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I would like to talk to you about one of our sponsors, Timeline Nutrition, and one product in particular, MitoPure. MitoPure is one of the first products to offer a precise dose of urolithin A to help upgrade your mitochondrial function, help increase cellular energy, and help improve muscle strength and endurance. I've started taking it recently and have started to tell that there is a definite least when I work out or am active. But MitoPure does more than just help with my muscle health.

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.

ones. Mitochondria, our cells' 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.

Taking two soft gels a day for two months and you could see significant improvements in your cellular energy, muscle strength, and endurance. After four months of taking Mito Pure, you might feel yourself getting stronger, recovering faster after a workout, and experiencing less inflammation, all part of your healthier aging routine, which is honestly amazing.

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 Friedenslog administration. These products are not invented by no street pure company.

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I'm in salty dogs. I'm in Orlando. Craig, man, you've been sick for the past like four, like week actually. Yeah. I mean, my, it's just, you know, the natural process that starts in your head and goes to your sinuses. And then now it's in my chest. Um, but it hasn't been painful. It's just more of an annoyance. So I'm sorry that I'm more nasally than usual today. Uh, but I should be better soon, but it,

Since it hasn't been... I mean, it sucks because I'm not in Portland. There was just no way I could take the six and a half hour flight. Yeah, I was actually wondering because in our group chat for working out, I knew that you had to go to Portland. I guess that I just thought that you were going to... Yeah, it makes sense that you're not. Well, and I'm able to do the important stuff remotely. But anyway, it's been kind of nice. A lot of laying in the bed, just relaxing.

I can't imagine how maybe the alcohol just used to kill the germs. But like if I would have stayed out, you know, past our two-hour event any longer, I would have cried. But then I would have gotten really sick. But like in the past, I used to do that. So I don't know how I used to get like – Well, I actually did the same thing. I got the most talkative Uber driver too. And at that point, like –

I had given my last drop of like energy. Cause you know, it turns out I was more sick than I thought. Oh man. And he was like, tell me all about his startup and like,

wanted to know all about the show because you know he picked us picked me up and he saw all the the trucks and I was like super nice but I was like little dude oh you know I had my like head out the window I was like please just get me home yeah but it's been fine I've watched um I watched the new war movie called the Badland or something it's a with the Helmsworth brother

pretty good about delta force just tier one stuff shocker what's uh craig craig craig watched a delta force special forces movie with with some handsome brothers shocking yeah how's that craig's alley well hold on how's florida well so i just got here um

I went, so after our event on Friday evening, I went home early so I could wake up and drive to Charlotte. So I, I drove to Charlotte as you saw, I was, you've been hanging out with, um, hanging out with Sir Charlton friends of ours that just moved to Charlotte and obviously shout out Reese. Um, yeah, shout out Reese. And, uh,

into girl and dating and just had a day, Craig. I just, just like a fun day, you know, like I, I feel like I haven't done one of those days in so long. Um, for some reason, I just like to do it more when, when I'm out of town, but I just texted a bunch of buddies that I was coming in town. I was like, Hey, you know, brunch at one o'clock. And then you,

Like we're going to this bar where they saved us like a seat outside because it was the final four day and I had a bunch of buddies that went to NC State and it was beautiful out. And, you know, the vibes were just high. It was just such a, I was in Charlotte for like 24 hours. And then I came home yesterday and was just on the couch, you know, like, okay, now you got to go.

to Orlando. So yeah, I just got to my hotel room in Orlando because I'm meeting up with some distributors and such for Trap Hop. And then I have an event tonight. I don't know if anyone's going to listen to this by the time that this happens, but the pub and then tomorrow night's

I had a place called Patty wagon and like, I didn't come here to do that. It's just kind of like an added bonus where the person that I'm coming to meet my rep in Orlando was like, do you want to, you know, and go to some bars to even make them happy? And I was like, yeah, sure. You know, why not? Let's, you know, pop, pop into some places. So I'm popping into a couple of places. So if you're in Orlando or you go to UCF or whatever, then when you listen to this,

