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sometimes no host uh austin i guess is still in mexico he ran away from us i mean it's i don't know i get going on like a trip like that for three days and then coming home but he's he's been gone for like two weeks like i told like the owner of our show that today and he was like well that's just the fish culture man like you know they they make a whole like

I'm like, I don't care what the culture is. Go do your concert. Maybe two for like, you know, how you would even survive or like have the tolerance for more than two concerts. Back to back nights is crazy. How many did he do? Do you know?

I'm assuming an absurd amount. I was talking to my dad about this and my dad wasn't, he goes, that's the favorite thing you've ever told me about Craig, that he's left a fish show before the encore. He goes, that's the, that is exactly what I would have done. Well, I haven't heard for like two hours. It goes on for like two and a half hours, the same song for two and a half hours. And yeah, I had a blast. I had,

my pocket full of peanuts and I had a big draft beer and I just like, I looked at all the animatronics and like jammed out and it was fun to see like the energy of how excited everyone was. But yeah, that was time to time to go home. Um,

I want to give a shout out to Florida citrus. I don't know if you've been following my reach at recent grapefruit journey, Nick. I have a grapefruit tree in my backyard that I got about, I'd say 40 to 50 decent grapefruits off of this year, which are 30 to 40. No, maybe 40 to 50, which is crazy. And you trim it and everything this year.

I don't know how to take care of it. So the people that I bought it from are, and I, that was kind of all of my plants was you can go crazy with this landscaping, but I don't want to lose it. And so the, the architect that did my backyard, his crews come and,

Oh, that's good. Yeah. Cause those trees can get, that's pretty fun though. I would love to go fruit. It was great. And I didn't think I was South enough for it, but I, you know, I always read like we're in not district nine, some nine a and I do. And but so I, it was funny because I didn't pick my grapefruits in the beginning of the season for a while because I was waiting for them to turn like orange and

But the tree that I have and growing your own grapefruit, they don't turn orange. They say yellow or something. Yellow. Yeah. Yeah. Really faint, like bright, faint, like yellow. And I mean, it's like, obviously it's close to orange, but just not like the ones that you get. And man, so I got hooked on eating grapefruits again. You know, a half every, you know,

day or two, like my grandparents, because we used to go to Florida and I remember my granny would let me climb the tree, even though my parents would say no, because I think it was like a community grapefruit tree, but it was huge. And anyway, it was brought back memories of them. And then I started to squeeze the grapefruits after letting them really ripen on the counter for a little bit, which I had to figure out how soon after picking them to eat them anyway.

Florida Citrus reached out and was like, you need grapefruit spoons. So they sent me grapefruit spoons, which was very nice of them. And a box of grapefruits from Hale Groves. So if you want to order and I'm and I only have two more grapefruits on the tree and they're pretty. I probably should have picked them. So now I have a dozen grapefruits from Florida.

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That's where you can get them. So shout out to them. And also this company called Mostly Chocolate is all I'm gifting people for now on. It is the most beautiful chocolate I've ever seen in my life. And they came by the store and they were so awesome during one of my meet and greets, like pillow signings. And they told me about their company and I gave them my address and they sent them to me. But Nick, this does not do it justice. This is what their chocolates look like. But in person, they are amazing.

absolute works of art and they all have like a different flavor, which is cool. But the company's called Mostly Chocolate and started very similar to Sewing Down South. So, oh, and Hell of a Good is really winning this like onion dip challenge between them and Dean's. I mean, Hell of a Good has sent me the coolest stuff

Paige was like, you better have told hell of a good that I was the one that started to bring that into your house. And I was like, I did not tell them that. But hell of a good you have converted me. I'm a hell of a good guy. Hell of a good guy. But yeah, I mean, we haven't talked to our best in a while. We took a little two week break there. Catch you up on some old episodes. Excited to be back. My primary place of stay is

It's about to be Charleston again. We are migrating back down here. Went to... It's funny. I want to tell you about this very New York thing I did. It was like an underground dinner. Like a speakeasy type dinner? It was speakeasy. Well, it was a speakeasy. Oh, that's not true. It was like a private room, but...

