Goodbye Andrew, Thanks For The Memories | The Official Podcast
The Official Podcast
This episode marks a significant turning point for The Official Podcast as long-time regular host Andrew announces his departure from the show's regular
Key takeaways
- Andrew is stepping down after a decade of regular hosting to focus on solo adventures and content creation.
- The hosts emphasize there is no drama or bad blood behind the decision to change the show's format.
Main topics
- Andrew's departure
- Podcast history and evolution
Notable quotes
I'd rather bow out while it's still good than drag it into the dirt.
Conclusion
The episode serves as a sentimental tribute to a decade of broadcastin
Transcript preview
Speaker 3 (0:37) It was Andrew's last clapstick. And goodbye. Speaker 1 (0:40) I just thought I would cut this short so we don't belay it. I'm just going to leave now. I just would say goodbye. You know, see ya. Rip off the band-aid. Bye. Yeah, really. Why are we prolonging this? Can I just go? Jesus. No, I'm kidding. Hello and welcome to my... I don't know. What's the future going to hold? Might be a guest spot. Might be a future collab. So I don't want to say my very last ever intro to this show, but the last regular. format of this show for me how about that i think that it's a note the door is always open for you yeah i i i think there's a little bit of finalism and and you know end of days to all this but you know i'm not disappearing i'm not evaporating off the face of the earth i'm simply refusing to talk to kyan jackson ever again because fuck those guys never again no but hello welcome to my final regular episode of the official podcast uh i don't know we had a we had a thing planned and that's all that's in my brain right now isn't it where we talked to uh chat and said why don't you send us some shit and we'll talk about previous moments on the show i didn't have anything planned i just wanted to be like hey guys Oop, see ya. You know? Yeah. Just Speaker 3 (1:59) a regular episode. For people out there who may have missed the last episode or are jumping in for the first time in a while, that might sound like a pretty insane intro to a podcast Speaker 1 (2:09) where one guy's like, Speaker 3 (2:11) I'm quitting now. Speaker 1 (2:12) Do you want to maybe explain what's going on? Sure, sure. So this podcast has been running for about a decade, probably a little longer than a decade if you factor in uh like breaks we took and times we missed episodes and and all that kind of shit and so over the years many many things have changed and the biggest thing for me is in my solo career and my solo adventures and my focus on the internet and content and all that and it just felt like it was time i think we all see the directions that we want to go with various things and I will flat out admit, and I think it's plainly obvious, the two of you do more for this show than I do at this point. And it just felt like, you know, it's that feeling you can't explain of just, you kind of want to move on, do different things, and here we are. So after all this time... It's all creative Speaker 3 (3:10) projects. Eventually, you know, you've been doing it for long enough and you just kind of want to move on. Speaker 1 (3:14) Yeah. You're not Speaker 3 (3:15) enjoying it as much, and that's completely... Speaker 1 (3:17) And my philosophy is I'd rather bow out while it's still good than drag it into the dirt or potentially, you know, make it worse for you guys or make the show terrible or what have you. So it just kind of felt like the right time for me to say, you know, I've got my own ventures in the bag and I kind of want to look towards those more. And, you know, my time here is done. And then I fade to the ether like a fucking force ghost. Jackson likes that because he likes Star Wars. Speaker 3 (3:48) I do. I do enjoy Star Wars and the references therein and thinking of you as a wise old Jedi that fades off. I'm not a wise old Jedi. I'm actually Anakin, Speaker 1 (3:58) really sloppily edited in for the DVD editions, if you remember that. You're more like Speaker 3 (4:04) Jar Jar Binks or perhaps Darth Insanius or someone like that. Oh, Speaker 1 (4:09) thank Speaker 3 (4:09) you. No, that's good. That's Speaker 1 (4:10) perfect. You've summarized it perfectly. No, there's nothing that happened. There's no drama. There's no bad blood. We have been discussing this for a while. And I think my main point was we hit episode 500. And after 500, I just kind of slowly started realizing, you know, that would be a good time to start winding things down for me. Just a personal