Craig Christopherson | Discussion Combustion Podcast | #293

[00:00:00] We'll have this discussion. Discussion? What discussion? This is a discussion. Combustion. Coming to you from Denver, Colorado, this is Discussion Combustion Podcast with your hosts Kevin Batstone and Arthur Rawe. I went on a good winning run up there for a little bit in Blackhawk. It's a fun town. You know, I think Blackhawk's a lot of fun. Blackhawk's legit. It's pretty. It's very walkable.

[00:00:27] It's walkable. There's a lot of options. You know, I wouldn't say the restaurant options are the... Well, I don't want to say they're terrible, but you're a little bit more constricted on what... The best restaurant option is at the Monarch. I think the Immersive is pretty good too. The Immersive is pretty good too. That's the only two that you're going to get decent options at. Right. Yeah, Valleys. Clint and I did the 777. Don't do that. I'm happy you guys didn't get food poisoning. We rolled... That was the biggest gamble of the night. It was the 777 Prime Rib at Valleys. Sorry, but that shit was rough.

[00:00:55] When we walked into the cafeteria to eat it, it was nothing but old people and oxygen there eating it with us. And so we knew... It felt like it was a scene out of... What was that movie? Pulp Fiction? No, not Pulp Fiction. Vegas Vacation. That's kind of what it was. Changing 500! Changing 500! Give me some of the yeller. It's a great movie with Cousin Eddie. I would have to see it. How about we save everyone some time here? I'll just give you a swift kick in the balls and call it a day.

[00:01:21] Oh, that's fun stuff. Yeah, gambling... I'm going to pump the brakes on it, I think. I've been doing the DraftKings though and having some luck with it. At 50-50. You know, ever since I won that big jackpot, I've won a couple dollars here and there. But you know what? I'm still extremely net positive from what I've deposited in that count over the years. So what I've taken away from it, and I know that's not the norm. What was that bet exactly? What did you play that hit that?

[00:01:47] So I played a $9 bet where the grand prize was $100,000. And it was for the playoffs in January for NFL. That's right. So the strategy is good because there's less teams to choose from, right? Because there's only so many teams in the playoffs. So you have less teams, less players to pick from. So I believe the probabilities go higher that way. And dude, I just... I selected the perfect lineup.

[00:02:17] And I think I've told you guys this story. I was one Russell Wilson either TD pass or 60-yard pass away. From the jackpot. From winning first place to $100,000. I went second place and got 25 grand. And how many pick parlay was it? Like 10? I think there's eight players you pick. Eight, okay. I mean, that's hard to nail that though. There's so many variables. You know, that's the biggest thing that's killing me right now in these NBA playoffs is I'll hit like four out of five legs.

[00:02:45] And then I miss it by like two rebounds. I stopped doing parlays because I get so upset because I'll nail it for like 90% and miss the last pick. I'm like, man. But if you hit that sumbitch, it pays big. Oh, you can hit major on parlays. Like a $10 bet, 500 bucks. But these daily fantasies, you can hit major on a lot of the jackpots depending on what they are, are $250,000 to $100,000. That's life changing. It is. Where are you betting on that though? Is that through a separate? I do it on FanDuel. On FanDuel. See, I'm a DraftKings guy.

[00:03:12] It's the same, same, same stuff, but yeah, it's just a different platform. But the premise is completely the same. Right. Because then there's what bet MGM ESPN has one. So you have your daily fantasies, which I've won the most money off, or you have your sports books. So you're doing parlays on sports books. Yes. And you can win some major money there. I think it's a little bit more calculated, a little bit more research involved. When you do daily fantasy, like I've been playing fantasy since the inception of daily fantasy or fantasy football.

[00:03:41] So it's like in my wheelhouse. So I just always feel like my probability is higher to winning that than anything else. Well, I mean, you won 25K. So obviously you did something, right? Yeah. I mean, over time I've won $28,000 in my time of playing daily fantasy. So you're definitely net positive big time. Yeah. That's good. That is awesome. Yeah. See, I don't know enough about sports to feel confident betting on sports. We know how much Art loves sports. I'm just very busy. No, I get it.

[00:04:10] I don't have too much time to watch that kind of stuff. I don't necessarily watch it, but I'll keep up with the scores. Who's doing what? Who's winning? You know. But I'll tell you, if you do put some money down, like when I'll put some money down on like a NASCAR Sunday or something, or like on the fights when we watch UFC, like watching that event. It makes it more fun. Yeah. It's a lot more fun when you got some money on the table. Yeah. The MMA ones are, are, are fun. Cause they make me anything with the fighting because like, Oh, and then you could select it.

[00:04:40] It'd be like, choose the winner by knockout, choose the winner by submission, choose which round they get, uh, you know, submitted or knocked out. Like just makes it so much fun. Well, that's where you can really start to stack it up. Like in baseball, you can be like, all right, you know, third inning this batter, which is plate appearance going to be is a single double strikeout home run. And if you nail that, that's where, that's where the betting is instead of taking the money line or the over under. Right. I mean, that's one way to bet, but you're really not going to gain much profit that way. No. Cause you're basically playing safe, right? You're playing safe, but it's just not worth it.

[00:05:09] The net gains aren't really there. It's not, it's not enough to get excited. You know, I came very close to winning a parlay, a two on basketball, uh, to a two player parlay first buckets. So if this player made the first bucket of the game and this player made the first bucket of their game, I was going to win big. I hit on half of it. And the other one took the shot, hit the rim bounced out and someone else laid it up. I was like, Oh man, I would have won $15,000 on a $20 bet.

[00:05:38] That would be a, that would be that's, that's, that's where the game is. Gambling really gets tough though. Cause you're like, I almost had it. Let me try it again. Exactly. You know, I had a blast when we went to the, uh, horse races with pops and I, I fucking came out on top and I drank like six tall, like banquet tall boys. That was probably two years ago. Like we were, we were getting down to horse betting and stuff. And I was like, I was starting to get it by the end. And I was like, okay. And I'll just spread the bets out on like a multiple different horses. You were the only one that won that.

[00:06:07] And it hit and it hit dude. And I like, we left and I was like putting an extra $60 in my pocket. You ever do horse betting? It was fun. I've never done horse betting. I've never done greyhound racing. I haven't done the greyhounds, but I'll tell you what, Valley's Arapahoe park right up there of Quincy and four 70. I think that's, that's where it is. Great facility. You know, live track betting. You get up there. It's like, they got food, all the things you want. It feels like the Kentucky Derby in there. Yeah. It's pretty bad. So then we should do that. Cause that's right in my wheelhouse. Super fun. I don't think they start doing live racing until July or August.

[00:06:37] That makes sense. I want to get, I want to get back. I've got to get back out there. And I know my girl, my wife would love that too. She'd have a blast. And you don't have to bet heavy. Like you can bet a buck a horse or whatever, however you want to do it. You know, cause horse betting is a little different. Like you can do trifectas, exact a box, Quinilla bets. Right. I usually run Quinilla bets. Basically I'm saying the first and second horse can finish either and either one. I'm just saying who's going to place P one, two. Okay. Yeah. That's how I bet. I think that's how I, how I want it. Dan was, well, you were taking like long shot horses. Yeah.

[00:07:06] I was going with the underdogs. Yeah. He was taking like 30 to one horses. I'm like, dude, that thing ain't going to win. Here he comes. Oh, dude. I was like, fuck it. Let's go. That's what we're talking about. You have to win in gambling. You got to take some risks. You got to take some risks. Screaming and shit. Yeah. Gambling. That's my biggest problem. Gambling is cause like, I don't want to just go out there and bet $5. Like, cause then what if I went then, then I'm walking away with 10 bucks. That's why I don't like the money. What is that? So it's like, you know, yeah, I want to throw down like $20, throw down a $50 bet.

[00:07:35] And then like, I lose that money immediately almost. And it's tough. And it's tough because it's like, especially when I'm playing roulette and it's like, okay, sure. It might land on double zero, but it's, it's almost a 50, 50, right? Sort of. And then for some reason it keeps landing on the exact opposite color that I choose. Like I go red, it hits black. And then I lost $150 in like fucking five minutes. So what you're saying out loud to the whole universe, as they watched this podcast is that you're just not good at probabilities.

[00:08:05] Well, when it comes to horses, yes, you could call me an equestrian, but when it comes to the, to the gambling tables, bro, I don't know what is going on. I'm telling you this, the best odds in the casino is Baccarat. Well, plain and simple. You play, is that, is that the case? Because I've heard by so many, I want some of our good friends that craps is the highest probability for the gambler. Craps has the most opportunities to pay out because you can have so many bets. You can be on the pass line. You can be, you know, you can go on the come, you can go on the 68, whatever.

[00:08:34] You have multiple opportunities to win. Did you just say just go on the come? Yeah. On the come line. You don't know craps? I thought that was the, the go line. No, there's pass and come. So it's true. I didn't, I didn't hear this. Yeah. There's the come line. And so basically on the come, you're saying. C O M E. Correct. Okay. Correct. And a lot of people will play that. And basically. Differentiation. You're, when you bet the come, you're basically saying that the table is going to crap out. That's what you're betting on. We're a bunch of juvenile kids just laughing. Did he say, but? It sounded like he was a but head. Hey man.

[00:09:03] You know, farts are still funny. I don't care. I don't care. I love farts. My daughter farts on me and starts laughing and then she'll say jokes. Uh, uh, uh. So goofy. Isn't it great when they're at age though, they're just so innocent about everything. You know, they have an understanding what the world is, but they don't understand what's in the world. And, uh, everything's just so simple and, uh, forthcoming from them. And, um, yeah, I mean, their little minds are so fragile and it's up to the parents to, you know, mold their minds and guide the ship.

