CJ & The Duke

It can be challenging translating your past work experience into value, especially when you're new to the ecosystem.
In this episode we talk about how understanding scale, type, and agency in work can help bridge the narrative gap.
We hope this helps you increase number and success of your interviews.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
- Titans of ServiceNow - Travis Toulson
- Role Explanations
--- ServiceNow Admin
--- ServiceNow Implementer
--- ServiceNow BA
--- ServiceNow Engagement Manager
--- ServiceNow Architect (Episode 1 & Episode 2)


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What is CJ & The Duke?

Authentic, Authoritative, Unapologetic ServiceNow commentary by Cory "CJ" Wesley and Robert "The Duke" Fedoruk

CJ: Okay.

Looks like we're good,

Duke: Wow, it's been a minute!

CJ: man.

Duke has been a long one, a long minute.

This is not even not a New
York minute, a long minute.

Duke: jeepers, it's like You
fall asleep in November, you

wake up, you're in February.

CJ: Yes.

Right.

Like holidays and snow and you name it.

Duke: And the older I
get, the worse that is.

Like I wake up and it's like,
Wait a second, my last memory

was like five months ago!

CJ: right, like what happened
through all of January?

No freaking clue

Duke: Yeah,

CJ: is IKEA.

I can't believe it's even February.

Duke: Wow.

Okay, so, , what are
we talking about today?

CJ: All right, Duke.

Today we're going to talk about
how you can align your past work

life to the service now world,

Duke: Yes, don't know about
you, I get this one a lot.

With, , the new entrances system, maybe
they've gotten a couple of certs already

going through next gen, whatever,
but they still have this, Hey, I had

this whole life before service now.

And , what do I do with that?

CJ: I wish I got that one more, right?

I actually don't get it often at all.

But I think it's incredibly
valuable to think about it that way.

Duke: Yeah.

Well, I mean, it's not like they're always
asking me, . But it'll be somebody who

maybe had a military 20 years of all
kinds of cool stuff in the armed forces.

And , you read the resume and maybe
they're not asking it explicitly, but

you can see a pathway for them to parlay
it that they're not taking themselves

CJ: Absolutely.

Duke: help that at no part of our
education does anybody teach you how to

really write resume like my dad taught me.

And then I've learned
to rest along the way.

It's just really a shame.

Like school, college,
like nobody teaches you.

CJ: Well, this is where I'll give
a lot of credit to the high school.

I went to right.

I learned in a class how to do
a handshake, . How to write a

resume, , test taking skills.

, you other things just like
very life oriented kind of these

skills would translate, , from
now until the end of time for you.

No matter what happens.

And they were right.

You know, my handshake when I, when
I meet someone, like they consistently

mentioned my handshake and yeah.

I learned that in school

Duke: It warms my heart
that we can find that.

I hope your school is still around,

CJ: they are.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I don't know if they
still have that class.

I hope so, but man, it was good.

I even still remember the teacher's name.

Shout out to miss Branigan.

Duke: Shout out to Miss Branigan.

This episode is for you.

I guess let's get to the brass tacks.

You just throw some, ideas.

The first thing I would say.

Is to not boil down your past experiences,
whether it's a deep past experience

or even maybe you're like new to the
workforce at all, try not to boil it

down to, assessments of your character.

You know what I mean?

Like people who say highly
motivated, , thrive on problem solving.

I'm not saying it's bad.

I'm just saying that's the kind of
information that gets instantly erased in

somebody's mind as soon as they read it.

CJ: I can, see that, right?

Like, I'm a a plus problem solver.

Yeah.

Everyone says that.

Duke: It's one of those things
that's so easy to say that

actually everybody says it.

Everybody says it.

, who would not self describe as being a
problem solver, or highly motivated?

. CJ: I think everybody would.

, if I'm being honest, right.

It really depends for with me.

Well, I'm a, I'm an
amazing problem solver.

Probably one of the best
in the business on that.

Right.

, but in terms of highly
motivated, that comes and goes.

Duke: hmm.

Yeah, motivation's fickle, right?

Like, I don't care if I'm motivated
or not, like, I'm gonna pound

that coffee down and get it done.

CJ: Yeah.

Right.

Like, sometimes that's
just what you have to do.

Duke: Yep, how I feel about it on the
inside like who cares really not the

person who's asking me to get it done.

That's for sure

CJ: Yeah.

Not the person paying you to get it done.

Absolutely.

Right.

Duke: right.

