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Learn more at apu.apus.edu slash military. Good morning, the world. Welcome to Pillows and Beer. I'm Craig Conover in the Hallwine studio, joined by Austin who's across town, Father Christmas, and Nick Norris, who is wearing a cabal shirt. I don't know which cabal he's a part of in the world right now, but...

is that a carolina shirt nick yeah it's a unc shirt that's it a carolina why would you be good morning world huh craig yeah how many countries are we listening to nick we just had that one message uh well on spotify it's 61. i think it's more than that though with apple and everything else let's just let's just go ahead and and read that message because it was actually really funny

or it was awesome is what it was because last week we were talking about our spotify recaps and how we have so many besties who are scattered all over the world as craig just gave us that lovely little intro and the email begins uh hey guys in your spotify recap you wondered if any besties were listening from the middle of nowhere yup i listen religiously every week love you guys i'm an ogsc fan my dream dinner party guests are craig and paige

I live in a tiny ski town in Norway called, I don't want to say it wrong, Hemsedal. Hemsedal. Hemsedal. It is located in the Scandinavian Alps and has a population of 2,600 people. Hemsedal is known for having the best apres ski bar in Europe.

Color me interested, Bestie. Yeah. So come ski in Norway. Thanks, Jessica. Very interested. She also has a question, but we'll save that for the question portion. Thank you for that message. That was...

coming from Hemsedal, Norway. I love that. We love that. Send us where you're listening from. We'll do a post maybe on Instagram and you can write where you listen from. And get detailed. Bathtub, car, golf course, golf cart. You know, when you're supposed to be working. Where do you listen from? Where do you listen from? What do you do when you listen to... What are you doing when you listen to Pillows and Beer? I was late to this because the

proposal was on and I got really distracted. I was watching it too, Craig. Don't feel alone. It's just, it's so great. Just really is. It's a sleep. I mean, it's not a sleeper, but give yourself a couple months without seeing it and then put it on. And it's just a, such a feel good movie. Okay. This, this just goes back to if any of y'all came to our live shows and

This was a big topic of debate that Craig and I had because Craig put up Ryan Reynolds as one of his celebrity man crushes, right? We had a segment about this. And I said that he does the same thing over and over. Ryan Reynolds is basically like a typecast actor, right? He always plays the handsome, really, really sharp and quick guy.

retorting guy the proposal is on so many times it it is like it's baffling to me i mean if he made money off of every time that it was played those two are banking because it is on like three different networks at all times yeah they make residuals really does every actor make residuals yes

Except us. I feel like the proposal is on all the time. That's where friends money comes from. I can't lie. I also get caught up in it. If I see it's on, I put it on. I have to watch it for 10. Then I'm like, what are you doing? You've seen this movie 100 times. It's just one of those movies. I'm on a big cheese and tomato kick. I was standing in my kitchen cutting potatoes.

cherry tomatoes in half and then putting a piece of sriracha cheddar on it and just snacking with a little fat-free wheat thin. And then I just started putting mustard on the crackers and cheese. I've been having the strangest cravings. So you got... Are you pregnant, Craig? Yeah. Are you high, Craig? No. No, I just...

I didn't eat after the gym and that's like I was telling my parents that's why it's so important to like yeah properly because then your cravings just take over and I was like a little like rabid Ewok in my kitchen I was like a chocolate chip cookie in the corner okay I'm gonna have a piece of that and now there's like you know dude third left only way that I cannot have

those cravings is to quite literally just not have it at my house. Like I cannot have that chocolate chip cookie at my house. Cause then I will eat it at some point, even if I look at it, you know, now, and I'm like, no, I am not. You can put it off until right before bed. And then at midnight, I'm like, yeah, but two of these sound real nice right now. Um, I didn't eat either Craig after the gym. I think that you were at one o'clock or something today. Did you go today? Yeah, I was with you, buddy. We worked out together.

