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BnC Exclusive 1: Behind the Pod · Bearded And Crunchy

• 0:19
  SPEAKER_01: From Goodyear Heights to podcast listeners everywhere.
• 0:24
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome back to Bearded and Crunchy.
• 0:29
  SPEAKER_00: All right, Bob.
• 0:30
  SPEAKER_00: They're not ready for this one, are they?
• 0:31
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, nobody has a clue except for us.
• 0:33
  SPEAKER_00: Yep.
• 0:34
  SPEAKER_00: So this will be fun to see who's paying attention.
• 0:36
  SPEAKER_00: Guys, we got together.
• 0:37
  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna record a short little episode for you guys.
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_00: We've been having some good things in the works.
• 0:43
  SPEAKER_00: Um, we've had some good things smile upon us.
• 0:46
  SPEAKER_00: Um, we've been both really putting a lot of hard work, time, and effort into this.
• 0:51
  SPEAKER_00: So we thought we'd record this and and and just kind of bullshit a little and tell you guys how our story started and how we decided we were gonna do this.
• 0:59
  SPEAKER_00: And we had unfortunately a quite long hiatus and attacking it the way we wanted to, but now we're full steam ahead.
• 1:07
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and we also want to thank you guys, man.
• 1:09
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I mean, without you guys, I mean, again, you know, I've said in a previous episode that like we would do this if three people the week listen.
• 1:16
  SPEAKER_00: Like we were we truly would.
• 1:18
  SPEAKER_00: But the more people that listen, it it you know, like Bob said, you know, it lights a fire under our eyes.
• 1:23
  SPEAKER_00: It does, you know, it it because that means you know, people are consistently wanting to hear what we gotta say.
• 1:28
  SPEAKER_00: So it's almost addicting in a way.
• 1:31
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, it is, it is it is, it is, and especially with me going through a divorce.
• 1:36
  SPEAKER_00: Um, this has been uh crucial in helping me heal, um, you know, because you know, and and just so you guys know, it's it's an amicable um uh divorce.
• 1:48
  SPEAKER_00: Um we just you know, sometimes you just grow apart.
• 1:52
  SPEAKER_00: But um so Bob uh real quick before we uh we get into our backstory, we'll just tell everybody what um what we got coming up and and what the good news is and you know give them a little insight into the good news.
• 2:13
  SPEAKER_00: So uh first off, I'll go into Bob got us some uh some new headphones.
• 2:18
  SPEAKER_00: Some new cans.
• 2:19
  SPEAKER_00: God damn, they they sound amazing.
• 2:21
  SPEAKER_00: Such a difference.
• 2:22
  SPEAKER_00: So uh it will sound like uh kids at Christmas probably recording this, but uh and earlier today uh you know it was ironic because I I took the day off work and uh we were supposed to go down and finalize the divorce, but there was some paperwork that still needed filed, whatever.
• 2:42
  SPEAKER_00: But uh before we went down, I was sitting at my house and I was editing one of our videos, and I realized I hadn't checked our email.
• 2:51
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah.
• 2:52
  SPEAKER_00: And I opened it up and I'm I'm deleting, you know, it tells us when, you know, it gives us newsletters for all the different sites we're on, and and it tells me when you like post stuff on Facebook and stuff like that.
• 3:05
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 3:06
  SPEAKER_00: So I was going through and deleting, and then I seen one that came with from with a name.
• 3:10
  SPEAKER_00: So I immediately go, Oh, we're already getting spammed.
• 3:13
  SPEAKER_00: Great.
• 3:13
  SPEAKER_00: Already, yeah.
• 3:14
  SPEAKER_00: What do they want from us?
• 3:15
  SPEAKER_00: So I click on it and I'm reading, and it's an email about us being searched quite frequently, um really compared to other uh podcasts with similar names and whatnot.
• 3:35
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but the one thing that got me was the screenshot that I sent you was we were 480,000th uh out of all podcasts.
• 3:44
  SPEAKER_00: Four four million out of four million, or we were four hundred and eighty thousandth out of four million, which is 20 per top 20 percent.
• 3:52
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 3:53
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and considering we average between 40 and 50 downloads a week, that's that's impressive.
• 3:59
  SPEAKER_00: That's pretty impressive, yeah.
• 4:00
  SPEAKER_01: Um and for a little a little indie thing that we're just doing.
• 4:04
  SPEAKER_00: That we just decided to fucking do, and and here we are.
• 4:07
  SPEAKER_00: So we're we're we were excited about that.
• 4:09
  SPEAKER_00: And and like I said, we got a lot of good episodes coming for you guys, and and and a lot of other content that's gonna be coming.
• 4:17
  SPEAKER_00: And we're I I I I I don't wanna uh um I I'll let Bob say it.
• 4:25
  SPEAKER_00: Uh pretty soon we should have some some things, and I'll let Bob get into that.
• 4:30
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I kind of wanted to do some stuff on video for just video purposes so people could see.
• 4:39
  SPEAKER_01: Because I I believe in the brand that we're building, of course.
• 4:43
  SPEAKER_01: But I have gone out and got some we both like coffee.
• 4:50
  SPEAKER_01: Whether or not you'll use it for coffee, I understand the I will it'll be B calf, but yeah.
• 4:54
  SPEAKER_01: I understand the Meneer's disease situation.
• 4:57
  SPEAKER_01: No caffeine.
• 4:58
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that sucks, balls.
• 5:00
  SPEAKER_01: But I decided to get uh a couple coffee cups with our logos uh made on it.
• 5:05
  SPEAKER_01: Uh had a couple t-shirts done for us, and then no longer will I have a just standard regular blue pen or whatever pen I find at the time.
• 5:15
  SPEAKER_01: Because I had some uh bearded and crunchy wrapped pens done.
• 5:20
  SPEAKER_00: And guys, let me tell you, at some point we want to get to the point where we can we can get this stuff to you guys.
• 5:27
  SPEAKER_00: So, you know, um please, you know, if you want to see that, you know, tell your friends about us.
• 5:33
  SPEAKER_00: Like I said, on every you know, on every social, like and follow us, and then on YouTube, you know, like, subscribe, comment on our videos, just a just a a heart, a smiley face, a shit emoji.
• 5:44
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
• 5:44
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, something just interact with us because you know that that helps us, you know, more than you guys could ever know.
• 5:50
  SPEAKER_00: And it keeps us, like I said, we're gonna do it regardless.
