Season 4. Episode 10: An Ocean Apart... Part 1 w/ Austen Kroll
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What's up besties and welcome to this special edition of Pillows and Beer. I'm with my good buddy and bestie Nick Norris who is on the eastern seaboard somewhere and I'm across the pond. I am this time not coming from a French chateau in the country. I am in Gay Paris and I

I am on my last day, Nick. I'm on my last day here in Paris and as beautiful and wonderful as it's been, I'm ready. I've spent so much time in Europe over the past, this summer. Yeah, you truly had a European vacation. I think you spent more time over there in the summer than you have in the US. I have had a European hot girl summer and it was unintentionally so, as most of you know.

Oh my gosh, Nick, somebody posted, you know, some comment and some woman responded to it, a bestie. And she hits it like out of the park. I mean, she definitely is a bestie because she knew why I came back to Europe and why my parents didn't come the first time and why, you know,

everything, right? And it was just like, my parents couldn't come, and so my mother told me to go to the villa anyways because it was paid for and couldn't get a refund. I mean, this woman responded as if it was me talking. I was like, okay, that a way to listen. So basically, what was supposed to be two weeks in Europe has now been a cumulative month that I've been in Europe. No, that's fine. That's probably...

That's a long time. That's funny though, that somebody, and so that means they probably listened to last week's episode with you and like the whole breakdown as to why you're over there. So, and after all the things we talked about, cause I asked the questions that you did said to Craig. So he was pretty much on the same page as you. It was just like, people just got to calm down and live their own life and stop being so involved that you're with your family on vacation. Right. Like how dare you?

How, yeah. How, how dare I let my mother buy the family or my parents, excuse me, let like buy the family dinner, Nick, you know, how dare I, what's an asshole for, I mean, I, I just don't know. Come on, man. No one out there goes out to dinner with, with their family and just foots, you know, the bill anyways. Um,

So I have been here for, I've been here for a while and, and, you know, Paris, Paris is a, is a whole different animal. Nick, um, the Chateau was, or the Villa, whatever you want to call it. This is your first time? No, this is my third time to Paris. Um, my sister's first time and my dad's and my dad's second time. My mom spent like six months over here.

in college so so she's been trying to converse in French and you know she she gets like a little nervous you know sometimes because look you sit down I mean we all look American as shit I mean me and my sister probably a little less than you know my parents but my I mean my dad you know his like attire these days is just you know country club

So we sit down and the waiter immediately, you know, bonjour. Hello. What can I? And so my mom gets like a little nervous. I'm like, no, mom, go for it. You know, speak French like, you know, she's rusty and she wants to. But I totally get it. The Parisians are especially if you catch the wrong one, Nick, if like you catch like a server.

Who's like, I don't want any of your shit today. Like, what do you want to eat? And tell me in English so I can understand you better. But I feel like the younger people are much more willing to converse in French. And where are you from? And oh my gosh. And let me tell you. I don't know if I said this last time. But I figured this out the last time that I came to Europe. That it's so much easier to just say, I'm from New York.

and just leave it at that and and the servers are like oh new york new york oh times square and you're like yes yes of course ah ah treyvion oh it's beautiful it's beautiful that's funny and um and yeah man because no one knows where south where south carolina is i mean unless you've been to the us a bunch of times but isn't like charleston very french or am i getting that wrong

Maybe like in the 1700s. When it first started, yeah. But I didn't know if it would still carry over at all. But no, no. Charleston is not French. I don't even know why I said that. I don't think that any single piece of Charleston – I don't think that there's a French history there. Oh, I figured like all those old colorful homes were all like French-derived. No. No, no, dude. It's just like an American colony. And –

So, yeah. And now and now my dad even says it right because, you know, he's like, oh, Charleston. And, you know, we live on a I'm like that. They don't know what you're talking about. They literally don't. Right. Because the way to describe South Carolina is that.

foreigners know where New York is, they know where Florida is, and they know where California is. And so you're like, okay, New York and Florida, and we're in between. And that's basically the way to describe it. Oh, yeah, I guess that's true. They all know Disneyland and everything like that. And Florida's Florida, right? I mean, I wonder if the people here get the headlines that we all are like,

Florida man strikes again. You know, I wonder if they see, see that shit. I think that's just how they picture Americans though. I feel like Florida man is like America to French people. I mean, yeah. Okay. Basically every single one of us that, that live in America is Florida man to, to French people. That's, that's how I get it across. We're all Florida man. But I mean, that's cool. I did see on Katie's story, I guess was on yours too. Um,