feeling. That's all. Nothing else. Just to empathize. Speaker 3 (4:36) To peel back the curtain a little bit, though. It was before 500 as well. Like you and I have been talking about it in detail for like at least a year about how, you know, I think each of us throughout time has gone through different periods of feeling like, you know, my heart's not in it anymore. I'm not enjoying it that much. I'd prefer to be doing anything else, honestly. But that's just the nature of doing something every single week. Speaker 1 (5:00) I messaged you guys a good while ago, probably beginning of this year, I think this calendar year. And I said, you know, I'm ramping up a lot of side projects. I'm ramping up a lot of other stuff of what I'm doing. And, you know, I'm still around. I'm still doing it. But there's going to be a time I can feel it where I'm just not going to not going to be feeling it anymore, where it's going to kind of feel like moving towards chore obligation rather than fun. And I don't think that's fair to you guys. I don't think that's fair to the audience. So I figured, you know. Just keep you guys in touch. And then eventually this day hit where I don't remember when I mentioned it, but I was like, hey, you know, I think I'm going to start winding down, etc. I think it's Speaker 3 (5:42) good, though, because you told us well in advance and it gave us plenty of time to prepare. And I don't feel done wrong by you at all. I do want to ask, though, Kaya, is this like stirring up any of your abandonment issues or anything like that? Are you doing OK? Speaker 2 (5:58) No, I appreciate the two weeks notice. And I would like to reiterate, there is no drama. Although Andrew did message me and say, never contact me again. But I think that's like unrelated. Speaker 1 (6:09) I was going to say that no matter what. Speaker 2 (6:11) Yeah. Speaker 1 (6:12) Well, he says that every week to me. No, every time I get a DM from you guys, I always follow it up with stop. Please don't. I'm busy. You Speaker 3 (6:21) just said it to me out of the blue. I don't even try to contact you. You just preemptively do it. Speaker 1 (6:25) I won't spoil anything, but Jackson has a little project that he's doing on his own time. And every now and then he'll send me little snippets of it. Who knows what it'll be. But every time he messages me, I'm like, Jackson, I don't care. Come on, man. Please. Speaker 3 (6:38) It's not even that far Speaker 1 (6:39) from the truth, honestly. No, it's not. No, no, Speaker 3 (6:42) I'm joking. It's Speaker 1 (6:43) all Speaker 3 (6:43) jokes. Speaker 1 (6:44) We are all ending this. It's all jokes. We all actually hate each other. We haven't liked each other in years. We don't want to fucking do this show. You know what I mean? Speaker 3 (6:54) Yeah, everything is a joke until it's not. Speaker 2 (6:58) Then it Speaker 3 (6:59) got Speaker 2 (6:59) real. Speaker 2 (7:01) Yeah. Speaker 3 (7:02) No, but that's it. That's it, guys. Andrew is leaving. It'll just be Kyra and myself. Now, if you're a fan of Criminally Stupid, then you'll know what kind of dynamic that is. Although the official podcast will continue to be completely unstructured, unlike Criminally Stupid, but it's just going to be more or less the same kind of dynamic. Kyra and myself have a particular kind of dynamic in which he... gets off on insulting me and putting me in my place and me i'm too weak to stand up for myself so it works i am the Speaker 2 (7:34) nicest person to you too yes i Speaker 3 (7:39) was like a father Speaker 2 (7:39) to Speaker 1 (7:39) you almost if you think about it Speaker 3 (7:42) So I will give it at least two more weeks until I myself quit due to the harassment received because I feel like Kai will ramp it up now that there's no Andrew here to restrain him. So we'll see how that goes. But yeah, I mean, it's been, it's an end of, it's the end of an era really when you think about it. Like, when did you guys, how old were you guys when you, when we started? Speaker 1 (8:02) Like 24, I think. Early Speaker 3 (8:07) -ish 20s, let's say. Yeah. Maybe mid-20s. um like that's been your guys's entire well most of your 20s as well as like pretty much the entire early adult life for you guys as well same for me of course but yeah i mean it's it's an entire era of our lives that is now coming to pass Speaker 1 (8:27) it's it's an interesting kind of thought on all of it because this is a Speaker 1 (8:36) parasocial show for lack of a better term. This is a, hey, here we are. Here's your host. Get to know these people, laugh at their jokes and personalities. And to run it