It was some very intelligent people, like very intelligent people. And it was like a 16 person dinner and I got to go. And it was a like single conversation at the dinner table type thing where like the host started it and everyone listened, man, was it really cool. But I guess there's no point in talking about it on the podcast because I can't tell you who I sat next to who was so awesome. But it was really cool, you know? And I think,

Like Austin was like, well, how did you get that? And I was like, I didn't get anything. I'm putting myself in positions to be able to say yes to an opportunity. I mean, he was pumped for me, but I was like, you're in Mexico. Even if they emailed you and asked you to come to this dinner, what would you be doing? Yeah. He'd still be in Mexico. Yeah. He would be in Mexico. But Nick and I had fun in Charlotte, California.

This past weekend, it was nice meeting everyone at the Charlotte Home and Design Show. We stayed at JW Marriott. Yeah, downtown Charlottesville. Or Charlottesville, Charlotte. Nick met me there. And we... The first night... Well, there was only...

No, I got there on Thursday because I like to get there night before I speak just to get settled in and have my pre-morning routine or my morning routine. So after our event on Friday, the downstairs bar was packed, the steakhouse. So we went to an oyster house on the second floor of our hotel and we

I hadn't been, I hadn't had really any drinks, but we like in a, in a while, but that hotel bar with friendly bartenders and raw oysters, I had two glasses of wine and the one was, the one was plenty. And it's, it's funny because, but we were having so much fun, you know, like that's my thing is you don't want the night to end. And by, I shouldn't say night, I should say evening.

I was going to say we were in bed by 930. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, but that's, so that's kind of part of what my journey has been, has re has been redefining. Like it really, it truly is redefining your relationship with like what a social event looks like and redefining your relationship with alcohol. Like

I was basically like, if this was last year or two years ago and I was like, you know, I just hadn't done it in a while. And you're like, okay. So we probably got home at like two in the morning, but not too bad. We were in bed by nine 30 and I'm talking about it. Like it was a, a heavy night, but I think that's the goal. Right. So now if my splurging now means like having an extra glass of wine at dinner and getting to bed at five,

At 930, I'm going to tell you, though, I felt it the next day and I was like, this is why I don't do this anymore. It's fucking poison. But it was it was my body dealt with the poison a lot better in my 20s. Maybe not. Maybe not me.

But no, I, you know, it was, it was so fun. And I think in the past that would have led to being like, well, why stop now? Like, let's go to the next bar. And I think like, that's why it's,

I've had to like not feel sometimes I feel guilty and you're like dude there's nothing to feel guilty about but it's great when you're in a hotel like that where you got two great bars you don't have to leave the hotel and you know you got a nice bed waiting for you you're just like let's just go down for a couple hours have fun then be in bedtime and there was no pressure you know like we were just hanging even the bartenders were talking to us and um

We, you know, Nick had dessert. I had like a cheese board. That was easily the funniest thing of the night for me. It really confused a lot of the servers. Craig goes to, I guess, the bathroom and texts me. He goes, you know, order a cheese board and do whatever you want for dessert. And I'm like, all right, I'm going to get a brownie sundae. And Craig gets a meat and cheese board. And the server comes and she's like, all right, I got a brownie sundae for you. And then he's asking the bartender where the meat and cheese board goes.

Yeah. Like right here. But it's funny. Like I went, I just looked at my, my app and I had, I had gone like nine or 10 days without having a drink. And the reason I tell you that is because to me, I was like, Oh, I was only like nine days or, you know, I was just like, Oh, well that's like,

It's a little more like it's not as big of a gap as I usually would have. And then I was like, Craig, you when I first started the app, I'm not going to lie. Like one whole day was like so crazy.

