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We're back after a two-month hiatus, and life didn't slow down while we were gone. Between a brutal round-two stomach flu that wrecked a family trip, a baseball season that's eaten every weeknight, a UK tour stop, and a genuinely terrifying dirt bike accident with a 13-year-old and a Life Flight helicopter, there was a lot to catch up on.

We also get into something we don't talk about enough — what happens to the rest of your day, and your life, when your brain is being rewired by your phone. Not the four-hours-a-day stat everyone already knows, but the part nobody's measuring: what it's doing to your ability to just read a book, sit in a car, or have a conversation.

In this episode:

• Why we disappeared for two months
• Coaching travel baseball and why the "season" never actually ends
• A UK festival, a legendary stage mosh pit, and catching up with Jack Osbourne
• Buying 10 acres of raw land in Idaho and the LARPing that's followed
• The dirt bike accident that ended in a helicopter — and what it taught us about risk, fear, and raising capable kids
• Why hardcore music (and staying sober) shaped one of our lives more than almost anything else
• Quitting the phone cold turkey and what that's actually revealed about the rest of the day