BMP (Buffalo Music Players) BREAKING EPISODE: Daughters Dumplings

Daughters Dumplings will hold a pop-up from 4-6 p.m. on July 14 at Cantera Dispensary at 451 Elmwood Ave. This is just the beginning of a packed July and you can hear about it on this pod!

They started just a year ago in May and the owner, Angi talked about what it was like to start a business. Originally in the finance business, Angi talked about rising from the lowest of lows, with her health as well as financially, and how cooking gave her new hope.

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Transcript

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SPEAKER_01 1:56

Hi guys, I'm Angie Ewen. I started um Daughters Dumplings with my dad Poe actually just a little over a year ago. So we had our first year right at the end of May.

SPEAKER_04 2:07

Nice. What um what made you want to get into the dumpling game?

SPEAKER_01 2:11

So I've always loved food, I've always loved cooking, it's always been a huge part of my life. And a couple things happened that actually like really s finally kicked me in the butt to start the business. Um, one of those being my car accident 13 years ago, which kind of ended the career path I was on. Um I was in the financial industry for a really long time. I really loved mortgages. Um it got to be like a running joke after a point, like, don't even talk about mortgages around here because you'll never get away from it. But um unfortunately, um that career ended and I went through just about a decade of trying to figure out like how to deal with my new circumstances because it took several years to figure out what exactly was wrong. Um I ended up in the Cleveland Clinic for a very long time, which shout out to them, they were incredible.

SPEAKER_04 3:03

Shout out to Cleveland.

SPEAKER_01 3:05

They just shed so much light on a situation that we never would have I mean, it would have taken a long time to figure out because it's just one of those odd one in a million things. But um so that and then kind of feeling very lost after COVID because that kind of messed everybody up. Yeah, everybody was lost, you know, it was it was tough because financially things were difficult. My health really suffered because we were all inside and couldn't get to doctors and things. It was just it was tough, and um, so financially I was like, well, what can I do that unfortunately I know I'm not a reliable employee right now because one day might be great and the next six months might be awful, but what can I do that I know how to do um that people don't need to rely on me for? And I was like, well, food. And um going back to my car accident, uh, one of the things that I lost the ability to do, which was a really tough thing to cope with, is the ability to eat solid food. Oh and I had always been such a foodie, it was such a big thing for me cooking and eating. Um my friends always joke that there was always food in my mouth uh because I just love trying new things.

SPEAKER_05 4:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 4:22

Um so I was like, well, this could be a way for me to enjoy food again.

SPEAKER_05 4:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 4:28

Um, and really test myself to see if I remember how to do this without the ability to constantly taste it.

SPEAKER_04 4:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 4:36

Because I can't.

SPEAKER_04 4:37

It's like a muscle memory almost.

SPEAKER_01 4:39

Exactly, exactly. And let me tell you, it's really tough, and there are plenty of versions that we go through before things make it to the public.

SPEAKER_05 4:47

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 4:48

Um, but it is it's been a challenge that I enjoy.

SPEAKER_05 4:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 4:53

Um, because it is like kind of like reawakening stuff that I was really excited about before, that got really dark for a while for me. And rediscovering it has been a lot of fun, especially, especially with my dad and getting to learn more about my roots and my family, my culture. Um, that's actually been really exciting because growing up we always were kind of Were you guys close? Um, we were, but like in terms of learning about our culture, we never really like learned about it outside of experiencing it. But the thing is, my my um my sisters and I are the only ones that grew up in a biracial household. Oh so I didn't grow up speaking either of my parents' languages. I didn't grow up speaking Chinese or Polish. We all spoke English.

SPEAKER_04 5:40

Oh, you're Chinese and Polish?

SPEAKER_01 5:41

Yeah, Chinese and Polish. My mom was mostly Polish, a little German, a little bit of European, everything.

SPEAKER_04 5:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 5:48

But so pierobies and dumplings my whole life.

SPEAKER_04 5:51

From dumplings to pierovies and stuff.

SPEAKER_01 5:53

Which that's been a lot of fun too, is um having done this business and starting it. I've met so many people that do so many other types of cuisines. Yeah. And just seeing that there really is so much that unites stuff when you get down to the bare bones of it is really exciting. Because then it like helps open you up to so many other opportunities.