At 11 o'clock. Oh my God. Me, you and stay sick. Are you high? Yes, I am. Oh shit. We, yeah. See, Noom, Noom helps a lot. And like our trainer tells us, are you eating cause you're bored or eating cause you're hungry? And this case, usually it's cause I'm bored. This case, I'm just hungry. But I golf carted around the community, looked at all the Christmas lights. It was a little chillier than,

I thought it was going to be Charleston's in the seventies during the day, but then when the sun goes down, it gets a little, a little chilly. Yeah. It's chilly out there right now. I'm still laughing at me forgetting that we worked out together today, but I'm Craig. I, I do you remember what I told you today then? Cause now it's all coming back to me. Do you remember what I told you that I was doing today? And then you laughed and then you were like, all right, man, but be careful. Remember the appointment that I said I had?

Oh, yeah. That brings us back to spray tanning. So you went the spray tan, actual spray tan route. Yeah. After we worked out today, I didn't need either. And then that's what I was thinking of because I literally had back-to-back-to-back appointments. So I had two lovely ladies who I've been using for ages to come over and give me a massage, a facial, and then a spray tan.

So without that last one, I was like, where are you going with this? No, it's spray tan. They are. Yeah. So spray tan, you can't really make sexual. Can you? No, no, no. It's funny actually, because the joke that she always uses is you're sitting there kind of looking like fricking Patrick star, right? Because you have to put your arms like this so that it doesn't touch your body.

And then, you know, you turn around and then you do this and this. And so, yeah, there's nothing sexual about a spray tan. Did you have briefs on? Yeah, of course. I mean, basically what I told her... Some guys do it without it. I don't like a bathing suit. I don't like a bathing suit. And, you know, basically I was like, I mean, this is for the reunion. So, like, if you can just do it for, like, you know, in the neck up and, like...

like my wrist to like my middle you know elbow i like i don't care if my midsection is tan is what i'm trying to watch andy be like hey i heard you guys i heard you guys been working out let's see those abs and you have to take unbutton your shirt and you're just like worn from here up

I mean, yeah, basically I said that to her and she was like, okay, well I can't do that and I'm not going to do that. And I was like, okay, that's probably smart. That's probably smart. So I have not been able to shower since. So this is me not showering before or right after I got my spray tan. And then my food came while all this was happening. It was like an hour and a half process or two hour process. And

man, facials are awesome. Facials are awesome. I don't know why guys don't know about facials or maybe they deem them to be, you know, girly or something, but like, they're awesome. I think it's just, people don't know about it. I like, I mean, I like your, your barrier of entry in your, is way more mental and not even that. Like, I wouldn't even see people are like, like,

insecure about doing it because it's like lame or feminine. I think it's just like guys would be like, I don't even know where to, where I would start to like, say I want to get a, like a facial. Like I don't have like a facial guy or facial girl. And so people are like, where do I even start? So like, what do you Google?

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And like, how do you trust whatever it is that you do Google? Well, okay. Well, what I would say, and you know, what I did is that a hair and makeup person, you know, recommended this one and I've been with her now for. That's a good idea, but a lot of guys don't have hair and makeup people. Yeah. So you're totally right. But like, if, if, you know, your girlfriend ever, or, you know, whatever is like,

Okay. Hey, I'm going to get a facial. Like my advice is to jump in on that and to start making your own appointments or just go whenever, you know, she does. Cause. And you can Google it. It's going to be like a hundred bucks and you can do it like every couple of months. Yeah. Yeah. I, so I, if you live somewhere where the face gym go to face gym and just do whatever they recommend, I am doing that on Wednesday evening. Face gym.

Face gyms, the best. Yeah. Like it's great. Um, it takes like, you know, it like noticeable inflammation and puffiness out of your face. Um, and it's good for your skin. It's good for it's lymphatic drainage. And then they like do all this cryo shit and freeze your face and like electrocute you. How long is it? Um, an hour.

Speaking of electrocution, my iPhone, which I'll get to, has been electrocuting me for days. And I went in to get a new one and they didn't even like they didn't even question it. I was like, my phone's electrocuting me. And they were like, yeah, OK, what's like they were like, makes sense. What's your number? We'll get you a new one. I'm like, wow, how many people are getting electrocuted? Well, is that like the new new?