How are the chicken nuggets over there? How are the McNuggets in France versus in the U.S.? I got to know. Did I talk about this last time? No, because this was after the fact. Nick, you would have thought that I slapped my mother in the face when we got chicken nuggets from frickin' McDonald's. Like, we were driving back from somewhere. We...

the hell are we doing? And then my mom was like, all right, well, let's go and let's pick up things from the local Aldi. I forget what it's called. And, uh, and, and I, I saw McDonald's and I was like, Katie, what if we just fucked around and got like a 30 pack and they, and ate nuggets by the pool. And it became like a thing. And Katie was like, I mean, I'm like low key down if you're being serious. And my dad was like, I am negative 50 on that.

And my mom was like, you are not being serious, are you? And I was like, well, I kind of wasn't being serious until Katie kind of showed me some interest. And now I want to fuck around and get some nuggets and sit and sit by our pool. And and so we got some nuggets and we ate them by the pool. But the nuggets were just fine. They were comparable. I mean, golden, crispy outside. Yeah. And Katie kept on being like, Mom, Mom, it's white meat chicken.

As if that makes it any better. And yeah. I didn't know if they were like better over there since they're all about the naturalness over there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I'll tell you what, their fries were not the like signature salted fries.

Not even sure if that's if that's a thing back home anymore either. All right. So with that being said, that was a nice little intro. Nick, it's good to see your face. We'll be right back after a word from our sponsors. I'm going to tell you what I'm doing tonight. All right.

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All right, and welcome back to this special episode of Pillows and Beers Besties. Thank you for listening. If you're wondering, once again, I mean, Craig and I cannot seem to get this time change correct. We are attempting and we do text, you know, we're texting constantly and it's like, okay, okay, and

You know, I guess that Craig Craig could have done it early and his text, you know, weren't going through because my phone for some reason just decided to not. And then by the time that I got it, you know, corrected, which was like 10 a.m. Eastern, he was like, you know, I'm already out and about. And, you know, but but but I can jump on later and record and I only have until one 1 p.m. Eastern because it's last night. So anyways, that's just kind of been the thing. And Nick Nick somehow has been able to make it work. So at least we get to chat, Nick. At least we get to chat.

Oh, and Craig will kill both of us if you don't mention that merch is now live, everyone, on the website.

Yes. Merchandise. The fun photo shoot that you saw us doing and Craig post and I'm not also post, but it's live. It's live now on pillowsandbeer.com, right? Yep. Pillowsandbeer.com. Pillowsandbeer.com. And we had so much fun and a lot of you have been reaching out and saying that you want to purchase. So it is available for purchase. Now, Nick, let's talk about what would you...

Have you been to Paris? No, I've only been to the UK. So tonight we're going to Moulin Rouge. Isn't that like a Broadway play? No. Well, yes. It became one from a famous burlesque show here in Paris. Oh, so are you going to a burlesque show? Is it a play or what is it? No, it is a burlesque topless show. And you're going with your sister and your mom?

And my dad. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't care about your dad. Yeah. Well, listen, Nick. In America, you know, we are just so sensitive to nudity and they just aren't so much here. I don't care. Free the nipple. The show is 12 and up.

So apparently there are, that's so French. There are kids, there are going to be kids there. And, um, I know the people listening might be like, Oh man, go to, go to, go to crazy horse. I mean, I've gotten all sorts of recommendations, but, um,

It is supposed to be like, look, if you haven't been to Moulin Rouge, then go, you know, just go once. Right. And then, you know, forevermore you've been. And so I kind of recommended it prior to coming when we were putting together the itinerary. And I was like, let's do a burlesque show. Like, it's so it's so French, like I even might buy like a pack of just like thin cigs.

