Howdy, howdy, folks. Welcome back to who. Oh, no, that's your line.

Oh, we can introduce it, Mike. Here we go. Howdy, howdy folks. Welcome back to a hoot and a half. I'm your host, Mike Schaeffer here with my co-host, Matt King, the half and the hoot for those asking all these years, big reveal. Turns out Matt's the half. I'm the hoot. And you're wearing the sweatshirt for the people listening today. Mike is rocking the OG merch. The very first. Yeah, our first and only merch run.

First and only. Do you think we'll ever do it again? Maybe. I feel like good influences merch is probably a more realistic. I think so too. We could, uh, it could good influences merch. We had some designs and then I feel like it never like happened.

Yeah.

Like I had the designs ready.

I just thought we were going to have like meetings with the merch people.

Merch gets so complicated though.

I know.

Because like all you truly want is just good quality assurance.

Is that the word?

That like people are getting the right products.

And I've just hear nightmare stories after nightmare stories of influencers who start

merch, people get like a poorer quality than the samples that were sent to the influencer

originally on what it was.

Yes.

Do you think people are still buying merch?

It's not like 2018 anymore.

I know.

I feel like honestly, our audience has like grown up a bit and

they're I think a little bit more budget conscious. Yes. They're students. They're spending like

their money and stuff. It used to be. I feel like high school kids using their parents credit

cards to buy merch and now it's like they're in college or post college and they're trying to

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