• 5:53
  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, we got a lot of stuff coming up that we think is gonna be really good for you guys, and and and you know, we wanna we wanna give you the best that we got, and we're gonna continue to get better and and adapt and and and you guys are gonna I I I think you'll be really happy with with um the direction of the podcast.
• 6:11
  SPEAKER_00: I think so.
• 6:12
  SPEAKER_01: So I think so.
• 6:13
  SPEAKER_01: Because we've already got the the next two that we're gonna do this weekend in the works, they're already mapped out.
• 6:18
  SPEAKER_01: Yep.
• 6:18
  SPEAKER_01: I think probably by Friday or Saturday we'll probably start talking the the following week because we're on the two, you know, recording two a weekend.
• 6:29
  SPEAKER_00: Uh yeah, yeah.
• 6:30
  SPEAKER_00: We'll we'll have some things to to give you guys a preview of what what is coming.
• 6:37
  SPEAKER_00: And uh yeah, so with that, we'll uh we'll we'll we'll tell you how this how this journey started.
• 6:45
  SPEAKER_00: And I apologize because I have a terrible memory.
• 6:49
  SPEAKER_00: So I remember a lot of this stuff, but there's some details that I I I will forget that Bob had brought to my attention.
• 6:54
  SPEAKER_00: So we'll we'll we'll we'll bounce back off each other.
• 6:59
  SPEAKER_00: But um, if I'm gonna be honest, I'm gonna let you start because I know it was back when we were still at DICOM.
• 7:06
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 7:07
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but I don't recall how it actually like started us deciding, like, hey, you know, maybe we should do a podcast.
• 7:15
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 7:16
  SPEAKER_01: Um we would have legendary bull sessions when we were out on the floor together, and then when you got kind of pulled back into the the engineering office more, and I would, you know, skip going home for lunch because I only lived 30 seconds away.
• 7:31
  SPEAKER_01: I'd come hang out with you and we'd have a half-hour bull session at lunch.
• 7:35
  SPEAKER_01: And I think it was kind of a mutual thing that we kind of brought up together, like, hey man, maybe we should try doing this podcast thing, and this was 2021.
• 7:44
  SPEAKER_01: No, no, or 2020.
• 7:45
  SPEAKER_00: It was 2020, 2020.
• 7:47
  SPEAKER_00: No, yes, yes, it had to be 2020, yes, yes.
• 7:50
  SPEAKER_00: It was 2020 going into 2021 because COVID was already a thing.
• 7:53
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but I had, you know, being a musician, I had a just a bunch of musical equipment and shit laying around that I didn't use anymore because I wasn't actively playing out.
• 8:03
  SPEAKER_01: I said, hey man, I got this like eight-channel mixer that would be awesome to do that on.
• 8:10
  SPEAKER_01: I said, I got the only problem is I only got one microphone.
• 8:13
  SPEAKER_01: So you went out and bought a microphone, and we actually have those recordings still.
• 8:20
  SPEAKER_01: I I've been working hard cleaning them up.
• 8:22
  SPEAKER_00: I think I got them to the point where we could present, at least chop them up because that's you know, to be continued on that because we're we're I want to do something special with that.
• 8:30
  SPEAKER_00: So uh to be continued for that.
• 8:32
  SPEAKER_00: But I want to add to that because um I now that you're saying that, I I I do remember that because we did, you know, you did come back and hang out in my office quite a bit.
• 8:42
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I I had started in the engineering, but when we would get slow in engineering, I would go out to the shop and help them guys out and work in different areas.
• 8:49
  SPEAKER_00: But yep, the one thing that I remember too is what kind of brought us to that decision is we realized how playful and how interesting our bandwidth was.
• 8:58
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and and and I think that's kind of where the seeds were kind of sown.
• 9:02
  SPEAKER_00: It was like, wait a minute, man, we got kind of a good like you know thing going here.
• 9:06
  SPEAKER_00: And and you know, this was we were already building the friendship at that point, so right um, yeah, and then you know, we we decided to uh uh get together, and I and I do remember that because it was in your mud room, yeah.
• 9:20
  SPEAKER_00: And and and I came over that one time and we went in the mud room, and uh I just want to say for when you guys hear that, I sound like I am on death's door.
• 9:32
  SPEAKER_00: I literally sound like I'm a uh a 1990s goth emote kid.
• 9:38
  SPEAKER_00: Like there is no emotion in my voice.
• 9:43
  SPEAKER_00: Uh but yeah, so yeah, and then we got onto that, and then I think when it went after that, like we recorded that one and we were gonna do it, and then you ended up leaving DICOM because everybody should leave DICOM.
• 9:59
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 10:00
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and you got another job.
• 10:02
  SPEAKER_00: So then then it kind of went to a point where we were like skipping, like yeah, like schedules just weren't matching up, right?
• 10:10
  SPEAKER_00: And I think if my memory serves me right, and you can absolutely correct me, sure, but I think we were getting back to a point where we were going to heavily talking, and then I switched jobs.
• 10:21
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, yeah, and I had worked in Menor, which for which you guys don't know, I work an hour from where we live.
• 10:27
  SPEAKER_00: Trust me, it was worth it.
• 10:29
  SPEAKER_00: Um they they they basically doubled my salary.
• 10:32
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I there was no way.
• 10:33
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, but I was getting I mean, I was getting paid peanuts, right?
• 10:36
  SPEAKER_00: I was only making three or four dollars more than you guys in the shop.
• 10:39
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, they didn't pay me shit.
• 10:40
  SPEAKER_00: No, then you guys were severely underpaid, but that's that can be another kind of another topic of another day.
• 10:46
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah.
• 10:47
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so we were almost there, we were talking back again, and then I, you know, switched jobs, and uh I'll get uh kind of up to speed and then I'll send it back to Bob.
• 11:00
  SPEAKER_00: But now we're going back, it's about it's 2025, it's around Christmas time, yep, and I'm sitting at home and my phone buzzes, and I'm like, oh, it's Bob.
• 11:13
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, he sent me a picture.
• 11:14
  SPEAKER_00: Cool.
• 11:15
  SPEAKER_00: I figured it was a meme or something.
• 11:17
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, we send a lot, nothing, no words, like he didn't send nothing, it was just a picture, yep, and it was two mics.
• 11:24
  SPEAKER_00: All right, and I was like, uh-huh.
