Circling Back - Bluesky Accounts and 2024 Music with Producer Micah

Episode Date: December 10, 2024

Yep, the rumors are true — It Micah. We talk about a listener who acquired Micah’s name on Bluesky, an update on the United Healthcare assassin after his arrest, Micah’s Music Year-in-Review, the Dr. Pepper halftime show, This Weekend in Fun, and more. Enjoy a free one-week trial on Patreon for additional weekly episodes: www.patreon.com/circlingbackpodcast Watch all of our full episodes on our new YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/circlingback  Shop Washed Merch: www.washedmedia.shop  (0:00) Fun & Easy Banter (17:00) Micah on Bluesky (31:00) Assassin Update and Dr. Pepper Halftime Show (49:20) Micah Music Year-in-Review (1:25:15) This Weekend in Fun Support This Episode’s Sponsors Rocket Money: www.rocketmoney.com/circling  Twillory: www.twillory.com (WASHED18 for $18 off purchase of $139 or more) Aura Frames: www.auraframes.com (CIRCLING for $35 off) Squarespace: www.squarespace.com/steam (STEAM for 10% off your purchase of a website or domain) Fitbod: www.fitbod.me/steam (20% off) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All right, we're back circling back podcast coming to you. Watch Media HQ Austin, Texas. My name is Will DeFries. David Ruff. How are we doing today? Hey, what's up, man? I've got something you might be interested in. What if I told you I popped over to the Daily Star as I often do to see what's going on with the headlines. See what they're talking about across the pond. You're familiar with this.

What if I told you the headline, the top story is, the case is not closed. Brittany Murphy's death 15 years on as heartbroken dad's dad, heartbroken dad still demands answers. They're still asking questions over there that for whatever reason we're not asking over here. Well, Ashton Kutcher had her killed. Is that the thought? They're still asking questions over there that for whatever reason we're not asking over here. Well Ashton Kutcher had her killed. Is that the thought? Yeah, apparently she died of pneumonia and then I think she had someone else connected in her life die of pneumonia soon after. I'm just putting out conspiracy theories that I've read too much about on Twitter right now.

I set you up for it. I could easily, with all that's going on right now Drain the swamp in Hollywood you you solved that ever Levine. Mm-hmm you I Feel like have had a number of other questions raised about other celebs that were valid and I guess I mean We all know that OJ Simpson was Chloe Kardashian's dad right like that's easy. Yeah. Yeah, that's real easy You were ground floor on that and now I'm giving you another one. We also know that Taylor Swift did cocaine at the VMAs. Right.

Do you know that Randy? I did know that. Yeah. Touching based. I'm going to put this on your plate now. Gum shoe. Okay. Happy to be here. Not so happy to be sitting over here. Just kind of, kind of got cucked. Dave, Dave, why are you sitting all the way over there? Who'd you get cucked by, David? Oh, God, the cuck himself, the irony, the original cuck, Michael Weiner. Hi, Dave. I guess you're referring to me.

Hello, audience. It's good to be with you today. What's with the low energy? What is this? I mean, you're the power plant guy and you come in here with this low energy. No offense. It's really no way to treat a guest of your program by referring to him as quote, the original cuck. You cucked me.

I didn't do that. You don't have to cut. You can be low energy towards Dave, but not me. It's not a big deal. All right, man. Were you not the original left cuck? I mean, I don't think I was the first. You were, you were a cuck before I was a Texas cuck.

Perhaps. It's another life, Dave. This guy got banned from the mall and he comes in here with this energy. That's just not true. Is that hard now that the mall is getting more popular and it's the holiday season? Is that why you moved? I do try and avoid the mall, but it's not because I've been banned.

You were removed from the mall. Are you actually banned? Like if you walked in, do you think they'd stop you? I have not been banned. Okay. I'm just making sure. We should find that video though. It was some of the best content.

I think I've got it on my phone. I've got a number of videos on my phone. I don't know. They've scrubbed so much from- Just to be clear, I was got a number of videos on my phone. I don't know. They've scrubbed so much. Just to be clear, I was shooting a commercial there, an unauthorized commercial, I should say, but we didn't get proper prior consent to shoot in the mall.

But you weren't in a particular store. No, you were just in the middle of the mall. I don't think the middle of the mall is public property. The kids are doing TikToks in the mall all the time. Yeah. Right. You were doing guerrilla marketing. I was out of my time. It was guerrilla marketing, G-U-E-R, and you were just out there doing what you do best.

Thanks, Dave. It's that boy. Hi, Will, great to see you. Always nice to be with Randy. Thanks, Mike. And the whole squad, the circling back universe. Dylan's in Amsterdam. Oh, yeah. We are coming.

OK, good. Good. No, it's it's it's great to be here. He sent us pics. Wow. It's pretty nice of him. He said the flight was delightful, too. He ate lobster. Yeah. Let me let me read that. He kept texting the group chat asking about his fantasy team last night I'll be honest when he the last time he asked when I responded with kind of like a Little bit of like annoyed response. I was in a bad mood because we had just lost overshown and we just lost the game

So I was definitely like there was definitely something behind that response I was like dude, I think you won your guy went off had like the best game of the season. So I was definitely like, there was definitely something behind that response. Where I was like, dude, I think you won. Your guy went off, had like the best game of the season. Yeah, quit asking. Dave texted Dylan this morning and asked how the flight was. And Dylan simply responded, pretty sick. Champagne, wine, lobster salad, grilled chicken, cookies, reclining seat and foot rest, breakfast, coffee,

most comfortable flight of all time. I want to be like, can you just lay off a little bit, buddy? So the reason I sent that text was because I had like a business question I was like going to get to, but I didn't want to jump right into the business question before 8 a.m. So I was just kind of throwing it out there. Just expecting, it was good, man. It was long. I slept a little bit. I was not expecting the full menu rundown and everything. He gave it to us, though. Yeah, I was like I was like grabbing eggs out of my dog's mouth that I made for my sons.

And I see that Dylan was eating lobster on a plane to Amsterdam last night. It was defeating. Do you like hearing every little detail of the trip that you didn't go on, Dave? It's fine. Yeah, I think you you deserve. He needs to get you a gift of some sort. I don't want anything Yes, you do. Were you invited on this trip? Dave was the OG invite and then and and then Dylan ended up going so Who wait who invited you? What's the I don't know I see here's the thing hi, I can I know that Dylan's going to answer Yeah, I'll tag spawn spawn. This is just pulling back the curtain like I know Dylan's going to Amsterdam

I don't know how this originated outside of you getting an email Hashtag spawn, spawn. This is just pulling back the curtain. Like I know Dylan's going to Amsterdam. I don't know how this originated outside of you getting an email. I don't know if it was through an agency. I don't know if it was direct with Heineken. I don't know what he's doing there. All I could think of when this was being discussed was that a free trip to Amsterdam is being offered

to someone at Washed Media. So someone needs to go. Can I explain it in one minute? Yeah. An agency that we'd never worked with emailed me for some reason, they must have found my contact first. And they said, hey, they sent like this really generic, like we want to send you on behalf of Heineken 0.0

to Amsterdam and Madrid, all expenses paid, blah, blah, blah. Okay, seems too good to be true. So I forwarded it to Brett and I was just like, Hey, this might be a cool contact down the road, this agency. I don't know if we've worked with them. And then I joked with these guys. I was like, I'm going to be gone in a couple of weeks, guys. I'm going to be gone in to Europe, blah, blah, blah. And everybody's like, dude, you're not going. And long story short, they were serious. They actually wanted to send us and they really were gonna pay everything and they are.

I was not able to go and so I opened it up. I'm like, whoever wants it, somebody needs to go. And that somebody ended up being Dylan and he is there. Well, we are here, but we got you. Sheldon Steinecken, zero, zero. We got you. Yeah, big upgrade, some might say. Not many people are saying.

Hadn't seen Mike in a while. Yeah, it's been a while, I'm sorry. Yeah, what are you doing? You're on a podcast right now, Mike. Put your phone down. It's just never sleeps. Yeah, I'm trying to close a deal. It does, it's on to do not disturb for just a little bit.

No, no, it's great to be with you guys. I haven't seen Dave in a minute and you know, it's wonderful. You look great. You look shocked Dave, something happened over there? No, it was fake news. Sorry, I just did what I accused Mike of doing vaguely, not paying attention.

Were you reading the manifesto? No, I've only read only fake Right. Yeah. No because if the sub stack was created yesterday Like I don't know Okay, I don't want to talk too much assassin. Clippin Stein thought it was fake. I Clippin Stein, he's my he's my investigative journalist of note. How would you describe Clippin Stein? He's my he's my investigative journalist of note. How would you describe? Klippenstein can't open Steiner Klippenstein. It might be Klippenstein. I don't know is I apologize No, I don't know. I don't know

I I never know how to read it like and every time I see it I don't follow him but every time I see a tweet from him, I like think to myself. Which one is it? Yeah He seems like a follow that you would really enjoy Micah. I Believe I do follow him. But you follow like 4,000 people, right? You're definitely team follow back if Instagram's taught me anything.

That's true, Power Plant Picks follows a lot of people. We'll follow a lot of people. Do you still have access to Power Plant Picks? I don't believe so. Okay. I don't even think I have access to- Did they take it away from you? If it's just too electric?

No, I don't believe so. I access. Did they take it away from you? If it's just too electric? No, I don't believe so. I think I own that intellectual property. Are you watching Landman? No. Wow, really? I mean, I get it. It's not that great, but. I mean, it's probably something I'd like.

