For every shirt that sells like bananas for us, there's another shirt that doesn't and takes

time to find a audience, but I would never, ever regret for a moment making 50 Luis Guzmán

shirts, right?

If I go out of business championing the Luis Guzmán in this world, it will have been

an honor to have served, right?

Welcome back to Working, I'm your host, June Thomas.

And I'm your other host, Karen Hahn. Karen, I'm so excited to chat with you. It's our first show

together. I know! But tell me, before we get any further, who's voice did we hear at the top

of the show? So our subject this week is Andrew Ortiz, who is the founder of Superyaki,

an independent movie merch site that works with artists like Blake Jones, Bailey Watchro,

and more. No, but it just merch, movie merch, like official merch, what are we talking about?

It is unofficial, so it's definitely made. I say this phrase ironically because it has taken

on such a different meaning in the culture, but it's quote-unquote for the fans, not the critics,

you know what I mean? Where it's like, it's all of the stuff that they make comes out of this place,

like genuine love. And so it started with like a single enamel pin, but now they do like shirts,

sweaters, hats, patches, blankets, totes, cards, mugs. They have all kinds of stuff. What do

those shirts and warts of bottles and blankets look like? I'll shout out the recent collection,

which Andrew and I talk about a little bit and the interview. The collection's title is

Use Your Powers for Good, with the, it's a collaboration with the artist Eleanor Osada,

and it's all stuff that's based on the film Matilda, based on the novel by Roll Doll, if you remember.

For instance, there's a tote bag that says Miss Honey star people and has like cute little designs,

like sticker-esque things on it. There's an enamel pin that's like the Wormwood Motors logo.

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