No, this is 14. So I'm changing to the 15 because I got the plus with this on accident before, man, look at my camera. Like one of the lenses actually broken it. Oh no, I've never seen that. So I just switched back to the 13 pro max to use because the camera is that much better.

to film like this ad I had to do, but I went and did nails today. Uh, someone bought my nail salon and they're changing it. And I would like to switch now, but I don't know where to go. Like I go to this place solely because I like, uh,

I'm comfortable. Like I know it, you know, like I know that when I walk in, I get to sit on a certain side and like, it's not a big deal. And I can just go sit there and they know my nails. Now, when you walk in, you got to like put your name in the computer, which is fine. And then they sat us all next to each other today and it's all corporate now. And I'm like, look,

my manicures and pedicures here are not great. And like Paige went one time and was like, you might as well be doing this in a third world country.

And I was like, I know that, but I don't know where else to go. So much like the guys that don't know where to go for a facial, I don't know where to go for my nails now. What was the name of it, Craig? And at first when you said it, I was like, Craig owns a nail salon? No, I've been going to it for years, but now it's under new ownership. I'm not going to throw it under the bus. Yeah, I have one year I've gone with.

I've gone with Catherine a time or two. And I mean, they love us there, by the way, Greg. They're like, oh, come back, whatever. We'll bing, bang, boom. And then you start drinking champagne. Anyways. All right, we're going to take a quick break and we'll be right back to Pillows and Beer.

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which consists of one powerful woman, Savvy Derm, S-A-V-V-Y-D-E-R-M. They do virtual consultations or she does virtual consultation. So as a guy not knowing where to go, you go to this link, which we'll post the link because Austin has a shout out too. You click on it and you book an appointment with Katie and she basically walks you through a skincare routine that

And then send you what she recommends and she writes it out. So every night I have this list and I go, Oh, I put that on. Then I put that on. Then I put that on. And she made me a travel bag with a separate list. So now whenever I'm traveling, I don't take anything out of this bag or put it in. I just throw it in my carry on and, um,

Um, that's been my skincare routine for like the last few months and it's been great. But I remember just being like, I want a skincare routine or I was would tell page that, but I was like, but I don't know where to start. And I did this consultation with a girl that I grew up with Katie and it's been great. So we'll put that link up. But savvy derm is her Instagram. Whoa, Craig, that's, um, that's quite the shout out.

She'll do it for you too, Austin. You're almost influencing me to get Savvy Derm. Now my shout out is going to sound totally weak and puny, but I do. My facialist and my girl that gives me spray tans, her name is also Katie Craig. Her name is also Katie, Craig. And she...

is at the Jade studio and she'll come and do facials and spray tans at your house and stuff. So if you're like a bachelorette party that's coming in town and y'all want facials one day or y'all want spray tans before you go out in the boat or something like that. And this is the girl and she's loads of fun. And we were laughing and having a great time the whole time that she was here. And we dove into these rebel rabbits a little bit. And that's why I am the way that I am.

Big fan of at-home services these days. Yeah. And look, what I told my parents, because they were like, oh, you're fancy. And I was like, actually, a lot of service providers prefer it because then they don't have to rent space. They don't have to pay for- It truly isn't as expensive as you would think it is, right? I mean, it's not like I'm paying like, oh yeah, okay, Austin, you just paid like $1,000 for this service. No, that's not the truth at all. These people are like ready to roll. They have their-

right stuff but it's like yeah sometimes it's sometimes it's more affordable because they're independent contractors and they don't have to pay for like a salon or a studio um what if you're scared to get a spray tan austin should you be or you can or is it not that awkward no you shouldn't be i mean obviously the first couple times that i did it i mean look i've probably done it

Not that many times, right? Just for like, for things like this. And the first few times, yeah, you're like, man, I'm in such like an awkward position. But obviously if the spray tanner is professional, they're like, dude, you're like the hundredth person that I've seen today. Like just,

You know, and it's totally fine. It is obnoxious because you're sticky. And so that's why I'm wearing like a hoodie. And I also have on sweats because I don't want to get it on my couch and things like that. And that is what is kind of like annoying. But once you, you know, ease into it, day two spray, Craig, that is what you're looking for. You're in the first day, you might be like a little orange, a little too dark, but day two is where you want to be.

And yeah, I quite enjoy it. But yeah, I don't, you know, get it for everything. It's not like, oh, I'm going to a wedding, spray tan. No. So.