SPEAKER_04 6:15

Yeah, I've noticed like in life, just in general, we're always um closer together than further apart. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_01 6:21

A hundred percent, a hundred percent. Like it's so funny because we always talk about this, my friends and I always talk about how it's like like generational living, for example. That is like most of the world, so common. But here, everyone is so excited to like turn 18 and get out on their own, which there's nothing wrong with experiencing on your own, but I don't think you should feel like you have to.

SPEAKER_04 6:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 6:41

I don't think there should be shame in living at home, even in your 30s, like whatever, it doesn't matter.

SPEAKER_04 6:46

Well, especially in this environment too, where like nobody can afford anything really, you know.

SPEAKER_01 6:50

Right in this economy.

SPEAKER_04 6:52

Exactly.

SPEAKER_01 6:53

I don't think there should be any shame in it. I think it's actually a really it's a great thing. I think it's a privilege, honestly.

SPEAKER_04 6:59

Yeah, and um when you stick with your family depending on like your dynamic and stuff, it makes you guys closer.

SPEAKER_01 7:04

Definitely, you know, so yeah, I do actually, now that you mentioned that I want to recognize there are dynamics where it is better, safer, obviously, to maybe branch out from your family. Yeah. So you know, I definitely recognize that. Honestly, I needed I needed my own time too to grow. Because I, you know, growing up, I'm an elder millennial, so growing up right in the thick of the 2000s, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, I had a couple years there, so you know, so having a chance to get out of my own, grow up, experience life, and like really understand, like you gotta get it together. Um, for me, I needed that, but I don't think I don't think everyone does.

SPEAKER_04 7:44

I got you. So, like with your cuisine though, why did you guys why do you call yourself the dumpling daughters? You make more than just dumplings, right?

SPEAKER_01 7:52

We do, we do. So actually, we are daughters dumplings.

SPEAKER_04 7:55

Daughters, sorry.

SPEAKER_01 7:56

That's okay. That's okay. The only reason it even matters to me so much is because um there is somebody called dumpling daughters. Oh, I got you.

SPEAKER_04 8:05

No no legal, no legal intervention.

SPEAKER_01 8:07

Yeah, yeah. So um so don't say we gotcha. Um, but yeah, we are um I have there's a couple things behind the name. I do have two sisters, and I did want to leave it. They're not really they're foodies in terms of they enjoy eating food, but they don't cook so much as I do. They enjoy it, but not on the level that I do. It's not their calling. My sisters are incredibly talented in in other areas. Um they're both artists, one professionally, and then my other sister works with um children with disabilities. They've got incredible talents. Um, but I wanted to leave it open to them being a part of it if they want it to be. But then also the other reason is just kind of really, really silly, and I feel actually a little embarrassed now that I even brought it up because it's really dumb. Okay. But like I call everybody cis, like that's a very gender-neutral term to me. Yeah, yeah. And so because I want daughters to be a community thing, I just daughters to me is everybody. Yeah, like y'all are family, you're all a part of this. We're all sisters in this.

SPEAKER_04 9:19

No, that's awesome.

SPEAKER_01 9:20

Even my brothers are sisters. Um, and so it's everybody being a part of this.

SPEAKER_04 9:26

Yeah. No, you should you shouldn't feel silly for wanting to be personable to people. That's that's a good quality to have. And especially since you're um, you know, you're part of the culinary thing, and uh being a part of the culinary thing is a part of being a part of hospitality, you know?

SPEAKER_05 9:42

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 9:43

So it all kind of goes together. So you're on the right track, man.

SPEAKER_01 9:46

Thank you.

SPEAKER_04 9:46

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 9:47

So we start we started with dumplings though, um because that is what my dad's mother is was known for. And that's like that's like it's the celebratory food. Like New Year's dumplings to like, and I just remember growing up and like sitting there and just like folding dumplings for hours and hours and hours with just like endless bowls of filling coming out.

SPEAKER_04 10:08

Was it fun or was it kind of like an obligation?

SPEAKER_01 10:11

Um, you know, as a kid it was it was fun.

SPEAKER_04 10:14

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 10:15

It it was fun. As I got older, it got very competitive.

SPEAKER_04 10:19

Oh, really?

