The Break Is Over: Big Podcast Changes & Event Announcements!

Yes, the rumors are true… Juan had a baby, and no, we’re not turning this into a parenting channel (yet).

After a short hiatus while Juan adjusted to life as a sleep-deprived superhero dad, we’re back—and we’ve got updates. In this video, we explain the break, talk about what’s changing, and drop some exciting news about where you can find us next.

What’s Inside This Episode:

• A quick recap of Juan’s “Mission: Diaper Impossible”
• What the paternity leave taught us (besides how to survive on 2 hours of sleep)
• Changes coming to the podcast format—we’re evolving, not disappearing
• New content plans for the channel (yes, finally!)
• AND the big one… we’re heading to Tucson Comic-Con this August! Come say hi, bring snacks.

We’re refreshed, recharged, and ready to create—so if you’ve been waiting for new stuff, your patience is about to pay off.

🎧 Subscribe, like, and turn on notifications so you don’t miss what’s coming!

#PodcastUpdate #ComicCon2025 #PaternityLeave #ChannelUpdate #TucsonComicCon

Transcript

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Unknown
Welcome to BJ in the morning. I'm sorry. Welcome back to an episode of BJ in the morning. I'm Juan, and we're back. We're back. Baby. We are so back. We left. We left a little. Just a smidge to half a smidge of time. We didn't expect to, you know. It was not planned, but it was needed. I guess so, yeah.

00;00;57;06 - 00;01;27;11
Unknown
Yeah. We were just kind of hanging out. We had to figure out our mental space. When it comes to the the things and the stuff and the the medias, and the bees and the JS. Yeah. I sure could use them. Never mind. But we're back and we're happy to be back. We're excited to be back.

00;01;27;15 - 00;01;51;17
Unknown
But we were gone for two months. Just about. Yeah. And there's a reason. Yeah. The biggest reason. The 100% truth is, I was taking a nap, and Brendan broke his ankle, too, while he was taking his nap. That's just perks of being in your 30s. Yeah. You break bones while napping. No, but I was,

00;01;51;30 - 00;02;25;40
Unknown
I changed the logo. That's the big one. Yeah, we couldn't post because we post because we didn't post. Because we changed the logo. And there was copyright issues and. Right. Right. No, but, yeah, we've had a lot of a lot going on. Most mostly new life happened. Yeah. And and a few literally. And if you I guess I can say if you want, if you're comfortable, if you follow me on Instagram, you will know that I had a child.

00;02;25;40 - 00;02;56;37
Unknown
I brought a child. Me and my significant other brought a child into this world. And, in the morning gives paternity leave. They sure do. They sure do. They've been so gracious, so helpful. Yeah. And, Hey. Thanks. Yeah. Thanks, pal. But. Yeah. Upstairs. So, yeah, fatherhood has been has been the thing in my life. Yeah.

00;02;56;42 - 00;03;22;34
Unknown
It's not bad. I mean, it's it's a lot of, just figuring it out. Yeah, totally. And it's a lot of, I guess not sleeping at the beginning. And, you know, you were sleeping a little, a little bit better now, and it's been a little bit easier. But the transitioning, going back to work and doing all the things that you used to do before.

00;03;22;39 - 00;03;59;53
Unknown
Yeah. Is has been difficult. But but we made it and we're here. We're here and with it. Yeah. But we are here. The two of us. Yeah. So if you support BJ in the morning and. And fatherhood and parenthood. Go ahead and subscribe to the YouTube or, bridge in the morning, podcast. And, follow us on TikTok and Instagram and Virginia Beach in the morning, on just average in the morning underscore.

00;03;59;58 - 00;04;28;43
Unknown
It's been a while. It's been a while. But, for, you saying, with our eyes wide open to your child already? Yeah, of course I have, because that song is about. I've been trying to figure out what, what kind of music she likes, and, Yeah, a lot of the bangers I've been playing her have been hitting like what?

00;04;28;48 - 00;04;56;41
Unknown
Well, I play the Goofy Movie soundtrack to her. I play, in sync. And Backstreet Boys. I've played a little bit of, heavy metal, just. Steve, just see if she likes it. And she loves it. She loves it. She loves it. And, I play a lot of Disney music. 90s Disney. Yeah. Hakuna matata.