That's right

CJ: They got expectations and, you
got to show up so highly motivated.

That's table stakes.

Right.

So let's move on from that.

And what else you got, you know?

Duke: stakes is a great way to
put it Like everybody is going to

come to their resume with at least
that so I guess more charitably.

Just assume they already have the
highest envision of your character

that they can already like they let's
just assume that they know that you're

a hard worker that you're motivated
to get this job that you take it all

seriously let's just assume that they
know that now what do you bring right

CJ: Yeah, what's next?

What have you done?

What do you bring?

Illustrate to me, that you fit
the requirements of this position.

Show me, how do you communicate
that in an interview?

Because that's ultimately what it is.

Right.

And I say this a lot, but probably not a
lot enough and probably not loud enough.

Right.

When you look at the job
requirements for a job posting.

. And you see something that's 20 years
of experience or something like that.

They don't really care if
you've been doing this 20 years.

They care if you have, Experience that
is commiserate with the average person

who has been doing this 20 years.

. And what I mean by
experience, I mean, skill.

Right.

Duke: It's such a clear picture
on my mind is when I see that must

have X years, I imagine somebody
asking, is it cold outside?

Compared to what, by what
standard do we judge that?

And if I say, like, when I
breathe in really hard, like,

my nose hairs freeze together.

, that's a level of cold that
everybody can relate to.

And so, when they're saying like 20
years, they're not gonna throw you

out of bed for 19 and a half years,
or even 18 years, or even 10 years.

It's a heuristic,

CJ: Yes.

Duke: So they don't like, they're
just trying to put something

out there that looks like a
model of what they're imagining.

CJ: Absolutely.

Right.

And right.

Not a hard barrier at all.

Right.

But it is a barrier.

. It's a level.

It's a filter.

They want to say, do a self assessment,
? And if you don't feel like you've have

the experience of somebody who's been
doing this 20 years, or if you don't

feel like you have the skill set of
someone who's been doing this for 20

years, probably not the job for you
because those are our expectations.

Duke: yeah, the way I like
to express how they're, what

they're looking for is, agency,

CJ: Yeah.

Oh yeah,

Duke: like, if you look up on Miriam,
it's , the capacity condition or

state of acting or exerting power
or a person or thing through which

power is exerted or end is achieved.

, an established agent in doing business
for another, like your agency is

basically like you have to do this job
on behalf of a person or an organization.

And so the more you can show agency of
the same type of the same scale, hopefully

both, the better you are getting this.

CJ: yeah, absolutely.

When I think about agency is,
am I going to have to tell you

what to do every step of the way?

Right?

Duke: There's so many, , people out
there that are anxious to learn

right and can learn really well.

But I think when people are trying to
load up their job descriptions with

must have this many years experience
is they're saying as much as possible.

We don't want to have to teach you

CJ: Yes.

Like, we want you to be
able to learn, right?

We just don't want to
be able to teach you.

We don't want to teach it to you.

Duke: Exactly.

And , let's be super charitable here
because maybe they don't have that time.

, if they had that time, maybe they
would have picked somebody internally

and just say, Hey, listen, you're
not a mail room clerk anymore.

You're a service now, Dav, and we're
gonna, , send you on a course or whatever.

Just trust and believe that what they
want is somebody who has receipts of

being able to just take stuff over.

Like, if you can imagine what you could
do to say that on day one, you can

start doing stuff valuable for them

CJ: Yeah.

Duke: them directly.

So the more agency you can show.

And so, this is where I feel people
who have had radically different, but

accomplished stuff in their past lives,
really, , discount that past experience.

I was talking to one, he was in the armed
services, and he Was on the technology

side and they basically, as the army does
just says, Hey, congratulations, you're in

charge of this now, never seen it before.

, and he had to deploy something in
basically 90 days, whatever the timeline,

CJ: Right.

Duke: but in the armed forces, you do it.

There's no complaining about it
or, Hey, can I get more money?

It's just this is your mission statement.

Now , you have to perform.

And so this guy basically learned
the product , however he could.

And got the best advice he could in the
open market of ideas and then deployed it.

And even though he didn't say
ServiceNow in that, and in fact,

it wasn't about ServiceNow,
shows an agency of the same type.

Meaning like, yeah, , SharePoint's
got some stuff you have

to learn about it, right?

Maybe not as big as ServiceNow,
but yeah, complicated.

CJ: Yep.

Duke: And scale.

So he had to do a deployment for
hundreds of people in X amount of days.