for a significant amount of time is nearly impossible. I try hard to think of a lot of long running anything like that. There's very few. Because over time, just so much changes, so many personalities changes, situations, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, you know? So the fact we've made it this long with, well, we got pretty dang far with four hosts, and then another, what, year and a half with three of the original? Yeah, two years, I think. Yeah, or two full, honestly, maybe. Just to run it that long off of that premise alone, I think is... commendable and crazy and just weird when you think about it but in a good way also i Speaker 2 (9:28) would like to flex that nothing ever happened we never had any drama we never had any sexual abuse allegations no one ever sexting any fans or something with all the shit that seems to befall every other content creator and they're like yeah uh i'm gonna have to cut ties with this guy because he molested someone at smash con we're so sorry yet Speaker 3 (9:49) says chat That's why Andrew's leaving. He's getting ahead of the curve. Yeah, I know Jackson's going to Speaker 1 (9:55) drop the Google Doc any day now, and I need to get the fuck out of here as fast as I can. If you think Kaia's bad to Jackson, you have not seen what I've done to that man. Oh, no. Speaker 3 (10:05) Oh, no, no, no. That's why I attach myself to Kaia. He's my safety. He's my rock. Speaker 1 (10:12) Exactly. It's like devil you don't know and devil you do. It's like you know how Kaia's going to fuck with you, but with me? Oh, it's disgusting. It's foul. There aren't prisons in the world that could hold me for what I do to Jackson. You know? Yeah. Speaker 3 (10:25) I don't know. Has it looking back, has there been substantial drama at all? I mean, obviously Charlie left and there was a community about that, but not within ourselves. Like that wasn't, there was no drama involved in that process for us, but then like, maybe I'm trying to think like maybe the Andrew Tate episode, I guess. That wasn't drama. Speaker 1 (10:47) That was back when he wasn't even a Speaker 3 (10:50) thing. What Speaker 1 (10:50) was the drama on that anyway? People were just like, you did an episode with him. No, at the time. At Speaker 3 (10:56) the time, he was just another internet goofball. At Speaker 2 (10:58) the time, I invited him on because he was just a Twitter personality who would sometimes tweet funny stuff at people. That was it. Nobody knew anything about these allegations at all. Speaker 1 (11:09) Nobody knew. Yeah, I had a friend who brought this up. I had a friend who brought this up in conversation. And the point I made to him is, do you blame the people who worked with Bill Cosby? They didn't know. Okay. They absolutely do. Every single Speaker 3 (11:22) one of them. Even the six year old girl on the Speaker 1 (11:26) Cosby show knew what was happening and said, yeah, go get him Cosby. Bad Speaker 3 (11:31) point, Andrew. Every single person on that show was giving him the pudding. You know what I'm getting at, though? Maybe Cosby's the wrong specific Speaker 1 (11:37) example. I'm joking. I'm joking. I'm Speaker 3 (11:40) clearly joking. No, there were Speaker 1 (11:41) definitely some people around him who knew, but not everybody. His manager. The manager probably knew, but not the guy like doing the Speaker 2 (11:49) lighting on the set. Not the lighting Speaker 1 (11:51) guy. Not a lot of his co-stars, like especially the younger ones. Who's the who's the one who he just drowned recently? It was fucked up, but he played he played the youngest son. or the oldest son on the Cosby show. I have no idea. Never seen the Cosby show. He got interviewed a bunch about it and he was like, look, Bill Cosby was only good to me and I never knew any of this shit and I don't ever want to talk about it. That's the main point I'm making is to tie back to us. You know, can you blame us for stuff we didn't know or things would happen in the future that we had no control of? No. Speaker 3 (12:26) Well, to be Speaker 1 (12:26) fair, Speaker 3 (12:28) Kaya did just claim responsibility for that, so I do want to put it out there that it is all on him. I'll allow you to blame Kaya. And Speaker 2 (12:33) I'm Speaker 3 (12:33) not Speaker 2 (12:33) sorry. I don't give a fuck. Fuck Speaker 3 (12:36) you. It Speaker 2 (12:36) was all him. We didn't know. Should have sued him earlier. Also, he's not... Speaker 1 (12:39) I don't know why people Speaker 2 (12:40) hyper-fixate on Andrew Tate when we had, like, five or six creeps on the show now who came on the official