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The Heartbeat of Family and Business 222

The Heartbeat of Family and Business 222
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Balancing the chaos of newborn nights with the high-energy hustle of the Fryeburg Fair, we've got stories to share that'll make you laugh, reflect, and maybe even tear up a bit. From hilarious "ick" moments to the unexpected charm offensive led by our little Paisley, our journey intertwines family life with the grind of running a business. We faced some tough choices, like canceling our plans for Mohegan Sun, but the love and support from our community kept our spirits high and our hearts full.

Join us as we celebrate surpassing last year’s sales by nearly $2,000 and the heartwarming moment when a customer tattooed our design, forever bonding with our brand. We open up about the challenges of competing in the patriotic apparel market, driven by our commitment to American-made products. The camaraderie and connections with fellow vendors have been invaluable, proving that success is sweeter when shared with a supportive tribe.

Reflecting on family dynamics, we explore the beautiful chaos of expanding our business while nurturing Paisley's sense of belonging and love. With stories from family gatherings and insights into building a legacy, we’re looking to the future with plans for Christmas fairs and new ventures. Through laughter, gratitude, and the occasional sleep-deprived ramble, we invite you to connect with us on this journey of growth, resilience, and the pursuit of the American Dream.

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Chapters

00:02 - The Ick and Angel Numbers

07:36 - Challenges of Balancing Work and Family

14:32 - Building a Business and Family Legacy

23:28 - Family Dynamics and Fair Survival

34:36 - Business Fair Reflections and Future Plans

38:54 - Momentous Brand Achievement Through Tattoo

45:22 - Fairground Competition and Personal Reflection

54:47 - Competing in Business With Passion

01:04:29 - Successes, Challenges, and Future Plans

01:13:12 - Ramble, Wash Hands, American Dream

Transcript
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And just like that we're back home.

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The biggest event of the year is in the rear view and we are ready to share it all with you the highs, the lows.

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Just how did it go?

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You're itching to know, so let's start the show.

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Let me tell you something Everybody struggles.

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The difference is some people choose to go through it and some choose to grow through it.

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The choice is completely yours.

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Which one you choose will have a very profound effect on the way you live your life.

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If you find strength in the struggle, then this podcast is for you.

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Do you have a relationship that is comfortable with uncomfortable conversations?

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Uncomfortable conversations challenge you, humble you and they build you.

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When you sprinkle a little time and distance on it, it all makes sense.

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On it, it all makes sense.

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Most disagreements, they stem from our own insecurities.

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You are right where you need to be.

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Ooh, ooh, ooh ooh.

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What it?

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do what it do hey well done over there.

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Way to chime in.

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The funny thing is I didn't see you speaking, but I heard it in my headset.

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You just tuned right in.

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You got me.

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You got me there.

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Welcome to Share the Struggle Podcast, episode 2-2-2.

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2-2-2.

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That's an angel number.

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Oh, is it now.

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Mm-hmm Sure is.

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Makes a lot of sense, because you're holding that little angel over there.

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Yuck, didn't you say that?

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I hate that actually.

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That's a nick for you.

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It's weird, y'all People.

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Here's a confession.

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All right, let's start the show with a confession.

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And this is the type of confession that might actually annoy some folks.

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I mean it could.

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It could annoy some people.

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I apologize if it does, but my wife has this thing she calls icks.

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I didn't make it up, it's a trend.

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It's a trend.

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It's a trend.

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No, it's a trend.

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What you heard on the TikTok or something, it's a trend.

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No, all the kids are saying it.

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You feel like some kind of trendsetter All right, I'll take credit for it.

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You always say that's an ick.

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For me, when you say it like that, saying it like that is actually an ick.

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You know, what I mean.

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Does that make sense, I guess?

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Anyway what's your ick?

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To clarify for all the folks out there that don't know what the hell we're talking about.

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That's like something that's just a ew icky annoys me bothers me ridiculous, can't handle it, can't stand it, whatever varying degree of discomfort you want to place on it.

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That's what the ick is.

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Cringy.

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Cringe, so cringe, kids these days.

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Man, it's ridiculous.

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Just think about it.

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We're gonna be learning all these new words from paisley someday imagine what the vocab is going to be by then there.

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There's a trend going on in tiktok right now and it's like millennials and, uh, the kids are now called alpha gen, alpha, which is ridiculous because there.

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Ridiculous because there ain't nobody raising alphas these days.

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No.

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I mean, that was a hope and a prayer in itself, right?

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there.

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Yeah, we're not even raising the alphabet, no, they don't know it.

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They're shortening it and turning words into like ick.

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Yeah, and there's like a section in there like L-M-N-O-P.

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They're not even saying like you can't even like sing it anymore.

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It's like L-M-N-O-N-P.

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What, yeah, yeah, come on.

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That's not a real thing.

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I'm serious.

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It's all over TikTok.

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They don't even sing the alphabet anymore.

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Like that L-M-N-O-P section, it's like it's a real thing thing.

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So you can pull over drunk driving.

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And then you have to do your alphabet backwards.

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You gotta go P and N.

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Yes, o, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.

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P and O, and I can't do that.

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It's over anyways so.

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I showed my character with that little.

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So you're ick.

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Oh, Alright.

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People Left hand on the Cabela's catalog.

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Eye to the sky.

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Beady little eyes to the sky.

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Mm-hmm.

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The truth from the sky.

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You ready, mm-hmm?

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Here's my full frontal confessional.

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Your full frontal lobe.

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Yeah, go for it.

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It kind of weirds me out, it grosses me out and it makes me feel uncomfortable when someone calls a baby a little angel.

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Mm-hmm, uncomfortable when someone calls a baby a little angel.

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Yeah, I get it.

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It's a completely different thing for me, for the people listening, if they're not getting it, my image of an angel is like Wings in a halo.

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Wings in a halo yeah, somebody from the other side.

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Yeah.

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That guiding angel, that spirit in the sky, okay, that guiding angel, that spirit in the sky, okay.

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When I'm thinking about an angel, I think of something that has moved on wings and a halo.

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I wish that was my image of an angel.

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Well, yours is a whole other layer of discomfort, because that's your.

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Mine's a whole other ick.

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We're not getting into that.

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So it's funny because when I said I had this confession with you about I don't like it people call the baby angel, and you were like, oh, me either.

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And yours was like, because your um birth carrier carrier or whatever you want to go with there.

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That's her given name and so that weirds you out, freaks you out, creeps you out.

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But for me, when I hear that word, that word, it resonates with me as a spiritual thing and I don't like to make the connections.

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When you're talking about a baby, you know what I mean.

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That's one of the most depressing things in life.

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Yeah, just putting it out there.

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For a lot of people, here's the thing I know they all mean.

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Well, there's nobody saying, oh my God, she's a beautiful little angel.

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That means what I'm hearing and feeling.

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You know what I mean.

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Yeah, you just don't want to put that, juju.

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Yeah, I don't take it out on anybody, but for me.

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It's just one of those things where I'm like eek, you know what I mean.

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So, speaking of angels, do you want to know what the 222 angel number?

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is All right, hit me with it.

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I'm going to have Okay, so 2-2-2 is related to balance Relevated.

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Wow, who's drunk?

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today?

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I don't think that's the word 2-2-2 is related to balance, harmony and trust.

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It inspires you to commit to your life's purpose, Start making better choices and trust in your skills to succeed in life.

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Rather interesting, considering the fact that the only time that my eyeballs have been open today, I've either been paying bills or looking for new events for the business and discussing what we can actually what we feel comfortable gambling on.

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Not true.

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You were holding the baby quite a bit today.

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Well, that's what I mean, but she made me sleep every time I did it.

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Yeah, you guys did fall asleep a few times.

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Bro, when you come out of the fair and you just do what we just did, I go into shutdown mode for two days.

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Yeah, reset.

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I'm hopefully, I'm really hopeful that tomorrow I come out of the funk.

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But you hit factory reset on yourself and your life when you come out of there, when you put as much into it as we put into it.

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I mean the lead up to it is ridiculous.

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Yeah, and we also threw a baby in the mix.

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I mean I was working till basically 1, 2 in the morning every night getting ready for the fair, and then you factor in her feedings between, actually, which we'll put this out there.

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Before we left for the fair she was eating at 2.30.

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She was eating at 3 something, and then she was getting up and eating between 5 and 6.

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And then we'd try to sleep a little bit more and then she'd get up and eat and then, kind of be up like what seven, eight o'clock whatever so there was multiple times that we were getting up through the night, so that was kind of factoring into it.

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What I am going to give the freiburg fair all the credit in the world for is adjusting little paisley's days and nights hey, I worked on it when I came home no, I know you did, but I'm just saying like I think that we made a lot of progress just by her being at the fair, forcing us all to be outside so much all the fresh air, the commotion, the noise oh yeah I think that it all helped her to stay up.

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I mean, she slept through the fair anyways, let's be honest.

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But now she really only gets up twice a night, until the night we would get ready to come home then that all went to hell.

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Yeah, there's still only three times just felt like a lot because we, well, we, were exhausted.

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Our camper until noontime or so but we also didn't get to bed until 2 30 that night before anyway yeah, that leads into why we've been sleeping for two days.

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Uh, the fair ends at nine o'clock on Sunday, so it opens at.

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You know you open your doors at 9.

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So you're down there around 8-ish and then you're open until 9 at night.

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And at this point you've been going strong for over a week and fair closes at 9.

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And then I started packing at 9.

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You went back to camp, took care, took care of paisley for a little bit, got her comfortable and settled in, and then came back and we packed.

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We didn't finish packing up our vendor site until after two in the morning and then we went back to camp and tried to feed her and put her down.

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But we knew in the morning we didn't have to go back down and do any kind of clean up or site removal stuff.

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We had already done it.

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So we just decided to sleep in at camp, which I thought was a benefit.

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But, um, I definitely, we definitely definitely stayed there way longer than we ever have yeah, we definitely did, but we also have a new element of

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supplies for sure.

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The?

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Um disappointing thing, and I'm going to I'll throw out a disappointment to start the to start the show is um.

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While we were there, we were trying to navigate, pulling off all the logistics on our next event, because we're scheduled to be leaving on thursday for mohegan sun in connecticut and we were going there to support tommy and his tattoo convention.

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He?

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Um made us a sweet deal in Connecticut and we were going there to support Tommy and his tattoo convention.

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He made us a sweet deal to be there and we were looking forward to being there this weekend.

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But a few things went into not making this work.

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By the time we found out we were going to this event, we had lost all the promo codes for the hotels and the prices of hotels were north of $1,000 for two and a half star hotels basically, which, by the time you factor in getting down there, the cost of your hotel, the cost of your space.

