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American Holiday Gift Guide w_ Mike Rowe(M4A_128K) · Drawn of History

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  Speaker 1: Today, we are presenting a special holiday episode where we
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  Speaker 1: recommend some genuine made in the USA products just in
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  Speaker 1: time for the holiday gift giving season. These are products
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  Speaker 1: that are actually made right here in America. We really
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  Speaker 1: did our research. So when you're buying something, you're supporting
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  Speaker 1: a fellow American. And joining me for this merry mission
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  Speaker 1: is a friend with a laundry list of media accomplishments,
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  Speaker 1: including the host of Dirty Jobs. as well as he
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  Speaker 1: was host on QVC. He's America's blue-collar champion, and he's
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  Speaker 1: here today to help encourage you to support American Made
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  Speaker 1: while checking off your holiday hitter list. Today's guest is Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Mike Rowe.
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  Speaker 2: Shine on me And I will find a song I've.
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  Speaker 3: Been singing since I can't believe we're doing this.
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  Speaker 1: I know.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, we talked about this like a year ago
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  Speaker 3: as a goof, like Wayne's World meets QVC to celebrate
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  Speaker 3: American manufacturing. And Theo's like, yeah, man, I'll do that.
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  Speaker 1: We wanted to highlight American creativity.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we want to just create gifts where it's
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  Speaker 1: like a lot of times you want to give a
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  Speaker 1: gift to somebody. And a lot of stuff we buy
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  Speaker 1: now in America is from other places. So it was like, well,
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  Speaker 1: let's buy stuff that's from our neighbor, from or fellow
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  Speaker 1: American because then you're kind of given like two gifts.
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  Speaker 1: It's like I'm giving one gift because I am giving
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  Speaker 1: an actual physical gift to my friend, but then I'm
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  Speaker 1: giving another gift because the money from it is going
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  Speaker 1: towards an American family or an American company.
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  Speaker 3: Well, the thing that got me, man, you've been touring
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  Speaker 3: for forever.
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  Speaker 1: We've been to 250-something cities over the past four years.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Well, anybody who gets around the country sees that things
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  Speaker 3: are tough. in certain areas, like really super tough in
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  Speaker 3: other areas. And the idea of reinvigorating manufacturing and showing
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  Speaker 3: people what's possible. I mean, that's the idea. These products,
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  Speaker 3: people should know that nobody paid to be on here.
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  Speaker 3: These are just items that we found made by people
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  Speaker 3: that we think are super cool. And it would be
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  Speaker 3: great to crash their website and at the same time
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  Speaker 3: give the audience something cool to stuff in a stocking.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we just picked a lot of stuff that we
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  Speaker 1: thought was cool to us, you know?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And like Mike mentioned, we do want to say that
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  Speaker 1: none of these products are paid to be here. And
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  Speaker 1: a lot of these products are like companies that we
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  Speaker 1: happened upon in different places. Some of them were businesses
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  Speaker 1: that we walked into when we were out on the road.
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  Speaker 1: Some are ones that are near and dear to your
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  Speaker 1: heart and places that you've been a champion of for
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  Speaker 1: a long time. And it's just nice to let people
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  Speaker 1: know that there is stuff that is made here in
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  Speaker 1: our country. You have to seek it out a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: And but that the the desire and and the ingenuity
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  Speaker 1: is still there. And we put together our best hodgepodge
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  Speaker 1: of Christmas gifts that you can give to somebody you
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  Speaker 1: care about or even somebody that you don't.
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  Speaker 3: Everything on this show is working right. They've got a
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  Speaker 3: heartbeat and they figured something out. And, you know, maybe
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  Speaker 3: you can drag them over the finish line.
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  Speaker 1: I think we can start highlighting them.
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  Speaker 3: Shall we jump in?
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  Speaker 1: Let's jump in.
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  Speaker 3: This is our first item from the Sullivan Glove Company.
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  Speaker 3: Hailing from Bend, Oregon, the Sullivan Glove Company has been
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  Speaker 3: keeping their premium gloves distinctly American-made since 1941, sourcing everything
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  Speaker 3: from within these United States and crafting each glove through
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  Speaker 3: their dedicated and domestic 10-person team who manage to churn
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  Speaker 3: out over 12,000 pair every year. Sullivan Glove products are
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  Speaker 3: handsome and made for versatility. They're perfect for a full
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  Speaker 3: spectrum of activities from a night out on the town
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  Speaker 3: to the ranch or the workshop. Sullivan Gloves stand for warmth, durability,
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  Speaker 3: and the American spirit. Get your special holiday someone's hands
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  Speaker 3: into some warm American-made goodness this year.
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  Speaker 1: This feels great. And what is this, leather?
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  Speaker 3: That's elk. This is deer.
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  Speaker 1: Touch my arm with yours. Do that. Oh, it's like
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  Speaker 1: two animals meeting in the woods, huh?
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  Speaker 3: Here's what you do. If you really want to mix
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  Speaker 3: it up, give me the one on your right hand.
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  Speaker 3: I'll give you the one on my right hand. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know that this has ever been done before
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  Speaker 3: at the Sullivan Glove Company.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, wow.
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  Speaker 3: These are, see, that's a heavier duty glove. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is very, has a very Russian sort of
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  Speaker 1: we can do it type of thing. I feel like
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  Speaker 1: you definitely, this thing a lot, you could do a lot.
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  Speaker 1: You could also train that Falcon with this one.
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  Speaker 3: Sure.
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  Speaker 1: The Falcon will come back. I feel like if you
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  Speaker 1: walked outside with this one on, the Falcon will come back.
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  Speaker 3: This was made for work for sure. These feel like almost,
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  Speaker 3: almost like driving gloves.
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  Speaker 1: There was a guy on the show a while back,
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  Speaker 1: a guy, a small guy, which is a child. And
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  Speaker 1: he was on here and he found some gloves just
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  Speaker 1: in his pocket. He found some like, Latex gloves in
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  Speaker 1: his pocket.
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  Speaker 2: There's gloves in my pocket.
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  Speaker 1: Are there really?
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  Speaker 3: Rizzler.
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  Speaker 1: That's his name, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Is that really his name?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's his name.
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  Speaker 3: His first name?
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  Speaker 1: Christian is his real name. And he's somewhere, he's like
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  Speaker 1: six to eight years old. He's a great kid. But
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  Speaker 1: he actually, we sent him a pair of these.
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  Speaker 3: Remember when I pulled these out?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Well, now I'm going to upgrade something even better.
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  Speaker 2: Check these out. These are really nice.
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  Speaker 1: Ooh. Well, I'll tell you this. There's nothing I like
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  Speaker 1: putting my hand more in than something made right here
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  Speaker 1: in America. I'll tell you that, you know. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that could have gone a few different ways, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: glad it went the way it did towards Sullivan Gloves, man.
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  Speaker 3: I am too.
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  Speaker 1: You know, these gloves were created by Edward Sullivan. He
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  Speaker 1: got started producing gloves for World War II, mainly for
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  Speaker 1: the Navy. That's how this glove company started. And it's
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  Speaker 1: still here. And it's up in Bend, Oregon, and I'll
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  Speaker 1: tell you a little bit of something about Bend, you know.
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  Speaker 1: That is a resilient place, Michael.
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  Speaker 3: Sure it is, man.
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  Speaker 1: It's the home of the last blockbuster. You know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying? They're stubborn people. They like to do things
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  Speaker 1: their own way. There's a lot of, like, even just
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  Speaker 1: the way it's set up there, it's not like a
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  Speaker 1: regular little city. It's little pockets of this and that,
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  Speaker 1: and somebody's in the woods sucking tree sap out of something.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's just that kind of people. If I
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  Speaker 1: see somebody sucking on something, I'll look the other way.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I'll support them. You're walking through the woods,
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  Speaker 1: and you see a fella sidled up to a tree,
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  Speaker 1: say a maple. Just slurping it?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and he's sucking on the tree to get the
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  Speaker 3: sap out. Do you approach? Do you take a photo?
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  Speaker 3: Do you step back?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I think you wait a few minutes till he
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  Speaker 1: steps back, and then you just let him spit it
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  Speaker 1: on your hotcakes. That's what I'm saying. I mean, if
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  Speaker 1: it's pure maple, I don't know what he was getting.
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  Speaker 1: But let's get back to the gloves here, Michael. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: I do want to say there's only five glove companies
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  Speaker 1: left that manufacture in the USA.
