Fingerboarding’s Biggest Startup Fallout? | Cleveland Bolt Co Drama Explained | S4E167

On this week’s episode of the USAFBL Fingerboard Podcast, we sit down with Mando from Cleveland Bolt Co for one of the rawest and most emotional interviews we’ve ever recorded.

We talk about the rapid rise of Cleveland Bolt Co, launching one of fingerboarding’s fastest-growing hardware brands, the success at Fingerboard Con 2026, and the shocking fallout that happened behind the scenes just days later.

Mando opens up about friendship, business partnerships, loyalty, legal issues, startup mistakes, brand building, and what really happened during the split between the founders of Cleveland Bolt Co.

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Transcript

speaker-0 (00:07)
Welcome to USAFBL Fingerboard Podcast. I'm your host, LeVine Cunningham. And today I've got Mondo, Mondo underscore plus underscore on Instagram. Man. Yeah. Welcome to the podcast. Thank you, brother. Now, for those that don't know Mondo, he is part of the Cleveland Bolt Company. Definitely one of the more premier bolt and hardware companies here in the U S and taking the U S by storm. And you guys came out of like nowhere.

speaker-1 (00:16)
What's going on?

We did come out of nowhere, didn't we? That was fun.

speaker-0 (00:39)
Guys definitely came out of nowhere before we get into the story. Man, I got some plugs. All right. For those that don't know, Plies mag issue number 18 is out now. Joe.Nah on the cover. You got your guys here, Cleveland bolt coat inside front cover. Definitely check that out. We've got all the event listings in there. There's like 50 something events. So you go to Plies mag.com. You can check out the mag for free. All the events are in there. All good content every month.

bringing you some bangers. Also, King of the Plies, we're about two weeks into the King of the Plies Outdoor Team Street event. Definitely check out your teams, definitely root for those challenges to be dropped on the behind the scenes. Go check all that out. Parks and Obstacles, USFBL, we've got all new parks and obstacles. We are getting ready to do a new drop here in about 60 days for new obstacles and new parks. Fingerskate is out heavy.

dropping deck graphics like crazy. They got vaulted items being released weekly. So go check them out at fingerskate.com. And of course use I'm back at fingerskate, Plies Mag and USAFPL to save 10 % at checkout. All right, Mondo. Man. All right, so you've had a hell of a last 10 days.

speaker-1 (01:48)
What's up, bro?

Pretty much. Yeah, it's been crazy. We've some crazy days.

speaker-0 (02:00)
So just so that everybody knows it is Saturday, May 9th, and you guys have just been doing just crazy stuff. you guys have Plies Mag, inside front cover for a new company, getting that exposure. And then a few days later, you guys go to Fingerboard Con and do a crazy weekend of just finger boarding mania. It just seems like you guys are just everywhere. We see all the Instagram posts, we see all the stories, you got all those exposure, you got the Fingerboard Con stuff, like.

You're doing panels with FB Chris like the rise of Cleveland Bowl Company super hard came in super fast. But let's bring it back. Like, let's talk about who Mondo is. Where are you out of? How you got started?

speaker-1 (02:44)
I got started in the finger boarding. Let's do it. So I used to finger board when it was just tech that so when I was like in eighth grade, I think they came out seventh grade something like that and I was tech back then and then life happens. You lose your tech back. You don't know what's going on. So fast forward from the late 90s to here we are in 2026 now started started back up last. ⁓ I would say it was last August me and Tristan.

worked together, he had a toy machine tech deck, like in the back of his desk or something. And I was like, let me see that. And we started fucking around with it. And I could still ollie, could try to, he'll flip a little bit. And I was like, man, this is fun, bro. Next thing you know, we're diving deep into fingerboard and spending thousands getting boards. My first setup that I bought was a, it was an antidote that I got on. ⁓

Black River and I didn't know that you had to pay extra money to get that baby in with the terrorists and the international shipping and all that. So I mean that complete and it'll cost me like over 200 bucks to start. And yeah, that's how we got started. And that kind of like built our friendship finger boarding, working together. And that's how that's how the hobby kind of started.

speaker-0 (04:07)
Okay. Well, Ainedo is a great company. We actually interviewed him on the pod. were like episode 166, 167. We've had quite a few people on the pod. All right. So you're one half of Cleveland bolt company. So the other half is Tristan. How did you and Tristan meet up and then how did you guys like basically come up with Cleveland bolt Co.

speaker-1 (04:30)
So we met at work. I came in to the dealership that he was at. He's running finance. They brought me in ⁓ to head up finance and then end up being the director of the entire group. So during that time is when we developed a friendship, taught him some of the business on the finance side and things of that nature. And that's how we started finger boarding on our downtime, getting decks, doing research, buying boards.

