It's not that we necessarily even want people to dress up. We just want people to dress sharp, right? And I think that's a big, big nuance of what our goal is. It's not about business casual or suits or any specific category. I mean, we've seen dress codes change so dramatically in the last decade. Dress sharp, right? If you're gonna wear a t-shirt, make sure it's not a ratty t-shirt. If you're gonna wear jeans, make sure that they're sharp, kind of monochromatic nose holes, right? And cut to the right length, you know? Make sure they're sharp. And so in that way, it's not that you care that much about how you look. It's just that confidence that's built when you feel kind of sharp and clean. This is Started to Store Front. Today's guest is Aman Advani, co-founder of Ministry of Supply. If you've ever worn a traditional suit, you've experienced the problem that Aman and his co-founder, Gihan, wanted to solve. They're stiff, uncomfortable, and they let the entire world know just how much you sway. At first, they stitched fabric from their favorite athletic brands into acceptable office wear before developing their own blends. And just to prove how versatile their suit is, co-founder Gihan ran a half marathon while wearing it and was rewarded with the most literal interpretation of proof of concept and a Guinness World Record. So listen in as we cover everything from why there's still a ton of great opportunity in retail, why word of mouth was crucial to their company's growth, and why the inspiration for the company name came from none other than James Bond himself. Now, back to the episode. Welcome to the podcast. On today's show, we have Aman, founder of Ministry of Supply. For everybody listening, what is Ministry of Supply? Yeah, it's a great question. We are a clothing company based in Boston and founded in 2012. And our focus is pretty simple. It's taking all of the engineering and performance attributes of your favorite gym clothes or lounge clothes, everything that makes us comfortable and perform well, and applying that to your least favorite out of gym clothes. The thick dress shirts that are super soft and stretchy, machine washable and wrinkle free. The one thing I would always do when I lived in Boston is every summer, right? There's so much finance activity in Boston. So you see all these guys and gals wearing suits and they would walk to lunch. And I would always just stop and salute them because I knew for a fact that their backs were just gonna be drenched by the time they got back. And it's this uncomfortable predicament, right? Where it's you don't wanna take off your sports coat because we know your shirt's wet. And so your only option is to either wear a shirt under your dress shirt.  A no win option. That was me. That was absolutely me for a long time. So those people that you were pitting was exactly why we started the company. I was getting on a plane every Monday morning and off a plane every Thursday night and consulting. And my clothes were just terrorizing me. And it was this idea of just getting off the plane and your back is sweating. Your shirt's half untucked. You've got sweat stains. You gotta sometimes try to sneak by the hotel to sneak in a quick iron before you show it to a big client presentation on Monday morning at 11. And it was just awful. And it was exactly why we birthed the company was to fight that exact moment of misery. What was some of the science that went into making the fabric? The science is our entire secret sauce, right? That's what we care about the most is really the engineering behind the product. So we start by looking at exactly how your body works before we ever touch pen to paper or in our case CAD for design, right? And so we understand how do you expel heat, odor, moisture, pressure, how do you sweat? How does your skin kind of let that moisture out? How does, you know, we perform strain analysis to see how your skin stretches. And by understanding the body quantitatively before anything, we're starting at a very different point than a traditional design process. So just like the scientific method, we start with a problem or opportunity statement, not with an end goal in mind. I just remember this one visual that I would always see it was basically it was like the human body and then there was a bunch of like red patches, right? Where the sweat usually comes up for people listening. I mean, obviously I think people know intuitively but where are the problem areas or where you guys put extra attention, extra fabric on the human body? Yeah, so the innovation comes in many forms. It can be fit, it can be fabric, it can be fabrication method, it can be how we construct the garment whether it's 3D printing because shaping is really important. So you'll find all over the place little examples of where we took those kernels of problem statements and we infused that performance of technology sometimes very subtly, whether it be coffee beans in the recycled coffee beans used in the fibers of our dress socks to avoid that odor when you take your shoes off on a plane, let's say. Whether it be six tiny laser perforations under the arms of most of our dress shirts to expel heat exactly where you let it out. That kind of rear portion of the underarm it's just a vent that's providing that airflow. So you'll see these small nuances all over our garments and almost all of our knits are engineered to actually have a dynamic ventilation pattern. So you'll see that down the center of the back under the arms really subtle geometric patterns to allow that heat to escape and really let your body and skin breathe in the way that it intends and wants. Did you have to go through a couple different prototypes before you finally settle on the design where you felt comfortable launching it? Yes, I mean the very first one and we were, Diego and I were talking just before the show, the very first product we made despite about 14 prototypes and sometimes those were small batches sometimes those were one of one. You know, we nailed the engineering coming out of the gates. We felt really good about that but we did not feel good about the fashion piece of it. It turns out that the engineering piece in isolation is quite simple, right? To engineer a garment, that's what our backgrounds were. It wasn't until 2013 a year in that we hired a design director that had come from Brooks Brothers in theory to make sure that we didn't ignore that the actual problem, it's not just performance. It's how do you marry and gracefully marry form and function not one or the other. What was that like?  What, I mean, how do you even achieve that? Yeah, I mean early on we tended to think of it as a bit of a trade-off, right? Is where you infuse performance you would lose on aesthetic. And I think over the course of several years we figured out that actually the two could actually be additive or even multiplicative, right? A really flexible fit for instance, if you infuse stretch in the correct direction and amount across your body, your body could move better even if you had a trimmer fitting garment. So you could achieve both a comfortable fit but without the restriction, right? Historically in a broad cloth dress shirt, for instance, you'd pick really good fit but then you couldn't move, right?  And so it's a small and simple example I like to give of where form and function can actually play really well together. They don't have to be enemies. And it took us a long time to figure out that the two weren't successful despite each other but because of each other. I wanted to ask you, so yesterday I had a meeting and I had to put on jeans for the first time in probably quite literally 40 days or something like that. And I've just remembered this like why this is uncomfortable. And I had purchased the pair that you had recommended the kinetic pair and I was trying them and I was like, these feel amazing, right? It doesn't feel like I'm making a sacrifice. It feels like it feels comfortable kind of like the sweatpants thing. Do you think post COVID you're in a prime position to, you know, for your brand, for your company? Because now people will seek that will seek the comfort as opposed to this, you know, uncomfortable garments that we're so used to wearing pre COVID. Yeah, you know, I think the first person outside of our team to see the silver lining exactly the same way we do which is that we've been trying to convince the world for years that you wanted something as comfortable as your favorite sweatpants that was sharp enough to wear in a more kind of formal or in a casual just out of home setting. You can't wear those sweatpants to a restaurant or to a bar to work or to, you know, on a flight, right? And so the entire world learned this lesson all at once that they can be wildly more productive if they're comfortable and that comfort and productivity are actually really directly correlative. And so we've been fighting this fight for so long and all of a sudden at once the world learned this lesson. And so all of a sudden, instead of us having to educate you on why this matters we now get to focus all of our attention on now you know what matters. Here's why we're the best at it. And so it really changes our messaging game dramatically to know that everybody has the same opening premise in mind already. And so is there all new marketing going into a factor? How are you guys getting the message out there? Yeah, you'll see everything from us kind of continue to evolve. It's one of the things we pride ourselves most on. I mean, whether or not we're in a pandemic the evolution of our companies are probably our single greatest assets. You'll see constantly us entering new categories us entering new messaging us entering a new website or a new logo or wordmark. And we love the idea of testing and playing and learning. And so absolutely you'll see an extension of our product line that kind of really comfy cozy stuff that we've been doing for years but we'll kind of blow out now into a full collection. And then certainly the messaging side making sure that we remind people or draw back to these days as things were rough in general absolutely there's no silver lining to that.  I think about it like, so I saw one of your co-founders ran a marathon, right? Complete each your own dog food type startup moment you're running a marathon in your suits, in your garments. And now I'm thinking like the marketing is just a guy sitting on the couch or a guy or a gal sitting on the couch on their laptop. And they might be dressed up but they feel comfy as ever. And it's like just packaging that message in the right way is interesting. Yeah, you've nailed a really great nuance that we have from a messaging standpoint is that line between comfort and performance, right?  