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The Art of American-Made Headwear: Inside Sandlot Goods PT 2
Sandlot Goods transforms from a small leather goods company to a thriving hat manufacturer after pivoting to make face masks during the pandemic. Thomas McIntyre shares the entrepreneurial journey behind their handcrafted products, including their popular Yard Ball and partnership with the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum.
• Building a brand identity while also functioning as a manufacturer for other brands
• Finding marketing success by showcasing the manufacturing process rather than hiding it
• Approaching collaborations strategically to elevate the Sandlot brand
• Creating the Yard Ball from a ball of blue painter's tape around the office
• Pivoting from face mask production to hat manufacturing during the pandemic
• Partnering with the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum to preserve baseball history
• Setting ambitious 10-year goals while staying true to handcrafted quality
• Future aspirations to create licensed NFL and MLB hats
Find us on Instagram @SandlotGoods and check out our products at sandlotgoods.com.
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Speaker 2:There wasn't any people meet, and so it was essentially, we got all this equipment. We had people that love working for sandlot. I was like, chad, what you know, what do you want to do? Uh, I wasn't a ceo at that point, I was just kind of helping out on the side and he said I always wanted to make hats. And I was like, all right, what do we need to do to make hats? And so there's a few pieces of specific machinery that you needed. But essentially I'm like, let's know, everything I've been reading, as I've been stressing out about this pandemic, is you got to find a way to make it an opportunity, not a, not a problem, and so this feels like what's up everybody, and welcome to part two of my conversation, with saying a lot of goods.
Speaker 1:Now listen, guys. Here's what's going to happen. This episode we're're gonna go to over my famous and un-famous questions but, more importantly, the story behind Sandlot Goods how it got started, how they've only been making hats for a short period of time, and then we talk about this awesome little toy right here, the yard ball. So, guys, make sure you guys are following them, go to their website, get their hats. It is great quality, they are doing some amazing work and it's made here in kansas city in the us. So, guys, without further ado, I'll give you the episode. How do you, as as the ceo of the company, right, um, and you talk, we talked earlier. I want to pull something you're talking about. You know your marketing. You're going to be be doing some marketing campaigns and things like that. How do you work with the current platform that we have, like social media and things like that? How do you connect those two things your company and social media to promote Sandlot Goods?
Speaker 2:We're trying to find that footing. So I think one key part of the story that we haven't really talked about a ton is the evolution of Sandlot.
Speaker 1:Oh, it was coming.
Speaker 2:Okay, yeah, we've only been making hats for four years. We were doing stuff different than that prior to hat making, so it's kind of a new identity for us. I always tell people we're really good at it and not great at it and we're just going to keep going until we are great at it, but it's one of those things that we probably we have not found our footing on, like the social media yet.
Speaker 2:It's always a constant battle because we have this identity crisis that I love. But we're a brand Like we're trying to make Sandlot, this thing that people come to in their you know, branded hats and sweatshirts but then we're also a manufacturer, and so we can be just a good high quality manufacturer for other brands to make their product through, and then, where you know, how does that all blend together? And so I think that's our constant battle and the best thing we can do is just take product pictures of our product in our warehouse.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know sitting on the sewing machine, sitting on the cutting table, do a walkthrough, show the embroider machine happening, and so more and more, I think we used to kind of hide the manufacturing piece behind it all and just show glitzy pictures of models on our hats, and more it's like, no, I'll just throw the hat down on the table, you know, trim the last thread off of it in the video and and show people that what they're getting put on their head was was sown by, uh, this team member, um, and let them talk about it. So that's really what I want to focus on uh is just being ourselves and um, not worrying about how cool the brand feels on top of that.
Speaker 1:You know, it's something I appreciate about your Instagram for the is that you do show that. Like you know, I'm looking at your, your webpage right now and you have, you know, various pictures, right, Obviously, you do the model right At the LA hat, you got the kingdom, you got Ohio state, OH, right, and all this other stuff. You have that. But at the same time, I see that you have, like, you know, the store you have, you know, like the sewing and cutting the last thread on there and showing that, showing the behind the scenes. I think it's such a much important thing sometimes, just because that way they know where it came from, like what it took to make the hat that I'm wearing right now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I want to track the person that has no idea where hats are made, doesn't even care where hats are made, they just love the way they look and the way they feel. I want that customer. And then I want the customer who's like actually typing in made in the usa ball caps, and they're like great, I'll buy any hat you guys got because I wanted it to be manufactured in the us, and I think that's. Those are those two things that we're trying to accomplish.
