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But I'm super excited about Augustine.
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Thank you so much for being our guest today on this magnificent Monday right before Thanksgiving.
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We have so much to be thankful for.
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I met this wonderful man and his family in Michigan and another fellow Michigander.
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But he has a really successful company, and I'm going to let him share that, share a little bit about that with all of you.
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In addition, he was really concerned about his health of his employees, which I thought was very admirable for the times that we are living in.
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There's so many other things for people to be concerned about.
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And he really wanted to make a difference in their lives as well as you know the production in his company.
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So Augustine, welcome.
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Well, thank you.
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This is so nice to be here.
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Hey, can you start by telling everybody a little bit about you know your background?
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I know you're one of 15 children.
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That is incredible.
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14, right?
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Yes.
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So Elon Musk talks about people not having children, you know, nowadays.
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So what a feat that must have been.
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So being one of 14 children, and then you've gone on to, you know, have a successful business.
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How was that growing up in such a big family?
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And you know, really what inspired you to have this one-of-a-kind manufacturing companies?
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Well, I I was the second tier of my family, so I was number 10.
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And uh my my dad, he did or he had a roofing company, and he was he when the Japanese attacked, he he signed up for infantry and he was in the European theater and he got shot through both knees in the Battle of the Bulge.
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And he had to crawl back anyway.
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He couldn't, he lucky he lived, but he couldn't walk very good and he had roofed a lot of years, which is really physically taxing.
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So in like 1968-ish, he got or 67 got a uh gutter machine because they had these gutter machines anyway, without getting in the weeds about the gutter, he got a gutter machine and he said, Son, you're gonna be putting up gutters with me because I wasn't all the other guys were um were uh you know, my brothers were a roof, and I and when I was little, because we were like we'd come out of the truck and like a swarm of bees just we'd go all over the place.
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That's what we that's all we knew.
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We just work with my father, right?
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Wow.
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So anyway, he did gutters, and so I was like, How old were you when you started?
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How old were you when you started working for your dad?
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Seven-ish.
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Wow.
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Carry shingles.
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Oh my goodness.
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I actually got a hernia carry shingles.
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I trying to outdo my brother, right?
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Anyway, but I started doing gutters with my dad just because um the older roofing, the older brothers were doing roofing and he couldn't even walk then.
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And so just from 1968 or nine to when I graduated from high school, me and my brother, my younger brother, were putting up gutters with my father.
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And then at that point, me and my brother got the business and maybe five or six years, and it was the same mundane type of gutters which drove me out of my mind.
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And so I started doing commercial gutters, and my brother kept on the company that we had made, we had started, and then it got to where I got called on a half-round gutter job, which is a different profile gutter, it's a round gutter, it's what was always on houses before.
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And I came up with a new design of half-round, a reverse beat, it's called, and just started developing it from there.
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And that was in 1996.
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So I've been only doing half-round gutters now for let's say 32 years or something.
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It's crazy.
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So, what's the difference between half-round, half-round gutters and the other?
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Because that's you have many patents, don't you?
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I got a couple.
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The half-round gutter, it's there's that's not patentable.
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The half-round gutters was all put on before uh the case dial came around.
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The case, I mean, not to get again about the weeds, but the all the old houses in the you know 50s and whatnot, in 40s, they had a crown molding and they would put a half-round gutter on.
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Well, they came up with row form machines, and people would say, hey, seamless gutter.
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So they made the front kind of like a crown molding.
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So in these ranch style houses after World War II, it was like a gutter and a crown molding in one.
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But it's a flat bottom gutter, it's the gutter you see everywhere.
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So the half-round gutter started coming back when I invented the reverse bead, and I don't want to, it's just the the bead turned the other way.
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It made it a lot simpler to made a machine to make that.
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So I started making so the half-round gutter's got a round, it's a half-round.
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It's what it's just exactly what it's described, and it has a low point, i.e., like plumbing.
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In fact, if God made a gutter, it'd be half-round because it emulates a natural trough into the profile.
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Wow.
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And then round down spots.
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I did a lot of this old house with Tom Silva.
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Tom Silva, Norm, Kevin O'Connor, those guys are awesome.
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I mean, they're the easiest guys you'd ever want to meet in your life.
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Particularly, well, Tom and Kevin, they're they're so nice.
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Norm, they wrote things in my for my catalog.
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But I remember Tommy asking me, Well, tell me about the gutters, and I said, half round.
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He goes, Why the round down spots?
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And I said, Well, Tom, would you plumb your house with rectangular PVC?
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And he thought that was funny, but he goes, You know what?
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You're right.
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And I said, I know I'm right.
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So it's half-round gutters and round down spots, which emulate a an X, and and in the bottom line, it's gutter for the it's plumbing for the outside of your house.
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Okay.
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So it's way more efficient.
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And then I started making castings and just tons of brackets, and that's all I've been doing for now the last 32 years or 33 years or whatever it is.
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Well, I found it amazing when Dr.
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Avery and I came there and you took us on a tour of your huge manufacturing plant, and you were showing us how you you literally have there's very few things that are automated in your business.
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I mean, you have people that are working around the clock with these heavy machineries, you know, in high temperatures and so on.
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And so we were so amazed at the hand-point manufacturing plant that you have.
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So, congratulations!
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Yeah, so it's I love it because it's all inside.
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So I don't I'm not stopped when it gets cold that I'm just manufacturing, but a lot of foundry casting products, um presses to stamp products.
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We make gutter machines.
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So, in essence, I so I do the half-round gutter and I'm pretty much known for it all over the country.
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Congratulations! What an American dream story! I mean, truly, you think about it.
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Large family, uh growing up, you know, with your father, and then here you are creating these amazing tools that everybody needs for their homes.
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But along the way, you know, we talk about living the American dream.
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What did you see happen in the last, you know, five to six years?
