Circling Back - 10 Minutes in Space & The Horny Olympics

Episode Date: July 19, 2021

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All right, we're back. Circling Back podcast presented by Vizzy Hard Seltzer, the only hard seltzer with vitamin C and superfruit acerola. To my left, the man who only drinks things with superfruit acerola in it, the acerola king himself, Dylan Chivary in the building. Unless, of course, it's a crispy chard. But, yes, hey, everybody, I'm very happy to be here. That's actually a Sauvignon Blanc that you have in front of you, Dylan. You didn't have to tell people that.

It's a crisp white. It's a crisp white. That's what matters Sauvignon Blanc that you have in front of you, Dylan. You didn't have to tell people that. It's a crisp white. It's a crisp white. That's all that matters right now. Exactly. Yeah, Dave's not here, of course, and I'm here still, so that's cool. I'm very happy to be here. How does it feel to get introduced first for the first time in, like, months? I'm never ready for it.

Whenever I'm up first, it just kind of hits me hard. But, yeah, it feels good, man. I feel like i get a little respect around here every now and then we also have a special guest in the studio today you might know him from too much dip you might know him just by the name of the mocha clappuccino but this is kj ellis it's great to be with you will sitting in for a crisp white with a crisp white yeah big pours only today for big game brett yes to brett shout out to his family to brett's family going through a tough time of course the passing of his mom so shouts to the merrimans we're getting a little loco with it we'll be consuming uh in studio for those who don't watch us on youtube of which there are probably many we're about to

might be an episode to check it out i think this is the first time I've ever had a drink on Circling Back, at least in this studio. Paul Berger might disagree with me. In this studio. Oh, in this studio. That's true. And I did not expect it to come at 1046 a.m. on a Monday morning. How absurd is it that I could just waltz into a grocery store and purchase a bottle of wine at 8 a.m. on a Monday, but I can't do that at 10 a.m. on a Monday, but I can't do that at 10

a.m. on a Sunday. It's never made any sense to me. Ridiculous. I don't like, I like going to the grocery store early on Sunday. You can avoid the crowds. You can kind of just get in, get out. But the fact that I can't go buy a bottle of red wine to have with dinner that night at 10 a.m. in the store is just devastating. And not only that, but they put like signs over everything just to really drive it home that I have to leave empty handed. Our move when I was at Whole Foods was to keep the lights off in the beer coolers on that aisle or whatever. So people kind of understand.

Inevitably, you would still have people show up at the register. This is a Texas thing, right? Yes. Michigan, you guys have no. I didn't realize how wild ass Michigan was until I moved down here. And I didn't because I never really thought about it too hard. I knew that there were places. I'd lived in places where you could only buy liquor at liquor stores.

But the fact that you can't buy liquor in a grocery store down here is just so bizarre to me. How many states are like that? I find it frustrating. Ohio is a place where you can, I believe, where you can only get it in liquor stores unless that's changed in the last 15 years. I just don't like it. What's point well let us buy liquor shout out to a member of the meme team landry who's in or was in montana this past weekend i learned which i guess you have family there i do i learned a couple years ago when i went to the music festival up in montana that you can buy liquor at anywhere basically that's not a liquor store like i purchased bottles of liquor at a combo bowling alley slash laundry mart love it and at the safeway across the street no liquor there

but it was in the laundry mart or laundry mat i should say um that move is incredible or you can go to bar and just buy a full-blown bottle and leave with it and they they don't, like, mark you up 50% for the bottle. So that's a seat. We need those laws here. I'm in. Yeah. Louisiana's another state. They basically just, like, they just throw liquor into your, like, whatever you get that's not liquor.

You walk into a grocery store and they just dump it in your mouth? Yeah. Sorry I don't drink. Okay, here's a bottle of wine. I'm not going to lie. I didn't know Noble Vines had this kind of heat going with them. Are you enjoying? Yeah, I'm going to finish this glass.

Are you really? I'm very excited about it. I have to say I did follow the Sunday Scaries approach here, and this may be a second shelf item. Dude, you've got to be careful. Shout out to the creative genius behind that behemoth. Dude, he's just smart as fuck. I can't promise I'm going to finish my glass,

and we'll get to it on recapping this weekend in fun, but I got into a few over the weekend. You had a few buttery shards over the weekend? A little bit, yeah. Are we worried about Dave in Mexico? What do you mean? I was trying to think about it. Out of everyone in this room,

Dave has taken the least amount of vacation as of late. I'm really glad Dave's on vacation. That being said, I'm a little worried about him going on Cabeza Watch. Did they bring Rhodes? No. I didn't hear it definitively said either way, but I don't believe so. There's no way they brought Rhodes to Cobble. Rhodes is probably chilling with the G parents.

Yeah, that's my guess. That's good. At least we don't have a six- the G parents. Yeah. That's my guess. Okay. That's good. At least we don't have a, what, six-month-old on Cabeza watch right now? Yeah. That's probably good. We don't want that on our watch right now. I'm pretty happy for them.

They're at Nobu, which, of course, I've stayed. And, you know, he's going to be swimming up to a suite, enjoying a nice spinach salad later at some point, maybe getting a mezcal margarine, a Wagyu glizzy. He's just going to be living it up, man. I'm pretty Joe. Are you worried that he's going to out Instagram you? No. I don't think that's possible, sir. No.

What if he does a video of him running into the water and it does more numbers than what you do? I'm not worried about that at all. Plus, Nobu is a pretty dangerous part of the beach. Oh, so were you on another part when you were running into the water? Yeah. Oh, okay. I wasn't there. I wouldn't do it at Nobu. I'm sorry that you do multiple hotels only when you're on vacation.

I'd wind up in the stomach of a humpback whale very quickly. Not in the stomach of a sperm whale at all? No, just a humpback. If I'm David, instead of running to the beach, maybe I run from like the door of the hotel like high step into the infinity pool outside of my room like you know if he has a swim up pool that's pull that move okay okay i'd respect that i'm looking at the uh weather to make

sure it's not rainy season down there for him and it looks like they'll be okay you know keep an eye out on some storms off coast but it looks be dripping nonetheless. I'm not too worried about him. I'm fucking jelly. David's known to keep that thing wet. I am too, man. I think he might try to out... He's going to ratio you on Instagram, which is just by volume shooting. I hope, at least.

He's not a big Instagrammer. We'll see how... Well, of course, the first couple days when I was in Cabo, I was there by myself. It's hard to get a gram off by yourself, you know? No, it's not. You just set up the cam and just, like, get fits off. Who does that? I don't do that.

I don't have the self-timer in me. I'm not a, yeah, I'm not an Instagram influencer. You're not a tripod guy? No. That's unfortunate. I'm not an Instagram thotty. Okay. We'll get to that this weekend in fun because I've got questions.

Oh! Okay. I'm ready for them, I think. We got anything else to get to that this weekend in fun because I've got questions. Ooh. Okay. I'm ready for them, I think. We got anything else to get to for them? Let's do some programming notes real quick. Go follow Circling Backpot and Wash Media. You might notice that we are part of the 11K Club now on Instagram. Wow.

No one thought we would get there. I'd like to give a special shout out to Peloton Memes as we are officially a Peloton influencing podcast at this point. Not to brag. But, yeah, they got us a decent amount of new followers, and we're officially in the 11K club. Damn. 10K feels good, but I feel like people take their foot off the gas at 10K. Everyone says at 11K is when you've really made it.

Not only can we swipe up, but we can do it with 1,000 more people on top of us. Not to brag, but. Also, go leave a review and five-star rating. Tell a friend about the podcast. Maybe you have some people out there that are tripod people and they want to try our pod oh wow a turnaround time on this guy will is a professional did you see what i just did oh my god are you listening to what i just did there uh also head over to youtube.com slash watch media we had some big stuff hit the timeline last week on there our cribs video just doing absolute numbers we also

did a happy hour live which was essentially just just an extended circling back video podcast last week. No guests, just gas. What am I doing today, dude? Dude, keep feeding this guy the rock. If you have an ad on today's episode, you are rubbing your hands right now. Birdman gift. Washmedia.shop might have some new heat going up there sooner than later. And Patreon.

We're doing Bachelorette tomorrow. It's coming to you with someone who is pretty well versed in doing some commentary on television shows. I don't know if you've ever heard of him. Barrett Dudley. Ah, yes. Quite excited about that. Can't wait for that one. Dylan's a Love Island guy now, which I am proud to report.