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We were going to be hard pressed to make our money back and we had such an amazing event at the Freiburg Fair that we are sold out of a lot of things, lot of things.

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So, in order to get our designs in in time, our apparel in in time, just based off of shipping and then getting things ready to rock and roll and to get to the event.

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We knew that we would be pressing our luck and then getting there shorthanded and we did not realize there was a little Wayne concert going on at Mohegan Sun, so all the hotels we were looking at kind of disappeared and then the cost of us being there just continued to climb and we just kept looking at the clock and trying to figure it out.

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We were down to minutes on whether we could make this work and we just had to decide for the, you know, for the, the best decision for the business and for us was to not go because we were going to put ourselves in a bad position to be there just to say we were there, you know, and that was a real that was a real wiener kick, I'll be honest right in the penis.

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The penis.

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I don't know, we were so overtired last night.

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The word penis came up and I thought that you said it like I don't even remember.

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I'm sorry, I can't remember how it?

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Went, but I was like something about the penis.

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I don't know.

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I was, we were way overtired.

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I didn't remember how it went, but I was like penis it's something about the penis?

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I don't know we were way overtired.

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I didn't even say it like that.

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Oh, you did you struck me and I said keep it up and I'm going to punch you in the penis.

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And you thought that the word penis was so strange.

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You just kept saying it.

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Yeah, well, a lot of things happen when you're overtired.

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Like you come up with things like emotional support, velcro you know what I mean.

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Yes, that is correct, because we were packing up the tent and you were throwing my Velcro around and I said, hey, it's my emotional support, velcro.

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You better take that with me, you know.

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Yeah, I do remember, because I'm just hanging on like the little fibers on Velcro.

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You know what I'm saying.

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Yes.

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There's the bristly, rough side of me and then there's the soft, fuzzy side and the two of us are just stuck together and we're just holding on to our little threads and fibers.

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It's an emotional support.

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Velcro no.

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Yeah.

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You thought it was a lot funnier on Sunday I did Now.

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You don't even crack a smile.

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I thought it was hilarious.

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He didn't show it, that's for sure.

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Well, the reality of backing out of an event, coming off of a very successful event, kind of puts a negative taste in your mouth about things.

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Um, we have worked really hard to develop a good relationship with, with tommy and those tattoo conventions and I'm still nervous that I've kind of burned a bridge of having to back out on something after somebody was really just bending over to do me a favor to be there.

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But I really thought that we were making a bad business decision and I was putting our family in a bad position by taking this gig.

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So I'm hoping that it's a learning lesson and a growing opportunity for me to have to realize like, hey, man, you have to say no to this.

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Like you've weighed out all the pros and cons.

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You've been doing this for a while and I think one of the reasons why it took so long to do it is I continued to weigh the options out, hoping we could find the best solution, and that something, would you know, smack us in the face to say like, okay, this will work.

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This will do it.

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But the more we analyzed it, the more we realized that it wasn't going to be a good decision for us.

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But the first thing we've done is really start to look at what we can do to finish this year off.

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We are not at the number that I want to see our business at for the year and I'm just highly motivated to get to that original goal I set for this business when we first started.

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I think it's within sight and I really want to make sure that we get there.

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Traditionally, we come out of the Freiburg Fair and we shut it down, like after the fair, I take a break, I sleep, I do whatever, and then we get into yard work, we get into barn work, farm work, we.

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And then we get into yard work, we get into barn work, farm work, we get into doing all those things getting ready for the winter, and we've been talking about it today.

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We have a lot of projects to do and I like to tackle a lot of those.

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But I also know that the business is dependent on us continuing to move forward, to march forward.

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So we're going to take some time off here and there, but we're going to keep this train a-rocking and rolling.

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We're going to keep this train a-rockin' and a-rollin', yeah, so if?

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you're in the New England area and know of something Redneck approved or something you think that the Loud Brown American would be a good fit for, shoot us a message, let us know.

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We'd definitely be interested in checking it out and seeing if something that we can make happen.

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We've been looking into several different avenues Northern Maine I've explored all the way to Pennsylvania.

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We're looking at something to do to challenge the business, but we're looking for the right opportunity.

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Kind of factoring in cost and risk and all those things.

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We've looked at the driveway 603.

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Yeah, we're checking all kinds of things.

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We're going at what?

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The driveway 603.

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Yeah, we're checking all kinds of things we're going to see what we can.

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Christmas fairs.

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There's a couple of different Christmas things that we might find ourselves in that we've never done before.

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We're looking and exploring all avenues because we want to continue this positive ball that we have built here.

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We want to get this snowball effect rolling into the wintertime.

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I don't want to see the business slow down.

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We do have some more custom projects to do shortly.

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I've really been toying around with the idea of next year not welcoming any new clients when it comes to custom orders.

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I've been kind of toying around with the idea of closing that and then just I don't know, it's hard.

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It's hard, it's hard to do because you you think about like guaranteed money up front.

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You know what I mean.

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Like, hey, I know I can pay the bills with this and when I look at how much we've we've made and how much the business, how much it's helped the business to do custom accounts, it's hard to say no to them.

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But I also know that doing them all the time holds our business back and then having to tell somebody that you're looking at doing custom accounts with that you just can't do it in time.

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Part of that frustration itself is, you know, makes it not worth it if that makes sense.

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You know what I mean, like you're disappointing people Like I have customers that have been trying to do business with me for three, four months and if I do business with them these new clients, new logos if I stop what I'm doing, then I know I'm hindering our business.

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So that's been a challenge.

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It's something we're definitely going to look at going into the wintertime here, but people aren't looking to hear about what's in front of us.

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They're here for a recap on what just happened.

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Cap'n.

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Can you hear her drinking her bottle?

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I kind of hear Folsom snoring in the background.

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Okay, oh, and you can lower the mic down so people can hear it, if you want.

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No, I just wanted to make sure she wasn't.

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People didn't think I was over here farting or something, because she keeps like smacking her lips she's got one hand up in the air over there just rodeo.

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She's a rodeo girl no, she's a rodeo queen, all right, so paisley is here for the show, in case anyone's asking so she's uh, she's dialed in to another episode enjoying some dinner while we're recording here, and that's one of the big challenges of the fair was that we and I said it last week, if you listened to last week we slightly underestimated the difficulty level in taking on Loud Pod, American' largest event of the year every year, and doing it with a newborn.

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We underestimated that it definitely added a whole new layer, a whole new difficulty level.

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But I'm so proud of the fact that we did it and we made it through.

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How about you?

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Yeah, I think we did a great job.

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I mean there was a couple of hiccups when mom had to go pee, but that was I mean.

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Other than that, I think that we did a great job.

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I'll also say, with Paisley being there and I think I mentioned it last week too it was like you know we were talking about.

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It was like having the Pope with us.

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You know what I mean?

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Oh God, yeah.

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Everybody was just coming to see her, which was amazing, and what you stop and think about at the end of all of it is just how blessed we are and how fortunate she is Absolutely Like.

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That's one of the things where I just can't believe how fortunate she is, the amount of support that she has in her life, the amount of people that are already pulling for her yeah that's incredible they were calling her the windsor baby for windsor fair.

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That's true, I love that people were coming who seen you at the windsor fair, or like we're a part of the windsor fair, like we're coming to the freiburg fair to like see her and check on her, and so, yeah, there're a part of the windsor fair, like we're coming to the freiburg fair to like see her and check on her, and so, yeah, there was a number of people that were calling her the windsor fair baby I had customers that had come in and said, like, is the baby with you?

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did you have the baby?

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We went over to see, we went to, we walked into your tent on uh sunday and you and we dealt with your friend steve.

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You were gone, I had so many people telling me that you know either.

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They came to our tent for the first time and Steve was like you know, my friends own this company.

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I'm just here filling in.

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This is what's going on Having a baby?

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Yeah, so that was pretty incredible.

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Yeah, but it's, uh, it's incredible.

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Man like this it's I think that even friends that I haven't seen in years were coming in that I went to high school with, because they're blown away, that I'm, that I've had a child.

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You finally decided to have a baby.

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Yeah, and the fact that they're just like coming over and they're and they're blown away and they're super excited and just all that support that comes in is incredible.

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But what I think is such a blessing and such positive is that we talk all the time about how you know traditions and a lot of the legacy in families kind of goes away in families when you lose your grandparents.

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You know what I mean.

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Like those are the pillars in our families that kind of hold things in families when you lose your grandparents you know what I mean.

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Like those are the pillars in our families that kind of hold things together.

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They keep traditions alive and they keep families together.

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So I'm not afraid to say that I feel like the both of us come from a broken family scenario.

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Yeah, for sure you know what I mean.

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Like I'm fortunate enough that both of my parents are an absolute blessing.

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I lost my dad about a year ago but I was truly blessed to have the time I've had with him and, um, I'm thankful for all of that.

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But I I've been saddened for paisley to know that, you know, like the only brothers that I really talked to either passed away or they're in prison, and the rest of my family's disowned me.

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So she's coming out and doesn't really have blood aunts and uncles you know what I mean.

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Uh, her grandparents, like you know, like my dad's gone, like, like her great-grandparents are all gone you know what I mean you don't have a relationship with angel.

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The mother that raised you has passed.

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Like all those things, you feel like man.

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It's so.

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That's depressing that she didn't get to have those things because we started this so late.

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Yeah, I mean as of right now, if we think about it.

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As far as grandparents go, she has my dad and your mom.

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That's it and that's it.

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That's it of us were like blessed to grow up with, like I had my grandmother and my grandfather, my mimei, my pepe, my nana, my aunts, uncles, cousins, all that sort of thing.

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And it's not like that anymore.

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No, it's not like.

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I remember spending all this time with all my cousins and stuff too, and she doesn't have that, like she's not gonna have that you know, there's you're not gonna have like the every weekend or every day after school with all those people like she's not gonna have that.

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You're not going to have the every weekend or every day after school with all those people she's not going to have that and that's heartbreaking.

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I'm so thankful and blessed that her godparents want to be so involved in her life, because that's another layer for her.

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You know what I mean.

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She's not going to come out thinking about blood relatives.

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You know what I mean.

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She's not going to grow up thinking about those things, that family it doesn't matter to her.

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So what I love about?

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this is we're recreating, we're rebuilding, we're re-establishing a family and we're rebuilding, you know, these pillars and these roots.

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We're just doing it in a different way you know, and I really came out of the fair feeling absolutely blessed, because what hit me was I was driving home, you were hauling the camper and I had the bus and I was thinking about it.

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And on Sunday, Paisley spent a lot of time with Uncle Toby and Aunt Ashton.

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Right Yep.

