Circling Back - Bachelor Party Flooding & The Oscars

Episode Date: February 25, 2019

After discussing our biggest pet peeves on the golf course, we touch on Sunday night's Oscars, why 'A Star Is Born' may need to go away, and a Worst Weekend Story about a bachelor party gone wrong. Support us on Patreon and receive episodes every Friday for just $5 per month: www.patreon.com/circlingbackpodcast (0:00) Fun & Easy Banter (4:58) Will Hates ESPN (9:15) Golf Etiquette & The Golf Channel (17:40) The Oscars / ‘A Star Is Born’ Fatigue (50:05) Worst Weekend Story: Bachelor Party Edition Shop Rhoback: www.rhoback.com (BACKERS20 for 20% off) Shop Liquid IV: www.liquidiv.com (CIRCLING BACK for 20% off) Shop Fulton & Roark: www.fultonandroark.com (STEAM for 15% off) Twitter: www.twitter.com/circlingbackpod Instagram: www.instagram.com/circlingbackpod Visit: www.circlingbackpodcast.com --- 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. Monday. Rise and grind. My name is Will DeFreeze. To my right, Dave Ruff. Hey, I look forward to sharing my takes and opinions with you guys and the rest of the world who listens to this podcast. Thanks.

You know, there's a lot of people out there who tune into this podcast for those very takes and opinions. It's always good to have you here. Appreciate that. Yeah. You're our favorite recurring guest. Dylan. Yeah, thanks for stopping by weekly, Dave. Well, you know know as long as the

the door's open I'm gonna walk in it well you're you're a big part of the situation so we expect you to show up whose protein bar

is that that's mine that's cocky just leave your protein bar well I'm saving it because we're going back to back after this

Dave and I are recording mail in and I'm gonna need something you know to hit the stomach between episodes. Just to keep me going.

Some sustenance. Just some fuel. That's all it is. Wow. I feel like there's a beverage that you could have picked up on your way in. Certain beverage. This episode's brought to you by Bang Energy. Maybe a VPX sport product.

No, I'm not on the Bang train yet. Do you follow Bang Energy CEO on Instagram? I follow Shitto. It's the most trash account I've ever fucking seen. Is it like a parody? It's the actual CEO? No, you would think it's a parody based on it, but it's somehow not. He's like the Alex Jones of sports drinks.

Okay, well, let's at least milk this until we get a case sent here. Let's not completely fry him. Dude, Dave, you did a complete 180 on Bang. No, I'm sorry. I'm not going to show up. He started off trash again. Now he's like all in, man. Dude, Dave, you did a complete 180 on Bang. No, I'm sorry. I'm not going to show up. He started off trash again. Now he's like all in on it. You're right.

I'm not selling out for Bang energy. Drop the Bang. Drop the Bang. Drop the Bomb. Rob D. Yeah. DDR. Look, I'm excited for today's episode.

Are you? I don't know. Yes, I am. I am. How's everyone's weekend? Pretty good. Pretty am. I am. How's everyone's weekend? Pretty good. Pretty good? Pretty good.

Don't I have a little day together on Saturday? We did. We went to three different restaurants slash bars together. It was enjoyable. Oh, shit. We did go to three. Yeah. And the park.

We got some fetch off with Rosie for a little bit. And we got some solid QT in on Saturday. Dude, we really did. I didn't even realize that. Yeah. Yeah. I got a little, not terribly throwed, but I got a little throwed on Saturday. And I passed out by like 10.30, which is very early for me on a Saturday.

That's the goal. That's what I do every night. It was great. My internal clock's been waking me up at 6 every morning, so my bedtime's just been like 10. Oh, listen to this shit. This morning I woke up at 1 a.m. And I didn't go back to sleep until like 3 30 and then i slept for like an hour and a half and i woke up again the fuck is wrong is everything okay man everything's fine i don't know what's going

on with me i'm sorry that's why i got this folgers right here in my left hand good thing you got that Folgers. Yeah. Yes. Trash. Dave, how's Dallas? Lovely. Did you play any golf? No.

We were going to play Saturday morning, but conditions were pretty brutal. It was about 40-mile-an-hour wind gusts. Really? Yeah. It was very, very windy. My dad was just like, you know, I don't really want to play. And I was like, you know, I want to, but I'm not tired. Right.

Yeah. He's got the luxury of just being like, you know, well, he already played during the week. So I was like, you know what? That's fine. And it was it was wet outside. So it may have been car path only that plus the wind would have just been brutal. I mean, it was – I went out to let Randy out in the backyard at about 630, and the trees were already rustling.

Like it was already – air was moving around. You brought the Randman? Yeah, love it. So I was like, if it's this early and it's already this windy, this is going to be problematic. So I didn't play. Did you know that going in, what the Almanac said? I knew it was going to be less than favorable.

I thought our issue was going to be rain, though. But the rain moved out pretty early and gave way to the wind. Wind out of the west. Unique. I'd like to give a special shout-out to all the haters. The haters were right about soccer this weekend. Yesterday I watched 210 minutes of soccer. Pure clock time and saw a total of zero goals the entire time.

What did Sala do? Shit the bed. Shit the bed. Not good. That's just soccer, Will. That's just how soccer goes i spent from 8 30 in the morning until 1 30 p.m i watched soccer and i saw zero goals besides the shootout it was it was absolutely fucking brutal uh and this isn't an official steam room segment but espn is the trashest company in the history of the world. The trashest?

The trashest. What did they... I saw your tweet. They're just putting... They put a championship cup game behind a fucking paywall, and then their technology would not work in order to watch it on several different fronts. So I had issues with ESPN Plus the last time I tried it. I was trying to watch one of their

first ufc cards and i remember i was like i will pay i will try to do this and the site they were getting so many signups at the time that it wouldn't work dude it's not that hard first of all this is a this is a championship a trophy will be lifted at the end of this game and instead they played like i don't care if you're a soccer fan like i just don't want this to happen with other This is a championship. A trophy will be lifted at the end of this game. And instead, they played... Like, I don't care if you're a soccer fan. Like, I just don't want this to happen with other sports that are involved with ESPN. Instead of playing this big, massive game, they were playing cheerleading, lacrosse, which, like, that might have a good audience.

I don't really know. And, like, a bunch of other shit that, like, SportsCenter reruns. Like, no, just don't do that. You don't have to do that. I don't really know. And a bunch of other shit like SportsCenter reruns. No, just don't do that. You don't have to do that. Wait, there was another one. Wasn't there like... It was awful. Per your tweet, I saw another one.

I was shocked when I went on my TV guide and saw. It just doesn't make sense to me. And when I started watching it, it wouldn't connect with my Apple TV. So I was like, all right, I'm going to do the last thing that I want to do I'm going to watch it on my fucking laptop which is I hate watching stuff on my laptop and then sure enough about at the most pivotal part of the game not the most pivotal

but you know at the end of the game which you normally want to watch when something's on the line it just stopped working so I I just I hate ESPN right now I hate everyone that's on there it's the worldwide leader if you're a personality not named uh scott van pelt that i i fucking hate you wow that's serious yeah sorry it's no longer my background channel of choice golf channel

it's golf channel. And you know what? And that's not, don't let that fool you. I'm not condoning golf channels programming. Because let me say this. It's not great. Dude, my buddy's been trying to get me on board lately. And I can't do it.

You can only do so much morning drive. Some of the segments they do are such filler segments that part of it is comforting knowing that like they're just doing filler and it's just light it means nothing it's meaningless but at the same time if you are really trying to pay attention and get some kind of value out of it it's such trash in the morning morning drive is the morning drive is so bad the thought i had while watching i actually watched some of it yesterday for probably half an hour or so it's like they went to just a random like generic country club and plucked a foursome off of the first tee box, threw them in a studio with microphones. You guys are doing a show now.

