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Episode 259 of the Bearest's podcast recorded January 23rd, 2017.

Trillium.

Trillium.

Yeah. Every week when you do the post on Mondays for our new episode, I'm both excited and nervous to take a look at what photo you've chosen to put up there.

Why? Well, here's the thing, Rubio.

We take a bunch of photos. We do. And I feel like there's sort of sacred pact between the photographer and the photographe.

No. Oh, no.

Regarding using your editorial eye for what you select.

In your instance, you fuck me over every week.

I can only pick the best of what I have.

That is not true because we went and looked at the Rolodex of Photos.

That's the one we picked.

No, I thought we picked the one where Mike was doing a cool fist pose and I was doing a dope-ass crane pose right next to him, and we looked like, like, Power Fist and Iron Buddy.

Power Fist and Iron Buddy? That's our superhero duo.

It was really much worse.

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