Tonight, Tuesday, come to Paddywagon for basically happy hour time. That's where I'll be. Also, Craig, when I checked in, we were talking about the Eclipse. Are you going to watch it at all? Do you think that you're going to get any coverage in Charleston? We are. We're not getting a ton of coverage, but I have discovered...

through my crazy Italian girlfriend that it's terrible, terrible, terrible bad luck to look at the eclipse. And I was like, look, the Italians are a bit dramatic about stuff. And she was like, what? It took me a second. It took me like a second to register, by the way. I was like, Craig's crazy Italian girlfriend. I was like, who is he talking about? Oh, yeah. So I was like, look, the Italians are a little dramatic sometimes, but

um because i texted her i was like can i look at the eclipse with sunglasses which i still don't know the answer to and she was like do not look at the eclipse so then i was like look i'm gonna look up what the native americans believe the native americans believe the same that's where it comes from so the indians um

Believe that it's basically a private time for the sun and you should not look at it. It is rebirthing and you should manifest during the eclipse. Be very peaceful and just think. Yeah, it's basically a time for like manifestation. So I was like, it might be kind of cool to swim in my pool during it.

3.15 is when it's going to hit here. But I mean, there's some interesting reading on it. Obviously, there's a lot more to it. But I mean, imagine back in the day where you did not have modern technology and the sun just disappeared. So basically, the Indians believed that the sun was dying and rebirthing, being reborn. And so that you shouldn't look at the celestial death of the sun. Yeah.

And honestly, the last time it happened in 2017, I was very not at peace. I was very disrupted. I was at a, yeah, like that. I didn't know I was going to be at on a Bud Light boat. Yeah. And someone kept fucking talking to me and I like we together.

I don't know where you were probably, I don't know what you were doing, but I was with them. I'm going to tell you, I'm a, I'm trying to find the picture, but sorry, keep going. I was with the Bud Light guys. And then I looked up because someone was talking to me and saw it, but I forgot to put my glasses on. So it hurt my eyes. And I was like, yeah, my life was a little unrest after that. So this time I'm not going to look at it, but I might go outside during it.

For no really good reason other than- I was out on Folly Beach. No, no. On Sullivan's at the castle with Shep. And we have a picture of us sitting in the chairs. I mean, looking up, being idiots. We had on the glasses and whatnot. And-

I guess that that's what I did. Okay. And, and I was trying to wonder when it was, it was like, didn't we just see this? And I thought the last time that we saw it, it was one of those things where I was like, you're not going to see it for another, you know, 150 years or so. We're never going to see it again. I guess that was just, no, that's what they said. And that's what they said about this one. They're all like different types. So like, it's basically the same thing, but

So like this one won't happen again. I think for like a hundred, I think it's the only time in our life or something. I saw something really funny that reminded me of you, obviously, because it was, it was a meme. It was a meme where it was like,

you and all of the, like all the media outlets, right? So all the news outlets being like, don't look at it. Don't look at it. Don't look at it. And then the person in the meme was like, what, what, what don't they want me to see? Like, like what, what are you getting out of here? Right. What are you trying to hide? And I was like, this has Craig written on it.

Like, what are you trying to hide? Is there a spaceship? It's like not the moon that's blocking it. Oh, that's funny. It's like a spaceship that's going in front. Yeah. And now you're sitting here saying that, you know, Paige is telling you to not look at it because, you know, it brings you bad luck. I'm like, Paige is in. I'm going to watch. Yeah, Paige is in on it now. I'm going to watch.

like videos of it pictures of it but uh last time I looked at it and the immediate years after we're not you know we're just chaotic so maybe this time I'll try something new um like you're buying in you're buying into this thing but I um I think I wish there I had an animal though apparently the animals act nutty and like if you have an animal you should be like recording them today

Um, so I texted my great videos. Yeah. Because I mean, there is some like nutty stuff that happens with the poles and like the magnetic fields and like everything is like lining up and like, I think it's a little more weird than people realize. Um, like I think it's a, it's a lot bigger of a celestial event than just like there are shadow coming. I don't know, but apparently animals act nutty. And so I texted my, uh,

brother's fiance Anna and I was like hey film Ace and Kona today yeah like she even laughed at me but she's like like me but I'm gonna start texting some people yeah tell your friends and she was like why is there any specific reason I was like well apparently they get like a little funny during the eclipse and then Paige was like

