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Speaker 1: moment and welcome with open arms Jeffrey Benedict Hager to
Speaker 1: the Raisin Canes Chicken Club.
Speaker 3: Welcome to the.
Speaker 1: Club there, it is welcome to the Raisin Cake waiting
Speaker 1: for Yeah.
Speaker 2: I finally went to Raisin Canes. Yeah, first time. It's
Speaker 2: funny because I when that. I went to the one
Speaker 2: in Westlake. I was out there. I was in Westlake
Speaker 2: for a meeting. I was like, you know, I'm going
Speaker 2: to try that place. I remember when they opened it
Speaker 2: because I think that used to be a taco bell
Speaker 2: and yeah, and they opened that up, and I was like, what,
Speaker 2: I had a chicken place in Westlake. I'm like, come on.
Speaker 2: And so I just avoided it, like I just I
Speaker 2: don't know. I thought it was kind of trashy and
Speaker 2: I just never went. And then last week I was
Speaker 2: reading about the founder of raising canes, and I was
Speaker 2: like so fascinated by the story that I was like, huh,
Speaker 2: I like this place now because of the story. And
Speaker 2: it was really and I had it. It was pretty
Speaker 2: good because you know, I don't eat a lot of
Speaker 2: fried food either, but I'm like every now and then,
Speaker 2: no big deal. It was really good, no surprise, right.
Speaker 4: You like the sauce.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: I didn't even use the sauce.
Speaker 4: Oh JB.
Speaker 6: That's the magic of canes is the saw.
Speaker 2: I was eating and driving and that just gets messy.
Speaker 3: And I'm, yeah, I think.
Speaker 5: That you're next the next time you go and you
Speaker 5: incorporate the sauce.
Speaker 4: I think, really, then you'll understand.
Speaker 2: Oh. I didn't even think about it because I just
Speaker 2: yeah when i'm I just don't like it messy stuff
Speaker 2: in the car. Yeah, but I was reading about it.
Speaker 2: So Todd Graves is the guy that started raising canes
Speaker 2: in ninety six, but I don't know if you know
Speaker 2: this part of the story. He along with a friend,
Speaker 2: wrote a business plan for this for raising canes while
Speaker 2: going to LSU. Oh really, and the plan was to
Speaker 2: only serve chicken fingers, and the concept flopped with the
Speaker 2: critics and his professor gave him a low grade. So
Speaker 2: it's two niche it will never work. Several banks denied him.
Speaker 2: He couldn't get alan to start it. Oh wow, So
Speaker 2: the way to fund his dream of just doing chicken
Speaker 2: fingers was he took on. I don't know exactly what
Speaker 2: a boiler maker is. He was working ninety hour weeks.
Speaker 1: A boiler maker is like a room where a bunch
Speaker 1: of people on a phone selling penny stocks.
Speaker 2: And oh, to finance it. Yeah, he was working ninety
Speaker 2: hour weeks. And then he was doing a lot of
Speaker 2: fishing for sakeye salmon, just sock just putting his money away.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: In fact, I think he originally the concept was calling
Speaker 2: the place Sockeyes Socky's.
Speaker 3: But then he saved.
Speaker 2: Enough that he was able to get alone started this,
Speaker 2: and then you know, people all said he was crazy
Speaker 2: and he would do these late hours, and so it
Speaker 2: wasn't on my radar. And I noticed there's one right
Speaker 2: at the end of the drag and on the weekends,
Speaker 2: I think they're open till like three thirty in the
Speaker 2: morning or something like that. Smart he tart. And the
Speaker 2: first one he opened was by a university, like he
Speaker 2: he knew his audience, right, and I'm trying to find
Speaker 2: the exact number. It's like, so now he has Oh wait,
Speaker 2: there's another good part of the story. He had a
Speaker 2: handful of locations in Louisiana, and when Hurricane Katrina hit,
Speaker 2: it nearly wiped him out, banked up the business. He
Speaker 2: was going to be done, but he focused, survived and
Speaker 2: actually was feeding a lot of people whenever they You know,
Speaker 2: he's very known for help pitching in when when people
Speaker 2: are in need, like in hurricane type situations, especially being
Speaker 2: a Louisiana guy. Right, So now there are more than
Speaker 2: eight hundred of them in over forty states and some
Speaker 2: in the Middle East. Interesting, right, he has over fifty
Speaker 2: thousand employees.
Speaker 4: Good lord, that's amazing.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: Forbes estimated him at over seventeen billion dollars.
Speaker 1: Let's think about this for a second. I mean, you're
Speaker 1: getting into the chicken business. Think about who your competition is, really,
Speaker 1: really mature businesses that you're getting into.
