Circling Back - Breakfast Sandwiches & Mob Bosses

Episode Date: September 9, 2020

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all right we're back circling back podcast coming to you live from the lodge my name's will to freeze to my right dave ruff it's a wet one here in austin texas today soaking super moist super damp with a p i don't even think it's damp. I think it's straight wet. Yeah, it's straight up wet. Wet. That's good. More on that later.

Do we need the rain, though? We needed it. We could... Until it got here. Yeah, I think we're probably at a surplus for the month of... What are we, September? September. I'm happy with it look i'm extremely happy with the weather i love i love the wet i love the the cool air moving in unfortunately it's brought uh the allergies with it and it's already getting

your boy pretty pretty good um i'm waiting for that cool air to move in i'm waiting it's it's kind of here dave it's not i mean the high is low 80s today i believe yeah but that cool air to move in. I'm waiting. It's kind of here, Dave. It's not. I mean, the high is low 80s today, I believe. Yeah, but the cool air is not going to get here for a while. Allergy's got your boy just leaking from the face already. It's not good. I want crisp air.

I want dry. The only thing that made me feel better is some schwaps, I think. I got any schwaps? If you guys had any schwaps for me, I'd feel much better. I'm going to go down to Jones and get some schwaps. Get some schwaps. No, a schwap, like a I'm going to go down to Jones and get some schwaps. Get some schwap. No, a schwap, like a meal schwap. How would a meal fix your allergies, Dylan? Free meal?

Who doesn't love a free meal? Chicken strips at Jones are very, they'll fix you anything. They're fake mashed potatoes. Salisbury steak. Trash ass gravy. When was the last time you had a Salisbury steak? I don't know if I've ever had a Salisbury steak. I don't think I ever have either.

What? It sounds like something, I always a Salisbury steak? I don't know if I've ever had a Salisbury steak. I don't think I ever have either. What? It sounds like something. I always skip Salisbury steak day. It feels like the cheapest meat you can eat, like beef, but it's just covered in that gravy. It is so good. I can't believe y'all haven't had that. It's like ground beef, basically, like a patty,

but it's covered in gravy. Salisbury steak or meatloaf? Who you got? Salisbury all day. Meatloaf, dudeisbury steak or meatloaf who you got salisbury all day meatloaf dude that's great meatloaf meatloaf unless it's from that spot yeah what 24 diners that's the last time i had meatloaf honestly really i grew up in an anti-meatloaf household oh i grew up in a very pro meatloaf household if it was a chilly fall or winter day you could in sunday you could pretty much bet that my mom was very pro meatloaf household. If it was a chilly fall or winter day and Sunday,

you could pretty much bet that my mom was either making meatloaf or pot roast. Rosemary was in there making meatloaf. I saw Nancy was on one this weekend. Dude, she's living. A little bloody bar? She's living right now. She get the sticks out? No, I don't think she played any this week.

Okay. Yeah, I don't know. I think once her golf league days ended, I think she's just kind of chilling out. You played with her when you were up there, didn't you? Yeah, she shot a crisp 73. Nine holes. Oh, good for her. Nine holes, yeah.

Why are you going to do it like that? Dude, it was pretty good for her. I think she was pretty happy with that. No, she does this thing where I'm like, Mom, you don't have to do this. She'll be having a tough one, and I'm willing to give her a double or triple bo she picked if she wants to pick up and just kind of move things along she's like no give me a 10 call that it's that's integrity she's like i deserve a 10 good for her like you don't deserve a 10 like i don't think you would have gotten a 10 on this par 3 she earned that 10 she wants it on the scorecard no there's nothing nothing better than golfing with mom no yeah

shouts to nancy i wish i could do it more often shouts to all the moms out there yeah it's not mother's day But on this podcast Every day she feels like it Nothing but love for the Will mommies Yep Yep Man Schwab

Sorry about your allergies dude It sucks man It's only gonna get worse too But it's pretty brief I have about three About three or four weeks of it It hits me hard And then it goes away

Are you planning on taking Any type of antihistamine or anything? I started to take a natural supplement called Dehist, which was recommended to me by that drugstore on Lamar I went to last year that really took care of your boy. And it's just supposed to build up your immunity. Sick. Is that like doing the local honey thing?

So you have to just take it for five years? This is very different. Yeah. You essentially have to Winnie the Pooh like doing the local honey thing? So you have to just take it for five years? This is very different. Yeah. You essentially have to Winnie the Pooh a bunch of local honey in order to not feel the effects of allergies. There's a loading period. I got to take six of them a day for a while. But it's going to be worth it. Why don't you just take like Allegra D or something?