But, yeah, we're going to still be doing Bachelorette recaps every Tuesday morning. Bay and I are one episode into Love Island guy now, which I am proud to report. But yeah, we're going to still be doing Bachelorette recaps every Tuesday morning. Bay and I are one episode into Love Island UK, and let's just say I'm intrigued so far. I will say this. I think that we have reached a tipping point with Love Island. I have more people reaching out to me than ever before, being like, alright, I'm in. I do have to say, though,

when you're on the Hulu, the Hulu. When you're on Hulu, and you Hulu. When you're on Hulu. When you're on the Hulu. And you select a show and you scan the seasons and you see that, you know, one of them. 42 episodes? One of them is 50 plus. What?

And they are not 30-minute episodes either. So it's quite the undertaking, which I think has kept me from jumping in to this point. But enough people over the weekend talked me into trying it, so Bay and I started last night. I'm intrigued. I will give you this. One episode a week is just like a recap pod, kind of behind the scenes, like, you know, fun, kind of just blooper reel.

You don't need it. Okay. I've been trying to pressure Sally into watching them because I think I'm that desperate for content at this point that I'm willing to do that. It hasn't really stuck yet, and you don't miss anything by skipping those hour-long recaps. How big is that show in the U.K.? Absolutely massive. Massive.

Is it comparable to The Bachelor for U.S.? I think it's bigger. Is there a Bachelor U.K.? I guess I've never— I don't know. I know there's Australia. I know there's maybe Japan. And there's one other country that has it.

But I don't know if there's a Bachelor UK. It's never crossed my radar. I don't know. It seems like that would be something that I would get into at some point. Love Island's got that real estate. The format of Love Island and, to be fair, Bachelor in Paradise is set up for much more drama than The Bachelor slash Bachelorette. So to give you a perspective of this, Dylan, in terms of the social influence that Love Island has versus Bachelor, Bachelorette, who would you say is one of the biggest stars of The Bachelor franchise?

JoJo? JoJo, Rachel Lindsay. Let's go with JoJo. Let's go with JoJo. She's got 2.3 million followers on Instagram. Okay. Okay. And I would say out of the last six or seven years, she's probably one of the biggest names that we've had.

Jessie Palmer might be the only other entrant here. Probably the largest Love Island UK person, Molly Mae. She's currently dating Tommy Fury, who is the younger brother of Tyson Fury. She has 5.7 million followers. So she's got more than double the followers of what JoJo has. Good grief. It's big. I said Jesse Palmer only because older Bachelorette contestant, correct?

He's got those ESPN followers too, though. ESPN forever? 115K, that's it. That's it? That's it. He's kind of old, though. He's kind of ESPN followers too, though. ESPN forever. 115K. That's it. That's it? That's it. He's kind of old, though. He's kind of washed. For sure.

He's past his hot zone was definitely before Instagram existed. But I figured maybe that residual fame might bring him a bigger following. Not at all. Not at all. Host of Food Network's Holiday Baking Championship. Dude, hell yeah. Hell yeah. Love that.

The voiceover guy, the Scottish guy, I can't get enough of him. He's good. He's goaded. Is he goaded? He's goaded. Yeah. And you never even see his face. I know.

I don't want to. He's perfect. We also have a backer meetup Saturday, July 31st at Eisenhower's at 3 p.m. If you're not familiar with Eisenhower's and you haven't been to our meetups in the past, they've been very fun there traditionally. You will have a good time. My hope is that at this next meetup at Eisenhower's, I'm going to leave. Last time we had a meetup there, I spent about, I don't know,

four to five hours in the exact same spot, never moved. I'm hoping I can mix it up a little bit. Just holding court. No, I mean, I was kind of just like in a corner. I didn't hate it. Do you want the Dallas one? No, I'm talking about Eisenhower's. No, I mean, I was kind of just like in a corner. I didn't hate it. Do you want the Dallas one? No, I'm talking about Eisenhower's last time. Oh, okay. I was just at the end of the bar, just in a corner, just hanging out the entire time.

Yeah, treat this like an Italian wedding where you just sit at a table, but then you have, I don't know, somebody get Timo like a fake ID and have him like coordinate just people kind of cattle call past you. You shake hands. You know, they leave a note. They talk to you. You kiss a cheek, and you move to the next person. Listen, we're getting Timo in that bar.

Timo's going to be there. I don't care what I have to do. He's a photographer, so he's working. Just bring him some equipment. Give him a press pass or something. We can get him a press pass, I think. But yeah, July 31st, Eisenhower's. It's a Saturday.

It's going to be for the boys and the gals, too. Yeah, we'll let him in for this. Whoever wants to come. 3 p.m., be there, be square. Is it time to recap this weekend of fun presented by FitBod? Yes. So many times in life you get stuck doing the same workouts and making progress towards the future means overcoming new challenges,

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I appreciate that. Yeah, your arms are bigger than everyone else in this area. Are you kidding? Are you kidding? Not everyone, sorry. I was imagining Dave sitting next to me. It's just muscle memory. Shots fired. Can you explain how you've enjoyed this app?

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Are you ready? I'm ready. I believe yeah, so this is I'm going for chest back and Abs on this one. Okay. All right. I'm doing a dumbbell bench press a cable row dumbbell Of course it it sets out like you're doing this many sets this many reps. Okay, but I'm just gonna go through the exercises That's fine. We have a dumbbell fly. We have a lat pulldown. And in superset time, bicycle crunch, back extensions, let's go. You're extending your back.

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That's 25% off at FitBod.me slash steam. Dylan, what did you get into this weekend? Man, I need FitBod right now after a little, not really quite a stay-kay, but a little mini-vay-kay. I'm going to, the first workout after a trip is, it a stay k but a little mini vacay i'm gonna the first workout after a trip is it's always a tough one you know yeah you just don't want to do it you're still gonna do it but you need it you know you need it because your boy got into one over the weekend bae and i went to hotel emma in san antonio which is in the pearl district and i had no idea what to expect and and I was completely blown away. This place is incredible.

It's a scene. It is awesome. So it's the old Pearl Brewery. They converted it into a hotel, and they did an excellent job. It's not just a hotel, but the whole scene around it. There's a farmer's market there, a bunch of little shops and restaurants and sidewalk cafes. Did you match that farmer's market button?

Did you get any fresh greenery or anything? We didn't buy anything from the farmer's market. Come on, dude. You've got to support local farmers. We were on vacay. I'm going to bring fresh peppers back to my room. There's no need for that. Why?

You could have gotten some room service hummus. Locally sourced eggplant? Or did you BYOE? He definitely BYOE. I don't do eggplant. Okay. Um, we hit, we hit the pool, we drank wine and beers and it was just, it was an awesome scene. Can I ask one question about your itinerary? Yeah. At any point in time, did you have it written down button a shirt? Cause your boy was showing some skin in uh some instagram photos sans any button in the shirt that i saw which one are you talking about i don't know

you a bottle of champagne and zero buttons oh yeah yeah yeah um so bay and i we had this cute little dynamic going on it's gonna make people puke probably. I'm getting ready. I can feel my gag reflex kicking up right now. In her opinion, I always go one button too high on my shirts. Okay. Always. And so, see, every time I get dressed, she always walks over and undoes my top button. And we got to look.

We're on vacation. We got to look carried away a little bit. Well, that one, to be fair, that was after a pool situation. And so I was just coming back from the pool. I had my trunks on in that video. Hey, it was the best advertising FitBot could ask for.

I'll say that much. That was vacay Dylan right there. We had a good time. So here's another thing that happened. On Saturday night, we went to bed and I got up. I had to pee at like 3 or 4 a.m.

I got up, did my business, was 3 or 4 a.m. I got up did my business was walking back to the bedroom and if you notice I have this little bruise right here in my forehead it looks so much better now

but I turned the corner too quickly it was pitch black walked right into an armoire okay you hate to run into a rogue armoire

you hate it and I woke up with like just crusted blood to my forehead it was so she had a good time with that one she thought it was quite funny woke up with just crusted blood to my forehead. Oh, jeez. She had a good time with that one. She thought it was quite funny.

I thought she'd just taken some Harry Potter cosplay a little too far with this little forehead mark here. Come on, dude. Come on, man. I don't know what you're into on the weekends. Y'all could be doing role play. Man, that place is sick, though. It was cool. Highly recommend.

