaker 4: this would never work down here. And the reason why

865
00:31:56,440 --> 00:31:59,040
Speaker 4: I said it would never work is because Miami is

866
00:31:59,080 --> 00:32:02,120
Speaker 4: so diverse, Yeah, so many kinds of people. Atlanta is

867
00:32:02,160 --> 00:32:04,200
Speaker 4: still pretty binary in a lot of ways. Like it's

868
00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:05,680
Speaker 4: still pretty black and white in a lot of ways.

869
00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:08,840
Speaker 4: But I'm just thinking, like, you know, if Butter Miami's

870
00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:11,400
Speaker 4: not in Spanish and it's not doing all these things right,

871
00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:14,239
Speaker 4: and it's same thing about La, right, same thing right,

872
00:32:14,320 --> 00:32:17,280
Speaker 4: or even New York, so many different cultures. How do

873
00:32:17,320 --> 00:32:18,880
Speaker 4: you kind of like kind of stand up and say

874
00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:20,640
Speaker 4: this is the thing that like really leans in it

875
00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:23,440
Speaker 4: kind of represents. But I guess what I'm asking is like,

876
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:25,800
Speaker 4: even if it's not in another city, do you think

877
00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:27,880
Speaker 4: there's anywhere else, Like if there was any where else

878
00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:29,920
Speaker 4: in Atlanta? Just dreaming for a second, like, do you

879
00:32:29,960 --> 00:32:32,200
Speaker 4: think there's anywhere else in Atlanta that arbar could have

880
00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:35,479
Speaker 4: a same similar kind of successful impact as it is.

881
00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:38,560
Speaker 1: I wouldn't even say it's successful really because it's like

882
00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:40,920
Speaker 1: it's so hard, Like I'm so sick of breaking even

883
00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:43,560
Speaker 1: you know, like I'm in year six. It's like the

884
00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:46,240
Speaker 1: overhead is crazy, security costs so much, like I have

885
00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:49,120
Speaker 1: the expenses of a nightclub in the sales of a restaurant,

886
00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:51,200
Speaker 1: you know, and it's like people have fun in between,

887
00:32:51,240 --> 00:32:52,640
Speaker 1: and that's worth it to me. To me, that is

888
00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:55,360
Speaker 1: that is some type of payback. But it's like, man,

889
00:32:55,960 --> 00:32:57,440
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's it's exhausting.

890
00:32:57,440 --> 00:32:58,040
Speaker 3: I don't even know.

891
00:32:58,280 --> 00:33:00,080
Speaker 1: I look at some of these other businesses and I'm like,

892
00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:02,520
Speaker 1: how do they Like how is a thirty cruise? Like

893
00:33:03,120 --> 00:33:06,480
Speaker 1: you know, like all within this like Metro Atlanta area. Like,

894
00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:08,400
Speaker 1: I don't know how anybody has the time to even

895
00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:10,680
Speaker 1: open up another one, you know, or maybe it's like

896
00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:12,200
Speaker 1: a compound thing. It's like you open up the second

897
00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:14,560
Speaker 1: third name becomes easier. But it's like there's no way

898
00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:16,200
Speaker 1: that I could give it the same amount of attention

899
00:33:16,320 --> 00:33:18,720
Speaker 1: and detail and you know, like love that I give

900
00:33:18,760 --> 00:33:19,840
Speaker 1: our bar to anything else.

901
00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:21,360
Speaker 5: It's completely all consuming.

902
00:33:21,560 --> 00:33:24,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, so maybe I'm doing it wrong, you know, is

903
00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:26,400
Speaker 1: really what that is. But it's like I don't think

904
00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:28,040
Speaker 1: I could do anything else and not give it my

905
00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:32,000
Speaker 1: complete all either. And that's with me having what thirty

906
00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:35,480
Speaker 1: something staff members and two other business partners that work

907
00:33:35,520 --> 00:33:37,800
Speaker 1: full time at it too, so like to even think

908
00:33:37,840 --> 00:33:38,960
Speaker 1: about opening anything else.