[00:09:33] So when I was a foster parent and we might've talked about this before, when I was going through training for it, uh, you know, they said something really profound to me during that training that a kid's personality is shaped within the first six months of their lives. Six months of the first six months of their lives. And that's going to be the dominant personality traits that they're going to carry with them their entire life. Oh, um, that's interesting. And I also feel like I might be very close to my daughter because during the whole, uh,

[00:10:01] labor situation, we had some, some crazy things happening. And, uh, I was the first to hold her. I got the first skin to skin and the serotonin. Oh, wow. Unfortunately, her mother wasn't able to do that because of the way things were going in the operating room. So I just, I felt like I just have this special bond with her. I mean, she looks like me, she's goofy like me. Uh, and then, uh, she's, uh, she's, you know, hopefully smart, like her mom. She got some of that raging Cajun in her.

[00:10:28] But, you know, that's one thing I really want to, uh, bring to her as she gets older to understand is, you know, the Cajun culture. Mm-hmm. No, I took her down to New Orleans a couple of times. She's experienced Mardi Gras. She's experienced, uh, king cakes and she loves the tradition of the baby. She's got a collection of three. She's more like the daytime fun of Mardi Gras. Yeah. But, uh, you know, I want to get her like more involved, like the culture of what it is to be from New Orleans, what it is to be French, Acadian, Cajun. Yeah. Yeah. And understand that cuisine, understand the roots of it.

[00:10:56] Uh, and I just think it's a good culture to, you know, be submersed in. And I think it'll, you know, pay her dividends if she knows about it. Yeah. Most people from New Orleans that I've met, they're identifiable because they're having a great time and have a great energy about them. Like that's, that's been one of the, like, it's consistent. New Orleans folks are definitely fun. Some of the funnest people I ever run around with. They're definitely fun. Uh, when someone brought this up to me the other day, they're like, you could tell when someone's, uh, from the South specifically in New Orleans, they will constantly interrupt

[00:11:25] you because they need to continue to talk nonstop. I guess they, we don't stop talking. Yeah. Oh, that's for sure. I'm interrupting you. I think about, I think about Eric Michael shout out to him. He's probably gonna watch this. Cause that's the other cool thing about this. He gets a chance to catch up with us all. I haven't talked to him in a while, so I hope he's doing well, but that that's what somebody who will, will tell you a lot of stories. Dude. When Eric came out that time and came out for episode 100, when he ran the pool table that night on Josh, where you were there, I was there and that's never happened before his life. And I'm sure he doesn't even remember it.

[00:11:54] That was, that was awesome. I still remember sitting there in complete awe. Yeah. That's the first time I've ever seen anyone in live action. Run it like that. Run the whole table. Then get someone else. Yeah. I don't know. I remember you, I remember you saying to my ear though, you're like, he's from New Orleans. He's out all the fucking time. Yeah. He probably literally just slipped, slammed the middle of high life. Took, took a shot of Jameson with a pickle back. Like that's the MO down in new Orleans. A pickle back Jamo shot. Yeah. No. So what it is, is you take a shot of Jameson and then you chase it with just pickle juice after So not, not like a pickle shot. Correct.

[00:12:24] Okay. It's a pickle back. Yeah. Shots are good. I remember doing that with you after TQL days. I'm salivating thinking about those burgers and stuff over there, right? Pickle juice mixes well with a lot of different drinks, even mocktails. Well, I mean, I love a Bloody Mary. I love a Michelada. I love a martini. So that briny kind of vinegary taste. It works. It's probably one of my go-tos to be honest with you. I tried something that was surprisingly good. Just seltzer water and pickle juice. Yeah. You know, we used to go to the retro room. What kind? Pickle juice. No, what kind of seltzer? Just, just bubbles. Club soda. Okay.

[00:12:54] So you're making a bubbly pickle juice basically. I've never had that. Don't, don't knock until you try it. So I was watching Top Chef the other day and one of the chefs on it did a pickle ice cream. I would eat it. And I love Top Chef. And so Tom, he's was raving about it. It's like, this might be one of the better things I've ever had in all Top Chef, a pickle ice cream. So how was it done? Did he use like, what was it? Just pickle mixed in with the cream or was it like a vanilla? Well, he didn't give me the step by step. He was just saying he was making the pickle ice cream. I would try that.

[00:13:24] I mean, typically on Top Chef, they'll use like, you know, what, what is it? Nitro or whatever to freeze it. Oh yeah. Yeah. But yeah, it was Tom said it was fantastic, but go back to what you're talking about. Yeah. Back in our old school logistics phase when we were first coming up together. Yeah. We used to go to happy hour all the time and we used to go to retro room because that's where the office used to be in close proximity to. And I used to always question like, is there actual fucking booze in this?

[00:13:49] Cause you already kind of go in tipsy cause you've already had a couple and then you go in there and you wonder and like, give me a pickle shot and give me a pickle shot. And it just so easy to drink. There's no burn to it. It was like, so one day I finally went into retro room. I said, I'm going to test this. I'm only going to drink the whole night. It's just these people shots. Yeah. That's the last thing I remember. True story. True story, man. I don't know if I even. So yeah, they, they were legit. They were legit. And I remember the hamburgers there were super good.

[00:14:19] They had like that special. The $5 burger and beer. Yeah. Is it not a place anymore? I think no, it still exists. And I still think they might do that deal. Yeah. Interesting. You ever been to retro room where they have a salon in the bar? Like an air salon as well. Where is it? Uh, off of, uh, Larimer street, right? Right across, right across from, um, uh, we used to go there all the time. Gin mill. Yes. I don't know. Murphys and all that stuff. I don't know downtown too well. Usually if I'm going down there, it's for a specific spot. It's kind of near like view house.

[00:14:46] If you take that street north, there's a lot going on in that area though. You got Dirk's there. You got a lot of shit going on, but back to the pickles. You love pickles, man. This dude's pickle maniac. It's, it's gotten out of hand. Absolutely pickle maniac. He's getting eaten pickle gummies. I mean, trying to pickle. He getting, I'm surprised you haven't had a pickle hot sauce yet. Oh, I will. If it, if it's pickle, I'm getting it. Hot sauce. Normally vinegar. It's kind of vinegar. I will say Louisiana hot sauce is my favorite. I like crystal, but it's very similar. Very similar. It is similar.

[00:15:16] The thing about Louie, it's cheap. It's always reliable. You know, you're going to get the right spice. Like I was a, a, what was it? Top of Tio guy for a long time. Big top of Tio guy, which is good, but it's like four bucks a bottle. You can get Louisiana for two. Hmm. You look like you top of Tio. Damn right. A top of Tio. You get on top of someone's Tio. Oh no, no Tito. No Tito. Last time you were talking about, um, stapling nipples and now you're topping the top of Tio. Well, we have moved on from stapling nipples.

[00:15:45] Uh, now I'm about to start putting some needles back in my skin. I'm finally getting some tattoo cover ups. So I've kind of got the, what are you getting covered up? The world trade center. Casualty on my left arm that I can't stand. What was, so what was the reason for getting up in the first place? Well, it was supposed to be patriotic and like a memorial situation where I was going to fly the American flag and all, and saying words never remember and all this stuff. And I just never got around. You mean never forget? Never. Yes.

[00:16:14] Never remember. Never remember this tattoos on me, please. Um, no regrets. But yeah, now like in it, it's, it's becoming more of like a trendy thing. You kind of see on like machine gun, machine gun Kelly, like Daughtry, like the rock singer from American idol. It just blacked out. I'm blacking it out, man. I'm a fill in the negative, negative space with like a color and kind of make it like a outer world experience, like galaxy kind of thing thing. So I'm like getting consultation for it. Yeah.

[00:16:41] Dude, you've been talking about doing that for like seven years. Well, you know what? Getting it done. Really? Finally. Yeah. I'm finally jumping and I'm, I'm getting it done. That's good. What are you going with? I think I'm gonna go to the Larimer, uh, old Larimer, uh, tattoo studio on Larimer, right by what we were talking about retro room. Yeah. The area I'm not familiar with. Yeah. Yeah. You know, I'm a downtown. No, I know you love moto. Yeah. Denver's like, I don't know. Denver's downtown is a little different than other cities. Like you're, you're pretty traveled. Like I am even compared to New Orleans or you were just in Pittsburgh. What'd you think of that?

[00:17:12] I thought Pittsburgh actually was a really nice city. Yeah. I thought Pittsburgh was dope. I would never want to live in that weather. Cause it's kind of gloomy all the time out there. It is. Uh, but the river was nice. Uh, the buildings were nice and you know, Pittsburgh has the most bridges out of any city in the whole entire world. I think it's like 430 something bridges in that city. All steel. I mean, hence the Steelers, right? I mean, that's where all the steel workers are. A lot of them anyway. I did not know that. I know that, uh, Sweden has the most islands, um, off of its, like within the Baltic Sea up there.

[00:17:42] Dude. The most islands out of any country. I haven't done any international travel over there. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that counts as international. I mean, it's international, but it's like on the same continent. It's the same continent. I know where I'm from, Louisiana has some of the most obese people. Does it? Yes. I mean, cause the most heart disease. Well, that's the South. Yeah. I mean, look at Texas. I was just in Texas. Those people love to eat, man. And I love to eat too, but like everything is just fried butter. But it's so good. It's so good. It is so good. Brisket, red meat.