All of that.

speaker-0 (05:01)
So then how did you guys came to the idea of being like, we need to get into tuning and hardware?

speaker-1 (05:09)
So as we're getting into the finger board and we're diving deep, we're learning about companies, we're learning about decks, learning about wheels, so much research. I don't know, I have an addictive personality, seems so does Tristan. So we're locked in researching companies, buying stuff, trying out different wheels, started with like buying dude guy wheels, pyro wheels, went with teaks. We just tried every single thing. We tried different decks, all the...

all the major brands trying them out, seeing what we like. It just came to the point where like, bro, we're spending hella money, man. We should probably start our own company. There's so much to consuming us that we need to start figuring out a way to pay for our finger boarding addiction. So we came up with the idea that we should start our own company. And we were going through it. I was like making decks. There's so many decks out there. Everybody's making decks. Wheels seems crazy. Making bearings seems crazy.

And then we were just talking and then we came up with the idea of like, bro, what is fingerboard missing? What is the game missing? And I believe Tristan said, you know, the one thing I hate is that I don't have colored bearings and colored bolts. And I was like, bro, making bearings seems crazy. And then I was like, why don't we just make bolts? And that's how it came up. So we came up with the idea we could probably make colored bolts on the

on the green and gold side. You know what I mean? And that's how it kind of started. So we did a lot of research. It took a while hitting up different manufacturers, figuring out the name, came up with a little slogan with the game has been missing. We kept sending each other back and forth messages like, hey, how about this? How about that? And then that's how Cleveland Boat Company came to them. This was early March, late February.

where like the idea started and then by March 20th, were like, we were ready. We're ready to go. So we moved fast. Absolutely. So we did, we did come out.

speaker-0 (07:18)
fast. literally. Yeah, you're talking from March all the way to where we're at now in May. That's only what two months? mean,

speaker-1 (07:25)
Hard and fast,

speaker-0 (07:27)
I respect the hustle and the grind. I'm like, man, these guys literally just came out of nowhere. Cause you guys hit us up from the apply side, know, applies max side. you're like, yeah, dude, we're launching a new company, this and that. And I'm like, all right, cool. And like, I saw the bolts and I was just like, there's like almost nobody in that category. And I'm like, dude, that's smart as hell. Like as someone that's like finds little niches within niches, like no one does finger boarding tours. No one did podcasts when we started our podcast, no one had a magazine until we started our mag. And so like,

We like to find little like niches where there's just not a lot of people in it. It just to me just makes the most amount of sense to go into little niches that are un.

Unsaturated, I guess you would say, because you can just go in and really make a splash and you get noticed really, really easily when there's nobody to really compare you to. like you guys came in and the ball game with no one really to kind of compare yourselves to. And so like you guys made a hell of a splash and got the whole tagline with the games been missing all that stuff, all your little Instagrams and videos like they go hard, man. They go hard.

speaker-1 (08:26)
Yeah, so ⁓ that was part of it. ⁓ We looked at a lot of companies that rolled out and we're like, man, they're doing it right. They have a good roll out. There was this company called Hardback Style. Me and Treston were both like, man, the way this dude is marketing this is tough, man. He is doing his thing. so when we did our first soft launch, it was at a Soul Food event here in Cleveland, Soul Food FB. ⁓

His name is Robert and he's got a team. do decks, they make obstacles. And he's got a little storefront out of Jamie's Market in Amherst, Ohio. And I met up with him and he told me he's doing an event. And I was like, Tristan, this is the best, this is the perfect time to do a soft launch. We'll do the soft launch at the event. And then that's when we did our video that kind of put us on where I went into like this wrestling character, started talking shit. He came in, backing the shit up, back and forth, banter. And then that video blew up and then.