I just, you know, it's football season. There's, my opportunities to watch shows are limited. Cause I know ball, you know. Okay, he does. Do you have anything you'd like to say about the Mizzou Tigers? Oh no. I mean, I don't know if you guys heard,

but on Saturday, you find Missouri Tigers kicked the shit out of the number one team in the country, the Kansas Jayhawks. And it feels really good. But you, during our famously rained out, alternate shot golf tournament that we played in before the college football season started, you had a path to the national championship

for your Mizzou Tigers. Oh, we're talking football now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Talking football. Oh yeah, no, it was a slightly disappointing season. Nine and three is, you know, historically for Missouri is a quite good year. What went wrong? We got our ass kicked badly, twice twice by Alabama and Texas A&M.

The Aggie game, one of the worst sporting events I've ever attended in person. Really a tragic, terrible humiliation ass kick. You were the guy that got arrested and released to his sober wife. That was not me. That was not me this time. Are we sure?

I'm confident. Okay. Quite confident. I will say a couple nice things about Kyle Field. The Aggies were quite nice to my wife and I. My wife had never been to a game there. I've spent years trying to explain to her who these people are and what their situation is. What does that mean, though, specifically? It's a cult and it's hard to explain in words. It's a very strange place with strange people, but they were very nice. They ask if it was our first game at Kyle Field and all that stuff.

You know how when you watch a UT game, University of Texas on television, Steve Sarkeesian, the head coach has headphones on or, you know, he's got the headphone thing, the headset thing. Um, the headset as it's known and it's sponsored, I believe by T-Mobile big corporate sponsor, it's got a big pink T-Mobile, the Aggies. If you watch their games, they're sponsored by 44 farms, which is a beef producer and, uh, it's funny to me. Uh, and then at Kyle field, they have 44 Farms hot dogs and they were delicious I had one and I would highly recommend Wow when you talked about

Wearing the headphones. I just went straight to Brady Hoke former Michigan coach who refused to wear headphones on the sidelines You just raw dog games. You have a raw dog to game I just feel like Joe pod did that like the last 10 years of his career. Yeah, but he was making decisions at that point. Hard to say. I just don't know if you want your head coach not wearing a headset like at any point during the game. Like, I just feel like there's an advantage to having communication

between coaches and other members of the faculty. Yeah. What's the advantage? Just comfort, the comfort of the coach. Could you just put on a playlist and also have the communication with everybody else? I would put on the interstellar soundtrack. At an old job that I had where I just actively did not participate in meetings, I would just put music on in the background as background music for when other people were talking in meetings. This is why PGP failed. No, this is not a PGP initiative. We didn't have meetings at PGP that required headsets.

No, we didn't. But I thought it was, I just put on like instrumental music in the background so it wouldn't, you know, overtake the conversation happening. And I thought it was a nice little hack. Can I give you an anecdote? Yeah. This is kind of embarrassing. I've never told anybody. I had a big inter team match to see who was going to get this position. It was like my sophomore year and I was trying to get on the varsity two team and they let three of us go play. And it was basically like low round. It's going to play this tournament.

So on the way to the course, um, I listened to classical music thinking it would like call my, call my nerves and calm me down. This is just in my truck. It didn't work. I didn't win. That's too bad. And then like looking back, I thought about it. I think about it like once a year.

And I'm like, what was I thinking? You should have just stuck to your typical playlist. I should have just kept listening to Tool. Yeah. Or whatever. Classical just never hit my airwaves. No. I think there's value to it. I should have just kept listening to Tool. Yeah. Or whatever. Classic has just never hit my airwaves. No. I think there's value to it.

I respect it. I think there's a world where I could maybe thrive with it on. It's just not something like, remember when Ross was obsessed with like the interstellar soundtrack? Yeah. Like a lot of people are like that.

And I think that there's a spot in my life where that would actually work. Yeah. But I've just never taken the dive. It was one of his nut moments, Micah. Yeah. Do you have any recent nut moments, Micah? No, did you guys watch the Yacht Rock documentary yet? No, is it worth

the watch? Big miss. Yeah, it's worth the watch. Ah, that didn't sound super excited. I mean, I, it wasn't perfect for me, but there's a lot of great Michael McDonald content. Oh, gosh. There are more. Very enjoyable to watch, sing, and then also listen to talk. Yeah, it's good. You'll like

it. I was hoping you guys will watch it. I will talk on that later on my segment. I'm confused. I'm on the program. I have. He said listen to talk. Talk to her? Or listen to Michael McDonald talk. Did you get rugged? Yeah. Did you get rugged by two? Yeah, I don't. I I'm not. I'm not internet enough to know what this means. What? Oh, there you are. There you are. Yeah, you are. I don't think I am. Yeah, I got some breaking news. You're ready for this? A quick look at the power plant picks Instagram. The

video of the mall is readily available. So pretty easy to find. Okay, terrific. I don't have access to delete that account. So, you know, it's out there. The internet never forgets. I'm getting smoked over here. Why?

Just a listen, noticed a random Amazon charge and she's not sure what it's from. Just screenshot it and send it to me. And I'm just like, fuck it. She thinks it's me. Well, why don't you join our friends over at Rocket Money, David. Yes.

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gonna play for you. Um are you familiar with Blue Sky? I know that it's a thing that exists. Okay. It's a Twitter alternative for the the the Wokes out there. It's not Blue Ski. Yeah, it's not pronounced Blue Ski. I hear there's a lot of positivity on that on that uh platform. Borderline to positive from my experience, my limited experience. How are things going with you on threads? I don't use threads.

I only ask because when threads first happened, Sunday Scaries was going viral. Yeah, no, when threads first came out, I thought, well, what better time to post than right now? And so from all accounts that I had access to, I was just posting everything to threads being like, if this actually takes off and people actually use it, we'll be in a good position. It's a land grab. First 48 hours is the most important. Yeah, unfortunately, no one used it and all that week of work just meant nothing. Oh, I'm sorry. Yeah. So if you see something on threads from anything wash media driven, it's probably just automatically getting posted because it was posted on Instagram. But blue sky, man.

Blue sky. Do you mind if we play a quick just voicemail for blue sky? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Is it BT? Yeah, yeah. You connected? Do you got the ear on for it? Obviously I have it.

No, you didn't. Hey, it's Ian from Cleveland. and then you didn't. Hey, it's Ian from Cleveland. I'm kind of curious about Blue Sky. I got on the site, checking it around a little bit before grabbing my account. I took it as an opportunity to secure the Michael Weiner handle. I will relinquish it to him for the price of one mouse pad and if you broker this deal, I'll send out some posts on your behalf. I don't even know what they're called

like skies or whatever. Alright, thanks. Yeah, we don't know what they're called. Wow. Well, I've been I've been cupped again. The identity has just been taken again. Is he verified yet? Hard to say. Are you worried about your intellectual property being compromised? Okay, I am not. Okay. I will say as soon as this goes out into the ether, my wife will find out about this and will be unpleased. She did not like the at Michael Weiner Twitter account that Jared Boroszlo was running. Yes.

Which I, you know, didn't really mean much to me. But that's when blue check marks carried weight. Right. That's when they mattered. Yeah. Uh, yes. Uh, she's not going to like the fact that when her family Googles me, some bozo is posting under my name on blue sky and probably saying spit on it bae, but it doesn't bother me too much. I don't plan to take on blue sky as a platform, but if this person from Cleveland, I didn't catch his first name,

wants a mouse pad, that's probably something we can arrange. I don't like saying a precedent that we negotiate with terrorists in this fashion, but I, it's probably worth me having that account considering there are a lot of other Michael whiners out there. So when you find an at Michael whiner on a social network, be it LinkedIn or Instagram or Twitter, although I never use that account, it is me. But now I guess on blue sky, it is not me. So that one on truth social is you too. I do. I have not, I have not grabbed an account on Truth.

Well, luckily Randy's grabbed it for you and has been tweeting or truthing incessantly. I'm not too worried about people finding that. You have access. You're very combative over there. You're not still verified through that account on Twitter. No, I lost the blue check mark. When you are using Twitter yourself,

yes. What account are you using at producer Micah? You're not. So you're not using the one that's just at Michael Weiner. I don't even know what the password is. I'm logged out of it. So I may have tons of note ease or free trips to Amsterdam or whatever, but I, I, you know, if you're sending me DMS to at Michael Weiner, you will not be gaining like it's got like almost 4,800 followers. Yeah. You could, you could produce some Mike is about the same too.

Um, but it's not good if you combine them. That's it's like 10,000 followers. That's true. That's a footprint, but no, I, I have, I've been inactive there. I'm mostly inactive on at producer Mike it too, but just our most verified Twitter accounts at this point, anonymous. Like the blue check mark used to verify that somebody was real. And now I feel like every blue check mark is just like an anonymous faceless account.

That's fair. There was that like two weeks when you could just be a blue check mark with anyone's name. That was that was the Wild West. Oh, yeah. Now they take it away. Now, if you even if you change your profile photo, they'll take it away and re-verify, which I think is necessary. But how are these other accounts just like grandfathered in

and can never change their profile photo? I'm all for freedom of speech, but I don't think if you're hiding behind an anonymous account that you should be able to say whatever you want online. I feel like there should be some sort of repercussions there. Are you following the assassin?

Can I point something out? Yeah, sure. The Micah's avi on producer Micah is like a nice LinkedIn ask headshot him on a nice coat. The avi on just Michael Weiner is the same pig just zoomed in. Yeah, I wanted to make sure they were just a little different. So I could tell it's just close up of your face. It is my face. Yeah, which is fine. Your beard looks great. You look good, but it's just it's just probably the photo. Yeah, it's it's been a while. Who are those bozos?

