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The plan

So I'm asked when there will be more Tangerine Sours. The answer is soon.

I got them working on Tuesday. We started packing on Wednesday. On Thursday I left town for the first days off in about two months. I'm up in Atlanta to see the Calder/ Picasso Exhibit and the Banksy one. (see Caldar image I took today above)

But production has not stopped. We took orders for a few days from you our Patreon supports for about 500 cans. This lets us learn. Are the shipping boxes the correct s...

What do you want? Trick or Treat? Our two Halloween Assortments

These are  on-line with secret links just for your supporters. We have two Halloween assortments this year, they got finished today, so expect the on the site sometime tomorrow. But they are up right now for you Patreon subscribers you can get them first. Thanks for your support.

So what do you get, Trick or Treat?

The Trick assortment is fun spicy and sour flavors. Heck, the cat is Peanut Butter and Jelly.

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New video got done early (read)

I'm going to have to time this for release tomorrow, and since I"ll be traveling, sometime tonight I'll need to set it with a release time. Once I do that, this link will go dead until it auto posts sometime about 4pm tomorrow (Thursday).

Tangerine sour update, and new Candy release.

As I'm going through old photos, this is an image of the art on our billboard on i-10. If you see it honk or something. Jake's arm will be happy. It looks like things are going well with candy production. We're hoping that your candy gets shipped out by monday. That is if you place to pre-order through the patreon tangerine sours order.

When you get the candy please do me a favor, please post photos of it on social media with a hashtag of #LoftyPursuits #LoftySours if you make the post ...

#98 Trip to Atlanta- Marketing in the high renaissance - Sours update - Letters.

Today I talk about my upcoming trip to Atlanta and about the Art I want to see up there, as well as my experiences I've had through my daughter about looking at music schools for college. We will do a Tangerine Sours update (Spoiler: first 3 batches made!) and your letters.

Patreon Pre-orders closed, and another draft of this shirt, more tweaks

I've been working on new shirts for the store. Here is another draft of the record. Two drafts actually. I'd love some feedback. It's for the store front more than candy.

Also, we hit the first five batches of Tangerine Sours sold just through Patreon, thanks folks. As I warned I'm turning pre-orders off until we can actually make this candy and get some out. This is a big enough run to get the production bugs out. Still having issues grinding the acid, but we've solved the shrink wra...

Pre order ending aoon

Want to give you a heads up that we sold most of the first five batches of production. I'm going to take down the pre-order soon temporarily so that we can produce this candy and get it out to you. Before we offer to any of the other groups, we will let you get another order in first because of your support.

I got to say looking at this response I'm really happy that I decided to release this in a very controlled manner.

Secret Pre-order link is HERE! (don't share yet!)

You can now pre-order our Tangerine Sour candies in the tin (3.5 oz, 100g tin) with the art you voted on, on it. 

When will it ship? I'm hoping about a week after this post, but here at the warnings. 

1. If you order anything else with this pre-order your order will ship when the whole order is ready, so there will be a delay in shipping.

2. While every part of this has tested out, we have not actually assembly lined this so we expect issues. What issues...

Tangerine sours update and a shirt idea I'm working on.

The shirt is for breakfast not candy. 

Also the candy pads arrived today, so we will be starting to take pre-orders as soon as I finished editing the video tomorrow.

The link will be here, please don't share, for Patreon folks only.

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Is the shirt clever enough? Been working on a lot of designs.

Tangerine Sours Updates and Pre-Order heads up.

I know this is not a photo of tangerine Sours, but I'm giving you a heads up. 

I'm waiting for one thing to arrive tomorrow, if it comes in, we are opening pre-orders ONLY to Patreon members on Wednesday or Thursday (Possibly even Tomorrow). 

Please do not share the secret URL we will post here. (But have not yet posted) We will be taking limited orders for the first batch since we will have a limited supply. 

If it does get shared, we will have to turn off Pa...

#96 Taking a cat for a walk - It's national biscuit month - Your letters - Candy updates.

Greg starts the process of leash training his polydactyl  (The next step up from Pterodactyl) 15 year old seven toed candy name Darwin (He has thumbs so he's more evolved), He talks about national biscuit month and what that means at Lofty Pursuits, reads your letters, and of course gives candy updates.

Works of Shigeo Fukuda: https://www.spoon-tamago.com/2...

#96 More on tangerine sours - More Touchstones - Letters.

Today Greg talks more about challenges facing the making of Tangerine Sours, mostly packaging at this point and he reads your letters.

I know it's early but we've started to make pumpkin spice.

The issue with candy, is if you want it in late September, we need to make it in late August. Here is a secret link to order for Patreon subscribers. It will go out to the public soon. We've caught up on most orders, so we should be shipping only a few days out. I expect that to get longer when we put up the Tangerine Sours for order.

