Why are we doing this interview?
We're not sure.
Yeah.
Oh, because Best Friends Day is coming up.
A little video for Best Friends Day 8 The Ocho.
It started eight years ago, and it was just kind of an excuse to have fun with our friends.
We went to Dodd's Lake one Saturday at the very end of the summer, and about 40 people
showed up.
We thought it was some crazy thing happening.
So we decided to do it again the next year, and by then I think it was still just one
day, but we added some bands to it.
Yeah, it just kind of grew from there.
We went to like one day, the next year it was two days, and the next year it was four.
The four of us have been, like the ones involved in it, I think for the past two years, and
prior to that, Tony's been involved for like about five years, Orson's been involved for
about five years as well, and everyone's sort of just, it's sort of the same thing
every year.
We try to switch it up, but everyone sort of has their jobs to do.
Curtis and Tony do all the booking of the band, and organize and sort of take care of
the bullshit.
We're sure that we're still friendly with everyone that allows us to use their spaces,
and just, yeah, get all the details together for it.
So, yeah, I forget how it's organized.
And last year we scaled it back and just did three days for our own sanity, but we're
back to four days and feeling really comfortable about it.
It's actually not the first year we've ever been at the Plaza Bowl, but we haven't been
at the Plaza Bowl for Best Friends Day since the second one, and then we took a break from
them, and they changed over management, so that sort of allowed us to go back to them.
I've heard a few people complaining about the price this year, because it's a whopping
$3 more than it was last year for Hadads, but we actually lowered the prices on the other
events to even an out.
So, you're still getting, as it has been for the last three or four years, where it's been
four days long, still getting four days of fun for $40, and it's like over 40 bands.
40 bands?
Did I make that up?
It's like 35, I think.
That includes like all day at Hadad's, all day at the bike lot, and then the two shows.
Yeah, this cabinet has free to participate, and Biscuits at Caffe Guttenberg's going to
be providing Biscuits before they show on Allicats from 5 to 7 p.m. on Friday.
We usually have Richmond Lucha, too, the wrestling, but this year we switched it up.
So, but instead this year, FBM Bicycles is holding a jumping contest over the world's
largest plate of nachos.
40 square feet of nachos.
I picked up the nacho cheese this morning and sort of blew my mind.
This year's Scavenger Hunt starts on Friday at noon at Final Conflict, and it will last
Sunday at the bike lot.
I was just talking to Parker one night from RVA, and he suggested that we collaborate on
the guy.
I guess the past three or four years, RVA's been having a large section of the Magazine
B to dedicate to the best friends there, so it only made sense, and we got some pretty
cool stuff in there this year.
I think it's pretty fitting that RVA's involved, too.
It's always been real supportive of us, but it kind of fits with the whole ideal of Best
Friends Day, with everybody contributing.
It's not just us four up here that are involved with Best Friends Day.
Everyone, a lot of people contribute.
People we don't even know that just make their own banners.
They show up to Best Friends Day.
I mean, they're printing the t-shirts right over there.
These are friends of ours.
They're building a skate ramp.
So many people involved with the weekend, and it's kind of like, to me, it kind of seems
like everyone in Richmond kind of steps up and contributes something to it.
Maybe not everybody, but a lot of people do, and I think that the more the years go on,
it's kind of like a lot of people in Richmond coming together and creating something.
It's a good thing.
It's what I like about it.
We'll take back everything they steal.
