As We Art

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Monica
Is this thing on?

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Candace
Hello.

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Speaker 1
Hello. Hello and welcome.

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Speaker 2
Welcome back.

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Speaker 1
We're starting.

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Speaker 2
This is As We Art.

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Speaker 1
As We Art episode two. We. We're doing it.

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Speaker 2
We made it.

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Speaker 1
It's a podcast. It's a YouTube channel, and we're really glad you're here.

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Speaker 2
It's an experience.

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Speaker 1
Yes, we would do this just for fun, to talk to ourselves and have a recording to, like, hold ourselves accountable. Oh yeah. But this is way more fun.

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Speaker 2
It's way cool.

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Speaker 1
There might be people watching and listening.

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Speaker 2
Yes. We're so excited you're here. Clearly.

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Speaker 1
So what we're doing, if you're new here, what we're doing is we're talking about what art we're making. What art are we working on this week? Yeah. And we're talking about what inspires us. But we just want to point out we are doing it in one take. Yep. No script, no rehearsal. You will see mistakes. We're not editing them out.

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Speaker 2
You're getting all the fun.

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Speaker 1
I talk a lot with my arms and hands and I'm flailing and hitting the mics and. But we're learning.

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Speaker 2
There might be some thumps. I'm fidgety, so I touch things a lot. So if you hear weird sounds, it’s probably me moving something just randomly. Yeah.

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Speaker 1
We're learning as we go. And you are going to be here for the ride. If you're here, we're glad you're here. Yes. Welcome again. So if I didn't say it, I'm Monica.

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Speaker 2
I'm Candace.

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Speaker 1
And we are As We Art.

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Speaker 2
As we are. Yet.

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Speaker 1
All right. All right. Who's going to start? Did you art at all?

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Speaker 2
Did I art? I did art. You arted as well?

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Speaker 1
Yes. Lots of art happening. This podcast kind of is our way to check in and make sure. Not make sure. There's no.

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Speaker 2
No, we're not mom and dad.

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Speaker 1
If we don't do it right. Yeah, but it's nice to know that, those projects we've had our eyes on or things we want to make, they're not going to go weeks and weeks without being touched, because we're reporting it every week here. Yep. So the art. Who wants to start?

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Speaker 2
Oh, you start.

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Speaker 1
With what I did this week.

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Speaker 2
Yeah. What did you do this week?

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Speaker 1
I did a few things. I cut some glass. Candace and I are stained glass artists, and we go in waves of being productive and not productive. And now we're being productive again. So it feels good. Yeah, but I wanted to make a sign for our podcast, because if you're watching on YouTube, you'll notice a blank wall.

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Speaker 2
We have this beautiful white abyss behind us.

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Speaker 1
In our little podcast corner that we set up. If you, if you are, just listening on the podcast, make sure you check out our Instagram at As We Art Podcast because we're adding photos of things that we're talking about. So you'll see our podcasting corner, you'll see the blank wall, you'll see the art as it, and each edit at each phase, each step of the process.

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Speaker 2
You'll see my vacant expression.

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Speaker 1
And we go, yeah, don't miss our gestures. Okay. I'm going to try to show you guys what I did this week. I cut 70 pieces of glass.

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Speaker 2
I'm going to be your microphone arms swinger. As you bring the glass up. Oh wow, that looks really cool. Some very good glass choices.

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Speaker 1
I've been hiding it in the glass studio, honey. Yeah, I used that antique stripey blue and white. Super cool. Blue and clear.

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Speaker 2
Thanks. Oceanside.

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Speaker 1
Oceanside glass. So good. I mean, we we get glass from a lot of different places, but they make amazing glass. One of my favorites they make is this, it's like this seafoam green, ripple glass. So again, for people who are just listening, what we're describing is shades of blue and green is what I wanted for the background on this sign.

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Speaker 1
You saw the pattern that I made last week as we art, if you're watching, these are listening in sequential order, but if not, here you go. I have pops of orange around the border, which I'm excited about. It's my favorite.

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Speaker 2
Color. It's really cool. Looks great. Matches the shelf.

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Speaker 1
Yeah. Oh, yeah.

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Speaker 2
For the abyss.

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Speaker 1
There'll be plenty of orange. But the thing is, these are just raw cuts we cut by hand. So the next step is to grind each piece, which will make them all smooth and straight.

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Speaker 2
And not sharp like knives.

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Speaker 1
Now what? What's missing from this is are the letters, the glass letters. But there's a reason I didn't run out of time. I really thought about this.

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Speaker 2
Nice. What's the reason?

