Why is it So Hard To Support Small Businesses

WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.320 --> 00:00:05.240 Hey, cousins and King folks, this is your newest episode of Carol under 2 00:00:05.240 --> 00:00:08.800 construction. You know who it is. I am your host oldest thank you 3 00:00:08.839 --> 00:00:14.960 so much for join us today. It is a beautiful Saturday afternoon. The 4 00:00:15.119 --> 00:00:18.640 skies blue, the sun is out, the Burgers of Chirping. Hey, 5 00:00:18.839 --> 00:00:21.839 you know, if you not out and about the day, Hey, get 6 00:00:21.879 --> 00:00:26.679 out and do something, something with your family, do something with yourself, 7 00:00:26.760 --> 00:00:29.920 do something with your kids. Hey, just get out today or just go 8 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:34.640 sit outside and just enjoy the breeze, enjoy the sunshine, you know, 9 00:00:35.399 --> 00:00:39.079 get you some vitamin Ding just system. Whatever the case, Hey, just 10 00:00:39.640 --> 00:00:48.600 go enjoyed this beautiful, amazing day that God set for for us to see 11 00:00:48.840 --> 00:00:53.560 once again. And you just can't help I don't know about you, but 12 00:00:53.679 --> 00:00:58.119 sometimes I just sit in the marvel at some of the simplest things, as 13 00:00:58.159 --> 00:01:02.280 a beautiful day to sunshine and on us and just how everything is all set 14 00:01:02.359 --> 00:01:07.760 up. You know, you just just have to admire God's work at its 15 00:01:07.840 --> 00:01:11.120 best. And I just sit back sometimes and the things did we see it 16 00:01:11.120 --> 00:01:19.159 that we take for granted so often or eaching every day. I just marvel 17 00:01:19.239 --> 00:01:25.599 at those things because it is by the will and the grace of God that 18 00:01:25.760 --> 00:01:32.040 we see these things, that we experience these things each hey, he's Day, 19 00:01:32.159 --> 00:01:34.599 that he brings the breath of life in us, each day that he 20 00:01:34.680 --> 00:01:41.719 allows us to wake up, and I ripe minds wake up being able to 21 00:01:41.760 --> 00:01:46.480 see, being able to here, being able to touch, being able to 22 00:01:46.519 --> 00:01:56.760 taste, walk, decent health job, what roof of your head, food 23 00:01:56.799 --> 00:02:02.719 on your table, those simple things that we take it for granted for each 24 00:02:02.840 --> 00:02:10.400 day all about the grace of God, by his will. So just take 25 00:02:10.439 --> 00:02:15.280 a moment to thank him, to sit down and just take a moment to 26 00:02:15.319 --> 00:02:20.120 thank him. You know, you just talk to God like like I'm talking 27 00:02:20.120 --> 00:02:23.000 to you right now, and just like just thank you, father, thank 28 00:02:23.039 --> 00:02:25.759 you for what you're doing, thank you for everything that you're going to do, 29 00:02:25.879 --> 00:02:30.240 thank you for everything that you have done, thank you everything you doing 30 00:02:30.360 --> 00:02:35.080 right now, in this moment. Just do it that, y'all, I 31 00:02:35.159 --> 00:02:39.280 promise you to make Your Day oh so much better because again, it is 32 00:02:39.280 --> 00:02:44.840 by His grace and by his will that we experience the little things that we 33 00:02:44.919 --> 00:02:52.800 do. But again, it's beautiful Saturday. You know. Man, yeah, 34 00:02:52.800 --> 00:02:54.080 I know what happens with me a lot. I may have a one 35 00:02:54.120 --> 00:02:58.960 specific topic that I just end up wanting to talk about or I may have 36 00:02:59.080 --> 00:03:04.120 already out mind and what's going to get into. But you know, after 37 00:03:04.199 --> 00:03:07.080 you know, you all know that I pray before each and every episode, 38 00:03:07.199 --> 00:03:12.919 before I begin to record and right before I begin to record. You know, 39 00:03:13.000 --> 00:03:15.240 it's either God will give me the green lightness, they just go with 40 00:03:15.319 --> 00:03:19.639 