You're laying there in bed and people talk you to sleep basically.

Sort of like this podcast.

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Yeah, buddy, happy Thursday morning. It's the Tropical MBA podcast. Guess what, boss man? It's episode 250. 250. That's a, that's a, must be something. Where has the time gone? We were just doing a little bit of reminiscing. This one will be at tropical MBA.com slash bedphones.

Today we're going to tell the story of Eric Dubs' great business, bedphones.com.

But before we get into that, boss man, we were doing a little reminiscent before the call.

Why don't you just bring us back into the world? Where were we back at episode number one? We're just talking about like the good old days. The time we were talking about here, Dan, was you had just moved, was it to Vietnam or the Philippines? Probably Vietnam. I think it was Vietnam. 2008. This was the first year, like when someone would call to order something, you would like run to the warehouse and build it. Yeah. You know, and you were just like, I hope. It was insane. Yeah. I had a studio

apartment in Hillcrest, and I had a 1998 Mustang GT cherry. The intake manifold had just

cracked, and I knew that was going to be a problem on that car yeah yeah and I like didn't have a

garage or anything like that and I was like man this this is awful like lowered with flow masters

oh yeah by the way that was lowered with flow masters we drove through that tunnel that one time

yeah yeah sounded good and so I just remember being like man forget this I got it I got a downsize man

I got to get boys I already moved once I'd like got rid of my garage and all this stuff. I was like, I got a downsize, man. If we're going to make a good at this business, I got to get rid of this ridiculous vehicle. I got to get rid of this ridiculous one-bedroom apartment that I'm paying too much for. It was 800 bucks a month 800 bucks a month you thought

you were some kind of gangster back then I don't know what you were thinking you don't even spend

800 bucks a month nowadays oh no I spend way less than that we just started the business and yeah

I was kind of doing everything so we'd get a phone call like once a day or maybe like once every

other day maybe they'd want to order a podium maybe they day or maybe like once every other day. Maybe they'd

want to order a podium. Maybe they wouldn't. Maybe I don't know what they wanted back then. But I would

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