00;04;56;53 - 00;05;26;15
Unknown
Big hit. Little Einstein, she likes that. Yeah. The whole catalog of of bangers. And, you know, you need to try. Oh, you know what songs she really likes? She likes to, in the summertime and and and and and and, and and and that they really do shape. They do. She really, really.

00;05;26;23 - 00;06;03;40
Unknown
Lady. Do I think. And, Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on. She wanna go, she wanna go. Yeah, yeah. But she want to make, You need to try the, the Reading Rainbow theme song. And. Arthur. Nice. Yep, yep. Like straight up slaps. But but yeah, that's that's that's the life.

00;06;03;40 - 00;06;29;02
Unknown
And we're back and we're comfortable being back. We're getting back on the schedule. Of whatever schedule we have selected. Right. Which we haven't really set in stone if we're going straight back into once a week, but or once. Yeah. Yeah. Definitely haven't decided yet. But you let us know just once a week working or every two weeks.

00;06;29;07 - 00;06;53;16
Unknown
So weekly. BI weekly. What are you feeling? We we don't know. Yeah, but those are the options. But also, there's other things going on. There. Sure is. What's the next thing that's on our list right now? Are we going to talk about a part of our plans? Was that a part of the list? Part of the list?

00;06;53;20 - 00;07;17;50
Unknown
Got it. The podcast. We're going to be making some changes. Yeah. This is the last. This is the last episode, and we just want to come on and say goodbye. The last episode of, like, phase one of our podcast writing for going MCU and just trying to we were trying to figure it out. We did the podcast in 20 1718.

00;07;17;59 - 00;07;39;11
Unknown
Right. Or 18? Yeah. We had no direction. We're just kind of sitting down with a microphone, and we took a four year hiatus to have 65 kids. And then and then we came back and we were just. And we were just having fun. Yeah, we're just doing the same thing we did in 2017. Yeah. Just, you know what?

00;07;39;12 - 00;07;56;50
Unknown
Just rolling with it. Yeah. Whatever we wanted to make, we made. But times change. Times do change. People change. People do change. The jokes don't change.

00;07;56;54 - 00;08;32;44
Unknown
But we've done a lot of thinking in the last two months. 75 days. About just about, And we're going to take a shift with the podcast. Yeah. And we are going to primarily talk about movies and TV media, but that's a those are the things we love, right? So we could I mean, we're still down with talking about like pop culture things and video games.

00;08;32;44 - 00;08;57;12
Unknown
And so some media like just media stuff in general, but primarily focusing on movie and movies and TV. Yeah. So we're just kind of getting a little more streamlined there. So but that's what that is. And that's where we kind of came to the conclusion, because that's what we love. Yeah, that's what we always talk about outside of the podcast.

00;08;57;16 - 00;09;26;07
Unknown
And then we come to the podcast and we say, what are we talking about today? So now we're just never talking that talk on the we were talking about today. I do yeah. But yeah. But we've got a part I do read. Yeah. Which has been fun. Well, that brings me to another thing is, like, while we're talking more about movies, we are going to try to keep ourselves a little bit shorter.

00;09;26;14 - 00;09;43;55
Unknown
Yeah. Try to keep them a little more streamlined. It's going to help us with, like, things on the back end. A lot more like editing. Yeah. Make sure that, you know, if you don't have an hour in 20 minutes, just sit down and listen to an episode. Maybe you have 30 minutes. Yeah, maybe you have 20.

00;09;44;02 - 00;10;11;39
Unknown
Maybe you have 20. So maybe you have 45. Yeah, I expect shorter episodes a little more niched into what we're talking about. Like we said, movies and TV. But is but it's better to be transparent, right? Because what if you're not into that? Which I hope you are? I hope you are. I hope you are. Yeah, but if you're not, if you follow us for conspiracy theories, and if you followed us for whatever we've done in the past.

00;10;11;43 - 00;10;36;46
Unknown
You can still follow. Who's to say we're not going to do that? Yeah, but for with other stuff for this right here, this thing and this set specifically, when we're sitting here and the camera is there and we have the microphones, we're probably going to be talking about movies or TV. Yeah. But that being said, we do have plans for our YouTube channel to expand a little bit.

00;10;36;51 - 00;11;01;46
Unknown
Do a little more content over there. That's not movies and TV shows on the be doing the morning podcast. Correct. We're so none of that stuff. It's just not going to be an hour and a half long episode of the podcast dedicated to random true crime and conspiracies and eating peeps in your ear holes. Yeah. Yeah. We know he's out there hidden like that.