[00:18:10] I gotta, I gotta say in the last week I went to a Chinese buffet called King's buffet up in Arvada. I know, right? Like you wouldn't think, but it was actually pretty good. I like buffets. And look, Colorado is one of the healthiest states in the nation. That was true. And so like, I felt like when I went in there, then I like walked into Oklahoma or something, or like one of the like obese states because. Oh, the demographic was different. Yeah. Like the second you walk into any buffet. Bro. Like it's just different.

[00:18:41] Yeah. Yeah. It's different in the, it's just different in the buffets. Like, well, now I'm going to question cause you know, I'm a bit of a foodie and I like to go peruse nice restaurants. Uh huh. Your palate considering that you're saying King buffet was pretty good. So if you ever tell me something's good, I might take it with a grain of salt. No, it actually was pretty good. The sushi there was all right. And they were making it fresh. You ate the sushi? Yeah. And they were, they were making it fresh. You could see that they're, they're turning it pretty quick. No sushi. And I only went cause, uh, my wife, she recommended it.

[00:19:10] She used to eat there all the time and loved it. And, uh, she's trying to take me to some new restaurants. I took her to a lot of new places and it was actually pretty good. Well, sorry. I was, I was shitting on you. And if, but if your wife likes it and she sees this up, I'm sorry, pal. No, no, it's okay. No, no. We're allowed to have our opinions, but, um, you still everybody, if you live in Colorado, let me get this dialed. You need to go try chubby fish sushi up in Thornton. It's so delicious.

[00:19:40] All you could eat sushi. Dude, two people you'll, you'll leave there for like 70 bucks, including tip and be completely full. Had some of the best sushi you've ever ate. I'm not a sushi guy. Oh, it's so good. I mean, I've even had it right on the coast. It's just not my thing. Well, is that because you're, you're, you're allergic to shrimp, correct? Well, I had a shellfish allergy growing up. I've tested it a little bit. Like I can eat clams. No problem. It's, it's, you can, um, the boys, the boys show here.

[00:20:06] Um, you know, so like lobster crab, like the mollusks were, were a problem growing up, but I think I've outgrown it a little bit. I'm going to be in new England coming up here in September for the race and going back to see my sweetie. So that's going to be fun. And I'm going to eat, I'm going to eat it. I'm going in with a lobster roll. I'm going to go old school and really eat that new England shit. Just have like, just take it slow. You know, you don't want to take that fast. Just, just, you know, maybe I'll eat it near like an, like an urgent care or something. Yeah.

[00:20:31] You know, I would probably have, and if you're dealing with suicide thoughts, don't take offense. It probably would have thought about killing myself. Jesus Christ. If I was allergic to shellfish. Oh. Cause crabs, probably my favorite thing to eat in the whole entire world. Yeah. I mean, it just, to have it so young, I was like seven, you know, so I got to experience lobster and all that, but you know, you just learn to live without it, I guess. Well, my statement doesn't make any sense. That means I would have actually grown up eating crap and then became allergic to it, which never happens actually.

[00:21:01] So that doesn't work that way. Typically. I think you can develop an allergy. Maybe. I don't know. I used to be lactose intolerant. Well, there you go. And now I like, I'm pretty good with dairy. Sometimes it does make me gassy though. So does that mean I'm still like lactose? Like, no, like if I was slammed, like a big bowl of like a Oreo ice cream. Oh yeah. And I go back for seconds, like I'm going to have a rumble down there. Well, I think that also could be the, the, the portions you're serving yourself.

[00:21:29] Cause I realized when I eat a whole pint of Ben and Jerry's, I feel like shit, but it tasted great. Oh yeah. I know. Right. So hard. It's so hard to turn it off. Like I don't, I can't buy that shit. Cause I'll eat it. Haagen does. Yeah. I'll do it. I'll put a pint of ice cream in front of me and have it saved for another day. There's no way. All getting done. All I know, all I know if it's, it's the sweet pralines in front of you, Craig, and you're getting Craig's. It's pralines. Pralines. Pralines. Yeah. Craig's going to eat the whole thing. I've seen Craig.

[00:21:55] Like when we went camping that last time, when we went camping, we, you know, we were just doing what we do on a campsite, having fun, uh, you know, enjoying our time. But you literally ate for like eight hours straight. Like the other. Yeah. This dude was just snacking all day long. I couldn't stop eating the sweets. And then in the sweets transferred into hot dogs. Oh yeah. Hot dogs transferred back to the sweets. We were supposed to have food for three days.

[00:22:25] I ate all the food. The first night. Joe's all out. Joe. I remember when we camped the three of us back in like 2017. That's when I had the mega. Do you remember this trip? I remember sleeping a lot. I got to the campsite. We were set up. Craig was already asleep. He just sitting by the fire just out. And like, he would come to every now and again, like slam his beer. I'd be cooking hamburgers. He'd eat one and then just go right back to bed. And then that was the whole weekend. Dude. I was so messed up that night and I was still like popping pills back then.

[00:22:53] So like, that was a little bit of my drinking head. Well, and then like the next night out there, like it was like a seven p.m. And I was like, guys, I'm going to sleep. That was the night that I'm going to sleep for the night. And it was like 7 p.m. That was the night I woke you guys up doing my, you thought something was dying out in the woods. Yeah. So I need to piss. So I go to sleep at 7 p.m. It's a funny story. I wake up. I need a piss. It's all fucking quiet out and like dark and like foggy and like all the trees. Yeah. And I'm like on the edge of the campsite and getting, getting ready.

[00:23:23] You know, I'm exposed. I'm going to the bathroom. This is vulnerable position for me. And then all of a sudden, like I hear this like. And I was like, it kept going on and I was very concerned. And it sounded, it sounded like an animal was like dying. And I didn't know what was happening until I realized that it was. Next day. Yeah. The next day I'm like, what? I'm like, guys, did you guys hear that last night? And then Kevin's all like, oh, sometimes I woo when I sleep. That was 100% me.

[00:23:53] I remember I was laying in the hammock on the back and I was doing the, have one of those moments. You ever do that? You wake up making noises. No, I just snore throughout the whole night. I guess that's making noise. My daughter does it though. She makes noises a lot. She does wooing. Yeah. The wooing is real. Yeah. It's like either a wooing or like sometimes, sometimes back in the day, she's like, no, daddy, stop. I'm like, no, dad's never done anything wrong to you. Never scream that in your sleep. Yeah. Yeah. That's a little concerning. That is. I mean, it's, you're dreaming.

[00:24:22] She was probably dreaming about me taking like a toy away or something like that. You never know what they're thinking, but yeah, she makes noises in her sleep. Yeah. That was, that would, that happened. That's a true story. But camping Craig, something primal comes out in you where it's just like, I'm, I'm hitting my most simple receptors, fire and food. And that's it. Like we all, we all had the ham. I all had like that cot out and you were like, I crashed out on that. Yeah. You were sleeping out underneath the stars and stuff, dude. That was a, that was a, that was a, that was a great trip.

[00:24:51] Cause this, we might've talked about this one before, but I'm gonna bring it back up again. So there was a, a bad-ass storm that came in and you could see it coming in. And me and Arthur and Joe were like, this is going to be a pretty bad-ass storm. Like we're going to get, have to get in the car for this. Right. But the, the storm came in quick, heavy winds, lightning, heavy rain. And then it was done within like 10 minutes, probably maybe 15 minutes.

[00:25:19] But then it like passed us up and we were in like Northeast Colorado. Uh, I think it's called Pawnee or something like grasslands. Close to Pawnee. Northeast Colorado? Pawnee. Something like that. P-A-W-N-E or something like that. We couldn't find firewood fucking anywhere. We couldn't find firewood. And yeah, they didn't even have wood. What kind of wood yard doesn't have wood? They had wood, but like, it was all like extra shavings.

[00:25:47] Like, yeah, like it was a weird situation. But any who, sorry, sorry. No, it's okay. It's okay. I mean, he must be from New Orleans. Um, the storm passes and the grasslands are like vast, right? You can see for miles and miles, miles, kind of like flat land. And we just watched this storm with the fire lit for hours. Yeah. You could see it hung out and it was literally just lighting up the sky, man. It was awesome. So I laid on this cot. I was looking at that storm far in the distance. They had a nice little breeze. You could see the breeze coming through the grass.

[00:26:17] It's like, basically, I couldn't see the wind talking to you. That's awesome. I was looking at the stars. The experience. And the stars were so bright. You could see like every star. I was like, this is fucking amazing. And then I passed out. And then didn't y'all go back to like the same spot, but you didn't, you went back to the same grounds, but didn't get the same spot. It didn't matter on the same spot because we went at a different time of year. And when we went, the bugs weren't bad. Yeah, no, it wasn't bad. It was bombarded with mosquitoes the next time we went back. That's the worst.

[00:26:46] Where we almost like had to sleep in the car. I mean, we went through two cans off in like four hours. So you guys weren't tent camping? We were tent camping. But they were in the tent. You couldn't get it. They were just swarming everywhere. You'd get them in your ears. You could hear them. You could see black clouds of them, man. There were so many. Yeah, that's no good. You'd have to bail on that. Yeah. There must've been water nearby. There was water nearby. Yeah. But that's my favorite place. Camps near water. It's like fish. Yeah, but that's more still, it's not like a Russian river or moving creek over there. Like it's, it was like, yeah.