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Speaker 1
Drumroll, please. Drumroll. I thought at first my image of this was to have black letters. Solder seams are dark. I thought we patina them with black. I thought it would be nice to have dark, like black opaque glass for the letters, but it's right now. As it stands, it's sitting on a white piece of paper and I thought, oh, maybe white letters would kind of pop.

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Speaker 1
Yeah, I don't know. Do you like the idea of white letters?

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Speaker 2
I normally am not a big solder. Seams visible type person, but I the way it's going to be rocking.

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Speaker 1
Even with the black seams on the letter.

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Speaker 2
You should do a pull on Instagram.

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Speaker 1
A pull up, a poll.

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Speaker 2
Oh sorry, I'm from Utah. So poll and poll are the same thing.

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Speaker 1
Oh my gosh. A poll is when we take a vote, when you pull something that is different. I'm a New Englander.

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Speaker 2
From the West.

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Speaker 1
Snobby New Englander who didn't know I had an accent until I met Candace in Utah. And, I was out there for just a brief part of my life, and I apparently do have an accent. Yes, a little bit. I dropped my R's sometimes, not all the time.

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Speaker 2
But drop in for fun.

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Speaker 1
Now back to this art piece. I'll put a pull on we. Well, you'll have to show me how to do that a Facebook. Oh, God, Instagram.

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Speaker 2
Just dated yourself.

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Speaker 1
We're not doing Facebook. We're doing Instagram. Okay, I'll put this down, but let us know if you want white letters or black letters. And then, each week I'll show you the update on what's happening with that sign and we can get it hung up.

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Speaker 2
Yeah. Looks awesome. It's going to be great. And it'll be behind me soon.

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Speaker 1
Yes.

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Speaker 2
Is that all you worked on this week? What else did you do?

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Speaker 1
I did well, that was the main thing. I guess I do want to mention writing because I'm trying to stay accountable as a writer, and I'm just preparing to two pieces, an essay and a short story, to be entered into journals. And the thing is, there's so many journals to choose from. I needed to kind of organize sort of which journal I'm entering, submitting it to, because the goal is to be published and I made an Excel sheet.

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Speaker 2
Nice.

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Speaker 1
There's a lot of back end work sometimes to art. How do any.

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Speaker 2
How do you choose which journals to submit to.

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Speaker 1
You? That's a really good question because I've learned I'm learning as I go here trying something new. I've never done this, but I've read a lot of, advice about that that writers waste time, money, resources, submitting their work to the wrong journals. So you have to make sure the genre fits yours. You don't want to. I'm I'm some of my writing is very lyric and nature inspired and dreamlike.

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Speaker 1
And you don't want to submit that to the wrong theme of a magazine or a journal. And so, also, I'm trying to find it's not hard, but I'm tending to be drawn toward journals that, I don't know the right word. Focus on queer writers. They lift up queer voices, amplify. Yeah. So, we're queer, right?

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Speaker 1
We're married.

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Speaker 2
We're here, and we're queer.

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Speaker 1
Ten years. We've known each other for a while, but we've been married ten years. And I just want to point that out because sometimes, sometimes people don't realize. So they just think we're. I don't know, friends, friends.

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Speaker 2
Sisters. I don't know, we're married.

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Speaker 1
And so it is nice to know, like, which magazines will take LGBTQ voices, be writers, because some of my themes include something that's queer.

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Speaker 2
Yeah. Super queer.

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Speaker 1
All right. Writing. But, Yeah. Art. What did you get up to this week?

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Speaker 2
A lot of the stuff I did this week was creating thumbnails and profile pictures for the podcast. So I've been posting profile pictures and stuff on Instagram and our email address. So if you notice some random pictures changing, it was be, thank you Candace.

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Speaker 1
All that tech stuff behind the scenes takes a while.

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Speaker 2
It does. I wish, it were just, you know, it were. I wish, I wish it were. I wish we could just record and post it and that's it. But, there are some other things, and I'm learning as I go, so it's fun.

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Speaker 1
No, if that's, awesome, I appreciate it. It is. It's a little bit of work behind the scenes to get this actually out to the world. Where is it now? I know it's on YouTube.

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Speaker 2
It's on YouTube. You can see us on YouTube at as we are at podcast, we are also anywhere you listen to podcasts. So Apple, Spotify, Amazon, Pod Chaser, there's a whole bunch of them. But yeah, if you go to look for us where you listen to podcasts and we're not there, let me know. I probably missed something up.

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Speaker 2
Yeah.

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Speaker 1
Let's. Well, I doubt it because you're a check. You, like, make a list and check it twice. So you're there. Say it. Yes, you are Santa. Candace really does not.

