February 15, 2025 • 12 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now I want to celebrate with you because you folks
have been so curious about my partners in Zelman's Minty
Mouth Mints zelman Z E L M, I n S
dot com slash Fork is where you want to go
to get some So I thought I bring my buddy
Anthony raisin On who uh you know creator created this
(00:23):
and partners with his son and his wife to bring this,
I mean, truly a family affair. One year, they have
been great partners and sponsors here on the Fork Report. Anthony,
how are you doing, buddy?
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Great Neil always special to talk to you, and you know,
it's hard to believe. I was looking back the other
day and said, it's our anniversary with the Fork Report
coming up now. Not only is it, you know, the
Valentine's Day weekend, but this is one year since we
started this incredible relationship with you, and you know, it's
(00:56):
just been amazing to see the love, the support, and
you know, we get a lot of great feedback from
the Report listeners as to you know, their you know,
the use, how they're using Zelmens and couldn't be happier
to be a sponsor of the show with you.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Well, we love it and It's one of those things
that it is. We get asked a lot about it, Anthony,
he both handle and me. But I will tell you
my personal experience is not only do I get asked.
I mean I have great partnerships. And you know how
choosey I am. You and I are in constant communication
is to the message. And you know how we even
(01:34):
talk about Zelman's, so you know how I am about
partnering with people and bringing them to the audience because
they're my listeners there.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
This is a partnership.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
But I will tell you I get asked about Zelman's
all the time, including from other partners and friends. Chris Perez,
my pal from American Vision Windows, he's the president over there.
In a call with him the other day, he goes, hey,
do those really work? And I said, why you are?
I go, do you I pitch your product? Do you
(02:04):
think i'd pitch it if I didn't use it and
like it? And he goes, well no, And I go,
then why would it be different? And you were kind
enough when I told you that story to send him
some So explain the path, like how it came to
be and what makes Zelman's different? Why is not just
a mint or a breath rushener.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Okay, So, as you know, Neil I pioneered the breath
capsule over thirty years ago with the previous company that
you had, and we, you know, we we exited the
breath business and moved on to other things. And it
was actually Jared who probably about eight years ago, said
why don't we get back into the breath business. There's
(02:48):
nothing out there on the market that actually does what,
you know, what we used to do. And we went
back to the drawing board, worked with our R and
D team, work with Summer, you know, I call them
the crazy scientists, and put together a natural product. Most people,
you know, would expect something that works as well as
(03:08):
elmonds to be full of chemicals. It's a natural product.
We use parsley seed oil as the base. Parsley, as
you've explained to your listeners you know, for the past year,
has been used for centuries as a natural breath the
ode rise. So not only does it help freshen your breath,
it helps settle your stomach. There's so many great things
about parsley seed oil that we were able to harness
(03:32):
a very specific strain of the parsley seed oil And
when people say to me, well, what makes it different,
I tell them, when you pull up to the gas
station in your car, you've got all those different selections
at the pump, and you know which which gas are
you going to put in? Well, you want to put
the best gas impossible. Then when you pull up to
(03:52):
the airport and you see the aeroplane, you hope and
pray that they're using what's called jet a fuel because
you want the purest and the best.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Well, yeah, that of course makes the most sense. You
if you're going to be putting your life in the
hands of an airplane to have the best fuel. How
does that tie into in this case the Parsley seat oil.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Well, you know, it's all about the level of you know,
of the product that you're using. It's no different when
you know when you're eating out. I know you have
Wildfork as a sponsor, and I've been a customer of
Wildfork for many, many years because I believe their food
is the best out there that you can buy. So
(04:33):
if you can get your hands on the best and
it doesn't cost you know too much to do that,
you buy the best that you can. You know, with
Zelman's we always trive to use the best. We use
natural mint on the coating. We do whatever we can
to You're going to make the product as delicious and
as efficacious as possible. And throughout all of this the
(04:55):
number one question we get and you know it because
you get it from your listeners and you mentioned earlier
