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🗓️ 26 June 2023
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0:00.0 | On a recent Monday morning I found myself comparing aromatic notes with a true |
0:08.3 | connoisseur of sorts. When you're in this business you know you have a lot of |
0:12.4 | opportunities to smell things. |
0:14.0 | They each have a very unique aroma. |
0:18.0 | I've often thought to describe it the way wine is described. |
0:25.0 | Mountain Lion is my favorite. It has a very unique burnt |
0:31.0 | umber smell. |
0:35.7 | The wolf has the darkest color. The smell is rich and it has, I would say, notes of earth. |
0:43.0 | You make it sound so great. |
0:46.0 | Well, I can't help it, you know, in a crude way. |
0:50.0 | To me, it's the smell of money. |
0:52.0 | This expert... To me it's the smell of money. |
0:57.5 | This expert, Smeller, his name is Ken Johnson, but in certain circles, he goes by a different moniker. |
1:01.2 | Well, I'm known as the P-man. I started and operate predator P.com. |
1:07.0 | Johnson sells a product that is generated every day in huge quantities. Most of us think of it as waste, but where one man sees |
1:16.5 | animal urine, another man sees treasure. |
1:19.8 | It's really the ultimate recycling. |
1:27.0 | It's really the ultimate recycling. It takes something that would normally be just disposed of |
1:31.0 | and put it to work in a way that's natural. of I'm Zachary Krakit. Today, animal urine. |
1:45.0 | As a kid in New Jersey, Ken Johnson loved the outdoors. |
1:49.0 | The first chance he got, he moved to one of America's most rugged states to study forestry at the University of Maine. |
1:55.8 | After school, he stayed up there. He found his way into the ad business and |
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