joining me now is pirate joe's owner mike halet. thank for coming on the show. call yourself pirate joe's. you spend $5,000 a week on their products. you have to go to a bunch of stores to get it done. drive it back over the border. mark it up. you sell it. do you feel like you're bating the shark a little bit? are you surprised they come after you? >> i was warned they might. i was doing my best to avoid tantalizing the shark into a bite but, turns out thathey have figured they have to put me out of business. you know i bought the stuff full retail. i own it. i get to do whatever i want with it. that includes selling it to canadians in vancouver. >> i understand you say whatever you own you can resell. you know that seems like a fine principle. at the same time, it seems like the very least there is a lot of copyright infringement there. you style yourself in the same way. you sort of ripped off their name. you ve got the products exclusively theirs, marking it up, but at the very least have you not stolen their idea and copyright, that sort of thing. >> i disa