00:00What do you do?
00:01I am the owner of Sip and Read.
00:04Sip and Read is a book bar in Detroit.
00:06Get it girl, get it girl, get it girl!
00:08Slow down, Michigan in trouble.
00:10Slow down, slow down.
00:12Hey, hey, hey, hey!
00:14You want to slow down?
00:16You come let me too fast!
00:19So you have a place where people can come and read books?
00:25Sip, read, relax, and connect.
00:27Wow.
00:28Yes.
00:28What do you serve, coffees and teas?
00:30No, I sell wine and we serve wine, mocktails, and cocktails.
00:36Beautiful.
00:36Yes.
00:37That's different.
00:38Yes.
00:40Wow, that is different.
00:41How long have you been in business?
00:43Well, we've been open since August 2025.
00:46Yeah.
00:46And how does it go?
00:48So you just come in with a book.
00:51If you have, you know, in the middle of a book, you can stop in and then we'll serve you.
00:56That's me.
00:56Because you know what people do.
00:59What happens is they like to do that when they go to a restaurant and then the guilt kicks in.
01:06Yeah.
01:06Yes.
01:06They don't want to hold up the table.
01:08Like you're taking them safe.
01:09Right.
01:09And if not, then the people who own it will tell you, hey, listen, I know you're relaxing
01:15here, but we got to, you know, and you go, okay.
01:18And then you say, damn, I wish there was a place I could just go, just chill out, get a
01:22drink,
01:23read my book while I'm not bothering nobody.
01:25Yeah.
01:25And then you don't want to, so, so dis me.
01:27I don't want to do the book.
01:29There's a bar I could go to.
01:31Mm-hmm.
01:31But when I want to do the book, the bar people are coming in.
01:36They don't want to talk to you.
01:37Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:37Like saying Detroit Bass is all for you.
01:39And you don't, you don't want to bring that relaxed atmosphere to the bar.
01:45Yes.
01:45Right.
01:46Because the bar people come in.
01:48They go like, look at him over there.
01:49Yeah.
01:50Yeah.
01:50That is perfect.
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