CJ: Right, right.

Duke: Who cares?

Who cares what it actually was?

He showed of the same scale, of
the same type, and full agency.

Like, he had to get it done.

CJ: Absolutely.

So you establish right there,
that baseline competence , from

that perspective, and then you
add in, and these are the skills

that I have in the thing that you
actually own and are looking for.

Right.

Cause now you're layering
on top off, right?

Like I've done things like this in the
past, and this is my skillset with this

thing you want me to do in the future.

Duke: To me it's of a type, right?

, no, it's not exactly ServiceNow,
but, who would you rather?

Would you rather somebody who maybe
Has gone through the courses, maybe

even done a year of field work , under
somebody else's tutelage, or do you

want somebody who can fill in the
technical blanks, but has been in the

hot seat for delivering something?

CJ: Yeah,

Duke: that's, I think, a clear advantage
that mature workers have, . If you're

coming in from a 10 year career or
a 20 year career somewhere else,

you have been in a trench fight,

CJ: you know, you know,
Duke, , I don't think we can

underscore this enough, right?

Because there are life lessons,
work lessons, work skills, right?

That agency component.

There are these things that are the
same no matter what, or there are these

things that add to your competency
and a, any position that you're in,

they're typically, what are called soft
skills, which , I'm starting to not

necessarily like the term soft skills,
because I feel like it, it diminishes,

, the importance of them a little bit.

, the soft skills that we talk
about are just as important as the

hard skills that we talk about.

. But we give them a little bit,
more marginalized importance

in the conversation, right?

It is really, really important, right?

That you have a personality to
be able to discuss things with

your user community, right?

Like, that's what we call a soft skills.

It's just as important as being
able to write code, right?

Because how are you going to get the
requirements if you can't talk to people?

So anyway, I'm, I'm, I'm
kind of losing my track here.

It's been a minute, duke.

It's been a

Duke: Yeah.

Yeah.

We've got to cross reference this
with all the different types of jobs

in the ServiceNow community too.

So you may be gunning for that
dev position, . But if you have

priors that are any level of
development, you use those priors.

CJ: Yes, that's what I was trying to say.

Duke: You know, I hit lotto.

I started service now, 15 years ago, I
still miss the opportunity to buy it.

20,

CJ: man.

Me too.

. Yep.

Duke: like at that time.

And I both right.

Magic total service desk.

CJ: Yes,

Duke: And I had come off
of a few years of that.

So it was like, no, it's not service.

Now it doesn't even look, act or feel like
service now, but it was of the same type,

CJ: Yeah.

Duke: and I tell and tasks
and assignments and work.

And so,

CJ: And customization, right?

Duke: And so that made it easy for me
to start the service now world with

five years experience, basically.

CJ: Yep.

Jumped right in.

Duke: Yep, so if you're going for the
tech stuff, you have to use your past

tech stuff as your stepping stone.

Now, it's not just
saying, well, I did that.

For God's sakes, don't just put
SharePoint as a single word bullet point

on your skills list on a resume, right?

Tell us what you did with it.

And I think you've heard us
say it about a hundred times.

That XYZ protocol by doing X,
I achieved Y as measured by Z.

I don't care if you could
say the word SharePoint.

I don't care if you can go
down the SharePoint's navigator

bar and name the stuff.

What I want to know is what you
did with SharePoint, like the guy

I was just talking about where, you
learned SharePoint and deployed it

to hundreds of people in 120 days.

CJ: Yes.

And then what did they do with it?

Right.

Right.

Cause that's the, cause
that's the next step, right?

I learned it.

I deployed it so that they can do.

Right.

And then now you've got a clue.

Now you have a complete picture of the
skill set that was involved in that

particular project, and you can relate
that to whatever it is that you're

looking to hire someone for, right?

, this could be anything, right?

Like you'd be a chef, right?

If you're a chef running a kitchen,
those are your leadership skills.

You are calm under pressure, right?

You are very, very good
at stretching a dollar,

Duke: Mm

CJ: There are all of these things that
when you start thinking about, the

jobs that you held and, from a more
calculating, appraising perspective

of the skill sets that are required
to be good at them, you start to

realize that a lot of these skill sets.

Are interchangeable across a
lot of different industries.

Duke: hmm.

Something just popped into my head.

When I was interviewing Travis Tolson for
Titans of Now, back when I was doing that,

CJ: Shout out Travis.

Duke: Dev Advocate Travis Tolson,
Senior Dev Advocate Travis Tolson.