on from other advertisers. Does it work well? Of course
it works. You cannot sell hundreds of millions of capsules
and be on the air for years and years with
a product if it doesn't work. Consumers are smart. Zelmans
is not a cheap product, so it has to work
(05:18):
and better work, you know, every time you use it,
and it needs to be the best on the market,
otherwise people wouldn't keep buying it. It's not about cheap
and easy. I like that. It is truly about value.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
And I want to tell people this because I thought
this was very generous. It's the one year anniversary for
Zelman's as a sponsor on the four Report. One of
the reasons why Anthony and Anthony and I are talking
because people ask me so much, but they've got a
really special offer for you. You can't miss this, whether
you're a new or existing loyal Zelman's customer. It's a
(05:50):
buy one, get one fifty percent off deal on their
best selling three packs. So that means when you buy
a three pack, you get a second three pack for
fifty percent off. They've never offered this particular deal before,
so take advantage, save big, don't waste wait because this
isn't forever. It will be gone tomorrow with me. So
(06:12):
the only way to get this deal is to go
to zelmans dot com slash fork that's Zelmans dot com
slash fork, z E l M i ns dot com
slash fork to get the special offer. Talking with my
friend Anthony Raising from Zelman's Mintimouth Mints, it's our one
year anniversary and it's Valentine's Day weekend as well, so
(06:35):
we're talking a little bit about the birth of Zelman's
because I get more questions about Zelman's Mintymouth Mints than
I think any other product or service that I have
ever told you about and been excited about. So Anthony,
we talked a little bit about the starting of Zelman's.
Get into and I know this is you have to
(06:56):
be a little transparent and personal as to how this happened,
but explain how Zelman's minting mouth meant started at the
very beginning.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Okay, so we have to go back to the late
eighties early nineties. As you know, I love eating spicy foods, garlic, onions,
whatever you can do to spice up the food. Gland
food has no place in my world. And it got
to the point when Lauren, my wife, was pregnant, and
(07:26):
pregnant woman develop a sense of smell like a bloodhound.
Oh yeah. And I would come in at the end
of the day from work and she would say, I
don't know what you've been eating. To get out of here,
you stink, or brush your teeth, go do some mouthwash.
And I tried all of that and nothing worked. You know,
it would be brush mint. I used to drink mouthwash,
(07:47):
which you know, lad found out that that's the last
thing you ever want to do with mouth right now.
And I said, there has to be a natural way
to get fresh breath. And I started doing research. And
the more I dug into the research, the more it
pointed towards Parsley. Parsley, as I spoke earlier, has been
(08:08):
a natural breath theodorizer forever. The problem with Parsley is
you have to eat a lot of parsley in order
to get the effects of rarely freshening your breath, and
then you walk around instead of smelling of bad breath,
you've got little sprigs of parsley sticking in your teeth.
And people are grossed out by that. So we went,
we went way beyond that and actually worked with some
(08:31):
research researchers back in my native country, which is South Africa,
and over there came up with what eventually has become
Zelmon's minty mouth. It was encapsulating the parsley seed oil again,
finding the specific strain, which took many years to find out,
(08:53):
and then you know, getting people to try it. You
know when everybody said you have to put mint in
your mouth and we said, no, swallowed this capsule. It'll
give you fresh breath. And then they said, yeah, but
I still want men. And that's how we develop the
delicious minty coating that we put on. And you know,
as I like to say, the rest is history. And
(09:13):
what you know, what a lot of people have found
out from taking zelmonds. Often if you eat a lot
of you know, eating pasta and you got the garlic
sauce or you're eating whatever you're eating garlic and onions
are actually toxic. The actually what makes your breath smell
is actually a toxin in the garlic and onion. And
(09:34):
garlic and onion are from the same family, and it's
a toxin that is in there developed. I would say,
you know, mother nature is brilliant. The toxin is to
prevent the garlic and onion being eaten in the wild.
So a garlic and onion has no smell until you
cut that very very very thin membrane and that's you know,
(09:57):
that's what makes it so pungent. And some people say,
I don't eat garlic, I don't eat onion. It makes
me sick. And that's because they have a hyper sensitivity
to this touson in the garlic and onions. You know,
I would say ninety nine nine percent of the population
are fine with garlic and onions. But we do come
across people to say, well, I don't need zelmonds because
(10:19):
I don't need garlic and onions, And you say, hey,
you can now eat garlic and onions if you're eating zalmons.