Exceptional. Highly recommend. Met a backer at the pool. Tell us more. It might look like I'm paying attention to you, but I'm just trying to come up with horny Harry Potter puns right now. Yeah, that's fantastic. Hermione has potential to get turned into something with horny,

but it doesn't roll off the tongue very well, so I'm having trouble figuring it out. Yeah, but a very nice backer at the pool who uh has a i have to read up on here's a an alcohol media company okay i'll tell you the name of it after is it fucking it's called beer beer business daily is what it's called oh hell yeah i thought you're gonna say it's like the drinking bros podcast i'm still trying to figure out what the hell what the hell they do but based on how you described this earlier is this a multi-generational family listening experience? Are they multi-generational backers? He didn't say that his son listened, but he does have adult sons, plural.

Very nice man. I love that we just have older dudes listen to the pop. Shouts to Internet Party, too, because he also listened to John and Brad. The man's in the crank corner. Yeah, he knows about the crank corner wondered knew about john's broken leg all that stuff dude wild down bad of the week uh we got we got back sunday i had a little pool situation with uh with some of bay's friends out in lakeway that was a great time damn are you just living at pools these days dude i just i got i told you. Are you the pool king of Austin, Texas? I might be.

People are saying that. This man has not slept in his own bed in weeks. I did last night. Must be nice, dude. It was cool, yeah. Always good to get back home. All of the pictures from this Hotel Emma place looks like they hired Will to freeze to show up and take them. Dude, it's sick.

It's elite. It's a compliment to Will, too, but yes. Thank you. What'd you do, KJ? Yeah, KJ. Oh, shit. I didn't realize there was a second line here. Oh, yeah.

It was an absolute scene at my house at Casa de Ellis, if you will. We had a milestone birthday, big number one for Kai. So had all of the fam over. Big shouts to Kai. Big number one. He's basically walking at this point. So it was fun. Had people in the pool.

Your boy went all out on the Blackstone, hooked up some fajitas for the fam. Things got so involved that I started my Instagram story. This is where you can tell content and actual ability. I should have just taken the photos, waited, and posted them later. Your boy was just in the thick of things, you know, knocked out a ton of fajitas, got like the first picture of that effort down. And by the end of the day, I'm like, okay, let's make sure somebody's got a life vest on the kid. And, you know, the rest of the food's ready. The cake's getting cut.

Bullets were flying. It was incredible, though. It was good to have 15, 16 people over at the house. Some of the grandparents were over there getting some kai time and his cousin is about five months older so it is the most mega cute scenes when they get together so i was very happy you you glossed over this yes am i am i hearing it correctly that you did sizzling fajitas for your son's first birthday party you know as the youngest member of thele Squad, he had one request and one request only. A, that I don't look him in the eye after he drank the apeship cuts

that was given to him by his uncle. And then B, that none of the family touches the sizzling fajita before he did that day. That's beautiful. Your boy went absolutely loco on some fajita chicken, so I was very happy for him. God, it's just so big. It's great.

At what age do you stop referring to your kid as being X months old? So now that he's a year, or 53 weeks if you will, we'll probably pivot sometime between now and 18 months, I'm sure. A year and a half seems to roll off the tongue. Calling him one is fine. I've got a one-year-old at the house. I'll probably say that guy's one. But you want to give them credit. I think two years old is a fine cutoff point.

18 months to two years is probably the move. Because if you're 20 months, saying they're one doesn't really make a whole lot of sense because they age so... I get what you're saying so it's like i get what you're saying it's like half their life is you know one year we're about to be through q1 of fritz's life you're calling all business he's a quarter he's a quarter old yeah so he yeah q1 is about to be in the books as of tomorrow so it's pretty exciting times around our place i would say as annoying as it sounds to refer to your child in months it is pretty critical when your kid's

under 12 months only because their abilities vary so much when they're when you're just talking about weeks or months so it's you know what they can eat whether or not they can even sit up or hold their own head up like it's completely different month three to month six or month six to month nine so like using months at that point makes sense. But after about month 12, like I said, or month 12, after one year, you're free, free game. I mean, for me, it completely depends on who I'm talking to. That's true. If I'm talking to Randy and he was like, hey, how old's Fritz?

I'm like a few months old, like whatever. Right. Not going to overdo it. If I'm talking to like a mom who loves being a mom, I'm going to give her the exact days that he's been alive. If your kid's 22 months, he's almost two. Yep, exactly. That's what you say. I'll lose count at that point.

Almost two. We've already tossed the second block of you turn the block. We have that stupid, you know, it's kind of similar to the countdown you use for Christmas or whatever. You turn the days thing over. We just have the one block. It just says one year. Like, I'm not doing 11 months, 13 months. Like, nah. It's too much.

It's a lot. What'd you do over the weekend? Yeah, well, from what I was told before your weekend, you were just going to be sitting at home hanging out playing FIFA. Dude, I mean, there was a lot of talk. I think I actually saw it trending worldwide on Twitter about Weekend of Will, and I do have some unfortunate news. Weekend of Will was canceled.

It was at the midnight hour. Oh, wow. Yeah, not ideal for your boy when I had plans to go out and let it rip. But at the end of the day, Friday was for the boys because I got to stay home with Fritz, and we chilled all night together. And, yeah, it was a good time. We actually introduced my uh my sister-in-law's boyfriend i almost called him my brother-in-law that could have gotten dicey

introduced him to love island dylan so you guys can text about it shouts to him you guys are watching different seasons currently he's on usa you're on that uk we're riding different ways but going the same direction i'd rather be on your wave just to be clear yeah uh pretty sure that because sally was nervous about leaving him for the first night that she'd ever been away, she contracted her entire family to come over just to make sure that nothing went bad. And so instead of me just chilling at home, maybe catching up on a show that Sally doesn't want to watch or something like that, I had about six family members just sitting around our place until about midnight. So I got babysat in addition to Fritz needing some help around the

place as well. Saturday, we let it rip a little bit. We needed a quick reservation. We didn't want to go out to lunch somewhere and have to wait. So we went to La Pesina, which we've talked about before. The swimming pool. Yeah, it's called the pool. And so I got some sizzling fajitas there. I had a nice pour of white wine as well. I saw your gram. Shout out to Mama Merriman. And it was good. After that, we did have a dinner that we had to go hit. Went to Sammy's, the Italian restaurant on West 6th that everyone's been talking about. How good is it?

I'll say this. It's really good. Like, it's really good. It's not so good that I'm, like, freaking out that I need to go again immediately. It's a little pricey, huh? It's pricey. It'll get you. But in terms of ambiance, it's unmatched in Austin for a place to go have an Italian meal.

Really? On West 6th, like, without views, I would say. No views. Even if you've got a rooftop on West 6th, like, you're not seeing that much. It's the old Hutt's hamburgers. I don't know how familiar you are. Yeah, I know the spot. But how much is it?

I'm thinking of like relative to, I would say, like the Grove out in Westlake where you've just got built-in views for days, subpar in other ways. But like you're saying the ambiance in a place like this is superior to any place like that? You can't see anything. Everything's shut down. Like, I mean, they've got curtains over the windows. When you walk in, you go from being in Party Central with a bunch of postgrads to straight up going to like New York City and this little tiny Italian joint. And you get treated like that too. I'd like to give a special shout out to our waiter, Giuseppe. That's great.

This guy remembers more waiters' names than anybody. The beauty of Giuseppe is that he remembers my sister-in-law's boyfriend very well and so he gets, my sister-in-law's boyfriend sits down, gets a handshake from Giuseppe

and before he even knows it, there is a Basil Hayden old-fashioned sitting right in front of him without even having to order it. He's getting treated

like a king in there. Did I meet this guy? The place has been open for four days. How is he already a regular? He has somehow fallen ass backwards

into numerous reservations at this place, and I couldn't be more jealous. I think it was like his fifth time there. Wait, he's asking about Giuseppe, not the brother-in-law. I'm asking about the brother-in-law. Okay. Yeah. I met this guy at Matt's, right?

Probably. I think so, in passing, on the way out. Hot guy. Yes. Tall. Tall fellow. Yes. Yeah, he's tall.

He's tall and hot. Looks like he'd be a problem on the tennis court. Probably. Yeah, you don't want to see him at the net. He's going to hot. Looks like he'd be a problem on the tennis court. Probably. Yeah, you don't want to see him at the net. He's going to get to everything. So we went there. We let it rip a little bit. Had a couple of teenies.

