June Recap - What You May Not Know About Boise, Idaho

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hey welcome my name is David I'm the
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host of the freeze dry business Channel
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and if you're not familiar with me I
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live in boisey Idaho I run a freeze
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drying business on the side of my
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full-time job and I really love this
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industry and one of the things that I
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like doing in these Recaps is
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highlighting the area that I live right
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behind me is La Park Turf Bar and Grill
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now it's connected to the lauis park
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horse racing facility that used to exist
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here in boisey Idaho in fact actually
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it's not boisey it's called Garden City
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Garden City is kind of this little Inlet
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within the boisey and kind of Meridian
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area squeezed in Ada County and it has
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different types of laws regulations
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things like that and in fact they used
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to have casinos all along this street
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called Chinden that's a little bit close
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to here they also had a racetrack and it
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was called the bah Park they had a lot
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of different races running from May
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through August it was a lot of fun to be
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able to have something really unique to
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this area now the bah Park and horse
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racing doesn't exist anymore in Garden
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City but there's a lot of history that
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went on here and in fact if you're
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familiar with the horse racing movie
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called seab biscuit there's a jockey
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there named Gary Stevens he's a famous
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jockey that's won a lot of different
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races for a lot of different horses and
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he came out of this little baah park and
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used to race here quite a bit to kind of
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get his experience and things so look
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him up also they used to have actual
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slot machines in the bar and grill area
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and the interesting part about these
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slot machines is the state of Idaho does
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not allow any type of gambling now they
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have the Ido Lottery where you can do
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scratch tickets they also have the
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Powerball and the Mega Millions they do
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have some pull tabs things like that but
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there's no any gambling outside of some
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uh Native American reservations that are
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in the state so to get through those
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loopholes the owners of this horse
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racing Park to kind of boost up Revenue
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because they shorten down the season of
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their horse races they found that if
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they bought these slot machines that
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basically would run simulations at
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random of past historical simoc casted
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horse racing Races they would then be
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able to program in the slot machines a
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randomized like winner and a randomized
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kind of slot that would then generate a
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winner uh from the slot machines isn't
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that crazy so kind of a fun personal
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story is during my bachelor night we
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actually went to the LA Bois Turf Bar
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and Grill and played these slot machines
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I didn't win anything but I remember
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going here and it was so because they on
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the little screen they had actual horse
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racing it was a live like video of what
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a horse race it could have been in
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Indiana could have been in the 1970s 80s
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but that's what you were watching on the
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screen and then all the kind of random
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numbers would populate on the on the
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slot machine it was crazy well needless
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to say the state of Idaho legislation
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didn't really like that loophole so they
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changed some laws and they basically
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said you can't do that anymore and the
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owner said okay well we're just going to
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shut the whole place down because that
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was a main revenue for our part and we
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we can't really see the racing continue
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so this actual laois Park that used to
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have horse racing has remained dormant
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for about almost 10 years here in Garden
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City and what they're going to transform
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it to that just actually got done with
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the whole design is they're going to
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make it a beautiful nature park for this
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area it's going to include some like
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natural types of inlets from the Boise
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River that runs uh really close to here
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and I'm actually going to go right now
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and show you where kind of the Stables
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are and everything like that used to be
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so let's go over there yeah so right
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behind me is where a lot of the training
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areas for all the horses that were
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living here during the racing days were
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all right back here and the boisey green
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belt actually runs right along where you
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can see in the Fate distance the green
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fence right along there and I remember
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as a kid we'd be riding our bikes down
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here and then we'd see all the horses
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and see right here it still says race
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license required now all this is going
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to be torn down all this is torn down
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because they're going to be putting a
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really beautiful Park and kind of nature
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place in this area it's going to be
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absolutely beautiful well there you go
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there's a little bit more that you know
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now about boy Idaho I hope it's kind of
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fun getting the taste of kind of where I
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live if you're not familiar with boisey
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I love learning about new places so
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let's now get to the recap of the videos
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that were posted on this channel all
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right the first video that I posted was
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episode 6 of my Vlog that I try to
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capture as much as I can about my life
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as a freeze dry business business owner
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I do own a business here it's called
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freeze dry Depot if you ever want to
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order from me I've actually got my store
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connected to my YouTube channel so you
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can check out the products now in this
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Vlog I shared about my journey of
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signing on a new wholesale client that
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was out in Wilder Idaho now a couple
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things that I included in that Vlog if
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you haven't checked it out is one I
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walked through how I actually put
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together my wholesale order sheet I use