909
00:33:39,320 --> 00:33:44,560
Speaker 5: Oh my goodness.

910
00:33:51,920 --> 00:33:54,600
Speaker 4: What's one of the biggest misconceptions people have about running

911
00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:57,000
Speaker 4: a business, especially in a nightlife kind of bar like that.

912
00:33:57,640 --> 00:33:58,800
Speaker 3: I don't know, but I'll tell you one thing.

913
00:33:58,840 --> 00:34:00,520
Speaker 1: I feel like you need a lawyer for everything, and

914
00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:02,600
Speaker 1: nobody's told me that, you know, you know, being a

915
00:34:02,640 --> 00:34:04,880
Speaker 1: GM and stuff at the department store, it's like, oh,

916
00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:08,279
Speaker 1: scheduling conflicts, people late, you know, people smoking, just like

917
00:34:08,560 --> 00:34:10,440
Speaker 1: you know, oh, we might get a health inspection like

918
00:34:10,520 --> 00:34:12,560
Speaker 1: that might be the biggest thing. But just realizing that

919
00:34:12,640 --> 00:34:15,279
Speaker 1: like for every letter we get or just every even

920
00:34:15,360 --> 00:34:17,960
Speaker 1: like garnishment of wages for our previous employ like everything

921
00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:20,600
Speaker 1: is a lawyer and it's four hundred and sixty dollars

922
00:34:20,640 --> 00:34:20,960
Speaker 1: an hour.

923
00:34:21,080 --> 00:34:22,879
Speaker 5: You know, it's like fuck, well.

924
00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:25,319
Speaker 4: That's look, hey, look we're talking about this fotog that's

925
00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:27,000
Speaker 4: the beau the chat GPT too a little bit though.

926
00:34:27,040 --> 00:34:27,719
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, for sure.

927
00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:29,600
Speaker 4: I mean all this AI stuff. I mean you know again,

928
00:34:29,680 --> 00:34:31,279
Speaker 4: like what's gonna end up at what that is? It's

929
00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:33,200
Speaker 4: going to drive the cost of a lot of these

930
00:34:33,640 --> 00:34:36,719
Speaker 4: knowledge based businesses down ultimately zero. Like how does that

931
00:34:36,760 --> 00:34:38,200
Speaker 4: even play in because I know we were talking about

932
00:34:38,239 --> 00:34:41,320
Speaker 4: it offline? Where do you think that artificial intelligence plays

933
00:34:41,320 --> 00:34:42,680
Speaker 4: in this everything you're working on?

934
00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:44,640
Speaker 1: So, like, I don't know, just from what I've been gathering,

935
00:34:44,680 --> 00:34:47,080
Speaker 1: it's like language and language out is probably like your

936
00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:48,920
Speaker 1: job's going to be replaced or like language in like

937
00:34:49,040 --> 00:34:52,879
Speaker 1: video or like image out your job anything like data

938
00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:55,040
Speaker 1: entry or very repetitive, your job is probably going to

939
00:34:55,080 --> 00:34:55,560
Speaker 1: be obsolete.

940
00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:57,040
Speaker 3: But I do think that there.

941
00:34:56,960 --> 00:35:00,920
Speaker 1: Is like I think people will seek proof of humanity

942
00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:02,799
Speaker 1: moving forward. They'll probably look at something and want to

943
00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:05,080
Speaker 1: know if it's AR or not, and things like riffing

944
00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:07,319
Speaker 1: at a comedy show where they're engaging with the guests

945
00:35:07,360 --> 00:35:09,439
Speaker 1: in real time, like you know for sure that's not AI,

946
00:35:09,760 --> 00:35:12,000
Speaker 1: and that couldn't be prompted by AI. I think things

947
00:35:12,040 --> 00:35:14,320
Speaker 1: like that will be cherished and like of high value.

948
00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:17,480
Speaker 1: So things like at the bar, like just impromptu and

949
00:35:17,560 --> 00:35:20,680
Speaker 1: very spontaneous moments like live jazz performances or something, you know.

