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Chris Henderson on Innovating Safety Solutions and Business Vision · The Scene Projects

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  Alright.
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  This your boy, Pablo, one time.
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  We are live in a vault.
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  You know what I'm saying?
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  I got a very, very, very special guest in the building with me.
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  You know what I'm saying?
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  He go by the name of mister Christopher Henderson, and he's out here making real
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  changes in our communities.
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  And I think you should tap in with him today.
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  So without further ado, mister Christopher Henderson, how you doing, brother?
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  Hey.
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  What's up, Pablo?
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  Man, look, man.
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  Look.
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  Just give us a brief introduction of who you are.
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  You know what I'm saying?
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  And just you know what I'm saying?
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  Just just know just a warm welcome, man.
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  Hey.
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  Look.
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  The Black Sea Kid community, man.
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  Let's welcome mister Christopher Henderson to the train, man.
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  But, look, without further ado, man, who are you and you know what I'm saying?
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  And and and all that good stuff.
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  So this is cool, man.
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  You still there?
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  Yeah.
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  I'm here.
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  I'm here.
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  I'm here.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Get the people getting
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  a glimpse.
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  Get the people a brief a brief introduction of who you are, man.
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  Yeah.
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  Hold up.
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  I'm a my name is Chris Henderson, founder of KDA Strategies, and we got a a patented product
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  we bring in the market.
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  It's a safety harness for the passenger aboard in line recreational vehicles.
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  This is the the harness here.
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  Malaytandem.com.
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  You can check out the site.
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  But it's a it's a it's a product product.
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  I conceded about twenty five years ago.
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  I ride my son, and he actually dozed off on the back of the bike and was sliding off.
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  But the way he slid sideways, I was able to catch him.
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  So when and then I I just got to thinking, like, if if I had him, like, tethered to me, he
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  wouldn't he he could actually be asleep back there and without me worrying about him.
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  So it it it was actually a dangerous thing to be doing, but a lot of people do it.
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  But this is, a solution to that.
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  Like, you can do it now and have added, like, safety and security backups.
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  You don't you don't never wanna, like, lose your child off the back of the place because
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  people are coming off the back of them.
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  You know, jet skis and, you know, four wheelers, all that type of all them type of
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  vehicles.
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  Right, man.
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  Right.
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  And I I feel like I feel like what a awesome product, man.
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  What a what a awesome thing to bring to the world, man.
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  And I I just feel like this should be highlighted.
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  You know what I'm saying?
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  I'm a I'm a army veteran, and I can I can only imagine how many veterans can can use these
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  products?
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  And Right.
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  I I can only imagine how many parents out there can use these products.
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  They may have children with certain disabilities and certain things, man.
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  This is crazy, man.
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  This is crazy right here.
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  Mister Christopher Henderson, man.
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  So, man, you you got a crazy testimony here, man, and I'm I'm just honored to to hear it
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  that you was able to just reach back and grab your son before it could've just really ended,
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  you know what I'm saying, overly tragic.
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  You know what saying?
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  So, I mean, man, how long did it take you to get to where you at now in these stages?
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  And, like like, what what encouraged you and motivated you not to quit?
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  Because something like this takes time, dedication, and a lot of strategy.
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  You know?
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  Can we
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  can we talk about that a little bit?
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  We can.
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  It's it's been a it's been a journey, I'm telling you, bro.
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  We we I actually, like, after that after that occurred, I started, like, playing around with
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  some straps and buckles and stuff like that.
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  And then, like, in in 02/2006, we started on a patent and a design.
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  But I couldn't come up with a complete design, man, until, like, 2023.
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  I almost abandoned it.
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  But, you know, it'd be time where I would just see a a a, like, a father riding riding his son
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  or something, and I'd be like, wow.
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  You know, he backed there, but he's not safe.
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  Right.
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  Right.
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  Right.
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  And and now I I always wanted to just get this out, and I finally got it out.
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  We did the short tank auditions at 23, man.
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  The the the year I I I actually started the company and the product, you know, and started
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  out I went full for it.
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  I you know, we we mortgaged the house and everything, man, just to get it out.
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  You know, got us for a shipment from China, so we got a warehouse full of them right now just
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  trying to get them out here.
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  Right.
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  Right.
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  Right.
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  Well well, how do how do people reach out to you?
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  How do how do they tap in with you?
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  And and how do people find you, man?
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  You know what I'm saying?
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  What's your social links and all that good stuff?
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  And when we put the video out, just make sure y'all tap in because at the bottom of the
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  description, we're gonna have all this information and all that good stuff all over
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  YouTube and all that good stuff.