Speaker 2:That it's just like I don't need to think about it, but just be, us and both things will shine is the goal, but we have a ton of work to do. In our social media presence. We've been so focused on manufacturing and that piece of it that it's like I got to shift gears and let the world know who we are.
Speaker 1:Hey, listen, you guys are doing a great job. I mean especially working with a.
Speaker 1:Kelsey brother, I think that helps a little, you know. Yeah, so before we move on to you know, what I wanna talk about also is, like, the future vision of the company, what you got going on and all that. But you know what is your stance on? Collaborating now with all the brands and things like that? I'm sure that's part of your goal in the future, right? Like, hey, let's work together, let's come up with something that we can all be proud of.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Collabs are always tough for me.
Speaker 2:The team would probably be laughing a little bit, because I'm an accountant by trade and so I'm very numbers-driven and oftentimes in my career so far, when the word collab comes up from a numbers standpoint, no one really wins.
Speaker 2:It's all just kind of a split pot. And who does what? It's kind of cumbersome. And so my honest answer is I want to do collabs with companies that elevate us, and that's a very selfish approach, to be transparent with you right now, but sure, with where we are as a company and so few people know us and how small we are. Uh, if someone comes to me with something that that I think the brand that I want to do a collab with needs to clearly be bigger and better than us, and then that they're just excited about what we're doing, and then we can go do a collab and put our names together and then see what happens from it. I think I would love to be the company one day that is that bigger, better company and wants to find companies to elevate. That's my goal right now. That's, that's my, that's my CEO approach to collabs.
Speaker 1:It's not the fun, creative answer, that is no.
Speaker 2:I get it. I get it Anything with anybody and that stuff will happen, because we need people to have fun and do cool new stuff. But the barrier of entry to collabs is are they bigger or better than us?
Speaker 1:You know what? I can appreciate that, Obviously, you being the CEO and all that, you're looking ahead right. You know you're not working in the present, You're always working in the future. What's going to happen?
Speaker 2:That's the goal, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah right, exactly, easier said than done. What do you see, sandlot Guts in the next, you know, let's say five, ten years.
Speaker 2:So that's a big part of our process is sitting down to the leadership team and looking down the road and working backwards, just setting that 10-year goal, setting that five-year goal, and then what does that mean for this quarter and what are we going to do this quarter so we're in line to hit that 10-year goal? I don't have it in front of me right now, but I'm pretty sure what we wrote down on paper is a revenue of between above 15, 15 to 20 million in revenue, which would be, to be clear, massive growth for us and just growth that supports that. So, like I said, I think it's we're not all about just the revenue. It's okay. We choose to make things by hand and work with people.
Speaker 2:So how people does that mean our team is? If we're doing 17 million in revenue in a year, um, it's a big team. It's a lot of sewing machines, it's a lot of process and that's what fires me up, you know that's that's a big company and we're doing cool things and having an impact on our community, and that's's our goal Staying true to who we are, let more and more people find out about us, but that's also that's not a massive company in the in the head in the headwear game.
Speaker 2:We're still going to be trying to do stuff the way we do it high quality, take our time and make sure that the final product is something we're super proud of, but still in Kansas city. Just good, consistent growth, I think, is what we're looking for.
Speaker 1:Tell me the story of how you guys decided to work with the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think that all goes back to Chad and just the baseball roots of what we do. It's just so cool that we're here in town. It's just one of those things that just made too much sense, and so, I'll be honest, I wasn't in the building when that agreement started, and so I just know it's one that matters a lot to us and it's one that we love working with the museum directly. Each one of those hats that sells the, you know they get you go through the catalog, the hat you're wearing.
