TrevFM: Hello Neighbors. Welcome to another episode of Spread Love fm. Amplifying the voices of our community. I'm your host, Trevor Fem. In this episode, I chat with miles of the free store projects, a network of stores. She started in 2020 as a response to the social injustice and isolation of that tumultuous time.

Since then, the free stores have become an essential resource, as well as a source of levity to c. Looking for a little bit of both 

Myles: the free store's. So weird. It's, it is so weird. Oh my God. There's been a lot of dildos, that were packaged. Packaged. Brand [00:01:00] new. Dude of my gosh. Um, I don't know. I mean, everything is strange if you think about it.

TrevFM: Enjoy the episode and don't forget to follow the links on the show page to support Spread Love fm and the guest of this show. So Miles, what's up? Long time no. See. How you doing? What's 

Myles: up? What's up, Trevor? How are you? 

TrevFM: I'm good. I'm good. It's been so long. Miles is my, uh, old activist friend. I mean, I guess.

In, in activism years, two years is the, Did you just call me old ? Well, you know, yo, listen, I got maybe 20 years on you, so everybody's young to me, , well, 

Myles: black, don't crack. 

TrevFM: So they say, so they say, We met, uh, out of this activist group that grew out of McLaren Park, uh, in Brooklyn, New York City, where after the tragic murder of George Floyd [00:02:00] community got together and we were supporting each other.

And a few months after I started that, uh, uh, started attending those vigils, I was introduced to Miles and what an amazing. The person she is, I found out about her free store project. And um, I wanna talk to Miles a little bit about how you got started, what inspired you. But that's, before we even talk about that, let's talk about where you're from, your background and what brought you to New York City.

Myles: I think I can tie all of those things in together, you know. Um, but I will say right off the bat, I'm from Chicago. During the pandemic, uh, around the time that we met and throughout it, there was all of this like social unrest, Kyle written house or whatever his name was, like he got off right. There was like all of, there was all of these things that kept happening in the world that made people of color, our community feel more and more [00:03:00] helpless.

Mm-hmm. . At least that's how I felt. I felt like no one was taking care of us and even though we had a bunch of. Like allies or whatever, like trying to help and trying to like, whatever. It wasn't enough, you know? And it feels like the systematic weight, this like thing that keeps crushing our people just kept coming down and I wanted to do something to stop it, you know?

Like I, I am just one person, but I do know that I could make a difference and I did know that like I could do something within my limited means to make sure that the communities of color were. And were cared for. I had seen this like post, um, in other organization in Chicago, I believe their name is Ill Humanities Chicago is where I'm from.

They had taken an abandoned storefront and they had, uh, teamed up with Target and they built some little plastic shelves on this little storefront just in the vestibule, you know, like the trifold kind of thing, like door wall. [00:04:00] They put these little plastic shelves up, they put a little awning up and they wrote two words, give take.

Hmm. And I was like, Oh my God, I can do that. I can do that. Like New York City, I love it because it's magic . It's Ma I've, I've always been obsessed with New York. I've always been obsessed with Basquiat, Tomkin square punk scene, all that stuff. You know, like I grew up wanting to move here. and one of the beauties of New York is like the excess.

And like, you know, you go down the street and you have no idea like what's behind every single door. You know, like there are so many different like huge warehouses. You walk past and you're like, I wonder what's in there. And it's kind of cool when you get this like voyeuristic view into them and like, I feel like there's so many different production shops and you know, all sorts.

Mystery and secrets and everything behind these doors, but there's also [00:05:00] refuse and treasure. And unlike Chicago that has alleys where like me and my punk friends would like go dumpster dive and stuff like that. Like New York has the streets, right? So like everything is accessible. You walk down the street, you find a really cool lamp, you find a chair from an 18, whatever.

Because of all those things. I wanted to combine my knowledge of scavenging and hunting and stuff with my knowledge from like set design and production and like window display or whatever. So that plus that inspiration, I decided to go to neighborhoods and and streets and these corners that I had passed a million times on my way to work.

These are like broken down, dilapidated, you know, entrance ways or. And start there and build some shelves. Write, give, take, or free store, which is what I chose, and start filling those shelves with items. And like, it was really easy. I was able to purge my own, [00:06:00] um, collection and I knew that I could sustain the project.

Honestly. I thought I was gonna be doing it myself forever. like, and I was ready to, I was ready to, I was ready to put up the shelve. And just keep filling 'em every day because New York has so much. 

