Chris Burns

And and he goes, yeah, yeah.

And it was Markle Supply over here in Pittsburgh.

And Lee was amazing to me.

He goes, I'll teach you how, you know, he goes, anything you want to know, I'll teach you, you know, explain to you how distribution works and the price points and da da da da da.

And him and I sat down and we talked for a little bit.

And then about two weeks later, I delivered them their first order and I started making them here in my garage.

This is my basement I'm in right now, which was our assembly area for the first two years.

And and then it just kind of took off from there.

And then one of one of my closest friends, he calls me and goes, hey, I'm going through my union hall doesn't have any work.

And, you know, when I go full custody of my daughter, I need work.

And I'm like, dude, I need help.

But I can only pay like 10 bucks an hour.

And fast forward to today, that's Justin.

He runs our operations.

He runs half the company, and I run the other half.

So it's been a crazy ride.

One of the big things with us right now is one of the things that we do, I feel we do better than anybody else, is we do everything in precision and volume.

So before I did police work, I did engineering.

I always joked and said when I was a cop that my engineering degree was worth about the same as a cup of coffee because I don't use it.

Now, with everything happening and how everything needs to come together, the design-wise, the logistics-wise, I didn't realize that God literally had me.