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Aubrey Smith on Skunk'd Golf's Mission, Products, and the Skunk'd Classic Charity Tournament · Scene Projects Sports Network

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  Welcome everyone to a special edition of the Scratch Project.
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  This is not the Saturday cut line.
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  This is a Monday edition where I'm gonna be introducing and interviewing our special guest
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  today, one of the co owners of Stunt Golf Company, Aubrey Smith.
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  How's it going, brother?
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  Good.
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  How are you?
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  Oh, I'm fantastic.
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  Good deal.
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  Good deal.
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  You know?
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  Yeah.
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  Thanks for having me on.
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  No problem.
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  Guys, see you got your, your Vice hat on.
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  I've got the I've got the OG black and white.
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  I've got
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  the Looks good.
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  Pullover, the polyester.
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  Awesome.
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  Tell you what, man.
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  It ain't just a slogan.
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  It's the truth.
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  Yeah.
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  Even when my game stinks, I'm looking good.
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  So Right.
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  Exactly.
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  So, I mean, this is incredible of getting to have you guys on.
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  How are you guys?
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  I know you guys had an event recently.
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  How'd that go?
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  Good.
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  Good.
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  We just set up a booth for, one of the local football high school football boosters.
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  So that went really well.
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  And, we got our and then, you know, we got our tournaments coming up here in just under two
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  weeks.
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  Thirteen days, I think, it is away now.
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  So, yeah, big things coming, and and, yeah, it's been really good.
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  This year has been good so far.
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  Tell us a little bit about the skunk classic.
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  Like, what Yeah.
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  So How did this come about?
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  Like, when did you guys get the idea to do this, and who does it benefit?
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  So, I mean, when we started the company, the first you know, when we first started, one of
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  our goals was to do a tournament put on a tournament, and we definitely wanted it to be a
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  charity tournament and something that's local.
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  You know?
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  So something that for the community, to give back to the community for supporting us and,
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  you know, being there for for our startup and and just supporting the North Dakota company.
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  And, so we we chose this year, we chose the Minot Public School Foundation where, you know,
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  two of us, me and Kyle, we do live in Minot.
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  Our business is located in Washburn where our other owner, Alex, lives.
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  That's where, like, our warehouse is and all that.
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  So Right.
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  But, yeah, me and Kyle do live in Minot, and that's this is where we do most of our business
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  is in Minot.
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  Most of our sales come from Minot.
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  We were on a a men's league team, me and Kyle here in Minot, and this those guys are awesome.
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  They support us a lot.
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  So, yeah, we we've been you know, we just we just wanted to do a local local charity, and
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  Monmouth Public School Foundation was was something that popped up, and and we ran with
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  it.
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  And it's been it's been really cool and and interesting to learn, you know, how to put on a
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  tournament, and, it it's a lot.
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  But Did ever think you'd be in a you'd be in the position where you're like, wow.
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  I'm putting on a tournament with my company.
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  I never imagined this, you know, that we would be doing something like this in my life.
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  You know?
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  So, you know, I I originally, I work in the oil field.
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  We all three of us do.
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  So, you know, starting a golf apparel company was was not in the realm of things when, you
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  know, while we've been doing that.
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  So to do this and and have it be successful and and to help out a charity in the local
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  community to put on this tournament is is really cool and really special for us and and
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  near and dear to our hearts.
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  So, yeah, it's it's been fun, and and we're really looking forward to it.
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  That sounds awesome, man.
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  Alright.
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  So, obviously, we're doing a little bit of, you know, press for the open that's happening in
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  Minot on the twenty seventh, the stunt classic.
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  Yep.
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  We talked about how crazy it is that you're getting to do this event and put it on.
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  But how did Skunk like, how did Skunk Golf Company come about?
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  Like, where did this idea come from, and how did it get rolling?
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  Honestly, just kinda just sitting there one day, and I I think I was watching golf maybe,
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  and I was like, a lot of it comes from you know, you go into these retail stores, Shields,
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  Dick's, whatever, and you see these products from Primo, GoodGood, all these different
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  companies, right, Unreal, it's so expensive.
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  Like, shit is so expensive, and it's just it just really frustrates me when I see that.
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  I wouldn't I mean, I'm not saying that our stuff is cheap.
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  You know?
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  Well, hold on.
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  You guys got $50 polos compared to Primo that's at 90.
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  So Right.
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  Exactly.
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  Cut yourself some slack.
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  You're doing a service.
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  I I get it.
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  I would I just like to say that we're affordable.
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  You know?
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  We're not cheap.
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  We're not expensive.
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  We're affordable.
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  We're for we're for the everyday golfer.
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  Right?
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  Exactly.
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  So and it's the same material.
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  It's the same same style polos.
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  You know?
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  It's as any other company out there has.
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  And I just I don't starting this company and one of my goals personally is I do not wanna
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  gouge people.
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  I I just I can't do it morally.
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  You know?
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  I just I don't like it.
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  I get that there's overhead for those companies.
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  They're probably doing third party warehouses, all that stuff.
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  But, you know, there's three of us, and we can handle a workload.
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  We know how to work.
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  We've been working our whole lives.
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  We've been in the oil field for our whole lives.
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  We know how to work, and we're gonna work.
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  And we don't need we don't need to hire third party warehouses to to make things happen.
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  If we have a 150 orders a day, we're gonna be in the warehouse ourselves doing it.
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  Nice.
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  And that's gonna keep our prices low.
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  And that is respectable.
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  Mhmm.
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  Because I do agree, like, hey, man.
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  I golf four or five times a week.
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  Right.
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  And I go and I'm not I'm not even ashamed to say this.
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  I go to Burlington Coat Factory to for deals on polos because I'm not sitting there trying to
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  pay $90, $70.