this, or he may take me in a completely different directions, like you 41 00:03:19.680 --> 00:03:23.039 know me talking about that. I did. You go from there to here, 42 00:03:24.159 --> 00:03:29.199 like you should be sure you like what I say. Yes, sir, 43 00:03:30.120 --> 00:03:37.599 got that Daddy. I rather be obedient. Rather be obedient when I 44 00:03:37.639 --> 00:03:40.680 hear his voice. I rather be obedient and they be disrespectful disobedient. You 45 00:03:40.719 --> 00:03:47.560 know what I'm saying. I don't want to get whooped at all. Not 46 00:03:47.680 --> 00:03:59.360 Body, not body him know. So, M Hey, listen. There 47 00:03:59.400 --> 00:04:08.599 are so many small businesses that are popping up all over the place, that 48 00:04:08.680 --> 00:04:13.039 are coming or they may, if you may already know about. But I 49 00:04:13.080 --> 00:04:18.480 guess my question right now is why? Why is it so hard for us 50 00:04:18.519 --> 00:04:28.319 to support the small businesses? Why is that better yet them? You know, 51 00:04:29.319 --> 00:04:33.519 why is it so hard for US people? We go spend our money 52 00:04:33.519 --> 00:04:42.480 with a lot of these really huge out lists, these huge businesses that you 53 00:04:42.519 --> 00:04:48.879 know, are wellknown, world renowned, may have something on the stock market, 54 00:04:48.959 --> 00:04:51.560 you know on Wall Street, you know, whatever the case may be, 55 00:04:51.759 --> 00:04:56.920 we go support them. But why is this so hard for us to 56 00:04:56.959 --> 00:05:04.079 go support these small, local or businesses that we may see online? Why 57 00:05:04.199 --> 00:05:11.160 is that these people are taking their time and put it in their blood, 58 00:05:11.199 --> 00:05:19.279 sweat and tears into providing us with a wonderful and great product? And I 59 00:05:19.319 --> 00:05:25.120 just see it time and time again and I see some of us were like, 60 00:05:25.199 --> 00:05:29.639 well, you, you, we come up with different excuses to not 61 00:05:29.720 --> 00:05:31.920 to do so. Well, I don't know about this person. Well, 62 00:05:32.040 --> 00:05:36.079 they may talk to somebody that I don't like. So if they are feeling 63 00:05:36.160 --> 00:05:39.519 with somebody don't like, I'm not going to support them. What does they 64 00:05:39.519 --> 00:05:43.639 have anything to do with it? Just didn't have anything to do with it 65 00:05:43.639 --> 00:05:49.439 at all. That's business. You can't, or we can't continue to not 66 00:05:49.480 --> 00:05:56.399 support somebody because we don't like who they are associated with, that we may 67 00:05:56.480 --> 00:06:04.720 not like that person. That's that's back what's people. That's backwards. It 68 00:06:04.879 --> 00:06:12.560 is business. Is Business and you never know what you may do for this 69 00:06:12.600 --> 00:06:18.439 particular person in supporting them or you know, maybe able to network with this 70 00:06:18.480 --> 00:06:25.240 person to develop something that you could be a part of and be able to 71 00:06:26.199 --> 00:06:32.879 establish your own business identity. People there that there. There's so much information 72 00:06:32.959 --> 00:06:39.240 out there. There's so many things that we can do, that we can 73 00:06:39.279 --> 00:06:45.399 come together with on and to establish our own market, a lot like they 74 00:06:45.480 --> 00:06:53.600 did and Tulsa back then, a lot like they did in Rosewood, Florida. 75 00:06:53.680 --> 00:07:01.360 These self sustaining communities. They did businesses with each other. They thrived. 