[00:27:16] It's somewhat like kind of slow moving if even. It's like one of the number one places for our, or it might be the number one place for bird watching in all of Colorado. Really? There's like, they said there's like 200 and something species of birds that like fly and live in that area. East of Fort Collins, right? It's northeast of Fort Collins. So you guys are out there a bit. I've never camped that side. I'm usually, I like to camp kind of more west, you know, closer to the continental divide and over there. Yeah. The San Juan Valley down by like Durango and Pagosa.

[00:27:46] Beautiful area. Yeah. Highly recommend going down there. That's the thing about Colorado is you, you know, it takes like eight and a half hours to go from one corner to the other and they're vastly different environments. I love the San Juan. That, I just love that part of Colorado. Ooray, Telluride. I would live out there. I like driving past the, what was the, the Grand, was it Blue Mesa? The, all the water, right? Sure. That whole area. Gunnison. Super cool, man. Montrose is a really cool town. The Western slopes way different vibes. Way different vibes. It's like more, they can grow peaches over there. It's just, it's just different.

[00:28:16] Yeah. You know, it gets hot as hell though in Grand Junction. I've never been to Telluride. I gotta go. I gotta go. You've lived, yeah, you've lived your whole life. Telluride's cool. Cause they'll have more for you to do there. Cause it's more like, it's a tourist town, you know, foot traffic, the tourist place. But Ooray. Ooray. That's like one of my favorite places in all of Colorado. They call it the, the, the, the Swiss, the Swiss mountains or Switzerland of Colorado. It's beautiful. Oh, really? Very nice. Yeah. It's beautiful. There's a lot of nice, nice parts out there. Gunnison's a nice little town too. High altitude. That's where I had my first Rocky Mountain oysters, which I love. Me too.

[00:28:46] Are you a fan? I'll eat anything weird, man. I see. I knew it. I knew it. These New Orleans guys, they get it. You gave me a pickled pig's foot and put it in a bag of Lay's potato chips. I'm in heaven, man. A pickled pig's foot. I haven't had one of those in a long time. I love it. You've had a pickled pig's foot? Yeah. They used to sell them in jars. He loves pickles. I've never had a pickled pig's foot though. I've had them. They were big up in New England. We used to get them in the big glass jars. They all come in jars. You got pig's lips as well. Pig lips. Yeah. Have you heard about pig anus being used as like fake calamari? Yes. This is a thing. I have not. It's not necessarily anus.

[00:29:16] It's the rectum. Right. So essentially they're slicing that part of the pig up and frying it so you get like the little rings. Mm-hmm. But I mean, I think we've had some pig anus calamari. I've totally had faulty calamari pig anus. Well, call me a pig ass lover because I love calamari. I do too, but I like like the spike calamari where you can like actually feel the tentacles on it. Oh, you like the tentacles? I like the rings more than the tentacles. Oh yeah, the tentacles. You definitely like some hog ass. But you don't like sushi, but definitely one of my favorite things to eat at sushi restaurants when they offer it is baby octopus. Okay. I would eat that.

[00:29:45] They're like miniature octopus and the tentacles are hard. You just eat it in all one bite. I would do that maybe. I mean, the only time I like cold fish is like sardines, tuna fish. Oh yeah. I don't like cold fish. I think that's the main thing. It's not like I'm afraid of getting sick or anything like that. It's a texture thing for me and a temperature thing. I mean, for the longest time, that was like my go-to snack. Sardines on a saltine cracker and hot sauce. Yeah, dude. I mean, the mustard sardines are good. Yeah, those were fancy rich days. Hot sauce sardines. I'd have that for dinner because I couldn't afford anything else.

[00:30:13] Just imagine what your breath was smelling like if you didn't like have smart mouth back then or you didn't brush before you went out to a bar. Smart mouth? Yeah, that's... You ever had smart mouth? No. So smart mouth is actually a mouthwash that I use and it comes out in two different liquids at one time because you can't mix them together. And then when you mix them together, it does like this activation and like helps kill more germs in your mouth and like sinks good for like bacteria killing off when it does it. Bro, never stinky breath.

[00:30:42] That's a plug for them, huh? Never. Yep. Smart mouth, you should pay me now. Yeah. Yeah, you should. Get a little paid endorsement. There's some good stuff on the market for sure. Not just like your typical act and crest and all those guys. There's some good shit out there. Yeah. You're gonna pay for it though. Yeah, no, for sure you are. And like I'm willing to pay more for like a nice bar of soap, honestly. And I'm back to the Harry's soap bar. So you use bar soap? I use bar soap. I use the... I use liquid. I do too, but I don't use the detergents. Can't do that. Why not?

[00:31:11] It's just like I feel filmy if I use like an all-in-one body wash that's like a liquid body wash. You're not sick. No, but still like even if I'm doing like the body wash, like it makes me feel like I have like a film on me. It doesn't matter what brand. I need the bar soap. The cheap brands. He's right. I can tell what's going on here. So it sounds like you're using body wash with like moisturizing things and then that's why you feel filmy.

[00:31:39] Be a man and just go dry skin. When I never put on lotion and we live in Colorado. I only put lotion in one area. We all know where that is. And as Bill... On your lips? No, underneath my eyes. I'm starting to get the wrinkles. Yeah. Well, that's called contouring. As Bill Burr says, you can put lotion on other parts of your body other than your dick. You need to increase the circumference of the lotion distribution, but I don't use lotion. I don't use sunscreen. I use chapstick. I will use that, but this is the brand I use. I think it's called like Sasquatch or something. Yep.

[00:32:09] It's in, it's a, it's a gel or a body wash, but they do the bar soap too. They do. I fucked with their bar soap for a little bit, but it's way overpriced compared to the, I actually, I think I paid the same price for the Harry's. Sorry. It's a big difference though. Then like the, the, uh, what is it? The red zone one or whatever. Yeah. That shit, that shit's like dish detergent. Yeah. You know, you can feel the difference in quality with the Sasquatch shit. I feel, I don't know the last time that I purchased like shampoo or like body wash. What the hell do you wash yourself with?

[00:32:37] I come home with everything from the hotels. Plethora. Really? I've been bathing in it for years. I mean, I mean, that's smart. If you have enough inventory, I mean smart brain, smart mouth, smart mouth. I mean, dude, cause you'll pay $5 a bar of soap sometimes, you know? Yeah. And like, but I feel like a bar of soap lasts longer than the bottle of a body wash. Well, yeah. Cause you're going to use less of it. Oh, 100%. You're going to use way less of it. The soap bar probably lasts you about a month or so, right? About. I mean, you know, I try to do a shower like once a day.

[00:33:07] But then you got that bar of soap sitting there with the hair, all the hair is sticking off it. No, you, you clean your soap. No, you just use a wash rag. Or you use a wash rag. I don't, I'm not a rag. So you just hit it directly on the skin with the bar of soap. And then do you ever use a wash rag? Never. I mean, I, I'm pretty clean. Come here. Let me smell your balls. Okay. It's going to be a very nice fragrance. No balls. Well, let's, let's switch this to camera for, and I have to have good shorts on for this.

[00:33:37] No, that's funny. No, no, I feel very confident in my washing capabilities. Cause like, you know, you wash, you clean your cracks and then like you wash it out more and then I'll hit the face, you know? Like I'm that confident. So for your body, what is the hardest part to reach while bathing with your arms? I'm going to say middle of the back. Definitely the middle of the back. And then probably, you know, bottom of the feet. Cause you're standing there trying to clean your feet. But your feet, the bottom of your feet get clean with the soap. That's like running down. It's all soaps.

[00:34:07] You guys like actually rub the bottom of your feet. You got to clean your feet. How are you going to get the shit between your toes? Bro, do you think you're going to bathe the bottom of your feet, but just standing in soapy water in the shower? No, it's like, it's like rinsing. So this proves my theory that he does not bathe well. It's rinsing. That's all soap scum. You got to get that shit out of there. Yeah. But then you're dealing with a major risk. Bro, you don't even get in between the cracks of your toes? No, I get in between the toes. You don't have to do it every single wash. I do get in between the toes. You need to wash your feet. No, but the bottom of the feet, cause you're, you're, you're dealing with a major risk here. Of falling? Yeah.

[00:34:35] Cause you're slipping, you're slipping up your foot. That's why I'm saying. And then you're like, what? Do you sit on your ass in the shower while you do this? You scrub on, you know, give it. And then you just, so you're just balancing on one foot while you're doing this. See, that's risky business guys. You know, most accidents in the home happen in the shower. It's cause of ridiculous moves like this. You got to clean your feet. I mean, that's how, you know, we're getting old when we're worried about falling in the shower. Like, yo, I might fuck up a hip and I'm not going to rebound good.

[00:35:05] I'm going to pull my back again. Trying to wash the bottom of my feet. Dog. I kept pulling muscles in my shoulder and shit, trying to reach the middle of my back. So I finally ponied up and got the loophole with the hand. Oh yeah. See, that's game changing. Pro moves. Yeah. That's a pro move. I unfortunately don't own one, but I need one. You know what? I do have those rubber ducky. Okay. For the bath? For bath. Yeah. Well, no, I don't do sex with it or anything. It just, it floats in the bath. Well, yeah. I hope you're not having sex with a rubber ducky. I'm not. You don't have to worry about me. Your neighbors will always know what's going on. I'm like, I don't know.

[00:35:35] Now I think you might have something to do with rubber duckies. No, I don't. It was a gift. It was a gift. And so I've just been. I'm going to start calling you Ernie. Ernie. Ernie from Sesame Street. Rubber ducky. You're the one. You make bath time all the fun. What? You know the Sesame Street song for this? I grew up on the streets. You've been around since the seventies, dude. Yeah. What is going on here? Ernie. You don't watch football. You don't watch Sesame Street. What do you watch? Hey, I watch the leaves. I watch the leaves. Okay. Outside. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Getting out in nature is always good. It is.

