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Cyndy Golonka - FGB THEATERS ! Two small-town landmark theaters loved by our Central Vermont communities for the last 100 years! · Aired Out

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  Speaker 2: Are you ready for this? Mid to upper thirties with
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  Speaker 2: possible frost in some of the valleys into early tomorrow morning? Wow?
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  Speaker 2: And then Wednesday, bright sun, blue Sky's going to be
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  Speaker 2: cool and blustery though highs tomorrow forties. Lisa's sun is
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  Speaker 2: going to be shining. Speaking to tomorrow Wednesday, Sweethearts and Heroes,
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  Speaker 2: Tom and Luden are going to be in here with
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  Speaker 2: me in the studio. Maybe you've seen the press release
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  Speaker 2: on this, I don't know. I hope that you have
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  Speaker 2: had a chance to have a glance at it and
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  Speaker 2: a read of the impacts, the powerful impacts that these
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  Speaker 2: two individuals and the rest of their team with Sweethearts
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  Speaker 2: and Heroes is have on children, not just here in Vermont,
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  Speaker 2: but students everywhere, frankly across the nation. And these guys
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  Speaker 2: are real movers and shakers, and I can't wait to
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  Speaker 2: tomorrow and I can't wait to share it with you.
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  Speaker 2: Burlington Police have released the video of the shooting in
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  Speaker 2: the North End yesterday with a motorist that stopped, got
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  Speaker 2: We get the full story up on Aired Out this morning,
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  Speaker 2: along with Donna Robinson, who has pleaded not guilty to
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  Speaker 2: all charges in Barry yesterday, including manslaughter. She's back in
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  Speaker 2: this morning, so give them a read if you dare.
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  Speaker 2: Cindy Glacke is my guest in the studio this morning,
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  Speaker 2: and first of all, let's let's talk about some of
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  Speaker 2: the sweet treats that you're doing. Let's talk about Capital cupcakes.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go there first.
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  Speaker 3: I love that.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god, you brought me some cookies. This one.
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  Speaker 2: You can see them on camera right next to you.
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  Speaker 3: I did Wow.
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  Speaker 2: So now these you love. Yes, we're gonna be talking
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  Speaker 2: about movies, but you have loved baking for a long time.
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  Speaker 2: Capital cupcake is you're running this way out of home, out.
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  Speaker 3: Of your house.
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  Speaker 2: Your house, Your home must smell amazing.
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  Speaker 3: It does. I mean every day, all the time, all
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  Speaker 3: the time. There's not a time that that doesn't smell
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  Speaker 3: like chocolate or cakes or even fresh bake bed. You know,
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  Speaker 3: has your husband packed on a few just a few?
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  Speaker 2: Okay?
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  Speaker 3: But but I but I do kind of control how
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  Speaker 3: much like I no longer leave out like tons and
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  Speaker 3: tons of stuff. I'll give him things that he like. Here,
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  Speaker 3: try this, it's a new cookie, that type of thing.
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  Speaker 3: But it's never a ton because you know, I'd like
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  Speaker 3: him to live long time, so I don't want to
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  Speaker 3: be the reason for him to not be here.
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  Speaker 2: And you some of these cookies and some of these
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  Speaker 2: treats end up at FGB theaters.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, we don't. We originally hit thought after the
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  Speaker 3: flood that I was gonna do tiny bite sized chocolate
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  Speaker 3: chip cookies and serve them warm out of little paper bags.
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  Speaker 3: But the idea of control, I don't know how the
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  Speaker 3: kids may burn them or why because I'm not there
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  Speaker 3: seven nights a week, so, but I just thought, man
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  Speaker 3: scoop of a bucket, bucket of cookies and pow, yummy,
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  Speaker 3: would that be?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: You eat it like popcorn.
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  Speaker 2: You know. I was just saying to you before we started,
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  Speaker 2: I think f GB Theaters has been a presenting sponsor
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  Speaker 2: for or six out of my seven years.
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  Speaker 3: You guys, I think you're correct.
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  Speaker 2: You guys have just been amazing. And I don't know
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  Speaker 2: when it all started, but uh, you know Bohemian Rhapsody.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there was some huge, huge movies that, uh,
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  Speaker 2: that we've partnered up on and just some blockbusters, massive
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  Speaker 2: movies and we'll do it again. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I got some good ones coming out this year.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, how how what have some of the
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  Speaker 2: big ones been lately? Wicked Minecraft is.
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  Speaker 3: Minecraft is big, Yeah, big at both theaters. Wicked was
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  Speaker 3: clearly you know, Wicked was Wicked. Wicked was Wicked. Sure,
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  Speaker 3: you know, Barbie right after the flow that was huge. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: and I didn't do as great, you know, I know
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  Speaker 3: they said it was a big one. No, it was
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  Speaker 3: a little like, I mean, had its select theaters and
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  Speaker 3: audiences and it just didn't right. Probably poor timing when
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  Speaker 3: they decided to bring that out.
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  Speaker 2: What about Captain America.
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  Speaker 3: The new One, the Brave World. It did, okay, I
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  Speaker 3: liked it. It did. Okay. It's not the traditional although
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  Speaker 3: they're trying to make them the traditional marvels, it's just
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  Speaker 3: a little bit off.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you have to you and Richard, you guys have
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  Speaker 2: to have a relationship with what's coming down the pipe here,
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  Speaker 2: what's coming out of Hollywood. Yes, you need to be
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  Speaker 2: you need to be a month ahead of.
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  Speaker 3: Oh more than that.
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  Speaker 2: More than that, yeah, more than that.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I know, and don't ask me for titles,
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  Speaker 3: but I know that we've booked and we're looking all
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  Speaker 3: the way into the middle of July right now.
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  Speaker 2: Really.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, So and they'll let us like Leelo and Stitch
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  Speaker 3: comes out at the end of May, I'll be able
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  Speaker 3: to start signing tickets. I'll sut tickets for both theaters
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  Speaker 3: starting May fifth, I think, okay, six, So that'll go
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  Speaker 3: live on.
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  Speaker 2: On the twenty third.
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  Speaker 3: I think it opens on the twenty third. My guess
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  Speaker 3: is they'll let you open it on the twenty second
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  Speaker 3: because they like to get that extra day in Sure,
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  Speaker 3: it's not as big as it used to be. I
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  Speaker 3: mean when you were able to show a sneak and
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  Speaker 3: you were able to open it the day before, you know,
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  Speaker 3: it was sold out, yeah, you know, within minutes. But
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  Speaker 3: now it's gonna it's not as big they can Can.
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  Speaker 2: You still do it a sneak?
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  Speaker 3: Well, yes, that's what it be. If I opened the
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  Speaker 3: day before it's supposed to go nationally, that's what they
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  Speaker 3: call it. It's a sneak, and you know, and sometimes
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  Speaker 3: they do well and sometimes they don't.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, isn't that interesting?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: You know I have said on the air before, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure that you have had these conversations with people before,
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  Speaker 2: and especially people that are in their their forties and
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  Speaker 2: fifties are kind of scratching their heads and saying where
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  Speaker 2: have all the movie theaters gone? And you know, there's
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  Speaker 2: so much to be said about this, and so much
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  Speaker 2: to be said about drive in movie theaters too. I
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  Speaker 2: mean they're just falling at the wayside. Well, it's tough nationally,
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  Speaker 2: of course.
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  Speaker 3: When you're big distributors, they want to get as much
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  Speaker 3: as they can right off the bat, so they'll they'll
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  Speaker 3: stream it on ramatically and that's I don't know their
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  Speaker 3: numbers but I would think that that's what's killing your
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  Speaker 3: theaters because you know, why is somebody going to come
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  Speaker 3: to movies if in two weeks they can see it
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  Speaker 3: at their house. Now, with that being said, the drive
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  Speaker 3: is to get people back into the movie theaters and
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  Speaker 3: so hopefully we can do things like that, and I
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  Speaker 3: think more theaters are saying no, if you're going to
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  Speaker 3: stream it in a week, we're not putting it in
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  Speaker 3: our theaters. Good luck to you, because yeah, there's been
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  Speaker 3: a few.
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  Speaker 2: The movie theater experience though. You know, I just remember
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  Speaker 2: being a kid and my dad such fun memories. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: this is part of the soul, dad saying on a
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  Speaker 2: Friday afternoon or a Friday evening, surprising the family and saying,
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  Speaker 2: get in the car, yeah, I'm taking you all out.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to friendlies. Yeah, to have a big Sunday, right,
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  Speaker 2: and then we're going out to the movies.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: There's just something about that experience.
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  Speaker 3: And we're finding more and more families are trying to
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  Speaker 3: do that. They're trying to get their kids in, which
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  Speaker 3: is great because again it's an experience. You know, I
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  Speaker 3: can sit on my couch too and watch a movie.
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  Speaker 3: But I'm distracted by everything around me, you know, so
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  Speaker 3: at least in the movie theater there's no distractions.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, yeah, absolutely, I love FGB theaters so much. There
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  Speaker 2: is always so much to talk about. During the summertime,
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  Speaker 2: when it's crazy hot outside, you've had enough, the sun
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  Speaker 2: is blinding you, whatever, you want to escape for a
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  Speaker 2: little while, get some air conditioning, get some darkness. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: recline back, have a cool drink and just unplug and
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  Speaker 2: escape this world for a couple of hours. That's the
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  Speaker 2: place to do it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's definitely. It's definitely something. Although we like rain
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  Speaker 3: in the summertimes. Yeah, we like it to hit around
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  Speaker 3: three thirty so that the whole day's not a shot.