Speaker 2: The same sea.
Speaker 1: I would never do it just for that reason. What
Speaker 1: am I going to do better than churches? Than uh
Speaker 1: than Popeyes then Kentucky?
Speaker 3: Fright? What am I going to do better?
Speaker 2: I know?
Speaker 4: One thing they do that the other chicken places don't do. Jabi.
Speaker 5: Did they throw this on you when you pulled up
Speaker 5: to order? Hey, hey, hey, want some chicken today?
Speaker 4: What about this classic chicken?
Speaker 3: Chicken?
Speaker 4: Chicken? Which one are you picking?
Speaker 2: You are a regular?
Speaker 3: Oh? Hell yeah, dude, they know my name.
Speaker 5: My name that I freaking love canes. It's the sauce.
Speaker 3: And I of course take the position that anything Trisha likes.
Speaker 4: I cannot because.
Speaker 1: Yeah, ridiculous, going against the grain.
Speaker 3: It's just my nature. It's just just who I am.
Speaker 1: But it's a great story, though, I mean seriously, to
Speaker 1: get into the chicken business and just do chicken.
Speaker 2: It was the story that turn me into a customer. Yeah,
Speaker 2: not necessarily the chicken, like the chicken was. I guess
Speaker 2: I missed out on the sauce, but I'll try.
Speaker 5: But in my just from what I've learned, had a
Speaker 5: lot of canes. One little thing of sauce is not enough.
Speaker 5: You always get an extra two sauces, that's what you want.
Speaker 1: But you know what, There's a guy that I follow
Speaker 1: and watch his videos and stuff, and he talks about
Speaker 1: if you really, really really want to be successful, you
Speaker 1: have to accept the fact that you're not going to
Speaker 1: be understood, Like, you have to just accept that and
Speaker 1: people will tell you it's not going to works. That
Speaker 1: people are going to tell you it's not going to work.
Speaker 1: They're they're not going to get you. They're not going
Speaker 1: to understand you. Just accept that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think about it.
Speaker 2: It's going to be you know, Okay, we're not going
Speaker 2: to talk politics, but think about all the companies that
Speaker 2: Elon Musk has started, the richest man.
Speaker 5: And that people thought he was crazy crazy.
Speaker 2: I'm going to start a car company, are you nuts?
Speaker 3: Right? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I want to go to Mars, Are you crazy? I
Speaker 2: want to put computer chips in people's brains? Right, I
Speaker 2: want to dig tundles under cities. Everything he does is crazy, right, yeah,
Speaker 2: on inception, on inception.
Speaker 1: Yeah, then it's like it's pretty a lot easier to
Speaker 1: think that big when you've got PayPal money, you know,
Speaker 1: when you.
Speaker 2: Even pay Yeah, I want to compete with banks.
Speaker 3: Right. He took on the establishment, that's for sure.
Speaker 5: I like the Adam Sandler story that he was in
Speaker 5: college trying to be an actor and one of his
Speaker 5: teachers are like, dude, you are never going to make
Speaker 5: it as an actor like, it's not going to work.
Speaker 5: I'm trying to help you out. You need to pick
Speaker 5: something different to do. And then years and years and
Speaker 5: years later, he runs into that same professor at a bar,
Speaker 5: buys him a drink. He's like, I can't remember if
Speaker 5: they hit on the remember what she told me kind
Speaker 5: of thing. But he was like, yeah, it was a
Speaker 5: huge vindication for me to run into that guy and
Speaker 5: be like, yeah, not only.
Speaker 2: Is he a legit actor, he's one of the highest
Speaker 2: grossing people on the more.
Speaker 1: Hours of Adam Sandler watched on Netflix than anybody else. Wow,
Speaker 1: you know, think about that. We're just trying to get
Speaker 1: on a radio station that everybody, that everyone in the
Speaker 1: city can hear here, right, I feel like, wait, I
Speaker 1: don't know. Maybe people think, maybe they're like, you're crazy.
Speaker 4: We only want some of the people to hear.
Speaker 1: We'd like to be on a radio station that everybody
Speaker 1: can hear in the whole city.
Speaker 3: We're not trying to go to the mars.
Speaker 4: People's brains.
Speaker 2: We're not trying to start a car company. We just
Speaker 2: want to get on a radio station.
Speaker 3: Our competition's pretty weak. I mean it's really weak.
Speaker 1: If you want to know the truth, we could go
Speaker 1: right to the top, is all I'm saying.
Speaker 3: Very low risk here, very low risk.
Speaker 4: There's really no way to do work. There's no risk.
Speaker 3: So I just had to get that off.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and unlike Graves with with canes, we picked an
Speaker 2: industry where everyone kind of sucks.
