Danger. The following episode contains fl material. Maintained a safe distance and keep an ex on hand. At all times. The fireworks brigade is now online. Alright. Episode 01:46. We're in Fargo. It's very late. We're very tired, so this should be interesting. You got a lot to talk about. Almost borderline. And yes. See, Johnny star comes alive at night. Johnny. Johnny after dark. Yes. I come alive at night. Yes. So like, you're tired. My eyes are ready to go. We're rolling. Well,
in all fairness. I've been here since 8. You get here about 10. To 30 30. Yeah Yeah. Yeah. So... But in all fairness, I'm here till 02:30. So... Well, right. Well. It's... Yeah, it's midnight. So our schedules our schedules are a little very close. They're about the same. Yeah. They're about the But I we just... We don't, you know, I'm morning person you're a diaper. Yeah. And you probably have more of a physical job than I do. No. The your thumb hurt yet from colton.
I tell you we've been doing these these vendor spotlight, which are awesome. I I hope people. Watch. I know way we had, like, about a hundred hits. On On the first 1 we put out there, oh, they've been good. A but you know, those those those those those... It's not easy to do. It takes a while to get all that. Yeah. All that edited and put up. Sure. Because we got the 2 cameras, 3 cameras going and, you know, the camera wasn't
working, and then you got it... Once you figure out how to do the first 1, the first 1 took, like, 5 hours and then the other ones after that take, like, an hour and a half because then I know what to do. But if yeah, if anybody... I'm sure by this time, you know we have the the Youtube channel, but if you don't, check our Youtube channel and what what Raccoon is out there now, legend. Right? And it was the first 1. M mc... No. M. Ray. Rei is the first 1. M mc.
Mc goes out tomorrow, I think, and then Red Lantern was on the second of July, and then Okay. Well got... We still got P slot that we did, and p slot, that'll out on the third or whatever. And I think we should do a couple more. Maybe like we said, T Sky We'll, probably do T Sky. We'll probably do a People would do have brothers 1 too. Haven't done a brothers in a while, and they're good people and the work for and do stuff with. Yeah. Yeah. And those are
those are always good. These are always good. So it's I think people enjoy them, and I know the the staff enjoys them. Right? Yeah. They're they're learning a lot and then they sit out here. Watch has been so cold though that I haven't been enjoying them. I'm freezing. It's not that bad. This is the worst summer I've ever seen in my life here. Yeah. Well, It's chilly, especially at night... And when the sun is... When there's no sun, it's really bad. I mean, Ron, just think about this.
You wait all year for summer. Yeah. And you go through it as brutal below 0 weather. And you get all the way till July first. Yeah. And you still can't even... And I mean, I noticed these kids Are wearing in shorts. Said 30 degree what but you're not even still enjoying. It's even close. To Jet ski. You're not even enjoying. I wouldn't I would be freezing out on a boat. I wouldn't even go on a boat just cold. But it's not But It's not close to 30 degrees. That's what it is close to July first.
Well, no. It is. What's it technically is. I July first, but... Well, that's why they drink a lot in this. I I guess. Yeah. I mean, I'm glad they liked the ice fish because the only time they get warm weather, and that little igloo theirs. For you though, or or for me, it's probably the same for you, probably even more so than me. But, because I've been coming out here helping you for so long, I feel like my summer doesn't start until
until July fifth. Oh, I agree. Yeah. My summer doesn't even start until end of July. Yeah. Because you're here doing inventory getting ready for Pg and fa all the other stuff. Right? Yeah. I mean, for me my summer really starts and... In January. I mean, this is ridiculous Well, that's why you go to cabo. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. I mean, I can't enjoy somewhere here Yeah. It's it's been a it's been a it's been an interesting year. There's you you see a lot of same people coming in and out
here. There's a guy. Was the yesterday with a raccoon. Yeah. A raccoon. Underneath this t shirt. I asked you what happens if a raccoon breaks free in the store and it bites the customer. Yeah. And I'm like, it's all on him. Yeah. I I don't know if the insurance companies would... If the if the def claimant or... Plaintiff would agree with that. I really... What we should... If the guy comes back with Raccoon and he might come back. We should try and find a raccoon shirt.
Give him the raccoon. I was wondering why nobody gave him a raccoon. Give him a raccoon fire shirt and then, you know, have him Holding the raccoon and then take a picture of him with the raccoon shirt and the raccoon. That'd really be nice. Then we could blast that over. Oh, yeah. Yeah. We could blast that over to rack. Ko and say these people are so love. Your products driven carrying raccoons now. Well, where were you
yesterday? Why don't didn't come over with that I did do we have a raccoon shirt around here? Well, I didn't I didn't know we had 1 till I saw Levi wearing 1. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Understand. You don't see. I mean, they give me nothing. You know, they got, gift cards here. They got all these things that they get these perks. I don't see nothing here. My way. Well, you know what, And if funny thing is because the perks are all because of you. Yes. I I... Yeah. This is what we have.
