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BONUS EPISODE-Richie Brown Interview · Johnny's World

• 0:23
  SPEAKER_00: All right, welcome back to a brand new edition of the Johnny Squirrel podcast.
• 0:27
  SPEAKER_00: It's Johnny here.
• 0:28
  SPEAKER_00: Uh we got a great guest uh today joining me.
• 0:32
  SPEAKER_00: Uh y'all might remember him from uh from the Mississippi State 2014 team that shot up to number one in the rankings, and they're having a having a uh reunion this weekend.
• 0:41
  SPEAKER_00: So I wanted to catch up with him and talk about the good times here in Start Vegas uh back in those uh glory years.
• 0:47
  SPEAKER_00: So uh uh welcome to Johnny's World Bulldog, former Bulldog linebacker Richie Brown.
• 0:53
  SPEAKER_02: Hey, how's it going?
• 0:54
  SPEAKER_02: Thanks for having me.
• 0:55
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, Richie, uh so happy to have you back on here.
• 0:58
  SPEAKER_00: First of all, just tell the listeners out here uh what where you're at these days and what you're doing.
• 1:04
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so after about four years in the NFL, I got a concussion with the Falcons and was on IR, unfortunately, my last year.
• 1:12
  SPEAKER_02: And um, you know, just kind of settled and retired after that and went and got into construction.
• 1:18
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, did a lot of dirty work for about three years under a mentor of mine, and he was teaching me everything and then business to know.
• 1:24
  SPEAKER_02: And um, then I designed and built my own house.
• 1:27
  SPEAKER_02: And after I did that, it turned into uh me realizing um that I was good at building homes um and that I was uh good at contracting.
• 1:37
  SPEAKER_02: I didn't know it.
• 1:38
  SPEAKER_02: So I went and got commercially licensed uh and took my commercial experience and residential experience uh that I had just learned.
• 1:45
  SPEAKER_02: And now I'm on year four of um owning a construction company.
• 1:49
  SPEAKER_02: Um, and we're a general contractor here on the coast of Mississippi, and we're doing high performance building and studying with some of the top builders in the country and doing some revolutionary uh building techniques um and some really cool stuff and getting to meet really cool people.
• 2:04
  SPEAKER_02: So thankfully, um my time at Mississippi State and in the NFL opened some cool doors for me to be able to talk to some of the uh top builders in the country that are doing some pretty innovative work.
• 2:14
  SPEAKER_02: And so we're kind of a part of a network of building scientists across the country and doing some fun, cool things that I enjoy.
• 2:22
  SPEAKER_00: So that's really exciting, Richie.
• 2:26
  SPEAKER_00: Uh uh congrats on that.
• 2:27
  SPEAKER_00: I know you you're you're doing a great job down there on the coast with that.
• 2:30
  SPEAKER_00: Um well let's uh let's let's let's go back down memory lane memory lane a little bit.
• 2:35
  SPEAKER_00: Uh first of all, tell everybody uh uh how you ended up.
• 2:39
  SPEAKER_00: You're from the coast, is that right?
• 2:40
  SPEAKER_00: Long beach area.
• 2:41
  SPEAKER_00: How'd you end up at Mississippi State?
• 2:44
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so I'm from Long Beach, Mississippi.
• 2:46
  SPEAKER_02: Um still moved back down here to the coast because I love it.
• 2:49
  SPEAKER_02: I think it's a hidden gem.
• 2:50
  SPEAKER_02: Um and yeah, I got my first offer from Mississippi State at a Long Beach High School.
• 2:56
  SPEAKER_02: And then um after that, I had a bunch of other options like Stanford and you know, Tennessee, LSU.
• 3:03
  SPEAKER_02: Um, I think I had somewhere around 20 offers or something.
• 3:06
  SPEAKER_02: I kind of stopped counting after a while, but um, you know, Mississippi State really stood out to me.
• 3:12
  SPEAKER_02: Jeff Collins was uh the linebacker coach at the time.
• 3:16
  SPEAKER_02: Um, you know, so you know, it was went up there to Mississippi State and just really felt like that was where I was supposed to be.
• 3:22
  SPEAKER_02: Prayed about it.
• 3:23
  SPEAKER_02: I was like, man, I feel like this is where God's called me to be.
• 3:26
  SPEAKER_02: Just felt a piece about it.
• 3:27
  SPEAKER_02: So went with my heart on that, and I was right.
