True Patriot Love - How Rocket Bakery Became a Newfoundland Icon ft. Kelly Mansell

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00:00:34.100 The East Coast tour continues, and I'm at Rocket Bakery and Fresh Foods with Kelly Mansell, co-owner.

00:00:42.720 Thank you.

00:00:43.620 You're welcome.

00:00:43.940 Thank you for taking the time.

00:00:44.920 Yeah.

00:00:45.360 So I got a bunch of questions.

00:00:47.000 Okay.

00:00:47.420 So it says we have a common friend, and quite frankly, he told me, ask these questions, right?

00:00:53.460 Okay.

00:00:53.940 All right.

00:00:54.260 So I'm reading your bio, getting ready for today.

00:00:57.880 Yeah.

00:00:58.120 And you had a career with PepsiCo, you were living in central Canada, and then what prompted

00:01:08.100 the move?

00:01:08.780 What prompted you to kind of pick up your life and come to Atlantic Canada?

00:01:13.100 Because I'm always fascinated with people who do that.

00:01:15.440 People's stories.

00:01:16.300 Yeah.

00:01:16.480 Well, adventure is the short answer.

00:01:21.060 We had been out.

00:01:22.620 I'd been out on behalf of Pepsi.

00:01:25.220 I was a PR agency executive, I guess.

00:01:30.140 And I had Pepsi as one of the accounts that I took care of.

00:01:34.080 And they were here for the Juno.

00:01:36.140 So I got to know Newfoundland a little bit that way.

00:01:41.680 I was also involved with Comrags and met my first Newfoundlanders through Comrags, which is a Canadian fashion house.

00:01:48.940 And also I knew a couple of friends.

00:01:54.720 and those friends saw that there was um an opening in the market for a bakery because one had just

00:02:00.920 closed so they're like come on out and we're like sure of course we can come and do it this

00:02:07.020 a bakery when we've never done it before and so yeah we packed up our two sons and

00:02:13.540 our cat and came out my husband and I so yeah it's been a real adventure you did the long trip

00:02:20.540 Yeah, we drove the truck with all the furniture and everything.

00:02:25.880 And, yeah, so here we are, and it was a learning cliff, you know, to open this business.

00:02:32.080 Yeah.

00:02:34.600 But here we are 16 years later, and we're still learning every day something.

00:02:39.140 Yeah.

00:02:39.580 Well, that's the important thing, right?

00:02:40.840 Yeah.

00:02:41.100 We say, you know, my business is the same thing.

00:02:44.080 Yeah.

00:02:44.460 I always think I have it mastered, and then I find out I missed something else, or I go home,

00:02:49.600 oh what was i thinking and i didn't remember that but it's like whack-a-mole yeah it is like

00:02:54.480 there's something every day yeah so you 16 years ago and the bakery business so that was the other

00:03:00.880 thing you know when i when i was reading about i'm thinking oh i'm fascinated with this lady i

00:03:04.480 haven't met her ron had told me about you and then i'm thinking okay and uh you picked up and you

00:03:10.560 moved and i did the same thing to start in the gaming business when i was in my 20s i moved to

00:03:15.600 to Las Vegas. Oh, well, which is where you have to be, I guess. Yeah, to learn. I wanted to learn.

00:03:20.620 I was like, okay. So you moved to Atlantic Canada and you have a few friends here. You just rent a

00:03:28.180 space and off you go, renovate, and then you... Yeah, that's what we did. Wow. You know, my husband

00:03:34.640 and business partner, Mark, is in the movie business and he's a decorator. And so he knows

00:03:40.440 how to you know he built all the all the locations with help obviously yeah but it's it was from that

00:03:49.320 perspective we were ready from my perspective from the marketing side i was ready and you know to to

00:03:55.080 go and and dave hopley our our partner had lived here for you know 30 years and so he was he knew

00:04:03.880 about the local market and that kind of thing and we hired a really great um bakery um director

00:04:13.640 and and and a chef so we didn't it's not like i was you know with my hands in it until covid

00:04:20.680 that was a different story but um for all of us yeah right uh but yeah we started out on the right

00:04:26.760 foot i think and and uh have learned everything about the business that we can not everything but

00:04:33.400 you know we're feeling pretty solid about what we need to do and uh yeah so that's that's sort

00:04:39.940 of how it evolved and came to be and the trend for the transition because you know you're coming

00:04:45.240 again from central canada you're coming here lifestyle change like do you notice it was it's