Speaker 6: And we just gotta be in death competition. We got
Speaker 6: to just be slightly good. Yeah, just gotta be a
Speaker 6: little work, a little harder. It just has to be
Speaker 6: a little better than that.
Speaker 1: Don't get us wrong. We want to be done by
Speaker 1: ten thirty. But oh lord, I hope someone hears that.
Speaker 1: They hear the humor in our voice. I also hope
Speaker 1: they hear this this serious. All right, Welcome to the club, JB.
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Speaker 1: Coming up next, we get called out on the number
Speaker 1: of Louby's in Austin. We talked about this yesterday, thought
Speaker 1: there was only one left. We're wrong, but we got
Speaker 1: corrected very quickly. We'll share that with you and some
Speaker 1: other text messages that we've got. Trisia's got the story.
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Speaker 5: All Right, We're going to talk about what Austin has
Speaker 5: been doing to fight that dangerous algae bloom in the lakes.
Speaker 4: That have been killing the dogs.
Speaker 3: Uh huh.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a lot more detailed their attack strategy than
Speaker 5: I thought. So we're going to talk about it and
Speaker 5: hear what they have decided is going to happen next.
Speaker 3: All right, stay with us.
Speaker 1: It's coming up on Austin's eighty station one O three
Speaker 1: point one and streaming on the iHeartRadio app. Austin's finally
Speaker 1: ready to take on the algae bloom problem.
Speaker 5: That's not ready to I'm gonna tell you what they've
Speaker 5: been doing. This is their dole out war.
Speaker 3: All right. This is in Lake Austin, right.
Speaker 5: Lake Austin, Ladybird Lake Redbetti Ale yes, all.
Speaker 1: Right, all that coming up in just a second. First,
Speaker 1: some messages that we have received. You can text us
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Speaker 1: please tell JB I feel his mosquito pain. My latest
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Speaker 1: So far thermo cell in deep seemed to be the
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Speaker 1: Is that the guy you recommended Mosquito Joe.
Speaker 2: No, no, if you want to go that route is
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Speaker 3: Uh, it's a text message, don't have.
Speaker 2: A Well okay, well, okay, I'm sure Mosquito Joe is fine.
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Speaker 2: I'm sure, Like again on Mosquito Joe's probably fine. That's
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Speaker 2: I had really it's like I had it at my
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Speaker 3: I need it.
Speaker 2: And the reason I like, I don't have much of
Speaker 2: a mosquito problem here because my yards zero escaped, but
Speaker 2: my daughter has moved into this place.
Speaker 3: What MCS does.
Speaker 2: They come in and they put in a big tank
Speaker 2: on the side of your house and they use this
Speaker 2: chrysanthemum extract and it's so it's natural, it won't harm
Speaker 2: your pets or anything like that. And then they it
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Speaker 3: Be very very passionate about fighting mosquito.
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Speaker 1: She wrapped this up by saying, please keep us updated
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Speaker 1: She wanted to note the name of the Tom Jones
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Speaker 1: twenty five, right, I wrote her back, let her know
Speaker 1: it was the Friday song from Tom Jones. Was if
Speaker 1: I only knew was the name of that? That was
Speaker 1: from the lead and how to swing it now the
Speaker 1: important stuff. Getting called out for saying that there was
Speaker 1: only one Loubi's left in Austin.
Speaker 3: There is not there.
Speaker 1: I think that Kimberly and Paul were both talking about
Speaker 1: the same one. Kimberly said Slaughter Lane South Austin. Paul
Speaker 1: said slaughter And I'm thirty five.
Speaker 5: So I'm just happy to know there's two r not
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Speaker 3: Basically, Oh, that's that's.
Speaker 2: That's the where all the big box stores are.
Speaker 3: We used to go to concerts here. We used to
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Speaker 2: You guys knew what I was talking about.
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Speaker 1: as an adult man saying OMG, I felt really dumb,
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Speaker 5: So, Sadie, you were confused and said that Austin is
Speaker 5: starting to attack the harpful algae blooms. I thought the
Speaker 5: same thing, but please know that Austin has been fighting
Speaker 5: this for five years. They're in their final stage of
Speaker 5: attack against the algae blooms that killed several dogs in
Speaker 5: Ladybird Lake in like twenty nineteen it killed another dog
Speaker 5: in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 3: What's it's helped me out. What's an algae blow?
Speaker 5: It's it's just like a blue green algae that grows
Speaker 5: and it's toxic to animals, not to humans.