• 11:26
  SPEAKER_00: Uh-huh.
• 11:27
  SPEAKER_00: The C.
• 11:28
  SPEAKER_00: And I waited and I waited because I was gonna see if he was gonna say nothing.
• 11:31
  SPEAKER_00: He did, and he he didn't.
• 11:32
  SPEAKER_00: He was waiting to see my response.
• 11:34
  SPEAKER_00: Yep.
• 11:35
  SPEAKER_00: And I don't remember the exact text, but it was basically on the line, you know, is it time?
• 11:40
  SPEAKER_00: It's time, and uh, I'll let you take it from there to get us up to speed from there, but you can kind of tell us what made you decide to get those mics and kind of I mean, basically, dude, you were the catalyst that popped this off.
• 11:56
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 11:56
  SPEAKER_01: And and I I I it kind of was a a couple different things for me.
• 12:01
  SPEAKER_01: You know, the one thing is we're we're really, really busy outside of here.
• 12:06
  SPEAKER_01: And we just didn't at that point just didn't have a lot of time to hang out and and see each other and and you know, we always like to get together, and it's just super difficult with our schedules anymore.
• 12:18
  SPEAKER_00: And we still got you know, you got a young kid, you know, I you know, Ty still, he you know, he's still 12 for another month, so I mean, you know, but it's hard, you know.
• 12:27
  SPEAKER_01: It's hard when you got all that going on, and you know, last last summer, end of last summer, going into fall, it was even more difficult because of the marching band schedule and the kids, and you know, I got two in high school now, and yeah, you know, you've already been through that once.
• 12:42
  SPEAKER_01: But imagine two, and they're so they're just so fucking busy all the time.
• 12:46
  SPEAKER_01: It's like, dad, I need to go here, dad.
• 12:47
  SPEAKER_01: I need to go here, dad.
• 12:48
  SPEAKER_01: I need to go here, we gotta go here, we gotta do that.
• 12:50
  SPEAKER_01: It's like, all right, well, I guess maybe when you turn 16, you should probably get your license.
• 12:55
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 12:56
  SPEAKER_01: But that was kind of like the first thing I was like, man, we it would be cool to just hang out with my friend.
• 13:01
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 13:01
  SPEAKER_01: Like, because again, going back to the DICOM days, legendary bull sessions that carried on outside of work at wherever we were at to hang out, your house, my house.
• 13:12
  SPEAKER_00: Well, and and and not to interrupt you, just to add real quick, and and he could have come over, I could have gone over.
• 13:17
  SPEAKER_00: But what we're talking about, guys, is like us just hanging out, me and him.
• 13:21
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, like we could always find the time, but like you know how it is when you're you know with one of your best friends.
• 13:27
  SPEAKER_00: You need time with them, and that's what we didn't have.
• 13:30
  SPEAKER_00: Exactly.
• 13:31
  SPEAKER_00: So uh, but continue.
• 13:32
  SPEAKER_01: But yeah, then I found I found the whole setup on uh believe it or not, Amazon, and most of the electronic stuff nowadays, it's there's nothing wrong with it, it's gonna work just fine.
• 13:43
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 13:43
  SPEAKER_01: Eventually I would like to upgrade, get you know, higher-end mics, and you know, I would like to get a new laptop myself.
• 13:51
  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, when I sent you that picture, oh no, I I'll never forget.
• 13:56
  SPEAKER_00: I I I didn't even say nothing right away.
• 13:58
  SPEAKER_00: I just showed my phone to Rihanna, and she just looked at me, she was like, You thinking about it?
• 14:04
  SPEAKER_00: And I was like, We never not thought about it, but we just had life.
• 14:08
  SPEAKER_00: But I said, It sounds like it's gonna be that.
• 14:10
  SPEAKER_01: Yep, it's always been the seed that's been planted and it's been watered, kind of put in the corner and neglected for a little while.
• 14:18
  SPEAKER_00: Well, and and I'll say this too, because there was a little bit of discouragement because there was a real big boom during COVID in podcasts and this type of thing.
• 14:28
  SPEAKER_00: And it would have been nice to do that because now there's I mean, fucking in that one four million worldwide, and I'm assuming there's plenty more than that, right?
• 14:39
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so you know, I I do, but you know, one thing I've learned in this life is that and and and I hate to sound niche, but everything happens for a reason.
• 14:48
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it happens when it's supposed to happen.
• 14:51
  SPEAKER_00: It was meant to I mean, it it it it in The Matrix, Morpheus, you know, he goes, he tells Neo, he goes, No, you know, what was said is what was said, and that's how it's gonna be.
• 15:03
  SPEAKER_00: And that's you know, that's the situation we're you know, we're in it.
• 15:06
  SPEAKER_00: It happened how it happened.
• 15:07
  SPEAKER_00: Now, fast forward a little bit, we had we had started talking, and we were like, I think it was early this year.
• 15:15
  SPEAKER_00: March.
• 15:15
  SPEAKER_00: It was March because I I remember, and we were like, we get why don't we open it with Star Wars?
• 15:20
  SPEAKER_00: I don't remember who brought it up, but but it was always the plan, yeah.
• 15:24
  SPEAKER_00: And we thought May the 4th.
• 15:27
  SPEAKER_00: It's perfect.
• 15:28
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, we had a couple of months to get our and we were like, Yeah, we can get it all our ducks in a row, pick a day.
• 15:33
  SPEAKER_00: We you know, we realized we were gonna record here at your dad's house, and we got all our ducks in a row, and then I'll let I'll let you take it from there.
• 15:42
  SPEAKER_00: Well in our first recording session, yeah.
• 15:46
  SPEAKER_01: We first we chose our our upload platform, which we we did go with Buzz Sprout.
• 15:53
  SPEAKER_01: Thanks, guys.
• 15:53
  SPEAKER_01: Shout out to them.
• 15:54
  SPEAKER_00: Shout out to and we don't get paid, we pay them, but yeah, we pay them.
• 15:57
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, they make our job so easy.
• 16:01
  SPEAKER_01: But I remember the I remember the initial demo that we had done on on this equipment, this setup, except for the only difference was your laptop my laptop.
• 16:11
  SPEAKER_01: And everything recorded fine.
• 16:13
  SPEAKER_01: I got home, didn't look at it, and then we came back what, like a week or so later?
• 16:18
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, two weeks later.