Let's talk a little bit about decorating because I drove around the community. Also, a couple tickets left or we might be sold out for a New Orleans show. We're really excited. I think Austin and I have really come into our own. Nick's gotten so well at operating the computer this go-around, which has been great. But check out www.pillowsandbeer.com.

www.pillowsandbeer.com. Craig, I've looked at it today just out of curiosity because I hadn't looked at it in a while just to see how New Orleans and Boston and Philly and New York are selling. And New Orleans has like three meet and greets tickets left and everything else is, which I'm not even sure because they won't even tell you like a quantified number of how many general admission just bar tickets that you can buy. So we're like there. Yeah.

Perfect. I love it. So check it out, guys. I know you just did your... Nick, what the hell is this, by the way? Why did you ask which shade of green are you and then put very interesting shades of green? If I lived in Europe, I don't even know what I'd say. I don't know what I'd say. I'd be like, I am mint green. What...

Why was it like a shade of green? That's how our tracker does it. How it tells us where we get listeners from. Yeah, I would say mint and then golf green and then neon green. Wow. Dude, the master's green is kind of like America. I apparently cut off New Zealand and Antarctica in that, so I apologize in my screenshot. Yeah, you can't do that, man. Well, they say they're all shade of greens.

You cut off Alaska. Austin told me today that yellow doesn't exist. And I was like, whoa, it's a primary color and green only exists because it mixes with blue. Nick, listen to this. Okay. And you know that I'm not the tinfoil hat guy. Although I hang out with Craig so much that I'm beginning to be like, you know, a little tinfoil hat is beginning to form. But I was at a hibachi. I'm going to get chickens next. Hibachi. And...

The family that was with me at the table, right, it was like three women, you know, who were clearly just moms and friends, and then two teen girls. And, you know, teen, I'm going to say that they were like 13 max, maybe like 11 almost, 11 to 13.

And they were going back and forth on TikTok. And then I overheard one of the moms saying to another mom that her daughters told her that yellow does not exist. And my ears perked up and I was like, oh, I got to get in on this.

And so I waited for the girl to say something back and the mom said something back. And I was like, please, please help me to understand this. And I was like, I have a friend who is a conspiracy guy. I wonder if he's seen this. Where did y'all see this? And they're like, I don't know. It's just been going around. So that means on TikTok, right? I mean, it has to. Yeah. But did they give you any reasons? They really did not give me solid reasons. Like

So much so that I don't even really remember what the reasons were. And I'm like, wait, so this is just like a thing that you're just, you know, repeating because it's come up on TikTok. But they were like, yeah, everyone knows that yellow is not real. But I mean, it just is.

The Christmas lights on my house are yellow-ish right now. Well, that's also absurd. That's the last thing that I would think to use for an example of yellow are Christmas lights, Nick. Maybe a banana? I mean, that is yellow, right? Like, that's yellow. Why would your Christmas lights be yellow? Well, my towel is yellow. This is a yellow towel. It's probably hard to see in the light. You're a yellow towel.

Tell me why. But no, my Christmas lights are yellow-ish. They're not bright white. They're off-white. They're soft white.

So soft white, like Austin's lamp behind his head for some reason, giving off a yellowish hue. Yes. He's, he's backlit himself after years of doing. Okay. Okay. Okay. So like, I, I just like wanted to throw it out there. I love that both of you kind of had just like a five second pause. Like what the fuck is this guy talking about? So now I'm interested to see if any besties out there know of this or if their children have said this to them or something. I mean, if, if so, please, because Nick,

Nick will be a yellow believer, a yellow non-believer like that with all the emails that we're about to get. At least I hope so. I don't think I made this up. There's so many more out there. This happened. I think someone made it up. I don't think you made it up. I think someone made it up. Someone did it to me on purpose. But for them to pick a primary color. Do you know what the primary colors are, Austin? Yeah. Red is...

Yellow and blue. Good job. Yeah. See, when you ask someone that, they're like, wait a minute. I know the answer to this. It's so easy, but. And you know how to make like orange and green and purple? No. No, I don't. What? How do you make green, Austin, with two primary colors? I mean, I'm going to guess yellow and blue. Yes. And purple. That makes sense. I'm guessing yellow and red. No, blue and red. Blue and red. Yeah. Yeah.

