Podi Boys’ “Pisssss Triscuit”
Podi Boys have blast back into the scene with a new edit! After a four year hiatus they present Pisssss Triscuit! A jaw dropping video filled with amazing movement in a style unique to the Podi Boys. They went all out on the production of the B-roll actually creating a box of piss triscuits, making a commercial for it, turning Rairs part into a sitcom intro, and so much more. It’s a far more chaotic edit than Podi has done in the past, which shows a side of Podi everyone deserves.
I had the pleasure of interviewing Josh Dohy and Brodie Shaw, two fifths of the Podi Boys, and I asked them a little bit about the process of making the video. Beginning with what inspired them to make a new video after such a long break. They gave me some background; starting with the fact that everyone was originally from Calgary. Josh and Jovy moved to Vancouver eventually, so that made it much more difficult to film and create a project. It was just about a year ago that the rest of the boys joined them in Vancouver, and that’s when they started filming again. It was off and on for a while until The Commons reached out in July. They felt the pressure of a deadline. Brodie said “We had footage, we just hadn’t done anything with it, and it was like ‘okay we should probably get crackin on this'”
They had no plan for a theme or a name at that point. But the first shoot day after the Commons hit them up, they got the opening clip. Brodie said “As I started editing I was like ‘that’s funny maybe I’ll just put that at the start and we’ll call the video Pisssss Triscuit'” It all started as a joke and it snowballed into creating an advertisement and possibly the craziest commitment to a joke anyone has seen in years. All of this plus the growth from a four year break created an edit that was much different than what we’ve seen from Podi in the past.
When talking about this change from videos like Suhaib 2 or September to what Piss Triscuit is now Brodie told me a lot about how his editing style has developed over the years as well as his change in ideals about what he wanted out of creating a video. “I’ve always really liked the idea of creating a skate part type video … but we didn’t have tons of footage of everybody and I’ve always really liked abrupt cuts, so I was like ‘why don’t we roll with this; Each person can have their own little short section and we have a little abrupt change'” from there he found more and more ways to piece all their parts together. He said “It was like a hodgepodge of stuff that just came together”. This side of Podi, this funny and chaotic side is something that will hopefully inspire more videos like it.
They told me they changed their focus from the cinematics and “making something really cool” to having fun and creating something they want to look back on. A lot of the cause of this change Brodie told me was “Coming back into [training] being almost 30 I gotta take a different approach to it … I’m not gonna make it back to where I was, and that’s okay, so I just have to make sure I’m having fun with it.” We talked a lot about how their style had changed since 4 years ago and how implementing the newer styles into what they had already known really pushed the idea of having fun. Josh said “The funny thing is with that Beansy off-axisy style its a lot easier to do when your just messing around with your homies. Its not as pressure forming to train like that” They took the fun they were having in their training and applied it to their edit as well.
This created an edit that not only has time for oohs and ahhs at banger movement, but time for laughs. For example Josh told me with Rairs intro “Usually if someone gives you a song for a parkour part and you tell them that sounds like a sitcom intro that’s the end of the conversation” but they thought “no this suits Rair lets go with it.” By caring less about “everyone thinking this is gonna be the coolest edit ever” they created an awesome intro and so much more. They created a parkour video that’s supposed to make you smile and laugh and throughout the way made everlasting memories.
At the very end of our conversation, Brodie said “It’s all memories y’know, we all love going back and watching our old edits, and our old vlogs because its fun memories of us. Like when we’re 80 years old we can go back and watch the video where we pissed on a box of Triscuits and I ate one and I think that’s so fucking awesome” That is something I think everyone should strive for.
I watched this pretty much daily for the first month after it came out. Such an incredible video that captures what it’s like to be around you guys so well