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If your day sounds like we need to report ASAP, you deserve Medela. If you've persevered through, you deserve this ice cold reward. Medela, the mark of a fighter. Drink responsibly. Beer imported by Crown Import Chicago, Illinois. What's up, everyone? Welcome to Pillows and Beer. I'm Craig Conover coming to you from my couch in Charleston, trying to get the podcast room new and improved. Joined by Nick Norris from our

Working on our store in Nashville. Yep. I'm exhausted is what's up. It's been go, go, go down here in Nashville or over here in Nashville, I guess, technically. How's it coming? It's coming along good. Ready for some more stuff next week. I think Jerry's got someone lined up coming in.

um i know he said to tease it this summer it's uh should be all up and ready for all you out there all you nashville people anybody coming in to visit uh this series great though oh my god 12 south's awesome it's like a beach town is what it reminds me of it's really cool like i mean broadway's great and all but that's like a one-time hitter kind of thing i could hang out here all week

yeah well that's good I'm glad to hear you say that a lot of traffic so that'll be good for you a little something for everyone yeah I'm gonna it's gonna be a fun summer splitting time between Charleston and Nashville and New York of course so um well I was reading about some weird not weird but I I was curious about events going on around the globe this week and um

I came across some cool ones that I'd love to visit, like the Cherry Blossom Festival in Japan. That'd be cool. Very peaceful. People gathering parks for picnics under the blooming trees and participate in traditional tea ceremonies. Have you ever been to Japan before? I have not.

Have you? No, that's on my list. I'd love to go to Japan. Someone was just telling me yesterday, actually, all about Japan. I've only ever heard great things. Another pretty one is the Tulip Festival in the Netherlands. Okay. I would love to do that. I mean, if you've seen pictures of it on the internet, that's really the only way to describe it. It's just...

fields and fields and fields of all these toilets and that's where my people are from so oh you're dutch or dutch however you would say it uh well yeah i would say it is dutch um but that's cool what else then have you been looking at on the internet right now what's going on well there's

i'll tell you about the weird celebrations happening um well they're not weird they're just insanely dangerous a lot of cheese rolling festivals this week um glutris steyr and i forget the other one but basically that's the videos of the people chasing the giant cheese wheel down the hill and

And people are just running, but their feet can't keep up, so they're all just rolling down this hill. They're really wild videos. I remember I think ESPN was playing them during COVID as like, you know, on Ocho. Yeah. And then you win the wheel of cheese at the bottom of the hill. And then...

there's the india holy celebration i don't know if i'm saying that right that's when they throw all those beautiful dyes and chalks all over gotcha that's cool that would be a cool one to go to i want to go to an indian wedding dude they're hardcore even in like the states uh where i was a member when i lived in virginia at lansdowne i mean they would have indian ways and they bring in elephants

to just like go to virginia oh yeah they had like full-on elephants walking around and everybody's like well it's an indian wedding going on hundreds of people i know a lot of people that have gone to yeah either indian weddings in the states or over in india and no one has anything but extremely positive and awesome things to say yeah it's just

Nothing but fun. Definitely one of those weddings that are on the cooler sides, like tradition-wise. Yeah, tradition-based. Then the World Toe Wrestling Championships is happening in England. Toe wrestling? Is it just like thumb wrestling but with toes? Derbyshire. People, I was reading about it, people try to trap another person's foot for a couple seconds. Three seconds, actually, to claim victory.

It originated in a pub in 1970s. I can't imagine how people started to foot wrestle. It's amazing how many things are created by drinking. Yeah, I mean, our creative selves. And then in your home state of Virginia, you've got the redneck running of the Bulls, which is basically where a bunch of Americans run around in inflatable Bulls.

We do a lot of dumb things in Virginia, but I feel like probably a lot of states have those. I'm sure. Yeah. Dewey beach in Delaware does something very similar and it's always for charity. And yeah, no, it's all just about getting together as a community and just doing dumb things together. And then the last one I could find is the steel phallus festival in Japan, Kawasaki. It's basically a festival that celebrates fertility and,

you know, sexual health. And it's just a parade of giant phallus floats. I, I've only been to Thailand and it was really neat. I mean, Bangkok was somewhere that the only place I've ever been in the world where I was like, maybe we don't do everything right. You know, there was stuff, there was things that I took away from that city. Oh my gosh. The holy crap. The,