76 00:07:02.720 --> 00:07:09.879 I mean, had those two communities were able to continue to thrive at 77 00:07:09.920 --> 00:07:15.600 the rate that they were going, this world will look different right now. 78 00:07:15.680 --> 00:07:18.519 A lot of how we do business and a lot of how things are going 79 00:07:18.680 --> 00:07:24.800 right now will be a whole lot different had those communities continue to thrive the 80 00:07:24.800 --> 00:07:29.839 way that they were going. We need to get back to that. I 81 00:07:30.399 --> 00:07:34.600 remember when I was a kid. I remember when I was a kid growing 82 00:07:34.720 --> 00:07:41.439 up in Monroe, Louisiana, that where we lived at in an area in 83 00:07:41.560 --> 00:07:48.439 the south part of Monroe called new town, and there were two three. 84 00:07:48.600 --> 00:08:01.160 There were four stores in a in a three block area, four stores in 85 00:08:01.199 --> 00:08:05.600 a three block area, depending on how you looked at it. Technically, 86 00:08:05.759 --> 00:08:13.959 these four stores all were on the same street. They but they were. 87 00:08:15.040 --> 00:08:20.240 Technically they weren't, but they were all aligned along Texas Avenue in Monroe. 88 00:08:20.160 --> 00:08:28.879 I'm talking Miss Ella store, missus, Rosie's hills barbecue and Sam's grocery. 89 00:08:31.759 --> 00:08:41.639 These stores didn't compete with each other. Each store had something the others didn't 90 00:08:41.639 --> 00:08:54.279 have, but they all worked together and kept that community self sustained to where, 91 00:08:54.399 --> 00:09:00.799 unless you wanted to, you could venture out out of that neighbor hood 92 00:09:00.840 --> 00:09:05.320 to go to a different store to purchase something else. But for the most 93 00:09:05.399 --> 00:09:15.279 part, groceries, snacks, household products, food, whatever the case may 94 00:09:15.360 --> 00:09:24.720 be, it was all in that three block area. It was all right 95 00:09:24.720 --> 00:09:30.720 there. They had the right formula, they had the right you know, 96 00:09:30.840 --> 00:09:39.879 thinking that, okay, we're not competitors, we're all working toward to sustain 97 00:09:39.519 --> 00:09:46.840 and and build this community up and and and that's the way it was and 98 00:09:46.879 --> 00:09:54.799 they thrived. Now, of course, just like most places, you know, 99 00:09:54.080 --> 00:10:00.320 bigger stores came along and cut into their business and most of these stores 100 00:10:00.320 --> 00:10:03.720 had been around for a very long time. So the people that own them 101 00:10:03.720 --> 00:10:07.320 and random and ran at the way that they did. You know, they 102 00:10:07.360 --> 00:10:11.600 eventually either got to the point of where we're too old to run it, 103 00:10:11.960 --> 00:10:16.679 or they may have passed away and those who may or may not have came 104 00:10:16.720 --> 00:10:22.960 down behind them didn't either want to continue on with it, to run it 105 00:10:22.039 --> 00:10:26.080 the way that they did or, you know, just it's shut down completely. 106 00:10:26.919 --> 00:10:37.320 But I remember clearly how it was done because my grandmother could send me 107 00:10:37.399 --> 00:10:46.120 to each store and I would get something different from each store that the others 108 00:10:46.200 --> 00:10:50.559 didn't have and it just all lined up perfect you. But you don't think 109 00:10:50.559 --> 00:10:52.639 about things like that as a kid, you know. You just like, 110 00:10:52.679 --> 00:10:56.360 okay, I got to go to Miss Ellas to go get, you know, 111 00:10:56.559 --> 00:10:58.399 washing powder whatever for grandma. Then I got to turn around, I 112 00:10:58.440 --> 00:11:03.200 got to go down the hills barbecue because grandma won't you know, some pickle 113 00:11:03.240 --> 00:11:05.320 pig feet, you know, or, you know, a barbecue beef sandwich 114 00:11:05.399 --> 00:11:07.279 or something like that. Then I got to go from there to go down 115 00:11:07.279 --> 00:11:13.679 in his roses because she wants some Levi Garrett chewing tobacco whatnot. Then I 116 00:11:13.679 --> 00:11:18.600 got to go on down at US Mr Sam's and everything, because she won't, 117 00:11:18.679 --> 00:11:24.000 you know, five pounds of lunch me, you know, and a 118 00:11:24.000 --> 00:11:28.240 loaf of bread, you know, cut up in