Why don't you just shut up? I mean, there's options out there. Allegra D, it works. You're taking D-hist or some bullshit. Give me D or something. Why don't you just shut up? I mean, there's options out there. Allegra D, it works. You're taking D-hist or some bullshit. Give me D-hist. I do take Allegra D, but it only works for a short period of time, and then I build up, I guess, immunity to it. I don't know, but it just stops working.

Herd immunity. But it makes me loopy. You're just a drug dumpster when it comes to allergy meds. Wait, D-hist makes you loopy? No, Allegra D. Oh. Because it's got that meth chemical in it. Which one is it?

It is a, I believe it is a Sudafed. Yeah, Sudafed. It's not far off from meth. It gets you jacked up. You shouldn't take it every day. Nobody told me that when I was taking it every day for a long time. Well, that's why you've got to show your ID when you purchase it, because people use it for meth.

Yeah, you can go smurf it. Right. But it hits, man. Jesse. I love that stuff. Jesse. Jesse. It's the antihistamines.

It's the white. This is the all-time star to the podcast. It's cool. It's happening. Jesse. Ragweed season, Jesse. I wish I could do a Jesse impression. Everybody can do, like, a burst one.

Jesse. It's like his greatest hits, you know, like. Yeah, bitch. Yeah, bitch. Yeah, Mr. White. Yeah, bitch. Magnets. Oh, what a case that Jesse was. He has a great inflection when he says bitch, too. Bitch. Magnets. Oh, what a case that Jesse was.

He has a great inflection when he says bitch, too. Bitch. Before I watched the show, he annoyed me. Because I was like, oh, cool, this guy's whole shtick is saying bitch. Like, that's so sick, dude. Like, two episodes in, I'm like, all right, I'm all in on Jesse. He's such a troubled youth. I need more of him.

Very troubled. In hindsight, we reviewed the movie. How do we feel about them releasing that Jesse movie? I enjoyed it. In hindsight, I'm like, yeah, maybe they should have just holstered it. Yeah.

I feel like one of y'all didn't watch it. Who was it? I watched it the night it came out, I think. I could see Dylan not watching it. I wish they... I mean y'all didn't watch it. Who was it? I watched it the night it came out, I think. I absolutely watched it. I could see Dylan not watching it. I wish they, I mean, they obviously didn't know that COVID was happening. They probably could have made Absolute Bank if they just made it $9.99 on Netflix. Sorry, on like Apple TV or something.

They could have made so much money on that. They should have foreseen the global pandemic. I know. What's their problem? Dude, like nobody would be talking about Tiger King. No. No. except for the golden knights twitter account i don't know you did you didn't no i saw it okay good tweets sucked

yeah they keep getting her name wrong it's carol baskins is it no no i say baskins because i just i mean at this point i don't care and it's just kind of ingrained in my brain is it true that her family owns the the baskin robbins chain i don't know know if it is. It's just the one on Slaughter. That's how she affords the Tigers. Well, that's right around the corner from me. Did you drive all the way over there for Baskin Robbins? I'm like 32 flavors. A lot of people don't know that. It's right next to my favorite Poke Poise.

Really? Poke Poke, yeah. I know we're talking about this. I haven't eaten Poke in forever. I eat it like three times a week. Really? Yes. I just don't do it anymore. It eat it like three times a week. Really? Yes. I just don't do it anymore. It's right around the corner from me. It's too easy. Hey, they have new flavors of... Okay.

No. Baskin-Robbins? I'm just on DQ right now. I don't really know why I'm on DQ. That's more like my titsies. They've got some new fall blizzards. I had a blizzard tweet the other day that I holstered, and I can't remember what it was. Why would you holster a blizzard tweet?

I don't know. You just don't like goingstered, and I can't remember what it was. Why would you holster a blizzard tweet? I don't know. You just don't like going by? Oh, no. I know what it was. Was it the video of that lady turning over the Coke in the drive-thru? It was something about they got wind that we're all fans, and they're making a special Dylan edition. It's the glizzard.

Oh, okay. Okay. You should have probably tweeted that one i would love i would love a blizzard with some just vanilla ice cream and just hot dogs mixed in maybe some a drizzle some mustard and onions on top that's disgusting you are a glizzard dente though i'm not i'm just not what are the odds that you'll change your your twitter name to el glissadente for the next week one in 50 all right ready one two three 38 man i'm really glad i don't didn't like double down on that and have to change my name to el glissadente

hey i just did a tweet you just did it i did a thing oh dude what dude come on i like you come on man it didn't happen i think it did happen can you you like it's just like ice cream and like hidden down in there the more you the more ice cream you eat it's just like slowly emerges it'd be terrible that'd be terrible it's like it's like the popsicle That'd be terrible. That'd be terrible. It's like the Popsicle stick that you have to avoid when you're looking around it. It's like, oh damn.