And orange? Yellow and red. Good job. Okay.

One time during the family feud at Paige's house, her dad asked colors of the rainbow. And I freaked out and I had to be told to calm down. Cause I was like, this isn't like a subjective answer. There's like, they're just going to name the colors in the rainbow. Everybody knows that it's Roy G Biv. Oh. And then someone couldn't think of one. And someone on their team said Roy G Biv. And I was like, you're fucking cheating. But wait, you're not allowed to help your teammates.

no no he was up there he was up there and then he had to well no even then you can't help no even yeah if you're guessing not until they send it over well um look man two of those colors in there are like pretty like an indigo and violet are not like normal colors that i would just think of right so if someone was like roy g biv i'd be like okay okay okay what the fuck is i you know

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So when you decorated your Christmas tree, which I'm about to do something that I've never done. And Austin's like, Craig doesn't, or my mom or someone was like, Craig just pays people to do stuff. But I was like, I last year went to the Christmas tree farm an hour away, picked it out. I might have my Christmas tree delivered into my house this year. Have you heard of that? No, you're shaking your head. It's because I have to leave, but I want, we're having an...

I'm having like a New Year's party and Paige said we have to have a Christmas tree and I don't have time to go get a Christmas tree. You? Okay. I mean, God damn it, Craig. Why are you the way that you are? I don't, I wouldn't prefer to do this, but I asked my friends today for a good Christmas tree lot and they said, actually, if you go to hasslefree.com,

Or no hassle. They just bring the tree to your house. And I was like, well, how do you pick your tree out? This reminds me of an episode of Entourage where they're like, and if you reach out to my buddy at, you know, and then they get their free entertainment system because they mentioned it on Jimmy Fallon or Jimmy Kimmel.

Okay. Well, I went and I got my tree. I picked it out a beautiful, it's probably like an eight to nine footer. Well, that's what I paid for, but I'm going to guess that it's in between eight and nine feet. That's a big tree. I grabbed it to the top of my soft top Jeep and drove her pretty ass home. I shook it out.

I had my stand from last year, so I brought that up. That's something I have to buy every freaking year because I can never find a place to store it. It's one of those things. It just sits there and collects dust all year, but that one time that you need it, you're like, yes, there it is. I didn't think that I'd be able to find mine. I was like, I think it's just in my... There it is. There it is. I have to look for... I think I wanted to do that last year where I was like, just put it...

- And then what I did, Craig, was I let it sit for a day, as you're supposed to, to let the branches fall.

And I wrapped her up and I put all my ornaments on there and I will be damned if every night when I turn it on, it doesn't just make me so happy and it makes me just like want to hang out. And I'm not going to lie, Craig, I have like four of your freaking candles here and they smell so good. And I lighten two of them like each night and I turn on my Christmas tree and I just watch the hell out of some Christmas movies. I love that. It is amazing.

Like it's December 4th and I've already watched them all. See, I'm just starting there. See, the candles are great because even when they're not lit, they actually make your room smell good. Yeah. Funny enough that you say that. I literally just brought one up to my room because I was like, oh. So when you put the lights. There's a little Christmas cheer. There's a correct answer to this. This isn't an opinionated question. There is a correct way to put lights on.

on your tree no it's a very opinionated question very okay it's well i'll explain why it's not after you tell me if you go bottom to top or top to bottom i go bottom to top there's just no freaking way that you exist in the real world bottom to top bottom to top

No, that's just not how you do it. I have had this debate with many people. I'm glad that we're in on this. So how do you accurately –

How do you accurately know that you're going to have enough space or not too much at the top of your tree? And how the hell would you? Dude, Craig, it's so easy. It's so easy. You plug it into the bottom, okay, where plugs plug into things. Yeah, so you start at the bottom. And then, yeah, the bottom to top.

No, wait. Yeah, okay. Sorry, go ahead again. No, I'm topped about them. I confused myself. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Of course you are. Because you're just a weirdo. And you get your Christmas tree delivered, so you don't know what you want. I haven't done that yet. And so you wrap, wrap, wrap. And then you're obviously like, all right, another strand. And then if you realize that you're going to have a shit ton of lights, then you wrap it tighter. And that's all that you do. You're just like...