[00:36:05] I'll watch a lot of screens. A lot of us are dealing with screens and I'm just going to do my weekly rant on how much social media sucks because look, if I spend an hour and a half scrolling, I get anxious. I feel like I'm not doing things right. And I don't feel better until I actually get up and like clean something or do a chore. Like we got to get off the phones. Like it's honestly like an hour, hour and a half. And then I'm hitting like a weird mental, I get into a weird mental state.

[00:36:33] So for people who are on their phones for like six hours at a time, four hours at a time or whatever it is, and you're just eating up your whole evening. Like how, how do you do it? It's too much. If you end up doing that, that needs to be a reward system. So you needed to be able to check your boxes of what you had tasked out to yourself throughout that day before you reward yourself with social media or anything in life. And that's something I've actually put some primary focus on recently.

[00:37:00] I've created basically a task note reminder on my cell phone, go figure, but still on the screen. I mean, it's a useful tool, but it'll remind me, Craig, did you write two jokes today? Cause I'm trying to get back and stand up comedy. And I'm like, check. I wrote my two jokes today. Craig, did you get 10,000 steps in today? Checked in 10,000 steps today. Craig, did you do your best at work today? And at least did, you know, 20 prospecting reach outs and all this stuff. Like it's accountability, basically a reminder for me. And I've really gotten on that in the last couple of weeks and it's been very helpful.

[00:37:30] Accountability is key. A lot of people want to run from it. And that's hence the doom scroll. It's a safe place where people can hide. Right. And if their task list is pretty like minuscule, then they'll take that full reward. Right. Like, oh, the only thing I'm going to do today is, you know, whatever, something take the trash out, but there's still a pile of dishes and the beds a mess or whatever. And then that's going to be the reward. They're like, well, I did, you know, I was productive today. The other thing I've been really trying to do is not going to bed until I'm absolutely ready and tired for bed. How late?

[00:37:59] Because if you go lay in bed and you start doing some scrolling, I have a very hard time falling asleep now after doing that. Maybe the endorphins you get from it or something. Do you have a blue light filter on your phone? I do not. You need to turn that on. Because that does fuck with your eyes at night. That's, that's like first thing I always do with a new phone, blue light filter on. Cause it will, it, it does something. I'm not an expert in really anything, but it does something that will. It mimics the day. It mimics daylight to a certain extent. So it stops melatonin production. Our bodies, Canadian rhythms, like we'll work with all this stuff. Right.

[00:38:27] But I feel like what you said is exactly why I get anxious if I'm looking at my phone. Cause I was like, I look at my phone for an hour and then I got to hop up and do some chores. It's because I got the chores to do like until you've taken care of everything. Like you really shouldn't be doing nothing. And there's always something to do, you know? Yeah. But you live tidy too. I do. Kevin's tidy. I'm the three of us are definitely tidy guys. You know, we probably have the three clean films out of 100%. Yeah. Dishes are not left in the scene. No dishes are not left in the dishwasher.

[00:38:55] If they're clean, like you put your shit away. Yeah. You test yourself to do it way easier if you maintain it that way. Yeah. Rather than letting it back up. Right. I mean, that's my approach. I've really gotten good about making my bed every morning. I wasn't always that great about that. I make my bed every morning now. Yeah. It's one of the first moves of discipline in the morning. I do that before I even shit. So now I'm even like in this mind space where I might start waking up earlier in the morning,

[00:39:20] uh, to maximize my day, even a 30 minutes, uh, uh, 30 minutes to an hour earlier. Wake time will pay huge dividends by the end of a week. Look, I'll put up my hand here out of truth. Like I've been in the last three weeks, probably sleeping in a little bit later than I should. Like, cause I'll, I'll like naturally wake up and they'd be like, Hmm, I got time to rest my eyes again. And, and like nap a tape. Like, you know, so I'll, I'll like do, I'll, I'll like do affirmations in the morning before I wake up.

[00:39:50] And it's always, you know, I'm, I'm grateful. I'm blessed. Today's going to be a successful day. And like, so I do that, which is good, but I all admit that like, I should just be getting up probably 45 minutes earlier. Cause I naturally wake up at that time anyway. What's it like? 6am like 540, 6am somewhere around there. Like I naturally kind of wake up and I, I really just need to start getting up. So I can admit to that. I'm kind of on this schedule, 11 PM bedtime, like sleeping or in bed.

[00:40:20] Like I'm trying to go, I'm trying to be sleeping by 11 PM. That's good. So I'm like usually in bed by like 1045 ish. It doesn't take me long to fall asleep unless I scroll or something and then I kind of toss and turn. And then up, but like, I'm trying to lower it to where I wake up at six. Cause normally I wake up at 630. Right. But yeah, but still, that still gives me seven solid hours. I don't wake up and piss throughout the night or use have constant back. But when I fall asleep, I sleep through the whole night and I wake up at my alarm clock. Yeah, that's the best.

[00:40:48] I don't know if you guys got that, but I love my, my sleep patterns. It depends how much, how many of these shelters I drink before bed. Sometimes I'll throw a whiz in the middle of the night, but then I'm right back to sleep. It's not like one of those ones where you wake up to piss and you can't go back. Oh yeah. No, I sleep super good after the, the midnight piss. I call it the halftime of the night in my head. I'm like, it's halftime right now. But you know, I know I've met so many people, especially people closer to our age demographic or older. I go to bed like at nine and then wake up at seven. That's too much. That's too much. You haven't maximized your day enough.

[00:41:18] Well, it's too much sleep. While we're on this topic, we got to call out one of our other friends. Josh, I know he's not going to watch this unless I purposely promo clip this, which I might. You just, you're sleeping too much, dude. You're sleeping like 12 to 14 hours. More. More. You need, all you need is six. Really? All I do is seven. Seven's perfect for me. Six to seven and a half. They recommend eight being like the, like, like what the premium, but like I've done eight and I've done nine. I don't feel any difference.

[00:41:45] When I, when I was drunk all the time, I would, it was weird. Six. I could do six, eight. I wouldn't, it would be like, I needed more. It was this weird window there. You used to do like three or four some nights. I, I, when I was, when I was working at like 5 a.m., yeah, I would drink until the bar closed and then go sleep for a few hours and get them go to work. Yeah. And I never missed a day. If you were, if you got pulled over and had the blow, you probably would have got a couple DUIs. I was hammered going to work most days. For sure. At 5 a.m.? Yeah. I'd be leaving your place at fucking one 45.

[00:42:14] All right, buddy. I go to bed. Oh, the good old days, man. Listen. That's where it all began. When I was at this conference recently, like I was putting some back and there were a little bit later nights cause casino and, uh, but I think it worked out for me because it was on Eastern timeframe. Right. So two hours ahead. Yeah. So like it worked out fine for me cause I can never like staying up to one or 2 a.m. in the morning here on your local time. I just don't do that shit anymore. Like I'm, I'm not even on the weekend sometimes.

[00:42:43] No, I'm a complete waste the next day. Like midnight's basically my cutoff. Yeah. But yeah, it probably depends though how you treated yourself that day. We're hydrated. You eat right. You know, true. If you did a bunch of drink, you're still going to feel like shit the next morning. But also I think it's like, you know, the accountability and, uh, that I have to be dad, you know? Like, so like if I stay up all night early into the early morning and I want to sleep to 10, 10 a.m. She's up by seven. I just lost three hours of time that I could spend with my, you know, the, the love of my life and my daughter.

[00:43:12] So like, it's just important just to be consistent in your practices there. How I kind of feel about this one is, you know, if you want to get down and you're having fun, then you need to like hold yourself responsible and not let anyone else suffer because of your decisions last night. Like, cause I've had plenty of times where like, I got way too tipsy and I was hungovers F the next day and I didn't want to exist or do life.

[00:43:39] But like, then other people would have to step up and like step in and it would cause a burden on other people. Very selfish to do that. You know? So it's like, just own it and feel like shit and still go handle your business. Yeah. But do you want to feel like shit? Cause here's the variable that you just brought into the equation. You said drinking, right? I feel, and I believe you guys would probably be in the same realm. We could stay up easily to 1 a.m., 2 a.m., maybe even 3 a.m. in the morning. But if you didn't have alcohol introduced to that evening or early morning, you would still wake up the next morning completely fine. I could, I think I can stay up to 3 a.m. without alcohol.

[00:44:09] Exactly. Without any substances at all. Would I want to? Probably not. It depends on what we're doing. It depends on how much point you're having. If I'm gambling or something, if I'm in a good conversation, you know, there's variables. Maybe you're up late cause your flight was delayed, but it's still, you're still like, you start to cross that weird sleep barrier where the next day I still feel it. Like I haven't caught up on rest or whatever, you know, maybe only got four. I will feel that. Dude. Yeah. And if you sleep too much, then I get anxious. I'll be for sure. If I'm like trying to sleep too much. I get sore.

[00:44:37] Or like, or it's like one of those new mattress. It's sleeping too much. It's like the weekend. And like, I'm like trying to keep on sleeping for some reason, even though I know I could have woken up. I like start getting super anxious if I'm sleeping that much. So Josh, how do you do it? Josh, it's too much. It's too much. The only time we see Craig sleep that much is when we camp. Yeah. But that's the only time Craig's just passed out. I take advantage of that.