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  Speaker 3: So like at three thirty maybe three ish, you know,
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  Speaker 3: start that rain. It looks like it's a little threatening,
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  Speaker 3: kind of like today's weather for y right, it's going
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  Speaker 3: to be gorgeous right up till about two.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: What a nice thing to do then to bring the
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  Speaker 3: family or just come to the movies tonight, because you
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  Speaker 3: know why sit at home.
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  Speaker 2: I love that. The other thing I love about you
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  Speaker 2: and the whole FGB family is that, especially during the winter,
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  Speaker 2: if if mother Nature's thrown it at us coming into
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  Speaker 2: a weekend or whatever. You guys, a just your schedule,
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  Speaker 2: you might add a show time or two just to
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  Speaker 2: give people an opportunity to get out of their house.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, it's important.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I love that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we do this now. We do the same thing
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  Speaker 3: for the summers or school breaks. If it's a rainy day, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: we'll add an extra matinee. I would love to go
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  Speaker 3: back to two evening shows every single night, but people
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  Speaker 3: just don't. After COVID, people didn't want to get out
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  Speaker 3: of their house. Sure, so it's like, and I'm looking
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  Speaker 3: at the like, Okay, it's eight thirty and the sun's
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  Speaker 3: still up. Why aren't you moving? Why are we stuck
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  Speaker 3: in our homes at eight thirty? Sure, so we'll we'll
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  Speaker 3: go back to two shows maybe Fridays and Saturday nights
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  Speaker 3: during the summer, and then definitely we'll add that rainy
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  Speaker 3: day matinee.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. It's wonderful.
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  Speaker 3: It works great. It works great because parents are like,
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  Speaker 3: what do we do with the kids? You know, what
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  Speaker 3: am I doing?
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  Speaker 2: You go to uh if you go to Burlington, you
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  Speaker 2: go to Essex. They don't necessarily.
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  Speaker 3: Do that, No, why would they? There's no reason too,
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  Speaker 3: there's no reason to.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know it's big corporates.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and they do things different, Like I mean, I
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  Speaker 3: keep hearing, well, why aren't you doing seven dollars Tuesdays
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  Speaker 3: or five dollars Tuesdays whatsoever. I'll drive all the way
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  Speaker 3: to Burlington because you're not doing it. I'm like, oh, okay,
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  Speaker 3: so you're gonna drive to Burlington to so so you
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  Speaker 3: don't factor in gas both ways because you're gonna save
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  Speaker 3: two dollars and not support your local community.
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  Speaker 1: It's tough.
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  Speaker 3: It's a tough decision. Sure, we had thrown around for
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  Speaker 3: up here only to do students Mondays and Tuesdays.
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  Speaker 2: Mm hm.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe we'll start that next year.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see.
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  Speaker 3: But if the movies are good and people are coming,
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  Speaker 3: we want to survive. It has nothing to do. We
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  Speaker 3: want to survive and as nice as it is, we
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  Speaker 3: want to survive.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, let's talk about survival. These floods, yes, two of them, Yes,
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  Speaker 2: separated by thirty years one year. Well, well, I'm just
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  Speaker 2: talking about the last two big ones. July tenth, So
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  Speaker 2: the first July tenth you really got.
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  Speaker 3: Nailed in twenty twenty three for at the Capitol. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: here was here was fine. We had a little bit
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  Speaker 3: of water at the back end. We had water in
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  Speaker 3: the basement. Well that's what it's for. It's dirt. And
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  Speaker 3: we had a little water come into the front of.
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  Speaker 2: The build the frat, yeah, I remember.
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  Speaker 3: So the paramount was relatively saved, which was awesome. Capital
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  Speaker 3: was so I was around in ninety two.
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  Speaker 2: I was in ninety two.
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  Speaker 3: I lived in Middlebury where we ran another movie theater
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  Speaker 3: and that was my little project after graduation.
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  Speaker 2: What's that the ice jam?
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  Speaker 3: So that was the ice jam in ninety two, and
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  Speaker 3: it happened and I literally had been taken over the
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  Speaker 3: books and I was doing the books and an insurance
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  Speaker 3: policy rolled across my desk and said would you like
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  Speaker 3: to get flood insurance? And I looked at the price,
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, that's not bad. Well sure, we've never had
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  Speaker 3: a flood yet, but I'm going to buy it. So
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  Speaker 3: I bought flood insurance for the Capital. And my sister
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  Speaker 3: and her husband went on vacation to Florida. They flew out.
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  Speaker 3: It was pouring rain. My parents are in Florida and
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  Speaker 3: I'm in Middlebury run in the theaters. And my younger brother, Fred,
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  Speaker 3: who was still in college, calls me and says it's
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  Speaker 3: getting bad. I'm coming to get you, and we're going
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  Speaker 3: to drive because we can't come through the interstets. We're
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  Speaker 3: gonna drive around and we're gonna come home, you know.
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  Speaker 3: And I think we went through. We did. We went
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  Speaker 3: through Stow and then through Morrisville to get us home
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  Speaker 3: from Middlebury. So it was definitely at the roundabout way
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  Speaker 3: to get home. And yeah, parents came home. Bridge cracked,
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  Speaker 3: water went down. We went in the next day to survey.
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  Speaker 3: We had all our ticket box that you know, we
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  Speaker 3: would collect, this antique wooden box that had floated down
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  Speaker 3: the out the doors down. They found it in on
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  Speaker 3: the state House lawn. Yeah, and it wasn't destroyed, which
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  Speaker 3: was great because they don't have no Okay, no, So
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  Speaker 3: the flood of nineteen ninety two was so different than
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  Speaker 3: the flood of twenty twenty three. The flood of nineteen
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  Speaker 3: ninety two was maybe in the main lobby, maybe eighteen
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  Speaker 3: inches of water. The fool when they came over and
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  Speaker 3: our it guy came over the day before the flood.
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  Speaker 3: It had started raining. It was Monday, and I had
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  Speaker 3: just taken the theaters back to where I'm like, okay,
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  Speaker 3: I can run this. Now, I've got the ability, I've
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  Speaker 3: got the time, so I'll take The theater is over
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  Speaker 3: and I had just cleaned out my desk at the
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  Speaker 3: hotel and I brought all my pictures, all my kids' pictures,
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  Speaker 3: and I laid them on the ticket counter. And my
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  Speaker 3: it guy comes in and he goes, Lily wants me
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  Speaker 3: to move all the computers. I'm like, for what. She goes, well, well,
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  Speaker 3: they're supposed to get a lot of rain. In their word,
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, it's July. What are you talking about. I said,
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  Speaker 3: we had it because it was a nice jam and
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  Speaker 3: he's like, wow, safe to be sorry. So they moved
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  Speaker 3: all the computers on the back end of the candy
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  Speaker 3: counter on top by theater two. And I was like, okay, whatever,
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  Speaker 3: So I left all my pictures on the counter, the
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  Speaker 3: ticket counter. The flood of twenty twenty three was a
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  Speaker 3: foot and a half above the countertop, just hitting the
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  Speaker 3: TV screens that are out in the front lobby. It
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  Speaker 3: was almost four feet higher than what it.
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  Speaker 2: Was before, and mud than ninety two.
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  Speaker 3: Mud like ninety two came in and came out. It
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  Speaker 3: was water like the floors dried out and they went
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  Speaker 3: right back into place. It was water, you know, we
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  Speaker 3: cleared out things, we pulled some insulation, we put some
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  Speaker 3: more insulation in. It was water, clear water. This was mud.
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  Speaker 3: I've never seen or experienced anything like this. My kids,
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  Speaker 3: my husband and I were in the buildings and we
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  Speaker 3: were you know, mud boots and mud everywhere when we
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  Speaker 3: would come home, and it was unbelievable. And we cut
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  Speaker 3: the theaters because you know, the theaters all go down yep.
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  Speaker 3: And so while the water might be you know, three
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  Speaker 3: feet high three and a half feet or four or
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  Speaker 3: whatever in the front of the lobby, as soon as
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  Speaker 3: you go down into the theater, yep, it was they
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: touched the top, so the bottoms of the screens, and
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: you know, we pulled out a foot higher and insulation,
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: and we thought that was going to be good. And
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: then about two weeks later we went back in and
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: there was mold. So we cut everything out and started
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: from at I mean we were we were pulling square
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: nails out of the floor from the original build of that.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: Building almost one hundred years ago, correct, ninety.
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: I'd never even heard of square nails either, So like
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: they're like pulling these square nails out and these guys
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: are so fascinated with it, and uh, you know, the
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: floor everything went, everything, the chairs, the floors, and.
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: I'm grabbing some some pictures here.
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: We never we were always brought up to that we
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: do the work ourselves, you know, and so we never
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: really asked for help ever. And I looked at my
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: husband and I looked at my kids, and I said,
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: I gotta ask for help. I said, I can't remove
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: five hundred seats. The five of us can't do it
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: by ourselves. I need help. And so I went on
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: on Facebook. I said, look, this is what we're doing tomorrow.
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: We're taking out the seats. I need this specific kind
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: of wrench to get them off the floor unhooked, and
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: I need as much help as I can to get
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: it there. And I was overwhelmed with how many people
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: came out. And it was the nicest feeling. Yes, it was.
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: It was wonderful.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: The next one a year later.
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: Didn't hit us. It hit us sort of in the back,
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: but didn't you know, it was more of like a
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: drop and go. And so we've talked about it. My
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: dad's talked about it. He's like, well, why don't we
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: get some of those barricades, And so we've looked into
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: some of them. You know, there might be just the
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: idea of just putting some of those barricades around the
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: front part of like the whole building, right just to
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: get it away from us, And that is a possibility.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: What you did to the theater after that flood is
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: absolutely remarkable. I mean, the damage is devastating, is remarkable
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: in itself, but what you guys did afterwards and your
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: your grand reopening, I could not believe my eyes.