• 3:30
  SPEAKER_02: Also met my wife there.
• 3:32
  SPEAKER_02: Um, you know, in 2015 or 2014, I met her, and you know, we got married in 2015.
• 3:38
  SPEAKER_02: So uh during the 2015 season.
• 3:41
  SPEAKER_02: Um so you know, now we have two beautiful girls, Kate and Ellie.
• 3:45
  SPEAKER_02: Um, and you know, it was it was amazing.
• 3:48
  SPEAKER_02: I love Starkville, I love Mississippi.
• 3:51
  SPEAKER_02: Um will always be a bulldog for life, and you know, so that's kind of how I ended up there.
• 3:57
  SPEAKER_02: Um, you know, under Jeff Collins, and he was our DC uh the majority of the time, then Manny Diaz and Peter Sermon.
• 4:03
  SPEAKER_02: So we had some DC swaps back in the day, but uh that 2014 season was definitely special to us and um, you know, was kind of our breakout year.
• 4:14
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, let's hit on that.
• 4:15
  SPEAKER_00: So so this weekend, uh the 2014 team is gonna be gonna be honored at Mississippi State, and and it'll be 10 years.
• 4:23
  SPEAKER_00: It's hard to believe it's been 10 years since that team was went up to number one.
• 4:27
  SPEAKER_00: Uh just go back, just tell us any memories you might remember from that scene.
• 4:30
  SPEAKER_00: Did you know going into that season they are gonna be that good?
• 4:34
  SPEAKER_02: Well, um, I think we all knew we're gonna be good.
• 4:37
  SPEAKER_02: I guess the question was is how good was everybody else?
• 4:40
  SPEAKER_02: Um, you know, we felt you know rock solid.
• 4:44
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, just in practice.
• 4:45
  SPEAKER_02: We had some amazing practice sessions.
• 4:47
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, um, you know, just the guys who were going up on the offensive line to the defensive line battles, you know, it was just like NFL caliber battles, you know, every week.
• 4:58
  SPEAKER_02: Um, and just there in practice.
• 5:00
  SPEAKER_02: And so, you know, we knew we had something special, um, but it wasn't until probably the LSU game that we kind of said, okay, you know, I think we can do something really special this year.
• 5:11
  SPEAKER_02: Um, you know, we had that goal line stand in LSU at Death Valley, um, you know, which was huge, which, you know, that was a big moment for me personally, too.
• 5:21
  SPEAKER_02: There was some big plays in there.
• 5:23
  SPEAKER_02: And um, I think I had the fourth down tackle on that drive.
• 5:27
  SPEAKER_02: So, you know, for me, I was like, that was a pretty surreal moment.
• 5:30
  SPEAKER_02: I was like, man, I'm in Death Valley, and I just had the fourth down tackle, goal line stand to kind of commiserate the season.
• 5:37
  SPEAKER_02: So that was fun.
• 5:38
  SPEAKER_02: Um, you know, we had a goal line package.
• 5:41
  SPEAKER_02: Um, and that was a really big play.
• 5:43
  SPEAKER_02: I think that play kind of set the tone for our season, that those four downs.
• 5:48
  SPEAKER_02: Um, you know, and playing behind Chris Jones and you know, Jeffrey Simmons, and man, just some amazing guys.
• 5:55
  SPEAKER_02: Um, you know, and excited to see them all this weekend as well.
• 6:00
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that that LSU game, uh, it was a it was just it seemed like it was a turning point because Mississippi State had not beat the LSU at Tiger Stadium since 1991.
• 6:10
  SPEAKER_00: So it's been it was many, many years later to to finally, and you get that, I guess you could say you get that monkey off your back that that that Mississippi State has struggled with.
• 6:18
  SPEAKER_00: We hadn't it state had not even beaten LSU since 1999.
• 6:21
  SPEAKER_00: So that was just just a big time win.
• 6:23
  SPEAKER_00: And then you follow that up next weekend, and you had probably one of the games of your life the next weekend against Texas AM.
• 6:29
  SPEAKER_00: Talk a little bit about that game and and what you remember and how cool was it getting those interceptions?
• 6:34
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that was awesome.
• 6:35
  SPEAKER_02: Um, had three interceptions that game, and obviously I remember that game.
• 6:39
  SPEAKER_02: It was um a lot of fun.
• 6:42
  SPEAKER_02: Um, you know, kind of a daytime game, really big game for us.