That's when people really started like fucking with it. So after me acting like Hulk Cogan or Macho Man, whoever the fuck you want to say, whatever type of wrestler archetype I am, that's where it kind of started building even more momentum. So we sold some boats there. Then we went into FB Con. But before that we had a launch. We sold out in the first day and it was all, it was cool. Everything was cool. Everything was moving perfectly. It was awesome. FB Con was crazy. had...

Met a lot of fun people, a lot of creators, got into a lot of talks, early stage talks of wholesale with certain companies, certain creators wanting to do their own custom, like pro colorways of bolts, because we have the ability to get whatever color we could pretty much think of. And know, and these bolts are actually very good bolts. They fit on BRTs, dynamics, on the independent Joy-Colts. They fit on SB trucks, one of our ⁓ riders.

rides SB trucks and he puts them on there. The one that it doesn't kind of fit on is the V2, no, the V2 delis that just came out, but they fit on the regular delis. I have them on my yard delis from Esco. So they fit on that one perfectly.

speaker-0 (10:30)
trucks and all that.

gotcha. The R &D on that's got to be crazy because all these trucks I feel like have the same size holes but they're don't take the same size screws most times and so the RD there's so many trucks now like it's wild dude bolts now 2026.

speaker-1 (10:56)
Yeah, we found something that fits pretty much a good amount of the trucks. The other company that I saw that was doing something similar was G-Sheets, and they have like one blue bolt. And then obviously Black River has their first-aid kits and things like that. But other than that, the game has been missing.

speaker-0 (11:15)
come to my understanding that like you guys are I wouldn't say like beefing but there's definitely some controversy between you two and like I feel like we kind of need to kind of get into what happened and what's going on because like you got a great thing going on and like I want to see this to see but like what's what's happening what's going on with this

speaker-1 (11:29)
Definitely.

So

from when we started the company, we operated obviously as a 50-50 venture. When it comes to cost, we were both putting in as even as it could be. Obviously, some things cost a little more here, something cost a little more there. But when you divide the cost, it's as close to 50-50 as it gets. Same with the profits, same with the marketing. You know, we're both in there. When it came to advertising, when it came to reaching out to people, we were both reaching out.

to riders, we ⁓ did a thing where we sent boats out to certain riders so they could test them out, make sure that they fit on their setups, that they actually liked how they felt. And we had a lot of positive feedback from that. So everything was going good. Launches are working perfectly. We did well at Beacon. We did kind of a, out of the trunk at rendezvous and we sold everything there. It was great. But we were supposed to have our

our legal stuff in order before any of this. So we dropped the ball there and I take full responsibility for that. The conversation always was we needed to set up our EIN as a partnership. We need to set up our LLC as a partnership and we need to have our business checking account with both of our names on it. That way we need to stop pulling from our own funds because that could get sloppy and it could lead to things that we don't need to get into. So we're always in agreement with that. We ended up with our schedules.

and things that were going on at work, we never took the time out to set that date up. So on the way back from RondeRuze, we had a good conversation about, when we get back on the first, which will be May 1st, we need to get together because you're off work. I'll be off work that day as well. We'll set up the EIN, we'll set up the LLC as a joint venture. We'll go to Chase, we'll set up our business checking account. And then we could even take it further, take out a SBA loan.

get a storefront, do whatever we have to do, but we're going to make this happen as a team. And I have knowledge in small business, things like that, setting up grants, getting loans, things of that nature. And everything was on up and up. So fast forward a week, going through just our regular days, still in communication. Everything is still good. We talk about the launch on the eighth, which just happened yesterday, but

When the first came around, no response from Tristan. I called him, texted him, hey, we're supposed to hang out and get all this done. I ended up getting ahold of him later on that day. And he said, hey, I didn't know we were supposed to do that. And that kind of threw me off. was like, brother, we talked about this on the 12 hour ride back to Cleveland from Massachusetts. And he's like, ⁓ yeah, well, that kind of soaked my mind. I'm like, okay, no worries. I was like, well, here.