The bun is still on it and it's just absorbing the melted ice cream. It's just a soggy. That's so disgusting. Can we get some programming notes out of the way of which there are many?

We're currently sitting at let's see how many followers on Instagram we're sitting at. I think we're at 9,850 in that neighborhood. Last I saw, we were at 9,855. I think we're just slowly stacking. We've never been closer to 10K, guys. The last two weeks have been an uptick. 9,858 we're at right now.

We need to make this happen. Just trying to get to 10K. Nothing more, nothing less. 10K,58 we're at right now. We need to make this happen. Just trying to get to 10K. Nothing more, nothing less. 10K, we're staying at it forever. Go follow at Circling Back Pod. Also, make sure to leave a review and five-star rating. Just make it happen.

I want some entertaining reviews in this hopper. We should do reviews next week. We should. Okay. If we do reviews, we're only doing it though if the people see this call to action

and act. So make it happen. Every Tuesday and Friday, Patreon. We've been doing Wor though if the people see this call to action and act so make it happen uh every tuesday and friday patreon we've been doing worse stuff last few weeks gotta say they've been enjoyable they've been enjoyable but on the horizon there's a little something called spooky season dave cue the cum thunder shit we're gonna have to get that under control. It's now cum laser. I don't hate that. Laser. It doesn't sound very spooky, though. Bob Lazar.

Bob Lazar, yeah. Spooky at washedmedia.com. Get your spooky stories in. If you've got a haunted house or if you've ever been a part of something that feels a little supernatural, we want to hear about it. Spooky at washedmedia.com. Give me your heart. Make it real or else forget about it. And if you want to send in your worst of as well, worstof at washedmedia.com. Give me your heart. Make it real or else forget about it.

And if you want to send in your worst of as well, worstof at washmedia.com, either one. Let's do it. Happy Hour Live. We're doing it tonight. I think Dylan's going to have to sit this one out. Dude's got an auction draft. Yeah, I have a fantasy auction draft.

It requires all of my attention. I did the wrong Santana song. I thought I did smooth. Come on, dude. I was thinking of Supernatural. What's the Supernatural Santana song. I thought I did Smooth. Come on, dude. I was thinking of Supernatural. What's the Supernatural Santana song? That's the name of the album that everything was on. Damn. I actually did an entire episode

of Mind of Micah on just that song. Okay. Yeah, we did it from Brad's Kitchen. It's still kind of played. Shout out to Brad. Finally, Twitch. Twitch.tv slash watch media every Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday around 12, 15 p.m. Central Standard Time. We're Twitching.

Yesterday we did a little Fall Guys. Dave had just an absolute run as a rookie. He's a natural. Amazing stuff. There's a very good chance I cannot replicate. The more I thought about Fall Guys, the more I started thinking to myself that the more I play it, the more I start doing strategies. You overthink it?

And I'm just overthinking it, whereas in the beginning, I'm just like, get to the damn finish line under any circumstances necessary. But now I'm like, oh, I gotta jump and shift over here. I think that's why I had success early as a rookie because I didn't have any fear. I was fearless out there. I didn't know any better. I just went out there and just went on instinct.

And now I'm going to go in like, okay, actually, I've got to wait. I'm going to lag behind here. I'm going to grab here. I'm going to dive here. It's just not going to work out at all. It's very stupid. You just got to go hard to go home. Tomorrow we're doing throwback Thursday.

TBD. N64, though. Got some new equipment. What's the game? TBD. It's not a game. some new equipment. What's the game? TBD. It's not a game. It means to be determined. I need you to D it.

TBA, maybe. To be announced. We need to determine and announce. Okay. Yeah. Outside of that, yeah, just make sure to go follow on Instagram. Let's talk about Honey real quick. One of my all-time faves.

Love Honey. They sent me some money the other day. What'd you get? Your boy was online. He was trying to cop some new man-use stuff ahead of the new season. They just dropped all their new stuff, all their new training gear, all their new whatever, new jerseys out there. Did you get a shirt like Dylan got?

Like they would put on the seats before the game? The airport shirt? No, my aesthetic this year, this winter, is going to be like a soccer player in England just mulling around the training ground, just hanging out. That's just going to be my entire aesthetic. So I decided to get the travel top from a website that they're sponsored by. I'm not going to give them free pub. And at the end of the checkout, I was like, man, I really wish I wouldn't pay so much for this.

