East Coast Podcast #3 - RYAN ALBRIGHT

[Music] what's up guys welcome back to the east coast podcast on episode three we're going to be talking to ryan albright founder and ceo of covered bridge potato chips from heartland new brunswick be sure to subscribe to the channel and smash that like button we've got regular episodes coming at you every month so stay tuned on this episode we're going to be talking about east coast chips how this all started where they're sold how it happened and our next flavor of chips releasing very soon with no further ado let's welcome in ryan albright how's it going ryan alex how you doing today good man thank you for coming on the east coast podcast absolutely glad to be on i guess would be better if i was down the halifax maybe uh when the bubble lifts i'll definitely get down soon enough well cheers from nova scotia to new brunswick man and just an fyi alex did not send me a case to have on on set today yeah they're coming they're disappointed the carrier pigeon's on the way they'll be there that dark canada post is so slow right exactly yeah yeah no we we got the new hard iced tea on the way to our friends at covered bridge so we just released this one and stoked to hear what you guys think over there new brunswick i'm super excited to try it i love iced tea so i'm pumped to try it out can't wait to get a new brunswick oh yeah for sure it's just it's just hitting the shelves now at the anbl store so you should have it for the whole summer oh nice so it's already out it's already in the stores in nova scotia now today is the first day today is the actual first day we were told that it'll be on the shelf so i'm gonna send you a whole bunch of them for this whole summer to keep you hydrated yeah well i do i do have a tiki bar so it's gonna take quite a few oh there we go that's awesome why don't we dive right in i'd love to hear where you grew up and like kind of what it was like for you growing up there yeah well i'm born and raised in uh woodstock new brunswick and i've been here my whole life we come from my brother and i come from a uh fourth generation family potato farm so we're we're the fourth generation but it was started by my great grandfather in the uh 1920s and then my grandfather uh took that over in in the 40s uh my dad actually before he came back to the farm he was at insurance and uh you know he didn't like he did that for seven or eight years and he didn't like sitting in an office every day which you know can can get to be a long day it's nice to be out working with your hands and out in the sun or the rain or whatever and uh yeah so he he came back to the farm in the in the 70s late 70s and then my brother and i took over the farm operation in 2005 2006 in that right in that time frame but before we uh before we actually took over the farm we started our own potato brokerage company and that's kind of how we that's kind of how we got first started i was about 23 24 my brother was 20 21 and uh so you know when we first started doing that it was a lot easier because all i needed was uh you know with cell phone and uh pen and paper and five potatoes and we we'd resell them and they did that for a few years and was able to you know to build up um enough equity to to buy the farm and to start covered bridge but it's uh it's yeah it's been a long long time ago now i mean 2003 we started that first company and a lot of the companies we sell to were potato chip companies and that's how we that's how we really kind of got um got more interest in in starting our own potato chip plant was from selling to other potato chip companies and we saw an opportunity in canada there wasn't there's only like three real big potato chip companies in canada and we saw an opportunity to come out with a unique uh and different item and create some brand awareness around uh the longest covered bridge in the world here in hartland you know it's 1282 feet long and uh we get a hundred thousand people every year to come to see the the bridge and it's only in a little 850 person town i mean kind of like you know piggies cove down near you i mean they get up you know hundreds of thousands of people every year to come and see landmarks like that and uh for us it's a big landmark here in new brunswick and it's uh and it's right beside us so you know we we just we designed our building around tourism so a lot of those buses that came to that come to see that bridge every year could come to see our factory and see how we make chips and sample fresh chips off the line which i know you've had oh yeah i love them yeah it's an amazing town there heartland i love to see that covered bridge too we went and got the full experience we got to drive over the bridge and take some photos with it on either side and it is a beautiful town there in heartland so i don't question why you chose that as your business location but um overall how has it been in the in the rising grind through heartland new brunswick how's the town been with you guys it's uh it's good you know we uh you know definitely as we keep growing our business uh we're definitely in need of more more people more employees so that's uh you know that's definitely been a challenge to try and get because we're in such a small geographic radiographic area but we have a lot of big uh big businesses in our area as well so it's definitely the main resource that we need is you know is people and uh you know as we grow that continues to be a little bit of a challenge for us for sure how many staff would you be at now uh you know what it goes up and down but we're probably somewhere's around 130 people right now uh so it's a long ways off from when we first started you know when we started making chips it was just myself and uh plant manager marketing manager at that time and you know we cook uh we cook for two or three hours i'd put six cases of chips and a wooden rack my toyota corolla and go set a store up come back built