But actually both are attempting to do the activity that you're doing in the best possible way, right? If you're lounging, go all out and if you're running go all out. And so in that way, the technology that powers the two of those is actually quite complex but replicable for clothes that are not meant for the track or the couch but actually the other 22 hours a day. When you first launched, did you guys bootstrap this company or did you raise a little bit of capital at the beginning? You know, we raised early on and it's not necessarily something that I would recommend for companies coming out today. We raised for two reasons. One is that just seemed like the default. I mean, without sugar coating it just seemed like that's what you did when you were starting a company in 2012 is you got and raised money. You know, the question of bootstrapping had become so rare at that point that it wasn't really even a consideration. And we also had a really heavy uphill battle to fight which I do think required some upfront capital, right? We were taking on a fairly heavy problem, right? At that point, if you went to a Nordstrom you would have not seen a single item with a single performance characteristic. So we were taking on a pretty big challenge at that point eight years ago. It's become a bit of a new normal now which is great for us. But at the time we were fighting an uphill battle in fashion where it wasn't something the world really was asking for. We had to explain, here's why this matters. How did you address that fight, that uphill battle? How did you turn around and educate the market about this problem? Yeah, I mean, there's a couple of answers I'd give there. One is word of mouth played a huge role and continues to, right? Is that the best way we can do that is by you telling your friends that that was something that you found this to be useful for. So your voice is more powerful than ours. And the second way that comes to mind is that's why we love retail. Is retail, we don't have to explain it.  In Ecom those two events are flipped. You purchase then have your aha moment. And so for us it was really special to open stores fairly early on. Our first store opened in 2014. You can imagine we launched the company in 2012. That's pretty quick to get that first store up. And it was really because we just saw so much value in getting that aha moment to be the first experience you had, not your credit card. So for you, that aha moment led the decision to even like, cause you see a lot of companies now they just wanna do online sales. But with you, you knew that with customers trying on your clothing it would be more beneficial to you as a brand and informative to them as a consumer than just purely an online format. Yeah, I think that's right. I mean, I'd also not cover the power of our own preferences as a founding team where we like shopping in person, right? You know, I think we are in a lot of ways our own customer. And I think one of the interesting things I've seen at MIT Sloan's curriculum is this evolution into user driven innovation, right? Which is acknowledging that it's okay that sometimes as an entrepreneur you're solving your own problem. And I love retail. I love shopping in stores. I love touching and feeling and trying on before I buy. So I think there was probably some mix of an intelligent business strategy that saw really great, you know conversion rates offline and really intimate customer interactions and building kind of true in-depth relationships. And then some part that was just, this would be fun. It would be really great to gather up the people that like our brand, get to hear from them directly and get to shopping in a way that we enjoy and hope continues. I love how simply you put things.  Comfort, performance, e-commerce, retail and both of these things make a lot of sense. And so I can like understand your decision-making process. When you think about retail, so for me now as a real estate developer I've always thought that retail at some point will just become nothing more than a marketing exercise for companies unless they own the asset. In which case then you at least have another asset. But in terms of how you view retail post COVID is it like it's a marketing exercise for you? Is it bringing that aha moment to that specific buyer and then you have your aha moment on the e-commerce where you have to fulfill both roles or what's your thought process around that? Yeah, I mean there are certainly nuances between the channels that are not, you know, you can't ignore, right? So I mean that obviously that the order of events happening, right?  That goes with that saying but beyond that I do think the channels actually have a lot more similarities than they have differences or we still think of both. I mean we won't continue to have a store unless it's four wall profitable. I mean we're big believers that anything outside of that unless it is mathematically approvable is just a guess and probably a risky one that it's affecting your online business in some massively profitable way, right? We do find that customers are often really tied to a channel. They're either offline shoppers or online shoppers. They tend to stay with that initial channel where they purchased. They can compliment each other from a messaging or impression standpoint but when you actually swipe it tends to be in the same place that you prefer. And so we still think of stores as a great way to have commerce and a great place to have an actual contribution margin coming from. And that leads to these higher AOVs, longer customer relationships, higher lifetime values, deeper insights, conversations from our GMs with our design team that are just incredibly informative on what people prefer and what their sentiments are. There's a ton of opportunity for retail still to be a really, really great channel. I think maybe now more than ever the intimacy of perhaps fewer people in stores just the upside there is more time with the sales that you associate. So I think it's as alive as ever as soon as we're able to kind of find a new normal and let people be in stores again. When do you think that'll be the new normal? So I know, well, let's skip that question for now because none of us really know. How much time do you have? Yeah, I've seen your store. I think you have one in Fillmore or at least the ones I've seen in San Francisco and then obviously Newbury Street in Boston. How big is ministry of supply now in terms of your team and in terms of how many stores you have across the country? Yeah, we're about 50 people in total, about six stores. All six as you might imagine are closed to the public right now. And in terms of reopening, God, your guess is as good as mine but as soon as we safely can. And in terms of investment, where are you guys at? Did you follow the traditional route, seed series A or what was that like? Yeah, we did. I mean, it's interesting that that's traditional, right? You're right. I think you're probably right that that is kind of how the world has kind of played out. We've always been pretty focused on making sure that we maintain a pretty healthy bottom line too. So in that way, we've balanced, I think, health and growth in a nice way but no, we have absolutely gone and gotten a serious seed A and B at this point. And ideally at this point are kind of surviving more on revenue than we are on outside funding. And what does growth look like for you guys as you think about, I guess the future post COVID or non, is it new products? Is it moving more into athleisure, right? You guys started sort of focusing on solving your problem as it relates to suits and dress shirts. Is it moving in that direction or is there a completely new space that you're thinking about? Yeah, it's a really good question. My co-founder partner, Gihan, has a really bright approach to product expansion where he's both the most cautious person in the world when it comes to adding new styles but also really loves testing, right? And letting kind of the customer tell us what we have permission to do. So I think over the next year you'll see quite a few extensions of our brand, some of which will stick around and many of which won't, right? Some of which will just be a one time enjoyable experience for us to launch something new into the world. And others will become part of our core business and maybe a significant part of our core business. So an easy example of that being that we launched masks a couple of weeks ago and it quickly became our number one selling product for the last three weeks. So I think we'll see that evolution and iteration happening quite a bit but within our playbook, not in any sort of inauthentic way.  How long did it take you before as a team, you were like, okay, we need to move in this direction? And was there a problem in getting supplies with everyone being interrupted? Because I heard a lot about supply chains being disrupted and things being put on hold just because not that they weren't available but because they were hard to get from point A to point B. Did you experience any of that in creation of the masks as a product? Yeah, we experienced, I think all of that. You know, we shut our stores down March 11th and I think somewhere around March 20th or so we kind of got word that this PPE shortage was happening. Our first instinct wasn't until well over a month later, you know, closer to a month and a half. We didn't think at all about selling. We never thought we'd sell masks. I mean, even on March 20th, when we kicked that off it was how many can we get to local Boston hospitals? And we ended up putting a lot of our own money forward raising money from our customers and ended up donating over, I think it ended up being 40,000 respirators and another 30,000 masks are on the way. For over a hundred grand, it was just incredible, I think to watch both kind of our team support and our customer support saying, hey, people need this, let's get it out. It was only once we caught our breath and had delivered 40,000 masks that we even thought about selling the first one and realizing, hey, we just built the supply chain overnight for donations. Now that donations are starting to kind of be, we're continuing to donate one for every sell out sale. Is there an opportunity for us to make this part of our core business and go from there? That's exactly what happened. We decided on March 11th not to furlough or fire anybody, we have 30 retail staff members at those six doors and for their livelihood and for our economy, we decided to keep them all fully on payroll. And so we had to make sure we kind of took care of our business as soon as we took care of our community our next thought had to be, how do we make sure we sustain our business? And that's where selling masks became an option. And with that decision to not fire or furlough anyone, were you also thinking that you would apply for SBA loans or the PPP? And did you go forward with