00:04:52.200 like a jolt right yeah but travel less traffic fresher air right all of a sudden you're like oh

00:04:57.680 i like you know yeah like colder winters so yeah you're to and froing right you had to kind of

00:05:02.480 figure out yeah we were toing and froing and um but you know like I don't find the winters as

00:05:08.820 cold as in Ontario like they're longer for sure but I don't find them any like I don't find them

00:05:15.800 colder um I we found you know the first few years we were kind of lonely because we all we did was

00:05:22.280 work and then we got to know people and they invited us out and you got to get involved with

00:05:27.480 the community if you're going to feel you know comfortable and and not alone and uh yeah the

00:05:35.700 kids had a harder time for sure because they were 12 and 14 right i think they just started to

00:05:41.060 forgive us i don't know but you know they've had the they've had the wonderful um opportunity to

00:05:47.100 know two different cultures because mainlanders and newfoundlanders and labradorians are quite

00:05:51.680 you know they're they have their unique culture oh yeah to speak yeah it's been it's been fun

00:05:58.180 getting to know that and know them and culture and i found it really fascinating like beyond the

00:06:05.100 the drama of of the coastline like the the um the people are fascinating and their stories are so

00:06:14.700 amazing paul like yes it's you know one of my best friends grew up in a small salt box

00:06:20.820 in perry's cove with 11 siblings and this you know these kinds of stories are you don't hear

00:06:29.200 about in downtown toronto even even i was telling you this morning so we went and did the trail uh

00:06:37.440 you know lookout trail and went all around the signal hill oh yeah and it's interesting because

00:06:43.260 as we're going you know and you're what you're kind of looking at all the small little homes on

00:06:47.700 the on the side of the rocks and the battery yeah you're thinking wow that's pretty cool

00:06:53.840 and the stories that must have come out of there just exactly you know exactly it's it's it's so

00:07:00.120 fascinating and you know I love learning about other cultures and so now we have so many new

00:07:06.140 Canadians a lot of them are working for us and learning about those cultures is just for me it's

00:07:11.220 really interesting and yeah you know so so you get here right you're you set up you you get the

00:07:17.920 business running how do you come the name rocket where does the name rocket come because i'm you

00:07:22.600 know it's looking at the rocket bakery okay uh kelly right i'm trying to think okay she's a pr

00:07:28.200 marketing person so she must have had an idea so well i wasn't told i wasn't i was one of a group

00:07:34.960 that came up with it with the idea but if if you're from away you you know that rock that

00:07:41.840 newfoundland's called the rock okay so it sort of started with that and then my husband had a little

00:07:48.560 company that had used a rocket and called it ballistic brand we wanted to call it the ballistic

00:07:53.520 cafe or something like that but there was already a ballistic down the street

00:07:57.200 so um a ballistic store and uh so anyway we thought rocket yeah rocket bakery it's iconic

00:08:03.840 in terms of the look we grew up in a time of you know cartoons and comic books and so we thought

00:08:12.420 it looked kind of comicky and it really reflected what um what we felt about the business was that

00:08:20.020 you know we didn't want to take ourselves too seriously we wanted people to have fun

00:08:23.660 and uh so it it's it sort of worked for us although i did have people going up what kind of

00:08:30.760 name is rocket for a bakery but you know just like naming a child you know they become that

00:08:35.880 name and yeah no i love that brand i should thank you yeah you know my hat's off to you guys when i

00:08:41.560 saw it i was like i looked at it i thought oh this is cool because it made me look it made me think

00:08:46.820 for a minute and then it reflect and i want to go there because i'm interested what rocket bakery

00:08:51.000 is right so right it did the work for the brand needs to do yeah so good on you so now you say

00:08:57.900 okay, I'm going to start this up and you said, okay, I'm not only going to do the bakery,

00:09:02.160 but I'm actually going to do community events. I'm going to do music. Who, you know, where does

00:09:07.180 that come into play? And how do you decide all of a sudden to, are you guys artists yourself?

00:09:12.060 Because I was wondering coming in, I'm thinking like, are you musicians or are you?

