Circling Back - 2023 Bit Madness Final Four & Championship (plus Succession premiere!)

Episode Date: March 27, 2023

Don't cry because it's over — smile because it happened. After an hour of today's episode, Bit Madness finally comes to an end. But before that, we discussed our Weekends in Fun (Dell Match Play and Taylor Swift!), Succession's Season 4 premiere, and the cringiest elevator you could get stuck in. Enjoy a free two-week trial on Patreon for additional weekly episodes: www.patreon.com/circlingbackpodcast Watch all of our full episodes on our new YouTube channel — www.youtube.com/circlingback  Shop Washed Merch: www.washedmedia.shop  (0:00) Fun & Easy Banter (11:30) Recapping This Weekend in Fun (29:46) Cringe Elevator Scenario (43:00) Succession S4E1 — The Munsters (58:04) Bit Madness, Final Four + Championship Support This Episode’s Sponsors Rhoback: www.rhoback.com (BACKER20 for 20% off) Stamps: www.stamps.com/circlingback (4-week trial, free postage, and a digital scale) Groove Life: www.groovelife.com/steam (20% off everything!) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/circling-back/message Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

all right we're back circling back podcast coming to you live from Austin, Texas. My name is Will DeFreeze. To my left, David Ruff. Where were you when you found out that the viral image of Pope Francis wearing a white puffer coat was fake? Do you remember where you were on that day? I don't remember where I was, no. But I remember thinking like, man, that's a cool pope, but is this too good to be true? There's no pope that cool. No. And that's what initially gave me the, I don't think this is real vibe. Yeah.

I got got. Straight up got got. I sent it to our meme team. I wouldn't have sent it had I known because it's like, what's the point? You know what it was for me? The chain outside the cup. That was your response. The chain outside the cup.

It's like, man, there's no way he's doing that move. You don't think Fran Dog lets his chain hang low? I don't think so, no. Yeah, I don't think so either. Unless someone with a lot more swag just put that fit together for him. I was like, nah. I know the Pop pope mobile comes through dripping non-stop every single time candy paint i just don't see the pope wearing a jacket on that level that is that is some next level stuff i was puffed out to the max couldn't put his arms down by his

side no yeah it was dope now he's on that michelin man trip yeah he's on that marshmallow gas yeah he's on that marshmallow gas exactly stay puffed marshmallow man just puff to the max dude i did see and this is not fake this is real as i buzz the lens um he did put uh 22 inch blades on the popemobile recently. They're not spinners. They're not spinners. They don't spin? Completely different. These are blades.

He's chopping. Okay. But. Elbows poking out or not? No, no elbows poking out. But he's modernizing. They're kind of, you know. We've been pushing blades down here for a few years.

He's a little late to it. But it's cool that they're trying. I hear the Vatican doesn't exactly lend itself to having the elbow sticking out on the hubcaps. Narrow roads over there. Yeah. Really narrow roads. Yeah, yeah. Europe's tough to push a rig through.

Those little cobblestone roads can't handle the elbows. Yeah. When Dylan lived at the fraternity house, he called it the fratican. I did. He made everybody call him Pope. Which is why I tried to wear two-inch inseams there, i wouldn't they wouldn't let me in remember that story that is an underrated you were too frat to get get into the vatican they're like this guy they can't have somebody out fratting the pope we can't trust this guy to like keep his frat under control once

once he's inside this guy's gonna pull out a funnel and just start chugging one yeah exactly it seems like they should just allow people wearing shorts to go in why you don't think i don't know should have a dress code yeah like i don't know man i always thought it was a little weird you have to dress up to go to church and that's catholicism for you yeah and they will let you in most churches and no matter how you're dressed unless you're just like you know no shirt or something but catholicism you're not required to dress up to go to church right no it's not the expectation but people do yeah i always felt as though the catholic church in our hometown uh dressed more casually than our church did i was just trying to see that ceiling that the ninja turtles painted and they wouldn't let me do it

yeah yeah which is still impressive yeah it's impressive since they don't even have thumbs dude and as you know like thumbs pretty much determine everything and they did 16 different chapels we were we had a segment in a week ago or two weeks ago about the statue of david mainly talking about his genitals but did you see the story of the principal at the i think charter school private school in florida that had to resign because she showed sixth graders a statue of David, a photo. Really? Yeah. One parent was very, very mad

and said, we do not need to be showing our kids pornography. I don't think that's pornography. No, it's just a beautiful work of art. It's a statue cock. Maybe it was an AI version of David and he was absolutely laying pipe he was piped up you think that exists yeah i do probably i do pull it up real incognito no you can do it you got you got a keyboard right there playboy chrome speaking of

keyboards mr hunt and pack himself Chivary in the building. Okay. You know what? I do like a hybrid version of hunting and pecking. Technically, I do use my index fingers a lot and I look down, but I'm fast with it. Y'all know I am. Ladies and gentlemen, the Hunt and Peck hybrid. It's a Hunt and Peck hybrid is what it is.

Dylan Chivary. I'm very efficient. I'm not at your level. No, but dude, you are a professional blogger for a little bit, hunting and pecking. peg hybrid is what it is dylan shivery i'm very efficient i'm not i'm not at your level no but like dude you are a professional blogger for a little bit hunting and pecking like that you no one can no one can deny that was it was anyone ever waiting on me to finish a post because i was just so slow no you're like the matthew wolf of blogging okay just a little unorthodox think about it i'll take it that's good he's well he's he's He's kind of taken a dip, and he's a live guy now, but still, I get it.

He might have made the right move, right? Because he was not in a good way. He started so hot. Tell your wife he asked that hi. Remember that video? What a weird video. I don't. I don't.

This is news to me. I can't wait to watch it after this episode. I will. I didn't know he had memeable videos. He did. He had one. Good for Matthew. He had one memeable video.

I mean, it was never sustainable. He was like Tim Lincecum out there. Just asking for back problems. Man, last week was a very strong week of content. It was. Considering we were out for a little bit, too. We were in our bags. Yeah, Patreon went dummy hard last week. Hey, should we always like, I mean, we were out for a little bit too. We were in our bags. Yeah.

Patreon went dummy hard last week. Should we always record that on a Wednesday afternoon? Don't, don't, don't act like you just came up with this on the fly. I literally pitched this to you. He's talking about this. I get it. No, Will did say this last week. The vibes are different.

So it's, it's, it's a Friday voicemail that we release on Thursday that we actually record on Wednesday. We should just keep pushing it back earlier in the week. That's a good bit. But always released on Friday. Is that not a good bit? It's not bad. It's not bad. It's like Sunday night.

We're just meeting up to record it. Friday voicemail that we release on Thursday that we record on Wednesday. That's fucking so stupid. It opens up thursday for you that's so stupid thursday is normally pretty open so like we can we can have that as a safety slot in the morning on thursday what if what if thursday is just like but we could find we can find a way to fill the time on thursday surely that's surely that's a good name. It's an okay name. It's an okay name.

I don't know if good is the direction. I'm going to tweet it out and see what the people think. How about that? While you're tweeting this out, let's get some official business out of the way. We're still doing our 14-day trial for new patrons. You can sign up anytime. You'll get 14 days for free. Tomorrow, we're doing exactly five minutes, the most electric podcast running through the Patreon right now. We'll take all your listener prompts.