• 16:19
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, we recorded another one.
• 16:21
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, well, we we went into the Oh yeah, we went to record Star Wars one.
• 16:25
  SPEAKER_00: That's right, that's right, that's right.
• 16:26
  SPEAKER_01: And I'll never forget that just sinking ass feeling.
• 16:31
  SPEAKER_01: I can't remember.
• 16:31
  SPEAKER_01: It was that Sunday night.
• 16:32
  SPEAKER_01: I remember it clear as a day now.
• 16:34
  SPEAKER_01: I I got home, I turned the laptop on, and I was gonna start editing to make it sound nice and sparkly and pretty, and I'm looking at it and I go, fuck, this isn't gonna work.
• 16:47
  SPEAKER_01: Because for whatever reason, my laptop just kept dropping out and dropping out, and there's sometimes some of them are like two, three minutes cut off, and you can't get that back, it's just gone.
• 16:59
  SPEAKER_01: And I t I texted you, I was like, dude, I was like, we're we're sunk.
• 17:03
  SPEAKER_01: Like right now, this is gonna be like another like eight, nine months to like do anything.
• 17:07
  SPEAKER_00: I'm getting chill thinking about it because I'll never forget reading that because we were we were ready, we were ready, we were we were on point, yep.
• 17:14
  SPEAKER_00: And then so he tells me that, and I'm sitting there, and I s and and I texted you back, but I didn't even like really react.
• 17:22
  SPEAKER_00: I was just kind of in awe crushed.
• 17:24
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, what the fuck?
• 17:25
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, if it ain't if it ain't one thing, it's another is what it felt like, right?
• 17:29
  SPEAKER_00: So then I'm sitting there and finally I think I just said, You gotta be fucking kidding me.
• 17:36
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and Rihanna goes, What?
• 17:39
  SPEAKER_00: And I said, All both the demo and the Star Wars specials that we recorded, we can't use it.
• 17:46
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, she goes, What?
• 17:48
  SPEAKER_00: And I said, Yeah, I said unfortunately, you know, his laptop's a little bit older, and it for whatever reason it was dropping audio, yep, and we we can't use it.
• 17:57
  SPEAKER_00: And she goes, damn.
• 18:00
  SPEAKER_00: And I said, more importantly than that, though, we now realize we can't record.
• 18:04
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that that I think that hit me more than not being able to use those because in my mind, I'm like, well, fuck it.
• 18:12
  SPEAKER_00: You know, we can learn from that and make it better, which we ended up doing.
• 18:16
  SPEAKER_00: We ended up doing, yeah.
• 18:17
  SPEAKER_00: But you know, I was like, dude, what the fuck?
• 18:19
  SPEAKER_00: And I'll never forget it.
• 18:21
  SPEAKER_00: And guys, this goes, this is a testament to me and hers relationship, even though we're getting a divorce.
• 18:25
  SPEAKER_00: She looked at me and she goes, Here, here soon, we'll go look at it.
• 18:30
  SPEAKER_00: You know, you have been saying you'd been wanting a laptop just to have one because you hadn't had a computer.
• 18:34
  SPEAKER_00: We'll go look at them.
• 18:35
  SPEAKER_00: Now, mind you, this is Sunday night.
• 18:37
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 18:38
  SPEAKER_00: And um, uh, and she says that she doesn't really give me a lot of details or nothing, and I'm not gonna push it, you know.
• 18:47
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I was thankful enough that, you know, because we we still combine our finances and stuff like that, but that's a big purchase.
• 18:53
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, oh yeah.
• 18:53
  SPEAKER_00: So I was like, cool, thank you.
• 18:56
  SPEAKER_00: And I think it I texted you and told her I said, hey, I think we might have a solution, don't know how long it's gonna take.
• 19:01
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 19:02
  SPEAKER_00: And at that point we were just in a we were just in a a lull.
• 19:06
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 19:07
  SPEAKER_00: You know, it's like, okay, we're good, but now we have to just have to wait.
• 19:11
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we don't know how long it's gonna be.
• 19:12
  SPEAKER_00: It's a waiting game.
• 19:14
  SPEAKER_00: And so I believe it was Tuesday or Wednesday.
• 19:18
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I you know, I had asked Rihanna and I said, you know, I'm not trying to, you know, bring it up, but what, you know, are we gonna order it?
• 19:26
  SPEAKER_00: Are we gonna go she goes?
• 19:27
  SPEAKER_00: No, we're going down to the Apple store and we're gonna go Friday.
• 19:29
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, did you go to Summit Mall?
• 19:30
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah.
• 19:31
  SPEAKER_01: Hell yeah.
• 19:32
  SPEAKER_00: And I was like, sweet.
• 19:34
  SPEAKER_00: So um I texted you.
• 19:37
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, before we get to it, I wanted to get your reaction on that side.
• 19:41
  SPEAKER_00: So I texted you and I said, you know, obviously not word for word, but bro, Friday, we're getting it.
• 19:46
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah.
• 19:47
  SPEAKER_01: You should, if you'd have been able to see the smile on my face when I got that text, I'm like, oh, it's on.
• 19:52
  SPEAKER_01: It is, it is, it's go time.
• 19:53
  SPEAKER_00: And and it's great because you know, me and Bob know we both want to do this, but you will see in the movie episode that's out now on all platforms.
• 20:06
  SPEAKER_00: Go follow us, go watch it, listen to it, everything.
• 20:10
  SPEAKER_00: Watching his face light up when we were talking about the sand line.
• 20:13
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah, I made a clip about it and put it on our socials because that's what we're doing it for first and foremost is each other.
• 20:22
  SPEAKER_00: So knowing that both of us are in it like this was amazing.
• 20:26
  SPEAKER_00: So I knew when I sent him that, because I also know Bob well enough to know that he felt a lot of guilt.
• 20:32
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 20:33
  SPEAKER_00: Because, but no matter what I said, I knew I couldn't comfort him because like he was the reason we were able to start it anyway.
• 20:41
  SPEAKER_00: So the fact that it was a technical problem, A, was not your fault.
• 20:44
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 20:45
  SPEAKER_00: And B, I mean, you really busted your ass to try to like, and you tried for days.
• 20:50
  SPEAKER_00: Even after I told you I was getting that, you were still trying to see what you could salvage, and and that's just a testament to how much we want this to work and what what we're gonna do for you guys.
