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what's going on besties and welcome to this week's episode of pillows and beer it's a nice rare weekend where craig and i are a rare week where craig and i are both home in charleston i gotta tell you
Feels nice. So yes, of course, I'm joined by Craig Conover sitting in his living room in Charleston. Nick is in Virginia, and I am also in Charleston in my office. And what's up, guys? How we doing? How's everyone feeling after the weekend, after Phoenix? Good. Good to be home in Charleston. It feels unusually cold, but I think it's a cold front, even though it's only like 51 degrees. I do have the fire going, but...
Yeah, dude. Today was really sheer. It was a really shitty cold day. Just like a wet day all day long. Went to the gym. Saw Shep. Went to the gym. Good. That felt so good. It's funny. Austin just asked if I wanted to talk about the weekend I had because I didn't post. I'm on this new Reels kick and...
I have been working on this video of us hiking for days now, and I am really fighting my, you know, OCD or procrastination or whatever mental illness, eye disorder, whatever I am challenged by, wherever I am on that, uh,
list of things. It blocks me in picking. Yeah. So, um, I have a really cool one hiking. And then when I was at, so I went out to, um, it was near Lake Marion actually, which I did not know where Lake Marion was. So you go down 26 to 95, get off on 95 and like five minutes past there. My buddy, uh,
Brandon and his wife, Caroline, they have family land, like 250 acres left and talk about a version of paradise, um, in my book. And it was my college best friends. It'll be, you know, Austin knows these guys like, you know, who he'll be with them with the groomsmen and the wedding one day. Um,
But we, I pulled down this dirt path after going to this country gas station and I'm like driving, I'm driving and like a mile down the road, there's just this like brand new pole barn looking house and all my friends' vehicles. It was like the grownup version of seeing your friend's bikes out front. And I pull up and I look over to the right and they've got a fire going. My friend Kyle is roasting oysters and,
And you can see that there's boxes of clay pigeons on the back of some of the trucks. And I let my country flag fly. I took all of the fireworks from my garage out there that are too big to ever let off in my community. And I bought us a little clay pigeon shooter. And we ate oysters. Oysters.
And then we set up the clay pigeon shooter and everyone brought their shotguns. I do not have a shotgun, but we had like all different types and it was just awesome. And then we went and shot...
one of my friends had an ar-15 and he has like that we had steel um targets in another area of the land and so we shot that and then we shot handguns which i was not i'm not great i don't have any experience with a handgun it's actually a lot harder to be accurate with a handgun than most people would expect have you ever shot a handgun yeah man you were there actually
We were at Shep's hunting cabin and we set up like a box and the box was like, you know, 20 feet away, right? Like it wasn't even maybe that far away. And Shep was like, it's actually really, really tough to, you know, aim this.
And I just emptied the clip. And I think like I grazed the box once. I was like, oh, yeah, this is difficult. Every millimeter of turning equals feet. Nick, you're shaking your head. Do you have pistol experience? Oh, yeah. No, I was just laughing. Yeah, my cousin has a place down in North Carolina. And I got buddies out here that we shoot all type of shit like that. We'll just go out and burn a fire.
Well, Craig, man, I have a question. Not that you really have to do much explaining on to why it was Paradise, but why was it? Was it just because it was like you and all your buddies, but you basically described it as being Paradise prior to getting there? Is it just because it was just like the country and kind of out there and you knew that you weren't going to have to deal with anybody but buddies? No. No.
I can see how that's a good guess. It was the isolation was so cool of having this feeling that I was like, I can do whatever I want here and no one can tell me not to. Like it was kind of like,
Did you buy dip cans, man? Were you dipping the whole weekend? Everyone was, but I don't dip anymore. So no. We had Redman out there. I don't dip either, but if I was there, I feel like I'd be like, fuck it. I kept looking at the Redman. It was just like a good old-fashioned... I don't want to say guys' day because girls do enjoy it too, but that's what it was. So I'll walk you through it. So with the handguns, though...
in my head, no, like I wanted to be able to pick up a handgun and know how to do everything with it. So I was like, Sean, walk me through it. Cause he carries now because of his like job. And, um,
So we just started with the gun on the table and now like I, and they had multiple handguns. Like I feel comfortable grabbing any handgun, like checking if there's a round in like clearing it, putting it back down, loading it, racking it, you know, putting it around in the chamber and then knowing where like the safety is and all of that. So that was my goal. Are you going to get a gun, Craig?
