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Season Two of FounderQuest is upon you! The guys discuss what they did while on summer break, releasing breadcrumbs on Honeybadger and why they help when debugging, launching the new blog, Amazon RDS, and Airwolf!

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Josh:               We can't all be book-learned like you star.

Starr:              Yeah, I'm book smart.

Josh:               Yeah.

Starr:              You guys are just the street smart ones.

Josh:               We just read what's ever on the front page of Amazon.

Starr:              No, y'all know how the streets work, you know how to get stuff done, you know, outside of formal channels if you know what I mean?

Announcer:          Never forget that you have the tools to build a life on your terms. Forget the haters. This is Founder Quest.

Starr:              We were going to talk about I mean we've been gone for a couple of weeks, several weeks, and I think we're just going to talk about what we're going to do. I've decided, we shouldn't say that we had a vacation because that's not the appropriate...

Josh:               How I had multiple vacations and I did some work.

Starr:              No, hush, hush, hush.

Josh:               Okay.

Starr:              I think we shouldn't call it a vacation. I think we should say that this is season two of Founder Quest.

Josh:               Oh, I see where you're going. Okay, so season two go.

Starr:              Yeah, nobody says like serial had a vacation.

Josh:               Right.

Starr:              There just on, you know, they had a new season.

Josh:               So are we going to be a serial podcast now?

Starr:              Well, we come serially so yeah sure.

Josh:               Okay, cool.

Starr:              Yeah, sure, it's just whenever we want to go on vacation we'll just say there's a new season.

Josh:               Nice.

Starr:              so people have to say tuned.

Ben:                I can't wait for season three.

Starr:              I hope we don't get canceled. That would suck.

Josh:               Yeah.

Ben:                So how were your vacations, Josh?

Starr:              Yeah. How many vacations did you take?

Josh:               I think I took two. The first one was a kind of a, I mean I was planning to take some time off, but it was not as planned as this last one. Yeah, in August I took a couple of weeks off just to kind of recuperate and just connect and stuff. This last week, I just got back from visiting my kids grandparents, my parents in Arizona. That was a fine. It wasn't, I don't know, it was still a lot of work because the kids. Taking two little toddlers on an airplane that was the first time we'd done that. Yeah, it was fine. Got some sun, they have a pool. We spent a lot of time by the pool.

Ben:                Nice.

Starr:              I see a little bit of a thousand-yardstare in your eyes.

Josh:               Yeah, I think.

Starr:              The children on the airplane thing.

Ben:                Oh, Starr you did that too, right? You just got back?

Starr:              Yeah, I got back from also a grandparent vacation, but this time the grandparents, my partner's parents were like, Hey, we've got this timeshare in Mexico in Puerto Vallarta and so you should come down and I've got to tell you, boys. I was skeptical because it seemed like we were doing all the work right because normally like paying for accommodations is not the most daunting part of an international vacation with a three-year-old. I was skeptical, but it turned out to be super nice and relaxing because they have the timeshare they have, it was very nice. It was a sort of like an all-inclusive resort. They had this giant like a four-bedroom suite with balconies and a hot tub on a balcony and like I got to sit during the day for several hours for multiple days in a row and just like read by myself. I haven't gotten to do this unless I just like skip work and do it or something.

Josh:               That's what I did by the way.

Starr:              It's not the same. Right, because you feel like you need to get back. Yeah, it was just great. I mean it wasn't a cultural trip. I lived in Mexico for a year. I feel like I have a good appreciation of the Mexican people, country and culture already. A little bit of a resort vacation. It was kind of welcome I think.

Josh:               I also got to spend some time reading by the pool while the kids were napping and that was very nice. What about you Ben?

Ben:                I did not take any vacations with toddlers, but I did drop off my older son at college. He just started college this fall. That was a pretty wild experience. Let me tell ya. And I got some house work done, like had contractors doing work on my house, so I'm flat broke now because between college and, Oh and then my car broke down. I had to replace a bunch of stuff on it.

Josh:               Oh man.

Ben:                One here actually another, it's been, it's been crazy, but you know, it was a good Summer I got to relax a bit and yeah, I didn't go anywhere. I didn't do anything but read some books and you know, I hit the trail with my bike several times, which is nice. We had a good summer here in Kirkland. So yeah, checking out of work at, at lunch time and going riding is a good thing.

Josh:               You're going to take some time off later this year?

Ben:                Yeah. And go weeks. I'll be heading to visit. My parents haven't seen him at their house in quite a while, so that'll be fun.

Starr:              Yeah, that's great. That's like a big life milestone when you think about it. It's a little bit of a permanent vacation.

Ben:                Yeah.

Starr:              You know, it's like they're out for good, you know, I mean, until they, you know, decided to become an artist and then come back because you know art, the only pay muc...