So, you know, we just weren't set up for that. Like I couldn't, we couldn't burn 400 screens at once. I, you know, and I wasn't gonna spend ten grand to order 400 screens just to have sitting around. You know none of this was, we were ready to print 400 films out right away. And, I had issues creating all the artwork and then my computer crashed and I had it all in the downloads folder instead of syncing it. So I had to recreate a bunch of this crappy artwork. Uh, so you know, it was a lot of these lessons we're learned and a lot of them were very stressful and still are stressful, but, like a print shop, we learned so many things. I learned a whole different vision of workflow, or to look at things differently and be like, “Oh, we need to fix this. We need to change this.” It was a lot of lessons learned and not being automated, you know we're semi-automated, but we're, you know, we're a small shop. So we got to learn so many things from it. So really like the takeaways. So huge, just because my team now is like one, I had two new printers also, so I have two new, new screen printers that have been here less than six months. Printing water-based inks. That have never, you know, they've never screen-printed before in their life. And then I just gave him 10,000 shirts to print. Marshall Atkinson Well, it's a lot of practice, Jared. Jarrod Hennis That's a lot, you know, luckily it was one color. So it was like, you know, mostly white, white discharge, black base. So it was like easier things. But yeah, it was the best practice they can get. So now they're fully ready for whatever I throw at them, but it was lessons learned. And I know across the US I know there are lessons learned for everyone. Like no one anticipated the scale that this program could get for their local business. You know, and then some were set up for it. They have autos and some weren't, but I think, overall, you know, what, what Tiny Little Monster’s Sloan created was this cool way for print shops to be on the line and therefore their community. Marshall Atkinson Well that’s the cool part about this is just thinking through, you know that book “StoryBrand” by Donald Miller where your customer is the hero? And so this is one of these things where our customers are the heroes and we're trying to help them stay afloat. And that's where I think “Here For Good” really aligned with the need for apparel, the need to help, the need to be part of the community. And it kind of just all came together and just put a big bow on it. That's one of the most powerful things about this whole program is the fact that it kind of just circled everything. So great job.
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