Got some ravioli. Hey. Hey. We didn't get the bucatini. What about the gabagool? We know gabagool. Ah, that's too bad. We did get the mozzarella sticks.

I'd like to give a special shout out to mozzarella sticks. Very cool, man. And then Sunday, it was just meant for your boy to chill. We had a lot of British sports going on yesterday. More of that on Too Much Dip. Too Much Dip. With a little too much will, maybe. Who knows?

Maybe. We'll see. Can I ask one question before we move on that might expose me to some bad food takes? Expose yourself. Does Italian food as a cuisine fall into the category of mexican food where like given that you're using the same ingredients relatively over to make some of these items like there might be a cap on how quote-unquote good it can be but the vibes and the no cap the vibes and the ambiance make up for a lot else like oh man this is the freshest

pasta yes but i'm still eating pasta like there's a food truck in austin east austin i don't know if y'all been to patrice's i want to say handmade pasta out of a food truck great how much am i missing out uh similar to mexican food i can go to a food truck and get fresh tortillas fresh mexican food versus high-end mexican restaurant like do we uh overrate the italian cuisine in that matter? I'm asking this because Dave's not here to get so irate. Dylan's the one who talks about how all Mexican food is the exact same in different forms. Well, there are different qualities of Mexican food. But all Mexican food dishes, it's the same food, same ingredients, just put together in different ways.

I feel this could be applied to Italian cuisine, and I don't think we chastise those who taught the world how to eat enough. Like a tostada is a taco with just a different shaped shell. Tostadas objectively stink, right? Yes. Why would I want that shell? Why would I want an open-faced taco when I can just fold it up and make it easier to eat? I don't know. I did something I didn't think I would do this weekend.

Your boy enjoys munching an open-faced taco every now and then. Damn it, kid. What'd you do this weekend? What the fuck? That kid's listening, man. No, there are no kids listening. No, there probably not. I've gotten that note once or twice.

Like, hey, I was enjoying a glass of, a glass, a cup of coffee. Wine's got your boy twisted today. I know, dude. I had two sips and, like, I'm kind of, like, buzzed up. With my sig-a than her fam and all of a sudden KJ got into Duda territory with his language. Parks might grow up and listen one day, run it back, and just be like, man, KJ was just super horny all the time, huh, Dad? Yeah, what was up with that July 19th episode where KJ was just off the rails horny? Mad horny.

He had his calendar wrong. He thought it was the other Juneteenth. Anyhow, what were you going to say, Will? Oh, my God. I did something I never thought I'd do. I requested more corn tortillas from a restaurant. Who's doing that? I always get flour.

I'm a flour guy. Everyone knows that. But I've discovered recently that at La Piscina, the best tortillas are the corn ones. Let's fucking go. I think I'm turning over a new leaf. That melted cheese situation is next level. It's different. It is different.

We'll have to try it. Keep an eye out. I think we might need to have a watched media off-site meeting at La Piscina. Your boy will be there. What does La Piscina mean, Dylan? The swimming pool. Oh, that's it. Yeah.

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Future Bay. Too many anecdotes about Public Rec. They sent me my pair of shorts the day I was leaving for Telluride. I threw them in the suitcase, wore them hiking. They're fantastic. Second one, I got back from my trip. Dave had just gotten his. He looks up to me at the gym.

He's wearing this. He goes, these are goaded. That's what he said. He said, I love these. They're my favorite workout shorts. I was like, all right, dog. Don't tell me. Tell the people.

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So you can't... They're just pockets that you zip. You can have that jingle jangle going on, but you don't have to worry about it. Nothing's coming out of those bad boys. You ever put your stuff in your pockets without zippers, and then you get in the car, and then all of it falls down in a little crevice? It's just annoying. It ruins my day.

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But you do have a couple events like soccer and one other that start like Wednesday. Regardless. Why do they do that? Olympics begin this week. On the calendar, it says day negative two and then negative one and then day zero. I'm like, just figure your shit out. You've got time. Nobody's kicking you out of the hotel early.

Yeah. Just start on day zero. I don't, I don't know. If I'm on the soccer team and they try to have, and they try to make me play in a game before the opening ceremonies. I'm like, no,

the ceremonies haven't even been open yet. Saving my shit. Yeah. What? No. What if I get injured? What if someone like has a bad tackle on me and I shatter my knee and then suddenly I can't walk in the,

in the opening ceremony. Or what if you, you connect on on some sick bicycle kick from 40 yards out and just put one top right, and you just wasted it on a fucking nonsensical game? Dude, look at you with the soccer terminology. I was fucking sick. Where'd you go top bins? What if you go top titties on them? If you would have said top bins, I would have been like,

okay, Dylan's low-key watching soccer randomly. I just said top right? That's lame. what we do know about the olympics are you know several things one no spectators this year yep as far as i'm concerned i'm not really i mean i'll be watching but i will be at home yeah no no live spectators kj smart ass i mean i feel so alive for the very first time. Wow. Dylan doesn't understand what's going on right now. I don't.

I can't deny it. He never had to call in a TRL and a Quest POD. He's not built like me. Boom. We also know this year that there's going to be no fucking. Oh, they're fucking. That's one thing I know about Olympic athletes is that they're fucking. Well, per the New York Post, it says lustful Olympic athletes should think twice before making the bedrock in Tokyo. The world's best sports competitors are set to spend their nights on cardboard beds

allegedly designed to collapse under the weight of fornicators to discourage sex amid COVID-19. This is so dumb. Why? Imagine you're vibing with somebody, you know. Well, they're saying you can vibe with them, but. Imagine you're vibing in the Olympic Village and you're like, you know, we should probably have this, like, things are getting hot. Like, making out at the bar or whatever. And it's like, oh, we can't have sex because this bed, you can't support us.

Like, they're still going to have sex. They're just going to have to, they're just going to do it a little more uncomfortable. They're still going to squish, you know. I don't hate the idea of these cardboard beds i might get fritz one it's kind of tight yeah i don't want you getting too crazy on this thing here's your cardboard bed is that the actual reason for this shit like like really um there's been some additional information that's come out about the stability of these which is actually more reliable than they are appear to be but before we get to that every is it bad that i look at this photo kind of like a look at uh there was a twitter story that

got ratioed to high heaven about a woman who was doing a story on like a dea room she's like you may not believe it but this room is filled with signs that there's you know your kids might be on drugs yes yes with all the little 420. It was all staged. It was in a studio. It was staged to show you all of the random things. Well, I'm looking at this like, okay, let me count the ways in which some fucking can be done. And I'm seeing plenty that don't involve the cardboard.

Like, if anything, I'm repurposing the cardboard to make a little fuck fort. A fuck fort. You know, you gotta have some privacy if you've got a roommate. Why is it that leading up to every Olympic Games, so every two years, there's a story of... There's a story that comes

out about all the sex that happens in these Olympic villages. Because, dude, when Tinder... It's like, oh yeah, they distributed like 20 million condoms in out about all the sex that happens in these Olympic villages. Because, dude, so when Tinder. Every time. It's like, oh, yeah, they distributed like 20 million condoms in Rio. Like, what? How much sex is happening in here? When Tinder first came out, I think that.

It was a scene. They had statistics from it of the Olympic village, and it was just a match fest out there. Yeah. Can you imagine being in the Olympic village, and you were just surrounded by like the world's greatest athletes everyone's horned up especially if they're done with their right that's the biggest thing is that they've usually been like you know not quarantined for covid reasons but they've been like in a bubble focusing on their training grinding it out so to speak and now they're on the edge of uh the greatest moments of their life and so they're grinding it out and now they're on the edge exactly cages of lonely i was it was a little

monster reference for once here we go um but yeah you know i'd get there i yeah i'm not really worried about people having sex like i think that at the end of the day, you can just get rid of the cardboard part of the mattress, throw it on the ground. Or just, like, get creative. Like, maybe just... Say what you said. There are ways to have sex that don't involve a bed, is what I'm trying to say. Not that I would know. Tokyo, Olympics, Tokyo, Japan, and I'm sure other cities in Japan. I've just heard about positions that don't require a bed. That's all I would know. Tokyo? I've just heard about it. Olympics, Tokyo, Japan, and I'm sure other cities in Japan.