We'll discuss them after they're randomly selected for exactly five minutes. Also Thursday, obviously we're doing voicemails. Who knows? We might even record on Wednesday afternoon. Who knows? And Friday, we will be doing our final Love Island Boys. The experiment worked. The experiment worked. I enjoyed Love Island. I'm glad Dave's on board fully. You know Dylan

is already on board. But to anyone who's appreciated the Love Island Boys, we appreciate you. As always, you can go to youtube.com

slash circling back for video episodes and you can go shop the watch store at watchmedia.shop. I will note that we will probably not have video for this entire go shop the watch store at washmedia.shop. I will note that we will probably not have video for this entire week across the wash network as Randy had to run up to

Indiana. He will be out for the week. Uh, and so yeah, more on that later, but, uh, we will be just doing audio only this week. Shall we get into it? Glad I didn't wear my best fit. Like I was planning, man. I threw on a polo. Can you imagine wearing a polo in 2023? Obby would never. Obby's too busy wearing e-waist, four-inch inseam shorts. He's very frat. Has he tossed his name in the ring for internship summer 2023 yet?

He has a career. He's gainfully employed. Yeah, but I know you know that he would rather be here for the summer interning at Wash Media than he would be doing anything else. Sir, it says here you worked for a major accounting company for a year and a half, then you went back and took an internship

that you previously had. Yeah, that's right. Okay. If I'm interviewing someone that does that, I'm looking at them and i'm like you know what followed your heart good for you good for you what's what is a big accounting firm at this point we're learning a lot about these banks you know what i mean i saw scott van pelt's bank went down a couple weeks ago we are learning a lot about these

what do you think's going on i don't know know. Like, well, so I knew that ESPN was having issues. So it makes sense that Scott Van Pelt's bank would not survive considering how many people that they've been letting go. Right.

And so like, when I found out that SVP was going down, I was like, yeah, that makes sense. Like ESPN has been letting people go

for the last few years. You crushed that. They let the Gullicks go. How do you let the Gullicks go? I don't know. Come on, man. Craziness. Craziness. let's recap this weekend and fun presented by our friends over at roback you know we're rolling with the robies this weekend a war dylan's wearing it right now dude i got hella compliments i'm not even just saying that

i got hella compliments how much rollback did you see over the weekend? It's insane. Every fifth dude has a rollback polo on. Yeah, and they all look great. We were on hole 13, and Dylan turned around, and I just witnessed this interaction. I wasn't a part of it. But Dylan turned around to Dave, and he just goes, dude, there's so much rollback out here. It's facts.

They got polos. They got tees. I was wearing their shorts the other day, looking caked up. Is that why you were so caked, looking caked up. Is that why you were so cute? Looking caked up. Okay. Randy came in the other day just wearing a full rollback outfit. Never seen him wear just all rollback exclusively before.

Yeah, he just come from the rollback store? Mm-hmm. It looked like he went to go try everything on and just rolled back in. I like how 10 years ago, if we'd been in a golf tournament together, Dylan would look at me and be like, God, there's so many chicks here but instead now it's god there's so much road back look how much performance uh moisture we can gears out here has no chance out of this tournament these dudes out here are just breathing yeah dude dude there's like a huge lack of swamp ass out here dude i wore the island green the island green polo my god it's green might be my new favorite john

no it's you know what color it was are you sure with some blue uh notes maybe some green notes do you have trouble seeing orange i have trouble with pretty much everything like orange though aren't you glad that i can't see okay colors roback.. Backer 20 for 20% off everything at the store. Again, that's Roback.com. Backer 20 for everything at the store. Dylan, what did you do this weekend? Oh, thanks for asking, Will. I had a fantastic weekend.

Spent two days out at the WGC Dell Match Play, the golf tournament here in Austin. It is just a scene, man. It's so much fun. Great atmosphere. Lakeside down there. People everywhere just mobbing. You're rubbing shoulders with all kinds of interesting people. You're talking.

You're drinking. You're watching golf. Sick. Dude, what was the nectar of choice this weekend? Ooh. I had a couple transfusions and quite a few Mickey Bang Bangs, if I'm being quite honest with you guys. Dude, I get it. I get it. Quite a few Mickey Bang Bangs, if I'm being quite honest with you guys. Dude, I get it. I get it.

Quite a few Mickey Bang Bangs. Dude, it's the summer of extremely light beer. Friday's sneaky, a really good time out there. I don't know why I said sneaky. It's just to be expected. We had a really good time. Breaking news. Friday at Lakeside Golf Tournament, very fun.

Yeah. Sneaky fun. Sneaky. Often referred to as the day yeah the day the rest of friday had a little dinner with bay uh saturday didn't do a whole lot had had parks parks and i mobbed uh he had a soccer game they took the l but that's okay okay you didn't have to throw that in there he he still had fun did he he net any himself? He didn't score. Too bad.

They only scored. They scored two as a team. Wow, as a team. That's really nice of you to add that. Wouldn't hit golf balls later. You? Parks did. Oh, okay.

We went to Lions. He had a good time. You weren't teaching him, were you? Yeah. I was giving him some pointers. Do you need someone else to come through? David, I can come through. I want him to get the golf itch. I'll get that backswing about half as long as it is now. Yeah. I was giving him some pointers. Do you need someone else to come through? David, I can come through. I want him to get the golf.

I'll get that backswing about half as long as it is now. Yeah. That'd be great. His backswing is way too short actually at the moment. So Steve stay away. Maybe I need to talk to him. I want him to get the golf itch. Right.

So he had him having a good time out there was actually a really big development. Cause last time I went out there, he was like, eh, I don't really like this. This time he had fun. He made good contact with a few of them and it was it was it was cool what i did not know is that saturday out at lions was also the invitational oh yeah tough day to bring your kid out there so i walk we walk out there i'm like okay there are some questionable outfits here some people dressed as full tacos do you see see Belldar? I did not see Belldar. Some giant inflatable dicks.

For people that don't know what the Invitational is, the Invitational is a local tournament put on. I think it's in association with cricket. I don't know if they fully put their name behind it, but cricket's associated in some way. And what they do is that they pretty much take over Lions Municipal Golf Course, and they make it into an absolute shit show the entire day. People just have fun.

There's cars with kegs going around around you can wear whatever the hell you want yeah and there's there's some scenario where someone has to fly home with like an inflatable penis so we saw the inflatable penis yeah i kind of shielded parks from it i didn't want him being like why is there a huge inflatable penis over there i don't think he saw it yeah but still an interesting maybe he thought it was like peppa Pig or something. Interesting time to take him off there. He fell off the statue of David. Yeah. We had fun, man. It'd be funny to put an inflatable penis on the statue of David if you went there.

Yeah, that would be a pretty. I would support that vandalism. Is that, is that, is David in Florence? Yes. Okay. Everybody knows that. I didn't. I think it actually moves around a little bit.

Not on its own, like people move. They put rollerblades on them and just they have other means of doing it but i do think it they it hits different museums and whatnot you have to admit it would be cool if they put rollerblades on the statue no it would did y'all have the thing in like uh in gym class where they had like the the wooden things that would move the the big gym equipment with the wheels on it you know i'm talking about yeah you could just slide around on those things when they leave that they'd leave the door open to the closet and you just go in there and grab them and slide across the floor the ones that had like the four wheels it was essentially like yeah like wood in the four wheels and you

could just you could just cruise on those maybe this is just my my bootleg school but i'm pretty sure we had a game with those where we would sit on it and we had like mini hockey sticks oh and we would just like back around on them. It seemed like a real like at the time like this isn't a great game. But I don't know. Just a time kill, I guess. Sunday was pretty lame. Didn't do a whole lot.

Watched some basketball, unfortunately. Texas lost, but that's okay. Still a good season. And oh, Texas swept Texas Tech in baseball. Dylan's looking at the camera. well unfortunately texas lost but that's okay still a good season and uh oh texas swept texas tech and baseball dylan's looking at the camera yeah dylan still is making faces at the camera that's completely off so that was cool yeah i'm old i only watch texas state baseball games bobcats very cool when fritz wants to play baseball i'm gonna tell him you're wearing construction gloves to bat and construction gloves only don't ask for any other gloves

something something good's going down in san marcos for once we got some positive vibes who what was the name of their their big dog last year that was just pimping every home run that he hit i don't know you know what i'm talking about yeah i do i can't remember his dude he had a ridiculous nickname. It's escaping me now. We'll think of it eventually. What'd that boy get into this weekend? Well, Thursday and Friday, we're all about Dell Match Play.