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I mean, things really changed, didn't they?
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Well, I mean, I'm uh it's funny because I was with my buddies, and the first time I heard Donald Trump speak before I think I said, Oh my god, if he does a tenth of what he says, I would be happy.
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You know what I mean?
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Because I'm ultra-conservative.
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I just want common sense.
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And so um my business has been busy constantly just because I do something that no one else really does.
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But um, I just didn't like it was so difficult for me to to, in my opinion, that election was stolen um in 2020.
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So I just look at that and it affects everything I do because I just keep thinking, man, I got kids.
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I got five little kids, and um, you know, the youngest is 13 now.
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And um that was scary, the moral decline and everything else.
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It's hard for me to focus on the business when I see everything else like that going on.
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So, but I I thought to myself, man, if he wouldn't have, if they wouldn't have stolen it from him, he wouldn't be in a great position he is right now, and everybody'd be able to see what's going on.
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You know what I mean?
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So um business has always been good for me.
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But a lot was revealed, wasn't it, Augustine?
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I mean, so much has been revealed for us being able to see really how how challenging it could be for businessmen and women in America.
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I mean, America was founded on the opportunity for us to hang our own shingles out and build our own businesses and create something that you know God gave us the mission and the vision and our spirit and our heart.
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And along the way, you became very concerned about the health, right?
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Health of your employees, health of your family.
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Lisa, they drink energy drinks, which are just horrible, and they mostly all smoke and at break.
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And I said, You guys stop drinking the energy drinks, you know what I mean?
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Yeah, and uh they would say, Everybody's gotta die sometime.
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Well, we had a guy, um, that Woody who worked for us, and all of a sudden he was trying to move a thing one time, a crate, and I could see he was struggling with it.
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He was a little older, and I said, Hey, will you let them grab that for you?
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And and he had something wrong with him.
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He went to the hospital, and sure enough, it was cancer.
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He's smoking and drinking those energy drinks, and it was it was that's actually Sue's brother, and uh it was really sad.
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And I just thought to myself, man, these guys, I tried to motivate them in different ways to you know quit drinking energy drinks and I'll I'll do this, you know what I mean?
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But and then I was I just happened to be at Jason Whitlock's roll call, and uh it was like a retreat for I took my three boys, and I was sitting at the back table, and there was this guy walking past, it kind of looked like he was by myself, said hey you can sit over here, and it was John Hewlett, and we started talking, and one thing led to another, and and he was telling me about the cardio miracle and everything that went with it.
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I I said, John, I'm not I'm not a doctor, I don't I can't quantify anything you're saying.
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And so he's actually the one that came up and goes, Hey, you got how many employees you got?
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I got 40.
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He goes, think you can do half of them to do this.
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And I said, That'd be great because they're drinking these energy drinks.
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And um, I I love that aspect of, and not so much after seeing Woody go down, it was like, man, you guys, they they just don't think in the future, you know.
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And if they can just do something every day and we not only drink cardio miracle, but replace with that with the energy drink, that's awesome.
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That's a that's a quantum leap form, I think.
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You know what I mean?
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Well, that's somebody that really cares about your employees and cares about mankind.
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You know, a lot of employers, especially with all the pressure that everybody's been under the last four years, um, I commend you for taking that step and saying, yeah, I run it, I really want to help them, not only in their their ability to do their job, but in their overall health.
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I mean, we have seen such a decline in our country in the last, you know, 20 years success.
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I mean, horribly even the last, I would say, 10 to 15 years.
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But it's just gotten worse.
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I mean, now it's exciting because we have Bobby Kennedy that's gonna be able to make some of these changes and the foods, you know, that people are eating, uh, for really the water that we're drinking, the air that we're breathing.
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I mean, it's really going to, I believe, going to change the way that companies operate.
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And you took the first step, you know, some months ago, and it's been so much fun and what a blessing to get to know your employees and yourself.
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And don't you believe that at the end of the day, people really they want to feel better, don't they?
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Yeah, and I mean, if you don't got your health, what do you got?
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I mean, it's I got a guy right now, Chris, he's got all kinds of problems, and other guys are seeing that.
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Like, man, he just he's just went downhill.
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Wow.
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And um, I said, you know, I'm not a doctor, I don't know.
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I know that, you know, you will get the blood tests and quantify stuff, but they're gonna see a change.
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I feel a lot better.
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I mean, I'm always hyper and getting my job done, you know what I mean?
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Yeah but you know, I'm always up early.
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Um, I can't sleep till about six, and that's it.
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You know, I'm here to go.
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And um, so you know, I think uh I again I can't talk about like John talks about of the delivery system for vitamin D, I think he was talking about or whatnot, but you know, uh well, think about that.
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You know, you're a Michigander.
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And Michigan isn't not like Florida or or you know, Scottsdale, Arizona.
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I mean, you literally have a lot of gray days.
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I mean, I grew up near Detroit, so it wasn't like you had a lot of sun out all the time.
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And so vitamin D levels historically have been very low in different parts of the country where you have cloud cover, you have long winters, um, and all that.
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But what was so interesting to kind of share with our viewers and listeners a little bit about what you meant about the vitamin D.
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Vitamin D can be stored in fat cells, and what is interesting is you can be taking 50,000 IUs every week and your vitamin D level might not be up.
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What the other things that we have to be concerned about is vitamin D affects everything in our body, it affects the way we think, it affects our brain function, it affects our hormones.
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You know, many people will say vitamin D is actually a hormone, but it regulates, it's a regulator in the body.
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And if you don't have enough vitamin D, you know, you can start having all kinds of exterior health issues.
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And so when John showed me the article that he did when vitamin D combined with nitric oxide, it actually unlocks the vitamin D that is stored in the fat cells.
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So therefore, your body body is utilizing it, which was I don't think anybody really thought about it prior to that.
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So that's pretty exciting to me.