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And it was so crazy because, just for some reason, when they were leaving, I remember hearing you say that, like Uncle Toby, aunt as Ashton and they left and we were driving home and I was like you know what's so crazy?

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My kid is going to be so confused.

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She's going to be so confused by the aunts and uncles scenario, because everybody is her aunt and uncle.

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Yeah.

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You know what I'm saying?

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Yeah, like people are going to be, like she's going to go to school, and everybody has like a couple aunts and uncles.

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She has like 200.

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Yeah, you know what I'm saying?

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It's true, it's true, it's ridiculous because, like we, I feel like the people in our lives that we're close with.

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They become family and like they're all brothers and sisters to me you know what I mean?

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Yeah, and that's how it goes.

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So like so many of them come in, and then they're like, oh, uncle, so-and-so is here to see her.

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You know what I mean like today, dave reached out and like uncle dave, and annalicia.

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Dying to get over here to see her and it's like man.

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This kid is not gonna have a clue how family trees work, because she's so blessed there's it's funny you say that because when katarina was over um she keeps calling herself auntie cat yeah but she's actually a cousin right, exactly because she's my cousin, right?

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so it actually I mean.

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But we grew up like sisters so like.

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So that's how she's going to interpret it.

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Yeah, it's her aunt.

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Yeah, exactly so.

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This kid is never going to have a clue how to read a family.

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You're gonna be like how how are you related to uncle toby and nash and they're like I don't know, they're just my aunt and uncle like seriously I mean I do that in general.

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When it comes to like cousins and that sort of thing, I'm like I don't know, I call them aunt, so-and-so, but really it's a cousin, I guess down the line.

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So I understand, but it's going to be way worse.

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She's like Grandpa Bentley Warren.

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That's accurate.

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Yeah, so one of my dad's best friends came into the tent and is somebody that I looked at as a father for such a big portion of my life, and he came to the tent and when I saw him, I was outside the tent and he said I tent.

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And.

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And when I saw him, I was outside the tent and he said I'm here to see my granddaughter oh, I didn't hear that, I almost started.

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I almost started crying outside the tent yeah and I brought dave back to um to see her you know what the funny?

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Thing is, is judy spun around and said what did you just?

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Say what did you just say?

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And dave looked her right in the face, said I'm here to see my granddaughter that's not.

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That's not grandma judy well, he ran over there and when he was looking at her like we both had to separate because it was like getting emotional he texted me today and, uh, you know I told him how special it was for me to see him with her and that you know, like that's, that's incredible.

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Those are the things that, like you know you, just you think of that.

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You realize like, wow, man, she is going to be blessed.

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Like I was going home and I said she's going to be confused but she's going to be blessed.

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Oh yes, you're going to be so blessed.

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You're going to be tired of being blessed.

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There is probably 35 to 45 aunts and uncles listening to this podcast, right?

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now, that's true.

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That's true.

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She's got her pinky up.

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That's a one right there.

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Yeah.

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This little nugget is so blessed, beyond blessed.

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It's unbelievable.

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She truly is.

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That's one of the things I think about from the weekend Complete strangers that we don't even know we've never even met really coming in, and they've been following along, whether it's social media or they came into our tent and heard the stories throughout the year.

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But coming in to check on her, you know, like all the well wishes we received over the week, all the amazing compliments and and comments we got about her all week Incredible, those things got us through the lack of sleep and the stressful moments and all those things.

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And for us the stressful stuff is just making sure that she's comfortable, like she's warm, she's safe, she's not getting sick, like all those things.

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Some people come in and they judge you.

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You know what I mean.

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Yeah, judge, judy.

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Yeah, Judge Judy, Judge Joe Brown.

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Judge.

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Wapnick Judge.

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Wapnick Judge Jerry got rest of soul, rest to be sure.

00:27:52.944 --> 00:27:58.566
Um you know I blacked out there for a minute, but all the things beyond the judging.

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There's a lot of folks that are just like you.

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Do you man?

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you get them into your life and your routine, and you do you it was pretty cool a couple of times like, um, you had, you were either getting inventory or had stepped out for a minute and I, you know, had her in my hands and I'm like cashing people out and they're like, oh my god, god, do you have a newborn?

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Like she was like strapped to me and they were like they're like how old is she?

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And I'm like, oh, she's a month.

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And they're like, look at you go.

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Like I'm like, yep, we're breaking her in, breaking her into the fair.

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Like I mean for us, like we've talked about it, us, and we're going to adapt to her.

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But the other thing is that, like it was so important for us to get her out into the environment because she needs that bacteria she needs from the environment, like to boost her immune system.

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Flu season is here.

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Rsv season is here.

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Flu season is here.

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Rsv season is here.

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I have done my research across the board and, honestly, the best thing that they say is get your kid outside, get your kid outside in the sun, get your kid outside in the fresh air.

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That alone is going to help them more than being cooped up in stale air yeah that's when they get more sick one of the things that I was doing to balance that too is like.

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I mean, we had an automatic hand sanitizer motion sensor in our tent, absolutely yep um, we wash our hands as much as we possibly could but I wouldn't pick her up and hold her, no, unless I come for the bathroom, clean my hands right right because I was the one that was mostly taking all the cash dealing with the public.

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Right, you know what I mean.

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Absolutely the bulk of the time I was doing the transactions you were doing, whatever the heck she needed Bagging, folding and then you were bagging and kind of being secondary.

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If I went to took a break somewhere, I was holding her and you took those things over.

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Like those are some of the precautions that we kind of took to keep her safe too, you know.

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But, um, I feel so proud of us the fact that we made it through this.

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I mean I realized when I was recording the podcast like holy shit, this is a lot Like we've.

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We've taking on an absolute massive undertaking here, you know.

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And then when you went home, there was a whole nother challenge, because that was a lot too.

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Now you're on your own and you have a whole farm to take care of, plus plus a newborn, and I'm away from my baby.

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Like the first night that I that she was gone, I woke up at 3 30 in the morning freaking out that she needed to eat before she started freaking out and, uh, I was telling everybody like I just got used to a roommate and then my wife takes her away from me, like I don't know what's going on here I remember I ended up texting you or something and you were just gotten back to the camp and you're like this is depressing, there's an empty bassinet that was weird and I was like well, this one over here is full around the house.

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You know what I mean.

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I will say that when I slept, I slept raging hard when she was home.

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Must be nice.

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I did not.

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All those things aside, what I know people want to hear about the fair is how did it go?

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What I am so incredibly proud to say about the fair is that not only did we go there and not only did we have to lead up to the fair with all these late, crazy nights, short sleep, high stress, all those things, adjusting with a newborn going there and then getting to the fair a day later than we normally would to set up all those things we went through all of that chaos we did.

00:31:39.189 --> 00:31:44.589
How many days up there with, with with a little one, we had the first night that we went there to set up camp, right?

00:31:44.609 --> 00:31:54.464
so that was one, and then we got up there saturday sunday and then you were back on friday, saturday sunday, so she spent six days up there.

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Oh yep.

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And we were up there for whatever a little over a week or something.

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So, with all of the difficulty that we went through and the inventory challenges and everything, I am so incredibly proud to say that Loud, proud American just finished our absolute biggest, most successful, highest grossing event in the history of our business.

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Yep, we did good.

00:32:22.513 --> 00:32:30.592
Yeah, I know there was a couple of moments that you and I both looked up and our tent was freighted with people.

00:32:30.792 --> 00:32:31.294
Oh, my God.

00:32:31.400 --> 00:32:33.426
On multiple occasions, but there was a couple of occasions that you and I both talked about it.

00:32:33.426 --> 00:32:34.759
We both looked at each other and was like, look at that, like that's amazing, that's awesome, oh my God.

00:32:34.759 --> 00:32:35.987
On multiple occasions, but there was a couple of occasions that you and I both talked about it.

00:32:35.987 --> 00:32:39.769
We both looked at each other and was like, look at that, like that's, it's amazing, that's awesome, it was insane.

00:32:39.769 --> 00:32:41.059
It was humble.

00:32:41.099 --> 00:32:45.868
We've never had that kind of flow of traffic like on a steady, constant basis.

00:32:46.130 --> 00:33:04.046
No, you might get a few people but then, like before the way that our tent was set up, like you get someone in there with a stroller and it's like all right, nobody's coming, but now there was like there was people in the back with a stroller, and then there's like a family of six, and then there's, you know, a bunch of other people just meandering.

00:33:04.166 --> 00:33:08.461
It was, we were packed, we were going to push this year to grow this damn thing.

00:33:08.461 --> 00:33:15.126
We're going to go bigger, heller, high water, to get a bigger space, because I know our number can go even higher than what it was.

00:33:15.126 --> 00:33:22.532
But, like you're saying, there was hours at the fair where we didn't have like, where our tent wasn't empty.

00:33:22.692 --> 00:33:23.114
You know what I mean.

00:33:23.673 --> 00:33:37.624
Like we're used to going hours without people and then having hours where, like we're steady, there was days, or every day, I should say.

00:33:37.644 --> 00:33:42.537
at a certain time, the step, like the the light switch would flip and then you couldn't sit down the entire day because it was just people the entire time.

00:33:42.537 --> 00:34:01.942
I think on every day, like this weekend, that I was there, like we would have breakfast and we would have coffee first thing in the morning, but then like we wouldn't actually eat until like two, three o'clock because, like we were lucky, yeah yeah, like, and it was like snacking and like because we couldn't leave the tent to go get food I didn't get a chance to really like.

00:34:02.845 --> 00:34:17.952
Finally, on the weekend, like on sunday, I got to go see some people, like we get to see some of our friends, like you know, like kyle and julia, scott, lindsey, matt and sarah, but it was like brief, like hey, how you doing, I didn't, I didn't like this is one of those times where I didn't go walk around that damn fair dude oh.

00:34:18.112 --> 00:34:18.474
I'm so.

00:34:18.474 --> 00:34:32.871
I mean I'm thankful that like we were so busy, but like I literally did not go into one shop yeah at all other than um what was it, leon leather?

00:34:32.971 --> 00:34:34.744
on the way home one night they were open.

00:34:34.744 --> 00:34:35.452
You walked yeah because you.

00:34:35.452 --> 00:34:35.554
I in.

00:34:35.554 --> 00:34:36.000
Yeah because you.

00:34:36.000 --> 00:34:37.786
I said I was going to buy you some boots, but you didn't like them.

00:34:37.786 --> 00:34:41.324
Okay, first of all Facts are the facts.

00:34:41.324 --> 00:34:42.106
The boots are still there.

00:34:42.106 --> 00:34:44.192
You know what I mean.

00:34:44.192 --> 00:34:44.813
But that's the point.

00:34:44.813 --> 00:34:46.085
We didn't have time for anything.