Speaker 2: It grows, it grows when all these all the heat
Speaker 2: we have, yeah, summer, like it dies in the winter,
Speaker 2: grows in the summer. And the lake, as you guys know,
Speaker 2: Lake Travis has been down for what coming up on
Speaker 2: five years.
Speaker 4: Yeah, forever.
Speaker 2: So if they're not releasing as much, it's not flowing
Speaker 2: down river as much, it's more stagnant.
Speaker 3: God bad, but yeah.
Speaker 4: So yeah, fatal to dogs. It can make people sick.
Speaker 5: But I did not realize that they have been fighting
Speaker 5: it for the last five years and to get rid
Speaker 5: of this, they have been spending three hundred thousand dollars
Speaker 5: a year to spray this modified clay product on the water.
Speaker 5: And what that does is it sucks the phosphorus out
Speaker 5: of the algae and reduces the growth. So they've had
Speaker 5: really good results upstream like redbet Aisle, not great in
Speaker 5: Ladyburg Lake. But this is the end of the pilot program,
Speaker 5: so they're at the end of this one.
Speaker 4: This is over.
Speaker 5: They have three more months, I believe, to do this,
Speaker 5: and then they have to decide are they going to
Speaker 5: keep doing it or are they going to try something
Speaker 5: different because it's not apparently as effective as they hoped
Speaker 5: it would be.
Speaker 3: Huh.
Speaker 2: It's it's hard to play mother Nature or God if
Speaker 2: you want to call it that with stuff like this.
Speaker 2: Because I actually shot a video I haven't posted. I
Speaker 2: shot a video yesterday. The duck weed, the hydrilla is back,
Speaker 2: like it came on in force in just the last
Speaker 2: three weeks.
Speaker 4: Didn't they put fish carp or something in there to
Speaker 4: get all At one.
Speaker 2: Point, which is exactly where I'm going with this if
Speaker 2: you start playing God, here's what happened on Lake Austin
Speaker 2: the out the the duck weed, the hydrilla had pretty
Speaker 2: much it made parts of the lake impassable by both
Speaker 2: you get all in it.
Speaker 3: It was really bad.
Speaker 2: And so they put thousands and thousands and thousands of
Speaker 2: sterile carp to eat it all, which they did, but
Speaker 2: they ate all the validation.
Speaker 3: All of it, like.
Speaker 2: You know, any of the Marshy shoreline was just gone.
Speaker 2: And so then the you know, when with all the
Speaker 2: vegetation gone, the bottom of the lake was just a murky,
Speaker 2: muddy mess, and so the water was getting more more brownish,
Speaker 2: and you know, and then the I guess those carp
Speaker 2: have died out. So then then so when it ate
Speaker 2: all the vegetation, then the bass numbers were declining. That
Speaker 2: was That's really one of the best bass fishing lakes
Speaker 2: in Texas. It was on the decline. It's just like
Speaker 2: I'm gonna start playing God. It just it's it's it's
Speaker 2: messed up. I mean, I guess I guess it starts
Speaker 2: with damming up the river, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, m l Us and all the Highland lakes, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, is is that LCRA.
Speaker 3: That did that? Probably?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know, But if you change, somebody in the
Speaker 1: meeting would go, well, what if they eat all of it?
Speaker 1: Excuse me, I have a question. Anyone thought about this?
Speaker 1: What did these fish eat all of it? I mean,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, it's weird.
Speaker 5: Do you know how many products or slogans advertisements that
Speaker 5: that we've been like, how did.
Speaker 4: Somebody not catch that?
Speaker 3: You know what I mean?
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're right, I feel like that's what happened.
Speaker 3: How did that come up? In a meeting.
Speaker 4: But they're like, but they're sterile. They can't multiply. This
Speaker 4: is the perfect number.
Speaker 3: How do you know they're all sterile?
Speaker 4: Like just what it has to slip through, right I
Speaker 4: I you.
Speaker 2: Know, And there was a while there, Yeah, you'd see it,
Speaker 2: like I guess. I don't know how long Karp lived,
Speaker 2: but you'd see it. They were dying out. I don't
Speaker 2: see him much like if I'm at the marina where
Speaker 2: it's clear and I can see, I don't see them
Speaker 2: like I used to. But man, that hydrilla is back
Speaker 2: to there's gonna be a problem there.
Speaker 5: The average lifespan of a carp is forty five years
Speaker 5: upwards to seventy years.
Speaker 1: They're gonna have a big carp fishing tournament before you
Speaker 1: know it, right, wow, Wow.
Speaker 3: That's okay.
Speaker 2: So that being said, there's there should still be plenty
Speaker 2: of them, and this all this hydrauler shouldn't be.
Speaker 5: That should have been another I have a question. Yeah,
Speaker 5: for a long time, I think.
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