If you’re like us, you’ve probably been glued to the Olympics for the past several days–as well you should be: they’re great fun to watch. I’m actually delighted by the fidelity of the online streaming this year, such that even without cable TV, I’m able to waste hours of my day watching events I don’t even care about. Such is the nature of the games.

The other advantage of the Olympics is we get to make another Olympic video — something that doesn’t happen very often. This one was conceived by Paul because he hates you. He knew that by dangling the spectre of his so-recently-departed beard before you, he would illicit squeals of joy, before leaving you with the stark realization that this was only a functional means to an end — not a full return to beardly glory.

While Paul’s original script called for this to be filmed over several weeks, we decided that would be a people-wrangling-and-venue-booking nightmare, so we instead did entire thing in reverse. Paul and I grew out our beards over about five weeks, and then used a trimmer to shave them off about evenly for each section of the video. Delays in filming pushed the actual shooting time by another week, which actually turned out to be problematic for me– I’ve never let my beard get as out-of-control as it was for this video, and up close it was pretty scraggly.

Anyway, there you have it. While you’re here, you should check out our previous Olympic video, which introduced Canada’s freestyle slacking team. If you’re new to the site, you might not have seen it, as it’s a couple years old at this point. You’ll also notice that our latest T-shirt pre-order ties in with that video, and there are only ten days left to order one in the style and colour of your choice.