I've just heard about positions that don't require a bet. That's all I'm saying. You've got to go with a power lifter. You don't even have to, man. You just got to be able to stand out. So if you're in the Olympic Village, you're not going to be trying to match with power lifters the entire time? Probably not. Probably not.

But, you know, you never know. Probably not. Probably not. But, you know, you never know. Out of all the summer Olympic sports, what are your top three that you want to go watch? Like, what are you most excited for? Summer? Yeah, when you're going through the schedule on the TV menu and you're like, oh, shit, that's it. Can we ask for clarity here?

You're asking as a at-home, just watching as as a fan or you're saying if i was in the olympic village like no whose event am i trying to support so they they can say they saw me in the stands when you're at home what will you be live tweeting when you're okay when you're doing it i think the men's 100 meter is always a premier event in the summer olympics because it's like okay who's the fastest person in the world this year? It's the ultimate foot race, 100 meter. The 100, I will say, has to be the goaded event of the Summer Olympics. Yeah, it's just goaded. To call yourself the fastest person alive is very cool.

There's no more excitement going into an event than the 100 meter. Yeah, I agree. No questions asked. I'm going to miss Usain usain bolt i'm gonna miss him this isn't his first one not doing one right is it yeah i think he ran last one i remember i got like this tells you how long ago i mean i guess it's been five years kind of old the last time he did it so i mean i remember getting retweeted i had a good tweet that went probably went micro at one point uh during the last olympics last summer

olympics and i got the tfm retweet i think from wr boland and i went macro wow that's how long it's been since the olympics happened though sheesh wow yeah i guess that makes sense man they're doing three on three basketball this year uh they are and they're also doing uh skateboarding to answer your question aside from your big ones your track your gymnastics women's gymnastics is a big one for me oh absolutely electric and then i'll watch the men's and every time i watch that one it just feels painful because you'll watch like the rings you're like i don't know that my clavicles and ac joints can hold up and it's like these guys are fucking their arms are the p these guys are fucking. Their arms are way too big.

Not pommel horse. Way too big. Dude, male gymnast arms are next level impressive. I think in terms of gymnastics, I always gravitate towards the female gymnastics. Of course. Yeah. It gets the prime time shots for sure. And US dominates.

That always helps. Give me the beach volleyball. You know, Kerry Walsh Jennings, all time goaded. Yeah. For sure. And not just for visual aesthetics, but I just think it's one of those where like you unnecessarily think you're closest to that level of competition amongst all of the events you watch and you're like, OK, I could survive unless you watch the men's and then they're like power spiking and you're not doing isn't power spiking what happens when they get back to the hotel room

drinking too much sake in the olympic village handball is also sneaky the event that when it's on tv and you see you're like why don't we see more of this event yes it's tight you know they're you know they're just like let's go back and collapse my bed tonight let's tear that cardboard down yeah that's hot yeah if room service or if housekeeping comes in and they see the mattress on the ground it's like all right the uh i guess the equestrian girl came home last night with uh yeah with the the pentathlon dude what is handball again handball is uh i only know because apparently apparently Dirk's father or mother played it. That's why they always said Dirk was a super athlete. It looks like, it's like a straight out of elementary PE type looking game.

Does it look like lacrosse a little bit? It's like indoor soccer, but you're playing with a smaller looking volleyball. You smack it or grab it. It's indoor soccer, but you're playing with a smaller-looking volleyball with basketball rules. You smack it or grab it? No, you run, you pass it, and you're jumping from the three-point line to try to throw it at the goal, and you have a goalie playing with a smaller goal. It's like one of those obscure events that you feel like if you trained hard enough, you could participate because only 300 people in the world do it.

Again, it's something the U.S. probably needs more of. We're putting too much time into futsal. How many curlers do you know? Probably zero. Only on Bison tries day. That's why I'm – that's probably like one of the easier ones to become an Olympic-level athlete in just because like so few people actually attempt it. Respect it.

Is Richardson that American sprinter? Is she still banned? Yeah. Still? They didn't do anything about that? Nah. She was actually left off the relay team.

I did see a tweet that was saying that they have surfing and skateboarding in the Olympics, but somehow you can't run if you smoke weed. And asking the same thing, you're telling me that Kevin Durant would have passed any drug test? Dude, yeah. Kevin Durant, I mean,

I feel like all Kevin Durant does in the offseason is just burn and tweet. Tweet and toke, if you will. Which is not a bad thing, I guess. I don't know. I don't even know what I'm excited for this year besides. I mean, swimming is always a good one. The relay swimming is goaded for me. Oh, yeah.

Swimming is a lot of fun to watch. But outside of swimming and like sprints, track and field stuff, like, there's not much on there that gets me, like, super crazy excited. What will have me excited is the opening ceremonies. And it'll be a late edition, but I'll see if I can't throw this in here so you guys can see it as well. But the outfits that we usually see during the opening ceremonies are always, I don't know what, know what lifetime subscription to Ralph Lauren that the U.S. has.

But is it not shocking that at some point in time we haven't mixed that up once or twice? Dude, I'll be honest. They have a lot of misses for me. Yeah. And there are some other countries. Italy will be rocking some Giorgio Armani. Oh, of course. Well, do you see what Canada's doing this year?

Are they doing Lacoste, or what's Canada rocking? Canada's doing straight-up Canadian tuxedos. They're wearing jeans. They're doing jean jackets and stuff like that. Shut up. I kind of love that. I like that they were just like, you know what, yeah, let's just lean into our entire reputation around the world. That's sick.

I don't know. The Italian Armani plug has been quite fruitful. But, you know, shout out to the U.K. and France for wanting to be the U.S. with their looks at all times, since they were rocking them first, clearly. But the basic ass red, white, and blue polo with slacks on it, mix it up, dude. Yeah, I want to see some fits that I can go online and be like, yeah, I'm buying this. This is going to be the cool thing at the bars this week. I'd require all of the athletes to only show up in their uniform.

It's like a bad high school pep rally. Wouldn't hate that at all. You've got to be in full, like if you're a wrestler, unitard, ear muffs or whatever they're called, ear guards, knee pads and everything. You've got to walk the track, wave in the flag, fully decked out. Now, ear muffs is what happens when you get back and you can't do it on the bed. Okay. Man.

There was a dude who jumped on the bed to show that it is pretty structurally impressive. Scottish gymnast Reese. Mick. Yeah. You want to finish that one for me? At the end of the day, I feel like you can still have sex on these things. Mick Clinican. You can fuck on anything if you try hard enough.

That's facts. Okay. You think Olympians aren't going to be able to figure it out? No, they'll be just fine. You're an Olympian. Sex will be happening. If you're good at one thing, it's doing physical things with your body that no one expects. I think you're going to be able to figure out how to do it in a Japanese hotel room

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I mean, do they get to keep the money, I should say? Old Dickie Branson, he went to space, what, last week, two weeks ago? Did he? Dickie Branson. I think so. Yes. Well, it depends on who you talk to. True.

Virgin CEO Richard Branson. And so. It's an anonymous winner. So, or I guess. Yeah, yeah. The original person has not been named. The original person who got the $30 million ticket to space. Correct. But then he said, I'm a little too busy for that.

Like, I can see saying, hey, you know, maybe, I don't know. I can't see this. Like, what's the most expensive thing you've paid for? And just said, you know what, we're just going to have to miss it. Like pretty much everything I buy online that I'm too lazy to return, but I usually don't have trips to space that costs tens of millions of dollars that I just like leave by the wayside, $29.7 million he paid in order to go to space. And he backed out so an 18-year-old can do who's doing a gap year. Some bratty little 18-year-old punk who's taking a gap year, which really just means like, I want to party for a year, right? They want to expand their experience in the actual world, Dylan. Like they don't want to jump right into college not knowing what they want out of life.

Well, what if I told you he's the son of James Damon, the CEO of Somerset Capital Partners? I'd say that he has enough money to take multiple gap years. Yeah, little brat. And you know there's one of those things where he's like, Dad, you told me I could go backpack through Europe during my gap year, and I can't go to Europe because of COVID? This is bullshit. Okay, son.

Would you rather go to space? I'm sorry. Would you rather go to space? Where in space are they going? Dude, that's the thing about space. You don't know. I mean, are they just doing a lap around the earth coming back? Or are they going to somewhere?

I think they're going to the south side. Like, they took the cheaper trip. Like, I don't know. Yeah. South side of space? South side of space. Yeah. It's, like, too expensive to go to, like, other places right now.