that? Or were the masks enough to kind of sustain you? Yeah, so I think just by the nature of our investors and background, one, we don't have a full understanding of where we'll land with PPP and anything like that. We haven't applied for anything else, but we've explored PPP. But generally are kind of keeping that one, personal until we know more, but have explored all the programs to see what those benefits and helps are. And our only kind of goal is to make sure that if or where we do take any support, we make sure that we use it for the exact intended purpose. So in this case, keeping all of our retail staff employed, although from home and not in revenue-generating positions, that that's what PPP was built for. So that's why we felt comfortable exploring that. I know you have your son in the room. Are you guys making or expanding to, do you guys do children's clothing? We did one, a sock as an April Fool's Day joke a couple of years ago, but now beyond that, we have unfortunately not gone any further. I think down the road, it's entirely possible. I think our brand's premise is very much scientifically better blank. And there's no reason that children's clothing or children's anything shouldn't be scientifically better than what's out there. That's so true, especially if it's washable, right? That's the whole secret. When you think about a potential exit plan for you guys, do you think about that often? Do you think about acquisition or do you think about something that you just wanna run? This is your baby and you just wanna run it for the foreseeable future. Yeah, it's a really good question. It's one that comes up a lot. This is our baby, much like the baby that's about five feet away from me right now. You're in the eight to 10 year window. You're in that moment. Yeah, I think we'd always kind of rejected the question early on mostly just because we didn't start this, we weren't entrepreneurs. We still don't think of ourselves as entrepreneurs. And I think this idea of kind of an entrepreneurial journey or a serial entrepreneur have never really appealed too much to us. We've made commitments to our investors that we very much need to deliver on. We've made that commitment to them and we wanna be, hold true to it and we're on track to do so. But in terms of exit or liquidity event, these are things we tend not to really think about. What we've generally kind of held close and presented to investors upfront from a timeline perspective is that we'll continue to build a really valuable business that is driving value to customers and to our investors in that order. And that the right thing will happen as a result of that, right? If we build meaningful value, then everybody wins, right? And so I think in that way, we've just stayed the course on that and if and when the right opportunity comes up to find a new partner, we're certainly open to it. But I don't think you'll see us seeking any sort of kind of exit, liquidity event anytime soon. Well, you guys are in prime position. I mean, I really love how I remember buying a shirt probably when you first started, your very first store, you had a store in the south end, I believe. It was like your very first shop. And I remember going in there and it was like appointment only. I think so anyway. I remember knocking on the door, it was locked. And I think I bought a shirt.  I don't want to put on jeans anymore. As a real estate developer, I almost always wear jeans to every public hearing. And every time I'll have a public official come over and say, hey, where's your suit? And I'm like, hey, I play this like tech guy. I'm like, hey, I'm a tech guy and this is my suit. Cause I have a sports coat on. And it's this like, ha, ha, ha moment. But as I was thinking about this, and we have a hearing coming up on June 17th, I thought I should probably get some slacks. And then it was like the daunting, all the feeling of those slacks just hit me like, I really don't want to put these on. And then I immediately thought of you. And I thought, let me, let me at least send an email and say, what, you know, what, what is the pair to buy? And sure enough, I tried them on two days ago when they arrived and game changer, it was amazing. So, I mean, it's a really great, a great point on kind of this idea of rejecting an entire category like suits. One of the things we have in our internal speak, we don't tend to use it externally, but as this idea of clothes, you actually look forward to wearing and that kind of dread that you felt is the exact emotion that we want to eradicate. Like if you brought our entire business down to one point, it's that moment of dread that you just felt. How do we get rid of that? How do we end that? Right? And I think that's exactly what we're going after is that you don't think suit. Oh, no, you think suit. Oh, I have that one suit. And I really enjoy wearing it, although I don't wear it when I don't have to. When I do, I look forward to it. Do you think you could ever get people working out in suits? Is that like a big, a big audacious, hairy goal of yours? You saw Gihan running that marathon. No, I, you know, I'm the first person to throw on a pair of gym shorts when the time is right or a pair of shoes. So it's not that we necessarily even want people to dress up. We just want people to dress sharp, right? And I think that's a big, big nuance of what our goal is. It's not about business casual or suits or any specific category. I mean, we've seen dress codes change so dramatically in the last decade. And they really have shifted from this really prescriptive, here's exactly what to wear to a much more descriptive, here's how to dress, right? Dress sharp, right? If you're gonna wear a T-shirt, make sure it's not a ratty T-shirt. If you're gonna wear jeans, make sure that they're sharp, kind of monochromatic, not nose holes, right? And cut to the right length, you know, make sure they're sharp. So in that way, we give ourselves permission to do whatever in terms of category, including gym, right? We love gym, we wanna enter gym even more. But when you're working out, make sure it's sharp, right? It's not that you care that much about how you look. It's just that confidence that's built when you feel kind of sharp and clean. Pricing something I always love talking to founders about because you're in a category where suits can range.  I can go to Jose Bank and maybe spend 200 or whatever, right? And so how is it that you guys arrived at your price point when you could have theoretically gone way higher, right? Cause you're competing in a category that people are used to spending a lot of money. So what was that like? Yeah, it probably comes back to one of the statements I made earlier on this idea that we're not necessarily, you know, in this for the same reasons as your average startup in that we didn't just want this to be kind of big and, you know, exclusive, right? And a luxury brand. The idea that I couldn't afford one of our own pieces was terrifying as a 26 year old founder who he didn't only had one paying job, you know, at that point in his life, right? That was a pretty low bar. So even the idea of charging over $100 for a dress shirt really bothered me for a long time. And I think, you know, inflation's caught up and our customer, you know, we have opportunities to cut that down on an occasion but I don't think we ever want to be a company that makes clothes that are truly just absolutely inaccessible because I think it would hurt on an emotional level that we were excluding, you know, a large audience on price point, right? That's gonna, any price point will exclude somebody but to the degree we could, we wanted to lean into premium, not luxury. Affordable luxury. There we go. Something like that, yeah. I would do the fashion people like do, what do they, how do they view your company, your products, you know, the mega elites, let's call them the snobs of the fashion world. Yeah, you know, early on we used to, we used to kind of, I think, probably just as a bit of a defense mechanism they were rejecting us because we were confusing them, right? We were trying to create a new category of clothing that was, you know, the antithesis of a department store, right? If we're a new department in that way, it is, you know, jarring, right? When we say this, you know, early on we used to use this phrase performance professional and now we may be saying more like smart comfortable but this idea of taking, you know, your active or sportswear and, you know, formal wear and kind of mixing them all into one big batch doesn't work well for a department store or the average fashion designer who thinks very categorically in department focus. I think probably early on we just weren't executing that well, right? In those first couple of years we were so focused on engineering that we were missing the fashionable element and so I think it took us growing into that. I'd say in their defense they were probably right to reject us early on as we had a lot of stuff to fix. And I think, you know, fortunately five, six, seven years removed from that period of our kind of early growth and our confidence being high and our team being spectacular that now not only have we evolved but the industry has evolved and now there's really great marriage where we embrace and love the fact that we're in fashion. I think early on we used to almost say we're a tech company that happens to make clothing that today we feel the opposite and we embrace the fashion industry and I think it's reciprocated and it's hard to say credit at a higher level but I think the fashion industry as a whole has really started to embrace not just us but in general the idea of evolution, iteration and new in a way that we really appreciate. Leaning into the industry itself I wanna know how did you settle on the name and who came up with it? It's evocative. We love the name, it's Q from the Bond films. We all love a good Bond film and the character Q who makes all Bond's gadgetry, right? So all the things that make Bond head to that gala but still be ready for anything, right? Q we say is the ultimate empathetic inventor he's thinking what could Bond possibly need today and how can I make it seamlessly fit into his persona and to his body, right? And so similarly we think of ourselves as Q and you the customer as Bond now can make sure that you look just pristine and perfect but you're ready for absolutely anything that your day may throw at you. And so we are Q and it happens that Q is a real person based on a real person, Charles Frazier Smith who operated under the cover of the Ministry of Supply. And so in that way we're Q we're operating under the cover of Ministry of Supply and you are Bond and so it just fit quite naturally that that would be our company's name similarly our customer services Q at MinistryofSupply.com for that exact