the car again set another store up and i think probably when i get around 35 or 40 stores i bought an old cube truck and then i ran that for a week or two myself and then hired uh maybe longer and then hired somebody to uh to run the distribution truck for us and then we kind of just kept incrementally incrementally growing it uh you know from there where would you say you got your entrepreneurial spirit from uh you know that's uh you know people ask me that a lot actually and it's it's a hard thing to to really peg you know my grandfather my father really instilled a hard work ethic in me i mean we're expected to work as kids growing up and you know maybe didn't get paid at first and then later on you know we we started getting a you know a paycheck an hourly paycheck but we were just always we were always on the farm you know i got home on the bus you know i we lived right on the farm so my dad was working i was out with my dad my grandfather and so it just always worked and i think that that work ethic is is the you know one of the big things um as an entrepreneur that you have to have and because it it it affects and helps your drive to keep pushing forward but then when i look around there's a lot of entrepreneurs in our area that have been very successful over the years young mccains is a great a great one it's only 15 miles 20 miles from us but there's a lot of other local big businesses trucking metal industries uh that have started from you know from scratch and growing their business so you know i think this just by looking around at other companies and what they've been able to achieve um is is a big driver for sure so why did you choose to go with kettle cooked chips actually when i first started uh when i was 20 21 i wanted to make my mark in something i didn't know what it was and i looked at a lot of different things that um i could do to get into business because i was just working for my father at the time one of the first big ones i looked at was um potato vodka believe it or not i spent an entire year developing potato vodka uh but i never i never went through with it but actually uh my my friends richard and devin strang that own blue roof vodka they uh they they've got a great premium vodka they developed in uh your um uh before across the bridge go to pei uh so that was my first big one that i did and then uh as i got selling potatoes to other potato chip companies uh through canada in the u.s one thing i realized was there was no sweet potato chips in canada and there was no dark russet potato chips and so the rustic that we use is same variety that mcdonald's wendy's burger king any of the big french fry manufacturers that they use so it has a little bit higher sugar content uh it'll make it fry up golden to dark in color it's got a very unique distinct flavor profile and that's one of the things that makes our chips really addictive is the that really distinct flavor that comes with the russet and so we saw an opportunity by being unique and different uh and that's everything we do you know we have to we never come out with just the the same product as everybody else we want to make sure every product we come out is totally unique totally different and offers uh the retailer something different than what they have on the shelf and the consumers something different to buy is it your great grandfather that started in the 20s yeah my great-grandfather he was a shoemaker and working for another potato farmer on the side and then he wanted to start his own potato farm so he went from fixing shoes to uh starting his own potato farm yeah and then yeah then my grandfather so my great-grandfather never actually drove a tractor i pulled a story for us my grandfather's told me these stories uh he told me many many many times too but uh his father never drove a tractor and then in 1940 my grandfather bought our first tractor and my great-grandfather refused to ever drive it he would only use uh horses and that's it oh wow old school i've seen that tractor right over front that's the the iconic one that's right outside of cover bridge factory right yeah we've got we've got a couple old trucks that we uh that we have kept in there they're out front we keep them on display actually we've got an old um wagon that we're trying to get ready to put out there this summer it's uh the horses used to drop pull these wagons and that's what you'd put the barrels on so it was called the barrel wagon they would haul them uh from the field and the harvest to the cellar of the uh of the house because it was the basement of the house where we used to store the original potatoes so they would add a hole in the chute and they would dump the barrels down and shoot and into the basement the picture you know cooking your breakfast and your lunch and everything in the house and sleeping in your bed and underneath you was a basement completely full of potatoes is that just for like the long longevity of the potatoes this cold storage yeah it's cold storage you know later we built our first potato house in um where our farm is now in 1955 so we built a nice big you know potato house with multiple bins instead of using the seller of the house wow that's awesome and is anyone still using that kind of potato house uh system anymore or no uh so no so now you have large big uh industrial potato warehouses that are you know climate controlled humidity controlled we control the co2 in there it's all uncomputerized and uh so it's it's it's very automated now wow very cool and tell us a bit about the process from how long it would take to grow a potato to how long it would take to really create a bag of chips with thousands and millions of pounds of potatoes that you would work with yeah so actually we're in the middle planting right now uh unfortunately we had a half an inch of rain this morning so we can't plant today we're almost done we only have about 60 acres left so maybe a couple days left of