To the hills? Yeah. Ever since things too expensive to go to like other places right now. To the hills. Yeah. Ever since things opened up, like it's hard. Are they going to like the International Space Station? Are they going to walk around in there or float around in there, I mean? Or is this just like a – They might get lunch there. Or they could look at Earth out the window like, all right, we're going back.

I want to know. It's hard to say. I think they're probably going to get as high as the guy who did that one Red bull jump that one year like and everybody made a huge which it was pretty dope but he like free fell free falled free fell and then parachuted like that's high enough if you can get to whatever the atmosphere level like i'm good with that but i think you need to leave the space vehicle that you're in for me to count it. Hold on. The New Shepard spacecraft, which is scheduled for takeoff in West Texas next Tuesday, will launch its passengers over 62 miles above the Earth's surface for a mission estimated to last about 10 minutes.

Okay. Three to four of those minutes will be spent in space. Holy shit. That's it? It's not a great return on your... What, do you think they're going to Mars and, like, hanging out and, like, going and walking around?

No, no, no, no. I know there's no space walking going on here, but... Throwing the bird dog's vortex to each other? But for this whole journey to last 10 minutes? What the fuck? I feel like this is one of those things, like, so I'm going to equate this to something that no one else is equating this to.

It's kind of like when my dad bought the first ever portable DVD player. He bought it for $1,000, and my mom was like, what the fuck are you thinking? That's a insane amount of money to buy a portable DVD player. Must be nice. You wait like three years, and they're like $25 at Walmart. They give them away. Yeah, it's like, dude, don't go on the first trip to space.

That thing's going to have faults. Exactly. You got to wait at least a few years. I'll tell you right now, I'm not going on this trip. If my trip is completely free, I am not going on one of these first, like, you know, experimental trips to space. It's going to last 10 minutes. No, thank you.

I'm out. Well, you know who's not as scared as you? 82-year-old Wally Funk, which I'm also learning. Wally Funk's full name is Mary Wallace Funk because she's an American aviator. Oh, and I think a Goodwill ambassador as well. And one of the first female people that are involved in aviation or whatever the rest of the biography says. I'm not clicking on it.

I'll say it. Wally Funk is built different than I am. 82. No one had Wally Funk based on name alone being a woman. No one. She's built way different. She's built not like a 1980s rapper. She'll be the oldest person to go to space, along with the youngest person to go to space.

Wally's going to be sitting there all excited. She's probably got some snacks queued up in little plastic bags that she's going to nibble on as they take off. And then we're going to have the 18-year-old son of a billionaire just getting selfies off and doing TikToks and shit. Isn't it weird to think that space is really not that far away from us? I mean... No, listen, they're going 62 miles up, right? That's in space. How far is 62 miles from here?

Salado? Yeah. Isn't that weird to think about? I'm just going to Salado. Like, big deal. Distance-wise, space is just right there. I can almost reach up and touch it, I feel like. That's crazy, right?

I mean, kind of. It's weird. You reach up and touch 62 miles into space? When you think about how vast space is, like, oh, I'm going to space. Like, oh, you're going to be, like, light years away. But you're just right there. It's, like, not that cool. Sally thought I was a huge – Sally thought I was a big dork the other day.

I have two of those apps that tell you, like, where the stars are in the sky. Yep. Google used to have a big one. Well, you are a d dork the other day. I have two of those apps that tell you where the stars are in the sky. Yep, Google used to have a big one. Well, you are a dork, but keep going. Well, I got an alert the other night, and I was sitting in bed at like 1130 at night, and I got this alert to my phone that said, hey, the International Space Station is about to cruise over you. Okay.

And I was like, oh, let's fucking go. That's sick. So I started climbing out of bed, put my robe on. I was going to go out on the porch, maybe watch it. And she was like, what are you doing right now? She's like, you think you're going to be able to see the space station? You're a space dork. I was like, yeah.

Did you see it? I didn't end up going outside. She shamed me enough that I stayed inside. She talked you out of it? Yeah. Don't let her steal your joy. She dork shamed you? It's probably a little bright in downtown Austin or, you know, central Austin in order to see, you know, stuff like that.

I'm going to make a statement here. I think Bezos is soft for auctioning off these tickets to even go do this. If it's me and I'm Bezos and I have the money to go to space, I'm bringing my boys with me. There's no way that I'm just going to let some nerds that are rich just go... Or some rich guy's little bratty little son

who's taking a gap year. If I'm loaded as hell and instead of going with some future TikTok star who's getting the first space TikTok off, I'm going to call KJ over and be like, hey, do you want a ride? Well, I appreciate that. I'm shocked that this is a 10-minute trip. He is flying with Mark, his brother, Mark Bezos.

Rocking with Mark? He is rocking with Mark. Rocket shipping with Mark, if you will. Okay. But the flex I would pull is I'd be like, whatever affair he had that cost him 50 bill, I would just take her and be like you know what i know uh everyone's giving attention to my divorce because my wife is giving away 40 billion dollars like very nice of her i'm just uh being a scumbag and taking my mistress to space how about that

mistress in space 10 minutes like you don't have to pack a snack for that it's just you're up and down don't you want to have a cocktail up in space? Yeah, can we chill for a bit? We're already out of here. Let's just hang out. Let me watch the world turn a little bit. Yeah. Wally won't even be able to finish her birdie.

She was going on the boot. There were a lot of people that were critical of Branson's trip to space saying that he wasn't going high enough. How high did he go? He was going like technically he was in space. That's soft. But he needed to go 10 miles further to go to where Bezos was going. Remember that Red Bull skydiver who sky dove from like, what?

Did you already talk about this? I've been watching him drink wine, but I did mention this guy too. I'm just finishing my early morning Sauvignon Blanc. That dude, he jumped from like the edge of the atmosphere right how many miles up is it he was he was totally edgy how many miles up is that 40 ish something like that the atmosphere yeah how high is the atmosphere go dog dude it's only like 12 kilometers how far is the kilometer what's not is it really felix bum garner it says it extends the from the Earth's surface to an average height.

This is the atmosphere I'm talking about. Right. To about 12 kilometers, although this altitude varies about 9 kilometers at geographic poles. 12 kilometers? No. Dude, I don't know. You're asking the wrong people. Felix Bumgarner flew approximately, and is coming from like my research i did before i

wrote some notes down on the side uh 39 kilometers into the stratosphere uh over new mexico so you know did he do this before or after he signed a new contract with the giants like i feel like they wouldn't want him going to space if he was just going to go up there and that guy's built talk about built different um but yeah him flying over New Mexico is definitely a choice, but it was 2012 when he did it, so you've got to think that Breaking Bad influenced that decision for sure. You've got to think. If you're going to space, where do you want to go? Ten fucking minutes.

Yeah, that's pretty lame. That's lame as shit. You get up there and you've got to be like, Jeff, can you ask anybody if we can take another— Can we take a lap? What's going on here? When Dave and I went to Dallas on the private jet with the people who will not be named, because I think they've been subpoenaed, and I don't want to get named in that lawsuit at any point.

But when we flew private with them from Austin to Dallas, the pilot was like, you guys want to take the quick route, or you guys want to go way up high? And we were like, I think you know the fucking answer to that. I'm not trying to get off this plane anytime soon. So we were like, yeah, take us high above the clouds uh-uh not i'm not into that man i want to stay as close to earth as i can i asked the general general rule that i have i asked sally if i was allowed to go to space you weren't allowed to go to your patio at 2 a.m so i know should i give you permission to go she's not gonna let me watch she's not gonna let me watch

the fucking space station go above my apartment i don't think she's gonna let to go to space. She's not going to let me watch the fucking space station go above my apartment. I don't think she's going to let me go to space. Not to get all dark here, but what are the chances that this goes as planned, as perfect, like they return safely? I would say insurance companies are going to make sure it does. Like they're going to, well, they are flying out of Texas. So if they abort the mission, I'm going to make 10K off this. But the odds are good that it's going to go smoothly. But is there a world where Jeff Bezos could possibly be faking his own death?