Thursday, we went out as a company. Had a great time. I had to leave a little bit earlier. And look, Thursday was my day to drink beer. I paid for it in that I was using the bathroom quite frequently. I learned my lesson when I went back out there Friday. Friday is when I kind of switched over. I did a transfusion, which was fine. But then I just went, I went with some traditional Dave's. Um, I had like a crazy mashup where I took the diet Pepsi cause they only sell Pepsi products as you know. Um, and I just, I poured it in there. So I was doing, what's that drink called? Huh? What's that drink called?

Uh, sneaky Dave. Okay. How many sneaky Dave's did you have? I had one and a half. Wow. Yeah. you have i had one and a half wow yeah pretty wild time that's crazy uh i'm sad i'm i'm really sad i when when i when it looked like that the winds were blowing in this direction like we're not doing the dell match play and we're not doing match play at all and we're definitely not doing it austin metaphorical wins yes the metaphorical wins i was like okay and uh after going out there and after watching it on tv and this is kind of it's like okay i've i know the course because i've played it two times three times but it is cool seeing guys play a course that you just played a couple weeks ago it's selfishly i'm like dude i'm thinking about all our shots on some of those holes. And when Rory drove 18 on Thursday, I was like, I watched that video like 50 times. I was like, that is so sick.

It's one of the best drives I've ever seen. Seriously. I'm surprised you don't have the take that you've done that before. No, definitely. No, I don't. Dude, if you catch one, you can do that. I mean, he did have a little bit of wind behind him, but still quite impressive. Still nuts.

Still nuts. Saw Danny Reg him, but still quite impressive. Still nuts. Still nuts. Saw Danny Riggs. Met his nice family. Finally got to meet his parents, his sister. He's got a sister. He's got a sister. He's got a sister. He's got a sister.

He's got a sister. He's got a sister. He's got a sister. You've met his sister before. No, I have met his sister, but. Lovely people. Lovely people. Dan looked.

Noted waterman. Dan looked incredibly Austin. Dude, his beard is just popping lately. Beard tats, jacked up. How much time is he spending on chives these days? He looks like a chive guy. Dan? Yeah, a little bit.

I don't think- He's not going to like that. I'm sorry. But you know what I mean. You think he's eating a lot of chives? Maybe. Dude, I'm- You a chive guy?

Back in on chives in 2023. The food or the website the food like are you are you pro chives on your loaded baked potato are you anti-chives on your load of baked potato you know what i i don't i don't reach for chives if i'm loading up my baked potato but if they're on there i'm just gonna i'm gonna eat them that's fast that's facts i understand i understand they would put chives on the uh the potatoes the cheesy potatoes at uh They would put chives on the potatoes, the cheesy potatoes at Taco Bell. Sometimes you got to live moss. It's true.

Live moss is my philosophy over the weekend. I left at about four. And then I met my wife and my son at the Grove. Remember the Grove over there? Wow. Dude, one of the best trees in Austin, Texas is in the middle of that restaurant. I think about that tree blows my mind yeah i'm just like how is this structurally sound there's not like a load-bearing wall anywhere inside of this tree so the guy who had to put the lights on that tree man you did a great job you did a great job it's a cool patio

oh if that thing were to ever oh man during that ice storm dude you got to be shitting bricks if you're if you're the grove during that ice storm because the tree over taco deli in west lake is just done for these days is it really well you get smoked uh there are several branches that have clearly fallen off which you know is sad in a way but it's also a little more comforting knowing that there's a much smaller chance of getting pooped on by a bird while eating your taco deli it's true yeah that was always risky i miss that place though miss honeyham um saturday i pretty much watched the match play i pretty much watched golf watched basketball uh watched a little ufc and sunday we're back doing soccer again the soccer cubs um it was the first class we're now doing the 9 a.m class which i feel like the age i think it's the same age group but like it skews younger so like road

roads is like one of the bigger kids in there and it's just it's chaos and the first class is always crowded because like everybody shows up to that one. And it's just parents. It's a free-for-all. But he seems to be enjoying it. I don't know. He actually just likes that game where I tuck the jersey and he has to chase me around. That's pretty much it. He's a footy lad.

He gets it. I wouldn't mind it, man. I would not mind if he got into that at all. But, yeah, other than that, nothing crazy. How about you? I went to Las Vegas, Nevada on Friday. Woke up early. Tactical.

Got on my flight. Had a little flight delay, which meant that your boy had to do a second run over to Earl Campbell's BBQ in order to get a breakfast taco. Shout out to their bean and cheese with Pico. The juxtaposition. The lady actually told me.

She actually told me that the juxtaposition was fire. She didn't say fire. Do you understand what he's saying? You picking up what I'm saying? I do. I do. Yeah. The delay in our flight did harsh my mellow on the search for the bartender at the Cosmo,

unfortunately. Dude, he's gone. He's a unicorn. But in place of that, I found another mythical figure. It only adds to the legend, though. Dude, I found that that's a nice touch guy. Oh, sure. J.R. Hickey.

You guys familiar with him? Like the real guy? The real guy. I saw him. He's a real guy. Yeah. Seeing that he was in Vegas was a very exciting moment for me. That dude gets around, like travels a lot. Yeah. a real guy. Yeah. Seeing that he was in Vegas was a very exciting moment for me. That dude gets around, like travels a lot.

Yeah. Good for him. Yeah. He doesn't sleep with numerous women and gets around. He gets around, but he just goes to different cities. That's why I clarified. Thanks for clarifying, dude. He was just in Japan like a week ago.

So we hit each other up and we decided to go to the Cosmos Sportsbook where we just drank buckets of beers for a little bit, watched some games. That's sick. Yeah. I got him to put on the michigan tech penn state uh you know hockey game before the concert you did this yeah it's a good pregame buckets before the concert dude everything in buckets yeah all right thought about getting a massage in the sports book but instead we just made a nice touch video out of it performed Performed pretty well. It is a nice touch. Where did that microphone come from?

Dude, so we need to invest in these. This is great. It's just a mic. It's a pocket microphone that connects to your phone. Yeah, he just had it on him. His buddy, because he was there with his boys. And his buddy was just like, why the fuck do you have a microphone on you? And he was just like, dude, we're doing content.

Don't worry about it. I love that. So we did that. Then we hit the old Taylor Swift concert. You guys hear about this? Ares tour? I've heard of Taylor Swift. 44 songs?

That's too many songs. Three hours? Allegiant Stadium. What a place. What a place. Did you sit down at all? Yes. 100%.