00:34:46.621 --> 00:34:50.108
I had people giving me shit during the week being.

00:34:50.128 --> 00:34:50.648
Don't come over.

00:34:50.708 --> 00:35:12.324
No, I can't yeah because there was a couple of shops that I wanted to check out, that your friends um booth that makes like babies clothes and like bell bottoms and stuff, and like I never got over there, I never got over to my purse lady, to you know hurry up like nothing I felt bad that, like our friends that would come check on us, that we didn't really get to co-spend time with them like in, you know and hang up.

00:35:12.364 --> 00:35:18.413
But I think everybody that goes there understands this is just this is work for us.

00:35:18.432 --> 00:35:18.813
This is it.

00:35:18.813 --> 00:35:19.534
This is our Super Bowl.

00:35:19.534 --> 00:35:20.175
You know what I mean?

00:35:20.615 --> 00:35:25.632
Yeah, so last year was our best year ever at this fair.

00:35:25.632 --> 00:35:29.451
This year we beat last year by almost $2,000.

00:35:29.451 --> 00:35:32.606
We absolutely crushed it.

00:35:32.606 --> 00:35:34.563
We absolutely crushed it.

00:35:34.563 --> 00:35:41.289
I will say this I fell um, I would say $2,000, roughly just under $2,000.

00:35:41.289 --> 00:35:49.869
I would say someone's around there away from the goal I set for us going in, but that goal that I set for us was a big ass goal.

00:35:49.869 --> 00:35:52.407
Right, it was the biggest goal I've ever had.

00:35:52.407 --> 00:35:58.231
Obviously, and I'm also willing to say if I had more inventory, we would have hit it.

00:35:59.619 --> 00:36:00.724
I really feel like we would have hit it.

00:36:01.306 --> 00:36:01.829
Yeah, for sure.

00:36:03.762 --> 00:36:08.793
You never know, because you guess the best you can guess and you can buy only what you can afford to buy.

00:36:08.793 --> 00:36:14.652
And when I went into this event I maxed out every line of expense that I could possibly have to make this work.

00:36:14.652 --> 00:36:19.086
I do it every damn year like a savage, so I couldn't buy anymore.

00:36:19.086 --> 00:36:26.594
But had I been able to, or had the foresight to, know what was going to sell, we would have beat the goal that we had for ourselves.

00:36:26.594 --> 00:36:29.889
So I'm going to counteract that next year.

00:36:31.260 --> 00:36:40.213
Yeah, and I mean all we can do is go off of the numbers that we have, like that's it and the thing that I realized this week was we go off the numbers from last year's event.

00:36:40.380 --> 00:36:47.061
But what last year's event doesn't tell me is what if I sold out of that certain item, and what day did I sell out of it.

00:36:47.061 --> 00:36:57.005
So if I'm looking at something and it's telling me, like hey, you sold 12 of those, and if I tell myself I want to have 15 of them, I don't really know if I sold 12 of them by Wednesday.

00:36:57.005 --> 00:36:58.489
You know what I'm saying.

00:36:58.489 --> 00:36:59.150
That's true.

00:36:59.150 --> 00:37:05.052
So could I have sold another 12 or 15 of those by the rest of the week had I had them?

00:37:05.052 --> 00:37:06.500
So I'm going to counteract that next year.

00:37:06.500 --> 00:37:07.731
You know how I'm going to counteract that next year.

00:37:08.621 --> 00:37:09.563
You're going to write it down?

00:37:10.827 --> 00:37:19.561
No, Tell me how I'm going to teach you how to press close.

00:37:19.561 --> 00:37:20.063
Oh fuck, yeah, I'm busy.

00:37:20.063 --> 00:37:28.322
If you're home, I can have things shipped to the house and you can make them and bring them back guys, I'm gonna apologize in advance.

00:37:28.443 --> 00:37:35.231
If you get stuff around this time and it's fucked up, it's his fault, but that's that's the way we can get around this if we all of a sudden get into a week where it's fucked up.

00:37:35.251 --> 00:37:36.579
It's his fault, but that's the way we can get around this.

00:37:36.579 --> 00:37:54.148
If we all of a sudden get into a week where it's like, wow, this is really selling quite well and there's certain things that I sold out of by Tuesday, or I sold out of them by Thursday, if you're coming back up on Friday to get through the weekend with a few more of those, I think that could have been a great thing.

00:37:54.429 --> 00:37:54.911
I think so too.

00:37:55.840 --> 00:38:15.068
The other thing that we're exploring and talking about is the potential of opening up a custom section to our business, and if that happens, then you would be there with me making stuff, and if that's the case, I could probably have, like UPS send shit right to the gate and we can make it while we were there.

00:38:15.068 --> 00:38:16.099
Right, and just put it while we were there.

00:38:16.119 --> 00:38:18.226
Right and just put it right back out on the shelf.

00:38:18.226 --> 00:38:25.554
But all that stuff aside, I know next year we're going to beat this year because they're going to add an extra day to the fair in general.

00:38:25.554 --> 00:38:29.349
But I have bigger, bolder plans for next year.

00:38:29.349 --> 00:38:54.333
I'm already exploring those things Because the goal I had in mind we would have hit this year, but the goal that we did hit is still the biggest single week number we have ever done in the history of the business that we started in 2019 with a freaking baby, with a baby with a freaking baby.

00:38:54.414 --> 00:38:57.297
With a baby, with a baby, you believe that.

00:38:58.139 --> 00:38:58.659
I do believe it.

00:38:59.240 --> 00:39:00.934
Y'all you do believe it because you were there I believe it.

00:39:00.934 --> 00:39:02.284
What are you doing right now?

00:39:02.284 --> 00:39:05.065
You need taxes or something.

00:39:05.065 --> 00:39:05.586
What's going on?

00:39:05.760 --> 00:39:07.065
Yes, I'm doing my taxes.

00:39:07.065 --> 00:39:10.284
I was verifying a code.

00:39:10.284 --> 00:39:15.757
Because it's Prime Day, hello Okay, don't even worry about me, okay, I'm multitasking.

00:39:15.757 --> 00:39:16.097
People deserve.

00:39:16.097 --> 00:39:18.403
Because it's Prime Day, hello Okay, don't even worry about me.

00:39:18.403 --> 00:39:19.367
Okay, I'm multitasking.

00:39:19.860 --> 00:39:21.664
People deserve your undivided attention.

00:39:21.764 --> 00:39:22.927
It's not for me, it's for the baby.

00:39:23.367 --> 00:39:24.769
Of course it is Everything's for the baby.

00:39:25.512 --> 00:39:26.273
Yeah, hello.

00:39:27.601 --> 00:39:29.985
I'm a mom now, give me something.

00:39:29.985 --> 00:39:31.762
Fuck, don't swear.

00:39:31.762 --> 00:39:36.650
Okay, this is a profanity-free program.

00:39:37.422 --> 00:39:38.065
My ass.

00:39:38.668 --> 00:39:39.672
Your sister's ass.

00:39:40.396 --> 00:39:42.503
Your sister's onion, your sister's ass.

00:39:43.387 --> 00:39:44.190
How's your onion?

00:39:44.440 --> 00:39:45.744
All right, tell me what the question is.

00:39:46.367 --> 00:39:48.807
Redo, give me a highlight from the Freiburg Fair.

00:39:48.807 --> 00:39:53.192
Give me a memory from the fair, give me an accomplishment, give me a story, give me something.

00:40:00.280 --> 00:40:01.240
I got nothing.

00:40:01.240 --> 00:40:09.411
No, I'm just kidding.

00:40:09.411 --> 00:40:13.735
Silence is deafening I'm just trying to think honestly.

00:40:13.735 --> 00:40:22.947
Tackling the vendor spot with the baby is really just a highlight.

00:40:22.947 --> 00:40:27.266
For me, that's a lot of work, to be honest.

00:40:27.266 --> 00:40:30.099
I think that's really.

00:40:31.530 --> 00:40:50.144
I think that's really important to highlight, because not everybody could have done that no for sure most people would have taken the year off and hope to get back next year because I had so many people come in and say to us like I didn't think I'd be here you know what I would have been like at home if we weren't there.

00:40:50.164 --> 00:40:51.766
You would have been miserable.

00:40:52.146 --> 00:40:53.608
Awful yeah.

00:40:53.889 --> 00:40:58.155
You would have been the worst of the worst.

00:40:58.514 --> 00:40:59.056
That's accurate.

00:41:00.061 --> 00:41:08.168
Even though you have a cute baby that you would have snuggled the entire time, but you would have been miserable, not to mention the consequences of us not going.

00:41:08.369 --> 00:41:10.034
Oh yeah, we would have been out of business.

00:41:10.034 --> 00:41:13.646
Yeah, that's how big this event is for us.

00:41:13.719 --> 00:41:14.800
We would have been out of business.

00:41:14.800 --> 00:41:17.184
yeah, that's how big this event is for us, we would have been out of business.

00:41:17.184 --> 00:41:22.724
So I want to share a couple of things that if you follow our social media, you'd know one of them, and that's it.

00:41:22.724 --> 00:41:39.103
During the week, I had a lady and her husband come in and, um, I should look up their name because I talked to them on facebook, but I'm I'm overtired at this point, so I'm not going to go back and do it I should have have done this pre-episode you should have done your research Should have done my research.

00:41:39.625 --> 00:41:41.409
CNN Fake news.

00:41:41.610 --> 00:41:51.963
But I had a lady come in it was her and her I believe it was her birthday actually and her and her husband came in and when they came in they went over to our bombshell sweatshirt.

00:41:51.963 --> 00:41:55.789
He said to her you got to show them your arm, show them, show them your arm.

00:41:55.789 --> 00:41:58.672
And I was like okay, what's going on here?

00:41:58.672 --> 00:42:06.297
And sometimes people have like that rosy the riveter, like they have that yeah, tattoo everybody always has.

00:42:06.336 --> 00:42:17.956
Somebody has a version of that design, so they always kind of show me that, but I'll be damned if this lady didn't roll her sleeve up and have our design as a tattoo.

00:42:17.956 --> 00:42:22.811
Our actual design, betty Crockett.

00:42:23.320 --> 00:42:24.324
Yeah, I thought that was pretty cool.

00:42:25.780 --> 00:42:32.349
What's crazy about this is this is for a dude that has no design background whatsoever.

00:42:32.349 --> 00:42:38.369
I left the dealership, started this business and took night classes out of freaking adult ed to learn how to do Adobe.

00:42:38.369 --> 00:42:42.329
I can't draw you a stick or a figure, never mind a stick figure.

00:42:42.329 --> 00:42:43.231
You understand what I'm saying.

00:42:43.231 --> 00:42:45.789
I manipulate images to make things work.