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Speaker 2
He had the same pink cheeks.

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Speaker 1
He Santa can just double check their work. I'm like, that'll do. Candace is like, let's double check this shit. So I'm very grateful you are the way you are. And I'm glad the podcast and YouTube channel are out and about for the world. We're so happy that anyone is joining and listening. It's kind of awesome. We've had a few people look at the first episode.

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Speaker 1
Some people commented, awesome! Yeah, so we're going to keep this going every week. I think we said, I don't want to say this wrong. What day? Tuesdays.

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Speaker 2
Every Tuesday I kind of post an episode. So look for it on Tuesdays.

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Speaker 1
Hold us to it. Yes. Like where is episode three?

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Speaker 2
Subscribe. Comment. Like all that fun stuff. Oh yeah. To let's say we can all keep up with each other because we love our community and it's starting to build. People are commenting and sharing and it's so cool.

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Speaker 1
So thank you. Really, really cool to see people interacting.

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Speaker 2
Yeah.

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Speaker 1
What other artistic endeavors did you pursue.

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Speaker 2
The, the, the only I mean I not the minimalize. Right. The other thing I did was I started a sketch for a linocut. My brain is kind of felt like a mishmash of insanity this week. Really just unsettled because of all the insanity going on in the world. So it's a little.

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Speaker 1
Bit of that.

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Speaker 2
I started a linocut sketch that is like a shoulder, shoulders and neck with the the head area. Just a mental maelstrom visualization. Like what? That my visual interpretation of what my brain is like right now. So.

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Speaker 1
Oh, it sounds spooky. It sounds spooky. It sounds. Well, I have to be honest, you said I it sounds amazing. And I want to see it and sketch. I'm excited. But you did say a word, I don't know. So I got to be honest. What is, Now? Maelstrom. Maelstrom? Maelstrom. I've heard it. It sounds negative, but I don't know what it is.

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Speaker 2
It is negative if you get caught in it. It's a whirlpool. Whirlpool in the ocean maelstrom.

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Speaker 1
Yeah. Okay. That's not a word I use, but I like it.

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Speaker 2
No, there's just, like a fictitious story about going into a maelstrom in a ship. I think Poe wrote it. Oh, I don't know.

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Speaker 1
Oh. Fact check. I always fact check.

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Speaker 2
Yeah. If I'm wrong, let me know.

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Speaker 1
That's what she thinks the definition of maelstrom is, but it probably is. And we'll use a new word every week. Hopefully not sporadically.

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Speaker 2
Not sure I get any so much.

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Speaker 1
Yeah. We just quoted clueless. Yes. So that is a movie we love. We tend to quote movies sometimes.

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Speaker 2
All right. At times.

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Speaker 1
I think that's awesome. I'm excited to see your linocut. Is it one color when you do the black print?

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Speaker 2
Like I think I'm going to do black and white. I think that'll be the best visualization for me of what I'm picturing at the moment. So we'll see. Yeah. Might change that last minute.

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Speaker 1
Yeah, I think I have seen I mean, I have seen, the printing process with black and white or solid color white and even some multiple colors. But is it possible to do I know you love neon, so I'm just curious.

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Speaker 2
Surprise, surprise. If you're not watching, I'm wearing a neon green.

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Speaker 1
Hat, neon green hat, gecko.

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Speaker 2
Hawaii I dress like a ten year old boy would in 1992. So that's your.

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Speaker 1
That's.

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Speaker 2
Here. I get to live in my childhood fantasy of being a ten year old boy, because I always thought I was a boy, and I was very surprised to find out I didn't get to pick, so.

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Speaker 1
Oh, well, you do get to pick. And I'm glad you're a boy. Yeah. There. We just made it up. Neon, I wanted to ask you, can you print a line? Leno. Leno? Oh, no. Mike, I was worried.

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Speaker 2
I was,

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Speaker 1
That was close.

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Speaker 2
We got that one out of the way fast.

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Speaker 1
We're not going to get black listed on YouTube, right? We made Leno cut no extra. And. Yes. Okay, I got this is me. Like, hiding my blushing. Okay. A linocut with neon paint. Is that a thing? Is that possible?

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Speaker 2
Yeah, I'm sure they make neon print ink. I also just learned that you can, add like a block printing medium to any acrylic paint. Okay, I guess, and make it, a block printing paint. It makes it, like, stickier texture.

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Speaker 1
Like texture.

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Speaker 2
No. Like 3D. No, no. Monica wants to make everything 3D.