planting and we'll we'll be done uh from the time we plant as soon as we're done planting uh well let's take a step back we have to cut the seed first so we have to cut the seed into small pieces and you need one eye that's on the potato in order to germinate and grow new potatoes when we plant them uh maybe a couple weeks after they're on the ground we go through and we use a potato cultivator to shape a bigger hill over the row and that helps keep the uh sunlight off the potatoes as they grow in in the row it gives the lots of room in the dirt for the potatoes to grow and get big and then throughout the summer uh you know we let them do their thing they grow and then around the middle oil the late december we start fall harvest and it usually takes us about three and a half to four weeks for fall harvest and those potatoes will go into our storages and they're literally in our storage for almost 12 months like if we put our potatoes in around the middle of november the last ones usually come out sometime in the uh first to middle september uh they're usually in there for one full year geez that's a long time so why would you hold them for that long is it more like the potato needs that for the next step or is there a reason behind it well we're one of the few manufacturers that have you know 12 months supply right here other potato chip companies in the u.s these different varieties of potatoes and they use potatoes and storage up until may and then they start bringing potatoes from florida north carolina virginia all all places where they just harvest them out of the field and they can process them but with our process we prefer to have our potatoes come from storage so we can control to get the right gold in the dark color that we want to achieve and the right quality very cool so when you when you think back on those early days when you were selling potatoes to other potato chip companies and you went in and took that huge leap of faith and you decided to get your own factory and your own machinery and invest in heartland new brunswick what was that like for you as a young entrepreneur if you know what uh some days i actually i laugh about it because i look back and sometimes i wonder how we ever even like got it kind of off the ground it was uh there was times there you know where within a day or two we would it would have never been kind of fallen apart on us even just even securing the land we're on i think we had we had 500 000 spent here on site before we even had a deed to the property of so we could get a mortgage from the bank to actually you know keep going and get everything set up so it was it was pretty you know they can talk there at first to get everything going and you know sometimes when i look back i just try to self-reflect a little bit on all the you know any i wouldn't say hardships but any of the the things that were tough in the time you know you look back and it's it's actually rewarding you know whether whatever the tough situation was you know it's it's rewarding today that you know you got through that challenge you moved on now you've got a new challenge because there's always something new every day it's never the same same challenges but sometimes you have the same ones but you know challenges can still be can be very rewarding absolutely they're probably one of my favorite parts of the ride too is just over getting over over those big obstacles and what were some of the obstacles that you would have faced in those early days um you know once we actually got the building up you know some people ask who knows who's your first contract well we never actually had a contract at all we literally built the the factory uh without having one bag of chips sold so we cooked you know in the early those first few months we were doing product development and we went to put the first bag of chips out uh which the first bag of chips actually went to a place um down your way it's called goodie baskets and they do like you know little baskets for going to hospital or what have you i still have the receipt frame downstairs in our gift shop that was december 8th we sold them small bags that was our first first customer wow that's awesome but yeah we i guess you know when we go when we when we go through it was uh one of the first big obstacles was definitely i always thought well you know when you get a bag of chips i hated to have the bag half full of air or three quarters full of air so i'm gonna make mine very very full but by doing that what it didn't take into account is something called specific gravity which affects in essence how full that bag of chips is going to be from the makeup of the potato and also when potato chips get shipped they s they settle in the bag so they s they settle down the long short of it when we first started the chips wouldn't fit back so every i had to get on a stool in front of our in front of our packaging machine and 50 bags a minute i had to shake every small bag like this every small bag for hours on end to get the so we could use the film up and get and then after that we had to make new bags and print new bags but we did this for months and months wow yeah so that was definitely a higher lesson out of the eight wow that's amazing and what was the first flavor of chips that you guys released our first one was sea salt uh and then we did sea salt and cracked pepper uh barbecue and sweet potato those were our first core items and we have on our sweet potato and on our sea salt we actually have one of the first original bags of chips that come off the line uh in in back we're gonna put it on display in the gift shop but so they'd be uh 12 and a half years old so i'm sure they're still fresh wow hell yeah i'll have to give them a go sometime yeah yeah wash those down with the new iced teas oh yeah so i'd love to know more about like the vodka path that you touched on because i don't know much about vodka and how it's created but it