everything, and bring all 119 00:11:28.240 --> 00:11:31.200 of that back. But that was to set up. That's how it was 120 00:11:31.279 --> 00:11:39.799 done. So I used to analogy to go into this. With these different 121 00:11:39.879 --> 00:11:45.000 businesses that that are out there right now. No matter how similar they may 122 00:11:45.200 --> 00:11:52.200 seem, there's something different in each one and just because, and be lucky, 123 00:11:52.080 --> 00:11:56.279 they have the same thing, that still doesn't mean that we can't support 124 00:11:56.360 --> 00:12:01.440 them. You could have two companies with that are both only my clothing Boutique, 125 00:12:01.480 --> 00:12:03.519 and it mean look, they sell some of the same products, but 126 00:12:03.840 --> 00:12:09.639 they're different, but that doesn't mean you can sup you should support one and 127 00:12:09.679 --> 00:12:18.039 not support the other and support them both. That's support them both. Those 128 00:12:18.039 --> 00:12:22.440 of you who know me know I'm a firm believer in that. I'm I'm 129 00:12:22.480 --> 00:12:28.159 all for supporting, you know, these small businesses, you know because they're 130 00:12:28.200 --> 00:12:37.679 they're growing, because we all have to start somewhere, and they're growing and 131 00:12:37.759 --> 00:12:46.720 they deserve for us to patronize them. It's helped them build up their clientele 132 00:12:46.240 --> 00:12:52.200 because the king, you never know how these people may end up. You 133 00:12:52.279 --> 00:12:54.360 know that being able to net work with you because you bless them, because 134 00:12:54.399 --> 00:12:58.200 you're how they may bless you, and doing so because your patronize in their 135 00:12:58.240 --> 00:13:03.759 business. But let me go back a second. So that's what and another 136 00:13:03.799 --> 00:13:09.799 thing, and this kind of really gets to me in doing so, and 137 00:13:09.840 --> 00:13:13.720 it may be somebody that you may know, don't always trying to go out 138 00:13:13.759 --> 00:13:16.639 looking for a hooker because because they have a business, you look like, 139 00:13:16.679 --> 00:13:18.919 oh well, I know them. Oh shoot, I can get a hooker 140 00:13:18.960 --> 00:13:24.240 from them. Come on, let's stop doing that right there, because if 141 00:13:24.240 --> 00:13:30.600 you can go to the Nike outlet and pay a hundred dollar us for a 142 00:13:30.679 --> 00:13:35.240 pair of tennis shoes and forty and fifty dollars for a past, a couple 143 00:13:35.240 --> 00:13:41.279 of pair of socks, whatever these people are charging for the prices of their 144 00:13:41.320 --> 00:13:45.559 products, you should want to pay them the same thing, whatever they're asking 145 00:13:45.600 --> 00:13:50.159 for, and not looking because you know them or you know fiking. Well, 146 00:13:50.159 --> 00:13:52.720 oh well, you know they're black too. So, Hey, I'm 147 00:13:52.759 --> 00:13:56.639 supporting your business. You should look out for me. Oh, they all 148 00:13:56.679 --> 00:14:00.399 looking out for you by selling you their product, but don't sit up there 149 00:14:00.399 --> 00:14:05.360 in insult them by wanting a hook up. Now, if they have some 150 00:14:05.399 --> 00:14:11.679 type of special going on, or they're offering coop cu pawns, or they're 151 00:14:11.679 --> 00:14:20.919 offering x amount off, you know, for new shoppers or certain particular subscribers 152 00:14:20.320 --> 00:14:24.799 to their product, or whatever case may be, then you go along with 153 00:14:24.840 --> 00:14:30.360 that. That's your hook up right there. But let's stop trying to think, 154 00:14:30.440 --> 00:14:35.840 because these people, you may know somebody or they may look like you, 155 00:14:35.679 --> 00:14:41.399 that you have to have a hook up, you got to get a 156 00:14:41.600 --> 00:14:48.279 huger discount for something. We can keep sitting here wanting something for nothing. 