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  Speaker 3: They've got work gloves. They've got driving gloves. They've got
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  Speaker 3: rodeo gloves. They've got going-around-town gloves. They're all soft. They're
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  Speaker 3: all supple. They're all tough. It's a great company.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, these can be great. They have classic, it says,
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  Speaker 1: leather motorcycle. Wow. So if you want to get out
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  Speaker 1: there and you want to get your baby girl one
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  Speaker 1: of those big sodas. And let her sit behind you
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  Speaker 1: on a gold wing or something. And you want to
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  Speaker 1: get out there and show off. You want to be
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  Speaker 1: a little Sturgis baby out there. You can do it
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  Speaker 1: in these Sullivans. And they have rodeo and ranch. If
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  Speaker 1: you like dipping your nuggets in some deep ranch, you
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  Speaker 1: can wear these gloves and do it. Is that what
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  Speaker 1: they mean, you think?
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  Speaker 3: I don't think so.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, these feel good, man.
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  Speaker 3: Honestly, you can feel quality. Like you really, really, really
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  Speaker 3: know it. You know it when you see it. You
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  Speaker 3: really know it when you touch it. But to your point,
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  Speaker 3: When you push your hand slowly into something that is
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  Speaker 3: undeniably of quality, then all of your fingers come together
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  Speaker 3: in a joyous fist of solidarity.
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  Speaker 1: Come together.
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  Speaker 3: Right now. And how do they smell? Like, if you
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  Speaker 3: really had to sum it up, what is the aroma?
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  Speaker 1: They smell great. The insides smell a little different than
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  Speaker 1: the outsides, but that's kind of nice. That's how I
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  Speaker 1: like it. Sullivan Gloves, thank you guys for sending us
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  Speaker 1: a few pairs so that we could show them off.
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  Speaker 3: All you need is glove.
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  Speaker 1: Only in me. Bang, bang, Maxwell Silverhammer. Remember that?
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  Speaker 3: That is a serious copyright infringement right there.
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  Speaker 4: Is it?
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  Speaker 3: I'll be amazed if you can get away with that.
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  Speaker 1: Are you serious?
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  Speaker 3: We'll see. The Beatles, they're very grabby with their, what
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  Speaker 3: you call their IP.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, I think when people look back at this
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  Speaker 3: and wonder what the heck just happened, the image that's
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  Speaker 3: really going to stick with them is the guy in
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  Speaker 3: the woods. sucking the sap out of the maple tree.
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  Speaker 1: Well, let's chat about a new product here, Mike. I
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  Speaker 1: hate to keep us moving along, but we got a
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  Speaker 1: lot of products to hit.
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  Speaker 3: Miles to go before we sleep.
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  Speaker 1: Amen. Some of those Sullivan gloves are so dexteritous, you
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  Speaker 1: could actually enjoy a fine piece of fruit in them.
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  Speaker 3: I've got to admit, I hadn't thought about that. But
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  Speaker 3: as Tim comes in with these delicious-looking, beautifully wrapped, perfectly
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  Speaker 3: boxed pieces of fruit, I will say that the idea
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  Speaker 3: of eating them with gloved hands is appealing.
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  Speaker 1: And we're talking about chukar cherries out of Yakima Valley, Washington.
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  Speaker 1: Can you give us a little bit more intel on that?
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  Speaker 1: on those can be honored.
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  Speaker 3: In the heart of Washington state's cherry country, an idea
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  Speaker 3: was hatched by a woman named Pam Montgomery, whose family
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  Speaker 3: owned a cherry orchard. As Pam strolled beneath the cherry trees,
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  Speaker 3: enamored by the sweet smell of the sun-dried fruits, she
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  Speaker 3: began to experiment with storing the cherries without adding any
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  Speaker 3: sugars or preservatives, as was recommended. Instead... Pam made a
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  Speaker 3: commitment to keep her cherries additive-free and eventually combined them
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  Speaker 3: with chocolate and Chukar cherries were born. Now sold in
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  Speaker 3: Seattle's famous Pike Place and from its headquarters in Prosser, Washington.
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  Speaker 3: You can also find these in a variety of cherries
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  Speaker 3: and chocolates at chukar.com. That's chukar.com.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I love that. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You got to think, if you think about a cherry,
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  Speaker 1: it's really, some people say it's just a little apple.
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  Speaker 3: Have you ever seriously heard of anybody refer to a
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  Speaker 3: cherry as a little apple?
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  Speaker 6: Ever?
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  Speaker 3: Nope. All right. There's no wrong answer, but part of
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  Speaker 3: why I wanted to do this was just to sit
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  Speaker 3: close enough to you for a protracted period of time
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  Speaker 3: to see if I can become one of the few
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  Speaker 3: people on the planet with some insight as to how
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  Speaker 3: your brain actually works.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think it actually does a lot of times.
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  Speaker 1: It's the real truth. But there is something beautiful about
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  Speaker 1: a little cherry because sometimes you want an apple. Sometimes
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  Speaker 1: you want 40 apples and you're like, oh, I can't
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  Speaker 1: eat all these 40 apples at one time. And you
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  Speaker 1: see a cherry and you're like, oh, okay. Shawty showed up.
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  Speaker 1: Put some out here. Yeah, I'd love to have one.
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  Speaker 3: You can see them.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, wow.
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  Speaker 3: They don't look like your normal cherries. I would say
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  Speaker 3: they look like a dehydrated cherry almost.
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  Speaker 1: God, these are good.
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  Speaker 3: I know. They're amazing.
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  Speaker 1: And I think just knowing that they're natural, knowing they're
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  Speaker 1: not all jacked up. Like you see a lot of,
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  Speaker 1: you know, fruit these days and it's doing peptides. It's
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  Speaker 1: on GLMP1 or whatever. And it's on, you know, you
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  Speaker 1: will get a pear or whatever and it's been doing creatine.
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  Speaker 1: You're like, what in the hell is this? It's big
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  Speaker 1: as a pumpkin.
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  Speaker 3: You know, the most suspicious thing is the color. When
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  Speaker 3: they're really super vibrant and when they look so delicious that,
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  Speaker 3: you know. That's just not how it is in life, man.
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  Speaker 3: That's not what natural is. This is natural.
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  Speaker 1: Who would you get these for in your family? Be
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  Speaker 1: honest with me, Mike. Maybe for an office worker. It's
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  Speaker 1: a thoughtful thing to do.
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  Speaker 3: Once you're talking about an ingestible, you are getting into
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  Speaker 3: like a personal kind of thing. You give it to
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  Speaker 3: perfect strangers.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I've sold bad pills to people over the years.
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  Speaker 1: So inviting people to buy something that's good for them
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  Speaker 1: is certainly not a problem.
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  Speaker 3: What's the new direction for you then?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, dude, I bought a batch of fake steroids from
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  Speaker 1: somebody in high school, injected it into my body for
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  Speaker 1: like 12 weeks, dude.
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  Speaker 3: What happened?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Well, look, just for the record, if you're just tuning in,
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  Speaker 3: these are jerrys. They're natural jerrys. Don't inject them into
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  Speaker 3: your body. There's no need for it. Just put it
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  Speaker 3: in your mouth, chew it, and let the unmistakable delight
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  Speaker 3: of cherries the way God made them. Wash over your
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  Speaker 3: palate and thrill to the delight as it journeys through
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  Speaker 3: your digestive tract.
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  Speaker 1: And I'll tell you this, these come in a beautiful case.
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  Speaker 1: What is this?
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  Speaker 3: Look at that. No, honestly, that's a great point.
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  Speaker 1: That's nine by 12, I believe.
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  Speaker 3: Looks about right. Maybe more. I think that's a foot.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's 12. I think that's 12 by nine. Okay. Well,
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  Speaker 3: I guess it'd be the same, wouldn't it? Nine by 12.
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  Speaker 3: No one's going to challenge you there, Mike. It's your universe.
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  Speaker 3: That's at least a foot.
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  Speaker 1: But the simple fact that you know these chocolate covered
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  Speaker 1: cherries are in here sleeping, and I know the lights
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  Speaker 1: are bright. We're just going to expose them right away.
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  Speaker 3: There we go. Oh, yeah. Look at that. Raspberry truffles,
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  Speaker 3: vanilla almonds, classic cranberries. You can see the list for yourself.
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  Speaker 3: And then one layer comes back.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my gosh.
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  Speaker 3: Look at that.
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  Speaker 1: And look at these. I'm going to show these up
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  Speaker 1: so the baby girls at home can see them.
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  Speaker 2: There we go.
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  Speaker 3: Hello, Pam.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, Theo.
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  Speaker 1: Yep, that's me. Thank you so much for being a
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  Speaker 1: part of our gift-giving holiday season and inspiring us with
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  Speaker 1: your Chukar Cherries story. This is one of our heroes, Mike.