[00:45:00] Like, Hey, listen, I'll be the one to tell you if I could implement a daytime nap on a daily basis, which I don't get often, I would do it a hundred percent. Do you wake up healthy? If you get a nap and no, cause here's the thing. I sometimes wake up feeling worse. I'm a little disoriented. I might be kind of cranky. It just depends. Other times I'll try to take a nap and then something else happens. I don't get it anyway. It's like, you need time to nap. I'm not sure if you need to set alarm, but 30 minutes to 45 minute nap is the perfect amount.

[00:45:27] Once you go past an hour, a good longer than you're, you're, you're, you're messing with your cycle and you wake up feeling more tired. Yeah. That's that's, I wasn't doing it right. It's more like a power nap scenario, right? Yeah. 10 minutes, 15 minutes, not enough, but you hit that perfect 30 to maybe 45. Like you wake up. I'm like, I'm ready to conquer the world. The other thing I've been doing is frequencies, frequency music. It's like, you know, I guess you call it like meditative or whatever, but going to sleep with it. Yeah. I just have it playing in the background and it's a, it's really put me in some deep sleep, bro.

[00:45:56] This is how fucked up I am. I go to sleep. The heavy metal music. That sounds like something you would do. I absolutely do. And I do it off to probably about four times. All I was like, fucking go man. What? And your earbuds. What? And I fall asleep to it as loud as it can go. 100%. Damn, dude, that's this dude's going to sleep with it all the way turned up. That's right. You got some hearing. I got some hearing loss. I 100% have hearing loss. I mean, between rock and roll, me doing NASCAR, I bet our hearing is not great.

[00:46:20] Dude, my, I experienced the other day, I went to this, uh, this parrot night for the new preschool that my daughter's going to start attending in fall. And they had us like in this high ceiling hallway with dining tables, like to meet other parents and you kind of network, you know, you know, meet new friendships. Right. Bro. When I tell you how I was leaning in to listen, cause I, it's all the surrounding noise. It's almost like squirrel.

[00:46:49] Like I couldn't focus on anything because it was so loud and I couldn't pinpoint the conversation. Hmm. But I also been proved, uh, uh, diagnosed with hearing loss. I went and checked it out. Oh, it is back. Yep. So you have the ringing, the ringing. I got that. I got that in my left ear. Real, it's real light. I've had the ring since I was 19. Like really young. I've had tonight. You just kind of learn to live with it. Yeah. I heard there's like some acupuncture you can do if you like rub certain areas, it goes away. I don't know if you believe in that stuff. Oh no, that stuff works.

[00:47:15] I actually rubbed kidney stones out of my girl by rubbing her feet and like the kidney place. And like, so I would be giving her like these foot rubs and intent, like I would use a foot map and I would intentionally hit the kidney on her feet. And, um, no joke when I'd be doing, I'd be like now breathe in deep with this. And I'd like, and then she would like have a stone, like moving. She's like, Oh, I just one's going like as I'm working it. Damn. Like body's amazing. No, it's, it's all connected to your hands, your feet.

[00:47:45] They're all connected to your organs. And like, so you can target organs through your feet and like, and heal your body that way. Yeah. That is interesting. Yeah. She all right. Yeah. Yeah. She's doing dude way better. She's in the hands of the rock. We'll be getting it done. We'll be getting it done, man. That's something I've never experienced. I'm gonna call you when I have to pass one, when I get later in life, you go rub Craig's feet. I need you, dude. I bet you I would work so many knots out of your feet. I could just sense it. No, I get manies and petties often, man.

[00:48:14] So like they're groomed. Yes. Okay. I got to ask you about that. You guys make fun of me because of it, but like, I definitely pamper myself. No, I don't make fun of you. That's a modern man move. Like that's a modern. I mean, I go to a barber every three weeks, you know, I take care of that, but like, I've never done the mani pedi thing and I don't think I ever will. I do mani pedis. Listen, I think the, the petty is more important than the manicure. Yeah. Cause especially if you're man and you work with your hands a lot, like you got man hands, right? But your feet, just like he was saying, like rubbing kidney stones out there, extremely

[00:48:43] important to take care of, but I do way more than that. That's why I wash them. The, the manscaping on me is like, I do waxing of my nose. I do waxing on my ears. I get my eyebrows thinned out. Have you ever had a pimple in your nose because of you plucking a nose hair? No. Why you got, you had like a pore get infected. Yeah. I've had pimple in my nose from like plucking the nose hair. I think that's what it came from. It could have been an ingrown hair too though. Yeah. Cause when they grow back in, they grow and kind of fucked up. Oh, it's so painful. It's so painful. Well, it sucks. When you get your nose waxed, it feels so clean, right? Yeah. You're like, there's nothing in there.

[00:49:13] And the boogers are weird. Bro. But then all of a sudden you start snotting everywhere because nothing's holding anything back. Why don't you just trim the nose hairs? Cause it's not the same. Well, we're not, we're supposed to have those hairs though. That's like, you know, I don't know. That's actually, maybe this is not, that's probably not appropriate statement for the show. Oh, that's okay. We don't have to, we can say anything on here. You know, it's like, yeah, you could have a little stubble in there, but when you hit someone from the back, you want it completely clean, right? Like you want to just, okay. I mean, there's an argument to be made there, but you know, there is hair in our body in certain places for, I'm starting to get ear hairs.

[00:49:42] Oh, I see a wicked big one right now. Now that you say it, that thing is massive. Go see my girl. That thing is massive. Can we get it? I mean, the camera could probably see it. It's not, it's not like a wild one. It's kind of, it's kind of, it follows the lobe. It's like following your lobe. So point, point being live action. Your hairs is kind of a new thing. Yeah. Dude. Once they come in and they come in strong and they don't go to your left. I want to see if I could see this thing on camera. I got a, I got a toothpick in this year. Yeah.

[00:50:12] If I, if I blew it, if I blew in your ear, you would feel it. There's a couple of them there that I could see. He just passed the stone. Yeah. Something happened. Something moved in my pants. I was blowing for the year. Yeah. Blowing the year and something goes, pop goes weasel. I'm big into the, the pampering, the, the, the self care. No. And honestly, like I think doing the pedicures are really important because. How often? We're nomadic, right?

[00:50:41] Once every month and a half or so. Yeah. I mean, so yeah, you're getting like a couple of foot rubs, like a two foot rubs every three months. Correct. Or something like that. I don't like my feet being touched. Yeah. Well then. Same reason I like massages unless it's from like a special someone. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Like, like professionally, I don't like, it's just, it's not enjoyable to me. Well, they gotta be good at what they're doing. But they are good at what they're doing. I just don't enjoy it. For one, I don't want someone I don't know touching me. I think that's part of it. You know, but I'm, I'm ticklish.

[00:51:10] So I'm like, like, does that feel good? I'm like, no, it's fucking tickles. So you have sensitive skin. I don't think it's the skin. I think it's the muscles. Yeah. You know, I love it. Muscles tickle. Yeah. Because they're rubbing in at my muscles are responding to it. Oh, you're like twitchy. Yeah. No, I know. I thought I was bird. No, well, you're earning. You're earning. Now that now you're ticklish with your muscles twitch. Like the tickle me Elmo. Apparently I'm just, I'm all the streets, baby. I'm cookie monster next. You're all the streets. From the streets.

[00:51:37] All everybody knows is big bird was the real pusher out there, but you're, you're supposed to, you're supposed to take care of your feet because we need mobility. We need to walk. We got to wash your feet, Art. Walk to the bathroom. Dude, my feet are very nice. Here we go. Like, I think my feet are sexy enough to get, make money. So, okay. So if your girl wants to sell her feet pictures, is that, and you help her, are you objectifying

[00:52:07] your woman? No. There's no face. By selling feet pictures. It's just feet. As long as it's just feet. Like, does that, does that break like a moral code of like exposing your, is she okay with it? Yeah. Then, then who's, who are you hurting? Go make that money, baby. Only fans is a ridiculous thing. There's, I mean, there's so much ridiculous stuff out there. My, I mean. I mean, how hard would it to be like, create a foot pick profile and like, start pushing that people will buy like used panties. I had a buddy of mine one time.

[00:52:36] He was like, dude, let's just start rubbing our armpits on those and selling them as used panties. Like there, people will buy some weird fucking shit. There are some weird fetishes out there to make money on. Well, it's mostly dudes because they're fucking ridiculous. It's mostly dudes. Yeah. It's probably 85%. If not more. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. You know? So like, you think I'm, I got like a good moral. Here's the thing though. You can incognito your submissions and no one really knows they're coming from you, obviously.

[00:53:04] So you're not objectifying anything. You're not putting your name attached to it. They don't know who the person that foot pictures get taken of. Like, I don't think there's anything wrong. Whose leg the foot belongs to. Correct. People are just jerking off to it. I mean, here's the thing too, with AI now, like you're gonna have AI foot pics. Yeah. But people will be able to tell. I don't know. I don't know if it's a real foot. I don't know. Maybe in a couple of years that you won't be able to tell. Cause there's something, there's a smoothness, that uncanniness. It depends on the camera, right? It just depends on the camera.

[00:53:34] We can start a whole ring of this. Hear me out. The name of our team, the foot clan, the foot clan. Like from Teenage Mutant Turtles? What the fuck? We just have a whole ring of foot pictures and we call ourselves the foot clan. Bro, and like we could do the emblem and everything and I'm totally gonna be shredder. 100%. We'll have, we'll have shred, well like when you make it to the shredder tier, like anyone

[00:54:02] could get to the shredder tier, but that's like top tier foot pics. I don't know if I want to be in this clan. Well, you don't like feet. Oh, I love feet. It's top shelf. Oh, you just don't like your feet. I don't want my feet being touched. I love feet. I've definitely had a thing for that for many years. Just not my own. Well, I, I, I feel like I could sell my feet even. Yeah. I mean, I don't know about that art. I wouldn't pay for it. Dude. I got hairy toes. I mean, there's probably a market for that. There's probably a market for that.