Just like smoke some thin cigs during this, you know burlesque show cuz I I just want to feel so Parisian I might even so is it like it in the movies where you get like it like a little table and everything that you're watching. Yeah, like yeah Definitely. Yeah, you know you get like a little table and they're gonna come up and ask for a drink order and we'll probably get a bottle of champagne which it's so interesting that drinking here

I mean, I've been drinking spritzes and champagne basically exclusively. And real champagne. Yeah. Well, yeah. Well, when we order champagne...

especially if we just want like a glass of champagne we basically just like we basically just say um all the glasses champagne you know they don't ask like oh you know do you want you know or or brute or i mean i guess that we only have kind of decisions to make on that when we order a bottle but um and and wine well red in italy and now i've i've been drinking white here but

I don't know. I haven't really drank any liquor, right? Because when I'm back in the States, I'm like, oh, you know, tequila soda. But that's not really a thing here. No. I mean, well, what's the big... Is it Belvedere, I guess, is French? Yeah. Or is that Grey Goose? Grey Goose is French. Grey Goose is French. And so, you know, just like...

I've gotten people that have reached out that like have DM me and stuff. I've been like you and your family drink a lot. And it's actually really funny because my mother is the typical, like we don't need to drink to have fun, you know? And it's like, and it's like, if we sit down to eat, right. And we're on vacation, like we're definitely ordering drinks.

I mean, I am definitely ordering like a beer or champagne or this. And my mother has gotten a lot better because in vacations past, she's like, enough, enough. We don't need to drink. But she's just chilled out and she just, hey, you and your sister want to get like a bottle of champagne? And what happens every single time is that they're like,

yeah you know fill me up and i'm like exactly guys you know so um so for those listening my mother is the typical like we don't need that right and katie and i were like we are at dinner we're certainly gonna get a bottle of red wine and you know that you're gonna drink it and that's what always happens no i mean you're in france of course you're gonna drink like i mean why not yeah of course and

but i'm gonna tell you what man i took those pictures that i've been posting oh my god i haven't posted a shirtless picnic in in so long and so i've kind of been you know hurling them out there because certainly wouldn't do it now after being on a 10-day trip and it's like eating pasta and doing all this and it's super easy to do it to like post pics and stuff by the way because katie

Like I'm like Katie's, you know, Instagram boyfriend, right? It's like mom and dad don't get the angles, right? And so, you know, she's like Austin and I never complain I'm just like go and I'm like, you know, and then she's like, all right, you know you go I'm like, oh wow, so she's just taking some really good pics So I'm like, I'm not gonna not post these and that's kind of funny because I like when I'm alone and

being single, being the single man that I am, Nick, I don't sit there and think like, hey, can you take pictures of me? I'm just like, whatever. But since I've been with my sister, I've had a shit ton of content. Have you met anybody over there by chance? Even though it's a family vacation? Have you talked? Have you and your sister gone out? I know you did a little bit in Italy. Katie and I went out the first night here in Paris.

And by out, like, I mean, we literally found like, I mean, it must have just been like an expat heaven because just like a bunch of kids and like bars, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, and souvenir shops. And it was like pedestrian walking only. And so Katie and I kind of bar hopped and we popped into this one bar and the bartenders there just reminded me of myself when I worked there.

at the hostel bar in New Zealand. Like, you know, the bartender, like, one of the bartender girls had

had like a flag you know painted on her face and like a low-cut shirt with like a name you know written out on it and like another one of the guys had on like a bandana and you could just tell that they're just like like they were you know in their just like 22 year old era just like we work at this like fun and you know high-paced kind of fucking party bar and so I I got to talking to them

And, you know, I asked them their age and yeah, they were 22 and 23 and one was from Russia and one was from India and one was from Ireland. And they were just, you know, living their best life, you know, kind of working there. Oh, that's kind of cool. Yeah. And Katie and I made our way to that bar actually twice. Right. So it's like,

We popped in. The music was banging, but it wasn't really a scene or anything. But we were having fun with the bartenders. And they were like, all right, well, we're going to go around and explore. And then we popped in elsewhere and got a drink. And then we're like, let's go back to that bar. So we went back to that bar. So we really haven't gone out. We didn't go out last night.

We didn't go out the first night that we were here. I mean, what have you been doing? Obviously, it's Paris, so there's a lot going on. But museums, just exploring, what are you doing? Yeah, so our trip, as much downtime as we've tried to incorporate into the trip, there has definitely been downtime.

Like, you know, tours here and tours there. So a family friend of ours organized this whole trip and it's just been fantastic. So yesterday, for instance, my mom and sister went to the flea markets, right? Because yesterday was Sunday. And so they went to the flea markets, which were 30 minutes away. And me and my dad just didn't really want to go. And it turns out that that was the right decision.