157 00:14:50.440 --> 00:14:54.679 Just a slap in the face. People know only if you get something for 158 00:14:54.720 --> 00:15:03.000 nothing, something's not right. I've said it before, I've seen it. 159 00:15:03.320 --> 00:15:07.480 You pay, you get what you pay for. If you won't quality, 160 00:15:07.600 --> 00:15:15.720 didn't pay that quality price. Don't insult these people do it with that foolishness 161 00:15:16.320 --> 00:15:18.879 trying to trying to get a Hoo Cup. Everything can be a hook up. 162 00:15:20.440 --> 00:15:22.399 Now, if you just so happen to run across somebody that has one 163 00:15:22.440 --> 00:15:28.559 thing a by all means you go forward boot. But come on now, 164 00:15:28.559 --> 00:15:33.759 if this person is selling treats and they're selling a dozen strawberries, chocolate cover 165 00:15:33.879 --> 00:15:41.480 strawberries or swizzleberriers or whatever the case may be, for that doesn't going to 166 00:15:41.559 --> 00:15:45.360 cause you about forty dollars, but you want to get them for fifteen. 167 00:15:45.360 --> 00:15:48.240 Come on now, that's going to sult to these people intelligence because you're not 168 00:15:48.320 --> 00:15:54.240 only paying for that product, you paying for that time, the time and 169 00:15:54.320 --> 00:15:58.279 effort that they put into to put this product together. You know, the 170 00:15:58.480 --> 00:16:02.519 the ingredients, on top of that, the Ingram, and I haven't even 171 00:16:02.559 --> 00:16:06.080 talked about that, the ingredients they went to, go get to in order 172 00:16:06.159 --> 00:16:11.759 to put this together. So that means you don't do that. You don't 173 00:16:11.799 --> 00:16:15.480 do that people, but you're paying for that time. On top of that, 174 00:16:18.639 --> 00:16:22.159 those of you know me, that know that I bake, that's just 175 00:16:22.240 --> 00:16:26.120 like the biggest product that most people will buy for me. When I do 176 00:16:26.240 --> 00:16:33.159 bake, it's normally doing the holidays or my chief cakes. I seldom fairly 177 00:16:33.360 --> 00:16:38.039 cheaper than I do, only because it's something that I enjoy doing. But 178 00:16:38.240 --> 00:16:45.879 truth be told, I could charge almost twice as much for my cheesecakes then 179 00:16:45.960 --> 00:16:49.720 I actually and truly do, because, again, the products that I buy 180 00:16:49.720 --> 00:16:55.000 it, I have used the purchase for them. They're very expensive. And 181 00:16:55.159 --> 00:17:00.879 not only that, but it's the time that I take into mixing them, 182 00:17:00.879 --> 00:17:06.000 baking them, letting them cool off, topping them, you know, are 183 00:17:06.119 --> 00:17:11.559 on top of that. It's that that you pay people for their time. 184 00:17:14.799 --> 00:17:21.000 Yeah, so let's get up off the kick of trying to get a discount 185 00:17:21.119 --> 00:17:27.599 in supporting these small businesses. People. Again, if they have a special 186 00:17:27.640 --> 00:17:32.640 going on, go for the damn but if they're charging whatever it is that 187 00:17:32.680 --> 00:17:38.200 they charge, you have one or two options. Get with them, pay 188 00:17:38.240 --> 00:17:45.680 with they're asking for. I'll go to a different merchant. It's okay either 189 00:17:45.720 --> 00:17:49.440 way, but you don't have to get upset with them because they don't want 190 00:17:49.440 --> 00:17:53.960 to charge you or sell you with their product for what you think they should 191 00:17:55.039 --> 00:18:03.000 sell it to you for. That's unfair. That's unfair to them, that's 192 00:18:03.000 --> 00:18:07.079 an insult to their intelligence, that's unfair to that business with they're trying to 193 00:18:07.200 --> 00:18:12.039 establish and, truth be told, that's even unfair to you as a consumer. 