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  But go ahead.
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  You can tell the people live while we're on live right now, though.
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  You know?
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  Right.
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  But we're on we're on Facebook.
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  We're on LinkedIn and on Facebook, on TikTok, on LinkedIn, and Instagram.
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  And and and if the website is linkedtandem.com where you can find a product there.
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  Or directly, really, you know, I'm just I'm looking for some outlets, you know, some people
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  that that I can just ship them to, and they and they just handle the sale, you know, city to
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  see.
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  You were in Memphis.
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  Right?
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  Yes, sir.
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  Yes, sir.
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  I'm in Memphis.
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  Yeah.
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  We've been Yeah, man.
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  Down there.
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  Hey.
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  Hey.
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  I would trying to get down there because I'm on bike shows.
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  Man, I I would I would love to to be an affiliate, man.
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  If if I can help spread the word here and you can help spread the black sheep kid word there,
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  bro, we can lock in and do some big things out here because I'm tied into a real massive
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  podcast community, man.
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  And we're doing some real big things, man, with Bubba and all that.
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  You can tap in.
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  You you seeing what's going on in the background, dawg.
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  You know?
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  You tapped in, brother.
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  You know?
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  Yes, sir.
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  Yes, sir.
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  So so, I mean, what's next, man?
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  What's next for you with this thing?
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  Because now I'm seeing that the product is here, and you already got so many that's made
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  already.
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  You got a warehouse full of them.
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  So now I'm only I'm only imagining you wanna scale now.
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  It's time to scale this.
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  Yes.
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  So we're looking for some money for marketing, but I didn't really need to market past, you
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  know, my inventory actually because we're just trying to get set up for the next order, which
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  is about a half a million dollar order.
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  And we're gonna, like, go on Facebook I mean, Amazon, Shopify.
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  Then we're gonna have enough product just to ship directly to them and let them handle the,
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  you know, the 3PM, like, film.
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  But right now, you can just get up this order.
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  First order, we just trying to go low key with them, just get them out to people that will use
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  them, actually.
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  You know?
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  Everybody on on my sites, you know, and then my contents are people that I just gifted the
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  honest truth.
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  You know?
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  I just organically, I would be in the streets, and I'll I'll see somebody riding with a child.
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  Like, you check out the pages.
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  I mean, those people that were just riding these kids, man, out in the street unprotected,
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  and we'll just pull them over, you know, give them a horn to show them how to get it on and
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  just let them keep it.
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  You know what I'm saying?
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  Just because that's gonna be the that's gonna be promotion for us in the end.
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  You know what I'm saying?
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  Like Man, awesome marketing, bro.
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  I know.
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  Awesome freaking marketing, brother.
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  Yep.
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  Yep.
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  And that's what that's what people gotta understand too, mister Henderson, that people
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  don't believe in sometimes you have to serve serving is sometimes giving, man.
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  And that's how and that's how it opens up so many avenues.
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  Mhmm.
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  So I wanna I wanna I wanna let all my creators know out there, man.
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  I've done so many free shows.
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  I've done so much, many things for free.
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  And god is god is taking those those
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  Right.
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  Those you give.
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  Connections, man.
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  Those connections and and it's it's expanded the network.
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  And it's like, you know what?
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  Now now it's like, you know what?
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  I have no problem getting paid gigs now.
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  I have no problem.
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  And so now it's like, you know what, Chris?
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  I'm right here where you at right now.
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  How do we find a way to get some sponsorship behind this thing and bring in some real some
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  real money value behind this thing because that's what's gonna keep it going and take it
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  to the next level of marketing and all that kind of stuff.
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  I feel like this is something that deserves you know what I'm saying?
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  Deserves it deserves some grants.
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  It it deserves some
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  some interest behind this.
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  Right?
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  That's really what we need, Pablo.
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  We just need somebody to come in.
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  I I can even take on a partner because I own, like, 90% of the business.
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  So I could, you know, chop off a piece of my my shares and bring in a partner because we we
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  gotta we gotta get this I didn't know it would be this far.
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  I thought it'd be self sold out right now, actually.
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  Right.
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  Just from the exposure that, you know, just the social media, but it's a little more
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  challenging than I thought it would.
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  Real real quick question.
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  How much how much competition are you against out here?
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  You know what I'm saying?
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  You I know I know I understand you've been a black owned business.
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  You know what I'm saying?
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  Young young black man out here.
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  But I I mean, I've seen harnesses before.
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  Mhmm.
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  You know what I'm saying?
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  But, I mean, how much competition do you really have in this industry?
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  Because this this is totally new for me.
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  You know?
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  Yeah.