00:42:45.789 --> 00:42:48.248
And that particular design guess what?

00:42:48.248 --> 00:42:48.708
Cinderella?

00:42:48.708 --> 00:42:52.731
You and me built that one together Together.

00:42:53.072 --> 00:42:53.371
We did.

00:42:53.371 --> 00:42:54.956
That's correct.

00:42:54.956 --> 00:42:55.679
Yes, it we did that's correct.

00:42:55.679 --> 00:42:57.523
Yes, it was a collaborative.

00:42:57.724 --> 00:42:59.168
Collab-oration.

00:42:59.168 --> 00:43:03.409
That's right and it was one of our first ones.

00:43:03.409 --> 00:43:07.150
Actually, we refined it as we got better and made it a little bit better as we went Right.

00:43:07.150 --> 00:43:21.373
But this lady took our design, made it her own, but it was 100% our design, like it's our sweatshirt, it's our sticker, it's our raggle and it's our design, and she turned it into a tattoo on her arm.

00:43:21.373 --> 00:43:36.750
The fact that our artwork, our brand, is going to live on on this lady's skin for freaking ever is out of control to me, because every time someone talks to her about that tattoo, it's going to come up that it came from our brand, right?

00:43:37.773 --> 00:43:40.442
yeah, that is pretty awesome right I'm pretty impressed.

00:43:41.405 --> 00:43:49.891
I mean I got some extended family in florida now after my trip with matt that, um, they've taken some of our, some of our uh stuff and turned it into taxi.

00:43:49.911 --> 00:44:00.056
It was like the relentless from um from our sweatshirts and stuff right so, um, there's been, there's been that part of it, you know, and there's been talk about loud, proud american as a tattoo.

00:44:00.056 --> 00:44:04.496
I know some, some loyal listeners out there I know todd that's listening.

00:44:04.496 --> 00:44:07.474
He wants to take our downward flag, turn a new tattoo at some point.

00:44:07.474 --> 00:44:23.688
But this was a complete stranger, not somebody that I have a connection with that came in um, liked what we do so much as you turn it into a tattoo, I feel like moments like that they're they're big brand moments to me, you know what I mean.

00:44:23.708 --> 00:44:24.612
Does that make sense to you?

00:44:24.612 --> 00:44:28.829
Yeah, like they're big brand moments accomplishment people have nike tattoos.

00:44:29.090 --> 00:44:32.400
You know what I mean people have like adidas tattoos, whatever their favorite brand is.

00:44:32.420 --> 00:44:36.159
You see it all the time look how bobby we were just talking about it.

00:44:36.179 --> 00:44:49.797
Look how popular looney tunes are oh my god, yeah I've seen more but-aged people wearing Looney Tunes pajamas or have Looney Tunes tattoos, I would say the tattoo would have gone up a notch had she actually put her business name in it.

00:44:51.351 --> 00:44:53.338
I feel like that's a little much.

00:44:54.391 --> 00:44:57.621
I feel like I should have been in it personally Shots fired.

00:44:57.621 --> 00:45:01.710
But, it's a step, dude, and it's a monumental step.

00:45:01.710 --> 00:45:03.871
It's a big step in our brand growing.

00:45:03.871 --> 00:45:11.570
It's a big step in the fact that we're doing things that people are liking liking them enough to actually not only want to wear them, but they want to like, engrave them into their freaking skin.

00:45:12.333 --> 00:45:21.092
Um pretty awesome it was a big brand moment for me, um, that I just kind of felt really uh, just blessed to be a part of.

00:45:21.092 --> 00:45:31.282
And the next one for me is that when we were setting up on Saturday, we'd already had our shell put in.

00:45:31.282 --> 00:45:33.963
We built the walls and everything on like Wednesday or whatever.

00:45:33.963 --> 00:45:36.887
We went back on Saturday and we were starting to fill things up.

00:45:36.887 --> 00:45:46.074
Number one it feels bigger to me that we have like an actual bus.

00:45:46.074 --> 00:45:46.516
You know what I mean.

00:45:46.516 --> 00:45:54.146
Yeah, when we have that thing with some some vinyl on it and stuff and some business logos, I think it'll also raise it another level but I feel a little more just professional.

00:45:54.266 --> 00:45:55.851
I feel like we're getting bigger and bigger.

00:45:55.851 --> 00:46:05.201
The fact that we started everything out of one ambulance and now we're there with a school bus and a pickup truck and a camper like we're like, we're an outfit.

00:46:05.201 --> 00:46:06.063
Now you know what I mean.

00:46:06.063 --> 00:46:11.922
We're kind of, we're growing, you're kind of a big cheese now I feel like we are starting to become cheese.

00:46:12.050 --> 00:46:26.449
You know what I mean you're a big freiburg cheese which I have a case of proud case yeah a freiburg cheese you going to come back to podcast next week and be like I haven't pooped since the last episode?

00:46:26.489 --> 00:46:33.713
I wish that was the case, because I'm puckering my cheeks right now to make it through this episode, because I'm trying to flush all the fair food out of me right now.

00:46:33.713 --> 00:46:37.791
That's a lot to hear right now people that's a lot to take on and listen to.

00:46:38.293 --> 00:46:40.056
All these aunts and uncles just became.

00:46:40.918 --> 00:46:41.380
Real close.

00:46:41.521 --> 00:46:42.443
Yeah, real close.

00:46:43.409 --> 00:46:46.297
Hopefully one of them is a plumber, you know.

00:46:47.300 --> 00:46:54.302
Maybe, so I lost my whole train of thought thinking about pooping.

00:46:54.302 --> 00:46:58.820
Side note, on the podcast stuff, I also met a young fella out there.

00:46:58.820 --> 00:47:22.760
He's a diesel guy, a diesel mechanic, and he has his own podcast and he was talking to me giving me a pitch on his podcast and I listened to him and then I gave him a sticker and told him about ours and he went and gave it a follow and he bought some merch and then he brought friends back to buy merch and we're going to try to connect so I can listen to his podcast and you know, maybe someday we'll, you know, do a show together or something.

00:47:23.371 --> 00:47:30.820
But that naturally blossomed in our tent and those are some of the Is that the guy that brought his daughter back in to get the T-shirt?

00:47:32.389 --> 00:47:34.431
No, I don't think he has a daughter.

00:47:34.431 --> 00:47:35.793
To be honest, it was him and his girlfriend.

00:47:35.813 --> 00:47:51.043
He was a younger guy, but he brought some friends or family back after to buy some stuff, because there was that other guy that he was talking about meeting up with you and connecting and stuff like that, and he also had like never been to our tent before he came in.

00:47:51.043 --> 00:47:55.005
They left with like bags of stuff and then his daughter was like no, I want to buy one too.

00:47:55.646 --> 00:47:57.188
Oh, that guy was really cool yeah.

00:47:58.650 --> 00:47:59.632
And he said he was going to reach out to you.

00:47:59.652 --> 00:48:03.481
He was going to reach out to us also about our Nashville vacation recommendations and stuff right.

00:48:04.853 --> 00:48:15.144
But we've met some really great people and that's one of the things that I'm getting at is that, like now, we have people that come back and they look forward to seeing us every year at this fair because it's the one fair they go to.

00:48:15.144 --> 00:48:17.998
But we make a lot of great relationships.

00:48:17.998 --> 00:48:36.621
A lot of great relationships like to have this lady come in and get a tattoo because she met us a couple years ago at this fair, uh, to have, you know, this whole podcast connection, these vacation scenarios, but people that hear our mission statement and they just believe in what we're doing and they, um, you know, continue to come back and you just make these connections every year.

00:48:36.670 --> 00:48:44.505
that, in my that, in its own, I think, is just what about that kid that said that he had just seen our um, seen our video, like on, true, and he wasn't even.

00:48:44.505 --> 00:48:47.172
He didn't follow us, he didn't like us, he didn't know anything about us.

00:48:47.172 --> 00:48:49.157
And he was like, yeah, I just saw it.

00:48:49.157 --> 00:48:51.030
So I was like, hey, let's go to the fair.

00:48:51.030 --> 00:48:52.235
And just stopped it.

00:48:52.235 --> 00:48:53.878
And I think you bought like a hat and a t-shirt.

00:48:53.918 --> 00:49:00.726
Yeah, he came in and was like literally like you just popped up on my news feed on facebook an hour ago, so I said I'm going to go find that guy at the fair.

00:49:01.047 --> 00:49:02.954
Yeah, and we're like what, how does that happen, dude?

00:49:03.315 --> 00:49:16.081
Yeah, those are the cool things that make you want to keep going, because there's definitely plenty of time for doubt and second guessing, but it's moments like that that make you want to just keep on going.

00:49:16.081 --> 00:49:45.456
And the next thing that I want to say and it kind of all goes hand in hand with this and it goes back to what I was saying when we were setting up on Saturday, I was really fired up about the fact that they put a direct competitor on our road and we already have a competitor that you could basically see from our tent, yeah, but they let a new business in and they put them on a corner, which a corner spot at one of these fairs is incredibly difficult to get.

00:49:45.456 --> 00:49:49.123
Yes, a corner spot at this fair could take you 15 years to get.

00:49:49.123 --> 00:49:55.282
So they put a new apparel vendor that does a very similar thing that we do.

00:49:55.282 --> 00:49:58.940
Um, their stuff, I don't believe, is american made.

00:49:59.001 --> 00:50:04.856
But I'm not here to talk negative about another, another brand, but what I'm saying is is I was fired up because the fair.

00:50:04.856 --> 00:50:09.125
I felt almost insulted that there was another brand right on the corner.

00:50:09.125 --> 00:50:14.101
I'm always asking for extra space and I can't get the extra space as of yet.

00:50:14.101 --> 00:50:17.259
I mean, they gave me some extra space a couple years ago, but I'm continuing to ask.

00:50:17.259 --> 00:50:20.594
It felt like an insult that they were there.

00:50:20.594 --> 00:50:29.213
I took it personal and I took it as a motivator for me to just push my ass off and we talked about it at dinner that night.

00:50:29.233 --> 00:50:34.393
I got so motivated and so fired up about that that a few days into the fair I felt bad about it.

00:50:34.393 --> 00:50:37.795
You did, I felt bad about it.

00:50:37.795 --> 00:50:40.811
A couple reasons I felt bad about him.

00:50:40.811 --> 00:50:41.972
A couple reasons.

00:50:41.972 --> 00:50:49.780
Number one I would say that on day one I couldn't leave my tent to go to the bathroom until 3 in the afternoon.

00:50:50.302 --> 00:50:50.661
Correct.

00:50:51.322 --> 00:50:58.271
We didn't eat anything a stitch of food until around 6 o'clock, correct.