They make just high-level golf commentary. They have really nothing to it. Then they get a token hot girl. Yeah. Then once morning drive ends, they just have a bunch of infomercials for like random equipment that you're never going to buy. Oh, that is the worst. Have you seen the ping pong paddle, dude? They got Noda Begay out there hawking some shit.

Some driver that no one's buying. All these cheating drivers are like, you'll hit it straight every time. Bullshit. And the sandwich thing that works every time. The VPX. Yeah, get out of here with that shit. I've brought this up on this podcast before, and I don't think you guys have seen it, but

the one where the guy is screaming while hitting drives into mountain ranges? Woo! Yeah, that was an oldie. I'm going to rip the video off. I don't think they air those anymore. I'm going to rip the video off YouTube and just post it on our Instagram. What's the driver called? I forget. It's so bad.

It's called like the masochist or something. It's so bad. But I mean, I've never, I mean, I probably have actually, but have you ever tried to scream as loud as you possibly can during your downswing? You know who does that? Our friend Stewart, who you've played with. Why does he do that? He's, there's a lot of things he does that people don't know why he does to be funny or just does it he grunts when he's trying to really get into one it's just it's bad oh no but yeah this guy this guy i've never done that i've never been a very audible guy when i hit a shot unless i like tweak something on my back what one thing on the course that people do that pisses you off as like amateur golfers and golf etiquette uh don't watch their ball off the tee and then look for it for a long long time yeah and they're asking you did you see where it went in it's like i kinda did you not because you know you hit it yeah you're the one who fucking hit the damn that's

why you have to be if you don't see it you just have to say i lost it and like make sure that everyone else has eyes on it. I feel like I lose more now. Also, this is Texas, and I don't really want to walk in the tall stuff with you. No. Because it's snake country. Snake season. I know that this isn't great, but I don't help people look for balls that much.

You always help your car partner. Not much for you. You help your car partner, but I'm not going to get deep with you. I'm the guy who, if there is a mound nearby, I will go atop the mound, have the high ground,

and just kind of look like... Hands on the hips and survey it. But I'm not going to go through there and stomp around. Totally agree. Totally agree. It's not worth it. The only thing that really bothers me about amateur golfers is when someone's really really bad um because it just okay it affects me like

if someone can't advance the ball and you they're just like kicking it around and you have to wait for them i feel like i play down to someone if they're doing that i agree really frustrated i get really mad when people get really mad like if we're out there like on a casual fucking afternoon just having some beers and playing like and you're mad because you're not shooting a 73 i'm just like shut the fuck up it doesn't matter that's me sometimes well it's definitely if i hit if i hit a if i just hit a brutal shot that i know is just stupid i don't get mad like i don't like punch myself in the face but it will definitely you i'm noticeably like in a different mood you're different though because you get quiet about it and like you can just tell that you're like personally steaming whereas some people get like really mad and will

like it's like awkward it's like oh fuck well see i don't want to say anything to them with me set them off and my i know my personality and the dynamic I bring to the group. I feel pressured to cut the tension because I know the person in my cart knows that I'm mad. I'm like, oh, this guy knows I'm pissed right now because I just wiped one into the water. So I'll try to crack a joke, some kind of self-deprecating thing. Fuck me, right? Just because I don't want it to be dead silence as we drive, wind blowing in our face. My move is I'll go even par through the first three holes, and I'll get really excited like this is it.

I'm going to shoot 78. This is going to be one of my lowest rounds ever. And then fourth hole, I'll hit one OB, and I'll hit a triple bogey, and I'll just completely unravel. That was me. That's my move. That was me the other day. We played a couple weeks ago, and I had 70s in sight through about 14 holes.

And that's when I finished double, double, triple, double. I feel like you handled it well because I didn't even realize you were playing that well. I expected the meltdown. I expect the meltdown at this point. And once I had the double, once I had my first double, I was like, all right, it's not going to happen anymore. So don't get upset because now just make sure to break 90. Are we the new morning drive? Yeah.

I would sell out to Golf Channel for sure. If they wanted to brand this podcast, I would totally do that. Serious question. Maybe I shouldn't bring this up because maybe this actually happened behind the scenes. don't know yeah why have they not reached out to like oh i don't know our good friends at nlu they probably have and just said hey come to a show because they skew old golf channel skews so old they need young blood of thoughts though they probably i think they skew old because they are old and they might not see the value in like like different forms of media you know what i mean at some point they're they're gonna have to get somebody in there who's like hey

look we gotta mix this content up who's the dude that low-key looks like micah okay damn it i wish we would have had this on the run sheet because there is a dude who does look like micah this was this is all hat tip to my buddy, too. He is so into Morning Drive right now, and I hate it. But he sent me a photo, and he's like, he kind of looks like Micah. We're going to find this out before the end of the show. Okay. But, yeah, mix it up.

Give us some new tent. Give me like, I don't know, get like Dan Patrick on there or something. Somebody different. I don't care if it's golf and other stuff. Mix it up. It's so bad. It's so bad. Whatever.

They do show a lot of golf though. Yeah, but they also... Euro, LPGA. They also do a really good job of missing like a lot of good golf when it's on. Like if something happens with a tournament and like the schedules get mixed up, they do a really good job of not showing stuff when there's good golf being played. They'll show you a leaderboard. I mean, I don't know.

It seems like they could show some golf once in a while. I just want somebody to go on there with just fuego takes. I want Shambly on steroids. That's why you have Brandle. No, I want somebody who's going full skip. Clearly doing a bit, doesn't believe what he he says we might need to start a golf podcast because like i don't want to talk about this right now but i know down i do about like the the rory situation yesterday with dj too how they were both trying to get drops and dj got one but rory didn't it was on the road oh my god

i missed that somehow it was so so stupid. I'll say this. Rory got wronged because he's not DJ's height. If he was eight inches taller, he would have gotten the same treatment as DJ because his feet would have been in a different stance. But because he's a short little twerp, he got fucked. Damn. Anyway, let's talk about our friends over at Fulton and Rourke. You know what it is.

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Last night was a... I guess it was a big night in show business. It was the... The Oscars business. It was the Academy Awards. Before that, can I break some news? Sure. The guy we're looking for is Charlie Reimer. Yep, Charlie Reimer. Charlie Reimer. Micah kind of looks like Charlie.

That is Micah. He's no longer on Morning Drive. That's Micah when Micah first started with Grand X before he went unhinged. That was hinged Micah. Yeah. Yeah. People that call them the Academy Awards are just douchebags. They're the Oscars.

Just call them the Oscars. They're the Oscars. Like, stop being a tryhard. Did you guys watch? I watched. I don't think you did, Will, right? So I don't like it when we have this podcast and we talk about a current event and one of us doesn't like partake in it

unfortunately I am that person I'm rarely this guy but I was out to dinner last night I got home and I thought to myself you know what I don't even want to entertain this this sucks so I didn't you didn't miss a ton

I followed along on social so I'm very aware of some of the major events social has made it very easy to consume that content because they show you what you need. And the video content comes out immediately. So I'm caught up, but if there's anything you guys want to talk about in particular, I'm welcome. So this is how I got into it. I flipped over to an app called Twitter, and I see my friend Dylan here. He has a tweet. He tweets doing some pretty decent numbers and it just says um that was the worst acceptance speech of all time

i said all-time bad speech right there all-time bad speech it really it truly was and so i was like oh okay i got excited i was like i we had been recording it i flipped it over was it early yes it was fairly early i haven't recorded so, so I'm going to scoop this speech. So I think it was they won for makeup, I believe. They won for the movie Vice. Now, to be clear, this is Vice about Dick Cheney. Yes. What Cheney?

Played by Patrick Bateman. Played by Patrick Bateman, known to some as Christian Bale. Yeah. It's crazy that Batman played Dick Cheney. It doesn't make any sense. Also worth noting, zero headlines in Vice. That's upsetting. That's what you're looking for.

