Most entrepreneurs would love to have Andi L. Brown's problems.

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L.T. member named Britnee Brown, who has been with the company for a little more than a year, took a call that was a record five hours, twenty-five minutes, and thirty-one seconds long, from a woman on the East Coast interested in Masai Barefoot Technology shoes, which purport to mimic supposedly salubrious barefoot-on-the-beach walking with curved rubber platforms.

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Mr. WANG: From there, the song was covered by other artists, but most famously in 1970 by the East L.A. group El Chicano, which transformed Viva Tirado into a brown power anthem, giving it a funkier feel and a stronger rock edge.

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