00:09:15.460 Oh, well, we attempt that, you know, but yeah, we had, we've had fun with, with instruments,

00:09:20.560 but I wouldn't call us musicians, but my, my husband, Mark has a degree in fine art and he

00:09:26.700 came up with the with the logo like this the rocket logo and we are involved in

00:09:46.620 the community and that at the beginning we didn't have any money to support you

00:09:51.180 know donations or anything like that so we what we had was space we could offer

00:09:55.860 space to people and so that's how you know we're really happy to any spaces we

00:10:04.560 have usually we just you know offer them up because that brings people in and

00:10:10.440 get they get to know us and that kind of thing and it also saves community

00:10:15.660 groups money because they don't have to rent a space so that's how we we did

00:10:19.800 work it in our we were in an oh sorry we were in another space initially for 10

00:10:24.580 years which had an event space on the third floor but then with covid we had to downsize and we had

00:10:30.580 so we moved out of that space so we lost that big space but we still rent out um or not some space

00:10:36.820 yeah we have the rocket room here and then our downtown um space has got an area for you know

00:10:44.580 about 20 25 people so yeah so what type of events would i find so you know if you said i'm here

00:10:52.340 next time i'm going to be looking to say what's kelly doing in one of her location how many

00:10:56.340 locations you have by the way well we have three but we're also at the rcmp headquarters but that's

00:11:02.660 not open to the public so but but so it's three three right now and we're we're also offered at

00:11:08.660 the health sciences hospital which we have a a little um shelf in one of the gift stores there

00:11:15.540 And we're at Urban Market, which is a company that just offers local goods.

00:11:25.080 And what was your question, Paul?

00:11:26.780 So when I'm in town, right, and I'm one of your spaces,

00:11:30.380 and I'm looking to find what's happening, what am I going to find?

00:11:35.620 Like, am I going to find poem reading?

00:11:38.340 I'm going to find, you know, a fiddle?

00:11:40.720 What are people going to find when they're here?

00:11:42.640 Well, for the past 16 years, we've had a kitchen party every Tuesday, and that's really fun.

00:11:48.380 Oh, I'm not here.

00:11:50.540 Every Tuesday from 1230 to 130, we have a kitchen party with local musicians come and play, and it's really fun.

00:11:59.940 Oh, wow. So cool.

00:12:01.520 You know, and different groups come in.

00:12:03.700 You record it?

00:12:05.700 Yeah.

00:12:06.360 Oh, nice.

00:12:06.780 You can see it on our Instagram site.

00:12:08.660 Okay, all right.

00:12:09.360 and uh you know circus fest is coming up and we do things with that group um and they have

00:12:16.820 meetings and get togethers at rocket um i i you know the city of mount pearl the city of st john's

00:12:25.340 have little meetings as well there's always something going on and i think the customers

00:12:30.860 get to you know are getting used to after 16 years you know what's going on in here today

00:12:35.940 It's not like just opening a coffee shop door, you know?

00:12:39.720 Well, you know, it's interesting because you're, you know, I was telling you, we have a charitable gaming center.

00:12:43.760 So that's one of our businesses.

00:12:45.340 And we have a couple of them in Toronto.

00:12:47.060 And we have a very similar mantra, a very similar mission in that we give before we take.

00:12:53.560 So our karma is to keep our karma good.

00:12:56.520 We always believe that we give before we take, whether it's to charity, whether it's their first gaming opportunity or space.

00:13:04.420 Yeah.

00:13:04.600 We do the same thing.

00:13:05.480 So if an artist comes in, we have stage with full sound, and if they come in, we say to them, use it, sell tickets, do what you can do, because if you bring more people, it helps us, it helps you, and so the karma is good in that relationship, and that's so important in communities, because people get to know that, and they start talking about it, and it does come back.

00:13:25.500 And as a business owner, you know, it's hard because you have to put that into the biosphere, the atmosphere, and you have to hope that comes back.

00:13:35.920 And that's an intangible that you create.

00:13:39.260 Is that something you would learn?

00:13:41.900 Because, you know, not people get that.

00:13:43.540 I find that interesting.

00:13:44.900 I didn't, I actually, I didn't, it wasn't premeditated in any way.

00:13:50.120 It's just that, you know, Newfoundlanders, I don't know if you've noticed this, but I can't believe how much work Newfoundlanders put into fundraising for different groups.

00:14:00.860 Oh, yeah.

00:14:01.000 Like, it's unbelievable.

00:14:02.360 I hadn't seen that at all in Ontario.

00:14:04.360 Well, it's happening in Ontario, but my experience of it wasn't like it is here.

00:14:09.580 Yeah, so I just could not, and I'm still in that situation where I get requests every day for help.