And so him and I just walked. I mean, we walked. I looked at my steps from yesterday, Nick, almost 20,000 steps. So me and my dad just walked for like three hours. We walked to the Louvre and then from the Louvre all the way up to the Arc de Triomphe. And then we stopped off and got lunch. And then when we got back to the hotel, we kind of changed and turned around and went to this absolutely gorgeous church, St. Chapelle.

I posted an Instagram of it yesterday with just the stained glass windows are like the most extraordinary I've ever seen. And then from there, it was like a

drinks this red this really cool bar and then across the street a creperie and I'm gonna post a pic of The crepes I think that I'm gonna do like a photo dump of all the food that I've eaten But because I've never had a crepe like this these these crepes were outrageous And then today we woke up and we had a tour of this really really cool district. We like went to the Jewish district and and

Just like a lot of really cool areas and just cruise around the streets. And then today I've just been taking it easy. I think that my mom and sister went shopping and me and my dad just came back to the hotel and I've just been, you know, feet up. And now it's like a really, really great dinner tonight called Frenchie Pagal. And then and then we walk to Moulin Rouge. That's fun. So this is your third time there. Correct. It's my third time. Have you ever have you gone to the catacombs yet?

uh i've not been to the catacombs no i don't know i just know it's like the catacombs of like french it's like a huge like thing like it's all underground it's like where they buried just a bunch a bunch of people no it's like it's like those things where you see where it's just like walls of bones and everything and skulls and stuff so i know a lot of people do it over there i didn't know if you guys had it on the list i would never do it's too creepy for me but so so you know what's interesting about this

Parisian trip is that since we've all been, except for Katie, my mother has zero interest in going to the Eiffel tower, going anywhere near it. She's like, I don't care. No, I'm good. Like, no. And it makes me laugh. And I'm like, well, Katie hasn't been. And so Katie and I have been meaning to go, but yeah. She's not going to go to the Eiffel tower first time over there.

Like you would think that we had all this free time and all this, you know, whatever to to kind of go. But like we really don't. And last night we wanted to go. And then and then. Oh, on Sundays, a lot of bars and things are closed and like Sunday is not like it is back in the States. So I wanted to take to take my dad to Bar Hemingway, which is.

in this great great hotel which i'm pretty sure is over near i might be saying all all sorts of things wrong but i'm pretty sure that it's over near the eiffel tower and we jump in an uber right and i was like impressed i was like yes it's 10 o'clock and like we're gonna go here it's gonna be great i was super excited to take my dad to this bar because you know we kind of like my my dad is like in love with the with uh you know the 20s and 30s of paris which basically if you've never seen uh

Midnight in Paris, you know, watch it because he loves the hell out of it. He's like, he like romanticizes about the 20s and 30s. And yeah, Hemingway was here and, you know, Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald, et cetera, et cetera.

And I wanted to take them there. And then halfway there, I was like, wait a minute. I didn't even look up if it was open or not. And then I looked it up and it was closed. Then we kind of turned around and went back to the hotel. And we lost our steam. So didn't. And now tonight, we'll see. We'll see, Nick. Like if I roll in straight to my flight tomorrow is at noon, which I have to leave for the airport at like 9.

If I roll straight into my hotel and just grab my bag and go, then that would be an epic last night. But we'll see. Yes, it would. I mean, it's what? A seven hour flight home? Yeah. Yeah. Something like that, man. Seven and a half GFK. And then, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So I'm game for it is what I'm saying. Like, if that happens and it's just like, all right, let's let's.

Yeah, but then again, it's Monday night, so I don't know, man. I don't know, but I am here for it. Yeah, but Monday night in a big city, I feel like anywhere, it doesn't matter what night it is. Right, right. Yeah, Paris is so vast. It's like you look up things, and it's just like, you know, New York City. You look it up, and you're like, wait a minute. There are so many options when I just typed in good cocktail bar that I'm overwhelmed right now, you know? So...

Um, it'll be nice if I can have a Parisian guide or someone who, who knows the mean streets and yeah, I'm looking forward to it. I mean, dude, I had to go shopping yesterday because I like ran out of clothes. I did not pack appropriately for Paris. Paris is kind of cold right now.

