This is the restart. Ryan and I had a podcast on this channel years ago — three of us originally, me, Ryan, and Justin (RVA Flips). It quietly stopped after the Nashville episode and then sat. The thing that kicked it back into gear was an appearance I made on Trash to Cash with Kevin from Commonwealth Picker — old beef, settled in public. I came off the mic feeling something I hadn’t felt in a while. Told Ryan we needed to do something. He said yep. We sat down the next day. This is what came out.

The Kevin / Commonwealth Picker thing

[0:18] The reason we’re doing this at all — Kevin reached out an olive branch and the Trash to Cash crew put us on. Old beef I’m not going to rehash, but the headline is we squashed it on camera and then I messaged Kevin afterward and we’re cool. Going on the show was brave on his part because I’ve been known to be a hothead from time to time, and he couldn’t have known how it would go. Honestly I couldn’t either until I was sitting there.

[4:00] I shared my screen on this one — the episode pulled 6,200 views in a day. Two weeks before that, they had Harry Tornado on, and Harry sat at 5,100 over two weeks. Harry, if you’re watching, I’m joking. Mostly.

The part where I admit it was jealousy

[14:43] The honest version. “At the base for me it was feelings of jealousness and pettiness, and I was ignoring the fact that I was getting outworked.” Resting on my laurels, lazy, and instead of looking inward I lashed out and made myself a victim of something I imagined in my head. Built my own prison. Should have just kept my head down and made things other people would want to copy.

[9:42] Ryan reminded me of a moment from my own Christmas live — over 800 concurrent viewers, partly because I’d basically promised drama. I had a list of names from the chat going and was planning to go down it one by one. Then I read the chat properly. People saying no Lonnie, it’s Christmas, this is supposed to be fun. I said no, they’re right. I didn’t go down the list. That’s the same instinct I had to lean on going into Trash to Cash — own the part that’s mine, don’t go down the list. I think that’s the part that surprised Kevin.

Justin, RVA Flips, and grown-apart

[17:25] Justin — RVA Flips — was the third chair on this podcast originally. No blow-up, no fight, no public falling out. We just went different directions and weren’t compatible as friends or even acquaintances anymore. Zero bad blood from my side. He was one of my best friends for years and I love him like a brother. The credit I’ll give Justin: Ryan and I are friends because of him. He brought us together back in 2019. Going on seven years now.

The Reseller Water Cooler hand-off (and the older group I had to kill)

[20:10] Some shed lore. The Reseller Water Cooler Facebook group started as RVA Flips’ channel group. When Justin stepped away from reselling a few years back, the group sat unwatched with about 8,000 members and started going to crap. He handed it over — Candice and I run it now. Steady growth, mods who actually care, deliberate effort to keep it from getting overrun by jerks so new people aren’t scared to ask a question.

[24:57] Even older lore. Before the Water Cooler, John and I had a different Facebook group, somewhere around 5,000 to 8,000 members. It got shut down hard. The reason: somebody was harassing John in his actual real life — got his phone number, left a note on his car. He told me he had to pull back, and I said say no more, I’ll pull the plug. I did, and I took the public heat for it so he wouldn’t have to. Real friend move on the front end, dumb on the back end — I shouldn’t have eaten that blame. Stretch goal for this podcast: get John on as a guest someday.

Facebook Messenger is the goat

[36:54] Ryan and I talk all day, every day, but almost entirely in voice messages on Facebook Messenger. Ryan calls it carrier-pigeon communication — record, send, wait, listen back, respond. The weird beauty: you have time to think before you speak, and you can do three takes if the first one was a verbal typo. When we actually see each other live in a format like this, it takes a minute to recalibrate to instant replies. Texting sucks. X voice notes are decent. Messenger is home.

The Manchester half — touchstone teaser

[44:09] Ryan was wearing the shirt he ran the Manchester half-marathon in this past November. We ran it together. I told him on camera the half wasn’t a thing where I had a runner’s high mid-race — it was afterwards, when everything I’d been through and where I’d come from soaked in all at once and a lot of things became clear. That’s a story for another episode. Worth flagging here so you know what’s coming.

Closer

Episode 1. Format promise: episodes around an hour or less, end them while you still want more, no fixed schedule but loosely about one a week. We’ve done multi-hour grinds before — see also the four-hour New Year’s Eve livestream we attempted, which was about two hours too long. If a podcast feels like a chore every time you sit down, it goes away.

Find Ryan as Crazy Dreamers on Facebook, find me as Lonnie M Honeycutt. We’ll see y’all in the next one.