Circling Back - $45 Glasses of Wine & the Auburn Offense with Brett Merriman | Circling Back 8-14-25

Episode Date: August 14, 2025

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I'm out of Ranchos. I'm at all ranches. I'm just sitting on all cylinders now, isn't he? All right, we're back. It's a circling back podcast live from Austin, Texas. It is Thursday, August. What is it? 14th.

14th. 14th, wow. 14th already. uh i'm gonna fill in for dave if you saw the instagram story you know why he is not introing this podcast it is because he is uh driving to dallas right now or maybe he already did actually or he's on his way something um yeah he had a little little flight mix up this morning he was supposed to be here but he's not so instead we got uh bret merriman here yeah i'll be filling in for dylan today okay um what how does is he is he getting a flight right to veil i feel

like there's many many flights that go to Denver my crazy yeah there are quite a few flights that go to Denver um but i think it's like three hours from yeah oh yeah it's a hike so yeah he's flying directly in okay that makes sense yeah yeah man he got it like one with that set him back he's jeez also here as always with the perfect maddo ranchos drop is producer randall trombacky that's me hi dylan hi brett hey man i think he he probably just We just have a new drop He lined it up perfectly I specifically asked if

Dave wanted me to do that and he said he doesn't want it baked in Because he wants the variety of not having it He did say that and he likes having it every time So I'm very good at least It's literally been every time I like it too for what it's worth He was really proud of his drops So I think he wants Randy to kind of just

Pick up where he left off like a well-timed You know like you know Remember we talked last week about how you gave that like pep talk in the office yeah i think we're all on board the the one thing dave's having trouble with is the lack of drop access yeah you can tell it's like it's like a sad puppy he's having some withdrawals i think yeah i've never had access to the board like the only one i think i mean i have i've i've filled in like once or twice so i have but i wonder what that's like can i guess i can get the app somebody said somewhere like we should get a um a mini board to have over

A stream deck. Is that possible producer Randy? Dan once again said that he could just give me a stream deck if I really want to. No, don't give us a stream deck. What's the stream deck? It just, it's like a little device that just has buttons that you can customize on it.

But I mean, if Dave really wants drops, we could just download the little, a little app on the phone that I use for. Yeah, that doesn't hit us. Like, then you're on your phone. Yeah.

I had a guy on a flight one time. Speaking of flights, and Dave, for that matter, who was, you know those like beatboxing things? Oh yeah. He was doing that with headphones on. That's sick.

So it just sounded, it was just somebody said, just, no days off. No, I couldn't, you couldn't hear what he was doing, but he was so into it. I would be very curious to hear what he was doing. I was just like, peeking over. He was in my row. I was just like, man, what's this deal?

Parks is here in the other room right now. Dinosaurs? Jurassic? No, my son. Oh. Yeah. He's got school starting on Tuesday, and this is obviously the last week of summer.

and made it pretty far in the summer without having to sit in here with me. But he's in the next room. He's on his workbook. Hell yeah. He's just a good kid, man. I told him just his workbook, and he's in there just grinding away.

Fifth grade? Fifth grade, man. Damn, dude. Found out who his teacher is yesterday. Okay. And so that's exciting. Wow, what are all these for? Yeah, Randy, what's the...

I have put up the chat because we decided maybe on Thursdays we'll always have the chat up. Maybe not, but today we definitely will. someone put drop a glizzy in the chat if you're a real chatter and how everyone is putting

I believe you put that I didn't put that did you put it right then that must mean that must mean we'll put it out there because I did not put it in the chat is circling back yeah we're gonna have the chat up

it's not gonna distract us but if something good hits the chat we will get into it so we were saying that Thursday's kind of just a good chat day I agree we're chirping we're chatting it's a more laid back chat day

shopping it up Kendall's in the chat your brother-in-law Oh what's up Kendall That's my dog I was just texting with him Good dude That Kendall

The best man Man that's cool So fifth grade for parts That's like That's dude That's getting up there He's almost in middle school He's almost like the lockers

And You know Different teachers phase Of the It's crazy Could you do a locker Lock right now Without any instruction

What is it Three turns I have no idea. Three turns right, hit the number. One turn left, hit the number, and then straight to the next number. Is that how? If my life depended on it, I would say shoot me. I think it's, from what I remember, it's one turn to you hit the number,

now you turn back, and then two turns back. It's not right. I think hours were you turn it three times past zero and then you hit your number. That like resets it. One full-time past zero hit your number and then directly to the number for the last one. The last one was a little one. yeah because one year i had like it was two away it was just it was perfect yeah i think that's how you do it yeah man i think his middle school has lockers i'm not sure that middle school

was when we first got lockers and being able to have a locker was like oh shit it was awesome now yeah because between between classes you go meet up at the lockers and you get your next book out you chat for a couple minutes and you sprint off to your next class it was fun we had a kid shouts to Liam who he was locker kid and there was one like very well-known space in between two sets of lockers and between classes we had 10 minutes and every time between classes you would go stand there and be a statue and not interact like he would just use the locker kid that was his thing you like he thought it was funny yeah that's and people would like take pictures with locker kid that's weird very weird i don't know i don't know he's up to these days but oh yeah he was

locker kid it was he was kind of like a randy guy what does that mean wacky he was wacky you put uh you put off big broke your locker so that you just immediately go and did did you ever do that i don't think we i don't think that was possible with our lockers with our lockers there was a way that you could like jam something in so that you like would just go and just not even have you put your combination i would pre-s i would have oh you would do okay i would like basically go to my and just like so all i had to do when i got back to my locker He was like going through people's lock.