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  And, like, when they're like, oh, polo's on sale.
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  Buy one, get one free.
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  But the first one's $95 after tax.
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  I'm like, I might as well just go get a wedge.
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  Like, what the hell, man?
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  I mean, you're still spending $45 a piece.
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  Right?
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  I mean, buy one, get one free, you're still paying for
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  that.
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  Exactly.
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  And it depends on what their shipping, you know, their shipping deals are.
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  Ours is ours is anything $50 and over domestically is is free shipping.
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  We we take that hit.
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  So, you know, it's it's just something that that that's part of what, you know, we wanted
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  to do with this company is is is keep it affordable for people.
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  And but, yeah, I I think, you know, when we started the company, it was just sitting
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  there
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  one day watching golf, you know, thinking about all these all these different companies because
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  it is oversaturated.
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  Don't get me wrong.
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  It is.
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  It's it's a hard market to get into and and to to be successful in.
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  But, you know, that was part of it.
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  We didn't wanna gouge, but we also just wanted something something that was memorable, though,
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  too.
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  You know?
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  That was that was part of it.
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  Right?
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  So coming up with the name.
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  You know, I I think I think we wrote down, call, fifty, sixty different names for the
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  company, you know, to to get going.
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  And and then we'd have to research every single name, you know, to see if that was already a
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  company, a golf company, or some other company because not only can you do you have to think
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  about, well, is this already a a golf affiliated company?
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  Is this trademarked already?
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  Is it trademarked?
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  Is it what's the website gonna look like, you know, when we're trying to when we're trying to
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  do a domain?
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  I mean, you know, if you get something that's just too, what's the word, like, everybody's
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  using it.
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  You know?
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  It doesn't have to be golf.
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  But
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  You want it to be you want it to stand out.
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  You don't want it to blend in.
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  Right.
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  Exactly.
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  Exactly.
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  So, I mean, think out of the 50 or 60 names that we wrote down, I think maybe three weren't
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  being like, didn't really have any affiliation with any other companies really.
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  So and then, you know, part of this too was that went along with this is, you know, when
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  you're on the when you're on the tee box and and with your with your buddies and you're
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  you're betting every hole, you know, and you're talking shit to each other, and it's just, you
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  know, you hit a bad shot.
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  You know?
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  And they're like, Jesus Christ, you suck.
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  You know?
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  Or Jesus, you're you're terrible.
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  You know?
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  And, well, at least I still look good, I guess.
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  You know?
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  So that's kinda where that rolled into this whole thing, and it it just kinda made sense
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  for it.
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  And it just Rather,
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  we've all been there.
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  Well yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Exactly.
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  We've all been there.
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  Yeah.
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  I've hit
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  I I
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  I hit my finger.
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  I was not worried.
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  Yeah.
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  It ended up coming together really, really well, with the company name and that slogan.
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  And, yeah, we just ran with it, and and this we're that's where we're at now.
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  Okay.
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  Me just just playing in, like, hindsight being twenty twenty.
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  Right?
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  Or if, you know, if it wasn't gonna be skunk golf, what would it have been?
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  Oh, man.
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  I can't even remember.
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  I'd have to look back in my notes, man.
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  I I'd honestly don't remember.
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  I think it it might have been another animal, but it was more I mean, it was definitely more
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  of a a more well known you know, something that was more used in other companies, I would say.
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  So, yeah, we I'm glad that this this fell in our lap the way it did, you know, with the
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  skunk.
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  And and, yeah, I honestly, I couldn't be any any happier of
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  what what, your guys' branding is point.
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  Like, it's on point because I go out on the tee box in my skunk gear.
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  I'd say about 90% of the content that I do now is in my skunk gear.
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  Not just because you guys, you know, sent us the gear, but because it's genuinely that
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  comfortable for me.
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  Good deal.
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  Yeah.
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  That's I would love to hear that.
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  The hats are just great too.
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  This they're very like, yeah.
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  I still sweat a little, but it's very sweat resistant.
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  It keeps it out of my eyes.
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  Yeah.
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  And, I mean, hey.
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  You guys sent me this little little birdie right here.
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  So I'm really appreciative of this when I'm on green because I find myself there a little more
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  often now.
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  So my friends are my friends are like, hey, man.
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  Where do we get that?
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  And I'm like, sorry.
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  Yeah.
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  So we're we're actually trying to decide right now, if we wanna start selling those to online,
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  like our our bar ball markers and, some koozies.
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  Just I've gotten nothing but compliments on both.
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  Well, good deal.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  I think I think that is kind of the direction we're we're heading in is to is to put those
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  online on our store as something that you can buy.
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  So so, yeah, that's that's hopefully, that's coming soon.
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  You know, we we gotta restock on a couple things here, but but, yeah, we're we're working
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  on that too.
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  Okay.
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  So speaking of the restock, talk a little bit more about this, new product drop that we got
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  going here Yes.
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  The T
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  shirts and the tank tops.
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  So Thursday this last Thursday here, we just got in T shirts and women's tank tops.
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  So the women's tank tops, really, really nice.
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  They're they're super, super soft.
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  A little got some stretch to them.
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  I think they're polyester and spandex blend.
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  Super, super nice tank tops.
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  When we when we put them on in the booth here on Friday, it was our first first time, you
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  know, for anybody to see them, and we get a lot of compliments on those.
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  And, the T shirts, they're a tri blend, so they won't shrink, you know, like a a 100% cotton.
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  So we got one that's, it's like our OG kinda, you know, color style, which is the the black T
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  shirt with just the white.
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  It has the white skunk golf company on the front, and the back has our our slogan logo.
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  And then, the other T shirt is more of our vice, line for this year.