• 6:46
  SPEAKER_02: I think Texas AM was ranked, I want to say number two.
• 6:50
  SPEAKER_02: You might remember better than I did.
• 6:52
  SPEAKER_02: Um, and so it, you know, it was an elite game.
• 6:55
  SPEAKER_02: Um, they were four-no.
• 6:57
  SPEAKER_02: Um, their quarterback had a ton of hype.
• 6:59
  SPEAKER_02: Um, you know, we were just uh, you know, we came out ready to play.
• 7:03
  SPEAKER_02: And um, you know, the first one he kind of threw right to me.
• 7:07
  SPEAKER_02: So that one was an easy one.
• 7:09
  SPEAKER_02: Um, you know, the second one he threw to his receiver and his receiver tipped it, and I had to make a little adjustment, but I was able to snag that one as well.
• 7:17
  SPEAKER_02: And and then the third one, I knew he was gonna do a check-down route.
• 7:20
  SPEAKER_02: Um, you know, you know, just from film study, we knew he loved his little running back check down.
• 7:26
  SPEAKER_02: So I was able to jump right in front of him and get a third interception.
• 7:29
  SPEAKER_02: So I mean, it was pretty surreal.
• 7:31
  SPEAKER_02: And actually, I don't know, you probably remember Benardrick McKinney.
• 7:34
  SPEAKER_02: Um, me and him were actually splitting playtime at that time.
• 7:37
  SPEAKER_02: You know, we were um going, you know, we were going half and half playtime, you know, you know, so it was that's how talented our team was.
• 7:45
  SPEAKER_02: We had, you know, a group of ones, and then we called them one A's and one B's on defense because we really had elite talent, even you know, too deep.
• 7:54
  SPEAKER_02: Um but yeah, what's kind of funny is Bernardrick actually um, you know, he was making fun of me for the first interception because I dropped it.
• 8:02
  SPEAKER_02: Um and well, because I he threw it right to me, sorry.
• 8:06
  SPEAKER_02: And um what's funny is he got one thrown right to him.
• 8:10
  SPEAKER_02: If I was actually in, I could have had four interceptions that game because he had another one that got thrown right to him and he fumbled it around and dropped it.
• 8:19
  SPEAKER_02: So I'll I'll never let him live that down.
• 8:21
  SPEAKER_02: Uh oh wow, because he was making fun of me for getting one thrown right to me, but I was like, I caught mine.
• 8:28
  SPEAKER_02: That's great.
• 8:29
  SPEAKER_00: Um, all right, so so you so you you beat LC on the road, you come back and you beat Texas AM, and then you got the big one that everyone remembers the college game day being there, Auburn coming to town, um, highly ranked, and just just talk about that game, memories from that game, that day, just uh amazing day for Mississippi State football.
• 8:51
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah.
• 8:52
  SPEAKER_02: That that that game was a a ton of hype.
• 8:56
  SPEAKER_02: Um, you know, Marvel came in.
• 8:58
  SPEAKER_02: I want to say it was might have been raining a little bit at some point.
• 9:02
  SPEAKER_02: Um, but you know, we we went up fast on them.
• 9:05
  SPEAKER_02: I think we went up 21-0 on them really quick.
• 9:08
  SPEAKER_02: And I think after that, everybody was feeling pretty confident um in our season.
• 9:12
  SPEAKER_02: And um, you know, they started to kind of claw back.
• 9:14
  SPEAKER_02: We had to kind of keep them down, but man, it was an amazing game.
• 9:18
  SPEAKER_02: Um, I think I had a fake punt past that game is one of my memories from that game, where Logan Cook, who's with the Jaguars now, me and him had a um fake punt that we ran during that play that didn't go so well.
• 9:32
  SPEAKER_02: Um, you know, I was lined up at the left end position on special teams and I was supposed to run a little post to the out, and uh he was supposed to roll out and hit me on the post.
• 9:44
  SPEAKER_02: Um, but I tripped a little bit on one of the guys that was blocking me.
• 9:49
  SPEAKER_02: And so as soon as I tripped, he stopped looking at me.
• 9:52
  SPEAKER_02: Um and he just panicked and started running.
• 9:57
  SPEAKER_02: Um, but I did, I eventually got open, and so I give him a hard time to this day of say, you know, if you just would have looked back at me, I got back open again, even though I briefly tripped and um, you know, I would have had a pretty cool play, but it didn't it didn't matter in the end.
• 10:10
  SPEAKER_02: We ended up beating him.
