Hey all, Joey here and welcome to Under the Influence.

I guess this is kind of a back-to-school episode, but also maybe a recap of the entire summer

episode. It's going to be a lot of different things. And my guest today is none other than my lovely husband, Nick Astor.

Thanks for having me.

It's nice to be called Lovely, and it's such a treat to be on the show not once but twice in recent succession.

So this is cool.

Yeah, this is great.

I love having you here.

So we've had a busy summer.

I kind of can't believe that it's over. There was a massive book tour. We traveled all over the country.

We had an unbelievable summer. I mean, I could start listing bullet points. And I don't know how far I'd get. I mean, I'd need multiple pages. It's been very momentous.

And we did a lot of travel with the kids. But I mean,

I have to say, I think it's a good reminder that traveling with the children is not a vacation.

It is a marathon. And in hindsight, it was so rewarding and so awesome. And during it, it was exhausting a lot of the time.

Yeah. And I think, you know, we should reflect in our hindsight sometimes because there were

things that I wouldn't do again. But there were a lot of things I would do again, you know,

there were things that work. What wouldn't you do again? Well, you can only keep them in the car

so long for one thing. Oh, I think we've gotten better at that, though. I mean, when we first started traveling with them, we tried to do like five hours at a clip. And I think we're pretty good at not doing any longer than two now without taking a break. That's true. Stopping at playgrounds, the general, you know, not taking them to restaurants.

I mean, it's just universal that they're going to be bad, you know.

Yeah.

They're really, I mean, they're really awful in restaurants right now, just generally.

But also, they're not good at sitting still.

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