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Yeah, trying to do an ad read over here, guys. What's so funny? I'm laughing at something that's actually pretty topical, but it's a tweet that I just saw. Oh, man. You know the Leo meme? Heaven forbid we help me out or anything. Just fucking laughing at tweets over here. I'm sorry.

You see, inglorious bastards uh leo meme when he's making that face you know this one yeah and it's it's how uh dq employees check your blizzard okay okay i was laughing i thought you were laughing at someone who hashtag noah jd responded imagine if his card declined to dairy queen and they made him eat all the glizzies. Why would that be? Why would they give you the more glizzies when you can't pay for one? Wait, why did your boy Landry

just post a picture of an actual glizzard? I don't know. What? I didn't know that was a thing. It's a chili dog inside of a blizzard. That's disgusting. You crushed that ad read, by the way. Shut up.

To no help from you guys. You guys are all just snickering to the side. I'm out here just trying to stack paper. I was fine until he started laughing. Sorry. Earmark this in some spreadsheet. Make sure I get most of the money from that ad read. Twitter just gets me sometimes, man.

God. No one's getting a cold open with that ad read talking about something they actually bought just yesterday. I almost wore it to the stew today. I chipped in. Thank you, Brett. I always chip in about honey. I love honey. They save me money all the time.

Hey, the read's done, okay? Shut up. Okay? All right. So at McDonald's, they're not doing the Travis Scott meal. I don't know who asked for the Travis Scott McDonald's collaboration, but I weirdly don't hate it. That would be my order. I wish they would do the Stuart Scott meal. It was just a memoriam, and it was just the crazy illest burgers with the sickest dips. What, it comes with a dessert that's just a cookie? Yes. Rest in peace,

Stuart Scott, one of the best to ever do it. You know, I've started to subscribe to not caring when celebrities die. I cried when Stuart Scott died. Yeah. I had tears streaming down my face. Tears streaming. Gone too soon, man. He was the man. Absolute man.

Dylan strikes me as the type that laughs. Oh, David, let's not start that. I was sad. I'll never forget breaking the Kobe Bryant news to you guys at 20,000 feet. At altitude. At altitude, yeah. Dave was at the Blue Stag. Yeah, I was at the Blue Stag with a bunch of dudes.

Dave was on one. Sad-ass dudes. Yeah. He was drinking hot apple cider, spiked. Who? Was I? I don't know. It was cold.

It was cold. Remember when Dave walked from the house into town that one day? And he didn't show up for like an hour and a half after that. We thought Dave just... It was like literally 35 minutes. I timed it. Dave comes back with just oxygen tanks. He's like, let's fucking rip these guys.

Yeah, my wife had altitude sickness. I went. I was being a good guy. I know you were. I just remember there was concern at the house. We were like, should we go find Dave? Well, dude, rightfully so. My shoes were not equipped for the ice on the sidewalk.

You were walking through Brett and Kill Shots. It was. Yeah, I was. And I didn't fall once to my shoe. When we were walking to and from dinner that night in the dark, nobody ate it. And I'm shocked. It was dangerous. I think Brett and I have enough experience.

If we eat it, it's like, oh, this is embarrassing. We're snow guys. Dude, you've got to be a snow guy. Dude we eat it, it's like, oh, this is embarrassing. We're snow guys. Dude, you've got to be a snow guy. Dude, but it's the hidden snow. Legend of the hidden snow. Like black ice? Yeah. Dylan was walking around in ultra boots, too.

He was fine. No, next time we do the Breck trip or any mountain trip, I will be prepared. I'm going to go full Merrill. I have snow boots, so you should back off. They were hilariously large snow boots, too. No, they weren't. The North Face, good good looking snow boots. They were good looking.

Did y'all know Dylan wore a North Face today? He's like, man, it's going to be cold. I'm wearing my North Face Denali. It's 80. Just as I do that. I'm ready, man. It's the black one. I don't even know what you're wearing on.

I'm not a North Face guy. That's cool. Patagonia over there. Don't want to get McDonald's for lunch. This is my order. You want to do Mickey D's? This meal isn't that out there. All it is is a quarter pounder with cheese, bacon and lettuce,

which is apparently what he likes on it, medium fries with tangy barbecue sauce, and Sprite with ice. I feel like this is like the – I love that they're doing stuff with Travis Scott. I just feel like it's a low effort collab. I feel like he deserves his own dipping sauce or something. I am, am I the only one who didn't know McDonald's did bacon? It's probably because it's not worth eating. I have not had McDonald's in a while.