reason. That is pretty amazing and really cool that your whole company is based around something as iconic as Q and James Bond. I mean, as far as the fabric of your company that's pretty suave and really it elevates you guys. I would imagine it elevates your thinking to a sort of global level like James Bond. It's fun. We enjoy the again, I comes back to this idea that we started this to have a little bit of fun and to enjoy it and make products we really loved. And I think the Q story just reminds us of this idea that empathy and invention are really the two critical ingredients for our process. Just playing out to James Bond, what I'm wondering out loud and maybe you've thought of this like what would it take to be the official clothing supplier of Bond film? We've never approached it but we've definitely thought about it. We've said we should maybe just drop a couple packages in the mail and see what happens but definitely a conversation worth having. Maybe we'll do it for whoever the new Bond ends up being. You know, if anyone deserves clothes that you can be athletic in and comfortable and look sharp, it's Bond. I mean, with all the stuff that he does, yeah. It would be a company defining moment if we were able to get that. One of the questions will wrap on two questions here. One of the ones I always ask people is like as an entrepreneur, what advice would you give for people holding out on the sidelines? But I really wanna, I'm curious in your answer because to your point, you said you don't view yourself or as like a serial entrepreneur. And so what advice would you give someone who's either looking to solve a problem or start a company? I'm gonna leave it there. I don't know how you think about this. I'll give you I think two distinct answers, two distinct questions but I'll mix them together a little bit. The first in terms of advice that we got that I'll just pass for and I won't take any credit for but I love it was find believers, don't spend your time convincing non-believers. And this idea that the second somebody really doesn't like your idea, learn from them, don't dismiss it. But make sure you find those people that believe in it and still push you, right? The idea of it not necessarily being a yes man, right? But rather someone who believes in your vision but challenges you on how to get there. And I think that's just been critical for us whether that's finding customers who are believers, finding investors, team members who are believers. But the second you get that kind of, hey, this person really just doesn't like the vision then I think move on and keep searching. And I think in terms of the second question which maybe kind of just a nice part two of that answer is just this idea that this stuff's really hard. It is difficult, it is emotional, it is stressful, it is at times the most fun you can possibly have and at other times the hardest work you've ever done. And so one of the things we always tell people is if you're doing it because you saw white space on a diagram you drew in a business school whiteboard, you'll get burned out pretty quickly and you'll end up kind of leaving and wasting a lot of time. If you're doing it because you're genuinely passionate about the problem and the product that you're using to solve that problem, then you'll get through those tough parts and you'll get to really celebrate and enjoy the best parts. But if I didn't love clothing and its impact on the world and its impact on my productivity and my own kind of dreams, let alone our customers, if I didn't love it as much as I did or my partner Gihan didn't, you know both of us would have gone years ago because it's an industry that can definitely kind of eat you up if you're not in it for the right reasons. I love that, that's so true. And lastly, where can everybody find you? Where can everybody find the company, the brand, Instagram, all that good stuff? Yeah, I mean it started MinistryofSupply.com just because our stores are still shut down, of course. Our Instagram feed's pretty fun, it's of course Ministry of Supply. So look us up, M-I-S-T-R-Y-O-F-S-U-P-P-L-L-Y and check us out on any of those channels. Well the stores open up, we've got six stores around the country that we would very much enjoy having in it. And I love it, I think you guys are in a prime position, I mean at least for me personally to reconnect with you 10 years later pretty much. And I think you nailed it, I think there's a big silver lining, if anything the hope is there for you guys and the product is certainly amazing, I mean amazing and the timing of this, right?  We hope so, we're having some fun in the meantime. Well I appreciate you coming on the podcast Amon, thank you so much. Thanks Amon. Thanks Steve both, thanks for having me.


Hello everyone, Myself Prithviraj P. Thambay working as an assistant professor in Department of Electronics Engineering at Valjean Institute of Technology, Solapur. Let us today learn about digital comparators. We will design one bit comparator. So at the end of this session, students will be able to examine the working of digital comparators. Also, they can design one bit comparator. So let us understand what is a comparator. So comparator is a commissive device which is used to compare two n-bit binary numbers which determines whether one number is greater than or equal to or less than the other number. So it basically compares relative magnitude of digital digits starting from most significant position until a pair of unequal digits received, reached. So let us design a one bit comparator. So step one is the specification or the requirement. So one bit comparator has two inputs, both are one bit and three outputs. So here you will see that in the block diagram, you have a0, b0, two bits and you have output. So a0 is greater than b0 or a0 is equal to b0 or a0 less than b0. Next step is the truth table. Now let us derive the truth table for this one bit comparator. So truth table contains two input columns and three output columns. And it also defines the required comparison between the two input numbers. So let us calculate the total number of possible comparisons you can have with two one bit binary numbers. Yes, so we have four comparisons. So the derived truth table looks like this. So this is the first case where a0 and b0 both the values are 00 and both are equal. So that's why we have a0 is equal to b0 output is equal to 1.  Next case is a0, b is 1. Here you will start b is greater than a. So that's why third output which is a less than b is 1. Third case a is 1, b is 0. Here a is greater than b. That's why a is equal to b and a less than b are 00. Last case where again a and b are equal but the value here are 11. So again a equal to b output is equal to 1 and the remaining outputs a greater than b and a less than b are 00. Now we have a truth table with us. Now let us go for the third step simplification. So for simplification we require K maps. So derived simplification Boolean function for each output as a function of input variables with the use of K map and this truth table. So let us derive the output of first output a0 is greater than b0. Now a0 greater than b0 output column looks like this. So we required here two variable K map which is made up of four squares. Now after putting these values in the K map you will see that there is no pairing possible because there is only one midterm. That's why only one group and the equation for this group is a0 b0 bar. Now let us go for the next output a is equal to b. So we have here two midterms again two variable K map after placing the midterms in the K map you will see that there is again no pairing possible. That's why we have here two groups g1 and g0. So for g1 the equation is a0 bar b0 bar and for g2 you have a0 b0. So your final equation will look like a0 bar b0 plus a0 b0. Third output a less than b so the truth table will look like this. Again here we have only one midterm. So after placing these in the two variable K map you will see that there is no pairing possible. That's why we have a single group here and the equation for this is a0 bar b1 b0. So the equation is a0 b0 bar so the equation is a0 bar b0. So a0 less than b0 output equation is a0 bar b0. Now last step is the implementation step. So we required here to draw a logic diagram by using gates. Now let us implement this or let us calculate the total number of basic gates required to implement all these three functions. So if you observe these carefully for a0 greater than b0 you required one AND gate. You required one AND gate and one INVERTER. For a0 is equal to b0 you will see that here you have two AND terms and one OR term and two INVERTERs for a0 and b0. And for a0 less than b0 again you required one AND gate and one INVERTER. Now let us calculate total number of basic gates. So you required two INVERTERs one, two, three, four AND gates and one OR gate. So the total count is 7. So this total count is equal to 7. But can you still reduce this number count? So instead of basic gates can I use a XNOR gate here? So yes you can use XNOR gates so that the total number of gate counts gets reduced.  So total number of gates here are now one, two, three, four and five. So instead of seven you have designed the same circuit one bit comparator using only five gates. Thank you.