• 21:01
  SPEAKER_00: But oh yeah, now that we have that, we'll go to Friday.
• 21:05
  SPEAKER_00: So Friday comes, I get out of work, and I get home.
• 21:08
  SPEAKER_00: Now, guys, I tell you, I have an you know, an hour drive to work is an hour drive home.
• 21:14
  SPEAKER_00: You got a lot of time to think.
• 21:15
  SPEAKER_00: I leave at I leave work at 5:30 in the morning.
• 21:18
  SPEAKER_00: I don't get home till five at night.
• 21:21
  SPEAKER_00: I'm driving home and I'm excited, and I don't know if I told you this part.
• 21:25
  SPEAKER_00: So this is gonna make this interesting.
• 21:27
  SPEAKER_00: I'm driving home and I'm getting a mild dizzy spell.
• 21:31
  SPEAKER_01: Oh no.
• 21:32
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm like, nothing is stopping me from going to get this fucking computer.
• 21:39
  SPEAKER_00: No, I don't want you guys to worry.
• 21:41
  SPEAKER_00: Um, a mild dizzy spell, I don't, I'm not dizzy.
• 21:44
  SPEAKER_00: It's just if I move in quick movements, I can get a little lightheaded.
• 21:48
  SPEAKER_00: Part of the nature of the beast.
• 21:49
  SPEAKER_00: If I'm having a bad one, I gotta if I'm in the car, I gotta pull over, whatever.
• 21:53
  SPEAKER_00: But this was not one of those.
• 21:55
  SPEAKER_00: And I get home and I had weathered it, but it it was lingering.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_01: Oh God, yeah.
• 22:01
  SPEAKER_00: We get to the mall and now it's really hitting.
• 22:04
  SPEAKER_00: Oh.
• 22:04
  SPEAKER_00: But again, it wasn't a super bad one, so I was good.
• 22:07
  SPEAKER_00: I'm powering through this.
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
• 22:09
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, fuck that.
• 22:10
  SPEAKER_00: Yep.
• 22:10
  SPEAKER_00: So we get in there.
• 22:12
  SPEAKER_00: And and and yep.
• 22:13
  SPEAKER_00: And we get in there and we're looking at them.
• 22:15
  SPEAKER_00: And we were gonna get, I just wanted the base, like I didn't need bells and whistles and shit.
• 22:19
  SPEAKER_00: I said, you know, I did the research.
• 22:21
  SPEAKER_00: I just wanted something that we could record on, I could edit on and just access socials.
• 22:26
  SPEAKER_00: That's it.
• 22:27
  SPEAKER_00: That's all I wanted it for.
• 22:28
  SPEAKER_00: And we got to talking to the guy, and unfortunately, the well, fortunately, for actually, but they didn't have any 250 gig base models.
• 22:36
  SPEAKER_00: I got a MacBook Neo, but they didn't have any of those.
• 22:39
  SPEAKER_00: So we went with the 512.
• 22:40
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, Rihanna didn't even blink an eye.
• 22:42
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 22:42
  SPEAKER_00: She was like, Well, what's the lowest you got?
• 22:44
  SPEAKER_00: And they said 512.
• 22:44
  SPEAKER_00: She said, then that's what we're getting.
• 22:46
  SPEAKER_00: We went immediately, got a case.
• 22:48
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, like, you know, I got it all situated.
• 22:52
  SPEAKER_00: I got a mouse because I'm sorry guys, I'm still old school with some things.
• 22:55
  SPEAKER_00: I don't like mouse uh the touch pads.
• 22:57
  SPEAKER_00: I like an actual mouse.
• 22:58
  SPEAKER_01: It makes it easier in this you know application here.
• 23:02
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, yes.
• 23:03
  SPEAKER_00: So we get it, I get home, I get everything downloaded, like all our audacity.
• 23:09
  SPEAKER_00: I'm I'm I'm looking up, I get cap cut downloaded, even though at that point we weren't even talking.
• 23:14
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, we we had talked that we wanted to do video, but we weren't we didn't think we were even close to wanting to do that.
• 23:21
  SPEAKER_00: Um and then Sunday came and it and it and it was time.
• 23:26
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 23:27
  SPEAKER_01: And I felt completely unprepared even though we were prepared for that first episode.
• 23:32
  SPEAKER_00: Well, we were only in the fact that, like, you know, even though we had done it a couple of times, we're still new to this.
• 23:38
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah.
• 23:39
  SPEAKER_00: You know, and and you know, regardless, and again, I'm not I'm not shitting on your laptop, but right probably it going as fast as it was too was probably a little like it can throw your brain off because you're thinking, okay, I gotta do this and chill.
• 23:51
  SPEAKER_00: But things were working fast, and and we didn't know what we were gonna do.
• 23:54
  SPEAKER_00: We didn't know how well it was gonna work.
• 23:56
  SPEAKER_00: And you guys go back, listen to that, and you listen to this, you're gonna tell the difference in just from then to now.
• 24:01
  SPEAKER_00: A lot of ums, cussed a lot more.
• 24:03
  SPEAKER_00: We tried to cut back on that because you guys will hear us cuss because I don't give a shit.
• 24:07
  SPEAKER_00: Words are words.
• 24:09
  SPEAKER_00: Um, it's it's it's the intention of the word.
• 24:11
  SPEAKER_00: I could sit here and be like, you motherfucker, and you're gonna laugh at that.
• 24:14
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 24:14
  SPEAKER_00: But I could sit here and go, fat ass.
• 24:16
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you know what I mean?
• 24:18
  SPEAKER_00: Fat can hurt worse than a cuss word.
• 24:20
  SPEAKER_00: So words are words, but anyways, um uh it's just how normal people talk, yeah.
• 24:27
  SPEAKER_00: So um, but uh you know, it it was our first attempt, and we knew this was gonna be it.
• 24:34
  SPEAKER_00: And so we get in, we're recording, and we get done, and we're we look at each other like that was good.
• 24:41
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you know, I'm obviously you know, looking back now, having this much time, you know, have done so many episodes, we look back and we see the flaws.
• 24:48
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah, of course.
• 24:49
  SPEAKER_00: But compared to you know, our first one, it was it was miles above, and you guys will hear it someday, you know, in in in clips form, and maybe at some point we'll even release it as a full thing, and you just have to skip through the we'll see, you know, that that comes in the future, but anyways, uh and we're sitting there, and you know, obviously, you know, Bob is our audio engineer, he handles all our recording and stuff like that, and I do the editing, and we get done, and I sit down where he's sitting, and we're we're trying to figure out Buzz Sprout, and you know, we're both antsy because we're ants.