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  It's got the the skunk company skunk golf company, you know, on the front in the vice
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  kinda outlined, and then it's gonna be
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  so jealous of that design.
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  It's so cool.
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  Yeah.
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  We we like, you know, we like some of the bold stuff.
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  We wanna we wouldn't want don't wanna get too crazy just because of trends are kinda going
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  away from that that really bold look, you know, the the big bold Hawaiian colors and all that
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  stuff that used used to see all over the place.
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  You know?
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  They're starting to go more muted muted trend.
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  I I've noticed.
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  So, you know, we do like to keep things a little, though.
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  Just just pop, you know, pop off of this black and and look it looks really nice, I think.
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  But, yeah, we get we got one of the T shirts is vice, style, color style.
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  And then the back to the women's tank tops, one's a heather gray, and the other one's, a
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  heather sky blue.
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  So
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  I like the, the gray and the sky blue.
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  My wife, personally, she thought that the sky blue was awesome.
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  Like, we're we're a bright color family here.
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  So, like, for me right now, I've got the OG skunk hat.
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  I've got the white skunk hat with the label, but I'm not gonna lie.
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  I'm like, I need to get my hands on that vice hat.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  We'll we'll we'll, yeah, we'll work something out.
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  We'll we'll get you something good.
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  But I gotta ask, though.
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  Like, so I know so who handles, like, r and d amongst you three?
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  Like, where do you guys come up with, alright.
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  We got this line.
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  We have this dropping, but now we're gonna look into going with a different design.
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  Like, how long does it take you guys to find the colors, the design, and how you wanna, you
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  know, put pen to paper, so to speak?
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  Yep.
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  So I I deal mainly with, the design and the design aspect of everything.
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  Kyle is our finance guy, so he does he handles all of our finances.
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  And then Alex, he's he's like our logistics shipping warehouse guy.
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  So he handles all of the shipping deals and all that stuff whenever we get an order in.
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  And so, yeah, as far as the design goes, that's mainly me.
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  But there's nothing that we don't vote on as a group because we're all co owners.
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  Right?
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  So there's nothing that we step over each other's heads for.
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  So anything that I come up with or someone else comes up within the company, it always gets put
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  in the group text, and it always gets put to a vote.
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  So two thirds wins, and that's just how it is.
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  Alright.
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  Alright.
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  Alright.
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  This is a little off topic, but I couldn't help but notice.
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  In the background there, it looks like you got a Kobe Bryant jersey.
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  It's a so it's a it's one of those, five panel, like, picture deals that you put up.
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  And then yeah.
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  So this this is my studio room, actually.
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  Me and Kyle used to do a fantasy football podcast.
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  So I have a little studio room set up in my house.
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  And, yeah, he's he's a Vikings fan.
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  I'm I'm not particularly a big Viking fan.
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  Kyle to get on Vikings United.
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  He'd
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  I know.
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  Right?
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  Yeah.
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  But, yeah, I'm a I'm a huge Lakers fan, so I got the Kobe the Kobe picture.
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  And I don't know if you can see Joe Burrow right there in the corner too.
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  I'm a huge LSU fan.
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  I can.
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  My mom's a huge LSU fan.
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  Yeah.
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  My dad's from Louisiana, so so I was I was born born and raised a LSU fan.
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  Who dat?
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  Yep.
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  See, I'm the odd I'll I'm the odd sheep in the family, the black sheep, if you will.
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  I'm a Michigan State fan, and I think I'm a, UCLA fan.
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  So
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  Okay.
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  Yeah.
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  I'm a I'm a Texans fan for NFL.
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  So, yeah, we all I I had to let him hang up the Vikings the Vikings banner, though, you know,
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  or else he wouldn't come to
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  Oh, NFL.
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  I I I was I'm a Kansas City Chiefs fan.
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  Been once and twice four.
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  Right.
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  Right.
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  When we were going two and fourteen and Yeah.
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  Been a long ride.
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  Oh, yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  So I gotta ask, though.
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  You know, how does it feel being in the studio room now that you're not doing fantasy football
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  and now that you're I know we're not like ESPN or anything, but you're having a conversation
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  about your brand.
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  Yeah.
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  It's it's different.
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  So I I mean, it's different because I'm on camera, for one.
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  We weren't we never did it on camera.
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  It was just more of a radio podcast style.
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  But, I mean, it's a lot better.
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  I'll tell you that.
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  I mean, things are things are moving along, and and we're moving up, and it just feels great,
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  honestly.
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  It's it's really it's a really cool experience, I think, you know, to to be a part of this and
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  I know.
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  And to to just see everything moving the way it's been moving is is really neat.
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  Well, you what you guys have done is nothing short of impressive, and I'm sure the kids
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  appreciate it too.
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  Yeah.
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  Speaking of which, is this the first, second, or third Skunk classic?
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  This is our first ever Skunk classic.
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  This is our first ever tournament that we put on.
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  Yeah.
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  And like I said, we're doing it for the Minot Public School Foundation here in here in in
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  town here in Minot, North Dakota.
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  You know, some of the stuff that that this is gonna go towards for for Minot Public School
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  Foundation is they have a a school lunch debt relief program.
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  It assists families with unpaid meal balances.
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  They have a classroom innovation grant program where funds new educational ideas and
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  supplemental resources for the teachers.
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  And then they also have a, it's called back to basics hybrid pantry, and, that provides
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  students with essential foods and clothings and and school supplies.
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  So, you know, all the all the this is all just gonna benefit those programs for that for that
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  foundation.
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  And, yeah, I mean, just something that we wanted to give back to the community.
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  You know?
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  And that's that's part of or a way that we could do it.
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  Well, that is awesome.
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  So I don't know how the coverage is gonna go yet.