Hey Jayron be with y'all in just a few minutes probably about two minutes And I have it on this I have it on this screen because I want you guys to see the intro to this game when you turn it on I was just gonna have it at the the menu, but uh, yeah, it was really cool. So I figured I'd share Hey, how you been by the way? Let's get some face meat in three two one face meat All right over here out the way Doing well, that's good. We can get started here in just a minute Let me do this intro. Hello everybody E here welcome back to 31 days of Halloween tonight I will be playing the game that's on the screen blood wash the womb ripper strikes again This is one of the most Requested games for me to play either on twitch or over here So I figured I would go ahead and try this out for 31 days of Halloween Jayrod, I am doing fine. I'm still working through some Medication changes. I got a new medicine and one of my medications were doubled so I feel really fidgety and weird and vaguely nauseous, but uh, I'm out here I'm doing this so I can't mess up 31 days of Halloween or halfway through the month Well almost halfway through the month And I don't want To mess it up. So we're gonna get these weekends out of the way Hey, Ty, how you doing my dude? Thank you. I appreciate that but I'm I'm fine, but I mean Mentally, I'm doing just perfect, but yeah, my body is not a Is not acclimating itself well to the new stuff You might find this maybe not funny But uh, you they also put me on Trasadone of all things because I said I was having problems sleeping with my CPAP I have not taken it yet, but I did get it filled All right, it's five o'clock. Let's jump in here y'all y'all peep this this this intro the way this thing starts Because it's gonna give you all of the nostalgia All right, so here we go. Hello, zoop. How you doing? You were one of the people who requested I played this, weren't you? All right, we're gonna have to keep that down to 50% This game isn't one thing I've noticed is this game is loud as hell. Yeah, you requested it I think Brian C requested it a couple other people brought it up and I'm just like Okay, let's do this. I this is my first puppet combo game. I have no idea what to expect No idea what kind of gameplay any of that stuff So we are just gonna jump right in and enjoy ourselves So kick back relax grab some snacks and get ready for a retro horror game by puppet combo Called blood wash in three two One you got all the all the trophies for it first on steam cool. I Have no idea what I'm looking looking at here.  Let's do that.  What's up Derek? Of course. We didn't do the laundry or clean I'm doing fine. Dude. How you doing? I have an interview for a job tomorrow and have nothing to wear I'll gather these clothes up and head to the laundry room in the basement I'm going to have to talk to Liam later. I'm too upset and tired to go through it again He's going to have to pull it together for this baby.  I'm preggers Just to let y'all know that the glitching on the screen is entirely Intended I know when I first started streaming games That we had a graphics glitch in there that I finally fixed so don't think that's back That's just how this game looks Working yeah, mostly my psych books. I must have read each of these at least twice Good god the sensitivity is still crazy. Hang on. Oh, that's better. Okay. That's that's much much better. California Know when I should call especially at this hour. Oh what time it is cola I'm ashamed to say I've started to rely on soda to keep me up through the day. Well, damn Nothing interesting inside. I'm saving up for a vacuum so I can clean this place properly Hey, I know from experience that a A broom will do just fine I went shopping last week. So it's pretty full right now. Okay. What's in the box? What's in the box? I still haven't had time to unpack yet. Not sure when I will oven It works surprisingly. Well, this is like all those old school Resident evil things where they let you click on everything, but You can turn the static off if you want. No, I kind of I kind of like it Uh, I had to turn it off. Um So my pc could run properly. Damn What about these cabinets seira? Our kitchen cabinets. I worked really hard to clean them out and I'm proud. They have stayed clean microwave It's held up well until recently Now let's off a pungent odor.  Is that a pizza just on the floor? Hello Dirty clothes.   Oh, I gotta do launch. Okay.   Is that from you?  I have cricks in my body. I didn't even know what's possible Well, I'm more concerned with all this Oh my god. It looks like a toddler mattress Uh, I can't click on the outlet bad games zero out of 10 Light switch. No bathroom door. I'm honestly too mad to talk to Liam right now Let him give a get over his hangover by himself.  All right, then All this beat. Oh, we got more clothes. We got okay. So I I get it. We're going around grabbing dirty clothes. Okay Okay, all right. All right. No, no Is that literally a shirt?  Let's call. Let's call the po porter No one I should call especially let's call the the maintenance man. Maybe he can walk our asses down here. All right All right, leave apartment. Here we go. Looks like you in a trap house. Yeah Especially with that mat. Oh lord. All right, this might actually get scary because this uh Oh, man, this is this is bringing back some memories here. What what uh I don't a cigarette A nice man lives here. It's good to know you have at least one good neighbor That ain't a good man.  It's usually This is how this is now the fourth victim in as many weeks And authorities are struggling to come up with leads in one of the most gruesome crime sprees this city has ever endured Right in a woman and her son live here now that I think about it I haven't seen either one in about a week. Well Something to jump out at me I really don't want to I really don't want to die this early That was loud Where am I now? Good god Okay now the Now the camera is too slow Bruh, I don't want to go down here. This looks like Third floor. I got to walk down Whew Jesus. I told that maintenance man. He need to get the that damn elevator fixed I'm surprised they take any safety precautions in this death trap Door I don't need to go to that floor besides one of the people on this floor has a mean dog.  Oh, yeah, okay All right, hang on. We need to we need a little more stank on it than that Has she heard of laundry mats? I think that's where we're going But uh, it's the laundry mat in The the thing. Okay. Yeah a big old white.  All right. What does that say stank? Strike, I don't know door The sound effects is loud as hell bleach I may need to bleach this floor these walls. Good god Tire an old tire. I'm not sure what it's doing down here. Yeah, why would somebody bring it down to the base basement? Hello I No, I mean a nice well lighted one not a death basement Well, if it was nice and lit properly then uh, we wouldn't be here because it wouldn't be spoopy A musty a musty box. I don't think anything inside would interest me Okay, they're all musty I may need some deodorant over here. What is this a fuse box? Yep An exposed electrical box noise Locker Let's see.  All right. We out no more lockers for us No spy. Oh Out of order. It looks like we are going to a uh, hey jordan. How you doing? Um It looks like we might end up going to an actual laundromat a toolbox Our janitor would kill me if I rummage through his things even though. I really doubt he uses any of these trash can Oscar you in there smells like it hasn't been taken out in months Oh look and that door don't work. All right.  I should probably go back upstairs and figure something out I need to wash my clothes before I dry them dumbass I think I heard something coming from that closet What this closet?     Did you not hear me scream?  And why do you look like viking viking in this game? Y'all was that like Like like I'm sorry for scaring you. I'll tell you but can you keep this to yourself? Uh, no, we don't keep secrets in this place. No, no last time I kept a secret. I ended up on Law and order sbu. Jesus christ joe.  Somebody call chris hansen The missus kicked me out and it's too cold outside so i'm trying to wait her out down here I really didn't mean to creep on you honest I believe you just next time maybe don't go around slinging doors open and hiding in the dark right I will thanks kid say if you want to use the washing machine. It's uh broken Why is he called a hobo joe, but it seems like He he lives here. Yeah, thanks.   Uh-huh.   I can't go out. Why are you just in a closet?  Close this door on this man Keep your hands off your private parts in the laundry room All right, I'm out of here Oh strip of pole. I'm in the way the stripper Imagine if the capture card was still on the blink while playing it. Yeah, that's what I was talking about earlier jimmy I was like just let y'all know The glitches in this game Are intended. Lord Jesus. All right. I guess I need to go somewhere else.  I let out have caused me a memory lapse So we're just gonna go back in here Oh, no. Okay. Okay Okay No No, I don't Are you are you nice?   I'm finna find out. Yeah. Yeah. No. No. No. No. No. No. Oh you the smoker you the Hey, what up big stand? What's up, sir? Oh trying to balance life school and job hunting It's a tough world these days. We have been treating you well When he isn't drunk Yeah You got glasses on or you got eye shadow on I mean sleigh, but you'll tell me if it gets bad Yeah The Liam's the womb ripper, ain't he? Yeah, I know it ain't easy to talk about And you don't have to tell me nothing Just promise me you'll tell me if you need help Oh, uh, okay. My sister used to be in a bad situation too and there's places you can go I Appreciate that stan. I really do. Have you been to the places that women can go? Have you? Have you because sometimes It's the devil, you know No one named leon. Okay, which oh one d. Yeah. Anyways, um magic. Yeah, I already read that You do some laundry at this time of night Actually, I'm only guessing I don't know if there's a Liam in one one direction or not, but I'm guessing there is since uh, yeah I was trying to but hobo Joe jumped out the damn scared my coochie lips.  I have an interview tomorrow.  I gotta go drop a douche right now Well, if it's an emergency, I heard of this laundromat that's open 24 seven. Of course.  Just promise me you'll take care. I Okay I better go grab my purse before I head to that laundromat.  Oh, you tall. Bye There is I figured I figured that's what you were talking about All right, where's my where's my poo poo poo poo poo poo purse All right, hopefully I didn't miss that last bus to the laundromat. We got to ride the laundromat too, which means I really can't see the newspaper editor. Okay, that we still Stan, why are you just standing out here? Eh stan stan. No, okay. You might be able to kiss the next bus. I'm going. Thanks again stan Bye stan. We got to run We got to run run, baby.  All right, okay Well, does that say pussy? What does that say? Void Okay Ah, there's a dude Blair witching over in that corner You Blair witch glitching. No. No, see we gonna You can't see me An old leather chair since when does leather come in green?  Hey junkie. What is wrong with your crotch? You got a fox in your crocs The range dr. Seuss had a fox. I got a fox in my crotch Uh, no, okay. No, what is a pregnant woman doing talking to a junkie when there was a serial killer in town right this second I don't understand. Can I get you anything? You can get him some dope It's gone They they took it.  Someone then took his drugs. Did someone steal something from you is drugs People in the walls the people in the walls took it from me. Oh god. She's here. No No No skunk the junk, um I should probably leave him alone.  Well, I'm the one controlling her. Is this a mirror? Oh suitcase An old suitcase. I really shouldn't get in the middle of a gang's drug drop-off That can't be an adventure for another night All of a sudden we're playing adventures and babysitting That uh, Amanda I need Amanda hugging kiss Amanda hugging kiss up front now. Oh, yo, okay.   Hello. Oh, hi car Uh-uh. No, no, no, no, no, no It ain't the fools are that hard. I don't I know No I need to catch the bus though Uh, that ain't no bus All right fabrics No, let's go over here. Okay. Hello What's up playboy, man Got any change? Uh-uh Sure, I had a change of underwear. I'm gonna need here in a second Better than nothing.  