NHL playoffs are on right now. I left the bar. My uncle's going to kill me to come here with you while they're still there. It was three to one. What's the score. Rangers are winning four to three. Oh, I'm going to be in trouble for leaving my spot at the bar. I was like, yeah, dude, you didn't have to leave for me, but I, so Austin was talking about it all day and he got to go to two of the games and he

Carolina was winning 3-1 when I went. I got in my hot tub and was watching from there. And then I came in and got in the shower, and I took my phone in the shower, and the Rangers scored again. And I was like, oh, wow, that's 3-2. I have no idea how it just jumped to 4-3, but I looked up, and there was a Carolina fan crying like a 12-year-old boy. How much time was that?

three minutes and 40 seconds. Oh shit. My uncle's going to kill me for leaving. It's like that classic sports, you know, sports superstitions that has no merit on the game, but we all think it does. Yeah. It's, uh, I mean, I wanted to give a shout out to Holy city brewing. Um, I'm not a huge brewery guy, but Shep and Austin and I were there today and they've got an incredible raw bar and, uh,

Those are their local? Yeah. Well, it's in North Charleston. So if you're visiting Charleston and you're looking for a brewery, Holy City Brewing was really good. Except they had signs for Laser Tag, and I didn't see the Laser Tag. I don't know if it's a special thing that they do weekly or what. Oh, that's too bad. I love Laser Tag. It's such a little kid thing to do, but man, it's fun. It's the best. I freaking love it. We had a place called Qzar Brewing.

an ocean city on the boardwalk and like the lucky kids would have their birthday there, you know? And, um, I got to go to a couple of them and it was, it was, uh, a dual level place. So, Oh, that's fun. Yeah. Real fun.

I got laser tagged for Christmas one year, you know, like the dual set. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The fun to do in the backyard kind of thing. And it's fun. I'm like paintball on airsoft. You're not taking a beating while you're playing it. No, it's like flashlight tag. Yeah. So you can keep track of it. But no, we had a good day today and Austin's on King Street. Freaking out right now? Yeah, he's with Madison doing something and then Shep is at dinner on Sullivan's.

and that's fine i love solvents for food sullivan's great obstinate daughter i haven't been to fish camp yet i like pose a lot he's throwing in there forever uh we're gonna take a quick break and we'll be right back to pillows and beer

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You said you loved Nick. Yeah, no, it's been a family affair here. My dad's here. My uncle's actually here. He came for a couple of days to help. I think my sister's coming on Saturday. You're getting like the whole Norris family crew. I love that. But yeah, no, I love 12 South. This is definitely...

In my opinion, it's better than downtown Nashville. I mean, if you're a tourist, you got to go Broadway once or twice, but this is way more just so much fun, low-key kind of stuff. Yeah, well, I think you can do both as a tourist. That's what's really fun. Yeah, I guess it's probably, what, 10, 15 minutes from downtown? Yeah. Something like that. I think I told you I went to a bee farm the other day with Paige. Yes. Well, they had emus, which I have a really hard time saying emu.

even with the commercial that's on every other commercial yes gosh that really is everywhere um and I was reading about uh Australia's great emu war basically oh my God it's so funny did have you read about that oh yeah I've watched a couple and read a couple things about it it's like the only war Australians have lost on their home soil

Yeah, basically there was a water shortage and thousands of emus just took over people's farms to the point that they called in the Australian military to deploy machine guns on them and they were too quick and fast. They couldn't hit them. Yeah, they couldn't catch them.

Can you imagine you're fighting a freaking bird and losing? Can't even do anything back to you. It would drive me freaking crazy. A bird that can't fly, a flightless bird. This is when you see everybody online, they're going, why do you need to hunt with a machine gun? Well, that's why. You can't catch the damn thing. I mean, Australia just sounds like a wild place and I'm obsessed with it. Everything there wants to kill you in Australia. I think they have like nine of the ten most poisonous species on the planet.

Well, there's an entire show about that. Like the deadliest animals. And most of them are in Australia. Yeah. Then you got sharks. I mean, everything it's, you are not at the top of the food chain as a human over there. You're near it, but you're not, you're not dominating over there. Like you do everywhere else. And they've got the great barrier reef, which is nuts. I mean, yeah, the outback, you got Tanzania. And it's crazy.