Let me know if this link does not work.

https://www.pd.net/node/141

#95 Tangerine sour update - Captain Crunch Bosun whistle - Letters.wav

Greg gives an update on the Tangerine Sour Candies and talks about a cool toy whistle he got, originally found in boxes of Captain Crunch cerial from the 1960's

#94 Rain on my front porch

It's a podcast about nothing this week. Just sitting around listening to tropical storm Fred rain on my front porch, and just musing on whatever is on my mind, relaxing, and enjoying a bourbon.

#93 Taking it over by Marshall Ledbetter

This is not a candy podcast, but Greg recounts the Ballad of Marshall Ledbetter as he new Marshal, and it's a story that he felt he needed to tell one more time.

Six, six, six, Dunkin' Donuts
A twenty inch veggie pizza from Gumby's
Extra jalapenos on the side
And a case of Asahi Dry

I wish to speak with Timothy Leary
Lemmy, jello, and Ice Cube Too
Cartoon of Lucky's with filters
And bring a CNN news crew

Talahasse, Florida
Four AM, June 14, '91
Capito...

#92 What do you really sell - Displaying golf Discs - Candy Hammers - It's made to be used so use it - Letters

This week Greg talks about they way he re-imagined displaying a product in his store and how people interact with things. This lead to understanding what you really sell. He talks about the tangerine sours and a new project toffee and toffee hammers. He also drinks a beer that he helped devise with Ology brewing and reads your letters.

#91 Lofty Pursuits colab with Ology Beer - More on sours and more problems and your letters.

Today Greg records from the patio at Ology Brewing, where today we are canning a colab beer (and candy) that Lofty Pursuits and Ology made. (Well they made the beer, we made the candy.) We discover some new things about tumbling candy and we read your letters.

#90 If you don't serve your customers ...

Greg talks about some early business advice that did him well, even 27 years later, he talks about sour packaging and he talks about the new Orchard assortment.

#89 stories of other businesses that change - Tangerine sours - beer candy colab - your letters

Today GReg talks about how businesses change and a new candy project that is beer related. He gives updates on Tangerine sours, and he reads your letters.

Altoid Sours

Well this is blowing up out of control. So when they are ready, you guys will have a 24 hour lead on everyone else to place pre-orders on this candy so my Patreon supports will be first in line. It;s very clear this will sell out really fast. This way I can make sure my long term supports get what we can make in the first batch. I'm not sure when this will happen, but I wanted you to keep an eye open for the announcement.

Here is the new video a little early.

Even though I finished it a little late.

#88 Marketing with the Evoked Set - More on our Sours and some punk music

Greg talks about the Evoked Set, what it is and how it effects marketing and business. He also rambles on about the panning machine and the sour candies he's making.

YT: http://www.YouTube.com/LoftyPursuits

Candy: http://www.pd.net

Patreon: http://www.Patreon.com/LoftyP...

#87 Panning Machine, Trip to Orlando, broken laptop

Greg talks about getting the panning machine working and how this effects his development of his tangerine sour candy.

YT: http://www.youtube.com/LoftyPursuits

Candy: http://www.pd.net

#87 trip to sarasota and tampa - ringling museum - panning machine updates - letters.

 Greg goes to Sarasota and Tampa and visits the Ringling museum. He also talks about the candy under development, then reads your letters and answers your questions.

YT: http://Youtube.com/LoftyPursuits

Candy: http://www.pd.net

Ringling Museum: https://www.ringling.org

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New video.

#85 The Letters episode - Tom Lehrer, Vegan Ice Kreme

Greg answers some great letters one about Vegan Ice Cream that we make at Lofty Pursuits, the other on Tom Lehrer and the website greg runs.

YT: http://Youtube.com/LoftyPursuits

Candy: http://www.pd.net

Tom Lehrer: http://www.TomLehrer.org

#84 Meeting Douglass Adams for Towel Day - Tangerine Sours update - Alxeandar Calder - Your letters

Greg talks about Douglass Adams for Towel Day. He updates on experiments with different candy acids, talks about Alexander Caldar (the artist) and how he effected him and of course your letters.

Vote if you have time http://LoftyPursuits.com/vote

YT: http://www.Youtube.Com/LoftyPursuits

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#83 Two favors, one that might get you candy - The next development step on Tangerine Lofty Sours - How we are addressing the unravling of covid rules - Your letters

Greg talks asks you to vote for Lofty Pursuits in an on-line contest

Vote: http://LoftyPursuits.com/Vote

He also talks about the development of his Tangerine Lofty Sours.

He discusses how he's approaching, and the ethics of rolling back mask requirements at Lofty

He reads your letter. (not letters. it would be great if it were letters)

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#82 How I got here and letters

I've been thinking a lot over the past few days about how I got to where I was, and I traced it back to an unassuming event in middle school (We called it JR High.) I traced this back, and read your letter.

If you have a moment, please vote for us in the Best of Tallahassee awards http://www.LoftyPursuits.com/Vote will tell you how to vote. It's free and open to the public.

Thank  you.