But but my staff thinks it's all because of that. Well no. Yeah. Do they realize there wouldn't be any customers if they didn't... If I didn't have inventory? Would they realize it? They... Sometimes I think they just feel it get falls from the Scott. Yeah. They think it's, like, they're doing. You know. And all these customers were just made up by them. Unbelievable. Everything to the garbage can over there to the shrink grab over there. It's all because of you. I know. Yes. And you
know and no perks. No a raccoon t shirt. You're like, Rodney Danger. No respect. And then we used to donate all this money to the Fargo fours. And they would always drop off to the hockey team. Yeah. They would always drop off these, you know, double xl, sweatshirt, extra large sweatshirt, finally, I told the guy, do I... I'm a medium. What... Well, Dino always says to bring them the big sizes. Well, Dino is not here. I'm the 1 donating of money? Could I
at least get... You you wanna give you know, Wanna give an 18 next to Dino. That's fine. Just give me a medium. Yeah. That's all just 1. Give me a hack. Yeah. Bucks. So but now I now I have a whole collection of these farm. I wear them. Those are nice shirts f. Yeah. And they're really nice, but for years that I'm like, what am I gonna do with this? Help me yeah. That's great. 1500 dollars out the window first sweatshirt I can't even wear. At least now I'm making use out of them. Yeah. It
looks like who fighters that have. I'm still and I'm still waiting for the Dairy Queen gift cards I heard about because how much money we spent a dairy queen week. Oh. He about 50 bucks. You and Riley, have some weird accounting system going back and forth. You owe him he owes you guys I don't understand. Alright. Now I'm up a dollar 90. They're nice. Yeah. Nice. That's what I said. Don't you feel bad taking money from the little kid? He's not a little kid. He's 6 foot 4. What's with
the earrings though? Though I be bling bling. I know. That's that... Those are too big. Is Yeah. Yeah. That's... Once, you should get, like, a big clock. And then we call them flavor fa. Labor Flavor flavor. 2 white guys, we shouldn't be talking about rap. We have no idea. We're talking about. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know I just know have a big clock under chest. I like it. He's a white guy from North Dakota. He shouldn't be looking like a rapper. Yeah. Too big... 2 big square earrings that are
huge. Yeah. Too big huge swearing. But I I was... I was wondering though. I was having nightmares of that raccoon getting loose. I thought, oh my god. It's and and that I don't know what why what would what would what would make someone want to be friend of Raccoon. I... Dogs not c enough for you. I don't I don't even know. I hope that... Does a wreck can get to be a certain age and realize it's not friendly anymore. Dogs Yeah. Yeah right. When does the raccoon decide he's gonna go raccoon
and and, yeah. What the hell is that? Emergency seal alert, silver alert. Oh. 84 old white male black shirt Blue jeans. Okay. Oh 0, somebody's missing. Right during our podcast. What is that? Yeah. That's funny 1 that said, 84 old. I was reading it, and it said 84 old white, and I'm looking white and black in the same you know, sentence so I'm looking at this. When do you mean Said he's white nice he's says he's black, But it is an 84 year old white male black. Shirt in blue chains. There you
go. Well, I'll tell 1 thing heat can't go far. It's too cold. He'll freeze the death. Yeah. If he gets around, like, by, he didn't get too far either. That's for sure. Yeah. No. No. God. Jesus. I I don't wanna get political, but did you see that any of that debate? No. I didn't see any. Any anytime you're on stage Donald Trump and he has to tell you. Let's act let's not act like children you're joel. At Biden said down?
No. Trump said that the Biden Oh Biden was claiming that he can golf better than Trump. And I know nothing about Trump's golf game but budget is looking Owns mar. Well, right. Right. Well, right. And, you know, but Trump is been known for hyper. So, you know, he might say he's a scratch golf for and he might, you know, shoot a 90, but I'm sure he's played more golf. Oh, I... Yeah. Absolutely. I'm not I'm not disputing it for But when when Biden and it got to the point where Biden was saying
that he golf better than Trump. And Trump just gave him a look like, I are you kidding me? And it comes like he can't eat a 50 yard. Look at Me. He's like, and and then and then they're going bag at and forth and then Trump's just like, alright. Let's say. That's not act, like children. And I'm like, oh, they're... That's... That's a sound bite of the whole debate. When you're telling you're telling you what Trump has the has the moral kind, you know, the moral or whatever. On
you, in this debate. I was like, oh, my god. I can't believe what I'm watching here. I just knew... As I was watching that. I was thinking, what would my father say? Because I... My father would have been out of his mind? Yeah. My father. And I'm... I've... You know whatever. I'm not... I think I'm moderate than the middle somewhere, but I just... As the guy we have there now. I wow. And we're just looking... There's no way you could watch even 5 seconds of that. And think that this man is
in charge of anything. Because I just feel sorry for. Yeah. Absolutely. I really do. I I look at his skinny little eyes and people look at ahead, and I just feel sorry of them. I'm like, why he should be on a golf course practicing and doing anything. But trying to work. There's, like, some video that some people took with their cell phones when it was over. I mean, he couldn't even walk down the stairs. They had to help him And it was only 3 little steps.