194 00:18:14.680 --> 00:18:17.799 Why would you want them to devene it? I'll mark their product down 195 00:18:17.799 --> 00:18:23.799 because you figured that's not what you want to pay. Put the show another 196 00:18:23.839 --> 00:18:29.160 foot and flip it. If you were selling something and you had a specific 197 00:18:29.200 --> 00:18:32.920 price that you want to sell it for, won't you want somebody to pay 198 00:18:33.039 --> 00:18:37.960 you that price that you said versus trying to dumb you down, for them 199 00:18:38.000 --> 00:18:41.480 to pay you what they think that you should sell it to them for? 200 00:18:45.400 --> 00:18:52.440 I think about that now. I'm not. I don't have a degree in 201 00:18:52.519 --> 00:18:56.640 marketing one on one or anything of that particular nature. But it's just common 202 00:18:56.680 --> 00:19:03.680 sense, people. It's just common sense. To me, it is. 203 00:19:06.920 --> 00:19:11.160 So I want to send a shout out to all of my some of my 204 00:19:11.200 --> 00:19:19.559 favorite small businesses right now, from Joe's eats treats to veiled by Tea Boutique, 205 00:19:19.920 --> 00:19:29.160 to hold your crown, to sweeth hands bakery, to DS sweetness and 206 00:19:29.279 --> 00:19:38.759 catering company, any too, thanking for a few others here that I know 207 00:19:41.640 --> 00:19:47.920 I give you. I give you a longer list later on or, Betty 208 00:19:48.000 --> 00:19:49.920 yet, at the end of this pot, I'll add. I'll add more 209 00:19:51.000 --> 00:19:52.920 to that particular list, but those are the biggest ones off the top of 210 00:19:52.920 --> 00:19:57.519 my head, because I've dealt with these, these small these businesses are lot 211 00:19:57.559 --> 00:20:03.160 on a consistent basis. I've talked about them and I'm a getting some of 212 00:20:03.160 --> 00:20:08.759 their big I'm one of their biggest supporters. So again, you know, 213 00:20:11.079 --> 00:20:15.359 for all of the small bitches that are out there that are trying to establish 214 00:20:15.400 --> 00:20:21.319 themselves, to try to build up their clientele or just let's let's just all 215 00:20:21.359 --> 00:20:30.480 pull together and support these businesses. Let's do this because again, you never 216 00:20:30.599 --> 00:20:34.240 know, you never know how you can be a blessing to these people are 217 00:20:34.359 --> 00:20:37.279 high. In turn, they can flip it and end up being a blessing 218 00:20:37.359 --> 00:20:42.759 to you because they remember that, hey, you supported me, you supported 219 00:20:42.799 --> 00:20:45.400 me when I was trying to build my business. And if they make it, 220 00:20:45.519 --> 00:20:51.839 you never know, they made not forget you and and hire you or 221 00:20:52.240 --> 00:20:53.680 or want to put you on their board, or whatever the case may be. 222 00:20:53.839 --> 00:20:57.880 You never know. Again, you never know. You you never know, 223 00:20:57.960 --> 00:21:03.680 because God is in the midst of all of this. So if you 224 00:21:06.000 --> 00:21:10.359 take the time to patronize these businesses and be a blessing to them, we 225 00:21:10.440 --> 00:21:14.680 never know how God, in turn, allowed the end to be a blessing 226 00:21:14.720 --> 00:21:23.880 to you, because you you were. You know what I mean, my 227 00:21:23.960 --> 00:21:30.640 people, my people, I love y'All. I swear love y'All. That's 228 00:21:30.680 --> 00:21:34.000 my time for the day. Everybody. I know we only had one part 229 00:21:34.119 --> 00:21:38.720 this week. Went and feeling my best all weekn was. It was just 230 00:21:38.920 --> 00:21:44.079 crazy as far as working everything, but you will get to in this upcoming 231 00:21:44.119 --> 00:21:48.079 week. I promise you that we have a special guest coming up, also 232 00:21:48.319 --> 00:21:52.559 very soon, so be on the lookout for that episode. But just remember 233 00:21:52.680 --> 00:21:55.240 you can get us and you can listen to US wherever you listen to or 234 00:21:55.240 --> 00:22:00.720 wherever you get your podcast. We broadcast on apple podcast, Google podcast, 235 00:22:00.920 --> 00:22:06.440 spotify, overcast, pocket cast, breaker, I heart radio, Deezer, 236 00:22:06.640 --> 00:22:11.000 stitcher, among many others. And again, you can listen to us on 237 00:22:11.079 --> 00:22:17.039 apple podcast, Google podcast, spotify, overcast, pocket casts, radio, 238 00:22:17.160 --> 00:22:23.240 public stitcher. These are I heard radio and many, many other platforms. 