• 25:30
  SPEAKER_00: And just like I do remember this is we figured it out and we set it down uh and we got it going.
• 25:40
  SPEAKER_00: And um if my and and and correct me if I'm wrong, we actually scheduled it.
• 25:48
  SPEAKER_00: Uh we actually scheduled it um to release at a later date, if I remember right.
• 25:55
  SPEAKER_01: We wanted to do May the Foundation the next morning.
• 25:57
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we wanted to do May the F.
• 25:58
  SPEAKER_00: And then as we sat there and we were we went back because you can listen to it.
• 26:01
  SPEAKER_00: Yep, and um I actually I think did we recall the the post roll then too?
• 26:08
  SPEAKER_01: No, that was later.
• 26:09
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so we did that for episode two, okay.
• 26:12
  SPEAKER_00: Um and yeah, so we we recorded and we're sitting there and we're trying to figure out how to like get them to post the Apple and Spotify and all of these, and I'm going in and searching Apple Podcasts and Spotify podcasts, and Bob sits down and he takes a look at it because I'm getting frustrated at this point, and he clicks on one of the you know one of the the options in there and it just automatically uploads it for us.
• 26:42
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, as long as we connect our RSS feed and we have accounts connected, it'll just post it for us.
• 26:50
  SPEAKER_01: It's so much more convenient now, just release an episode.
• 26:53
  SPEAKER_00: And so we looked at each other, and I I I I want to say it was you.
• 26:58
  SPEAKER_00: Let's drop it now.
• 26:59
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I think you were like, Let's drop now.
• 27:01
  SPEAKER_00: You want to drop it now?
• 27:02
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm like, fuck it.
• 27:03
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and we dropped it, we did, and I'll I'll never forget uh the excitement in our face.
• 27:11
  SPEAKER_00: We're like, holy shit, and then we're texting everybody like hey, we're live, like it's out, and yeah, and it's uh yeah, it it's it's been a it's been a crazy ride.
• 27:21
  SPEAKER_01: Um I've gotten some nice feedback from you know some of my people, and I think we've made some of those changes pretty seamlessly.
• 27:33
  SPEAKER_01: And I've heard a lot of good positive feedback from people that you know they definitely like what we're doing.
• 27:40
  SPEAKER_01: They they like the banter back and forth between us and everybody that I know, and I don't know if it's the same for everybody that you know, but everybody that's that's told me it's like, man, you you can really tell that you guys are absolutely friends, and this is something that I feel like I'm sitting in a garage or around a bonfire just listening to two, you know, old guys talk.
• 28:01
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, well, and and and that is perfect because that calls back to what I said earlier about what really set us off was the banter that we had.
• 28:14
  SPEAKER_00: Like, you know, guys, you know, especially for me, and I know Bob did too, because we're both from that era, but like, you know, growing up, you know, regardless of of what we tell our kids to be themselves, we spend many a times trying to be people we're not, yeah, hanging out with different crowds, whatever.
• 28:32
  SPEAKER_00: The one thing that I noticed about Bob, and it's the same reason why you know Vonnie and Main are my best friends, is immediately I knew I could just be myself, right?
• 28:40
  SPEAKER_00: I could crack specific jokes, I could, we could make fun of each other, right?
• 28:45
  SPEAKER_00: You know, he can make fun of himself, and then I'd yell at him for that, and then I would talk back about myself, and then he would yell at me, you know.
• 28:52
  SPEAKER_00: Yep, it was just an immediate connection.
• 28:55
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and uh, and and you're right, that's what a lot of people have told me too.
• 28:58
  SPEAKER_00: They're like, it's just there's you know, and and you had made a comment a couple weeks ago about your sister, or I think it was your sister, said that we were interrupting each other, yeah, yeah, talking and talking over each other quite a bit.
• 29:12
  SPEAKER_00: And even in that though, there was people that uh had mentioned that over the last the last few episodes that were like, I noticed you guys don't interrupt.
• 29:21
  SPEAKER_00: He said, but uh, I think it was I forget who it was, but it was somebody at work was like, um, but it was crazy because the interruptions weren't taking away from the content.
• 29:31
  SPEAKER_00: Right, right.
• 29:32
  SPEAKER_00: And I said, Well, we still made it a conscious decision because we don't want you to have to pay attention to, you know, you don't have to try to pay attention to who's talking.
• 29:40
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 29:40
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 29:41
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I have a bad habit of interrupting because I'm always afraid I'm gonna forget my thought.
• 29:46
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, um, but yeah.
• 29:47
  SPEAKER_00: Same, same.
• 29:48
  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, so um, yeah, I mean, we've been getting good feedback, and you know, to a lot of people, you know, uh 45 downloads averaging a week probably doesn't sound like a lot.
• 30:00
  SPEAKER_00: But guys, I mean to be honest, outside of our like literal family, we didn't know anybody was gonna listen to that.
• 30:05
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 30:06
  SPEAKER_01: But when you but when you think about it, the way podcast numbers are, they're completely different than a YouTube number, right?
• 30:12
  SPEAKER_01: Or you know, Nielsen ratings on TV.
• 30:15
  SPEAKER_01: And if we're averaging, because we've we've broken down the numbers, obviously, we can see it on our end where you know you guys can't.
• 30:22
  SPEAKER_01: And you know, we we know where people are listening from, just to throw that out there, you know, behind the scenes stuff.
• 30:28
  SPEAKER_01: And it's kind of interesting because it's like that's cool to see these different places.
• 30:33
  SPEAKER_01: I've I've never been, I don't have people that live there.
• 30:36
  SPEAKER_00: No, and and we're talking Oregon, uh Illinois.
• 30:40
  SPEAKER_00: Um, we spoke.
• 30:42
  SPEAKER_00: I don't want to give too much away from a future, but we have a UK uh listener that's downloading five of our episodes, yeah, which is awesome.
• 30:50
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and I I don't know anybody over there.
• 30:53
  SPEAKER_00: No, um, and and and and I want to say, um, you know, as you guys are listening to this, I'm gonna we should probably add this.
• 30:59
  SPEAKER_00: Guys, reach out to us, please tell us what you like, tell us what you don't like, just say hi.