I know. He couldn't walk by himself... And this guy gotta he's gotta be going to bed at 4 in the afternoon with warm milk in a cookie. I don't understand then the connection with 10 to eggs day wakes and goes. I know I'm not the mask. I used to. I know I'm not the debate and... But I know in my heart. I can do this job. How do you know? You can't even walk? I mean, it was it was rough. I just really feel tired that people just defend him, you know, you don't have to defend someone. If, you
know, you made a mistake. You made a mistake, whatever the guy's not cable is not capable, and he's not healthy enough, but they don't even realize that they just keep making its juices form. Alright. It's not crazy. It's terrible, but anyway anyways, I don't get the Nice thing... Nicest thing about being here in Embargo is. I don't get to see any news, and you'll get to see any Tv. I have not seen Tv since June first.
I get to my room at, you know, midnight or whatever it is and the Tv on for... I I might watch half of a... You know, I might watch 10 minutes of it, and I fall asleep, and then I wake up in the morning, and I watch it and, while, I'm brushing my teeth and getting ready to come here and I spend... I mean, I get up at... Know I get home at 02:30, and I go right to but... I don't even know the Tv works in my room. I don't I gonna say, I don't think you have Tvs in that and I I have Tv in my room,
but I haven't used it. I don't think it works. Yeah. I mean, it used to work. I mean, I watch Tv before in your off season, but I never... I haven't watched Tv out here in years. I mean, by time I get home That's why I love about the off season They're all like, well, it was really nothing going on here so you let everyone go at 5. I'm like, okay. Then I get to town. I'm working till 09:10 in off season. But it's just a different... Nobody's gonna...
And I'm having this discussion with Pauline quite a bit lately. I mean, you're a little different. You own the place, but but Pauline, I think sometimes she thinks she owns Marian. Yeah. But, you know, and I told her... If I wasn't married you, we could buy Marian. What, what does that mean? Well, because you make so much money that we gotta afford our own grocery store. Yeah. There you go.
Yeah. Right. Right. Now, she's you know, the ill saying, like, like, Michael Jordan can never be a good coach. Yeah. Right? Because he was just so good. And he, you know, nobody lived up to his expectations. No. And Pauline, you know, she has the same problem where she gets upset when, you know, these kids that are working for her aren't living up to her standards. And I keep reminding her I'm like, They just wanna collect a paycheck
and go home. They're they they don't live and breathe and bleed marian at the end of the day, They're still gonna sell cottage. Cheese tomorrow whether there or not. Yeah. And but Pauline just doesn't... You know, and and I... I, you know, I sense that I... Sometimes she feels like, I'm be little her job, and I am not because when I'm in this grocery store, I really wanna just take a knife to my throat and end it because it's... It's I I can't imagine playing I mean, people argue with
her over... You have such a peaceful calming place where you work. Well, no. It's not a pete... Didn't believe me. There's a lot. There's a lot of... Stress and a lot of pressure, but it's different. It's not it's not hectic and it's not... And it's 9 to 5. You know, you know what I mean I like and you look out the window. You're seeing like a forest out. I mean, you're you I mean you're really... It's North sure Chicago Is out of forest. No. I out that back window. So I
mean, all a ball legally. I mean, you're basically in a nursing home with a bank. Sign on. And have you seen some of your customers? I'm not an. No. There's there's us and there's pressure and you have to do, you know, you handle do it well, though you do. No well no. And I'm just saying though, But I... But... And and I think getting back to the original premise of this thought was that
The same thing goes for you. Yeah. You see things that you want done, These people don't see the things that you want done. But there are probably some good ones. I could name you clay. Oh, there were good ones. Yeah Yeah. Good ones that, you know, they took the initiative and they went this... Step further. I think even Riley is kind of stepped yep and stuff up. And doing doing stuff like that. And you you can tell which ones are gonna be that way and which ones You know... Yeah. They're just
here collecting the base. Like today, I said, I just wonder how long that box is gonna sit every before Anyone realize it's garbage and the... You 1 guy said, what's that box for? I don't know. It's garbage. That's what, you know, it's it's a box? I It's a box of garbage. It's it's a box. You, I love when I say empty to garbage. The empty 1 garbage can. Like, oh, empty to garbage. Just what? There's garbage over there there's just 1. There's there must be 18 garbage cans on this
facility. There was there was an episode of everybody loves Raymond where they got back from a trip. And they left a piece of luggage on the stairs, you know, on the landing of the stairs and the whole episode there, you know, just trying to figure out who was gonna... You know, yeah. Who was gonna take it upstairs and they both ignored it. You know, It was pretty funny. Yeah. The same thing here. Same type of thing.