SPEAKER_01 10:20

Yeah. I was never as good as my cousins because I definitely had more experience folding pro gees, which is a little different. Yeah. Because my mom made those a lot at home, whereas dumplings was more special occasion food for us. Yeah. Um, because well, number one, getting Asian ingredients, you know, 30 years ago in Buffalo was a lot harder than it is now. I bet. Yeah, yeah. Um, so it would be like when we went to New York City to get stuff and bring it back home, is when we would have dumplings. Um, but like pro geese, I mean, potatoes are abundant. You know, so doing that, so but folding the dumpling wrappers the same way you fold a pro-y is not gonna work, they're gonna explode. It's it's a different kind of dough. Um so that being said, I never ever ever won. I always lost. My cousins always made fun of me, which was um so unfair because also they spoke the language and I didn't, so I didn't even know what they were saying.

SPEAKER_04 11:16

Oh, okay, I got you.

SPEAKER_01 11:18

But I was the loser, so I knew it wasn't they weren't complimenting my skills.

SPEAKER_04 11:23

Gotcha.

SPEAKER_01 11:24

Um, but yeah, so that's why we started with dumplings. And then honestly, the reason we branched out has literally all been just the community asking for different things.

SPEAKER_05 11:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 11:37

Um, because in the beginning, my dad and I were super, super adamant that it's just gonna be, we don't want to overwhelm ourselves, it's gonna just be the one dumpling. That's all we're doing. And that is definitely not where we're at anymore.

SPEAKER_04 11:51

I mean, there had to be a party, you guys would be like, this is gonna branch out to something else. It can't just be the one dumpling.

SPEAKER_01 11:57

I don't think either of us expected it to take take off like it did. I really don't. My dad honestly I know my dad did it. My dad was very apprehensive the whole time about bringing a traditional flavor um that wasn't going to be anything like takeout. Um, so my dad was really, really nervous about it taking off at all. He was actually really nervous to even start.

SPEAKER_05 12:21

Oh wow.

SPEAKER_01 12:22

And I was like, I I was telling it my dad, like my like some of the people that have tried your dumplings are some of the pickiest eaters I know. Yeah. And they will sit there and have ton of them in a seating.

SPEAKER_04 12:36

Well, there's proof right there.

SPEAKER_01 12:37

Yeah, that's like, you gotta try. You don't know if you don't try. And what's the worst thing that's gonna happen? People don't like it, and we're back where we were.

SPEAKER_05 12:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 12:45

You know, we're not gonna be any worse off than we were.

SPEAKER_05 12:47

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 12:48

Um, it's not like we're not gonna like it. Yeah, you know. So I convinced them to try it, and then um I I didn't think that we were gonna do poorly. I just didn't really think that it was gonna take off to the point where I really saw it being a sustainable business.

SPEAKER_04 13:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 13:07

I feel a little guilty saying that out loud.

SPEAKER_04 13:10

Well, you didn't know what was gonna happen, you also was like a heavy surprise.

SPEAKER_01 13:14

I really didn't, um, I don't think I realized how nervous I was until I just said it out loud just now.

SPEAKER_04 13:18

It's all good. It's all good.

SPEAKER_01 13:20

It's something because I was like trying to make my dad feel so confident that I think I forgot how nervous I was.

SPEAKER_04 13:25

It's alright. You were like being the strength for both of you, you know?

SPEAKER_01 13:28

Uh, which I mean my dad's been the strength for the last 40-something years, so anything I can do, I I try I try to do.

SPEAKER_04 13:36

Yeah, is like having this business be like a success? Is that kind of like your way to like give back to him kinda?

SPEAKER_01 13:43

It is. I want I want so much. Oh god, I'm gonna cry. Like the waterworks are gonna start. Um that's all good. I number one, I want my dad to be able to just rest. I want him to be able to stop working. He's still outside of this, he still works full-time with his own company. Oh wow. And he's still traveling quite far. He goes to Albany, he goes, I mean, a couple times a year, he was going down to Texas still, and he drives the whole way.

SPEAKER_04 14:07

Yeah, he's like that old school worker type type of guy.

SPEAKER_01 14:11

Like my dad doesn't like there's there's no resting, but like, you know, he needs it. Yeah, he needs it, and so um I really want to find something sustainable for me with my new life circumstances, um not being the same able-bodied person I was, yeah, and also having um cognitive I don't want to say um impairments, but just things that make it a little bit more difficult since the car accident to get things done.

SPEAKER_05 14:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 14:45

Um just trying to figure out something sustainable that's gonna let me work and my dad rest is my number one goal with this. Um, you know, I would love to get to a point where I can take care of my medical bills so that I can do more because I really want to branch out into um, like we were talking about earlier, more than just food and so much more community outreach and community activity.