What if the guy who paid $30 million there was like, Hey, buddy, if you want to sacrifice your dorky-ass son, there's a decent chance we explode up here. Maybe you don't want to do that. He's got not a custody issue, but a will issue, and he's his only legitimate son. He wants to make sure his stepchildren get the... Yeah, and they're like, Wally's pretty much on her farewell tour anyway,

so if this goes down, it's not that big a deal. How long would you have guessed this trip would last before I told you it was 10 minutes? It fucking takes 10 minutes to get from here to the highway like yeah i would have said like so they well they get up to space and they probably chill there for 10 minutes no three to four minutes of those three to four of those minutes are spent in space lame y'all think wally's gonna be awake for any of this no like they're gonna she's gonna black out you take your iphone up there there and take pics and shit? My secret to longevity is just go to space.

I go 62 miles an hour. I just go to space every day. Every day for 10 minutes. I get 10 minutes of space gas in my lungs every day. Space gas. It's gas, but from space, of course. I mean, Wally is goaded. She's already a pilot and stuff.

She's not just some rando they're throwing into space because she's old. She was one of the Mercury 13, of course, which was the 13 American women who are part of a privately funded program. Everybody knows that. Everyone knew that. You didn't even have to say it. They went to the same physiological tests as men did to see if they'd be selected as NASA astronauts back in 1959.

Of course they weren't. Obviously. Of course they weren be selected as NASA astronauts back in 1959. Obviously. Of course they weren't. Obviously. Of course they weren't selected. They're going to do something. Because of this 18-year-old, they're going to do something absolutely insufferable. They're going to be like, oh, we got the fucking first space selfie off. Dude, hit me up there like doing TikToks and shit.

Oh, shit. You know, there's been this trend of these TikTok kids de-boarding planes where they just hold up everybody while they sing and dance. If this kid does this on the spacecraft, it will be the biggest flex of all time. It's like, hold on, Jeff. I got to get my TikTok off. He's not calling it Jeff. Hey, J-Bone.

J-Man. Hey, J-Man. Hey, J-Baz. J-Beezy. You got to wonder if the most concerned person on this flight has to be Mark Bezos. Because I'm now Jeff Bezos brother. And, uh,

I would imagine a DNA match in several ways. And if nothing else, are you not just a walking Oregon, Oregon donor, not donating an Oregon, the state and, or the musical instrument. Um,

but like Jeff gets up there and his kidney fells. Like, you know, there's a robot on deck. That's like, Mark, sorry, we need to talk. Yeah.

I don't know that I'm going anywhere around my brother in that close proximity in a high-wire act like this. You know, I'm a bag of blood for old Jeff here. I'm just not going on this trip, man. Well, you've got to think Mark also, like, is probably named as, like, somebody who might, I don't know, benefit from the death of Jeff Bezos? So maybe that's why Jeff was like, now you're coming with me. Yeah, maybe. If I'm going down, so are you, buddy. Sorry.

I guess that is nice to know that Jeff is looking out for his brother. He's taking him to space and stuff like that. But I just feel like you'd want a mob up there. I've never seen Mark Bezos. I don't think Wally's doing any mobs. I just have my trademark sip of whiskey. I'm bringing my seagulls up there. I got a bottle of 82-year-old.

I was giving it to the day I was born. I've had a sip every day since. Oh, this is not fun. What? She dead already? Mark Bezos just looks like Jeff Bezos. I was hoping that, like... What's your problem, dude?

Dude, I've had some... The early morning... It's Zobby B. It's Zobby B, dog. I was hoping that i'd look up mark bezos and find out like you know he's ecuadorian or something like something unique and nope he just kind of looks like the guy from uh a lot of movies in which i can't name at the moment the kingsman but not the main one the guy who played like the weapons guy who overlooked everything i don't know his name i'll find it i'm just imagining mark sitting around like the weapons guy who overlooked everything i don't know his name i'll

find it i'm just imagining mark sitting around like the like i just looked it up it says that mark bezos is uh estimated net worth is about 40 million dollars yeah right i'm imagining him sitting around the dinner table with uh jeff and like asking a question and just having the the uh scene from step brothers happened just every single time. He's like, well, how much does this cost? And then Jeff is just like, how much does this cost? What's your net worth? About $40 million? Oh, real cool. Hey, I'll pick up dinner.

Don't worry, buddy. Yeah. I'm absolutely. No, you can drink that wine, dude. I'm going to pay for it. Don't worry about it. It's not that big a deal. I'm embarrassed to say the person I was thinking of and couldn't name stanley tucci

that's what it looks like imagine being being worth 40 mil and your brother's just just like a thousand x you yeah on net worth like would you even tell people your last name name if you're worth 40 mil because it seems like a lot until you tell anyone your last name basically yeah it's like they're like why is your brother so shitty to you? What happened? What happened in life? Where'd you go wrong? All of a sudden, you get a lot shorter in that conversation.

I just didn't create Amazon. That's what happened. I'd fucking tell people my last name was Wahlberg if that was the case. I'd just be like, no. I'm Mark Wahlberg Bezos. And I would just go by Mark Wahlberg. So people would be like, oh, like the other guy. Is he independently worth $40 million?

I mean, you have to think that he's got some offshore funds that might kick in at some point. Get some kickbacks from my old brother. Or at least got some early intel like, hey, maybe go buy. Yeah. You know, why don't you get in? Here's some friends and family shares. This is a volunteer firefighter, which that's always a term I'm i'm weary about there was a story i'll save for too much dip but volunteer firefighters shout out to them well if you're mark bezos aren't you

texting jeff every single day being like hey dude can i get like one billion like just send him paypal requests yeah just annoy him annoy him until he's like fine dude here's a billion dollars you just slap me a billy what's the big deal I would text him relentlessly just like all the time. Like he's out to dinner with like, I don't know, fucking. Dude, you won't even notice it. Yeah. He could be out to dinner with like the richest person, like some like prince that I've never even heard of from like some country that I've never heard of.

Just bawling out. It's like, hey, dude, can I just have one billion dollars? Just like one billion. Not that big a deal. That's just different. That's different money. Dude, they're different. Ten minutes in space.

No, three to four minutes in space. Bullshit. Not enough time to come or bust. It takes 35 minutes to fly to Houston. Like, what's going on here? That was supposed to be a combustion joke, but I guess it only sounded like nutting. That sounded really horny. That sounded super horny. That sounded super horny.

Speaking of super horny, I think we have Randy's breaking news. No one's ever done this before. Do we have any theme music for Randy? Yeah, we do. There it is. I thought Kai's birthday was the only cake we were going to get. I was going to make him wait a little bit. Randy.

It's time. Hit me with the air horns from R&B Radio. Or not. Dude, I'd have to go like four things deep on this soundboard in order to figure it out. Okay, fuck me. I'm going to chill out. Fucking news already. You guys ready for some breaking news?

Dylan, would you like to go wash media video news, big ass goldfish, Nintendo 64, or giant egg? Wash media video news sounds pretty lame honestly so let's go do the big-ass goldfish all right big-ass goldfish doing multiple things at once let's get this on the screen so there is a big-ass goldfish in this lake because people released it people are releasing it in Minnesota and don't know what the city. Burnsville. Twin City suburbs in Burnsville.

People are just releasing their goldfish in this lake, and goldfish get pretty freaking big. Look, I'll say it. That goldfish is built different. Yeah. So I've always heard rumors about this being a thing. I never actually really believed it, that if you put a goldfish in a large body of water, that it would grow. And now, I have no choice but to stand this chunky goldfish. It's big boy season.

I will say, I'm anti-invasive species. Just want to be clear. I thought you were pro-zebra muscle. No, no, no. Everyone knows. You love zebra muscles. No, dude. Get the fuck out of here.

Zebra cakes. My bad. He did say it was zebra cakes. He told me that. Zebra cakes are kind of goaded, honestly. Dude, I hate zebra muscles, man. You ever cut your foot on a zebra muscle? No.

You do it once. You never want to do it again i'm different those things slice clean my feet are different oh you look down you're like is there blood in the water don't drink the water there's blood in the water that's dave matthews man shots to breath are these guys problematic or there's just like a big-ass goldfish i think they are problematic i don't think they can survive like i don't know i wonder if they just don't have a predator aside from phil and minnesota here like taking them out of the habitat yeah i just i all i read was a lot of people being really mad about this and people were like yeah don't flush them down the toilet and everyone's like no when you flush it down the toilet doesn't just go directly into a stream yeah and normally they're dead when

you do that yeah it's not like oh shit they're having a bad day if you flush it well that's i think what you should be doing and not saying hey okay, we're not going to flush it on the toilet. We're going to go to the water, you know, because there are 10,000 lakes and options for you to drop these fish in in Minnesota. Well, if you're in Minnesota, for sure. It's just too many lakes. Not a lot of people know there's more than 10,000, actually. But anyways, I imagine that's probably the option some parents take is like, hey, we're just going to go set it free. I imagine that's probably the option some parents take is like, hey, we're just going to go set it free.