Polo, her parents or her dog in her parents' house. She's like, he'll just be sleeping and Polo can't like walk really well anymore. And I was like, watch your parents like walk into the kitchen and Polo be on top of the kitchen, like table. I just texted Whitney because he's my friend who has the most amount of animals. He has like six dogs. And I was just like, film all of your dogs during the flips. Apparently they're supposed to go a little muddy. I mean, it's not bad.

he has a shit ton of dogs all right besties and with that being said we're going to take a quick commercial break to hear from our sponsors and we'll be right back

I would like to talk to you about one of our sponsors, Timeline Nutrition, and one product in particular, MitoPure. MitoPure is one of the first products to offer a precise dose of urolithin A to help upgrade your mitochondrial function, help increase cellular energy, and help improve muscle strength and endurance. I've started taking it recently and have started to tell that there is a definite use when I work out or am active. But MitoPure does more than just help with my muscle health.

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.

Taking two soft gels a day for two months and you could see significant improvements in your cellular energy, muscle strength, and endurance. After four months of taking Mito Pure, you might feel yourself getting stronger, recovering faster after a workout, and experiencing less inflammation, all part of your healthier aging routine, which is honestly amazing.

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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Get your first month free at greenlight.com slash pod. Greenlight.com slash pod. All right, and welcome back to this week's episode of Pillows and Beer. I feel like you've been sick more than me recently. This is the first time I've been sick since we were in Aspen.

together when i got like the like the beginning of covid because when i got covid i didn't get sick but remember february justin and paulina or no no no at cloud nine when no when you and i were staying in that like townhouse so if you're paying attention craig has gotten sick every single time we've done because i just mentioned three separate times that's true

um yeah but but before the wedding yeah no no no no that was i think that was just from partying which time then i got sick well it doesn't matter whatever year covid was like in january right right right okay so but i haven't been six in like a couple of years because i just never got sick during covid

I was sick twice in a one month span and it was really annoying. So like February 15th, it was the week leading up to me, to me going to Mexico, which I was like, praise, praise me because if I would have been sick in Mexico, I'd be very upset. But then when I got back from Mexico, I,

A week passed and then I got sick again. And I, and, and it was like a sickness Craig where like, I didn't, I like, you know, they kept on waking up. Right. Because I broke my fever on that sickness probably like six times. One time I broke it three, three times in one night. And I was like, is this ever going to go away? Like, am I just like a sickly child now? And, and I was texting, um,

You know, my doctor every day being like, it's getting worse and I don't know what to do. So I got sick twice in like a month span or like a three and a half week span and that

That sucked. And I have no idea what it was, Craig, because I went and got like a bunch of blood work done, like a bunch of blood work. I mean, my doctor was like, all right, well, you really haven't gotten blood work taken in a couple of years. So this is kind of like a good excuse to do so. And so he did blood work for like cholesterol and HIV, you know, and all these things. And I was like,

Okay. And, and, and he was like, it all kind of came back, you know, negative. He was like, yeah, your, your cholesterol could be better anyways. Yeah. That was the only thing that we figured out. But then there's a bunch of people on Instagram that say that that's bullshit.

Because like all of my levels were good except my LDLs, like the bad cholesterol. And now there's, but basically they're like, you eat too much cheese. And I was like, I eat a lot of cheese. I mean, it could have come back, man, because you know, when you're sick,

You only have like one decent meal in you like a day, in my opinion, right? Because man, the rest of the time you're like, food just doesn't interest me. So like for that one meal that you want to eat when you're sick, you know, you're like, okay, I want, you know, Chinese food or like Chick-fil-A or... So I probably was on like a... You should not be eating that when you're sick, by the way. But like...

