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Cliff Notes: Blacc Sam on Opening The New Marathon Store · Earn Your Leisure

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  Speaker 1: When when is the the grand opening, the expected expected
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  Speaker 1: grant opening.
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  Speaker 2: Uh man, honestly, we still working.
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  Speaker 3: I think we we close. We don't have a exact date,
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  Speaker 3: but definitely gotta be a this year.
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  Speaker 2: You know. We we we we we push him.
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  Speaker 3: We got a lot of ideas and uh things that
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  Speaker 3: we know we have to present before we can't open,
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  Speaker 3: and so all of 'em are being worked on.
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  Speaker 2: Uh. But once we want, when once those.
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  Speaker 3: Get built out, we still wanna come in and really
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  Speaker 3: you know, bring interesting and do some things with the
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  Speaker 3: new technology that he he he he has going. And
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  Speaker 3: we wanna take a step back and make sure that
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  Speaker 3: when you do come and it is open, it's y
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  Speaker 3: it's an experience.
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  Speaker 2: So it's no it's no rush. We just wanna make
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  Speaker 2: sure we nail it.
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  Speaker 4: Get it right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I dress that's our guy. Yeh he Uh.
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  Speaker 1: Actually I'm glad you said that because I know that
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  Speaker 1: Nip had the vision of making it a smart store.
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  Speaker 1: Is technology still a major part and as you plan
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  Speaker 1: on doing it and making this a smart store?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, undred percent, it's like exactly what you're saying.
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  Speaker 3: When we finished the build out, we got to bring
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  Speaker 3: him in and let him you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, one too, and it's no, it's no rush, you
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  Speaker 2: know what I'm saying. It ain't no rush.
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  Speaker 3: Just get it right and then you know we'll feel
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  Speaker 3: comfortable with you know, opening up.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, So whenever that happens, there's there's a guarantee that
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  Speaker 5: that we will be here to support that, you know,
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  Speaker 5: from New York and from obviously when we anytime we're
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  Speaker 5: in La tapping in. Man, it's a it's a true,
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  Speaker 5: a true honor to be here in your presence and
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  Speaker 5: for you to share your space, man, and your time
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  Speaker 5: and the family with us.
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  Speaker 2: Man, this has been incredible. No, I appreciate you'll pulling
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  Speaker 2: up mall. It's too easy.
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  Speaker 4: I appreciate you, brother, Thank you.
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  Speaker 6: Man.
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  Speaker 4: Just get a couple of minutes in there, right, sure,
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  Speaker 4: all right.
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  Speaker 1: So this is a sneak peek. One room, tell us,
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  Speaker 1: tell us where we at right now?
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  Speaker 2: Survive. Uh, this is the rooftop. This is like kind
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  Speaker 2: of like private shopping.
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  Speaker 3: So while we still getting downstairs renovated, taking our time
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  Speaker 3: with it, we gonna probably within another couple weeks open
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  Speaker 3: this up like uh, private shopping, so you can book
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  Speaker 3: in time slots. All the new stuff that we designed
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  Speaker 3: and new cutting. So some of the old classics you
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  Speaker 3: can get 'em from here, just to you know, be
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  Speaker 3: able to offer some type of uh uh uh brick
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  Speaker 3: and mortar location while we wait on the other the
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  Speaker 3: the main shop to be designed. So it's some of
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  Speaker 3: the new stuff, the classics, the crunchaw hoodies shirts, some
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  Speaker 3: of the new designs.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Oh and this is the short set, the the set,
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  Speaker 1: the hoodie set.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, this is new. Yeah, that's yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I'm about to say I haven't seen this on the
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  Speaker 5: side yet.
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  Speaker 2: This is one of those things, so I s I
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  Speaker 2: see the paper planes up there.
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  Speaker 5: You spoke about rock Nation man that that relationship. Talk
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  Speaker 5: about how solid that's been, how important it's been to
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  Speaker 5: into the the development of the marathon.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think just solid people.
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  Speaker 3: NIP had a real close relationship with uh Emory and
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  Speaker 3: w you know, he he he brought the situation for
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  Speaker 3: uh NIP to be signed with Rock Nation, brought the
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  Speaker 3: Puma deal together, and aside from that, just had a
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  Speaker 3: real solid relationship. Like I met Emory through you know,
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  Speaker 3: NIP introducing me to 'em, and so I think they
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  Speaker 3: aside from business, they just been there to kind of
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  Speaker 3: make sure everything is done correctly help out any time
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  Speaker 3: we need. Uh, they a phone call away and it
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  Speaker 3: also advise you know, and and and so been a
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  Speaker 3: blessing man any a a any opportunity, especially with you know,
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  Speaker 3: clothing or anything that they have, they always pass it
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  Speaker 3: to us and just extend the olive treat man. So
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  Speaker 3: they definitely been a hundred percent man and we appreciative.
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  Speaker 1: So is this is this part gonna be once the
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  Speaker 1: store fully opens? Is this gonna be like a VIP
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  Speaker 1: shopping experience? Yeah, yeah, that's what we think, and this
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  Speaker 1: should be once it's open. It's like, you know, somebody
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  Speaker 1: kind of don't want.
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  Speaker 3: To be down there or want to kind of like
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  Speaker 3: get in in and out come up here.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah we we we saw we gotta a person out
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  Speaker 5: front that greeted us. Man, I see mom's outside. Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 5: mama love had the bee's bumping outside. So I I
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  Speaker 5: the last time we came you went here, I think
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  Speaker 5: the sore was closed. It was kind of late in
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  Speaker 5: the evening. But I don't know if you had the
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  Speaker 5: spot next door.
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  Speaker 6: No, we didn't, So let's let's talk about that.
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  Speaker 5: Well you got this spot and you said, let's expand
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  Speaker 5: because now that's not even COVID, that's that's more in
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  Speaker 5: the food space.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, more in the food space. So I just thought about,
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  Speaker 6: uh the different things that we needed around here in
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  Speaker 6: the neighborhood, and uh what was gonna work. And I said,
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  Speaker 6: you know what, we need to uh build a a
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  Speaker 6: restaurant for our people to where we can you know,
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  Speaker 6: and then we'll have vegan food, uh juices like mm
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  Speaker 6: we know a different type of way to treat our folks.
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  Speaker 6: And you can come here. You can eat good housepitality.
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  Speaker 6: You gonna have that new American soul. You we you know,
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  Speaker 6: we got mama cooking so so so so so you
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  Speaker 6: know the food gonna be fire. So y you know,
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  Speaker 6: we we'll we we gonna open up uh boulevard bobs
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  Speaker 6: and be and more and probably like the next two months,
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  Speaker 6: y'all can come down and y'all can sit and eat
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  Speaker 6: with us.
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  Speaker 2: That's that's impressing.
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  Speaker 8: M m mmm