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: Oh, we had so much fun. Like it was. I knew,
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: I knew what I wanted with the theater. I wanted
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: to bring back the nostalgic feel of our theater, right,
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: you know there are so few theaters like ours. Yes,
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: and yeah, I just the colors especially, I mean those
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: colors were the original colors that we did at the
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: movie theater. Then go back when my parents purchased it
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: in the early eighties. That's incredible, and it you know,
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: it's it's a warm it's a warm spot.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: It's just.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: The price tag on that I can't even begin to
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: to fathom. It had to be around a million bucks.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: I would guess probably. We had a lot of help though,
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: somewhere in that ballpark.
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: I had a lot of help. We had, you know,
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: we had some grants which were huge to us. We
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: did have insurance, which was also huge, but sure nothing
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: insurance and grants are never going to cover the extent
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: of it. And there was at never any point did
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: my dad or my sister say we're not doing this.
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: There was no question. Really, there was not a question
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: that we weren't doing this. Mind you. We had just
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: sold the hotel three days before, three days three days
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: so it was Friday to Monday, and I remember sitting
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: with my dad and he was just he he doesn't
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: show true like overwhelming emotion, like he doesn't cry, but
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: you could just see him, you know, he sat on
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: those granite benches in front of the theater, just trying
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: to figure out how he can help everyone. Ye like
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: but yeah, And you know, we tried to the owners.
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: The new owners weren't actually there. They had their managing
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: person from Massachusetts, and you know, my Dad's like, well,
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: this is the person you want to contact to during
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: the water He goes, no, we're fine, we're fine. We
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: called surf Pro and my Dad's like, oh okay. So
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: we had two huge companies out of Burlington come with
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: tankers and they were draining for days. They were just
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: draining water from our pumping water out of our basements,
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: and these guys hadn't touched it. And so Surpro comes
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: up and the guy goes, uh, he comes in with
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: a little tiny house pump and one of our guy goes,
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: what are you doing with that? He goes, well, there's
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: some water in the basement. The guy starts laughing. He goes,
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: he'll call me in five minutes, because there's no way
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: it's just a little water. He goes. You see this building,
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: he goes, He goes, yeah, he goes, I've been pumping
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: water out of that for three solid days and we're
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: not done. And your building is just a little bigger.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: With probably a two or three inch line.
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: I'm guessing it was huge, and they were water was going,
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: I mean it was huge. He was filling up these
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: massive tanks and just driving away with them. So, you know,
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: once the water level drained in the actual theater, you
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: still have to deal with the you know, thousands of
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: gallons that are in your basement. Sure, and uh, you
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: know that took a long time to get rid of.
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: Some say that the Capital is even better now.
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: Well, thank you. I'm so proud of it. Really, I'm
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: so proud of it.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I mean it just looks amazing.
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: Well, I wanted to bring back art deco. I wanted
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: to bring like the old in and just kind of
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: make sure everybody knew. You know, there's a few other
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: pieces that we may do. We're talking about doing the
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: Paramount now, we're talking about painting the Paramount too, just
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: needs to it needs a little bit of a facelift. Yeah,
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: possibly new chairs, that would be a wonderful thing. But
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: we've got all this art deco upstairs in the attic
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: of the Paramonte, which was the old balcony, and it's
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: these beautiful picture frames that used to have like the
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: little long, skinny posters and stuff like that. So you know,
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: at some point we want to refurbish those and get
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: them out so people can see them.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: Well, you already love that kind of stuff. I mean,
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: look at the Capitol. You got the old projector. Maybe
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: it's the Paramount.
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: I'm getting to know the Capitol has the old projector
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: that actually was there during the flood. That never moved,
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: the film never moved to just rinsed it off. It
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: was it underwater, it was it probably had about foot
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: and a half to the base. Part of the film
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: on the bottom had water all over it. Yeah.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: So in the old reels that are on the walls
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: and stuff, yeah.
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: Those used to be how the movies used to come in.
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: I love showing my kid, who's ten, that projector and
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: I do it every time.
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, it's fun every time. It is a fun
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: thing to kind of look around and back in the
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: day when we were running through projectors or even running
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: on the platter systems where all the film had to
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: be thrown onto these huge pizza platters and there were
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: five or six of them. We used to do birthday parties,
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: which we still do, yes, but the birthday parties then
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: we're come on, we'll give you a tour of how
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: everything's done. It's kind of boring now not to be.
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: It's kind of boring. They download the picture into the
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: camera that you know that projects it. I was like,
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: it's not as cool as it used to be.
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: Sure, run running the tape through the machine.
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: Run the film through it. It's like it, but it's
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: not like that anymore. So Yeah, Now, like I said,
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: everything's downloaded or uploaded depending on how we have to
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: get the movie.
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: Sure, there are some some real movie for lack of
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: a better term, junkies, just people that just love the
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: way that it was. And I mean so many of
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: us just remember the old days when if you wanted
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: to find out what was playing, you weren't getting on
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: it your cell phone because cell phones weren't out. You
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: had to call the movie phone and you heard Alan
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: Roberts's voice. Yeah, and not only that, but when you
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: showed up, you saw Alan Roberts and he was the
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: one that was starting the movies and reliable with a
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: capital R. I mean, you guys depended on him to
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: be there to get the movies going, no matter what
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: the weather was doing or whatever. He was your man.
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: He is part of the woodwork. He was of both
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: theaters both.
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, it was a real loss to us for sure,
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: because we tried to So I have very capable young
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: man in my life and they are super brilliant when
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: it comes to computers and technology, and so we tried
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: to get Alan to show them how to do things.
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: And I think he was a little taken aback. I
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: think he was worried that if they somebody else knew
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: that he would be out of a job, which we
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: never ever, ever, ever, ever would have you know, but
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: but the backup would have been there. And so my son,
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: Josh had done quite a bit over the course to
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: kind of get things up and running. So he learned
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: a lot by himself, and he ran it as a projectionist.
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: And so in March of last year, I was I
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: literally had just gotten to Florida. Josh had flown in
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: and we're sitting at a restaurant with my parents and
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: my sister Lily calls and she says, Alan didn't do anything.
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: I go, what do you talk about? Nothing schedule, there's
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: no movies, there's nothing here. What means? I said, what
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: do you what are you talking about? I go, that's
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: that's not So we try Alan, it goes straight to voicemail,
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: and you know, long story short, he went to the
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: hospital and never came in. So it was tough. His
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: family just kind of took over and then we never
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: heard anything.
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: So but yeah, I I remember, was that really a
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: year ago?
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: Wow? I remember just thinking because he was on the
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: air not long before that and we were talking about
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: dedication and being committed to.
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: What he did. He literally loved it and you could
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: see it. You could see it with anything he did.
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean you probably could have said Alan were
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: not able to pay it this month, and he'd be like,
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: I'll be there. The movies got to run. I've got
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: to do it.
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, it.
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: Was just who it was, who he was that much.
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: I just remember having this feeling when we lost Alan
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: Roberts that when he went to the hospital when he
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: had his when he was aware, I'm going to the hospital.
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: I'm I wouldn't be in the least bit surprised if
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: he was watching the time and saying, who's going to
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: get the movie played? I'm not gonna I'm probably not
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: gonna make it. And I wouldn't be surprised if he
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: was saying to the doctors and nurses, I need to
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: get out of here so that I can get these
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: movies going. I'm sure that that was on his mind.
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: That's the way he was.
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: It was he loved what he did. Yeah, you know,
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: and we definitely miss him. There's definitely that we definitely
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: miss him.
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: Nineteen eighty one ish, Yes, right around there. What happened.
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: That's when you guys, that's when the gears shifted a
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: little bit, right.
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: Yes, my mom's brother decided that they wanted to retire.
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: They'd been working since they were little, you know, back
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: in the day you could, and they were tired. And
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: my I mean I was twelve, My parents were, you know,
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: thirty five, and they're like, well and my dad he's
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: eighty five now, he still works, so he's said, I'm
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: not retiring. So they decided and that's when they bought
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: the theaters, and they bought the laundromats. And then every
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: year after that, my dad did something to improve our business,
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: whether we bought one of the car washes, whether we
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: you know, twinned out the paramount. We twinned out the
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: capitol first, then we made it into the four, and
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: then we added the bump out in when I was
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: a freshman, no, I was a sophomore in college, and
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: we added the bump out to make it theater five.
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: You know, nineteen ninety two, we bought the hotel. There
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: was every year we grew and that's just the kind
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: of dad he was. He wanted to make sure or
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: he is, Thank god, he wanted to make sure that
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: he had something for all of us to.
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: Do sustainability, and he reinvestment.
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but it was work. It was work for us.
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: It wasn't there was There was really no question. After
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: we all went to college, we were coming home because
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: this is what we knew and what we all loved.
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's something else. And still today these two theaters
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: are a staple in both communities. Berry and mont Pillar.
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: Ye.
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: Incredible. Again, Capital just about ninety seven ish years old,
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: I think just under one hundred years old, and the
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: Paramount is I think just over one hundred years old
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: or so, a couple of years older. Not much though, no,
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: but the Paramount is the older of the two. Alfred Hitchcock, Wow,
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: what can you tell us about that? He had a
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: big premiere at the Paramount.
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: There's not much I can tell you about that. I
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: just in fact, I just found out about that. Uh well,
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: I want to say maybe a year ago that had happened.
