About Rawwyrd
Rawwyrd is a couples podcast hosted by Jared and Jacque Beers.
It is two shows under one name. One lane is the true stories — the ones you overhear in a line and then lose when the speaker walks away. The other lane is the marriage sitting across the table from those stories.
The short version
Have you ever stood close enough to someone else’s conversation that you got invested, and then the story stopped? That feeling is the show.
Some episodes come from behind prison walls. Some come from family that arrived late. Some come from a regular week in a regular house that still managed to get strange. All of them are true.
Jared
Jared Beers retired as a captain from the Utah Department of Corrections. For more than twenty years he worked housing units that were tough, weird, and — more often than people expect — funny. His career was spent on safety, security, less lethal weapon, lethal weapons, programming/treatment/education, and the slow work of helping a person change. Even when they don’t want to.
Jared has a batchelor’s degree in public emergency services management and a master’s degree in mental health counseling. He is not a licensed therapist.
A few years ago the family map changed too. He found three half-siblings he did not grow up with. He met the man who was his biological father. Those stories belong on this show because they happened, and because they did not stay neat.
He lives in Utah with Jacque and their two adult sons.
Off-mic he 3D prints, crafts, and sells LEGOs.
Jacque
Jacque Beers is not the producer in the other room. She is the co-host.
She is an instructional coach for a Utah school district. She holds a bachelor’s degree in elementary education and a master’s degree in instructional design. She is a mother of two adult sons and records the show with Jared at their dining table.
Jacque’s current assignment is at a behavioral elementary school. She often comes home with stories just like Jared did while working at the prison.
Off-mic she crafts with a laser engraver, a 3D printer, and a heat press — the same hands-on streak that shows up when the conversation needs a second point of view.
She lived the years Jared spent walking into those units and walking back out again. The Table episodes exist because her voice was missing from the first version of this show.
Why “wyrd”
Raw is the easy half of the name. Wyrd is the old word underneath “weird.” Fate. What has already turned. What a life becomes when you stop pretending it followed the script.
That is the point of recording at the dining table instead of a rented studio. The show is supposed to sound like the house it comes from.
What you will not get
You will not get a true-crime factory, a marriage-advice formula, or a polished couple performing closeness. You will get two people telling the truth as far as they can tell it that week.