I don't like people knowing if I have guns or not because I feel like if I don't have guns, I'm going to become a target. And if I do have guns, that's fine. So if I had a lot of guns, I would tell you. Yeah. No, no, no. I mean, to be honest, I was never going to –
It all had to do with my drinking journey, and I've come to a comfortable spot now. No, man, that's totally fair. That's totally fair, man. There was a long period in my life where I was like, I am not going to get a gun. I'm not going to get a gun because I don't trust myself anymore.
you know, with one that like I'd come back from the bar drunk or something and be like, look at this thing. And like, you know, pop off outside my house or something stupid as shit like that. I know, Nick, I mean, like you're shaking your head, but like it's true. And that's the reason that I never got one, you know? And now I think because I had a friend do exactly this in college. Right. Right. And so, you know, being, you know, responsible, being a responsible person,
gun owner is very important if you're going to have one. So, I mean, if I did get one, which I'm talking about it, it'd be under lock and key and in a safe, I guess, where I'd have to use my fingerprint or something. Well, like blacking out is dangerous enough. You don't need to add weapons to the equation. And so about a year ago, I finally got comfortable...
With my drinking. But like, I had a night where Paige had been here for like two weeks and left. And it's the only time this has ever happened and I was sober, but my security system malfunctioned. I have no idea what happened, but it went off. And...
In that moment of finally being like... She was there, you're saying? Or no, she was not. No, she wasn't there. So I was by myself. And in that moment, not being like a fucking, you know, drinking every... Like being of complete sober mind, I was like, there is no reason that I don't have something to defend myself with. Like I have, you know, I had a knife. Yeah.
You know what I was like? Like, this is not I'm way too sober for this. Like, this is crazy. No. I mean, imagine I don't think that I'd be able to stab a home intruder, you know, I mean, unless I mean, obviously, I was like very, very threatened. But like the thought of putting a knife, I would slit into somebody. It seems so fast. Fucking crazy.
Well, but also to get that close is dangerous, right? Yeah. Like they most likely have a weapon. And I'd miss and they'd, you know, punch me in the face or something. I'd be like, stupid knife. And then they'd have my knife. So, and exactly. And so I looked up, I was like, there's got to be something between a knife and a gun, you know? Did you spring the action, by the way? That's a question. What?
Did you spring to action or did you freeze in bed or, you know, wherever you were when you were warming off? Were you like, oh, fuck, I'm just going to hide under the covers and hope they go away? Or did you jump up?
it's a great question uh it was in the middle of the two i froze and then i worked it out in my head probably it seemed longer than what it was but probably a second or two you know your brain's firing so fast that i was like you need to get up now and so like yes i froze but then i got up and i got my like you know bedside knife
And I had to clear the house. And I was like, next time this ever fucking happens, I want to have a fucking firearm in my hand. And so I looked up non-lethal guns. And there is a huge market for it. And you could actually get it on Amazon. And they shoot non-lethal rounds. But I will tell you this. If you get hit with one of those motherfuckers, you are not...
You're not going to continue to walk in that direction. Right. What is it, like a rubber bullet, you're saying? They're hard plastic. It's like getting shot with a bouncy ball, like a lot of them, but like it coming out insanely fast. No, there's nothing bouncy about the ones that I have. Well, I'm just saying it's a hard freaking thing that's coming at you, but it's not going to kill you. It's just going to put you on your ass. I mean, if you held it to someone's head, it might.
but they're less than lethal and you can get the ones with like mace inside them like paintball guns and stuff so it was a good start it looks like a gun kind of what i want i kind of want like a paintball gun so it's co2 yeah it's co2 operated
It's CO2 operated. It feels like a regular gun. It sounds like a gun, but it's non-lethal in case you're not ready to give up, to harness that responsibility. And it allowed me to teach Paige. Paige is very comfortable with that gun now. Really? She knows how to handle it. She knows how to load it. She knows how to clear it. Where do you shoot it, man? Do you shoot it in the backyard? Nice. I don't anymore, but...