When I'm sick, I don't want to eat is what I'm saying. And it's like, I don't think about it at all because I'm like, nah. And then when I begin to feel like a little better as the day sort of progresses, I'm like, what's the one meal that I want to eat? And yeah, it ends up being like a shitty meal that I probably shouldn't be eating. So when I got my blood work taken, it was probably a combination of a few things. Two things. One, I randomly was wearing, I don't sleep in a shirt, but I was randomly wearing a t-shirt and,

um one of my new james purse shirts shout out to them just because their shirts are great um when i broke my fever and so when i woke up all of the was in my shirt instead of like in my like my sheets weren't wet my body wasn't freezing because it was basically like i don't know why i've never thought of this before now i feel really stupid because usually i have to wake up and like towel off and then sleep on a towel and i'm always so cold but

Just by wearing a shirt, it absorbed all of my sweat. But anyway, that's kind of too much information. But I ordered $400 or $300 worth of food

One of the days that I was sick and I didn't eat any of it. And I had, it was all desserts. I ordered all desserts from places because I had like this crazy sweet tooth and I ended up just eating chicken and stars soup and, uh, Raul's Rayo's chicken noodle soup. And then I was finally able to eat Panera soups. Um, this is going to sound kind of dumb, but,

What app do you use to order all sorts of different shit from all sorts of different places? Because I can't do that on Uber Eats. Yeah, you can. Now you can. Really? Yeah.

Yeah, I had three different orders going at one time where I was like tracking the cars and they were all coming at the same time and I was like laughing. Oh, so like you ordered like simultaneous orders. It wasn't like one driver went here and then they went there and then they went there. Like you ordered three separate orders at once. Yeah, I did. But that's because I'm stupid and financially irresponsible when it comes to ordering food. I mean, I love that. And you might have just...

But yes, you can add on on DoorDash or Uber Eats for free. And like, you don't have to pay the extra $3 like delivery charge, but you can do multiple orders at once in Uber Eats or DoorDash or Instacart. And so I had this, there was like a, it was so weird. I ordered from a breakfast place. I ordered from a French cafe and,

And then somewhere else. And like, I couldn't fricking taste anything. So I was like, I'm not going to eat these pastries if I can't taste them. I also like really am scared of stomach issues. And fortunately I've stayed away from that on being sick. But I was like, do not pressure luck. Like don't eat something you shouldn't be fucking eating. Like I ordered,

fucking Papa John's apparently I'm a Domino's guy because I ordered Papa John's pizza and they put all of my toppings on the pizza and then put the cheese over it so my pizza was all lumpy instead of it being like Papa John's yeah

Dude, Papa John's is my go-to. But why did they put the cheese on top of my toppings? Because then it was lumpy. I want like, like Lido's pizza is amazing. But like, I don't know where, I want like a flat New York style pizza with toppings on top of the cheese. That's what I want. Charleston doesn't really have that. But I did see something where like a New York pizza style place is open to Mount Pleasant. So maybe that's closer to you. Damn it. What was I going to say? Oh, yeah.

When I checked into the hotel, Craig, they gave me these moon pies. And since my flight was like at 8 a.m., I'm sitting here and I'm like, do not eat these moon pies, right? Because I'm sitting here and I'm like, oh my God, they look so good. I'm hungry. I haven't had lunch yet. Like I just got to the hotel and I'm like...

And they were like, happy look eclipse day. Here's some moon pies. And I should have been like, I don't want these moon pies. If it was a banana, I would eat it. They're staring at me, Craig. These are chocolate. I don't know if I've had a moon pie and I can't. Are these been Little Debbie's? No, they're not. It's like a crust and marshmallow inside. Oh, and it sounds so good. You should just throw one away right now because you're going to eat one. Yeah, there you go. Trash. Gone.

Yeah. Okay. Well, let's take a quick break. Yeah. Let's take a quick break and we'll be right back for the eclipse.

I would like to talk to you about one of our sponsors, Timeline Nutrition, and one product in particular, MitoPure. MitoPure is one of the first products to offer a precise dose of urolithin A to help upgrade your mitochondrial function, help increase cellular energy, and help improve muscle strength and endurance. I've started taking it recently and have started to tell that there is definitely when I work out or I'm active. But MitoPure does more than just help with my muscle health.