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  Speaker 3: Hi, Pam.
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  Speaker 2: Hi, Mike.
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  Speaker 1: And, Pam, tell me this, and thank you so much
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  Speaker 1: for joining us today. Is it shukar?
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  Speaker 5: Shukar?
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  Speaker 2: It's chukar.
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  Speaker 1: Chukar.
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  Speaker 2: It's a bird. You know the logo that looks like
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  Speaker 2: a little penguin?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's actually a chukar bird.
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  Speaker 1: That's awesome.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Congratulations.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks. And last year we dried 700,000 pounds of cherries.
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  Speaker 1: Ooh.
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  Speaker 3: Holy cow.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my gosh.
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  Speaker 3: What's the most interesting thing about cherries that the average
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  Speaker 3: American would benefit from knowing but currently doesn't?
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  Speaker 7: Probably the average wouldn't know that this is one of
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  Speaker 7: the best places to grow cherries in the world.
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  Speaker 3: So how many people do you employ now?
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  Speaker 2: About 75 a year.
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  Speaker 3: Nice.
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  Speaker 2: We really have focused on using U.S. products.
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  Speaker 4: U.S.
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  Speaker 7: Labor.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's one of the things that stood out to
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  Speaker 1: us whenever we're searching for companies like yours is just
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  Speaker 1: the desire to use American products, providing jobs for other Americans.
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  Speaker 7: Having people have a wonderful place where they like to
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  Speaker 7: work and customers that enjoy what you're doing, I think
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  Speaker 7: that will keep Chukar going.
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  Speaker 3: That's the American dream right there. Yep. You're living it. Exactly.
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  Speaker 3: You're living the American dream through cherries. I think it's terrific.
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  Speaker 1: Amen. Well, thank you so much, Pam, for creating Chuck R. Cherry's.
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  Speaker 1: And Mike?
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  Speaker 3: I'm literally going to order three of these for the holidays.
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  Speaker 3: My family's going to absolutely love them. They look great.
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  Speaker 3: And it's just nice to know you're out there doing
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  Speaker 3: your thing for as long as you've been doing it.
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  Speaker 3: Congratulations on building something great.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. Thank you. It's been my pleasure.
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: We could keep it moving, Mike.
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: Why wouldn't we?
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: I don't think there's any reason not to.
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: All right. Oh, yeah, this is a good one. Crippling
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: hot sauce. When life gives you lemons, make hot sauce.
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: In a small Missouri town, Drew Davis did just that.
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: Born with cerebral palsy, Drew started crippling hot sauce at
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: 16 years old. with $ 3, 000, a folding table, and his
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: grandmother's kitchen. What began as a high school project became
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: a national movement, selling over 500,000 bottles. This incredible feat
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: is one built on family, faith, and the belief that
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: strength comes in all forms. Every bottle is made and
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: bottled here in America with bold, original flavors like spicy bacon,
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: special treatment, and salsa verde, limping. Drew's determination has inspired millions,
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: proving that when you bet on yourself, even the hottest
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: challenges can turn into something extraordinary.
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Let me take a, I wouldn't mind taking a
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: little hit of this dill with it.
• 17:46
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: So let's crack that open.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: Get you a little gander.
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: Get you a little. There we go.
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: Mmm.
• 17:56
  Speaker 7: Ooh.
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: No, it's got a wang to it.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: We got Drew on the line. What's up, Drew Davis?
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: How are you?
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: Good.
• 18:04
  Speaker 6: How about you?
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: We're doing great, man. I just accidentally drank a decent
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: amount of your dill with it sauce, man.
• 18:12
  Speaker 6: That shit will give you the runs.
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: It will?
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: Well, it's good to know, man. We just started the show.
• 18:18
  Speaker 6: The sauce gives you the runs better than I run.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you won't give anybody the runs. When did you
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: get it into your head to start making hot sauce?
• 18:31
  Speaker 6: So I actually had.
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: A school project.
• 18:33
  Speaker 6: It was due in two days. I'm like, man, what
• 18:35
  Speaker 6: am I going to do? And I look down. I
• 18:38
  Speaker 6: look at myself. I'm like, huh, it would be funny.
• 18:40
  Speaker 6: I like making fun of myself, and I like hot sauce.
• 18:42
  Speaker 6: Let's present an idea called crippling hot sauce. So I
• 18:46
  Speaker 6: close that thing, and I get the grade back. It's 82%.
• 18:52
  Speaker 6: And as a person with cerebral palsy, my brain is
• 18:56
  Speaker 6: the only thing that works 100% well on my body.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: So I kind of got.
• 19:01
  Speaker 6: So I went up to the teacher and asked him why.
• 19:04
  Speaker 6: I'm like, I've never gotten a grade this low.
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: Why this grade?
• 19:08
  Speaker 6: He goes, oh, I thought it was a great idea.
• 19:10
  Speaker 6: Just didn't think you could do it. Thought it was unrealistic.
• 19:13
  Speaker 6: So I went home that day out of spite, learned
• 19:18
  Speaker 6: how to make hot sauce, and launched it. And a
• 19:21
  Speaker 6: couple years later, we've sold hundreds of thousands of bottles,
• 19:26
  Speaker 6: all while supporting people with disabilities along the way.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: Let's go.
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: Fucking fantastic, dude. It says on your box here that
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: 5% goes to cerebral palsy research for every sale. Is
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: that right?
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 19:39
  Speaker 6: I'm trying to fix this stuff.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: Oh, hell yeah, dude. I was going to say I
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: was going to recommend a chiropractor for you, but.
• 19:47
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I tried that.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I bet. dude. Drew, it's exciting, man. Even just
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: seeing you and feeling your energy, dude, it just feels
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: like the American spirit, you know, like, oh, I'll find
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: a way to get this done, right? I love that, man.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: And I love this quote on the box. It's not
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: the hot sauce that put me in the wheelchair. It's
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: the cerebral palsy.
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: Bit on the nose but you know.
• 20:12
  Speaker 6: I just always have liked making fun of myself so
• 20:16
  Speaker 6: now that i get to monetize that i couldn't ask
• 20:19
  Speaker 6: for anything.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: Better what makes us a perfect gift for someone for
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: the holidays man.
• 20:25
  Speaker 6: I think it just encompasses like the true uh like
• 20:31
  Speaker 6: our a lot of our humor and i think it
• 20:34
  Speaker 6: does well, so it's like a gimmick product that tastes well,
• 20:37
  Speaker 6: but also does great for the disabled community, which is 1.3
• 20:43
  Speaker 6: billion strong in the world.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: Can you believe that?
• 20:47
  Speaker 6: There's 1.3 billion wheelchairs in the world.
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 20:53
  Speaker 6: Dude, imagine if we all raced, dude.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: It'd be like the.
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: The running of the bulls.
• 20:57
  Speaker 6: Not running.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, almost like the running of the bulls. The rolling
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: of the bulls. How good is the product?
• 21:04
  Speaker 6: We are flavor first. None of them are too terribly
• 21:07
  Speaker 6: hot besides the ghost pepper palsy.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: I guess specifically about cerebral palsy, do you feel like
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: it's something that can be defeated one day? What do
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: you think about that?
• 21:17
  Speaker 6: Yes, I do think so because what cerebral palsy is
• 21:21
  Speaker 6: is it's brain damage to the cerebral cortex in your brain.
• 21:25
  Speaker 6: So my brain doesn't get the right messages to my
• 21:29
  Speaker 6: legs for them to work.
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: It's like 3G wireless or whatever. Yeah.
• 21:36
  Speaker 6: My brain got one power, dude.
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: What are sales like?
• 21:41
  Speaker 6: We've done like two and a half million this year. And,
• 21:48
  Speaker 6: you know, still crippled. But at least I sell hot socks.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: Blessings to you, bro. Happy holidays to you. And thanks
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: for being so creative.
• 21:56
  Speaker 6: Thank you so much for having me, guys.
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: You bet.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: Peace, Drew.
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: Thanks, Drew. Bye-bye, hot sauce. Ooh, are we going to
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: take me out to the ballgame?
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: What do you got here, bud?
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: Well, what we have here is maybe the best baseball
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: glove ever made. These are Nakona baseball gloves. Nothing may
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: be more American than baseball. And with this next product,
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: once again, we are going all American. Nakona baseball gloves
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: from Nakona, Texas, are a premium, customizable, American-made baseball glove
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: worn by both young players and major leaguers alike. These
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: gloves have been in iconic baseball movies, Field of Dreams,
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: A League of Their Own. You see them in ballparks
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: all over the country. America's pastime deserves American leather made
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: on American soil. And when you visit their website, you
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: will be treated to a grand slam of customizable options
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: from sizes and colors to personalized engraving and stitching. Catch
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: the holiday spirit this year with Nakona baseball gloves. That's
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: Nakona baseball gloves.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a beautiful piece of equipment, huh?