Like to put a zero down for a day and not have a glass of wine, like that was a big deal. But then like two or three days, you're like, okay, three days I can do like three days. But then four days you're like, well, that cuts into like a Thursday or Friday or Saturday. And I'm going to have to see people. I'm going to have an event. I'm just saying like to do a week before used to be like a really big accomplishment and it still is. But now like it was 10 days and I was like, no, I'm a bad influence.

Oh yeah. I mean, if you were not there, I would not have drank. But that's my thing is that those social, like sitting at the bar with good food without any exterior pressure, like you're just in a happy place. But anyway, if I can do it, anyone can do it. The app is called Reframe. They don't know I talk about them. And I...

feel perfectly happy to do so because it changed my life and um apparently a lot of other people's i'm getting messages about anyway let's take a quick break we'll be right back after a word from our sponsors everyone has a welcome to adulthood moment paying rent for the first time traumatic

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Angela, his wife, and she said that he must have left because he was gay, which is wild. If you watch 90 Day Fiance, like this is... I haven't watched that show in years. Coming from the woman that used to accuse him of going to strip clubs all the time and stuff. Not that, whatever. Yeah, no, I got you. And then he called the cops from a burner phone when he saw that she was...

making all these Instagrams, like saying Michael's missing. And he's like, yeah, I ran from the house when she like went to the gas station. Like I was feared for my life. I mean, the fact that some of these people have still have stories going on is, is incredible. Do you watch or does Paige, I'm assuming probably does that love is blind. Yeah. She, she loves it. She said it's a, they're having a great season. I caught, I,

I caught the end of an episode where this couple that picked, like he picked the girl through the show, um,

like he shared his location with her and then went to the other girl's house at like five in the morning and she just sets this trap like I mean was this the guy because I was playing with my buddies earlier and I guess they watched with their you know their significant others and they're like yeah there's just like this one guy pretty much like told the girl he's like yeah I might cheat on you so there is that oh I don't know no I mean I think I think there's a couple guys

in hot water but that's wild but this guy she just sets this trap and he just keeps talking and talking and talking and then she's like well i because at first he's like that's why i shared my location

And she doesn't say anything. He's like, we were just in the parking lot. And then finally she's like, don't share your location if you don't want the other person to actually check where you are. And I know that you weren't in the parking lot. And then he's like, I don't want to talk about that part right now. And he's saying it because they're filming. And you can be like, you're like, wow, dude. Wow. Like you...

like that's such a piece of shit thing to do but he's like and it's just funny because I've seen it before you know when you're like not right now not right now and you're like dude what do you like like everyone would have to be in agreeance to let you out of that in that moment and it's just yeah here just take your shovel and the problem is is if you get up and walk out to end the scene they have you walking out and so like that's almost worse than staying in it

Yeah, but they they're filming in Charlotte. So that's they were there when we were. Oh, they were okay. I didn't even know that. Yeah. No, it's funny. I there's just so much going on. I think we're going to open a I don't know if this is a secret, but we can tell our besties, but we're making it all. We've teased it before. Yeah. So we're making an offer on a place in in Nashville.

which would be a wild. Yeah. I mean, that's all you've said before is you're just trying to, uh, Nashville's the next stop. You just don't know. We hopefully found the spot. So that's, um, that's cool. The other thing about, uh, sorry, I'm just like talking all over the place. This travel is starting to get to me. Like I've been on, like you said, you're about to be home for a little bit. Yeah. Like stuff like the social tank is, um,

It's not as high as it used to be because, you know, I talked to everyone obviously when I'm. We got some fun announcements to make for our besties for where we'll be end of the summer. We've got some new locations that we're looking at to see you guys right now. We'll tell them. Well, I'm not supposed to tell them yet. So I've missed teasing. How can you tease that? It's called being a tease, Craig. You got to tease it. Where are they? Are they on this list?

No, I don't think they're on that list. Let's just say Denver will be coming to you end of summer. I can't say the date yet. Right. That's good. At least we're moving to the west of the Mississippi. Yes, we are staying out there. There's a couple others that we're looking at. Just nothing officially yet. The Denver one is officially happening, though. Yeah, that's...