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: I'm good in the eighties and beyond, I think before
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: that's a little fuzzy for me. I know when we
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: played The Untouchables, both Sean Connery and Kevin Costner watched
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: the movie in the theater. I know, when we played
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: at the we had a packed house and we had
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: a group of six people come in and I had
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: five seats left in the theater. And They're like, listen,
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: he's the brother, he's the brother. He wants to watch
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: the movie. Like and so I walked through the theater
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: and I happened to know one grandfather and one grandson.
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: I'm like, can he just sit on your lap? You know,
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: such and such as here, and he'd like to sit,
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: so we sat him down, and you know, so those
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: are things that you remember forever. I mean, I was
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: in the movie theater when Sean Connery was there. However
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: I did not know that he was there because I
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: didn't go in and watch previews. I walked in after
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: I finished my evening, sat down, and then I opened
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: the door and I cleared out, and so I never actually
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: even knew he was there. But they were both filming
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: another film in Vermont and they ended up there. Which
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: theater that was at the Capitol, Yeah, yeah.
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, any other famous people, I.
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: Don't know if any other famous Those are the ones
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: that I definitely know, but and I definitely remember.
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: Those my goodness. But a lot of fun Yeah, you'll
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: never forget that kind of stuff, and.
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: You tell your kids and hopefully one day I'll tell
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: my grandkids.
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: And yeah, so what you mentioned e T. What what
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: are some other huge blockbusters that.
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: You remember were Star Wars, Grease, Star Wars, Greece, Greece.
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: We were still a theater, we were still a single theater
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: at Greece, and we packed that theater, which was a
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: thousand seats at the time, fourteen straight days, fourteen straight days. Yeah, yeah,
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: I remember it. I mean people were.
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: Going back and watching it again too.
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah. And then uh, Star Wars something like that. Et
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: was six months in the movie theater six months and
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: did not move that theater. It stayed in for the
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: theater for six months. That's you know, they don't you
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: know they when they talk about, oh, what's the biggest
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: movie of all time, it's the biggest weekend. Yeah, okay,
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: because we charge a lot more, you know. But if
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: you go back and you look at true historical movies,
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: you know you're gonna talk about e. T. You're gonna
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: talk about your Star Wars, You're gonna talk about Greece.
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: Those are the ones.
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: That close encounters.
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you're gonna talk about the ones that stayed in
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: the movie theaters for like months and we're still drawing crowds.
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: You know, we charged more, so of course there it's
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: the biggest money maker, you know, yeah, right, because we
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: charged more, you know, But it's not the let's look
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: at the attendance. Let's go with the attendance instead of
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: the biggest money maker. That's because it's about the attendance.
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: It's not about anything else. Yeah, you know, it's the
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: attendance we want to grow.
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: I say a few years ago, but I know it
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: was longer than that. If it feels like a few
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: years ago, there was this big shift in the industry
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: where technology had finally caught up with the industry and
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: it was coming down I think originating from correct me
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: if I'm wrong, from Hollywood, who was basically saying, look,
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: here's the deal.
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: It costs too expense, it costs too much to create
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: the films, to ship the film pick them up. That
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: was just heavy, and it was just slow a lot, No,
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: not necessarily so, just heavy. Like you know, you're talking
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: these we'd get if we got four films, if we
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: got four new films a week, you know, you're talking
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: each each film was two to three cans, and so
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: you know that's there's a drop in the movie theater,
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: everything comes through and they're really at that point, wasn't
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: any question either. We had some there was some grants
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: that came through and they by no means paid for it,
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: but they certainly helped us do what we needed to do.
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but the technology basically you you guys learned along
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: with everyone else in the industry that we've got to
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: shift here, we're going to digital right, and with that
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: was a pretty significant price tag. Sure equipment all of
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: a sudden became defunct. Yeah, so all of your projectors
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: are now we.
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: Have a one, We have one that's at the Capitol.
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: I don't believe we have any others. I think after
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: the flood, I think we had bulldogs come and remove
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: most of our metal just because there was so much.
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: Like I so, as far as the theater, you know,
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: on the main level that clear, we had to guide.
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: But then I went upstairs and I'm like, oh my goodness,
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: this just we just need to start hoeing out. And yeah,
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: so we cleared out two rooms that were literally full
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: of just broken down, you know, old projectors that were
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: just sitting there. I believe the platter systems is still
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: up there just for you know man.
• 39:19
  Speaker 5: Yeah, but the the the equipment that you had to
• 39:25
  Speaker 5: buy to run movies digitally, Now, that wasn't cheap to
• 39:33
  Speaker 5: do something like that.
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: Nothing ever, is cheap when it first comes out. Yeah,
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: I mean, let's face it, it's it's something new, so they're
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: gonna charge They're gonna put a hefty price tag on it.
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: But so many movie theaters across the country didn't just
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: have that kind of money sitting there to be able to.
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: No, no one had the money. We didn't have the money.
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: You had to go out and there was there was
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: a group that came together and they were the ones
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: that helped all small theaters do this. And so that's
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: how we I mean, that's how we I mean, we
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: didn't have that kind of money lying around. So they
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: helped us. They gave us, you know, the funding to
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: do so, and we were able to And that's how
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: most theaters did. It is done.
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: I remember I can't remember if it was Alan or
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: if it was Richard, but it was one of the
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: two that said, we've got we've got over a million
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: dollars worth of upgrades to make, and if we don't
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: make them, we're just simply not going to be able
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: to play movies correct anymore.
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: Correct.
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: Yep, that's unreal.
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and at the time, think about how many years
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: ago that was.
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: It seems like it was yesterday, but I know that
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: was a while ago.
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: It was a while ago. Yeah, it was almost Oh goodness,
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: I don't even know. Yeah, fifteen twenty, I mean it
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: was a while.
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: Ago, more than ten, way more.
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: Than ten, okay, way more than ten yea.
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: And some theaters across the country had to had to
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: close their doors.
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they but they closed their doors for more than
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: that reason. They closed their doors because people weren't going.
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: They chose not to renovate, they chose not to keep
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: up with things like that. And you know, you can
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: do so much, but you just have to yeah, you know.
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: And that's one of the reasons we're talking about doing
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: something with the Paramount. Because it's beautiful. Yes, it comes
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: will people like it, but it's dark. It's darker than
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: I'd like it. And back when we first renovated, and
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: back when we first did the dark with the twinkle lights,
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: it was like we wanted you to walk into the
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: theater and feel like from the minute you got through
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: that second door, you were in the theater. It's too
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: dark now. So I'm going to meet up with someone
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: later today and we're going to talk colors and try
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: to figure out what we're going to do. And then
• 41:52
  Speaker 3: my parents fly in this morning, so hopefully they will
• 41:56
  Speaker 3: Dad will say, all right, you got to go ahead,
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: because we still go. Whatever my dad says is what
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: we do. There's just no there's and there's no question.
• 42:04
  Speaker 3: There should never be a question. He started it. He
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: knows exactly what he wants.
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: Are we staying with Turquoise here at the Paramount?
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: Gosh?
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: No, really no.
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: I hated Turquoise, hated it. That's why I took the
• 42:17
  Speaker 3: Turquoise out of the Capitol and the Gray and it
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: just wasn't It wasn't the warm and welcoming theater that
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: we wanted. And so so no, the Turquoise is going.
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: Got to figure out what I'm doing on the inside
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: before I do the outside.
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: But I want to talk. We can't talk about movies
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: without talking about popcorn.
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: I do make the best popcorn.
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: Well there's well, hang on a second, now, there's a
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: little bit of competition, I think between you and Richard,
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: because no.
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: Richards is terrible life. I love him, but his popcorn
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: is terrible. So there's a ratio between the oil, popcorn
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: and the salt, and everything has a delicate balance. And
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: if you play with that balance and you screw around
• 43:03
  Speaker 3: with it, you do not get the big kernels.
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: That just are you joking right now?
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: No, I'm absolutely not joking.
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: You're dead serious.
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: I'm dead serious. I make the best popcorn, absolutely absolutely,
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: my kids, the kids that were for me. Now it's
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: like it's so funny because I'll go in and I'll
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: be like, okay, guys, too much. Well listen, you're putting
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: into herself and you're not putting enough kernels. Well how
• 43:22
  Speaker 3: can you tell us? And look how small these are?
• 43:24
  Speaker 3: And so I'll pop a batch of kernels and I'll
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: hold my popcorn to theirs, and I'm like that's the difference. Yeah,
• 43:32
  Speaker 3: Capet Butter done right. Seriously, Absolutely, there is none other
• 43:39
  Speaker 3: in Vermont I that anybody should be using.
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: I really think that. And every time I talk about
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: almost every time I talk about FGB theaters on the air,
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: I have to talk about the Capet Butter but it
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: just that's really awesome.
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah, because nobody else does butter.
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: No one else does butter.
• 43:58
  Speaker 3: Right, do you know how hard it is? So are
• 44:00
  Speaker 3: butter machines are antiques? I cannot find them anywhere we
• 44:04
  Speaker 3: Thank god, our butter machine at the Capitol did not
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: touch water. It was just high enough that it missed.
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: Now the popcorn machine gone. We were glad it was
• 44:14
  Speaker 3: it it, you know, And my Dad's like, and it
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: still worked. I mean it was underwater.
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: Completely, but you get a new one.