I'm going to be doing some sitting. 100%. If you weren't sitting down, you were blocking some people because everyone wanted to sit down at one point. There's no point in standing during some of the concert because it's it's more acoustic feeling you know you want to sit down yeah it's structured in a way that allows you to sit down at the right times that's that's huge for me as someone who famously doesn't stand well she's no i mean dylan you and i you and i probably saw just a bit of a concert in austin texas a couple weeks prior i'm a a weird head. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, no, it was a really fun show. I'm glad I saw her. I don't think I need

to go to her next tour. I think I got a lot of it out of my system, but that's in a good way. It was a nice moment. Got home, did the thing where I got home, put our son down for a nap, and I slept for three hours, woke up, went to dinner. And then I slept for 12 hours that night. I needed to, I needed to rest up. I need my beauty sleep. That's some good sleep in there. Thought about playing my Zot card last night,

but it turns out the pizzas that were ordered for the UT game were all, it was 80%, 80% of the toppings on the pizzas last night was meat. And I was trying to get back in my Pesco grind. So, you know, I had to go get some tacos after so i think i think i might play the zocard tonight that awkward moment when your your pesco

intersects with your zocard yeah and it's like yo what do i do it's like could i have taken the pepperoni off the pizza yeah i could have but i feel like that's just compromising you're still getting a little taste of that roni yeah i still feel like the grease is what would end up like you know making the tum-tum an issue. It's like that philosophical question that we often debate around here. You're a train conductor, and on the track splits, you could either play your Zaw card if you go one way, or if you go the other way go pescatarian you know that that age-old philosophical question that we kick around here often for sure for sure dylan you look like you don't remember doing this what's up are you okay yeah i'm good yeah so are you playing your zocard instead of

going pescatarian yeah okay that's understandable that's understandable oh man i was i was gifted a single slice of pizza at the tournament yeah i know you were i saw it and had you had dylan was doing his best best like no no no i don't need it from dave i don't need it i don't need it's cool and i was like dylan if you turn this down one more time i will be intervening and saying i will eat that piece of pizza sir i don't want to be thrown in za jail though oh you've been you've been reckless with your za card lately if i'm being honest you've gifted a single slice of pizza, is that playing your Zod card? Because it would have been rude if I

turned it down. Did you consume pizza? I ate the pizza. You could have asked the ruling party, like, right on the spot and said, hey, can I get an exemption? Like I was saying. Are there exemptions? I'm trying to find this tweet, because somebody tweeted something out, and someone just straight up got their

Zod card revoked over the weekend. Holy shit. Was me it wasn't no it wasn't any of us oh i was like damn what i do us no i do dog you were on vacation i wouldn't you know whatever yeah i i need to play my zoc cartoon later man it's been a minute i'm dying over here the guy who runs pro football talk he says i eat i don't know what the context of this is i eat an apple a day and i ride an exercise bike every afternoon for one hour at 27 miles per hour. I hope that balances out having pepperoni pizza four to five nights per week, two to three adult beverages per night, and a cigar every two to three days. If not, oh well. And I just straight up, I pulled his card.

That guy's laundry must smell terrible. I do not want to put my face in his hamper. No. This guy's just eating pepperoni pizza five nights a week. Dude, you don't need to eat pizza five nights a week. At least mix it up with the toppings. I hope he's getting a side salad with that once in a while. That's a lot of pizza.

It's just a lot of za. A lot of za. Za fucks. I get it, but damn. I've been fucking grinding on my za card lately. Really? Trying to use it as much as I it, but damn. I've been fucking grinding on my Zod card lately. Really? Trying to use it as much as I can, but it's difficult. I'm trying to think of a pun that has the word stamp in it, but I simply can't do that.

Have you ever done fish on pizza? Sardines? Only anchovies, I guess? Anchovies. I guess only anchovies. I've done a clam pie before. Okay. I used to call Dave that in college why he's eating a lot of clam pies really did san marcos have a good seafood

pizza place no not at all tell him about it dave man at san marcos seafood pizza place sounds like a big hearty helping of food poisoning. No, no. We mainly did Domino's back then. I don't know what Don's talking about. Okay. Did Domino's have your stamp of approval? Stamps.com has mine.

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i feel like i should pivot my my least favorite person on the planet right now where did this happen i don't know um i'm gonna play i'm gonna play some audio real quick and because uh because we're not set up today in a really conducive way i'm gonna do it through my microphone okay okay so uh this says this tweet simply says nightmare scenario and then we have this music happening okay One more time. One more time. Beautiful voice on this young lady. I would love to see her doing the Naka Palace set somewhere.

Not bad pipes on the young lady. Well, what if I told you that she was performing this song in an elevator that was stuck somewhere on the eighth floor and no one could get out and i was just staring at her very full elevator i was gonna say surely only like one or two people were in this elevator no no what if i told you the elevator was completely packed no one can move no one can move i don't know why i have to know where this happens it's in a major city because you can see the outside from the elevator but i I don't know where it is. The way that everyone's looking around while she's performing this really sets the tone for the entire room. If you, okay, you have to have awareness in a situation like this.

If you just start performing in front of people who are not engaging with you, not looking at you, not clapping along or nodding along, you have to know that it's not welcome sound. You got to shut it down. That's when you have to like tell your buddy like, I'll be right back. I'm going to go get my hat and sunglasses and do the Blues Brothers routine. We're going to turn this thing around.

Do you keep an extra hat and sunglasses in the elevator? I do. In the shaft of the elevator? I do. is there a theory that this chick like she's trying to make it and like go viral so she she's the one who like it rigged the elevator to fail like that she she pulled she pulled it she has a cohort outside that like yes sabotage or something it's like ocean is 11 but it's with her career which is worse this or we saw the the viral video a few months back of the plane

where a whole religious group, music group, started singing shit. I don't remember this video. You don't? No. That happens. I might have been out that day. I've seen people do exactly this

and what you just referred to on planes. This pops up a few times a year. It's like, oh, our flight was delayed. So this guy pulled out his guitar and played Elton John. A good rule of thumb to go by as you embark on life, don't force people to listen to your shit. They should choose to. There are very few times when I am excited

that somebody who I have not paid to go see in concert starts playing music in front of me. If you are just a civilian off the street who learned how to play guitar, I don't want to see you play your guitar in a small setting. It should always be their choice to listen to your shit. Get the fuck away from me. I know that there's the guy who used to pull out the guitar at parties in high school. Whatever. That guy was just trying to get laid. You can't knock the hustle. We were all a little jealous that he knew how to play guitar and we didn't. But now that we're older, I don't need to see

you playing guitar unless you're like a street performer and I can walk right by you and only give you money if I'm impressed. Like, I just don't want to see it. This would have been better had she just played guitar and not sang. I was thinking she could do some like classical, like a guitar, you know, know maybe maybe like a little blues guitar no vocals just kind of the vocals take it the the uncomfortable level from a four to a nine just guitars a full is there any song that you would like to hear like in its entirety vocals included maybe like zombie by the cranberries or something like that my wife walked down the aisle to that

it was pretty yeah it's an interesting choice uh-huh yeah it's in your head that's a good that's a good one though you're looking at me like you want me to keep going and i fucking will if you don't say something i kind of want to do karaoke soon i've been practicing my uh walking to memphis lately and i kind of want to bust it out at some point is it your version or is it the original version or is it the tyson fury version it's it's me covering tyson fury Cohn. It's a double cover. Yeah. Yeah. Do you want to hit Wander? Mark Cohn?

Who's Mark Cohn? I mean, it's... He pitched for the Yankees. Well, once you... Yeah, he had a perfect game for the Yankees. That's his brother, David. It's hard to follow up the greatest song ever recorded. You know what I mean?

Like, if you make the greatest song ever recorded, what's your next move just make an inferior product we kept recording podcasts after the valerio episode we seem we seem to be doing okay it's true for ourselves true it's true he won a grammy award for best new artist in 1992 and then never to be heard from again um vindicate this man david what else did he do what's our man mark comben up to well what's it don't tell me don't tell me his personal life uh section on wikipedia is like six paragraphs long that could get disturbing that could ruin the song for me in 2005 he was shot in the head during an attempted carjacking in denver

so seriously the bullet barely missed Cone's eye and lodged near his skull. He survived and was hospitalized for observation, but it was released after eight hours. Well, he's different. I kind of want to- Dude, Mark Cone walked that off, dude. If I'm getting like,

if I'm getting one to the dome like that, I'm like, hey, can I stick around like overnight? Like, I just feel weird going home. Can I do two more weeks here, please? Make sure that my brain still works after a while. Goodness gracious. You sure about that? Yeah, you're free to go.