• 31:04
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, um, you know, we we want to know who's listening to us, what you like, what you don't, you know, what what what's working.
• 31:11
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah um, you know, me and Bob are are are you know very receptive of that stuff because we want to put out quality content for you guys.
• 31:22
  SPEAKER_01: But going back to that with you know crunching numbers, you know, we have averaged 45 downloads an episode across you know the board.
• 31:31
  SPEAKER_01: And when you break down podcast numbers, we are exactly what that said, we are literally top 20% in the world for what we're doing.
• 31:39
  SPEAKER_01: And you know, it's a big thank you to everybody that's listening.
• 31:42
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, because I mean literally we wouldn't have those numbers without you.
• 31:48
  SPEAKER_00: The content would still be there, yeah, but those numbers wouldn't.
• 31:51
  SPEAKER_00: No.
• 31:52
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and and I will never, you know, I vowed the moment we did this that I would never forget you guys listening to us because we are not us without you.
• 32:01
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 32:02
  SPEAKER_01: And we're just we're just a couple idiots from uh Ohio.
• 32:05
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I mean we, you know, we I mean, look, you know, me and Bob as kids and teenagers had aspirations to do something content-wise before content was a thing.
• 32:16
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 32:16
  SPEAKER_00: I wanted to be a rapper, he wanted to be a metal guitarist, he got much closer than I did, although I had strides towards it.
• 32:24
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, um, we always knew we wanted to make something, create something.
• 32:29
  SPEAKER_00: We had the artist in us, yes.
• 32:30
  SPEAKER_01: It's the artistry, yeah.
• 32:31
  SPEAKER_00: The artist in us wanted to create something.
• 32:35
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and you know, by you guys listening consistently, I mean, I I hate to beat a dead horse, but I can't reiterate enough.
• 32:45
  SPEAKER_00: Like, like, as we look at the numbers, like you guys will you you're hearing behind the scenes, like literally I'll text them like slow day today.
• 32:53
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and then the next day, there's a boom.
• 32:56
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's like double.
• 32:57
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and you know, we're still learning too.
• 32:59
  SPEAKER_00: You know, we're learning the laws of the week, what days people are really downloading.
• 33:03
  SPEAKER_00: And there's also a difference, too.
• 33:04
  SPEAKER_00: We may actually have more listens than we know.
• 33:07
  SPEAKER_00: What we tell you guys are downloads.
• 33:09
  SPEAKER_00: That's people who actually go in and download the episode.
• 33:11
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, let's let's see where we're at.
• 33:14
  SPEAKER_00: Can you look at views?
• 33:15
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
• 33:16
  SPEAKER_00: I I thought Buzzsprout only counted downloads.
• 33:20
  SPEAKER_01: That I don't I don't know if it's I can tell you what our total is as of right now.
• 33:25
  SPEAKER_00: Because I feel like it would be much higher per episode because I've listened to the episode sometimes three, four, or five times.
• 33:32
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, we're down to 320 downloads.
• 33:34
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 33:35
  SPEAKER_00: So there could be more listens.
• 33:37
  SPEAKER_01: There could be more.
• 33:38
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, we could be up to four or five hundred listens.
• 33:41
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, we're at over 700 views on YouTube, which I mean, I'm not viral.
• 33:46
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we're not we we did YouTube just for the people that don't want to listen audio-wise.
• 33:52
  SPEAKER_01: They want to they want the visual, right?
• 33:54
  SPEAKER_01: It's not our main focus, it never was.
• 33:56
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, it's cool, don't get me wrong.
• 33:57
  SPEAKER_01: It's still kind of weird to watch myself on YouTube.
• 33:59
  SPEAKER_00: I hate it.
• 34:00
  SPEAKER_00: You don't you don't have to edit the motherfucker.
• 34:03
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah, you gotta watch it.
• 34:03
  SPEAKER_00: I'm tired of that shit.
• 34:04
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, ugh, here comes this dumbass.
• 34:07
  SPEAKER_00: And yeah, you know, the last couple of episodes I've tried to, you know, and by editing though, you also, you know, it's a good thing because I notice a lot of shit.
• 34:15
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I realized I was hitting my vape quite a bit, but those are the nerves because you could watch my leg shake, you know.
• 34:20
  SPEAKER_00: But now I'm getting to a point where I don't have those.
• 34:22
  SPEAKER_00: It's just us, man.
• 34:23
  SPEAKER_00: It's just, yeah.
• 34:24
  SPEAKER_00: It's just me and you just like it.
• 34:25
  SPEAKER_00: But but I think me, it's it goes back to, you know, and not to get person, you know, deep, yeah, but it goes back to my therapy.
• 34:32
  SPEAKER_00: It's me always striving to be the best, and anything other than perfection always made me feel like a failure.
• 34:40
  SPEAKER_00: When that's not the case.
• 34:41
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 34:42
  SPEAKER_00: And and and I'm working on that.
• 34:43
  SPEAKER_00: But um, you know, I I mean, this has brought joy and and and and um purpose you know into my life that I didn't know I needed.
• 34:57
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and again, as I said before, you know, going through a divorce, you know, with somebody that you spent so much time in, you know, having having my friends and then having Bob constantly outside of the podcast has been amazing.
• 35:09
  SPEAKER_00: But then to have this podcast to, you know, no matter how bad it is, I can z you know, zone out, turn it off, record, get that done.
• 35:18
  SPEAKER_00: Um, it's been really helpful.
• 35:20
  SPEAKER_00: And and you know, I I I I've actually noticed, you know, from when we started recording to when we come to record now, you're lighter.
• 35:30
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 35:30
  SPEAKER_00: Like you're a little more up and all that.
• 35:32
  SPEAKER_00: And and not that it's wrong.
• 35:34
  SPEAKER_00: Like, do we all have down days?
• 35:35
  SPEAKER_00: We're excuse me, we're gonna, you know, we're humans.
• 35:39
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you know, that's what my therapist tells me.
• 35:41
  SPEAKER_00: She goes, you know, therapy isn't a cure, it's it's a lifelong commitment to to get better and stay better.
• 35:49
  SPEAKER_00: So, you know, the podcast has been another form of therapy for us.
• 35:53
  SPEAKER_00: And the fact that you motherfuckers actually want to hear what the fuck we got to say blows my mind.
• 35:59
  SPEAKER_02: Right.
