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Citizen Podcast

229 | Josh Smith

Citizen Podcast

Tetherball Academy Media

Society & Culture, Education

51.8K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2024

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Master bladesmith and CEO of Montana Knife Company Josh Smith joins the show to talk about what led to finally going all in on a 20 year obsession, starting his own business with no previous experience, and the stages and challenges of running a successful venture.

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0:00.0

At Mataland, you get more with Matal and me.

0:03.2

Our exclusive deal of the week is on, with 20% off when you spend 40 pounds on selected brands.

0:08.6

Discount of original price.

0:10.2

Plus get early access to the sale, a chance to win your basket every time you shop and more

0:15.1

not a member yet join now at mataland dot co-k tes and sees apply

0:19.7

That's what we should do to our federal government. We should fire every single one of these people.

0:24.0

It is insane that the largest employer is the government.

0:28.0

That can only go in one direction. It's a horrible's a horrible horrible idea but just economically speaking forget about the

0:36.4

politics behind it. Our largest workforce is also our largest expense as a country.

0:44.5

That cannot be the case.

0:46.0

Let's go. Welcome to Citizen. We got a special guest today. I think this is the second time you've been on this show. Josh Smith from Montana Knife Company. How's it going?

1:03.6

Good man, thanks for having me on.

1:05.9

I wish I was actually there in person.

1:07.7

Yeah, what are you gonna do?

1:08.8

You know?

1:10.3

It's a busy time of year for me.

1:11.8

I don't know about you.

1:12.4

What do you guys got going on right now?

1:14.5

Yeah, it's a it feels like every time of year's busy, but with the kids back in sports and then

1:22.0

us heading into between hunting season and ramping up for kind of that holiday

1:26.1

season with trying to make enough knives to have on the website.

1:30.0

It's just, and with building a new building and everything we're doing it's just

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