Dude, what? Go on. Get out of here. You're a badass. You got capped. The shooter was sentenced to 36 years in prison. Good. Can't kill.

This is an assassination attempt. They need to update this. This wasn't a Can't kill. This is an assassination attempt. They need to update this. This wasn't a carjack and this is an assassination on Mark Cohn. That sounds like an old, like a Johnny Cash song. The assassination of Mark Cohn.

Dude, they shot Mark Cohn down. Oh my God. Certified gold by RIAA in February 1992 and was certified plat in 1996 he got that platy on him the album featured two other charting singles silver thunderbird of course we know that one and this one we obviously know true companion give us a give us a stanza from true companion day you are true companion not one of those ones that's fake it's good not a cap companion not a cap man okay companion if this happens in the elevator are you saying anything how many how

how many minutes do you have in you of her performing before you're like hey you're making this worse it would have to go on for a while before i said something i would just i what i would do is i would just like make make eye contact with the other occupants of the elevator and be like can you fucking believe this lady's doing i would turn my back to her so she couldn't see me i would find the other visibly like the most visibly annoyed person in the elevator and i would like make a face at them that just says get this person i would probably start with it with an audible scoff like like if she was like three minutes in like and hopefully she picks up you need to work on your scoff yeah that's that scoff isn't that scoff isn't biting enough to get me off stage give me your best scoff will i don't think i'm gonna scoff i think i'm just gonna go like oh my

god give me give me a scoff It was more of a body language. Oh, my God. Can I try my scoff again? This is my redemption scoff. Yeah, that's pretty good. That's pretty good. Your first redemption scoff was good. The second redemption scoff, you're playing with house money.

What about one of those? That's tough, too. Just playing on guitar. Are y'all surprised that this is a very very singable song that more people didn't like chime in oh that's the worst that's what she wanted to happen and she wanted everyone to sing along she wanted that viral moment and like honestly had that happen i'm jump is probably completely different i'm finding my way through that window and i'm gonna end it if everyone joins in that seems a little bit

i'm crash i'm jumping through that window yeah i'm gonna put her it. If everyone joins in. That seems a little bit rash. I'm jumping through that window. Yeah. I'm going to put her in a choke hold and put her to sleep. Will's going to put her to sleep. Yeah. Assault, brother.

A rear naked. Why don't you just animal house it and just grab her guitar and smash it against the wall? It's just destruction of her property. I don't know.

She deserves it. I don't know. I mean, she's just trying to spread joy in these troubling times of elevators getting stuck. She's trying to go vibe. Have you guys ever been stuck in an elevator? No. No.

I got stuck in an elevator recently. I got stuck in the dryer recently. I got stuck under the coffee table recently. I feel like you guys are making light of me getting stuck in an elevator. It's not very nice. You were there for like two minutes. Dude. Yeah, but that two minutes was a frightening ass two minutes, dog. I hear you. Who were you with minutes dog who are you with myself was you the only person i was the only person in the elevator

dude i could feel the walls moving in on me two minutes alone an elevator that won't open your your brain really goes somewhere quickly it's like aaron rogers darkness retreat but you were in an elevator and the lights were on can i do a darkness retreat guys can you guys just let me do it being stuck in an elevator my fear would be that. Can I do a darkness retreat, guys? Can you guys just let me do it? Being stuck in an elevator, my fear would be that it just like gives out and plummets. Falls. Free falls. I understand that that's the fear.

But as I started thinking through that traumatic two minutes of my life, I started to realize that that shouldn't be the fear. Like it's never just going to fall. You're right. You need a cable to break or something. It's got cables and shit, you know. I don't even know why mine wouldn't open. Isn't it crazy that elevators just work really well almost all the time? Well, they have to get service once a year.

Good. If you look on most elevators, they have a thing that says like last checked yearly, whatever. You ever think about how some things just work? Yeah, all the time actually. Ceiling fans? They always work. Yeah, but people think like buildings always work and stuff. And then like that apartment complex in Miami just took a tumble. That was sad, dog. Yeah, but people think buildings always work and stuff. And then that apartment complex in Miami just took a tumble.

That was sad, dog. Yeah. If you had the choice, if you knew, like, hey, sometime in the next year, you're going to be stuck in an elevator for at least an hour, would you rather, would you say- Can I bring snacks or something? No, no, listen. You have a choice, either by yourself or with one complete stranger.

You don't know gender. You don't know anything about them. Stranger. Complete stranger. Complete stranger. At least we can be there for each other. See if you can lift them up, pop through the ceiling. I'll be like, hey, this sucks, man.

He's like, yeah. We're in this elevator. Sucks. Sucks. Talk me into talking. That's like, yeah. It's kind of depressing but like if you're in a plane that's going down wouldn't you rather be with other people in the plane rather than just alone in the plane be kind of sick if you're the only person on a plane

though yeah but no one's gonna care people will care still they're like they're gonna care more if there's if there's more people there could have been like many more people on that plane yeah southwest flight yeah 2842 went down but only one guy was on it so like thankfully there was only one civilian it's not even a headline yeah it's like delta crew and one civilian thankfully only died and you're just sitting there in heaven like what what yeah fuck you dog i'm sure i can't believe you guys haven't brought uh this up co performed Walking in Memphis alongside Miley Cyrus at the 2019 Memphis in May Festival as part of the More Together Facebook campaign. I honestly bet she went absolutely crazy during that song. I still can't believe you got shot in the head.

I'm going to watch that when we get out of here. I want to see Miley do that song. He got shot in the head, David. He's still out here doing his thing. And then he released Work to Do, a collaboration with the Blind Boys of Alabama on August 9th, David. He's still out here doing his thing. And then he released Work To Do, a collaboration with the Blind Boys of Alabama on August 9th, 2019.

So. Were they on your Spotify rap last year? They were. I'm going to have to check that one out too. So yes, he is still performing, Dylan,

even though you tried to diminish his entire career. I did not. Grammy winner. Did not. Is he still pitching? Again, that was his brother, David. They should let both of them throw out a first pitch together.

And he retired. On the anniversary of their perfect game that they threw together. He's actually pitching for that minor league team that does the dancing bits. The bananas or whatever? Yeah, the banana. What's the story with them? Is that a real team? Mark Cohn pitches for them. But he's basically just throwing softballs but then he just

starts singing and everybody forgets that he's just out there getting shelled is that a real team yes well there's something i don't know they just dance in the middle of games how was the other team not just throwing at their heads the entire time i've heard that i've heard it compared to like a harlem globetrotters washington general situation okay where it's like it's just but those are exhibition teams yes and i think that i think the bananas or whatever the fuck they are they have to be well too much dip deep dive coming today are they too are they are they bananas and pajamas have you seen these videos no it's a baseball team i'm good and they'll like they'll break into like a choreographed dance oh you cringe it's a flash bomb really bad nah dude it

is baseball team's flash like nah detroit tigers ever do that i'm out bye but like they're all just hot baseball dudes yeah are they doing it for tiktok clout they like twerking tiktok didn't exist would they be doing this they'll like hit a double and then they'll just start twerking on second base. It's really obnoxious. Like actually twerking on second base? Yeah. Has anyone gotten tagged out while twerking? I don't know.