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So now people's vitamin D levels are going up, even if they're in, you know, clouded areas and maybe working in indoors all day long and and all that.
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So that's exciting to me.
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And then in addition to that, you know, we don't have any caffeine in the product, we don't have any sugar in the product.
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So people that are trying to be healthier, you know, we know what overwhelming amounts of sugar does for us.
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It certainly isn't very good for your pancreas.
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It isn't good for your overall inflammant inflammatory process that happens in the body.
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And then, of course, your caffeine, caffeine and girana, and all those you just mentioned, the energy drinks, my gracious, those are stimulants and they they overtax your adrenal glands, which raise your blood pressure.
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You're always in that fight and flight syndrome, your adrenaline is pumping.
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And yeah, maybe they can go through a day and get their work done, but really to be healthy and enjoy what they're doing, you know, all the ingredients in the cardiomyric, you have over 700 ingredients, um, and you have over 58, or over 700 nutrients and over 58 ingredients.
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So that's a lot.
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And I I just marvel at, you know, how John has been able to put together this product and how it's been able to help thousands and thousands of people, just like yourself and your organization.
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But I just want to thank you for taking that step and saying, hey, I want my my people to be healthier, I want them to enjoy life and the fruits of their labor.
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That says a lot for you and what you're doing.
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Yeah, I mean, that you're probably I do the best I can, but when you see somebody get sick, it changes like what do you do?
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You know, I can't, I gotta, I, you know, I sometimes get mad and use bad language, but my focus is try to be on Christ.
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You know, I mean that's what I'm trying to do.
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And so, um, you know, everybody's got their problems.
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And I just think if you just make, I told these guys, just make a step, do this, but you gotta do it because we're doing a three-month trial and they gotta drink two two uh 16 ounces a day.
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I love the individual packets, by the way.
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Yeah, and um, you know, I they're all doing it.
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Well, they they said it, I think they are.
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You know, I'm boy.
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They always got they all got their bottles in the by the presses, you know what I mean?
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Sipping on the cardio miracle.
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I should take a video, a picture of it.
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That's so good.
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I love that.
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Now, have you noticed have you noticed a difference in the way people are, you know, their activity level and so on?
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Um, yeah, I mean, I mean, I don't I'm not there with their because I'm always in the office doing stuff and they're in the in the shop, but um, you know, I haven't really I'm gonna I can't wait to talk to them after blood work and then really but yeah they seem um I'm just uh I I'm trying to get them to quit smoking at the same time, some some smoke and it drives me crazy.
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I said, I go, look it guys, you're so stupid.
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Listen, here, here's something that costs a lot of money, stinks, okay, it's horrible for you, and yeah, let's do that.
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That's a good idea.
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I don't get it.
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Like, stop it.
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And they go, Well, I'm addicted.
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And I said, get unaddicted, okay?
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Stop it.
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You know what I mean?
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And so that I know that's hard for them, but I'm like cold turkey.
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I would I can easily analyze something, say I would never do that.
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You know, I mean, that's that ain't make any sense to me at all.
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But um, yeah, I think the shop is going great, and uh, we're obviously busy all the time, but uh it's so funny.
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I'm gonna take a picture for you.
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So anything got like three presses, and these guys had the little, you know, got some waters.
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I get waters for them, you know.
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I mean, so they can have waters and whatever.
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That's fantastic.
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Well, you know, another thing that we know is in the Cardium Miracle, um, many people have said that they started on the product and they didn't have cravings for sugar.
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Their cravings for sugar has gone down, their cravings for other things.
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So, you know, maybe this would be once the body is satiated, you know, you don't have those cravings.
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So maybe this was crazy.
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You say that I didn't know that, but um, I'm a chocolate freak and I love chocolate.
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And uh now that you say that, I haven't really had a lot of sugar lately.
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Candy, you know, isn't that something?
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Yeah, that is.
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I never even thought of that.
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I don't see I don't know that I don't know the technical stuff like you guys do.
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But I think it's so cool because you know, you took the step and look at how many lives you're gonna change.
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You know, not only is um we all know that if you if you change one person's life in a family, it's gonna affect the family.
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And we've already had some calls from different your different employees that want to get it direct and share it with their family.
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So again, we really appreciate that.
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That's fantastic.
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And you know, the other thing is stress, we know that it will constrict your blood vessels and and uh narrow down your arteries, so therefore it's difficult to get blood flow to the top of your head, tip of your toes, tip of your nose.
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And so that's what nitric oxide does.
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You know, it increases that blood flow.
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And we always say that life is in the blood, right?
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So we have to keep that moving.
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Um, and also detoxifying.
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If you're working in an environment that might have some different type of dust and you know, all that kind of stuff, this will help detoxify at the liver, the kidneys, and through the skin.
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Yeah, you know, crazy thing is I'm not sure if you were here when my son's doing it, Isaiah.
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His boxing coach was going to do it, and his wife told him he can't do that and whatnot.
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Well, he just had a some type of heart um um uh episode, and he's actually in the bot hospital and they're draining blood.
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He's got blood caught in his brains, and I I don't know to talk to his wife and say, Man, he should he should take this stuff, you know.
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Wow, I don't know, but he hasn't been, and he he's in really good shape, you know.
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He's boxing all the time.
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So I don't, you know, even if you're in good shape, that doesn't mean you're in good shape inside, you know.
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I mean, right?
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You still need nutrients to live, and I think that's what a lot of people miss sometimes.
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They might be eating organically, they might be exercising regularly, but the body doesn't make um nitric oxide if you don't supply it with the building materials that it needs to do so, and so I think we miss some of that.
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So, yeah, if there's a chance for us to be able to help him, let me know.
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Oh no, I'll I mean I've been talking, I just that's great.
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Well, he's from Cuba, right?
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He got busted in the head.
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He got he escaped from Cuba and hard life, you know.