TrevFM: When I, uh, met you, you had a team. I remember, uh, going to some of the free stores and just about every time I went there, there was always somebody from the community fixing it up, cleaning it out, engaging with the community and the team of neighbors that you had working with you.

It's inspiring. 

Myles: It was beautiful and it was magic and it was all the things like it was, It was like field of dreams. If you build it, they will come and like it 

TrevFM: just something I learned by the way, and not to cut you off, but I [00:07:00] recently learned that that quote was actually, if you build it, he will. Look it up.

I have to look it up myself, but go on. Sorry to interrupt. 

Myles: I don't want to, Cause that sounds too Jesusy. . It does . And it's like, I know that the, he refers to like his dad, like if you feel that he like his like, dad, but like, no, like , like I, I, I like, I considered Phil because I don't know, whatever it really was.

If you build it, they will come because like, I got to, Sorry. like, Dude, you know what's really cool about. is like, I have been fighting so hard for so long to fit into these, uh, circles or organizations or groups or lunch tables, forever, right? Trying to like fit into these places that did not work. that did not have space for me, you know?

And then I got to create my own on accident . Yeah. But like, I just did what [00:08:00] I wanted to do and something that was like altruistic and just like, because I knew I could, And when I say that I was prepared to do it myself forever, I, I didn't want to or like, but I knew that that could be, that would be the, the defaults.

And like, what ended up happening was, like you said, I got a. A team of like-minded people, a team of people that believed in this thing, and it's because these free stores are so much, you know, they're so much bigger than me. I've always said that. And the people who come to it have all of their different goals in a gen.

You know, like some people do it for social justice aspect, some people do it for the art aspect, some people do it for, you know, because, They, they are parents and they know how quickly their parent or their kids grow out of clothing, so they wanna like, you know, maintain the space for other parents you have.

To be able to have a dignified experience once they get there. Right. Those are the people who clean and maintain it, and there's other [00:09:00] people that it just, it attracts everyone. Mm-hmm. and not all these people have all the same ideals. You know, there's like that Newton store that you help with. Like one of the neighbors across the street, she was like the most.

Like Mama Bear hen of it, like Yeah, I met her. She was a Trump supporter, Mary. 

TrevFM: Oh really? Oh, it's, I mean, I would've guessed she was a Trump sup. She would be, but um, yeah, she was so friendly. That day when you ran into her, she calls you cute . She called you cute. I'm like 

Myles: your friend was like hitting on you.

It was awesome. 

TrevFM: Yeah, I know. It was, it was cute. It was adorable. But that's cool. Cause that's when, um, the, every time I go to the store and we were stocking up with, uh, some of the items we had from the Freedom Market, uh, there would be neighbors there. It was like a neighbor neighboring watering hole. A place where people could come together, and the conversations that were going on and the conversations that were happening, and [00:10:00] the people who were so happy to get these products, these things, I wouldn't even call 'em products.

It's like, that's not the right, uh, that's not the right word. It, it needs to be something warmer than that, because these were items that are used, items that are, some of them are used. Talk about that a. 

Myles: The, the, uh, we like to say that there was no patrons of the free stores. Everybody was a participant.

Free stores really are for everyone. They're, and just like New York, you know, it was like a, a microcosm and it was a water and hole, and it was a center. And at the South Second store, which was in Williamsburg, there was a woman who made, who made Sunday. and every Sunday dinner she'd take the leftovers and she'd put 'em in Tupperware, and by Monday they'd be on the shelves.

And community, community members from that block knew that like her sauce and her leftovers were there on Monday. , you know, like they, I put up the shelves and then these things happened. And like there were so many different [00:11:00] characters. Oh my God. And there'd be drama. One woman was telling me how this one guy was cheating on his , cheating at his wife.

Like, I'm like, I don't care. As long as he stops taking the hangers, cuz we need them , you know? 

TrevFM: Love it. 

Myles: It was so crazy. I got this, like, there was also this one woman at Green Point, she, um, was an older woman. She would show me and any volunteer, anyone who would listen, she would just show us pictures of her son.

Like a grown ass 40 year old man. She's no like, not even like a baby. She's like, I thought it was like a baby. Yeah, I know. No, I saw plenty of baby photos, but he was a grown ass man. Sorry. Like he was, um, she showed us pictures of him with like de blassio or pictures of like him next to his car and was like, Great.