Speaker 2:There's so many fun things and if you want to talk about storytelling, we have someone come in the building and be like what's that clown? And it's like, let me tell you. Let me tell you about the Negro Leagues, and so you can go down the line. And this is the history, and for me, any brand retail if there is a story, you got a good path in front of you, and the Negro Leagues give us a better story than anything we're doing right now.
Speaker 2:It's just such a gift that they're in our city and that we can go through this catalog and make cool hats to represent it and keep their story alive. I mean, that's what's fun for me is just the names. You're throwing out the pictures of things that, like, as long as we're making hats and using marks, like their stories live on and we can do that through headwear, it's just. This is awesome. I feel like you rock. We have some really good cord cord flat bills, five panel cord. That just would look good on you.
Speaker 1:Man, I'm telling you, I'm looking at all, every single one of them they got to. You know, lord Jesus, it's some, there's some nice ones out there right now. So I really do appreciate that, the care that you guys give it right, because that's that's the one thing right. Um, anybody can work with them and that's fine. But like giving in the care and and and time and dedication that it does take to really make sure that it is done right, uh, in accordance to what the negro leagues and what they're doing right now is, it's truly amazing.
Speaker 2:So yeah, we feel we're lucky to have the partnership there. They, they're awesome. So we, uh, we just want to keep making it, making good ads and supporting them.
Speaker 1:That's amazing. I love it, love that. Uh, all right, um, got a couple more questions and then we really will get down into the nitty gritty of, like the real stuff you know here in a second. So uh, so uh. And then do, do you foresee yourself expanding into other lines? Uh, for sandlot goods, you know, because obviously it's something that we haven't talked about. But the yard ball yeah, talk to me about this, man, because this is the first thing I bought from you guys, just so you guys know, this is the. This is the very first thing I bought, and the reason I bought it is because I was looking for something to throw around the house with my daughter. Perfect, and it is literally the perfect ball for this, and my wife appreciated that, because I don't break things.
Speaker 2:That's it, that's that's it, including your kid's nose. You're right, yeah, I mean, if you true story, yeah, yeah, I know my three kids have been hit with a yard ball a lot. It's still. It's still not fun maybe, but it's uh. No one's getting bruises. Um, yeah, it's. It's a really fun story, I think, for me, just being entrepreneurial minded and loving the idea of just how things come about. Uh, so I'll give the quickest version I can of how that ball came about. But it um the other mating casey, the company I started.
Speaker 2:Sure we had just finished in repainting one of our cafes and we took down all the blue tape from masking and we made a big ball out of it. Yep, that was it. We had this finished in repainting one of our cafes and we took down all the blue tape from masking and we made a big ball out of it yep that was it.
Speaker 2:We had this ball. It was laying around the office you know open office and this thing got thrown around like crazy. When it's time to brainstorm you know a new product or whatever it was. We were throwing this blue tape ball and I was just holding it. One day I'm like this thing, it's perfect weight, it's the perfect softness, we can throw it outside, and I just was kind of like there's never been a ball. That's not a derivative of a sport. It's always baseball or football. You know, you name it.
Speaker 2:There's never been just a ball for throwing. I mean, obviously there's like cush balls and things like that.
Speaker 2:But nothing that was made with a lot of intention, and so that was one of my favorite stories to tell about Chad Hickman, our founder, the guy that can make anything, and he was just making leather gears. This was before the hats were really humming. I took him this tape ball and I said can you make one of these like legit, like something, this weight, this softness? And he came back a few days later with a pretty rough looking but essentially a prototype of what you're holding right yeah uh, and I was like this, is it like this thing, is this thing's gonna blow up?
Speaker 2:and so, uh, we ran a kickstarter it. If you're familiar with Kickstarter, yep, I am Ran the Kickstarter and it just took off on us. I mean, way more than we anticipated. I forget how many we ended up selling to the Kickstarter, but three or four thousand balls. And then I was like, well, we now have to hire people to train them to make them, because of how Kickstarter works. Right, it's crowdfunding. It's the products aren't made yet.
Speaker 2:Um, if you get funded, you got to make them yeah we hired 10 people and set up the shop and started started sewing yard balls.