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: Did you ever break in a glove?
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: Mike, we had a horrible... Whoa, they put my name
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: on it. Oh, look at that. Does yours have Mike
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: on it? Yeah.
• 23:22
  Speaker 6: No.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: I know Nolan Ryan was a famous Nakoni user. I
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: remember that from growing up. 2026 is the 100-year anniversary.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: For 100 years, they've been making these gloves right here
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: in the USA. These are the top baseball glove maker
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: in America. A great piece of art, which is what
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: I would... think of this glove as, you know, it's
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: not just a baseball glove. It's a, it is a
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: love letter to everything we're talking about. You give that
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: to the kid and you make sure they, they see
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: the story and they understand what they're getting and they
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: understand the company culture that made it. And then, you know,
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: then it's more than.
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: A glove, right? Yeah.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: Bob story, who is the founder of Nakona gloves. He, um,
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: there's a famous quote by him. I'd rather take a
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: bucket of worms and go fishing than than import a
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: Nakona glove. He wanted to keep it American made. One
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: beautiful thing that happened in World War II, they got
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: a government contract to send gloves over to our soldiers,
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: over to soldiers, so they could have a bit of
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: something that felt American. That's pretty amazing. And those are
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: the kind of stories I think when you get somebody
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: a gift like this, that you want to share, right?
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: It's like so much of it, yeah, you're right, it's
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: not about the product, it's about the story. It's about
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: a sense of tradition and a sense of why we
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: do this and why you would think this glove is
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: perfect for somebody.
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: What's your favorite baseball movie?
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: My favorite of all time is League of Their Own.
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: Why?
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: Just devout lesbianism hidden behind war and sports.
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: I think that's right off their poster. Some of the
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: products that we're looking at have been around 100 years.
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: Some of them are almost institutional to the point where–
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: You can look back, see how they built it, and
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: be inspired by it. And then some of them are
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: first generation. They're just getting started. And I wouldn't put
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: a value judgment, honestly, on what's better or what's more important.
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: It's the idea. Whether it's Bob Story, who 100 years
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: ago says, I'm going to do this the way I'm
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: going to do it. Or whether it's the kid with,
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: you know, Drew, with cerebral palsy, or the lady making
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: the cherries.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: I remember, though I wasn't good at baseball, I remember
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: that glove. I can remember exactly what it looked like.
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: I'll never forget my first car, first baseball glove, pocket
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: knife my granddad gave me. Some of that stuff matters.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: And now that I think about it, they were all
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: American-made products. Yeah.
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: That's the thread. Yeah. That's the spirit. Whose life would
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: change if you... If you present them with a glove
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: like this and Bob Story's story, now you got a gift.
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: Maybe it's not your son or daughter. Maybe it's a niece.
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: Maybe it's a nephew. Somebody loves baseball. Somebody's going to
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: unwrap this, and they're never going to forget it.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: That's an American dream right there. I want to thank
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: Shopify for sponsoring this special American made holiday gift episode.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: A lot of the brands we've been talking about today
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: run on Shopify. Those are real people making real products,
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: trying to build something honest right here in the U.S.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: I remember I saw somebody was selling glacier water, melted,
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: get you a little half a jug of that or
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: get you a quart or get you a little cup.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: They even come in one of those little baby sippers.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: Shopify has always supported entrepreneurs from some of the largest
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: corporations in the world to your favorite shop right down
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: the street. And that's what I love about Shopify. It's
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: the engine behind small shops, behind mom and pop garage dreams.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: Even in the craziness of the holiday season shopping craze,
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: Shopify gives the little guy a fair shot. So if
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: you want to join millions of hardworking men and women
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: that managed to create their American dream out of nothing,
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: head to shopify.com slash Theo today. You've got the ideas
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: and you've got the grit. Shopify has the know-how to
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: help turn that dream of yours into a future legacy.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: It can happen. You can do it. You know, we
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: all hate buying clothes. And after a week, they're falling apart.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: You'll see something on the ground. It's like, what is that?
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: It's part of your clothes.
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: Dang.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: Your shirt broke down on the side of the road.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: Not with American Giant. If you listen to this podcast,
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: you've probably heard me talk about American Giant before. They
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: make high quality clothes and they make them right here
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: in America. Right here. I bought a sweatshirt from them
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: about a year and a half ago and I love it.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: It's one of my favorites. I bought a zip up
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: hoodie from them and, um, a really great black t-shirt
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: as well. They were started more than 10 years ago
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: by this guy named Bayard Winthrop, who was fed up
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: with everything feeling so cheap. I love knowing I'm supporting
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: an American-made brand.
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: Yep.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: I mean, from the cotton grown on American farms all
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: the way through the finished product made entirely in the USA.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: I think an item from American Giant would make the
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: perfect Christmas gift for the guy or girl in your
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: life because it comes with a story. Tell them the story.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: And right now you can shop at American-Giant.com and get
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: 20% off your first order with code Theo.
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: Yep.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: You can shop at American-Giant.com and get 20% off your
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: first order with code Theo. And starting now throughout the
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: holiday season, you can find links to all of these
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: companies at TheoVaughn.com slash American Originals. One thing I want
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: to do share with you right here next is a
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: company that I learned about about 10 years ago. Oddly
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: sweet dolls. People collect all kinds of things from baseball
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: cards to watches to rocks. So this shouldn't be too
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: crazy to hear. I collect oddly sweet dolls. That's a
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: true story. For the last 10 years, I've been buying
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: these dolls. for my own collection and sometimes I'll send
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: one to a family member or friend. Oddly sweet dolls
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: are created in the one woman art studio of Miss
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: Lacey Michelle who hand sculpts every creepy cute doll straight
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: from her home workshop. What began in 2009 as an
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: experiment in sculpting faces what became a world of imperfect,
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: soulful characters, each brought to life with humor, heart, and
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: a touch of mischief. After surviving a brain tumor while
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: 27 weeks pregnant, Lacey turned creation into her therapy, infusing
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: every piece with gratitude and grit. Entirely American-made Oddly Sweet
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: Dolls stands for originality, resilience, and the beauty of imperfection,
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: proof that even the strangest ideas can be oddly sweet.
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: How long have you been buying these, honestly?
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: Probably about one decade.
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: How many do you own, personally?
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: I think I have 11. But I've given some as gifts.
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: How many have you given as gifts?
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: 15.
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: Is this a thing you talk about often on the pod?
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: A lot of people don't know about this.
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: I think a lot of people are going to run
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: with this, really. This field, maybe not like headline news,
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: but you're an open book. That's the charm of you.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: Just the eyes. Some of them seem like maybe they've
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: been using or are in recovery. But I did love
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: the fact a lot of them, like some of them
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: have a meat cleaver or a different knife. Just the
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: fact that they're willing to work. Millions of people have
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: hundreds of millions of dolls. Yeah, I think I would
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: remember going over to certain friends' homes and some of
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: their moms or stepmoms would have a doll room. And
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: I'm like, this is where the dolls are. Oh, dude,
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: I just remember my friend, I would sleep at his house. Dude,
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: his mom would, if you got up to go pee
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: in the middle of the night, she'd make the bed
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: while you were up. She's very organized. Was this the
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: same you were telling me about in the back of
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: the car on the road trip? Yeah, my buddy that
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: was masturbating behind a map. His family was driving somewhere.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: He's pretending he's reading a map.
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: And he was touching his body behind it.
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: Hmm. What do you, I mean, what do you get
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: a guy like that for Christmas? I mean, a bigger map, maybe.
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: I mean... There's something about it to me that's very
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: much like, even though something's messed up, there's still, please
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: find something endearing about me. And just the fact that
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: Lacey Michelle was pregnant and is dealing with a brain
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: tumor at the same time. You know, that has to
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: be like fear and hope at the same time. So
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: much going on. See, that's interesting.
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: Because, you know, if you have fear and hope in
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: the same feeling, then you can also have creepy and cute.
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: On the same face.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: For sure. When you accidentally get your sonogram picture mixed
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: up with your MRI scan, you know, and you're showing
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: somebody the baby, and they're like, that's the baby? It's
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: by your brain? You know what I'm saying? But just
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: the whole ambiance of that is absolutely kind of wild.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: But that's the stuff that people go through. And that's
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: the stuff where creativity comes out of. I really believe
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: that kind of thing. And here we are. I'm inspired
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: by her story. To have two things growing inside you
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: at the same time, and one of them's really good
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: and one of them's really bad. The fact that she
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: makes each one of these, it's pretty fascinating. I mean,
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: the attention to detail on them.