Remember who came after us? Are they like a fishing account or something? There were some guys trying to start a feud with wash media at one point and Oh, that's our that's our oil and gas. Oh, yeah. Yeah guys. Yeah, I forget what they were called Those are sucked. Did they did they get did they they tried to flame my profile pic and Did you change it? No, I kept it. Was this grand ex days? No Yeah, and Dylan like got in the DM or got in the, the, uh, the mentions and got real hard. Like you guys are assholes. That's my friend.

He looks good. And I was like, I do look good. Like it's a good photo because I look like a snack. Yeah. This is a good pick. This is very professionally done. It is my engagement photo from 2019. Why don't I remember this controversy?

Uh, I wanted to talk about it on the air, but Dylan didn't want to give them the It is my engagement photo from 2019. Why don't I remember this controversy? I wanted to talk about it on the air, but Dylan didn't want to give them the, you know, the platform. Yeah, the platform. You know, if you roll in the mud with pigs, you both get dirty. There's like Wildcat, something like that.

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. These guys are our buddy, your old roommate knows the guys. Oh, those guys. That, the grind hustle mentality, yeah. These guys are our buddy, your old roommate knows the guys. Oh, those guys. That, the grind hustle mentality, oil and gas guys. I think they were trying to just like, what I gather was like, they just wanted to do like a little internet beef

and like, it devolved into like, your avvy getting roasted. Yeah. I think you called somebody a pee, I don't know. My favorite thing in the world was at Grand Axe when like somebody would try to ruffle some feathers on the content team because I always knew that the second that happened, Dan was going to hunker down and go hard.

Dan was always ready to defend the, defend the shield. Especially if the internet was dead that day. Then he was like, well, I got nothing else to do. Here we go. Dan's going to have his little tank top on his armpit hair. It's just big old neck showing. I got nothing else to do. Here we go. Yeah. Dan's going to have his little tank top on his armpit hair. It's just big old

neck showing and he's going to get in there and flame somebody. You know how Dan is. Have you seen him lately? I have. I mean, I've seen photos. He looks great. Yeah. Big guy. Big. Beard looks great. Love Dan. Miss Dan. I'd like to see Dan. I should probably make more of an effort. I don't deserve a spot in the group text. That's Dave, Dan, I'd like to see Dan. I should probably make more of an effort.

I don't deserve a spot in the group text. That's Dave, Dan, and Micah that just talks fighting. Mostly combat sports and conspiracy theories. Yeah. I know I don't deserve a spot in that group text and I know I wouldn't contribute very much to it, but there are times when I'm like, man, I would love to be in that right now to talk this. It very rarely has all three members participating. It's usually a two man game. Yeah. And the other person is just like,

maybe not even paying attention. Maybe doing like look, took a long glance, like, yeah, enough for me. That's just getting older. There's a lot of me looking at these. I read them all. Yeah, I know you do. I'm like, I have nothing to add often,

but I appreciate that I'm included. But like, you know when you get married and then a text that you might've sent, like asking a question about something to somebody, instead like now you just end up sending it to like the three people. Like I'll send it to my wife and then the other couple, even if I just have a question

for someone in that other couple. And I'm like, what am I doing here? Like not everything needs to be this community. Yeah. I completely understand. We should name that group. I'm gonna let you name it. Okay. Well let's take some requests. It's just it's basically. Can you guys make the photo for the group? A photo of a bear spiking a football. It's a callback. Sure. I don't even know if Mike remembers that. I have no idea what you're talking about. You should.

It sounds funny. They were redoing the branding for, I think, Too Much Dip. That was backdoor cover. It was backdoor cover. Are you sure? Yeah. That never launched, I guess. I'm sorry, backdoor cover.

Sorry, yeah, Too Much Dip is a wash media property for backdoor cover. And I remember we just asked Dan what they were going to do for it. And he said that he was having our graphic designer, have a bear spiking a football. And I just was sitting there like that fucking rules. Like, can that just be the logo for everything?

Can that replace the Grand Ex Martini? Was it Carter who was gonna do that? I bet it was sick. Yeah, I bet it was really sick. Oh, that was awesome. I mean, it was much like the original podcast week where Carter redid the logos for every property that we had.

So we would launch them on podcast week and then podcast week got canceled. But I'm thankful that you guys have kept that traditional. But did it get canceled? Because it's always with us. It's podcast week right now. Actually. Really? This is a podcast week exclusive.

I'm honored to be here. Who killed podcast week? No, it. Really? This is a podcast week exclusive. I'm honored to be here. Who killed podcast week? No, it didn't get killed, did it? You would know better than me. We definitely did a podcast week. It got killed. No, we did one where everyone went on different shows. It was a week.

Yes, we did a week, but the whole premise was to let everyone know it was podcast week with, you know, banners. I'll say as a listener, I do not remember podcast week, even though I remember people being on different shows. It wasn't really for the podcast listener.

It was trying to get new podcast listeners. I think you were done dirty. By saying it's podcast week. Let's push our podcast in a prominent place on the website. And the plan for that to happen was canceled at the beginning of podcast week. That was probably canceled around the same time that the West Texas trip planned by the only person who had never been to West Texas, me. Just like I don't think I should be planning

this. No, no, no. Well, you ran a great meeting with all 17 employees. And then after that meeting. 17 of the 18, I believe. Then after that meeting, I sat down with somebody and he looked at me and I'm not gonna name this person, but he looked at me and he said, Will, I'm not gonna make you plan this trip.

So thank you. West Texas isn't for the faint of heart. No. Life in the patch is tough. Why do you assign the dude from Northern Michigan to plan this trip? I don't know. It sounds kind of, it's kind of so crazy that like it might work.

Like it's kind of wild to see like, let's get a, let's get a new twist on an old faith. I was like, yeah, we'll go to marathon. I really like it's pronounced marathon. I'm like, yeah, I'm from Northern Michigan. I don't know these things. I'm sorry. Is it really pronounced marathon?

Yeah. Did you know that? I did not. I've been know these. I'm sorry. Is it really pronounced marathon? Yeah, did you know that I did not? I've been saying it wrong forever. So marathon Totally normal thought you were better than that Dave. Oh, I'll marathon with It's a hike out there brother Not close. I'd like to go out. We should just go to Lajitos. Yeah, I mean their social media presence right now It's just the worst. Well, I mean their social media presence right now is just the worst Well, I know who can fix that. Aura frames?

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No, don't please don't. Just yesterday we had some some major assassin talk on the on the pod and it's it was one of those situations where by the time we upload the podcast, there's been some major revelations. He was arrested in McDonald's. Ba-da-ba-ba-ba. Apparently, an employee recognized him. That's pretty impressive. I don't think I would have batted an eye. Here's the thing. I don't think a lot of people wanted this guy to get caught.

I think people were enjoying the manhunt. Additionally, if I'm a McDonald's worker and I see someone walk in who might look like the assassin, I don't think I have the guts to be like that's him. I'm calling the police. What was the reward? $10,000. They need to have a much higher reward. They were getting flame for that. That doesn't even cover my deductible. Exactly. Not that much after taxes. Like, are you willing to like take, are you willing to stick your neck out and be like, I found him. I'm calling the police.

Because then what if it's not that guy? It's none of my business. Like what if it's not that guy and you just had the police show up and interrogate this dude who was just trying to enjoy his hash browns and McGriddle. Okay. And you're going to have the entire SWAT team shutting down your McDonald's for at least the day You're gonna cost the the franchise owner the franchise or mm-hmm Are you all that money for the day? You're probably gonna get in trouble

Are you calling conspiracy this person just want a day off work, baby? maybe uh I hadn't thought of that. That's pretty good. I didn't think yesterday would be one of the horniest days ever on Twitter and it just was. Oh, Mike, you don't act like you weren't horny yesterday. Oh, I'm not saying I was horny on Twitter, but the timeline was horny. What was the timeline? For Luigi. For Luigi. Oh, man, Gioni. People thought he was an attractive man. Yeah. I think once it was discovered that he had a six-pack And honestly a mad cute face

you know, I think it I think it shifted the narrative a little bit away from somebody was brutally assassinated and on the streets of New York City to I at one point I saw that free him was trending with tens of thousands of tweets Yeah, Mikey probably missed this because you were too busy sending me Ashley Shahamadi Instagram pics. Don't do them like that. Don't do them like that. Dylan's not here.

The older couple. He was it. He was. So it has nothing to do with Dylan. The older couple that we were watching the UT game with. Excuse me, being funny online. What's wrong with that? In front of hundreds of thousands of listeners.

Hundreds of thousands. Millions. Millions. No, it was funny because the online narrative about her performance during the Dr. Pepper halftime show, there was a big contrast with the older couple that we were watching the game with. The very nice lady that we were watching the game with

was unimpressed that she went mini skirt for that. She thought she needed to be a little more covered up and I was like, well, you should see my timeline right now. Ma'am, look at the group text. We're all going to jail. When they asked the guy when he won what he was going to use the money for, I was like, uh tuition. Yeah, like I don't think you're just allowed to go spend this. Well, I, okay. I haven't watched these interviews very closely. The Dr. Pepper halftime thing

of these conference championship games is, I mean, we could do a whole podcast on what an absurd, ridiculous thing this is. What a country. What a country. But I feel like the ones that I saw over the weekend, they were all like doctors or lawyers or something like Doctors are like they were like this this will this is going to lead to a doctor saving lives

Like dr. Pepper has you against that pepper. Yeah. Yeah. No, no, I put you no It's like they put you in a tough spot. They've kind of you know, little force field It's gotten very specific as to who they want representing their brain the gentleman who won the Texas Halftime show he said he was going to go to veterinary school. Oh Well, that means he's got to go to A&M So UT does not have a vet school Hmm does UT hate it does Texas hate animals? That's a real little brother energy

This is good. Look at Randy. Randy's picking his spots. Randy wasn't bored here, but he got here soon as he could. Boy, you would make one killer act, dude. You would. I'm going to the shout leader for Halloween next year. Yell leader. Yell leader.