And then you just end the last light right at the top of the tree exactly the way that I did. And it's not that hard. So you'd rather be light heavy on top than on bottom. But it's not because then what you do is that you're like, okay, okay. I went a little light on the bottom. Now I got to go back. So I had a 450 light strand for an eight and a half foot tree. And in my opinion, it is amazing.

Yeah, but if you started at the top, you wouldn't have to go back to the bottom because you would be going down, down, down.

And then you just feel it. If you had too many back to the bottom, I go from the, you said you were light on the bottom. And so you had to go back to the bottom. Well, if you begin to realize, then it's very, very easy because I mean, I don't know about you, but I don't, you know, decorate my tree by myself like a psycho. So like, it's very easy to be like, Hey, Hey, just pick up the lights, you know, and bring them down. Boom, boom. It is like a 10 second fix. And then you have too many at the top.

Or you don't have enough at the top? No, no, no. And then you kind of like Nick said, we're pros. So like, honestly, trying to figure out the reason that you guys do that will never make sense to me. Anyway, I started the top with the, with the, the, with the female end of the lights at the top and I secure it. And then I go back and forth. Do you wrap your tree or do you swing back and forth? Um, I go in, I push it in and push it out.

But I, I wrap my whole thing. Yeah. No, Nick, obviously you push it in, but he's, we're saying if your tree's in a corner, you would three quarters. I don't go around the back of it. Yeah. Yeah. I get that. And I've done that before when I didn't have like enough lights. Right. And then Craig, there are people who had just got this sent to me saying that the only way to do it is, is, is,

You go, you know, vertically like this. Well, that's a psychopath. That's serial killer shit. No, you have to hide your cord. Do this. The cord. No. And the reason I stopped, the reason that I started. No, no, no. The reason I started the top is because then you can add more lights as you go down.

With ornaments, I go all over the place. There's no rhyme or reason. Also, I think you're just messing with me about the vertical thing because that made me want to flip over everything on this table. I'm just laughing with just how you just were like, I don't understand what you're saying, so I refuse to even fucking address it. There's no logic. No, no, it's not a thing. It definitely is a thing, and I'm glad that you have such a

Adam reaction against it. It's just weird. Brought tears to my eyes. That was good. That was a good Christmas cry. Ornaments. I go all over the place. Um, yeah, I do too. Just kind of, you know, there's a hole here and there's a hole over there. So, you know, you have to put ornaments to, you know, fill the, fill the, were you allowed to use tensile as a kid? Uh,

Never a tinsel family, but I'll tell you, which was so dangerous is that we used to hang the, the, the candles. What a silly move that is. Yeah. Light candles. Yeah. No dude. People used to put candles like live candles on, you know, their tree. Yeah. Well,

Well, you don't want your Christmas tree to light on fire. I just feel like Craig gets that. Like he's being recorded. And so when I tell him things that he doesn't like his face, he can't even hide how much he hates it. It's like,

People wrap their lights vertically and his face just automatically is like. We do forget we're being recorded. We weren't allowed to use tinsel as kids because one, my dad said it would choke the animals, but also I think it was a pain to clean up glitter, but I think it's pretty. I have heard that about choking the animals. We don't do tinsel anymore because of our cats. They'll eat it.

Do they, like, jump into the Christmas tree? Oh, my God. We have to, like, screw it to the wall, essentially, with, like, you know, fishing line because we'll walk up and I got pictures, you know, of my cat, like, as the freaking angel of the tree, pretty much. That's funny. It's real funny. Dude, I'm about to send you guys. Um, my...

And then we do candy canes at the end, which looks nice. But my neighbors this year went with animated lights and I don't hate it. I think it's cool. Like when I'm like pulling into my cul-de-sac, I'm like, hell yeah. Like this looks good. Mine aren't animated, but theirs are. Nick, why does that bother you? I haven't put lights outside yet. The lights move, you know, like they flash. Oh, okay. I got you. I got you.