It's not cold here. I think it was 100 degrees here yesterday. And that's in Virginia. I can only imagine what South Carolina was. Paris is like in the 60s. Oh, so jealous. It's like football weather. Yeah, it's like football weather. What? Really? NFL? Yeah, the Hall of Fame game is Thursday. Holy shit. It's almost fall. I mean, how great is that? I mean, it feels like fall here. And me and my dad were joking because he was like,

Yeah. Like as soon as we land back in South Carolina, South Carolina will give us a swift kick in the nuts to remind us that we are back in the South and we are not in Paris any longer. No, it is going to be hot and it's going to be humid. It's like a wee chilly here or a wee bit chilly.

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But MitoPure does more than just help with my muscles. It can help with health stand as well. I want to be one of those granddads one day that you see in the video of him swinging his grandkid around. I want to rely on myself for as long as I possibly can. One way to think of MitoPure is that they are in your cells, chomping up the damaged mitochondria that makes you feel old and tired and helping to recycle it into new healthy ones.

Mitochondria, our cell's power generators, are one of the key influences in how we age. However, as the years pass, mitochondrial efficiency naturally declines, representing a large gap in the quality of life we expect in our later years and the one we experience.

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Timeline is offering 10% off your first order of Mito Pure. Go to timeline.com slash pillowsandbeer. That's T-I-M-E-L-I-N-E dot com slash pillowsandbeer. These statements and products have not been evaluated by the Friedenslug administration. These products are not invented by no street pure company.

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It's a convenient way to run your household, customized to your family's needs, and the easy way to raise financially smart kids. Get started with Greenlight today and get your first month free at greenlight.com slash pod. All right, and welcome back to this episode of Pillows and Beer. I am sitting in my hotel room in Gay Paris.

I'm chatting with my bestie, Nick, and we're just kind of shooting the shit about being a parent. Like all of a sudden, Nick, we've been going for 30 minutes. So I hope I hope that we've shed shed some light. People probably want Rex and stuff. Maybe that's what I'll do. Yeah. I mean, you got some rec questions from your Mykonos trip. So why don't you give like the Austin guide to Paris or France? Oh, my gosh.

Yeah. The, the guide, uh, get, get a villa in Provence and what's your, what's your favorite food that you've had over there? Like so far, like anything, like what's the, the best like meal you've had yet? Yeah. God, man. Lunch today was so good. Let me, let me look at my phone. Let me look at my phone. Lunch today was so good. After we did our tour, uh, Shay, Janu, J A N O U. Shay Janu.

John knew. And, um, I had a tagliatelle escargot. I can't, I can't get away from the pasta, but it was so good. And normally they, they have frog legs there. So, so, um, you know, our private tour guide dropped us off there and it, it was fantastic. Um,

But another night I had ribs, right? And it's not like the American barbecue ribs that you're thinking of, but it was this fall off the bone, just like pork. And that was one of my absolute favorite meals that I've had. I mean, tonight, escargot and a charcuterie board is like a guarantee for us almost at every meal. And then these macaroons, man. These macaroons, Nick.

these macaroons from Pierre Hermé, which a lot of you probably heard of, and I'm sure that everyone has kind of differing opinions on which macaroon place that they think is the most beautiful or the best, but look at this, Nick. It's like little sandwiches. They're like cookie sandwiches. That is exactly what they are. They're like little sandwiches, and they're so, so good. So many flavors. Oh, speaking of dessert...

Didn't I see, was this in Provence or is this in Paris? Didn't I see you making dessert? Yes. So we hired a chef to come and teach a cooking class to us and we made a three course meal and we started with our dessert because it had to set and chill and oh my gosh, was that dessert good? It was like a hazelnut. It was like a hazelnut crust on the bottom, like a hazelnut chocolate crust on the bottom and then like a layer of milk chocolate

Um, and then like a layer of like dark chocolate mousse. I, it was so fricking decadent, Nick. It, it was so good. And I think that that's like my new rule. I don't want to eat like when I'm back home, I don't eat dessert after dinner. You know, it just, it just does not happen. It just, no.

But here and when you're on vacation, I mean, what the hell would you say no for? Right. So been getting a lot of dessert after dinner and it's a lot of chocolate mousse, a lot of meringue, a lot of gelato. When I was in Italy. Gosh.

