And you might see them like everybody shows up wearing a Printed Threads hoodie, and that's like, you know, everybody loves that hoodie. It's like their letterman jacket. Right. And, uh, our employees go out, they go out to eat for lunch, or they go out into the community and people say, “Oh, you work at Printed Threads? And it's a thing, right? Like people think our company from the outside is cool because of everything we do within our community. And then when they go out into the community wearing their Printed Threads hoodie, and people are like, “Oh, awesome. You worked at Printed Threads.” That makes them feel good. Like, wow. Like it's a lot different than walking down the street and being like, I work at Chase Bank, you know, there's not as much excitement in that. It doesn't feel like this family. It doesn't feel like this integral part of your, your community surrounding you. Marshall Atkinson Yeah, I love that. And I've always talked about in the companies that I've run, um, you know, I call it “refrigerator material” because when your employees go home, what's the first thing that happens at dinner. It's like, “Hey honey, how was your day?” And people you want them to be engaging and have something really positive to say about where they work and what happened and all that kind of stuff and, and have positive stories to tell. And I think everything that you've talked about today drives that. Brett Bowden Yeah. Thanks. Um, you know, we've worked hard on it and put a lot of thought into it. And I, I think that you know, I didn't start a business to work with people. I don't, I don't like it. You know, I could go walk in, there's a restaurant down the street that I walked into one day. And you could just tell everybody that worked there looked miserable and I could feel it and you can taste it in the food. Right. It's like, cringe-worthy, you know, you just don't want to go there when you can walk into a place where people are having fun and they're doing good work and they're proud, like. That that rings true. And in every part of the experience, you can feel it and the t-shirt you're wearing, you can be proud to do business with that company. You know, like there are businesses that you see doing cool things. And what that does to me is say like, I want to go support that business because they're doing cool things. Like I know that if I bring that business more business. If I bring that company more business, like they're going to do more with that money that they make, uh, then maybe another business in town and that's important.
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