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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Slang only the absolute best music from the eighties and beyond.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
This is Missouri Possum Radio.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
Oh, let's have a party and welcome back to Missouri
Possum Radio on iHeart Radio. Bill Jim in the Morning
on this Thursday, Thirsty Thursday, Baby Gold, Running Manthday, Dona, Johnny.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Billy Jim and I Am Kennedy County Joe, and Hi Carol.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Mama Possum's always got to do the Waltons roll call
with their family every Thursday that she pops in here
on the morning show.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
But we're excited to.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Have with us the Big Cheese, the owner of the
Bourbon Family Center, Ryan Meyer, joining us on the show
this morning.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
How's it going Ryan the morning?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
It's going great. Good morning, guys, Let's.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
Get around across kids. There you go, ty class.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
And then we're also joined by two of your crew
with us in studio and who we got with us
this morning, Carol and Mill.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
Carol and Mel joining us also with Mama Possum.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
So, Brian, how are things going in Bourbon, Missouri and
at the Bourbon Family Center? You guys gearing up busy
holiday season?
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Yes, we are, so it's everything's going great. Here.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Uh, we're looking forward Saturday, we have our our annual
Christmas event where Santa Claus comes.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
It's postponed this year.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
It had to be rescheduled due to weather, but we
actually think the turnout will be better as such.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
But yeah, things are going great. We're really looking forward
to this weekend.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Yeah, Santa Claus, mister Klaus is going to make an
appearance coming to Town and Bourbon.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
And what's the times on that? Ryan? Did I miss that?
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Eleven to two on Saturday?
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Santa will be there?
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Where are you? Where's your what's your address?
Speaker 3 (01:37):
One forty West Pine and Bourbon in the Town and
Country Market Plaza.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Yeah, yeah, and then is going to be there? Oh man,
look out?
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Is that is that you? County Carol? Carol?
Speaker 4 (01:53):
I'm sorry, I'm okay, just j So.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Ryan, for our listeners who may not know, you know,
Hillbilly and I grew up in Bourbon as kids. So
we frequented Bourbon Family Center our entire lives and still do.
But what all do you guys offer at the Family Center?
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Question is what don't wet? Right?
Speaker 4 (02:17):
So?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Yeah, and so that store.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
I fell in love with that store because of the
community and the product selection that provided right in the
history there so been in business since nineteen seventy two
and over that time we've provided hardware, firearms, alcohol, liquor, beer, camping,
supplies ice cream to the community, the ice cream parlors seasonal.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
But the rest of it's not so that whole strip mall.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Whether it's Town of Country supermarket, the hair salon, subway
car wash.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
There's a lot of things that we provide just on
that corner. We're glad to be a part of it.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
So and people frequent it from all over. I mean
it's not just Bourbon Missouri. I mean there's people that
go to the Family Center from all around. And you
guys have really made a niche in the firearms world too.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Luckily the previous owners established that a few years ago
and was you know, late at steak there in the
in Crawford County for firearms and did a really good
job of having the right selection, the right.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Brands, and the right assortment and kept it turning.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
But yeah, you're right, like half of our business, fifty
percent of our business between the months of April and
we'll call it labor Day, our first time purchasers for us. Wow.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Right, like they have never been to the sword before.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
And on a monthly average outside of that, it's around
thirty percent first time purchasers. So there's a lot of
people that whether it's Root sixty six or they're coming
into the area for hunting or they're going to.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
The river, there's a lot of first time passer buys.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
So yeah, I think.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Something that's lost that people may or may not really
realize is that the the number of canoe renolds and
campgrounds and the economic impact that has on small business
and particularly department family center.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
It's huge. It's absolutely huge.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
You know, if it wasn't for Blue Springs and some
of the other sites that are down the road on
the river there, yeah, it would be our store would
be completely different.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
And so when did you take over ownership from the
Crump family.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
August eighth of twenty twenty four, twenty twenty four, So
you've got your first year under your belt and into
the second year. Yes, it's been quite a ride. So
it's I've loved every minute of it. I love the community.