Yeah, it's probably pretty safe. I don't even remember. What did you put in lockers? Books. Like, you get like six textbooks. Yeah. You don't want to bring them to every class. So you put the ones you're not using in the locker.

Did you not have your backpack on all day? I did. But you have so many different classes and so many, I'm not carrying four textbooks in my backpack in all times. I think I brought my backpack to class. Although now I don't really remember. Maybe I didn't. Maybe I just grabbed my binder in the book I was using for that particular class.

Yeah. I think maybe if I had like a winter jacket or something, like I put that in there. Yeah. Yeah. Randy always went jacket off though. Yeah. He would go, yeah, jacket off. I would.

Yeah. Passing period. Just jack it off. Okay. We've had a big week here in Washington media. We just third week of live of live shows. I think they've all been pretty strong. I feel really good about it.

We had cold call. We did that yesterday. No, we did that Tuesday. it was a great episode i thought we already recorded voicemails which will be live tomorrow and that is a another fantastic episode dave uh talked to us live from veil that was a fun a fun segment so check that out if you're not um subscribe to patreon there's a seven day free trial and uh content over there has been the best it's ever been in my opinion we will uh we'll probably get another theme week coming out here what are we done i don't know we have a lot of ideas on the board so

Someone, and I forget this dude's name on Twitter, he said we should do a steam room week and just let the listeners just call in with their own little steams. I love that. I think it's a great idea. I think it's a really good idea. Okay. So we'll plan that soon, probably not next week. So we haven't, you know, we've got any some time to announce and get the word out.

So soon we'll do a steam room week. I think that'll be really fun. Also, the newsletter drops tomorrow. It's a good one. It is. I don't know. I'm just, I was kind of just

gassing you up. Yeah, I need a right side of that. It's a good read. Yeah. Oh, it's always a good read. Always is.

So check that out. What else? I need to make a correction. Someone's accusing me of being one of those pencil kills, kids that would mess with my lock. I would never do that. I hate,

I hated those. I don't even know what you're talking about. Jam it up? Teachers know, like, you'd be able to jam it so that like it wouldn't lock and you just could be able to easily pull it out. I would preset mine, but I'd make it, like, 10 off so that, like, if you went up,

you couldn't open my lock, but then I just had to go up and turn it, like, a little bit. Yeah, yeah. That was, I was a preset kid. Lockers were sick. God. That's stuff you in a locker so quick. See, our lockers are too small to have anyone be ever stuffed in them. In high school, we went from middle school, we had full-ass lockers, and then high school

we had havesies. We always had havesies. Really? We never had the full ones. We had, they were non-stuffed stuffable a lot. You couldn't stuff people in. We had full lockers, but they were like. this thin so you can't even like get someone's head in it so no i wasn't what is that what does that

look you probably decorated your locker yeah totally ready to mirror in there and like a little bonsai tree in there i did have a that that would be tight i did have a little whiteboard in it in middle school but other than that did you do like your locker combo of your girlfriend so she could share your locker you thought i had a girlfriend in high school oh you know what yeah come on okay i think will said still have dreams where I forget my locker combo tbh i mean i has problems with left and right so i can't imagine going up to like i've never had that one but i i i have the one where i i go a whole semester and i realize i forgot about one class you have that one no i've never had like the late for class or the test unprepared dream oh bro that that's that's one that has gotten me over and over again

throughout my life i would oh i would be like it'd be like finals week and like oh shit i forgot about biology like I just didn't go all semester and I'd panic and then realize wait I'm dreaming there's that one and there's the going to school naked dream if you had that one nope I'd never had the naked one but I definitely had one where I forgot like a class or forgot that we like had tests or didn't do the homework or something like that there's there's the naked one that a lot of people get too it's like you're on the way to school and you're like oh my god I forgot to put all of my clothes on like you're literally naked and like you think it's somewhat normal but then you're like this isn't I'm supposed to have clothes on you get really uncomfortable

yeah and then you wake up i feel like maybe but the one that i the most popular dream i've had is very much the uh whether you're running away from something or like towards something and you're just you're you're going so slow have you had that before i haven't had that one that one and then like last night i was actually going to tell you guys this when i came in this morning i had a dream last night three different dreams but the same location how weird so three different sets of like people I was interacting with in three different scenarios. That's weird. And I showed up to the same very fictional location that I, like, built in my head.

And I was like, oh, I know where to go because I've been here twice now. And I like parked the car, got out and went down like this hallway in like a museum. I was like, very weird. Dreams can be weird. Dude, dreams are weird. I'm on that magnesium shit now, too. Oh, Mr. Magnetium. Did you, uh, you were in football?