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Speaker 1
Well, I just, I like yeah, okay. I do like stuff, I like texture, I like to feel it. But I also just like taking any art mediums and being experimental and trying something new and like throwing stuff at it and see if it works. I think that's so fun.

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Speaker 2
Yeah, you're you're great at it.

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Speaker 1
We had opposite methods. Yeah, very different methods. Yeah. But they're both fun and good. And anything you're doing is art. We're not here to judge whatever you're doing. Artistically, we we give you credit for that. Yes. And, yeah.

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Speaker 2
We're not gatekeeping if you're creating, it's art. So. Yeah.

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Speaker 1
Yeah, I don't even I said give you credit like there's no credit being given. Just do some art. Put your phone down to stop scrolling.

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Speaker 2
For a little credit. You can use it to search towards college or whatever.

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Speaker 1
Little credit like a report card.

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Speaker 2
After ten, you get a gift certificate.

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Speaker 1
There you go. Punch card I want that. Yeah, I'll.

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Speaker 2
Make.

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Speaker 1
Yeah. So that is part of it. We're try to embrace that expression. What is it? Prague. Hold on, hold on. Progress. Not perfection. Or what? No.

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Speaker 2
What is it? You're so close. Progress over perfection.

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Speaker 1
Yeah. Okay. That's so we don't.

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Speaker 2
We're embracing that. Phrase by not knowing the phrase.

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Speaker 1
There we go.

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Speaker 2
Progress over perfection of the phrase.

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Speaker 1
Yeah, I think a lot of people get stuck. They don't start something, maybe. Or they're just so concerned about the outcome or what it's going to look like at the end, or how it might compare to others that guilty and maybe that's you. Maybe it's one of you listening, like we're here to say on this podcast, it doesn't matter where you are in that spectrum of experience.

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Speaker 1
Just start and and report and celebrate it. Celebrate the fact that you started a project. And, some of the things that inspired us this week for me were people reporting or telling us what what projects they worked on. Yeah. Before we get to inspiration, is there any other artistic things that you did or want to mention or.

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Speaker 1
Well.

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Speaker 2
You did a big artistic thing, which was clean. The stained glass studio. That's huge.

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Speaker 1
Oh, that was a big project.

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Speaker 2
That was, you know, the little overdue little.

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Speaker 1
Yeah. I mean, we've talked about this in our last episode, but, like, making the space and time, having that privilege to just pause and make something and having that, it really is the resources, the time, the space it we feel very fortunate. Yeah. And just going back to what you said about your chaotic mind and you're making some art to kind of represent that or cope with that, it really can help.

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Speaker 1
There's so many atrocities going on in our country, in the world. We're not here to like focus on that. We're talking about our response to it, and the art can help us with our mental health. It can help others. Because I feel I feel like it sort of ripples out when you make something or do something with creative and kindness and compassion and attention, like, I feel like it kind of can spread.

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Speaker 1
Yeah.

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Speaker 2
And for me, it's a way to like take action that I can manage right now.

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Speaker 1
So yeah, that's a good point. Yeah. So cleaning out space make giving yourself space, finding a corner or a shelf or whatever to put some art supplies on or to dedicate some time to that felt really good. This week I took apart the glass studio, rearranged it, swept out all the glass, used a lot of Band-Aids because I didn't wear gloves the whole time.

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Speaker 2
Oh yeah, we buy Band-Aids in bulk because of stained glass.

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Speaker 1
Yeah, we have a lot of safety equipment, and I sometimes wear it and sometimes don't. But in doing that process, I did unearth a lot of beautiful pieces that we have made in the past, and it was so nice to see them because we have made art pieces for like exhibits at galleries.

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Speaker 2
Festivals, when we used to do fest festivals. Yeah, so much respect to people that do festivals. That is a hustle. Oh yeah, it is a lot of work.

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Speaker 1
We love being customers. That art fairs.

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Speaker 2
Do.

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Speaker 1
Every piece of art practically in our house is from a specifically like a pop up craft fair, where they have a tent, the art, the artists have to put their wares on a table, and it is such hard work to do that. So much goes into that. So yeah, tons of respect to that. Yeah. But we, we don't do that anymore.

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Speaker 1
And years ago we had an active Etsy page that sold some of our glass and whatever we put on Etsy sold, which was nice. But then we just stopped like things life a lot. Lots of different reasons happened and we we stepped back from being artistic as often. And now I've unearthed 1516 complete finished works of art.

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Speaker 1
Some are quite small, some are not. But we're the. The artistic process we worked on this week was polishing, getting them ready to photograph and post again.

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Speaker 2
So I have one of the pieces Monika pulled out so you can see what it looks like when it needs a rebuff. So this is a stained glass shark.