Like, but like when else would that have happened? Yeah. You know, If I was standing in line at the bank next to her, like I would've never had that [00:12:00] interaction. Right. Yeah. Yeah. You could feel the joy and people let down their guard there a little bit. Mm-hmm. it, it wasn't like being on a train, you know, like you were.

It was, it was beautiful. It is beautiful. 

TrevFM: And ironically that the South Second Street, uh, store right next to it a couple blocks away, is the Brooklyn Queens Expressway. And, uh, we, uh, talk about New York's history and how the BQ e destroyed a neighborhood. And the, one of the authors of one of the books, uh, that I read, uh, Jane Jacobs, uh, who speaks about.

Preserving community. And there was a passage that I read. He talks about how the windows were the eyes of a neighborhood and how people would engage each other and people will run into each other. And this is what made the community alive [00:13:00] and that you contrast that with what happened during the pandemic when their free store was born.

And this place, this, this oasis that continues that tradition of old New York, not the Post Robert Moses, New York, but the New York, where people will talk to each other and watch each other. So I think this is, This was such a beautiful thing that you did. It was a shame that I know we found out that that store was taken down the South Second store and that, I guess this speaks to the challenges you have with maintain.

And keeping these stores. 

Myles: So one of the things that we've shifted to now is creating partnerships. And the reason why sell, like sell second, uh, went down, why Newton went down. I went rogue. I went rogue. I built eight of them in two months, between October when we started till December because I wanted to get as many up before the holiday.

And during the time [00:14:00] of, during the pandemic, a lot of like landowners, landlords, building owners, whatever they were in their summer homes. Mm. They weren't in the city. We were in the city, and I took over their space. . I didn't ask them , and I didn't know how long these would last, you know? Like I, some of them I thought would be up for like a weekend, you know?

Mm-hmm. . But they, they outlasted, they like last, uh, South Second was a, Greenpoint was a year and a half. I think I, I, I can check the dates, but all of these locations, like the community, loved them so much because those, those things were rogue. And because I'd asked for forgiveness and not permission, you know, it was inevitable.

I, I don't know if inevitable is the correct word, but it was something that I kind of accepted when I went in and I knew that every day would be a win because we saw, you saw how many people came to those locations a. Yes. You know, like the worst thing you can do for a community, honestly is take [00:15:00] something that great away from them.

And what I want to do is replace the locations that we lost. And some of them Greenpoint closed because they started working on the building inside. Nothing we could do about that. That's progress. You know, like buildings sold, it's a business. It's not open right now because of some other thing, but it's like that's inevitable.

Like it's. It's part of the process and hopefully that that space turns into, you know, a great business that serves the community. You know, it might just be, I don't know, it might suck, but , like the goal would be that it actually does something great for the community, but the free store will never die.

The free store will have different iterations. The free store will, um, you know, come to life in different ways. And now we're just working smart. Now because we have touched so many lives and because so many people have seen the project understand it a little bit better, we do have more opportunities to, you know, uh, tap into [00:16:00] NYCHA or, um, other like government services or government buildings or, you know, we have options now that we didn't have before.

Cuz I will say when I first started telling people about this before it was up mm-hmm. , they were like, What are you talking about? Mm. Do you know how hard it was to explain this idea to somebody who'd never seen it? Okay. One of the first questions that people ask me when I'm talking about this and the people who have not really experienced it themselves is like, Doesn't it get like ruined?

Like, don't people like destroy it? And I'm like, Why? Why would they like, Or they'll be like, Well, who's watching it? I'm like, Who's gonna watch free? No one has to watch free stuff. And they're like, Oh. And it's like, why would you destroy something that's so cool? You know? And it's like, I think the secret of it and why it's not destroyed, right?

Cause it's not tagged up, marked up destroyed or whatever. Like nobody messes with it cuz it's cool. Like if you're, it's a [00:17:00] free store. Like if it was presented by Starbucks , right? And it looked like this, like corporate thing, they'll be like, Oh, get outta my, my town or my neighborhood, or this is stupid. Or you know, Just, I hate the system, whatever, but it's not, It's like put together with scrap pieces of wood.

Yeah. By a bunch of scrappy adults, you know, that like maintain it. And the people that do their volunteer shifts are the same people that are the baristas in the neighborhood or live in the neighborhood or whatever. You see them at the grocery store. So it's not like somebody's coming in infiltrating, again, like those angels, right?