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: Well, so it still worked. And my dad goes, we
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: can just I'll just clean it and I open up
• 44:24
  Speaker 3: under ninth where the oil goes. I go, you're gonna
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: get down there and do it. He goes, nope, I said,
• 44:28
  Speaker 3: get a new one, dad. So yeah, so we did
• 44:31
  Speaker 3: get a new one. But the I can't find a
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: butter dispensing machine that says butter. It's all butter flavored
• 44:38
  Speaker 3: butter flavors, Like, well, what is that oil? It's gross
• 44:42
  Speaker 3: and people like pile it all over their popcorn.
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: It's like, oh that's gross, right, it's and it comes
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: in a big box with a tap on it.
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: Yep. It's not something we will ever ever have at
• 44:57
  Speaker 3: our theater.
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: Isn't that something?
• 44:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, no, there's not even any question.
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: I love it. I love the fact that you guys
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: have real cabin. Butter, I want to give some kudos
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: to not only you, but the whole family, the bisheras
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: all of you. And maybe this is directed from Richard,
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: I don't know. But when I go to your theaters,
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: which I frequent quite a bit, I love the fact
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: that your staff, regardless of what their age is, if
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: they're young, if they're older, whatever, that they are so professional,
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: well spoken and well dressed. And you know, it's like,
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: look at Alan always had a tie on, always had
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: a bow tie or a tie, always dressed sharp. Everybody's
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: got a pressed shirt. They look dapper as hell on
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: a Saturday night during a snowstorm. I mean, that's really
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: to me, big takeaway. I don't know, so.
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: That was my My dad always wanted everyone to look
• 46:22
  Speaker 3: their best. And so there's no dnim. If you notice,
• 46:25
  Speaker 3: nobody wears my hat, although my son has walked in
• 46:28
  Speaker 3: a few times with denim and I'm looking at I'm
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: going to go home. Well, it's nobody says say go home.
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: So how we present ourselves here? Your son yeah, he's
• 46:36
  Speaker 3: my hard one, but I love him. But he's the
• 46:38
  Speaker 3: one that helps me through. If I have an issue
• 46:40
  Speaker 3: at that theater, I can pick up the phone, i
• 46:42
  Speaker 3: can FaceTime. I'm like, okay, walk me through this, and
• 46:45
  Speaker 3: he'll be like, you got it. And then he can
• 46:48
  Speaker 3: walk me through any mistake that happened. Oh my gosh. Yeah,
• 46:53
  Speaker 3: he's he's so smart with this. But he's like, I
• 46:56
  Speaker 3: only brought home one pair of pants. I'm like, well,
• 46:58
  Speaker 3: then go put him back on. But I pride myself
• 47:03
  Speaker 3: in making sure that when these young individuals leave my theater,
• 47:08
  Speaker 3: their next job, their next boss looks at them and says,
• 47:13
  Speaker 3: wherever you came from, they did an amazing job with
• 47:17
  Speaker 3: you and I that's the first thing I tell the
• 47:19
  Speaker 3: kids when I hire them, and when they head out
• 47:22
  Speaker 3: the door for their last shift, that's the last thing
• 47:24
  Speaker 3: I tell them. I'm like, look, this is this is important.
• 47:28
  Speaker 3: You know, you need to dress the part. You need
• 47:31
  Speaker 3: to look like you belong. You need to look like
• 47:34
  Speaker 3: you want to be here sure and be part of
• 47:37
  Speaker 3: this business and enjoy what you do. So you come
• 47:39
  Speaker 3: in ironed and now ironically, for a while, the boys
• 47:44
  Speaker 3: always dressed great shirts, tie tucked in and the girls
• 47:48
  Speaker 3: were coming in a little sloppy ear, and I'm like, okay,
• 47:51
  Speaker 3: back up, look at the boys dressed to them. If
• 47:54
  Speaker 3: they're coming in with shirt and ties, you dressed to them,
• 47:57
  Speaker 3: We're not dressing down. We're not wearing because for so
• 48:02
  Speaker 3: long the girls always out dress the boys. Sure, and
• 48:05
  Speaker 3: now it's like, okay, I want you on even playing fields.
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: You kids are gonna look like you belong working at
• 48:12
  Speaker 3: this nice establishment.
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: It's one thing to look good, but to also act
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: like you're happy to be there.
• 48:21
  Speaker 3: There's lots of training going on. And I used to
• 48:23
  Speaker 3: tell so when I ran the theater in Middlebury, I
• 48:25
  Speaker 3: used to have again high school kids and I was
• 48:27
  Speaker 3: just out of college, so they were four years younger
• 48:29
  Speaker 3: than I was, five years younger, and I would tell
• 48:31
  Speaker 3: them I didn't care what was happening outside the doors,
• 48:35
  Speaker 3: anything that happened. Once you walk into my business, you
• 48:39
  Speaker 3: are a game on, happy as can be. Blah blah
• 48:42
  Speaker 3: blah blah. And I remember girls would come in and
• 48:44
  Speaker 3: they would be so mad at themselves. They would be
• 48:46
  Speaker 3: mad out there. I hate her, babba. I'm like, listen,
• 48:49
  Speaker 3: I really don't care what you feel for her. Outside
• 48:51
  Speaker 3: this building. When you're inside, you eyes are best buddies.
• 48:54
  Speaker 3: And I'll tell you something, they were best buddies before
• 48:57
  Speaker 3: the end of the night.
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: See that.
• 48:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like it's that small, like I'm so mad
• 49:01
  Speaker 3: at you. What are you mad at them for? You know?
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: Sure? Well, because you know when when mom and dad
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: or or dad or whatever showing up with their kids
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: on a Friday night, they're they're happy they're being treated
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: right now there, this is a they're they're celebrating. They're
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: excited to see this movie. They're excited to get the popcorn,
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: they're excited to get the concessions, the family time. They
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: want to see someone behind the counter.
• 49:34
  Speaker 3: That's happy to be there.
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, And you get that at both the Paramount
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: and the Capitol. I've noticed that.
• 49:40
  Speaker 3: We've got a great group of kids that were I
• 49:42
  Speaker 3: really do I need more, But we've got a great group.
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: I hope they hear this podcast.
• 49:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah I do too. It'll be it'll be the next
• 49:49
  Speaker 3: week or so. It's going to be a little touchy
• 49:52
  Speaker 3: because we just lost our projections here at the Paramount
• 49:55
  Speaker 3: and so now we're kind of pulling some but we'll
• 50:00
  Speaker 3: probably have to close the theater Wednesday night, because I
• 50:02
  Speaker 3: don't think I have anybody who can cover here.
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: Well, that was a question I had for you. Is
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: hiring is summer jobs?
• 50:11
  Speaker 3: Well for the summer night? Well for the summer. I
• 50:14
  Speaker 3: think we're going to be fine because I have all
• 50:15
  Speaker 3: the kids that worked for me last summer, and they
• 50:19
  Speaker 3: are eager to come back, and they love the job
• 50:21
  Speaker 3: and they just it's fun for them. So I think
• 50:25
  Speaker 3: for the summer a good plus. I have my daughter,
• 50:28
  Speaker 3: my youngest son will be home all summer escape when
• 50:32
  Speaker 3: he wants to go and visit his girlfriend, but other
• 50:34
  Speaker 3: than that he's homeworking. I have another young individual who
• 50:39
  Speaker 3: he and his sister being with us for a very
• 50:41
  Speaker 3: long time, and he comes over. So for the summer,
• 50:44
  Speaker 3: I think I'm good. I'm just now going to pull
• 50:47
  Speaker 3: for next year, and I don't start hiring until mid
• 50:51
  Speaker 3: August when my kids can train these new kids. Okay,
• 50:57
  Speaker 3: I have, you know, a handful of kids that I
• 51:00
  Speaker 3: trust with training.
• 51:01
  Speaker 2: So if someone wants we're getting ready to finish school here, yes, they.
• 51:07
  Speaker 3: Must be sixteen. Got to be fortunately, because the state
• 51:11
  Speaker 3: requires them to be sixteen or they can't work after
• 51:14
  Speaker 3: I guess it I could possibly hire a fifteen year
• 51:18
  Speaker 3: olds now because they can be up to nine o'clock
• 51:20
  Speaker 3: during the summer, which I think is an outdated law.
• 51:23
  Speaker 3: It's like, I'm sorry, I would much rather have my
• 51:26
  Speaker 3: kid be able to go into work until seven or
• 51:29
  Speaker 3: seven thirty or even nine o'clock then hang out on
• 51:32
  Speaker 3: the streets or being sitting at home playing on their
• 51:34
  Speaker 3: phone or the video games.
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 51:35
  Speaker 3: There's no phones allowed in the movie theater. The kids
• 51:37
  Speaker 3: are not allowed to bring them. They had them for
• 51:39
  Speaker 3: a while and a few of them were abusing it
• 51:42
  Speaker 3: and they wouldn't do the work and they'd play on
• 51:43
  Speaker 3: their phones. And you see, right, and so now it's
• 51:46
  Speaker 3: like your phones are to stay in the car. I
• 51:47
  Speaker 3: don't want to see him out. The only ones who
• 51:49
  Speaker 3: can have a phone is the one projectionist, and that's
• 51:52
  Speaker 3: if he needs to. I said, But here's the phone.
• 51:55
  Speaker 3: It works, the live one. You can dial out with
• 51:58
  Speaker 3: that and you can call me if you have a problem,
• 52:00
  Speaker 3: if your parents are somebody need you. That's the line
• 52:02
  Speaker 3: they call in on. And I've had no backlash, which
• 52:05
  Speaker 3: is great.
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: So walk in, grab an application.
• 52:09
  Speaker 3: Sure, absolutely, yep, reach out to you, reach out to me,
• 52:12
  Speaker 3: walk in grab an application.