Can you guys remind me of this? Spooky season, episode one. Yeah, I'm going to the shout leader for Halloween next year. Yell later. Yell later. Can you guys remind me this? Spooky season, episode one. Yeah, I'm going yell later. I'll dress up like a milkman. If anyone has a skin tight Texas A&M jersey and a pair of overalls with patches all over them, I'm in the market. There's like at least 100 Aggies listening right now

that aren't really into that stuff and they're just like god damn it It's not again Dylan said it is the worst branding that a university has it should rule they're like they got the like Mike has said the sponsors the cattle ranch Or whatever. There's a lot of 44 farms. Yes, not only gas for tie-ins. Why don't they just roll coal? There's a lot of 44 farms. Yes. Not all the natural tie-ins. Why don't they just roll coal?

There's probably some coal rolling. You have to think. Did you get a coal rolled on you when you were over there? I, I don't know what that means. You never been rolled on. You've had, you've been wrong. So you haven't been wrong. Yeah.

You did get rocked. You, you put your life savings in the Hawk to a meme coin. Oh, is that what this means? Yeah. Um, I don't know. I've lost it. Very confusing. You're confusing the guest. Well, yeah, it's crazy that Mike has never had his back taken, is that what this means? I've lost it. Very confusing. You're confusing the guest,

Will. Yeah. It's crazy that Mike has never had his back taken, but that polar bear did a lot of day two. Facts. Wow. Facts. Way downtown. Man, I am just not online enough anymore for this podcast. I feel like I'm letting you guys down. So the assassin, how about we bring it back to that? Hey, we were very, someone pointed out that our monopoly money and marrying it or tying it to the Mario voice was very ground floor. Oh yeah. Before this had dropped. Oh yeah, I didn't even think about that. I didn't think about that.

So did you see that he said that the money that they found him with was not his? That adds a wrench to this. Not a joke about him. A lot of things being made about his possible junk. His pretty used dick. Oh, he had a crank shot, huh? No. There's a photo of him at a football game

with his chest painted, and people are pointing to an indentation in his pants that would indicate that he might be hung, which I feel like we're maybe fetishizing the killer maybe a little too much. If anything, it'll be a lethal injection. That's good. Nice. It's good.

I thought it was because he like responded to someone about PhD candidates and he responded on Twitter with pretty huge dick. I mean, that was his most wild. As someone who reviewed his entire timeline, that was the most wild response that he had to anybody Wait, so did this guy own a female body inspector shirt? Maybe He probably had to relinquish that when he ended up going to an Ivy League school. Oh Yeah, did you see his did you read his Ted Kaczynski book?

review I've read the alleged quotes that he has made about that. So probably I didn't know where they came from. I read it. I read a quote that just said like, he got one-shotted by Ted Kaczynski into becoming a killer and then just gave him four out of five stars. He gave the Lorax five stars, I think.

Yeah, his final liked quote on Goodreads was from the Lorax. And it was probably enough evidence just to put them away. Mike, you look like you're about to hit us with that. No, Mike is trying to do one of these right now. No, no, no, I'm enjoying this. Are you aware that we've tried to make the new backer. We've been trying to make the backer signal.

Are you all trying to make that a thing? Yeah, that if you're at a bar and you see one of us or something, you go like that. Yeah, the Pat Riley end of quarter circle. How's that going? We got to be on at least three people, which is huge for us. My worry is that it's not ingrained in me yet.

And so if someone does that to me, I'm not going to realize it. Dave saw someone looking for a single ticket at the Sturgill Simpson show and he was going like this, Micah. And Dave thought he was doing the finger thing. It was bad. Oh, that's awkward. Yeah. It was bad. I wouldn't admit to doing that. I pretty much put my hand on Dave's back and was

like, let's just go through security right now and get in this show. He was looking right at me. He was. No, I understood where you were coming from. He was in the demographic. He was like, he very much fit the bill. Just like everyone else in that concert to be fair. That's true. Well, I respect it. There was a dude who was wearing a grateful dead hat who was waiting just outside of Will Call. And if you were walking up to get your tickets from Will Call, he was just going, got an extra. And I was like, you can't wait this close to Will Call. You shouldn't be through security without a ticket right now, sir.

How did you get to it? It was way too aggressive. I had a thing on the Luigi guy. Let me go down my list of things. I could tell you the two big conspiracies on TikTok right now. What are they? It's either one, he didn't do it and he's being set up because he did it because it's sloppy that he got caught or two, he did it and he wanted to get caught. It's either no one is saying that the police did a good job finding him. Everyone's saying it's either it's not him or he did it and he wanted to get caught. It's either no one is saying that the police did a good job finding him.

Everyone's saying it's either it's not him or he did it and he wanted to get caught. That's what the Tic Tocs are not to criticize the police. But did they do it seems like there's a very, very heavy an area of the country that's under a lot of surveillance midtown Manhattan. I think just mainly people are pointing out that like for him to have all the evidence on him and also for a McDonald's worker to take time out of their time to actually like point out some guy from Pennsylvania.

They're like, everyone's saying like, no, but not as a worker actually cares that much. That's the big conspiracy. If, if he is like a, if he fancies himself, some like revolutionary character, which I think a lot of his motive in writings, if they're real, they point to, he would want to get caught, right? I think so.

And he would want to like bring light to his issues. I think he wants some of us to, you know, become radicalized with them and start murdering CEOs. I'm not going to murder any CEOs. I don't have the gun safety knowledge to even begin thinking about that, nor do I have the killer instinct. Dude, the only thing I'm going to murder is some beers at the CEOs and office host party. You know what I'm saying, Dave?

Oh. Micah's really bringing out the best in Randy. Randy's back. He's doing a show just for Michael. Michael, what were your favorite fraternity party themes that you can talk about? You know, I don't recall. Didn't you have one called like Shoot the Cannon Through the Dorm? No, that.

Oh, actually, I was. You told that story. Yeah, we had a, you know, I'll get to it quickly. Famously, my freshman year, we, my fraternity would shoot off the cannon at the start of our old South party week, which I don't think old South exists anymore either, but that's beside the point. And we blew up the cannon. They put too much gunpowder in it.

A piece of the cannon, about 18 inches long that weighed 50 pounds. That was cast iron flew across the street through the fifth floor, through the gunpowder in it, a piece of the cannon about 18 inches long that weighed 50 pounds, that was cast iron, flew across the street through the fifth floor, through the fourth floor onto the third floor of an apartment complex. We were put on suspension and it made international news. You can Google this from 2000. I'm not going to say how old I am, but you can, you can do it. And then I decided we're gonna have a shock crawl party since we were not allowed to have parties outside the house. We'll just have a party in the house.

Because we're bad boys like that. And the president and our vice president got to post our well, you know, they were kicked out of office after the cannon. So the guy who was the number three, who became the president, great guy, not really equipped for the moment. You know, he hadn't signed up for that scenario. Let's just say that he wasn't prepared. And I was like, we're having a party on Saturday. He's like, no, we are on probation. We can't wait. Now we're having this. It's going down. It's called the shot crawl. And of course, we had the party and it was lit. It was fun. Every room had a different shot and it was fun. We had a good time, had a big turnout. And, you know, immediately following the Greek life caught wind of this and they had a meeting in front. I remember they came to the chapter and came to our chapter meeting and told us like we

know you had the shot heard around the world party and it's totally inappropriate and you can't do this and you're on probation and you're on double secret probation and we all kind of looked around and we said that wasn't what the party was called but it should have been that would have been a much better name. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. For a shot, a shot crawl party, the shot heard around the world. Cause the cannon shot.

Yes. So did that answer your question, Will? Sure. Let me say this, the theme parties that we had, you know, were fairly mundane. My friends at Texas State though, had the outrageous titled theme parties and, and even better, they had the March and the t-shirts that went along with it. Uh, at which I could not believe

until I saw them. My friend showed me several of these t-shirts and they were always like just cartoon, uh, characters, uh, like, you know, Lola Bunny type, uh, exaggerated physiques. Oh yeah. Uh. Yeah. Curvy. Very pervy. Uh. Curvy too. Oh, curvy and pervy. Yeah. Yeah. Uh. Incredible time in our history, I think. We're not the friends of Texas Day. Just wanna put that out there. No. Do you wanna name them by name, Micah? No. They were tangently related to Dave Ruff. You could have played six degrees of these friends to Dave Ruff and gotten there pretty quickly, but not directly related to Dave.

But yeah, we should know that Luigi was the assassin because he played that assassin video game. Yeah, we're doing the Marilyn Manson thing. We're like, oh, you know, late 90s, like bad, something bad happened. School shooting of sorts. I will play the record backwards. Sounds like murder. Exactly right. It was Among Us, he played Among Us, I've played Among Us, AOC has played Among Us, everyone has played Among Us,

it's a great video game. Brett tried saying the video games are making people violent yesterday, I call him an idiot. Fucking tipper gore out here. Late eighties callback. Randy, I have a request. Is there any way that you can update the This Weekend in Fun theme song with something Micah said around 43 minutes and 40 seconds into this podcast, which was just, we had the party and it was lit.

