This is an IHeart podcast. Podcast starts now. What is up, everybody? It is just me and George today on Stratio Lab.

Let's just say we literally just wrapped a two-hour marathon session with their one and only Joe Firestone.

It is quite literally, we are running, I would say, 45 minutes behind in this beautiful studio and this beautiful pair of studios because we are, of course, still bicostal.

And we are, I was about to say running on fumes.

I don't think we're running on fumes.

I just think I'm doing that thing where I talk and I'm, my, I'm surprising even myself with what's coming out of my mouth. Well, that was a real episode where I was like, I'm going to need an app after this. I know. And guess what? Instead of a nap, we have the opposite, which is a guestless episode. We don't even have, we don't even get a break when the other person is talking. So one of us will be speaking at all times or else. Oh my God. The episode will have to end. Wait, you still have a cold and you're, and you're doing this? Like, but barely. Yeah. But I have to say, uh, you were absolutely killing it in the Joe episode. Could not tell you were immunocompromised

in any way. Well, I have to agree, you were crushing it out there. And it was such a delight.

What a treat. What a treat. We wanted to pretty much check in on what our callers have been calling about. Well, this thing happens where we're like, call us, call us, call us, call us. And then we like completely are like, forget it exists and maybe even don't even respond. And then you today were like, wait, you're looking at the calls and we're like, wait, we have so many calls. We each have things that we like keeping tabs on. And one of mine is the voicemail. I would say I have, you know, if we were in a little, in a startup, in a business environment, I would be like, oh, I own the voicemail. That's something, that's one of the things I own. Yeah, whereas I like really keep tabs on the Discord. Yes, that's right. You keep tabs on the Discord more than I do. I keep tabs on the voicemail. I mean, there's something really fun about the voicemail. I don't know. I like the Discord, of course. But I think... The voicemail is so classic. It's not only classic, but it's like, especially because we... Now there's so much pressure to do video and to franchise and you know we're of

course working on various lines of tank tops and seltzers and socks it's nice to remember where we

came from which is audio only audio only you know i want to say something please i had a an alcoholic seltzer recently, and somebody was like, oh, you know, this guy in town invented these alcoholic seltzers, and he's rich now. And I was kind of like, okay, well, he didn't invent alcoholic seltzer. He just made one. And it's selling because he lives here. And like, it's like a local brand. Like I was I was kind of like okay you can't claim like I

invented this alcoholic seltzer it's like not different than any other alcoholseltzer in the

world I founded this brand it drives me insane and I think this is something that is part of our

we are of course the worst businessman on planet earth well and I think it's because we're like

well if we're doing it, it has to be original.

We have to be the first people to ever do it.

We actually need to invent.

And I'm like, like, we could literally slap our name on a Seltzer and be like, Dibbs, we invented Seltzer.

And it's like, but we can't.

You would think we are bad at business because we're anti-capitalist. It's the opposite. It's that we

believe too much in the mythology of capitalism and think we actually need innovation in order to

sell a product. Like we literally are like a slave to the system to the like American mythology

of being an innovative small business owner when in fact what we need to do

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