But, yeah... You know, I mean, but Pauline, she just like, she like, she gets off on, like, like, firing people and, you know, and I me talking about people who are, you know, Yeah. Some on the spectrum that, you know, they're just they're just... You know, they got a job and you gotta you gotta kinda, you know, you get what you can give from them, but she's just like, She's like, well, we know, we can get rid of them and get good people. I was like, okay. If you could find good people. Oh,
that's the problem. Yeah. You know, just like told my dad years ago, You know, he said, well, we need we know. We need them because we can't do it ourselves. Yes. Yes. Steve would yell at him because they wouldn't put the stuff in the bag properly or Not even properly. This is the way he wanted him to do. And then he would get really meat Though. Yeah. I said, you know, if if you're you... We need them. Yeah. We can't do this virus I say that. It could he could fit all
that stuff in 1 box. Who cares? Let them take 2 boxes. How how how are you adapting or how are you getting along with without pop hair first time in along? Well, yeah. Been hard. I will say that. It's been very hard and sometimes very sad at times. And I hear you're talking a lot of customers. Yeah. You know, Poppy could you know, he could yell the kids and get away with it. I can't say nothing, They just wanna hear from me, I'm doing a great. And you're doing a great job
and, you know, even if you... The don't ring up the money the right way. It's fine. You're doing a great job. But no. And, you know, but I will tell you this. I mean, You know, for me, I'm really quite frankly tired of people, making this this up thing, or making this aggravation that we have to tell everyone they're doing a good job all the. I didn't grow up in a house like that. I you know I didn't grew up in a house like that. So, you know, are you doing a good job? Yeah. You're doing a good
job. I gonna sit her and tell you every time minutes doing a good job. No. It's not gonna come for me. So you know when I hire these new kids. I... I'm not gonna tell you you're doing a good job. I'm not gonna sit there and praise you for doing something. 2 because you're doing your job. That's all. And when I... When you're not doing your job, you'll no longer be here and you won't... And you'll see that you weren't doing a good job. You'll be fired, and you won't have a job here.
Page get a paycheck. But, you know, that's validation for what you're doing there. We paid you. When we handed out all those 20 dollar bills at those 2 stock kids. Yeah. I don't need to thank them. They should be thanking me because I put up with their texting. I put up with their Right. Doing everything together. I do... I got a baby. I had to throw away all their garbage after that they left a break room.
I mean, you know, but I'm just I'm so tired of these parents that They walk around telling their kids are special. They just do everything. Leave their garbage in the break. Yeah. But see poppy would always take care of that for. Yeah, yeah. The are looking a little yes. He would well, I mean, I get in there at night and I mop it and it, you know. Did this morning. I cleaned everything this morning. They did a good job. Because we're working
last night late and it into it. But usually, I get my second win and like 12 there. Let's go. Let's boom, boom boom boom. But, you know, at home, you, like the 1 kid that works that he with was proud to say that he's never washed a load. I don't even know how to work a washing machine. Well, that's nothing to be proud, Spark. No. You, that's kinda sad. Was But but it is a challenge without my dad here It really is because he kept them in line. It was another
set of eyes to watch everybody. Right. And and he did a great job getting everything ready and getting all the lunches, and he come up to me in the morning and remind me about, hey. What Gonna do for lunch? You want me gonna go grocery shop and whatever. You know? Yeah. And then when they're like, we have no lunch meat. Well, I I... You guys... I'm here at 9. I worked till 2 in the morning. They when do you want me to go grocery shops? Right. When is it my job? I mean,
yeah. It's not... Yeah. It's not your job to feed them all Yeah. And I'm not gonna feed them all every day at Jersey Mike's? I mean, You know I do my best, and I pick up a lot of lunches, but it's like, you know, Yeah. In the radio stations chip in and buy some food. But, yeah. I... My schedule here is somewhat different where I get here early in the morning and then by 01:00. I'm done with my work. I can get lunch or whatever I come back. And then I'm here from 3 to midnight.
So, yeah. So it's a little different. But but, you know, they're, like, you know, and then people just expect you to feed them, and then The radio station brings in juices and all kinds of stuff which was really nice. And no. Like, a girl walked in today from the register. Could you imagine telling your boss that... Yeah. So was supposed to bring me in 1 of these energy drinks, and she did... What do you have to drink here? I couldn't... I never could go to my boss at
App c and say water. Yeah. They would look, you know, and then seems was like, auto or some there's some juice and some stuff with refrigerator to help yourself. I go don't help yourself to my coke. That's not your coke. You know what I mean? But I'm just saying like, they just have this this privilege like they Yeah. That we should feed them and then we should give them something in entitlements. And once again, it's all entitlement and they
really do. So... Yeah, it's a challenge without poppy because he would be like, what are you crazy? And he would tell stories when He was younger and that was even way above above how Right. Bad my child was was, like, times the power of 10. Right. But, yeah. Even just fun. And I always say this is the reason why I had no children and is are... And I'm cleaning up after all the kids. I did never wanted. Right. And I... And I'm stuck with them. It's just But, you know, what you gotta
do? Let's let's do a little purge by purge. We're July first here. Now, season's pretty much gone as expected. Right? Yeah. Sales are a little down from last year, but they're up from the last time it was on a Thursday, so that's that's good news. As they should be with the prices. The way day went. Alright. And the transactions are down a little. So, I mean, yeah, I guess it evens out. But have you... And it might be still too early, Maybe tomorrow and Tuesday?
