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All right, so we just got done for 30 minute chat.

Chris Cage from Green Bellies.

We got the pop the hood on Chris's business.

Chris creates meal replacement bars.

So you're telling me, I don't need to cook lunch, I can just eat your bar and I'm good to go.

Three a day, two thousand calories.

And what's interesting is that you just raised

$20,000 on Kickstarter. So this isn't, you know, rehashing our old stories of Ian's cat

furniture and all that. This is something fresh. And everybody thought money made you happy.

Chris is reasonably unhappy over here. And that's the other reason. He just raised $20,000 and

the guys got tears in his eyes. What's going on with that? I'm isolated. I live at home with my mom and I have nobody to bank ideas off of for my business. And it's amazing. All these problems. Yeah, so much is going right. We go into detail in this episode about how many things have gone right over the past year and kind of what you're looking for going forward. Yeah, and it's kind of like I feel like Ian and I, you're on the couch and Ian and I get to play shrink a little bit. But honestly, you know, we've created an incredibly generous community of entrepreneurs here. Last night, you got a taste of it. You came to Austin sitting around a table. People were beating you up and like, you should do this, you should do that. You know, this is the classic entrepreneurs love to give advice because

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