00:50:58.271 --> 00:51:08.320
Many times during the week that happened to me, like we just talked about the times where there's 20, 30 people in our tent at the same time and it's a revolving door for hours.

00:51:08.320 --> 00:51:16.706
Every time I walked by that gentleman's location I never saw more than one or two people standing there and I felt bad.

00:51:16.706 --> 00:51:26.335
I felt bad because I said why did you get so fired up about somebody else and why did you let something like that bother you?

00:51:26.335 --> 00:51:27.056
You know what I mean.

00:51:27.056 --> 00:51:33.644
You took it personal and that you need to realize that nobody's competition for you except yourself.

00:51:33.644 --> 00:51:52.677
Right, like the only thing I should be competing with is myself and then making myself and our brand better each and every time we go somewhere.

00:51:52.697 --> 00:51:54.943
Also, the fact that they um, a large portion or somewhat portion of their business is a charity, a charity thing.

00:51:54.943 --> 00:51:55.927
You know it's a 501 3c.

00:51:55.927 --> 00:51:57.329
I don't, I'm not trying to compete with a charity, you know what I mean.

00:51:57.329 --> 00:51:59.231
Like that's not my, that's not my point.

00:51:59.231 --> 00:52:00.652
So I felt bad about that.

00:52:00.652 --> 00:52:08.976
I was worried they were going to take dollars and cents from us when we basically mortgaged everything we own to be there.

00:52:08.976 --> 00:52:11.838
I've worked tirelessly to be there.

00:52:11.838 --> 00:52:14.661
I took time away from my newborn to be there.

00:52:14.661 --> 00:52:21.684
I made countless sacrifices to be there, to get there and then have a direct competitor placed in a better location than me.

00:52:21.684 --> 00:52:31.576
Like I took that shit personal and it fired me up because I was worried about the effect it could have on my business, a negative effect it could have on my family.

00:52:32.077 --> 00:52:43.512
I took it personal I mean, I think that, like you had the opportunity to like see what he was going through, because you've been there yeah and even with a better location.

00:52:43.512 --> 00:52:53.938
The difference is and we talked about this at dinner was that, like you've been at this fair for four years, people know you, they know your mission and know why you're there.

00:52:53.938 --> 00:53:03.364
The people that don't are interested in what you're doing because of the look of your display right your display is.

00:53:04.050 --> 00:53:08.141
It's loud, it's in your face, it's screams american.

00:53:08.141 --> 00:53:10.989
Like it doesn't matter what you have in the tent.

00:53:10.989 --> 00:53:22.717
Like your tent is wrapped in an american flag, that alone, if you're patriotic in any way, shape or form, is going to grab you by the clusters and be like all right, I'm gonna check out and see what this is all about in general.

00:53:22.717 --> 00:53:34.061
Unfortunately, he was in a really good location, but his display was just a couple of t-shirts on the back wall just hanging from the actual tent.

00:53:34.061 --> 00:53:42.342
Yeah, so I'm sure like this could be his first opportunity of getting in there and his first you know, kick my ass right.

00:53:42.641 --> 00:53:53.320
I mean it's a possibility, but maybe he he took it upon himself to do some research and started evaluating, just like we did every year at the end of the fair, like we're doing right now.

00:53:53.320 --> 00:53:55.371
We're like all right, what else can we do?

00:53:55.371 --> 00:53:56.594
How do we get bigger?

00:53:56.594 --> 00:53:58.318
How do we draw people in?

00:53:58.539 --> 00:53:59.059
like the?

00:53:59.059 --> 00:53:59.440
Um.

00:53:59.440 --> 00:54:02.757
The thing for me that got me fired up was on the first day that we were there.

00:54:02.757 --> 00:54:06.014
I just saw their shell going up, I saw the flags going up.

00:54:06.014 --> 00:54:07.657
I saw the business name going up.

00:54:08.170 --> 00:54:11.820
And then I looked at it online and anticipated what was going to happen.

00:54:11.820 --> 00:54:13.835
And I'm not trying to put anything.

00:54:13.835 --> 00:54:16.798
I'm not speaking anything negative about any other business or brand.

00:54:16.798 --> 00:54:17.460
It's not the point.

00:54:17.460 --> 00:54:21.012
I'm speaking competitively about myself and my business.

00:54:21.012 --> 00:54:21.693
You know what I mean.

00:54:21.693 --> 00:54:23.996
I'm not downplaying anybody else's product.

00:54:23.996 --> 00:54:25.297
They could have an amazing product.

00:54:25.297 --> 00:54:28.400
I'm sure they have an amazing mission and an amazing reason.

00:54:28.400 --> 00:54:29.702
I believe in what they're doing.

00:54:29.702 --> 00:54:32.286
We can all make money doing what we're doing.

00:54:32.286 --> 00:54:33.065
That's not the point.

00:54:33.065 --> 00:54:39.518
I am in no way shape or form talking shit about another brand.

00:54:39.518 --> 00:54:45.253
I'm talking competitively about myself and my business fucking competitively about myself and my business.

00:54:45.253 --> 00:54:47.519
I want to grow my business and I want to take care of my family the best that I possibly can.

00:54:47.539 --> 00:54:55.527
So I anticipated what this was going to be and I psyched myself up and I worked my ass off to be as busy as I could possibly be.

00:54:55.527 --> 00:54:57.773
I took every single opportunity personal.

00:54:57.773 --> 00:55:00.143
And then when I realized what they were doing, what they were about, I kind of felt bad.

00:55:00.143 --> 00:55:02.992
And when I saw how busy they were doing what they were about, I kind of felt bad.

00:55:02.992 --> 00:55:07.213
And when I saw how busy they were versus how busy we were, I felt a little bad about it.

00:55:07.213 --> 00:55:21.114
Obviously, you can put the feather in your cap and feel great about what you were doing, but like I realized hey man, you didn't need to get that fired up but also like, good for you for defending your family and your business.

00:55:21.396 --> 00:55:26.222
You know what I mean absolutely, and I mean you have every right to be worried about it.

00:55:26.222 --> 00:55:40.481
But like we talked about, like um, it makes you want to like just grab life by the horns and just kind of like go for it.

00:55:40.561 --> 00:55:55.275
Like I felt like knowing I had two competitors on each end of me, fired me the hell up to make sure we crushed it yeah, you had to, like we had to pedal hard I felt like we couldn't take the opportunity to let people leave our tent right.

00:55:55.275 --> 00:55:57.262
We had to, like, sell our mission, and what?

00:55:57.282 --> 00:56:02.458
we're doing yeah and it's given me more thoughts about putting our mission more on the forefront and our marketing and what we're doing.

00:56:02.458 --> 00:56:05.027
Yeah, and it's given me more thoughts about putting our mission more on the forefront and our marketing and what we do as well.

00:56:05.027 --> 00:56:08.677
Um, because sometimes you don't have the opportunity to sell it what it is that you're doing when other people do.

00:56:08.677 --> 00:56:09.219
You know what I mean.

00:56:09.219 --> 00:56:40.958
Um, in what we do for a business and the fact that our mission is American made and we're a patriotic brand, I would say probably 99% of the time if we're at another event and I'm not just saying the Freiburg Fair, I'm saying any event, any fair If there's another business there that does what we do, here's the difference they're not American-made but they're probably veteran-owned, they're probably veteran-backed and they're probably donating to veterans.

00:56:40.978 --> 00:56:44.889
Veteran owned, they're probably veteran backed and they're probably donating to veterans.

00:56:44.889 --> 00:56:53.559
So what happens is a lot of people come in and they just feel like they want to donate to veterans, which I completely understand and I completely support.

00:56:53.559 --> 00:56:55.163
We're not the same as them.

00:56:55.163 --> 00:57:01.224
Like, I would honestly say that most other patriotic apparel brands.

00:57:01.224 --> 00:57:04.530
They are veteran owned and they're donating to veterans.

00:57:04.530 --> 00:57:20.398
A lot of them are strictly 5013 c's, a lot of them are just strictly charities and a lot of them are just taking a a good portion of their proceeds and helping charities which I 1000 believe in and support in and I've given money to those people, Like I've.

00:57:20.398 --> 00:57:24.559
We personally have bought apparel from those other brands.

00:57:24.940 --> 00:57:28.052
Yeah, of course we're trying to support their mission, because we want to support them too.

00:57:28.052 --> 00:57:29.255
Yeah, we're here for their mission.

00:57:29.617 --> 00:57:30.880
Exactly, we're all about it.

00:57:30.880 --> 00:57:48.822
But to the everyday consumer that comes in, the difference is always that, and a lot of people choose to go to them before us because they know they're helping a veteran, right, they know they're contributing to an association, to a charity, to a good cause, right, right.

00:57:48.822 --> 00:57:59.079
And they think that, like, if I just buy from Lowry Proud American, I'm just supporting that guy and his family, where I know I can go help a veteran that defended our freedoms and helped our country.

00:57:59.239 --> 00:58:04.820
So I understand that, yeah, what's important for us to get out there is the fact that we are supporting American jobs.

00:58:04.820 --> 00:58:22.938
Our entire mission is the fact that our stuff is sourced and made in this country, which means that every dollar and cent that comes into our business is going back to this country, like we're purchasing our products from somebody else that lives in this country, from one of your neighbors, from your sister, your brother, your aunt, your uncle that's working in this country.

00:58:22.938 --> 00:58:27.782
It's their cotton, it's their fingertips, it's their hard work, it's their hours that are put in right.

00:58:27.782 --> 00:58:31.333
We're buying American labor with everything that we do.

00:58:31.333 --> 00:58:35.010
So every cent that we get, it's going right back into this country.

00:58:35.010 --> 00:58:39.739
It's supporting our jobs, it's supporting our markets, it's supporting our products.

00:58:39.739 --> 00:58:42.824
So I think it's important for us to kind of put that back out there.

00:58:42.824 --> 00:58:50.123
I never look at those veteran brands when we're somewhere as competition, because I want them to do good.

00:58:50.123 --> 00:58:51.735
I just want to do really good too.

00:58:52.070 --> 00:58:54.800
And we run into that a lot like when we're at vendor spots.

00:58:54.800 --> 00:59:02.063
They'll be like oh, we had to put you over here because we didn't want to put you next to this person and we're like we're completely different, had to put you over here because we didn't want to put you next to this person.

00:59:02.083 --> 00:59:06.673
We're like, yeah, we're completely different and a lot of those, a lot of those businesses have different reps for different locations.

00:59:06.673 --> 00:59:13.358
So I've been at some places and that rep have come over and we've had a great conversation and we agree that we're not competitors.

00:59:13.358 --> 00:59:15.311
We're both trying to make it, but we're all so different.