comes from potatoes doesn't it you can have it from different you can have from potatoes from corn uh you know basically anything you can you can still uh potatoes is obviously what i wanted to do because i wanted to take value-added potatoes that we were growing and the strangs that's what they did and they have a very very premium vodka and it's uh it's i've got like a little bit of a floral aroma and that's from the potato distilling but some of the best premium vodkas in the world are still from potatoes wow do you think we'll ever see a covered bridge vodka well i don't know i'd be my best customer for sure i think i think it would sell really well people love your potatoes and your chips and and your popcorn and we'll get to the popcorn in a bit but i think the vodka would do really well for you guys yeah i know absolutely absolutely very cool we're definitely always looking at uh you know line extensions i mean especially in the snack world like we've got new items coming out and uh you know different ideas and different things that where issues have got too many ideas so it's trying to execute one at a time and do it properly and successfully how many new concepts or new flavors would you guys be releasing in a year under our brand we try to keep it fairly limited you know maybe three to four kind of items or new product lines a year uh this year we had a few more than that but uh if we get two too many at once it's uh it's just hard to manage you know at the retail you know with their distributors and what their retailers and we try to be strategic about it and usually the team tries to keep me in line because i get too many ideas and so it's good that somebody kind of keeps me under wraps a little bit yeah and tell us about the popcorn because i've seen the popcorn all over the shelves and it was a new thing that i didn't know you guys how many years have you been in the popcorn game uh we've been three and a half four years now with popcorn the challenge is if we have one rack and a store for instance uh you know if there's a rack store near you and has a rack for chips we try to keep our core six chip items on there so we so we sell the most per square foot on that rack uh it's not until we get a secondary rack that will add other chip items and popcorn to it so you won't always see it everywhere which is unfortunate but uh we only have so much space store level so we have to be selective about what we what we put there very cool and tell us about the process from start to finish with the popcorn and how that all works so the popcorn uh you know we bring in the raw corn uh we have right now we have six kettle poppers and we have uh three more coming we bought three more bigger kettlebells we've been really busy with our popcorn has been growing really quickly uh basically they'll dump uh they'll fill up with a tub with the raw corn if we're doing sweet and salty they'll add the raw cane sugar in there and then they will dump that into the kettle uh with the oil uh we use coconut oil for our bran so we use raw coconut oil and as it pops the sugar actually melts down and then it frosts and then as the popcorn is popping and turning in the kettle it'll coat the popcorn with the sugar uh then that once it's done they'll they'll dump the kettle onto conveyor it goes through a big sifting drum that removes all the small kernels and small pieces uh then they'll go through a tumbler tumbler where we put the pink himalayan salt on and then it goes up through onto our scales to be weighed and then into the bag uh and then the box oh yeah i love it delicious popcorn by the way we absolutely love it thanks sex it's and it's the same as the rest of our product you know it's non-gmo it's all natural better for you um some of the fun things that we do with our popcorn that uh i believe we're the only ones in canada is uh our butter or butter popcorn we actually melt 50 pound blocks of clarified butter down and we developed our own spray system to spray the butter on so you actually get real melted butter on your popcorn just as if you're making it at home that's a secret sauce right there that's right so what would the top seller be in the popcorn and what would the top seller be in the chip category so in popcorn they're uh pretty close but you'd have your sweet and salty our jalapeno cheddar and our movie butter are all pretty pretty close but in the chip category uh sea salts are number one and then our salt and vinegars are number two for sure the salt and vinegar is unique because mostly vinegar chips when you have one it it'll just make your eyes water you know your tongue curl up and your cheeks pucker and a lot of people really like that but there's a lot of people that really on the fence of not liking uh or liking some vinegar chips so what we did was we developed it a little lighter and we put raw cane sugar in the blend and what it does it sweetens the back your palate like you get that sourness but then it sweetens up at the back end and we've really hit a big demographic of uh consumers that were really on the fence with salt and vinegar oh definitely people love that salt that's huge and for distribution like how did you have you acquired so many stores like you're in thousands of stores across north america how have you have you really grown from those early days to to now being across north america so in in the maritimes we have our own fleet of trucks and that started literally just one truck at a time one truck locally here uh and then uh moncton and fredericton and we just added kept adding one until we were up to five or six seven and then we added five all at one time and then we added three more new land uh newfoundland was definitely a challenge where they were two and a half years of their root trucks and we ended up bringing them home it was just really challenging for us geographically to you know drive so far and drop off just a little bit of product so we