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.

We'll be right back.

Taking two soft gels a day for two months and you could see significant improvements in your cellular energy, muscle strength, and endurance. After four months of taking Mito Pure, you might feel yourself getting stronger, recovering faster after a workout, and experiencing less inflammation, all part of your healthier aging routine, which is honestly amazing.

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 Friedenslog 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. Welcome back, besties. After a quick little break, I'm in Charleston. Austin is in Orlando doing stuff, appearances and beer stuff for Trop Hop, which is exciting. How's the weather down there?

76 degrees, Craig. And I brought a bathing suit because there's a lazy river at my hotel. And what's really funny too, Craig, is that I'm looking out my window. I mean, I forget that like Orlando is just like the, like ground zero of, of like, of, of all the parks. Right. So, so all the billboards on the way in were like, you know, face the Yeti at, you know, whatever, whatever,

you know, swim park and, you know, climb, climb back in Everest at, um, at SeaWorld. So, so all the billboards are for the attractions to go to roller coasters. I'm looking out my window right now. And in the distance, I just see a bunch of huge ass roller coasters and there's a bunch of people down at the pool. So I'm a huge water, a huge water park guy and a huge, really?

lazy river fan if a hotel is a lazy river i'll probably just book it because you're catching me with that amenity i'm a sucker for amenities yeah it's it's it's actually why myrtle beach so like i might go down to the lazy river tomorrow because i don't have a meeting until like a two o'clock lunch lunch thing so i might go down to the pool tomorrow morning get some rays yeah because 76 man the charleston weather is being like hot and cold

quite quite you know literally and it's and it's annoying me so yeah florida is a little more consistent um florida is a little consistent it's not overly hot it's really nice that it's happening we got to do harry potter world when i finish uh watching i started the fourth one okay um but i would i mean harry potter world craig is is so so here's what we do we okay

Because you're like me, like in this sense. So we go to the boardwalk at Universal. We stay at the Hard Rock Hotel.

In the Hard Rock, we literally can walk there and our room keys are Fast Passes and they also give us access to the parks. Oh dude, I can feel it. I can already feel it in my soul. Yeah. An hour prior to the park span opening, we can get access. And obviously people will beeline it to freaking Harry Potter world. So we can get there early and do all these things. And

We'll fit you for a wand. We'll drink some butter beer. We'll obviously ride all the rides. We had Hagrid's man motorbike ride. There's all sorts of sweet shit. I haven't been in years. Is your wand work? I know that. Like for stuff? Yes, yes, yes. So like what you have around the park

are these like secret kind of like the secret kind of places. So, so that when you tap the wand on it, something magical happens, right? Like a fountain, you know, starts to spin in water, like all, all sorts of stuff. What's butterbeer. Um, man in the book, they describe it so, so good, but like it, it honestly is like really, really freaking good. Uh, it tastes like man, um, butterscotch, like buttercream, um,

but is it beer? No. Oh, it's not. Oh, this whole time I thought it was beer. No, it's, it's, it's, it's a non-al and I mean, you know, of course they serve Alcmaire, but they serve like, you know, yingling and like, that's it. I think it's like, Hey, you either order butterbeer or yingling. And I was like, damn man, what did, what did yingling do to get this partnership? Uh, how was your, your facility today? I saw your story.

It was cool. Yeah. So you're talking about the warehouse, the warehouse where they store all of the, all of the Trap Hop that we sell here in central Florida. And it was cool. Yeah. Oh, just for Florida. That was just for Florida. Gotcha. That's like just been for central Florida. Gotcha. Like Orlando to Lauderdale basically. And there's another facility in Miami and other, but yeah, you know, it's always cool to walk through and,

you know a distributor has like 25 brands right so uh i was just like hey i got lost in you know tropop and a lot of guys are like okay yeah maybe don't care but like it was cool man to meet a couple of the girls and they were like oh oh shit austin oh my god hey so that was cool it was neat that is uh see the people man behind the scenes people that deal with my stuff right and like i walked into like a meeting well just kind of like a meeting and and and

sitting on the table and they had all this like even chop hop eos which means point of sale not a piece of and i was like oh that's awesome and they're like oh what's up man you know and i was like that's cool you guys are actively working to push chop hop and make people drink it so that made me feel good now uh now i'm sitting in my hotel room correct i'm literally here for one night i'm pulling a kreg pawn over i'm taking the red eye tomorrow