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, it's great. It's great.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: And I do know it's a limited item. This item
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: she'll probably only have maybe 150 to 200. So if
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: you do go to her site and she's sold out,
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: then that's awesome, right? And you can go back next year.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: And these are out of Salt Lake City as well.
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: I want to say you've been there. It's a beautiful area.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: It's very nice. If you haven't been there, it's beautiful.
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: It is gorgeous. It's beautiful. Do you know why some
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: of the heads are severed?
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: So you don't have time for a statue.
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: I don't have time for a statue.
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: There you go. This is an ornament.
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: For a Christmas tree. Yeah.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: You could hang it on a maypole. You could hang
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: it on a friend that's not moving much. Sure.
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: How have your friends reacted who have received one of
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: these gifts from you?
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: I think they're excited about it. Some people are afraid
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: to display the truth though.
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: And I think that's what these things are doing. And
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: it just shows you like, this is neat to me
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: to somebody else. It may not be, but there's probably
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: a ton of other creators who are making really neat
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: stuff and can like, you can have a whole business. This,
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: the fact that Lacey Michelle does this and has an
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: entire business built around it. The fact that she's going
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: to be able to fulfill 150 to 200 orders for
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: Christmas gifts this year. To me, it's fascinating, man.
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: Is there someone in your life that has something going
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: on just below the surface, something they may not be
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: keen to talk about casually in polite company, but something
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: that nevertheless needs to be tapped into? Maybe, just maybe,
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: a doll like this is exactly what they've been waiting
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: to receive. They just don't know it yet. And they
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: won't until Christmas morning when they unwrap it. and the
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: universe suddenly starts to make sense for the first time.
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: Amen. There's been some neat stuff, man. Thanks so much for...
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: Are you kidding me?
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: Onward. This is from our friends at Scraggly Bush, a
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: truly unforgettable American original where Deep from Papillon, Nebraska, a
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: husband and wife... have turned laughter and hard work into
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: a true American dream. Craig and Carly Summitt founded Scraggly Bush.
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: After Craig's high school trapping hobby and gag wedding gift,
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: the fur squallet, also known as a squirrel wallet, sparked
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: a wild idea. With a COVID stimulus check and a
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: lot of faith, they began sewing fur goods by hand
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: in their home workshops. Today, their creations include raccoosies, possum packs,
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: even satin-lined squalets. They're shipped nationwide. They're made from ethically
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: sourced American furs. And they're named after Craig's late best friend.
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: Scraggly Bush is more than a business. It's a tribute
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: to friendship, laughter, and the power of the American spirit
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: to turn even the wildest idea into something worth hoarding.
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: So this is a squirrel. Or it was. This was
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: an actual squirrel. And maybe it was hunted. Maybe it
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: was found. I don't know the etymology, but I know
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: it was a real squirrel. You can get them pretty easy.
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: But now it has a zipper where its abdomen used
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: to be. Satin-lined interior.
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: Oh, is that satin in there?
• 36:23
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: Oh, that is nice.
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: Wow. Yeah, very nice.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: Keep some pills in there. Keep whatever you want in there.
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: Car keys, pair of glasses, the aforementioned... Pills, whatever, medication,
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: whatever it is.
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: Medication, we could say. Jelly beans, whatever you want in there.
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: Sure.
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: And squirrels are notorious for hoarding and hiding things anyway.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: So they're still getting to live the life they want.
• 36:47
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: You could actually.
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: Without all the hassle of being alive.
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: You know?
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: Sure.
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: Sure. I mean, what about nuts? That's the ultimate irony.
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: Oh, if you pop that bitch open, that's some cashews
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: in it, dude.
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: I'd be the happiest guy in the world. The squalette
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: right there, and that's for males and females. Sure, and
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: you've got a little, like a carabiner right here, right?
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: So you can clip it, I guess, to your belt
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: loop maybe? One beautiful thing about this company is that
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: they received a COVID stimulus check and created something from it, right?
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: This company makes $ 250, 000 a year. All fur is sourced
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: and harvested from American hunters. There are no farmed furs.
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: This is straight out of God's refrigerator, the forest. And
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: there's also the raccoosie right here. If you get tired
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: of drinking out of a squeezy, you got that raccoosie, baby.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: And it's a little thicker fur. And this is from
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: a raccoon, a raccoon body. That's where this hide is from.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: Nice insides. It's dry. Beautiful tail. You want to let
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: a kid play with the tail while you stand there
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: and drink at regular level? If you got a son
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: and wants to bat that tail around while you're drinking
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: here at human level. If I see somebody drinking out
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: of that. You don't ignore it. I mean, what baby
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: girl ain't going to want that squalic?
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: Think of the story you're going to have.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: Keep your couple condoms in that thing, too, if you're
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: in high school.
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: You've got AstroGlide. You've got birth control. You could have
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: mint gum and aromatherapy candle. You could outfit this squirrel. Men,
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: you want to improve your odds in a rough and tumble,
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: unpredictable dating world. Hollow out that squirrel and never take
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: it off your belt. Look, I got to work early tomorrow,
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: but I'm in, you know. That's Scraggly Bush. That's their
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: company right there. We can go support them.
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: Thank them so much for their creativity.
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, man. Why settle for a bush when you can
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: have a scraggly one?
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: Let's keep it moving, man. One of the things that
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: I'm inspired by is the way that people use things
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: in their area. You know? Yep. And one of the
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: best stories that I've heard about that turning something kind
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: of a negative into a positive, is with the Albizia Project.
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: Under the Hawaiian sun, where the trade winds rustle through
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: wild forests, a once-destructive tree has found new life. The
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: Albizia Project transforms Hawa'i's most invasive wood into stunning, handcrafted
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: cutting boards that help restore the island's native forests. Husband
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: and wife founders Joey Valenti and Christine Johnson alongside their
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: team hunt Albizia trees and turn them into heirlooms made
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: entirely on Oahu. From their Wahaiwa workshop and cafe, they're
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: building strong community, one cup of coffee and one cutting
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: board at a time. They make a few legendary surfboards
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: out there as well, out of Albizia also. This holiday season,
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: give something with true aloha, proof that even the most
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: invasive species can be transformed into something regenerative, enduring, and
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: proudly American. Look at that, man. It's just amazing that they, ooh,
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: pick that up.
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: Ooh, lighter than you think, but stronger than you know. Gosh.
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: New wood smell?
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, smells great, man. Imagine you walk into somewhere and
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: they got a couple onions cut up on that thing,
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: baby boy. Couple of carrots.
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: It's a hard yet light wood.
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: Hard and light. Surprising, boy.
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: I can't think of a better combination for everything you
• 40:35
  Speaker 3: would want in a cutting board.
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: Hawaii tourism plummeted during COVID. So they got a $ 250, 000 U.S.
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: Forest Service grant to launch the company.
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: Wow. Yeah, I think the invasive species thing is fascinating.
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: You've got to be very careful with what you introduce
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: into an environment.
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: Oh, it's like bringing someone horrible home for the holidays
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: to meet your parents.
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: That's an invasive species writ large.
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: Something you're not going to have with this. One of
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: the beautiful things about this is then not only are
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: you creating a gift, you're giving a gift to Mother Nature, too,
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: because you're getting bad things out of the forest.
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: But the other thing, too, it's like it's super personal.
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: Like that specific piece of wood— gets traced back to
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: a specific tree. It gets traced back to the specific
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: person who cut it. That's what these guys do. They
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: knew where it grew. They knew who cut it. And
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: it's only possible through what they would call a super
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: localized domestic supply chain. So it's like, yeah, if you
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: need a cutting board, you can go to any retailer
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: and you can buy any cutting board. And now there's
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: a piece of wood in your kitchen and that's it.
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: You use it until you don't use it anymore or whatever.
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: But that's not the Albizia project, brother.
• 41:42
  Speaker 5: No. No.
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: That's not cleaning up Hawaii, keeping it natural.
• 41:46
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: Which is one of the most greatest gifts that we
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: get in the world is nature.
• 41:53
  Speaker 3: It's a big one.
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: And it's a family-run business. Who would this be a
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: good gift for? Obviously, a mom would love this, especially
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: with the story. Like, mom, you're one of the things.
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: Or mom, remember when you tried to marry that guy?
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: He was an invasive species. Glad we don't have him.
• 42:04
  Speaker 3: Look, whatever it is.
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: Donnie or whatever his name was.
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: Don.
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: You can use it as a small charcuterie board as
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: well if you want to put you a little somersault,
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: just a little bit of winter meat.
