 Well, it's about 9 p.m. Monday night still a little windy and nasty outside But most of the snow has passed already as anyone in New York knows We got hit with a pretty nasty nor'easter two feet in a lot of places I mean, you know the snow is like up to the wall of my Driveway, which is about four feet high Most of the driveway is at least knee high I think about two feet and the street is definitely not drivable at least with the a 2001 four Taurus even though I have snow tires if I put chains on maybe I'd be okay If I had all-wheel drive and snow tires or like a pickup truck and snow tires It's definitely drivable with the right equipment, but New York is not set up for this The average person is not set up for this and the main issue is on Frankie's syringe meet We have to send all orders out Monday, especially California Especially West Coast in order for them to not get held over the weekend Even if we send them out Tuesday There's a chance that some of the packages are held and we lose a lot of money because we always refund our customers Full value, which no other me company does now You know it being Monday night at 9 p.m. I'm Fairly certain we will not get the West Coast orders out this week, which is why I'm making this video Yeah, I wanted to apologize to you guys because even if we're able to get down there You know in you know six seven hours from now at four or five a.m. Which is unlikely You know we call the postal service. We called UPS today. They didn't even pick up So even if we got down to Frankie syringe meet and fill the orders today We would have been stuck with a bunch of packages So maybe in the morning we can go down maybe we can't but it doesn't really matter at this point because either way We cannot send the West Coast California orders with this snowstorm all of the East Coast shipping is definitely backed up To you know God knows how badly so even if we do send all the California packages express tomorrow We might lose a lot of money so we can't do it You know best case scenario I can get down there tomorrow morning We can fill some of the East Coast and Central American orders But it's looking more like Wednesday is going to be the day and then hopefully those orders get there on time I don't think we wanted to lay every single order until next week because we want people to get their meat and You know if we don't send orders out this week, you know, we're going to be out a lot of money ourselves You know if we're I mean if we're out a week's worth of orders of income that might be That might be very bad for Frankie syringe meet considering how things are going You know, I didn't really want to talk about this and I wanted to keep everything positive You know because I was hoping that I could you know work things out with Frankie syringe meet over the next few weeks But you know, I don't want you guys to get surprised with anything because you know We are providing a lot of people with high-quality animal nutrition on a consistent basis So let me just show you guys how bad the snow is over here I'm standing on about 10 inches of packed-down snow right now and You could see you know the wall of the driveway The cars have a decent amount of snow on them not too much, but Yeah, it's two feet of snow. I mean Two feet of snow. That's what you expect though The wind has made it a pain in the ass because that's probably you know really high on the wall there And I don't really want to go walking through this but because you know when I go to shovel this tomorrow It's gonna be all packed down and it's gonna be a pain to shovel But you know, I'll wake up around 5 or 6 a.m. I'll see how much I can clear this out Probably not going down to the city tomorrow To fill the orders. I want to show you guys the snow some more, but My camera freezes when it's cold outside and the video gets deleted. I have to call Canon support or something because That's not supposed to be happening And I might even have to warm this camera up before I can film the rest of this video But if you missed the update video on Frankie's range meet last week I kind of said like things aren't going too well, you know we're just about breaking even and That was a bit of an understatement of what's actually going on So the original Frankie's range meet facility didn't require us to really put any money down We were just paying you know for time in the space on a monthly basis and over the course of You know about a year we saved up enough money to get a commercial lease on this new space Get a freezer get all the equipment we need to run the business now that was all set up in July-August of last year so July 2020 we're set up in the new space, you know, we should be pulling in money and Come October November December the bank accounts still even, you know, we're not making money I'm kind of freaking out because I don't know what's going on. We have this new commercial lease We're in this new facility. We were able to make enough money to save up for that new facility But now it's even I'm not down there. I'm not running the operation. I'm not placing orders I don't know what's going on. You know, it's gotten to this kind of extreme point We're now I'm probably gonna basically have to be hands-on with everything myself figure out what's going on and I'm gonna Slide back on I said we were breaking even We're not you know Adam is owed a lot of money. I'm owed a lot of money We had to fire our employees last week So, you know me and Adam are now back to the drawing board of doing everything ourselves Which I'm really not happy about you know, I mean Yeah, I don't I don't really know what to say about that But yeah, I've made it this far with everything and I'm certainly gonna make it work regardless of what has to be done and You know worst-case scenario I just have to scale back the business a little bit instead of selling all of these items a la carte We might have to move back to you know The package model where you buy a beef package you buy a local beef package a wagyu beef package And we don't sell as much stuff a la carte separately. What that does is You know it allows much less prep work much less time packaging the boxes because everything's pretty much the same So that would simplify things and make it a lot easier to you know, just take some stress off You know, let me figure out what to do with the business what I need to do and take it from there Yeah, a lot of you guys were commenting like oh, you know, it's great Most businesses take three four five years to start making a profit. It's great that you're breaking even I don't know if that's a guest lighting tactic. I don't know if that's lying But I really do think it is When you're telling me that it's okay that I'm not making money for three four five years I'm making other people money. If I told you how much money I've made other businesses on packaging supplies Farmers slaughterhouses your jaw would drop. Everyone's making money, but me. No, no, no, no No, that is complete horror shit because every single other business I've started has been completely fine All of those businesses being on my own So I'm gonna make sure that Frankie syringe meat gets the same treatment. I recognize the low-hanging fruit I understand where the demand is what I need to supply and I want to make it happen But I really wasn't happy about you know those comments about you know breaking even being good Mainly because you know, that's not a good attitude to have how can you pay people living wage? How can you have employees? How can you do this? How can you do that? I feel really bad for those guys that were let go because you know, they don't have another job lined up They're probably not gonna get another job and you know in the middle of all of this stuff going on And the other main reason was I you know made a mistake in that video last week I said we were breaking even but we weren't so Really needed to clarify that stuff for you guys I don't know if I said I was losing my mind last week, but I'm definitely losing my fucking mind Like at this point look, it's it's 10 p.m. I'm filling orders for Frankie's naturals and You know Wi-Fi shielding in my parents basement. I got to go down at 4 a.m Maybe for orders for organ supplements. I like how much longer am I gonna I just really don't know because It's supposed to get easier I said this a couple weeks ago I think like the reason I stuck through all this stuff was because I was assuming at some point in time I was going to be able to make more money or get rewarded in some way Where I wouldn't have to kill myself every single day hands on everything myself having to learn so many things is incredibly difficult It is it is insane having to make hygiene and cosmetic products make supplement products learn how to do labels I don't have to there is no one else I'm confident in saying that has done as many things and as many businesses as I am on their own Usually they pay consultants. They have people helping them and My god, even just having someone film and edit the videos for me It's just I have to do everything myself It's been going for two years now and it's just too much at what point am I just gonna say it's not worth it, you know I mean, I mean the only reason I've stuck through this for so long is because I really do Hope people can live happier and healthier lives that than I have and that most people have but We'll see how it goes So thank you guys for joining me. Check out Frank dash to phone calm for all the businesses all that type of stuff And I'll try to update you guys Next week maybe two weeks from now on what's going on. I'm sure something's gonna happen this week. That's fairly eventful Maybe we'll just do a vlog next week of us trying to catch up on these orders But you know if you guys can place an order with Frank you syringe me for next week Especially if you're on the East Coast central, you know, we're trying to Maybe what we'll do is I'll do like a sale on something or we'll do like a free ground beef with the order Just to get some more order volume for next week