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And um, I mean, he's got a big scar on his head from when they busted him in the head from whatever they did, he got out of there, so I'm not sure if it has something to do with it, but I'm working on him.
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Yeah, we are so blessed, aren't we?
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I know you've got a busy Monday.
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I appreciate this time with you.
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So, also, what do you think the next four years are gonna look like for us, Augustine?
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I know we were at an event together, that was so fun.
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Yeah, Don Marlog, it was awesome.
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Yeah, that was awesome.
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I just look at it.
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I like like I talked just a little bit to uh Vivek when I was there just for a second, kind of asked me, said, Man, all we want is common sense and uh it's fair.
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You know what I mean?
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We don't want the government spending money on just ridiculous stuff, yeah.
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And if they can just do that, and if you know no one has a problem paying taxes if they know it's not wasted, you know what I mean?
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And it's going toward good stuff, right?
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But like Trump saying he possibly would eliminate the uh income tax and have it with um tariffs, get that would be just incredible.
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You imagine how freed the economy would be.
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So I I'm looking forward to uh, you know, just with Elon Musk and Vake.
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Hopefully, I know it's not like uh actual and I hope to God they eliminate the Department of Um Hills education, miseducation.
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It's a you know, it's a freaking indoctrination, it's stupid, you know.
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And uh, you know, just everybody learns different if they be creative enough to let people learn the way they want to learn.
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You know what I mean?
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I was always uh I want to see it, you know what I mean?
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I was never good at the books.
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But just common sense, you know what I mean?
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It's all we need common sense, and even a regular Democrat.
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That's just believes that he's got to look at this situation and stuff we're doing.
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Said, man, that's not right.
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Miss me with all of it, right?
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Stop it.
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All right.
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With well, when you look at the last, you know, what has happened to our economy and how this is, I believe this is going to be really freeing.
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So as a successful businessman, imagine how the next, you know, how the future is very bright for you, and how you're going to be able to move even greater and help more people and bless more people.
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You know, the one thing in America, as far as the jobs go, gosh, and you're in how many people would you say that you employ in your in your surrounding area there?
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Well, I got 40 employees.
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So I mean so you literally affect 40, 40 families.
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Yeah, 40.
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Well, some are from two, let's say 35 families or something.
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You're right, you know what I mean?
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Then it's a lot of.
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I mean, I guess there's hidden pressure.
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I keep trying to, I'm always working late trying to get stuff done, but um I I just listen, if people, you know, if it was just common sense oriented where people are doing just things that make sense, I would love that.
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It really struggle for me when I see, you know, just like people smoking.
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It's like, why are you doing that?
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That's not good for you.
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That doesn't help you at all.
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You know what I mean?
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Or, you know, and I told him, I said, you know, they drink, they get probably two of those energy drinks a day, and they maybe let's say smoke a pack a day.
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I don't know, a pack of cigarettes is seven bucks or six bucks.
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Oh, golly, they're 12, they're 10, 12 bucks a pack.
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Okay, so and the energy drinks are at least a buck fifty.
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Yeah, you're spending 12 bucks a day, yeah.
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You know, that that spending 350, 400 bucks a month on stuff, it's hurting them.
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That's crazy.
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So just a little change in the direction, just being consistent, you know, get you down the road quite a ways.
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August see, we just can't thank you enough for initiating that change and allowing us to you know be part of that because I believe that Cardi Miracle, you know, when God gave John the download, um, and how it can affect millions and millions of people and uh companies such as yours.
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So I'm excited.
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I think we're gonna have a great Thanksgiving.
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You know, somebody asked me the other day, what are you thankful for?
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I said it would take me a day, uh, a month of Sundays to tell you all the things I'm grateful for right now.
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What an amazing time to be alive.
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It is.
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I'll tell you the other thing.
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I would any other companies out there um that I think it's a good idea for other, it's a really simple thing for somebody to do.
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Uh doesn't really reasonable to be able to get cardio miracles for their employees, you know what I mean?
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So that hey, just you know, I don't what whatever they think, I'm just trying to help them out.
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But if if it can show, if all of a sudden it's quantified and they can feel better and they can see that, it's a win-win-win for them.
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You know, they're on time, they're doing their stuff.
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So uh I would recommend it for other companies to do that.
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I think it's uh simple, really a simple thing to do because you guys were great, man.
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You gotta came down there and did all the blood work and had we had everybody the blood work, and then every month you come and do all the vitals and get everything documented because I know it's a study.
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And actually, the guys are pretty excited to be a part of a study, you know.
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I mean, they don't so that's so cool.
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And again, and again, you know what?
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Look, we also the product is now covered under the HSA, which is your health savings program.
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So I encourage everyone to check out your own personal health savings, your your insurance, because now it's covered by that.
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So that itself, uh, we're we so appreciate John pushing that through because that's huge for people.
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Really appreciate that.
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It's good.
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Yeah, we're we're excited.
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We're excited for the future and uh just pumped up that God gave a reprieve somehow.
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And I'm not saying Donald Trump's all that, but he is he is his values and what he's doing represent what I would like to see done, you know what I mean?
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And uh, you know, anybody I wouldn't want to be put under his microscope like he was because I'd probably be worse.
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Just full disclosure, you know what I mean?
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Everybody, everybody's got their problems, but man, that dude is I think he's picked by God personally.
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He is one strong person, I'm telling you what.
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A lot of prayers for him, and a lot of prayers for you too, Augustine, and your family and your organization.
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And thank you so much for being part of this, and God bless America, and we'll continue to push this down the road.
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Great.
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Well, thank you, Lisa, and thank you for you know, um, and I and I keep I keep telling people about Cardi America.
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I think it's good.
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Okay, I'm excited about it.
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We appreciate you.
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All right, thank you so much.
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Happy Thanksgiving!
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You too.
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All right, God bless.
