B (35:12)
So I know this might be controversial, but if you're asking me to pick this food in Spain or the food in Italy, I'm picking the food in Spain. I like it so, so much. It's just. And I kind of speak. I don't really. My wife likes to tease me that I say that I speak Spanish. But, I mean, we. Okay, I had to learn Spanish because we had this. When we were getting married, we had this business. We had no money, and my wife is a genius creatively, like, next level. And. And so we. We built this business in Mexico where we would go down to Mexico. We've. My buddy had come back from Mexico with a belt buckle, right? And my wife was like, that's a. I love that belt buckle. Where'd you get it? And he said, mexico. And she said, that's our next business that's going to pay for our wedding. So we went down to Mexico. We found somebody. We brought his belt buckle. We were like. She had redesigned it. She was like, who can do this? But this and this and this? And they pointed us in the right direction. Then we found somebody to make us belts. You know, they make the belts at all those little open markets down there. And we ended up making these belts and buckles in Mexico for. I think I would go down. I think between the belt and the buckle, the total was $12. And we sold them. What's the name of that place that was there on Melrose next to the Improv? Fred Siegel. Places like Fred Siegel sold them for $350. So we. I would come up. I would say, these are handmade from Mexico. The handmade belt. None of this is a lie. Handmade buckle. I remember I drove around the Lauren, okay, we were $10,000 short for our wedding. We'd sold A bunch of belts and buckles. They were in a bunch of stores in LA, but we were $10,000 short. I needed a big order, so I didn't have money for a plane. I drove to San Francisco. I said, I need to get these belt buckles in Nordstrom. That's the way to do it. And I saw that the number one, you know, they number the stores. Store number one was in Nordstrom. So I was like, well, that must be where the buyer is. I drove to San Francisco, I drove to the men's. I walked to the men's department, and I pitched this woman. I was like, hey, here's a deal. I need. I'm getting married. We're $10,000 short. These belts and buckles are in all these stores in la. And she said, I'm not the buyer. The buyer for Nordstrom is out of Seattle. And I was like, I need this. I need this money by this date. This is my last shot. She said, I'm gonna put us on the phone. This was 2003, so this is. We're not FaceTiming or anything like that. And I told the woman about the belts and buckles. I described them to her, and she said, overnight it to me. I'm going to. I think the name of the convention is Magic. It's like a big fashion. She said, I'm going to it in London, but I can look at. If you've overnight it to me, I can look at it and. Let's take a look. So I overnighted it to her, and they ordered $15,000 worth of belt.