00:19:37:22 - 00:19:40:07
Speaker 1
Pretty. I love this.

00:19:40:09 - 00:19:41:22
Speaker 2
Thank you. I believe I made this.

00:19:41:22 - 00:19:44:25
Speaker 1
Oh, yeah, you did use the shark. The you're the one, the sharks.

00:19:44:28 - 00:20:06:20
Speaker 2
But, you can see the solder seams are kind of dull, not shiny. So we put car wax on it and buff it out, and it makes everything shiny. Cleans the glass. If you have stained glass at home, please don't use window cleaner. It. Yeah. The chemical effect on stained glass is not good. No Windex. No use.

00:20:06:20 - 00:20:24:05
Speaker 2
You can use car wax and buff it out. Or you can if you need something quick just to make it shiny and clean. Lemon pledge, works really well, so. But I love the polishing process. I love the finishing process of stained glass. Most people don't.

00:20:24:08 - 00:20:34:26
Speaker 1
Well, I think I don't know if most people don't. I don't because of how much time and patience. It's a very slow process and you have to be methodical it to sit still. And that's very hard for me.

00:20:34:26 - 00:20:43:18
Speaker 2
I love it, it's so meditative and zen to polish a piece. It's very, Karate Kid wax on, wax.

00:20:43:18 - 00:20:47:20
Speaker 1
On, wax off. Oh, Karate Kid. Yeah, that's one of my favorites.

00:20:47:20 - 00:20:50:26
Speaker 2
Well, it's your first love.

00:20:50:29 - 00:21:01:23
Speaker 1
I can't this is true. I was probably in third grade. I don't know, third grade, maybe fourth grade. I love the Karate Kid movie. We're talking about the one from the 80s. I know there's been.

00:21:01:25 - 00:21:03:05
Speaker 2
The other kid.

00:21:03:07 - 00:21:24:14
Speaker 1
But The Karate Kid with Daniel LaRusso, my absolute favorite. I, I was like, really obsessed with that movie. But, he was the karate. He was not. Not for the karate. Yeah, yeah, just for him. Oh, my God. Loved it. In fact, this is embarrassing, but hey, we're here, guys. We'll share.

00:21:24:14 - 00:21:25:15
Speaker 2
Let's embarrass.

00:21:25:17 - 00:21:50:18
Speaker 1
Yeah. Since we're sharing, I had a mahogany twin bed. My sister had a mahogany twin bed right nearby. And in between was a nightstand. And, I would lay in my bed in the nightstand, be right near my pillow, and I did my first artistic wood carving. It's it's art. We're talking about it. I carved my initials.

00:21:50:18 - 00:22:03:28
Speaker 1
You guys, in the mahogany nightstand. The side that faced my bed. I wrote my initials plus DL, Daniel LaRusso, the Karate Kid. Not even.

00:22:03:28 - 00:22:05:00
Speaker 2
Ralph Macchio.

00:22:05:08 - 00:22:05:17
Speaker 1
Oh, yeah.

00:22:05:21 - 00:22:06:04
Speaker 2
No, sir.

00:22:06:07 - 00:22:10:02
Speaker 1
I, I didn't even know I he was Daniel to me. I mean, oh my God, Daniel son.

00:22:10:04 - 00:22:10:26
Speaker 2
It's amazing.

00:22:10:26 - 00:22:24:08
Speaker 1
I, I can't believe I did that. I wasn't someone that like ruined like ruined or graffitied furniture. I had to make my mark. This is important. I don't even remember what happened where my parents found it, but it probably wasn't good.

00:22:24:08 - 00:22:27:23
Speaker 2
You were too enamored with the overbite of Daniel.

00:22:27:26 - 00:22:44:21
Speaker 1
I love his face. Do not make fun of people's physical cute. I love I loved everything about him. So that happened, karate kid. And we do. We think of that when we're. Well, you do most of the polishing because it really does take a lot of time to do it.

00:22:44:24 - 00:22:45:12
Speaker 2
Yep.

00:22:45:14 - 00:22:56:24
Speaker 1
Do you remember I ran into I actually crossed paths with the actor Ralph Macchio, who's an adult older than me. Not, I don't know, like ten years ago in Boston. Yeah.

00:22:56:25 - 00:22:59:11
Speaker 2
Before they started making Cobra Kai.

00:22:59:11 - 00:23:18:07
Speaker 1
Before a Cobra Kai. Yep. Which we recommend. If you're a Karate Kid fan, just try out the show for nostalgic purposes. But, yeah, I ran into him. I had a moment of conversation with him. It was wonderful. I got to tell him about carving his initials. Well, Daniel LaRusso, the initials in my nightstand. He thought it was so funny.