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: You can do that. And you can use this one
• 42:17
  Speaker 3: as a makeshift paddle. I'm not saying you should or shouldn't.
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: I'm not saying you shouldn't. I would definitely paddle some
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: kids if they let you paddle someone else's kids. I'd
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: run across the street right now.
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: No, don't.
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right. You could not use one of these
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: to surf on, but they do make surfboards. They make lamps.
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: They make a plethora of different options. Without busy, you
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: can check it out. Imagine you want to cut something.
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: What are you going to cut it on? Your counter?
• 42:46
  Speaker 5: No. No.
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: Your friend's back, a strong friend?
• 42:50
  Speaker 3: Possible, but no.
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: Get a cutting board.
• 42:53
  Speaker 3: From an invasive species.
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 42:56
  Speaker 3: That's been repurposed and reimagined into something truly useful.
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: That's what I'm talking about. It's like going to a
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: detox center for wood.
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: You go in somewhat misplaced and not necessarily welcomed in
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: the world you find yourself, but you come out repurposed, reshaped, reinvigorated,
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: and who knows, one day regifted.
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah. A lot of guys out there, they don't know
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: what's going on, right?
• 43:34
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: And they're lonesome or whatever. I will tell you this,
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: if you have those types of feelings sometimes, the thing
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: you can do is blaze up a tit in your
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: room like.
• 43:46
  Speaker 3: This. These are candle tits. They're made in this country.
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: Let me pop off that egg cup for you, homie.
• 43:52
  Speaker 3: Come straight out of Chicago, candle tit proves that light
• 43:55
  Speaker 3: and laughter can come from the most unexpected of places.
• 43:59
  Speaker 3: Founded by an artist named Bailey, this one-woman brand hand-casts
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: every candle from real bodies to celebrate shape, self-love, and
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: good humor. Each piece is made from locally sourced wax,
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: poured and finished by hand. Some come for the fun,
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: others for farewell. A keepsake made before surgery, helping them
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: see their body with tenderness. instead of fear. What started
• 44:27
  Speaker 3: as a bold art experiment is now a movement that
• 44:29
  Speaker 3: supports breast cancer survivors and anyone learning to appreciate one
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: of God's year-round holiday treats. During this festive season, skip
• 44:38
  Speaker 3: the vanilla jar candle and motorboat yourself over to CandleTit.com,
• 44:47
  Speaker 3: handmade in Chicago, because nothing warms a room like compassion, confidence,
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: and a perfect pair of wicks.
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: A thick tit will keep you warm, homie. I know that.
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: That's why a tit's got two sides on it, one
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: for each hand, brother.
• 45:01
  Speaker 3: Who am I to disagree? Why aren't these lit?
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: You can blaze one up. I didn't know you wanted
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: them all lit, freak. It's almost more like a time
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: capsule in a way for people that are going to
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: go through possible adjustments to their bodies. You know, people
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: that could be dealing with breast cancer or breast removal,
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: something like that, to have a keepsake, to have a
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: fun kind of, Almost a time capsule away. You lock
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: that tit in forever with these blazers, you know?
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: Sure.
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: And you spark one of these things up at a campfire,
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: it's going to be a great story. Who don't like
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: talking tit with their buddies or their family? You know what?
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: My sister and I never even talked about tits, but
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: I spark one of these up. Who knows what can happen?
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: I mean, this is an American doing something creative, doing
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: something cool. You guys can check it out. We sparked
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: up five of them right now. Right there, you got
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: an A-cup. I was breastfed on an A-cup. It's harrowing
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: to see it. Do you ever watch a baby try
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: to get milk out of an A-cup, too?
• 45:57
  Speaker 6: I have.
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: Oh, it's harrowing.
• 45:59
  Speaker 3: I've seen it. Like he's beating on a drum. I
• 46:02
  Speaker 3: felt bad for the kid. It's horrible. He was 17.
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: The kid was me.
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: Oh.
• 46:08
  Speaker 3: Well, damn.
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: That's right on.
• 46:09
  Speaker 3: Okay. All right.
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: I want to tell you about this.
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: So we had a show in Casper, Wyoming. I get
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: back to my room, and somebody had got me a
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: little box of Don L's candies.
• 46:30
  Speaker 3: People are so sweet.
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: And I didn't know if I wanted it or not.
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: I was like, well, what is this? And I cracked
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: it open, dude, and this is, I kid you not,
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: the best toffee I've ever had in my life.
• 46:45
  Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: And their place was just a few blocks from us. Uh-huh.
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: And so I had to get loaded up on it.
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: I got me some donuts. I ate my whole box
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: in one night. Couldn't even sleep. I want to tell
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: you a little bit about it. These candies have been
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: curated by the Stepp family since 1956 when Don and
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: Elma Stepp opened their little shop on St. Patrick's Day.
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: And for nearly 70 years, their family has handcrafted toffees, chocolates, caramels,
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: and other sweets using the same original recipes in copper kettles.
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: Three generations later, every batch still carries that small-town pride
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: and patience. So this season, skip the bullshit French truffle
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: or that Chinese-made Lafayette Tape and give the gift of
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: truly American-made sweetness, Donnell's Candies, where holiday tradition tastes better
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: when it's American. And every piece gonna make you holla
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: for joy and slap your cousin.
• 47:41
  Speaker 3: That's good.
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: So if you hate your cousins, I can put two
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: pieces of this in and go whoop his ass. You
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying? But it's good, man. It just.
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: There was something perfect about it for me. And I'm
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: going to try one more of their candies live right here.
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: I've never even tried it. Donnell's Candies Almond Brittle. Never
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: had almond brittle.
• 48:01
  Speaker 3: While his mouth is full, I'll tell you, three generations strong.
• 48:04
  Speaker 3: What started with Don, Elma, and their son Mike now
• 48:07
  Speaker 3: includes grandson Ryan, They're still crafting candies by hand 70
• 48:11
  Speaker 3: years later. And if that doesn't make your mouth water,
• 48:14
  Speaker 3: my friend, I don't know what will.
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: Dear God, it's good. This is beautiful. I can't recommend
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: it enough. It's an American company. You'll support them. They
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: got a great website. They can fulfill a lot of orders.
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: They'll let you know when they can't. But I don't
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: think you can go wrong supporting such a company like
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: Don L's candies. I couldn't even close my eyes. I
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: had so much coffee that one night. They wouldn't close
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: because of the pressure. But it was good.
• 48:46
  Speaker 3: The pressure.
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: I know some of these products we were asking around
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: to some of our friends to see if they recommended
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: any in their area. And my friend, Kate Thornton, wanted
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: to recommend a domestic company in her area. So I
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: thought we'd see if she could help. Can you hear us, Kate?
• 49:07
  Speaker 4: I can.
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: Ooh, it looks nice out there. What's going on out there?
• 49:12
  Speaker 6: This is my real backdrop.
• 49:13
  Speaker 4: Can you believe that?
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: Seriously?
• 49:15
  Speaker 3: That's not AI, Kate?
• 49:16
  Speaker 4: This is not AI. That's Whitestone Mountain, and this is
• 49:19
  Speaker 4: Whitestone Mountain. Orchards that is sending you some fruit. And
• 49:23
  Speaker 4: Hal and Claire, they're the ones running that orchard, and
• 49:26
  Speaker 4: they do an excellent job, like, through and through.
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Kate, for recommending one of your neighbors.
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: Can you tell us how often do you guys harvest apples?
• 49:34
  Speaker 4: We start harvesting pears in... mid-August and then start working
• 49:39
  Speaker 4: our way through apples all the way up until now.
• 49:42
  Speaker 4: Usually it goes into November, but it's a pretty long season,
• 49:45
  Speaker 4: so we're all kind of cranky at the end of it.
• 49:47
  Speaker 4: But it's a beautiful day, so what's to be mad about?
• 49:51
  Speaker 3: How many kinds of apples are there?
• 49:53
  Speaker 4: Well, there's at least 30 on the commercial market, but
• 49:55
  Speaker 4: there's over 7,000 different varieties worldwide.
• 49:58
  Speaker 3: What? I told you there are more than you think.
• 50:00
  Speaker 3: There are a lot of apples.
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: Who's keeping them? How do we get more of them?
• 50:04
  Speaker 3: You've got the Granny Smith. You've got the Golden Delicious.
• 50:07
  Speaker 3: Cosmic Crisp, that's my favorite. That's three. I said there's 6,997 more.
• 50:14
  Speaker 3: That's a lot of apples, man.
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: What are these apples here?
• 50:18
  Speaker 3: And how do you like them? Right, Kate?