You're not going to get those. That's too bad. I went and saw it and I thought it was going to be one thing and it turned out to be something completely different. Best Makeup. When people are giving a speech for Best Makeup, obviously they're not actors.

They're not used to that kind of stage. They're makeup artists. They're makeup artists. So they got up there. It was three older people. The lady in the middle had a sheet that she was reading, just a list of names, I think. That's as far as they prepared, just a list of names to think. And no one knew when it was their turn to speak uh the lady in the middle

holding the sheet was just shaking violently like the paper was just it was bad and she would like say a name there would be like five awkward uh seconds of silence she'd like hold the paper up to her friend there and then she would be like and her friend was like oh like try to see where she left off like oh and then read the next it was just would be like and her friend would like try to see where she left off like oh and then read the next it was just so bad like she so somebody would like

kind of lean in and be like oh uh Susan Susan Meitman and then somebody like over her shoulder yeah Susan

Susan Meitman like they were they were I know that we're never going to win an Oscar but this is giving me anxiety for like if we ever win an award that like we're going to get up there

and not know who To go first. Yeah, we need to determine that before anytime someone said a name. Yeah. Yeah And of course the speech ran long and when speeches run long Oh, yeah, the shut it down don't rehash don't rehash the shut it down music and then they cut the people and after they were cut You could still like the camera was still on it was like, you know panning out Because they're about to go to commercial break Yeah and they were still up there talking you could tell that because everyone was waiting for still on, and it was, like, you know, panning out because they were about to go to commercial break. Yeah. And they were still up there talking.

You could tell that because everyone was waiting for them to finish, and then they clapped at the end. There was, like, 10 seconds where they were talking when the mic was shut off. What are you doing? Well, they don't know. They don't know. They're not entertaining people. They hear the music.

Do they? I think it's... And they can tell when the microphone cuts. Can they? Sure. No, dude. I don't know if they can. No, no.

Because that happened a couple times happened i think you're giving you're giving way too much credit to the microphone like obviously it's it's for television but it projects in the auditorium as well yeah but dylan keep in mind that like people that aren't well versed in like speaking into a microphone normally that projects to an audience like they don't always know like have you ever been to to a wedding when someone's talking into the mic and they have no fucking clue? That's on like... People don't know,

especially if they're not used to doing that kind of thing. Nerves factor into nerves. I don't know. Yeah, dude, they're stirred. I mean, they know they're eating a turd up there. Yeah. I don't know, though, man. Yeah, that was bad.

I mean, let's just say what needs to be said. They should not televise that fucking award. Yeah. You know what? I think they should just for moments like this. Because otherwise, it's just the same thing. Maybe we'll get to Spike Lee later, but occasionally you'll get somebody who goes up there

and does something a little different. But yeah. Hey, did y'all see Vice? No. Did you? I did. Okay, let's just get this out there. What movies that were up for oscars did

y'all see i saw vice i saw a star is born i saw bohemian or bahamian did you see that do you see the reddit controversy yeah i responded people are getting mad at me because i pronounced words wrong whatever uh and i got wronged i clapped back at this guy you clapped back and threw me under the bus the reason I threw you under the bus was because I made a really good joke after that that got no credit and so to say that I pronounced something wrong it made me mad my Bahamian Rhapsody joke will go down as one of my greats

well my dude on Reddit said that I he said I twisted off after that and I was like I really don't think I did I think I was pretty clear like yeah I did screw that up I think my name being attached And I was like, I really don't think I did. I think I was pretty clear. Like, yeah, I did screw that up. I think my name being attached to it was the part that got things twisted. It's all good, baby. I didn't care about that shit.

So those are the three that I saw, I think. What about Dylan? We know you saw Stars Born. Stars Born, Bohemian Rhapsody, and that was it. I never even heard of the Green Book. Honestly, that's pretty good.

Most years I don't see any of them. I mean... Some of these just came out. That's not on me, man. I'll be honest. For me, I saw hardly any this year and that's part

of the reason I didn't watch anything. I saw... I think all I saw was Black Klansman. You saw Black Klansman? Yeah. I started Roma

because it was so highly touted, and then I gave up a couple of minutes, and I was like, no, this is not my speed. You gave Roma two minutes? I gave Roma two minutes. I also saw Incredibles 2 and Isle of Dogs, so I'm very well versed in the animated feature film part of it. All right.

That kind of counts. I think that's really all I saw. I do want to see Roma I saw. I don't... I do want to see Roma. Very badly. Let me say this. And Free Solo, best documentary. I was very happy that Mahershala Ali won.

I did not see Green Book. Green Book is very controversial because you saw it won Best Picture. Explain why it's controversial. Because I didn't realize it was controversial until I saw it win. I'm not gonna do this justice okay and i haven't seen it so i feel weird talking about it but from what i've seen and i was not on twitter that much this morning i went to bed shortly after the academy awards ended but it is kind of a happy happy ending racial story

like it does talk about race but it talks about it in a way where it's like it makes both I'm trying to think how to explain this I can't really do this I don't know I haven't seen it a positive spin on a terrible situation it's like oh a black guy and a white guy and they work out their differences and they become friends

and it's like a it's a it's a cliche that hollywood does and then that won the award as opposed to um black klansman yeah or black klansman which i didn't see either and i need to see that black klansman you see it yeah good yeah but like it's weird because they, it's set, it's not current day, but they do a lot of shade throwing at the current day politics, mainly Trump. And it also ends with a bunch of footage from current day that kind of like drives it home. And it's like trying to wake people up a little bit about racial tensions. And the dude from Star Wars is in it, which I did not know.

Yeah, there's two different people in the world. There's the people that refer to him as the dude from Star Wars. And there's the people that refer to him as the dude from Girls. And I regrettably am the guy who says that he's from Girls. He was in Girls? He was the main love interest in Girls.

Okay. Yep. So that is from what I have seen. He was phenomenal in it. And I actually think that he got a lot of credit for that And he I thought the main character was also phenomenal And he didn't really get the same acclaim

But whatever Can I give you a tweet? I just searched Green Book And Green Book racist came up on Twitter This is a tweet I don't know who this person is It says Green Book is a movie where a real black man's life is appropriated by an all-white creative team who relegate him to a thankless

supporting role in the story of a racist white man who teaches him how to be black quote correctly and it's winning awards i hate this planet okay that's the tweet that would be the controversy and i apologize because i couldn't explain that myself earlier i have not seen the movie i would like to see many of these movies i'm seeing it now I'm gonna see it as well Mahershala Ali especially after True Detective season three which no spoilers I have not finished the finale yet uh I'm all in on him how did they put the finale on the night of the Oscar weird huh did you know he played d1 basketball dude I think they did this all that that was crazy dude he's a beast I love him what year was that though 92 to 96 oh Dude, he's a beast. I love him. What year was that, though?

92 to 96. Oh, okay. So he's my sister. Very recent. So he's like 45. I was going to say, because I feel like when it comes to guys in the 60s and stuff, I feel like anyone that had any athletic bone in their body just played D1 basketball in the 60s.

No, he played St. Mary's. He was a guard. If you hear that someone's grandpa played basketball, it was just like, well, yeah. He was probably just athletic and tall. It's like playing back in the day before MLB was integrated. It's like, yeah, that's cool and everything.

The stats have a little asterisk, bud. I remember seeing this tweet last night. Here's Vice's take on Green Book. The website, actually. Green Book is another unneeded white people's guide to racism. I Vice, the website, actually. Oh, now Vice President Dick Cheney? Green Book is another unneeded white people's guide to racism. I was like, oh, interesting. Okay, okay.

Vintage Vice. Interesting. Let's talk real quick about Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga. Yeah, we kind of have to, I think. Dylan, I mean, do you want to set the tone for this? Because you're the biggest little monster.

