Hey, Giant Fans. Welcome to the Giant Insider podcast. My name is Jerry Foley. I am the senior editor of the Giant Insider newspaper. And with me, as always, is the beat writer and the heart of Giant Nation. Chris Bizzignano on this day before America's birthday, buddy. Before we get started, I would like to give a shout out to the media

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at the Media Captain. So before we get started, I have to give a shout out to all of you

who are listening, subscribing to our podcast, giving us ratings on iTunes,

because by doing that, different companies are now contacting us on a pretty frequent basis.

And I'm forwarding stuff to, you know, my emails and everything, so I forward it to Chris,

and we just laugh about it. And, you know, the latest is tpublic.com who partnered with us to do basically

t-shirts and paraphernalia, which is, you know, I mean, you can get like buffoon crew mugs now and

t-shirts and hoodies and long-sleeve t-shirts. And what a great organization, man. They just

let us kind of do whatever we want. They partner with us. We have a storefront up now. It's on the Twitter account. So if you click on the link, it's in our PIN tweet, but it's also on like the way you describe with the Twitter account. As you can see the link there. And what a great thing, man. It's it makes the t-shirts actually cheaper than they were so for those of you who bought it

thank you but these guys make it cheaper there's like a two two more days you can get it for like 14 bucks any of the t-shirts um and i don't have to you know write out the names and buy envelopes and ship them which i didn't care about doing but now they're actually the most they're going to be is 20 bucks for a t-shirt.

This is a no-brainer for Chris and I.

And we, uh, it's a, it's a, what a great partner, man. What a great thing. What a great thing, man. And to think, Jerry, we started off like a year ago, all last September, whatever was. And they said, hey, let's, you know, let's start doing a podcast. I think people like it, this and that.

So now selling shirts and mugs.

Oh, man, it's start doing a podcast. I think people like it, this and that. So now selling shirts and mugs.

Oh, man, it's just, what an incredible journey, huh? I mean, and a company doing it for us, like, it's just comical. When we start doing this, Chris, we're like going to do a podcast. We're like, I guess. Yeah. And we just started it. And the first two, if you can find them, I think I deleted them, hopefully.

But the first couple were so clunky.

Like it was just, I didn't know what I was doing.

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