I moved in not too long ago I'm usually studying or at my classes. So that's probably why Not yet, jimmy, but we're going to um, I want to finish up, uh What?  That was the bus breaks. I can't get out of here I'm pursuing a career in education at the moment. Okay Nice. That's what I got my bachelors in oh that okay. Why are you cooking your hands, sir? That's great. Uh-huh. I hope I can find a gig soon afterwards.  All right. We got a bus It's the bus I'm coming bussing. I'm coming Enter bus Are you afraid of the dark? I like that show. Yeah bus driver you heading of this hour If you don't mind me asking why does everybody sound like a murderer in this game? The laundromat on the outside of town Not sure I believe that but pretty late to be doing laundry Do you not see all these dirty funky ass clothes on my shoulder? If you're looking to score, I have a good deal just for a pretty little thing like you Sir You won't even have to pay cash if you know what I mean He's trying to get his tip wet.  You just strike the bus and I'll pretend you're not a desperate loser Oh, I wouldn't say I he's not the type of person that's going to take that kindly Whatever Down so I can get this piece of junk rolling again. I'm gonna talk to your supervisor I don't want to get out. Why is this bus the size of my trailer?  Look at polaroid. Oh lord. I'm ah come on. What is that? It has to be fake. Some people have a sixth sense of heat. Oh, that's the womb river done ripped out a womb What is that a poster for burger king? Hello dirty seat.     Uh-uh Why are we driving?  I'm gonna stare right at you. Yeah, I see What's wrong with your eyes Bro, okay I I know if I look away.  Hi Hi How are you doing?  No, no No, I can't Driver driver Am I supposed to be doing I don't want to look away It's so dark out. I can't even see the screen No May I sit beside you?   I don't see why you would need to do that May I know may I see? No No, you cannot Are you deaf? Yeah, are you I'm sorry if you are I didn't mean to be rude. What no Do I need to get the driver to throw you off?   What?       How did you just like all the others? Ripped open your insides displayed for all the angels above to look down and see Oh, yes of that. I am certain Oh, please just stop talking May I sit beside? No All right mess. This is your stop.  We ain't met peepaw yet Kinda drake as junkie then valander as bus driver Okay, I can't read all this stuff Doug the mortician we got a whole cast Greasy manager, bro. What is going on introducing yub as pizza dude? It's probably streamers or something Why is it so quiet out here? Y'all couldn't give us like no bootleg silent hill music or nothing Oh it glitched Hello Aliens it's gotta be aliens, right? What what's going on? Hello What's going on? I want to check out all this stuff. Hey zeely. How you doing? All right. I still don't have a run button Now leasing We want to put some money on whether or not I die if I go you're alive. I got you Nope invisible walls. Well kick back and relax What just happened Bro, I can look around with my touchpad. That's kind of cool So that must be where the the mouse Like if this was on steam or something pizza Pizza, why is the z's backward? They are. Yeah, they are as backward I should really start my laundry first. Okay, so that's what we're doing. We're going dropping the laundry off I need a new refrigerator I should really start my laundry first. You ain't no fun game.  Oh, we can go back here There's something sticking I got a shirt. It's an old shirt. You is that blood? I don't really want to inspect it any further. I guess it could be something else Okay. All right, I get you I get you.  All right Smells like spoiled meat. Oh, no. No, no Pick up sin eater number two. Oh, yeah press r1 to equip and unquip Your inventory items items can be brought to other people to get more information Oh That looks kind of cool though. Actually a piece of paper zero four five. We already puzzling good We already puzzling good After that creepy guy encounter, I'd need fresh sorts to short to yeah me too There are comics you can read in game awesome Looks like a code to something wonder what? Probably something important Xbox Those cheese puffs are pretty tempting I should probably save some money and eat leftovers when I get home. Oh Can I drop some? Don't have anything I need to send out Laundromat door is is steadily thrumming Wait a second newspaper machine so same old same old bad news Body discovered multi the glass is too dirty.  Okay All right, so lost and found I'll take that I'll bring it back before I leave It'll be a long night. So I might need it. I Oh Look Suspicious. Yes. What is it? Well, damn. Do you work here or you just hanging out? Oh, um Are you all really open all night? I mean, it's like three in the morning. Oh god. Okay. Oh, okay I'll be sure not to need anything. Why'd she say it like I did? Yeah, we'll see Well damn, all right Uh, do I need to put the clothes in the cart? Nope. Okay. Well, let me open that Vending machine. We know what use phone the only person I have to call is still probably throwing up in the back. Oh lord All right Where's the television? There is a television. Oh, okay King Dunham guiles From left to right unless it's manga.  They're right on our heels The basement we need to get to the basement is Down here hurry I've been keeping this a secret just in case something like this ever happened Aha, here it is A cupboard. How's this going to help? I'll check upstairs. You look downstairs Hurry up and do what you need to nick right This is the tunnel come. There's no time to lose. Okay, so we're gonna need a Vent at some point in time.  I'm right behind you Gotcha.  This is getting wild already We made it to the end of the tunnel all according to plan Making a run for it isn't much of a plan Hey, we're safe, aren't we? Yeah, for now, uh tomorrow's movie is uh Oh, I forgot already. I gotta pull up my list Uh wish master is the movie tomorrow It is the wish master How long will it take jacob and his goons to catch up to us minutes? More like ours. It's after dark and we're outside the village walls No one's itching to follow us right now Still we need to keep moving the further away from here the better Whoa So this is what the outside is like We need you we need to keep going you ready I've been ready a long time. Let's go. Oh my god. How much are there is there's a lot All right, we go. No, I'm not reading all that. It's probably important, but I'm not reading all that I was about to say. Okay. Yeah, uh, that's my bad. I thought maybe it was just a couple pages and I had to find it out How do I how do I pull out the?  Oh, okay. That makes more sense. All right, never mind. I already have some well which Thing am I supposed to be using There we go. I have to wash my clothes first. That is a dryer, okay Oh Hello Night wash too. Yeah I work night shift at the factory down the road His place is the only one open when I get off work Was a real pain when the first one burnt down First one Yeah, this place used to you know around here. Yeah That sounds awful I Don't like the spread But what? creating mysterious The way she died Wasn't a fire that started quickly. She should have had plenty of time to get out But she was found in the office. Uh-huh.  Well, if that's true, it does sound pretty suspect Sure does Feels like it got swept under the rug pretty quick. What with the womb ripper coming around the womb ripper That has all the headlines these days Doing the late night wash too. Oh, I do not have that sounds off Died in that. Yeah. Okay. Pretty mysterious. I heard they were close to well, if that's true. It does sound Sure does Okay Okay Okay I need to get some change first Lord, this is like real life Zero out of ten would never play again. All right. Um So dispenser Where's the coin machine in this joker? I need some change. Yes. What is it? Oh, um Oh, okay. Yeah, we'll see Well, then All right, am I just missing it? It's probably right in front of my face All right creepy hallway Wall this wall looks different than the others wonderful Ah, there's the change. All right.  You know it laundry started Yes, I can take a look at the other stores in the plaza while I wait for my clothes Okay Take a hot squat first. It smells like it took wonderful going to mender Locked weird Locked weird While the toilet's locked. Okay. I keep forgetting that if I touched the uh, okay, definitely aliens Definitely aliens.  Sounds like a child. That didn't sound like no child crying That didn't sound like any child. What kind of children you'd unheard and let's go over and holler pee-paw first Ice ice, baby. That's not an ice machine. That's an ice bunker pee-paw. What's that pee-paw? How you doing got any good girly now magazines? No refunds or exchanges all sales file.  I'm a pretty big history buff Okay, oh is it naughty time Adult book porno tapes too bad Liam won't do any of the things the guys in these tapes do Liam Some of these titles sound scarier than the horror movies up front Vent okay Wonder how that old man came across these not that I'm Judging of course.  Oh my god Not much use for these anymore with tapes offering a more interactive experience. What's next virtual reality? Okay Okay What do you just happen all of them? Okay, all right, so nothing else in here Let's just say smile. You're on camera. There ain't no camera in here.    My apologies. Uh-huh. You better apologize Red carpet leading. Oh Ha got you.  Leave me alone. You had a red carpet leading to the Uh, oh hush lazy Shotgun looks over the top and slap and sloppy my kind of game Get it because it's over the top and slap never mind I already have one. It's been great to have since I'm rarely home these days The master system is out now, but this is still my favorite. Okay Tonight it follows Everyone is followed by something hopefully for me it's not that creep from the bus Hello cutie Why are there fish tanks the beta tanks very beautiful, but very mean and antisocial I can respect that That was better than the holy whore. Sorry Uh, lots of variety for such a small place. Uh-huh Lol it follows. Yeah You can play the game gear you picked I'm sure I'm sure give me give me a second Let me lots of variety and this one I used to have a goldfish last year Had him since middle school rip mr. Bubbles Poor went out for mr. Bubbles y'all poor went out for mr. Bubbles I'm not sure why a place like this would sell fish But hey, it's not like I run my own business.   