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  Bubba hasn't spoken on that just yet, but I'm hoping we give you guys the maximum amount of
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  coverage because what you guys are doing, that is incredible for the community, for Minot.
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  Mhmm.
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  I know I'm gonna say this a couple times throughout our interview, but, hey, Skunk
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  Classic, June 27.
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  Be there or be square.
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  Yes.
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  I wish I could come out to see you guys, brother, but, you know, I'm out here on the
• 19:37
  West Coast.
• 19:37
  You could too, man.
• 19:38
  I'd come out there, shank a few houses for you.
• 19:42
  There is a few houses on Whole 8.
• 19:43
  So, yeah, could happen.
• 19:45
  We
• 19:45
  don't know.
• 19:45
  We can just go out there instead of putting, like, a little target on the houses.
• 19:49
  We can just go get one of the skunked stickers that I put on my car and put it on the houses,
• 19:55
  and you get, like, five, ten points if you hit the house.
• 19:57
  I don't know.
• 19:58
  Right.
• 19:59
  Right.
• 19:59
  Yeah.
• 20:00
  No.
• 20:00
  This is this is gonna be a really fun tournament.
• 20:02
  We so far, we have out of the twenty seventeen max, we got 21 signed up.
• 20:06
  So we're hoping to fill those last six spots here in the next this next couple weeks.
• 20:10
  You know, people like to wait until the last minute.
• 20:12
  So so I think it'll get filled, and and I think it'll be a really good time.
• 20:16
  Now A 186.
• 20:18
  Say this.
• 20:18
  For your first tournament to have 21 of the 27 teams already filled
• 20:23
  Yeah.
• 20:24
  That's huge.
• 20:25
  Yeah.
• 20:25
  Yeah.
• 20:25
  It is.
• 20:26
  And, you know, for me, I'm just such a big goal setter.
• 20:31
  Right?
• 20:31
  Like, personally, I I just I'm
• 20:33
  set a goal.
• 20:34
  Go home.
• 20:35
  Yeah.
• 20:35
  Right.
• 20:35
  And I I set a goal in my mind, and and if I don't if I don't hit it or if I don't start
• 20:40
  seeing it you know, those goals being met, I get I get really frustrated and and a little
• 20:47
  upset with myself and and just with with how things are going.
• 20:50
  But, you know, at first, it was it was slow going with team signing up, but but it's been
• 20:55
  picking up a lot.
• 20:57
  And and I was told that it would, but, you know, I didn't believe it until I saw it kinda
• 21:01
  thing.
• 21:02
  I got you.
• 21:03
  But, yeah, it's it's gonna be a fun tournament.
• 21:05
  We got we got every single hole has a hole well, except for two holes, has a hole prize
• 21:10
  for women and men because it's a coed charity tournament.
• 21:14
  So you have to have one woman on your at least one woman on your team to play.
• 21:17
  I know.
• 21:18
  Bubba's got Danielle as the ringer for putting.
• 21:20
  Yeah.
• 21:21
  Exactly.
• 21:21
  There you go.
• 21:22
  But, yeah, we got we got a lot of really good, hole sponsors, and lot of local community,
• 21:28
  businesses really stepped up for us and and and a lot of a lot of really great hole prizes and
• 21:35
  a lot of really good raffle prizes and and donations for that.
• 21:38
  So we really appreciate the local businesses and and and community members for stepping up
• 21:45
  and helping us out.
• 21:46
  Hey, man.
• 21:47
  And with how things are right now, you know, budgets are tight and to see communities rally
• 21:51
  around each other,
• 21:52
  that's Mhmm.
• 21:53
  That's always heartwarming.
• 21:55
  And it's, you know, it's also reassuring that, like, hey.
• 21:58
  I'm doing the right thing and
• 21:59
  Right.
• 22:00
  I can move forward with this.
• 22:03
  So you guys were well, you talked about this earlier in the interview about how you guys are
• 22:09
  going to Shields and Dick's, and you'd see these just outrageous prices.
• 22:13
  Mhmm.
• 22:14
  And I just wanted to say it's like, you guys are what we would call direct to consumer for
• 22:19
  us right now because you don't have your own local storefront.
• 22:22
  But you guys provide the same quality at a cheaper price.
• 22:26
  You're providing an option in golf, which is just incredible because
• 22:30
  Right.
• 22:31
  There's too many people who are like, hey.
• 22:33
  Look.
• 22:33
  Grant Horvath wears this.
• 22:34
  Hey.
• 22:35
  Look.
• 22:35
  You know, Ricky Fowler wears this.
• 22:37
  Hey.
• 22:37
  Look.
• 22:38
  Scotty shot like, just because there's a pro that wears it, they think, alright.
• 22:43
  Let's gouge you.
• 22:44
  Right.
• 22:44
  Exactly.
• 22:45
  You're paying for the brand.
• 22:46
  You're paying for the name.
• 22:47
  Right?
• 22:48
  A lot of these companies, you're literally just paying for the name.
• 22:50
  No.
• 22:51
  And I'll be nicer to Puma.
• 22:52
  They're they're a little less.
• 22:54
  Mhmm.
• 22:54
  You know?
• 22:55
  Mhmm.
• 22:55
  Because their shoes are very affordable, I'll say.
• 22:57
  I just bought some Puma, golf shoes, like, two weeks ago, and they're my favorite golf shoes
• 23:02
  I've owned so far.
• 23:03
  Shout out Puma.
• 23:04
  Shout out Cobra because both are very reasonable.
• 23:07
  I love you guys.
• 23:09
  So alright.
• 23:10
  Since we're talking tournament, right, let's get a little personal here.
• 23:13
  You're gonna be participating.
• 23:16
  Right?
• 23:16
  No.
• 23:17
  Not in our tournament.
• 23:18
  We won't be playing.
