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Welcome to the Gritty Podcast. I am your host Brian Call and I am joined by my brother

the Gritty Bromine. How are you Brent? I am well. Today's podcast is with Bryce Bishop and

it's kind of an entrepreneurial podcast, slash product design. He is the owner of Sissy Sticks.

Big Sissy Gear. Big Sissy Gear. Makers of the Sissy Sticks. Which we debate the name of the

business on the podcast quite a bit. But one thing I want to say is if you're interested in

being in starting a business, getting into the hunting industry, later in the show,

we get into what it takes and what he did and why he is doing what he is doing and how he is doing

what he is doing. So long story short, he got this idea because he didn't like the trekking

poles available on his hunt that he used to actually make some for the hunting industry.

So he started to explore that, tested a whole bunch, did all these things a couple years later.

He has got poles and he put them out on the market. His biggest fear was I got to write this

giant check. I don't blame his wife for wondering if he is crazy or if we are wanting to put a

freeze on the bank account. But nevertheless, he ordered a giant batch and they have been received

so well. He just sold his first batch completely sold out and he is ordering more and so far the

market has responded super boober positively. We talk about a couple things on the podcast where

we talk about trekking poles but we don't even get the exact numbers, statistics of the

efficiency of using trekking poles. And I think there are totally underrated piece of equipment.

And so Brent just did some googling and you found out.

So the Journal of Sports Medicine talks about that, the right kind of, if they are set up to the

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