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SmellMyChocha OP t1_j15viyr wrote
Reply to comment by SmellMyChocha in I'm the inventor of the best sellin' building toy on Amazon: BRAIN FLAKES. My company did $8.88 million in sales last year. Ask me anything! by SmellMyChocha
You're welcome and good luck!!
SmellMyChocha OP t1_j15vicp wrote
Reply to comment by BIGpuppyENERGY in I'm the inventor of the best sellin' building toy on Amazon: BRAIN FLAKES. My company did $8.88 million in sales last year. Ask me anything! by SmellMyChocha
Yes, I am self taught conversant mandarin speaker and reader and typer (I can't hand-write).
You don't need to learn Chinese to do business there. You just need to have the balls to go.
brpajense t1_j15vaqr wrote
Reply to We're 1st Lt Sean Carter and Capt. Steve Collier, members of the NORAD Tracks Santa team with NORAD, and we're ready to answer your questions on this 67-year old mission! by NORAD_Tracks_Santa
Is there anything we can infer about the altitudes at which Santa’s sleigh operates based on the fact that Santa Tracking stayed with NORAD instead of going to Space Force?
BIGpuppyENERGY t1_j15v2xn wrote
Reply to comment by SmellMyChocha in I'm the inventor of the best sellin' building toy on Amazon: BRAIN FLAKES. My company did $8.88 million in sales last year. Ask me anything! by SmellMyChocha
One last question - do you speak mandarin or any other local chinese languages? I assume you would having lived in China however it's a possibility that this is not the case.
Thanks for the conversation! Definitely makes me think about possibilities
Serengeti1234 t1_j15upj0 wrote
Reply to comment by TopCheddarBiscuit in We're 1st Lt Sean Carter and Capt. Steve Collier, members of the NORAD Tracks Santa team with NORAD, and we're ready to answer your questions on this 67-year old mission! by NORAD_Tracks_Santa
"...and then I heard Santa hop on the radio and say, 'LA Center, requesting speed check.'"
IrishEv t1_j15u37s wrote
thealphateam t1_j15u2vz wrote
Reply to We're 1st Lt Sean Carter and Capt. Steve Collier, members of the NORAD Tracks Santa team with NORAD, and we're ready to answer your questions on this 67-year old mission! by NORAD_Tracks_Santa
Did you watch the NORAD tracker as a kid?
swvagirl t1_j15tupn wrote
Reply to We're 1st Lt Sean Carter and Capt. Steve Collier, members of the NORAD Tracks Santa team with NORAD, and we're ready to answer your questions on this 67-year old mission! by NORAD_Tracks_Santa
How would someone go about volunteering?
garry4321 t1_j15toaw wrote
Reply to We're 1st Lt Sean Carter and Capt. Steve Collier, members of the NORAD Tracks Santa team with NORAD, and we're ready to answer your questions on this 67-year old mission! by NORAD_Tracks_Santa
How do we know santa isnt a threat? I have seen no data collection audit and he seems to be going into the homes of a lot of high level clearance people. Have you worked this out with him?
Perhaps this is just paranoia, but considering his propensity to covertly monitor others to determine naughtiness, its concerning to me.
TopCheddarBiscuit t1_j15thom wrote
Reply to comment by NORAD_Tracks_Santa in We're 1st Lt Sean Carter and Capt. Steve Collier, members of the NORAD Tracks Santa team with NORAD, and we're ready to answer your questions on this 67-year old mission! by NORAD_Tracks_Santa
I heard Santa gave a blackbird pilot the middle finger before hitting Mach 6 back in the 80s.
Nixplosion t1_j15t235 wrote
Reply to We're 1st Lt Sean Carter and Capt. Steve Collier, members of the NORAD Tracks Santa team with NORAD, and we're ready to answer your questions on this 67-year old mission! by NORAD_Tracks_Santa
Has a foreign power ever engaged with Santa over their own, or foreign to them, air space? Does Santas speed allow him to simply out maneuver any incoming ordnance or does he have counter measures?
SmellMyChocha OP t1_j15t0dh wrote
Reply to comment by BIGpuppyENERGY in I'm the inventor of the best sellin' building toy on Amazon: BRAIN FLAKES. My company did $8.88 million in sales last year. Ask me anything! by SmellMyChocha
This was 12 years ago so I don't remember all the details sorry! That included packaging, but I don't remember if it included logistics. You are correct re: main market and where I was living.
I could've done that for much much less than $20k. It could've been $1-2k.