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Bye bye.
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Thank you so much for being our guest today on this magnificent Monday right before Thanksgiving.
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We have so much to be thankful for.
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I met this wonderful man and his family in Michigan and another fellow Michigander.
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But he has a really successful company, and I'm going to let him share that, share a little bit about that with all of you.
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In addition, he was really concerned about his health of his employees, which I thought was very admirable for the times that we are living in.
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There's so many other things for people to be concerned about.
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And he really wanted to make a difference in their lives as well as you know the production in his company.
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So Augustine, welcome.
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Well, thank you.
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This is so nice to be here.
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Hey, can you start by telling everybody a little bit about you know your background?
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I know you're one of 15 children.
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That is incredible.
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14, right?
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Yes.
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So Elon Musk talks about people not having children, you know, nowadays.
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So what a feat that must have been.
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So being one of 14 children, and then you've gone on to, you know, have a successful business.
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How was that growing up in such a big family?
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And you know, really what inspired you to have this one-of-a-kind manufacturing companies?
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Well, I I was the second tier of my family, so I was number 10.
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And uh my my dad, he did or he had a roofing company, and he was he when the Japanese attacked, he he signed up for infantry and he was in the European theater and he got shot through both knees in the Battle of the Bulge.
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And he had to crawl back anyway.
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He couldn't, he lucky he lived, but he couldn't walk very good and he had roofed a lot of years, which is really physically taxing.
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So in like 1968-ish, he got or 67 got a uh gutter machine because they had these gutter machines anyway, without getting in the weeds about the gutter, he got a gutter machine and he said, Son, you're gonna be putting up gutters with me because I wasn't all the other guys were um were uh you know, my brothers were a roof, and I and when I was little, because we were like we'd come out of the truck and like a swarm of bees just we'd go all over the place.
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That's what we that's all we knew.
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We just work with my father, right?
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Wow.
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So anyway, he did gutters, and so I was like, How old were you when you started?
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How old were you when you started working for your dad?
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Seven-ish.
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Wow.
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Carry shingles.
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Oh my goodness.
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I actually got a hernia carry shingles.
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I trying to outdo my brother, right?
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Anyway, but I started doing gutters with my dad just because um the older roofing, the older brothers were doing roofing and he couldn't even walk then.
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And so just from 1968 or nine to when I graduated from high school, me and my brother, my younger brother, were putting up gutters with my father.
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And then at that point, me and my brother got the business and maybe five or six years, and it was the same mundane type of gutters which drove me out of my mind.
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And so I started doing commercial gutters, and my brother kept on the company that we had made, we had started, and then it got to where I got called on a half-round gutter job, which is a different profile gutter, it's a round gutter, it's what was always on houses before.
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And I came up with a new design of half-round, a reverse beat, it's called, and just started developing it from there.
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And that was in 1996.
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So I've been only doing half-round gutters now for let's say 32 years or something.
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It's crazy.
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So, what's the difference between half-round, half-round gutters and the other?
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Because that's you have many patents, don't you?
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I got a couple.
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The half-round gutter, it's there's that's not patentable.
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The half-round gutters was all put on before uh the case dial came around.
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The case, I mean, not to get again about the weeds, but the all the old houses in the you know 50s and whatnot, in 40s, they had a crown molding and they would put a half-round gutter on.
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Well, they came up with row form machines, and people would say, hey, seamless gutter.
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So they made the front kind of like a crown molding.
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So in these ranch style houses after World War II, it was like a gutter and a crown molding in one.
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But it's a flat bottom gutter, it's the gutter you see everywhere.
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So the half-round gutter started coming back when I invented the reverse bead, and I don't want to, it's just the the bead turned the other way.
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It made it a lot simpler to made a machine to make that.
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So I started making so the half-round gutter's got a round, it's a half-round.
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It's what it's just exactly what it's described, and it has a low point, i.e., like plumbing.
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In fact, if God made a gutter, it'd be half-round because it emulates a natural trough into the profile.
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Wow.
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And then round down spots.
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I did a lot of this old house with Tom Silva.
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Tom Silva, Norm, Kevin O'Connor, those guys are awesome.
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I mean, they're the easiest guys you'd ever want to meet in your life.
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Particularly, well, Tom and Kevin, they're they're so nice.
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Norm, they wrote things in my for my catalog.
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But I remember Tommy asking me, Well, tell me about the gutters, and I said, half round.
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He goes, Why the round down spots?
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And I said, Well, Tom, would you plumb your house with rectangular PVC?
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And he thought that was funny, but he goes, You know what?
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You're right.
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And I said, I know I'm right.
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So it's half-round gutters and round down spots, which emulate a an X, and and in the bottom line, it's gutter for the it's plumbing for the outside of your house.
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Okay.
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So it's way more efficient.
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And then I started making castings and just tons of brackets, and that's all I've been doing for now the last 32 years or 33 years or whatever it is.
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Well, I found it amazing when Dr.
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Avery and I came there and you took us on a tour of your huge manufacturing plant, and you were showing us how you you literally have there's very few things that are automated in your business.
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I mean, you have people that are working around the clock with these heavy machineries, you know, in high temperatures and so on.
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And so we were so amazed at the hand-point manufacturing plant that you have.
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So, congratulations!
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Yeah, so it's I love it because it's all inside.
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So I don't I'm not stopped when it gets cold that I'm just manufacturing, but a lot of foundry casting products, um presses to stamp products.
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We make gutter machines.
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So, in essence, I so I do the half-round gutter and I'm pretty much known for it all over the country.
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Congratulations! What an American dream story! I mean, truly, you think about it.
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Large family, uh growing up, you know, with your father, and then here you are creating these amazing tools that everybody needs for their homes.
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But along the way, you know, we talk about living the American dream.
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What did you see happen in the last, you know, five to six years?
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I mean, things really changed, didn't they?