And you probably shouldn't be because this goldfish is massive. And for some reason I look at it and I don't even get like Captain D's fish sticks vibes out of it. Like it doesn't look tasty. No, I'm not eating this. It's got bottom feeder vibes for sure. You like fish sticks? Okay. Randy, can you speak to the biological effects of releasing goldfish into the wild?

I can. I can. It's a problem because the goldfish, which can grow to the size of a football, compete with native species for food and increase algae and lakes. So clearly that's probably bad. Tell the natives to just eat more. Seems like a minor problem. I once did a project on invasive species and mainly about Chinook salmon. You've got to be careful for these things.

They're not built to live in the environments that you're putting them in. You ever heard of asian carp yeah they were trying to devastate the great lakes i don't know if that's been like subdued lately but there was a lot of efforts for it they just jumped different so you were rocking with carp no i do not rock with carp okay because carp do not rock with us that big goldfish is kind of cute though like low-key it'd be kind of tight could you release one in your own pond and then put it back into a giant tank in your house and just have a big-ass goldfish? Yeah. Why don't they just sell these for, I don't know, 20 times

the market rate? I don't think you buy a goldfish by the pound. Oh, so you're telling me that if you went to a carnival and they were like, if you throw one of these rings onto one of these bottles over here, then you get a tiny goldfish. But if you throw one of the rings on the middle ones, you get this giant-ass goldfish.

You're going for the middle one every single time. You know what? Maybe so. I don't know, Will. I don't want to take care of a fucking fish. I do want to say major shouts to this Minnesotan fisherman here. Rocking a vest that looks like it gets regular use. That's what strikes me.

It's like, this dude's about his business. He's not fucking around, no vest. He knows better, and it is not a straight-off-the-Costco-rack vest here. This dude's out here every day. All day, every day. I respect him. I'm about to pee my little pants, man. Let's go.

What else you got, Randy? All right, moving on to Nintendo 64. Have you guys heard about this story? Yes. There was an unopened Super Mario 64 that sold at auction for $1.56 million. That's a lot of money. It's not even, I mean, it's one of the newer gaming systems. I mean, sorry, older, but not the oldest.

It is the record-breaking price for a sale of a single video game. Because it's, I guess, a collector's item. More than whatever unearthed New Mexico copy of Zelda or something. There was story a little bit wild. That one sold for $870,000. Paperboy was goaded. I'll say it. I was too young to care about that game at that point.

In terms of 64 games, Super Mario 64 doesn't even touch my top 10. No. The wrestling games of that era were all timers. If you told me that Goldeneye went for this much money, I'd be like, yeah, that makes sense. Wave Runner, Star Fox. Oh, Wave Runner was goaded. F's with them all. 1080, I think, was also in 64.

Super Smash. But the Mario Brothers brand has always going to be bigger than... No, Super Smash is what the weightlifters do at the Olympics when they get back to their cardboard beds. Damn, dude. Got to get back to H. All right, going from one Nintendo game to another, there was a giant egg in Chicago.

Dylan, I know you're going to like this one. Is that A-E-G? It's actually a bean. It's a bean. No, no, it was a giant egg, and it was at Maggie Daly Park for the fifth anniversary of Pokemon Go.

They had a worldwide festival that took place in 20 different cities. It was a dork fest. You're not allowed to talk. You're not allowed to talk. Yes, I am allowed to talk. Did you play Pokemon Go? No. Was he out there on Mopac searching for a magic card? When the craze was going at its peak, I downloaded it so I could see why people were freaking out.

And I was like, this is stupid and terrible. And I closed it down and deleted it. That was my experience. It's on your iPad right now because I downloaded it for Parks last year. Well, I didn't know that. The technology at that time was pretty dope, which nowadays, Parks made me download a dinosaur game where it's the same situation where you hold up the camera and your dinosaurs fight on the table.

People were chasing Pokemon across busy intersections. You'd get smoked and shit. People were falling off cliffs and stuff. And they had to go back and tighten up where they could be found and limit them to public spaces. It was a Darwin experiment, I think. Okay. So I guess the breaking news here is that after five years, people are still playing the game.

I had no clue. Dylan's the only person in this room. Randy definitely played Pokemon Go. Here we go. Oh, yeah. Did you play Pokemon Go? I played the fifth. Am I the only person in this room who didn't play Pokemon Go?

I didn't play Pokemon Go. I'm not too cool for Pokemon. I'll say that. I've caught them all before room who didn't play Pokemon Go? I didn't play Pokemon Go. I'm not too cool for Pokemon. I'll say that. I've caught them all before. Okay. I played Pokemon. I had the yellow game on my Game Boy when I was growing up. I didn't know how to play it, really.

I just went around and just did what I did. And I think it worked out for me. I think I had some pretty high-up things, but I never really knew what the end game was. Yeah. I don't know that I ever remembered the song of the original 118? 128? 51. There was more than that, right? Original 151. 151. Okay. I don't know that I ever remembered the song of like the original 118, 128. 51. There was more than that, right?

Original 151. 151. Okay. I thought you said 51. I was like, wait, wait, wait. Like I never recalled, like I couldn't memorize that whole thing, but it was in my rotation of after school shows. So I was on Pokemon early on, but it fell by the wayside once they went from like red, blue, yellow. And like they got like six games and I was over it.

I didn't play Pokemon Go that much. I lived by a park at the time, so I tried it. You rode with park? I was rocking with park. And I just couldn't get into it. But shout out to the egg. Shout out to the egg. Dallas famously stole a huge exhibit that looks like this from Chicago. It was just a big eyeball you

can find that in downtown dallas now but it's in chicago for like five years before that so maybe we'll get the egg too true before anyone comes at me i know pokemon goes nine niantic and not nintendo and oh yeah niantic but i mean it's a nintendo franchise on any other parts of this photo but there were some strong photoshop vibes looking in this uh photo that we've got here on screen go check it out on youtube but the lady in the middle threw me off with the uh legs but anyhow let's keep it moving okay and then finally in washed media video news keep an eye out that's That's all the news that you have. That's the news. Keep an eye out. Let's just say come early August, some big things are going to be happening with Washington media in the video.

So keep an eye out. Follow Circling Back Pod on Instagram. We'll be throwing out some teasers on the story. So big stuff coming. Bigger or smaller than Kool Adam's sideburns are right now? Smaller. Because he's going full-blown Wolverine. I will say, Dylan, I'm coming for that ass in terms of virality.

I'm going to call out your lie right here. I completed one heavy. I believe I still. There we go. There we go. There we go. You actually won this race. I can now confirm that it is completed.

Good job. The wine, that is. I want to give one final shout-out, too, to two local awesome backers that got engaged because of the pod over the weekend. Shout-out Andrew and Kaylin. Really? I was with them Saturday celebrating. What are their names? Andrew and Kaylin.

Kaylin or Kaylin? Kaylin. Congrats to Andrew and Kaylin. Kalen or Kalen? Kalen. Congrats to Andrew and Kalen. That's big time. Has Randy Loki become the local backer ambassador? How many of your weekends in the last four weekends have been spent with backers? At least two. I mean, I met them through the pod, too.

I respect it. That's mega cute. Congrats. And then our final WASH Media video news. That's mega cute. Congrats. And in our final WASH Media video news, Dylan, our clip about Real or Fake Peloton motivational quotes has eclipsed 306,000 views on the Peloton meme page. I think if we combine that, I'm still below your views for Real or Fake pre-workout, but I'm coming for that ass.

I'm not worried about it, honestly. We have outperformed the last seven videos they've posted on their account, so I will say our content is objectively good. Goated, one might say. Does it feel weird to be the only man at the table not in possession of a Peli? You're not the only one not using the Peloton,

but there's one in my household. He doesn't have one anymore. His girlfriend got rid of it. Well, I never had one. She had one. She got rid of it, yeah. She didn't use it. Those tiny ass legs weren't doing shit on there. Did you get rid of it because you knew you were scared of it? Don't talk about Bay's legs like that.

I never used it. Little jerk. Jerk store called. Running out of you. Okay. That's it. What? What?

It's a rainy level joke. I think it's time to go. Bye.