And the You were listening to the Battle Ready Podcast. My name is Aaron McManus and I'm here with my dad.

Good morning, good to see you. What's your name?

Oh, my name's Erwin-McManus.

Here we go.

Let's jump on into this last episode.

We had kind of a free-for-all, a backstreet brawl.

It was a, it was, it was an emotional one yeah well it was I actually I thought a really

interesting one because whenever you do something that matters you get both

praise and criticism and part of that

conversation gave us an opportunity to talk about some things that really mattered.

It did and this was the thing. Why did we go at the criticism opposed to just letting

it slide? I think we wanted to establish the fact that one you can mess with us but we might mess back but

it was interesting because like the first wave you you love conflict I love it and yet it stresses you out completely

anxiety so much anxiety but I would say this it makes me feel empowered that we can

defend ourselves and do it in like an intelligent way and sometimes a little sarcastic way,

a sassy way. But I would say this, it is funny that like now the wave of like, you know,

the people, the little ladder climbers are now trying to like pick fights and it's funny but anyways we got rid of most the criticism

I'm sure it will come back at some point we've almost sold out of all the masks the ones everyone made fun of

and it's it's pretty interesting that like your most expensive item the the parkas, the things that everyone's critiquing has held up.

People are buying them, things are moving.

We did a drop a couple days ago and it sold out in five minutes so I'm excited

for the future of what you're building. Thank you so so much.

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