[00:54:31] I just got a terrible image. Dude. I mean, you've been in the pool with me. You've seen these things out in the sun, Craig. Yeah. I've seen your feet. You got cute feet too. Cause I do petties. It always goes a little sideways. With the friends. With the friends. Some of my favorite episodes though. Yeah. So bringing it back to the real shit, right? Let's talk standup comedy. Cause I missed your last show. I wasn't shocking. I always miss all the fun fucking shit. So what's going on with the standup? Well, I'm getting back into it.

[00:54:59] So I took a hiatus from it cause life got busy. And, um, and I just didn't put a lot of time or energy in it. Like anything that you want to be good at, you should put the time and energy into it. And I've freed up some time recently. And more importantly, I, it's something I want to do. So I'm going to go after it. I'm gonna write those two jokes today and I'm gonna go to these open mics on Wednesday. And if I, we get done early enough, I might do it tonight. Oh, hell yeah. And it's free. It's free admission. Where's that at?

[00:55:28] Uh, the rise comedy club. Oh yeah. Here. That's where I've had my couple of my shows and, um, just get on stage and get like a four minute set. And then I can just like basically practice these new ones. I got check what does well X, what does, does not do well. And my, my goal is to have eventually about a half an hour set somewhere. Try to do it like a feature or open up. I'm actually pretty serious about it. I think I believe, I think I believe, I believe, I believe, I believe I can, I believe I think,

[00:55:59] uh, that I can do well at this. And from the, um, reception and the feedback I got from the couple of times I've done it, it was all extremely positive. Oh yeah. You're my friends from strangers. I didn't know. Well, you have, so you have an advantage to being a front man all those years. So you know how to work a crowd and read a crowd. I think ultimately I just, I go, I go out there and I be my authentic self. Right. And it's compacted with shit. That's absolutely absurd and off the walls and you know, but people can see me smiling, genuine.

[00:56:29] They can see that I'm kind of in my element and it just comes off well. Well, it's funny cause you're up there and you're kind of like, okay. And you're like, kind of start, like you have this little swagger about you, you already know you're sitting on something funny, but it's complex. Like you, I haven't seen all your sets, but you have like some complex jokes. And honestly, a lot of it's over my head. Cause like I'm a nice tool, but I'm not the sharpest tool. You know, I, I'm like a well-rounded tool. So you're saying Louisiana humor is above your head. That makes you really dumb.

[00:56:59] Hey, I'm the type of tool that could get almost all the jobs done, but not the sharpest. No, no, no. I here's a joke. And I'll say that on this one, on this air that, um, this was probably one that went over a lot of people's heads. Okay. You have to think a little deeper about us. Like, so I used to see a psychic. Her name was Christie with three eyes. Needless to say that third, I wasn't that strong. So I just ponied up and bought a television and people were like, what? Television psychic Christie with three eyes.

[00:57:28] And like, it's just like, but it's the way that you deliver it. And when you say it in your mannerisms that can make it funny, but it's a little bit more complex joke. The delivery is half the joke. Right. Cause you can't, if you rush through it, like, especially those storytelling type jokes, that's some of my favorite ones is where you're hearing a story and there's a punch line in it. It's all about the delivery. Yeah. Right. And, and letting it marinate, letting it breathe with the crowd. I'm not a standup comic, but I watch a lot of it and I can appreciate it. I'd love to get out and see your work. I'm going after it, man. You're going tonight. If I have enough time, I'm gonna go tonight.

[00:57:56] I'm going to start going to, if I'm not working my nighttime shifts at my new job, La Loma guys come see me. I'll serve you up some margaritas, salt your rim. Uh, that's a great plug. Give your salsa. Um, I start working nights over there. And so depending on where my schedule is, but if I have Wednesday night free, um, I'm gonna start going. Do you ever find yourself in Austin, Texas? I've only been to Austin, Texas once when I was in my band days for South by Southwest. Okay. I was going to say, you know, perfect. I just, a lot of people try to take this, this gamble, but you, I'm sure you heard of Tony Hinchcliffe.

[00:58:26] The kill Tony. Yeah. That'd be the perfect show for you. Right. You throw your hat in the ring down in Austin, Texas. Do you know how kill Tony works? Cause it's roasting, right? It's not necessarily. Well, you do your set and then Tony roasts you basically. Yeah. But it's now the number one comedy podcast in the world. And he's on Netflix. Now it's huge. And those guys started like in the green room at, you know, the LA comedy club. So it's cool to see what they built, but it's a bucket pool. So Craig would go down and put his name in. He pulls her out. Craig's our next guy. Craig comes up, does his standup, you know, gives his spiel. And then Tony kind of riffs with him a bit. It's a brilliant idea.

[00:58:55] I'd like to see something. So, I mean, I don't want to see his work. It kind of plagiarized, but it'd be cool to see more of that and different. When it comes to comedy. And we learned to learn about this when I was taking classes to like try to become a comic. Right. Um, roasting has, has to be probably the easiest jokes to write. And it's some of the easiest to deliver because it could get so personal and it's easy research to find, figure out something about somebody that you know, or don't know from the internet.

[00:59:19] And you can literally just take this, you know, paragraph by some something and you can build a premise off of it pretty easy. I'm like, I'm going to roast this shit out of this person. And they don't know what's coming. Like I'm really good at roasting. And that's not a plug saying like, I'm the best at it, but like you've been, I'm good at making fun of people, specifically people I know. Yeah. I was going to say, since I've known you for 15 years now, that's, that's been one of your strong suits is making fun of everyone in the room, including myself. So that's all part of the fun. You guys give it back. Of course. Well, yeah.

[00:59:47] And like, you can't take it personally, especially look, if you're dishing it out in any way, serious or non-seriously, take it. Yeah. You got to be able to, you, you, you put your hat in the ring. You got to be able to take it. Well, you know, you mentioned Josh earlier, the one that sleeps 24 hours a day. He always says like, just, just write all your jokes about me, Craig. He's like, that's your best jokes. Cause there's so much material there. He's not wrong. I mean, one thing I will give Josh is he's not afraid to admit he's a dumb ass. Yeah.

[01:00:16] He owns it. He would 100% own. He's not doing shit and he completely owns who he is. I have finally come to the conclusion that Josh is the best storyteller untold. If that makes sense. He never finishes the fucking story. He's like, bro, bro, let me tell you about this. And he'll just leave you on cliff hanging for like three to five minutes and never finish the story. Sometimes I even think this happened last time we were all chilling at my crib and Josh like told us a story and you were just talking about delivery.

[01:00:45] Well, his delivery was absolute shit. Cause like he finished the story, but it sounded like it was halfway through and we were both like Craig and I were like sitting there like, oh, that's it. That's the end. We're like, oh, Josh's story is like a door dash driver delivers your food and eats your cheeseburger and leaves you two fries. Yeah. That's one way to word it. I guess that definitely fits. And I'm happy that you're doing comedy and sticking with the dude.

[01:01:10] And also hit hitting your new workout goals, not drinking, no carbs. That's tough. I've never done that. That's gotta be tough for New Orleans. I've never done that. It's tough. I've been literally eating salads, boiled eggs, bananas. Yeah. Like shit like a rabbit. Eating up, eating, actually it does the opposite for you. I mean, if you've got good roughage, like the salads, yes. But if you did, if you're doing like just heavy protein, more like the high protein diet, um, yeah, it backs you up a lot, but really interesting.

[01:01:39] But I keep the roughage coming. Yeah. Gotta keep the roughage in. It's, it's, it's awesome, man. Cause I've been through some, uh, some like ups and downs with the health journey and I still haven't hit 185. I still have not done that. Um, but I've been, I bounced back up a little bit, so I don't know what happened, but my motivation kind of tethered. And so now I'm like getting back into the daily walks, the swims, the, the 16 hour fasts and stuff. Like, cause I was eating breakfast and shit.

[01:02:07] There's something about, and we've talked about this one before as well. So when the warmer months start approaching and it starts warming up, it wires your brain differently. Like where you want to fucking go get it. You have more daylight too. So you want to be doing things more like we'd get done here. It'd be dark, you know, go in. This is dark for us tonight. We're going to get out of here. It's still light up. You could still do outdoor activities for the next three hours. Oh God. I want to do it. Sounds fun. Well, maybe you can play the come line on craps.

[01:02:37] Oh man. This one went longer than I thought it would. I mean, we got Craig in the house. I know. I love chopping up a man. It's good to see you look good. Yeah. Thank you guys. I got my tan going on right now. Do you do that too? No, I don't go to tanning beds. I just walk outside. No hats. No, I wear hats. Do you do sunscreen? There's people that are going to be mad at me if I say I do not use sunscreen. So yes, I use sunscreen. Who's going to be mad at you? Parents. People that care about me. My mom's been yelling at me for 20 years. You're not protecting yourself against melanoma. Yeah.

[01:03:06] Our last guests were, that was like their big take, like their main mission statement. Like their message was, wear sunscreen. Oh, it's important. I know most people that have gotten sunscreen. I mean, Jesus. So it's got sunscreen from the store. From gotten skin cancer. My parents had it on their face. But both like within weeks of each other. Mom and dad both had some shit removed from their nose. So who knows? I guess I should be SPFing up. You know. I mean, you are pretty pasty. Well, I'm Polish. So, you know, I'm about as white as those Europeans get. I'm pasty Polish.