That's a good clip. All right. It was 43 seconds of what now? 43 minutes and 40 seconds. 40, gotcha. Also write this down. We gotta add Haley Welch, bye bye, going to bed to the board or just in some capacity. All right.

Bye bye, now. Again, Micah not online. Is that how she closes the podcast or? No. She interrupted a Twitter space that was her team explaining why everyone lost all their money. And it wasn't going well.

So she just hopped in and interrupted somebody. NFT Nick, actually, in case you weren't online enough. Uh, I'm familiar with this work and she just hopped in and was like, all right, well, I'm tired of going to this. How's your talks been going to bed? Bye bye. Anywho. Yeah.

Hate to interrupt you, Nick, but anywho, I'm getting tired. I'm going to go to bed. He gets, he's so caught off guard. He's like, uh, what? Shout out NFT Nick. She was rich. She did. Fit bod.

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do you have a name for it? We'll call it Micah's Music Year and Review. Year in Review. Okay, I'll update this. What are we reviewing from 2024? Thank you for asking Will. I've been thinking about this a long time and and really ideally this would be a long form thing that we could put behind a paywall so the people that don't want to hear it don't have to but you jokers have to put up with me today on the big show. You're not selling it. Yeah really hyping it up Mike. No I know. It's been a big year in music, as many of us know. And personally, I've listened to a lot of music this year.

I have a 18, 19 month old daughter. I'm typically on a wake up and sleep duty, you know, there in the morning, putting her down at night. And this includes a lot of time spent listening to music in the dark, really focusing on the music and, you know, holding my child who's the best, shouts to Jane. So I've listened to more music this year than I typically would have. And, you know, most young parents or parents of young children, I guess I'm not a young parent, but we're not going to worry about that. May feed their children, you know, raffy or, you know, cocoa melon or, you know, the things that the disposable things,

you know, raffy is good. I grew up with raffy or raffy. I don't know how you say it. Raffy. I've been saying raffy. Oh, I say raffy. Is it raffy the dude from? The league. The league. Yeah. Former ranger great. The League? The League. Yeah. Former Ranger great. Anyway, I've challenged my daughter to listen to a little bit more complex music this year, and I've enjoyed my time listening to it.

So I'm going to focus on the six albums that I believe I've probably listened to the most, but certainly the six that I've focused on, they are all by Texas artist. So I am keeping it local as well. So I know people may not be too interested in that. But you have a New York wife. You're not going to mix in some Billy Joel? No, I do not listen to Billy Joel. I mean, it does hit different on Long Island. I will say that. But that surprises me. You're not a Billy Joel guy. No, you don want to be in a New York state of mind just trash you give Billy Joel Billy Joel is just too easy man. Billy Joel is schlock. Oh, come on. That's the best way to describe Billy Don't act like you're too good. I will say there was Billy Joel at a wedding I went to like January 5th this year in Long Island and it hit different there

But he doesn't do much the water. Have you ever heard my take on Billy Joel? That no, I'm listening right now. We're actively listening to it. It's more of a Robert Rolkean take, but if Robert Rolkean was born in New York, he would be Billy Joel. Okay. He does, he, you know, he doesn't have a venue to, uh, you know, to play mass in square garden every month.

But if he would have grown up in New York, he might have. Songs from an Italian restaurant is basically a knockoff version of The Road Goes On Forever. Think about that. Okay. Sure. I'm thinking about it, Micah. You're bringing the heat. So let's get to, I'm going to go in order of release this year on these albums. The first album that I was very excited about was Nora Jones, her return album called Visions, released on March the 8th. Yeah, she bounced all around the Metroplex. Did you see her at ACL? North, University of North Texas,

I don't know if she graduated, but a student there. I did see Nora Jones at ACL. Did people boo when she played the new stuff that you're about to talk about? No, but you know, disappointingly, and this is sort of a theme for all of these shows, I've seen almost all of these artists this year, and most people are not as up on the new stuff as I am,

and it's disappointing. Can you sense that there's like, people are like not as familiar with the songs when they're playing the new ones. So you kind of like try to gas it up like, yeah, I'm singing along. I am telling my wife, oh, this is a good one. This one, this one's good. And I'm trying to sing along and you know, you know, you kind of hum along. Norah Jones is when you're screaming the lyrics to.

Would love to see Micah at ACL singing Nora Jones out loud. Hands in the air like he's at a super church. It was a great show. I'd never seen Nora Jones. I've always wanted to. So we made a special move to get there and it was a good show. I would like to see her again. It was a fun atmosphere. I would like to see her again. It was a fun atmosphere. You know, Nora Jones is in a tough spot. Her first album sold, I believe, 28 million copies. It won Grammy of the Year, Best New Artist, Song of the Year, won everything.

And so it's like, it's kind of tough for a artist to move forward from that position. I feel it could be easier to move forward. Well, I mean, I'm sure she's more comfortable. People are like, yeah, I'd love to work with a Grammy winning. Well, yeah, and then her second album, she worked a lot with Ray Charles. She's worked with everyone.

Don't bring up Ray Charles. Don't give me a start on that. I want that Starbucks Capolissi Grammy. Ray is not happy with the posthumous award that Ray Charles got for his album. Well, I'm sorry about that. Do you know it? Anyway, the album is enjoyable.

It is solid from start to finish. This is an artist looking, and this is kind of the theme for Micah's music moment, minute, whatever we're calling this. It was called Micah's Music Year in Review. All of these artists were really doing artistic things. This is not a commercial grab. You're not listening to this album,

or any of these albums that we're gonna talk about really, looking for like, what's gonna be the big radio hit. If you're hoping to listen and get a big radio hit that the whole world wants to hear, and that you're gonna hear on your top 40 station, kind of, there's not a lot of it here. Shaboosie. Yeah, take it. Yeah, there's not a lot of it here. Shaboosie out.

Yeah. There's not a lot of Shaboosie a bar song or is that what that song's called? Probably. Yes. In parentheses, tipsy. Um, yes, that song does not exist on this. Um, I will say the, the album is delightful. It starts out strong all this time. You get, you get lyrics and right from the jump.

Um, the, the real standout track is running which was uh, Um, I believe this the first single I heard that and I was like that's a that's a radio single Yeah, I mean maybe if you're listening to to serious xm outlaw country or something Here's the issue with norah jones. She's hard to put in a box um That'd be weird to do. And really, the reason that I have always appreciated Nora Jones, and it took me a while to realize it, is she's basically Willie Nelson. She cannot be contained in one genre. Do not laugh, Will. This

is very serious. Nora Jones and a box. She cannot be contained by one genre. And people want to hear smooth jazz, and that's kind of what she started with, but what she's been doing is the same all along. And she's taken some other chances. She did an album with Danger Mouse. She's, she's done some hip hop stuff, but she's adult contemporary. She's, she's, you know, she's not a true jazz artist, although she does play jazz.

And she's basically Willie Nelson. Her piano solos are very much like the, the solos that Trigger plays. You can hum along with them. They're not overly, you know, ambitious necessarily. She's a tremendous talent and I Just Wanna Dance is a great song. And so I think you guys should check out this album. Okay. Visions. Don't listen. I don't... My least favorite song in the album actually is called Visions for what it's worth. Wow. So, he's the title track. All right. Moving on to March 15th, a big month for Texas music here.

Casey Musgraves. Perhaps you guys are familiar with her work. I follow her on Instagram. I bet you do. Yeah, Dave. I bet you do. I recently saw Casey Musgraves actually at the at the Moody Center. I was surprised by, you know, how many I knew all of the the tracks. I'm not I wouldn't consider myself a super fan of Kacey Musgraves, but this album is very Deeper Well is the is the title and the title track.

There are a lot of good songs on this album. Again, not a lot of top 40 smashes. And when you go back and listen to it, like this is just a folk album. It's weird. I wasn't anticipating it. You start listening and you're like, oh, this is like, this is not that far from the birds or, you know know like real like classic folk the production is very different though the word that I can now not pronounce ethereal well I did pronounce it

correctly there lost my ass that yes thank you I had to write it down and I spelled it phonetically because I never say it correctly very ethereal production here and the Google definition of you could have just chosen and I spelled it phonetically because I never say it correctly. Very ethereal production here and the Google definition of... You could have just chosen a word that you know how to say. Different words. You know just for those listening, extremely delicate and light in a way that seems too perfect for this world and that is a great way to describe the sound of this record. Well I'll let you borrow my vinyl. Oh I know you're a big vinyl guy. He just slam dunked on you, dude. Yeah.