950
00:35:20,760 --> 00:35:23,839
Speaker 1: I think things like that will be very appreciated and

951
00:35:23,960 --> 00:35:25,960
Speaker 1: things and people will want to vet if something is

952
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:28,400
Speaker 1: AI before they go into it too, you know. So

953
00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:30,480
Speaker 1: I think it will be some self correction there. But

954
00:35:30,560 --> 00:35:33,400
Speaker 1: I think experiences in a bar is very imprompt and

955
00:35:33,440 --> 00:35:35,920
Speaker 1: it can't be I mean, I could I could use

956
00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:38,279
Speaker 1: AI to help guide me to some experiences or just

957
00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:41,240
Speaker 1: help me kind of mold a run of show maybe even,

958
00:35:41,480 --> 00:35:43,560
Speaker 1: but some of the interactions that happen within that night.

959
00:35:43,840 --> 00:35:45,920
Speaker 3: AI can't really help me with that yet.

960
00:35:46,040 --> 00:35:47,400
Speaker 4: No, I mean, I mean, I don't think it'll be

961
00:35:47,440 --> 00:35:49,200
Speaker 4: a while, you know, for me, I really believe that

962
00:35:49,280 --> 00:35:54,240
Speaker 4: while it'll take away some of the more mundane, repetitive things,

963
00:35:54,760 --> 00:35:56,040
Speaker 4: the thing that's always going to exist.

964
00:35:56,280 --> 00:35:58,600
Speaker 5: Love that stuff though, is the humanity.

965
00:35:58,239 --> 00:36:00,680
Speaker 1: Element of I love the mundane things, you know, like

966
00:36:00,719 --> 00:36:02,120
Speaker 1: that's my thing. You just put me at a laptop

967
00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:03,640
Speaker 1: all day. I'll sit there and just like that.

968
00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:04,719
Speaker 3: You know that.

969
00:36:04,960 --> 00:36:08,479
Speaker 5: Yeah, but that's superpower and I could use.

970
00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:10,760
Speaker 1: My Yes it is, but I've I've gotten so comfortable

971
00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:11,800
Speaker 1: with that. I was so good at that, and I

972
00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:13,600
Speaker 1: felt like it kind of made me special a little bit.

973
00:36:13,680 --> 00:36:15,040
Speaker 1: But now I got something to do it for me,

974
00:36:15,360 --> 00:36:17,480
Speaker 1: So I have to focus elsewhere. So there's some pivoting

975
00:36:17,520 --> 00:36:19,920
Speaker 1: involved and a new learning curve that I have to

976
00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:23,279
Speaker 1: get over again, just like any other day.

977
00:36:23,320 --> 00:36:25,600
Speaker 4: It's like anything else, right, but again, like my like

978
00:36:25,640 --> 00:36:28,080
Speaker 4: my old mentor told me, you know, it's not that's

979
00:36:28,080 --> 00:36:29,759
Speaker 4: not going to replace you, like a is not going

980
00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:31,320
Speaker 4: to replace people. It's the people that know how to

981
00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:33,160
Speaker 4: use those two was going to replace rights.

982
00:36:33,360 --> 00:36:35,399
Speaker 5: Like compt engineering, like leaning into it.

983
00:36:35,360 --> 00:36:37,759
Speaker 4: Early like you're doing is just it's also opening up

984
00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:40,000
Speaker 4: and it's helping you all again do more stuff, be

985
00:36:40,040 --> 00:36:42,759
Speaker 4: more efficient, you know, hopefully like helping you know, break

986
00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:44,440
Speaker 4: through some of those ways. So you all can you know,

987
00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:47,200
Speaker 4: just do more stuff and really kind of make the bar.

988
00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:49,680
Speaker 4: It's full potential, because again, I feel like you all

989
00:36:49,719 --> 00:36:51,440
Speaker 4: haven't really even hit like the full potential of what

990
00:36:51,480 --> 00:36:52,200
Speaker 4: you even want to do with it.

