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Welcome to the David Rutherford show.

Again, man, I've been so excited about this interview for like weeks on end.

But I am beyond just honored and excited to welcome Sully from Black Ops Toys to the show today.

Sully, thank you so much for coming on.

David, thank you for having me.

I'm super stoked to be here.

You know, one of the things, man, and I, you know, we were chatting yesterday about it.

You know, I grew up in the 70s. And so,

like, big gym toys and GI, big, the old school GI Joe's. I actually have a, you know,

a collector's edition from the Frogman from back in the 50s original. And, and I, I just love the

idea behind what those toys can do for free play and the imagination.

You know, tell us a little bit about, you know, what was the inspiration for wanting to get into

this incredible business and becoming, in my opinion, probably the best out there at doing what

you do.

You know, creative, dumb luck. out there at doing what you do.

You know, creative, dumb luck.

Sometimes God has a plan and sometimes things work out a certain way. And it's just a lot of passion and a lot of play skills.

Okay.

All right.

So was it one particular a figurine that got you that you saw? Or was it just you saw this void in the space? I mean, you know, you go back to the old figurines. And, you know, I think the part, you know, the clothing was always okay. It was decent. They used to have those like stretch bands, you know, the, I think the, the part, you know, the clothing was always okay. It was decent.

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