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, you're looking for a projectionist right now for the paramount.
• 52:19
  Speaker 3: No, no, this week is my only tight week. I
• 52:22
  Speaker 3: have one for now and then, like I said, my
• 52:24
  Speaker 3: son will be home and my other son will be
• 52:26
  Speaker 3: coming home. They're going to be the trainers for this summer,
• 52:31
  Speaker 3: but it'll be I'd probably like to hire another. The
• 52:34
  Speaker 3: projectionist has to be eighteen year older, and I have
• 52:38
  Speaker 3: to have like some pretty actually, and I would say
• 52:42
  Speaker 3: I'd like the trainer to be actually be twenty one
• 52:44
  Speaker 3: for the projections, just so I have somebody who's not
• 52:46
  Speaker 3: getting walked around by the kids. You know, the kids
• 52:49
  Speaker 3: I want. I don't want them to be an equal
• 52:51
  Speaker 3: playing field. I want the projectionists to be able to say, hey,
• 52:54
  Speaker 3: do your job.
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: Sure. So yeah, what if a busy business or anyone
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: wants to advertise with FGB theaters they want to put
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: their their branding on the screens before the movie starts.
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: What do they do?
• 53:11
  Speaker 3: How do they they contact me? It's the companies called
• 53:14
  Speaker 3: screen Vision, and together they come up with what they'd
• 53:18
  Speaker 3: like and they can put it out there.
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: Okay, so what about birthdays and private parties and events?
• 53:23
  Speaker 3: They call me? They can call me on my and
• 53:26
  Speaker 3: my phone is listed on the website. They can call me.
• 53:29
  Speaker 3: They can call the movie theater directly, but they're going
• 53:31
  Speaker 3: to just be directed to me anyways.
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: Okay, but you can still do that.
• 53:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Birthday parties are great birthday parties that you know,
• 53:37
  Speaker 3: you come in for the ticket price, you come in
• 53:39
  Speaker 3: for the kids back price. Everybody minimum of six kids.
• 53:41
  Speaker 3: We send the birthday child home with a VIP pass
• 53:45
  Speaker 3: and a kids pack as well, just so that that's
• 53:47
  Speaker 3: their gift from us. Kids love it. It's a big deal.
• 53:53
  Speaker 3: Parents like it. I've rented out the theaters before. I
• 53:56
  Speaker 3: had one family in particular who came in. It's her
• 53:58
  Speaker 3: daughter's fourth birthday, and so they rented out Theater three,
• 54:01
  Speaker 3: which is our larger of the two small theaters at
• 54:04
  Speaker 3: the Capitol. And she comes in, she goes, I don't know,
• 54:08
  Speaker 3: I think we have too many people. I'm like, well,
• 54:09
  Speaker 3: why she was? My daughter invited everybody she saw. I'm like,
• 54:11
  Speaker 3: oh okay. So we ended up having to move it
• 54:14
  Speaker 3: into a big theater. She had seventy five kids and
• 54:17
  Speaker 3: parents come to the movies and yeah, and this you know,
• 54:21
  Speaker 3: at one point you're looking at it and the parents
• 54:22
  Speaker 3: paid for everything, like they paid for popcorns and for everyone,
• 54:27
  Speaker 3: including the parents. I'm like, that's a lot, that's all.
• 54:30
  Speaker 2: That's you know, So come.
• 54:32
  Speaker 3: With an idea, businesses, you want to rent out the
• 54:35
  Speaker 3: movie theater for the day, let me know we could do. Yeah.
• 54:37
  Speaker 3: If you have a conference that you need and you
• 54:39
  Speaker 3: just want to PowerPoint it, we got it. You can
• 54:41
  Speaker 3: come in either Capital or the Paramount. We can set
• 54:44
  Speaker 3: you up. We just had a couple of places come
• 54:48
  Speaker 3: and watch one of the movies for a special showing.
• 54:51
  Speaker 3: It was just you know, they wanted to see it.
• 54:52
  Speaker 3: I'm like, sure, come on over. We do school shows.
• 54:55
  Speaker 3: Williamstown is great with that. Right before Christmas every year.
• 54:57
  Speaker 3: They'll give me a call but like, all right, what
• 54:58
  Speaker 3: do you got coming out last day before Christmas break
• 55:01
  Speaker 3: And I'll be like, this is what's got She goes
• 55:02
  Speaker 3: we're coming in and they'll hard, Yeah, it gives the kids.
• 55:07
  Speaker 3: So most of the schools are so receptive. Most of
• 55:10
  Speaker 3: the schools. My prayer is not so receptive, which is
• 55:13
  Speaker 3: difficult because it is in Montpelier and you want your
• 55:17
  Speaker 3: schools and your families to support local. But like, oh well,
• 55:21
  Speaker 3: they can go to the movies, but they can't have
• 55:22
  Speaker 3: any food. I'm like, well, why what type of experience
• 55:26
  Speaker 3: are you teaching these kids that you can go? We
• 55:29
  Speaker 3: can have fun, but there's no food whatsoever. We can't
• 55:30
  Speaker 3: have any popcor, you can't bring your own money. It's
• 55:33
  Speaker 3: like we've always said to any school that comes in,
• 55:37
  Speaker 3: collect the dollars of those who can pay. I mean,
• 55:40
  Speaker 3: just say this is what it costs, collect you know
• 55:43
  Speaker 3: who can't. And then when you get to my theater,
• 55:46
  Speaker 3: you hand me an envelope and you tell me exactly
• 55:49
  Speaker 3: how many kids are there. I don't care what's in
• 55:51
  Speaker 3: that envelope. I want everyone to have popcorn. I want
• 55:54
  Speaker 3: everyone to I do lemonades because I think SODA's got
• 55:56
  Speaker 3: too much sugar for school. Just just come in, let
• 55:59
  Speaker 3: these kids enjoy, let them be kids again. So that.
• 56:05
  Speaker 2: Is amazing.
• 56:06
  Speaker 3: So hopefully we'll get a few more schools almost over
• 56:08
  Speaker 3: this year. We'll try to plug it a little bit
• 56:10
  Speaker 3: more for next year. And but there's certain things that
• 56:14
  Speaker 3: kids should be seeing and movies that are you know,
• 56:19
  Speaker 3: well worth the trip over sure.
• 56:24
  Speaker 2: But yeah, I was not a big fan of Minecraft.
• 56:31
  Speaker 3: A lot of people were. But it does business.
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: Of course, it does However, you know, one of the
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: things that I do when I'm checked out, I'm not
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: understanding that this movie. But when you glance around, you
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: see the kids, and.
• 56:50
  Speaker 3: We had very very city came down for it. They
• 56:53
  Speaker 3: came down on opening day. She reached out to me
• 56:55
  Speaker 3: months before and says, this is what we want to do.
• 56:57
  Speaker 3: I'm like, great, Mohilier. They're middle school. Yeah, uses Minecraft
• 57:01
  Speaker 3: as a teaching tool, and I could not get them
• 57:04
  Speaker 3: to walk down. It's like, why why not give us
• 57:09
  Speaker 3: kids a break? It's like, give them a break, let
• 57:11
  Speaker 3: them let you're using this as a teaching tool and
• 57:16
  Speaker 3: it comes out on a big picture screen, and why not?
• 57:21
  Speaker 2: Sure? You know, you guys have such a vision and
• 57:27
  Speaker 2: I just I love it. You don't just sit back
• 57:29
  Speaker 2: and throw your your theaters into autopilot.
• 57:34
  Speaker 3: And players are home.
• 57:36
  Speaker 2: Richard is the same way.
• 57:38
  Speaker 3: My players are home. We're at the theaters. I'm at
• 57:42
  Speaker 3: the theater. You know all the time. My sister and
• 57:45
  Speaker 3: I work at every weekend. Lily Is Lily now loads
• 57:50
  Speaker 3: the movies into the projectors. I do all the scheduling,
• 57:53
  Speaker 3: I do all the timing, I do all the time cards,
• 57:57
  Speaker 3: I order everything for the theaters.
• 57:59
  Speaker 2: And web management too.
• 58:01
  Speaker 3: That's more my so my son does the web He
• 58:04
  Speaker 3: created the new web page, which was amazing and it's
• 58:07
  Speaker 3: still amazing, thank you. It still amazes me how he's
• 58:10
  Speaker 3: done that.
• 58:11
  Speaker 2: It's so much. It's so much.
• 58:14
  Speaker 3: It's just cleaner, clearer, brighter. He actually went when he
• 58:18
  Speaker 3: came home at the beginning of March, he actually went
• 58:21
  Speaker 3: through and cleaned all the monitors because all the monitors
• 58:24
  Speaker 3: were they had the old backgrounds on. So all the
• 58:27
  Speaker 3: monitors now represent and they match the graphics that my
• 58:32
  Speaker 3: daughter and he created. So that was a lot of fun.
• 58:37
  Speaker 3: It's it was a necessary upgrade that just was the
• 58:41
  Speaker 3: old one was tired. And anytime I have an issue,
• 58:45
  Speaker 3: I pick a phone cut, he goes, I'm on it,
• 58:46
  Speaker 3: and he'll take care of it for me. And I
• 58:49
  Speaker 3: don't feel funny calling him saying, oh, well why is
• 58:51
  Speaker 3: this this way. Yeah, he's been able to find the
• 58:55
  Speaker 3: graphics that need to be on the computer, or he's
• 58:57
  Speaker 3: been able to fix the RTS computers, and so it's
• 59:01
  Speaker 3: nice having that with him. You know.