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  It's it's I thought it would I thought I was gonna originate the oil, but I'm not.
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  There are some other harnesses out there, but the material that they're using is is not safe
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  at all.
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  They're using plastic buckles and, you know
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  Right.
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  Right.
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  Like backpack straps and stuff.
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  These are actually, like, seat seat belt grade webbing.
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  You know what I'm saying?
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  It's I mean, if you look at some of those some of those reels on, like, on Facebook, man, it
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  was people doing stuff in it that I didn't even recommend.
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  Like, because they were just it's like, these are first encounters.
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  So people are, like, popping wheelies on four wheelers with him with no hands, and people
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  ride motorcycles with no hands.
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  They just they just hold them on a bike.
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  And I'll be like, wow, man.
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  It this this amazing, though.
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  Yeah, man.
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  Just how how how the organic, you know, content come about, man.
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  This this that's my favorite part of I just like you know, I would just give it a word if I
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  had to because, you know, like, I doing some of my research, I went back to the origins of the
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  of the seat belt, actually.
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  Right?
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  It was it was the it was invented over, like, England back in the forties, I think.
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  The thirties or forties.
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  Bad guy for race it was invented for race car drivers that, you know, when they should ride
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  with the open tops and stuff.
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  But Right.
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  It was rejected because people was like, I would jump off this thing, you know, be jump
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  out of it if I'm in a wreck than, you know, hit a wall to have it on.
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  But Right.
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  Right.
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  But but it it it came around, and people start saying it how he envisioned it.
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  And this and then finally, after he patented it and and everything, he gifted it to the world.
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  So every time you put on the seat belt, it was a gift to the world.
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  He he didn't he didn't want no money for it.
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  Right.
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  Right.
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  Right.
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  Yeah.
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  Right.
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  And that's crazy.
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  That's crazy how how that that that ties into our life today, man.
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  And I feel like what you're doing right now what you're doing right now is gonna tie into
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  our life our our our life later on on down the road.
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  And and you know what?
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  I still because I I I mean, maybe not the originator of of the thought, but to to be to
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  be a a black owned Mhmm.
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  Mhmm.
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  Black owned man behind the vision of this thing, man, it's just Uh-huh.
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  Yeah.
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  Crazy,
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  man.
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  It's just it's crazy in itself, brother.
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  You know what I'm saying?
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  And and I I mean, what's next, though?
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  Is it
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  is it you got any more innovations?
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  Like, what else do you got going, man?
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  I don't know.
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  We're we're trying to we got it on jet skis and snowmobiles.
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  Oh, man.
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  You like horseback, people riding horseback, probably put the kid back there.
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  Right.
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  Right.
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  To the the belt even what was I gonna say?
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  The the competition, like I was saying, like, they're pale in comparison.
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  I wouldn't put a dog in one of those other devices.
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  It's somewhat like Facebook I mean, Amazon, but they're cheaply constructed.
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  Right?
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  It's it it doesn't even seem like it seem like a novelty product instead of a safety actually,
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  safety.
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  Because, like, with our with our harnesses, the the belts are, like, parachute kinda gray.
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  I'm gonna when they lock in, it's locked.
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  Right.
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  A double, like, kinda kitchen.
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  And and when it when it locks, it it's locked.
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  And they got they're using, like, plastic, like, backpack, you know, the little plastic
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  squeezy things.
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  And and I don't think it it it could really hold any type of weight.
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  You know what I'm saying?
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  Like or prevent a a child from falling off the back.
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  They're even putting them in the front.
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  Some people have chosen to, like, we got a couple ways to done them.
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  So we just we just rock it like that.
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  You know?
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  Yeah, man.
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  This is amazing.
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  This is amazing right here.
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  Gonna take a quick second to do a quick commercial break.
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  Real quick real quick, I wanna do a big shout out to the scene projects.
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  Bubba Stars is behind the scene projects, the stars and ends band.
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  This man can help you go from point a to point b.
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  Apple TV channels.
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  This man is the man to go see Bubba Stars in starts and ends in the same projects.
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  Tap in.
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  But yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Chris, mister Chris.
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  I got mister Christopher Henderson in the building.
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  This is crazy.
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  We we heard a little bit about your testimony earlier.
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  And before we wrap this thing up, man, before we wrap this thing up, what do you hope what do
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  you hope people take from your your your vision that you have for this thing in the end, man?
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  When it's all said and done, what's the main thing you hope people take when it's all said
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  and done?
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  What's what's what's the history you want to be left when when it come down to mister Henderson
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  and this he mentioned that he had when it came down to this vision?