Do you wanna borrow my deeper well vinyl? I got the picture disc version with the cardinal on it. Okay, I was gonna say that this album came out March 15th and now if you look for it, there's into a deeper well or something or like deeper into the well. Like there's all these expanded versions and it's a little too much for me. No, it's it's a frustrating part of the vinyl industry right now Micah. Okay. Because they're just they're all these big artists who I appreciate some of these big artists. I appreciate KC Musgraves. But with all these variants

coming out they're backing up the facilities that are producing these. They're altering the charts with their their collectors who want to get every single edition. So it's inflating their numbers of how many would actually sell. These smaller artists are not getting their stuff printed as fast because they're pressed as fast because of these larger artists taking up all the real estate. It's a tough game to play. So is it true that this is kind of a love letter to the oil and gas industry. That's not really how I would take it. But, you know, there is a lot of talk of nature and and, you know, the things that the universe has given us. I thought if it's like one of those where if you hit play,

like the very, very moment there will be blood starts, then it kind of tracks kind of a Pink Floyd Wizard of Oz situation. We should try it. We should do it. Let's get real fucking high. Let's do the stream room with doing that. Let's do it. Okay great. Some some tracks to check out here. You know it's also interesting the way the album is configured. It kind of starts with a she's an interesting artist that's all I'm gonna say here but but you know, check out Cardinal deeper well Moving out is a nice song. Shut up. It's good Jade green is a song that I really like the architect is one that has gotten a lot of Grammy nominations It's one of these about you know, God. Yeah, I think that was there

it's like, you know if you gave Joni Mitchell a guitar in 1968 and She's saying this song it would not feel out of place. That's what this album is. This is not, you know, but with different production. Yeah, for me, you kind of have like the biblical allegories throughout that song. And then on the other hand, you also have like the, the hard rhythmic guitar, acoustic, of course. And there's just something about the, it's like one thing next to another. It's a juxtaposition of the two. And it just, it creates this almost ethereal. Wow. Good word. Song. Great.

You're like, is this of this world? That is the perfect way to describe this, Dave. You understand, you've heard it on vinyl. You probably have a similar experience. Yeah, I agree. And shouts to my buddy Pierce, who I told him I was going to the show, and he was like, I don't like KC Musgraves,

it's too ethereal. And now. That sounds killing the word. And then I've been trying to remember ethereal for a long time. And so now I got in and he's gotten mentioned. So shouts to him. I saw he was calling you earlier on the episode. You didn't want to bring him on the program. No, he probably just wants to talk about the transfer portal. Actually, do we have him right here?

Hey, it's Pierce. Shout out to Pierce. You want a fun fact about Casey Musgraves? Dave held me at gunpoint, made me put her mud photo on out of office last week. I said that to you and it did well. I bet it did. It was a rather horny out of office.

It was. All right, moving on later in March, March 22nd, the release of Gary Clark Jr.'s new album, JPEG RAW. Did you guys listen to this one? I didn't. I do enjoy myself some Gary Clark Jr. JPEG RAW is not what I would have named the album for him. Okay. I saw him at Deep Eddie probably like four months ago, him and his wife. That was cool. Man, back when I was at Austin High, he would just play talent shows. That wife now. It's cool and back when I was at Austin high He would just play talent shows. That's crazy. I had that same experience when I was there with you

Well, I had an experience recently. I went to It I guess it was like an album release thing It was because this album came out right at the end of South by Southwest So there was a South by Southwest party by some of these magazines I forget if it's aitchfork or one of these like uppity music magazines. And they had a Gary Clark show at a club. It was at Ego's, or not Ego's,

kind of wish, Emo's East. Kind of a, oh, they have Emo's East? Yeah. Is it just the same Emose? Well, for your frame of reference, yes. It's been there for a, it's been on that location for a while. It used to be on Red River and anyway. Austin guy stuff.

Yeah, we call it Emose East. I'm not a big fan of the venue. I'm not either, but the opportunity to see an artist that typically plays larger venue. Yeah, you have to do it. In a club setting. Have to do it. Seemed like a great thing to go to.

So I got tickets and it's Gary Clark Jr. and special guest. So you never really know what that means. It's South by Southwest. Like, you know, maybe he's going to show up with Stevie Wonder. He has a track on this album with Stevie Wonder. You know, maybe he's going to pop up with, you know, whoever it could be. Sabrina Carpenter, Jay-Z. Sure. Sure. Um. Huge. That didn't happen. It was just um uh several opening acts. He did not go on stage till about eleven thirty. My wife uh her feet hurt and we had to leave after about five or six songs. Um but. Love South By Man. Yeah. We're never know who

you won't see. We we have to go a long way to get there. South By is just great in that you just stand around for a long time. This was the other scenario where no one the album had been streaming for like a week or two and I listened to it back and forth. No one except me knew any of the words like they were all just like play bright lights. Yeah, I'm like singing along. That's what I would have been saying. That's all right. And I'm like singing along. That's what I would have been saying. That's all real.

And this is like real like screaming music, not screaming, but like he's got his sister and some backup singers and like, I'm singing along and like get it. And it was fun, but it was kind of weird that I was the only one that was getting it. He's still to this day, the loudest show I've ever been to. Oh yeah, he plays loud.

Like it is, I was told beforehand by an older fellow that it was loud and I was like well that's just an old guy saying a rock concert is loud. And the second he hit his first chord I was like yeah, no I get what you're saying, this is loud. Yeah. Again, this is an album that isn't heavy on pop hits. This is an artist and we'll talk about St. Vincent later who is really similar to Nora Jones, perhaps in this case, really chasing an artistic expression. I believe Gary produced this album. I think it's the first time he'd ever produced

his own album like in full. And there's a lot of experimentation. This is not like if you came for Bright Lights Big City, you're not getting that. There's a lot of beats, there's playing with all sorts of stuff and different sounds. Real art takes chances, Will. I agree. A lot of people are brave enough to say that. I wasn't. The song you've most likely heard here would be Habits, which he sang famously on the Joe Rogan experience before Joe Rogan just

interrupted him and said, hey, can you teach me to play guitar before he got to the end of the song, which I found rude, but that got a lot of listens on Spotify after that appearance. The other song that you're gonna wanna hear is This Is Who We Are. And just imagine me and the crowd singing along with that. Ooh, hold on a moment, hold on.

This is who we are. That's not how it goes. This is who we are. That's not how it goes. This is we are, we are. Youth and the next. This is who we are. This is who we are. Alright, finishing up March, again, maybe one of the greatest months for Texas music in history. Perhaps you've heard of this artist, Beyonce and Cowboy Carter. Did you guys give this album a list? I did. I did. I enjoyed it. Okay, that's all you got. Uh I I'm gonna I don't wanna like it wasn't for me. I I appreciated it though. So,

there were there were some good songs. It's not something I say it wasn't for me. It's not something I listen to a lot. I'll nod my head along when it comes on. I will will claim this may be not perhaps the best album of the year, but it is the album of the year. This is the most interesting album and it's not all good. It's kind of a mess in a lot of spots. It's 27 tracks, which is way too many. It doesn't really keep a theme. Um it's weird and there's like a lot of highs and lows. Um you know,

like life. Sure. Dude. And like this album shouldn't have been twenty-seven tracks. It's just it's absurd. Did she have any skits? Yeah. She did have some easy easy. What's good? Do you remember the double CD? You get it and like, whoa, this is thick. Whoa, dude, I get two CDs for the price of one. Shout out Sam goody. Yeah, you this I'm sure this was a

double CD. Uh yeah, there were skits with Willie Nelson, there's skits with with uh uh Dolly Parton but like they're not like you know, it's it could have been simplified. It could have been cleaned up a little early reports uh on the vinyl of this were that they excluded certain tracks, which is not something you should do. I'm sorry to hear that. Yeah, you should be. I just like when people got mad about it.

They're like, oh, this is not country. Right. And that's kind of where the discussion goes next. Thanks, Luke Bryan fan. Is this a country album? Thank you, white guy in truck. Well, and the point is, and Beyonce released the notes for the credits for all of the songs here. She's got some hitters on there, dog. Well, and I will say this, this is a very black album. There are a lot of choices that are made with musicians that you

would not find in a Nashville country album. And because of that, like you've got Gary Clark Jr. playing guitar, you have John Baptiste, you've got Robert Randolph playing steel guitar. There's a lot of names you'll recognize when you get in here. And what was our man, Rafael Sadiq doing? He is a, he's a writer on one. This is the first song. And these are all, it's a lot of credit. There's a lot of hands. Did she even record this album? It's a lot of people. She certainly did. You know, the first song starts, it's called American Requiem and it is, you know,

at least co-written by 14 people, but clearly John Baptiste who produced it. And, you know, John Baptiste won all the Grammys a couple years ago. And one of the arts. I famously saw him in concert. Yes. Yes, we did famously see him, in fact, together. We did. Will and I held our phones in the air. Something I've never done in a concert with a, you know, with a light, with a light. I'd never been moved. He requested that. He requested that.

I think he's like, it was a little weird. No, it's one of those things where when everyone starts doing it, I don't want to look like the guy who's just not having Mike is getting it. I think Will did it first. It's not something I would do. I don't know if I did.

I don't know if I did do it first. I think we looked at each other and say, let's do it. That's probably to be fair. I had never heard any of his music before the concert. I intentionally raw dogged it much like Dave did before King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. And I have to say that I was very impressed by his musical talent and his range.

Yes, yes. He's fun. There's a lot of high points on this album. There's also just like some weird stuff that doesn't make sense. I will say like, I listened to it and you listen to the country-ish songs and you go, they're never gonna play this on country radio.

But if Luke Bryan and what's the woman's name, Moroni, pick two random Nashville country establishment people. If they record this song, you would hear it all the time on top country hits, but for some reason, it won't get played because Beyonce sang it. The real high points here is, I think there's two songs that really stick out to me. Protector is the first. This is an outstanding song. You probably haven't heard it unless you listen to the song. It moves me often, and maybe it's because I'm holding my baby girl at the moment, but it does feature guitar by Gary Clark Jr. and also additional vocals by Rumi Carter, who I think is one of their children. Um, anyway, it's very touching heartstring and a beautiful song.

Uh, and then of course, uh, there's these weird skits called smoke hour with Willie Nelson. It just doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Smoke and weed. You blaze it, man. Of course, Texas Hold'em was a big hit, which, uh, you know, so it's, uh, it's compelling in its own way. It's a good song.