It's been the best part about it is twofold. The
(04:50):
team that we have there and the people that work
there and the relationships that we have as a group
is number one. And then the ability to get to
know the community and do things like what we're doing
on Saturday and and and different efforts around Thanksgiving, different
ways that we try to connect with the community, and
whether it's we're trying to help kids out or just
(05:13):
establish a relationship. We're a small business, so we rely
upon those relationships to make our business go.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
And it's it's important I tell people all the time,
you know, to shop local because you know, when it
comes to small businesses and small communities, they're the ones
that are going above and beyond to support organizations, to
support fundraisers, support the schools, support the ball leagues, you know.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
And Amazon's not coming in there doing night you know, they.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Agreed, They're just yeah. And when you walk in the door,
we want to you know, we want to greet you.
It's a friendly smile and a hello, and you know
who you're working with. And there's we haven't had We're
fortunate enough, we haven't had a lot of turnover there,
so we we liken the fact that every time that
you come into store, it's going to be a person.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
That you know.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
And that's something I can remember as a kid, and
I'm sure he'll Billy can too. You know, the employees
that were at Bourbon Family Center have been there for.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Carol. How long have you been at Bourbon Family Center?
Seventeen years?
Speaker 2 (06:18):
That's right. But she came with the furniture. But you
can't forget the world famous slushies.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
The world famous slushies.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
That's right. They have the best slushy machine. It. Do
yourself a favor, get your slushy, Carol said, it's your
original slushy machine. It is. That means it's old, but.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
It means it's dependable and it works right, yes, yes,
you know what. And the other thing is we were
talking about this off air earlier. He'll Billy wanted to
know if they still had the penny candy and I'm
I'm like, there's no such thing as penny candy anymore.
We're not even producing the penny in this country anymore.
But you still have the candy and it's nickel candy.
(07:02):
I mean, what kid didn't love going into the Bourbon
Family Center and getting a bag of the nickel candy,
And well, it was penny candy back then.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
It was penny candy back then. You're showing your age,
now hill Billy showing your age. So so, Ryan, what
are the what are the store hours down there?
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Eight to eight during the week and then we expand
those during the summertime, We'll expand and close at nine.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
At nine on the week and the weekends. Say it's
still eight o'clock Sunday, Sunday's eight to six.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
You got it?
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Got it?
Speaker 3 (07:35):
And how I don't want to put you on the spot,
but how many how many people do you guys employ
at the Family Center?
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Ten?
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Ten?
Speaker 3 (07:43):
I mean, that's that. And that's another thing I tell
people all the time. You don't know the number of
people you employee, employ and what you pay them for.
For every dollar, that's ten dollars pumped into a local community.
For every dollar that person makes there, that's ten dollars
pumped into a local community. And that keeps the economy going.
And the sales taxes that are generated from a business
(08:05):
like Bourbon Family Center is what helps pay in the
city the infrastructure, the police, the streets, the parks, all
those things.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
And when people buy.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Things online, I'm going to tell you, as I said
it a thousand times, those tax dollars are being lost.
Also so you're really hurting your community by trying to
save fifty cents or a buck here or there by
not shopping local. So make sure you get out there
and support stores like the Bourbon Family Center and all
the stores and your community wherever you're listening at Listening
(08:36):
at you know, we have two hundred and fifty thousand
people listening locally and nationwide. So you may be in
a small town in New York right now, just make
sure you support your small business because they are vital
to a community and the survival of those communities as well.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
And in my opinion, and to drive, yes, so tell
us about that.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
It's a community toy drive. It'll end Monday.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
So any business in Bourbon you can go drop off
a toy and it stays in.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Bourbon, stays in Bourbon. Now, now, who who does the
pantry distribute those? Or how does that you guys distribute those?
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Anybody that needs help just call Bourbon Family Center, right
and we put their name down, We call them and
they come and pick out.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
What they want. Plus you guys doing that. That's it
was huge last year. It's beautiful.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
This is our second you know, and that's a that's
another thing. The economy has been tough for people. Inflation
has been been the main killer. I mean, there's there's
plenty of work out there for people, but uh, you know,
and and I have my own theories on that and
why prices are you know, are where they're at. But uh,
it's not not the fault of the business owner, trust me.