This was kind of the story of the night. It had been announced that they were going to perform. And they did, probably like three-quarters of the way through the show, I think. Maybe two-thirds. And they fucking crushed it. Bradley Cooper was good. He sounded better in the movie because, you know, you expect that. Live in front of An audience like that

Also he's not a singer Also he's not a singer But she just Of course She just absolutely crushed it She's just a talent Are we not over them? Is this

Can this be the finale? Can I raise my hand? Can this be the cut off? This is the finale Of that I'm so over it Of this saga Because you

Do you even watch the movie? Fuck no You're out That's why You should You know I'm not exposing anybody because I don't really hate her take, but Sally's...

Sally had a tweet, your girlfriend. Yeah. Like, kind of like, to use your word, poo-pooing a Star is Born. Like, just not even the movie because she hasn't seen it,

but just like the whole phenomenon around it. Like, do I even need to see this? It's too fucking much, man. It's too much. I'm surprised you haven't seen it. I will be honest. No, dude, I don't... Okay, I hate musical stuff. I just don't like it. I don't like watching

performances in a movie theater. I don't care for it. I just truly do not care. This isn't a musical in the traditional sense of the word. Yeah, but there's performances. Did you like Crazy Heart? No. You didn't like Crazy Heart? Not really.

Like, it didn't do much for me. Wow. I thought Crazy Heart was a better movie. It's just the love fest for these two on social media is just so over the top. And, like, every... The part that I find over the top is that when they perform this together, they're, like, so into each other. And I know it's part of the whole thing, the storyline and all that but it's a little much how many people are going to make irena shake jokes on twitter yeah like it's just an old that is bradley cooper's girlfriend or wife or whatever

now is this true someone tweeted this did she date uh the? Also Cristiano Ronaldo? I think so. I almost called him Cristiano. I think so. Which is dope. Okay. So she's got one hell of a resume. Yeah.

Bradley Cooper's probably like, oh, shit. She's a very attractive woman, yeah. It makes sense that she would have a resume. They have a kid together, right? Does anyone think it's weird how Gaga is... Bradley Cooper's definitely into it, but like... He's an actor. Dude, she is...

She's way too far into it. No. I get having love for your craft and stuff, but just chill. I don't know. You just chill because it's not that great of a song. Yes, it is. I'm on record. And Gaga Slander will not be tolerated on this podcast.

I'm not slandered. She's great. She's a verified triple threat. She is a beast. And Gaga Slander will not be tolerated on this podcast. I'm not slandering. She's great. She is a verified triple threat. She is a beast. She's an Academy Award nominated actress. Now that the Oscars are done, can we agree that this should be the finish line for the love fest that this movie is receiving? Yeah. It needs to stop.

But as someone who hasn't seen the movie, that's a hollow statement to make. Why? Because you just have to you have to see you i don't know it's like is this good is he doing the game of thrones no it's not is this gonna be like is this gonna be like when paul walker died there was like a tribute to him for like i'm sitting every three years at every award show because he's the goat i'm sitting here thinking if i hadn't seen the stars born would i be saying the same shit you are and the answer is yes i think i would be because it's just it's easy it's everyone is in on it and you're out of it so it's like

fuck this shit i've seen the song i've seen the song a million times why are people so to be fair the movie the movie's more than the song is really good first of all okay and it's amazing it's amazing what bradley cooper did to get his voice to do that. But I've had to hear about how great this song is for six months. Okay. That's six months. The song won't die. Songs don't die. Somebody on Twitter pointed out.

I keep citing random people who I can't even name on Twitter. Keep citing. Somebody said that Bradley Cooper is singing in the voice that every guy sings Pearl Jam song in his car. Yep. Like the Eddie Vedder voice. That's a great take. Anybody can do an Eddie Vedder impersonation for the most part. That's a great take. Because you know, anybody can do an Eddie Vedder impersonation.

That's a great take. And they're like, that's what he was singing in. I feel like that's a little bit of a reduction, but still pretty funny. I understand that I have no credibility here. You're absolutely correct. But it's a lot. I'll say this. I'm not, when I do see the movie, which is when it gets free on HBO,

I am not going to go scorched on like all right like i'm not gonna like have a big love fest on twitter for it well that would be yeah it's but somehow people that saw it fucking six months ago are won't shut their yapper about it just at ross dude ross is no he's definitely like number one, A1 victim of this. Well, he tried, okay, so he didn't respond to my tweet. I'll just pull back the curtain. He had a tweet and he said, this is the most overhyped event like ever. And it was their performance. And I was like, wait a minute.

No, no, no. You can't jump off this bandwagon now, sir. You are the captain of this ship. You go down with this ship. That's true. But he is one of the biggest culprits of it, but so is the rest of Twitter. It was so over the top.

Like, I'm talking everything from people that I follow that don't have big followings all the way up to entertainment sites that have hundreds of thousands of followers. It's just low-hanging fruit to tweet about and post the gif of and post the clip of. These are two of the biggest stars in the world in like two different industries, right? And the fact that they're together and you can create some underlying sexual tension

and you can get like a really low-energy meme off, which the memes are – I mean, come on. I look forward to them hitting our subreddit very soon. It's perfect soon it's perfect it's perfect and you know what it fuels the beast whatever everybody loves Bradley Cooper

I feel like most people love Lady Gaga dude now I'm like pumping the brakes on my man Brad oh stop I'm like dude

no I'm not I'm not ready to sell dude he's not he's not he's not that good of an actor he's a pretty good actor he's not top tier he's not that good of an actor.

He's a pretty good actor. He's not top tier. But dude, to get up on a stage like that... He's A-list. He's top tier. No, I respect the hell out of him. As someone who was not a vocalist, to do what he did, it's pretty remarkable. No, mad respect for that. Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook, greatness.

He may never reach that point again. American Sniper, didn't think he was a great Chris Kyle. I will say it. I didn't think his accent was that great. That was a little over the top. That's a controversial take and I apologize if that offends you. What I will end with, for me at least, you guys can keep talking about it, but I'm not trying to take away from their talent. Both are wildly talented individuals. Lady Gaga, she's got pipes. She's got passion. She's really good at her craft. I just think that the love fest that's happening for them

maybe needs to chill out and simmer down after being so hyped up for so long. It will. Let them stack their streams. The Oscars needs to be the finish line for this movie. Oh, it will. Because the Grammys are behind us. There's not going to be any more live performances. I'm glad that neither of them won for best movie. Oh, it will. Because the Grammys are behind us. There's not going to be any more live performances.

I'm glad that neither of them won for best whatever. What will piss me off... Well, she did win for best song. Best song, but for best actress. What will really... This is going to... This will drive you like...

Just to the point of no return. If they like show up in like a dive bar together and do that song and it goes... And it's like... Dude, I will join you in this crusade. They're going to go to Broken Spoke on South Mar during South By. Oh, my God.

They'll form this together and just blow it up. That's 100% going to happen. And Garth Brooks is going to be playing guitar for it. I'll be honest, though. If I find out, if we get tipped off, because we're Austin influencers, if we get tipped off and that's going to happen, I'm there. Dude, fuck yeah. I'm there. Me and Dawn don are there dude i'm austin's number one little monster those like lady gaga yeah lady gaga did like a dive bar tour is what she called it oh it

was like sponsored by pepsi but like yeah it's sponsored by pepsi none of her real fans can get tickets to it because they're probably outrageously expensive and like it's just a total pr move it's not like cool no one can actually go i tried your boy tried to cop john mayer tickets for san antonio okay i couldn't believe how much concert tickets cost these days the i was getting these were mid-range seats for like 225 dollars are you serious the most i've ever spent was like 120 on jimmy buffett tickets i spent 175 on a kid rock ticket and it was because i bought it way too late and all my friends were going so it was like well i either have to buy it or i just not i don't go at all so i was like you know what i'm just gonna bite the bullet um we didn't even get on bohemian rhapsody and how oh did y'all see it anybody see it yeah i saw a lot

of people pointing out the fact that the clip they showed at the oscars like when like before he was announced as you know lead yeah or whatever uh it was him lip-syncing and fake playing a piano yeah no but it was a groundbreaking performance one of the best ever per the academy so yeah that was a weird clip to show of the best ever, per the Academy. Yeah, that was a weird clip to show, I thought. I don't know if y'all saw the movie, but the movie was okay. It wasn't great. It wasn't really that good.