• 10:11
  SPEAKER_02: And um, you know, Dak had a great game that game.
• 10:14
  SPEAKER_02: I think I remember Josh Robinson having a really good game, you know.
• 10:17
  SPEAKER_02: So I mean that was a fun electric atmosphere.
• 10:20
  SPEAKER_02: You couldn't that was one you just needed to be at.
• 10:22
  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
• 10:23
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, that's that's one of those games like you said, you need to be at.
• 10:26
  SPEAKER_00: And uh people always remember.
• 10:28
  SPEAKER_00: Well, well, talk a bit of about uh Dak and and just uh uh being a teammate of his.
• 10:34
  SPEAKER_00: Could you tell back then the leader that he was?
• 10:36
  SPEAKER_00: Uh I how he is the quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys.
• 10:39
  SPEAKER_00: Did you know he's gonna be good?
• 10:41
  SPEAKER_02: Oh yeah.
• 10:42
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, absolutely.
• 10:43
  SPEAKER_02: I think we all had a ton of confidence in Dak.
• 10:45
  SPEAKER_02: Um, you know, he was actually my quote unquote big brother uh that uh at Mississippi State, you know, Coach Knox had a program called uh Big Brothers every time a rookie would come in.
• 10:55
  SPEAKER_02: And so um, you know, me and Dad were close.
• 10:58
  SPEAKER_02: Um and I just knew he was just an elite human being.
• 11:03
  SPEAKER_02: Um, just an awesome guy all around, you know, he gets a lot of flack, of course, nowadays.
• 11:08
  SPEAKER_02: And anytime you're in that position, you do, but um, but he's just an amazing guy and he'll he'll always prove people wrong.
• 11:14
  SPEAKER_02: He'll always um he doesn't care about you know the pressure.
• 11:17
  SPEAKER_02: He knows how to manage, you know, that kind of pressure and and perform in high intense situations.
• 11:24
  SPEAKER_02: And um, you know, he stays calm, he stays cool, collected, and that's a a lot of the reason why he's been so successful.
• 11:32
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, absolutely.
• 11:33
  SPEAKER_00: I agree.
• 11:33
  SPEAKER_00: And adversity, like just overcoming stuff, and and uh that that's the key to key to life.
• 11:38
  SPEAKER_00: And uh yeah, I agree with you 100% on that sort of what why he's been successful, continues to be successful.
• 11:44
  SPEAKER_00: Um well, uh, do you do you still keep in touch with any of your former teammates or or you see him this weekend for the first time in a while?
• 11:50
  SPEAKER_00: Or or what?
• 11:51
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, there'll be some that I'll see for the first time in a while.
• 11:54
  SPEAKER_02: We actually had like a little uh mini reunion um over the summer, I want to say, or spring game.
• 11:59
  SPEAKER_02: Uh Bulldog Bash.
• 12:00
  SPEAKER_02: I got to see some old uh teammates like uh Benardric and um Zach Jackson, an old linebacker, uh Preston Smith.
• 12:08
  SPEAKER_02: Um, you know, so I've been I keep in touch with them.
• 12:11
  SPEAKER_02: We all you know, text every now and then, um, you know, touch base, but it'll be really good.
• 12:16
  SPEAKER_02: I I've already seen a bunch of my teammates are coming that I haven't seen in a very long time.
• 12:20
  SPEAKER_02: Some of them haven't seen since we left.
• 12:22
  SPEAKER_02: Wow.
• 12:23
  SPEAKER_02: So um it's gonna be pretty cool.
• 12:25
  SPEAKER_02: It'll be an exciting for all of us, I know for sure.
• 12:28
  SPEAKER_02: Um and you know, hopefully it'll be fun for all the fans as well to get to see smalled faces around.
• 12:34
  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
• 12:35
  SPEAKER_00: Hey, we're playing we're playing at Texas AM.
• 12:37
  SPEAKER_00: So, man, if you got an extra year of eligibility, might need you on that field.
• 12:41
  SPEAKER_00: That's right.
• 12:42
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we could we could use three interceptions, that's for sure against them.
• 12:46
  SPEAKER_01: Uh absolutely.
• 12:47
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I would love it.
• 12:48
  SPEAKER_01: I'll strap back up.
• 12:50
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 12:50
  SPEAKER_00: Have you uh have you been watching uh Mississippi State football this season?
• 12:53
  SPEAKER_02: Watching this I have, yeah, yeah.