Yeah. I think it's way too early to tell. We'll get... But you'll get a lot of big orders coming in. So... Yeah. It's like, regulars. Way too early to tell the election yeah yeah. It's we enjoy to count to votes. Oh, god. Yeah. But yeah. No. I think it's running. It's it's running pretty smooth. The last time I remember being on a Thursday though. It's 1 of the things where you don't really get hit solid every day. It seems like it's a build. It's never, like, a complete mad house.
You know what I mean? So we'll see. Alright. Didn't go back to the debate did you hear, there was actually 1 time where Biden answered a question and he did his usual... Gobble cook and had no idea, and Trump was like, I have no what idea. I have no idea what he said, and I don't think he knows either. I love it. Oh, man. Wish I could watched it. Yeah. See those clips are on on Tv. Well, Said today, I just, when we get busy,
we gotta get this stock out faster. You guys, you know, separate divide, you know, it's just... You know, I go to Sam, take a cart, You go out there. You take a car, you go off. You... When it gets in, and he says, why this isn't busy. I'm like, no. No. See, all this has to be gone by the fourth of July. They don't or it's not successful yet. I just never seen a group that didn't feel the mission other than Riley. Everyone else is just like in La la land. I I never Saw their first
year though, so they're not you know. I guess. Yeah. I don't. So, but it's it's been going as... Well, is it pretty much as we talked about because we did a 20 24 market, and I think it... It's pretty much Yeah. Holding true. We talked about Thursday shipping and, you know, all the other stuff. So, and I think I think it's I think our predictions were pretty much right on. Yeah. I think we're gonna see... I think we're gonna see... I think at the end, we're gonna see
maybe a little up from last year. But I said all along that I don't know if we're gonna see much difference between Tuesday and Thursday given the economy that we've been dealt over the last 3, 4 years. Alright. So... And with that said, I get some I get some numbers for you, John. We're gonna get into your numbers specifically. But first, let's get into, like, the nation and and fireworks numbers. Go over some stuff. See if you know
the answer is these. These are all from typically I think from, like, Usa today or something like that, I got them off the Internet. How many fireworks are sold each year in the Us? Mean think how many pounds do you think? Well, I wanna say last year it was crazy amount or something. When it comes to pounds of fireworks in a year. Mh. Well, let's see. Each container weighs about 40000 pounds. Okay. So I would say. Oh, he's getting the calculator out here. I would say... Let's see.
He's got the calculator. I would say Oh god. That's a tough 1. It's to the calculator. I went... Let well, let's just see. Be... So I mean, it's gotta be... I mean, I'm doing, like, 3000000 pounds myself. So okay So if I'm mad that, and then, you know, you times that by a hundred other people, just thousand other people. Yeah. 2800000000.0 No. I mean, 2 point 8E9A That's gotta be billions, but no. It's not that big. It's it's it's just hundreds of millions It's... I
was gonna say. Yeah. Along with revenue fireworks consumption has also grown over the last few decades, total fireworks consumption. Last year was 461700000.0 pounds. Million pounds. Broken up into 436000000 of consumer and 25000000 of display fireworks. This was for July 20 23. So 36000000. So let's do it this way. So 3430 6000000, yeah. 436000000. Divided by say 40000 equals 10.9 is a million contained... 10900000.0 containers? Yeah. Okay? No. That's that that sounds like too many. No.
10 a hundred... No. It's gotta be... I don't know. What's what's a hundred thousand... It's gotta be... So what'd did you say it was 4 36000004 36000000 pounds. Million pounds divided by 40000 equals 10900000.0. I guess. Right Yeah. Yeah. 10000000 containers come in? 10000000. Well, I gotta couple million it's like, 899A hundred thousand a month. No. It's it's a lot. No. It's sign. Maybe I'm off on. Yeah. Here your calculators go. I might be
off on their way to the container. I thought the container is like 40000 or 54000 pounds but still... It's not... I would I still think on, doesn't homes doing them. Doesn't say how many containers? No. It just goes by pounds that containers isn't isn't a, you know, a universal web. You know, sign of measurement there. So... Yes. Alright. Which state has the biggest fireworks? The biggest? Biggest. The biggest sales or... No. The biggest the
biggest fireworks show. Oh, the biggest fireworks show. Yeah. Oh, I would have to say that's gotta be probably New York. Yeah. Country's largest. P tech show with fireworks shot for multiple barges along the East River near the Brooklyn Bridge this is Macy's. Yeah. In addition to fireworks event features performances by A list. Artists. Top and importer of fireworks in 20 22. The world's largest importer of this commodity group in 20 22. So Usa is number 1, Mh. With how much...
What percent do you think we import of the world's fireworks? I would say 40. No It's higher 56 per... 56. Okay. Yeah. Poland is at 4 percent. Italy's at 4 percent. Yeah. Yeah. So which which country is known to have? More fireworks interest. How do they gauge interest per capita than any other country? This is weird, malta. Malta. Do you, you know, Malta is, John? Yeah. Malta. Yeah There I meant there was a... Been to Malta? No. But it a front of mind dead in China it was
from Malta. I would always say. He's with. He's known to have more... Malta is known to have more fireworks interest. Front per capita than any other country. After malta all the other countries to consider in this vein, Asian, China, India and Japan. So it's weird. Yeah, that's pretty weird. Who's the largest consumer of fireworks in the world? What company? Largest consumer of fireworks in the world? Is it up. It's america we're all after.
