Jason & Richard Gray, brothers from the Southside of Chicago, have created an all-inclusive card game based on all of our favorite 90’s sitcom, Martin.

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“I went to a game night back in 2016 and saw that everyone was doing their own thing. A few people playing spades; a few people just looking at their phones. Basic human interaction is going away because of so much technology. I wanted to create something that we could all interact over a common interest” Jason says.

From there, Cards for the Culture (housed under their main entity, Republic & Company) was birthed. Jason had quit his job back in October of 2015 to focus solely on Republic & Company where they were only selling t-shirts with infamous quotes from the Martin show but business wasn’t doing too good. After attending the game night, Jason had $150 to his name and spent $40 on the card game prototype.

“After posting a picture of the prototype, the response was enough to validate interest. A month later, we did a pre-sale and the rest is history.”

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With Jason as the creative and Richard as the processor behind the brand, they’ve garnered more interest than they could have ever anticipated.

“I feel like we can do whatever we put our minds too. We go back and forth with ideas, get excited about it and go for it.” – Richard

The brothers hope to have Cards for the Culture become a household name. They’ve expanded beyond the Martin Trivia game and have included a 90’s R&B trivia game, Romantic Comedy, A Different World, Coming to America, and so much more.

Photo: Cardsfortheculture.co

Visit the site to see what you can load up on before your next kickback at Republic & Co and Cards for the Culture.

Follow their IG @republicandcompany and listen to their podcast here.