Watch this video: it could change yoru life https://www.tiktok.com/@molsonexplains/video/7178703908506783018?is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1
Clay_Pigeon t1_j15syro wrote
Reply to comment by NORAD_Tracks_Santa in We're 1st Lt Sean Carter and Capt. Steve Collier, members of the NORAD Tracks Santa team with NORAD, and we're ready to answer your questions on this 67-year old mission! by NORAD_Tracks_Santa
Thank you for the reply!
BIGpuppyENERGY t1_j15ssf2 wrote
Reply to comment by SmellMyChocha in I'm the inventor of the best sellin' building toy on Amazon: BRAIN FLAKES. My company did $8.88 million in sales last year. Ask me anything! by SmellMyChocha
Did that include packaging/logistics to US or was this local to China? As I understand your main market is in the US for your products and at the time you were living In China?
This is assuming you source from China
Its cool to see that your inital investment wasn't astronomical and makes me wonder what I could come up with. I'm sick of the corporate life.
AlbinoAlex t1_j15sr2e wrote
Reply to We're 1st Lt Sean Carter and Capt. Steve Collier, members of the NORAD Tracks Santa team with NORAD, and we're ready to answer your questions on this 67-year old mission! by NORAD_Tracks_Santa
Is Santa delivering presents to Russia this year, or it is he also laying sanctions?
treegirl98 t1_j15sqod wrote
Reply to comment by Killer-Barbie in We're 1st Lt Sean Carter and Capt. Steve Collier, members of the NORAD Tracks Santa team with NORAD, and we're ready to answer your questions on this 67-year old mission! by NORAD_Tracks_Santa
He calls his cousin Leroy the redneck reindeer. The Joe Diffie song told us all about it!
NORAD_Tracks_Santa OP t1_j15spl9 wrote
Reply to comment by UsualAnybody1807 in We're 1st Lt Sean Carter and Capt. Steve Collier, members of the NORAD Tracks Santa team with NORAD, and we're ready to answer your questions on this 67-year old mission! by NORAD_Tracks_Santa
Captain Collier here - 19 years as a Public Affairs professional, sometimes you just luck out :)
joelupi t1_j15snkk wrote
Reply to We're 1st Lt Sean Carter and Capt. Steve Collier, members of the NORAD Tracks Santa team with NORAD, and we're ready to answer your questions on this 67-year old mission! by NORAD_Tracks_Santa
If necessary could Santa make an emergency landing at Groom Lake?
What kind of cross signature does a sleigh and reindeer have?
Does Santa have a call sign?
UsualAnybody1807 t1_j15s4rt wrote
NORAD_Tracks_Santa OP t1_j15rvdi wrote
Reply to comment by Clay_Pigeon in We're 1st Lt Sean Carter and Capt. Steve Collier, members of the NORAD Tracks Santa team with NORAD, and we're ready to answer your questions on this 67-year old mission! by NORAD_Tracks_Santa
As long as he's in flight! But of all the data we have, it's all day December 24.
*edited for grammar
NORAD_Tracks_Santa OP t1_j15rrj7 wrote
Reply to comment by dbrodbeck in We're 1st Lt Sean Carter and Capt. Steve Collier, members of the NORAD Tracks Santa team with NORAD, and we're ready to answer your questions on this 67-year old mission! by NORAD_Tracks_Santa
Captain Collier here -- That's a great memory. We have so many examples that people give us like that. Warms my heart!
Clay_Pigeon t1_j15rnxj wrote
Reply to We're 1st Lt Sean Carter and Capt. Steve Collier, members of the NORAD Tracks Santa team with NORAD, and we're ready to answer your questions on this 67-year old mission! by NORAD_Tracks_Santa
Thank you for doing this.
My kids asked: how long do you track Santa?
SmellMyChocha OP t1_j15rl3u wrote
Reply to comment by BIGpuppyENERGY in I'm the inventor of the best sellin' building toy on Amazon: BRAIN FLAKES. My company did $8.88 million in sales last year. Ask me anything! by SmellMyChocha
Our first container was 20,000 pieces at around $1 a piece (this was Kikbo, our first product, not Brain Flakes) if memory serves. So I used it all, but I was able to convert that into more money by selling those products. As I said, I kept my expenses crazy low!
db37 t1_j15vy8e wrote
Reply to We're 1st Lt Sean Carter and Capt. Steve Collier, members of the NORAD Tracks Santa team with NORAD, and we're ready to answer your questions on this 67-year old mission! by NORAD_Tracks_Santa
Has Elon Musk's ban on live reporting of aircraft locations changed the way you'll report Santa's location this year?