Mm-hmm. . It's not like somebody's coming in being like, Here you go. We're blessing you with this. It's the community coming together to make this thing and then maintain it, and then the rest of the community responds. Well, and like I remember one of our volunteers was there and there's like a bunch of kids with skateboards and she was like, Oh no, they're gonna blah, blah, you know, and they're like, This is so cool.

wait, it's all free, [00:18:00] blah. You know, like she was ready to have some sort of like weird, you know, interaction with them and it was like, no. At the end of the day it's, it's free. On some shelves, who's gonna be mad at that? And I, I will say that I have friends who have a very, very clean, polished, beautiful community fridge over in the east.

And people try to steal it all the time. like it's in this like really cool looking box that's like beautiful, that's like made through Volunteership at like 11th Street Workshop I believe, which is one of those set design. It's like, and people keep trying to take the whole thing cause it looks so cool.

no one's trying to take up a 

TrevFM: restore. , There's a lesson to everyone. Don't make it look too, keep it a little, little DIY and 

Myles: overthink things. You know, this, it's a two parter. Like if I had, there's no way I could have waited to perfect this thing like, [00:19:00] I had to understand the needs of the community. I had to respond to problems.

I had to see that when I came and there was no hangers there, that I had to buy different kind of hangers. Mm. Right. Like there, I, I wouldn't have known that. It's all through trial and error and, and trial and success. Yeah. Like it's a process and I wouldn't have had it any other way. 

TrevFM: And one of the, another thing that I think, You're still around and they're.

Bunch of, and it's just natural that a lot of the activist organizations kind of, you know, they didn't, they're not around today, that were here in 2020. And I think part of that has to do with the fact that you were so open to whatever, you know, I remember when I was asking you, Oh, can I do this online?

You are like, whatever. Do , let it work for you, . And I was like, What? [00:20:00] You don't hit any activists, leaders anywhere. Give you that kind of freedom. I was like, How do you want the website? You do whatever you wanna do. I was like, Whoa, . And um, 

Myles: yeah, because I understand that this is bigger than me. I understand that.

Like I've tried to be controlling at different points in times, and that did not work. , you know, like if I tried to control, control an aesthetic, like there's no way, especially with the way that these stores operate and how frequently they. And like, um, I, I, there was no way that I could, I could make every single flyer look a certain way.

I had to, you know, outsource and I didn't care. Like, I hate comic sounds, but, all right, whatever you wanna post that. Cool. You know, like it's bigger than me and it's a, and because of that, like it, it can attract so many different things. So that's why I had no, no reason and enough evidence to be like you.

Do [00:21:00] you? Cause I want everybody who's a part of, to enjoy the process as much as I do. And in their own way. 

TrevFM: Yes. And that actually goes to another, uh, aspect of this project, which is the perseverance that you showed. I mean, that I, what I, what I so admired about you is, I would ask that very question. You're building this again, , and you were determined and I loved your answer, which is if it lasts for a day, it lasts for a day.

I don't care. And. The reason why that stands out so much to me personally is when we talk about the activism and how, and you and I speak about this, how people sometimes lose energy, lose uh, faith. And when I. Whenever I had these convers, and it happens to me as an activist as well. And when I speak to you about that, you always were so [00:22:00] determined and so sure.

That, Oh, just take that next step. Mm-hmm. , and here you are now you're working with partners. Now it's growing. Now it's becoming more, uh, more a part of the community are more sanctioned, I guess. Legit. Legit is the word. 

Myles: I also, I think I also said like, what else am I gonna do? You know? Yes, you did. That's 

TrevFM: true.

I love 

Myles: that. Well, what else? It was like a Tuesday. What was I gonna do? Like, I mean, everything I think was still shut. I know everything wasn't shut down, but like I, I found my purpose, I found my calling, and I knew that what I was doing was bigger than me, and I knew that it was important, and I knew that I had so many positive experience.

Like there's, there's a difference between like getting knocked down a million times, doing the wrong thing. Versus getting down, knocked down a couple times, doing what you know is right. And in this instance, I felt like I had seen, it was, I [00:23:00] mean, I had seen so many, some, I saw people with their own handmade maps of where these locations were.

Oh really? Wow. Like, yeah, like I saw people believed in this and people depended on it. And I, so many people had talked to me and thanked me. We had like 184, we had 184 volunteers in our little air table data. And we had, you know, eight locations at the time, maybe. Then it went down to four, then it went to 12, then it went to four, then it went to two.