Speaker 1:So those are sewn by hand in our factory I, and I do appreciate the fact that you can customize these. Yeah, that's the cool thing about it. It's like, oh, it's not just that you know you can make this and then be done with it. It's like, no, no, no, you can actually customize these, each of these. You know the stitching and all that, and it's that's super cool.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's, it's, it's and it's just such a simple product. That's what's been so fun for me with it Is is. Now we're trying that you put in your glove box and you know it. It sounds corny, but the one that sits by my front door the conversations happen, my son, as we wait for everyone else to leave for the house, we stand in the front yard and throw that thing back and forth just because it's there.
Speaker 2:Uh, that wouldn't be happening without that ball laying around, and so, um, it's just a cool piece to own. Everyone should have one in their car. Uh, and they're the way you're using.
Speaker 1:It just sits on your desk and you hold one all the time on doing my show on tuesdays and thursdays, right, uh, it's, I have it on my hand. You know doing the podcast when I'm working, it's always on I'm obsessed with it.
Speaker 2:I think it's such a good product. I love it. It's fun when you, when you talk to someone that has, when he gets it oh, I get it, yeah, oh, 100 when you don't get it, someone's like all right, man, it's a ball, like when you don't get it.
Speaker 1:Someone's like all right, man, it's a ball. No, you don't understand. It's more than just a ball.
Speaker 2:It's a handcrafted leather awesome thing, so it's been super cool for us. So we peeled it off. It's got its own website now, yardballcom Yep. So it's doing its thing, and we just hired a new yardball sewer last week. The man's up a little bit, it's.
Speaker 1:Uh, it's been fun I'm I'm actually just following them on instagram right now nice.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we got some work to do there too oh no, sorry, I'm listen, I'm a fan, so you get. But I like that though. You're right though, because it is a conversation piece. And you know my daughter's like, hey, daddy, let's go throw the you know the ball around, like let's go, like I mean, she's six years old, right, so she's still working on those uh, working on through catching the ball and things like that, right, and this is a perfect piece for that. And then my friends have you know, they've come and visited and I've showed it to them. They're like what is this? I'm like, let me show you, let me talk, let's talk. Like a baseball fan would definitely understand what this is yeah, it's got that pop when it hits your hand.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, yeah, it's, it's fun but I so I take some with me when we go to the park. I'll take an extra couple with me, because I'll see your dad with like a five-year-old trying to throw a football and it's just, it's not working because a kid can't throw a football. So I'm here try this out and, uh, it just works, it just works marketing right there, grassroots marketing right there.
Speaker 1:My friend, that's amazing's amazing.
Speaker 2:I like that.
Speaker 1:That's awesome. So is there anything?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think the main thing. I just love the story of how I got the hats as a company. So Sandlot Goods, like I said, even when Made in KC, got involved in 2019, they were making leather goods and we still make some of the best leather goods out there, in my opinion.
Speaker 2:But, uh, 2020, uh, you know, meeting kc, uh, pandemic hit everything closed um shut everything down and it was just like you know, this is, we're small business owners and this is a weird, uncertain world and um chad got on the phone with me. I have two business partners at at um meeting kc and some other business partners and he's like hey, I think I think we can sew some simple face masks together. And you know, we're all sitting at home just like stressing out. We're like, let's go what can we do?
Speaker 2:yeah, and so, uh, chad, prototypes and face masks. And then you know, demand has skyrocketed for face masks and so we were making these simple, simple face masks and we started getting more machinery and hiring people and we were the only people in the world that are hiring at that moment and so we went from a very small group of leather workers to, I think, at its peak, we had 70 team members in this pretty small 6,000 square foot space and some were selling from home making face masks, face masks. And I think, when I was all said and done, as the the need for face masks wound down, we had made 800,000 or more pieces of PPE through this team and we were paying employees and we were getting face masks to schools and hospitals and needed them, solving problems.
Speaker 2:And Chad and one of our other business partners, adam Pfeiffer were the ones running the show and it was just awesome and so need was winding down, there wasn't any people meet, and so it was essentially, we got all this equipment.