SPEAKER_05 15:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 15:14

And just being able to do a lot more with all the people who have supported us this whole way. Yeah. Honestly, I want to give back to the people who have been supporting us, rooting for us, and and gotten us so far.

SPEAKER_04 15:28

Yeah, well, from what I can see, because like you know, we follow each other on Instagram and stuff, um, I can definitely see that you're on the path to that for sure. You're getting a lot of like support from other people, and you're always doing pop-ups and stuff. You know, you can't pop up in a place that nobody wants yet, you know.

SPEAKER_01 15:42

That's true, that's very true, that is very true.

SPEAKER_04 15:44

You know, so I I think you're well on your way to that.

SPEAKER_01 15:46

Thank you.

SPEAKER_04 15:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 15:48

I think one thing I am really, really proud of with daughters, um, and something that I want to continue is that uh aside from our very, very first event, because it was our first event we didn't know anybody, I don't think I've ever done a single pop-up or event without some type of collaboration with another local Buffalo person. Um, whether it was like an actual product that we produced together, like I've done with Natalie's tamales. Shout out Natalie's tamales. Shout out Natalie's the most authentic Mexican cuisine you will have around here.

SPEAKER_04 16:22

Um cantera.

SPEAKER_01 16:25

Uh Cantera, I mean tons of. I do I live there. That's away from home. I love it. The most friendly staff, most knowledgeable staff, and everyone will just make you feel like you're at home there.

SPEAKER_04 16:35

Shout out to Cantera.

SPEAKER_01 16:37

All day, every day. Um but yeah, I you know, whether it's an actual product or just being there and sharing each other's businesses, um, you know, I I I love that. I want to continue that, and it's a big part of like our women of the world collective that we did back in March. And it was such a great bonding experience for the women that did it that we've actually um continued that group on and are now um like a network for each other. Oh yeah, it's it's been really cool. So, like if somebody needs some help or somebody has an event, we can shout out to each other to you know go to each other first and see what we can do to support each other.

SPEAKER_05 17:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 17:21

Because at the end of the day, everybody, we all want to support each other's businesses monetarily, but we can't. Yeah, like we can't buy from each other every market, even if we want to, but there's so much other stuff we can do to support each other. Yeah, you know, marketing for each other, or if somebody needs extra hands at a market and you're free that day, like that's the kind of stuff we can do to support each other's businesses to make each other successful.

SPEAKER_04 17:46

That's awesome.

SPEAKER_01 17:46

Uh yeah, and that's that's something I want to continue building, you know, as I've as we've gone past March, we have included more women into that community, and it's been a really exciting thing to build up.

SPEAKER_04 17:58

Nice, and I I bet it's gonna keep growing, you know.

SPEAKER_01 18:00

I hope, I hope, I hope we can bring it out to um we've got some ladies out in Rochester already that we're working with, and I would just I would love to bring it to all the people I've met because you know, at the end of the day, we need to be there for each other.

SPEAKER_04 18:17

Absolutely. We're nothing without community. Everybody needs help in some way.

SPEAKER_01 18:21

Absolutely, absolutely. They say it takes a village, and I think it does for pretty much anything.

SPEAKER_04 18:25

Absolutely, absolutely. So we're getting to the point of the pod where um I'm gonna ask you to name a um artist in the city or uh like a song from an artist that you like to put on the your episode of the pod. Do you have somebody in mind?

SPEAKER_01 18:38

So here's the thing. I am old, okay? Okay, and I don't know a lot of the new Buffalo artists.

SPEAKER_00 18:47

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 18:47

I am just getting introduced to them through podcasts, which I am so embarrassed by literally started listening to podcasts like a year ago. Yeah. I'm so behind. Um I felt oh my god, I found my old iPod touch actually. Yeah. Yeah, that's got an interesting, that's got a fun playlist. I should put that on.

SPEAKER_04 19:04

Well, you can't be that old if you got an old touch instead of a shuffle, and the shuffle was the first iPod.

SPEAKER_01 19:09

Well, I mean, I that's just one of the old things I found. I had this I had a pager back in the day.

SPEAKER_04 19:16

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_01 19:17

But so two artists that I used to listen to back in the day, and we can see if anybody listening to this pod will know that. Okay. Was AJ Jordan, and he was on the underground hip hop scene.