What time is it? Well, I don't know. Well, okay. It's not technically a red eye. I mean, because I land in Charleston at like 12, 1245. Yeah. But that's, I mean, I think anything after midnight when you land is technically a red eye. Yeah. And then I'm coming. Yeah. And then I'm going to my distributor in Charleston on Wednesday morning. I'm going to bring them a bunch of bodega sandwiches. Yeah.

Shut up, Bodega. Oh, I got that delivered too. Oh, really? Do they deliver? Yeah, Bodega delivers now. And it brings me to a very important part. They are. They're fire. And I got some drink that had coconut whip on top. Like...

coconut foam it was like a tea it was really good from from odega yeah but um they could work on their packaging a little bit but it was great um i mean the food tastes amazing the sandwiches were good but our phone numbers i guess have been leaked you know on the internet basically and now if you call me and i don't have your number

And you say, is this Craig? When I answer the phone without introducing yourself, I will hang up and block your number. And so I ordered Bodega and the phone rings and instead of, and I said, hello. And instead of being like, Hey, this is Christiane from Bodega. Is this Craig? She just kept saying, is this Craig? Is this Craig? And I was like, okay. So I hung up and blocked the number.

And then I like, you know, 10 minutes later, see that I have this voicemail from Uber Eats. And it's like, you know, hey, this is Bodega. We just wanted to call and tell you that we're out of potatoes. Like, do you still want us to make your like sandwich and your meal? And I was like, motherfucker. Yes, I want the meal. I don't even care about the potatoes. But, you know, at night it's been happening and people are like, is this Craig? Like, you know, is this Craig? And I'm like,

We have to go back to the old days of calling someone before caller ID. You introduce, you say, hello, this is your name, where you're calling from, and then you can ask whatever. And it will put the person that you're calling at at ease. Okay. If that's a normal person problem or not. I've been getting lots of... Because you say, who is this? And they're like...

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, someone would be like, Hey, what are you up to this weekend? And I'll send them back like a, like a, you know, like a home, like emoji, like, you know, who is this? You know, tell me everything before I respond to you.

And, and yeah. And a couple of them were really silly. And a couple of them then, you know, lewd photographs. And I'm like, oh my God, you know, block, block, block. Someone just texted me, man, yesterday. Like, oh my God, man, you don't remember me? I'm like, sorry, if your number's not saved, then, then, then no, I don't. And, but. Did you watch the Tetris movie? Yeah.

Yeah. No, wait, no. The Pac-Man movie. Yeah. Adam Sandler or no, it's a Tetris. No, that movie is awesome. I love those movies. I watched nice guy again last night. Is it called good guy? No, good guy, free guy, free guy. Don't have a good Brian Reynolds. Great day. Yeah. But there's a movie about Tetris and like how it had to do with the cold war and like the Russians and shit. I'm like the game boy. Really? Yeah.

Yeah, it was like a state secret. Not even like a conspiracy theory? No, no, no. It's the guy that created Tetris. It's a movie about him. And he went to the Russians and stuff. Well, I am crashing a little bit, so let's do some questions. You want to do a question or two? Sure. I kind of got to run here soon. Okay, let's just do a question then. You pick one. Dude, I don't even see the questions. Did Nick send us something? Yeah.

Yeah, I'm on the April 2nd outline. Okay. This is a good one. Number six. I'm going to read that. You ready? Yeah. I met a girl recently out of state and instantly clicked. She actually slid into my boys DMs.

That's what I'm taking that as. My DMs boys. Yes. Oh, no, no, no, no. Like, like she actually slid into my DMs comma, you know, boys or she slid into my boys DMs. No. What are you dyslexic? She actually slid to my DMs boys.