Speaker 2:We had people that love working for a sandlot. I was like chad, what you know, what do you want to do? Uh, I wasn't a ceo at that point, I was just kind of helping out on the side and he said I always wanted to make hats. And I was like all right, what do we need to do to make hats? And so there's a few pieces of specific machinery that you needed, but essentially, I'm like let's you know, everything I've been reading, as I've been stressing out about this pandemic is, uh, you got to find a way to make it an opportunity, not a, not a problem, and so this feels like that pivot for sandlot. Let's go and so ordered a few pieces of equipment and they started making some test hats in early 2021, I'd say. So that's how it started Quickly started making more, getting better at it, constantly improving.
Speaker 1:And that's what we're super young.
Speaker 2:We're very young hat manufacturer, but that's what we do now. So primarily the vast majority of our revenues come from hat sales and then a few other soft goods. But that was the genesis of what we're doing now that's cool, I, I that.
Speaker 1:That's pretty cool. Uh, just the fact that, like you know, you, just you took an opportunity, you know, instead of just like all right, we're done, shut down, we're done, yeah, exactly let's go, everyone, go back to what they're doing is like hold on a second.
Speaker 2:we can hold on to something here if we want, um and it's. You know, no one asked us to start making hats, and that's kind of the challenge is, we just started making hats, so now, now we're going to spread the word.
Speaker 1:Yeah, what was the first silhouettes that you guys made regarding, you know, when you guys started making hats. So the, the silhouette you're making.
Speaker 2:The the vintage flat bill was okay the first hat we went to. So, um, we were not shy about it. At ebbets was a hat manufacturer that we'd always looked up to, um, and they did a lot of vintage flat bills and, um, some other, some other hats that chad was just obsessed with, and so, um, definitely look to them for inspiration. But then we knew we needed the basic dad hat to be involved. Um, and uh, just wanted to be another hat manufacturer doing things in a cool way. Uh, then get some new materials involved there's some different logos involved and really kind of make it our own um, any other that you that you're looking forward to.
Speaker 1:Obviously you work with negro league baseball, but, like any other sports that you guys are looking to get into in the future, as far as you guys are saying the goods, yeah, so I think we have a few opportunities coming up.
Speaker 2:I mean to be honest with you. I think NFL licensing would be just the coolest thing ever. I think getting getting official teams on American made ball caps would be a really cool story. I hope that's in our future. It's going to take a long time. It's a big commitment big investment. I don't think we're there yet from a company, from an awareness standpoint.
Speaker 2:So we're going to keep doing what we're doing and grow a fan base and hopefully, if we get released some officially licensed NFL, and then I think the goal that Chad's always just thrown out there is like the big, crazy, hairy, audacious goal is MLB players wearing Sandlot hats on the field.
Speaker 1:Listen, I got. There's some. There's some minor league teams that would love some of this stuff.
Speaker 2:I'm telling you, I mean, I think the one, the one giant step we need to take is doing some fitted hats. We know everything we do is adjustable and I know on the field everyone's wearing fitted and so, yeah, every step we can take towards that goal for Chad, I think would be the coolest thing ever.
Speaker 1:But yeah, even if you make fashion minor league or major league, whatever right fashion, people would gravitate towards that stuff like hotcakes. You know what I mean? I think that's something cool that you guys would definitely we like definitely would succeed, succeed in that cool yeah the, the, the fit it, that'll be yeah that'll be cool that's next step.
Speaker 2:Uh, it's a whole new ball game with keeping different inventories of sizes and things like that.
Speaker 1:But it'll be in our future, I'm sure. Love it, love it, love it. All right, my friend, are you ready? Ready okay so this is the very first question that I ask everybody. When I'm asking this, right, we're getting into my famous not so famous question here. When you go to a ball game right, you're going to a ballpark are you a kansas city royals fan?
Speaker 2:yes sir.
Speaker 1:All right, so I'm a cleveland guardians fan, so you know um I. You know we are. We're in the same division, we We'll talk.
Speaker 2:There we go.
Speaker 1:Okay, but you're going to the ballpark right. By the way, you guys have a gorgeous ballpark. It is such a cool ballpark there.