• 59:04
  Speaker 2: What was it like when the the the concept, the
• 59:10
  Speaker 2: idea of introducing alcohol came into the picture. What did
• 59:16
  Speaker 2: f GP theaters do, because that was a wow factor
• 59:21
  Speaker 2: for many many people.
• 59:22
  Speaker 3: Right, So I don't drink at all since college. I
• 59:29
  Speaker 3: think my last drink, I can't say that my last
• 59:31
  Speaker 3: drink I ever had was the New Year's Eve that
• 59:34
  Speaker 3: I met my husband's family.
• 59:36
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 59:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I just didn't. I just don't like it.
• 59:38
  Speaker 3: So for me, it wasn't you know, But my whole
• 59:40
  Speaker 3: family enjoyed the rest of the family, they enjoy their
• 59:42
  Speaker 3: cocktails and whatnot. And this whole alcohol selling at the
• 59:47
  Speaker 3: theater movement kind of came in just I wasn't. I
• 59:51
  Speaker 3: wasn't heading up the theaters at that time. I was
• 59:53
  Speaker 3: I was doing the restaurant, I was doing, you know,
• 59:56
  Speaker 3: the all the bookwork, and so I wasn't running it
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 3: at the time. And I just remember, you know, Fridday
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 3: and Richard were like, yeah, it's great idea, We're gonna
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 3: do it. And my sister's like, I'm on board. So
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 3: so they did. And then I just brought in different varieties,
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 3: like I brought in espresso martinis, and I brought in
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 3: the you know, so I brought in all of those
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 3: and people seem to like it. I'm debating on which
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 3: new beer I'm gonna do. But you know it is
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 3: people love it and it's so funny because I'll be
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 3: the I will sell the most because the people will say,
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 3: I like a popcorn, I'm like, what would you like drink?
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 3: Or a cocktail with that? Like you sell cocktails. I'm like, yep,
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 3: right here, and like what do you like? I'm like, well,
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 3: I don't actually drink. You sell cocktails. You don't drink yep.
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 3: I sell cocktails out on drink. But if I were
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 3: to drink Martinis espressially Martini, that would probably be right
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 3: out my alley.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 2: But it's like, you know, if you're taking your your
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 2: husband and your wife out on a surprise.
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: Date, they do it.
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 3: They love it.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 2: You can see, Hey we're kid free tonight, we get
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 2: a babysitter. Let's go have a drink, have a beer.
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 3: Fin thing is I have to card everyone. I don't
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 3: care if they're eighty years old, I have to card them.
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 3: And it's so funny. They're like, you're kidding. I'm like no,
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 3: I said, it's actually no, and I and I will
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 3: address it like this, I'm about to make your day.
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 3: Can I have your ID? Are you kidding? That's so
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 3: funny it's like yeah, so and it's and it's more
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 3: for safety precautions. My computer will not let me sell
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 3: more than two alcohols per ID. So interesting, you know,
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 3: so they can. So a couple comes in and they're
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 3: only have one IDA. I'm like, that's fine, I can
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 3: sell two to one ID, but you can't have any
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 3: more unless you present me with a second ID. And
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 3: they're like, nobody deal. And so that's you know, but
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 3: I have not had an angry customer when I said
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 3: I need your ID for here you go. Yeah.
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 2: Wow, Yeah, it's fun to make sure day Lilo and Stitch.
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 2: Yes on the twenty third.
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 3: Correct Impossible, Thunderbolts, Thunderbolts Friday.
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 2: Mission Impossible is going to be I cannot wait.
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 3: Top Cruise again a back Yep, Yes, haven't been hurt yet, No,
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 3: so much and Top Gun Maverick, it's good Tom.
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 2: Tom's had a little facial.
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 3: Work a lot, a lot, and he's a little I
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 3: can say it online he's batshit crazy.
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 2: Uh that's an understate. Yeah, exactly so, but really yeah, uh,
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 2: karate Kid Legends, you love it? What is that?
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 3: It's the karate Kid movie with the original Ralph Macchio
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 3: And yeah, I'm.
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 2: Excited for that final destination.
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's not for me. I hope people come see it.
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 3: I don't like scary movies at all. We actually bring
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 3: scary movies to Barry because they do great here. Yeah,
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 3: people don't Barry like their horror, and so we bring
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 3: it to so it will be right now, we're pushing
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 3: for the paramount.
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 2: FGB Theaters dot com. You can still get your tickets
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 2: in advance, correct.
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 3: Yes, and for big movies we suggest you do. So.
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 3: Minecraft was still even this past weekend we had eighty
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 3: people per theater. That's a lot for a matinee, you know. Yeah,
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 3: and so we do suggest you buy them online.
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 2: How many days a week are the theaters open?
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 3: Capitals open seven? For sure? A paramount is only. We
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 3: only close the paramount if I don't have a projectionist,
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 3: which has happened a little more. Our projectionist, the older
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 3: one that we had had, got sick and has decided
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 3: not to return. And so we're just like I said,
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 3: we're in between and we're pulling like my projectionists that
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 3: I do have, or just finishing exam week, so you know,
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 3: it's hit or miss whether they can come in. But
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 3: The goal is seven days a week both theaters, one
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 3: show a day during the week during school week two
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 3: shows at least during the summer, matt.
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 2: Days during during the weekends, mat.
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 3: DA's on the weekends, but then it's when there's no
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 3: school matinees on those days as well. And you know,
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 3: hopefully the goal is to have two evening shows on
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 3: Fridays and Saturdays at both theaters starting summer. Okay, you know,
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 3: and then we'll back out, We'll be we'll just we'll
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 3: change it. We'll see, we'll see how it does. I know,
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 3: my kids who are home from college and or graduated
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 3: college are like, there's nothing to do here after eight o'clock.
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 3: I'm like, you're right, right, and so maybe we bring
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 3: them to the movie theaters and do something like that.
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 2: But amazing, So check them out on Facebook and Instagram
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 2: as well. You can get all the show times and
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 2: like I always say, and like Allen always says, we'll
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 2: see you at the movies. Make make this. Make this
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 2: weekend a movie weekend for your family. Do a surprise
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 2: date during the week if you can just get out
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 2: and and see it and see a movie and support
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 2: the local local communities.
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 3: You know, we we absolutely, we don't want to go anywhere.
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 3: We want to be here for both of our cities.
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 3: You know, comt need it.
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, oh yeah. Comment here. I remember that mister Bishera
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 2: was always working. If he wasn't mopping the floors at
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 2: the laundromat or cleaning the dryers or cleaning up around
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 2: the car wash. Correct, he was always busy. Glad to
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 2: see the work ethic continues through the generations.
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 3: Nice comment for my dad. The joke is when my
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 3: husband and I got married at the hotel, one of
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 3: the toilets got clogged and my dad a picture of
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 3: my dad with a plunger and his tuxied on taking
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 3: care of the toilets.
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 2: Somebody get a picture of that.
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 3: We do, we absolutely do. We absolutely have a picture
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 3: of that. Those are things you never forget.
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 2: So we got the amateur. We have sinners.
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 3: Warfare's through Thursday, and actually I think Thunderbolt starts on
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 3: In fact, I know Thunderbolt starts on Thursday at both locations.
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 3: It'll be Thunderbolts and sinners here in Barry, although I
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 3: am trying to hold minecraft as a matinee in front
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 3: of sinners. And then at the Capitol. We'll have under Bolts.
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 3: We've got Amateur with Warfare again. We have it's a
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 3: new movie. I got to remember what it is. And
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 3: then each week for the next three or four weeks,
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 3: we've got new movies coming out, you know, and they'll
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 3: be on our website coming soon.
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 3: So we tried Indian Boy this week, but one of
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 3: our servers went down and so we couldn't get it
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 3: loaded in Okay, and then they said the film was corrupt,
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 3: and so then we're still waiting for it. Supposedly they're
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 3: dropping it at the theater today, but we'll see.
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 2: I just I your community loves your theaters. We are
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 2: so blessed that you are still here, still around, that
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 2: you have fought through multiple floods over the frankly decades,
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 2: and that you're still doing it.
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we love it. Like in for my family, my
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 3: immediate film, we just there's so much pride when my
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 3: kids walking in that theater.
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 3: So of course they played a huge part in getting
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 3: this up and going. Sure, Like I said, they were
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 3: with me straight through every day cleaning that theater out.
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 3: They never left my side. I had picked out the carpet,
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 3: I had seen it and I picked it out and
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 3: I'm like, okay, So I sent off to the kids
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 3: and they were I want to say, they were still
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 3: in school or they were somewhere, and I'm like, so
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 3: I sent it off in our family group chat which
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 3: ones and they all picked the same carpet I picked.
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 3: I'm like, good, wow, which I happened to just think
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 3: pulls in with that art deco. The painter that I've
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 3: got coming in today is going to help me because
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 3: after the flood, none of the gold trim in the
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 3: front lobby at the Capitol was taken care of. So
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna put him to that task and have him
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 3: take care of that.
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 2: You are, seriously, I'm dead serious. You are probably one
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 2: of the busiest ladies that I know.
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 3: So I learned from my dad. I don't want to
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 3: sit down. If I stop, I don't know how to
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 3: start up again. So this way it just kind of
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 3: keep going. I'll get up. First thing, I'll run to
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 3: the office, do my bookwork, load up the movies, do
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 3: what I need to do there, and then I go
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 3: home and I start baking, because that's also that's my
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 3: I mean, I love my theaters, but my baking is
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 3: what I would say, it would be my therapy. It
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 3: keeps me going every day. I love. I mean, I've
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 3: my younger son's graduating in two weeks. I'm shipping out
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 3: the cakes. I'm shipping out cookie dough so I can
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 3: bake them in our house, and so all this is
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 3: going to be done there. But I can't wait to
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 3: show my friends from Notre Dame what I do because
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 3: they don't. I mean, they kind of know, but they
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 3: really have no idea, Like just no idea what I
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 3: actually do?