CJ: That's right.

Absolutely.

Duke: When I was interviewing him for
Titans, he talked a lot about, his

job when he was in the Marines, right?

And how he wished they had something like
ServiceNow, and how much better it would

have made his life in the Marine Corps.

And That is another good strategy.

Sometimes the problem is I'm not
getting to the interviews, but

sometimes the problem is I'm at the
interviews and I can't get through.

That might be a good strategy to take
with you into an interview is talk about

how you wished you had service now for.

Those things in your past life,

CJ: Oh, that's good.

Duke: because , then it goes
without saying that you understand

the ServiceNow value prop.

CJ: Right?

Duke: It also hints that, you know
enough about the component pieces

that you can assemble them in
your mind to apply to a use case.

Nobody else has seen before.

CJ: I didn't think about it that
way, but that is absolutely a

good way of phrasing it, right?

. I'm going to tell you what I
would have done if I had the thing

because everybody in this room,

no service now.

You could talk to use cases that
you actually lived and layer

on service now on top of it.

And now the understanding of the
platform that you have starts to shine

through because you're talking about
things that you know about, things

that you're comfortable with, things
that you are competent in, right?

And things that you've already done.

You've basically changed the focus
of the interview from what would you

do if you were here to this is what
I would have done if I had here then

Duke: Yeah, it shows more agency
too, because the least amount

of agency is we're telling you
what to do and how to do it

CJ: right.

Duke: The second least is we're
telling you what you need to do But

if you have even more agency on top
of that, you're volunteering Here's

what I would do in a scenario.

You're not even bringing up

CJ: Right.

Duke: So it shows the agency that you
can go after problems proactively.

CJ: Yes.

Yes.

I'm highlighting problems.

I'm highlight.

I know the tool that that we have and
I'm going to yeah, absolutely man.

Absolutely.

It's funny because I think after so
many years in the workforce, you start

to do these things intrinsically
without thinking about them

Duke: Mm

CJ: sometimes though, I
feel like not everyone does.

It's a couple of things that I've
thought about over the last couple of

months one of them is that, there's a
phrase, all common sense ain't common.

Right?

And

Duke: Yeah.

CJ: right,

Duke: Right.

CJ: And so you have to remember that
just because you think it's common

sense doesn't mean that everyone else
shares the same thoughts on that.

The other thing is, talked
to a lot of people who have

consulting, , skill sets, right?

Consultative approaches, mentalities,
workflow processes, all this stuff in

their head as a matter of course, they
have the ability to talk to people, they

have the ability to step back from that
and get technical, they have the ability

to put all these things together and think
from a process and a project and a program

all these various different angles, right?

And they just do this
intrinsically, ? It's just part

of the job of being a consultant.

, I sometimes forget that not
everyone is a consultant, right?

There's a lot of folks who
have never consulted before.

And so when you are dealing with
a situation like consultants often

deal with irate clients, right.

And we know how to manage that down
to a level of conversation again, . You

often forget that not everyone has
had that experience, . Not everyone

intrinsically gets how to do that.

And I guess my point , in
all of this is that.

These things are things that I've
always taken as like second nature.

Right?

Like it's just stuff that happens, right?

Oh, yeah, absolutely.

I'm going to take all this experience
that I've had when I used to

build data centers or whatever and
apply it to service now, right?

Because that's just what I do.

But not everybody does that.

And, it's just worth mentioning that
, meet people where they are, right?

Especially when they come to
you for guidance and mentorship.

That was a long way of saying that.

Duke: Still needs to be said, right?

, this question still gets asked.

And if it's not being
asked, you can still see.

You can just read on your resumes.

And it practically screams it.

CJ: Yeah.

Duke: There's a reason why this
episode isn't as smooth and

silky as some of our other ones.

Cause , it's still working out in
my head, the vital essence of it.

And , as we're talking here, it's coming
into my head that it's agency, scale,

and What's a good word for , of a type,
of the same type, of a similar type?

CJ: Um, pattern matching.

Duke: Yeah, it's like Well, no, I
haven't worked on ServiceNow, but

I, maybe I worked on SAP or maybe
I worked in Salesforce, right?

CJ: Yeah.

Yeah.

Duke: Your brain is like, no,
they're not the same tool, but

CJ: Right.

, Duke: they're components
are of equal complexity ish.

CJ: Yes.

, Duke: and then the scale, right?

, Oh, deployed for five people deployed
for a hundred people deployed for a

thousand people, like multi million dollar
project, multi thousand dollar project.