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Google Docs and I've used it since I've
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started this business now if you need
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something like this it's very easy and
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simple for you to start generating
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wholesale Sheets if you're not even
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familiar with how to do wholesale I make
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it really easy I've stuck with easy
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myself for my business all you got to do
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is go to the video description I've
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highlighted there the wholesale line
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sheet on Freeze Drive bus.com click on
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that link then you're going to put in
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your email and I'll automatically send
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you the Google Doc link that you can
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then file and copy and then reproduce
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yourself okay now the other part of this
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Vlog is you just seeing me go through
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the motions of everything from the boxes
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that I use to package up all the goods
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and then my delivery to the actual
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client and then I tell a little bit
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about the client and their history it's
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a family run Orchard that's out in
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Wilder Ado so I was really thankful for
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them to to sign on with me so check that
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video out video number two that I posted
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in June was I interviewed blue Alpine
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freeze dryers and one of the co-owners
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of that company if you're not familiar
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that I have actual podcast I've got it
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both in video form through the playlist
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on this channel I also have it on Apple
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podcast and Spotify podcast so you can
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listen audibly to all of those episodes
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but this one I talked to Cory Merritt
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he's one of the three brothers that
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started blue Alpine freeze dryers over
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in St Anthony Idaho it's very close to
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me I'm hoping to get there here very
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soon and be able to do an actual full
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video tour of their facility but Cory
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and I talked everything from what makes
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them different in the marketplace why do
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they start freeze drying and start
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developing a freeze drying business I
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talked to him everything about his pumps
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his electricity what type of food and
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recipes he can do in the freeze dryer I
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talked to him about what types of advice
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he would give to entrepreneurs in the
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freeze drying space so if you want to
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know more about blue Alpine freeze
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dryers check out that podcast I'll
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include it in the video description you
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can watch it via video form you can also
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download it on Spotify and apple podcast
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video number three is all about how to
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make product labels for your
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freeze-dried product I made this pretty
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General because I use Avery labels for
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all of my product I've used it since the
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very beginning because it's very easy to
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use now you can go to avery.com and you
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can create your own account and then you
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can create templates based on the size
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of sticker and label that you're going
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to use and that makes it really easy
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because when you start adding more
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product different types of candies
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different types of fruits different
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flavors all of that you're going to want
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to easily replicate your product labels
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so that one you can have the same type
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of branding same type of uh description
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for your product that type of thing but
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then you can easily interchange the
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ingredients and also the different types
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of ounces and maybe even the allergens
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that you might have for different
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products so that's why I made this video
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and I made it a tutorial where I
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actually screen share my own templates
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and then walk you through how to create
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one it's very easy to use if you haven't
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checked that out check out the video
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description below because I include that
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video in there and I'll also include it
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in the thumbnail at the very end of this
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video so that you can easily click to
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that video and check it out all right
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the fourth and fifth video actually came
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back to back because I did my first live
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stream on YouTube if you missed that it
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was a lot of fun I had some trouble kind
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of understanding where the chat was but
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I'm going to get better at that and I'm
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going to do another live stream here
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very soon so make sure you hit the Ping
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notifications on your subscription that
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you have to my channel and if you're not
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a subscriber hit the Subscribe Bell
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right now and you'll be connected to
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everything about freeze drying and
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freeze drying as a business that's what
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this channel is all about so when a live
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stream comes up and I've notified you
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that notification will go directly on
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your phone you'll be notified you can
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hop in I did a kind of a Q&A that was a
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lot of fun so I'm going to do more of
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those that was the fourth video but then
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the following day I already had it
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scheduled was my second part to
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interviewing the owner of sweet potato
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awesome but this episode was my
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anniversary of speaking to Josh Kingdon
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who's the owner of sweet potato awesome
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back last year around the same time and
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I wanted to talk to him about how his
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business is going he recently purchased
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HRC 100 freeze dryers from Harvest R
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which can do up to 100 pounds a product
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so I wanted to ask him how are those
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machines doing what's the efficiency is
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it doing better than what your previous
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types of Freez dryer setups was now if
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you're not familiar with sweet potato
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awesome they freeze dry sweet potatoes
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obviously and he's developed a really
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specific process for how to cut up the
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sweet potatoes he does it all
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organically and we talk about that in
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the first episode and then we also
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follow up with that in this episode that
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I just posted too so if you're wanting
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to know more about entrepreneurs and
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freeze drying check those episodes out