Because it's more powerful than I thought. But there's training ones that come with it, like water-filled. So, like, one time something happened where, like, she called me and she was scared about something. And I said, do you want to go get the gun? And she said, yeah. And I was proud of her. And so she went and she got it and she knew. It's a great starter gun. Anyway, so...
I am now ready to move on to the next thing. And so being at the farm and putting so much, like we did our own safety briefing, just hanging. So we shot the handguns. Um, and then we went back to the house, got the fire going, put up a projector on the side of the barn and watch the basketball games and just hung out Austin and Nick and like lit the fireworks. And it was like a big kids, um,
A big kids like hang out and then everyone had a bed, you know? So I would love to buy land like that and just build like, like I would have four wheelers out there. Yeah, man. We actually, we actually talked about this on our hike.
someone asked you Craig if if if you think that you could live off grid for like 100 days and Craig didn't even hesitate he was like absolutely but I would need like a four-wheeler and this and that and like it kind of made me laugh because I was like yeah man I would just need you know high-speed internet and you know like a freaking you know pull down projection screen and a couple of four-wheelers
I think that's, I think the internet's the kicker because, or service or TV, because this house that we stayed at, even though we were in the middle of nowhere and I liked that you could look to the four corners of the property and not see anyone else. There was just, I don't know. There was a feeling of isolation, uh,
Um, except we did shoot guns for like eight hours straight. I was like, Homeland's going to show up at some point and be like, what the fuck are you guys doing? Um, but they had a 70 inch TV inside. And so you didn't feel like you were too isolated. Like, I don't know you, it was kind of like the best of both worlds. Um, living in the country. Yeah. It was living in the country.
Yeah, you should come out next time. But oh, and we smoked. I took my old hit. I gave my old Traeger to my friend Brandon. And so we smoked meats and that's what we ate. But in case you've been listening to this and in case you plan on robbing my house, I now have a plethora of firearms to protect myself. So don't break into my house. But we'll take a break and we'll be right back from these commercial breaks.
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channel. I am very impressed. Now Craig and I are one for 25 on things that we say that we're going to do, but don't do on this podcast. And we said that we're going to go on the hike. And I got some DMS from people being like, y'all are not going to go on a hike. And we've had quite a strenuous hike.
I want to hear about your weekend, Austin, but I kind of want to wrap. I've talked too much about it, but the farm, I could see myself. One of my goals is to have like a homestead one day, like a farm and stuff, but I don't want to rough it. I just want to be able to enjoy kind of a country home, if you will. I think. Yeah. I mean, look, I think that, you know, there's something to be said for,
Every time that we go and do something cool and stay somewhere sweet at this point in our life, it's very tough to not be like, I want something like this. I mean, it's very tough to not be like, you know what? So I went to Indy.
And I went to Indianapolis after Phoenix as you went out to your friend's farm. And even when I was there, I was like, I wonder what even property costs out here. You know, it's probably kind of lucrative to, you know, to, to,
buy some rental thing because the Super Bowl comes out here, like March Madness Games, the National Championship and things like that. And I don't know. I mean, it's easy to I'm not going to buy property in Indy, but I had like a beer or two.
I was like, hmm, I'm curious. I'm going to look up some of this stuff on Zillow. And that's just kind of what happens these days. What about it, though? Like I'm saying, I've never been to Indianapolis, so I don't even know what you're looking at when you're like, oh, this would be cool to have. I was just looking at these houses on Massachusetts Avenue, which is like their version of King Street, right? And there were all sorts of apartment buildings, but then there were these homes, right?