All, Disney. Yeah. How much does Disney spend on fireworks every night? I'd say about 15000. Now you're way low. Really? The nightly magic kingdom fireworks show is estimated to call cost Walt Disney world anywhere from 40 to 50000 a night. That's insane. But what is Disney really getting out of it, they're getting people to stay in the parks longer than normal and buying food and everything else. They're ride rides for free? Well, but they... They buy food and stuff
too. Yeah. And a fast pass. Yeah. What state uses the most fireworks? Our buddy missouri. Yeah. Buddy Steve H with it. He's on joplin. Yeah. Yeah. Mh. Buddy Steve H like that. Missouri spend the most on fireworks out of all Americans. Missouri beat out all their states, nearly a hundred and 26000000. So, joplin in Missouri. Well, here's something you probably you know, Us per capita fire imports have fallen sharply since the height of the pandemic.
Us per capita pork of fireworks rising sharply in in 20 21 and 22 22 before falling in 23 and 24 based on author's calculations. So that's... We all do that. Parts. The most incredible fourth of July shows in the Us, Navy Peer is in the top 5. No. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, T can Fireworks show in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Big Bay Boom in San Diego, Fort Lauderdale has 1 and the Macy's we talked about. Mh. Let's see We got some other numbers here. What is the fireworks capital of the Us?
Fireworks capital? Yeah. I guess there's 2 big companies that are headquartered there. It's thought be That would be Missouri too. Wouldn't it went be? No. One's in Ohio. No. This is New castle, Pennsylvania. Oh, new. Who is that new castle? 2 nationally recognized companies our credited of making Newcastle, Pennsylvania the Fireworks Capital of America. Za belly Fireworks. That's... Yeah. Soul class B. That's what International and P Tech.
Both bets star. Power technical is that that's gotta be a class b 1 class b Yeah. Mh. What style work? What state does not have any fireworks? That would be... Let's see. No fireworks on. It's got. It's the East Coast somewhere. Yeah. Maine? No. You're close. Massachusetts. Okay. The only state in the country, which has a permanent ban on consumer fireworks. However, professionals are allowed to stage. P tech shows, so you could still catch a display
in the state. Yeah. How much money do people spend on fireworks each New year? Each New Year's or each... Each new Year. Each new year. No I would say, average person an average dollar spent? No. No. It's just how much total the America spent in 20 23. Oh, god. I have no idea. A couple million. An, 2300000000.0. 2300000000.0. Fireworks sales in America cleared 2300000000.0. Wow, increasing by a hundred million from the prior year. Here at all time. That's not bad. That's
a lot of money there, John. Yeah. That's quite interesting actually. 2300000000.0 dollars on fireworks while. It's amazing. Yep. States of the most fireworks injuries, John, what do you think those are? What 1 is close to here. Wisconsin? That's 3. And number 3 or a 3. Not Minnesota. Camp... That's number 7. Yeah. It's gonna say minnesota safe insane state. Number does a save stain say yet people from Minnesota can buy fireworks here at any time because we're in North Dakota. Well, I
didn't go. Yeah Out of state residents are allowed to buy. Yeah. Okay. It makes no sense. Yeah. So safe and staying state. That's what. That's why. Is that, Illinois? Safe yeah Illinois. Safe and state. Some of Illinois now at some of it's open now. So... Yeah, further south. So South Dakota is the number 1 state for fireworks injuries. Really? Are they at just not reading the instructions? I don't know. You would think Missouri would be since sort the biggest consumer?
You would think. But no. Missouri is not even in into the top 10. So apparently, they know what they're doing. They know what they're doing. Yeah. So they've been waiting all you're practicing. Yeah. Yeah. So it's South Dakota and Nebraska, Wisconsin, Iowa, Michigan, Wyoming, Minnesota, Kansas Maine, and the last 1 is New. So so Fargo is not even So they know they're doing too. Know doing. Well, yeah. It this market such a small market though, so I can see that. Not even making it.
With the average burn. Wisconsin was number 3. Yeah. Hawaii sees the least amount of fireworks related injuries with just 5 percent increase during the summer months. Followed by Alaska, Louisiana, Mississippi and surprisingly Florida. Sunshine and state saw just a 10 percent increase in searches during summer months. So... Yeah. I think they gauge that by, like, searches on, Internet searches and for fireworks. Yeah. Injuries. So... And that's pretty interesting.