podcast and then either end up dying or, like, getting in trouble for... What was that one guy doing? Force feeding a dog Mountain Dew and like tormenting it with mirrors around its cage? Oh, yeah. Who was that guy? Was that Sky Does Minecraft? It was Sky, Speaker 1 (13:02) right? Oh, he was there, wasn't he? Speaker 3 (13:05) Yeah, he was the one that showed up like completely baked out of his brain. I'll be Speaker 1 (13:11) brutally honest. I've forgotten 90 % of the guests we've had on the show. I mean, it's been a while Speaker 3 (13:16) since we've Speaker 1 (13:16) done guest episodes. People remind me of it and I go, oh, yeah, I have met that person. But I... I can't keep track of all of it, man. I really can't. Speaker 3 (13:25) No, I mean, my memory's historically awful, but I have sincerely forgot most of the episodes. Speaker 2 (13:32) I mean, again, people get mad. So I think it's at the top of you guys' minds because I sent you guys a Reddit link of people finding out that Charlie talked to Andrew Tate and was like pretty jovial with it too. And they're like, oh, I can't believe it. Not my hacking YouTuber. Speaker 1 (13:48) Is Speaker 2 (13:48) he really worse than John McAfee, though, who allegedly, Had hookers take shits in his mouth in a poop hammock and allegedly killed someone. Speaker 3 (13:56) Well, that's the allegedly kill someone is bad, but hey, having a hot chick shit in your mouth. That's not the same. Yes, there was. I'm Speaker 1 (14:06) kind of sad we unraveled the mystery of him fucking the whale too. We should have left that one alone. Speaker 3 (14:11) You could argue whale consent laws all you want, but if the worst thing he did was take a shit in the mouth or whatever, then. Speaker 1 (14:19) Hey, we've had worse at the show. That was our detective mystery, though. That was a giant internet rumor, and he finally deconfirmed it on our show when we asked him. I think that's where it came out, right? Speaker 2 (14:29) I also liked how he joins our call. I think I was trying to set up a temporary Zoom call. He joins and within the first 60 seconds, he says, I did not kill that guy. Yeah. I swear. Speaker 1 (14:39) Yeah. And didn't he call us from the back of like a Colombian taxi? Yeah. Or some shit Speaker 3 (14:45) like that. And then didn't he die like two weeks after the episode aired? Speaker 3 (14:50) I think he Speaker 1 (14:52) was Speaker 3 (14:52) without a doubt our craziest guest. Speaker 1 (14:54) I think, say what you want about anyone else, I think having him on at the height of all that was the craziest fucking one without a doubt. That was fun, Speaker 2 (15:01) but then there was also that conspiracy theorist, remember? He made me violently Speaker 1 (15:07) angry. And then he also died. I think those are the two Speaker 2 (15:11) deaths we've had, right? There haven't been any others? That's Speaker 1 (15:14) probably more, but yeah, those two at least. Did Speaker 3 (15:17) we have Too Speaker 1 (15:17) Mad on the show a long time ago? Yes, we did. Okay, there we go. Too Mad's another one. Fuck. Is he dead? Yeah, yeah, yeah, he died. Speaker 2 (15:25) Wait, who's Too Mad? Speaker 1 (15:28) The large African-American gentleman known for memes and... Was Speaker 2 (15:33) he a psycho or a nice guy? I don't remember him at all. Speaker 1 (15:37) He was Speaker 3 (15:37) mentally unwell. Speaker 2 (15:38) I Speaker 1 (15:38) think he was very mentally unwell. Like, he did very... very questionable things before he died, I think. Speaker 3 (15:46) Remember he was the one that did the video with Belle Delphine? Remember that? Yeah. No. He sounds familiar. That's another person we had on, Belle Delphine. Oh, yeah. We had a lot of people Speaker 2 (16:00) on. Speaker 1 (16:01) Yeah, Speaker 3 (16:02) we had a ton of people. I feel like Belle Delphine is someone that Speaker 2 (16:04) now, Jackson, you and I would like object to having that person on, I feel like. Who? What? Speaker 3 (16:10) Definitely. Which one? Speaker 2 (16:12) Belle. Speaker 3 (16:13) Well, I've always said that I wouldn't really object to having anyone on. Yeah, Speaker 2 (16:18) but not as like, I don't know, like in support of it, I suppose. Speaker 3 (16:27) Well, Andrew, I want to know what your favorite memory, do you have a favorite particular memory from the show? Because you said last week you wanted to be a bit introspective, I suppose. Speaker 1 (16:36) Well, the biggest thing I wanted to do is open up fan submissions because we did episode 500 and the instant the cameras went off, all three of us kind of collectively said, oh, fuck, we