• 23:19
  We're we're strictly just business that day.
• 23:21
  So, but I do have a tournament coming up this weekend that I'm gonna be playing in back home
• 23:27
  in Plentywood, Montana.
• 23:28
  That
• 23:28
  I What's in the bag then for Aubrey Smith?
• 23:33
  I'm a I'm a I'm not that great of a golfer.
• 23:36
  I like to I like
• 23:37
  to think I am, but I'm definitely not.
• 23:39
  I'm I'm about a 17 So I I, you know, I do alright, but not great.
• 23:44
  But the tournament I got coming up this weekend is it's a two man best ball, and I played with
• 23:51
  a buddy from from high school every year for, like, the last six years.
• 23:54
  So it's it's a really, really fun tournament too.
• 23:58
  Big money tournament kinda.
• 24:00
  So, yeah, we we enjoy that one.
• 24:02
  But, no, as far as our tournament goes, the skunked one, we're not playing in that one.
• 24:06
  We decided to sit that one out and just kinda make sure everybody else is having fun and and
• 24:12
  so we can, you know, be kinda behind the scenes and make sure everything's running smoothly
• 24:16
  that whole day.
• 24:18
  Okay.
• 24:18
  So you get to sit there and watch?
• 24:20
  Yeah.
• 24:20
  Exactly.
• 24:21
  Which in a way is gratifying because you're like It is. You're
• 24:24
  You're getting to watch your own baby, like, grow up.
• 24:27
  Exactly.
• 24:27
  Yeah.
• 24:27
  And and and just to see everybody having fun is is gonna be more than worth it to us.
• 24:32
  You know?
• 24:32
  And and I'll be on hole 3.
• 24:35
  We're doing a kind of a money hole on that hole.
• 24:37
  So I'll be set up on that tee box, kinda, you know, taking money and giving tickets if they
• 24:43
  hit the green and stay on the green.
• 24:44
  And and so, you know, there's some fun little little little games on on some holes, and Kyle
• 24:50
  and Alex will be running the booth.
• 24:51
  So, you know, they'll be maybe running me some water if I need some, but that's I mean, that's
• 24:57
  about as far as that goes, I guess.
• 24:59
  Buddy, you better get yourself, like, a 64 ounce, you know, insulated jug.
• 25:04
  And the weather I mean, you know, looking at I've been looking at it for extended forecast
• 25:08
  for the last thirty days as far as I could see it.
• 25:11
  You know?
• 25:11
  And, it's just been it's been fun.
• 25:15
  It's been
• 25:17
  it's been Agreeable.
• 25:18
  Watch.
• 25:18
  Yeah.
• 25:19
  It's been interesting to watch the weather change every, you know, every two days and me
• 25:23
  getting nervous and then excited and then nervous again.
• 25:25
  Brother, you're getting the anxiety from like, oh god.
• 25:28
  Am I
• 25:28
  gonna be sweating like a hog, or do I need to wear a sweatshirt?
• 25:31
  Like, which one?
• 25:32
  So far, the last, like, two weeks, it's kinda stayed steady, and and it looks like it's gonna
• 25:36
  be a really nice day out.
• 25:37
  So, hopefully, it stays that way.
• 25:39
  I know out here in Cali right now, we've we're hitting mid nineties, high nineties already.
• 25:44
  Jeez.
• 25:45
  Yeah.
• 25:46
  Wow.
• 25:47
  So, like, yesterday, I went golfing at, seven in the morning.
• 25:52
  And by the time it was 09:00, it was already 89 degrees.
• 25:56
  Hoof.
• 25:57
  Yeah.
• 25:59
  Sun wasn't even at its apex, and you were feeling it.
• 26:02
  So Yeah.
• 26:02
  I bet.
• 26:03
  Alright.
• 26:04
  So tell me a little bit about Aubrey Smith.
• 26:08
  You know?
• 26:08
  Like, what do you, you know, what is Skunk Golf Company outside of just, you know, the Minot
• 26:15
  community and the dream?
• 26:18
  Like, what does this mean to you?
• 26:20
  Like, what does Skunk mean to you personally?
• 26:24
  Man, I think to for me personally, this is just something that it was, you know, it was a goal
• 26:33
  for me, right, is to is to do something other than what I'm doing now.
• 26:38
  And I grew up playing sports my whole life.
• 26:42
  I mean, I've been in every sport you could imagine pretty much.
• 26:46
  And, you know, as you get older, you get out of that.
• 26:49
  My competitive side definitely hasn't left me.
• 26:52
  And I just so golf is something that I could do, you know, growing up still and and getting
• 26:58
  older, and it's something that I can still stay competitive at slightly.
• 27:03
  And it's it's something that I wanted to pursue personally just to to see if I could do it, you
• 27:12
  know, to see if to see if it I could be successful in in something and and, you know,
• 27:17
  run my own business and make something for golfers that, like I said, is affordable.
• 27:24
  And and you don't have to be gouged for for buying nice stuff, you know, and and looking
• 27:31
  good on the course.
• 27:33
  Absolutely.
• 27:34
  And I'd say so far, guys have been more than successful.
• 27:37
  Thank you.
• 27:38
  I mean, the designs, you know, r and d, I know you guys vote on stuff, but the designs that
• 27:43
  you've been put forth so far are incredible.
• 27:46
  They're bold.
• 27:47
  They're trendy.
• 27:48
  I like them.
• 27:49
  My wife likes them.
• 27:50
  Everyone I've showed has liked them.
• 27:53
  I think a few of my friends have bought some stuff.
• 27:56
  Mhmm.
• 27:56
  So,
• 27:57
  you know, like, you guys are putting an affordable product out there for the everyday
• 28:04
  golfer, and I think you guys are killing your mission statement too because everybody's
• 28:09
  looking good even when they're hitting houses.