00:14:17.380 and you know it just became something like I can't give you any money but I

00:14:22.840 can give you a space you know and that that's how it evolved really that is

00:14:27.340 your capital and really because you know you're covering the space yeah I'm to

00:14:31.760 it yeah and that's a big part of the cost for them and I look at the same way

00:14:35.380 that's the way I look at it for them if I can help you get your event off the

00:14:39.280 ground you hustle to get the tickets sold to figure out your venue yeah I'm

00:14:43.720 more than happy yeah i love your kitchen party idea by the way sorry i'm i'm you you're missing

00:14:48.460 it yeah no but i but i actually there's a there's a podcast it's actually uh a bunch of artists they

00:14:55.320 do in the u.s and it's from their kitchen oh and they come in and play music in their kitchen oh

00:15:01.160 yeah and they invite like famous artists i'm trying to think of the name of it it's going to

00:15:05.720 come to me but this is a really and your idea is very similar i love the idea yeah no it's it's

00:15:11.360 it's been happening even the previous bakery to when we opened had the same guys pretty much

00:15:18.300 um playing as well so they've been playing at our place for 16 years and beyond you know

00:15:23.220 and um they're just they're really great local players there's so many that's one of the things

00:15:30.040 that really interested me about this culture is that i feel like everybody's a musician

00:15:33.900 oh yeah like in some way like a singer or a you know a instrumentalist you have to have blair

00:15:39.400 yeah well he loves to sing he can pick up a guitar and go tomorrow he'll go straight up

00:15:45.340 he's a character so he loves to you're right but you know you know go down to water street or

00:15:51.040 everyone's carrying a guitar on their back yeah exactly yeah playing you know you got 12 bands

00:15:55.600 playing every night downtown yeah that you can go see which i know it's amazing yeah it's really

00:16:00.980 amazing yeah so what's next you know i see you you know you've got your locations you're going

00:16:06.900 And COVID is behind us, thank you, as we got through that.

00:16:10.180 I know it's tough on all our businesses.

00:16:11.980 Yeah.

00:16:12.520 And so we're back in.

00:16:14.440 Where do you see the business going next?

00:16:16.220 What's the next move for Rocket in the bakery business, the entertainment business?

00:16:22.300 Well, we keep getting asked to open up a kiosk here or there.

00:16:30.200 I'm not sure, you know, we're okay at this size.

00:16:34.260 but i think it we need someone younger to come and take it on and and and build it you know

00:16:40.700 because we're getting we're getting up there and uh i don't know about you paul but uh we'll have

00:16:46.540 to retire soon but yeah i think you know it's interesting jim i'm gonna hit on because i did

00:16:51.340 a show a podcast on this and the biggest challenge is right now for us like uh basically is finding

00:16:58.960 people who will buy our businesses and love them as much as we do yeah and that's because you know

00:17:05.840 because we start them and you just don't want to give them to some it's like you know it's like

00:17:10.620 that antique car that you got you don't want to give it to someone unless they're going to love

00:17:13.780 that car you know and that's the yeah it's kind of the challenge with with a lot of businesses

00:17:19.120 right yeah it's a little size businesses yeah so you know mid-sized businesses

00:17:24.940 it's a challenge it is a challenge for us I think the biggest challenge is like

00:17:32.500 you know it's it's sort of been not by the seat of our pants but because we've

00:17:38.860 had to learn along the way it's not been from an operations book of you know

00:17:42.760 someone who's been in food and beverage for years and years we're trying to get

00:17:47.200 systems in place we finally have a general manager and he's really helping us and uh we we just hired

00:17:54.800 a chef the first time since covid because we've had to we had to oh yeah i know how that is i have

00:18:01.120 two restaurants oh really yeah i know oh man yeah yeah so you know i get it i went through it too

00:18:07.360 yeah yeah i was cooking in the back yeah me too mark my husband was making fish cakes and soup

00:18:13.600 and i was doing the morning bake at like 4 30 in the morning with hamburgers oh yeah yeah

00:18:18.960 hamburgers and fries we did it oh yeah we did yeah um yeah so getting through that but but um

00:18:29.120 finding someone that's going to be as passionate but also someone who who has the vision to take

00:18:34.720 what we have and and um expand it and is is because i think the opportunities for this brand

00:18:43.120 are there oh yeah yeah oh no definitely everything you know good on you aside from ron who's

00:18:49.760 sung your phrases like no tomorrow oh really he's a big fan so it's great but when i when we hit the