[01:03:37] Pasty Polish, baby. Give me a pierogi. You're pretty pasty too. I tan nice. Eh. I do. I have a little bit. Like, look. Look at this camera. And then look at yours. No, you're way darker. Craig looks like he's ready to step on a boat. Absolutely. He looks like he's ready to take the yacht out. Yeah. Yacht party, baby. I like the watch too. That was so boring without alcohol though. I don't think so. I don't know. It'd be a blast. I think it'd be a lot of fun. Jet skis. See, that's something about me. Every time I've ever been on a boat, especially growing up in Drone. New Orleans on the Gulf Coast, it's get hammered time.

[01:04:07] Yeah. You can do, you can drink. Like I was telling you earlier, like I was used to just do everything drunk. Right. And it's like doing podcasting and all these other things. You start to find like, it's actually kind of cool. Yeah. You can have a lot of fun. Just get the iced tea. But see, here's the thing is like, I always me and Mr. Marley. So like, I can never claim that I've went sober. I can never claim that. But you have though. Cause you didn't, well, I guess you drank in Sweden. I did drink in Sweden. Yeah. And I've like done like two weeks off of weed or any and booze.

[01:04:34] So I've like maybe done two weeks sober, but like that doesn't count. I don't, I don't think that counts. It would be hard for me to quit THC. And I don't do it often. I think you are partaker maybe on a daily basis. I don't want to speak for you or gaslight you, but I do it on occasion, at least weekly, right? Either edibles or get a J or something like that. But for me, it's the creative side of my brain gets released when I do it.

[01:05:03] So when I'm writing jokes or, you know, I also have like ambitions to like write a horror movie script one day. Like, as you could tell from this shirt, like I'm really into horror. Yeah. Show that shirt off a little bit. You got Freddy Krueger on there. You got American Werewolf in London. Xenomorph. You got the thing. You got, yeah. Aliens. You got it all, man. That's cool. And I'm a huge nostalgic 80s slasher flick, B-class movies. And I feel like I could write one.

[01:05:30] I feel better about the comedy than I am about the horror movie script. But I have some demented fucking thoughts. If I just put them to paper, I feel like they could make a good movie. I feel like there's a lot of good script writers out there that never get it in front of the right people. That's a tough industry to make it. Yeah. It is. And that's why I was like, you know, at least comedy, I'm not, listen, I'm not trying to make it big in comedy. I just want to have fun. It's just about having fun. You never know though, because it's a passion project that could turn into something huge. You know, you meet the right people in the comedy scene, whatever you get in with the

[01:05:59] Rogan crew or whoever you're in. But yeah, but ultimately like a smoke and weed brings out my creative side and unlocks things that I probably wouldn't normally put on paper or think. And it just opens up those receptors where I'm just like, oh yeah, that's funny. You see, we didn't do that to me. It does the opposite. It makes me want to shut down. And I have like no feeling, like I disconnect from everything. And that's like why if, and when I do use it, which is very rare for sleep. That was me on cocaine. Cocaine would make you sleep.

[01:06:28] You know how it makes so many people like antsy and like super social. Like it gets me very reclusive where I don't want to be around anybody. I think, yeah. Well, it's, you can't even do cocaine anymore though. It's a shitty drug. It's not even, it's not even cocaine that you're sniffing. It's ether. It's shit. So I haven't snorted cocaine in years and I'm not going to touch it ever again. And you're smart by doing it. I think we could all agree to that. I think it's a stupid drug. It is. It is stupid. Now, if it was seventies grade cocaine, right? Then that's a different story. That got me excited.

[01:06:57] That would be a different story. And I'm not saying I'd go crazy with it. I just want to know what the cocaine was like when it was actually good. True. Before it was all stomped on. It's all shit. Yeah. Yeah. You know. Drugs are dumb. Don't do drugs. Okay. Yeah. Now it's like, we got Molly and like us growing up. It was like, no, we had, we had presses. We're like, we had tabs, you know, and you didn't know what the fuck you were getting. Yeah. I wouldn't like that either. I've always wanted to know what's going on. Yeah. You could take a tab and completely be speedballing and literally seconds away from death. You didn't know what you were doing back in the day. You were just young and stupid. Looking like fucking driving around like it's fear and loathing.

[01:07:28] You got the uglies going on. Give me the Vicks inhaler. Blow it in my eyes, bro. That movie makes you feel like you're on drugs. Even if you're watching it on zero. Yeah. Oh yeah. You're still like, what is going on? It's well written. It's weird after. That's how I feel when I watch Trolls, the kid's movie. Really? I was like, these people were on some heavy drugs when they wrote this shit. Really? Dog, watch it. It's trippy as fuck. I've never seen it. Super trippy. I've never seen it. I'll still do mushrooms here and there though. I like the psilocybin. I won't go full send though.

[01:07:57] But that kind of goes with our point. Like if it's from the earth, THC, mushrooms, like I don't have a problem with it. It's not man-made. It's not factory-made. You know what you're getting. Yes. Especially if you're getting it from like a grower or whatever. Because eventually this shit will probably become recreational, I bet. At some point. I don't know about the near future. Oh, they've already decriminalized mushrooms in many, many states. And they're just not selling them in stores. Right. Because that's going to have to be a whole nother. There's so many legalities that are going to go into that. It's proven to cure PTSD. It's proven. So many. It reverses depression and sleep disorders.

[01:08:26] And the fact that it's decriminalized allows them to study it now. And the shit that we're seeing is unreal. Absolutely unreal. It completely rewires. It doesn't just reset. It rewires your brain. And we are not medical experts by any means. No. Far from it, in fact. So opinion-based program here. Very much opinion. Absolutely. And I'm also getting my opinion not by doing, but just from stuff I read on the internet. Just ask AI. It'll tell you. Yeah. It has some things. It does have some things. It has some things right. Well, shit, Craig. I'm happy that you made it in. Yeah, this was great, man. Guys, thanks for having me. Yeah, man. It's always a good time hanging out.

[01:08:56] And this is cataloged now, so we can look back in the future. This will drop on, what, May 15th, 2025? So in five years when you're doing big comedy and we're on the yacht with you, we can be like, man, that was awesome. Hell yeah. And I tell my daughter, look what I released on your birthday. Daddy was an absolute imbecile on a podcast. I think you were a little more dialed in this time. Well, we were partying our asses off on the last shows. Yeah. Yeah. We used to just- Get hammered. Yeah. We were just basically drinking. I don't even remember those shows.

[01:09:22] I mean, at the end of the day, I mean, we based our friendship off of those days. We all party with each other. Come to my house. Let's go crush two handles. Come to my house. Oh, yeah. Let's go play beer pong for 12 hours straight. And not only are we not going to put beer in the cups, we're going to put straight booze. Like, we were just morons. It's amazing. Hey, we stayed friends through it and we've all gotten more responsible. Yep. And we're actually adulting and taking- We grew up- Well, I hope so.

[01:09:51] Nothing feels better than doing nothing after I finished everything. That's what we were talking about. You know what I'm saying? 100%. Like, that's one of the best feelings- That's the reward. Yeah. It's like one of the best feelings in the world. We talked about this the other day. Like, and I know you're trying to get off and we can end on this. I mean, I'm always trying to- You're always trying to get off? Good punchline. Come line. Play the come lines.

[01:10:16] But yeah, I mean, some of the best days are the days that you have nothing scheduled, right? Your house is already clean. You already did all your tasks and you can just sit there and lounge on the couch and veg out on some shows, eat some popcorn. Like- It's all taken care of. Those are rare occasions, but when you get those days, take advantage of them. Oh my God. Craig does that when he camps. Yes. That's what camping is for me. Camping Craig is a whole different Craig and I'm fortunate to have experienced it. And we need to do it again. I'm down to camp this summer. Oh, I plan on going in the next month or two because it's warming up. Yeah.

[01:10:46] We got to go. And let's go somewhere we haven't been. You know, because I always tend to go to places like, oh, we've been here before. I've been there before. Let's go somewhere no one's been. Well, if we're going to do it, we should do it the right way. Take off a Thursday. I'm in. Take off a Friday. Take off a Saturday. And we can drive somewhere that takes four to five hours and go to like a badass site. Yes. Like, that's what I'm saying. Like San Juan, Pagosa, Springs, that area. You've never been down that part. It sounds like you should go see that. That would be the time to do it. Go camp it. Yeah, I haven't been. We'll bring the fishing rods. We'll do it. We'll do a whole thing. I'm down. Bring some non-alcoholic beer.

[01:11:16] We'll make a whole party of it. I'm down. All right. That's in. We're committed. I want to do it. Anything else for the people, Craig? Let's dap it. Let's dap it on that. Well, people that watch my episode of Discussion Bushing just know that, you know, everything in life is hard. You know, the first line of the song, first line of a song I wrote, I believe it's the first song I ever wrote, was, life is so hard when you're trying.

[01:11:43] And that still stands true 30-something years later. If you're not trying, it's hard. When you're trying, it's hard. Life is hard. So pony up. Do the right thing. Live your best life. Become your best version. It's never going to be easy. That's it. I like it. Respect. That's the truth. Let's just end it there. I think that's perfect. Thanks for tuning in, y'all. You'll see us on Happy Friday tomorrow. Be good to yourselves. You deserve it. Peace.