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Well, I mean, I'm uh it's funny because I was with my buddies, and the first time I heard Donald Trump speak before I think I said, Oh my god, if he does a tenth of what he says, I would be happy.
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You know what I mean?
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Because I'm ultra-conservative.
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I just want common sense.
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And so um my business has been busy constantly just because I do something that no one else really does.
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But um, I just didn't like it was so difficult for me to to, in my opinion, that election was stolen um in 2020.
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So I just look at that and it affects everything I do because I just keep thinking, man, I got kids.
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I got five little kids, and um, you know, the youngest is 13 now.
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And um that was scary, the moral decline and everything else.
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It's hard for me to focus on the business when I see everything else like that going on.
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So, but I I thought to myself, man, if he wouldn't have, if they wouldn't have stolen it from him, he wouldn't be in a great position he is right now, and everybody'd be able to see what's going on.
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You know what I mean?
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So um business has always been good for me.
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But a lot was revealed, wasn't it, Augustine?
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I mean, so much has been revealed for us being able to see really how how challenging it could be for businessmen and women in America.
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I mean, America was founded on the opportunity for us to hang our own shingles out and build our own businesses and create something that you know God gave us the mission and the vision and our spirit and our heart.
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And along the way, you became very concerned about the health, right?
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Health of your employees, health of your family.
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Lisa, they drink energy drinks, which are just horrible, and they mostly all smoke and at break.
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And I said, You guys stop drinking the energy drinks, you know what I mean?
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Yeah, and uh they would say, Everybody's gotta die sometime.
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Well, we had a guy, um, that Woody who worked for us, and all of a sudden he was trying to move a thing one time, a crate, and I could see he was struggling with it.
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He was a little older, and I said, Hey, will you let them grab that for you?
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And and he had something wrong with him.
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He went to the hospital, and sure enough, it was cancer.
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He's smoking and drinking those energy drinks, and it was it was that's actually Sue's brother, and uh it was really sad.
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And I just thought to myself, man, these guys, I tried to motivate them in different ways to you know quit drinking energy drinks and I'll I'll do this, you know what I mean?
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But and then I was I just happened to be at Jason Whitlock's roll call, and uh it was like a retreat for I took my three boys, and I was sitting at the back table, and there was this guy walking past, it kind of looked like he was by myself, said hey you can sit over here, and it was John Hewlett, and we started talking, and one thing led to another, and and he was telling me about the cardio miracle and everything that went with it.
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I I said, John, I'm not I'm not a doctor, I don't I can't quantify anything you're saying.
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And so he's actually the one that came up and goes, Hey, you got how many employees you got?
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I got 40.
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He goes, think you can do half of them to do this.
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And I said, That'd be great because they're drinking these energy drinks.
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And um, I I love that aspect of, and not so much after seeing Woody go down, it was like, man, you guys, they they just don't think in the future, you know.
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And if they can just do something every day and we not only drink cardio miracle, but replace with that with the energy drink, that's awesome.
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That's a that's a quantum leap form, I think.
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You know what I mean?
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Well, that's somebody that really cares about your employees and cares about mankind.
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You know, a lot of employers, especially with all the pressure that everybody's been under the last four years, um, I commend you for taking that step and saying, yeah, I run it, I really want to help them, not only in their their ability to do their job, but in their overall health.
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I mean, we have seen such a decline in our country in the last, you know, 20 years success.
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I mean, horribly even the last, I would say, 10 to 15 years.
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But it's just gotten worse.
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I mean, now it's exciting because we have Bobby Kennedy that's gonna be able to make some of these changes and the foods, you know, that people are eating, uh, for really the water that we're drinking, the air that we're breathing.
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I mean, it's really going to, I believe, going to change the way that companies operate.
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And you took the first step, you know, some months ago, and it's been so much fun and what a blessing to get to know your employees and yourself.
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And don't you believe that at the end of the day, people really they want to feel better, don't they?
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Yeah, and I mean, if you don't got your health, what do you got?
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I mean, it's I got a guy right now, Chris, he's got all kinds of problems, and other guys are seeing that.
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Like, man, he just he's just went downhill.
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Wow.
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And um, I said, you know, I'm not a doctor, I don't know.
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I know that, you know, you will get the blood tests and quantify stuff, but they're gonna see a change.
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I feel a lot better.
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I mean, I'm always hyper and getting my job done, you know what I mean?
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Yeah but you know, I'm always up early.
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Um, I can't sleep till about six, and that's it.
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You know, I'm here to go.
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And um, so you know, I think uh I again I can't talk about like John talks about of the delivery system for vitamin D, I think he was talking about or whatnot, but you know, uh well, think about that.
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You know, you're a Michigander.
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And Michigan isn't not like Florida or or you know, Scottsdale, Arizona.
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I mean, you literally have a lot of gray days.
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I mean, I grew up near Detroit, so it wasn't like you had a lot of sun out all the time.
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And so vitamin D levels historically have been very low in different parts of the country where you have cloud cover, you have long winters, um, and all that.
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But what was so interesting to kind of share with our viewers and listeners a little bit about what you meant about the vitamin D.
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Vitamin D can be stored in fat cells, and what is interesting is you can be taking 50,000 IUs every week and your vitamin D level might not be up.
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What the other things that we have to be concerned about is vitamin D affects everything in our body, it affects the way we think, it affects our brain function, it affects our hormones.
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You know, many people will say vitamin D is actually a hormone, but it regulates, it's a regulator in the body.
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And if you don't have enough vitamin D, you know, you can start having all kinds of exterior health issues.
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And so when John showed me the article that he did when vitamin D combined with nitric oxide, it actually unlocks the vitamin D that is stored in the fat cells.
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So therefore, your body body is utilizing it, which was I don't think anybody really thought about it prior to that.
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So that's pretty exciting to me.