forgot to ask the audience things. So I definitely wanted to include that on this episode. Speaker 1 (16:54) I know it's a cliche answer and I was kind of thinking about it all day yesterday. I still think that one of the most standout moments is Mr. Sark's Fight Club story. It gets me every time. I remember it constantly all the time. I think about how fucking engaging it was. It's hard for me to pick moments that top that. It's just the one I always go back to in my memory. Speaker 3 (17:17) It was an incredible moment for sure. Mr. Sark's stories. He has so many different stories whenever he comes on that are instantly engaging. Yeah, but just... That my life is that interesting. Speaker 1 (17:30) Just rattling shit off the top of my head, there was the running joke with I Hate Everything and how he was the fifth host. And then for what was it? Episode 200? It was some anniversary. We got him to officially declare he's finally leaving the show after being credited for however many episodes he didn't have Speaker 3 (17:49) anything to do with. Maybe we can finally invite him back and have him on again to take you a place. Yeah, Speaker 1 (17:55) finally. It's a little egotistical, but a moment that I always personally think about is when we had PewDiePie on. And I literally faked a family emergency at my software job and sped home so I could be here for the episode. Oh, yeah, that's right. Yeah, you remember that? You were still working Speaker 3 (18:11) at your software job at the time. Yeah, so Speaker 1 (18:13) I was working my software job. And it was literally... So we were supposed to record the night before. And we were postponing it and rescheduling it. And the very next day, while I'm at work at like 11.30 in the morning, I get a message. I think it was Charlie who mentioned it. But he was like, oh, hey, we're recording with PewDiePie. Now, I literally told my boss, I have a family emergency. I have to go. And I floored it down the highway to get home and join the episode. Speaker 1 (18:43) That was a classic. Speaker 3 (18:44) To meet your favorite YouTuber. Speaker 2 (18:46) I think I kind Speaker 1 (18:47) of Speaker 2 (18:47) miss the up-and-coming era of the show where we would get someone big, big like Notch or PewDiePie and we would all lose our shits. Like, oh my Speaker 1 (18:57) god, he actually sat down Speaker 2 (18:59) with us and he purchased a mic just to come on the show. And Speaker 3 (19:05) that was kind Speaker 2 (19:05) of exciting. And now it's, you know, your career is blowing up. Charlie is basically... celebrity now it's like back then it was just a little more of a landscape the landscape Speaker 1 (19:16) is different now too uh back then the internet it still felt small but these days yeah look how many people and how many different platforms have just for a single metric a million subscribers there's people on twitch with million followers there's people on tiktok with a million followers there's people on instagram with a million followers on youtube etc etc on twitter It's not as special as it used to be. It's just such a giant landscape compared to what it used to be. Whereas when back then you landed someone with four or five million subs, it was like, oh my God, this is the person. This is the guy. But I think also, but like, yes, Speaker 3 (19:52) like the internet is way more saturated now. So those special moments don't really mean anything like as much anymore. Kind of everyone's got an Speaker 2 (19:59) audience to some degree. Speaker 3 (20:01) But Speaker 2 (20:01) what I miss about Speaker 3 (20:03) that time. other than being like 18, 19 or whatever, what I miss from that time really is that everything felt kind of new to us, I guess. Like it was flying by the seat of our pants, basically. And then at some point you just fall into a rhythm and then years fly by. Speaker 1 (20:23) Yeah, you get old. And shit sucks. The end, I guess. Speaker 1 (20:30) yay we all should we all should be 10 years younger this Speaker 2 (20:33) again yeah good moments oh Speaker 1 (20:36) it happens more and more every day now i think i think i'm gonna be doing this till i hit 40 and then when i'm 40 i'm gonna be like okay i am old i don't care anymore it's fine who gives a shit but until then it's gonna be just oh god my bones okay so uh Speaker 3 (20:54) For everyone at home, we have a very special community member named Maru. Andrew, you know Maru. I do. She's been an enormous part of our community since pretty much the beginning. And so you're her favorite, Andrew. You've upset her greatly. But she wanted to commemorate the