Welcome to Citizen. We have a very special guy. You might actually be the first person to come on twice.

I think Sean Mattson from Matbock and Heidermax. I'm not going to list off all the companies you're involved in because that would take all day.

We got to get to the show. The podcast would be over by the time you're back.

Yeah, I know. Right. It's like a fucking king of England. Like, oh, the first of his name and blah, blah, blah.

Out of Virginia Beach, Matbock LLC, you got a lot of stuff going on over there. But first let's catch up a little bit. What do you've been up to lately?

And obviously with Matbock right now in a fiscal year. So it's like tax season for us right now for a accountant. So it's like, you know, you never know when you're going to get a phone call.

Zach was going to call this morning at 2 a.m. with Australia trying to get them to give us some grant money for the generator that we just we just released where we finally got the approval to release it.

And it's just like that though. It's like constantly every day. You never know. It's like 10 at night, four in the morning.

You know, customer calls once, once a quote, once this or trying to give you a credit card and it's like, hey, my money runs out tonight at midnight. I need to spend $5,000.

All right. Well, we can help you spend that.

Yeah, I know. Right. Oh, man. You know, we both worked in the government before. It definitely works like that. I've had chiefs telling me like, oh, we can't, we got to spend a bunch of money because we won't get that money next year if we don't spend it.

And I'm like, yeah, but doesn't that mean we don't need it? Yeah, exactly.

Oh, you know, the, I mean, to no surprise, I mean, everyone, everyone's, you know, unless you've lived under a rock for the last 18 months, you know, the, the, the DOD budget has been the same.

But the guys are getting a lot less right now because a lot of that money went and re got reallocated for Ukraine or other stuff like that.

Right. And so I know multiple units have like, hey, we want to buy this. And then like a week later, hey, like, nope, I just got, you know, 300,000 just ripped out of my account.

Like new gear or, you know, it even comes down. We had this issue, not, not us personally at the 82nd because we pretty much had as much as we wanted.

But a lot of the units, the other units in the 18th airborne core, like third ID and shit like that would have to budget out the, the, they're training because they couldn't buy around like ammo and shit to go out and trade.

It's like, that's unacceptable, dude, like that you can't. And we're running into that now.

We went over the past three or four months. We, there'd been multiple news stories like, oh, we're, our inventory is running low. Like, one, why would we let that happen? And two, why the fuck would we publish that information? But, yeah, either way, yeah. And then then you have these knuckleheads, like cocaine, Mitch over there talking about how we need to do this, this born Ukraine so we can stock up on our surplus materials, use our own stuff. And like, where are we? This, this isn't canned vegetables, right?

You don't just start a war to get rid of old ammo, you know what I mean? Like, that's creates anyways.

So, yeah. And, you know, to, to that, right? Like, it, it, it affects one thing, right? So like, maybe like, you know, I think they're, I think the biggest thing that they've been talking about is like the 105s or, or, you know, like some of the larger munitions, right?

But then, you know, I've talked to some vendors for like 40 mic mic. It's like, what, what do you want? Like, I've got a machine that could just print endless amounts of this stuff. You know, you want, you know,

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