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So now people's vitamin D levels are going up, even if they're in, you know, clouded areas and maybe working in indoors all day long and and all that.
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So that's exciting to me.
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And then in addition to that, you know, we don't have any caffeine in the product, we don't have any sugar in the product.
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So people that are trying to be healthier, you know, we know what overwhelming amounts of sugar does for us.
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It certainly isn't very good for your pancreas.
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It isn't good for your overall inflammant inflammatory process that happens in the body.
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And then, of course, your caffeine, caffeine and girana, and all those you just mentioned, the energy drinks, my gracious, those are stimulants and they they overtax your adrenal glands, which raise your blood pressure.
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You're always in that fight and flight syndrome, your adrenaline is pumping.
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And yeah, maybe they can go through a day and get their work done, but really to be healthy and enjoy what they're doing, you know, all the ingredients in the cardiomyric, you have over 700 ingredients, um, and you have over 58, or over 700 nutrients and over 58 ingredients.
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So that's a lot.
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And I I just marvel at, you know, how John has been able to put together this product and how it's been able to help thousands and thousands of people, just like yourself and your organization.
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But I just want to thank you for taking that step and saying, hey, I want my my people to be healthier, I want them to enjoy life and the fruits of their labor.
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That says a lot for you and what you're doing.
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Yeah, I mean, that you're probably I do the best I can, but when you see somebody get sick, it changes like what do you do?
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You know, I can't, I gotta, I, you know, I sometimes get mad and use bad language, but my focus is try to be on Christ.
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You know, I mean that's what I'm trying to do.
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And so, um, you know, everybody's got their problems.
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And I just think if you just make, I told these guys, just make a step, do this, but you gotta do it because we're doing a three-month trial and they gotta drink two two uh 16 ounces a day.
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I love the individual packets, by the way.
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Yeah, and um, you know, I they're all doing it.
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Well, they they said it, I think they are.
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You know, I'm boy.
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They always got they all got their bottles in the by the presses, you know what I mean?
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Sipping on the cardio miracle.
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I should take a video, a picture of it.
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That's so good.
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I love that.
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Now, have you noticed have you noticed a difference in the way people are, you know, their activity level and so on?
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Um, yeah, I mean, I mean, I don't I'm not there with their because I'm always in the office doing stuff and they're in the in the shop, but um, you know, I haven't really I'm gonna I can't wait to talk to them after blood work and then really but yeah they seem um I'm just uh I I'm trying to get them to quit smoking at the same time, some some smoke and it drives me crazy.
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I said, I go, look it guys, you're so stupid.
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Listen, here, here's something that costs a lot of money, stinks, okay, it's horrible for you, and yeah, let's do that.
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That's a good idea.
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I don't get it.
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Like, stop it.
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And they go, Well, I'm addicted.
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And I said, get unaddicted, okay?
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Stop it.
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You know what I mean?
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And so that I know that's hard for them, but I'm like cold turkey.
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I would I can easily analyze something, say I would never do that.
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You know, I mean, that's that ain't make any sense to me at all.
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But um, yeah, I think the shop is going great, and uh, we're obviously busy all the time, but uh it's so funny.
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I'm gonna take a picture for you.
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So anything got like three presses, and these guys had the little, you know, got some waters.
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I get waters for them, you know.
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I mean, so they can have waters and whatever.
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That's fantastic.
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Well, you know, another thing that we know is in the Cardium Miracle, um, many people have said that they started on the product and they didn't have cravings for sugar.
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Their cravings for sugar has gone down, their cravings for other things.
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So, you know, maybe this would be once the body is satiated, you know, you don't have those cravings.
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So maybe this was crazy.
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You say that I didn't know that, but um, I'm a chocolate freak and I love chocolate.
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And uh now that you say that, I haven't really had a lot of sugar lately.
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Candy, you know, isn't that something?
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Yeah, that is.
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I never even thought of that.
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I don't see I don't know that I don't know the technical stuff like you guys do.
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But I think it's so cool because you know, you took the step and look at how many lives you're gonna change.
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You know, not only is um we all know that if you if you change one person's life in a family, it's gonna affect the family.
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And we've already had some calls from different your different employees that want to get it direct and share it with their family.
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So again, we really appreciate that.
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That's fantastic.
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And you know, the other thing is stress, we know that it will constrict your blood vessels and and uh narrow down your arteries, so therefore it's difficult to get blood flow to the top of your head, tip of your toes, tip of your nose.
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And so that's what nitric oxide does.
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You know, it increases that blood flow.
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And we always say that life is in the blood, right?
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So we have to keep that moving.
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Um, and also detoxifying.
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If you're working in an environment that might have some different type of dust and you know, all that kind of stuff, this will help detoxify at the liver, the kidneys, and through the skin.
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Yeah, you know, crazy thing is I'm not sure if you were here when my son's doing it, Isaiah.
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His boxing coach was going to do it, and his wife told him he can't do that and whatnot.
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Well, he just had a some type of heart um um uh episode, and he's actually in the bot hospital and they're draining blood.
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He's got blood caught in his brains, and I I don't know to talk to his wife and say, Man, he should he should take this stuff, you know.
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Wow, I don't know, but he hasn't been, and he he's in really good shape, you know.
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He's boxing all the time.
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So I don't, you know, even if you're in good shape, that doesn't mean you're in good shape inside, you know.
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I mean, right?
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You still need nutrients to live, and I think that's what a lot of people miss sometimes.
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They might be eating organically, they might be exercising regularly, but the body doesn't make um nitric oxide if you don't supply it with the building materials that it needs to do so, and so I think we miss some of that.
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So, yeah, if there's a chance for us to be able to help him, let me know.
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Oh no, I'll I mean I've been talking, I just that's great.
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Well, he's from Cuba, right?
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He got busted in the head.
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He got he escaped from Cuba and hard life, you know.