991
00:36:52,920 --> 00:36:55,520
Speaker 1: Definitely money wise, we haven't, you know, So I would

992
00:36:55,520 --> 00:36:57,680
Speaker 1: only hope that there's more to get from this, you

993
00:36:57,719 --> 00:36:59,520
Speaker 1: know than barely scraping by.

994
00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:02,960
Speaker 4: What legacy do you hope our bar leads behind? Like

995
00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:05,759
Speaker 4: as time goes by, when all this is gone and

996
00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:07,839
Speaker 4: everybody remembers it, like, what legacy do you apart?

997
00:37:08,200 --> 00:37:09,960
Speaker 1: I think about that sometimes, especially when I do some

998
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:12,320
Speaker 1: of these throwback posts or when we celebrate our anniversaries,

999
00:37:12,320 --> 00:37:14,520
Speaker 1: I go back and look at these videos and I'm

1000
00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:16,080
Speaker 1: so proud of the fact that a lot of the

1001
00:37:16,080 --> 00:37:18,359
Speaker 1: people that are in that first video from year one

1002
00:37:18,719 --> 00:37:21,480
Speaker 1: at our first edge with awards or our first you

1003
00:37:21,520 --> 00:37:23,200
Speaker 1: know what, that's probably a good event that I love

1004
00:37:23,200 --> 00:37:25,480
Speaker 1: two edguit Awards where we give out superlatives and everybody

1005
00:37:25,560 --> 00:37:27,720
Speaker 1: dresses up it's like our bomb and people look so nice.

1006
00:37:27,840 --> 00:37:30,479
Speaker 3: But those same people are are here at.

1007
00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:32,520
Speaker 1: Year five in the same video and a different outfit

1008
00:37:32,640 --> 00:37:34,400
Speaker 1: and still just as proud to be there, And that

1009
00:37:34,920 --> 00:37:37,759
Speaker 1: to me is like so special. The fact that we

1010
00:37:37,760 --> 00:37:40,720
Speaker 1: can retain the attention of there's so many bars in Atlanta.

1011
00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:43,120
Speaker 1: There's so many places opening and closing that are offering

1012
00:37:43,160 --> 00:37:45,480
Speaker 1: way better deals and way better of an experience. But

1013
00:37:45,560 --> 00:37:47,600
Speaker 1: yet I still have retained the attention of these same

1014
00:37:47,640 --> 00:37:50,480
Speaker 1: group of people like that are so loyal to me,

1015
00:37:50,560 --> 00:37:52,040
Speaker 1: that would come and spend their six dollars on our

1016
00:37:52,040 --> 00:37:55,239
Speaker 1: opisado day in and day out every day, bring their

1017
00:37:55,320 --> 00:37:58,040
Speaker 1: kids to the kids events, Come volunteer, come donate blankets,

1018
00:37:58,080 --> 00:37:59,080
Speaker 1: Like how cool is that?

1019
00:37:59,239 --> 00:37:59,520
Speaker 2: You know?

1020
00:37:59,680 --> 00:38:02,000
Speaker 3: I never lose that. What was the question?

1021
00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:04,560
Speaker 4: I know about this legacy, like you want to leave me?

1022
00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:07,000
Speaker 1: I hope people look back at that and they're just like, man,

1023
00:38:07,120 --> 00:38:09,440
Speaker 1: you kind of like how they talk about department store

1024
00:38:09,480 --> 00:38:11,160
Speaker 1: like you just had to be there? Yeah, you know,

1025
00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:12,799
Speaker 1: And I think that's just like you just and it

1026
00:38:12,840 --> 00:38:14,560
Speaker 1: just kind of leaves people with the feeling of fomo

1027
00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:16,680
Speaker 1: or just some of those times when we were reminisce

1028
00:38:16,719 --> 00:38:19,160
Speaker 1: about department store, like remember that, and it's like, oh fuck,

1029
00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:21,399
Speaker 1: And it kind of brings you closer even as a group,

1030
00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:24,480
Speaker 1: to feel like, oh dude, I do remember that. Holy fuck,

1031
00:38:24,480 --> 00:38:26,279
Speaker 1: how do we get away with that? You know, it's

1032
00:38:26,320 --> 00:38:28,440
Speaker 1: just like what were we thinking? But it's just like

1033
00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:30,520
Speaker 1: anything else nostalgic. It kind of brings back those like

1034
00:38:30,560 --> 00:38:32,120
Speaker 1: it takes you right back to where it was.