00:59:15.311 --> 00:59:18.356
Sometimes one of the reps will come over and they'll check out our tent.

00:59:18.356 --> 00:59:23.844
When I was at at Windsor, one came in to my mom, talked to my mom and said like I'm your competition, I just want to see what you're doing.

00:59:23.844 --> 00:59:26.257
Like, okay, that's kind of strange.

00:59:26.389 --> 00:59:31.702
Like I tell people where you are, dude, like I do At every fair.

00:59:31.702 --> 00:59:36.936
If someone comes in and they're looking for one of those other vendors, that's not me.

00:59:36.936 --> 00:59:48.141
I'm not going to Like, that's how we do it, man, we should all be able to be successful here and that's one of the things I hope that's a lesson for everybody listening that, hey, man, we can all be successful.

00:59:48.141 --> 00:59:56.143
I'm not trying to downplay somebody else's brand or business and I completely support those other brands, especially the ones that are giving back to veterans, giving back to local communities.

00:59:56.269 --> 00:59:58.077
Like I'm 1,000% behind that we're here for that.

00:59:58.077 --> 01:00:08.873
We give our money to that too.

01:00:08.873 --> 01:00:13.168
But the other thing is that, like we both, uh, grew up with family members in the military of some way shape or form, so yeah, of course, we're gonna like give back and point them in the right direction.

01:00:13.188 --> 01:00:18.617
Absolutely, I just feel that in my entire life I've always been a competitor.

01:00:18.617 --> 01:00:20.601
I've always wanted to compete.

01:00:20.601 --> 01:00:31.304
I always want to be the best, I always want to do my best and I know there's times when you go to events and you stack up against this major brand from somewheres across the country and you can't beat them.

01:00:31.304 --> 01:00:39.623
But I just want to leave that event with that major brand knowing like, holy shit, that hillbilly over there, he brought it this week.

01:00:39.623 --> 01:00:40.505
You know what I mean.

01:00:40.505 --> 01:00:45.652
Over there, like he brought it this week.

01:00:45.652 --> 01:00:46.134
You know what I mean.

01:00:46.134 --> 01:01:01.936
Like we've sat up, we've been at events and been next to major brands, full-on outfits that could spend more in a day than we could spend in six months on our product yeah and we've gone toe-to-toe with those brands yeah, we have, and I'm proud of us for doing that and I think we did a great job

01:01:01.996 --> 01:01:06.411
that's why I think I take that stuff personal, because I know where we can go with this.

01:01:06.411 --> 01:01:07.715
I know where we're trying to go with this.

01:01:07.715 --> 01:01:10.650
I know we're trying, where we're trying to grow with this.

01:01:10.650 --> 01:01:23.083
But the difference between a representative for one business and us is the fact that I know that my baby daughter depends on this business.

01:01:23.083 --> 01:01:24.657
I know that you depend on this business.

01:01:24.657 --> 01:01:25.735
I know that I depend on it.

01:01:25.735 --> 01:01:28.454
My mother depends on it, we all depend on it.

01:01:28.454 --> 01:01:31.659
So, hell or high water, I'm going to put it in to get it done.

01:01:32.791 --> 01:01:41.039
When I was walking around that fair and I was going back and forth to get inventory, to do those things, I always told myself I want it just a little bit more than everybody else here does.

01:01:41.039 --> 01:01:55.831
And that's just the mindset you have to have, like when you're going through it, when you're growing through it, like and it's okay for somebody else to believe they want it more than me, but I just ultimately tell myself where everything I'm doing, there is nobody here that wants this more than I do.

01:01:55.831 --> 01:01:57.233
There's nobody here that's going to outwork me.

01:01:57.233 --> 01:01:58.815
No one who that's going to out try me.

01:01:58.815 --> 01:01:59.958
No one who that's gonna out try me.

01:01:59.958 --> 01:02:11.418
No one who that's gonna out, believe me, and that's just kind of like the message you have to take, and I feel like that message needs to be the model for today that echoes to anybody today, no matter what it is that you're into, that you believe in, that you're trying for that you're shooting for.

01:02:11.418 --> 01:02:16.614
You have to believe and you have to convince yourself that nobody wants your dream more than you do.

01:02:18.157 --> 01:02:26.063
It's, it's accurate so true the moment you believe somebody wants what you want more than you do, you're never going to get what you want because you don't want it bad enough.

01:02:26.063 --> 01:02:33.355
You need to believe wholeheartedly, unconditionally, and what it is that you're doing, what it is that you're bringing and what it is that you're believing.

01:02:33.355 --> 01:03:01.079
So you have to get up, buckle up, strap up and walk out there, knowing that, like I'm the baddest motherfucker on the planet when it comes to me and my dreams, you ain't holding me back from where it is I want to be that's powerful thanks, babe, that's the truth like when you get into an event that has the opportunity for you to succeed at the level that this last event has, you have to take that, and this is the first time.

01:03:01.960 --> 01:03:04.784
I mean I know the reason why.

01:03:04.784 --> 01:03:23.710
The reason why is that, like, ultimately it's because we had the little one, but this is the first time that I did this fair without one drink of beer, not one I know I even brought you yeah I brought you some you brought me a 30 pack of what I was looking for what I was hoping for what I've been dreaming for yeah, that's right.

01:03:23.990 --> 01:03:25.456
I didn't even think about that until just now.

01:03:25.476 --> 01:03:27.476
Yeah, I didn't want to be.

01:03:27.476 --> 01:03:33.657
I didn't have very much time with my daughter when she was there, right like at night, to sit down.

01:03:33.657 --> 01:03:38.596
I'm not going to take time away from her for me to be drinking beers like Like that was a decision I made.

01:03:38.635 --> 01:03:45.541
Like, if I only have an hour with her before we all go to bed, I'm not going to be sucking down beers and breathing in her face Like I'm not doing it.

01:03:45.541 --> 01:04:00.139
And then, when she wasn't there, I felt in my heart that if I'm away from my daughter right now, if I'm away from my wife right now, I need to be focused on building this brand for my daughter and my wife right now.

01:04:00.139 --> 01:04:06.739
Right now that, like, I'm not my best self if I'm compromising myself.

01:04:06.778 --> 01:04:19.117
You understand what I'm saying like yeah, I'm, I'm, listen, I'm all for being at events and crushing beers and enjoying myself, but there was a switch this week that told me everybody is depending on you.

01:04:19.117 --> 01:04:20.480
This needs to to happen.

01:04:20.480 --> 01:04:22.103
This needs to be successful.

01:04:22.103 --> 01:04:29.619
If you're not giving every ounce of energy you have, you're sleeping to regain every ounce of energy you can get.

01:04:29.619 --> 01:04:31.489
That's how I took this event on personally.

01:04:31.489 --> 01:04:37.876
I just made a decision that was like you know what, and I looked for beer the whole time, trying to find what I wanted.

01:04:38.557 --> 01:04:39.641
I found it.

01:04:39.902 --> 01:04:42.798
I know I went to like three, four stores, I couldn't find it.

01:04:42.798 --> 01:05:09.443
And then you got it for me and brought it up, but I made the decision in my mind no, I dude, maybe I'll have one of those to celebrate when this is all over, but until then, like I got a goal in hand and I knew the pressure that was placed on us, and maybe it's a combination of a new addition, the combination of the last chance to make things work, all that pressure I just wanted to take any excuse away from me losing you understand.

01:05:09.831 --> 01:05:11.297
Yeah, I get that 100%.

01:05:12.458 --> 01:05:18.240
There's a lot of events that I could do hungover and I can do hammered and I can do just fine, but I wanted to you have.

01:05:18.240 --> 01:05:37.157
Yeah, I mean, hey, I became an owner of a Harley shop being drunk most days, so you know I can jive, I can sell with the best of them, but I just needed to be focused and on my game to make it work and I'm proud of that.

01:05:37.157 --> 01:05:40.721
I'm proud of the fact that we came out of this the way we did.

01:05:40.721 --> 01:05:42.411
I'm so incredibly grateful.

01:05:42.378 --> 01:05:42.980
Oh thanks, I texted that to that.

01:05:42.980 --> 01:05:43.661
I'm proud of the fact that we came out of this the way we did.

01:05:43.661 --> 01:05:44.048
I'm so incredibly grateful.

01:05:44.048 --> 01:05:45.876
Oh thanks, I texted that to you while I was gone.

01:05:45.876 --> 01:05:49.358
Thanks, Because I had remember the picture, Yep.

01:05:49.659 --> 01:05:49.818
I do.

01:05:50.449 --> 01:05:51.514
Of three years ago.

01:05:52.010 --> 01:05:55.259
And I wish to share that little factoid on our social media to show the difference.

01:05:55.278 --> 01:05:56.242
Yeah, that was really impressive.

01:05:56.869 --> 01:06:01.755
We do the best we can to try to get caught up on social media and then by the end of the week you can't even open your phone.

01:06:01.755 --> 01:06:03.376
So here I am.

01:06:03.376 --> 01:06:06.880
I'm going to have to get back and thank everybody and get back on there.

01:06:06.880 --> 01:06:08.961
But we had some real highs, man.

01:06:08.961 --> 01:06:13.666
We had the number one grossing event in the history of the business.

01:06:13.666 --> 01:06:24.561
We also had the number one single, busiest, highest grossing day ever for the business and on that saturday that was our number one day.

01:06:24.561 --> 01:06:30.701
We could have done even more, but we ran out of stuff we did yeah, like we.

01:06:31.282 --> 01:06:41.719
We had people asking for things and we're just like man I'm sorry, dude, we're, we're out of that we had people asking for things like that were so unexpected too, like sizes that you were were like wait what?

01:06:41.800 --> 01:06:44.864
Bro, I sold out a 3X in a lot of things.

01:06:44.864 --> 01:06:46.356
That's my size, dude.

01:06:46.356 --> 01:06:49.378
People are like, oh, you don't carry big guy sizes.

01:06:49.378 --> 01:06:53.240
And I'm like, dude, I specialize in big sizes, dude.

01:06:53.670 --> 01:06:55.795
Speaking of that, you want to talk about that other ick.

01:06:55.795 --> 01:06:56.679
That always happens.

01:06:56.679 --> 01:07:09.224
Yeah, let it out, I know where you're headed Fat guy sizes and they actually want an extra large like two guys came in and was like oh, you got big guy sizes in here because you weren't in there.

01:07:09.224 --> 01:07:11.755
And I was like yeah, I actually do.

01:07:11.755 --> 01:07:12.657
What size are you looking for?

01:07:12.657 --> 01:07:14.722
And I they said like extra large.

01:07:14.722 --> 01:07:17.594
And I was like big sizes.