• 50:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I've heard that one before.
• 50:25
  Speaker 3: I bet you did.
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: Whitestone Mountain Orchard, this card says, thank you for your
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: order and for supporting small family-owned farms. Your apples include
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: an American heirloom from the 1800s, and a new variety.
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: Remember to ripen your pears by leaving them out at
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: room temperature for several days.
• 50:43
  Speaker 3: How do you know her again?
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: I know Kate. Well, we met just online, but then
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: she came to our comedy show, and then we went
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: and saw a concert together one time, I think.
• 50:53
  Speaker 3: That's nice.
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: I can't remember exactly. Oh, we went for a walk somewhere, remember?
• 50:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we went for a walk in the park with Zeta.
• 51:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: But yeah, we know each other. What does it even matter?
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: I was like, this lady's got some nice fruit. Yeah,
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: I'd like to learn more about it. That was it, dude.
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: It's good people, Mike. What is your problem?
• 51:12
  Speaker 3: I don't have a problem with it. I'm trying to
• 51:13
  Speaker 3: celebrate the fact that you're still curious enough to go
• 51:16
  Speaker 3: on the Instagram, look around, and find a fruit, a
• 51:21
  Speaker 3: picture of fruit.
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: It's called stalking people, Mike, and lurking. But thanks for
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: highlighting that.
• 51:27
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: But I picked a good person this time because Kate's
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: one of the best, and she just spends so much
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: time in the community with farmers, learning about farming, working
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: on her own farm, all types of stuff. She's just constantly,
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: if you watch her social media, it's always a good time.
• 51:41
  Speaker 3: I think it's a Christmas miracle, Kate. I appreciate you
• 51:44
  Speaker 3: being part of it.
• 51:46
  Speaker 4: Well, thank you. This is my absolute passion. My family's
• 51:50
  Speaker 4: been doing this for a long time, so it's a
• 51:51
  Speaker 4: privilege to be able to highlight, even if it's not
• 51:54
  Speaker 4: my family but other families that do this. So thank you.
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: I love this fruit. This is great. If you want
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: to have a nice story to tell your family and
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: get them some fruit that's American grown and it's not
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: one of the big vendors, it's more of a mom
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: and pop organization. Is it Kate?
• 52:12
  Speaker 4: Yes, it's absolutely like family run. They, you can learn
• 52:16
  Speaker 4: all about them on their website. They do a great
• 52:17
  Speaker 4: job of like explaining everything.
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: I love it. That's Claire and Hal right there. Let's
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: zoom in a little bit so we can see the
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: good people that are there and that work there. Oh,
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: that's awesome.
• 52:25
  Speaker 3: I like them apples.
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: That's my kind of area, yeah. Kate, thank you so
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: much for highlighting them and for just being a part
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: of this holiday gift show.
• 52:35
  Speaker 4: Well, I adore you both, so let me know if
• 52:37
  Speaker 4: I can help in any way.
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: Appreciate it. Have a good day.
• 52:40
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 52:42
  Speaker 3: Bye, you guys. See you.
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: Bye, Kate. That was Whitesone Mountain Orchard, established in 1993. Mike,
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: I do want to let you know, sometimes it's nice
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: to have something in your mouth. You know it.
• 53:02
  Speaker 3: Well, sure.
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: And Olympia Provisions is our next company that we're going
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: to feature. There's an old saying where I'm from, and
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: it's that American meat is the real good kind of meat.
• 53:12
  Speaker 3: And where are you from again? It's Louisiana, right?
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: From Louisiana, yeah.
• 53:16
  Speaker 3: That's what they say down there?
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: That's what people were saying that to each other. Some
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: people even wrote it down. And here we got some
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: of the best, all the way from Portland, Oregon. This
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: is not just made in America. It's independently owned by
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: its founder, Elias Cairo, who first discovered his passion for
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: cured meats when on an apprenticeship in Switzerland. Upon returning home,
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: he perfected a curing process that has seen the company
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: grow to a team of 150 that crafts tens of
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: thousands of pounds of cured meats every week. Their secret?
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: No automation, no gimmicks, just skill, time, and care. What
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: do you got, Mikey?
• 53:53
  Speaker 3: Well, this appears to be a summer sausage.
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: Yes. Bet you found that in my grandmother's drawer, huh?
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: Get that meat out, Whitey. This is good, huh?
• 54:03
  Speaker 3: It's delicious.
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: Salami with red wine and fennel.
• 54:06
  Speaker 4: Really?
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: I'm going to have to text my sponsor, but I'll
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: have a little cut of it. Why don't you chop
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: into that bad boy for us right there? Lucanico. Greek-inspired
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: sausage with garlic, oregano, and lemon zest. Three fully cooked
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: sausages right here. God, that looks good, man. And they
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: don't just have these. They have dog treats as well.
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: If your dog gets jealous, because every time, you know,
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: when you crack open your meat, your dog comes around.
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: He's a bum. He hasn't been doing shit all day,
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: but he pulls up to get your shit. Give him
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: a dog treat right there from Olympia Provisions.
• 54:35
  Speaker 3: Pure pork. These guys are slinging meat. What a perfect
• 54:38
  Speaker 3: stocking stuffer. It's already been stuffed.
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: Olympia Provisions, guys, that's cured meat. You want something that's
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: American made. It's been sourced from America for a long time.
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: You want to put together a charcuterie board. You want
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: to get somebody some summer sausage that's right here in America,
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: cured and tasted. That's the best tasting I've ever had,
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: I think. You're a belt guy or a suspenders guy?
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: I've never worn suspenders except for once for Halloween.
• 55:10
  Speaker 3: Good day.
• 55:12
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 55:12
  Speaker 3: Like something you can snap with enthusiasm.
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: It was like having a cup of coffee without having one.
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: That snap would get you going, dude, hitting you right
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: in the nipples. You have to walk back into work.
• 55:24
  Speaker 3: Calavera Toolworks. Deep in the woods of Johns Island, South Carolina,
• 55:30
  Speaker 3: Michael Williams ditched corporate life to do something truly uplifting,
• 55:34
  Speaker 3: make belts by hand. Welcome to Calavera Toolworks, a small
• 55:39
  Speaker 3: batch leather shop with a cult-like following and zero interest
• 55:44
  Speaker 3: in outsourcing. overseas. Zero interest. Every single Calavera belt is
• 55:51
  Speaker 3: cut and stitched and finished from American raised leather and
• 55:56
  Speaker 3: solid U.S. hardware. These aren't just belts, Theo. They're heirlooms.
• 56:01
  Speaker 3: This holiday season, skip the tie and give this handsome
• 56:03
  Speaker 3: gift that could literally hold up Santa's britches after power
• 56:07
  Speaker 3: munching through a stocking full of cookies. Handmade on John's Island,
• 56:10
  Speaker 3: tough as a $ 2 Christmas steak. on New Year's Eve
• 56:14
  Speaker 3: and built to outlast the Christmas dinner politics. God, that's
• 56:19
  Speaker 3: a belt right there, huh? If somebody spanked me with that,
• 56:22
  Speaker 3: I would get my act together. All my dad had
• 56:25
  Speaker 3: to do was walk in the room and go. Never
• 56:31
  Speaker 3: had to use it.
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 56:33
  Speaker 3: Straightens you right up.
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: I want to go right now to a testimonial.
• 56:36
  Speaker 3: From Jackson.
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, let's hear it from him. What does he have
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: to say about these Calavera belts?
• 56:41
  Speaker 6: Hi, folks.
• 56:42
  Speaker 4: I recommend Calavera belts and tool belts.
• 56:47
  Speaker 3: They're really well made.
• 56:48
  Speaker 7: This one holds up to all my farm uses and jobs,
• 56:53
  Speaker 7: so go check out Calavera belts.
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: You heard it.
• 56:57
  Speaker 3: Here's a sentence I've never said before, but this is
• 56:59
  Speaker 3: a belt you can pass down to your loved ones.
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: Amen.
• 57:02
  Speaker 3: Well, it'll grow with you, it'll shrink with you, but
• 57:05
  Speaker 3: it'll never let you down, and it'll always keep your
• 57:07
  Speaker 3: pants up.
• 57:08
  Speaker 5: Amen.
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I've never had any goose, man. I'm trying to
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: think of something nice that I've had around the holidays.
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: Maybe a turkey?
• 57:23
  Speaker 3: A ham?
• 57:24
  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
• 57:25
  Speaker 3: A good Christmas ham? Oh, yeah, man.
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I've liked a good ham. I like the way
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: it looks.
• 57:31
  Speaker 3: Well, there's no reason to put a ham in one
• 57:33
  Speaker 3: of these. Do you want to jump into one of
• 57:35
  Speaker 3: these right now?