That's good. What's this? A pimento cheese penguin. So yeah. So I, one of the episodes I played was, uh, I guess the part two with page and you talking about your penguin and everybody's like, we need an update on the penguin. Yeah, I do too. I would love an, an update on where my, my son is. Pimento cheese Conover is missing, which is bull crap page. I don't even know if she cares anymore. Um,

I thought I was going to get to meet him, but I did not. Yeah, that's pages are actually a pretty good gift giver. Yeah, we don't know where pimento cheese is. So now we have we actually have four stuffed animals as our kids. And a lot of people know that, but they each have names and

There's one that's named Pretty. She travels with me. This was not planned, but I travel with a stuffed animal now. What type? What's the animal? They are squished mellows. So they don't look like an animal. I got to look it up. Looks like an egg.

oh okay so squish is in summer house which is crazy that she took her there but basically they're really good travel pillows um and they're really good to like put under your arm in the bed but they all have a story and i've gotten them like our first one ready um i wanted like a claw game when we first started the date um and so they each have and we just got our last one's name is jelly it's a bear from aspen um he's the youngest

But she just left Squish in L.A. And I had to call the hotel and, like, locate this stuffed animal because, like, it means a lot to her. And what it gave me, I was like, I can't believe you left our child in L.A. But anyway, it was funny because...

I had to be like, this is so important to our child. To like the hotel person because they're like, oh my gosh, I'm sure your daughter is like distraught. And I was like, yes, yes. It's not my girlfriend. My 31-year-old girlfriend. But no, I mean, Squish has been with us through a lot. So yeah.

Now, to be fair, I did say, I was like, well, what would you do with the kids if we broke up? And she's like, I'd throw them away. And I was like, oh my gosh. And she's like, well, yeah. But then she laughed and she's like, but Squish is staying with me. I'll just make up like a whole new story for her. But yeah, so she finally made it back to New York and we had to have like an assistant like

That's so funny. Would you have gotten her just the same one and said it was... Would you have been that type of parent? Your goldfish died, but here's your new goldfish. It would have stung a little bit because she always keeps it in the same part of her carry-on bag. When she got on the plane, she was like, oh my gosh. I left. Of course, Sarah, but

I would have to give her the one that I travel with or she would just take it. And then I would try to find as close to us, you know, actually Squish is a pig, I think. But yeah, I have to. I would try to find the same one for her. But like we wash them and stuff. Anyway, we're.

The dog conversation is increasing heavily. Like Paige told me this morning, she was like, I'm getting a dog. And I was like, all right. Dogs have to get for a city though. I was like, I have told you that I don't, like, I just don't want it to cut into, I don't see how it's going to be possible. Because one, when we travel for work, we travel by ourselves. So unless you take someone-

to watch the dog and i have a feeling when she brings him down here then he's just going to stay here because i have the big back yeah yeah backyard you got a house that he can just flop around it that's what i was saying i'm shocked you haven't gotten a cat or something greg because they can just pretty much you can just leave them on their own for a couple days if i was here more i would but i mean like i haven't been here for more than four days in a row and

you know, over six months. Yeah. But cats are easy. Like you literally just have someone just like stop by like every couple of days to take care of them if you really need to. Yeah. But I would want to spend the first like three months of their lives with them. Yeah. So they get a bonding. During filming, I would just have to be like, all right, I have this animal that doesn't. No, I'm excited for that day though. But I have a feeling we're going to get multiple animals. That's how it always goes.

I am on, there's a potential that I'm starting a beekeeping journey. Yes, I'm aware of. You were there when this all started. I saw the book. Yeah, but remember why I bought the book? Yes, I do. You were there. You got local honey from a nice, a wonderful vendor at the Charlotte Home Show. And because you like local honey. Well, local honey is hard to find because if you go to your...

Like country store. Do you not have like, and I guess it's probably hard for you to go to something like that in Charleston, but like a farmer's market? We have one during the summer, but not all year round. Like the spring and the summer. And I think there's two or three in the area, but it's only one day a week. But Sonia. Yes. Sonia's.