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 2: Is it Capital Cupcake Company?
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 3: Capital Cupcake Company?
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah? Dot com?
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 3: Yes?
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 2: OK? And then and you're doing You're doing not just cupcakes,
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 2: you're doing cakes, You're.
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 3: Doing I do everything. In fact, I don't do very
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 3: many cupcakes anymore. Like every once in a blue moon,
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 3: someone will call me for a dozen cupcakes. It's usually
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 3: can you make me this cake? Can you do this
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 3: for me? I'm like, yep, I sell Mason Jars all
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 3: across the country. I do. There's two cupcakes in a jar. Yep,
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 3: I sell Mason Jars all and you can order those online.
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 3: Which for a while I did not want to go
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 3: live my kitchen. We just renovated the kitchen so that
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 3: I can so I wish. I was closed for four
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 3: months last year, the last four months of the year,
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 3: which is always tough because I love Thanksgiving, I love Christmas.
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 3: I do these massive cookie platters for people for Christmas.
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 3: I couldn't do them this year because we had no kitchen.
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 3: So but it's up and running and it's the perfect
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 3: baker's kitchen. I did not have to buy any new
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 3: equipment because I love my ovens. You know, I have
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 3: a basic ge double oven. I love it. I wouldn't
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 3: consider everyone's like, yeah, they're like, we why don't you
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 3: buy a commercial. I'm like, I don't want a commercial,
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 3: like I like my ovens. So and they said, well
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 3: when this one goes, I said, I'm buying another one
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 3: just like it.
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so but yeah, so I do. I do almost
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 3: fifty orders of Mason's currently a month, and you get
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 3: you get six jars in every order, and I ship them.
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 3: I ship them two days. I ship them FedEx and
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 3: they go two days and they ship frozen and arrive
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 3: cold if not still frozen, depending on where they're going.
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 3: So yeah, it's a lot of fun. My kids help out.
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 3: My youngest daughter gets mad if she's home and I
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 3: don't let her build them. She likes to build them.
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 3: I bake everything and I make all the frostings, and
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 3: she'll build them. It's just she loves doing it.
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 2: Are the kids going to be carrying on the legacy
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 2: of FGP theaters?
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 3: I don't think so. As much as we want to,
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 3: I don't think so. So. Our oldest is an MBA
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 3: student at Notre Dame right now, and she is a
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 3: brilliant marketing tool for many people. In fact, your old
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 3: company called and says, hey, we need you to freelance,
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  Speaker 3: and she was thrown in and she's balancing school and freelancing.
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  Speaker 3: And our daughter, next daughter in line, is a NICKI
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  Speaker 3: nurse down in Charlotte, North Carolina. The son who does
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  Speaker 3: all my computer work is a computer software engineer looking
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  Speaker 3: for a job. So anybody out there who needs a
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  Speaker 3: computer software engineer, they'll let me know, yep. And then
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  Speaker 3: the next in line, Greg is graduating this year and
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  Speaker 3: he's an aerospace engineer and he will be working in
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  Speaker 3: Connecticut right now for General Dynamics. And then the baby
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  Speaker 3: really doesn't know what she wants to do, but she
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  Speaker 3: so she's gonna do a little traveling next year, do
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  Speaker 3: a semester abroad, and then head back to we don't
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  Speaker 3: know which school yet. She's gonna apply to a couple
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  Speaker 3: and go in as a spring semester student. But I
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  Speaker 3: don't know. The rest of us are here, I mean
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  Speaker 3: Tom and I are here for a while. My sister
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  Speaker 3: and her family are here for a while. But we'll see.
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  Speaker 2: Richard's not going anywhere.
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  Speaker 3: Well, Richard enjoys his time on that golf course.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, see a pretty good golfer.
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  Speaker 3: He I think he probably is. I don't play much
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  Speaker 3: with him. No, I don't play much with him. So
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  Speaker 3: but no, Yeah, the boys don't. They don't do too
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  Speaker 3: much with the theaters anymore. They they Uh, once we
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  Speaker 3: sold the car wash, I mean the hotel, they were
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  Speaker 3: just like, okay, we're like semi retired now. So it's
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  Speaker 3: Lille and I run the theaters. Yeah, we're there and
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  Speaker 3: there together, and it's nice. We've we've become very close.
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  Speaker 3: We like doing it. We're very proud of it. My
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  Speaker 3: dad comes home, he loves doing it. He'll call me,
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  Speaker 3: he's like, you want to get on. I'm like, no, Dad,
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  Speaker 3: you stay home with mom. Want me to go down
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  Speaker 3: like go but take me take Mom with you.
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  Speaker 2: So I love streaming live when I when I get
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  Speaker 2: to the theaters, I've got to do it more at
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  Speaker 2: the Paramount, But I look forward to to do maybe
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  Speaker 2: maybe Lelo and Stitch.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe Lelo and Stitch. I'll be a fun one. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I'm trying to think. What's the other ones? You got?
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  Speaker 2: Thunder Seek and Bolts. Yeah, I know.
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  Speaker 3: It's the hard thing with our movies now is that
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  Speaker 3: the film companies advertise like on oddities, and everybody's streaming,
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  Speaker 3: and so nobody sees ads anymore. Like nobody sees these
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  Speaker 3: movies that are coming out. They don't see unless you
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  Speaker 3: go to the theater and you watch the previews. Nobody
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  Speaker 3: knows what these movies are all about.
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  Speaker 2: And it's like.
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  Speaker 3: Right, and it's like get out, you know. So the
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  Speaker 3: film distributors of film companies need to do a better
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  Speaker 3: job at making aware of these movies that are coming out.
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  Speaker 3: Because I actually didn't know Mission Impossible was coming out
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  Speaker 3: until I was doing something and I'm like, oh my god,
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  Speaker 3: there's another one. So I actually didn't even know that
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  Speaker 3: it was coming out. And I watch television like I
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 3: do not I will watch something on Netflix late or
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  Speaker 3: but ninety nine percent of my TV is TV, and
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  Speaker 3: I have not seen a Mission Impossible. I haven't seen
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  Speaker 3: Karate Kid. And these are gonna be great movies.
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  Speaker 2: Sure. I love to partnering up with you guys promotionally
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  Speaker 2: for a Beetle Juice. That was so much fun.
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  Speaker 3: That's a good movie.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you for those posters and the stuff that
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  Speaker 2: we were able to give out on the air was
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  Speaker 2: so much fun.
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  Speaker 3: They don't do that as much anymore. The theater the
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 3: film companies don't like and and they're silly, like they'll
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  Speaker 3: send me posters now the day after we open with
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 3: a movie. I'm like, I don't need this now. I
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 3: needed it three weeks ago so my people can come
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 3: into the theaters and see it, so they need Overall,
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  Speaker 3: it's so funny because I always said that if one
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  Speaker 3: of my kids could go to work for these film companies,
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  Speaker 3: the film companies would be like, oh, well that's a
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  Speaker 3: brilliant idea. Yeah, it's like right, because you have these
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 3: kids that work for these film companies or whomever, and
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 3: they have no concept because they've never worked in a
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 3: movie theater. They've never they don't know how it operates.
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  Speaker 3: They just like, oh, well here's some here's some you know,
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 3: like Poster Street. I'm like, well again, we want that
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 3: stuff to give out, We want that stuff to be
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 3: seen prior to the show starting. So yeah, my kids
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 3: could do. Yeah, be a good idea.
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  Speaker 2: If you if you want to surprise someone, you want
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 2: to give somebody some love, grab a gift certificate, grab
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 2: a VIP card, go in there and grab an FGV
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 2: card too, And and you know, a co worker, a friend,
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  Speaker 2: whatever whatever it may be.
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  Speaker 3: And it's nice. We do have a lot of businesses
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 3: that will come to us and say, oh, we want
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 3: to you know, appreciation day for our employees, and they'll so.
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  Speaker 3: So again there's some big local businesses that definitely take
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 3: part in taking care of their employees. Ye. So and
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 3: it's fun. People come in and look, I go this
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  Speaker 3: for my boss. Of course you did, you know, because
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  Speaker 3: that's great. That's a good boss, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Right. So yeah, it's I don't want to say it's
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  Speaker 2: a pastime, but it is just something that just don't
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  Speaker 2: forget about the movies. You got to get out and
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  Speaker 2: experience a movie. Cindy Galanka, thank you ever so much,
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  Speaker 2: thank you for your support in presenting aired out all
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  Speaker 2: of these years, you and Richard have been wonderful to
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  Speaker 2: deal with, and I'm hoping at some point I'll be
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  Speaker 2: able to get the old fella in here on a microphone.
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  Speaker 2: But you guys are great people. We appreciate everything you
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  Speaker 2: do for our community. Get out to the movies, FGB
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  Speaker 2: Theaters dot com. Thank you so much. Cindy, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: grab one of those I'm gonna grab one of those
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  Speaker 2: cookies right now. Thank you ever so much. Have a
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 2: fantastic rest of your day, everyone, and we'll catch you
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 2: tomorrow with sweethearts and heroes. Tom and loud Ma'll be
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  Speaker 2: in here and it is going to be an amazing experience.
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  Speaker 2: I can't wait to share that with you tomorrow. Enjoy
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  Speaker 2: the weather today, get out, we'll.
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