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Stephen: Okay. All right. There we go. I think I

Alan: have the last same backdrop as last week, but you know what? I love this one. It’s pretty. Okay. No, I’m boring. You already got a cool Halloween shirt on and everything.

Stephen: Let me pull this out. Small town monsters. It’s a, when Colin was doing all the cryptid stuff, he’s a local guy that does documentaries on cryptids documentary movies.

And at the time he had three or four and we helped kickstart the mothman one, et cetera. And now he’s up to a dozen or so, and he has like production quality has gone up in the, He’s definitely gotten better over time. Seth Breedlove from Small Town Monsters. This was a t shirt they came out with years ago and it was like limited edition.

And so it’s right away, it’s like calling and then he’s yeah these are the last three or four I’ve gotten. I’m like, okay I’ll take one, it’s funny.

Alan: It’s, I love having t shirts that nobody else has, mass produced, I don’t know, bum equipment or something like that.

And I, My, it’s funny. My dad used to go to business conferences and I would always ask him to get me a t shirt because when you get a t shirt that has captain port a potty on it, nobody else in the school has that one. Also, we went on very cool vacations growing up. We did a trip to Europe.

We did a trip all across the United States, the Pacific impact. And when you get something from like the Grossglockner in Austria, nobody else in Elk Grove village has that. The corn palace, which I wore proudly, out of South Dakota. I had a lot of band t shirts and, everybody has the Led Zeppelin or the Genesis or whatever from back then.

But it was very cool to just have, where’d you get that? Monkey Pythons Flying Circus before it was popular, that kind of cool. Yeah.

Stephen: Well with the Easy rise of drop shipping and all these companies that you just throw up a logo and you get t shirts, and so many people are trying to sell t shirts.

The problem most people are doing is, oh, that’s a great saying. I’m going to make a t shirt of it. You and 300 other people said the same thing. So you get the same sayings. By 5, 000 people, and then you get people going this doesn’t actually work because I didn’t sell anything.

That’s because you’re one of a thousand. How do you stand out? So something like this, like you said, it’s unique, people probably aren’t searching for it. Oh, what’s the Halloween special t shirt from small town monsters. Yeah. Unless they did something new every year, it’s just.

People just, oh this is quick and easy. I even know there are sites where you can go to them and pick a phrase and it’ll give you a some AI generated thing image. You grab it, put it on teacher. It’s don’t it’s don’t you realize there’s three million other people going to that website buying the same phrases?

It’s like when I worked at Target And stocking the shelves Guys would line up. Oh, it’s Tuesday. It’s truck day That’s when the toys come so they come rushing back in the toy department and they buy up all the Star Wars figures going Yeah, this is gonna give my kid their college tuition in 20 25 years, you know because Star Wars figures are worth a lot and it’s yeah The ones from the seventies that nobody got, but if you can buy it at Walmart and Target,