00:23:18:10 - 00:23:21:02
Speaker 1
And then I introduced him to my wife. So. Yeah, you.

00:23:21:02 - 00:23:25:02
Speaker 2
Know, I did not carve his initials, so, you know. Yeah, I.

00:23:25:02 - 00:23:32:20
Speaker 1
Know my first little crush was a boy. That's all right. You didn't carve your your initials after seeing that movie?

00:23:32:20 - 00:23:43:20
Speaker 2
No, no, I've, known I'm gay since, like, birth. So there were no Daniel LaRusso initials carved and looking for me.

00:23:43:22 - 00:23:46:20
Speaker 1
Who would you have a crush on in that movie if you saw it when you were a kid?

00:23:46:22 - 00:23:55:07
Speaker 2
Oh. I know I would carve my initials plus l l.

00:23:55:09 - 00:23:57:00
Speaker 1
L l it's not Ali.

00:23:57:02 - 00:23:57:26
Speaker 2
Nope.

00:23:57:29 - 00:24:02:16
Speaker 1
L oh, my.

00:24:02:18 - 00:24:06:14
Speaker 2
Lucille LaRusso. Daniel's mom. That'd be my age.

00:24:06:14 - 00:24:09:26
Speaker 1
Oh, my God, you're so funny, Candace.

00:24:09:29 - 00:24:11:23
Speaker 2
I mean, I'm honest.

00:24:11:25 - 00:24:20:17
Speaker 1
And you ended up. I'm half Italian. I got. Here we go. The Q you ended up with. That's really funny, honey. Lucila Russo.

00:24:20:20 - 00:24:21:15
Speaker 2
That's what I'd carve.

00:24:21:17 - 00:24:30:22
Speaker 1
Carved initials. Okay, well, you know, we get inspired by film, we get inspired by books. Let's talk about what inspired us this week.

00:24:30:24 - 00:24:34:05
Speaker 2
Yeah. You go first. Oh, okay.

00:24:34:07 - 00:24:56:05
Speaker 1
Yeah. What inspired me? You know what I'm going to say? A lot of things inspired me, as per usual. But right now, the thing that comes to mind was hearing what other people were doing with the people that shared with us commented. Some sent pictures of what they're working on. That was inspiring because it felt like this.

00:24:56:07 - 00:25:00:16
Speaker 1
What's that full circle moment? What's the like? I'm thinking of the recycling.

00:25:00:18 - 00:25:02:10
Speaker 2
The reduce reuse, recycle.

00:25:02:10 - 00:25:12:13
Speaker 1
The arrows that go around. So we inspire you and you inspire us and it just keeps going. Whew. But it was really awesome to hear. We heard from Marty.

00:25:12:16 - 00:25:14:28
Speaker 2
Oh I love Marty. Marty's amazing. Marty.

00:25:15:05 - 00:25:16:09
Speaker 1
The world needs more. Marty.

00:25:16:10 - 00:25:22:16
Speaker 2
Marty, you and I worked together about for about a decade, so that's Marty's awesome.

00:25:22:16 - 00:25:27:22
Speaker 1
I was very lucky to work there, so. Well, well, say worth of work was. This isn't a typical colleague, okay?

00:25:27:27 - 00:25:33:23
Speaker 2
Marty and I worked in a restaurant together, so we are friends, and we are trauma bonded. Yeah.

00:25:33:26 - 00:25:51:25
Speaker 1
Yeah, that's working at a restaurant. It's so hard. It's such hard work. And you're in the trenches, and you get to know your colleagues in a very different way, and it's like it's just so raw and real, like this podcast. But, I was really lucky to be able to meet you guys and work there. So I'm glad you guys have this such a long bond.

00:25:51:25 - 00:26:09:11
Speaker 1
It's awesome. But yeah, Marty mentioned he was inspired by our podcast to pull out a sweater he's working on. He had started it a while back and he wanted to pick up the project again. And it's crochet. And he even said the sweater has some sort of rib cage design on it.

00:26:09:11 - 00:26:10:22
Speaker 2
So sounds super.

00:26:10:22 - 00:26:14:28
Speaker 1
Cool. No pressure. But when that's done that's going to be awesome to see.

00:26:15:00 - 00:26:16:13
Speaker 2
Yes we're excited.

00:26:16:15 - 00:26:26:03
Speaker 1
Yeah. And another person sent a photo of the that crochet. It's like a slow stitch project. Brenda.