00:18:55.440 town we actually mentioned we were coming here a couple times well known people knew it right

00:19:01.360 right away rocket right away everyone talked about it you know when we got into coming we grabbed a

00:19:05.760 cab because blair was coming from the other direction right so we grabbed a cab cab driver

00:19:09.760 knew it she's always always kind of two check marks on my okay and then everyone 1.00

00:19:14.380 in the hotel all the younger position all the younger people in the hotel

00:19:18.280 working there knew it which is great it wasn't only it was only like you and I

00:19:23.260 actually of the actual new Canadians yeah which we're working in the hotel I was

00:19:29.680 talking to because we shot podcasts in the hotel all day yesterday oh yeah we

00:19:33.880 were staying at the Jag shout out to the Jag guys yeah because they actually were

00:19:38.440 so nice they gave us the we went in and we said listen we we need a room and they said we don't

00:19:43.400 have a room but we're going to make a room for you oh so they took the alcove beside the reception

00:19:47.640 desk oh yeah they made a podcasting studio for us and they let us shoot with one of their fine

00:19:53.080 pieces of art which was really cool yeah it was it was so nice so thank you guys yeah it's a great

00:19:59.640 it's a terrific addition to the city i have to say yes just the music when you go in there and

00:20:05.560 And when we asked people about the bakery, they were right away, they were like, oh yeah,

00:20:10.320 we love that place, here's where it is.

00:20:12.220 And they were all telling us the different addresses.

00:20:14.320 Oh, really?

00:20:14.900 Yeah, so we're really well done.

00:20:16.220 Oh, I feel that that's because we appeal to different dietary issues, I think.

00:20:24.660 You know, because we do, and then that means that the whole family can come and eat, you

00:20:31.300 know like if you've got a vegan teenager and um you know a poppy that likes his fish cakes

00:20:39.240 and someone who's gluten-free you know they can all come and eat here so that's i think that's

00:20:44.480 why it's it's worked that way but i'm so grateful that you know the young folks like it yeah yeah

00:20:51.620 good on you and appealing to the different uh food takes because i know how hard that is too

00:20:57.540 people don't understand

00:20:59.900 I tell them all the time about our business

00:21:01.740 I say you don't realize

00:21:02.860 when someone comes in and says they only do halal

00:21:06.300 I have to be

00:21:08.620 thinking about all the new food demands

00:21:10.980 which years ago I didn't

00:21:12.240 years ago when I started

00:21:13.840 in the restaurant business

00:21:15.480 when I went to Las Vegas

00:21:18.700 part of my tour down there was

00:21:20.620 not only gaming but also in the restaurant business

00:21:23.240 you did restaurant in Las Vegas?

00:21:25.100 yeah we did both

00:21:26.040 So the guy I worked for made us actually work in every part of the casino business to learn it because he believed, and this is interesting, his philosophy was that it wasn't just about gaming.

00:21:39.560 Right.

00:21:40.020 It was about all the things around gaming.

00:21:42.120 Exactly.

00:21:42.520 So he said, don't focus on the core all the time.

00:21:45.620 Focus on everything around it.

00:21:47.060 Yeah.

00:21:47.320 When we build our business ecosystems, when we start them, we spend more time around the

00:21:53.100 business sometimes than we do in the business, just because that's what grows the business.

00:21:57.860 And the initial gaming guys, I always say this to younger guys coming into the business,

00:22:03.200 I know you're going to be good at gaming.

00:22:05.940 Great.

00:22:06.420 Be good at gaming, but then get outside again.

00:22:09.360 Go run the restaurants or go run the entertainment and jump into the marketing for a while.

00:22:15.680 right spend some time around the business right and you'll be good at it go work charities or

00:22:20.280 community events if you can yeah yeah just understanding the whole biology of the business

00:22:26.440 is so important yeah and and how do you feel about um the the look the feel the smell of your

00:22:35.100 of your restaurants or businesses like do you find that that's important too oh i love it look so we

00:22:41.080 we did uh comfort food so what we do is comfort foods from around the world so every season i get

00:22:46.820 to create a new menu of comfort foods that are catered to my clientele from around the world

00:22:51.920 because as we become more ethically diverse in ontario um i was looking and i think okay that

00:22:58.800 menu is not going to work anymore so now i have to cater that menu and so i take a comfort food

00:23:03.700 from different parts of the world or two and you know i put them on the menu for the season and

00:23:08.040 And then I see how people react, they like them, they don't like them, and I get to tweak them a little.