I'm more likely to get their breakfast than I am a burger. Egg McMuffin, it's still a passable breakfast sandwich. I'll give you that. I would say more than passable. It's a top 10 breakfast sandwich. Their bacon, though, is not great. Really? Which is why I get the sausage.

It's never crispy, I feel like, now that I'm thinking about it. I probably have had it on a breakfast sandwich. I get sausage on my breakfast sandwich there. Oh, it doesn't. You get what on your breakfast sandwich there? I get the sausage McMuffin with egg. Oh, okay. It's delicious.

Okay, that's fine. We'll get more on breakfast sandwiches in a bit, Dylan. Don't blow it all right out of you. Why are you trying to ruin this? What's your problem? If you went to McDonald's right now, what are you getting? Oh, Dylan. Don't blow it all right. Why are you trying to ruin this? What's your problem? If you went to McDonald's right now, what are you getting? Oh, man.

For lunch? You're going to hate it or love it. Get your dogs on top. Game. Recognize game. I'm going, I don't know what their nugget numbers are. Like, what, six piece, five piece, eight piece.

I don't know what it is. I think they do like six, ten, twenty or something like that. Six nuggets, two, the two cheeseburgers, just the old school two cheeseburgers and a large fry. You're not eating all that? Like a quarter pounder with cheese? Yeah. No, no, no, no. Not the quarter pounder.

You know like just the two cheeseburger you can order at the same time. They give you two. Are you talking about two cheeseburgers or a double cheeseburger? Not a double cheeseburger. Just two cheeseburgers. I'm just trying to be clear. Yes. It's been maybe 15 years

since I've had lunch at McDonald's. I usually do breakfast there. I thought you were going to say you only do dinner. I was like, Dylan, I don't think there's much of a difference

between a lunch and dinner menu. I only order from the breakfast menu. But if I were to order lunch there, I would do a double quarter pounder with cheese, fries, and a drink. Diet Coke.

Jesus. I don't hate that. Nothing crazy about it. What kind of sauce for the fries? What kind of sauce? Yeah. I'd just ketchup. And a little packet still in his fucking car. Yeah.

When I go there today, I'm going to mash the sicko mode button. You're not going to go today, are you? Prove it. Prove it, bitch. Prove it. There's one down the street. Drop the bag. There's one very close to here.

Drop the bag, McDonald's. McDonald's is not going to sponsor this podcast. What would our collab look like? We can't each have one. It's just got to be the Washed Media circling back collab. Why don't we just do individual collabs? They've already had backdoor deals out the ass Look at

You got Nike today Seriously dude How bad does Brett hate it When I just rock A brand I know dude I don't trust you

With these guys What if Nike was Like secretly funding me You had an Under the table sponsorship Deal with them Yeah It's like the

The watch media Iran Contra scandal Ooh On the Contras Like the Vampire weekend song Yeah The Nintendo game Contra scandal. Ooh. On the Contras. Like the Vampire Weekend song? Yeah. The Nintendo game.

I'm going with what I said. The two cheeseburgers, six-piece nug, large fry. If you were going to collab, wouldn't you want to do it with Popeyes? Oh, so I can do it with anybody.

I feel like you should be able to choose if you can do it with anybody. Let's let Dylan go first. What are what are you and dairy queen doing me and dq yeah what do you like about texas um i'm not a fan of dq's food food some people ride hard for their burgers actually their tenders if i recall are not terrible nothing better than a steak finger basket um the steak fingers look the blizzard finger steak this is like how dylan says that his like his favorite food is uh chicken fried

steak chicken fried steak he's literally never had one before what do you mean i've never had one i could say that with wait no you did order one with this one time i don't believe i love chicken fried steak i know but it's just like if when you drop that on us i was like dude i've known you for a long time i do a fat ass like heavily breaded chicken fried steak. I know, but it was just like when you dropped that on us, I was like, dude, I've known you for a long time. A fat ass, like heavily breaded chicken fried steak with, you know, country gravy just all over that shit. Oh, get out of here.

So you're going to do a collab with Grandy's? Yeah. Luby's, R.I.P. I'm doing a Luby's collab. People were saying that you got Luby's. Every time I go there, I get chicken fried steak. Are you the reason for their bankruptcy? I don't know what I would have to do with it, really.

I try to support them back. I don't know. Anything you've ever put on the TL about them has just been talking about how you almost died there. And it wasn't even their fault. I don't think people are rushing in when they're like, oh, wow, this podcast personality that I'm friends with just almost died. Now that they are actually going under, I don't feel so bad bringing that back up again. Time that I was almost killed by a car inside. It was her fault.

