You know, how much do you think this really reads as a consumer affordability decision, which was in large measure how they tried to frame it, and how much of it is really just a trade retreat that is

looking for a convenient excuse? Well, I think it's almost entirely the latter.

And I think the evidence has only become stronger since I wrote that piece.

You're right to note that the original press release didn't once say Kuzma, trade, United States.

But Miller, shortly afterwards, in front of reporters at the Banff Media Festival, he was considerably more candid than his own department's press release was.

And he said outright that it's, quote, I have this quote in front of me, it's no secret to anyone that's been paying any attention to this that the U.S. trade representative has identified these issues as trade issues, unquote.

And I think that's about as close as an admission you're going to get from an administrator.

You know, realistically, what do you think comes out at the other end? Is it Is it a watered-down version of the same framework? Is it the government really dictating what all of this ought to look like, which some might say perhaps they ought to have done in the legislation itself? Or is it a contribution model that largely survives in name only?

What is the decibel level that is harmful for our ears to hear?

Man, so there's two things with that.

There's intensity and then there's time.

So it's not just, so everybody knows like a gunshot, right? Bang, super loud, 140 plus decibels.

And that, you've had your ears rung and you know that it hurts.

And every time that happens, you probably have a little hearing loss that's come in.

So that's like a very intense, short blast, which is harmful to your hearing.

And I was overcome with emotion because I didn't realize that I had not heard Bert's trip for that long.

Yep.

"This is...

I...

This is a big deal to me, and so I just pull them out." So it's great to get them well beforehand and start to use them just in some life scenarios where you, you know, you're hearing a human being talk, you're hearing birds, wind through the trees, um, just different sounds that you need to get used to.

And then you need to start backing the volume down to where those sounds are what your brain knows is that natural sound.

So one of the things that I do, um, a lot of the, you know, several times throughout the year as I go hunting, because m- I get mine changed as well, is, is my dogs hunt with a bell.

And so when they're out there in front of me with a bell, uh, it's whatever volume that my, my hearing instruments are, my hearing protection.

Yeah, he took him on a hunt real quick.

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This gentleman, and then after a while, once again, it was, you know, my wife Amy and I sitting and, and praying and saying, you know, "Man, if we're gonna do this, we probably should be doing it on our own." And so that's when Alclair was born, and we started making them.

And, and our, our, uh, technique for doing them is a little different.

Our heart for customer service and serving others is a little different, and it sort of just opened a lot of doors, and it got us into the music world.

And that grew and grew.

But in my heart, I always loved to go hunting and shooting and be in the outdoors, have hunting dogs, and just all the things.

And so I would make hearing protection, the active stuff like what you have, for people, friends and family and customers that knew I did it.

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