But we go way beyond garlic con onions. People love
zelmonds because they're drinking coffee or they're out, you know, socializing,
and there's so many different things that cause bad breath
and zelmons. Even though we're clinically tested on garlic and
(10:40):
onions because those are the toughest offenders, we work on
just about every other kind of food or bad breath
related problem, except if you have you know, bad oral
hygiene and you've got fungus growing in your mouth and
you've got running teeth, that's a whole different story. But
if it's for you know, food related bad breath or
social causes of bad breath, we give them any back guarantee.
(11:04):
And you know, I would say over the years there
may be a handful of people who sit with the
like it we get in. I don't.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
I know you guys say you could bite into it.
I always tell people don't. I don't like the taste
of parsley seed oil like that some people do. But
I think that you do as said you just I
take three, I enjoy the mint, and then I swallow
the capsule, and it is now not only something that
I do after meals, but I actually it's part of
(11:36):
my morning hygiene too. After I brush my teeth and
then I'll enjoy the mint and then I'll swallow that
and it's part of my oral hygiene. Now we're up
against the clock, Anthony, I want to remind people because
it is the one year anniversary of the partnership between
Zelman's and The Fork Report as a sponsor. Here, they've
(11:56):
got a great offer for you, and I want you
to take advantage of it. You can't miss this, whether
you're a new or existing loyal Zelman's customer. It's a
buy one, get one fifty percent off deal of their
best selling three pack. That means when you buy a
three pack, you get a second three pack for fifty
percent off. And these are the real deal. They've never
offered this before, and take advantage of it. It's gonna
(12:21):
be gone tomorrow. So the only way to get this
deal is to go to zelmans dot com, slash Fork
f O r K that's Z E L M I
n S dot com, slash fork, zelmans dot com slash
fork to get this special offer. Thanks so much, Anthony
for taking the time to come on. I appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Neil, thank you and look forward to seeing you soon.
Now I want to celebrate with you because you folks
have been so curious about my partners in Zelman's Minty
Mouth Mints zelman Z E L M, I n S
dot com slash Fork is where you want to go
to get some So I thought I bring my buddy
Anthony raisin On who uh you know creator created this
(00:23):
and partners with his son and his wife to bring this,
I mean, truly a family affair. One year, they have
been great partners and sponsors here on the Fork Report. Anthony,
how are you doing, buddy?
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Great Neil always special to talk to you, and you know,
it's hard to believe. I was looking back the other
day and said, it's our anniversary with the Fork Report
coming up now. Not only is it, you know, the
Valentine's Day weekend, but this is one year since we
started this incredible relationship with you, and you know, it's
(00:56):
just been amazing to see the love, the support, and
you know, we get a lot of great feedback from
the Report listeners as to you know, their you know,
the use, how they're using Zelmens and couldn't be happier
to be a sponsor of the show with you.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Well, we love it and It's one of those things
that it is. We get asked a lot about it, Anthony,
he both handle and me. But I will tell you
my personal experience is not only do I get asked.
I mean I have great partnerships. And you know how
choosey I am. You and I are in constant communication
is to the message. And you know how we even
(01:34):
talk about Zelman's, so you know how I am about
partnering with people and bringing them to the audience because
they're my listeners there.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
This is a partnership.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
But I will tell you I get asked about Zelman's
all the time, including from other partners and friends. Chris Perez,
my pal from American Vision Windows, he's the president over there.
In a call with him the other day, he goes, hey,
do those really work? And I said, why you are?
I go, do you I pitch your product? Do you
(02:04):
think i'd pitch it if I didn't use it and
like it? And he goes, well no, And I go,
then why would it be different? And you were kind
enough when I told you that story to send him
some So explain the path, like how it came to
be and what makes Zelman's different? Why is not just
a mint or a breath rushener.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Okay, So, as you know, Neil I pioneered the breath
capsule over thirty years ago with the previous company that
you had, and we, you know, we we exited the
breath business and moved on to other things. And it
was actually Jared who probably about eight years ago, said
why don't we get back into the breath business. There's
(02:48):
nothing out there on the market that actually does what,
you know, what we used to do. And we went
back to the drawing board, worked with our R and
D team, work with Summer, you know, I call them
the crazy scientists, and put together a natural product. Most people,
you know, would expect something that works as well as
(03:08):
elmonds to be full of chemicals. It's a natural product.