239 00:22:25.400 --> 00:22:29.680 I want to thank everyone for all of their overwhelming support of our last episode. 240 00:22:30.359 --> 00:22:33.160 It was one that was really, really near did but you all know 241 00:22:33.279 --> 00:22:41.400 that. I appreciate all of the emails that you sent in. Before we 242 00:22:41.440 --> 00:22:44.279 go, I want to I want to say this. A lot of you 243 00:22:44.319 --> 00:22:52.079 all sit me this week since it happened, emails about possibly talking about the 244 00:22:52.799 --> 00:23:00.279 Chris Rock Will Smith incident at the Oscars. Look, I'm not going to 245 00:23:00.279 --> 00:23:04.759 talk about it. I'm not. I have no opinion on it, one 246 00:23:04.799 --> 00:23:10.240 where the other. I can see it from both sides. I'm just not 247 00:23:10.279 --> 00:23:15.759 going to subscribe to it. I'm not because the whole thing is ridiculous and 248 00:23:15.799 --> 00:23:21.680 we've made it into more than it actually is. As like with everything, 249 00:23:21.680 --> 00:23:23.359 we all in time to have an opinion about it, one with the other, 250 00:23:23.400 --> 00:23:27.640 but we don't know all of the intricate details of everything. We may 251 00:23:27.759 --> 00:23:36.839 never know of what cause that to go the duration that it did. We 252 00:23:36.880 --> 00:23:41.279 don't know. So I was unfortunately that it happened to with it. It 253 00:23:41.359 --> 00:23:45.400 did, but again, I have no opinion about it one way the other, 254 00:23:45.640 --> 00:23:48.599 and I'm going to take the time to apologize to those that wanted me 255 00:23:48.799 --> 00:23:52.680 to give my input on it, to go in detail about it, but 256 00:23:52.799 --> 00:23:59.599 I am not. I'm not going to talk about it. I want to 257 00:23:59.599 --> 00:24:02.799 talk about more positive things here on currently under construction right now. That's not 258 00:24:02.839 --> 00:24:10.319 something that's very positive or that touches me personally, you know. So I 259 00:24:10.440 --> 00:24:15.039 love you all and I appreciate that you all wanted me to quee in on 260 00:24:15.119 --> 00:24:22.400 it, but I'm not going to. Okay, and I love you. 261 00:24:22.640 --> 00:24:26.079 I love you still and I hope that you still love me, even though 262 00:24:26.079 --> 00:24:29.880 that I'm not. But again, that's all that we're going to that's all 263 00:24:29.920 --> 00:24:33.319 the time that we're here for the day and we're going to continue to build 264 00:24:33.359 --> 00:24:37.480 this thing and remember, you know, hey, go pictureize somebody's business today. 265 00:24:37.839 --> 00:24:41.759 Go do that, whether it's in store, where it's online, whether 266 00:24:41.759 --> 00:24:44.720 it's a pop up, whether it's a food true, whatever the case may 267 00:24:44.720 --> 00:24:52.480 be. Go support a small business right here, right now, and we're 268 00:24:52.519 --> 00:24:56.359 going to continue to do this thing like we do every time, because it 269 00:24:56.359 --> 00:25:00.480 takes the village to put this thing together and you know, all know that 270 00:25:00.519 --> 00:25:03.720 you are my village and we're going to continue to build this thing together, 271 00:25:03.880 --> 00:25:07.640 you and I, step by step, one break at a time, come 272 00:25:07.839 --> 00:25:11.519 down the construction. I'll talk to you all again in a few days. 273 00:25:11.640 --> 00:25:12.319 Y'All, have a great day to day, go out to get out of 274 00:25:12.359 --> 00:25:15.599 George to day, get out and enjoy it, but I talk to you 275 00:25:15.640 --> 00:25:18.960 all soon. I love you. Peace,