It was fun. I think we talked about it. I think we talked about it at length for the Golden Globe. His underbite was a little too much for me. He was over the top. He looked like someone doing a... If Sacha Baron Cohen, who was originally supposed to do the role, if he was doing a bit for a sketch comedy show or one of his own shows, that's what it would have been like.

If any producers or writers for SNL are listening right now, please get Sacha Baron Cohen to host SNL and just do a Queen bit. That's all I want. I would see the movie if it was him. I think Remy Malek, or however you say his name, I think he's a really good actor. He's a good dude. But he's not a must-see for me.

Sacha Baron Cohen, at least, I'm like, ooh, this might get a little weird. I thought throughout the entire movie he was over the top. I know Freddie Mercury was over the top in his life, but it just didn't seem believable. Plus, the dialogue and the writing was absolute filth. Somebody on Twitter last night said that it seemed like a VH1 movie. Yes, it did.

Whoever pointed that out, anonymous Twitter person, well done. Yeah, hat tip anonymous Twitter person. You know what I'm worried about now? You probably saw the trailer for the Elton John movie. They kept playing it last night. Looks pretty good. Same concerns, though. Well, my concern is this ruins it for if that movie is really well done

and this guy knocks it out of the park as Elton John, you're not getting best actor for Elton John next year. No. Yeah. That's true. Like, you cucked him. Yeah. You can't go back- back famous english singers was he english freddie mercury yeah i think so okay yeah just

making sure there's certain people who i didn't like who i always mix up like did you know that mumford and sons they're english yeah did not know. They put out like South vibes. Like they're from the South. And then you hear them talking and you're like, oh, wait, what? You're just, you're like, you look like a,

you look like somebody that would hitchhike on a fucking train. Yeah, that's their aesthetic. It's terrible. Once I realized that, I was like, oh, I'm kind of out of here.

Wait, are Avent Brothers English too? I don't think so. But I could be absolutely wrong. I never got into any of that. That whole fast guitar maybe a guy in the back playing a jug

thing. Like playing like a water... Yeah. Or no, like a whatever you wash your clothes with. A washboard? Yeah. We're just diminishing all the talent that went into those two bands. What was the other movie that I saw? Vice? Vice was fun

yeah that's that's a good way i think that sounds like a good way describing it based on the director and everything guy who won for playing uh w i didn't think he was good i saw one clip and i thought it was a terrible performance that was kind of the weird thing about vice you had some some of the characters like pat like christian, he did a really good, not even a caricature of Dick Cheney. Like it was like, oh, that's Dick Cheney's mannerisms and, you know, Lynn Cheney, Amy Cheney, whatever. But then W was just like this cartoon character out of left field that didn't look like Dub and definitely didn't sound like Dub. It was over the top Dub. I know W.

Look, he's been my governor. He's been my president. It just wasn't W. I don't even know what makes a performance good anymore. I don't get it. Christian Bale. Who played 2 Chainy in that? Who?

It was a 2 Chainz joke. 2 Chainy? Okay. We're not doing 2 Chainy jokes. 2 Chainy. For those of you at home, Will's throwing the deuce. Like he just did something really great. And I'll admit it was good.

I do want to see it. I'll admit, I really should have seen more Oscar movies this year. I just got lazy. Some of them are big undertakings. Oscar movies are very serious. In terms of the Oscars in general, they're too serious for me. That's why I don't like watching them The Golden Globes are great because it involves TV

Which I watch more of I'm more of a prestige television guy Than I am a high cinema guy And they let people get absolutely obliterated During the Golden Globes And give speeches Which is much more entertaining to me So even the movies that I haven't seen

It's still entertaining to see the speeches Because people are a little turnt. What'd you think about the no host? I liked it. Everybody said it was awesome. Well, that wasn't

intentional, right? It was because... No. Yeah. Well, because the Kevin Hart thing and then... I bet they'd do it again

and they'd run it back next year. It definitely went smooth. Yeah. Like, it seemed like everything went pretty quickly. It was over shortly after 10 for us here.

Why didn't they get Alicia Keys to do it? She just crushed the Grammys. Just kidding. I thought it? She just crushed the Grammys. Just kidding. I thought she did pretty well at the Grammys, sir. No, her musical performance was fine,

but everything else was trash. Anyway. What else? We just burned everything to the ground. This was a steam room. This was essentially a steam room. We were just fully clothed in it. We didn't realize it was steaming.

It's not too late to de-robe, Dave. I don't need to steam anymore. I feel like we've... I just have a very big vendetta against the Oscars just because I think they're so lame and so corporate and boring and whatever. There are a million other... Corporate bro.

Yeah. There are a million other award shows that I would rather watch than the Oscars, even though they get the most credit for being the biggest and the best. Sure. I would rather watch the MTV Music Video Awards than the Oscars. Because they're awesome. That's why're awesome they're incredible you mean back in the 90s when they

were good they're still they're still entertaining i just don't know who anybody is did you see tom morello presented when last night no tom morello got up there and he talked was he wearing a che guevara shirt no but i was waiting for uh rage's bassist, Timmy C, to go crash the stage because they didn't win an award. That's a callback to the VMAs. Wow. Only true Rage fans will get that reference. Did he end his presentation with Free Mumia? No.

Too bad. I could talk to you about that, though. I was really into that shit. I did an entire project for my law class in high school about Mumia. Man. We got a lot in common that was my punk rock stage interesting damn interesting all right well uh thanks for having me on that's all that's all we have for the uh oscars sorry we just shit all over it shout out to the academy thank you for everything if we if we won an oscar who would be the first person to speak when we go up there um i don't know you would have to you would have to grab the mind go we're back

no i can't i have to play a great hit i think i might i might fold in a situation like that by myself i i couldn't handle it i would have to have people with me so there's us three up there um if if we were up for an award i would plan a speech because i wouldn't want to be the person that doesn't plan a speech because i'm not good enough off the cuff to do that and then because i would plan a speech i would think i would in my head i would have already won it and i would be the person with the absolutely devastated face when they showed that we didn't win you know what move i hate when people get up there and this happens a lot at the Emmys, but when they're like, I've had so much to drink. Or they talk about how they've been drinking all day.

It's like, we get it. You had a Jennifer Lawrence fake fall or anything last night? They didn't even show her. I don't know if she was even there. Has she been in much lately? I haven't heard from her in a while. She might be stepping back for a bit. Cool chick, J-Law.

I believe my wife referred to Brie Larson as... The new J-Law? No, maybe not the fake Jennifer Lawrence, but like... Whoa. Maybe the B-team Jennifer Lawrence. Please don't discount Brie Larson like that. Poor man's J-Law. I don't know what...

I'm probably misquoting her. Dude, that's fucked up. Wow. I thought it was... We're looking for those takes. No, you can't say the... No, you can't do B-team. She won an Oscar, too. Like, come on.

Bring me the takes. Kacey Musgraves looked phenomenal last night. You want to know why that was, Dylan? She did great. Because she's a specimen who is also a phenomenal-looking human being. She is scorching hot. And she's got pipes. She is brand new on my radar.

Oh, she'd be on mine for a minute. Same. Man, she's got pipes. She is brand new on my radar. Oh, she's been on mine for a minute. Same. Man, she's special. East Texas is his own. I believe Mineola, Texas. Very small town. I think she's kind of got an attitude, too, which I really like about her, too.

