Mike Lynch

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198 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 17 Jul

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Living Your Legacy · How an Army Veteran Built a 50-Year American Manufacturing Legacy · 17 Jul 2026 podcast

And this was in 76, right?

I think it was probably 78 when that whole deal went down.

And yeah, so the deal was like, you know, the copyright office called the Department of Agriculture and said, hey, guys, somebody's basically trying to copyright your logo.

And oh, by the way, you don't have a copyright on it.

So the concession was that that would become the official buckle.

Now, and it's not as big as you would think, right?

That market, I mean, we couldn't survive if that's all we did.

And so we've evolved.

So then eventually my dad learned how to cast and he learned how to manufacture stuff from scratch.

Didn't go back to college, didn't do that.

He learned it on the fly.

And and then now that's kind of become what we do more than anything else is just.

Yeah, so that is probably not our main market nowadays.

We've, well, we've already done them all, right?

Well, and they'll reorder when you get new employees in or whatever, but you'd think, oh my gosh, you're servicing the government.

It's not that big a deal.

And the way we, back to the way we do that.

So we, though we are the exclusive manufacturer, I couldn't sell you one of them.

Even though I'm making it.

Really?

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