I don't even know kind of how to describe what part of the country that I could compare these kind of homes to. But I didn't spend much time out in Indianapolis. So for all those listening, I went out there to visit a very good girlfriend of mine who had just moved there, Alexandra. And y'all might remember her from season whatever when I had my trap-hop party. She is my blonde friend.
my hilarious blonde friend that came into town for those parties. I've been with her a few times. Anyway, she had just kind of moved out there and she was homesick. And so I was like, you know what? I actually have the weekend free and I'm in Phoenix flying from West coast to East coast. Why don't I just come to, you know, Indy and this great hotel out there, which is,
Thank you to Nick for helping us set up. The Bottleworks Hotel was just such a cool spot, and they gave me a great room. And we went to dinner. So we went to like a Halls-type dinner, Craig, on Friday night at this very prominent state joint called St. Nolans. Well, that's what you were looking forward to. Yeah, yeah. I was super excited for that. I mean, like I flew there. You know, yes, yes. I was very excited for this place.
portion of the trip. And so you saw me, Craig, eating those, uh, eating those shrimp,
the cocktail sauce on the shrimp is like sinus clearing to say the least they're famous for it it was wonderful we had some laughs man but basically every night man we just ended it early and went back to the room and just watched freaking movies and just laughed and you know caught up and drank wine and that's the whole reason that I was there was just to you know hang out it wasn't to like
you know, let's go check out the bar scene. I could have cared less, you know, going out. No, no. But, you know, we checked out some stuff. She moved there for a job about three or so months ago. So she's just kind of getting acclimated. And had texted me earlier in the week being like, I miss my friends, man. And I was like, you know what? Perfect timing. So we just had a lot of laughs.
We went to this awesome place. So I was in the Bottleworks District, which is on the lower end of Massachusetts Avenue.
And there's this cool spot called the garage. And it's just like a bunch of, um, you know, independent food, food vendors and bars and things like that, you know, in this, in this one big space. And so we went in there and, you know, we have some drinks, but once again, this was right across the street from the hotel. So we didn't venture far from the hotel during the whole stay, but it was a very, very cool, uh,
and like a hip sort of area. I was impressed. I was impressed by it. I had a lot of fun. And shout out to Bottleworks. Letting me stay there. I think that we should do a pillows and beer show there, Craig, because I got a lot of DMs being like, why are you here? Why are you here? Why are you here? You should come here with pillows and beer. Why are you here? What was the best thing you ate?
Oh my gosh. Okay. And so there was this Asian fusion spot attached to the hotel actually, which we ate on Saturday night. I had some pork soup dumplings and I ended up getting these yakisoba noodles with chicken. It was delicious. So yeah, the best thing I ate was an Asian fusion place, which I know that you probably wouldn't think of that or associate an Asian fusion spot with
Indianapolis but it was quite delicious and it's the restaurant attached to Bottleworks so for those of you that live in Indy you know exactly what I'm talking about and it was quite tasty we sat at the bar everyone there was so nice it was great what we've got you know if I could pick anywhere to watch the Super Bowl it would be at a steakhouse bar yeah
I mean, plenty of them out there. Yeah. If you've ever been to Halls, I could sit right in the middle of that main bar for the Super Bowl, not the back bar, the main bar, and I would just eat apps and look forward to the fact that I had more food coming and wine. And I think that's my... Whitney and I have done it before, man, for playoff games. Like, we have posted up at those, like, middle sort...
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I will be in New York City because this week I'm going to do stuff in Charleston, which having for three, four days here is a blessing. Absolutely. And then I'm going to go to New York, though. I'm actually going to go to my first Knicks game.
Did Jared hook it up? Are you sitting courtside? I do not know what I'm doing, but I'm going with my good friend Ben Salford for like Boy With No Job and his friend. It's his friend, Josh?
No, I'm not being candid with this. His friend's a banker. He was just like, do you want to go? Because the page has fashion week stuff. And my birthday is Friday. So he was I was like, hey, like, I'm going to be in the city. Let's hang. No, that would be fun to go with Josh. But Josh lives in L.A.
we're talking about uh josh peck but um and shout out to the good guys podcast ben will be on here soon um so i'm gonna go to a basketball game i guess and then i don't know pro sporting events are so fun man pro sporting events i mean basketball you know hockey it's just a lot of fun i've only been to one basketball game two i've been to a
Annette's game in Brooklyn, and I went to the Portland team's game, but I was in a skybox. Who was the Portland... Oh, Trailblazers. Trailblazers. Trailblazers. That's when games are fun. Okay, well, that'll be fun. Wait, are you doing that on Friday, Craig? Thursday. Then Friday on my birthday, Paige has commitments, so... Really? Yeah, but I've been working this out in my head. I'm not...