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It's really informative and in fact that
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first episode that I posted about Josh
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and sweet potato awesome is actually my
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fastest growing podcast episode so a lot
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of people are liking it so check that
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out now let's talk about the people that
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I connected with in the freeze Dr space
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that maybe you're completely unfamiliar
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with or maybe you are but it's going to
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provide you a foreshadowing for upcoming
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content that I'm going to be coming out
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with on this channel number one is I
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talked to Brian over at the live life
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simple retired at 40 YouTube channel a
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lot of you probably subscribe to his
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channel as well as mine because you want
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to know more about freeze drying freeze
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drying different recipes now he's
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focused on everything freeze drying as
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far as home use I'm focused more on the
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freeze drying as a business type of use
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and a lot of us have a lot of crossover
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in that and I talked to him for probably
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over an hour and a half one about
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YouTube I talked to him about what he's
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doing in his YouTube channel and it was
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really nice to just be able to talk to
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someone who's in this space who has
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tried different freeze dryers equipment
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all of that and one of the things I
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gather from him is that he's very much
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connected to people like you he has an
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email list he has recipes he has a
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cookbook book he has all types of videos
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that you can search on his channel and
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it really inspired me to continue going
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with this YouTube channel because that's
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what I want to be after eight years of
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doing YouTube just like he has now at
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some point I'm hoping to get together
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with him in person because he's got some
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connections in Idaho that makes it kind
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of convenient for me to go and see him
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and I hope that we can collaborate talk
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everything freeze drying and it's going
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to be a lot of fun now the second person
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that I connected with that you may not
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be familiar with is Tech Source systems
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this company builds freeze dryers custom
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for all of their clients and in fact
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their freeze dry that they have right
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now that you could maybe even purchase
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is $130,000 but one of the things I
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gathered from these commercial freeze
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drant companies that I've been talking
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to is there's a completely different way
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to look at the purchasing of freeze
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dryers and other types of equipment and
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that's this that it doesn't necessarily
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have to be a capital expenditure meaning
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you don't have to come up with the cash
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all up front and get a loan so that you
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can purchase it outright you can
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actually look at talking to your account
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about making that freeze dryer as a
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lease or financing so that you can use
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it as an operating spense that's ongoing
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some of you have really large freeze
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drying businesses or maybe you are
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hoping to get to that point and so
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you're trying to find a way to meet the
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demand of all these orders or maybe
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you're trying to track down that huge
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elusive client that's going to place an
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order for 20,000 of your products but
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you need the freeze dryers to do that
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you need the packaging machines to do
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that that's all something that can be
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done through an operating expenditure
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versus trying to outlay all that cash
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via capital expenditure I've got so much
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to learn on that front but just to let
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you know that techsource systems is
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another company they're based in Utah
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just like Harvest Right and they
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actually know each other very well I had
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a really good conversation with their
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owners and in fact I've got an upcoming
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episode of the frozen assets podcast
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Series where I'm going to be talking to
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one of their Consultants Jean ligman who
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actually has a lot of experience with
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vacuums freeze dryers all of that and so
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he actually has a connection with that
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company so that's going to be a lot of
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fun and I'm making more and more
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connections with freeze dryer so that
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you feel more informed about everything
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that's out there as you scale your
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business now the third person that I
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talked to was e automation I talked to
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the owner Josh and this is a company
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that I met with back in March in Las
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Vegas Nevada if you want to check out
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the video that I posted about that I've
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got it up here in the thumbnail but also
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I've got it in the video description and
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I interviewed their sales engineer at
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the time there at their facility to talk
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about what is packaging automation how
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can it benefit you how can you make this
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all make sense in a break even
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standpoint so that you can afford to not
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have to do as much labor intensive work
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as we know we do with candy unwrapping
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with packaging with all the types of
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things that go into a freeze-dried candy
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or fruit business all of that can
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actually be automated so that you're
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spending more time marketing advertising
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meeting clients going to shows doing a
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lot of the fun stuff that I know all of
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us enjoy doing but we're still doing the
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manual labor of scooping up
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candy and ice cream and all that type of
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stuff to be able to put it in the bag so
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that's a really fun interview that's
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going to be coming up as well in the
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podcast and if you haven't checked out
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the video about Eis automation check out
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the video description below now hey
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thanks for joining me on this monthly
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recap if you want to see more Recaps
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check out the video description or I'm
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going to include more thumbnails of
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those videos coming up next I'll see you
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there
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