She's great. Well, she plays by her own rules. Sure, sure. Some might say she followed her own arrow. Okay, Dave. Only true Casey Musgraves fans will understand that reference. We're going to do other stuff or what's up? Yeah, let's talk about friends over at Liquid Ivy.

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Alright Alright, every Sunday night I tweet out and I solicit stories Your worst weekend stories The wet. It's not even... All right. All right. Every Sunday night, I tweet out and I solicit stories. Your worst weekend stories. You might have gotten too drunk. You might have had a friend that got too drunk. You might have just done something stupid. You might have just got your dick kicked in by the real world.

Who knows? But I've been keeping a stockpile of these. I'm not guaranteeing that I do a worst weekend breakdown on Patreon. Patreon.com slash Circling Back Podcast this week. But I will commit to doing one next week when I do a worst weekend breakdown on Patreon, patreon.com slash circlingbackpodcast this week but I will commit to doing one next week when I have a bigger stable make sure to do it, it's very good right now I have a story

that was sent in, this was actually from five days ago, so it wasn't this past weekend but the weekend before actually no, this story is actually not from then this is a story that was recently submitted a lot of people submit these stories and say i'm just now coming to terms with this and it doesn't give me anxiety anymore so i can finally send it in this is from this past fall um lay it on us will i'm captain one of my favorite segs

this is gonna be local for us some people might not know some of the things we talk about, but for us, it's going to be familiar. Dude, fuck me up with the story already. Let's go. This worst weekend all started when I was going to Dallas, Oklahoma for a bachelor party. There's a Dallas, Oklahoma? No, Dallas slash.

Oh. Okay, that was easy. Okay, this sounds like a Dallas trip then north on 35 to Windstar, if I had to guess. That's what it sounds like. It's a north on 35 to Windstar. If I had to guess. That's what it sounds like. A casino at the border. Yeah. Okay.

Sorry. It got off to a great start. Friday night we went to a Mavs game and then hit some bars uptown. Kung Fu, Social House, etc. Wow. Okay. Can you speak to Social House?

Because that's the one I don't know. I'm assuming these guys are like in their mid 20s probably yeah look this is what you're gonna do on a is it a bachelor party or is this just a guy's trip this is a bachelor party oh yeah okay okay what are you wearing it what are you wearing out to a social house uh i'm gonna put on my best button down probably a peter millar i'm gonna tuck it into some jeans with maybe like a fun belt maybe maybe a zilker belt. Or maybe like a... I can see a lot of needlepoint belts. Yeah, yeah.

Argentinian needlepoint. And then I'm going to have some like Cole Haan loafers with no socks. Maybe some no-show socks. And that's pretty much the move. Peak Dallas. Yeah. The only bad portion of the night on Friday was two of my friends being

Tossed out of the bar for being too hammered That's kind of just how it goes It's a bachelor party That's the worst thing that happens You're fine Luckily I had already decided to call it a night by that point Saturday we did the usual bachelor party stuff By going out for a nice round of 18 holes

Golf was great until hole 16 When I felt what felt like Niagara Falls Decided to drop out of the sky Cutting out two holes short and leaving everyone soaked to the core that's not great oh that's rain okay when he said that i was thinking like did he throw up did he have a two problem yeah okay just rain there is nothing worse than just like going in from golfing and just being absolutely fucking drenched yeah you smell very bad there are some things that are worse than that.

Like getting struck by lightning. There's literally nothing worse. I can't think of anything worse. But it is uncomfortable. I can't think of anything worse. Nothing worse. Somebody, okay, this is just a side note. I always ask for feedback and stuff on Sunday Scaries

regarding the podcast or anything. And somebody just commented yesterday, and I wanted to get offended by it, but I couldn't. They were like, this is a podcast for people that have problems that aren't really problems. And I was like, you know what?

You're right. That's pretty funny. He said, after golf, we headed north to the Windstar Casino in Thackerville, Oklahoma. Is that on an Indian resi up there? Yes, Indian land across the Great Red. The Red River, if you're new here.

And then there you go. I've been there many times. I have takes on it but I'll withhold. Despite having to drop $15 every time we wanted a mixed drink that night it was still a good time.

I'll be honest that's way more than I thought the drinks would cost up there. They don't that's one of my takes. They don't have free beverage.

Oh. So That's like the perk of going to a casino also it's a i think it's a quarter per hand it's not free so each hand if you're at a blackjack table you got to put in a little bit like to the house yeah and it's weird how different states have different things like that that's bullshit if i told you about the california uh casino i went to and i played they don't allow dice games.

Only card games. Why? But they had craps. So I went to the craps table and I threw some money down and this guy rolled a seven. I was like, all right, cool. Want my money back. And they were like, oh, no, no, sir. We have to wait.

Because the numbers on the dice determine how many cards they flip over. And that's the number. That way they circumvent, like, this is not a dice game. This is a card game, even though you're playing crap. I was like, I'm fucking out of here. That's the future liberals want. Oh, it's trash. Okay, sorry.

Dude, that's awful. Yeah. The casino I used to go to in northern Michigan, they didn't do free drinks, but the drinks were so reasonable that it was like, yeah, it doesn't really matter. It's probably for the best that you don't just sit there and get

blacked out and lose all your money. But if you're not going to do free drinks, $15? You're right. And that's the one saving grace to losing money. Yeah, at least I got drunk. I lost $120 playing blackjack, but I got like six drinks out of it, so that's fine. I will probably never go to the Windstar Casino in Thackerville, Oklahoma. Yeah, I don't have a desire to go up there.

It's like having to pay for chips and salsa. They're trying to prevent the guy who comes in and just eats chips and salsa and leaves. They don't want you just going to the table, maybe playing one or two hands and just getting hammered. Man, I've lost an interest in gambling overall. That's good.

It is good. Yeah, good for you, man. I used to be like the thrill of a lifetime. Yeah, you used to be a real piece of shit. Yeah, that's true. I'm over it. That's good, though. Remember that time

I had to wire you money like immediately? No, that didn't happen. Yeah, remember when we had to just bring you out of debt like your gambling debts and stuff? That didn't happen. That guy called me.

He's like, if I didn't know that you knew him, I would have broken this guy's leg. Oh, shit. I didn't know. You didn't share that part with me. Yeah, it was that guy, Nicky.

Damn. Did you ever pay him? No. Sorry. No. Should we get back to the story, maybe? Will? Yeah, I just got a fucking email.

He said, this went about till 4 a.m. Just as I'm deciding to go to bed, I stop by one of the restaurants inside the casino. With my eyes being much larger than my stomach, I ordered a huge double cheeseburger. I know we don't drunk eat now. What was your go-to drunk food? Pizza. Every time. A slice of pizza or like chicken strips.

Chicken strips is a good one. I always liked chicken strips or burgers. Being a Whataburger state that we are, the breakfast taco. Ooh, the taquito. Late night taquitos. Late night taquito goes. Yeah. Taquitos are trash at Whataburger.

But when you're drunk, they're so good, dude. When you're drunk, everything tastes good. Yeah. Yeah, that's what you always say. Everything. That's dirty. That's what you always say. You went dirty with that.

You're the one who says it always. I don't say, I never say that. You always say that. We're like, what'd you eat for dinner? Never mind. Don't. Yeah, don't finish that joke don't finish the joke all right anyway he said after one bite the dozen or so mixed drinks

i had caught up with me quick i immediately took took for the bathroom i set my hamburger down on the back of the toilet and began to expel everything out of my food wait you he brought the hamburger you don't bring food in the bathroom no one's's doing that. Who brings it in the bathroom with them? Don't even bring beverage in there if you don't have to. I had a buddy who told me that he would eat Oreos while pooping. What the fuck? Dude, who is it? Expose that man.