SPEAKER_04 19:29

From Buffalo?

SPEAKER_01 19:30

From Buffalo. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 19:32

I don't know that.

SPEAKER_01 19:32

Way. This is going way back. We're talking early 2000s.

SPEAKER_04 19:36

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 19:36

Probably even late 90s. Um, and As Summer Dies, now I'm not sure. They are definitely a little bit more mainstream than than AJ Jordan was, and they were metal.

SPEAKER_05 19:51

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 19:51

Um, metal and kind of goth. And I mean they had they went through a lot of iterations, honestly. I sound like an idiot right now, because it's been a while. But um, yeah, those those two bands, I'll give a shout out and we'll see if anyone Okay, here's the thing. Yeah. Anyone who actually knows them, yeah, legitimately knows them, first person that messages you, I will make them dumplings that are next to the number.

SPEAKER_04 20:16

Alright, hey, nothing wrong with a deep cut in the BMP game. Alright, here we go.

SPEAKER_03 20:26

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SPEAKER_04 20:31

Man, life just isn't letting up. I feel like the walls are closing in, and I don't have a way to stop it. I wish there was somewhere I could go. Some place where I could just get away from everything and just be creative.

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SPEAKER_04 21:10

Wow, that sounds great. I'll check it out.

SPEAKER_03 21:14

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SPEAKER_04 22:24

Alright guys, we're back. And what do you have coming up?

SPEAKER_01 22:28

So we actually have a jam-packed July.

SPEAKER_04 22:30

Jam-packed July.

SPEAKER_01 22:33

Y'all need to come out. It's gonna be a lot of fun. I have been waiting to do this. We've had a couple of um pop-ups here and there, but July 14th officially starts Test Kitchen Tuesdays at Cantera in Elmwood. And that is going to run from 4 to 7 p.m. And that will be when Daughter Simplings comes in and we bring a new menu item or a reworked menu item. And we bring all those ingredients, and everybody gets to try that new item at a discounted price because it's not on our menu yet. And you will get the chance to give us feedback right on the fly. We'll be able to adjust things based on the ingredients that I bring with me. We can make adjustments on the fly, and this way the community can really speak to what they would like to experience and taste on our menu. Whether it's traditional or something fun and fusion. We're excited to have it all. And um that's gonna start July 14th, and that one is gonna be an extra special since that's a kickoff. We are gonna have live music that night.

SPEAKER_04 23:37

Oh nice.

SPEAKER_01 23:38

Yes, so shout out to Kimchi and the kidney beans.

SPEAKER_04 23:42

Okay, shout out to them. I've never heard of them. That's a cool name.

SPEAKER_01 23:45

They are a super fun cover band, my friend Krista, who also um she is a tarot reader. Okay, and she is at Cantera's Psychic Fairs. Um, but that is her band. Okay, and she has the most incredible voice. It is just it is so strong and rich, and it just gets you wanting to get up and dance. Like I'm in this wheelchair, and if anything's gonna heal these legs and back right now, it's gonna be her voice on Tuesday. It's so much fun. It's so much fun. Um, but yes, so she will be there, and as a little hint as to what you'll be experiencing that night, um, her band is what inspired that night's test kitchen items.

SPEAKER_04 24:28

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 24:28

So that's a little hint as to what we're gonna be serving up on July 14th.

SPEAKER_04 24:33

Gotcha. Put your thinking caps on, guys.

SPEAKER_01 24:35

And that's going to run on Tuesdays through the summer.

SPEAKER_04 24:38

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 24:39

And then we also have a really exciting event coming up on July 24th. That's a Friday night event at Canterra. It's gonna be running 6 to 10 p.m. And that is going to be with a long-standing partner, Karin's Caribbean Cuisine.

SPEAKER_04 24:56

Shout out to them.

SPEAKER_01 24:56

Shout out, Karim. We are gonna have our fun Chino um Chino Caribbean menu that night. So Chinese Caribbean Fusion. And we have a super exciting new partner joining us, um, Shiloh. She teaches um Kone Pa dance.

SPEAKER_05 25:14

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_01 25:15

And um, we have a very exciting night planned. The official, the official drop, the official announcement will be in a couple of weeks. But get your calendars ready for Friday night. It's gonna be, it's gonna be uh brand new event that has never been down on the Elmwood strip, as far as I know so far.

SPEAKER_04 25:35

Nice. So it's a it's a first ever.