We use parsley seed oil as the base. Parsley, as
you've explained to your listeners you know, for the past year,
has been used for centuries as a natural breath the
ode rise. So not only does it help freshen your breath,
it helps settle your stomach. There's so many great things
about parsley seed oil that we were able to harness
(03:32):
a very specific strain of the parsley seed oil And
when people say to me, well, what makes it different,
I tell them, when you pull up to the gas
station in your car, you've got all those different selections
at the pump, and you know which which gas are
you going to put in? Well, you want to put
the best gas impossible. Then when you pull up to
(03:52):
the airport and you see the aeroplane, you hope and
pray that they're using what's called jet a fuel because
you want the purest and the best.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Well, yeah, that of course makes the most sense. You
if you're going to be putting your life in the
hands of an airplane to have the best fuel. How
does that tie into in this case the Parsley seat oil.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Well, you know, it's all about the level of you know,
of the product that you're using. It's no different when
you know when you're eating out. I know you have
Wildfork as a sponsor, and I've been a customer of
Wildfork for many, many years because I believe their food
is the best out there that you can buy. So
(04:33):
if you can get your hands on the best and
it doesn't cost you know too much to do that,
you buy the best that you can. You know, with
Zelman's we always trive to use the best. We use
natural mint on the coating. We do whatever we can
to You're going to make the product as delicious and
as efficacious as possible. And throughout all of this the
(04:55):
number one question we get and you know it because
you get it from your listeners and you mentioned earlier
on from other advertisers. Does it work well? Of course
it works. You cannot sell hundreds of millions of capsules
and be on the air for years and years with
a product if it doesn't work. Consumers are smart. Zelmans
is not a cheap product, so it has to work
(05:18):
and better work, you know, every time you use it,
and it needs to be the best on the market,
otherwise people wouldn't keep buying it. It's not about cheap
and easy. I like that. It is truly about value.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
And I want to tell people this because I thought
this was very generous. It's the one year anniversary for
Zelman's as a sponsor on the four Report. One of
the reasons why Anthony and Anthony and I are talking
because people ask me so much, but they've got a
really special offer for you. You can't miss this, whether
you're a new or existing loyal Zelman's customer. It's a
(05:50):
buy one, get one fifty percent off deal on their
best selling three packs. So that means when you buy
a three pack, you get a second three pack for
fifty percent off. They've never offered this particular deal before,
so take advantage, save big, don't waste wait because this
isn't forever. It will be gone tomorrow with me. So
(06:12):
the only way to get this deal is to go
to zelmans dot com slash fork that's Zelmans dot com
slash fork, z E l M i ns dot com
slash fork to get the special offer. Talking with my
friend Anthony Raising from Zelman's Mintimouth Mints, it's our one
year anniversary and it's Valentine's Day weekend as well, so
(06:35):
we're talking a little bit about the birth of Zelman's
because I get more questions about Zelman's Mintymouth Mints than
I think any other product or service that I have
ever told you about and been excited about. So Anthony,
we talked a little bit about the starting of Zelman's.
Get into and I know this is you have to
(06:56):
be a little transparent and personal as to how this happened,
but explain how Zelman's minting mouth meant started at the
very beginning.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Okay, so we have to go back to the late
eighties early nineties. As you know, I love eating spicy foods, garlic, onions,
whatever you can do to spice up the food. Gland
food has no place in my world. And it got
to the point when Lauren, my wife, was pregnant, and
(07:26):
pregnant woman develop a sense of smell like a bloodhound.
Oh yeah. And I would come in at the end
of the day from work and she would say, I
don't know what you've been eating. To get out of here,
you stink, or brush your teeth, go do some mouthwash.