(09:43):
You know, we see that in our line of work
as well. But Ryan and Melan Carroll, we want to
thank you guys for coming in awesome, absolutely and wish
you guys continued success down there at the Bourbon Family Center.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Get in there and support small business America. It is vitally,
vitally important. We're gonna head to the airwaves.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
And the music. Here's Tracy Chapman fast Car on Missouri
Possum Radio on iHeartRadio.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Don't wear if
Speaker 2 (10:09):
It rocks, It's on the Possum
Slang only the absolute best music from the eighties and beyond.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
This is Missouri Possum Radio.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
Oh, let's have a party and welcome back to Missouri
Possum Radio on iHeart Radio. Bill Jim in the Morning
on this Thursday, Thirsty Thursday, Baby Gold, Running Manthday, Dona, Johnny.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Billy Jim and I Am Kennedy County Joe, and Hi Carol.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Mama Possum's always got to do the Waltons roll call
with their family every Thursday that she pops in here
on the morning show.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
But we're excited to.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Have with us the Big Cheese, the owner of the
Bourbon Family Center, Ryan Meyer, joining us on the show
this morning.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
How's it going Ryan the morning?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
It's going great. Good morning, guys, Let's.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
Get around across kids. There you go, ty class.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
And then we're also joined by two of your crew
with us in studio and who we got with us
this morning, Carol and Mill.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
Carol and Mel joining us also with Mama Possum.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
So, Brian, how are things going in Bourbon, Missouri and
at the Bourbon Family Center? You guys gearing up busy
holiday season?
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Yes, we are, so it's everything's going great. Here.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Uh, we're looking forward Saturday, we have our our annual
Christmas event where Santa Claus comes.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
It's postponed this year.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
It had to be rescheduled due to weather, but we
actually think the turnout will be better as such.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
But yeah, things are going great. We're really looking forward
to this weekend.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Yeah, Santa Claus, mister Klaus is going to make an
appearance coming to Town and Bourbon.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
And what's the times on that? Ryan? Did I miss that?
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Eleven to two on Saturday?
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Santa will be there?
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Where are you? Where's your what's your address?
Speaker 3 (01:37):
One forty West Pine and Bourbon in the Town and
Country Market Plaza.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Yeah, yeah, and then is going to be there? Oh man,
look out?
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Is that is that you? County Carol? Carol?
Speaker 4 (01:53):
I'm sorry, I'm okay, just j So.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Ryan, for our listeners who may not know, you know,
Hillbilly and I grew up in Bourbon as kids. So
we frequented Bourbon Family Center our entire lives and still do.
But what all do you guys offer at the Family Center?
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Question is what don't wet? Right?
Speaker 4 (02:17):
So?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Yeah, and so that store.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
I fell in love with that store because of the
community and the product selection that provided right in the
history there so been in business since nineteen seventy two
and over that time we've provided hardware, firearms, alcohol, liquor, beer, camping,
supplies ice cream to the community, the ice cream parlors seasonal.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
But the rest of it's not so that whole strip mall.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Whether it's Town of Country supermarket, the hair salon, subway
car wash.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
There's a lot of things that we provide just on
that corner. We're glad to be a part of it.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
So and people frequent it from all over. I mean
it's not just Bourbon Missouri. I mean there's people that
go to the Family Center from all around. And you
guys have really made a niche in the firearms world too.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Luckily the previous owners established that a few years ago
and was you know, late at steak there in the
in Crawford County for firearms and did a really good
job of having the right selection, the right.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Brands, and the right assortment and kept it turning.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
But yeah, you're right, like half of our business, fifty
percent of our business between the months of April and
we'll call it labor Day, our first time purchasers for us. Wow.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Right, like they have never been to the sword before.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
And on a monthly average outside of that, it's around
thirty percent first time purchasers. So there's a lot of
people that whether it's Root sixty six or they're coming
into the area for hunting or they're going to.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
The river, there's a lot of first time passer buys.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
So yeah, I think.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Something that's lost that people may or may not really
realize is that the the number of canoe renolds and
campgrounds and the economic impact that has on small business
and particularly department family center.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
It's huge. It's absolutely huge.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
You know, if it wasn't for Blue Springs and some
of the other sites that are down the road on
the river there, yeah, it would be our store would
be completely different.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
And so when did you take over ownership from the
Crump family.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
August eighth of twenty twenty four, twenty twenty four, So
you've got your first year under your belt and into
the second year. Yes, it's been quite a ride. So
it's I've loved every minute of it. I love the community.