01:07:18.496 --> 01:07:20.440
My husband was an extra large in second grade.

01:07:20.481 --> 01:07:28.896
Bro, come at me with your big guy size Well it's funny because then next thing you know you walk in the tent and you go and cash them out and they're just like oh.

01:07:29.190 --> 01:07:31.414
You feel bad about that statement, I'll retract my statement.

01:07:31.414 --> 01:07:37.554
Your honor, like, come on, people, come into me and say it to my face you got fat guy sizes.

01:07:37.554 --> 01:07:41.217
I look at them, I mean sizes.

01:07:41.277 --> 01:07:41.679
I look at them.

01:07:41.679 --> 01:07:42.563
I mean, what are you looking?

01:07:42.643 --> 01:07:42.985
for medium.

01:07:42.985 --> 01:07:43.407
Yeah, what do you?

01:07:43.407 --> 01:07:43.969
What are you saying?

01:07:43.969 --> 01:07:46.094
I am fucking tent size, like what are you?

01:07:46.094 --> 01:07:48.219
What are you looking for here?

01:07:48.219 --> 01:07:50.152
What do you call me le carnival?

01:07:50.152 --> 01:07:51.998
I'm a carnival size, a carnival tent.

01:07:51.998 --> 01:07:52.740
Is that what you're saying?

01:07:52.740 --> 01:08:03.184
Goodness, anyway, we accomplished, um a lot we, and I'm grateful for it.

01:08:03.184 --> 01:08:05.637
I might have slept it off for two days, but I think we earned it.

01:08:07.369 --> 01:08:08.715
Yeah, I think so.

01:08:08.755 --> 01:08:10.440
Good night man.

01:08:12.650 --> 01:08:14.135
I don't know what else to say, I blacked out.

01:08:14.135 --> 01:08:20.375
Me too, my eye is twitching.

01:08:20.917 --> 01:08:23.676
I noticed that I was looking at you like you were having some kind of seizure or something.

01:08:23.676 --> 01:08:25.501
I don't know what's going on.

01:08:25.501 --> 01:08:28.234
Look at the little baby Aw, look at her.

01:08:28.234 --> 01:08:32.921
Look how sweet she's smiling.

01:08:33.520 --> 01:08:34.082
We did good.

01:08:35.043 --> 01:08:35.824
We did amazing.

01:08:36.185 --> 01:08:36.485
We did.

01:08:36.485 --> 01:08:38.952
That's what everybody kept telling us.

01:08:38.952 --> 01:08:39.814
That was a highlight.

01:08:39.814 --> 01:08:46.564
Everybody kept coming in asking me how I was doing and was like you did good Mama, you did good Daddy.

01:08:48.814 --> 01:08:49.055
And.

01:08:49.055 --> 01:08:51.168
I tell everybody I had my doubts, good God.

01:08:52.490 --> 01:08:53.072
I always had my doubts.

01:08:53.091 --> 01:08:54.333
Yeah well, but a lot worked out.

01:08:54.333 --> 01:08:56.817
An amazing triumphant victory.

01:08:56.817 --> 01:09:03.605
Paisley's first event on the road happened to be the biggest event ever, and she was a superstar.

01:09:03.605 --> 01:09:06.115
She did so good, she crushed it.

01:09:06.115 --> 01:09:07.225
She only had a few meltdowns, nothing crazy.

01:09:07.225 --> 01:09:07.548
Hey, me too.

01:09:07.548 --> 01:09:09.296
Primarily, when dad was holding her.

01:09:09.296 --> 01:09:13.617
But other than that, and just about every night I went home, she threw up milk all over me.

01:09:14.319 --> 01:09:16.212
Hey, welcome to the club.

01:09:16.434 --> 01:09:16.936
That was great.

01:09:16.936 --> 01:09:18.353
Gonna love that.

01:09:18.512 --> 01:09:20.439
Welcome to fatherhood Good night.

01:09:20.439 --> 01:09:25.490
That gonna love that.

01:09:25.490 --> 01:09:26.413
Welcome to fatherhood good night.

01:09:26.413 --> 01:09:26.814
That was good.

01:09:26.814 --> 01:09:30.082
It was a good event, uh, all around, and I thought that she did an amazing job like adapting?

01:09:30.101 --> 01:09:30.804
I think so too, adjusting.

01:09:30.804 --> 01:09:46.457
As much as we thought that this year was an amazing challenge, it could be that much greater next year yeah, think about that, like that's one of the things that we haven't really even talked about or thought about, but as much of a challenge it is this year.

01:09:46.618 --> 01:09:47.460
I've thought about it.

01:09:47.460 --> 01:09:48.671
It could be way worse.

01:09:48.731 --> 01:10:00.399
Next, I saw some of them terrors running around the fair I just um, I'm gonna have to think about how we're gonna handle it next year with you know yeah, it going to be a vest and a leash.

01:10:01.462 --> 01:10:02.264
That's an egg for me.

01:10:02.911 --> 01:10:03.935
But I mean just the.

01:10:03.935 --> 01:10:08.037
I don't know that could be, I don't know.

01:10:08.037 --> 01:10:10.497
We might have to have some help with this.

01:10:10.970 --> 01:10:12.676
Well, not for nothing, but she'll only be once.

01:10:12.676 --> 01:10:15.056
It's not like she's going to be running around.

01:10:15.077 --> 01:10:16.360
I know, but I'm just thinking.

01:10:16.360 --> 01:10:26.505
As this starts to progress, we're going to get to a point where she's gonna be great to have at the fair yeah, we're gonna go, we're gonna grow through some points that are extremely difficult at the fair.

01:10:26.505 --> 01:10:31.381
Yeah, we're gonna say, hey, remember that first year when she was a newborn, that was so easy.

01:10:32.252 --> 01:10:45.376
Containing her in the tent will be the challenge if we had a situation where, like you know, my mom didn't have to be home to take care of like animals and stuff and all and all of us were at the fair, it would be fine.

01:10:45.376 --> 01:10:49.895
Yeah, like if my mom was there we would be totally fine.

01:10:49.895 --> 01:10:50.398
You know what I?

01:10:50.417 --> 01:11:02.832
mean, who knows, by then we may not have any more indoor indoor animals and it's just having a farmhand show up goodness, you're putting a death sentence on the dogs no, you got four dogs that are gonna die off in a year.

01:11:02.872 --> 01:11:06.301
You just put, put it right on them they're old.

01:11:07.925 --> 01:11:14.278
I'm not saying by like I'm saying here soon, like it's a possibility.

01:11:14.278 --> 01:11:17.384
We have bulldogs and their lifespan is not that long.

01:11:17.384 --> 01:11:23.863
I'm not putting a death sentence on anyone, i'm'm just talking about the reality and we've already talked about not having any more animals in the house.

01:11:23.863 --> 01:11:36.377
Like it'd be easier to have a farmhand show up to do outdoor barn chores than it would be to have them come in the house, do these animals and then go out and do those or the dog's going to go out multiple times throughout the day.

01:11:36.417 --> 01:11:37.180
Whatever, that's what.

01:11:37.180 --> 01:11:43.698
I'm saying you know, the horse just gets turned in and out at night, whatever.

01:11:43.698 --> 01:11:44.300
Yeah, I mean, I don't disagree.

01:11:44.300 --> 01:11:45.525
I'll feel really weird about it to be, honest.

01:11:45.525 --> 01:11:46.510
You know what I mean, what I don't know.

01:11:46.510 --> 01:11:50.719
It's just weird to not be home for so long and know that, like there's nobody home.

01:11:50.719 --> 01:11:52.563
We've never done that.

01:11:52.743 --> 01:11:53.423
You know what I mean.

01:11:53.423 --> 01:11:56.085
We've never been like, okay, there's nobody at.

01:11:56.085 --> 01:12:04.229
That's strange like how long before the boy out there realizes I'm unsupervised all day, watch me fuck stuff up.

01:12:04.229 --> 01:12:06.015
That's what our horse would do.

01:12:06.015 --> 01:12:11.119
He's pretty smart, he's too smart, I'd have to talk to him for the camera hey boy.

01:12:11.119 --> 01:12:12.936
I'm actually here in the tree.

01:12:12.936 --> 01:12:14.128
You know what I mean.

01:12:15.395 --> 01:12:16.078
I'm watching you.

01:12:16.752 --> 01:12:22.234
I see you yeah, speaking of that right on cue Folsom just numbers have freak out.

01:12:22.375 --> 01:12:25.493
Yeah, he got scared of the water bowl that happens.

01:12:25.594 --> 01:12:26.574
Welcome to bulldog life.

01:12:26.916 --> 01:12:37.150
Parenthood kids this is, this is our life in a nutshell goodness, stay in school I'm just waiting for the baby to fart, because she'll put a grown man down.

01:12:37.190 --> 01:12:54.894
Goodness, she you want to talk about, she had an explosion and the camper you want to talk about farting in a tuna can, bro, that it's in the, it's in the fivers, that's a straight crop dust good at its finest.

01:12:55.694 --> 01:12:56.858
But what do they call that?

01:12:56.858 --> 01:12:57.658
A dutch?

01:12:57.658 --> 01:12:58.541
A dutch oven.

01:12:58.541 --> 01:13:03.997
When you like, wow, fart under the blankets and then put it over your head she had poo-poo going up her spine.

01:13:04.390 --> 01:13:08.938
It was stanky booty at its finest, little stanky booty.

01:13:09.310 --> 01:13:09.631
What's up?

01:13:09.631 --> 01:13:11.599
Little stank Little stanky booty.

01:13:12.609 --> 01:13:14.774
Alright, we're starting to ramble on because we're getting tired.

01:13:14.774 --> 01:13:16.356
You know what that means.

01:13:16.356 --> 01:13:18.502
What?

01:13:18.502 --> 01:13:19.844
Until next time.

01:13:20.050 --> 01:13:21.476
It's time to wash your fucking hands.

01:13:24.329 --> 01:13:37.000
Well, I, I mean that's at the end of it, but I mean you know I was trying to speed up the process for supporting paisley's american dream now go wash your fucking hands you filthy savage.

01:13:37.502 --> 01:13:38.122
I know you wanted to.

01:13:38.122 --> 01:13:39.493
That's it and that's all biggie smalls.

01:13:39.493 --> 01:13:43.244
I know you wanted to sway so bad, I'll let you have it.

01:13:43.244 --> 01:14:00.890
That's it and that's all Biggie Smalls.

01:14:00.890 --> 01:14:06.117
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01:14:06.117 --> 01:14:10.519
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01:14:10.519 --> 01:14:13.900
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01:14:13.900 --> 01:14:17.720
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Now go wash your fucking hands, you filthy savage.