Yeah. So you would think the largest would be Missouri because of the consumption rate. You would think. Yeah. No. But no. It's... Yeah. You would. But like I said, but that that goes to show you. Maybe they just make the stuff legal and people wouldn't get hurt. Yeah. Well, there'll be... Yeah. There'll be so many people doing it to to eventually, you know. You you get hurt once you stop buying it usually. Right. Then you don't count. Now. So one's buying and other people who really like it
so, obviously, they can get hurt. Right. Makes sense. Yeah. Alright. And then we have we have this. This is now that we're talking about numbers, and we got this new fan system that you got working here. So I pulled some numbers for you. What and the... I gave you a list of it, but don't don't go looking at it. So... Okay. No go it. Well, you could look at it. Okay. But the the... On the last page, Don't look at. So
We got categories here. We got you know, we got everything from novel to 500 grams, gender reveal, you know all the categories you got here. What do you think is your highest selling category, And this is from... I pulled the numbers from the 20 third to through the t. So... Mh. So it's basically 7 days worth of numbers the last 7 days. What do you think you sell the most so far? I I would think
It's hard to say. I guess it would probably be... I think it might be... I would like in my heart, I would like to say 500 grams. No. But but the reason I don't think it would be 500 grams is there's not as much variety as like, an... Novelty section. Right. Know, it's a little skewed. Yes. Because, he has. Novelty, you're at 17 and a half percent, that's the highest but novel is
the little items. So. Little item. But like let's say there's so much to choose from an inter novelty aisle and stuff that I could see that being a higher percentage and Iowa 1 can afford 500 grand. K. Right. Right. Right Right. So... Yeah. And now, what do are you think coming in number 2? I think we sell more 500 grams than reload. No. Yeah. No. Reload. Yeah. No. Reload are way down on the way. So I would think that number 2 would be 500 grams. No. 200 grams. 200 grams. Okay. 200 grams...
Well, as a percentage of sales, yeah. 2 grams there about at 200 grams are 10.2 percent of the total sales, you know, you know, pure yeah. Pure product numbers. 500 grams is 7.7 percent. Obviously, the dollars and the 500 grams. You know what it is too, and it makes sense. I'm just going by memory and how much I've stocked into 500 gram. But yeah, I remember the 500 grams are a allowed 2 to 1,
4 to 1 where when you're stack... When you're stocking you know, when you're stocking a 200 gram cake, mostly our 12 to 1, 8 to 1. Sort of bigger cases. Then wanna get the novelty same thing. You're not stocking tanks, you know, every hour because there's... You know, there's what is their hundred and 80 of them whatever. We're 500 gram cakes you be, you know, like, I filled up that those 6 pack reload so many times today.
You know, But Right. 4 it's 24 pieces versus, you know, maybe 3 cases versus a 500 gram would be, you know, 6 cases. Right. And there's some here that say no bar, so, you know, that skews the numbers, but... Yeah. So I don't know what those are. But... What else we got Sparkle, 3 percent, parachutes, 9 shop finale exits. That's like second to the bottom. I was gonna... Yeah. They not selling a lot of them. No. I'm not pushing them on people because I don't like the price.
That much, I'd rather give them a couple 500 grams before I get that. We didn't buy that many this year because I just don't I just don't think were worth it at not with the cost of freight today or just not worth it. Right. I mean, yeah. I don't think. I mean, have looking by these numbers. I mean, it's... If you wanna look at it, it's on the last page of that shift you. Now all the way at the bottom, the last page it shows you just by category. Mh. So... But it's
you know, gave Yeah. Your novel are almost 18 percent, and your 9 jeff now. He's less than 3 tenths of a percent. Roman candles are about 3 percent. Yeah. Roman candles, other in the middle there, 3 percent. Yeah. Mh. Assortment are 1.4 percent. Mh. So... Yeah. Yeah. And then then the the dollar amount, obviously, 500 gram cakes, that's generating 28 percent of your income. Yeah. Right? Because they're they're bigger ticket items Bigger ticket item. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But the, you know what? Look
at this. You you might wanna stock up on the 200 grams because those sell pretty well. They do. Yeah take This is why I say this will really be good and informative at the end of the year when we spell... Especially when we start looking at pieces. To be really good. Right. You know what your biggest selling novelty is? Pop stamps? Yes. By far. Yeah. Yeah. Like, double. Mh. Like, double And I and it's said you got a lot in stock too, but, Yeah.
I mean, pop snaps really? I I never I never never dawned to me. Pops stamps are, like the bottle rocket of yesterday year, You know how I were. Bought a bottle rocket everywhere They went and just like Pops old old school guys still come in looking for bottle. Yeah. They want bottle rockets. But... Yeah. Now, your pop snaps. Pop snaps are big. I like today when they sent me they told me I have only 10 pop snaps in stock. And I'm like, 10. I go. I... Right I don't think so.
I'm looking at a building here full of pop staff. So... Yeah. Yeah. Little messed. Yeah. Don't... That would be a huge miss if you ran out of pops. Yeah. Man, Fireworks per 8 cake, John selling good. We sold 60 of them. Yeah. That's a good that's a good cake. That's a 200 grand. That's 1 of the 200 grams. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There's p lettuce sold a few. You know, they're all in here. That's Right, Yeah. If fire brigade. So lots. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Crazy fruit. We like that. When we shot that 1 off the other day out that 1. Tanks. No. You got tanks here going. Yeah you're you're... You because they're all on here. So... Yeah. This a really cool. I sort it... I mean, you could sort them by name or you could Sort them by, you know, how much quantity. Yeah. By quantity so which is actually cool. Yep. Mh. Remember but we can sort it in anyway, because you can put in into an excel. You gonna do like category. Yep. Mh. So I like that.
