Are Brain-Eating Amoebas Considered Animals? | From Start To Finish

0:00What animal should not exist, but somehow does? Do bugs count? Bugs are animals, right? Bugs are animals, yes Hello, welcome to the next booth from Start to Finish Podcasts. It's me, Shailer, got Lucas, and we've got Justin as well. Can you say something? Yeah, how's it going? Hello. Thank you. That's great. That's great. All right. I think the big thing is just the overall contender championship is coming up next week. What is, can you give us some details, Lucas? I was hoping we could talk about that right now, actually. Oh, okay. We haven't really discussed prizes.

1:02What about the prompt? What about the prompt? So we generally just do kind of an overall, you know, it's not work or heritage, it's just about the boots themselves. So we don't have a, you know, we'll reveal the prompt once we put it out there, but yeah. Okay. What do you think it's going to be? It's going to be something about your boots, probably. Okay. Yeah. What about your boots? What would you like to know about somebody's boots? How are they? How are they? Man. We're just like a creative frickin' dynamo over here and next. Okay. Well, like... I just think the story behind them, you know, maybe in a general sense. You know, what you're doing on them, why you got them? Yeah. Generally something along those lines. What did we do last year? I think we did... Was it even the same format?

2:02Yeah. I think last year it was like basically tell us about the patina of your boots and what caused them essentially. Like the scars and scuffs and tell us a story about something you did in your boots. And then the year before that, we did like a bracket, right? Yeah. Like with voting? Yeah. There wasn't really a prompt that time around. Well, this just passed performers, right? Yeah. Ah, see. Okay. Okay. So this won't be a little different. So everyone who already participated is obviously encouraged to do so again and hopefully we get some new people in there as well. Talking about their boot experience and, you know, what paths have your boots taken you down? You know, what life events have they been a part of? I think all those things would be fair game. Absolutely. Even debating on the prizes. Yeah, I think that's a big question. A couple thoughts have been floated and so curious if, you know, anybody has any ideas on that.

3:04But one is like we fly you out here. If you can do a weekday, great. If not, we can like make it work and be here on a Saturday and be not as maybe interesting because the factory would not be working. Right. But we could certainly like, we could go through all the options. I think we would be very, shall we say, flexible and kind of, you know, what offerings you could potentially use on your new pair. You know, maybe there's like custom leather that we're ordering in or something like that. Like maybe it's a sample that we're making up, you know, with somebody. So that's one idea. And then, you know, the other thought is like sort of how we did with Horween. But maybe less involved, I guess, would be like, do you do a custom color? Like we're looking at some others from like a Hermann Oak, for example.

4:05So coming up with a custom color there, I think also like I'm looking to refresh our work boot lineup a little bit. And so like maybe it's, you know, you are basically determining our next work boot color. Oh, interesting. Work boot leather color. Yeah. Because I think we'll swap out maybe some of our lower performing colors and try something new. And of course, you know, this new person could design a new color from Sadol. And they can pick any color as long as it's walnut, you know. Yes, of course. Yeah, it has to be walnut. Yeah, they can pick, you know. Exactly. You can get any color you want as long as it's a lot. We'll get them three versions of walnut and they can pick from those three. Exactly. But no, you know, just kidding. I mean, looking at, like the work leather, so I think are not quite as, they tend to not be quite as dynamic as maybe the heritage side. You know what I mean? Yeah. So maybe that's not as interesting. I don't know.

5:06But let me know what you guys think. So those are some of the ideas that I came up with. And I think the trip could be interesting, especially for like doing a makeup forum, you know, while you're here in the factory. Almost like what you do when you go to Tanneries, like as they're going through, like, oh, what about that? And we can build them something based on, you know, we have so many samples and stuff that we have one-off pairs of that, you know, we either have tried and decided we don't want to do or things like that. Yeah, I was kind of thinking of an access. Yeah, like I was thinking of it almost like the employee boot process, you know, where like certain members of production who will show remain nameless will complain about doing something some way. But, you know, for their best buddy and sewing, you know, they're like, oh, yeah, I'll totally do that. I just got, I just got to slack from that nameless employee. I'm sure it's like something is happy about, right? Yes, of course. Yeah. What is it? It's not worth it. Yeah. Okay. Yeah.

6:06Okay. What did we do? Nothing, just our normal stuff. Okay. All right. Cool. But yeah, yeah, I think, you know, kind of give them the open options of even if it's a little difficult, won't we'll try and make it work for you? So long as it's within the realm of doable. Okay. So, yeah. So I don't know. Give us any feedback. That'll be going live next week. So, frankly, like tomorrow for you, because this will be coming out on Tuesday. And, yeah, it'll be a great time. So please, please be a part of that. The other thing is new shirts. So people have been asking me for new shirts. One of these colors. You don't like them? I hate them. Okay. Well, what is this green and blue thing? And they're like, it's a weird green.