I can't expose him. I could expose him. His name's Jack. He doesn't listen to this podcast. Dude, I can't have any food in my mouth if I'm doing number two. It's just a weird... Why? Because there's poop particles also going in your mouth?

Okay, so that's normal then. Good. Yeah, no one's going to argue that. Yeah, I'm not going to Jersey Mike's and then bringing my sub into the bathroom with me. I'm not going to bring it in and I'll give a full mouth

like, oh, I got to... That's not Mike's way. I got to get a duty off. Yeah, Mike's way is not pooping. Thanks for clarifying. Unfortunately, I missed the bowl and spewed all over the top of the toilet where my once appetizing hamburger sat. All right.

That's good news for you, my dude. This is a projectile. Yeah. Being drunk, I decided to grab the hamburger and toss it in the toilet. I flushed it and walked away hoping and praying that nothing got backed up. Don't throw the burger in the toilet. He already did, David. Oh, come on.

Down several hundred dollars on the blackjack tables and covered in my own throw up, I finally found my way back to the room to sleep. The next morning, we make the head pounding hungover drive back to Dallas. How long is that drive? About an hour and a half. That's not bad. That's not bad. Yeah. Once I'm finally back home, I take the, I finally, hold on.

Once I'm finally back home, I want to take the finally in the comfort of my own house number two oh I see what he's doing there alright yeah that is one of the best that's a good do

I'm glad he acknowledged that because there's no better number two than when you get back to your house after a long stint away like how good is your number two

when you go back from Europe I don't recall it but I'm sure it was fantastic oh yeah it's the best yeah yeah I feel like my body How good is your number two when you go back from Europe? I don't recall it, but I'm sure it was fantastic. Oh. Yeah. It's the best. Yeah.

Yeah. I feel like my body is in tune with everything. So, like, the second I get home, even if I don't think I have to go, it's like, ooh, it knows. Your body knows you're home. It knows. So you're, like, total comfort mode. He's lucky because there's been some times where you're making that drive back from Oklahoma and, you know, you think, am I going to have to pull off in Sanger? Am I going to have to pull over in Denton and go find a shell?

There's some truck stops, but there's not like a Buc-ee's. I know Micah hates Buc-ee's, but Buc-ee's at least has clean facilities. You're not getting that luxury on that trip back from Oklahoma. Sure. You okay over there, buddy? Dude, no. I'm getting my dick kicked in with emails right now.

My apartment complex does this really awesome thing where they send you emails whenever you get packages and they send you a photo of the label. My old place did that. And they never take a photo

of the label correctly so you don't know where it's from. Dude, yes. The same thing happened to my... How hard is it? you don't know where it's from. Dude, yes. The same thing happened to my... How hard is it? I don't know. It's like the guy's knees,

and he's holding up a box with the label, and you can see the bottom part of the box and his knees. It's so funny. It's like, dude... They can never get it right. Come on. What are you doing? Sorry.

You can check those after we record, by the way, if you want. I know, but you know how good it feels to get a package. I do. What? We need to go on. So what? This guy goes home and takes one. I finish up and flush, walk out of the bathroom, and chug a bottle of water before my shower.

When I finally get back to the bathroom, I notice brown water filling up the toilet along with the bathtub. The bathtub? I tried to flush and see again if it would help stop anything. It didn't. Eventually, the tub and toilet completely overflowed with chunky sewage water. The bathtub? I tried to flush and see again if it would help stop anything. It didn't. Eventually, the tub and toilet completely overflowed with chunky sewage water. You can imagine what the chunks were. My bathroom, kitchen, one of my bedrooms, as well as my living room all got flooded with actual shit sewage. It was the nastiest thing I've ever smelled in my life.

I'm moving. So this isn't in any way connected to the burger he flushed in Oklahoma? No. Okay. Who knows? Maybe. Unnecessary aside. What if he clogged everything within a 300-mile radius?

I don't think that's what happened. That would be some serious... I hope that burger was worth it. Turns out a pipe underground had busted and caused all the eight apartment units in my building to stop up the backup was then directed then directed to my plumbing somehow and i was the unfortunate recipient of everyone's waste hung over or not this is not how i wanted my recovery sunday to play out on top of the whole shit show i had to pay 3600 to break my lease early because at this point i don't want to live anywhere near this complex. Worst weekend of my life. Wait.

You might want to check your basic landlord tenant law in the state of Texas. Yeah. I wouldn't be shelling out. That being said, if you have the money, $3,600 to get out of that fucking mess is worth it. Okay, is that on top of... It's a lot of money, man. So is that $3,600 like him paying out

the last two months or something? Probably. Or is that a fee on top of what he's a lot of money, man. So is that $3,600 like him paying out the last two months or something? Probably. Or is that a fee on top of what he was going to owe? No, I think... I know my apartment, if I want to break the lease, I have to pay something around there. I think it's like $3,400 or something. And it's just done. I know that...

I mean, I can't afford that right now. But having to live there and having to deal with all the shit that goes along with having to repair everything that got flooded yeah that's actual sewage like that's as bad as it gets yeah i know somebody who uh she had i can't tell this story never mind oh okay i've told a story about her before on a podcast and i got uh sternly yelled at by her so i will uh abstain oh is this a future family member no no i'm not related to them at all but will you be i will not be okay interesting yeah i mean if even if it's just water that's bad enough having to deal with like

you know the yeah getting your place back in order after that but you throw in like the doo-doo water nah yeah that it yeah yeah i you know before you pay it sounds like you already did uh you might want to talk to somebody dave he when he if he's listening to this right now he thinks that you're saying he needs to talk to you and i think you need to clarify don't talk to me i'm not the talk talk the guy to talk to you but talk to somebody like an attorney get that money back i don't you know i don't know i don't do landlord tenant but they have a duty to you sir the tenant wow is that a duty joke it could be what will uh have you had any uh contact with the woman at your old apartment complex who was a total B to you? No.

No. And I just feel really bad for whoever's living in my old place. What was your last interaction with her? My last interaction with her? They were all really unpleasant. I don't really know. They all kind of blend together. But it was... I don't know. She's a really unpleasant. I don't really know. They all kind of blend together. But it was...

I don't know. She's a fucking nightmare. Yeah. Like a nightmare. Yeah. Makes sense. Yeah, it sounds like she was just a miserable human. She was.

I mean, she would call security because Parks was like running to the bathroom. Like, he's a child. That's what he does. He's not a big child either. It's not like it's like an eight-year-old no he weighs like 35 pounds like get the fuck out of the dude that lives above me so we the the first two months that we lived in our apartment we had no one we have no one on either side of us because there's a garbage room next to us that it's like a garbage chute so no one lives there on the other side is just an empty apartment and i think it's intentionally

empty i think they just like i don't know why and so it's very quiet then we had no one above us somebody moved in above us and it sounds like the guy's just constantly doing construction because he and then we were like what is he doing up there like it sounds like he stomps around when he walks we saw him for the first time he's like like seven feet tall. And it's like, oh, no, he's just a unit. And that's what it sounds like when he walks. It's nothing that I would ever complain about because it's still minor in the grand scheme of things. And especially living in an apartment, it's just you know that that's going to happen. Exactly.

That's the point that I kept bringing up with my neighbor. We had a couple conversations. Like, look, you sign up to live in an apartment. You're on the first floor, meaning you know someone's going to be living above you. These are normal, everyday sounds. I'm not up here building a bed. I don't have hammers out and saws. I'm watching TV.

I'm walking in my apartment. That's what I'm doing. I still think that she had a crush on you. I don't. I think she wanted to. Her way of flirting was by almost getting you evicted. Then you would have had to move in with her. It would have worked out perfectly. I think she wanted to... Her way of flirting was by almost getting you evicted. Yeah. I think she... Then you would have had to move in with her.