class I did the cheerleaders decorate you guys as lockers for like no no for like football and stuff they didn't do that like kind of like homecoming or something like that um no i don't i don't think so we would have uh like we'd have the girls decorate our lockers i think some of the like cross-country girls would for like the cross-country kids and the cheerleaders would do it for the basketball and the football kids and stuff so yeah so if our lockers were decorators because like the girls did it okay i just i stopped going my our high school is so big that having a locker made no sense to go to really yeah just like i'd have to walk across the school to get something and

then my high school is three stories so yeah we had we were two john yeah we were two in some places but it was we had a lot like it was very wide i guess to get we had a six minute passing periods and you had to like speedwalk to get from very one end to the other which sometimes like you ever probably fucking Naruto ran to class no no I wasn't in the anime back did you ever wear a jacket

with just the hood on and no arms probably but that was probably like in grade school I don't think I did that when I was in high school you had the hat that had the crazy I'm sorry Rady I'm just picking on you today I feel bad I'll stop that

we got a beef brewing in the in the chat right now I don't want to bring too much attention to it but hopefully you guys sort this out you know what you'd helps me sort things out dylan is it square space square space oh yeah kidding me we use square space for like 90% of the stuff we do at washed media you do it's a very useful useful tool to build a website i didn't know how to code i mean i still don't know how to code or do anything i don't think you do either i dabble with html but that doesn't help that doesn't help building a website no how about you java amazon python cSS i again i dabble with html

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HTML they do do you you you're no idea you're too i know what i i remember like i had one i had my space but i was in like six that was the first social network i had i had a my space for a minute and you had to use html to like make it look all you know custom customize it so you had you had to learn the basics if you were going to what was your uh your profile song oh god it's probably like pat green or something okay considering the era it was shocked like high school i think late high school that should have stayed around profile songs were sick chat what was your profile songs in the chat i like that yeah i bet a few of these folks had my space back in the day mine was number 41 dave matthews hey brett is there something you would like to have back oh yeah randy

hit the drop yeah yeah yeah i'd like that one back yeah i have a i have a yeah i'd like that one back Dylan this uh this this this happens uh stems from last night okay so i was this is a fresh one this is a fresh one yeah i was at a little establishment called carve american grill yeah you go there quite often i know there quite often i was doing some do they did they call your name out when you walk in yet yeah i mean they know they know me yeah please okay pronounce it correctly it's curve american Carve. American Grill. So I was at Carve last night. Not like last night. I was just getting a happy hour drink. Okay. As I do sometimes. Sitting at the bar? Sitting at the bar. Lappy open. Had some stuff I was working on. Um, and pulls up nice to me. Another regular of Carve is

Mr. McCollum. And who is he? It's Parker's dad. Parker McCollum's father. Yeah. Your favorite country artist so he's a yeah he is a regular i've seen every time i go there he's there uh he's solo and we we don't know each other we're not friendly but we know like he knows that i know that he knows that i know kind of vibe we see each other we kind of give a head nod and hey like you're a regular i'm a regular um so you know a couple i'm working i'm writing i'm doing some stuff and uh he gets a glass of wine and i just just being a nice guy as i was like hey um emma the bartender I was like, let me grab Mr. McCollum's glass of wine. Just tell him that the, uh, the album was great, had a, had a, had a blast listening to it.

Kind of like, just, just being overly nice. Just being overly nice. And she goes, cool, yeah, no problem. And he comes over and he's like, oh, thanks, man. Glad you, glad you enjoy it. Like, whatever. Turns out, it was a $45 glass of wine. No.

I'm like, what? Oh, no. I look at my tab. It's like the Perry's special reserve. And it's not like it's not like he knew yes he was getting it so he ordered something nice It was like sitting in front of us assumed he'd be paying for it yeah and so I was just like damn okay Okay, but he um I assume he's a man of means I think he lives in Barton Creek he sure's a car he spends lots of money at carve he does you had to know he wasn't getting like the second cheapest you know I figure he was like the standard order right we all get the second cheapest glass or

or bottle of line when we have to order. Of course. So you don't seem like you're cheap, but you also want to be cheap. Mm-hmm. Okay. No, no, I just snagged Mr. McCollum's. Did you return the favor? You know, I didn't, I didn't look for my tab.

So, like, I don't know if I got one taken off. I just looked at that and I was like, holy shit. Did you guys chat for a little bit? A little bit. Just like a, I was engaged in a conversation with this couple next to me. So he came up and just kind of tab me on the shoulder, shook my hand. I was like, oh, hey, thank you. You know, appreciate it.

But did not realize until I, he was gone. And I was like, oh, sick. So, yeah. Do you think carve is a, it gives swingers territory to me? Yeah. I could, I bet you. Like, Lakeway is, rumor has it. That it's a hot zone for swinging territory.

Like, and this is not Lakeway, but it's, it's adjacent. It's Lakeway adjacent. It's Lakeway, a tree crowd. You probably get some from. B Cave who were driving in. Sure. I'd argue that it's, the swinging has started at Carve.

I don't think it's location where swingers go to like, to be on the prowl. Okay. Like it's not like a Steiner Ranch steakhouse. $45 glass of wine. The Perry's Reserve. And I was like, oh, all right, sick. Yeah.

So, shout's to. Is it a carve pour? Oh, yeah. Carve poor is the big poor. Yeah, you got the big boy. Randy hit it It's also Yeah

Yeah I'd like that one back Yeah I'd like that one back So Mr. McCollum You're welcome Hopefully he returns The favor next time

I did used to live in Lakeway That's true For the person who pointed that out I don't anymore And when I did live in Lakeway I definitely was not A member of the swinging community No

Not really my thing I think Lakeway is Swinter Central From what I've heard It's no Wesley like west lake is best like if you if you're i think every we're just we're just saying every suburb west of austin we're like wealthy people live chelsea and i had our second date at santa cat sat santa cat arena great spot which is a it's like an interior mexican food place

in lakeway and we sat at the bar and there was an older not older like old but like older like probably like 45 to 50 year old couple that were sitting at the bar and they definitely were feeling us out. Ooh. They were putting, they started the convo and they were seen really interested. And then when we told them that it was our second date, because they were, they inquired. I think they realized that we weren't a candidate for them. So they didn't pursue us because that would have been quite the second date.

