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<v Speaker 1>Excited to have Chris Larsen joined me from Comfort King. Hello, sir,

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<v Speaker 1>how are you good?

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<v Speaker 2>How are you doing?

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<v Speaker 1>John? I'm fantastic And we're going to talk today about

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<v Speaker 1>buy local, which is something that I think is a

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<v Speaker 1>really important thing. As a local business owner and you're

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<v Speaker 1>a local business owner, it means a lot to us.

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<v Speaker 1>But this should mean a lot to even people who

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<v Speaker 1>are not business owners. It should mean a lot to

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<v Speaker 1>them because local businesses do a lot for their community,

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<v Speaker 1>don't they.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, So I decided to start a business group that

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<v Speaker 2>actually represents small business because we actually don't have a

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<v Speaker 2>voice in South Dakota. Small local businesses don't have a voice.

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<v Speaker 2>We don't have a group that represents us. You know,

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<v Speaker 2>there's other business groups, but they represent big business. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>And so there's a couple of things I want to

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<v Speaker 2>do with this group. It's free to join right now,

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<v Speaker 2>but eventually if we get an enough members, then we'll

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<v Speaker 2>start doing the dues every year, maybe one hundred bucks

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<v Speaker 2>a year. And what that money will do, it won't

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<v Speaker 2>pay for any salaries. It will pay to advertise the

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<v Speaker 2>concept of buy local. What we want to do is

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<v Speaker 2>educate our fellow citizens in South Dakota why it's important

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<v Speaker 2>to keep it local and to keep our money here. Because,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, I was researching this, there's over two hundred

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<v Speaker 2>thousand people in South Dakota that work for a small business.

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<v Speaker 2>That's a lot of people. That's a lot more I

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<v Speaker 2>would have guessed. Now they call small business. I think

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<v Speaker 2>anybody any company under three hundred employees. This group is

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<v Speaker 2>kind of for companies under one hundred, although I will

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<v Speaker 2>make exceptions to certain companies if they want to join.

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<v Speaker 2>Like I've talked to Great Life, talk to companies like

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<v Speaker 2>Lewis Drug. You know that I consider that a local

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<v Speaker 2>company absolutely. And what I think most people who aren't

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<v Speaker 2>in business don't understand is that even though our town

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<v Speaker 2>may be grown, like, people are spending more and more

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<v Speaker 2>money on the internet. Oh and I'm not anti internet.

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<v Speaker 2>This isn't what this is about. You know, it's okay

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<v Speaker 2>to spend money on the internet sometimes, but you should

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<v Speaker 2>try to keep your money local because a lot of

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<v Speaker 2>these businesses you can You can think, if I go

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<v Speaker 2>into Lewis or Shiels or High V I can buy

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<v Speaker 2>every single thing in there on a website. And just

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<v Speaker 2>imagine if everyone did that. And what would our town

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<v Speaker 2>look like if Shields, Lewis, Hive's all just disappeared, Ace Hardware,

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<v Speaker 2>What if they all just disappeared? What would life look like?

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<v Speaker 1>It would be very sad, honestly. Yeah, think of the

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<v Speaker 1>jobs you would be killing. And I'll tell you I

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<v Speaker 1>lived in a small town in Iowa for a short while,

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<v Speaker 1>and during the time I lived in that small town,

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<v Speaker 1>our grocery store closed. They had like a broaster chicken

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<v Speaker 1>thing and they had a fire in the kitchen and

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<v Speaker 1>it burned up and closed. And so now the nearer

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<v Speaker 1>the closest grocery store is twenty miles away. You know

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<v Speaker 1>how much that stinks When you got to drive twenty

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<v Speaker 1>miles for a gallon of milk.

