So the day after we recorded this episode that you're about to listen to, we got the sad news

that Anthony Bourdain had passed. And before we start this episode, we wanted to acknowledge

the impact he's had on our career and just our creativity. I followed Bordane's career for

years and was heavily inspired by the work that he made. And I always thought one day that I would

get to actually work with him. There was just something about him where I felt like I related

to him. And I think a lot of that was just the way that he related to other people in his work.

He was extremely honest and empathetic. One of the biggest takeaways for me was one episode of

Parts Unknown where he's in Vietnam and he sits down with Barack Obama. And in that episode,

I think more time was actually given just to the people that he met on the street. He was such a populist

in the way of treating everyone the same way with respect. And that's always stuck with me.

So we just wanted to start the episode by acknowledging Anthony Bourdain and saying thank you

for the inspiration that we've gotten from him and the way he told stories and the way

he moved about the world. Bourdain will continue to live on through the people that he's inspired.

So with that, clearly mental health is something to be taken seriously, and it is a conversation

that we seem to be having more often with the creatives that we work with, and it's just fitting that it happens to be the topic

for this episode of the Colin and Samir podcast.

So today on the show, we are back in Los Angeles after two weeks of being on the road,

and these two weeks started here in L.A. at something called Buffer Festival.

Buffer Festival, if you don't know, is a film festival specifically for YouTubers.

So they debut new videos they have coming out at the festival before it actually comes out on their YouTube channel.

And we've said this across all of our platforms and probably will continue to say it.

I feel like I want to say it to our audience as much as possible so that people hold us

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