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'd love to see. What do you have here?
• 57:37
  Speaker 3: This is a Dutch oven.
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: Ooh. strap in okay yeah dude let me out of
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: the covers brother tell me.
• 57:45
  Speaker 3: More smithy ironware down in charleston south carolina there's a
• 57:48
  Speaker 3: workshop where the holidays smell like cast iron and cornbread
• 57:53
  Speaker 3: and that's where isaac morton started smithy ironware restoring old
• 57:57
  Speaker 3: skillets before deciding to make his own each piece crafted
• 58:01
  Speaker 3: by hand polished to a mirror finish and built to
• 58:04
  Speaker 3: last for generations Today, every single Smithy skillet and carbon
• 58:09
  Speaker 3: steel pan is made from 100% recycled American iron. Poured
• 58:14
  Speaker 3: and polished in an old naval base turned foundry. They
• 58:18
  Speaker 3: are as beautiful as they are tough. Kitchen heirlooms meant
• 58:22
  Speaker 3: to be passed down, not tossed out. So, if you're
• 58:24
  Speaker 3: looking for a gift that says forever, forget the foreign-made
• 58:28
  Speaker 3: gadgets and give the skillet that could cook an all-American
• 58:31
  Speaker 3: Christmas breakfast for your grandkids one day.
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: I love that, having grandpappy skillet. Ooh, that's a heavy
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: deal there, man. That has some real weight to it.
• 58:40
  Speaker 3: I mean, it's a good, you know, seven, eight pounds.
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: That's beautiful.
• 58:45
  Speaker 3: It's solid as can be. It'll simply never wear out.
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: Anything in there will taste good.
• 58:50
  Speaker 3: I mean, like what? Like a lamb stew, a beef stew, right?
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: Put some beef carrots in, put it on a low heat.
• 58:59
  Speaker 3: It's not a classic Christmas meal, but what a, I mean,
• 59:02
  Speaker 3: the smell, man. When you walked into your house growing
• 59:05
  Speaker 3: up and you smelled food, what is the smell you
• 59:08
  Speaker 3: most remember?
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: I'll say maybe mine would make a little bit of
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: a holiday jambalaya in there.
• 59:12
  Speaker 3: Oh, that's nice. See, that's festive and at the same
• 59:15
  Speaker 3: time demographically authentic to where you come from.
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: God, if I ate, I could have probably one egg
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: out of that and it'd probably make me something good.
• 59:26
  Speaker 3: You get a big, you get an ostrich egg. You
• 59:27
  Speaker 3: ever see an ostrich egg?
• 59:29
  Speaker 5: Nah.
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: I'm no pervert, brother. But I'll eat a nice egg
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: out of that and go get out in the world,
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: find me a job, find me a wife. Made from
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: 100% recycled American iron. Look at that. Look at them
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: working on it right there. Building a handle. Doing all
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: the work so you don't have to. All you got
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: to do is cook you up something. Make your daddy something.
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: Your daddy won't talk to you, make him something. Grandma
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: looking for a new hobby? Hey, Grandma. Or do you
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: have a creepy uncle who needs a woodsy cabin activity, huh?
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: Who is it? Or maybe just a fun tradition for
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: you and the kiddos. Heart puzzles are gorgeous American-made gifts
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: right out of central Indiana.
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 3: Puzzles will keep you sharp.
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 3: I do love the puzzles. I can't get enough of them.
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: Oh, I love him, dude. I sit there with my stepdad.
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: He likes to make puzzles. He made a bunch and
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: put them on the walls at home. Like you framed them? Yeah,
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: he framed them.
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 3: Like a jigsaw puzzle?
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 3: And then you frame it and you put it up? Yeah.
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 3: Why not?
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: But he loves doing it. It's fun to sit there together.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: He's like, hey, can you help me find the pieces?
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: I can't find them. He's lying. He's just trying to
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: spend time with me. But it's nice. It's beautiful. Shout out, Rhett.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: I enjoy doing that with you. If you want to
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: get somebody a puzzle, why just pick one up off
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: the shelf from some company you don't even know? Get
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: one that's made by one of your fellow Americans. These
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: are great little ornaments and gifts, Mike, right here. Prodigal pottery.
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 3: There's a ministry out of central Alabama called King's Home
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 3: who is doing the Lord's good work by serving women
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 3: and children fleeing domestic violence, homelessness, and trafficking. That's heavy,
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 3: but it's happening. Through custom-made mugs, bowls, and Christmas ornaments
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 3: with their self-made business, Prodigal Pottery, these amazing women are
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 3: turning ceramics into salvation. God bless us all, but especially
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 3: these women at King's Home. O come, all ye faithful, Theo.
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: Wow, that's beautiful.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 3: What a great way to support everybody.
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: Well, they make things like this beautiful sheep right here.
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: Look at this sheep, Mike. That's a good-looking lamb. Yeah,
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: I meant lamb.
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, I'm just thinking, you know, the lamb
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 3: of God.
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: Is a lamb a sheep? Yeah.
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: They make Christmas ornaments, mugs, candles, soap dishes, and bowls.
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: One thing that I think is pretty special is last night, Jenna,
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: who is the current director, drove three hours up here
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: to bring us ornaments from them. And we have a
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: video right now that she sent.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 5: Chronicle Pottery is very personal for me as it gave
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 5: me my life back. But this isn't just about me.
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 5: It's about the hundreds of women who have walked through
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 5: the door, hopeless, beaten, and not sure if they were
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 5: gonna live to see another day.
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 2: And I get the privilege to watch women find.
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 5: Hope and the lights come back on in their eyes
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 5: and watch them regain their lives back. I get to
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 5: watch women get their children back to buy their first cars,
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 5: to buy their first houses, things that we think we
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 5: were never gonna achieve. And only through the dignified work
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 5: and the safety of Prodigal Pottery were these women able
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 5: to just heal.
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: Well, thank you, Jenna. Thanks so much for bringing them.
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: I'm glad that we could talk about them. And yeah,
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: this is great. You can go on here, buy one
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: item and tell the story when you give it away
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: to somebody. Yeah, thanks, Mike, so much for helping out
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: and just for inspiring. I think his whole energy, just
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: like in reminding us about America, that it's a thing.
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: We interviewed Ken Burns recently, and he does a lot
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: of the documentaries, and he talked about the American Revolution.
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: And he's like, it's not that America got started, and
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: it's just going to be that way forever. It's like
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: you have to keep America America. It's this malleable thing
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: that's constantly evolving that can come or go, you know?
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: But the only thing that keeps it going is us.
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 3: If we really want to celebrate the people who are
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 3: making stuff here, whether it's an ornament— or an ax,
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 3: we got to support them.
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: Stuff like this is important to me. You know, I
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: think some people think that, you know, America, this or America, that,
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: but in the end, America is just us.
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 3: It's us.
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: And it's how we like operate and how we choose
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: to operate. And if we can choose to buy something
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: from our neighbor, then we win. Did I learn so
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: many stories of so many different groups today? It was great.
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: I mean, the guys chopping down trees that are bad
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: and turn them into a wood that we can use
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: for products, you know, knowing that Nakona gloves sent their
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: gloves over to people in World War II so that
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: those guys could have a respite from the nightmare to
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: throw a baseball back and forth for a few minutes.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 3: And do something that feels like home. Yeah. When they're
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 3: on the other side.
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 4: Of the world.
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: There's a family that's challenging, like, you know, sure you
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: could buy a fruit from some of these companies that
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: have been doing it for hundreds of years and stuff,
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: but you could also get it from a company that's
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: been doing it for 15 or 20 years that has
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: five people working at it that can ship them out.
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: You know, it's like, there's just different options out there.
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: And sometimes some of those options don't get as much
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: advertising or don't get the word out there. So yeah.
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: And if you see something that you guys like, just
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: let us know in the comments. And if we couldn't
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: feature one of your products and we'd spoken to you,
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: we're really sorry about that. Some of it just became time.
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: Like we thought this would take a few hours and
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: we've been here for probably 12 hours, which is, it's okay.
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: You know, it's just, but it is a, it's a
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: long day. And so we tried our best and I
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: know that you tried your best too.
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 3: Everybody we introduced you to, though, has a spirit that
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 3: we admire. That's Christmas. Yeah.
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: Ho, ho, ho. Happy holidays, Mike.
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 3: Happy holidays, Theo.
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: Now I'm just floating on the breeze And I feel
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: I'm falling like these leaves I must be Cornerstone Oh,
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: but when I reach that ground I'll share this peace
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: of mind I found I can feel it in my
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: bones