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<v Speaker 2>They call it that a food desert. That's it. It's horrible.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, and they rebuilt, thank goodness. It was wonderful that

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<v Speaker 1>they rebuilt. But during the time they were closed I

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<v Speaker 1>had a whole new appreciation for the convenience of having

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<v Speaker 1>a grocery store right up the street. And it's not

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<v Speaker 1>just groceries. If you're working on a project and you

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<v Speaker 1>need this one little thing to finish it, and you're like, oh, hey,

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<v Speaker 1>now that hardware store that I used to go to

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<v Speaker 1>is gone because people buy stuff on the internet, Well

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<v Speaker 1>I got to wait for it.

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<v Speaker 2>That's what I'm trying to do with this business club

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<v Speaker 2>is to get enough people joined in so that we

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<v Speaker 2>can actually start promoting the idea of buying local and

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<v Speaker 2>why it's healthy for a community. You know, we all

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<v Speaker 2>like living in South Dakota, we like living in Sioux Falls,

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<v Speaker 2>and there's a reason, you know, And so we want

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<v Speaker 2>to keep it healthy. And the employees that work at

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<v Speaker 2>small businesses are usually pretty well paid, and so and

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<v Speaker 2>the people that work for big companies, big organizations like

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<v Speaker 2>the school system and the hospitals and all these governments

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<v Speaker 2>and stuff. A lot of times they don't necessarily think

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<v Speaker 2>about that they should feel obligated in any way to

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<v Speaker 2>buy local, And we want to just kind of educate them, right,

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<v Speaker 2>raise awareness. So it's called buylocal sd dot net nice

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<v Speaker 2>and it's easy to sign up. You just send me

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<v Speaker 2>an email info at buylocal sd dot net nice and

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<v Speaker 2>you're you're a member. And if we get to stage two,

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<v Speaker 2>which I think we will, where we implement dues of

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<v Speaker 2>like I said, not very much money, but you can

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<v Speaker 2>decide to join or bail out then. But right now,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm just kind of testing the water to see if

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<v Speaker 2>there's enough interest by local companies, you know, smaller companies,

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<v Speaker 2>because we really don't have a voice. If you look

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<v Speaker 2>at like the Chamber of Commerce, for example, and you

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<v Speaker 2>look at who's on the board there, and it's it's

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<v Speaker 2>representatives or owners or CEOs of the largest companies in

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<v Speaker 2>the state. They don't think about us.

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<v Speaker 1>They don't have a different they have a different, different needs.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, they're okay with raising sales tax, for example. And

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<v Speaker 2>that's the other aspect of why I started this is

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<v Speaker 2>because I've been paying attention to what's going on in

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<v Speaker 2>our local governments a lot more in the last two years.

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<v Speaker 2>And I've seen, like in this last legislature just a

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<v Speaker 2>few weeks ago, they tried to raise the sales tax

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<v Speaker 2>for the whole state. And we know that the mayor

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<v Speaker 2>of Sioux Falls wants to get the power to raise

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<v Speaker 2>the sales tax. So you want he's been trying to

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<v Speaker 2>get the power from the legislature to be able to

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<v Speaker 2>raise city sales tax. Right now, Sue falls at two percent,

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<v Speaker 2>and he'd like to raise that to three is what

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<v Speaker 2>we've heard. And why, well, it's too so they can

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<v Speaker 2>do some project downtown. And look, I like having a

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<v Speaker 2>nice downtown too, But I don't know why we have

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<v Speaker 2>to have so much focus on just downtown Sue Falls.

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<v Speaker 2>It's a big city, yeah, you know, we have a

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<v Speaker 2>lot of different neighborhoods and different communities. Spread aground a bit, yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>spread around a little bit. And by the way, don't

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<v Speaker 2>raise sales tax like I'm a retailer. I'm an unpaid

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<v Speaker 2>tax collector for the state, and you're putting the burden

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<v Speaker 2>on me to collect money from people at the at

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<v Speaker 2>the time of purchase. And by the way, you're also

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<v Speaker 2>raising sales tax on the lowest income people because they

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<v Speaker 2>on the groceries they so it's putting an unfair burden

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<v Speaker 2>just to benefit a few, you know, fortunate companies that