Yeah, my only issue is when people blast music along to their lights and it's like the same five songs every for like eight hours a day. Well, usually you would do it through the radio station, like broadcast it. Do people put speakers in their yard? That would be crazy. Yes. Oh. Yeah, it's so annoying. It's so annoying. I get it for like the – that's like what your neighborhood does. What if I did that in my neighborhood? Yeah.

If I did that in my neighborhood, you'd have a block. Merry Christmas. And it was just like blasting like Christmas music the whole time. And there's just obnoxious lights. I mean, maybe, you know, just spread Christmas cheer for all to hear kind of thing. It just reminds me of that stuff in New York where like someone would be singing. And so it was like, shut the fuck up during COVID. They lean out the window. Yeah.

everyone's like oh this is so nice and then someone's like shut up take your conversation and shove it talk about a place that would have been just hell on earth during covid locked inside of a square box in an apartment in new york new york yeah well craig that's because you and i oh my god we were not locked inside a car a box no they tried

No, we were not. Craig and I found every single place that was serving drinks to go and would golf cart to these places and get there to go drinks. I found pictures from that time the other day on my phone. Really? Yeah, I just was documenting all the froses that we would collect. I remember one time we got electric bikes and took them to the top of a parking garage and just hung out up there. Yeah.

It was like we were kids in high school with like a never ending snow day. Yeah. I mean, we, we couldn't go inside the establishment. And so, yeah, we would just buy these things to go. And like the police were not getting paid. The police was like, this is not, you know, normal and this is not, you know, legal, but no one really knew what to do during that time. So the cops kind of were just like,

Don't be a problem. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Don't be a problem, please. Because we don't have, you know, open containers and you can't sell alcohol to go. And businesses were like, how else are we supposed to stay afloat? What a time. Speaking of New York and my fault for not mentioning it sooner, we're adding a second show to our New York tour date. An early show. New York tour date for all those besties is January 14th, right? At the Gramercy.

So we're going to add a second show because our first show has sold out or is near sellout. And we just want to add another show because it's, it's the last show that we have planned. So let's go out with a bang. The second show will be at 4 PM. So it'll become the first show of the day, but it doesn't affect the shows, but the 8 PM can be a little later for people on Sundays. So,

So, yeah, if you want to do something during the day, come at 4 p.m. We'll be done by 6. I think we have some wonderful guests planned for both shows. And it's going to be a lot of fun.

If you're a fan of comedy and you've ever been to the Comedy Zone or the Comedy Cellar in New York, they always tell you. There is all the shenanigans happen at a later show, and we are going to have some funny guests. I mean, obviously, we're going to put on two great shows, but I just – So when we're trying to sell tickets to our early show often –

If our later shows already sold out and we're trying to get people to buy tickets for our first show, why would you say that most like all the craziness happens in the second show? Just just curious. I just I just think that we're going to have great guests. This is why we edit those shows. Yeah. No, I think you should leave that in. That's funny. It's an amazing what you just did was amazing.

The second show is the crazy one. Yeah, to all you people who didn't buy shows for the first one. And no, actually, the reason that we're going to have an equal guest at both shows, but they will be different people, is so that...

The people that bought their tickets first are just as happy as the people that will buy the second one. Both shows are going to be fun. How about that? That's right, Craig. Yes. I realize the error of my ways, okay? I understand. No, I just think you're an incredible salesman. It was...

I don't know why that quote even came to me and why I thought it necessary to share it in this context. I don't know. I don't know. Well, come watch our dynamic on stage. Yeah, I think it's just the same. I think it spazzed out the fact that we're having a double show. I mean, I'm so excited. We've always talked about doing it. And I mean, it's very clearly lining up perfectly to happen in New York City on a Sunday. Yeah.

All right, besties, that's going to do it for today's episode. Sorry to cut it off right there. The boys are going to be off filming a very special project up in New York these next couple of days. I'm sure you all will figure it out. But we got more coming to you on Thursday. And yeah, to all our New Orleans people, there are a few tickets left, as we said. So get them while you still can. Hopefully they're still available when I'm saying this and they're not already all sold out.

But, and everybody else, we'll see you all after the holidays. And yeah, love all our besties out there. Peace. See you Thursday.

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