Yeah, it wasn't their fault. It had nothing to do with it. I got invited to a Friendsgiving party, and I was kind of wondering what was going to be done about this. I'm not going to name who the person that threw it was, but I was kind of wondering because I was like, man, I just don't know if they're going to put a turkey in the oven for this and actually make it.

And it turned out she didn't. She just went to Luby's and got a turkey. Spoiler alert, it was better than any turkey we would have put in the oven. I was like, you know what, this is a great move from you. Dude, Luby's is good, man. You got about a 1 in 10 chance of making your own turkey very good. You can do passable. Passable, I would say three of ten.

The worst thing about Luby's was that you were eating in basically a nursing home. Okay. Well, I don't hate the elderly like some. I don't hate the elderly, but, you know, it's just. What's your problem? Weren't you saying that, like, you were happy about COVID because, like. It's David. It's so fucked up.

Dude, we're not doing that. I'm sorry. It is noticeably. At least we still have my dude. We're not doing that. I'm sorry. It is noticeably. At least we still have furs. We still have furs. No one eats at furs, dude. You don't know what furs is. It's a South Indian.

Does it come with boots? It's just, yeah. It's a Luby's knockoff, basically. It's a cafeteria style, all you can eat. Is Luby's dissolving completely? I think so. Yeah. How much would it be for us to feasibly purchase one?

I don't think we want that. Are you sure? I think there's a reason why it's failing. Yeah, because maybe they're just dumbasses. If we've proven anything, we can stack followers on a restaurant Instagram account. I feel like we're this close to becoming restaurateurs. I think we might have a ways to go. I don't know. We're closer

than we should be. I'll put it that way. We don't have any right to be. Do you remember Wyatt's? It might have been exclusively North Texas. It's the same thing. You know what, though? We're talking about doing

a Christmas party at Golden Corral this year. Yeah. Talked about that stuff. We'll go through you real quick. Don't they have a chocolate fountain there? Do they? I think so. It's probably not even real chocolate.

Don't fall on it if you're fucked up and doing coke at a New Year's Eve party. Oh, then I can't go to Golden Corral then. That's a throwback to yesterday's Worst Of episode just for anyone out there. Pay for your own backup. Work for a factory. Is there a tour? Outside of like fecal matter and pee pee. Are you doing a Willy Wonka joke?

Is there anything worse to fall in than a chocolate fountain? Like chocolate just seems like it would be hard to get out of like your crevices. Quick sand. Yeah, quick sand. It would taste good though. I want to have a quick sand fountain at my party. It's fucking dangerous. Is quick sand real? Have you ever stepped in? Oh, yes. I was just going to say, have you ever stepped It tastes good, though. I want to have a quicksand fountain at my party. It's fucking dangerous. Is quicksand real?

You ever stepped in it? Oh, yes. I was just going to say, have you ever stepped in it? No, I have not. Clearly you haven't. It is real. It's a movie thing. No, it's not.

It's very real. Very real. It's fucking scary. I've never seen a picture of quicksand. People legit die in it. So because of Harbor Springs, there's natural springs, and that can create some. I have springs in Saratoga Springs, dude. I've never seen quicksand.

Let me finish breath. No, so the natural springs will appear in the sand sometimes, and they'll actually create a quicksand. And it's never something that you'd just be walking down the beach and fall into. But if you stick your foot in there, it's like, oh, I could see how this would be very scary. Like, you're gone. Yeah.

I think it just fills your lungs with, like, sand. Yeah, you choke on it. Choke on it. Yeah, you're not supposed to flail around. You got to just be still. Because the more you move, the more you sink. Next time you're in Saratoga, I think you just need to start hunting for quicksand. I could be wrong on this, but I think someone tried to film a how to get out of a quicksand video,

and the guy actually died trying to film it. He set up his camera on a tripod or something. It's like, this is what you do if you're in quicksand. And then five minutes later, he was completely submerged and dead. Here's the thing. If you're doing that kind of thing, you need to have like one more person there. You can't press record and then set your phone

against a tree and then just go hop in some quicksand. Or like anchor a rope to a rock or a tree or something and like as your safety line. You know? Like, come on.

You need your boy there. Yeah, literally anybody. Yeah, hockey stick's perfect for it. I respect him going all in on it though. He's like, it's all or nothing here. Well, yeah,

he was probably just like, no, I don't need anybody. I'm literally teaching people how to get out of it. Teaching people how to do this. Like, come on, dude. Dave, are you aware that they have a buttermilk crispy chicken sandwich at McDonald's? Nope. That has to be a response.