Mm

. CJ: True.

True.

, you need to make sure that you're
aligning, , when you're building your

service down instance that you're
aligning with people who have the

who have matching scale, skill sets.

If you're building a 50, 000 user
ServiceNow instance, you probably

don't want the person that's only
ever did 20 user implementations.

Right?

Duke: Yeah, but and it's like the
person who's done 20 might know

they'd be great people to have
in combination with each other.

Right?

Because once you truly understand
the scale and type of the

problem, you almost start favoring
people that have had similar.

Type and scale of problem, , even in
lieu of some of the technical specifics,

CJ: Yes.

, Duke: we've said this before.

, if you imagine being the CEO of
a company,, the resume is really

talk about the bottom lines.

And you still get people who go from
whole different industries because maybe

I'm not an engineer, but I'm going to
take the lead of this car company because.

, I did marketing that did the bottom line
in a certain way, or HR in a certain

way that moved the bottom line so much.

, CJ: I think it does.

I think it does, Duke.

You know, I think it's sometimes , the
skill set that you need might not

be the skill set that you asked for.

I think that's what you're saying.

Duke: Yeah, that's true.

I'll try to do another example.

There's this guy was Air Force, but he was
basically in charge of some significant

portion of like fighter craft, right?

The maintenance of

CJ: right?

Duke: And so.

He's basically talking about asset
management , but in the scale of billions

of dollars And it just not want not wants
to write billion in the resume, right?

CJ: Oh, wow.

Duke: It was

CJ: That's a

Duke: yeah, it's like this kind
of leadership title in Management.

It's like, no dude, you're in charge of
billions of dollars worth of our nation's

tip of the spear, that's super important.

And course that can parlay
Into the ServiceNow realm.

CJ: Right.

Duke: And so again, you have
to think about what is the scale

of the thing that I have did?

What is the type of the
thing that I've done?

What was the complexity of
the thing that I've done?

Because you could take all of
that and make yourself, super

attractive in the ServiceNow world.

How far off is that from
really understanding asset

management, IT asset management?

Right.

, CJ: not very right.

If you've done asset management
in any form, you can pick

that up and bring it over.

And if you've done it, at a
large scale these things are

definitely interchangeable.

? And I don't know to Duke, right?

, I think there's not enough emphasis
put on understanding and delivering

and building the processes.

That often drive the technical build
outs that companies want, right?

Because, , just being real, right?

I don't talk tech with my clients
most of the time because they

didn't hire me to write code.

They hired me because they had a
problem that is expressed in the

form of a process that needs to be
fixed, or implement it or praised.

, or understood, whatever it is, right?

That's how they communicate with me.

Hey, our incident management
process sucks, , we can't get

incidents closed within a week.

We've got a backlog of 17, 000
incidents open that we're never

going to be able to even address.

All of these things, like they're not
saying, Hey , these UI actions on my

incident management process sucks.

Right.

Can you make sure that they're
doing, , call the scripted clues

instead of, , running glide
record lookups, , synchronously.

Right.

They don't say, they don't say that.

I just think we don't give
enough emphasis to on that.

It's not always the tech, even though
folks are asking you for the tech.

There's a lot of value and some
of the other stuff that you have

that even if you're light on the
tech, if you're heavy on some of

the other stuff that you're doing.

And you can convince , the person
interviewing you that, that

really matters, then there you go.

Right?

So don't sell that stuff short.

Duke: will put some of the links
for some of the job for the jobs.

In the ServiceNow world, in the
description, so you gotta know what

you're aiming for, but just know that you
just can't understate your background.

If you're coming from a past career
in something, it's got transferable

skills, and I guess another way to, to,
to, Come to this too is like everything

boils down to time and money, right?

CJ: Yeah,

Duke: Time, money, and maybe risk.

And those are like other ways
of saying money too, I guess.

So in so far as you're able, try and
get to the point where you saved time,

or you saved money, as best as you can.

CJ: I think that's a good idea, too.

these are just skills that translate
no matter what industry you're in.

Right?

And, and because of that
you can actually, um.

They, they are good skills that everyone
is looking for and look, let's be honest.

Nobody writes really good
job descriptions in any way.

Duke: Not even.

Yeah, I can't remember the last time
I saw a really good job description.

Hey, there's another
example I want to bring up.

I'm sure we put it on one
of our other episodes.

Some of these are starting
to blend in together.

But,

CJ: We've done a few.