• 28:11
  Alright?
• 28:11
  Damn right.
• 28:12
  That's right.
• 28:13
  Yeah.
• 28:14
  And I will say this as a skunked consumer.
• 28:18
  I will swear by the bladed collar all day long.
• 28:23
  Yeah.
• 28:23
  So this last booth, we actually had a a couple people that were like, well, I've never seen
• 28:27
  this style of of collar.
• 28:28
  And I was like, I that's kinda why why we we went with the bladed collar too is you don't
• 28:33
  really see it as much.
• 28:34
  I mean, there is a couple companies out there that do do them, but you don't see them as
• 28:39
  much.
• 28:39
  And I I personally like them a lot better just because you still can fold them down if you
• 28:43
  want.
• 28:44
  But the comfort level's unmatched.
• 28:46
  Yeah.
• 28:47
  Yeah.
• 28:47
  It's not rubbing your neck.
• 28:48
  I mean, it's it's nice.
• 28:51
  Absolutely.
• 28:52
  You're not getting like, some callers, you know, like, they can chafe you a bit.
• 28:57
  Mhmm.
• 28:58
  People don't realize that, but, like, they can chafe you.
• 29:00
  Like, if you've ever gotten done golfing or you've been gotten out of a long meeting and
• 29:04
  you've got, like, that red little line right there
• 29:07
  Especially when it's hot and humid and, you know, you got that certain material rubbing on
• 29:10
  your neck.
• 29:11
  Yeah.
• 29:11
  For sure.
• 29:12
  Buddy, I've lived in Florida, and let me tell you, I've had many polos because I used to have
• 29:17
  a when we were in high school, we had the dress code.
• 29:20
  Like, you had to wear a polo.
• 29:21
  Alright.
• 29:21
  And I can't tell you how many times I've just chafed my neck right there.
• 29:26
  Yeah.
• 29:27
  Polos.
• 29:27
  Like, it got to the point where I had to start wearing Under Armour shirts so that I could put
• 29:31
  it on my neck.
• 29:33
  So nothing's worse than being hot and sweaty and uncomfortable.
• 29:38
  So skunked golf, bladed collars, vice OG polos, go get yours now, please.
• 29:45
  Yes.
• 29:45
  Definitely.
• 29:47
  So
• 29:49
  alright, man.
• 29:50
  I gotta, you know, I gotta ask this too.
• 29:53
  Skunk Golf, the boys, how are you guys feeling now versus a year ago?
• 30:03
  I think, I mean, I think we're feeling really good, honestly.
• 30:07
  I mean, we've we've really made some leaps and bounds, from last year to this year.
• 30:12
  You know?
• 30:13
  Our first year was in 2024, and we actually didn't even get product in until, like, was it
• 30:20
  September of that year?
• 30:23
  So we missed that whole first golf season, which which really sucked.
• 30:28
  I mean, we we made enough to to get us through, but last year was our first true golf season,
• 30:34
  and that was really fun.
• 30:35
  But this year, so far already, is just so much better.
• 30:39
  It's you know, we're we've learned so much.
• 30:42
  You know?
• 30:42
  None of us were, you know, business owners.
• 30:46
  You know?
• 30:46
  We worked in the oil field.
• 30:48
  You know?
• 30:48
  Like, we don't know much about owning businesses, you know, or or just a retail brand
• 30:54
  in general, an apparel brand.
• 30:56
  Like, so it was it was a big leap for us, and and it worked out so far.
• 31:01
  And and we're really excited to see what the future brings, honestly.
• 31:05
  We we we still got some some plans in the works, and and we're we're always planning
• 31:11
  different different designs and and having every you know, those in our back pocket for
• 31:16
  for next year, you know, the next year's line.
• 31:19
  And, you know, we're always working on that kind of stuff.
• 31:21
  And but, yeah, we're feeling really, really good about about where we're at and where we're
• 31:25
  headed.
• 31:25
  You know, when we started, we had a five year plan, and we and we voted on you know, we we
• 31:30
  kinda just said, like, hey.
• 31:32
  Let's give it five years.
• 31:34
  If it doesn't work out in five years, we'll pack it up.
• 31:37
  We'll say we tried.
• 31:38
  Right?
• 31:39
  But if it if it keeps going the way it's going, we're we're definitely looking good.
• 31:43
  In five years, we're gonna we're gonna blast through that five year goal.
• 31:47
  So
• 31:49
  I would say you guys are definitely on track to do that.
• 31:51
  Yeah.
• 31:52
  Is there any insider, I guess, I would say baseball, but is there any insider ball that
• 31:59
  you can share with us in terms of what may be next in terms of product prep or what's next
• 32:05
  for Skunk Golf?
• 32:07
  So I think we kinda wanna get into you know, I mean, it's it's gonna be how we work around it,
• 32:13
  I guess.
• 32:14
  You know?
• 32:14
  Because you gotta be careful with some stuff, you know, especially when you're doing, when
• 32:19
  you're when you're promoting and all that kind of stuff.
• 32:22
  But we do wanna get into, college colors kinda thing.
• 32:25
  Like, you know, sports teams colors, you know, and, like, those kind of color themes.
• 32:31
  Especially here in North Dakota, you know, the NDSU Bison are huge here.
• 32:34
  Right?
• 32:35
  You know?
• 32:35
  Their football program's just one of the top in the nation as far as Carson Wentz.
• 32:39
  Shout out.
• 32:40
  Yeah.
• 32:40
  Division division one double a stuff.
• 32:42
  And
• 32:43
  Tony Tony Romo, I think, too.
• 32:45
  Right?
• 32:46
  Not that I know of with Romo.
• 32:49
  It's been Wance Stick.