Speaker 2:I love it.
Speaker 1:Thank you. What is your food and your drink of choice?
Speaker 2:Food and drink of choice at the ball. So we're big tailgaters here in Kansas City. We'll throw the yard ball.
Speaker 1:You're talking about in the parking lot beforehand. I want to say it's better, man like you guys really are tailgaters over there, like in cleveland we have the the muni lot when everybody goes for like football games, but you guys, you guys still get for baseball games which is awesome, uh, and there's.
Speaker 2:There's no better place to throw a yard ball than in kaufman stadium's parking lot. So I'd say my answer is, without a doubt, I'd want a Boulevard Brewery in Kansas City Brewery. They do a cosmic IPA, the Space Camper. So I want a Space Camper beer in my hand and just a brat with some barbecue sauce throwing a yard ball around.
Speaker 1:Hey, nothing wrong with that. I like that, that's not bad at all. My friend Donnie will tell you he loves the IPAs, so we'll go with that, all right? What's your spirit animal?
Speaker 2:Oh wow, spirit animal. Oh yeah, my kids all have spirit animals, don't they? Yeah, they do, they gravitate to them.
Speaker 2:I don't think we ever got to me as my spirit animal. You know, I think the for for some certain special reasons. Uh, the fox has been a an animal that's been um pretty big deal to me and my family the past few years. Uh, it's kind of representing someone that passed away and, um, it more represents them, but I think more and more kind of represents all of us, just, uh, um, an intelligent fox that is, uh, that can be kind and kind of live their own life. So, um, I'll go with foxes because I have a better answer.
Speaker 1:There's no wrong answers here. If you could have any wild animal as a pet, what would it be? Any wild?
Speaker 2:animal. Big cats are just so fun to watch Tigers and lions and stuff like that. But in a while, all right, I'll go crazy. I would want, I'd want a giant aquarium that's got dolphins in it. Dude, that'd be cool, that'd be sweet. You get the whole setup with it and everything you know. It's not just in your backyard yeah you. I feel like they'd be fun and playful to hang out with, so, yeah, they're super smart animals, so it's super smart, I could get some stuff done for us. So yeah, we'll go dolphins.
Speaker 1:I like it. What was your favorite cereal growing up as a kid?
Speaker 2:Favorite cereal. It's funny Now with my kids doing their thing out, with my kids doing their thing they're.
Speaker 1:They're working through some cinnamon toast crunch right now. Dude, we got so many out here. Oh, jesus, yeah, we got rice krispies, we got the cinnamon crow a crunch and we have a captain crunch here.
Speaker 2:We have every single one that you can think of I think, I think I, I think I always gravitated to lucky charms. We weren't, it wasn't in the house often, and when it was, it was just same, couldn't get enough of it.
Speaker 1:So mine was a captain because I was like it wasn't always around, but when it was mad that we made the big bulls out for real.
Speaker 2:Um, okay, favorite school subject uh, that was pretty, pretty easy. I was a math guy, I loved math. It was that one's pretty easy. I was a math guy, I loved math, it was my thing and went into accounting after that, which is pretty boring math a lot of the time, but it's math focused. So, yeah, math was my go-to.
Speaker 1:Better you than me, I'm telling you.
Speaker 2:What was the last movie you watched? Oh man, I don't watch a ton of movies, but recently, last movie we would have watched on our tv would have been.
Speaker 1:Do you guys have that disney chat listening? Yeah, I mean, it would have been a kid's movie.
Speaker 2:So I'm trying to think of something besides a kid's movie that we would have watched recently, um, but it definitely would have been a kid movie, I think. Yeah, moana has been flying around our house a lot recently so, yeah, moana was probably the last movie that I took in. I'm not complaining.
Speaker 1:No, no, I love it, dude. I'm all about Disney movies, I love them, but the last one that we just literally saw it tonight, disenchanted. It's like the sequel to Enchanted.