Since we got the drop on the eighth, let's just go together on the ninth, because you're off. I mean, let's go together on the eighth, because you're off, whatever Friday is. Anyways, he's like, yeah, as long as I have time, which that also threw me off, because he doesn't talk like that. I'm like, okay, we'll have time, bro. You're off. We got the launch the day before, or we got the launch the same day, so you'll have time. We can knock this out in the morning. And he's like, okay, yeah, we'll see. I'm like, all right, bro, whatever. By the way, I think this should be said too.

The company we worked for was going through a buy sell. So at my position as the finance director of the entire group, they weren't going to retain me because the new group has their own director and I wasn't going to take a step down to just be a producer, if that makes sense. So I'm putting everything together. So on the fourth, which is that Monday, it was officially my last day with the company. So I reached out to Tristan, no response. I'm like, okay.

So I text them on Tuesday, bro, no response. I text them Wednesday, just to confirm that we're still good for yesterday, which was Friday. Hey bro, we're still good to meet up, knock out all the legal stuff, VIN, LLC, business checking, no response. And I'm thinking, man, what the hell is going on? So I go onto the Ohio registry for the business. It's the Ohio Business Search website.

and I type in Cleveland Boat Company and I fucking see that the company has already been registered right here with it. It just says his name, his address, and that he set up the company on May 1st on the day that we were supposed to link up and do it. So he fucking pretended that he didn't know that we were supposed to set up the business and both of our names, have everything set up, EIN, LLC, and both of our names. And he fucking lied about it. I'm like, bro, what the fuck?

So I sent them the screenshot of the registry. And I said, bro, what type of time are you on? And I called them, no response. And now, yes, he's at work, but there's a lot of downtime. You could text back, you could call back, you could say, hey, there's a misunderstanding here. I don't want you to think something that it's not when there's really nothing you can say. It is what it is. You fucking did some rat shit. It's pathetic. So fast forward throughout the day.

I'm like, I cannot believe this shit. So he's not reaching back out. I try to log into certain things. I'm getting removed as a collaborator on videos. I'm like, man, what the fuck? So I go onto the Instagram. I see what happened. Dude is doing some backdoor, crazy snake type shit. And I'm like, okay. So I log into the Instagram for Cleveland Bulls and I try to take him off the Instagram at least to get his attention. Like, hey, hit me up. Like, what the fuck are you doing?

So that doesn't work. He ends up getting back into the Instagram, knocks me off of it. I'm like, okay, that's fine. I reach out to the collaborators that we were working with, the writers that we had on our team and let them know what's going on. ⁓ I'm not gonna name drop any of the other companies or the writers, but it's people we were talking to, people we met at FBCon that we already were in talks to do business with. And I let them know what's going on because that's some snake ass shit. There's no excuse. Fuck that.

You know what I mean? So that's exactly what's going on.

speaker-0 (18:04)
Recap this real quick. All right, so everything's going well. Everything's doing good. And then basically out of nowhere, he is basically and then legally, yeah, and then legally registered the business without you.

speaker-1 (18:20)
Knowing we had a time set apart to get this handled. And don't say that you didn't know that we were supposed to do it, bitch. You did it at the same exact time. And it even shows the timestamp of when you did it at 3.30 in the morning on May 1st, bro. You stayed up all night, decided to do it. You could choose the time that you want the company to be in effect. So picking 3.30 in the morning is a crazy time. It's fucking weird.

speaker-0 (18:46)
So and this happened after after fingerboard con

speaker-1 (18:50)
This happened the Friday after FBCon. Mind you, we're already on Wednesday when I find out. So he did it on the first. I find out on the sixth, the day before my birthday, that this happened. You know what I mean? It's crazy.

speaker-0 (19:05)
So it's kind of like this stuff happened. So it sounds like there was gotta be something that happened during FB con that made him not want to run with you anymore. Like is, was there like any like disputes or arguments or anything that kind of happened over fingerboard con that would have triggered this or.

speaker-1 (19:24)
Brother, when I tell you I believe, full heartedly, that everything was cool, it was all good just a week ago. You ever heard that saying? It literally just all good.