Yeah, if you live in Charlotte, she doesn't have an Instagram or anything, but if you live in Charlotte, she makes local honey. So she basically, excuse me, we were talking and I was like, if you buy honey in a country store, most of the time it says like made for that store and it doesn't come from local bees. And this lady, Sonia, was like, I, my granddaughter has bad allergies. And they basically said, if you give her honey throughout the winter,

um like local honey it will build her tolerance up to that pollen uh through the honey she couldn't find it so she started you know keeping bees and now she has all this honey but i'm a honey snob and it's really good so but i love anything outside like that and

So space restrictions, I'm fine on. Like, I actually have plenty of room for it. We don't know if it's allowed in my community. So Anna Hayward's checking on that. It should be because it helps everything within a three mile radius. Like it's all about pollination, all that type of stuff. Gardens like for my orange trees and the garden, like apparently your yield just goes up and your flowers go crazy. Yeah. They're not very aggressive either.

either. They're not like, no, like Hornets or anything like that. Right. They're just bees. It's not like a yellow jacket. I mean, if you go piss them off, they're going to attack you, but it's hard to piss off those. They're, they're, they're terror. Like they're, they're defensive. They're not aggressive. Yeah. No, you go push over their fricking box or whatever that you have. Yeah. They're going to be pissed off. And even then I don't really think that they chase, but only issue that I've run into, which it's,

It's messed up that I would care, but I do because I hate mosquitoes so bad. So when you come to my house, you will never get bit by a mosquito because as terrible as it is, like I spray my backyard. Hell yeah. And it's, it would kill the bees though. I'm pretty sure. Yeah. That wouldn't be good. I mean, like natural mosquito repellent, but that doesn't really work. Yeah. So I, I,

It was enough to pause me because I'm reading the book and I'm so excited. And it takes about, you know, six to seven months, you know, before you start to get honey, you only check on your bees like every nine days is like a healthy amount. So like you just let them do their thing. You set it and forget it and you just go check on them. And every town has like a local beekeeper association. Paige is so into this. She thinks it's,

you know, like a fun, like she thinks it's fun and cute. Um, but she thinks it's cool too, because apparently the vibrations of the bees are like an incredible frequency for your body. So it just helps you like, you know, attached to nature a little more. Um,

But I would be devastated if my bees died. But I also get so pissed off at mosquitoes. I would be fine. Like, I'm a big bug spray guy. So I'm fine wearing bug spray. But I don't know if I want everyone that comes over to the pool to have to wear bug spray. But maybe mosquitoes don't get bad near a pool. I don't know. And I have turf.

Yeah, that's tough, especially where you are, though, because like Charleston is like such a swamp area. And I have wood in the back. Yeah. So if you have any ideas on how to murder the mosquitoes, but not my bees, my future bees. Yeah. Let me know. All right. We're going to take another quick break. We'll be right back to pillows and beer.

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Austin is gone to Mexico. Craig's going to have to bail him out from the cartel. No, I'm not doing that shit anymore or ever. Like it's not – I'm happy where – You had your one run in. You're good. I had a really actually nice run in with the cartel once. Well, they're pretty nice. I mean, yeah. I mean, like they were – it was – we were on a bachelor party to –

Mexico and the house we rented happened to be, it was all connected and we were so protected on that trip. Yeah, they don't want anything to happen to you. Yeah, it was great. Now I have a scary, scary story that happened in Colombia. Yeah, I was going to say that's a whole other breed of cartel. Yeah, and my friends were dumb.

Well, actually, I was in Columbia because after second season, I had spent most of my money on nothing, you know, just like, you know, going out and stuff. But I didn't have any money to go for it. And I was like, when we got third season, I was like, I'm going to stamp my passport. Like, no matter what, I'm going to stamp my passport because that, you know, to me counts as, you know, something to show for those experiences. And so my buddy goes to a different country in South America every year. Went to Cartagena.