It would have worked out perfectly. Every time that she came up to your door, I think she was hoping that she would be like, let's go in and sort this out. Next thing you know, you're at the Oscars performing a song face-to-face at a piano. Well, during part of that time, I had a girlfriend, and she would be like,

your girlfriend's really loud. Not sexually. Yeah, well, what if you heard your girlfriend getting knocked out by some other dude the entire time? That's what she was doing below you. No, but she would be like, she has a really loud voice. I was like, yeah, she does,

but still, this is my home and we're talking. These are normal sounds. Fuck that lady. I wish Dan, our old co-worker Dan Dan would have moved into your old place because then she would have just had to hear the sounds of like a jackhammer all day, all night you know because that's what his name is

his name is Jackhammer is that a sex thing? I don't know man I think he's up there just doing construction work all day I think that's where he got it he used to do construction work in Philly I can't wait until he texts me about this all that being said our friend that's uh lives in dallas you know he could have used this entire time in order to make his hangover a little

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has to work in the morning and might have a little too much to drink you could be a traveler who doesn't you know want to go buy bottled water at Hudson News for $8 a pop. Oh, God. Post-workout. I think Dave takes them after he works out. I love to rehydrate. I keep them in my dop kit for when I travel and for the gym.

I'll be honest. If you looked in my carry-on bag right now, you would find a stack of liquid IV and you would find a stack of the wipes from Fulton & Roark. Those are my two travel go-tos at this point. The travel essentials. You just stacked up. I love these things. My favorite is the acai.

Have you had that one? Oh, shit. It's actually acai. It's not acai, dude. I haven't tried that one. You haven't tried it? I can't even make fun of you for saying acai because I said that for like three years.

I really did say it for a long time. I don't care. I refuse to say that word out loud. It also helps with uh like winter dehydration you know if you get altitude sickness from skiing snowboarding trips in the mountains stuff like that and pal winter travel cold and flu season oh dude that's like if you have a a stomach bug you need to hydrate yeah or if you like i had a cold the other day and i just when you have a cold it just doesn't feel good to chug a bunch of water.

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after you guys you're going too hard on it. So, like, after you... I shouldn't tell you all this, but after you guys got, like, you know, laid off at Grand X, they sent a big box of it. Oh, they sent me some, too. I think accidentally.

Damn it. I was like, shit, I'm strapped. Yeah, I got a lot. Let's go. Oh, man. I was like, yeah, they might not know that we don't have a show anymore, but...

But we appreciate the product. We got this Liquid IV. Man. I am Arvasai, so if anyone at Liquid IV is listening, like, I would love some more. don't have a show anymore but uh but we appreciate the product we got this liquid i am i am arvassai so if anyone at liquid iv is listening like i would love some more i would just you know anything that helps me uh further spread the word of your product i used to think that hydration was kind of bullshit and now i'm fully i'm all in on it oh really you thought well like when you're in like your mid-20s like you're not hydrating you don't care now i try to drink as much water as possible

72 ounces what i've been told see i try to get in the hundreds every day every day i try to get in the hundreds like when i used to at grand x i would sit there with my 32 ounce yeti like the big dog and i would drink three of those just to make sure that i got there i did something similar but you know that big cooler that yeti makes the big ass one yeah i used to fill that up with water and i would just walk up to it like a horse with a trough and i would just dip my head in and just drink that oh are you talking about the coffin size one yeah you can lay down inside yeah i would drink that much water a day that's why yeti has a coffin size cooler yeah you guys they don't market it as a coffin size no right no but that's i think people call it the coffin. It's quite expensive, as you can imagine.

Yeah, it's like $25,000. Yeti's probably never going to sponsor this podcast, so I don't feel bad saying this. You can buy pretty much any Yeti product from a bootleg company for a third of the price. And it works just as well. I'm going to pull it out. No one needs this. It's dumb thick. Yeah, it's goofy, cheeked up, coughing.

Okay. Is this it? Randy, my dog loves Yeti. He refuses to drink out of anything that's not a Yeti. And he won't even drink out of the Yeti dog bowl. T-F-F. He has like the Rambler. The Tundra 350.

That's the one. That's the one that I dip my head into to hydrate. It is. They have a financing option. What? Well, that's actually how I. It's 63 and a half inches long and 23 and a quarter inches tall. Oh, my God.

I just pulled this thing up. Let me see it. It's $1,300. Yeah, I got a deal on it. That's what it looks like. It's a coffin. You can mean, it's a coffin. Yeah.

I'm not kidding when I say this. You have to be short to fit in. This coffin might be worth more than my car. If you're five feet, you can lay down inside it. Fine. Without hitting your head on it. I might get a lower trade-in value for my car than I would get if I tried to sell this cooler on eBay.

1,300 bucks. You should just put some wheels on that thing. Like a go-kart. It can hold... It's 89 pounds empty. It holds 259 beers and 316 pounds of ice. So what's that math add up to? Like in total, that thing's fully stocked out with ice and beer.

I don't know how much a can of beer weighs, but 259 of them, that's a lot of beers. Plus an 89-pound cooler. I mean, you need several people to lift, to transport this thing. So if your buddies leave you and you're cleaning up the tailgate, and that thing's just sitting there, you can't do anything. You're not lifting that up by yourself. It's so big. $1,300 for a cooler.

Seems excessive. They're never going to sponsor us. No, that's for sure. Well, maybe they'll send us one. We'll do a podcast inside of it. I have to rent a storage unit just to keep this damn thing. Legit don't have anywhere to put it.

Yeah, does it come with like a fucking like like a cushion for the top so I can just use it as a couch? There's a guy out there who has this as a coffee table. There's no doubt.

It doesn't fold up and stow away. He was probably on that bachelor party in Dallas. A hundred percent. Yeah, if any of y'all have this send us pics. Yeah, send us pics of this.

Lay down inside it and send us a pic. Yeah. Is that all we got for today i think so we've gone long it's been a fun podcast it's been a good one it's been a good one i enjoyed it we'll be back on wednesday we will also be back on friday we have our patreon exclusive episodes i i will say this we really came into our own last week last week was one of our best podcast weeks of all time if you haven't listened to the other episodes yet make sure to do it also more editorial will be hitting the patreon this week that's a promise people that's a promise i already said mine might not be hitting this week but next week i will do when i have a larger backstock if you do want to send me a worst weekend story send it to will at washed media.com i will post a mail-in column sometime this week probably

well i don't know which day but it'll happen tuesday wednesday or thursday and if you're somebody who's been yelling at dorn to bring back the forums i'm not going to say we have forums on the patreon but there's some forum like things going on there is a real community on there of like-minded people who enjoy content and they're getting in there and they're just mixing it up so check it out imagine financing a cooler no dude probably not bad there's like this new company that's come up called like a firm or something and they will let you finance anything like you can go to a store or like an online thing that sells like button downs and you can finance

like a button down over three months and pay like $27 a month. Damn. It's so stupid. I can't imagine doing that. How would you ever finance

like a fucking Vineyard Vines button down? I don't know. I don't know. I might start doing that though. They only have four left in stock. The Tundra 350. So get up on their site.

Yeah, use promo code SUCKIT for 0% off. It's actually, you know, a lot of people don't know this, but it's called the Tundra because it's just like a hollowed out Toyota Tundra. It's the size of the bed of a Tundra truck. That's all it is. Shouts to Toyota Tundras. Those are some of the best trucks out there. Toyota makes a good truck. I was a Tacoma boy in high school where are you i was dude toyota

tundras are awesome and college for that matter i'm gonna get heat for this but they go i think i think they're respected okay enough to where they i'm not sure if this is still the case but at one point like toyotas were like the most american-made truck that you could buy because of where the parts you should stop now because somebody's going to slap a sticker of like Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes

like peeing on you. Do it. I dare you bitch. Sorry I didn't mean to call you a bitch. I dare you. He's just a hypothetical bitch. Let's get out of here.

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