we pulled back from newfoundland in the maritimes now we we have a you know fleet of our own trucks and service around 1200 stores uh the rest of north america and the rest of canada is all done through other small distributors and large distributors so we have certain distributors that might look after us for soby's uh certain distributors look out for us for independent stores uh so we have different distribution models but we definitely learned a lot over the years about how to how to go to market with it i've definitely had a lot of mistakes and we've done some a lot of things right but we've learned from those mistakes and and change gears and and do it a little different what's one of your biggest early mistakes that you'd want to share with us i'm trying to think if well let's go back i'll use a newfoundland for instance that was uh that was a very costly mistake just because i already mentioned that one you know probably calculating a little more sometimes you know you calculate things but then sometimes you just go with it and i think you need to take a step back sometimes and and and think about you know what the ramifications of the decision is going to be i mean we make you know hunter's decisions every day but on some of the big ones i think maybe you know looking back we should have uh thought about it a little more in depth and than what we did because it was such a big cost outlay to go there so i would say that uh definitely is one you know having uh having a good good people in your finance team to be on top of numbers all the time watch numbers is definitely definitely another for sure yeah it's a super competitive world for you guys in the chip space i can only imagine competing with leis and doritos people seem to always want to support local and how has that overall affected your business with you know competing with the big dogs and margins and stuff like that yeah look we're we're definitely a small uh small piece in the overall cog there's uh all the chip companies now the majority of them are all billion dollar companies and there's acquisitions going on every month you know in the u.s and being bought out in large companies and but what i tell our team here is you know we should be proud everybody here um that we're able to compete in rural new brunswick in a little small town with these billion dollar companies and we're doing a great you know we've been very successful with it you know we're we're still here uh you know we're innovating every all the time coming up new products uh different products and you know it's it's about getting people to understand that we are farm to table uh you know we don't we don't have a massive um marketing budget uh we do as much as we can our social media presence has uh grown a lot the last couple years our team's done a great job there and that's that's definitely a big help but it's getting people understand that you know we grow the potatoes we make the potato chips and you know we're from canada and we're from the maritimes and we're from a small rural area so why don't we chat about the east coast chips partnership awesome for sure throw them over brad all right so if you guys haven't tried these yet these are the east coast chips we've partnered up with covered bridge to release these thick cut sea salt chips they're available across canada and online they're sold in sobeys kent homes needs convenience store home sense bed bath and beyond who who am i missing here ryan most most places in the in the maritimes for sure and then in quebec there's marsha adani marshay toe and then i've heard they're in texas as well uh does avril have them in quebec yet i think so yeah nick said that on our last call that they they picked them up again um yeah look we're still pushing them out actually we're going to be doing another run here because i think we are down to like zero in the warehouse right now so yeah they've been flying off so we need to yeah they've been going really well we've been super happy with it uh you know as i mean it was great working with uh you know our team had such a blast working with your team on this project it was a lot of fun and we obviously wanted to do something different when we launched when we had these compared to our regulars and we normally do our dark russet so with this we use a specific variety of white potato that has a really great flavor and then it's thicker like you mentioned it's got a harder bite harder crunch and then we just sprinkle sea salt on it so the product tastes amazing and you know cobra is such a great initiative for the both of us oh yeah they're delicious um definitely have been eating a lot of these i've been on my bike trying to burn them off a lot lately and uh we're we uh we can just kind of tell the people that we've got something new in the works but we can't tell them the flavor yet but did you want to touch on that one yeah so because of the great success with the this first item we've got a second one coming out within about a month yeah so it's uh can't say exactly what it is but it's uh our brand your brand and another uh great maritime brand and the flavor is something that you would eat uh at a restaurant or something when maybe you go out for bite d there we go is that close enough those are some great hints for you guys let us know what you think the new flavor is it'll be out this summer limited batch we know you're going to love it it's an amazing flavor of chips and there's nothing like this on the shelves guys yeah we're super excited to uh see it and we'll be making that pretty soon in an upcoming couple weeks we will be making it please send the first samples our way when you can absolutely absolutely hey i'm gonna trade you for the uh the new iced teas oh we got a deal there we got a deal and for all those young entrepreneurs or business people listening what would that one piece of advice be that you'd want to give them you know don't uh