Building a Brand People Line Up For
The Playbook With David Meltzer
David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com
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🗓️ 16 January 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | All right. Now just we lay this track because this is about content again. And as much as we love |
| 0:06.6 | filling the studio, there's millions of people that listen, watch the playbook of whether it be |
| 0:12.3 | serious XM, Apple TV, Reach TV at the airport. So when you start building your brand and building |
| 0:18.5 | your content, you want to make sure that a lot of times you're not talking to the live audience. |
| 0:23.8 | Even when I'm on the Aspire business tour, and there's 4,000 people on those with Goggins, me, Damon, and whoever else, Tim's story, I'm really trying to lay down content. |
| 0:33.9 | I'm trying to think about these little one-liners, like good voices, good choices, |
| 0:38.8 | and, you know, be more interested than interesting. It's really important to understand that |
| 0:43.7 | because a lot of times can get caught up in the moment when you're with your heroes of hot dogs, |
| 0:49.2 | you know, and you're a hot dog king. This is an exciting moment for me. Everybody has these social silos now, so we have |
| 0:56.1 | these superheroes that nobody's ever heard of. And Richard Pink here is culturally an establishment |
| 1:04.0 | of Los Angeles. He's also in Ohio at Cedar Point, I found, which is super cool. But we're super honored to have Richard Pink |
| 1:12.6 | here with us as the founder of Pink Hawk Dogs, this institution, an extraordinary |
| 1:19.7 | entrepreneur. Because it's one thing to build a business that makes money, it's another thing |
| 1:25.0 | to become an institution. And that's really what Richard has done and what I |
| 1:29.9 | want him to talk about because he's built a community and a brand more than just delicious food |
| 1:35.4 | that he's served for how many years now? 85. Older than me. Older than you. And my first question |
| 1:42.9 | was going to be, and I found out by reading his name early on, |
| 1:46.2 | having him on, |
| 1:47.4 | was why Pink's Hot Dog, |
| 1:49.2 | but that became obvious. |
| 1:50.7 | I was glad it wasn't why it's like Pink's Donuts in Vegas. |
| 1:54.3 | Have you seen the billboards hold different culture? |
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