Like then, you know, like it was just up and down and up and down and up and down. I accepted that as part of the process, and I, like, I knew that I didn't wanna do anything else, and like I, I come from nothing, you know, And I, as a recipient, Um, you know, government cheese and standing in long food lines and, you know, gift being gifted, like lots of toys on Christmas through an organization.

You [00:24:00] know, like I underst I understand the value of, um, generosity. Mm-hmm. or charity, I guess. And like, I also know that it's not sustainable, right? Mm-hmm. , like, I also know that like when you're on the receiving end, And it, it come, it's so sparse. You know, there's something that's really, really beautiful about the con continuity of the free store as an infrastructure and, and the communities and neighborhoods and as like a, a way to keep things coming in.

And also keep up hope. And keep hope alive. Like there's not a lot of hope and up food line or waiting for wic. You. And having it run out. But there is hope in checking the store every day on your way home. I too think that like small acts of kindness or, or joy or whatever can spread and can transfer someone, you know, picks up something at the free store.

They always wanted, and then they hold the door [00:25:00] open for someone else and then that person's nice to a cashier, and then that cashier is like compliment somebody else's sweater. Like it is just like, it can keep going and it can grow out. So a date is actually a long amount of time. for those things to be up because that's a lot of people that they can touch in that time.

TrevFM: Yeah. And the um, one of the things that I also appreciate about the Free store is the idea that we're not giving you charity. We're. And we're also taking, that's a part of it too. We're not looking down, One group is not looking down at another, and this mutual aspect of it all is something that I think is a beautiful thing.

Not, you know, I, I see charity, and as you said, charity is not sustainable, but something where you feel as good taken as giving is, is because it's perpetuating itself. 

Myles: It's perpetuating it itself. It's, it's sharing, it's cyclical, it's circular, it's [00:26:00] all those things. It's not like an angel kind of charity thing that comes in and they're like, Here you go.

Poor people. runs away 

TrevFM: like, you know, Yes, . 

Myles: Yeah, we know . And it's not like that , it's not like that. It's like a neighbor helping a neighbor and it's like, But it's a personality, a person. It. It's free. There's nobody monitoring it. There's no one, like, what are you doing? Mm-hmm. , there's no, it's just a free space for shared like commerce, you know, like kindness, commerce.

Yes. If, if that can be a thing, and it's like, that's why it's really great. There's this one kid who talks about how, like he saw he, he gave away a bunch of his Thrasher shirts. And then like he sees all the kids in the neighborhood, like wearing them like that week. Like how rad is that? That's beautiful.

You know, there is no hierarchy. Everybody's just equal. 

TrevFM: Yes, absolutely. So we're gonna wrap it up soon. So I want to ask you, so what's the plans for the [00:27:00] free store? What is the goal? 

Myles: Which one? . . No. I mean, there's a million things that we wanna do that I wanna do. I wanna create more of these and like I said, like I wanna have them sanctioned or legitimized or created.

Like I really do think that it, it is. Community infrastructure, right? Like you put a free corner in your building's lobby, like I've seen a bunch of those kind of things. And this is just like a way to kind of push it out a little bit further. I think that there should be more of these like free standing sharing kiosks throughout the city, and my plan is to continue to do that, to seek out more connections with NYCHA public.

The park system, the newest, so many different small businesses around, um, that have like already expressed interest in collaborating. We usually get donations of like lost and found from the nearby bars. Like everybody kind of pitches in for these things. So the more we do them, the more [00:28:00] people see them, the more though they'll understand and the need for them, um, and the less hurdles I will.

To integrate these systems into our city. So the plan is more, it's always been more, the plan is to get them up everywhere. I would like to get, uh, this is something I've been talking about for a while. We need a space. Mm-hmm. , like, I don't, like, we usually build, um, on site. Uh, we had a space, but it got flooded by.

And when we had a space, we would get donations of wood, we'd get donations of like bulk items. Cause you don't wanna bring, you know, uh, 78 pairs of biker shorts to the free store in a day. Like, it's best to kind of like spread those things out. So to get those donations and continue working in this whole like, resourced, repurposed kind of way that we'd been working, we need to turn that faucet.

By having a space for those [00:29:00] donations to go, so then they can be distributed throughout the community. So that's a goal that I'm looking for. Maybe will carry sustainable products or sustainable brands or brand or you know, products that are created and crafted with our people in mind. Like that would be a good way.

So then we can, it would be like business in the front party in the back,

Yeah, Molly, for the, for the win, you know, but we'll have like all of our, our tools and things back there. It could be like a meeting shared space. That's ideally my goal and that's like when I think about what I would like, what I would love, it would be, The ability to have a roof over our heads so we could do these things and continue to make a difference.