How many people finna be coming after me Butcher bunny wait, are these there other games? I wonder I played this one before it was great Shadows and the sickles. This is a new one looks cool to me Cold sodas and an assortment of other drinks Orange soda is my favorite Oh my god import soda peepaw imports, but the real question is does he export? what He has very interesting selection of merchandise live fish import. Yeah, he does Oh You know that does not say the fallen Tard does it That doesn't say that does it It sure as hell looks like T. A. R. D. I I don't know. I hope that's not what it says Eyes wide open. We don't get enough handheld horror games. You're right. You don't All right records It's been a while. I should probably go check on my wash. All right You you think it says third? I hope so. I really hope so some old vinyl records Who would want these nowadays? All right. Well, so I can't just go an Assortment of comics Pretty old ones horror movies. I could read the back of these all day for the residents at Holloway's senior care center dying in your sleep is the best thing that can happen classic Grip hook More horror movies. How did the owner get all these? This is amazing I have a good amount of these at home, but there's still a few Here I've been on the lookout for dust box Horror movies as far as the eye can see. I think I'm in heaven. Me too That's why I missed the old like mom and pop shops peep-pop making snuff probably. I'm definitely in heaven And then I helped Oh lord laundry detergent Kind of a weird place to buy laundry detergent, but I guess it makes sense with a laundromat next door vintage cereal force The year on this box is too faded to read. Oh my god. Did we enter? Off-brand and probably close to out-of-date cereal All right, can I I'm not really a gum person I know what the magazines are candy bars I've never heard of any of these before Can I steal the money? Nothing has a price which makes me scared to ask Do have you never been here? Actually smells pretty good like the Like the drowned in butter movie theater popcorn Oh, by the way, everybody, uh dan starts their new job at the local movie theater on monday Wow, cool. There's some local brands here. Remember kids support local People trying to be wal-mart. Yeah Okay, I already already looked all this. All right. Let's go. Let's run back check on our stuff Thank you. Ty appreciate it.  Oh lot Please don't be okay. Please no spoopy time. I gotta go get my clothes And you're still standing there like a weirdo No, I think I'm gonna leave that on Hopefully yeah, jimmy That'd be cool But I mean even if just for them it'd be cool to be able to go whenever they want to Um Somebody ringing the bell Pick up bathroom. Hello. Are you still standing? You're still standing? Hey, did you uh drop this key to the toilet doing a late-night wash too? Oh god, I gotta sit through this again I should have known better. I'm sorry Sounds awful But what? I heard they were close to I don't know if that's true Sure does All right, let's go cop a squat. I don't want to but let's go Yeah, nice of the dryer to fold the clothes. Yeah mandrone Locked weird.  Jesus I was not expecting It's empty. Thank god. Okay condom dispenser Wrap it up little too late for that. Whoever Whoever made this game? Oh deserves. Yeah deserves Deserves some accolades. That was hilarious. That's okay. Men don't wash their hands any.  Um I'm gonna go out. Yeah, I'm sorry. I went into the man's room. I really am janitor Reaper number three. I need to find reaper number one y'all Okay eight six seven five three oh nine Jenny This might be fun to call if I get bored. There's a phone in the lobby. I could use All right, let's call jenny Okay Who are you butt naked?  No, no, no, no, no. Are you gone now? You are not gone. It's locked.   No, what's wrong with you? Oh Who could have put this here? I don't know but All the all the goods is up front ain't got nothing out. No detail on the back.  No, let's not look at that no more. All right. We gone Let's put that key away Oh mother The sound scared me. Hello There's A met reapers number three senator Press cross button to start Okay Okay What I don't know what's what what oh i'm supposed to okay Well, that's disgusting. This is okay. I have a feeling this is just gonna keep going and going I'm sure it is actually supposed to do this. This is actually kind of tough I don't know how to get around some of this stuff if I don't lose pretty soon I already got the top score I doubt there's another achievement for this one. I don't know what to do next I don't got distracted. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to Put that away Oh, yeah phone phone phone phone phone.  I'm sorry. I got called a phone number at jenny I got jenny from the block y'all Well, hey there sir. I mean Hey there It's funny because You think about this What are what are female studs called? They're called sluts, right? I uh, yeah Yeah, it's that double uh, I'm so glad you called double standard Wait, this is my first night on the job.  I can't you imagine Well, yeah, who do you think you're gonna call nevermind? Well, me obviously Is sarah's voice actors doing both those places are still open at this time of night Just this one a little out of town. Maybe not wait in that plaza with the pizza palace Yeah, that one, you know it Yeah, I live out there. Hey, you really shouldn't be out over there this late at night not with the womb ripper at large This voice actress Is trying her best not to laugh at this dialogue and i'm here for it I know one of the girls who went missing she disappeared around that area And i'm telling you that you should really just go home. There's some things that the newspapers don't talk about It says don't say It's a real psychopath and you are right in the middle of its hunting ground. Do you understand its or his You need to take your laundry right now and get out of there as fast as you can Fast as you can To have another late night sexy conversation, please enter your credit card number now We're at an hour seven i'm gonna go ahead and take my break Uh when I get back we will continue on with this Crazy ass game zoop. Thank you so much for recommending this because this is so much more fun than I was expecting Anyways, bye-bye face meat And mutations see y'all in 15 time for some face meat Face meat. Oh, this is your favorite puppet combo. Let's go get some pizza. I guess Oh, we got sin eater three Old pizza they're about to close so the pizza is pretty stale now Sorry didn't see you there. Sorry Didn't see you there. Did I get you anything? Can I get you anything? No, thanks. I'm just killing time until my laundry next door is done Well, you're out late. Well, you're out late. Just a heads up. We're closing soon. Just a heads up. We're closing soon Feel free to hang out until then though. Feel free to hang out until then though I've had plenty of soda recently.  No, it doesn't You a lie crane machine I'm not very good at these kind of games Not that's not that skill has anything to do with it since they're rigged Oh, we got a missing persons flyer. It has a young womb woman womb womb has a young womb Listed missing over a week ago There are so many different ones. I wonder if anyone around here knows anything about this I can bring this to people and see if they have anything to say about it. Oh, okay Not again. Oh, it is a kind of a banger for real It's been a while.  Okay Okay, whatever If a good night's sleep isn't in my future, then I don't want to hear about it All right, let's go go check on our clothes.  Who eyes Same hey used to be so beautiful used to be I've lost her you lost your damn mind standing out here in the So long not to find her. Did you know one of the girls who went missing around here?  I just want my clothes. That's all I want. Oh, what's this? This newspaper talks about a laundromat burning down, but most of the details are too faded to read I wonder if anyone around here knows what happened. I can bring this to people and see okay. All right, so I think I understand what it wants from me Let's get the Disappeared let's go talk to granny over here and see if granny uh She don't know shit Let's go in here talk to pizza parlor bro What up cuz do you know anything about the recent disappearances? No, not really. No, not really who was in my class was one of them though I didn't know her too well except that she was pregnant I hope that she just skipped down and not one of the you know victims Why does dude look like me kind of though? Thank you No, oh my god, okay, if they stop talking they don't have anything else to say.  Let's go see what people has to say I guess And then I'll get my go get my clothes, but I got a feeling as soon as I walk back in there I'm gonna get murdered sometimes the only way to hide a secret is to burn it Do you know anything about the recent disappearances? Recent this has been going on for a long time Lord and you see the shirt in the back. I thought it said I love my pee pee How long like When the womb ripper killings first began lord. No, I'm talking years girl Years Don't make me repeat myself Yes, this area Hasn't been the safest place not since that laundromat caught fire The one over there No, that's the new one The old one is right next to it been empty ever since that night Are you saying there's some correlation between the laundromat fire And the missing people I'm just saying what I'm saying. I'm just saying what I'm saying. Did anyone die in the fire We don't know the girl working there when the fire broke out was never found No bones or nothing after that People would go missing here or there and as time has gone on it's become more frequent Made my daughter and grandchildren move out of the area a few years ago because of it Anything else you can tell me Leave an old man be I have things to attend to like your porn I got you. I got you well Me ma is standing over there still Hey there No, okay Hey, bro, what you got to say about this? What are you a cop or something?  This machine must be broken But those are my last quarters. I need to find that employee and get my quarters back Yo um That's blood Hello Vengus Vengus something us There is gore everywhere and wet floor signs.  Okay, can we turn them? No time to listen to the radio An empty employee locker an empty employee locker Nothing of interest here just some old records. Okay I can't go any farther. All right This might come in handy later.  That's the safe. All right as if I would I do know the code 0451 As if I wouldn't I do know the code It can't help me right now. You need to send someone now.  I can't seem to be able to find anyone. Oh, I'm officer Burton now Mima is not out here anymore. Hello I'm about to get murdered aren't I locked That office by the office by the pizza place Income tax Oh, I don't want to go in here This is the police if anyone is there then come out now Why is the water cooler creepy? Bro, I don't want to be here some notices schedules and a note from Donna that reads Whoever is eating my lunches.   