Me and two best friends. But then the one best friend's friend that we didn't know called him and was like, yo, like I'm in Argentina. I see you're in Columbia. Like I'm going to come up there. And he showed up and he was out of his fricking mind. Like, wow. Cause you know, dude, yeah, I'd rather go to a Colombian jail than go home to my family. You know? And I'm like, we were on totally different. Yeah.

like wavelengths i love my life in america i'm just here to get a stamp and like a cultural experience and he was like ah man i'd rather stay down here than go back to that shit and i was like we're we're and i knew it and then he got us in trouble and um i mean it worked you know you had to you have to

It was a story for another day, but we were fine. But I left the next day because I was like, dude, I don't need like, you know, my other two friends were like, you're being a little dramatic, Craig. And I was like, I'm good, guys. Like, I'm not running from anything. I'm like not chasing anything. I just came down here to say I did it. Charleston's about enough thrill for me. But my parents...

hey babe i'm almost done my podcast how dare she yeah all right love you nick says hi um so i actually i was on a had been traveling a little bit and when i decided to go on this trip i was like i can't tell my parents like and like that wasn't like me but i was like i just can't tell him i'm going to columbia like

My they just want in. It would scare the crap out of them. Like I was like, my mom won't sleep for the three days or four days until I'm back. And my dad's going to be just like, you know, worried for different reasons, just knowing what could happen. And like all my mom knew about Columbia was what you hear like on the news and stuff. And so I was like, I'll just tell him when I get back. And so they were at.

a restaurant called Blue Coast in Bethany Beach that we all used to like, you know, work at those restaurants in Soto. And they ran into my friend, my friend's parents, because we grew up at home together. And his mom was like, how crazy is it that the boys are in Columbia together? Yeah.

And my mom was like, oh, is there a football game this weekend? Like thinking like. Columbia, South Carolina. And my dad started to pick up on it. And he was like, and my friend's mom was like, no, like the country. And I got a text from my dad that was like, do you have something to tell us? Or do you like, yeah, like, do you have something? Did you forget to tell us something? That's what it was. And I was like, gosh.

They're like, what are you doing there? And I was like, I'm just on a trip. Wildly, though. So in my mind, in my eyes, Cartagena is a great two day trip and then just go somewhere else for me because it's one of the oldest like forts in the, you know, new age history. It's been conquered like eight times, like it's a ton of gold. Like, it's really neat.

But you can see it all in, you know, in two days. Yeah, exactly. You don't need to just stay there. So, yeah, I've had some... I've had... None of my trips to South America are ever like, yeah, so we went down for like a real relaxing couple of days and then came back. I love that. Like Aruba, like I love Aruba. It's like, I'll just go there. It's calm. And we're the Virgin Islands. I think that's where my...

brother wants to do his bachelor party is somewhere in the virgin islands that's fun yeah see that's fun like i get all like my friends like yeah i want to go to like russia i want to go to like istanbul i'm like that's fun and all but i'm like nick that's an absurd thing to say no one says that

No one says I want to go to Russia for my bachelor party. Not bachelor party, but they don't want to go on vacation there and see the different cities and everything. I'm like, well, that's really cool. Have fun with that. There's a time and a place. It is cool, but it's also cool to just go lay on the beach for three days and become best friends with the bartender at the beach bar or the pool bar. You can also just go to Austria. That's just as fun to me. There's plenty of history there. I don't have any...

way to relate to what you're saying i don't know that like going to istanbul and like they're like yeah we're gonna go to like egypt and stuff i get it like he just like sort of like cool-ish safe-ish but still like through all that i'm not going anywhere that i can get arrested what's australia austria's like super like really pretty like if you look up uh oh it's what the hell is it called um it's right on the border of like switzerland uh

It's super pretty. It's crazy nice. Croatia, that's where I'd love to go there. I thought I'd been there. My brother and Paige almost did Yacht Week the same year, but it wasn't the same year. I was like, that would have been wildly weird if you guys knew each other from that, or just wild. But...

