Welcome to Citizen, we've got a very special guest today, Brandon Maddox from Silence

Central. It's good to meet you. I don't think we were trying to run into each other at

Chacho a couple months ago, but you know, it's a busy time of year, right? Yeah, absolutely,

no, good to meet you. So tell me a little bit about yourself, about your background and how you got

into this industry. Yeah, sure. So Brandon Maddox, I'm a CEO and founder of Silence

Central. We're based in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. I started in 2005. So we've been doing it a

little over 18 years. I grew up in the South East with the school in North Carolina. So I did

undergrad in pharmacy school at Chapel Hill and then I did my MBA Duke and mostly was in the

pharmaceutical industry. And then I married a gal from South Dakota. So that's how I ended up

getting to South Dakota. And the honest truth is I started a prairie dog shooting and what I found

is they're more astute than you would think. You take one shot and they kind of go in the hole. So

I thought maybe I should get a suppressor and the process of getting it was extremely painful. So

that's when I said I'm going to get my own license so I can get my own easier. And the license to

do that's fairly expensive. So to maintain that license, I decided I'd probably have to sell a few.

And then it kind of started from there working, you know, gun shows, sportsman shows,

farm shows. And really our whole business model is how do we make the process of buying a suppressor

super easy. And so we manage all the paperwork and the entire process for the customer. And we're

actually physically licensed in all 42 states where suppressors are legal. And then we just mail

them to the customers front door once they're approved. Oh, wow. That's uh, I should have come to

you guys earlier because I've been waiting. You know, I keep weaving in and out of it. I keep losing

track of because I'll go to a local store and it's like, hey, I'm looking for a dead air sandman.

And they're like, oh, yeah, we're going to get some insulin. We'll let you know. And then I call

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