No need to check to see Full I am well hydrated some kind of cabinet the stores files of some sort Oh, this is creepy Nothing fascinating or interesting then why you let me touch it Crumpled piece of paper that I am too lazy to unfold Aha, would you look at that a confession in this email from ben saying that he has been the one eating Donna's lunch Another case solved you bastard This game already wild. All right anything in here cabinet staples pens tax the usual office supplies Lord, we got Zoop, are you the one who told me this was a two two hour game? You probably didn't hang around us to read everything either Maybe I can find a key around here somewhere. Okay, so the Well, I'm not gonna remember where that is. It's by a water cooler anyways Okay Okay Yes, sir.  I'm gonna go this way. Okay Damn the door is stuck. Uh, I'll have to know no Where's my pistol? I know I have Pistol I don't want to go Is that a he is not I'm stuck Was it holding up? Yes I know I know that's what I meant by you weren't reading everything either Enter closet. I got the office key now Locked maybe I can find a key around. Yes. I know Let me use this key on this other door first Was it this one? Yeah Nope What kind of happy horseshit is this? A maze a box Okay Aim at head level Okay Yeah, I'm legitimately on the edge of my seat.  Oh, okay.  There has to be another way out of here. There is but It was locked. Oh, Jesus. Oh, I'm entering the vents Nothing scary than boxes up.  Why is he floating on the carpet like it's what? You need you need glutes day you ain't got nothing back there call 922 Nothing useful in here, but I do have a hammer This is just a goddamn closet Why does the lady on this remind me of my mom? Receipt there's a seat for a building repair company Looks like they had to repair one of the walls in this laundromat with plaster. Gotcha. That's how we're getting out. We got this We got this all we got to do is make it to the door I mean the wall I'm coming. I'm coming. I'm coming.  There we go. There we go Go away bug I got a mosquito in here Hush baby There's a door behind here door to the old laundromat Wonderfail This don't look burnt down Hello Okay, what is this supposed to be? And there There's a whole cartoon. I bet and I'm trying not to Trying to get this thing moving Nothing nothing That's a door. I don't want to go that way yet And yes, I said something about butt cheeks on a tortilla, but just leave it alone Whoa, okay Great can't open it. It's firmly nailed shut, but I have a hammer It's empty It's empty It's empty It's empty lights falling off the dammer. That's another door.  We're going this one What is that?  What is this minecraft? Oh, I got a flashlight It won't budge. Okay, but I have a hammer AC unit Nothing useful I need to go I need to leave Freezer it won't open And neither will the door missing posters What are these doing here? I should probably leave. Yeah, I get that but it won't let me out Now what? It won't budge. I don't want to go over here It won't open Oh god. Okay. All right, bro.   It looks like it's been here for a very long time Ugh flesh Oh my god, I'm liable to blow myself up fair It's locked There has to be a key around here somewhere Okay, so There's a key somewhere in here I'm not sure if it's in working order Scalpel. Oh, somebody face me note I know I won't be getting out of here alive That psychopath it it kills women like me I've heard of these three others brought here and killed Peeking through the cracks. I saw that it creates these mass out of skin Skin from the poor infants whose mothers were just slaughtered I don't know what kind of game it's wanting To play I think my time is almost up. It made me swallow a key A key that I think would give me out of here, but I have a feeling you won't let me live long enough to use that I'll be strung up and butchered like the rest in my baby. Oh god. I'm sorry I put solution in the basket. Yeah Hi, we out of 5,000 we out of 5,000 We out of 5k We out of fight Oh I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry.  Yo tummy meat.  Probably I got it. I want to check each one just in case So far they put things out in the open That's him I got scalpel I'm gonna stab you in the foot. No, you dead. You just a body Can't open it's firmly male shut. I'm glad but Years Oh, yeah, there's a wallet sticking out of his pocket. Okay What? The driver's license belongs to lewis kennedy But this doesn't make any sense I need to get out of here and call the police Who's lewis kennedy?  They're like, uh Leon's brother Find the child That's locked. Good god. How big was his laundromat? That door don't open. All right.  Oh I've seen you I've seen you gun. Oh, no.  Wait a second. If that's a baby, why don't I get on pamper if they're cutting them out of the wound? Bruh No, he does not have bodies in each and every one of these Let me make sure I can't interact with any of these You don't think it's a laundromat. Well, what what is this place in?  You think it's a nightmare. Okay The gun is empty But it won't let me change into anything else Okay I wonder what happens if you fall down there Okay, there we go. I do have a key still Let me go back and check this key in the lock just in case I ain't gonna lie. This is one of the scary scarier games I've played recently I got one more key. Nope. All right I don't know why I keep doing that knowing damn. Well All right, let's just put all this away All these freezers It's a doll That has been cut in half Pick up ammo where where's the ammo locked and loaded because And this is how I shoot off the lock. I'm guessing Wait, that thing fell in the wait a second That thing fell down And now it's back up here Oh great You might be ready. I ain't ready. Are you just a mannequin?  He definitely seems upset. My god. Can you stop with the screaming? It didn't loop like that for me. I can't move while he's screaming I can't do anything I can't do anything Know what to do It just saved I can't that's not supposed to happen. All right. Well I'm gonna have to do this all over again. Aren't I if I have to do that all over again, then all right. Well, we got Let's let's try going into that one again. I don't know It should have saved right before this fight Looks like it did. Yeah Oh, no, uh-uh And now I don't know what I've collected and what I haven't Yo, I don't have anything. I don't have any of my inventory anymore. Nothing I don't have a damn thing Yeah, I remember that Just go through the motions again How did I get that to trigger last time? There we go. Okay. All right speed run, baby Speed run strats Nothing over there Nothing over here nothing over there Yeah, we got to go find the Scalpel was over here Nasty name. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah key cut open the cut open the person get the key speed run strats corpse There's a wallet sticking what? All right, mr. Kennedy That's nasty don't want to look at that So this time we have to go all the way around find the gun. We can grab the ammo first though Yeah, I saw you Okay, so there was two of them over there never mind There were two damn.  I don't think there was anything in here. I needed to get No, I don't think there's anything else period. It's just the boss fight or whatever it is You gonna let me move this time Yep, there might be something wrong with the p with the playstation court. I don't know If he's killing me when that happens. Okay. No I'm sorry for the noise guys.  Uh, this is insane Come on. Don't break again. Okay. What am I supposed to be doing? I know it said find the child but Bruh, this is madness. Ah damn.  It was Samantha Uh, yeah, I figured locked her in the laundromat and when it said she she'd never been seen after the fire She must have lost her baby though With almost being killed losing her child and being terribly burned She completely snapped You were right zoop.  Yeah, that was it. All right guys. So There you go Well, good call zoop. That was a lot of fun um I don't know if it was worth ten dollars, but that was a lot of fun um, yeah There's a little part after the credits. All right, we'll hang out Yeah, that was cool. Maybe it was That was hella fun. I might even play some more puppet combo games just just because of that It was it was actually scary You got it for three dollars on steam This was on sale for ten dollars It was usually 1999 for a two hour experience All right, then here we go. Oh, so I was pretty upset to be woken up so late for an impromptu autopsy sequel setup When they told me that it was the actual womb ripper Well, I got down here as soon as I could They can't believe that it turned out to be Samantha Rhodes Who'd gone missing and was presumed dead years ago Need to clean this out one day Cause of death multiple gunshot wounds. That's the official cause of death, but Jesus Christ. I don't even understand how she was alive in the first place Let alone how it took so many shots to bring her down Most of those look fatal on first glimpse to me Now most of those look fatal upon first glimpse to me That's a real weird way of saying that guess we'll dig in and find out more I don't want to dig in Death chart Don't cut her up. Here we go The fuse box is down the hall I'll be right back. Don't go anywhere really I don't need anything from there right now. All right Well, at least it fits the the red fits my uh The red light fits. Yeah. In fact, I look brighter now because of the red light on the screen This is like the The hallway the elevator hallway at the overlook after the blood Okay, I was certainly expecting someone to be right behind me Bitch somebody over here whispering in my ear Yes, ma'am. I'm getting out right now Motherfucker, of course. She's gone I have to get out of here There's no way out. I didn't see a door I didn't see a door Run Okay, then so that was blood wash a puppet combo game. Uh, that was uh That was something else. What are all the options head bob? Oh lord invert camera audio Language. Oh, you can do uh, portuguese russian spanish french japanese. That's awesome Handheld game download down button Huh All right, let me Unmute this. All right, so thank you guys for joining me. That was hella fun Um, I'm gonna go ahead and go because I'm hungry Uh, I will hang out with y'all tomorrow after the movie. We are watching wish master. It is free on tubie Uh, it'll also be at 5 p.m. Central standard time Uh, you're welcome zeely. I hope you guys had fun. It seemed like you did Uh, we will definitely be doing one of these again I'm not sure if we'll do them here if we're doing them on twitch. Maybe I'll put it up to a vote I don't know Um, but anyways until tomorrow 5 p.m. Central standard time when we watch with my wish master I will see you guys then by j rod by ty by zeely by zoop And thank you for the recommendation zoop and everyone else who suggested I play this Thank you so much hella fun. But until next time I have been e you've been you I had to remember which outro I was gonna do But I have been e you've been you this has been another episode of 31 days of halloween. I'll talk to you guys