1035
00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:32,960
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1036
00:38:33,160 --> 00:38:35,120
Speaker 4: Look, because I think it's a special place. And you know,

1037
00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:39,440
Speaker 4: I believe that in life, you're lucky if you get

1038
00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:42,640
Speaker 4: at least one experience where you can kind of describe

1039
00:38:42,680 --> 00:38:43,759
Speaker 4: it by you had to be there.

1040
00:38:43,920 --> 00:38:44,120
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1041
00:38:44,239 --> 00:38:46,200
Speaker 4: I remember I used to work at a sports radio

1042
00:38:46,239 --> 00:38:47,719
Speaker 4: station out here seven nine in the zone and there

1043
00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:50,320
Speaker 4: was radio yeah loyal. Yeah, I've done all kind of stuff,

1044
00:38:50,320 --> 00:38:52,240
Speaker 4: and we used to do all kind of crazy things,

1045
00:38:52,280 --> 00:38:54,200
Speaker 4: like I remember one time we literally rented out a

1046
00:38:54,239 --> 00:38:55,880
Speaker 4: house and made into a reality show. And this is

1047
00:38:55,920 --> 00:38:56,960
Speaker 4: like in two thousand.

1048
00:38:56,680 --> 00:38:59,120
Speaker 3: And five, like real world types, real world type, you'll

1049
00:38:59,160 --> 00:38:59,760
Speaker 3: live there.

1050
00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:01,920
Speaker 4: It We like lived there for a week. And you

1051
00:39:01,960 --> 00:39:03,840
Speaker 4: know we were because we were streaming everything online and

1052
00:39:03,880 --> 00:39:04,360
Speaker 4: we were trying to.

1053
00:39:04,320 --> 00:39:05,960
Speaker 5: Find you have a confessional we did.

1054
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:08,719
Speaker 4: We actually set up a confessional room. I love that

1055
00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:11,400
Speaker 4: we got. We convinced the folks from Hooters to do

1056
00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:14,840
Speaker 4: a photo shooting our back post, and we and we

1057
00:39:15,080 --> 00:39:17,640
Speaker 4: and we and we live streamed it and we invited

1058
00:39:17,719 --> 00:39:20,759
Speaker 4: get listeners up. It was. And the reason why I

1059
00:39:20,840 --> 00:39:22,560
Speaker 4: talk about that, though, is because when I talk about

1060
00:39:22,560 --> 00:39:25,160
Speaker 4: that time. It's funny I still know people, like even

1061
00:39:25,200 --> 00:39:26,680
Speaker 4: some of the guys here at iHeart a couple And

1062
00:39:26,760 --> 00:39:28,359
Speaker 4: that's how actually know some of these people is they

1063
00:39:28,440 --> 00:39:30,520
Speaker 4: used to work there, and and like me and some

1064
00:39:30,560 --> 00:39:32,560
Speaker 4: other friends, we'll get together sometimes we'll be like, man,

1065
00:39:32,560 --> 00:39:33,840
Speaker 4: can you believe we used to get away with some

1066
00:39:33,880 --> 00:39:34,279
Speaker 4: of this ship?

1067
00:39:34,680 --> 00:39:35,000
Speaker 5: Yeah?

1068
00:39:35,080 --> 00:39:37,080
Speaker 4: And you know, but I always say like it was

1069
00:39:37,120 --> 00:39:38,959
Speaker 4: just a time to where you had to be there,

1070
00:39:39,040 --> 00:39:42,480
Speaker 4: Like there'll never be another experience like that, just had

1071
00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:43,719
Speaker 4: to be there. And I kind of feel like that's

1072
00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:46,360
Speaker 4: just saying about our bar, right. There's just there's a

1073
00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:47,960
Speaker 4: lot of it to where you just had to be there.