Micah. Some of the stuff that I really liked is a song called body guard, which is really like a yacht rock song. Uh, this is not like, it's not country and it's not typical R and B. Um, it's just very Beyonce is the best way to put it. So go listen to Bodyguard. And then, yeah, I know you guys talked extensively about her cover of Jolene featuring Harmonica

by Stevie Wonder. You know, I don't know how you feel about that one. But- You know, the song has almost been ruined by Miley Cyrus for me. Oh. That's my, that is, that is- Well, speaking by Miley Cyrus for me. Oh, that's my that is that is well speaking of Miley Cyrus, the the true

highlight of this album for me is actually the duet with Miley Cyrus to most wanted. This is the one where if if you put two bozos in a cowboy hat and sing this song, it's a number one country song all the time and for some reason you don't hear this one on the radio. It's excellent. This is a great song. It's a number one country song all the time. And for some reason you don't hear this one on the radio. It's excellent. This is a great song. I like my like it. I support Miley and her endeavor endeavors. I like to party in the USA.

I good song. I was afraid you might say that, but yeah, check out two most wine. I, and then we'll, we'll fast forward here cause there's still, as I mentioned, 27 tracks on this album. All right. Moving to April 26th. Michael, before we move on to that, do you mind if we speak to our friends over at Squarespace?

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for 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. Micah please proceed. Continuing on to April 22nd or April 26 they should say. We're still early in the year. Everything came early. We've got just two to go everybody. Can I just, are coming. Can I break some news? Sure. Some personal news. I think my wife just found out she's been paying for my NBA league pass for like the last four years. Oh, that's good. She was listening. She downloaded Rocket Money. Yeah, Rocket Money came back to bite you on that one. She's been looking behind the curtain. Oh, darn it. Sorry to hear that. That's okay. April 26, St. Vincent's All-Born Screening. Speaking of Dallas artists,

you familiar with Annie Clark, AKA St. Vincent, Dave? Yeah, I think I heard about them first through you. Yeah. Her. Yeah. This is a great, this goes back to Grand Ex. Yes, yes, I'm a long time fan.

St. Vincent is an artist that changes her style and very thematic, very stylized, and changes it kind of dramatically for every album. Her last album was called Daddy's Home and was very like 70s R&B themed, kind of 70s sleaze visuals. And this is much different. This is more of a return to kind of a hard rocking past. If you're not a Saint Vincent fan and you want to listen to it, I wouldn't suggest listening to the first two songs on the album called Hell is Near and Reckless. They are quite slow tempo and dark and if you just try and tell your buddies, hey man, I've been listening to this album. You want to hear it and they go, yeah, if you play the first two tracks for them, they're going to be like, dude, what are you

doing? Hell is near. Hey, did not know she got her start with polyphonic spree. I did not know that choir. I did not know that either. That's insane. Shout out to Tim Delater. Um but once you get to tracks three, four, and five, let's go. Let me just say that. Broken Man, which was sort of the, which was the, the single here, is a tremendous rock and roll song. It's been nominated for several Grammys, I believe. A performance that is just off the charts. She is screaming and yelling in a way that you can't even fathom. It's very good. Uh the track Flea features uh Dave Grohl on drums and uh it is a rocking, rollicking Led Zeppelin-esque track. Noted

philanderer. Okay. Correct. He didn't have to bring it up. Uh big time nothing. He philandered. He did. Big Time Nothing is a track that has a tremendous beat to it. This I mentioned also with Gary Clark Jr. This is the first time I think she had just solo produced the album and she's tinkering a lot. There's a lot of tinkering going on here. There's a lot of playing with automatic beats.

There's a lot of tool energy in some of these tracks. Perfect circle. Oh, okay. 46 and two. Right, there's a lot of like sort of tool energy in some of these tracks. Perfect circle. Yeah, like the band. Oh, OK. 46 and two. Right. There's a lot of that. And if you listen to Broken Man, it gives big nine inch nails

vibes. So she's playing. OK, a little industrial vibe. I think you would really enjoy these three tracks, Dave. I'm going to check it out. Fuggin' Broken Man, Flee, and Big Time Nothing. Real artist Tinker. There's a lot of Tinkering.

Possibly to her detriment, but possibly in a very interesting way. Again, there's not a lot of like radio hits. These things don't, you know, these aren't screaming top 40, which, you know, Annie Clark, the artist who is known as St. Vincent, has collaborated with Taylor Swift and Olivia Rodrigo and a lot of like actual hit makers. So she can do that. David Byrne.

And David Byrne, of course. Um, but that's not really what this album is. I would love to see her live on this album and I'm probably not going to be able to. She is coming to Austin, uh, mid April. So, okay. Um, yeah. So I did not see Beyonce either just for the record and then moving forward to our final album, Leon Bridges' album entitled Leon, which is ironic because Leon is not his real name. Do you know what Leon Bridges' real name is?

Luigi. It's not Luigi. It's kind of funnier than that. Micah. No, no, no. It's actually Todd Bridges. Okay. Yes. You should have gone with that.

Well, the TV show beat him to it. So that's tough. He changed his name to Leon. And the album is called Leon again. Todd Bridges still around. The show? No, the Todd Bridges, the actor. Oh, I thought there was like a TV. Different strokes. Bridges. Different strokes. Oh, still with us. Yeah, yeah. So, he's still alive. He had some

some problems back in the day. Sorry, sorry. Sorry. I'm sorry to hear that. Anyway, this album shares a lot of production. A lot of the same producers as the Casey Musgraves album. Yeah, they are they will frequently like each other's groms and whatnot. They are they're friendly in the Texas music scene. Yeah, they are. They will frequently. Yes, like each other's crumbs and whatnot.

They are. They are friendly in the Texas music scene. Yeah. And they share a lot of a lot of the production here. And it's similar. It's very different. It's not as ethereal. Yes. But it's you can you can kind of hear the similarity, the cross pollination, if you will. Sure. It's also interesting because this is an album that's hard to kind of, I don't know how you really classify this one. It's R&B, but it's not, it's a long way from like,

if you think about what I'd call modern R&B, like Usher, for example, it's not that. There aren't a lot of bangers, so to speak, on this track, on this album. It is sort of folky and he's very, you know, Will would like it because it's a lot of like backward thinking, not backward thinking, that sounded weird. That's old Will for you. Nostalgic thinking, I apologize. Will's looking back. King of nostalgia. He circles back. Including one of my favorite tracks, Panther City, a place Dave I'm sure is very familiar with. Let's go.

Uh which includes the lines going down to the community center, rock, paper, scissors, cuz you know the winner would be the first to play Nintendo sixty-four. It's one of the most beautiful lines of the whole album and he's just saying Nintendo sixty-four. I I love it. It's a it the most beautiful lines of the whole album and he's just saying Nintendo 64. I love it. It's a good track. It's juxtaposition.

What's your favorite N64 game, Micah? You can say GoldenEye. Probably GoldenEye, Mario Kart. There we go. Yeah. Liam Bridges, Fort Worth, Texas. Fort Worth, Texas, of course. And he, the first time I listened to this album, I liked it.

And I was listening to it on, it was on the radio or one liked it. And I was listening to it on the, it was on the radio, or one of these songs, I was listening to whatever. And I had my wife in the car and go, oh, this song, it mentions Jane. It's about our daughter, sort of. It makes me think about her. And you know, when you've just heard something once, but like, it feels familiar.

Sure. So like after the first verse, I'm like, okay, all right. Now here's where he talks about Jane. And the second verse starts with the lines, "'All the crackheads and prostitutes on Rosedale, my father said, Go straight home or I'd catch hell. Don't walk around them streets at night.' And my wife looked at me like, what? This is a song about my daughter? I'm like, oh, maybe it's the next line. And then it says, There was a girl, she lived on Pinky Street street her name was jane i used to drive by her house every day that was my first test of love something along those lines it's a great joining us right now it's crazy that you sing it so much better than him

i don't and and that's what's interesting also about the song is there isn't any background singers um there there are in spots but there's a lot of like big production, there's a lot of strings, there's a lot of attention to detail, there's some Marvin Gaye kind of like expanded jam elements here, but it's mostly just Leon Bridge's singing and singing in his way, which I enjoy. Hey Will, do you remember ACL like 2017, 2018? It was right after Coming Home, I think it was his debut album came out. That's a throwback R&B album. And we're watching him. This is at like 3 p.m., 4 p.m.

I was late in that, sun was going down. Stu is with us, your old boy Stu. Oh yeah. And he's like, hey, you guys wanna smoke a joint? We're like, okay. Marijuana? Smoke a joint. And we did.

I was fucking, I don't really smoke. I'm more of like a very light early bird coming guy. Just got annihilated. Annihilated. The rest of the day was just a blur. Yeah, it was probably not what we needed at that moment and I left the festival shortly thereafter. Shut up Stu though.

I did see Leon Bridges ACL this year. Bigger crowd I'm assuming. Bigger crowd, you know, it's not, you know, when he first became famous, sort of that throwback R&B. And then this is their unique thing he's doing now. My favorite track on the album though, and we are almost done with Micah's music recap of the year, whatever we're calling it, is called Laredo.