SPEAKER_01 25:37

First ever down in that definitely at Cantera and definitely in the general area, yes. It's gonna be a very interactive night. So come ready to uh come ready to move. Come ready to get a little sweaty and then have a little food, work up your appetite.

SPEAKER_04 25:52

Nice. Sounds like you got a lot of stuff going on.

SPEAKER_01 25:55

Yes, sir.

SPEAKER_04 25:56

Can you just speak a little bit more about like the importance of community and how that's helped your business and just like expanded yourself? Because um, it seems like you've got a lot of connections and then you're kind of just utilizing it to help not only yourself but them as well.

SPEAKER_01 26:10

Absolutely, absolutely. I don't think I realized um so two things had really kind of made me kind of shut myself in for a really long time. Um adjusting to my new physical situation, which I'm an ambulatory wheelchair user, so aside from my current injury, a little accident where I broke my back and um and stuff recently, I'm only in my chair probably about like 70% of the time. Um, and that's from the car accident ongoing things. But um, I really shut myself off for a long time because I didn't quite know how to adjust to my new circumstances and then COVID.

SPEAKER_00 26:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 26:52

So when I kind of like tried to put myself back out there, I didn't realize just how kind of awkward it is to make friends as an adult.

SPEAKER_04 26:59

Yeah, it's it's tough for everybody.

SPEAKER_01 27:01

That was the weirdest thing, especially because I've always been that kid who would like talk to strangers and talk too much. Like I feel like I don't know, sometimes I miss social cues. Yeah. So it was a little nerve-wracking, but the thing was going into business and that being the avenue of meeting people and making friends, I think really already brought down so many barriers because we're as small business owners, we both already know how tough it is out there in those streets, you know. So I think we already had that like that bond that we didn't even have to talk about, just knowing that like we do we need support without asking for it. We know we need community support to get anywhere. So I think that kind of made it a little easier. And then every time I made a new friend, uh, it just made me more excited to make more friends because along the way I was realizing how many people I was meeting over here that actually knew people over there.

SPEAKER_05 28:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 28:04

And it was like, oh my god, did you guys know? And like, no, you know, and just like being able to reconnect certain people has been really cool too.

SPEAKER_04 28:12

Yeah. Um, so and so now it's almost like you get paid to make friends in a way.

SPEAKER_01 28:18

I mean, honestly, it really is because that's the thing is like I even hate calling our customers customers because like 90% of them I know on a like a first-class name basis. Yeah. A bunch of them I know their kids, and like I actually like talk to them on a friend level now. So it's just been really, really exciting.

SPEAKER_04 28:38

That's awesome.

SPEAKER_01 28:39

Especially with us having gotten so digital and away from human connection.

SPEAKER_04 28:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 28:43

It's been really cool.

SPEAKER_04 28:45

Yeah, it is very hard to connect with people now because of the internet. It kind of messed everything up, but like you're very like boots to the ground, you know, talking to people and stuff like that. So that's what that's what you need to build a community, and you're definitely doing it.

SPEAKER_01 28:58

Thank you, thank you. That's the goal. So I'm really glad it's coming through.

SPEAKER_04 29:02

Yeah, it is. It is. Well, it's been a pleasure talking to you. We're gonna wrap up the BMP podcast for today. Um, but this is Meg signing off with Andy and Donna Sunday. Have a great day, guys. May the sauce be with you. Coochie, the bringer of life, the bringer of unimaginable joy, the cause of catastrophic destruction. Knowing that you have something so powerful, wouldn't you want the best to take care of it? Pardon me for saying this, I am just a humble announcer. But if I had a coochie, I'd probably get it waxed at Cheyenne's waxing studio on 830 Elmwood Ave. You have power in between your legs. So why not have it taken care of by the best? It's the B and P parc. If you are artists, no matter discipline, we'll help you out. Don't believe in gatekeeping, we all gotta eat, and this is our way of helping out. So here we go. Like, why you got a podcast? Everybody got dogs. To be quite honest, I'm got a job. Look in there, prospect like one going wrong. Joe, for the park. I'm not designed to cry. I'm too pretty for present. But talking off the dome. I'm finna make a kid. If Joe Rogan can do it, I sure can. I've never fucked the stool, so I've got the upper hand. If Joe Rogan can do it, I sure can. I've never fucked the stool, so I've got the upper hand.

unknown 31:06

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