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  Because I'm pretty sure you got many others that god is gonna give you, and this thing is
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  gonna take off.
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  It's gonna go way farther than what we can ever imagine.
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  But My bad.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Yes, sir.
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  Yes, sir.
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  What do you what do you what what what what do you want the people to know, and what's what's
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  what's your what's your what's your word you have for that?
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  We just it's about just getting these these kids protected.
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  That's all.
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  Bottom line.
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  You know what I'm saying?
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  Like, I like to see, you know, parents engaging with their children because they're the future
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  riders.
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  So Right.
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  But they need to be protected on on those on those cycles and stuff and those four wheelers
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  because they they got a limited grip with their hands and their strength.
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  And so, like, if you get a bump or something or have to make an evasive maneuver or something,
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  you know, you might lose them.
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  You know?
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  But if they're on you, if they're like a backpack on your back, I mean, they're gonna be
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  right with you.
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  They did it.
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  And so some some of the testimony is like, you know, like, when you ride people on motorcycle
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  motorcycle riding they contested this that, like, when you turn, they wanna go the other
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  way.
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  Right.
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  Right.
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  Right.
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  Right.
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  They have to go with you now instead of, like, putting their instead of putting their bike
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  into a wobble or something.
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  But they wanna go they think they're falling, you know, when they really need to be just
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  leaning with the with the turn.
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  So you got, like, all kind of testimony.
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  It it's been a while, though.
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  I You know, like, I wish I coulda got picked up by some things, but I need to learn I'm
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  enjoying the the the lesson, you know, the learning curve because I'm learning about about
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  the product myself.
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  Even after being in the dream, like, people are teaching you about your own product just
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  interacting with.
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  That's her problem.
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  Yeah, man.
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  So so do you have a business phone number for the people that they can maybe reach you at if
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  they want to call they want to call to get some information?
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  You have you wanna put that on the on the on the website?
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  I will.
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  They they they on your page, but phone number is (314) 346-7017.
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  346-7017.
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  We're we're in St.
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  Louis.
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  St.
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  Louis.
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  Yeah.
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  That's right.
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  Sir.
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  Man, it's crazy, man.
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  I just moved from down I just moved from out there, and that's kinda how I I found too
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  because because, you know, when you move around and all that kinda stuff, Facebook algorithm
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  kinda and you just you just start popping up, man.
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  And that's that's
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  how I
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  started, bro.
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  And it's like, you know what?
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  Hey, man.
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  I'm honored to have you in the mix, brother.
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  I really am, man.
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  It's a it's a appreciate you having me on.
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  Man, make sure y'all go tap in with mister Christopher Henderson, man.
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  Hey.
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  Thank you, brother.
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  Stay encouraged.
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  And if you need anything from black sheep kid music, you let me know, man.
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  We're gonna be pushing this thing, brother.
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  So Let me let me know, papa.
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  Yes, sir.
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  Yes, sir.
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  I can ship you something down, and then, like, especially, like, we're we're using, like, the
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  50 players.
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  Like, man, you see somebody is in in in a situation, man, we just, like, pulling them
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  over, man.
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  Here.
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  Put this thing on.
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  Get that child protected.
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  You know what I'm saying?
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  We like we we actually started this marketing like that right now.
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  Just we got a couple 100 we just gonna give away for for nothing, you know, just to get
• 18:04
  these kids to take this away.
• 18:07
  Anybody need one, just call.
• 18:08
  Yeah.
• 18:09
  I'll still be wanting to be able
• 18:12
  let's most definitely get together on the offline and see how we can get creative with
• 18:18
  with you know what I'm saying?
• 18:19
  Really getting these things out here into the community.
• 18:21
  You know
• 18:21
  I'm saying?
• 18:21
  Creating some awareness.
• 18:23
  Especially around Saint Louis, I didn't kinda articulate it around the area a little bit.
• 18:25
  I got a little sauce.
• 18:26
  You know what I'm saying?
• 18:27
  So Uh-huh.
• 18:28
  Yeah.
• 18:28
  We're talk about that on the offline, though.
• 18:30
  But thank you, brother.
• 18:30
  Hey.
• 18:31
  Once again, it's your boy.
• 18:31
  Popped up one
• 18:32
  time, man.
• 18:32
  We live in the Boston.
• 18:33
  It's your boy, Christopher Henderson.
• 18:34
  Man, look.
• 18:35
  We out of here, man.
• 18:36
  Hey, Chris.
• 18:36
  Hey.
• 18:37
  I'm a see you on the other side, brother.
• 18:38
  Alright, bro.
• 18:39
  Hit me back.
• 18:40
  Alright.