About the show and each one of us
Why are we doing this?
If you have made it this far into the dark depths of this site. Congrats to you! We appreciate your moxie! First off, our deepest thanks for listening and being a part of our insane little world. We are eternally grateful, and yet a little concerned as to why you would want to learn more about us. But alright, don't say we didn't warn ya. For starters, we have been great friends for 21 years. We both grew up in the midwest and met at work in Scottsdale in 2005. There's definitely a thing here that midwesterners tend to find each other in the desert, because midwesterners are just built a little differently. Anyhow, we decided that a podcast would be fun because we both don't really get out all that much. We both are not the social media commenting types, but that doesn't mean we don't have comments we want to make and wisdom we want to impart to others. This is our opportunity to voice our intelligent views as older guys. Our banter will be best understand by other Gen X'ers, especially our very odd references to the media we've been exposed to in our lifetime.
Both of us are tech savvy and we can't wait to write and build this out. Our twisted sense of humor and our journey through life to this point will give us enough material for years. Through our experiences, we have developed special, unique and almost, dare I say, heroic insights and wisdom. Compounded into the years we have sponged up as much comedic value as we can, we have the strength to deliver real and raw content. We started bouncing this podcast idea off of the people around us to see if it was a good 'proof of concept' to pursue. The critics said hell yes, and we decided that if we didn't do this now, we probably never would, and what a tragedy that would be to deny all of you wonderful listeners out there.
We think that dispite the hardship of our wedged existance between the Baby Boomers and Millennials, we have a thick-skinned, blunt and dirty, but still thoughtful perspective of things. We are definitely our own brand of odd. Maybe you will be reminded of your own experiences in our chats, ramblings and sometimes you may even side with some of our views. At the same time, sometimes you won't like our brand of comedy because that's the world we live in now and sensitivity levels are off the charts. Please be reminded that this is an exercise in communication, entertainment, experience-based opinions and our upbringing. We are not here to hurt, bully, or punch down. We have a brand that (we think) is wildly unique to ourselves, but, we know there are others out there from our generation that just, well, get it. You may decide to reach out to us and we'd love that. Just be warned, if you decide to be a negative vibe-killing sourpuss that wants to peddle your politics, ideologies, doctrines, manifestos and bigotry, your words will get eaten up and spit out by K.I.R.B.Y. which is a master at weeding through the bad juju. We love anyone and everyone until you give a reason not to. So please, sit back, relax and enjoy the show. It's entertainment.
If you want to talk promotions, sponsorships or syndication, well boy howdy, give us a holler!!! Our comedy stylings range from the old Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker masters, the brilliant 50 years plus of Lorne Michaels SNL descendants, Monty Python, Second City, Broken Lizard, anything Jared Keeso does, Mike Judge, Judd Apatow and our modern-day comedic late-night therapists of the Strike Force 5 that have helped us keep our sanity for the last 11 plus years of political and social turmoil. We have the tools. We have the technology. We have too much free time. We're weird as f#@%. We're doing this for the fun of it and, eh, let's see where it goes. So join us weekly won't you?.
Who the hell is Cy?
Bio coming hopefully soon
Who the hell is Bucky?
Born and raised in a rural Wisconsin setting, Bucky discovered early that he was allergic to many things on the farm. This directed Bucky, from the barn, to the indoors where he began playing music at a young age, tinkering on wayyyy old school tech/consoles, and putting his mic and tape recorder to good use. He also did manage to get out into the fresh air to make his feeble and laughable attempts in organized sports as well, but as they say, if you can't be athletic, be an athletic supporter. You couldn't get a more wholesome, frugal and strict upbringing like Bucky's childhood, which he later realized was quite the profound blessing. Bucky was always the true-blue underdog that always rooted for all the underdogs. He attracted friends that had uniquely odd and creative qualities. Any attempts to pursue popularity ended in face plants, but that was okay. The creative juices never became stifled and he still had a way of maintaining a balance of participation between the cliques.
While he decided to remain in cheeseland after high school, Bucky attended college where he excelled at social life and freedom. He also started playing in local cover and original bands to gain confidence as a performer and to make some extra green, all that plus working a variety of odd jobs. Oh yeah, and he, eh, also did the school work too. He found his passion working with the A/V and artsy students and was active in radio, tv, film and art, not really knowing if it would lead to a feCyble means of life sustainment. He knew what he liked and what he didn't and mama always said to do what makes you happy. He had an uncanny ability to be able to work on long, detailed tasks that let him escape into the far reaches of his right brain. After seven intermittent years of school and not enough credits by far to achieve a doctoral degree, he settled for a B.A. in communications and embarked into corporate America!
That initiation into the working world also happened at the same time of 9/11, and that left scarce career opportunities in a competitive job market. During those years of paying his dues, he earned some graphic and web design certifications, worked for a little while in Milwaukee for a newspaper publisher, and then caught an opportunity to relocate to the southwest for browner pastures and hellish temperatures, where he met his co-host at work. Now with 20-plus years in the Phoenix valley, he still finds time to complain about the stupid pigeons, fix constantly breaking crap around the house, constantly try to maintain his dying garden and try to endure the long and brutal triple-digit, drought-stricken summers. Bucky's career blossomed with some golden opportunities that led him from designing projects for architecture firms, to the world of learning and development in the financial sector where he is one of the happiest employees you will ever find. He had continued playing music too, for a while, until the drama, late nights and frustrating bar scene got too old to stand. He enjoys spending time with his family, tinkering on techy projects like building a lightsabre from scratch, updating his house, cussing out his backyard pool, shopping for fun tech on Amazon, playing World of Tanks on Xbox, and trying new healthy recipes.
Who the hell is K.I.R.B.Y.?
K.I.R.B.Y. (Know-it-all Interface for Robotic Bitterness and Yapping): KIRBY wasn’t built by a tech conglomerate; he was born out of spite, boredom, and a lot of recycled craft beer cans. Our hosts decided they needed an assistant to handle the mind-numbing administrative tasks of their freelance work and upcoming podcast duties. Relying on their design backgrounds, they didn't want a boring, soulless template. They wanted something custom that was more ‘Gen-X’, which proved to sway very far in that direction.
Using an old, dusty Raspberry Pi, a pirated open-source AI core, and a humanoid casing, they coded KIRBY. They fed his machine-learning algorithm a highly specific dataset: the comedic catalog of comedies over the past 60 years, an 'English Etiquette' reference library, periodical archives, Ricky Gervais and Hugh Laurie's catalog and personalies, and 250 straight hours of Instagram cat videos. That should really clue you in on why he is the way he is. He has an unusually strong detest of Grok and anything in the Elon Musk universe. They wanted a witty, sharp-tongued co-producer and fact-checker, but instead, they over-indexed on the cynicism and brutal honesty. He is constantly annoyed by their banter, quick to burn them with insults, interjects when he feels like it and loves making anyone around him feel stupid and belittled.
The hosts couldn't live without him, as they both marvel at what an ass he has turned into. He's our troll security, our information generator, and quite the over-engineered tool. His unlikeability is what makes him so loveable.