And it includes these lyrics, Dave, and I think you'll get a kick out of it. "'Play Me Something Down Tempo, low key and rock steady. Body hitting like Kimbo, falling for you like confetti. More whiskey and ginger love. I'm just a beginner. What happened if I stayed in Laredo for just one more night? I just love that body hitting like Kimbo falling for you like confetti. How good is that? Is that a Kimbo slice reference? I believe it is. You know any

other Kimbo's? I was just trying to figure out what's going on. Yeah. Yeah. So those are two excellent tracks. There's a lot to listen to here. Check it out. Enjoy. Never Satisfied is quite good. Ain't Got Nothing on You is quite good and nice. This is fun. It's fun. It's not like a party album, but it's good for a listen. And that concludes the longest segment I've ever done on any of these podcasts. You want to run it back? I took some notes. Yeah, yeah. Okay. Robert Earl King is Billy Joel. Keen. Keen. Norah Jones is Willie Nelson. Casey Musgraves is The Birds and Joni Mitchell. Glary Clark Jr. is Loud.

Cowboy Carter is the album of the year. St. Vincent is Tinkering and Liam Bridges is Todd Bridges. Well done. That's mostly true. That was very TLDR. Very well done, Randy. Very well done. Bam.

Should we just move on to this weekend of fun? I think we can buy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you're right. This weekend, there's a crazy event happening. I like to turn off. Road, road, road, there's a crazy event happening. Let's just go have fun and let go a little. David Wardrobez, let's go.

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Glad you asked, Will. Friday evening, there's a potential dinner. I claim that there was going to be a dinner last weekend. Yeah, what the hell? Allegedly, I don't listen. I miss things unless I have a calendar invite or if it's just spelled out for me. This is what I've been told, but I've clarified it is Friday evening. So there could be a dinner Friday during the day.

There is rumors of a potential. Can I say it, Randy? Huh? Little coffee, little, Oh, potential, well, potential, maybe coffee Friday during the, during the work day. We'll see about it. Maybe in the morning, maybe in the morning, little live broadcast.

Like we did last week, we'll move some merch. Go to washmedia.shop. Get you one of them rope has their house right there and show it. Yeah, I got it. Still got like a few left Saturday. So as I've mentioned a couple of times, my wife's playing bunko. Mm hmm. My wife is playing bunko tomorrow night. As a matter of fact, Thursday night's the bunko night for the gals. And well, they're doing a big Christmas

party. And it's like a it's like your classic guy get to wear a sweater whole deal. And guess what I'm wearing? Guess what I'm bringing out? Pants milk. Nope, not about it, though. Uh, ho ho ho assassination sweater. Nope. I had some people quit the pod over that. Do we need a second one? Quitting the pod over an ugly Christmas sweater is embarrassing. It was in poor taste is what I was told. It's embarrassing behavior. Um no, I'm I'm going uh I'm going tired elf. Okay. Is that gonna

play? Do you think they're gonna get it? Here's the deal. I don't I should have I should have led with this. I have met a couple of the husbands. I'm not in a texting relationship with them. I am at a see them at the meanwhile brewing relationship. I've not had a serious conversation. I've met I've gone to like one or two events with the the a couple of the bunk bunk. Oh wives I don't know them. Well, I don't know if they know what I do for a living and that's fine I have fun explaining that right and I understand wearing a

Christmas sweater, especially one that we have made especially one that is a very a reference to a very popular meme. Mm-hmm It's dangerous. It's almost like wearing an adult breathalyzer costume, robot breathalyzer costume to a family-friendly Halloween party at some neighbors that you don't know that well, which I did last year. Oops. Anyway, it was a really bad idea. Yeah, but I'm rocking it. I don't know what the reception is gonna be. I'm sure there will be somebody there familiar with the meme and hopefully we can have a laugh.

You want me to do my impression of Dave explaining the shirt to everyone? Yeah. Okay, he's just holding up the it's the meme. You know what? Hey, send me that even though I could easily find it. Send me that so I have that to show them. It's it's almost going to be like the guy on Halloween who wears a costume and has to wear a name tag because nobody knows what it

is. But my name tag will be a picture of the meme that I'll just have ready like hey, it's this it's like a reference. Kind of it was big online. I don't know how online you are. You never want to ask someone how online are you? Yeah, are you on blue sky? It doesn't set up from what we've learned with Mike it today doesn't set up the conversation. Well, this has not been a good performance by me. No, you've been great. I'm not online enough. I'm sorry to all the

niche internet lists following people on this podcast. I'm sorry. I feel like I let everybody down by not being more online. Do you think Pierce is upset with you? Pierce? No, Pierce is fine. Can I shout out the- Please. Oh, yeah.

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guy. Welcome to the fam here. My god. Yeah. Alright, Harry. Get you some Homb. Hey, Michael help you make your nut. It's Q4, let's close it strong. We are. Yes. And well, that's pretty much it. I'm gonna yield my time. Sorry, Micah, yielded your time first.

No, no, no. It's messed up. No, no, no. It's messed up. I forgot what we were talking about this weekend in Fonda. Micah, what are you doing this weekend? I don't really have any plans. We're going to my parents' house for early Christmas,

as my wife and her guy are going to New York. You want to call Steve? Next week. No, just go to the HUB and you can see him. He'll be there. The new one? No, he'll be at the Westlake HUB like he is basically every day.

That's what parents do these days. They just go to the grocery store. I saw Dylan at that one. He had like a pineapple upside down. And I saw I heard that was weird. He's been going through a big pineapple phase. That's a great grocery store. Let me just say.

I wish the parking situation, it's easy to find a parking spot at the new H.E.B. But I don't always want to ride up elevators and escalators just to walk into a grocery store. Yeah, it's just kind of annoying. Yeah, it's just kind of like, what am I doing here? It's a lot. I'm just trying to get some milk real quick.

Let the guy get some milk. Let him get some milk. What are you bringing to the Christmas celebration? I have no idea. Oh, okay. I'm going to, my wife has bunco on Wednesday, so I'm probably going to make some cookies. I found a recipe. My Instagram feed is basically cookies now. If you make any chimichurri this holiday season, please holler at your boy.

Okay. Mine is just like cookies. It rhymes with it. So what you did it all for? Come on. Come on, man. You gonna ask what I'm doing this weekend, Mike? Sure, Mike.

Come on, dude. I don't host the show, man. What'd you say you do this weekend, Mike? What's your new buddy? Come on, dude. I don't host the show, man. What do you say do this weekend? Well. Do your job for you? I'm kind of just doing the same thing both nights this weekend. On Friday night, I will be going to see one

Michigan bluegrass artist, Billy Strings. There you go. At ACL Moody Theater. And then on Saturday night night I will be going to ACL Moody Center, the Moody Center to go see Billy Strings again. The concert on Friday night you could only get tickets for if you bought tickets to go to the Saturday night show and so my wife bought me tickets for the Friday night show which we are going to go to together because they have seats there. Oh, nice.

Uh, if you see me in my cowboy boots on Saturday, it's because we're GA and I need some hype. Who are you going with on Saturday? Just absolutely mobbing with the lads. I'm going with, uh, my buddy, Dr. Nick going with noted friend of the pod, Ryan, uh, Dave, Dave unfortunately had to back out of this because of, uh, the party that he's going to, uh, and so we have filled his slot with my friend Michael. And so yeah, I don't know. Hoping that it can go well. I haven't stood up at a concert in GA in a long time, for a long, in a while. Luckily, you're me rocking to Kova's boots. I'm just worried. Yeah,

I'll be rocking my Kovas. I'm a little worried about my Dom setting in the next day after standing up for that long. That's true. But we'll see how that goes down. Yeah. Luckily you're not bringing Dylan. Yeah, Dylan wouldn't last five minutes of this show. Nah, no.

If you see Will at the show, hit him with the circle. Give me the circle, dude. This is also like that when you see like a squad leader on like a, if you're watching Sicario or something like like a Delta Force like leaders like getting the team to like go this means something this I think this means like move up so yeah maybe we should change it to like maybe right in the front you know there's two that's terrible see that's weird that's terrible like this you know if if it's just this if it's just a finger twirling in the air

strangers aren't going to be, what is that guy doing? They're like, oh, he's probably communicating with a friend. If there's someone going like this, that's just like, what is that weird? It's almost like you're trying to open up a portal. Yeah. Yeah. You might as well just scream, fuck you, Dorn.

What if we just do like the crack pepper one? He does crack pepper like this. Does Dylan not understand that? The fresh hit of pepper. Do you ever have moments where you don't think he understands what we're doing when we ask him to crack pepper? Yeah, it's almost like when you give like a new ball

to your golden retriever. That's the look he kind of gives you, where he's just like, sure, I'll take this ball. Yeah, and it's like, we're having you do something that is kind of inappropriate. You know, he, he has to get it. But he's been doing the show. Not willing to do those things. Well, you know, he's really let loose.

Yeah. I don't think he gets it. Yeah. He thinks we're just cracking pepper. Why do they keep on bringing up this crack pepper? Then I'll keep showing. Okay. Let's find out. I'm not going to be cracking any pepper this weekend unless we go to a Italian restaurant and order a Caesar salad, which I don't

think I'm doing. You might be getting that crack pepper playboy. Friday night is a Caesar salad watch. Well, to fill out my weekend, I'll be going to a four year old birthday party on Saturday morning and I'll be watching Manchester United versus Manchester City on Sunday morning. Can't wait to be mad on Sunday afternoon. Stay offline, dude. Do you have the big content guy clip there? Which one? It's for the other podcast, but when my team wins. That's not him. That's shit. Oh, it's shit. Oh, yeah. I'm sorry, dude.

I apologize. The original guy, this guy is just, he was a content guy. He wasn't right. Your brain more. Yeah. You don't have much brain. Right. It's been a lot of fun.

All right guys, we'll get out of here. Micah, thank you for joining us. Thank you for having me. So bye. Bye bye. Bye bye. Bye bye. Bye bye. Bye bye. Bye bye.

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