moment by making you a photo. And I wanted to present... present this to you on the show. Kai, is there an easy way for me to send this to you to put up on screen or something? Speaker 2 (21:28) Yeah, Discord. Speaker 1 (21:30) Alright, I'll pull the stream open, right? This is Speaker 3 (21:34) Maru's little gift to you, and I figure you may as well show everyone at home as well. Are you Speaker 2 (21:41) DMing it? Speaker 1 (21:42) Does it have her personal address on it too? You might want to be careful. Speaker 2 (21:47) And an invitation to kiss. Speaker 1 (21:52) Oh, look at me go. It's okay. It's gone. Oh, there it is. Speaker 1 (21:59) I do love me a good Truman Show reference. That's fantastic. It's beautiful. But Speaker 3 (22:04) I wanted you to take away from this that you mean something to our community. Even if you do have a little bit of a negative relationship with a lot of them, you do mean something to the community. Not a lot of them. Some of them. You do have, you know, you mean Speaker 1 (22:22) something to most of them. Aw, she didn't capture the very next panel, which is me tripping and falling down those fucking stairs and snapping my neck. Putting a gun in your mouth. Sitting in my fucking apartment a year later, just doing nothing, watching the show skyrocket without me, looking at the noose, going, maybe. Speaker 2 (22:42) At the bottom of the stairs is Kojima, ready to catch you. Speaker 1 (22:45) Oh, that would have been so good. And he takes me away to Xbox. As God intended. It's Speaker 3 (22:51) a beautiful photo. It is fantastic. Speaker 1 (22:53) Thank you. I also got a thumb. Speaker 3 (22:55) I also got our thumbnail artist. I commissioned our thumbnail artist to make one final piece of us three together. So if you want to show that one. Speaker 2 (23:03) I Speaker 3 (23:03) was going to get that printed out and send that to you and you could do something with it or whatever. Oh, look, Speaker 2 (23:08) Discord isn't loading. The image. Fucking kill yourselves. All Speaker 1 (23:13) right, Kaya. Is that how you want to end this episode, huh? You want to tell us that? I want to show my friend Speaker 2 (23:19) the Speaker 1 (23:21) thumbnail art. There we are. That's so nice. Is that based off of one of the photos we took at the meetup? Could be. I don't actually know. Maybe you guys can dig for it and find suitable ones, but we took a good number of photos at the aquarium. I know we took a lot of those. Speaker 3 (23:41) Yeah, we Speaker 1 (23:42) did. That's so nice. You guys are so nice. Speaker 3 (23:45) Aww. You know, not to get too sentimental, but... Speaker 1 (23:53) uh Speaker 3 (23:53) yeah andrew it's okay i can Speaker 2 (23:54) edit him out yeah i know Speaker 1 (23:57) if we can digitally scrub jackson out and replace him with anyone else i hate everything that'd be good i think that'd be perfect oh thank you no genuinely thank you that's fantastic Speaker 2 (24:15) Starting a new exercise routine can be a little intimidating because, you know, maybe you don't know what you're doing or maybe you do know what you're doing, but you tend to overthink things. And maybe you're like me. You get analysis paralysis very easy because you're having multiple AI agents deep search the internet for the optimal routine. How do I min-max my gains? I have stopped myself since just tormenting myself like that. I downloaded FitBot. FitBot, you tell it what you want. I told it, you know what? 10 years from now, I want to be able to still play with my daughter and throw the ball and stuff. I don't want to be like stiff and sedentary. It's like, no problem. What equipment do you have? How much do you weigh? How much, how old are you? And all that sort of stuff. You tell it and it does the thinking for you. And the thing is, it's fun because you get to pick and choose which ones. I would like to try this routine. It says, okay, sometimes it switches, switches it up for you. And depending on your circumstances, sometimes you have to adjust your routine, right? Like when you're traveling and all you have available is a like one exercise band you packed in a grimy hotel room floor. Not a problem for FitBot. And it helps to have like exercise streaks and stuff and like see your all of your statistics because you can like screenshot them and stuff and just send them to your wife and flex a little bit and you guys can compete. Anyway, I've been doing a lot of those. Like kettlebell front lifts because our baby is 16 pounds now. She's getting heavy. She's becoming a big chungus. So I have to lift her a lot if you catch my drift. It's kind of