I, I have been eaten your boy eating good. Nick, your boy's eating good. You're going to be, you're gonna be hitting the gym hard when you get back. You'll be struggling. It'll be real. Oh my gosh, man. But when I get back, um, let's see, I have Wednesday and I have to run around and do a whole bunch of things. And then Thursday is like, you know, green screens, right? So it's like my Thursday is packed. And then Friday I go to New York because I'm going to the last two nights of fish. They just did, uh,

Well, they're going to be ending up their seven-night residency at Madison Square Garden. And obviously, I've been here, so I haven't been able to go. But I'm going to go to nights six and seven. So then, when I get back, then I'm detoxing hard, Nick. It's like I'm detoxing hard. I might try and go the rest of August and just get back into it because I feel...

I feel it. Let's just say that I feel it. You're starting to feel it. Yeah. I mean, but why not? It's summertime. You're in Europe. Who cares? But like, but like I got in shape and I did this shit and I went, I mean, I went and did like, I, you know, would go to Swoley and I would go to the infrared sauna and I would jump in the cold bath every day.

Every single day So that I could come here And just eat like a pig You know Like that's what it's for I'm not counting carbs When you see like actors And athletes still Like that'll go And do the same thing you did And just be shirtless The entire time And still just look The exact same

Of course. No, I mean, it's money. It's money. I mean, they have nutritionists, and then they know that they're about to be back on the field, they're backer, and they're just burning calories. Yeah, fuck those guys.

Oh, speaking of, you're due a retraction from a couple episodes ago for your blight on the Oppenheimer cast, even though I still think you're partially correct. Right, right, right, right. I remember a couple episodes ago, I said, I was chatting with Craig and said, oh man, y'all are so brave for walking off the red carpet when every single actor in Oppenheimer has had a...

you know, successful career and they were all worth, you know, millions and millions of dollars. And someone DM me and was like, well, they found out about the strike when they were on the red carpet and due to them being in the, you know, actors union or guild or whatever, they were required to leave. So I'm sorry that I spoke. That they just happened to be on the red carpet when that happened. I'm sorry that, that I spoke poorly of Matt Damon. Don't be, or else he'll yell at you. Like he yelled at Vince.

oh yeah that's still my favorite i am the one with an oscar and i'm calling you again and again and again you cocksucker oh that's so funny one of my absolute favorites if you haven't seen it oh then please look up he's chasing him down for money in entourage look up you guys don't know what we're talking about look up matt damon phone call entourage is the funniest and then he starts crying he's like hey vince

sorry about that last message. I just kind of, you know, flew off the wall and then he starts crying. He's like, so great. Speaking of entourage in France, have you been to con before? Have you like that part of France? No. Um, I almost did an internship in con when I was in college, but, um, like I was going to work at the film festival, uh, as an internship through my college and I got accepted to the program.

And I actually backed out because I felt bad. I felt bad that I had just done my semester abroad to Prague. And I was like, this, this fricking, you know, program is like six, six K for like, you know, three weeks. And I felt bad that, you know, my parents were basically going to have to pay for it. So I pulled out, I kind of regret that. I kind of regret that, but no, but, but, but no, I have not been.

Do you have like, so you've been to France now, you've been to Italy, you've been to Greece, you've been to New Zealand, you've been all over the U S do you have like, what is a two-parter? What's your favorite place you've been to? And then is there any bucket list places left that you haven't been? Oh my gosh, dude.

If you talk to an actual... I do think that I'm a decently traveled person. But if you talk to a person who's actually traveled, and I'm not talking about someone that does it for their job. I haven't even scratched the surface. So let's start with bucket lists. Things that I have written down are bucket lists.

experiences not not just like oh man like i really want to go to bangkok even though that that i really i really do want to go to southeast asia and the experience that i want there is you know cambodia laos vietnam you know thailand i really really really want to do that another bucket lister is the inca trail to machu picchu my whole family has been in machu picchu and and i haven't

And you know what I really want to do? This is just like an off the wall one. And, you know, we'll stop there. Ever since I read Matthew McConaughey's Greenlights, I and, you know, he talked about how, you know, he ran off to the Amazon and, you know, and floated in the, you know, Amazon River and stuff because he had a wet dream about it, basically. And then and then he did another off the wall kind of bucket list thing, too. I I want to hike to base camp of fucking Everest.

You don't want to hike to the top, though? No, no, no. You just want to go to base camp? You don't want to go to the actual tippity-tippity top? I mean, dude, base camp is an adventure all in itself. Do you think that once you got there, do you think you'd be talked into going to the top? No, because I think that you have to train and condition for something like that. I'm not sitting here being like, I could make it to the top of Everest. I don't really have that desire to.