Yeah. Yeah. Just imagine. Just like, hey. But I felt, I felt that my first all-time, you know, swinging proposal was, imminent and it just didn't come i'm no one's ever i've never been offered i've never been offered either i wonder like what's the percentage of swinging couples married swinger couples are we is it like 10 or is it like point six i think there are couples that we know that swing and

we just have no idea you know i'm there's got to be i think it's like five percent okay so like one in 20 couples i think one and 20 couples are swingers or at least like like like down like kind of swing yeah and it's it's not new couples it's couples that have been married for five plus years yeah it's it's like we got we got to introduce something else kids out of the house to spice it up in here empty nesters yeah randy can you look that up what's the percentage of swingers no but someone did point out in the chat that you literally just pay pigged him brett you're a little pay yeah well i'd have to go back and see if he if he snagged one of mine because I just didn't examine the receipt close enough.

And the only thing that jumped out to me was the $45 glass of wine. Yeah, you want that one back. I got a bottle of wine for him. Hope you enjoyed. Shots to the new album. That's pretty good. I'll give it Parker.

I haven't listened. I don't plan to. What's going on in Auburn, man? Dude, why can't Hugh Freeze get out of his own way? What's his deal? So I'm watching the... What's the Netflix doc? It's like the SCC something.

Yeah, it's like the Hardin'ogs version of the 2024 SEC season. And I just got to, I haven't finished it. I just got to the Auburn episode that features Hugh Freeze. Did this revelation come from that show or come from elsewhere? I saw it first on Twitter. So the, you don't have to pull up the tweet, Randy, but basically somebody on Twitter who would know, like an Auburn on three sports guy.

Justin Hockinson. Yeah. Says something about the quote, Hugh Freeze has Derek Nix calling plays on first down. Knicks handles first down strategy play calling. Austin handles third down strategy play calling. And as Nick said, if Hugh Fries head coach has the authority to overrule anything we say or do. So by this, would Hugh Fries have second and

fourth down as well as He frees as an offensive guy is yeah yeah yeah yeah um so if if Auburn has three to four different coaches calling plays this is the perfect Hugh Freeze thing because if the play goes well he's going to take credit

for it if it doesn't go well it's on somebody else just like he did with his quarterback last year and always and anything Hugh Freeze does because he's such a loser anything that goes well Is his doing anything that goes poorly is not him. So he calls second down.

So Derek Nix calls first. Hugh Fries calls second. Kent Austin calls third down. What is going on? How is this an efficient, like, good strategy? It can't be. It can't be. It's not.

He's doing it so he doesn't have to take blame for stuff. Or maybe it's like, okay, when a game is ongoing, right? And especially like, okay, let's let's, let's, let's, Talk about Sark, right? He is the head coach, but he's also the play caller. I've always thought that, like, there's, you have, it's, it goes, it moves too fast. Absolutely. It's like you call, you call your first downplay, you gain five yards.

And while, before that play basically even ends, you're looking at your sheet for the next play call. Yeah. And you, of course, the play clock is, what, 40 seconds? Yeah. Do you have 40 seconds to, not only 40 seconds to call, pick your, pick your plate? play, call it in, and then offense has to get lined up. And then there's, of course, there are adjustments out the line. There are audibles.

All that happens in 40 seconds. So having the next guy looking at a play while you're calling your play, seems like it might not be the worst thing in the world. You have more time to diagnose what's going on. Three coach, though. But still, it's, I just feel like one person should be in charge of like the strategy of the drive. It's just weird.

I don't know what hell is going on there. The way Ole Miss does it is they script like their first, I think it's like 15 plays. And when they were running those scripted 15, they were, and I'll say that they were the best team in the country. When they, as soon as that script ended and it was like the Charlie Weiss Jr. Lane Kiffin show, it got Harry. If it went really well, it went very well. Arkansas games. Sark gets the same criticism. He is like a mastermind of scripting the first handful of.

Yeah, exactly. And, like, Texas is really good at getting off to, like, a really strong start offensively. But when, when that script has concluded and it's time to kind of make calls on the fly, he's been criticized of kind of losing his way a little bit. Yeah. I'm just too many cooks. Too many cooks. Too many cook. And Lane also does the thing, or I guess the Ole Miss fan base does the thing where if the offense played really shitty, it's all on Charlie Weiss. And if they have a great game, it's like, oh, Lane Tiffin's a genius. And I know Lane builds that into the system. So Lane Kiffin spoke up about this.

He found this tweet and he said, so does a fourth, does a fourth coach call fourth down? Yeah, who calls fourth down? Probably Hugh Freeze. That's cute. Derek Nix was famously the assistant coach at Ole Miss that Auburn snagged. So he's always had a little bit of a F you. Wait, so where's Charlie Weiss? He's at Ole Miss.

He's the O.C for Ole Miss. Charlie Wise, Jr. junior yeah oh who looks like a randy can you pull up charlie weiss junior i didn't know that he is how long has he been there i think this will be his third year okay as their o c he's like he's like he's my age really he looks nothing like his dad but he looks like a chotch look at this that's that's the o'miss oc that's the old miss oc right there yeah it looks like a kid yeah he's he looks 12 And a senior has retired. Seniors, yeah, he's kind of like,

he's been showing up at Ole Miss practice to be just kind of a, not an analyst or anything, but just kind of a watch guy. There's senior right there. Good coach in his own right. Yeah. Yeah, he was fine. Notre Dame. Notre Dame.