A big birthday person, but this year I've been saying it a lot. I've been using it to be like, well, it's my birthday. I want to celebrate my birthday. So we're going to piece meal the weekend where I might just go down to the local shop and buy some stuff and eat it all. Because Thursday I was going to say, all right, let's hang for my birthday. But then I got this basketball invite. And then Saturday...
You know, whatever. We don't have set plans. I'm the same way, by the way, Craig. I'm the same way, man, with birthdays. I get weird about it, man, because I don't want...
someone or people to do you know something just for me so like i get i get weird about it i'm like i don't i don't want like a thing i just want to hang out with the like so the farm thing was my birthday from my friends which i was like there's nothing more that i could ask for than this so i
That was a good one. I would have, I would love to hang out with a couple people on my birthday. You know, like if we, if you guys were up there and like, you know, go out, but,
I I'm going to be fine. I'm going to be fine. But the, the super like, Oh, she got me an espresso maker that I've always wanted. She sent it to me and I, she's weird with dates. I was like, I can't wait to open your birthday present. She was like, then open it. What are you waiting for? And I was like, I was waiting for my, like to get closer to my birthday. And she's like, but you already have your present. So just open it. That's, that's funny, man. I'm, I'm that same way where I'm like, no, I'm going to wait on my birthday. Yeah.
And Paige is like, Craig, just shut up and open your present. It's already there. And you're like, okay. I was like trying to be ceremonial. So I'm going to be spending my birthday in New York. I don't know what I'm going to be doing yet. But Super Bowl is like, do you have to feel guilty if you don't do anything for it? What if you just stayed home? I think so.
I think that Super Bowl, I don't want to go out for it, but I do want to eat foods that are synonymous with the Super Bowl. So it's like, I want the wings. I want the chili. I want the dips. I want the things. That's what I do want. And I don't care if I'm sitting at home with one freaking person or if I'm at a Super Bowl party. I
But I don't want to be at a bar. I just want to eat the food that is synonymous with the cigar. That's the food that doesn't deliver well.
None of that food delivers well, and I really wish it did. Oh, well, that's so funny because Paige is always making fun of how foods don't deliver past a certain time. See, because here, man, you just roll up to the grocery store, and then you're like, seven-layer dip. I want some shrimp here. I'm going to get some wings here from this bar.
And that's so easy to do here in Charleston, Craig. It's so easy. Like you walk in, there's like a whole freaking section for, you know, Super Bowl, like seven layer dip this, that, this and the other. Boom, done out in New York. You have to order it all. And yeah, I think you go. You had mentioned Whitney's earlier. I think you go. I think that's a perfect spot is Whitney's finale shack.
I don't know what he actually named it, but are you kidding me? You have a private bar to go sit in with a big screen TV and it's actually a bar set up, which me and you love. Yeah. I'm sure the reason that we ever leave, by the way. So, so I've gone over there to watch, you know, the playoff games and such. And the only reason that we left is,
It's because he doesn't have food there, right? So it's like, you know, obviously there isn't like a kitchen. So if we bring over, you know, wings or like, you know, some dips and stuff, then yes, you're right. It's perfect. I mean, he literally has a freaking kegerator now, man. Like his taps are working. Well, and you can like open some of that champagne. He's got like commercial wine fridges in there. Yeah. Yep. Wait, who –
Who do they not have? Like, okay, this sounds silly, but I figured they, he would have a chef just cook for you. Yeah. I mean, they could, I mean, I'll, I'll actually text him and be like, Hey, why don't you, uh, you know, maybe we ordered like some fried chickens from Leon's or something. Shit. That sounds good. Or we just get like a bunch of wings from, I mean, home team. I mean, something like that, because I don't think that we need like a chef or anything, you know, it's just wings dips, uh,
And honestly, I'm good. Like that, that would make me happy as hell. He just bought a bottle of Louis Trey, Craig. You know what Louis Trey is? You know, that big, you know, gaudy crystal bottle that's at the, you know, top of like a bunch of like chop, chop houses and, you know, nicer bald. Yeah. Yeah. How much does that cost? I think he said that he bought it at auction for like $4,500.