• 32:52
  There was another big name that went to NDSU.
• 32:55
  It Lance.
• 32:56
  Oh, yeah.
• 32:56
  Yep.
• 32:56
  His brother just got drafted too for wide receivers.
• 32:59
  So but, yeah, we have a big tournament in Valva, North Dakota every year called the NDSU
• 33:07
  alumni tournament, And it's just a like, the football coach comes down for it.
• 33:12
  The athletic director comes down for it.
• 33:14
  It's really big.
• 33:15
  And and, that's something that we kinda wanna get into is, like, doing certain things for
• 33:21
  those kind of tournaments, you know, certain, like, color themes and and and stuff like that.
• 33:26
  But but, yeah, I mean, we mainly I mean, right now, obviously, it's just the vice stuff, and
• 33:34
  we do have one more polo that we're we're wanting to roll out.
• 33:38
  It's a white more of a white colored polo than the black.
• 33:42
  It's got kind of a gradient on it.
• 33:45
  We're we're working on that one right now.
• 33:48
  Hopefully, we can get that one out before the end of the season.
• 33:51
  If not, we might just roll Vice into next season as well as as our new line, because
• 33:57
  we'll we'll come out with a new line next year too.
• 34:00
  But, yeah, we're we're always working on different stuff and, you know, different
• 34:05
  things.
• 34:05
  The college colors for the if I'm not mistaken, it's yellow, blue, and white for them.
• 34:10
  Right?
• 34:11
  Green, yellow.
• 34:12
  Green and yellow and white.
• 34:14
  Yep.
• 34:14
  Okay.
• 34:14
  Green, yellow, and white.
• 34:15
  Why am I thinking Pretty much it is.
• 34:16
  It looks a lot like John Deere colors.
• 34:21
  You know, they gotta stick with that that egg stuff.
• 34:23
  Hey, man.
• 34:24
  You just want that purple and yellow, though.
• 34:25
  Right?
• 34:26
  Hey.
• 34:26
  As as long as it as long as it lets me say it was it's for LSU, that's fine.
• 34:31
  You you guys they can all say it's for Vikings, but I'll say it's for LSU.
• 34:35
  Hey, man.
• 34:35
  Get me some get me some green and white, and I'll go, Michigan State.
• 34:39
  There we go.
• 34:39
  Yeah.
• 34:40
  Yeah.
• 34:41
  Yeah.
• 34:41
  We'd like to get something going for that kind of stuff too.
• 34:44
  So
• 34:44
  Yeah.
• 34:45
  So look, man.
• 34:46
  It has been an absolute pleasure having you on today.
• 34:49
  Thank you.
• 34:50
  And I don't know.
• 34:52
  I think you seem like you were just a tad camera shy, but you killed it, man.
• 34:55
  Yeah.
• 34:56
  A little bit.
• 34:56
  Yeah.
• 34:57
  Yeah.
• 34:57
  I don't I don't get on camera very much.
• 34:59
  So before we close it out, there's this ad that I wanna show you.
• 35:04
  But before we get into that, I just like, is there anything else you wanna let the people
• 35:08
  know?
• 35:09
  Is there, you know, something on Aubrey Smith's mind that, like, hey.
• 35:14
  Look out for skunk golf because this is coming from my brain.
• 35:19
  Yeah.
• 35:19
  I just I just think, you know, where we're at as a company right now and and our goals that
• 35:26
  we have set right now for future, I really do believe we're gonna be successful.
• 35:33
  And and, you know, we've gotten a lot a lot of really good feedback for our logo, especially,
• 35:38
  which is, you know, really great for us to hear.
• 35:40
  And but, yeah, I think it's something that's I think we got some.
• 35:45
  You know?
• 35:45
  I I
• 35:46
  think You definitely do have something.
• 35:48
  Yeah.
• 35:48
  And then I I hope to see us in in some big retailers soon, you know, like Shields or
• 35:53
  Dick's and and really get the name really, really get the name out there.
• 35:58
  I really hope so too.
• 35:59
  What you guys are doing is fantastic.
• 36:01
  Yeah.
• 36:02
  I don't know if Bubba's in here still, But if Bubba is in here, I would love for him to chime
• 36:09
  in.
• 36:11
  He might be.
• 36:12
  He might not be.
• 36:13
  I don't know.
• 36:16
  Oh, he jump on.
• 36:18
  Yeah.
• 36:19
  So everything, the what Aubrey said, the skunk classic, what it does for the kids, any
• 36:27
  thoughts before we close out, Bubba?
• 36:30
  Yeah.
• 36:30
  No.
• 36:30
  Just really great to kinda be a fly on the wall for your guys' conversation today.
• 36:35
  I'm not often producing in the background, so it's really fun to kinda just be hanging out
• 36:40
  and kind of allowing you guys to get to know each other a little bit.
• 36:44
  Right, Aubrey?
• 36:44
  You and I have obviously spoken a couple of times now since we started working together and
• 36:50
  just really grateful for our partnership.
• 36:52
  You know?
• 36:53
  We we got we got our skunk drop before the PGA Tour Sanford International last year, their
• 37:00
  Tour Champions event, and getting to rep the brand out there.
• 37:04
  And now having it a part of so much golf content that we've been putting out this
• 37:08
  season.
• 37:08
  And we were talking a little bit off camera before we started about, you know, what the
• 37:12
  future looks like.
• 37:13
  And to me and I had this conversation with another gentleman today as well as, like, we're
• 37:18
  not just looking for, like, advertisers on our platform.
• 37:21
  Right?
• 37:21
  We're looking for brands that are on a similar point in their journey as we are that we can
• 37:27
  align with that makes sense for both parties and then go all in for each other.
• 37:32
  Right?