Patriots. I don't know where else he coached. Was he at Kansas for a little bit? He was doing the, who's the politician that puts the, his stomach in his hands? Yeah, he does the Chris Christie. He was doing the Christie before. Yeah.

not the best not the best physique he's like a muffin top but it's also like a muffin bottom you know what i mean no it's a muffin bottom yeah so is this junior here that's yeah that's yeah that's junior who is now the old miss oc making like three million dollars a year jeez 30 years old not a very good one just going to say it do you see that i i told you this earlier so i know you already know this. OU is offering a ticket for just under $700 for fans to sit in on post-game press conferences. That is so sorry. They're getting the broke, the broke tag.

That is so sorry. You're Oklahoma. Yeah. Keep us fucking just fans just sitting in the back of the, like, first of all, is that even an exciting place to be? No. Like, what's cool about that? Like, you get to, you get to be in the room with, like, the Darren Ravels of Oklahoma?

If it's, especially if it's after a loss. We should see what Radasovich thinks about that. I don't know, I don't know if he's spoken up on it, yeah, but that's, it's funny. Just imagine, like, I guess if you want to, like, pay $700 to, to very much be able to yell at the coach. I was like, you suck. Yeah, I don't think you're allowed to say anything. You don't have a microphone or funny. And it's not like $700.

dollars how many of these are they're going to sell a game like 10 yeah i'm sure i'm sure it's limited so can't just like pack the house full of fans like get you with safety from dallas dude this i don't with the rev share now like you have to max out the revs share with the players or else no one's going to choose your school yeah and it's it's putting it's putting financial strain on a lot of these a lot of these yeah i i the take that i tend to agree with like i know my twenty one dollars a month to the grove collective is not signing running backs from like rust in louisiana but and and fan like the idea that 15 000 fans like maybe maybe the fans are collecting together to get one person

or in the nil era where that was like a two hundred thousand dollar running back or something like that yeah it's it's still the big money that is building these team it is like million million plus dollar donors. Well, I don't quite, okay, so the NCAA has put in like guardrails now. Yes. Because any, any NIL deal that's valued at over 600 bucks has to be cleared by the Clearinghouse. Yeah, the Deloitte clearing house or whatever. But you still have Cody Campbell at Texas Tech who's just very clearly spending a lot of money to get these guys in. I don't know how it works now. Well, they were doing it before the house settlement was put into place on July 1st. But it's in place now.

It's now in place. And they're basically going to say, it's going to go to court immediately. Is it like grandfathered in because they signed before the July 1st deadline? Maybe that's how they're doing it right now. But as soon as Cody Campbell wants to pay somebody $500,000 to do anything, they're going to go to court when the NCAA says, no, it has to be a market value transaction. And they're basically going to say it is. And then it's going to go to court and they're going to rule with Cody Campbell because you can't limit somebody's, There's really any potential.

By the way, the Cody Campbell thing, and if y'all don't know who he is, he is an oil tycoon who played football for Texas Tech, and he is now worth like several billion dollars. Yeah. And he is just spending a lot of money on NIL. And this isn't sour grapes, because if I were a multi-billionaire and I ran out of ways to spend my money, I would be doing the exact same thing. You drop in the bucket to him. To put $200 million in the tech program. He's the one who got Kennedy, if it got her first name, the Texas Tech softball pitcher, he's the reason she's there.

He's the reason that they just got a commitment from a five-star tackle and then the number one edge player from next year's class. It's awesome. And I'm like jealous. I don't know. I mean, Michael Dell, who is a Texas grad, doesn't care enough about football. but if he did, he could buy whoever he wanted.

I was wondering, like, the Texas Endowment is, what, $40 billion? It's right up there with Harvard. It's huge. Why don't they just break off a chunk of that and win every Natty? Yeah, I don't know. Surely there are very good reasons why they can't do stuff like that. Who's an endowment lawyer in the chat? There's so much money being funneled into some of these programs.

It's like if they really wanted to make a big splash, they could. Man. I love it, though. college football is in a wild place right now i'm dude your your column the dan picture i'm just excited yeah i'm excited for texas 16 days away very excited for texas i am too mad i'm more excited for the 2026 omis rebels but the 2025 uh texas longhorns man yeah i got i got high hopes i don't want i'm ready to be heartbroken again i still worry about that o line but the defense should the deepens should the

Defense is going to keep Texas in every game. They're that good, I think. Speaking of Ole Miss, you see what I have coming my way from our friends at Roebuck? Yeah, I did. Yeah, I got an email from Roebuck saying there's an order on the way. I didn't order anything. What's going on? And it was a Brett, he put a, Brett put an order in.

I was trying to lay you up for an ad read. He's got some swag. I know you are. I know you are. I mean, that's a complete segment there, Brett, that we have going in there. Did you not even read the rundown? Oh, is it this weekend and fun? It's a this weekend.

Oh, shit. The sponsor of this week in fun, but that's okay. Before we do this weekend of fun, let's check in with the chat. What's cooking in the chat right now? People are talking. Damn, shout's to Sean. He just had surgery. Hope you're feeling better, man.