1074
00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:51,040
Speaker 4: It's it's it's it's a moment. It's special, and while

1075
00:39:51,040 --> 00:39:53,480
Speaker 4: it's here, we're gonna just really enjoy it and kind

1076
00:39:53,520 --> 00:39:55,360
Speaker 4: of sit in this moment because if you're lucky, you

1077
00:39:55,360 --> 00:39:57,520
Speaker 4: get one, Like I've been lucky enough to have maybe two,

1078
00:39:57,680 --> 00:40:00,319
Speaker 4: maybe three of those experiences, but if you're really lucky,

1079
00:40:00,320 --> 00:40:01,759
Speaker 4: you just get one, right, And it sounds like this

1080
00:40:01,840 --> 00:40:03,960
Speaker 4: might be one of those ones. I mean definitely department

1081
00:40:04,040 --> 00:40:04,719
Speaker 4: store was probably one.

1082
00:40:04,719 --> 00:40:07,279
Speaker 1: As the hills like, yeah, yeah, I hope so too,

1083
00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:08,960
Speaker 1: especially now that we're a little bit more mature.

1084
00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:10,880
Speaker 5: We have foods so people don't get as wasted.

1085
00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:12,200
Speaker 4: It's always good.

1086
00:40:12,360 --> 00:40:14,680
Speaker 1: Yeah we're not Yeah, we're not twenty three years old anymore.

1087
00:40:14,719 --> 00:40:16,080
Speaker 1: So a lot of us, you know a lot of

1088
00:40:16,080 --> 00:40:18,440
Speaker 1: them have kids, and it's like you spend so much

1089
00:40:18,480 --> 00:40:20,279
Speaker 1: time with us at our bar, you know, like bring

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00:40:20,320 --> 00:40:21,840
Speaker 1: your kids up here. I can't bring them on a

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00:40:21,880 --> 00:40:24,120
Speaker 1: Sunday night or a Saturday night, but you could bring

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00:40:24,120 --> 00:40:26,040
Speaker 1: them on a Sunday day from three to six and

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00:40:26,080 --> 00:40:28,680
Speaker 1: we'll do some type of vision board party, or we'll

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00:40:28,680 --> 00:40:30,720
Speaker 1: do like an Easter egg hunt, and we'll do some stuff.

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00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:34,319
Speaker 1: Like it's important for me to meet them where they're at,

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00:40:34,320 --> 00:40:36,800
Speaker 1: like their their mother's first, you know, or father's first,

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00:40:36,840 --> 00:40:39,360
Speaker 1: and their patron's next. So if I could do something

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00:40:39,360 --> 00:40:41,040
Speaker 1: that kind of like make them more proud or make

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00:40:41,040 --> 00:40:43,440
Speaker 1: them love us a little bit more, especially share something

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00:40:43,800 --> 00:40:46,080
Speaker 1: as special as their children with us by bringing them

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00:40:46,120 --> 00:40:48,480
Speaker 1: by and us having a photo booth for them and

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00:40:48,560 --> 00:40:50,400
Speaker 1: just you know, just any type of memory.

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00:40:50,560 --> 00:40:51,640
Speaker 3: I think we should share it together.

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00:40:51,960 --> 00:40:53,600
Speaker 4: Absolutely, absolutely, even if.

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00:40:53,480 --> 00:40:55,040
Speaker 1: We don't make any money at the bar because none

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00:40:55,080 --> 00:40:57,759
Speaker 1: of them drink, you know, like it's it's okay because

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00:40:57,760 --> 00:40:59,360
Speaker 1: they come back any other day and they spend it

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00:40:59,400 --> 00:40:59,719
Speaker 1: with us.

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00:40:59,800 --> 00:40:59,960
Speaker 2: Yea.