speaker-0 (19:36)
Well, that's what's wild because like said, had flies, mag, you launched your business, you're selling out, you're at fingerboard con doing interviews and stuff. And I'm like, okay, this is, this is what's up. And then like, all of a sudden you're like, Hey, this is what's going down. And I'm like, Whoa, what?

speaker-1 (19:50)
Yeah. And then, I don't know, bro. I don't know. It's fucking weird. I'm starting to put a lot of pieces together and there were telltale signs that bro was moving a little different, but I just never wanted to believe that anything like that could happen because outside of finger boarding, I would have considered Tristan one of my best friends. And he's introduced me to people as his best friend and business partner. And I've introduced him to people with the same title. Yo, this is my...

One of my best homies, it's my best friend and my business partner, Tristan. You know what I mean? So I wouldn't think that any of this could have happened or would have happened. was never even an inkling of thought in my mind to betray bro, to play him in any way. When it comes to money, money doesn't matter to either of us because we have, not to sound funny, but we have very good incomes. So this isn't no money shit. This is some slime shit. You know what I mean?

speaker-0 (20:45)
Yeah, no, I get it. It's a we do everything for the love of the game as well. We invest a ton of money into the community and tours and mags and all kinds of stuff without trying to even like making money is cool, but it's not like the reason why we do any of the stuff. We just like doing cool stuff. And it seems like you guys like.

speaker-1 (21:04)
Yeah,

and I think that was part of the success that people genuinely could see that we're having fun with it, that we're fucking around. I mean, I'm doing my wrestler voice. I'm talking shit. I'm saying, fuck you, you're an asshole. I don't run a charity. People love that shit. It was fun. It was like we were fake beefing with somebody, you know what I mean? To set the trajectory. But now it's some real life shit because this is beyond finger boarding to me. I'm about loyalty.

I'm on some old school internet shit don't matter, even though I'm taking this to the internet because bro, don't call me back. You know what mean? We could have hashed this out on some grown man between me and him.

speaker-0 (21:45)
That's what I was gonna ask. was like, you know, what are the odds of being able to hash this? I mean, now it's like legally kind of an issue because he's gonna have to like add you back or whatever. like, you know, I mean, what are like the you guys being able to like reconcile this relationship and be able to make this a thing still?

speaker-1 (22:02)
Let me answer your question with a question. If your best friend betrays you, you know what I mean? And you have something going on outside of finger boarding and in finger boarding and he betrays you, he slimes you out in a way that, and then cuts off all communication, leaves you in the dark, blindsides you. Is that something you're going to be able to reconcile from?

speaker-0 (22:25)
He has to have a damn good excuse. Otherwise, you you gotta, you gotta do what you gotta do. And I get that.

speaker-1 (22:30)
At this

point, there is no excuse. We've had several days that you could have talked to me. Now I sent you the screenshot. You could have said, hey bro, it's not what it looks like. Let me explain. When I try to get them off the Instagram, hey bro, I see you're trying to get me off the Instagram. Let me talk to you about what's really going on. So there is no coming back from this. I'm the type of guy where I give everybody the benefit of the doubt when we get started. And when I first met Tristan, and it's no slight to him when I first met him on the business side.

I'm talking about in the real life world, I was already teaching him business things that he didn't understand and didn't know. And he was on the verge of being in a hot seat at work. You know what I mean? So it's crazy that I've helped them in certain things outside of finger boarding that I'm not going to put the personal business out, but you know what the fuck it is. It is what it is, bro. So there, what kind of reconciling can we do?

speaker-0 (23:27)
Okay, so he is, there's no chance of reconciling this. He legally started the brand without you. He's not returning any correspondences, no texts, no calls, messages, no nothing.

speaker-1 (23:40)
No, he's not responding to me, but let me tell you this. people that I have reached out to, some of them have sent me back screenshots of Tristan's responses to them. And I want you to click those screenshots right here. And it's some chat GPT type message saying that I've spent all day with Instagram's account recovery team that CBC will continue to give you great service. All this chat GPTS response, bro. Just be real, hey.