00:26:26:05 - 00:26:34:27
Speaker 2
She just want to say like, soft stitch sausage. I'm not. Neither one of us are very well-versed in, like, fiber arts. So fiber.

00:26:34:27 - 00:26:35:25
Speaker 1
Arts. What's that?

00:26:35:27 - 00:26:38:26
Speaker 2
And anything that involves fiber.

00:26:38:28 - 00:26:41:10
Speaker 1
Oh, like like embroidery and knitting.

00:26:41:10 - 00:26:43:29
Speaker 2
Quilting, all that kind of sewing.

00:26:44:02 - 00:26:58:16
Speaker 1
Okay, like a fiber arts. Yeah, I love it. So she's going to be in she's inspired to pick up a project she bought like she had said. She bought a kit to make this cosmos floral arrangement for cosmos.

00:26:58:16 - 00:26:59:24
Speaker 2
The flower. Yeah.

00:26:59:27 - 00:27:18:25
Speaker 1
No. Right. Not the cosmos. Not the stars. Yes. Yeah. This floral arrangement. She sent a picture of what it will look like. Apparently, when she's done, she follows the directions. But she hasn't started it. Or hadn't. Yeah, and now she's been inspired to pull it down, dust dusted off and get it going. And that that made us so happy to hear.

00:27:18:25 - 00:27:21:09
Speaker 2
Awesome. It's super inspiring. Yeah.

00:27:21:12 - 00:27:33:05
Speaker 1
Which makes us want to keep doing art too. So it's so cool wherever you are in that spectrum of our artistic endeavors. Even if you're just starting, there's no goal, there's no deadline, there's no pressure.

00:27:33:05 - 00:27:40:25
Speaker 2
Just let us know what you did. Even if you're like, I haven't touched a crayon in 20 years. And I picked up a crayon. Yeah. That's amazing. Do.

00:27:40:27 - 00:28:04:17
Speaker 1
Yeah. And tell us about it because, you know. Yeah, that that really did inspire me to see what other people are working on. And then people who didn't specifically share art, but they shared inspiring aspects like Cassandra. She mentioned she's inspired by activists, people who are using their voice, using their platform, celebrities speaking up about the atrocities. Of course, that is inspiring.

00:28:04:17 - 00:28:13:01
Speaker 1
And it it it drives us to get in there and make some more art. It really does. She also mentioned music, which we love. Yeah.

00:28:13:03 - 00:28:32:19
Speaker 2
We're both music fiends. But she has been listening to the song Champ by Portugal, the man. So that song wasn't familiar to us. But Monica and I have a studio playlist that we put on when we're, like, making stained glass or making a linocut. Anything except for writing.

00:28:32:22 - 00:28:35:23
Speaker 1
Yeah, music. No music while I'm writing.

00:28:35:25 - 00:28:45:24
Speaker 2
But we'll put songs on there that people recommend so that, like, they're in the studio with us, creating with us and sending vibes and we love it. We love it.

00:28:45:27 - 00:29:04:19
Speaker 1
It's true. When we put it on shuffle and the song comes on that someone recommended or that album reminds us of them. Yeah, it's like they're there with us making the art. Like, I know it might sound a little corny, but it's totally true. Yeah, I mean, you mentioned Marty and I know there are songs on our playlist where she's like, oh yeah, this reminds me of Marty.

00:29:04:19 - 00:29:27:15
Speaker 2
Yeah. Anything from, like Joan Osborne's album relish or, the band Berlin. Marty and I used to drive to catering events when we were working in a restaurant, and we'd be, like, blasting Berlin and playing synthesizer on Marty's dashboard on in, he drove a Subaru Forester. So good job driving a lesbian car. Marty, I love you. Yes, Subaru.

00:29:27:15 - 00:29:44:15
Speaker 2
Yeah, but songs always remind us of people or where we were when we first heard them. And so it's so awesome to have inspiration. And also, just like that form of connection with other people when you're creating something, it's amazing.

00:29:44:17 - 00:30:06:05
Speaker 1
So thank you, thank you, thank you for sharing. What's inspiring you, what you're working on. This is why we're here, why we started this. We really want to keep that energy going. This isn't just a New Year's resolution. It's January 2026. Let's do some art. No, we we mean we're like, yes. Going to keep showing up and showing you what we're working on no matter what stage it's in.

00:30:06:10 - 00:30:15:28
Speaker 1
Not here for judgment. We're just here to share. And we would love for that to be reciprocated. So thank you so much. Yeah that really is what inspired me this week.