Oh my gosh. I'm looking at it right now. You can get it online for $4,400. Yeah, I think that he'd be able to. Because I was over there last time and I was like, Whitney, because we always joke about it. Because him and I were at a bar one time
And this guy actually, the guy- 50 milliliter for 800. Yeah. I'm pretty sure that they sell it for like, you know, 400 bucks an ounce, right? And like a typical drink is like, you know, two ounces or something. So, you know, you're looking at like an $100 pour. The thing is, is that when you finish the bottle, so the bottle is crystal and I'm pretty sure that, you know, you can resell it online for like
six seven fucking hundred bucks so when you finish the bottle they let you take it so like if you get that last shot but you run the risk right because when the bottle is kind of deeper than it looks so you're sitting there and you're like i think that's the last shot and then you realize that it's not the last shot and then you just spend eight eight hundred dollars on a pour and you don't get that you don't get that bottle as a reward that's funny what happens if the restaurant doesn't do that
Oh, that's interesting. Cause I don't think that like, I think it's like a known thing. Like if you're like, if you're carrying that, then you know, then you know, and you're supposed to give it to the person with the accompanying, I mean, carrying case to the person that finished the bottle. So, so he just got a bottle of that for us. He, he has become a,
a like collector of you know liquors i mean when i go to that bar now every time that i go i'm like what's that and what's that and what's that and so when i went last time i was like where's the louis trey and he was like you know what damn it you're right and i need it and i was like whitney you're gonna get drunk or something and let the wrong people drink it and just be pissed that your bottle's gone in like a month he was like have you tried some cool stuff
Yeah. I mean, you know, he always has, he always has some good stuff. I mean, I haven't had the Louie, but if, if I go there for the Superbowl, you bet your ass, I'm going to get a drink. Some of that Louie, I'm going to have like a little taste of it at least.
13,000 for the 1.75 liter. Yes. $13,000, man. These bars pay to buy it, you know, and then they sell it by the time it's finished for like, you know, $25,000. You want to make sure you have, like if someone comes in and ask for it, like you better have it. Cause you're like, damn, that's the money I could have just made. And I don't have it.
Probably only go through, uh, actually I was about to say, I bet you only go through one a year, but I want to hear some restaurants out there. If you're like, dude, we actually clear like a decent amount of it. Yeah. Well, I mean, it's not worth it. Right. Unless you actually run just like a high, like a high end restaurant, I'd say, you know, because I am not going into just your run of the mill bar. I mean,
I would go into a bar that has a great whiskey selection and I would order Pappy maybe. I mean, once in a blue moon, right? Because Pappy, they could be like, oh yeah, 80 bucks an ounce or something.
but the Louie is so expensive. Like announced that, you know, there's no way that I'm just casually ordering that. There's no way unless it is like a celebration meal because Craig and I just signed a Spotify deal for $250 million like Joe Rogan. Then I'm, then I'm, you know, ordering up some Louie tray. Other than that, I will drink Whitney's.
Yeah, tell them I want to visit soon. Yeah. I mean, if you were in town, then I'd say that you'd be coming over. Or maybe we'd be going to your backyard. Who knows? Yeah, depending on the weather. All right, man. Who do you have winning the Super Bowl? How about that? I'm just not going to root for the Chiefs, but I think they'll win. It's tough if we're thinking conspiracy theories who the NFL wants to win more. Obviously, the revenue is already there because—
Taylor Swift is in the Super Bowl. Like, I don't think that they make more from the Chiefs winning the Super Bowl. Like, she's already there. It's the trickle. So, like, then they'd have her pictures, like, on the field celebrating and maybe at the parade, you know, maybe, like, their fans. All of a sudden, you have the Taylor Swift fans being like, we won the Super Bowl and buying, like, all of the merch. But, yeah, you're right. They already have the...