I fucking betrayed Mondo, I'm a slimeball. He's not in the company anymore. As of right now, this is what it is. That's more respectable, bro. So no, he's not responding to me. He's responding to other people because the bro's character has been exposed. This shit shows you who you are. And I never thought finger boarding would bring this type of sliminess out of somebody. But everything always comes to light. It reveals who you are.

Everything reveals who you are at the end of the day.

speaker-0 (24:43)
What is the game plan, I guess, for you now? Like, are we looking at, you know, starting a new brand, going a different direction? Like, what's the, what's the, what's the goal for you?

speaker-1 (24:57)
The goal for me, I want everybody to know, I love this finger boarding shit. It's done wonders for me, mental health wise, my relationships with people around me has kept me out of trouble. And I found something that's fun, that's wholesome, innocent, that should never have led to any of this bullshit. So I'm not leaving the space. I'm not leaving the finger boarding community. I do want people to know what the fuck's going on.

because I do business with people that I respect, that I like, and that I trust. It's been like that since I got into finance, since I got into sales. My whole professional career, I've been that way. I had the same friends from when I was four years old. We all grew up on a very strict loyalty code. So to see anything like this is just crazy. Moving forward, I'm not leaving the space.

I have the same contacts to get the same hardware and I'm gonna do my own thing. And we're gonna be bigger and we're gonna be better than this dude. Cause fuck him. And if people wanna keep doing business with him, go ahead. But just know the type of man you are doing business with. You wanna do business with somebody respectable, that stands on what they believe and that has those morals, then you can come talk to me.

speaker-0 (26:18)
Man, right, so this is a tragedy. Like this is wild to me. Like looking at everything, looking at the rise, looking at the fallout. I mean, this is stuff that like, pains me to see this kind of stuff happening in the finger boarding industry. I know that business is tough. know that finding a person to do business with that matches your energy is extremely tough. They don't build people like they used to. And, ⁓

speaker-1 (26:46)
But

really don't. And maybe it's a generational thing. I'm a little older than Tristan. I think I'm almost 10 years older than him. ⁓ Even though I look the same age, you know, they say black don't crack.

speaker-0 (26:59)
That's what they say. what they say. I'm turning 40 this year, so I don't know if I look 40 or not. I feel 40, but I don't know if I look 40, but... But we'll see for sure, but yeah, it's...

speaker-1 (27:06)
Man, tell me about it, bro.

They

don't make them like that. The mentality of loyalty, trust, and backing your people and your team up no matter what, if they're in the right or wrong, that just doesn't exist, it seems like. Or at least it doesn't exist on his side. But it exists here, That's how I am, and that's how I always will continue to be.

speaker-0 (27:31)
No, I get that a hundred percent. Yeah. Anyone who's looking to go into business with partners, things like that, there's always a super high risk of not seeing things that I not be on the match energies. Some person might come in, you know, 40 % the other person's coming in at 80 % and like, you know, just

expectations need to be met. just a lot that goes into a partnership and business, even a relationship, stuff like that. It's kind of one of the same, to be honest with you, now that I've been through a little bit of life and realizing that business and relationships and marriages and everything else, you know, everybody has to come in at 100%. Otherwise, I feel like it just doesn't work out for whatever reason. It's 100 at 100, not 50 50.

speaker-1 (28:12)
Yeah, well, it looked like it was 100 and 100 for most of the situation. There were times where we didn't agree on something, but we would hash it out and talk about it. You know what I mean? Like, hey, let's do this. No, I don't think we should do that. We should do it this way. Okay. Yeah, that's fine. Or let's advertise this. Oh no. Or, hey, we're about to do a video. Let's do a video. I'd pull up, do a video. It wouldn't matter. from when we came back to FBCon, Tristan did...

like distance himself a little bit, but I just thought it was because his work was crazy going through the bicep, but I didn't think that it would be him like premeditating this shit because this isn't something you just do off the whim, unless you're on heavy drugs and you just fucking had a crazy situation, then you would do something like this. But I don't think that's the case with him. And it is what it is, man. It's really fuck you at the end of the day because you said fuck me by what you did.