• 12:55
  SPEAKER_02: I've been following along.
• 12:57
  SPEAKER_00: Um what are your something uh I know we got a rough pass, but the past couple games improvement.
• 13:03
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, well, I was impressed um with how we fought with Georgia.
• 13:08
  SPEAKER_02: Um man, a few plays different um and a few big plays.
• 13:11
  SPEAKER_02: I think we could have beat them.
• 13:13
  SPEAKER_02: Um so I mean I see the fight in our team, and I know, you know, for the fans, it's always tough these seasons where we start off, you know, kind of bad.
• 13:22
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, my last year with Mississippi State, 2016, we lost to South Alabama by a field goal, and just you know, and then but we then we turned around at the end of the year and beat AM, you know, who was ranked pretty good at the end of the year, and everybody thought we were gonna lose that game and beat them.
• 13:36
  SPEAKER_02: So, you know, it's just one of those things where, you know, I think everybody wants to call it a rebuilding year, and I know everybody's tired of that.
• 13:43
  SPEAKER_02: They're like, man, why can't we just be good?
• 13:45
  SPEAKER_02: But I really think what's key and important is that we just believe in a coach, believe in a system, let them let them do their thing, let them have years to build.
• 13:52
  SPEAKER_02: You know, Dan Mullen had many years before that 2014 season at Mississippi.
• 13:57
  SPEAKER_02: So, you know, I think it's just important just to believe in our guys, continue to encourage them, like, you know, bashing people, being upset never produces anything good.
• 14:06
  SPEAKER_02: And and the players feel toxicity too.
• 14:08
  SPEAKER_02: It doesn't help your program to be negative about guys losing games.
• 14:13
  SPEAKER_02: You know, you want to focus on the good, encourage them for the good things that they're doing, and really just get behind them from that standpoint.
• 14:20
  SPEAKER_02: And it's not, you know, a lot of people carry a different mentality of like, no, you know, we we should be this.
• 14:25
  SPEAKER_02: And you know, people try to be over-aggressive and hard.
• 14:28
  SPEAKER_02: And I don't think that's what the guys need from fans.
• 14:31
  SPEAKER_02: Now, coaches, they know how to do that the right way.
• 14:33
  SPEAKER_02: So let the coaches do their job, they know how to push guys, um, they know which guys they need to coach with, you know, some of them they need to be a little more tough love on, some of them they need to, you know, come up behind.
• 14:45
  SPEAKER_02: And so let the coaches do that, support the team, you know, just encourage them because you know they're they're growing, they're building, they have a lot of obstacles that are way different than when I even played with the NIL.
• 14:58
  SPEAKER_02: Um, you know, there's just a it's a different ball game nowadays, and it's just hard.
• 15:04
  SPEAKER_02: It's tough for the coaches, you know, they have to recruit players every year, you know.
• 15:09
  SPEAKER_02: They don't know if they're gonna lose a guy, you know, every year.
• 15:12
  SPEAKER_02: So it's kind of hard to build a program around that.
• 15:15
  SPEAKER_02: But just, you know, I would just say just encourage and let let the coaches do what they're doing, let them build a program.
• 15:21
  SPEAKER_02: And I I see some fight in the guys for sure.
• 15:24
  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
• 15:25
  SPEAKER_00: I agree 100%.
• 15:26
  SPEAKER_00: It's pretty crazy in the air that we're in with the transfer portals and and paying players and the NIL, just you know, you like you say with the roster, you don't know who you're got coming back.
• 15:36
  SPEAKER_00: So so uh, but yeah, just uh just stick with them and and I agree with you 100% that that it uh as long as the the fan base can like stay away from the bash and just support the players, players feed off of that and just learn from that, and and uh good things are happening.
• 15:52
  SPEAKER_00: And it's we you see improvement like this year from the beginning of the year from right now, we've seen improvement.
• 15:56
  SPEAKER_00: So that's a good sign.
• 15:57
  SPEAKER_00: Um one more thing uh uh before I let you go, I want to take you back.
• 16:00
  SPEAKER_00: I thought about this.
• 16:00
  SPEAKER_00: I want to ask you when y'all went to number one, where where were you uh when when that happened?
• 16:06
  SPEAKER_00: Were y'all all together when we found out that y'all got to be number one?
• 16:08
  SPEAKER_00: And what was that like?
• 16:11
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I think it was right after that uh Auburn game.