• 37:32
  And and when you're out there talking about, you know, oh, you gotta watch this show, you're
• 37:37
  talking about us.
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  And when we're talking about any kind of golf gear, really anything.
• 37:41
  I mean, I wear the hats all year round, not just when I'm out on the course.
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  You know?
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  The especially, like, the the vice ones are cool.
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  Right?
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  Like, the
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  big skunk on there.
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  You know?
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  I I don't know.
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  I I think there's some overlap here with the, the MMJ crowd as well with the skunk branding
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  and, maybe something in that.
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  I know, you know, where PODS is at out in Cali, you know, different standards than we have here
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  in the Midwest.
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  But Let me tell you.
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  I've been to a couple stores, and they're like, bro, I need that hat.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  So, on that subject, I won't go too much into it just because of certain things, but I'll I
• 38:21
  mean, I'll I'll I'll talk to you guys about it off off the air.
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  Yes.
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  I I get where you're going.
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  Yes.
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  And that is that is that's part of it.
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  So yeah.
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  Well, and it just yeah.
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  So there's a lot of alignment with our brands and the journey that we're on.
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  You know?
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  We started our company in 2024 and really didn't know anything about broadcasting or
• 38:44
  podcasting or any of these.
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  Now we're doing these live events, and we're, you know, broadcasting them live, the the
• 38:51
  charity softball game and, you know, getting PGA inside the ropes access.
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  Like, we have no idea what we're doing.
• 38:58
  None of us have degrees in the fields that we're working in, but we're all kind of
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  figuring it out.
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  And I think the larger that team can be and, obviously, you and you and the guys at Skunkt
• 39:08
  are all still working full time, you know, out on the oil fields.
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  That's a very time intensive and demanding job out there.
• 39:16
  To be able to be a part of your marketing stack and to be a piece of that and to be able to go
• 39:22
  out and represent the company and to do a lot more of that, I think, is what I'm looking
• 39:27
  forward to.
• 39:27
  And, yeah, there's just a lot of exciting stuff happening for both of our companies right now.
• 39:33
  My wife was already commenting.
• 39:34
  I made a Facebook post while you guys were talking about the new tank tops.
• 39:38
  I had to reassure her that there will be some in North Dakota when we're up there for the
• 39:42
  skunk classic.
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  She's gonna be able to be, you know, out there, especially if the weather is turning for the
• 39:49
  hotter and cranking up the heat for us next weekend.
• 39:52
  So Yes.
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  We're just we're thrilled, man.
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  I I was really grateful to to start working with you guys and now to continue, especially
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  as the company grows and sets their sights on some of these major retail chains.
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  It
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  it increases the need for the publicity and the marketing even more.
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  And we're looking forward to not just being the ones that are putting it out there on our
• 40:15
  platforms, but to be the stars of that content, I think, too, like the, ad you guys will see on
• 40:21
  the outro, from there.
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  For sure.
• 40:25
  For sure.
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  And and, you know, again, we appreciate you guys, wholeheartedly for for, you know, teaming
• 40:34
  up with us and and and making this this go even and even bigger.
• 40:38
  So thank you.
• 40:40
  I can't wait to meet the other guys, finally, and
• 40:44
  wise get to
• 40:46
  hang with everybody.
• 40:48
  Looking forward to our Friday night, getting to go out and shoot with you guys, and then
• 40:52
  Saturday, really just going out to have a good time and put it all on tape.
• 40:56
  We got our video, you know, crew coming with us to film behind us so I can actually step out
• 41:01
  from behind that producer role, just go out, hit some balls around, raise some money for
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  these these kids and for the school district.
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  I think it's great what you're doing and then setting ourselves up, for next year and having,
• 41:15
  a lot of footage to to market next year's event before.
• 41:19
  So we're not just putting up a flyer and telling everybody how much fun we had.
• 41:22
  We're able to just go, hey.
• 41:24
  No.
• 41:24
  Go check out the highlight reel, and and we'll see you out there on the course next June.
• 41:30
  Definitely.
• 41:33
  Well, for everybody, June 27, come join us.
• 41:36
  There's room for what?
• 41:36
  Six more teams yet?
• 41:38
  Yeah.
• 41:38
  Six more teams.
• 41:39
  Yep.
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  Minot North Dakota.
• 41:41
  Come up and see us.
• 41:42
  The Scene Project Sports Network will be there.
• 41:44
  Pods are not joining us this year, but we're gonna do our best to buy a company plane before
• 41:49
  next season,
• 41:50
  and we're gonna
• 41:50
  fly them on out.
• 41:52
  It it may be a single engine Cessna, but it'll be something, buddy.
• 41:57
  Hey, man.
• 41:58
  I'll take the train.
• 41:59
  I don't care.
• 42:01
  Hey.
• 42:01
  Actually, if you went up the coast and then over, I know it goes through Williston.
• 42:05
  I don't know if it continues.
• 42:06
  It goes through Minot as well.
• 42:08
  It might take you four days, but it'd be beautiful.
• 42:12
  You know what, Pods?
• 42:13
  Let's look into that.
• 42:14
  We might be able to afford train tickets.
• 42:18
  Be cool.
• 42:18
  It'd be my first time on a train too.
• 42:20
  So, before we hit the outro, I just wanted to say, Bubba, thank you for giving me the
• 42:26
  opportunity to interview Aubrey.
• 42:28
  Aubrey, thank you so much for being my first interview on the Scratch Project.
• 42:32
  You were wonderful.
• 42:33
  You did great, and it was a pleasure.
• 42:35
  Thank you.
• 42:35
  Thank you.
• 42:36
  I appreciate it.
• 42:38
  Alright, Bubba.
• 42:39
  Let's show the people the new ad.
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  Skunked golf.
• 42:57
  Look good even if your game stinks.