Yeah, kangaroos are, I know someone, I don't know. I always had a pretty nice, you know, image of kangaroos in my head, like until a couple of years ago. Did they knock you the fuck out? Yeah, it came to my attention that they have like claws, like... Their nails or whatever are sharp. Yeah, like if you look at a kangaroo's feet, like it will really disturb you. It's like a talon, basically. Yeah, essentially, yeah. Yeah.

and I had no idea that they had such dangerous like toes well and they can knock you out like they like it's it's they're dangerous if when they're full grown they're ripped they're a pure muscle yeah that's wild uh I love that I mean I would love to do the Outback like I just uh wait is that back Africa or Australia no no that's Australia yeah I would love to do the Outback and like

Go to like Bondi Beach and all the, you know, the real beaches, but also the tourist stuff. And I feel like it's such a healthy culture. Yeah. They don't really seem to have many stress. It's not very stressful down there. It seems everybody seems to get along. Well, yeah. And go with the flow. Yeah. Yeah.

The surfer bro mentality down there seems to be widespread. I mean, and obviously just growing up on a kid of the crocodile Hunter, you know, Steve Irwin and everything. And now his son's essentially become his father. It's kind of crazy. Yeah. And his daughter, all of them. It's really, I, we, we have a lot of love for Australia, the Bravo family. They are our,

They have a, I don't know where they rank. I want to say number two, but I know Canada and Europe are up there too, but Australia and our support base fan base in Australia is huge. And, and, and for sewing down South also, like we constantly work to get our shipping charges down for our Australian friends. Um,

I can't wait to go. I was planning, Jerry and I were going to go do a pop-up in Australia and then COVID hit. Of course. So I would love to come spend some time in Australia. We have a lot of Australian listeners who are now going to be DMing us saying, Craig said it. Well, I, yeah, I would love to do a tour over there and explore and

See, I've always wanted to go to New Zealand. I guess it's kind of somewhat close. They're even more relaxed, I feel like, than Australian people. I feel like New Zealand people are just super nice. And it's funny because being all the way across the world, people just loop them together. New Zealand and Australia are the same thing. It's like saying America and Mexico. Canada. Yeah.

Canada. Don't tell that to New Zealand people. I've made that mistake. Yeah, they don't, they don't, they don't like that. I, if you're one of our Canadian listeners, I, your, your country is wowing now. I sometimes have to re like read the headlines from Canada and then the article to be like,

Is this a South Park episode or is this real? Well, it depends on the part of Canada because I didn't realize that there's certain parts of Canada that they pretty much speak French more than they do English. Yeah. I didn't realize that. I thought they like spoke French up there. I didn't think it was a full-on French speaking part of the country. I'm pretty sure Quebec is like that. But like Montreal is French. Like if you go snowboarding in Montreal, you'll hear a lot of people speaking French. Yeah. In the towns outside it.

Canada's a very pretty country. I'll give them that. They got some wacko other things going on, like you said. Look, I'm talking squarely about the fact that they just raised the tax rate to like 65%. Well, people who live in Montana are going to be, there's going to be a lot of Canadians inbound.

I mean, you would have to leave the country. And then I looked it up. So many people are doing that. They actually have an emigration crisis where so many people are leaving Canada that they're trying to do an exit tax of $25,000. Wait, so you got to pay to leave the country? Is that even legal? Yeah.

At this point... Do you even have a Revolutionary War up there? Are they just so nice? I mean, the Revolutionary War was over a 2% tax. Can you imagine having to pay close to half of your money? Well, it wasn't really over the tax. It was more of the fact that they had no say in the matter. Yeah, I know. But it was still a 2% tax. Yeah. I mean, what's...

of motivate what's the opposite word of motivate well they're motivating people it's just motivating people to get the hell out no no i'm saying what is the opposite uh let's see is it thesaurus right that's what you look up for opposite word demotivate deterred discourage yeah that'd be the one that is a great way to discourage any sort of working hard

I mean, it's the classroom example. If you tell the classroom that they're going to basically everyone's going to get a 75, then the kids who are studying a whole bunch and getting high grades aren't going to study and try anymore because why would they? And then the kids that are failing are never going to bother to learn because they're going to get a 75 anyway. It doesn't work. Life is ruled by incentive. Okay, so it's on corporations...

And then on people who make more in U.S. dollars, 183 dollars. It will be a tax rule from 50 to 67 percent. You couldn't. How many people are going to be making 183 dollars? Because it's 183,600 dollars. So how many people are going to be making 183,000 dollars?