• 36:00
  SPEAKER_00: But I thank you for it.
• 36:01
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and again, like I said, even if you don't, we're still gonna do it because I want to meet up with Bob and I want to talk shit about stuff.
• 36:08
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, dude, I I get so excited.
• 36:10
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, you know, I'm transparent.
• 36:13
  SPEAKER_00: There's days when I, you know, the editing gets crazy.
• 36:15
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I'll give you an in when I was editing the video, right?
• 36:19
  SPEAKER_00: I had that bad spell that past week, and it was a pretty bad one.
• 36:23
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but I had put four hours in that day.
• 36:25
  SPEAKER_00: Holy crap.
• 36:26
  SPEAKER_00: You know, trying to, you know, I'm trying to keep up and get it up there.
• 36:29
  SPEAKER_00: I want to get far enough ahead because I want to start really pumping shit out and getting some outtakes and guys, we got shit coming.
• 36:36
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah.
• 36:37
  SPEAKER_00: So um, but yeah, on that, I you know, I guess we can well we can we can go, or or you got something you want to talk about before we bounce.
• 36:45
  SPEAKER_00: I kind of wanted to talk one last thing real quick.
• 36:47
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, do it, do it.
• 36:49
  SPEAKER_01: I I've heard a little bit of maybe potential confusion about the name.
• 36:53
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah, maybe.
• 36:54
  SPEAKER_01: You know, because I know the I I believe the crunchy side of it, it it can refer to holistic stuff, and I don't want people to get the wrong.
• 37:02
  SPEAKER_01: We're definitely not holistic.
• 37:03
  SPEAKER_01: I could care less about plants unless you're growing in my garden.
• 37:05
  SPEAKER_00: Well, and that's new to me.
• 37:07
  SPEAKER_00: Or I'm like you told me that.
• 37:08
  SPEAKER_00: I never heard that.
• 37:09
  SPEAKER_01: It's it's newer slang stuff, but so folks, the the bearded is obvious.
• 37:14
  SPEAKER_01: We have you know luscious beards.
• 37:16
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 37:16
  SPEAKER_01: Mine's uh a wreck right now, but the crunchy part definitely concerns with our our middle-agedness, basically.
• 37:24
  SPEAKER_01: Things pop, creek grown.
• 37:25
  SPEAKER_01: It's like a box of rice krispies.
• 37:27
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I mean it's yeah, it every day we wake up, it sounds like we're disconnecting Lego bricks.
• 37:33
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 37:34
  SPEAKER_01: Basically, I I sat down on the back of my truck yesterday and it sounded like somebody tearing Velcro apart.
• 37:39
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and it was my knee on the I hear that in both my knees.
• 37:43
  SPEAKER_00: Like if I sit longer than a half hour, or I mean if I'm standing longer than a half hour and I go to sit, yeah, it's it's the pain.
• 37:51
  SPEAKER_00: But that's what the crunchy is, guys.
• 37:53
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and the funny part about that is last year when I was going through my vertigo stuff, it had gotten kicked around just as a joke, because we had we've had the name for quite a while.
• 38:03
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
• 38:04
  SPEAKER_01: A couple years.
• 38:05
  SPEAKER_01: And I said, Hey, why don't we why don't we do bearded and dizzy since we're both going through this whole shit, you know?
• 38:13
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so you guys almost got bearded and dizzy, which it's not as good.
• 38:17
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, it would it would have been cool, but I don't know, man.
• 38:20
  SPEAKER_00: I think we both, when we seen Bearded and Crunchy, knew we were like, Yeah, that's it, you know, and then I uh you know, I got our logo created and it went through a couple of different iterations, but I like where we're at.
• 38:34
  SPEAKER_00: We we settled with that.
• 38:35
  SPEAKER_00: And it's funny because real quick before before we we get out of here, uh about that.
• 38:39
  SPEAKER_00: I was reading through that email that I got today about our be us being searched, and one of the things on there that we got a bad grade on was our our logo.
• 38:49
  SPEAKER_00: And I thought they said that the the the the uh bearded and crunchy should have been bigger.
• 38:55
  SPEAKER_00: It said, like the two guys, two mics, too much to talk about should have been bigger.
• 38:59
  SPEAKER_00: There should have been a little bit more pop.
• 39:01
  SPEAKER_00: And when I heard that, I at first I was like, man, maybe and I said, you know what?
• 39:05
  SPEAKER_00: Fuck that.
• 39:06
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I like the logo, right?
• 39:07
  SPEAKER_00: I like it.
• 39:08
  SPEAKER_00: It's simple.
• 39:08
  SPEAKER_00: Everybody goes for the most outrageous, coolest, 3D shit.
• 39:12
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, let's just keep it fucking simple.
• 39:15
  SPEAKER_00: Simple, keep it simple, stupid.
• 39:16
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 39:17
  SPEAKER_00: Uh so yeah, it's it's been that, and it's been a hell of a ride.
• 39:23
  SPEAKER_00: It's been really fun.
• 39:24
  SPEAKER_00: It's literally only been seven weeks.
• 39:27
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, seven weeks, and we're doing and I mean, bro, I I wouldn't have guessed we we would we would have been here.
• 39:33
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 39:33
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and and again, before we get out of here, um uh I want to thank you guys um for listening to us.
• 39:42
  SPEAKER_00: Um because like I said, it means the world to us.
• 39:46
  SPEAKER_00: If you could see the text message interchanges between us, how often we check the stats?
• 39:52
  SPEAKER_00: Especially on release days.
• 39:53
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, dude, on release days, I'm constantly checking.
• 39:56
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I got guys at work tapping me on my shoulder with chat.
• 40:00
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, yeah, right.
• 40:01
  SPEAKER_00: We're we're we're we're we definitely take this serious.
• 40:04
  SPEAKER_00: So I guess with that, I guess we'll we'll we'll we'll end our our special episode that you guys don't even know about.
• 40:12
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna leave them with a joke.
• 40:14
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, let's go off the yeah, go off the dome with it.
• 40:16
  SPEAKER_01: Just because it's a short one, it doesn't matter.
• 40:18
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna leave you guys with a joke, a little bit of laughter.
• 40:22
  SPEAKER_01: So, what do you get when you drop a piano from high up on a child?
• 40:29
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
• 40:31
  SPEAKER_01: A flat minor.
• 40:38
  SPEAKER_00: And on that note,