00:30:15:28 - 00:30:34:03
Speaker 2
And yeah, it's awesome. That's super inspirational for me too. And the other thing that inspired me this week was just kind of like nostalgia, having moments where it was like connecting with my inner child, so to speak. But, you know, I'm wearing neon. I dress like a ten year old boy.

00:30:34:03 - 00:30:37:05
Speaker 1
And the neon green hat, I love it. Yes.

00:30:37:07 - 00:30:57:24
Speaker 2
Thank you. But yeah, I'm not usually a nostalgic person. I don't have the greatest memory for the past, but, I just felt very connected to my younger self, I guess. I listened to some coal chamber, which is a metal band I listened to in high school, and junior high.

00:30:57:26 - 00:31:01:22
Speaker 1
Metal. It's not totally the music I love, but I know it inspires you.

00:31:01:24 - 00:31:06:18
Speaker 2
Yeah, I mean, we both love so many different genres of music, but some.

00:31:06:18 - 00:31:08:23
Speaker 1
Had more than others. But I'm glad. Yeah.

00:31:08:26 - 00:31:11:14
Speaker 2
Metal inspires you right up my alley.

00:31:11:17 - 00:31:15:09
Speaker 1
So you said they did a song you want me to listen to because you think I'll like it?

00:31:15:09 - 00:31:21:21
Speaker 2
Yes. They did a, cover of Shock the Monkey by Peter Gabriel, but they did it with Ozzy Osbourne.

00:31:21:24 - 00:31:23:12
Speaker 1
So. Oh, that would be good.

00:31:23:12 - 00:31:24:16
Speaker 2
It's fun, it's fun.

00:31:24:16 - 00:31:32:01
Speaker 1
I like Peter Gabriel. That would. That would be good. That's the right voice. I can see that. Yeah. You have to play it for me. We'll add it to our playlist.

00:31:32:04 - 00:31:41:03
Speaker 2
Yes. And the lead singer called chamber was in a band after that called Devil Driver. And so, yeah, there's a lot of music you can branch out too from that band.

00:31:41:06 - 00:31:59:12
Speaker 1
Oh that's good, that's good. You're, Candace is the one that we'll know about, a lot more about music and how different band members are connected to others. It's pretty awesome. Her knowledge, knowledge about music, memories about music. But anything you can share with us that we can throw on our playlist, we're going to. I want to hear this.

00:31:59:15 - 00:32:00:29
Speaker 1
Was it cold chamber? Yes.

00:32:00:29 - 00:32:06:10
Speaker 2
He oh l like the the what am I thinking of the the.

00:32:06:10 - 00:32:06:24
Speaker 1
Material.

00:32:06:28 - 00:32:08:11
Speaker 2
The rock. That's what I'm looking for.

00:32:08:13 - 00:32:14:26
Speaker 1
Yeah. I want to hear that cover they did for Peter Gabriel song. Peter Gabriel's a really influential musician from my childhood.

00:32:14:26 - 00:32:17:14
Speaker 2
So, yeah, we both like Peter Gabriel. Yeah.

00:32:17:14 - 00:32:29:18
Speaker 1
So this has been fun. This is episode two of As We Art, and we're really glad to be here. We are so glad you're here and we'll keep showing up and creating. We hope that you do too.

00:32:29:20 - 00:32:44:16
Speaker 2
Yeah. Please follow us on Instagram at As We Art podcast. YouTube is the same at as we Art podcast, and you can listen to us anywhere. You listen to your podcasts. How many times can I say a podcast in one sentence? Let's see.

00:32:44:18 - 00:32:58:08
Speaker 1
And we mentioned it before, but just to say it again, we're going to throw pictures of our our your art. Anything on our hashtag as we art on Instagram. So if you're just listening on the podcast, that's awesome. But if you want to catch the visuals, be sure to follow us there for sure.

00:32:58:08 - 00:33:07:18
Speaker 2
Yeah, hashtag your stuff. We want to see it. And, thank you so much for showing up and just being part of this community. It makes our hearts so full.

00:33:07:21 - 00:33:17:19
Speaker 1
Yeah. And just being you, however you are or as you are, just do it. Be you do your art. We want to we we thank you and we want to be here for it.

00:33:17:22 - 00:33:22:08
Speaker 2
Yeah, absolutely. All right. We'll see you next week. We're going to post every Tuesday.

00:33:22:09 - 00:33:23:00
Speaker 1
So every.

00:33:23:00 - 00:33:24:16
Speaker 2
Tuesday.

00:33:24:19 - 00:33:26:09
Speaker 1
See you next Tuesday.

00:33:26:11 - 00:33:30:28
Speaker 2
We already slip that in earlier. Bye.