00;11;01;50 - 00;11;25;24
Unknown
That's just for the YouTube now. So, yeah, those are some big things. Is there anything else about the podcast? I'm going to change the logo online on the line. The one I don't think we ever addressed that, but it's part of our shift. Kind of, you know what? The joke is behind our name. You know what the joke is behind your name.

00;11;25;29 - 00;11;47;35
Unknown
The internet also knows what the joke is. Yeah. So we're still busy in the morning, but our logo changed to just kind of make it a to play nice. Nice with the algorithms. Just for anyone concerned out there. But I think that kind of ticks off most of the podcast news. Right? Except the other thing.

00;11;47;40 - 00;12;10;05
Unknown
The other thing you want, I want. Are you ready? Go ahead. Sorry. Oh you have something. I was going to say we should talk about the, the the the one, the first one and then the, the big one. Yeah. Or the big news. That's a couple weeks out. A couple weeks ago. That's like a couple months out.

00;12;10;09 - 00;12;41;16
Unknown
Yeah. A couple weeks out from something big for us. Something fun. Which is Phoenix and Fusion. Yeah. We're going, like, to have fun. Yeah. We're going as, as fans. Fans. And we're excited. We love getting out there to Phoenix fans. We've been we've had a blast every year that we've gone. Honestly we've gone to most of them in the last ten years.

00;12;41;21 - 00;13;01;39
Unknown
Yeah. So if you guys are there, what are the names on the, the six, some of the, the six, seven and eight. Yeah. You got it. You got it. Nice. That's like, you know what? You don't even have a calendar up. Nothing. I run a press from my brain. Oh. But, yeah, we're pretty hyped to go and hang out.

00;13;01;44 - 00;13;24;05
Unknown
We're going to. No, we're not really doing podcast business, but, do a little bit of podcasting stuff for the, like stuff for channel, for us. For us. Yeah. And we're meeting some cool people, which we're really excited about. And we're just going to be there. So if you see us just say what's up?

00;13;24;19 - 00;13;45;03
Unknown
What's up? Say say hello. Say, hey, what a wonderful time of the day. It's okay if you grab my book and then say you heard it on the podcast and I'll be like, all right, you grab my butt and I'll be like, hey, and if you don't say, you don't be doing it. Okay. Okay, okay. All right.

00;13;45;10 - 00;14;11;48
Unknown
All right. What's your name? So yeah, we're going to be talking about as fans. Yeah. But then, but then, a couple months out. I have the exact dates. I have everything we need to talk about. But this is kind of big. We got, we're just hanging out every day after your mom came.

00;14;11;52 - 00;14;35;33
Unknown
For being a dad for a little bit. Be a responsible or whatever. Talk about podcast. But we got an email and then in the, in the email, in an email said that we were accepted approved or what. What have you. Got. I'm like nervous to talk about it. Don't be nervous because I'm like what do I say.

00;14;35;38 - 00;15;05;35
Unknown
No just don't be nervous. Basically, the two of us, we do in the morning for one for an. We got pretty much invited. Right. We got invited anyway. Yeah. Anyway, anyways, we got invited to go to, Tucson Comic-Con. Yeah. August. So that's, August 29th through the 31st? Yeah. For Tucson. Just a couple months away.

00;15;05;46 - 00;15;26;54
Unknown
I'm going to have to. We're gonna have to really script out when we plan, like, an actual official announcement. But we. Yeah, we were invited to go to Tucson Comic-Con as influencers. So. Look, we made it. We're. That's enough for me. Enough for us. So, yeah, you'll be seeing posts on our Instagram already about Tucson Comic-Con.

00;15;26;59 - 00;15;47;30
Unknown
But we're going to be there all three days. All three days. We're going to be shooting stuff for the channel. Shooting stuff. To post for and with Tucson Comic-Con. And I know I'm pretty high up, so like I said, I'm nervous about it because it's kind of a big step. But yeah.

00;15;47;34 - 00;16;10;34
Unknown
August 29th through the 31st at the Tucson Convention Center. Be there. Be square. But I'm really excited to just go to Tucson Comic-Con. We have never been. Which is strange because it's been around for 16 years. And we don't have to drive an hour. Yeah. You know what? Like the amount that it's grown. I didn't realize it.