7:07You know, I didn't have a hand in making the shirts this time around. They wanted to freshen up the colors. Man, what color was this? I can't remember what it was called. It's like, how would you describe that color? Like, boring green. It's not boring. It's different. It's like a sea foam. It's like a darker sea foam. Yeah. And I'm like, really? 1995 called. They want your kitchen wall paper color back. We could change up the colors. The blue. I don't know. Those are for a mix of belts. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I- The design's cool. The design's great. That was a big thing. I wanted that design. What was our best selling- What is our best selling color? Like, of the three other colors. Was it white? Was it black? Was it sand? It's probably either the- Of the green. The sand or the like, what is it called?

8:08It's like the gray. Pretty neutral colors. Okay. Yeah. I might go back to the drawing board on that for the- And use- Use our passport- High performers. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You know, we've been getting a lot of requests for shirts. And I say, go ahead. I'm down with the shirts. I just like, let's make them friggin' sick, you know? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I really like it. It's the stomp logo that we did on the coasters. Yeah. Front pocket logo. And then some- Some belt shirts as well. Some- Some NYX handmade belts swag. Yeah. Another cool. They're- They're great designs. We'll get those out there. But there's a big debate about where to put the logo. People in the office were very adamant that a big logo should go on the front of the shirt. Uh, so I did a little reddit poll. And it was overwhelming majority- On the back. Big logo should go on the back, yeah. Yeah. I had to point out to those people who wanted it on the front that the one style we did-

9:09Like that- It's the one we had to give away for free- At boot camp. There you go. We weren't selling. Yeah. Now, I think if you're- If you're not a bantie, like- Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. No, it's on the back. Okay. Um, well I'm glad we have a good answer on that one. Um, so we just need better colors. Um, okay. A couple other things. So we got the night shade. Speaking of colors. Speaking of colors. This is pretty. Mm-hmm. Pretty sweet. And I bet if you did all smooth, it wouldn't even look that. No, yeah. I think crazy. That's what's interesting. It will be very, uh, toned down. Like, almost look like just a black boot. Yeah. And then the rough out- I mean, similar to the turquoise, but even more subtle. Um, and then the rough out has quite a bit of pop to it. Um, and then tell me what we got here. We got here. This is a tanker.

10:09In the blood core. Yeah. Blood core. So we did the alien core. And we will be doing a run of food core. Tankers. Tactical tankers. Like the recent run here in the next couple weeks. Yep. So. Good stuff coming. Yeah. Anything else of note coming this month, Lucas? Especially on the product side? Yeah, I mean, we've got another kind of thing we're doing with Western. Have we talked about that at all? No, so we're... Oh, man. Is that under wraps? No, I think we can tease it. But it's essentially a little bit of a different take on the ND3. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, we're going to reopen the ND3 a little bit with some changes. Different changes. Yeah. Yeah. So that would be interesting. I mean, technically, if you wanted, it doesn't have to have any changes. True. So we're giving you some options. Yeah. We'll just... We're giving some options. So, Western's given us some color combinations that I think are pretty cool. To illustrate and we'll see what you guys think.

11:10But, um, yeah, that's... That's coming here in the next few weeks as well. We've already talked about the revised Wellington. Yeah. And that will be launching next week. Yep. We will want to hear from you if you want to change an existing Wellington order to the new construction. Yeah. So I guess that's, you know, we always like going back to old patterns and updating them. But there's always that debate whenever we do it. Like, okay, do we just change everything? Do we get rid of the old one? Well, it's just like we want to know... We want you to get what you thought you... Exactly what you ordered. You know, so maybe somebody doesn't want the side poll loops or something. So I don't know. So, um, let us know. Yeah. I'm kind of thinking maybe for the first rollout, we make it an option back or side. Are you going to call it something different? It's going to be like the 2.0. I don't know. Is that... I'm curious what customers think is like, is that more confusing?

12:11Or less confusing? I was kind of thinking maybe we add the option. It's less confusing for us. Yeah. Yeah. Because it's really just matter, you know, one line on the ticket being changed. Yeah. So maybe for the first rollout, we kind of let you still pick from both. And then we see what the majority wants and kind of go from there. Okay. Some boot questions? Time for a question. All right. We'll close this out. Have we done this one? I think some of the questions may have made it back. I think we did this one. What animal should not exist but somehow does?

13:11Do bugs count? Bugs are animals, right? Bugs are animals, yes. I think mosquitoes are the worst thing ever. I think that's probably the top answer. Yeah. You know, if we were playing Family Feud, that's flipping over up top. Yeah. So I'll say something else. I guess. Is there an animal you don't know? What about like the brain eating amoebas? There you go. I don't like those. Oh, yeah. I don't like anyone. And there's going to be more of them, right? Because it gets warmer. So they survive in like warm springs since warm water sources. Yeah. Like there's like, speaking of mosquitoes like West Nile virus is now like reached America. You're like West Nile. You mean like Egypt? No, like New Mexico. Yeah. Good times.

14:12Okay. Well, on that happy note, brain eating amoebas and disease spreading mosquitoes. We want to thank you for watching and hope you are having a wonderful week. I hope you are getting ready to just blow it out of the water in the Contender Championship. And that, you know, things are going good for you. So thanks for being a part of this. Couldn't do it without you. We'll talk to you later. Bye.