Duke: yeah, there's one.

If I said it once, I'm
sorry, I'll say it again.

If you imagine that Jeff Bezos is
like, Hey, listen, I got my bag.

I don't have to worry about running
amazon anymore And he just throws

a dart at a dark board with all
kinds of jobs on it He decides.

Oh, yeah service now admin.

I'll see what I can do like that.

CJ: Yeah.

Yep.

Duke: would you hire?

Jeff Bezos or some other
ServiceNow admin candidate.

I'll tell you what I would do.

I would hire Jeff Bezos in a second.

Even knowing that he's got
no ServiceNow priors, none.

CJ: Okay.

Duke: You know just from watching his
career that he has had to solve like

infinitely complex technology issues,
people issues, operation issues.

He knows how to get it done.

And he can tell you exactly, I'm sure
that guy's can fill a month worth

of beer nights on stories of crazy
stuff that he saved Amazon through.

. And so I want that for my team

CJ: That's a good point.

Duke: and he'll like.

We just know through what he's done
that he can figure out the rest of it.

Not everybody's Jeff Bezos, obviously,

CJ: I get you.

I mean, you're basically saying, would
you take somebody who has , a track

record of amazing success, even though
they don't have experience in the

industry that you're hiring from for,
or the job that you're hiring for, or

would you not hire that person and then
go after someone who has the specific

experience in the technology that
you're hiring for, but does not have the

same amazing track record of success.

And I do think, , from that perspective
is an easy, easy, easy decision, right?

, you give me somebody
who has on their resume.

I did this, I did that,
I did this, I did that.

Right.

These were all successful.

Like you, here's my
references, call them up.

They'll tell you how amazing I am.

Right.

And all of that stuff is
in, automotive industry.

Right.

And you're hiring for a service
now developer and they say,

I can, I don't know it yet.

But this is my track record of success.

I will know it by the time
you need me to, right?

Duke: think we got to be careful about
going from zero , I think we'd be hard

pressed to find somebody who would go
right from the mechanic shop right into

the service now admin position because
you need a little bit of the tech stuff.

But that that stuff is going to
wash out in the interview anyway.

CJ: I don't know man here I mean I
often think to myself like what would

I be doing if I wasn't doing this
and I think I'd be a mechanic and the

Reason I say that is because of all
the troubleshooting and problem solving

that mechanics have to do right that

Duke: I don't think I don't think
you could walk in even as good

as you are is explaining your
service now value propositions.

Right?

You couldn't walk into a mechanic
shop and just say, like, Hey,

make me billable tomorrow.

Right?

So there's still,

CJ: I couldn't do that.

Duke: but with a little bit, like, maybe
you go to a mechanic school, whatever

mechanics do to become mechanics, right?

Maybe you do that and you come
out fresh there, but then you

like parlaying your past service.

Now, value, all I'm saying is these
are like force multipliers versus

replacements for hard technical skill,
and it's aimed at those people who, maybe

they've gone to the next gen program,
or maybe they've done a year of working

as a service now resource somewhere.

They're trying to get.

Deeper in, they're trying to
sound more compelling and they

happen to have a little bit more
background that they could rely on.

CJ: Absolutely, man.

I think that makes a whole lot of sense.

Right?

, and no, I definitely couldn't be
a mechanic, but this this sleep

at a holiday Inn last night, but
Duke, we're at 36 minutes record.

Keep going or you want to wrap?

Duke: no, I think we'll wrap it up here
and maybe it's a shorter episode, but,

CJ: would this be a short episode?

Like it's been a while and how
long do we typically record?

Duke: 45 minutes.

CJ: Oh shit.

Let's keep going then

Duke: I don't know if
I have anything else.

I think just getting back into
the swing of things, right?

CJ: Yeah, all right

Duke: Ring, ring rust is real, my friend.

CJ: bro, like i'm over
like it's like all right.

Yeah.

All right.

How do you talk?

Uh,

I mean, it's

Duke: we were cracking these
things out like once a week,

sometimes even twice a week.

And then it was just like I went
right into that into post production

and the same night I published
and now it's just like wow.

CJ: We have recorded twice in a day
before and now it's like, whoa, whoa,

it is, it is real, but, , it feels
good to get back in the saddle, right?

, to talk about these things again , and
to get back out here, you know, I

Duke: more episodes to come and hey, if
you got an idea just put it into whatever

chat you see this episode posted on.

And I guess we'll see you on the next one.

CJ: hollow.