Yeah, he's like celebrating. Hey, dude, the power of a comma, Craig. There could have been a comma after she actually slid into my DMs, comma, boys. Yeah, Nick. Come on, Nick. When you slide your questions in here, use a comma. Okay. She actually slid into my DMs, boys. However, she is like eight hours away. Do I give it a shot or not deal with what could be? But yeah, why not?

Yeah. I mean, if you're saying that you instantly clicked, then you cannot just immediately listen to what, you know, everyone says like, Oh, distance, distance, distance, um, without, you know, giving it a go for yourself. Eight hours is, it is tough, but if you clicked, then you freaking go for it, man. It's an hour flight, less than an hour flight. Well, yeah.

Not everyone can just jump on an airplane at will. But yes. Yeah, but you're right. But yes, you don't want to be a what if guy. Yeah. I mean, I'm dating someone who's three hours away and it's an easier drive for me. But it's not. I'm 12 hours. And Craig's 12 hours. And it's not hindering either of us. That's true. Okay, Craig, read one. We're actually in the most stable relationships out of the near term. Oh.

I've been feeling disconnected from my friends and family lately. I am craving deeper, more meaningful relationships. What are some ways I can strengthen my connections with others and foster more authentic bonds? It's an interesting question. Cause I kind of, I don't, I want to say that I don't want to say that I relate to it as intensely, but I understand what you're saying. Like sometimes I think like, you know what? Like screw all of like the other people out there. Like I really just want to like,

become better friends. Like I want to get closer to the people that are in my inner circle. Like you want to become like better friends with your family members and partners is how I'm reading it. Austin, you have a good relationship with your family. What's your advice? Well, I'm not saying that I don't, I'm just right. Right. Um, I mean, I was, you know, I've been reading this question and I was actually like, this is such like a Craig,

It's such a good question that you read correctly because I was like, "What?" What are some ways I can strengthen my- Quality time is, yeah, I think for me, it's really quality time and putting your phone down. It's never been an issue in my life or whatever, but I noticed that if I'm home

or like if my brother's visiting or from with page or something like just by putting the phones down for a little bit unlocks a whole new level of conversation like even if you're watching something together and yeah it used to be a no-brainer but nowadays it's really not and i think like that's one small adjustment yeah um i think that's great advice i think that a word

that I want to use here is intention. Like, everyone be like intentional with who you choose to spend time with. I mean, it's a word that I'm focusing on more to be more intentional with who you choose to spend time with and how you choose to spend it. Kind of like what Craig said, like, I used to wake up in the morning and I'm not saying that this person

is writing in, you know, justice, but I'm sure like a lot of us do. It's like you wake up in the morning and like before you almost do fucking anything else, you're like, let me jump on TikTok or, you know, on the gram.

But it's almost like a second nature. Like I swear I can be on frigging Instagram, you know, in two swipes. I'm like swipe up, boom, you know, and I'm on it. And I'm like, I was just on it. So I certainly try to like trying to break that pattern of like not, you know, chopping onto social media and to Craig's point to like not be on your phone and to just be like intentional with what you want to talk about and who you want to talk to and who you want to spend time with.

Yeah, no, I mean, that's great. And I think you will see, I think phone detoxes are important. Um, and even just starting, I mean, nothing about this, you know, alludes to the fact that you are on your phone too much, but at least in like my life, like,

Yeah, just put your phone down and all of a sudden your connections do become stronger with the people around you. You know, if you play a lot of video games, like I caught myself the other day, I was FaceTiming with

page and I was scrolling while we were talking and I was like damn dude like you were so excited to talk to her and tell her something and now you're lost scrolling while she just told you a story and she you know and now you're not engaged like she doesn't have a hundred percent of your attention and so I think we can get a little more distracted um

And I think the little bit adds up. Not being there all the way can add up. So maybe a little bit of a technology detox. Go for a walk with them. That was a nice deep sort of question to end on. It was tough. All right, besties. Well, thanks for spending time with us.

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