Yeah. Yeah. No. So it's good. So... But anyway, but that's you know, that's that's about it. I... You know, we Oh, I got an nothing analysis to talk about. I do have some something to show you, though. Okay. And what we something? Yeah. Alright. Let's take a quick second break here, and we'll be right back and we'll show you something. Please in ko led the sky. Johnny star all, revitalize star works as that the. I can't believe it and bring the sparkle alone.
Hi, Romania x can get there through all your long only at star fireworks. Got it. Okay. Long Alright, John. Has I haven't done 1 of these in a while. I haven't done a I haven't done a parody song in a while. I thought I'd surprise you. I had the old creative juices flowing. So it's it's you know, it's that time of the year. We get a little we'll sentimental about fireworks here. So, you know, we are very creative. I, I'll
say that. I don't know about that, but this 1 was kinda kinda nice, kinda easy. So... But and actually, I had written, like, 3 quarters of this, like, a year ago, and I never finished it. Then when I went looking through my notes, I was like, oh, really needed only put a few words in there and do a couple things. And there's actually... Really like I said, song right. Well, no. I'm using other people's Mel. That... That's the easy part. Yeah. But you're still come
up to these words. Yeah. But there's... You could song That kinda I can't plug it in her I plug it in for you. There's there's an... You know, before it was always... When you would do a parody song. The hardest part would be to make sure that I can get the music without the singing. Right? You have to get the music. I I can't play. I could play the drums to it, but that would be about it. So that was the hardest part as making sure before I chose a song to parody. I had to make sure that the...
That the the karaoke version was available out there. But now there's an app on your phone where you can... Put... You can download any music that you have on your phone, and you could just strip out mute out to work. You can mute out the words world. It's unbelievable. And I and it will digress for a second here. But there was a guy was making a good point the other day, and III never really thought about it that way, But now it
it it really dawned on me. Because, you know, this Ai music is is, like, a huge thing now. Yeah. And there... But you know, and he was saying that when we were kids, music and we were talking about the kids earlier. So it kinda ties in. When we were kids, music was such a big thing. I I don't know if how big it was for you. But for me, it was big, but I had actually, like, go mow lawn or shovel snow, make 8 dollars
9 dollars. Go to rolling stone record buy the record, come home, listen to it, You had 12 tracks on there. And if you didn't like some of, you didn't like them or whatever, but you would still hold that album cover in your hand, and you would still listen to it, and you would still... You know, it would take up your afternoon and you would read it and you wouldn't wanna know everything about it. Now everything is just disposable. You know, kids...
They they pay night. They they pay 7 99 a month for Spotify or whatever the heck it is. And and but there's no... There's no... They're not invested in it anymore. And if they don't like it, if they don't like it in the first 20 seconds, they just don't listen to it, and they move on to the next 1. That's like this is pretty sad. Don't you think? Yeah. There's well, there's no there's no appreciation of anything anymore. It seems like. No. Not at all. They don't really... You know, it's...
It's a very disposable world. No. Yeah. There's very disposable world and and it's just, you know, it it used to be a tactile thing. When music was a thing. And it... You know, these people who write these songs and record these songs. That there's there's a lot that goes into that. That I still refuse to, you know, do Spotify or or, you know, Apple music. I I'd buy... If I liked the song, I buy it. I mean, it's nice that I have to buy a whole album, I guess. I
still spend 99 cents on the song. You know. Well whatever, but it's just... It's crazy. So I I don't know. What music and with the Ai music and everything. It's just it's very... It's a very sad. Date. But anyway, I digress so. And I hate to do this to Pauline because she says every time I do a parody song, I run a song for her, but they And this is 1 of her favorites. So this is this is this guy here. This is Kenny Cha. Oh, yeah. Alright. So we we went
country this time, Johnson. So. We did a parody. The the words are gonna be on the screen so you can read along, and this is... The song is called she thinks my tractor sexy. Yeah. Alright. So this 1 week we returned it. P parity, she thinks my p sexy. Okay. Ready. Here we go. And we get to watch. The last 1 off summer some. Walking by security Here. She comes with a bunk full of Artisan and a big open box won't. As Saying fusing well she knows why so open up the rockets swing a whole lot
of throws. Just look at her face. She ain't skies, surprise out for 9. In the truck sitting talk apple blow Waiting my before take her home. She thanks for power shit could phone him. She thinks my power She thinks my power sexy. Really You could just re react this whole video with fireworks, it would be fine. Yeah. If we had the time. Yeah. Poor some, like... Yeah. Fire over some someone? Yeah. Alright. Well, that's it. That's all I got, John. So. Let's let's call a night here. I know
you got work to do. I gotta go to sleep. Yeah. I few hours left. We will recon 1 more time before the fourth is over, but We'll see what came through. There you go. Have a good 1, everybody. Talk to you soon. Good.