Speaker 2:Okay. Yeah, it's okay, my daughter loves it. All right, yeah, oh, I know what the actual answer is, as you just said that and it was awesome. It was the Three Ninjas with my son. What it was nuts, he hadn't seen it and I see he's seven years old. I'm like tuck, you're gonna love this movie. And sure enough he was obsessed and dude, there's things that would never be in movies today, that were in that movie.
Speaker 1:I'm like I can't really say that yeah, I don't yeah but I actually follow one of the guys on Instagram, I think. One of the original three ninjas.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was three ninjas and I loved every minute of it. It was so fun.
Speaker 1:Wow, you just took me back there with that one. I like that All right. Here's a philosophical question for you. Is it wrong for a vegetarian to eat an animal cracker?
Speaker 2:uh, I'd like to think if I was a vegetarian, I'd I'd cut out the animal crackers too, just on principle alone I like just to throw people off like I can't eat that oh, you know it's an animal, don't you see it?
Speaker 1:get that away from me, a bear right favorite ice cream flavor.
Speaker 2:Uh, I'm boring.
Speaker 1:Uh, I'm not chocolate but if there can be chunks of brownie or something in there, that's my good that's good. Yeah, yeah, for sure all right, couple more and then I get you out of here you're great all right bungee jumping or skydiving um, I would do both.
Speaker 2:Haven't done either, but skydiving I think I would. I think I'd get a. I'd be terrified, don't get me wrong. That's why I would love it.
Speaker 1:I think I'd go for it since you you are someone of a person that does watch a lot of disney movies. Yeah, I'm gonna ask you this question what disney princess will make the best spy? Best spy and I've trust me, I've gotten every single answer on this one, so it's you know yeah, yeah, there's a lot, of, a lot of moving pieces here.
Speaker 2:I mean, if it's context, if we got, if jasmine has access to the flying carpet and there's a leg up there, uh, to sneak around and spy on people because it's quiet, right? Yeah, she seemed pretty sneaky getting out. Yeah, I'm gonna go with jasmine I like it yeah all right, two more here.
Speaker 1:Favorite tv show growing up this is a weird one.
Speaker 2:Yeah, did you know the show chips? Yes, with the motorcycle cops. Yes, couldn't get enough of it. I watched it like crazy. I don't know why, I just loved it I remember chips, yeah, I.
Speaker 1:I even saw the remake movie, that's okay, I never saw.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it didn't suck me in enough because I knew it was like now. It's just this weird thing. I like the speeding chases and stuff, but yeah my three older sisters. They'd be watching something normal in the other room and I'd be watching chips.
Speaker 1:I like that one. All right, last one have you ever re-gifted a gift? Oh, definitely, yeah. Who hasn't? Like I said, I've got three older sisters, so there's no shame.
Speaker 2:You get something I'm like. Kate will love this. I'll package it up.
Speaker 1:I'm just going to keep it here and then, you know, move it along.
Speaker 2:I'd say there's a group of people that are, you know, at risk of getting a re-gifted gift, and there's a group of people that I would never do it to. And as long as there's that group, that would be stuff.
Speaker 1:Somebody will get something. 100% Thomas. Thank you so much for doing this. This was a blast. I learned a lot about your company Such a massive fan. Just so you know, I'm a massive fan of your company. Where can people find you and the company on social media.
Speaker 2:Yeah, standlockgoodscom. And follow us at Standlock Goods on Instagram. I don't think there's anything tricky with our Instagram handle.
Speaker 1:Nope.
Speaker 2:Just Standlock Goods, right? Yeah, just making sure, so I'll say it wrong on here. So, yeah, give us a follow on us, get involved. More YouTube if you're into manufacturing, if you're into cool hats, so appreciate it. Just just happy to be able to do what we do and fans like you make it, make it doable.
Speaker 1:So more than happy to be here and appreciate you fans like me who spent definitely will be more than happy to spend the money on your company and make sure you guys are following the data Chronicles on all socials. I'm also on YouTube. This episode will also air on on video on YouTube and as well as Tuesdays and Thursdays 9 pm Eastern time, the data Chronicles sports show, where we talk all things sports and then obviously we also talk hats. So we'll see you guys then and thank you for listening.
Speaker 2:Thank you.