00;16;10;34 - 00;16;36;02
Unknown
And I feel like. I feel like we went to this Comic-Con thing that was in Phoenix. That was at the the football stadium, and it was just kind of like, hey, come and walk around and buy stuff. Yeah, and we had a good time. It was cool. Yeah. And I, I guess assumed. Yeah, that Tucson Comic-Con was the same thing.

00;16;36;02 - 00;17;03;35
Unknown
So I was like, oh my God. What? Why what for? There again, like 25,000 people. Yeah. Yeah. But also when you live in Tucson, things outside in Tucson sound way better. But, I'm excited. I think it's going to be fun. They're already announcing guests that are going to be there. And right now I think it's only 50 bucks to get a ticket for the early bird special.

00;17;03;40 - 00;17;22;38
Unknown
And I think let me check my notes. Yeah. July 1st. Oh it's 50 bucks. So after July 1st, it's going to go up in price, and that's 50 bucks for the whole weekend. Yeah. So if you live in Tucson and you're like, maybe I'll go on Saturday or maybe I'll go to Sunday, just buy the whole weekend ticket.

00;17;22;43 - 00;17;52;13
Unknown
Both days we'll be there. We'll be there. Also challenge. I didn't bring this up to you. Oh. Put it out there. You're challenging me or challenging our our listeners out of the park. If we, can get a certain, like, amount on our next episode, which should be dropping, sometime pretty soon, If we can get enough likes, enough downloads, maybe, maybe we do a, cosplay competition for one of those days.

00;17;52;14 - 00;18;27;39
Unknown
Like how we did last year for the fun of it. But now it's for a competition. Like we do a competition. But I'm not going. That's okay. But maybe it's a competition. But cosplay like, in general. Like like you remember how. Okay, so we're not really talking about, last minute, like, extravagant costume type of deal. But maybe we have to, just whoever can come up with the best low budget costume for a day or for Comic-Con.

00;18;27;43 - 00;18;54;51
Unknown
That's it. Okay. Like, I don't know, we just want to, like, number. What are we aiming for here? What if. What if we do, 6000. 6000, for us? Maybe, 100. 100 likes. Hundred likes, 100 likes. Comic or, cosplay competition between you and I. Yeah. And, if we get a thousand, they get to pick.

00;18;54;56 - 00;19;22;28
Unknown
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So share it. Share out the next video. The next episode. Send it to your friends. Share the crap out of it. Thumbs up. It make new accounts. I don't care if you're going to do. We'll do a cosplay competition for Tucson Comic-Con. I think we'll we'll establish all the rules and everything.

00;19;22;33 - 00;19;46;12
Unknown
In one of our future episodes. But. Yeah. Next episode. Which should be the episode that's movie reviews, right? Yeah. I say that like we're not about to shoot that. So. Yeah. Movie review episode from Letterboxd. If that episode can get 100 likes, or more, we'd like more. Obviously. We'll do a cosplay competition.

00;19;46;17 - 00;20;12;09
Unknown
Let's do it. Anything else we need to talk about before we end this little short, filler episode? I don't think so. No. Well, thank you for listening to BJ in the morning. I hope you enjoyed this episode. Yeah, it's just kind of just shooting to do why we took to shooting it. Should we do Scooby dooby doo?

00;20;12;14 - 00;20;31;07
Unknown
But. Yeah. Thank you so much for listening and catching up with us. And we're excited to, get back on the grind. I'm Brendan and I'm Juan, and we would love for you to, like and subscribe to all of our stuff wherever you're listening to your podcast. I bet you can leave a review. I bet you could.

00;20;31;14 - 00;20;56;28
Unknown
But you can bet you could. I bet you. I bet you won't, I bet. But you should be sure. And if you're on YouTube, like, just reverse psychology. Yeah. You won’t do it. You won’t to do it. You want it? Well. How long do we wait? Til now. Now?. Okay. Thank you so much for listening. To our housekeeping episode of BJ in the morning.

00;20;56;28 - 00;21;07;30
Unknown
I'm Brendan, and I'm one and we'll talk to you next time. You got to see that. You've you forget. It's been a while. It's been a while.

00;21;10;03 - 00;21;33;15
Unknown
Oh. Oh.

00;21;33;20 - 00;21;36;40
Unknown
Nine.