Why are we doing this interview?
We're not sure.
Yeah.
Oh, because Best Friends Day is coming up.
This is our final 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.
And we went to Dodd's Lake just one Saturday at the very end of the summer, and about
40 people showed up.
I really thought it was crazy, 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.
And yeah, it just kind of grew from there.
We went to like one day, the next year, the next two days, the next year, the next 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, Orton'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.
Like make sure that, you know, we're still friendly with everyone that allows us to use
their spaces, and just, yeah, get all the details together for it, so, you know, I think
that's how it's organized.
Yeah.
And then 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 done a 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
three dollars more than it was last year for Hedads, but we actually lowered the prices
on the other events to even it 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 bucks, and it's like over 40 bands.
40 bands?
Did I make that up?
It's like 35, I think.
And like that includes, like, all day at Hedads, all day at the bike lot, and then the two
shows.
Three nachos.
Yeah, this cabinet has free to participate, and Biscuits at Cappy Gutenberg's going to
be providing Biscuits before they show on Allicats from 5 to 7 p.m. on Friday.
Yeah, you usually have Richmond Lucha, too, the wrestling, but this year we switched it
up.
No, 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
through Sunday at the bike lot.
There'll be a huge finale.
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
be dedicated to Best Friends Day, 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.
I mean, they've always been real supportive of us, but it kind of fits with the whole
ideal of Best Friends Day with, like, everybody contributes.
It's not just us four up here that are involved with Best Friends Day.
I mean, everyone, like a lot of people contribute.
People we don't even know that just bring, they make their own banners, they show up
to Best Friends Day.
I mean, they're printing the t-shirts right over there, you know, these are friends of
ours.
They're building a skate ramp, and I mean, there's just 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.