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00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:02,080
Speaker 4: And people need those people need those spaces and those

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00:41:02,080 --> 00:41:04,560
Speaker 4: those escaps. For a minute, you know, if someone walked

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00:41:04,600 --> 00:41:06,840
Speaker 4: into our bar, you know, for the first time tonight,

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00:41:07,440 --> 00:41:09,120
Speaker 4: what would you want them to feel and experience?

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Speaker 5: It's tonight to night's Friday? Oh what do I want?

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00:41:12,239 --> 00:41:15,160
Speaker 1: I would like them to So like even the design

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00:41:15,160 --> 00:41:16,799
Speaker 1: of the bar when I worked at Follies, I love

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00:41:16,840 --> 00:41:18,600
Speaker 1: the fact that it was a square bar. Even as

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00:41:18,640 --> 00:41:21,040
Speaker 1: a bartender, it made my life a lot easier. So

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00:41:21,719 --> 00:41:23,279
Speaker 1: you know, when we built out our bar, I wanted

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00:41:23,280 --> 00:41:25,520
Speaker 1: that square bar so that somebody sitting here and then

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00:41:25,520 --> 00:41:27,920
Speaker 1: somebody over there could even share like let's say somebody

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00:41:27,920 --> 00:41:30,000
Speaker 1: fell or somebody did something, or something funny happened. They

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00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:31,920
Speaker 1: could kind of share eye contact and like have this

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00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:33,520
Speaker 1: moment and they'll see them again and again and they

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00:41:33,520 --> 00:41:35,799
Speaker 1: get closer and closer. And as a bartender, it's less

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00:41:35,800 --> 00:41:37,520
Speaker 1: work for me. I can just kind of let them

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00:41:37,600 --> 00:41:39,000
Speaker 1: kind of do and I can just assist, Oh you

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00:41:39,040 --> 00:41:40,520
Speaker 1: do so and so like let me introduce you to

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00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:41,560
Speaker 1: and it gives you.

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Speaker 5: This like pit.

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00:41:42,680 --> 00:41:44,400
Speaker 1: So I would think that if they came on a

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00:41:44,440 --> 00:41:46,040
Speaker 1: Friday night, that they would sit there, even if they

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00:41:46,080 --> 00:41:49,000
Speaker 1: came alone, they might make eye contact with somebody else.

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00:41:49,040 --> 00:41:52,040
Speaker 1: The bartender might assist with an introduction or something. That

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00:41:52,040 --> 00:41:53,759
Speaker 1: they would see each other again on a Wednesday and

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00:41:53,800 --> 00:41:55,840
Speaker 1: play spades. They might come back on a Sunday and

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00:41:55,880 --> 00:41:58,440
Speaker 1: sing karaoke, and they would somehow end up being friends,

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00:41:59,080 --> 00:42:01,040
Speaker 1: you know, And I think they just through just seeing

1139
00:42:01,040 --> 00:42:03,839
Speaker 1: them passing by. I think people get more comfortable with

1140
00:42:03,880 --> 00:42:06,239
Speaker 1: each other, sharing some of these moments that happen, like

1141
00:42:06,280 --> 00:42:09,279
Speaker 1: these blooperish type things at a bar like they often do,

1142
00:42:09,719 --> 00:42:12,040
Speaker 1: and just being able to connect in that way, and

1143
00:42:12,120 --> 00:42:14,520
Speaker 1: leaving out of there thinking like, man, I had a ball,

1144
00:42:14,600 --> 00:42:17,280
Speaker 1: Like I didn't have to spend that much money, nobody

1145
00:42:17,400 --> 00:42:20,640
Speaker 1: was rude or obnoxious, Like everybody was really friendly, and

1146
00:42:20,680 --> 00:42:23,440
Speaker 1: I kind of walked out of there like remembering some faces.

1147
00:42:23,480 --> 00:42:25,200
Speaker 3: So when I go back and seeing them again, I'd

1148
00:42:25,200 --> 00:42:26,640
Speaker 3: be like, oh, yeah, you were the dude. Remember that

1149
00:42:26,680 --> 00:42:28,000
Speaker 3: time so and so fell off the stage.