That'd be an embarrassing way to get out. You have to ask the umpire for time so you can twerk? Like put your hand up and get out of the batter's box and just throw some ass around? Did you see the young lady, the catcher on that softball game? They got fooled. Yeah. When like,

so they're in like a rundown, like at home plate, and she like points over first base and she turns her head. Yeah. It's very, I'm very, I feel sad for that young lady

because that's egregious. You can't come back from that one. Can we talk succession walking in memphis yeah cool cool last night yesterday during the day i had like a palpable buzz about me i don't think that succession is in the running for my favorite show of all time at this point i just don't think it's there i in the running for my favorite show of all time at this point. I just don't think it's there. I think I would need more seasons of it. Breaking Bad simply had too much content and I loved it. This is the last season, dog. If this was going to go six seasons, I think we're in that conversation.

But the excitement that I had yesterday is unlike any excitement that I've had since White Lotus was last released or anything like that. There's just something different when you get to look forward to something on HBO on Sunday night. And last night, we got season four, one succession any takes i thought it was an excellent episode i had i had big concerns in the front half of the episode that people were going to be complaining about how there wasn't enough motion i i uh confessed earlier in the bullpen that i'm having trouble following the logistics Of the deals going on right now There's too many deals

I always have trouble with the logistics But luckily we have a really nice listener base Who does not criticize us For not understanding the ins and outs Of the business deals of a fictional television show You know what I mean? Some M&A folks listening That are like, dude, you don't get it

It's like, have you guys seen Industry on HBO? No. It's just, it's- Dude has been trying to get me to watch it. It's like Succession, but for people who watch Gossip Girl. And they do a lot of business jargon on that show. And it's just one of those things where I'm like, all right, I'm going to turn my brain off until they just go to the next scene and I'll figure this out later.

This was an all-time dialogue episode for me. The dialogue was excellent. I think Succession, I think they intentionally try to set the table early in the season with as much information as possible so that then they can go in a million different directions for the rest of the season. At about seven points during the episode, I tried to make a mental note of the funny lines that they were saying

and I lost track at one point. Who was your MVP last night? Tom. Tom? I think so. Dude, the Disgusting Brothers? I know. I think Greg was my MVP, though.

I was going to say Greg. I think Greg. They were all Greg. They were neck and neck. Greg's trending. Yeah. Greg was awesome. Greg bringing the plus one to the party and not understanding the scenario.

Them just absolutely ripping her bag apart as if that's like the most like absurd thing you can do. Was that a chuggy bag? I don't know. It depends how you look at it. It was a Burberry tote bag of sorts. Dude, Burberry's out, dog. That's so like 2008. People were just disgusted.

She asked Logan for a selfie, of course, which you have to it's logan it's the head that's that's insane you can't do that why star they they this is kind of on logan and his team you have everybody who's going to that party sign an nda if you're that concerned about it getting out. Or you just have security at the door. Like, you can't come in. That too. That was great, though. A great Greg dynamic. Yeah. I understand what you're saying about the first half.

Because I kind of had that thought. And, like, looking back, I'm like, this show, the characters are so good. And the dialogue, it's so well written. Like, I'm so well written. I'm fine with that. I know a lot of people complain when it doesn't move quickly enough or if something major doesn't happen. But it's the last season. I know it's going to be good. We're four seasons in at this point and nothing has changed in terms of the actual scenario here. It's a show about finding a successor.

We're now four seasons in and we're at the exact same point uh he's he's the top dog and everyone else is just waiting still so if you're gonna complain if people are gonna complain about movement on the show like there's a larger picture to look at he's trying to sell to scars guard dumb dumb question um well you're asking another dumb dumb they're trying to buy what from the from the pierces assets basically companies they're like the new york times okay they're uh okay it's a legacy media yeah a media company yes and they and they're failing like the new york times nobody reads it uh they are uh they played they played the the Roys unbelievably.

Got that up to what? 10 bill? 10 bill. 10 billion. 10 stacks. Congrats on saying the highest number, dipshits. That was good. That was really good.

Maybe Logan was playing them. I'm going to have to use that. If you get to third base with a girl at your uncle's party where he has cameras all around his house you telling your uncle mid-party you wait until after the party you ever telling him i'm never telling there was a better time than like right when he finds out there's a rival bitter the thing that tom could have told him anything in that moment he would have believed what's tom doing why is tom putting greg down that road because he likes to fuck with greg

i know but like that could that's something where logan's unhinged like that could be the end of greg did y'all think at any point that they were actually going to make everyone smell greg's fingers during the roast part that would have been absolutely hilarious i thought they were actually going to and there's a part of me that thinks that they actually did film something like that and they just didn't put it in because it was too grotesque or something. But I thought that's the road we were going down. I thought we were having bull on the floor 2.0 and it was going to be Greg's fingers episode.

No Greg's finger. Good for Greg. Good for Greg. I'm worried this girl's going to come back in the season and actually be a plant of some sort. I thought that's where that was going. She had her phone out quite obviously. Who doesn't these days?

I know, man. Who doesn't these days? Nobody lives in the moment anymore. Just enjoy the fact that you're at this guy's birthday party. I saw her be in a more baller location. I saw Dylan's phone the other day. Do you know what his screen time is? 13 hours a day.

13 hours. Really? 13. My shit's in check, dog. 13 hours. How much of that is like late at night yeah i don't know how to answer that it's it's not watching your statue of david porn it's a callback you're watching the statue of david just plow the mom from family guy the mona lisa what is wrong with y'all the mona l. If you had to do your dream statue of David,

pornographic partner or partners, who would it be? Mona Lisa, for sure. Although we can't see what she's working with. It's true. You can see the look in her eye, though. You know she got it. Oh, yeah.

You know she got it. She knows how to throw that thing. Mine would be the screaming face guy from Van Goggh what noise would he make ah macaulay colkin fuck ah you know what video would have been better than what we started over the weekend is waco not that not the new documentary it's waystar royco no waco with uh riggins as david koresh yeah you know that you just you didn't watch the the trending documentary series that's going on right now you went straight to the fictitious it's good we started and Brittany was like have you seen the show with Riggins I was like no so

we started that you know who's in that is the third third third uh Koken brother I didn't know there was a third brother I didn't either Larry I don't know there was a third brother. I didn't either. Larry. I don't know why. The Waco stuff is something that I've seen enough at this point, and I'm not thirsty for more. We're going down round Waco way. Doing a little rally. He's doing Don. Dude, you're going to like that.

Stick with it. I thought it was really good. She says it's excellent. Very underrated. And it might be just being a tim riggins uh taylor kitch homer but no i saw i saw one single scene on twitter that somebody said like this this scene is insane or something like that and i watched like a four minute scene and i walked away from that four minute scene thinking wow riggins riggins has it yeah he's good he's good he got really skinny for that as david koresh was very i think you read the good book dylan have you read it tibidow that's good he's tibidow that's who the colt

is the third brother huh who knew might be a fourth for all i know i was playing golf with Dave recently. Sorry, we didn't invite you. I'm sorry, man. It's okay. And so I was playing golf with Dave and he was punching out. He was a little, you know, he was in some trouble. It's definitely going to be a real story.

And when he punched out, he was hooding an eight iron. And when he did it, his ball hit a branch and went down before the fairway. And I started laughing and i called him the branch davidian and uh dave actually uh beat the piss out of me with his eight iron really yeah that's why i was out that week i was uh up on some charges attempted murder sold a deadly weapon a number of things yeah really my goodness that's crazy man yeah A number of things, yeah. Really?

My goodness. That's crazy, man. Yeah. Yeah, you got to be careful. Thibodeau. I thought that there would be more memeable moments from last night's episode. There were a lot of good quotes, but there was nothing that was like outright just straight up memeable last night. The Disgusting Brothers was getting all the play.

Disgusting Brothers is a phenomenal nickname, and I applaud anyone who came up with that. You know what's funny i can't i this doesn't affect how i enjoy the show but i this is something that i i wish i didn't do i can't watch that show without thinking like oh that's that's a meme that's a oh gotta go back and meme that there's people that like that theorize that they're trying to they're they're reaching for the memes i don't think they're like that. I think it's just a snappy, like fun, smart television show. I think they just have young, good writing.

