Ben Dobyns

Well, what did they ask for though?

We didn't get that far.

I just turned them down.

Oh.

I didn't even bother negotiating.

Who was it?

It was a tech entrepreneur because there's a whole technology platform that we want to build with this.

And they kind of caught wind of what we're doing and how kind of revolutionary the plan is in terms of the platform software side of it.

You know, we've had a little bit of that, but the majority of it tends to happen via the fans to date under a non-commercial creative commons license.

Our next big radical step is,

for a new property that we're launching, Stralers, we're actually going to release our world Bible and our intellectual property to allow commercial derivatives under, again, a Creative Commons style license.

You know, frankly, we should do it.

It's a great idea.

And to date, it's just been a capacity issue, you know, in terms of,

In terms of what we can sustain on a monthly basis, I do this full time and then we have three- But Ben, your fans, they wanna buy Fruit of the Loom Journey underwear, they want Journey mugs, they want Journey toothpaste, right?

Yeah, they're constantly complaining that there isn't enough merch available.

And generally what we've been able to do is use each Kickstarter as an opportunity to do a big merchant fusion where the reward levels are, okay, we're going to get a new round of t-shirts designed.

And I'm really picky about quality.

I want stuff to be amazing.

If it's a t-shirt, I want someone to be walking by it at a convention and say, I must own that.