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<v Speaker 2>will make money off this development. And you know, we

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<v Speaker 2>can debate, do we really need a new convention Center

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<v Speaker 2>downtown Sioux Falls. I don't think we do, but that's

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<v Speaker 2>not really what it's about anyway, exactly. So I want

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<v Speaker 2>this group to eventually be able to hire a lobbyist

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<v Speaker 2>that can represent our best interests because we don't have

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<v Speaker 2>that in peer right now. We don't have anyone that

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<v Speaker 2>we can send that can say, hey, I represent a

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<v Speaker 2>group of you know, one hundred or one thousand South

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<v Speaker 2>Dakota businesses who employ you know, thirty thousand.

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<v Speaker 1>Far more than that. There's so many small businesses in

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<v Speaker 1>this community. And if there's a small business owner listening

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<v Speaker 1>that's going, how do I get involved in this? This

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<v Speaker 1>sounds crazy, but my kind of crazy. It's my kind

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<v Speaker 1>of crazy. To Chris, I love this and I'm a supporter.

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<v Speaker 1>I'll be there, tell me what I can do to help, And.

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<v Speaker 2>You don't even have to do anything if you don't

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<v Speaker 2>like we might have meetings once a month, people can

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<v Speaker 2>get together. If you don't want to do that, you

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<v Speaker 2>don't have to a lot of small business owners are

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<v Speaker 2>kind of like I was for most of my thirty years.

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<v Speaker 2>Is I didn't want to go join clubs and do

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<v Speaker 2>stuff with other people because I was working too much.

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<v Speaker 2>I just wanted to go home, so you don't have

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<v Speaker 2>to engage. But we also want to be able to

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<v Speaker 2>open up a community that we can offer mentorship, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>that you can tap into and say, hey, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>I've got this issue. Maybe it's advertising, maybe it's a

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<v Speaker 2>problem with the government, or you just you know, need

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<v Speaker 2>to figure something out. Some of us have some experience,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, I've been I've been retailing and manufacturing for

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<v Speaker 2>thirty years, so I can I see my industry the

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<v Speaker 2>way it's set up, you know, and how the big

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<v Speaker 2>companies think, you know, your Sealy, Serta, Simmons, and honestly,

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<v Speaker 2>they don't really care about the end user. They don't

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<v Speaker 2>care about the customer. And small smaller companies tend to

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<v Speaker 2>care more about the customer. They offer real service down

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<v Speaker 2>the road. And my industry, they're really pushing the box

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<v Speaker 2>bed thing. That's what got me interested in the buy

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<v Speaker 2>local message was that they were my industry is pushing

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<v Speaker 2>the idea of buying a online and you know, that's

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<v Speaker 2>just anti human because what you're doing when you're buying

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<v Speaker 2>a bed in a box or a bet off of

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<v Speaker 2>the internet, you're buying a bed that really didn't have

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<v Speaker 2>any human quality control manufacturing. No humans touched it. It's

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<v Speaker 2>all robots basically. And you know what's the pride in

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<v Speaker 2>that it's something you use a third of your life,

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<v Speaker 2>every day of your life, eight.

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<v Speaker 1>Hours a night hopefully.

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<v Speaker 2>So we're pro people. Yeah, we're pro people.

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<v Speaker 1>If somebody would like to get more information, buy local

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<v Speaker 1>SD dot net. Is that the best place to go.

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<v Speaker 2>That's the website, it's under construction right now, or actually

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<v Speaker 2>waiting for a volunteer. This is a this is a

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<v Speaker 2>volunteer organization.

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<v Speaker 1>So if your small business builds websites, you reach out

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<v Speaker 1>right away. Yeah, so if they want to send an email,

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<v Speaker 1>that's ready to go. Info at buylocal sd dot net.

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<v Speaker 1>Very nice, Chris, thanks for coming in man. I appreciate it. Oh,

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<v Speaker 1>thank you for helping raise awareness again, Chris Larsen. Buy

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