• 16:15
  SPEAKER_02: Um and yeah, I remember uh I think we had a team meeting um right after that game.
• 16:23
  SPEAKER_02: And I think some of us had already heard uh before we got to the meeting, but yeah, I do remember it was a pretty surreal moment.
• 16:29
  SPEAKER_02: Um, you know, we were all together, but then it was very quickly, okay.
• 16:35
  SPEAKER_02: You know, Dan uh Mullen came up and talked to us, and he his, you know, he he was excited, he let us celebrate for a minute, but it was very quickly back to reality.
• 16:46
  SPEAKER_02: Hey, look, here's the pressure that comes with being number one.
• 16:50
  SPEAKER_02: You know, you're gonna get everybody's best every week.
• 16:54
  SPEAKER_02: He said, and he just gave us a really good um talk about you know expectations, about how every week we got to prepare.
• 17:01
  SPEAKER_02: Um, you know, just the same way we always do, focus on us, distract, you know, don't worry about the distractions, focus on us.
• 17:10
  SPEAKER_02: Um, you know, he did a really good job of kind of protecting um our hearts in that season um and keeping us down to earth and realizing that you know it was still gonna be a fight every week and there was gonna be adversity and things were gonna happen.
• 17:23
  SPEAKER_02: So um, but it was it was awesome, it was amazing.
• 17:26
  SPEAKER_02: And of course, we wish some things would have panned out a little different in the back of the year.
• 17:29
  SPEAKER_02: We had some injuries, um you know, some coaching changes, and um, but you know, it was still an amazing season, a really a lot of good memories from that year.
• 17:40
  SPEAKER_00: It's one of those moments, man.
• 17:42
  SPEAKER_00: Like you you can always remember where you were when stuff like that happens really neat.
• 17:45
  SPEAKER_00: And just the fact of seeing, you know, I mean, we we finally reached the pinnacle in baseball, won the national championship.
• 17:52
  SPEAKER_00: But but for Mississippi State football in the in the past, you know, it we've never reached that moment, and just seeing that number one by Mississippi State is something that all Bulldog fans will always cherish and remember from now till forever, pretty much.
• 18:05
  SPEAKER_00: And and and that that bunch that you're with there will always go down as as as legends because y'all made it happen.
• 18:11
  SPEAKER_00: And and uh just shout out to the whole team and and coaches, Coach Mullen, everyone uh who was involved in that.
• 18:18
  SPEAKER_00: And uh so honored uh that y'all are gonna get so just so it's it's it's a big honor to to to have y'all back on campus this weekend and and uh just to reminisce on on what what y'all did for the program.
• 18:30
  SPEAKER_00: So uh so Richie, thanks for coming on and sharing sharing some moments from uh memories from from back then and and good luck to you.
• 18:38
  SPEAKER_00: Is there any way uh in if anyone wants to uh find out about your business or anything, is there any website or anything that you you'd lead them to?
• 18:47
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so we're uh beaconbuilt.us.
• 18:49
  SPEAKER_02: That's uh B E A-C-O-N, like a light.
• 18:52
  SPEAKER_02: Um beacon built B-U-I-L-T.us is our website.
• 18:58
  SPEAKER_02: And uh we're like I said, we're high performance, um residential.
• 19:02
  SPEAKER_02: We do some really nice homes.
• 19:04
  SPEAKER_02: We call them multi-generational homes.
• 19:06
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, not that we're expensive, but we just do things really high quality.
• 19:10
  SPEAKER_02: Um and you know, we're also a commercial builder, so we take a lot of our building science knowledge and have some really good ROI for our commercial clients as well.
• 19:19
  SPEAKER_02: And so we're just trying to do things a little different and be super transparent, um, you know, and just kind of change the game of contracting down here on the coast.
• 19:27
  SPEAKER_02: And um, but yeah, you can find us there, and we're also on Instagram and uh Facebook as well.
• 19:32
  SPEAKER_00: Awesome.
• 19:33
  SPEAKER_00: All right, Richie.
• 19:34
  SPEAKER_00: Well I'll let you get back to work and uh and hopefully we'll see you this weekend and uh y'all have a great time.
• 19:39
  SPEAKER_00: And I I know it'll be uh a special moment for you.
• 19:42
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so so excited and uh uh thanks for having me on.
• 19:46
  SPEAKER_00: All right, Richie, take care, man.
• 19:48
  SPEAKER_02: All right, thank you.