1150
00:42:28,040 --> 00:42:30,080
Speaker 1: You know, just whatever the case may be, which I've

1151
00:42:30,120 --> 00:42:32,879
Speaker 1: seen happen like organically a lot, and it just makes

1152
00:42:32,880 --> 00:42:35,000
Speaker 1: the bartender like not it doesn't make it so stiff

1153
00:42:35,040 --> 00:42:36,720
Speaker 1: where you're just kind of sitting there looking around.

1154
00:42:37,040 --> 00:42:39,759
Speaker 4: Absolutely absolutely, well, look there, this this has been good.

1155
00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:42,520
Speaker 4: I appreciate you comme pulling up, yeah, sharing kind of

1156
00:42:42,520 --> 00:42:44,480
Speaker 4: the experience, the stories our bar. Before we get out

1157
00:42:44,480 --> 00:42:46,920
Speaker 4: of here, please tell people how they can get to

1158
00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:48,560
Speaker 4: our bar, how they can find y'all, how they can

1159
00:42:48,560 --> 00:42:50,520
Speaker 4: support y'all, how they can get signed up, give them

1160
00:42:50,560 --> 00:42:50,960
Speaker 4: all the things.

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00:42:51,360 --> 00:42:52,560
Speaker 3: We're located on Edgewood.

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00:42:52,600 --> 00:42:56,040
Speaker 1: You'll see the big eight, this atl HO YEP sign

1163
00:42:56,239 --> 00:42:57,200
Speaker 1: on the in our window.

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00:42:57,640 --> 00:43:00,799
Speaker 3: We're open six days a week. We're closed on Mondays.

1165
00:43:01,080 --> 00:43:03,200
Speaker 1: You can follow us at our bar at l oh

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00:43:03,280 --> 00:43:08,680
Speaker 1: You are B A R A T L and Yeah, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook.

1167
00:43:08,200 --> 00:43:10,200
Speaker 5: YouTube, Hey we'll look sir.

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00:43:10,280 --> 00:43:12,279
Speaker 4: Thank you all again, it's one of my one of

1169
00:43:12,280 --> 00:43:15,080
Speaker 4: my favorite spots. But again, y'all also doing amazing stuff

1170
00:43:15,080 --> 00:43:17,520
Speaker 4: over there and just being a place that needs exist

1171
00:43:17,560 --> 00:43:19,640
Speaker 4: in the community. And so while y'all have a good time,

1172
00:43:19,719 --> 00:43:21,520
Speaker 4: y'all are definitely doing the work that needs to be

1173
00:43:21,560 --> 00:43:22,080
Speaker 4: done over there.

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00:43:22,080 --> 00:43:22,400
Speaker 5: Thank you.

1175
00:43:22,520 --> 00:43:24,040
Speaker 3: You still drink Jamis and orange.

1176
00:43:24,320 --> 00:43:28,040
Speaker 4: You know, I tried to go through a phase with it,

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00:43:28,080 --> 00:43:30,160
Speaker 4: but that's why I came up there, because you know what,

1178
00:43:30,200 --> 00:43:30,640
Speaker 4: you would.

1179
00:43:30,440 --> 00:43:32,640
Speaker 3: Always make sure man he likes that stuff.

1180
00:43:32,920 --> 00:43:34,200
Speaker 4: I was just trying to help y'all get rid of it.

1181
00:43:34,320 --> 00:43:35,840
Speaker 1: No, I appreciate it because we did. We had a

1182
00:43:35,840 --> 00:43:38,080
Speaker 1: bunch of it. I was like, please, somebody come drink this.

1183
00:43:38,560 --> 00:43:39,600
Speaker 1: I appreciate you, Thank.

1184
00:43:39,480 --> 00:43:41,760
Speaker 4: You, I appreciate you coming out. Man. With that said,

1185
00:43:41,840 --> 00:43:44,919
Speaker 4: that's the pod. J'all we out. Peace. You've been listening

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00:43:44,960 --> 00:43:48,520
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00:43:53,760 --> 00:43:57,279
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