Good well soon. Yeah, I got a, I got an email. I got a text from my brother saying that they, he was a little upset that there's no Purdue Roeback polo yet. And I said, well, they have like actually good football team. they might actually try to it's like yeah that's fair but hopefully we'll get one eventually but what's the point what's two a two in a 10 season probably upcoming yeah yeah brett's all about dating an old miss okay got it got it got it brick Thursday love it thanks garratt

I think he looks great today thanks you didn't brick anything today man no someone did say that it is 98 degrees and you're dressed like you're about to go on a 59 degree apple picking date. That sounds so nice right now. God. Golly. 59 degrees walking through an apple orchard. Carly's in the chat.

What's up, Carl's? Who chugged that Celsius, someone says. It has been chugged. I might be, it might be a, it might be a two Celsius day. I was talking to parks this morning. And he was like, hey, you're doing it. You're doing a show today, right? I said, oh, yeah.

He goes, I kind of want to be on the show. And I said, buddy. last time you're on the show you said like three words i said if you have something you want to talk about we'll get you in here and he came up with nothing so he's not going to join us to well he was talking about how he was up like 47 units last year yeah and he was giving me line breakdowns yeah um for week zero and week he's got a lot of thoughts on the deloitte clearinghouse situation too yeah and he just gave me some geopolitical takes that i wasn't sure if they were too savory for a live uh you know platform I'm not sure where he's getting his news from, but he's very opinionated these days.

He did. He did pop over here and wave to me right there. Oh, did he? He's supposed to be doing his workbook right now. I think, you know, maybe he just was in the bathroom or something. I don't know. Okay. I don't want to tattle on it.

Did he give you a wave? Like, are you going to let me in? No, no, he just went away. You just wanted to peek through? Yeah. What a guy. How about somebody's bringing up Goose? You're familiar with the band Goose?

I am. Maybe jam fats in the. the chat we can we can check in with them i've uh i've been back on my dave matthews band bullshit lately mostly because all these jam bands are getting a lot of tread goose and dead and co and um widespread mfp if you're familiar with them no you don't know who widespread panic is oh yeah who's mfp motherfucker fucking panic oh i didn't know i just know the nickname um so i'm just back i'm just back on dave I know, especially after the recent anniversary we just had.

You bring it up every time I mention it. It was a one-time thing, and I'm sorry. And it is by far maybe one of their most famous things outside their music. The poop incident? Yeah. The poop incident. Yeah, the Chicago River poop incident. So why did they think they'd get away with that?

I think it was the bus driver. I don't think it was actually that. Yeah, it was just, it's a bridge that has very, like, it's got holes in it. So you're just like, I'm just going to dump the tank into the river. It's a terrible, that's a terrible place to do it. Yeah, right on. In front of a lot of people. And on top of a lot of people.

Oh, yeah, that was, I forgot about that part of it. Yeah. Oh, yeah, not good. Not good. They got their money back on that tour that they're on. Well, I'm sure there was probably a lawsuit. Yeah. Yeah.

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We mentioned the university licensed stuff. The Brett's got some Ole Miss stuff coming in. I have a bunch of UT stuff that they've sent me. It's all fantastic. We're talking hoodies, polos and Q-Zs. Monday is a big day. Monday is like the second wave of licensed apparel. There's like a new drop of 30 schools.

Really? Yeah. Purdue? Ole Miss being one of them. We'll see. Oh, that's good stuff. If there is Purdue, then maybe. hopefully Roeback if you're listening.

It's not just a university stuff. They have Jim shorts that are great, a polo for literally every occasion. They fit extremely well. Randy has the ATX on right now, I believe. Yes, this is the Austin, Texas one. My favorite part of it is the little Texas flag in the back. A little Texas flag in the back. Oh, look at that.

I modeled that one time. As you and I are Roebuck model. I modeled that, and I see myself on it. Well, not anymore, really. I used to see myself on Instagram all the time I know, it was really fun Anyway, washed 20 Get you 20% off

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Brodon, there's a crazy event happening We had the party and it was lit I got yelled out by a prostitute Let's just go have fun And they'd go a little Man What a drop Granny how you kick us up

with your weekend buddy oh man this is gonna be a short one because i have really not much planned uh i might maybe i'll head up dan see if you wants to go paddleboarding i haven't paddleboard in like over a year and like austin you get in that soupy water and uh lady bird yeah i don't there's me yuckin randy's yum again yeah brett brett hates you know what is that amusement really any amusement especially in heat if there's an activity that you can go out and actually have fun with brett hates it I did call. So Randy last weekend went to a brisket pop punk fest. Yeah. Yeah, I talked about that on Monday. Did you? And it was 90-something degrees in a parking lot. And I said, oh my God. It wasn't a parking lot. It was at Far Outland Lounge, which is an actual music band, outdoor music venue, which I've been to before. And it's, it's cool. It's just that, yeah, when you find out about it via newspaper and it's not being, like, hyped up on, like, socials, it probably should have been like a red flag being like, oh, there.

There's not actually going to be much going on here. It wasn't going out to eat barbecue and scream at 2 p.m. on a Saturday. No, no. I mean, seven-degree heat. I do want to go to the barbecue fest that you went to a couple years ago. I saw that upcoming on, like, November or something like that. Okay. Let me cool you off for a second.

It's Austin Rodeo Barbecue Fest. And one year, two years ago, it was very fun. It's in March. Last year, it sucked. because they drop food like everybody drops food at different times of the day and so as soon as somebody drops food

there's a line of 600 people and you just don't. So you just drink all day walking around and you don't eat. Which one is this? It's not fun. This is the Austin. It's like Austin barbecue something.