It's been the best part about it is twofold. The
(04:50):
team that we have there and the people that work
there and the relationships that we have as a group
is number one. And then the ability to get to
know the community and do things like what we're doing
on Saturday and and and different efforts around Thanksgiving, different
ways that we try to connect with the community, and
whether it's we're trying to help kids out or just
(05:13):
establish a relationship. We're a small business, so we rely
upon those relationships to make our business go.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
And it's it's important I tell people all the time,
you know, to shop local because you know, when it
comes to small businesses and small communities, they're the ones
that are going above and beyond to support organizations, to
support fundraisers, support the schools, support the ball leagues, you know.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
And Amazon's not coming in there doing night you know, they.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Agreed, They're just yeah. And when you walk in the door,
we want to you know, we want to greet you.
It's a friendly smile and a hello, and you know
who you're working with. And there's we haven't had We're
fortunate enough, we haven't had a lot of turnover there,
so we we liken the fact that every time that
you come into store, it's going to be a person.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
That you know.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
And that's something I can remember as a kid, and
I'm sure he'll Billy can too. You know, the employees
that were at Bourbon Family Center have been there for.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Carol. How long have you been at Bourbon Family Center?
Seventeen years?
Speaker 2 (06:18):
That's right. But she came with the furniture. But you
can't forget the world famous slushies.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
The world famous slushies.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
That's right. They have the best slushy machine. It. Do
yourself a favor, get your slushy, Carol said, it's your
original slushy machine. It is. That means it's old, but.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
It means it's dependable and it works right, yes, yes,
you know what. And the other thing is we were
talking about this off air earlier. He'll Billy wanted to
know if they still had the penny candy and I'm
I'm like, there's no such thing as penny candy anymore.
We're not even producing the penny in this country anymore.
But you still have the candy and it's nickel candy.
(07:02):
I mean, what kid didn't love going into the Bourbon
Family Center and getting a bag of the nickel candy,
And well, it was penny candy back then.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
It was penny candy back then. You're showing your age,
now hill Billy showing your age. So so, Ryan, what
are the what are the store hours down there?
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Eight to eight during the week and then we expand
those during the summertime, We'll expand and close at nine.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
At nine on the week and the weekends. Say it's
still eight o'clock Sunday, Sunday's eight to six.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
You got it?
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Got it?
Speaker 3 (07:35):
And how I don't want to put you on the spot,
but how many how many people do you guys employ
at the Family Center?
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Ten?
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Ten?
Speaker 3 (07:43):
I mean, that's that. And that's another thing I tell
people all the time. You don't know the number of
people you employee, employ and what you pay them for.
For every dollar, that's ten dollars pumped into a local community.
For every dollar that person makes there, that's ten dollars
pumped into a local community. And that keeps the economy going.
And the sales taxes that are generated from a business
(08:05):
like Bourbon Family Center is what helps pay in the
city the infrastructure, the police, the streets, the parks, all
those things.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
And when people buy.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Things online, I'm going to tell you, as I said
it a thousand times, those tax dollars are being lost.
Also so you're really hurting your community by trying to
save fifty cents or a buck here or there by
not shopping local. So make sure you get out there
and support stores like the Bourbon Family Center and all
the stores and your community wherever you're listening at Listening
(08:36):
at you know, we have two hundred and fifty thousand
people listening locally and nationwide. So you may be in
a small town in New York right now, just make
sure you support your small business because they are vital
to a community and the survival of those communities as well.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
And in my opinion, and to drive, yes, so tell
us about that.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
It's a community toy drive. It'll end Monday.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
So any business in Bourbon you can go drop off
a toy and it stays in.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Bourbon, stays in Bourbon. Now, now, who who does the
pantry distribute those? Or how does that you guys distribute those?
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Anybody that needs help just call Bourbon Family Center, right
and we put their name down, We call them and
they come and pick out.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
What they want. Plus you guys doing that. That's it
was huge last year. It's beautiful.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
This is our second you know, and that's a that's
another thing. The economy has been tough for people. Inflation
has been been the main killer. I mean, there's there's
plenty of work out there for people, but uh, you know,
and and I have my own theories on that and
why prices are you know, are where they're at. But uh,
it's not not the fault of the business owner, trust me.
(09:43):
You know, we see that in our line of work
as well. But Ryan and Melan Carroll, we want to
thank you guys for coming in awesome, absolutely and wish
you guys continued success down there at the Bourbon Family Center.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Get in there and support small business America. It is vitally,
vitally important. We're gonna head to the airwaves.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
And the music. Here's Tracy Chapman fast Car on Missouri
Possum Radio on iHeartRadio.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Don't wear if
Speaker 2 (10:09):
It rocks, It's on the Possum
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