when somebody tells you you know you can't you don't always have to listen to them you know shoot down your idea just make sure that when you go into it you're gonna put everything into it give it your all uh be tenacious uh be aggressive uh you know don't be down on yourself there's gonna be good days and bad days when you uh when you have the bad days remember there's a good day ahead and when there's a good day don't forget that there's there's something else that can go wrong but it's part of the excitement in the journey of being an entrepreneur and doing something on your own building something from from nothing it's exciting it's you know it's a journey of life there's going to be ups and downs but uh you know make sure you enjoy that uh that wave up and down as you as you go through your journey love that advice it's all about the process eh positivity yeah yep yep just like the process of making chips exactly it's always a great time so what are you doing outside of work right now what are your hobbies uh you know actually um you know used to have we've had this conversation before you used to have an uh vw bus yeah yeah you guys did yeah yeah so actually coincidentally uh next week on thursday we're gonna uh we have a vw bus we're gonna take it for a few days with the dogs and and we're gonna do a loop around the province so we're actually gonna drive clear around the coast of the province up north and all the way down the other side and and take in all the beauty new brunswick has to offer and and uh just pull up and park and camp wherever we feel tired or feel like it at the time i guess man that's nice that's the dream right there what are your favorite places to stop in new brunswick if you could name maybe three spots that are your top three uh besides cover bridge chips besides cover bridge shops okay for me it's the it's the scenic drives it's just it's just you know going through the background through all the little country roads and uh you know getting up close to uh close to the water like down through uh the eastern part down along the water you know going through shady act looking down around the bay of fundy over to st andrews just really taking in just the natural beauties it's not necessarily specific one or two places it's just everywhere and i literally have been you know as you set up stores and over the years i've been fortunate that i've been to every little uh nook and cranny um last fall though one of the only places i hadn't been in the maritimes was actually the cab betrayal oh nice oh yeah last summer i took uh a weekend and i went down and i with the bus with the volkswagen bus and i did uh did a loop and some of those hills were a little s a little scary in a 1976 bus 76 nice i was going to ask what year it is yeah it's a beauty yep yeah 76 i'll get some pictures next weekend uh for you make you miss yours i'm sure oh yeah we gotta get you some east coast gear for that that road trip when you go around new brunswick absolutely yeah nope for sure yeah so yeah so i mean that's what we're doing and then we like to you know we like to spend some time around the water in the in the summer time and uh just enjoy with the family and family and friends that's wicked yeah i can't wait till uh we've had we've been in this tight bubble here in nova scotia where we're like not really allowed to leave our community and stuff until june 14th i believe so i'm looking forward to hopefully getting up to cape breton soon and getting some is that is that when the next uh lift is going to be yeah that's what they're saying fingers are crossed that we are we're allowed to do stuff again this summer like go to cape breton and adventure around but um for the west failure yeah we're sorry we're hoping that it'll open back up so we can least come into nova scotia and pi and yeah we want to come back to that factory we need some more chips [Laughter] can't wait do you uh do you have any uh do you have plans for your uh pop-up shop is that still gonna be a thing this summer or yeah right now it's been a weird one we're really trying to figure out which events we're going to be able to go to coming coming into july and august it doesn't look too promising right now we've the pop-up shop hasn't moved in over a year so we invested in this big pop-up shop that was a pretty expensive right before cove had hit and then it's been pretty much stand still since since it all hit the fan so we're hoping that everything gets back to normal soon we can get out to those small towns and get to those events again yeah yeah there won't be as i mean definitely you know i don't think quebec and ontario will be open back up to the maritimes this uh summer doesn't look that way anyway but at least hopefully with the maritime bubble it'll help people at least start moving around and get people traveling you know away from their house and uh you know definitely the tourism dollars are definitely being missed uh throughout everywhere in the maritimes it's been pretty uh pretty tough on a lot of companies for sure definitely well hopefully the lights at the end of the tunnel here and we can't wait to come down to new brunswick and see you guys again soon yeah absolutely and absolutely and uh mallory and i definitely needed a trip down to to see your place uh once things hold them back up here again oh absolutely looking forward to bringing the westphalia too yeah well yeah we can't break your parking lot oh yeah you're always welcome just bring some chips we'll do a trade yeah awesome well thanks a lot ryan for being on the east coast podcast episode three really appreciate your time and hearing your story be sure to follow cover bridge on social media and stay tuned for our next flavor of the east coast chips guys cheers thanks a lot alex it's been a blast thanks ron take care man

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Length: 34min 46sec (2086 seconds)

Published: Tue Jun 08 2021