tough on the shoulders. So FitBond will create a personalized routine for you. It will nag you with streaks. Say, do you really want to lapse in the streak? It makes you feel guilty. It adapts to your growth. It keeps in mind stuff like, okay, how sore are you today? Do you need rest? That sort of stuff. It doesn't, you know, overlook that. tracks your muscle recovery points and each session is still challenging enough to push you. So get FitBot, get fit this year. Don't wait until 2027. Start now, start today. FitBot builds the plan, you build the strength. Perfect, isn't it? Get 25 % off your FitBot subscription or try the app free for seven days at fitbot.me slash official. That's F-I-T-B-O-D dot M-E slash official. So we also have some favorite Speaker 3 (26:32) memories as well from the audience. Speaker 2 (26:35) Give like a name or a shout out to the artist. For this one? Who? Speaker 3 (26:40) No, that was commissioned by me. Speaker 2 (26:42) It's just the thumbnail artist. Speaker 3 (26:44) What's their name? Speaker 2 (26:45) Yeah, that's what I'm asking. Speaker 3 (26:47) Well, I don't think that she would want her name attached to it. Oh, okay. It's all good. I thought you were just Speaker 1 (26:53) doing her dirty like we would do. Hello, welcome to the official podcast with Kai and Andrew and our third host. Let's get into the topic. I could say her Speaker 3 (26:59) artist name or whatever. Artemis Block. Shout out to you. Yeah. She's done fantastic. She's been our thumbnail artist for like... Five years. Speaker 1 (27:10) Now remind me, what's Speaker 3 (27:11) her Speaker 1 (27:11) legal name again? Like a real name? That's what I was wondering. Why Speaker 3 (27:15) do you want the address of every person? I don't know, let's hang out. The show's gonna end. I need something to do. I need a couch to sleep on. I'm fucked. It's for the Google Doc disclosure that's about to happen. He's been stalking every member of our community. Oh god, please. I'm just gonna Speaker 2 (27:31) show up at my door like, you wanna play Wolverine? I don't want to sleep alone. we're gonna have my switch to Speaker 1 (27:38) kaya can we play mario wonder please well Speaker 2 (27:42) okay that one i would actually say yes to that's fun with you oh now that Speaker 3 (27:47) you've Speaker 1 (27:47) got Speaker 3 (27:47) an extra hour and a half each week what are you gonna do with that time it's gonna be playing for probably Speaker 1 (27:52) sit and wish i was doing a podcast but no honestly something something i have noticed is uh my schedule is jamming with a lot of other stuff that's run by me for my channel i feel i hate talking about it like this because a lot hasn't been finished in public yet but it's like i just have a lot of meetings for projects i'm working on behind the scenes and it's like yeah i i'm a little relieved to have one less thing in my schedule no offense in any capacity you know no i get it yeah just getting busy where did kai go kai disappeared on my screen He fell over. Speaker 2 (28:30) I was grabbing a Coke. Relax. I'm here, Jackson. You're not alone. I'm not leaving. Speaker 3 (28:35) I'm a bit tender because one of my friends has left me and then I say, you're gone as well. Oh, Kaya's coming with me. He didn't tell you? Speaker 1 (28:43) Oh, yeah. Actually, Speaker 2 (28:44) we're starting a podcast together. We are. Speaker 1 (28:46) It's called the More Official Podcast. With Andrew Speaker 2 (28:50) Kaya. And occasionally there's Speaker 1 (28:52) going Speaker 2 (28:52) to be Speaker 1 (28:52) a guest. Speaker 1 (28:57) Anyway, yeah, why don't we pull up those moments that people submitted? Yeah, do you want to do that, Kyle? You got them? Uh, Speaker 2 (29:04) yeah, I can get them. Speaker 3 (29:06) I guess we just go through and read them verbatim. Speaker 2 (29:10) Uh, okay. I'm not going to put them on screen because I don't want to accidentally show any, like, email addresses or anything. So, how about I just read them once I find Speaker 3 (29:20) them? Speaker 2 (29:20) Then we Speaker 3 (29:20) can Speaker 2 (29:20) discuss Speaker 3 (29:21) and see if we remember the moment they're talking about. Yeah, I like that. Speaker 2 (29:25) Okay. I'll just say, I'll use first names. Is that okay with everybody? Yep. Declan? Declan? How do you say this name? Declan emailed kill yourself at official.man. Honestly, the best episodes that I always listen back to is the bonus episode, Doug goes camping. There's a lot of great moments in it, but I do love when Jackson starts pissing himself laughing for about five minutes, straight over