They already have it, you know, and for two weeks, you know, just leading up and everyone like us is just talking about it and this, that, and the other. I have a question. I have a question because my sister is an ultimate Swifty. You know, she knows every single lyric to every single song. And when she went to the concert, she knew like, I'm sure a lot of the women that are sitting here listening are like me too. I know everything. I can sing every word to the, to the, to the 10 minute version of Taylor's version.
And I mean, so if you're such like a diehard fan, right. And this is something that I asked my sister, I'm like, you are one of like a billion, right? So like, you aren't like any more special than every other fan who's just as like obsessed with Taylor Swift. You know, this isn't like a niche, you know, cool, cool thing anymore. It's like a fifth of the population is like a diehard fucking Taylor Swift fan. So like,
You know, I mean, do people are so anxious to be like, oh my God, well, I listened to her, you know, prior, you know, to her being famous and not just her, you know, that applies to like a lot of things like, oh my gosh, I listened to so-and-so band before they got big. Like if you're a Taylor Swift fan, you know, congratulations. So is the entire world.
Yeah. No, people always say that. Well, I listened to him before they were on the... Right. And there's no doing that with Taylor Swift anymore. So do you feel special? Do some people feel like, oh man, well, I loved her and then she just...
Why, for one, am I not going to go after the Swifties? I am not going after the Swifties. That's what killed rock and roll, Alex. But if you want to read how... Alex! Nick, you're fired! I literally got in an argument with one of my buddies about this. That's named Alex, is why. If you want to read why some people think she got famous...
You can find it on Google and it has to do with the CIA PSYOP program that they introduced in 2019. That just got put on your tinfoil helmet, y'all. But she was famous before 2019. I know, but mega famous. And I just said some people out there have a theory to because Austin just said a fifth of the people in the world are fans of her. And I said, well, there's a theory behind that.
I mean, I only made up that number because of what we talked about last week where it said – where we said that like a fifth of the voters could be persuaded by who Taylor –
like endorses. So, so I just kind of made it up from, from there. Yeah. That's why they were basically in our tinfoil corner this week, they say that the CIA was like, how about we take someone as popular as Taylor Swift and turn her into an asset. And basically if we pump money behind her and make her super famous, then anything that she, you know, endorses, we can like have power with or something crazy. It's a ridiculous thing that is exist on the internet right
Do you think that Taylor Swift can freaking wield the gat, Greg? No. No. I think it'd be cool if she could. If she's part of the CIA, then they probably trained her. I didn't say she's an operative. Maybe she is. That'd be so cool. Spies like us. I would tell you this.
After shooting a handgun, you'll be a lot more appreciative of the people in the shows and movies that you watch that take some of those precise close quarters combat shots. Right. And then you're like, oh, man, headshot, headshot, headshot. You're like, three shots, three headshots. Okay. Now, the long gun, I'm good with. What is that? Also, intruder. Rifle style gun. Yeah, like a shotgun or a rifle. Okay.
I suck at shooting all guns, dude. I mean, we've done it on the show a few times. Well, when I went pheasant hunting, I actually had a pretty good shot. It certainly caught Chelsea's eye, but I actually suck at shooting guns. Nick, what do you mean by did you shoot traps or clays? No, skeet or trap. So skeet, it goes across you. Trap, it shoots away from you.
The style of skeet shooting that I was doing? Yeah, I was just curious if you guys were shooting trap or skeet. The one that goes out from you. That'd be trap, okay. I'm just curious. Skeet's a lot harder. It would have been, what, side to side? Yeah. Yeah, you're kind of right because some I would let go to the right and they were harder to hit than just down the barrel. I mean, it shot diagonal, but I guess you're right. It's still in front of you.
I should have practiced left or right, actually. I love shooting shotguns. That was probably my favorite shoot, personally. Do you have a shotgun? No, I do not. Come find out, anybody. Show me your shotgun. Come find out.
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