Time 2 Calibrate4 Aug 2025

Episode 28: Rico's Beans 'n' Jeans

On today's show, we have Eric Ricioppo, the man behind Rico's Podcast. He is also a veteran police officer with over 10 years of experience and the co-founder of the Sketchy Boys Watch Club. It was terrific speaking with him today, and we even picked up a few podcasting tips. We hope you enjoy the episode!

The Sketchy Boys Watch Club can be found here: https://sketchyboyzwatchclub.com/

You can follow the on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/sketchyboyzwatchclub/

And the T2C Discord community can be found here: https://discord.gg/3pfhUFPYFD

00:13 – Introduction 00:55 – Wrist checks 06:63 – About Rico 09:32 – What came first, the watchman or the policeman 18:59 – Social media before the podcast 21:53 – Does Rico collect dress watches? 26:10 – Watches on the job 33:26 – Watch content to sketchy content on Rico’s Watches 38:26 – How did Rico get there? 43:36 – Would Rico start podcasting again? 48:12 – Being a guest or host, which is better? 50:08 – Storytelling in watches 56:34 – About the Sketchy Boys Watch Club 58:41 – Who’s behind the SBWC 1:00:31 – The most crucial question of the podcast 1:07:14 – Rico’s writing talent 1:09:41 – About SBWC collabs 1:15:30 – Collabs outside of watches 1:17:42 – The future of the SBWC 1:19:59 – Advice for up-and-coming podcasters, not us, of course 1:26:59 – What is Rico hunting for next? 1:33:21 – Thank yous and goodbyes 1:34:10 – T2C OU!

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