00:23:12.580 Yeah.

00:23:13.000 Yeah, which is neat for me.

00:23:14.940 I enjoy it, and I'm a foodie anyway.

00:23:17.820 Oh, yeah.

00:23:18.460 Well, it's so funny you should say that, because we have, like, a lot of new Canadians that work for us.

00:23:24.940 And our store manager, Hoja, every lunch, he brings his own lunch, and his wife makes it, and he's always sharing it with me.

00:23:34.500 And so I've been eating lamb, which I haven't eaten in years, and all kinds of different things.

00:23:39.100 And learning about the, you know, in his case, the Persian culture.

00:23:42.920 And it's really, it's really interesting to me.

00:23:45.800 I love our new Canadians.

00:23:47.200 Oh, yeah. 0.70

00:23:47.840 Well, Shara, my wife's from Nepal.

00:23:50.140 Oh, yeah.

00:23:50.500 And so quite frankly, we're in the same thing.

00:23:52.820 We're constantly trying new cuisine because she definitely cooks different.

00:23:58.240 Me being Italian.

00:23:59.380 Right.

00:23:59.760 Right.

00:24:00.200 So there's a different, two different cultures cooking different foods.

00:24:03.780 and it always makes for a more, number one, our diet is way better now.

00:24:08.020 Yeah.

00:24:08.340 Because I got to learn their diet.

00:24:09.940 Right.

00:24:10.340 And their diet was way healthier than our diet.

00:24:12.240 Right.

00:24:12.860 And there's not as many diabetics in Nepal. 1.00

00:24:14.500 Is it a spon, though, Paul? 1.00

00:24:15.940 It is.

00:24:16.640 Oh, it's Italian food?

00:24:17.820 Yeah, well, it is.

00:24:19.640 But it's healthier, which is good.

00:24:23.260 Yeah.

00:24:23.740 Yeah.

00:24:24.340 Oh, that's cool.

00:24:25.260 So that's good.

00:24:25.960 So, you know, I really appreciate you taking the time.

00:24:29.700 Sure.

00:24:30.160 Thank you, Kelly.

00:24:31.040 You're welcome.

00:24:31.600 And, you know, I see everything.

00:24:33.340 And do you want to talk a little bit about what I'm seeing over it?

00:24:36.400 Because, you know, we're going to take some shots going out.

00:24:38.560 But if you had to pick, okay, if you had to pick what your specialty is,

00:24:43.100 like what the top number one seller.

00:24:46.800 Oh, our top number one seller, well, it's the Rocket Roast Chicken Sandwich

00:24:51.700 because we roast our own chicken.

00:24:53.420 So that's really, but also our fish cakes.

00:24:56.100 Our fish cakes are really popular.

00:24:58.060 We've sold like over 450,000 of them.

00:25:01.880 And what we do here is we take a traditional food and tweak it a bit, as you did, and make

00:25:12.420 it pal, not palatable, but make it, what's the word I'm looking for?

00:25:20.380 People that are gluten-free, for example, can eat our fish cakes because we don't fry

00:25:23.600 them.

00:25:24.600 We bake them.

00:25:25.600 And so you don't need to add flour to them.

00:25:28.260 that opens a really wide range of people that can eat our fish cakes and they're

00:25:33.440 really popular and we we try to what else have we done oh we've had Moroccan red

00:25:41.460 lentil soup because we have folks from Casablanca working here and it was

00:25:45.780 really funny Paul when we first opened or when we first offered it it said

00:25:51.900 Moroccan red lentil and the Moroccans we're trying it and they're like Kelly

00:25:56.700 We're going to tell you what the spices are, so now it's like an authentic. 0.99

00:26:04.040 Oh, good.

00:26:05.040 Yeah, so.

00:26:06.040 Well, thank you, Kellyanne.

00:26:07.040 You're welcome.

00:26:08.040 I know I'm going to actually pick some up.

00:26:09.040 I'm actually going to be eating with Blair's family later, so I'm going to pick some up.

00:26:12.040 Oh, great.

00:26:13.040 Yeah.

00:26:14.040 Great.

00:26:15.040 Well, it was nice to meet you.

00:26:16.040 Nice to meet you.

00:26:17.040 Yeah.

00:26:18.040 All the best.

00:26:19.040 Oh, thank you.

True Patriot Love - August 20, 2026

How Rocket Bakery Became a Newfoundland Icon ft. Kelly Mansell

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