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John Lane

John Lane

Publisher

Aug 21, 2026

0:48
And so viewers would like for you to expand upon your position on Unicum Masses.
0:55
Sure, Louie.
0:55
Yeah, it's been a hot controversy for probably 20 years since really I think the year 2000 or thereabouts.
1:04
Prior to that, it was a non-issue, was only pushed by the Garadians, as I mentioned last time we spoke about it.
1:11
And around about that time, some other people sort of adopted the view and then it became a hot controversy.
1:17
And it's very interesting because the people who hold that view, that you can't go to an unical mass, they hold it pretty fiercely.
1:25
And when I answered the question last time, my main purpose was just to put those people back in their place and let them know because they wouldn't know the history of it.

8 MINS LATER

10:01
Do we know anything about that?
16:01
What, as a, what as a buyer do you like to see from a data perspective?
16:07
So from a data perspective, I like to see what their current velocities are in similar stores.
16:12
So if they already have distribution on the East Coast per se, I wanna see what are they moving on a units per store basis.
16:19
If they're in my territory and they're with some of our competitors, I want, you know, to see what are they doing with our com- competition, and then I want the brand to have taken the time to consider, like, the size and the scope.
16:31
If you're, like we talked about last week in the comments thread, if you're giving me air one data, like, I don't wanna see you telling me you're moving 30 units per store per week, because you're gonna now be competing in a set that has 10X the amount of SKUs.
16:46
So just being a little bit more realistic with your data.
16:48
Um, and for existing brands who are trying to get, like, their third or fourth item in, um, I want you to show that you really understand your current performance.
21:13
Um, so what are your thoughts there?
63:49
Yeah, it does.
63:51
Well, it's funny because John and I were talking about this before you rocked up and – you know we're both reservists yeah and you know when you think about we're talking here effectively about transition and transition is a transition of identity first and foremost but it's also a transition of culture and community yeah and so you know from from our perspective becoming a reservist means being in uniform is not your only priority And that's the key sort of thing here, what you as an individual prioritise.
64:20
And when you're in that culture and that, you know, pressure cooker of high-performing athlete in a sports club, mate, you've been paid a shitload to prioritise that.
64:31
Yeah, yeah.
64:31
That's the whole point.
64:32
Yeah, yeah.
64:32
And it's been really good to see the culture change to go that, like that knife edge that I was talking about, the edge has got to be really keen, but the knife has actually got to be solid to support it as well too.

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72:39
I guess as a psychiatrist, you've seen these tools and you use them.
2:23
[laughs]
2:23
You know, you, you think you might know, but you, you really don't.
2:26
And internally we talk a lot about one, one, you know, uh, one-way doors and two-way doors.
2:34
There, there's some decisions you've really got to mull over, and we were th- when we decided to think about the US, we, we spent a lot of time thinking, "Well, we've got to...
2:43
We're gonna have to put a, a, a warehouse in the US.
2:45
We're gonna, you know, to, to, to, to fulfill the demand properly." And so, you know, spent a lot of time.
2:51
It's a proper, it's a proper one-way door.

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22:23
Um, are, are there any other geo- um, geographies that you kind of considered after the tariff announcements?

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