I 

TrevFM: got one last question. What is the strangest item or set of items I always see on Instagram These, I mean, the last one you had was the political theme they had. Eisenhower, I wish I was there. I wanted to get that. [00:30:00] I have . Oh, and uh, so what, tell me some of the strange items that you found in. 

Myles: The free store's so weird.

It's, it is so weird. Oh my God. It's like, you could tell when someone's gone through a breakup cause there'll be like 35 copies of like attached and becoming you and like, you know what I mean? Like you just see like different parts of people's lives. There's been a lot of dildos, that were package brand new.

Dude of, Yeah. My gosh. Um, the, I don't know. I mean, everything is strange if you think about it. Um, I've seen a lot of like really beautiful family portraits, which I've, I'm in photo albums and stuff, and I guess that that's been like, passed down through thrift stores, but why would anybody ever gotten rid of that in the first place?

Cause these is me. Um, I'm trying to think. Like people, I love the little notes that people. [00:31:00] You know, like the, I maybe broken, but you know what I mean? Or I'm, I don't know. She just needs a little, It's just like, I love all the tender love and care. I think that like, maybe because it was the very beginning, it was the very beginning and like, um, people were giving away, like, uh, a lot of the donations consisted of like yarn, naing supplies, like things from people's, like little pet projects that they started in the pandemic and couldn't finish.

And half bags of flour. Every store I find half bags of flour. Yes. Oh my God. But there was all these like bondage, like, I hate to bring up dildos and bondage, but like, it was just like, it was all That's what you got, bondage things. I know. And it was, it was so funny. Like it was, there was like, it was uh, yeah, like full pieces, like leather straps, the ball gags, like all the stuff.

It was just like, And then like , I posted it like, Oh my God, [00:32:00] look where got. And like the girl was like, That's mine. Like, she was so stoked. No way, . And I was like, That's awesome. Like, I didn't wanna like, you know, she was like, and then she reposted it. It was just like, I thought that that was like, really, like that was my first, um, thing where I was like, Yes, this is so cool.

It's like, it's just like, it's so cool. Um, I, I will say this one time I got this really, it isn't weird, but it was really beautiful. It was just like a Mary, I think, like, it was like a religious painting and it was like on a rolled up piece of canvas and. Super, super old and aged, and if you weren't paying attention, you wouldn't have found it.

And I was just like, I was amazed by the beauty of it, you know? And so grateful to have stumbled across it. And yeah, I think that that's like the cool part is coming across things that like, I don't know, it's just like, [00:33:00] it, it feels like magic when those things come in your hands. Again, it was like almost meant to be, you know, Yeah.

TrevFM: Now you can see a lot of those items on your Instagram, like following the free store project is a look a peek inside the closets and the shelves of your fellow New Yorkers. So, uh, make sure you follow Miles at the Free Store project. Is that that's Instagram, correct. 

Myles: Yeah, it's the free store project, definitely.

For all your voyeuristic needs, 

TrevFM: is anything, anybody you wanna shout out or promote and, uh, give the, the name of your contact, uh, all of your web, all of your Instagrams, and the website for the free store project. 

Myles: Yeah, I mean, shout out to Trevor for being awesome, for being Yeah, dude, for being such a light, you know.

Uh, this world can be really dark. And I think that we knew that and we, you and I both knew that there were, we couldn't just sit back. Right. Yeah. There was no way. [00:34:00] And doing the work that we do helped us find each other, helped us find like minds and then like helped us like get through this and we had each other to rest on, which was awesome.

And I believe so strongly in what I do, and I know that you're so passionate about what it is you do. And like no one, no one can break that you. No one can. It's just like we got work to do and it's easier with each other. Absolutely. But if people wanna find us, they can. Uh, it's either the free store project.com or more active on Instagram.

So it would be at the Free Store project. And if they wanted to get in touch with us, it's Connect at the free store project.com for email or we got Gmail, the free store project gmail.com. Just to keep it simple. 

TrevFM: Well, Miles, thank you so much. Thank you so much for joining. Uh, can't wait to see where this goes and how it grows [00:35:00] and keep building it.

And they will keep coming. . 

Myles: Yes. Thank you so much, Trevor. Love you so much. Love you too, Miles. 

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That's Freedom market.shop until the next show. [00:36:00] See you next time.

Myles: The.