You don't respect me enough to talk to me as a man. Even if you wanted to go out on your own, we could always figure something out. So fuck it.

speaker-0 (29:16)
So man, cause I feel like he, someone at fingerboard con, think basically kind of got to him and that's what like the timeline is kind of suggesting is that like, got with some people at fingerboard con that either put some bugs in his ear to be like, Hey, do this or do that, or I wouldn't do this or I wouldn't do that or something like that. And I think something happened there because before fingerboard con, feel like everything was great. And then after fingerboard con, like everything just kind of went to hell.

speaker-1 (29:45)
That's a possibility. All I can say that from what I understood and what our verbals were and our messages showed that we were in this together, co-founders, co-owners, and we were in this 100 % as a team. We even had a conversation on some stuff like, hey bro, you could even be the face and I'll handle all the backend stuff. Cause he's got more of that like a vlogger personality, does giveaways, his English is much better than mine.

You know what I mean? So, which is fine. But when we started doing those wrestling videos, I was like, bro, we got to keep this momentum going because that's what's got getting us more traction. So that's where it happened. And then we did it. And I'll give Tristan all the credit for this. He clipped us up with a cutout of FB Christopher on a live that he had where somebody asked him about bolts over tapes, tapes over bolts. And then we kind of like, we're talking shit to him. And then it was like this banter. It was super innocent.

FB Chris and his team, Jake and Kristen, they had like this AI video of them looking super, or this AI picture of them looking super jacked, like, we'll see you at FBCon. We were in touch with them, heading out to Cali for Fingermania, I think it's called Fingermania. Shredder-mania, I apologize. For Shredder-mania, so, I mean, it was just a lot of stuff that I thought was all good. So if somebody got in his ear, you're a dummy, bro.

listening to outside sources, but we had our own shit right here. So that's what it is.

speaker-0 (31:19)
Well, one of the last things I kind of want to touch on because they Tristan did a drop yesterday on the eighth and it's five minutes. ⁓ huge success. looked like everybody was hyped for it. Looking at that success and not being part of that. mean, like, how's that? I mean, that's gotta be getting into your fields or some sort of.

speaker-1 (31:43)
It's not really in my feels. My feels are the trail. Of course it sold out in five minutes. It's what the game's been missing. Of course it sold out quick. ⁓ The pink and light blue is crazy. Cotton Candy, it's called Miami Nights. We thought of all these names for these drops months ago. We had already thought of all this. This is not by coincidence that it sold out. And I wasn't gonna come out.

and try to sabotage the drop because that's not who I am. I wanted me and him to talk things out, shit is what it is. So no, I'm not in my feelings about it. Of course it sold out. And when I do my drops, of course they're gonna sell out because I'm really like that.

speaker-0 (32:27)
So is there anything that you're wanting to leave us with before we come to closing?

speaker-1 (32:33)
Yeah, I do. I want to leave us with something positive. At the end of the day, it's a lesson learned. Be careful who you do business with. Do a little more due diligence than I did. And if you do go into business with somebody, before you guys do any type of drop, any sale, any purchasing, have a operating agreement between the two of you. Because sometimes just a, got you bro, or hey, this is how it's going to be is not enough.

It's a lesson learned, but I want everybody to know I'm not leaving finger boarding. I love this shit. It's fun to me. It gets me away from my real life and I'm going to continue to stay in hardware. I'm going to drop my own business and it's going to be bigger, better than anything you guys have ever seen. And that's that. And that's the bottom line.

speaker-0 (33:26)
Because of Mondo's self-

speaker-1 (33:27)
So

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speaker-0 (33:30)
Alright,

where can people find you on the internet? If someone wants to reach out, congratulate you.

speaker-1 (33:38)
Yeah, if you wanna talk shit to me, if you wanna call me a piece of shit, if you wanna hate on me, if you wanna talk about wholesaling on the both side, hit me up, Mondo plus, Mondo underscore plus underscore. Instagram, I don't really use TikTok anymore, ⁓ so just IG.

speaker-0 (33:57)
right on and you can find me at USAFBL on all platforms. Mondo, thanks for coming to the pod. It's been an absolute pleasure. I'm hoping that things work out for you. Absolutely. I'm excited to see what happens for you in the future.

speaker-1 (34:10)
Absolutely bro, thank you so much for having me. I appreciate it.

speaker-0 (34:14)
Until next time. ⁓