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And um, I mean, he's got a big scar on his head from when they busted him in the head from whatever they did, he got out of there, so I'm not sure if it has something to do with it, but I'm working on him.
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Yeah, we are so blessed, aren't we?
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I know you've got a busy Monday.
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I appreciate this time with you.
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So, also, what do you think the next four years are gonna look like for us, Augustine?
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I know we were at an event together, that was so fun.
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Yeah, Don Marlog, it was awesome.
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Yeah, that was awesome.
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I just look at it.
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I like like I talked just a little bit to uh Vivek when I was there just for a second, kind of asked me, said, Man, all we want is common sense and uh it's fair.
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You know what I mean?
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We don't want the government spending money on just ridiculous stuff, yeah.
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And if they can just do that, and if you know no one has a problem paying taxes if they know it's not wasted, you know what I mean?
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And it's going toward good stuff, right?
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But like Trump saying he possibly would eliminate the uh income tax and have it with um tariffs, get that would be just incredible.
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You imagine how freed the economy would be.
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So I I'm looking forward to uh, you know, just with Elon Musk and Vake.
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Hopefully, I know it's not like uh actual and I hope to God they eliminate the Department of Um Hills education, miseducation.
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It's a you know, it's a freaking indoctrination, it's stupid, you know.
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And uh, you know, just everybody learns different if they be creative enough to let people learn the way they want to learn.
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You know what I mean?
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I was always uh I want to see it, you know what I mean?
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I was never good at the books.
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But just common sense, you know what I mean?
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It's all we need common sense, and even a regular Democrat.
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That's just believes that he's got to look at this situation and stuff we're doing.
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Said, man, that's not right.
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Miss me with all of it, right?
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Stop it.
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All right.
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With well, when you look at the last, you know, what has happened to our economy and how this is, I believe this is going to be really freeing.
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So as a successful businessman, imagine how the next, you know, how the future is very bright for you, and how you're going to be able to move even greater and help more people and bless more people.
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You know, the one thing in America, as far as the jobs go, gosh, and you're in how many people would you say that you employ in your in your surrounding area there?
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Well, I got 40 employees.
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So I mean so you literally affect 40, 40 families.
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Yeah, 40.
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Well, some are from two, let's say 35 families or something.
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You're right, you know what I mean?
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Then it's a lot of.
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I mean, I guess there's hidden pressure.
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I keep trying to, I'm always working late trying to get stuff done, but um I I just listen, if people, you know, if it was just common sense oriented where people are doing just things that make sense, I would love that.
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It really struggle for me when I see, you know, just like people smoking.
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It's like, why are you doing that?
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That's not good for you.
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That doesn't help you at all.
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You know what I mean?
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Or, you know, and I told him, I said, you know, they drink, they get probably two of those energy drinks a day, and they maybe let's say smoke a pack a day.
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I don't know, a pack of cigarettes is seven bucks or six bucks.
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Oh, golly, they're 12, they're 10, 12 bucks a pack.
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Okay, so and the energy drinks are at least a buck fifty.
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Yeah, you're spending 12 bucks a day, yeah.
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You know, that that spending 350, 400 bucks a month on stuff, it's hurting them.
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That's crazy.
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So just a little change in the direction, just being consistent, you know, get you down the road quite a ways.
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August see, we just can't thank you enough for initiating that change and allowing us to you know be part of that because I believe that Cardi Miracle, you know, when God gave John the download, um, and how it can affect millions and millions of people and uh companies such as yours.
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So I'm excited.
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I think we're gonna have a great Thanksgiving.
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You know, somebody asked me the other day, what are you thankful for?
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I said it would take me a day, uh, a month of Sundays to tell you all the things I'm grateful for right now.
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What an amazing time to be alive.
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It is.
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I'll tell you the other thing.
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I would any other companies out there um that I think it's a good idea for other, it's a really simple thing for somebody to do.
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Uh doesn't really reasonable to be able to get cardio miracles for their employees, you know what I mean?
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So that hey, just you know, I don't what whatever they think, I'm just trying to help them out.
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But if if it can show, if all of a sudden it's quantified and they can feel better and they can see that, it's a win-win-win for them.
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You know, they're on time, they're doing their stuff.
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So uh I would recommend it for other companies to do that.
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I think it's uh simple, really a simple thing to do because you guys were great, man.
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You gotta came down there and did all the blood work and had we had everybody the blood work, and then every month you come and do all the vitals and get everything documented because I know it's a study.
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And actually, the guys are pretty excited to be a part of a study, you know.
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I mean, they don't so that's so cool.
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And again, and again, you know what?
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Look, we also the product is now covered under the HSA, which is your health savings program.
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So I encourage everyone to check out your own personal health savings, your your insurance, because now it's covered by that.
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So that itself, uh, we're we so appreciate John pushing that through because that's huge for people.
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Really appreciate that.
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It's good.
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Yeah, we're we're excited.
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We're excited for the future and uh just pumped up that God gave a reprieve somehow.
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And I'm not saying Donald Trump's all that, but he is he is his values and what he's doing represent what I would like to see done, you know what I mean?
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And uh, you know, anybody I wouldn't want to be put under his microscope like he was because I'd probably be worse.
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Just full disclosure, you know what I mean?
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Everybody, everybody's got their problems, but man, that dude is I think he's picked by God personally.
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He is one strong person, I'm telling you what.
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A lot of prayers for him, and a lot of prayers for you too, Augustine, and your family and your organization.
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And thank you so much for being part of this, and God bless America, and we'll continue to push this down the road.
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Great.
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Well, thank you, Lisa, and thank you for you know, um, and I and I keep I keep telling people about Cardi America.
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I think it's good.
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Okay, I'm excited about it.
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We appreciate you.
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All right, thank you so much.
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Happy Thanksgiving!
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You too.
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All right, God bless.
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Bye bye.