Yeah. I think they just get it. I thought last night's episode was very good. I'm excited for the rest of the season. There's still a part of me that doesn't believe that it's the last season. There's part of me that's like, okay, it is someone gonna take over the company then they're just gonna go to another series like a spinoff or something we can't just let these characters not exist anymore uh did any did you at any point think logan was gonna die in that episode no

no he's he's just kind of losing it but he's too important in the grand scheme of things he's such an angry angry man he's too important in just the show's health in general he's a phenomenal actor yeah not a big fan of uh modern day cinema and stuff not a big marvel guy they sing happy birthday to him and he leaves the room jesus christ just he hates everything i get it i kind of feel the same way when people sing happy birthday as i and he leaves the room. Jesus Christ. He hates everything. I get it. I kind of feel the same way when people sing happy birthday as I do when someone's performing live in front of a small number of people. I don't feel like that when I'm singing it to somebody else. But when everyone's singing it to me, I do want to crawl into a hole. Yeah, I don't like it.

Oh, I feel special. No, I don't like it. I really wish we got to see how the elevator video ended. Like if she just stopped playing and then just kind of was like put down the guitar. Or if she just ran something else out there. I feel like we need a conclusion. I agree. Sorry.

I started thinking about people singing happy birthday in an elevator. My mind's going a million different directions right now. Do we get the CCTVctv footage of greg at any point no i i assume thomas is fucking with them and there's not actually a camera in every room i but yeah probably what did he say they did they just rummage through each other's pants or downstairs yeah you can fill the blanks on your own. She's crunchy peanut butter, he said. She's crunchy peanut butter. Did you rummage to fruition? Like, did you have an orgasm is what he's asking there, David.

Nice. Very cool. Sex. Sex is, yeah, sure. I've heard it's fun. You had it once. Congrats on that, by the way, that one time. Thank you.

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You absolutely got got. You know, I was upset last night. I was wearing my longhorn gear last night, dog. He got you on camera. Don't be sad it's over. Be happy that it happened. Are they going to make it further next year or not as far next year, Dylan? Probably not as far.

They're losing some experienced players. They got Jason Terry's brother, Rodney, though. Man, shout out Rodney Terry. I don't think they're actually related. Okay, I was going to say, that is news to me. I don't think they're actually related. Legit. Shout out Rodney Terry.

Squiddly-doo. There it is. Squiddly-doo. Rodney Terry. Rodney Terry. He's the coach. What if he just, what if he swats,

what if he swats that job offer out of the gym and he's like, nah, I'm going to hear some other offers. Rumors he might be going up to Lubbock around, around Lubbock way. I don't think so.

Dude, that'd be great. That'd be great. Look, I genuinely would, man, I, that'd be hilarious.

It would be. Yeah. For be. Yeah. For us. Yeah. Without further ado, we got us absolutely stacked. Final four. Sheesh, man. I don't know how I'm going to choose, man.

It's like picking your favorite child on the one side of the bracket. I don't want it to end, boys. We got number eight brick merriman what a run for the versus number two frat dave oh my gosh good one's going down here folks this is difficult this is difficult i i know where i'm going with this though i know where i'm going and i don't mean to lead off sure i hate to do this because one of these is one of my favorite things. It really is. There's a reason that it's in the final four.

But just the recent emergence of it, it's been hard to shake it. And that's why I have to go with the brick. Oh, my gosh. Stunner. Upset alert. Frat Dave is one of those programs that was – I don't think they were resting on their laurels, but I think they might have taken one of the Final Four game

for granted a little bit. I don't know if they seized the moment at that time, whereas Brick was thirsty. Brick wanted it. Brick wanted to get in there and just make some noise. Look, the thing about Brick is that he got hot at the right time. Maybe he didn't have the best regular season, but it's really turned it on lately, and it's making an absolute run,

and it's going to be tough to defeat. Dave, what you got? I think I'm going to have to do something I don't really like to do. Oh, shit. Are you going to slide me the onus? Yeah. Yeah, for sure. Damn.

I think Fred Dave's going through. Here's the thing about Fred Dave is that it's been a bit for a long time, and it probably should have won at some point. It's the Gonzaga of the thing. Yeah. Like it makes it to the final four every year, but it just can't quite. Is Gonzaga frat enough? Get across that finish line.

I don't know much about them. You can tell me that Gonzaga is one of those places that's just like insanely frat. By the way, we used to say Gonzaga on tmd and we got swatted out of the gym by people being like it's actually gonzaga so just so you know i'm sure what does it even mean like it's the name of the school it's a made-up name all names are made up somewhere along the line somebody made that word up it's true, man. I think all words are actually made up too now that I think about it. Do you think about when people have S-O-N at the end of their name about how at one point?

Yes, son. Okay. Did you – when you went out to the match play, you went out Saturday, right? No. You were out there Friday. Thursday, Friday. Okay. I got your text, and I didn't respond, but you said there were so many gazongas out there.

And I was just like, they hadn't lost their game yet. I was just wondering what all the fans were doing. He sent me the same thing, but he sent me a voice memo with it that I just – I didn't play it, but here, I can play it now. Dylan, dude. It's disgusting. I was with my wife on friday man i wouldn't i wasn't sending texts like that okay or maybe i was talking about my wife i'm sorry just fucking pick between brittany and frat dave dude i i hate to um brick is just having a moment, and I have to ride with it for now. I'm sorry to Frat Dave, if you're listening. I'm not.

I don't even care. I love Frat Dave. Like I said – Not even that hot anyway. Frat Dave probably should have won at some point. But it's – Y'all are still doing that little podcast? How do y'all make money?

Yeah, we are. Yeah, Brick Merriman is going to go on to the championship the brick baby hey like no hard feelings at all but if y'all are if y'all are looking to take on some cap like let me know because it's like i've been working yeah i work for that hedge fund now you can be our guy yeah you can facilitate that yeah i mean I'll introduce you to my dad. He's the CEO. Oh, sick. Yeah. Yeah.

Actually, we might need some. But congratulations to Brad or whatever it is. Thanks. Yeah. Okay. You're welcome. Thanks for being such a good sport about this, Fred Day. Yeah.

Lose my number. Okay. Number 13. Doug Dimadome. Doug Dimadome versus number one, Zockhard. Only one number one seed in the final four. You do like to see that. It's been a wild march over on these parts. Yeah, no kidding, man.

These are two things that have made a lot of noise in 2020, or I guess late 2022 and early 2023 alone. You know I'm a sucker for Doug Dimmadome content. I am too.

I still am not totally sure who Doug Dimmadome is. He's a cartoon. That's okay. He's a real estate tycoon. I like that Randy is my version. Tycoon's a good word, by the way. Is it better than outfit?

Because I've been using the word outfit in my head for the last five days. He has a real estate outfit and it's doing quite well. You said Dan looked like he was running with that old chive outfit. Outfit. We'll start using that a lot. It's good, dude. It's good. It's good.

Who wants to go first here? I don't think I do. I think I know where I'm going. it's good yeah it's good who wants to go first here i don't know i don't think i do i think i know where i'm going i'm i'm this has been trending and um should we all say it at once yeah you want to no let's do that for the championship round okay let's do it for the championship round i'll go first okay for me it's the za card and that's where i come out why you want some reasoning um i don't know it's just like i honestly would have voted had had uh the guy from pro football talk not admitted to eating pepperoni pizza five days a week. That kind of rekindled my love for the entire bit.

So I will say, yeah, I apologize because Doug Dimmadome is a very worthy contender. Want me to take this? Go ahead, Dylan. You had the onus last time. I don't want to give you the onus twice in the final four. Well, I got news for you, buddy. There will be no onus because Zahkard is moving on to the championship round.