To hike Everest. I mean, although that would be quite a kick-ass accomplishment to say that I've done. I mean, hell. But, I mean, I think it's like a four-day hike in or like a three-day hike into base camp. You know, from, I've looked it up and you're supposed to go in the warmer months and things like that. Oh, yeah. You don't want to get hit by a storm.

Yeah. And then I think that you spend like a night or two in base camp and then, you know, you, and then, and then you hike back out. So I think that the whole excursion is like eight days and that's just like a bucket list, like thing that I would like to do. And I really think that it would be like,

Super you know cathartic to do after after filming like a season of charm, you know it's like the seasons always end and and you know your stress level is like skyrocketed because some crazy shit just went down and then to like

would, would be like, let's go hike to base camp. You know, would you do it alone? Or do you think you get someone like chef to go with you? I think that I want to do it alone. Well, no, I mean, you went not alone alone, but you know, right, right, right. With a group. Yeah. But no, I don't think that I would, you know, recruit friends or anything like that, like to come because I would just kind of like want to do it and like meet whoever I meet out there and, and like do it.

And if I don't meet anyone out there, then I'll journal or something the whole time and really just take that time to phone lists and whatever and just do some really cool journey, adventure. And I don't think that that is an off-the-wall thing. It just needs to be planned. 2024 trip? I would love it, Nick. I really would if things worked out that way.

you know, going like in April or something or may would be, would be ideal because I really wanted to look into it this year, but man, does time just fly by? Yeah. I mean, the summer, like we just said, August man, football starts on preseason football starts Thursday. Yeah. I mean, you know, don't, don't tell Charleston that summer's over because it's, it's going to be blazing hot through November. Yeah. Yeah. Three months. Yeah. Through October for sure. So yeah,

And then favorite place that I've been I mean I just have to say you know New Zealand because it was such an experience for me to live there and to work at a hostel bar and I was out of college and so it was like you know supporting myself on next to nothing

You know, but just didn't care that I wasn't making money because I was just having the time of my life. And that's why when I walked into the bar the other time or the other night in Paris and I saw the kids, you know, doing that too. And I was like, I bet they make, you know, whatever wage and they are just loving life, you know? And then I skied in the days. So that's, um, that's, you know, but sheer, sheer beauty.

sheer beauty. No, I've always wanted to go to New Zealand. That's on my bucket list for sure. Even though it is a fricking hike to get out there, but it's literally the exact opposite side of the world from us. Yeah. I never thought I know. And then when I was there, I didn't get to go to Australia and I was like, damn, what if I never go to like Australia? Right. Because there are so many other places to see. It's not that I don't want to go there. And now that I've been, it's not that I don't want to go back there. It's more so like,

Like there's so many other places to see, like if it's going to take me 24 hours to get there, like why not go to, you know, Bali or to do the Southeast Asia trip or. Yeah. If you're going to go out there, you may as well do it. Right. So yeah. Yes. Nepal trip loading. That's the next big one.

I don't know. You know, I don't, I don't know. You know, man, it's like, I might not do it until, you know, 2026, but it's, uh, you know what I mean? That's what, that's why they call it like a bucket lister. It's like, it's on my list. I want to do it. That doesn't mean that I'm, doesn't mean that I'm going to do it anytime soon. I mean, you know, fingers crossed, but it's on the list.

um all right man well i guess i'm uh i guess that's it i guess that's it i was just talking you know traveling i'm glad that you besties like to tune in to bullshit around with me and to hang out for a bit nick it was good to see your face and uh

Next week, we'll be back into a normal routine. The six-hour time change, I mean, we even planned for this prior to coming over here, and it still was tough as shit to try to make it work. It's easier to adjust going backwards, right? I think so, right? Because then I land... I mean...

I'll be tired early, right? So it's like, you know, at six o'clock is, you know, midnight here. So I just have to fight, fight through sleep for the first, you know, few nights. And since I haven't been there that long, it shouldn't be that tough. No. And if you do it all, if you end up pulling the all nighter tonight, it should make it somewhat easier as well. It'll just be tired. Yeah, that's, that's highly doubtful, but we'll see. We'll see. Stay tuned next week. Don't wuss out. Do it.

I won't wuss out if the opportunity presents itself, Nick. Anyways, all right, besties. Love you all very much. And until next time.

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