Should we just post- Yeah, should we just post-mates McDonald's to the office for Twitching today and just mash that button? Because I kind of want to try this crispy chicken sandwich even though it looks terrible. Odds you will go. This is for Dylan. Odds you will go today. You have to order the Cactus Jack

or the Travis Scott meal, but that's how you have to order it at McDonald's. You have to go, let me get that Travis Scott, and that's the only thing you can say. Didn't Barstool just do this? God damn it. Did they? Yeah, and that's the only thing you can say. Didn't Barcelona just do this? God damn it. Did they?

Yeah, they did. No, someone did a video. Did they do odds? Are they doing odds now too? Someone did a video where they said – Cactus Jack sent me. And the lady was just like, what? Oh, huh?

Shouts to Mantis. They did do a funny – to pick their draft order in the fantasy draft, they all ordered a pizza from a different spot, and the first pizza to be delivered got the first pick and so on. I like that way of doing it. Do they eat all the pizza? Hard to say. I would think so.

There's a lot of people in that office. Pizza, pizza. Pretty good. Canadian company doing Little Caesars. Yeah. I ate the pizza. I always thought it was really impressive that the little cartoon could slam his thing against the ground and the pizzas would flip and then get back onto it. He's talented.

Well, he's a lot of practice. Yeah. Are you one of those? No, okay. I'm asking the wrong person. I was going to say, are you one of those guys that can flip things in the pan and catch it? That's rude that you think I don't do that. There's no way you're doing that.

I saw on Cole Campbell's Instagram story that people were paying him to like read off their draft order for their fantasy pretty good you see those kids who did like the entrance videos yeah yeah SportsCenter is all over that they didn't crush it but they did a good job they did I was good the idea was great but the execution like honestly those kids were just super punchable yeah the one kid who threw a bike in my bushes like if i'm the dad i saw that like what the fuck jared oh yeah i'm like yeah i'm talking a little fucking just threw whoever over there out of my bushes connor yeah i'm like my son connor i'm like dude yeah fucking what do you call him jared. Yeah, Jared's not invited over anymore.

I had to pay $50 to get someone over and try to fix this. You broke my light? What, Dave? Nothing, I'm reading more on this Travis Scott thing. What have you found out with your research? I clicked the wrong, I'm reading a Vulture article, and it's just going in a lot of different directions I didn't expect. I just wanted, wanted like the basics but um i will say this mcdonald's doesn't make me feel as bad as chick-fil-a

chick-fil-a when i eat their waffle fries it makes me it ruins the next hour of my life just makes me just worthless and i like chick-fil-a but there's you know it's people will say like oh they they use different oils and frying methods and it's cleaner better it still makes me feel like ass thank you David I you saw me the other day Sally brought in some uh some chick-fil-a for me it's something I don't eat often I had like eight nugs and some of my fries and i felt like hell it doesn't make sense but i can eat mcdonald's nuggets and their fries and come out feeling a lot better you know we should do i thought this is like a an engagement hack type of thing you know the the charts that you put up on twitter that are like you have 15 and something's five bucks something's four something's three you do

like five or six different fast food places and like Chick-fil-A's chicken sandwich would be five bucks. McDonald's fries would be five bucks and kind of go like some fries are bad. People would just build their meal for 15 bucks. Like In-N-Out has to pay you in order to have their fries? Because they're such trash. Joe Rogan was talking reckless on Whataburger on his first Austin episode. Oh, what'd he say?

Oh, he's here? What'd he say? Adam Curry, his guest, was like, have you tried Whataburger? Because he was talking about In-N-Out. And he's like, yeah. He's like, y'all are cute. I think his quote was, you guys are cute with your Whataburger, but In-N-Out. He's like, In-N-Out's better.

But he went even further, Fuego. Fiveaburger, but In-N-Out. He's like, In-N-Out's better. But he went even further, Fuego. Five Guys is better than In-N-Out. I've had Five Guys a couple times. I just remember being overwhelmed by the burger. Like there was too much going on, and it might have been a bad, I need to give it another shot. Five Guys is also better than Whataburger. I've said it a million times than Whataburger. But –

I've said it a million times. Whataburger doesn't make a great burger. Everything else is really, really good. Burger to Burger, In-N-Out crushes Whataburger. But everything else on the menu, Whataburger. Do you see it's now the official burger of the Dallas Cowboys? Whataburger? Yeah, even though it's now a Chicago-based private equity fund that owns it, right?