A lot. A lot of people. But guess what? They're not anymore. The hard workers. Screw me is what it's going to do. The hard workers are going to leave. Everyone's going to try to prevent their income from getting to. Anyway, that's just Canada's nuts. So Australia, I would love. And look, to be fair, I do love Montreal. I love Toronto. I've never been. I've always wanted to go. I've always wanted to go more out to Vancouver out west. Yeah, I've driven in and I've flown in.

That'd be cool. I guess I wonder if Alaska's population is going to spike because of this. I feel like they're the only state that truly, I guess, could resemble Canada. Maybe Montana. Yeah, Alaska's... It's funny how people don't realize how large Alaska is. It's massive. Have you guys been yet? I know you said you were going to try to go. No, we're either going in July or August. Alaska's actually the largest state in the United States. I would have gotten that wrong.

I just said California or Montana or Texas. Those have been my three guesses. Alaska is three times larger than France, five times larger than Germany, and five times larger than Italy. See, that's what's always crazy to me when you picture Europe. It's how small, like that's how people can just hop on a train and go anywhere they want. Right. Well, and they call us, they say we don't travel, we're not well-traveled, but...

That's because we can travel all over the United States. Yeah. Like we're like Alaska is seven times bigger than the UK. Yeah. That's what I find funny. There's one guy, I guess he lives in America. He does, you know, TikTok reels and everything of like translating American to British. And it's, you know, making fun of people who are yell at Americans for saying, oh yeah, you know, yeah, I'm 30 minutes away. What does that mean? Cause they, you know,

They're all like, well, are you close to London? They're going, no, I live only an hour away. I'm an hour away. That's not close to London. It's just like, well, actually, to us, that's pretty damn close. If you're in Loudoun County, Virginia, you're 45 minutes from D.C., and that's close. So we speak, I guess, in minutes, not miles here. They speak in actual distances. Oh, it's funny how much bigger the world is than London.

Then we realized I haven't been traveling enough recently, but I need to start. Don't you have some plans this summer? Yeah. Well, we're getting, it's, it's crazy. We they're yeah. I'm supposed to leave for Italy with Paige's parents or her family or parents and her brother mid June. But we, Oh, I guess it's announced that we're filming so we can say it. We won't be done filming by then. And we,

We're opening the Nashville store in the middle of June. And then I'm going to try to get over. I mean, I'm going to go over for still like a couple of days with her family. And then we have a wedding in Saint-Tropez. But yeah, I mean, I haven't, well, yeah, I guess I haven't been to Europe since last summer. That's still only a year, which I'm fortunate I realized, but I just like it because it gives you so much perspective. Yeah.

So if you weren't going there, where would you go? Would you go to Australia or would you go to Japan? If you had to pick between the two, I don't have time. Um, I feel like that's a three week trip. Uh, I would, I want to go, I would go to Africa before I went to either of those places. Oh, really? What part? Like I would, I want to go on a safari. So what's it like down? I guess it's what more Southern. So what Kenya, South Africa. So I have friends in Namibia, like maybe like, um,

I just, I would love to go experience that. Like I watch all the animal documentaries. Yeah, another place where everything just wants to kill you. I feel like that's most of the world, by the way, when I think about it. America, we're kind of lucky when it comes to, yes, we got like alligators and stuff like that, but. I think we just killed all the animals that were here.

No, we had wolves. Like, we had a huge wolf population. Yeah, that is true. That's the most depressing thing to me. Yeah. We don't have apex predators, though, like the rest of the world. Yeah, I mean, you got grizzlies, I guess, but that's out west. You got gators down south. Yeah, but we don't have, like, lions and rhinos roaming the country. No. I just think, like, I've never talked to someone that didn't say...

That wasn't left speechless by it. Like they're like, dude, we want to tell you about it, but we just can't. Yeah, exactly. My great great grandfather. Yeah. My great grandfather. He, I think I've told you this. He was the head zookeeper at the zoo. So I've got, you know, photos when he was in like 1940, he was grabbing a pygmy hippo from over there to bring back to the national zoo in DC. That's cool. He used to do all this afar. Like my dad said, he'd come home and,

His ribs would be broken because the gorillas would give him such big hugs and stuff. Like they'd break his ribs. Yeah. So it's in my blood. I got to go over there at some point. Yeah, we got to. I want to see those pictures. Well, Nick, thanks for joining me. This is Pillows and Beer. Thank you to all our besties. I know things look a little different, but I hope you're still enjoying yourself and we can be a little escape from your day-to-day life. Take care of yourself. Okay.

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