And I tried all of that and nothing worked. You know,
it would be brush mint. I used to drink mouthwash,
(07:47):
which you know, lad found out that that's the last
thing you ever want to do with mouth right now.
And I said, there has to be a natural way
to get fresh breath. And I started doing research. And
the more I dug into the research, the more it
pointed towards Parsley. Parsley, as I spoke earlier, has been
(08:08):
a natural breath theodorizer forever. The problem with Parsley is
you have to eat a lot of parsley in order
to get the effects of rarely freshening your breath, and
then you walk around instead of smelling of bad breath,
you've got little sprigs of parsley sticking in your teeth.
And people are grossed out by that. So we went,
we went way beyond that and actually worked with some
(08:31):
research researchers back in my native country, which is South Africa,
and over there came up with what eventually has become
Zelmon's minty mouth. It was encapsulating the parsley seed oil again,
finding the specific strain, which took many years to find out,
(08:53):
and then you know, getting people to try it. You
know when everybody said you have to put mint in
your mouth and we said, no, swallowed this capsule. It'll
give you fresh breath. And then they said, yeah, but
I still want men. And that's how we develop the
delicious minty coating that we put on. And you know,
as I like to say, the rest is history. And
(09:13):
what you know, what a lot of people have found
out from taking zelmonds. Often if you eat a lot
of you know, eating pasta and you got the garlic
sauce or you're eating whatever you're eating garlic and onions
are actually toxic. The actually what makes your breath smell
is actually a toxin in the garlic and onion. And
(09:34):
garlic and onion are from the same family, and it's
a toxin that is in there developed. I would say,
you know, mother nature is brilliant. The toxin is to
prevent the garlic and onion being eaten in the wild.
So a garlic and onion has no smell until you
cut that very very very thin membrane and that's you know,
(09:57):
that's what makes it so pungent. And some people say,
I don't eat garlic, I don't eat onion. It makes
me sick. And that's because they have a hyper sensitivity
to this touson in the garlic and onions. You know,
I would say ninety nine nine percent of the population
are fine with garlic and onions. But we do come
across people to say, well, I don't need zelmonds because
(10:19):
I don't need garlic and onions, And you say, hey,
you can now eat garlic and onions if you're eating zalmons.
But we go way beyond garlic con onions. People love
zelmonds because they're drinking coffee or they're out, you know, socializing,
and there's so many different things that cause bad breath
and zelmons. Even though we're clinically tested on garlic and
(10:40):
onions because those are the toughest offenders, we work on
just about every other kind of food or bad breath
related problem, except if you have you know, bad oral
hygiene and you've got fungus growing in your mouth and
you've got running teeth, that's a whole different story. But
if it's for you know, food related bad breath or
social causes of bad breath, we give them any back guarantee.
(11:04):
And you know, I would say over the years there
may be a handful of people who sit with the
like it we get in. I don't.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
I know you guys say you could bite into it.
I always tell people don't. I don't like the taste
of parsley seed oil like that some people do. But
I think that you do as said you just I
take three, I enjoy the mint, and then I swallow
the capsule, and it is now not only something that
I do after meals, but I actually it's part of
(11:36):
my morning hygiene too. After I brush my teeth and
then I'll enjoy the mint and then I'll swallow that
and it's part of my oral hygiene. Now we're up
against the clock, Anthony, I want to remind people because
it is the one year anniversary of the partnership between
Zelman's and The Fork Report as a sponsor. Here, they've
(11:56):
got a great offer for you, and I want you
to take advantage of it. You can't miss this, whether
you're a new or existing loyal Zelman's customer. It's a
buy one, get one fifty percent off deal of their
best selling three pack. That means when you buy a
three pack, you get a second three pack for fifty
percent off. And these are the real deal. They've never
offered this before, and take advantage of it. It's gonna
(12:21):
be gone tomorrow. So the only way to get this
deal is to go to zelmans dot com, slash Fork
f O r K that's Z E L M I
n S dot com, slash fork, zelmans dot com slash
fork to get this special offer. Thanks so much, Anthony
for taking the time to come on. I appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Neil, thank you and look forward to seeing you soon.
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