one of her best friends and her husband just went to Amsterdam in this. And they were like, he was like, it's my, in my top three places now. And it's not third. He was like, you've got, he was like, we'll come right back with you guys. If you want to do a trip here. Yeah. That's what everybody says. They just say it's super, it's super unique and cool. And the people are really nice. Yeah. My uncle that was a pilot said, said the same thing. Um,

Salzburg, Austria is what I was thinking of. Okay. Yeah, I don't know. Like, like, Austin went to Istanbul this year, didn't he? No, no, no, no, no. He went to Morocco. Yeah. Which is still borderline iffy for me. And he's like, I've never been a solo traveler. Like, I love solo traveling. You do? Yeah. Yeah.

I can solo travel. And people are like, well, you do, you meet people and you share it with them and then you move on. But like, those are. You don't even need to meet anyone. I just got to just do my own thing and have fun. Yeah. Time. I don't really make a memory unless it's with like, you know, a buddy. Don't get me wrong. If I'm with someone, it's great, but I can totally go to like a, on a vacation for a week by myself and just have plenty of fun.

Yeah. I mean, I respect that. I'm just like this dinner. I just went to, I was all nervous before leaving the apartment, but Paige was filming watch what happens. So she couldn't come with me. And my partner, Amanda was supposed to come, but she couldn't make it. And so I was like, I'm pretty like, like nervous going into this. And she's like, Craig, you talk to everyone all the time. What are you talking about? And I was like, yeah, but I'm always have a guy with me or a girl. Like I'm the, I'm,

I'm like the friend who then, yes, I be like, I can take over the room and talk to everyone, but I still have my buddy, you know, guy or girl there, like as my home base. But like, I can't just go work the room by myself. And it was, um, I told the hostess when I got there, I was like, I'm not, she was like, Oh, it's back there. And I was like, I'm not used to going into places by myself. And she was like, Oh, well, yeah. I mean, I see. Yeah.

Yeah, that's a little different, I guess, if you're not going to be drinking that much, if you're going into a situation like that. That definitely makes it a little harder. And I was like looking around the room and most people just had like water cups when we first got here. Well, that makes it easier. Yeah, I had something to hold, but. All right, man. Well, it's been a pleasure. I'm excited for when Austin does join us. We've got plenty of stuff to talk about. Oh, do you want to say where you'll be Friday in Charleston? We will be at the Chicks in the Office live show.

at is it at charleston music hall i think so what what time's the show eight o'clock eight o'clock here i can tell you right now let me pull my phone if there's still tickets come see us me and austin um are gonna be the girls guest they were just on the podcast excuse me shouldn't be yawning on here that's crazy um

And I'm just so relaxed with you. The Riviera is where you guys will be at. Oh, cool. Right across from Charleston Place. Okay, so up King Street a little bit. That's where Paige and Hannah did their live show. So that's Friday. Saturday, I'm having a pillow party that starts at 1 o'clock. Come get your pillow signed. Have a drink. Take a picture. Have some fun.

And then that next week I'm in Atlanta at the home shows, right? Or is it that in two weeks? Two weeks. Yeah. Jerry was just texting me about that. I think that is in two. I think it's like 20. You can Google it. It's like Atlanta home show. Yeah. It's the 22nd. No, that's February. Sorry. Yeah. The 22nd of March.

But this Saturday I'll be having an event at the store and on Friday we have a show with the girls. And then if I can give one shout out for any of my Virginia people, we are moving into a new shop in downtown Charlottesville right now this week. So come check us out, downtown Charlottesville. Stay tuned when we actually put out the date when we're actually officially in there. Yes, Hawkeye Outdoor Living.

We've got new merch. We've got new merch and our sleeping pillows are back in stock. So go to ZoomingDownSouth.com and follow my new journey. As a beekeeper, potentially. Yeah, on Instagram. All right. Well, we love you all and we'll see you soon.

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