GT Dave

inspiration to like help define my path.

Like who can I learn from?

And I, you know, honestly really admired at Wallach's.

I was like, these are people that are celebrating food from the earth, food that's been unprocessed, unpasteurized, just like basically juiced to the bottle.

But then like six months after that, I remember going into Air One to deliver

and their cooler was empty.

And it was, there was a sign saying there's been E. coli in their apple juice.

And it like seriously caused some people to get very ill or even led to a death.

And it was scary because it all of a sudden changed the narrative.

Like fresh and raw became dangerous.

And so that actually became a cross that I had to bear throughout my next five to 10 years because I was very passionate about kombucha can't be kombucha unless it's raw.

If you try to pasteurize or something like that, you're wasting people's time and money.

It's like milk.

Exactly.

Pasteurized milk is dead.

Just like a baby calf.

If they drink pasteurized milk, they'll die.

But I had to overcome this negativity and misinformation about raw, unprocessed food.

But back to the point, I admired them, but I learned from them.

Because after the fiasco, they came back with a pasteurized product.