It's in tandem with the Austin rodeo so like March. Okay. And it's horrible. Man, I have lived a walkable distance from Terry Blacks for the last two years and I haven't been.

No way. And that's a damn shame. And as I'm about to get to in my weekend and fun, it's like moving time for me. And so the time is like literally now if I'm going to do it. And it's it's embarrassing that I haven't done it yet. I've been to Terry Blacks before several times, but not since I moved in.

Just a real change. It just a move out cute. That actually might take your move. Yeah, I know. Yeah. All right. So what are you doing? So I mean, sorry.

I mean, the biggest thing is I'm just going to, I'm trying to finish that tree shelf thing. I want to get everything completely sanded and bleach it all so that I can kill any bugs that might be in there. and be ready to start building the actual shelving part of it. So hoping to just do a lot of that. Maybe go on another bike ride or something like that. Take a little edible, maybe go on a hike.

Have a real good Randy Valcell weekend, you know. No chicks whatsoever. You've been big on high heights lately or high bike rides. Let me tell you, when I put them on my fantasy traversing the realm playlist, oh, there's nothing like it. It's my fantasy, fantasy traversing the Rome playlist. Yeah, yeah. So you're listening to fantasy?

It's like Celtic and like folky music and like the type of all the music that people use on TikToks for unfair content. It's, it's good shit. And I just, I just feel like I'm an adventure. How high are you? We're just on different waves, man. Not too high. Yeah. This is, it's like an early bird.

Full of all sell, Randy, has gotten. He's just. Fantasy traversing the realm. reverting too much into my childlike whimsy is getting bad what if you meet somebody though that's that's into that kind of thing well that's maybe that's what you need well then maybe i'll stop being a vowsalva until now no more i don't got time for any of this bull it sounds like you have all the time in the world actually yeah it does oh man i had a callie silver last night it was fantastic damn those are great go off i was just so cozy man cozy i i can't do them really can't do wheat

I can do just a little bit. I just get so, I get so, those are nice. The Kelly Sobers and like the wings, yeah, the five milligrams, I drink about like half of those,

maybe a little more than half, and then I do want this bike. So it's about like, like an early bird, around three milligrams. We go, Wito 90 in the chat, points out Renfair chicks are great, though.

If there's one place where Randy turns off the Valcelle, it is at the Renfair. Oh, yeah. Randy, got a part of all those orgies. Randy's spitting game at the uh at the renfair it's like watching jim tome in his prime just absolute hacks at the ball

damn it's sick okay i don't know about that it's great you're probably one of the best looking guys at a renfair i would imagine considering the clientele he he dresses up extremely well like the costumes are on point i've seen i've seen picture he's a good looking dude to begin with which the renfair no offense to renfair folks not exactly like that's kind of the point i'm I was making. Randy's got to be like a tent, a rent fare 10. Red fare Randy is a,

is a 10. Absolutely. He's a Renfair 10. Dude, wait until I start getting some actual armor. They were calling it the Randfare. The Randfare. I don't think they were calling it the Randfare.

Yeah. He were calling it the rain. Like, we were just, we were watching him from the sidelines with a falking on our arm. It's so sick. I kind of want to see Randy in action at one of these things. It is.

I am the happiest I can ever be in my life. Yeah, you would be hotter than Randy, though, But you would also be in a state of, I want to observe Randy, but you would not be liking your surroundings at all. No, I know. You'd have to go so into costume and just disassociate. I mean, with enough ale and turkey langs, I'll be happy.

That is true. That is, man, they do make a damn good turkey. Yeah. How about your weekend? You start with why you're dressed up or what's going on there? I was late this morning. I want to apologize to my coworkers. I was late.

You got here like five minutes late. I was late. Okay. I can't believe this. I was late because I was walking out the door in my usual setup which is like joggers and a t-shirt and sneakers and then I got a text

be like oh yeah I'll grab a drink with you tonight and so I literally had to turn around on my stairs and I just went to put a fit on you look good thanks dog I got my Viori on I saw it you got the same one in like a light gray with buttery soft do they're so nice that's Fiori looks good yeah I used her code it has a similar

cut to like the way cuts was so i like i like that i like viore better thanks yeah i'm gonna give me some so yeah going to a little uh little drink tonight take it ease and then uh headed up to dallas this weekend headed up dallas way what's up there well i'm gonna go see our boy uh intern klein and uh very excited about it we we have plans for dinner tomorrow night so klein was in the chat um So I'm going to head out tomorrow, drive up to Dallas rush hour on the North Tollway, site for that, Cowboys Club tomorrow night. And then Saturday we got the Ravens, Dallas Cowboys preseason game.

Okay. Very excited to see my boy Dayton Wade in action. Is he a rebel? He was an Ole Miss Rebel, who's like ninth string receiver for the Ravens. And I get to meet, I get to meet Klein's little guy. which i haven't done yet i'm really uh upset with myself i've told klein i was like got to get up meet the meet the little man i'm very excited to do that and uh yeah we get we're getting a workout in and klein's garage on saturday we were planning out last night okay no cvs klein promise i won't break

my cv uh it's like a uh circuit workout that are fucking nightmares we used to use the the versa climber you ever do one of those no miserable miserable but yeah i'll drive back sunday probably hit Lupe Tortilla, as one does. And, uh, that's, that's my weekend. I'm sight. I'm very, very excited to go to Dallas this weekend. I bet you are. Tell Kleiner said, what's up?