All respect to Doug Dimmadome and Randy, who's not here. A great, great bit. He crushed that. But Zahkard is just too strong. There was never going to be an onus. Yeah. There was never going to be an onus.

It was always going to be Zahkard in this situation. And it just, that's how it is. It's Zah. Oh, man. Hey, Siri, play One Shining shining moment don't actually do that he really was doing it in our championship round we have number eight brick merriman mark cone wrote that song we're doing this today right we're doing it right now right now we have versus number one za card i love this match this matchup is the matchup that really we could have seen this from a long

way away and if you told me beforehand like hey give me a potential championship matchup i could have been like ah brick versus docker this was always in the cards should we should we each say it all at once so there's no collusion so there's no worries here okay okay dave yeah i'm fine with that can i have a moment to think yeah you can have a moment to think. I'm still low-key on this. Hey, backers, everyone, all you backers out there, take a moment. Take a moment. Oof. Think about who you want to be. Man.

Bit Madness champion 2023. Okay. This is circling back. Okay. I believe I'm ready to cast my vote. Okay. We're going to do this odd style. So like three, two, one. Shoot. And then we say it.

Three, two, one. Shoot. Got it, Dave? Okay. Okay. Dave? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think so. And the champion of 2023's Bit Madness. Wait, so it's three, two, one, shoot, then say it? No, no. You say it on the shoot part.

What is that? Why? You know what? That's just going to help. So don the shoot part. What is that? Why? You know what? That's just going to happen. So don't say shoot. Shooting is like me saying. Yeah, don't say the word shoot. Just say what you think should win. Sorry, sorry, sorry.

Okay. The champion of 2023 Bit Madness is 3, 2, 1. Zockhart. Oh, Brick. He's a brick and he's drowning slowly. Zockhart is the champion. It wouldn't make sense that Brick falls a little short. I'm surprised.

I really thought you guys were leaning heavy Brick. Brick has a lot to be proud of. All the way to the championship as an eight seed. Fantastic bit. I've enjoyed the hell out of it. I will continue to enjoy Brick. It doesn't mean it's going anywhere. No, it's not going anywhere. So anything, this will only quit asking. It's

been empowered actually. Championship run. That's fantastic. Still nuts. Zocard for me was an interesting revelation because it made it, I'm a big fan of conscious consumption just in general and being able to consciously consume my pizza and, and really wash away the guilt of, of, of pizza once a week. You know. I don't want that lingering guilt. It removed my love for pizza a little bit. I'm not going to lie. It actually caused me to start eating more pizza because I was getting excited to play my Zah card. You hear that? Yeah. It's good to hear because I was worried that people are just self-conscious about eating

Zah now. And that's just not the intention of the Zha card. It's just a way to keep tabs on your intake. Keep everybody in check a little bit. I think a very underrated part of the Zha card too is that it has opened up another bit that we get to do, which is asking how to play the Zha card or if you did play your Zha card. And that's turned into one of my favorite bits overall. We're doing bits to bits.

I still don't know if the slice i was gifted on friday all right counts as my zalkar i still need enough because it was the last uh match play in austin i feel like you should get an exemption here okay but i'm also i also have zero uh power when it comes to actually playing zalkar is there anything there in the text about this here's all i'll tell you there is an exception carved out if like you are a diabetic or you have a blood sugar issues and you need calories like no matter what. Or if you're just a guy who took an early bird

and had like two transfusions, it's been like sweating at a golf tournament. It doesn't apply to that. Sorry, they have not expanded it. Yeah, right now it's very, very, the scope of that exception is very narrowly tailored to those people with disabilities. Okay.

Was it the Austin Country Club pizza? It was. Fuck, that looks so good. It wasn't. Really? It tasted like cafeteria pizza. Wow. It was very doughy, and it had like the cheap sauce tang to it, you know?

That make sense? Like the sauce from from the Lunchables? Yeah. I'm surprised you don't like that. You're usually a fan of cheap tang. Can you confirm or deny? It's good. It's a good beverage.

Shout out to Kansas State head coach Jerome Tang, by the way. Had a nice tournament himself. Shout out to Baker Mayfield. Who was at the tournament. Or as I call him, Bake. I wanted to square up on him, but he's actually a big dude. He was thick. had a nice nice tournament himself shout out to baker mayfield who was at the tournament or as i call bake i wanted to square up on him but he's he's actually a big dude he was thick did it make you mad he was rocking the mat he does not look like an nfl quarterback he doesn't it's funny yeah it's funny dylan's noted super recognizer just called it out immediately yeah i had no

clue he was uh very close in proximity to the young lady with the size Z breasts. The bazoongas? That made its way through several text groups that I was in. So that was fun. Yeah. I'm not going to name names. Somebody. Never mind.

Somebody what? Somebody. A buddy of mine. Dude. Not affiliated with this company at all. None of us did this, but there were several people out there who I know did this. We're just like just taking photos of this. You don't do what she does if you don't expect photos to be taken of you.

I'm sorry. That was absurd. They were out for everyone to enjoy. Did y'all see the ones at my wedding? Not at the wedding, but she was staying at the resort. I was living with your wife like that. I do remember that. Those made these other ones, bazoongas, look tiny. Comedically those made these other ones bazoongas look tiny

comedically large they were straight bazoongas yeah i i think i think we found her instagram we did yeah she's she has a million followers and she has also the largest breasts i will ever see in person how she got those followers hey can we can we do a quick seg just a quick seg is this an impromptu seggy? Have you all seen any of the subsequent video from the Gwyneth Paltrow trial that we covered last week? Because it's gotten hilarious. We should do a podcast just on the Gwyneth Paltrow thing. It's a hilarious trial at this point, and I don't know which way it's going.

Was she dressing for bit? No, I don't think so. Her outfit was was incredible um there's been i've gotten i have a backer who's reached out who's had an experience with the gentleman who is suing winif paltrow and from what i could tell from this backer sounds like this guy's a real asshole she was dressed like she left it like oprah and went straight to the courtroom i mean which is great she great. She was getting a vibe off, dude. Why is she hitting him with the Dahmer glasses?

Because she's the whole vibe. I feel like, I feel like that's the miss. I feel like the sweater wasn't a miss. Wearing your winter whites to your court date for a ski accident, like that's sexy.

To be clear, I'm not saying anything about it was a miss. I think it was on point. Yeah. The Dahmer glasses. Yeah. She said she was just under 5'10". I didn't know paltrow had it like that she's a tall

woman she's probably taller than a lot of her co-stars when you think about it sure yeah if you're if she's actually 5 10 and she's under oath saying that i would love for them i wish they would just have like any male celebrity that goes up to uh a court case and is under oath i feel like they need to ask them how tall they are for everybody just to embarrass yeah mr cruz how tall are you he's like is this relevant five foot four why don't why am i answering this you're under oath sir that's funny oh if you haven't seen the videos go out and watch the video of the plaintiff's attorney uh cross-examining gwyneth paltrow. She's absolutely fangirling to the point where it's just like,

yeah, she's not going to win this case. The plaintiff attorney. I need to follow this. It's good. It's good. It's good stuff. Hey, to everyone out there who voted during BitMadness,

thank you guys so much. If you are the champion of BitMadness, either reach out to us or we will find a way to reach out to you. And we'll make sure that you get that gift card to the wash media store if there's numerous winners i think we just are going to give you both one if there's a hundred thousand winners i think we're only going to choose one maybe randomly but if there's only one or two i think everyone gets one uh do we have any closing thoughts it was a fun tournament great thank you for all who participated

should we get the hell out of here? Yeah. Bye. Bye.