I got a, I got a pretty stacked weekend. So, uh, Friday, I got my, my two nieces are coming over. We're doing a, um, a sleepover. Nice. They, um, they, they, they love my place. They call it the towers because I'm close to downtown and they, they associate like the big buildings with where I'm not in a big building. but they associate that so i live at the towers to them so we're doing a fun little sleepover

friday got a lot of parks gonna cook burgers and just uh probably watch movies and it'll be fun bang always a good time when they come over let's go it's also moving weekend so the the first day my lease actually is tomorrow so we're gonna start to it's probably take us a week to like get all the stuff moved over but we're gonna start start on saturday we're gonna move the the first truckload of stuff over and just start that process. And I'm very excited about getting into a house. There's Kleiner? You're coming down, coming down south, aren't you? Is Brett single? If you just, if you just heard his weekend and fun, you would know the answer is yes. I am single.

Yes. And D. Fisk. And looking to mingle, apparently. He's getting drinks tonight. That's sick. Yeah. So I take you nine weeks less than three. No, it won't. I start, like I said, the first, the first wave of moving will be Saturday. And then we got some furniture being to delivered like throughout the week and then we're going to clear my stuff out from my place move that over probably in about five or so days I can't remember the date so that that's happening nice uh parks has a a sleepover with a buddy on Saturday so it kind of clears me up to get a lot of moving done without him around he's he's not going to want to do that so that's pretty much it man and just uh continuing the countdown to college football which has me very

excited at the moment the last saturday i want to host a a football day at the house yeah the new crib have have some uh some hosting potential it does yeah it's it's got it's got plenty of room for everybody and i'm excited to get people over there maybe cook something for everyone so keep that be on the lookout for that i'm dude randy you too consider me looked out okay i just scored shouts to sauce my first uh my first tickets to a texas game this year oh i'm gonna go see texas battle the mighty San Jose State. You haven't been here again there yet? Is it San Jose?

No, I have. Who do they play the six? San Jose State. Um, is that, that's, we two? It's some, we two. I think, I think it's San Jose. As they go from Ohio State to San Jose State. Yeah, you have to go watch Arch ball out against a lesser competition, which I'm

excited. I just want to see what he's got, man. All of this hype, like, it's fun, but you never know what happens until the Bulls start flying. We didn't really see much of him last year, just like they, they put him in for a play to, like, run the ball. So it really felt like. Yeah, I mean, he was, he was a dog last year.

I was at the, when the tech at Texas game, the last year of the Big 12 for Texas, the last regular season game with Texas, Texas was just killing them, sorry. And Arch came in for the first time. The stadium was the most electric, the most electric that stadium has been in a very long time. It's on. It's on. They're just obsessed with this kid. It's our season.

You've got two years of them. I want to see what he's got. I know, man. I'm trying to control my internal hype, but it's tough. I get it. It is tough. I like how Cormick points out that I'll be out of town this weekend so I can't help you move. You can't lock me.

Yeah, I can't lock him in a trailer. In a trailer and a truck. People forget I did pay you for that, though. You did. I didn't just like make him do it. Although he did feel obligated to say yes since he was like working for me and he just got hired. I had been there for like two months. Yeah.

Yeah, yeah. No, I was, I was psyched for that. We got it. We moved. We got it done, we moved. We moved you. Yeah. Damn, dude. I got a, I need a storage unit. Bad. Yeah. Because I need, I have a king-sized mattress that I need to upgrade to from a queen. I just don't know where to, like, how much should I pay for a storage? Dude, they're not super cheap, man. They're like 100. I think they're like 150 bucks a month somewhere in there. my apartment complex wanted to charge me $250 a month for like a garage I said absolutely short term short term storage they're great but you don't want to keep it for like a year I would be I would be keeping it

until I got a larger place really a place with another bedroom in it which I asked Randy if you wanted to live with me said no Brett offered he's like oh how about this house it has a pool and it's five people and it's like it's just going to be me and him living in a five-person house

for like twice the rent that I'm paying right now we would get other people we would we would it would be a bachelor pet like the uh the writer house you know back in the grand next days i've never I've lived by myself since I was 24 I never did like the y'all could y'all could carpooling the work together and Brett I'll be honest with you Brett you would not like living with me we would be out of each other's throats very easily i probably actually wanted to be like having fun and doing stuff and brett would be like i just want to sit here and not watch movies why do you think i would you'd want to be i i'd do i do i do stuff too i just do different things than you do it would probably work out because we never see each i like to think that you just sit down and you just stare at a wall

when you're back at home i think that's what i think that's what you do i sit and stare at a wall and listen to old miss fucking podcasts or something like that yeah that's what i do i sit on my couch to stare at a wall macy i see you've been very active in the chat today we appreciate you what's up macy uh she said you could store your mattress in my new house since i owe you i mean if you have an extra extra better that means a queen bed set up i got you uh we're we're pretty well situated we yeah we got i had to buy a lot of stuff though don't love that yeah yeah yeah all right this blow me off that'll do her for this week guys i guess we still have uh voicemails coming out tomorrow but this is the last recording of the week it's been a good one thank you everyone who's

been uh joining in on the chats yeah it's been uh love you chat we're now Fire and all cylinders. Patrick, I heard you in the chat. If you want that Traversing the Realm playlist, just DM me. Yeah, make that make that public. It is public. It is public. It wants to go look for it. Traversing the Realm. Specifically, it's incredible. It's a good place. Traversing the Realm. All right, everyone have a fantastic weekend. Be safe out there. We love you. Bye guys. Bye. See your chat. You know, Thank you.