Is that true? Yeah, remember? People were mad about that. Yeah, holding companies. Should we just make one? Ruining people. Is it Whataburger or Waterburger? It's Whataburger.

It's Water. It's definitely not. When I was 10, I was. People always say Whataburger. No, they don't. People under 12 say Whataburger. Little, they don't. People under... Yes, they do. People under 12 say Waterburger. Little kids who don't know how to fucking read.

No, like old dudes with hard Texas accents are like, oh yeah, go down to Waterburger. I'm like, what the hell? How many of those kids are you around? They're just dumb. You're not around those kids. You don't know who I roll with on the weekends. Yes, I do. You don't know who I roll with on the weekends.

I do know who you roll with. Please, please. My hunting crew, we go to this lodge, we just hunt pheasants and shit. It's dope. Talk about Waterburger. Damn, that's tight. Talk about howaburger. Damn, that's tight. Talk about how our wives are just really fucking kidding us. We'll watch this Yellowstone once.

Dude, that show stinks. Whataburger. I'm out. I know I was in a week ago. I think I'm getting out. I'm getting out. You can't abandon now. I'm going to watch season two, and if I don't feel like getting out after season two, I

might entertain season three, but it's too dramatic too dramatic i'm still in it's too dramatic you and i are pretty much watching at the exact same clip if i watched as much breaking bad not breaking bad uh walking dead as i did y'all have to finish yellowstone no you know stuck with that dude i told you like kj's a fan i told you three years ago that you were wasting your time watching that show i'm like dude every single day you come into the office and you complain about how bad Walking Dead is. And I'm like, what are you doing? I don't know. There weren't as many options then.

I feel like there were. Whatever. Any closing thoughts? Are you actually going to go get the Travis Scott meal today? No. Why? I don't feel lit. Okay.

I would do it if I didn't have pizza last night. Maybe I'll do it this weekend. I'm just going to roll up and just play Travis Scott. I'm just going to play sicko mode as loud as possible until they get the drift and just ring me up for it. I didn't do this when we played the other day, but one of my favorite things to do, especially when Dylan's playing golf with me, is right before he tees off, do, especially when Dylan's playing golf with me, is right before he tees off, just crank the opening

few bars of Sicko Mode right before he tees off on the BTS. Multiple times when we were playing, Dave started laughing before. He was on the ball, and he would like the song or think it's funny before he teed off. He just has a smirk on his face before he hit the ball.

He'd just start laughing. Dave's a wild man. There was one where I just asked you, I was like, why were you smiling as you hit the ball? It was because some song came on. Weirdo. We had pretty good dueling carts. What's the rule on that? Do you want two BTSs in the group with two different stations? We were talking about having it synced up,

which I don't know if that's even possible. I think having two different Bluetooth speakers actually is fine on the golf course. You run into the issue when you're teeing off, but you spend so much time not teeing off that you need to listen to your own music. At the green, too. You usually park next to the other card at the green. Yeah, but you're kind of further away from the cards when you're at the green, so you don't hear the music as much. Okay. But when you're in your own card, I feel like having two is completely acceptable.

Yeah, I think it's fun. It's just when you're teeing off and you hear, like, Michael McDonald competing with, I don't know, Bob Seger. I mean, both are chilling their own way, but it's like, well, you know, you're trying to tee off, you get swing thoughts, and then you're like, wait, am I hearing, what am I hearing right now?

Like this remake of a classic Motown song? Like a rock what how many or what were you listening to the other day either jackson brown radio spotify or oh we did michael mcdonald and then we switched into hall of notes micah special okay okay yeah there's only one hole where we were doing kind of a girl talk remix at the hole where it just clearly did not work. I think it was number 11. No, 12. 12, and it was just, okay, these songs need to go. Yeah.

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Group text last night went off for a little bit. Yeah. You know what, man? I'm happy to be the spark. I'm so glad I hit you all with that vid. I almost didn't send it. Everybody knows, man. Why were you eating that?

You were eating that at a weird time. Yeah, I was. You're right. Just tell the people what the vid was. It was me eating an everything bagel from H-E-B, the best bagel place in, I don't know, USA? Yeah, people say that. It was my first. I've never eaten an entire bagel. I've probably

eaten an entire bagel sandwich, but just like as here's a bagel with some cream cheese, I've never finished it, because generally they're kind of trash. This everything bagel, though, was just great. And I didn't know what all the flavors were, but now that I'm into it, I'm like, okay, I can definitely do this.

How did it take you this long to understand what an everything bagel was? I always thought everything bagel was like getting a supreme pizza. Well, it is. The reason it's called an everything bagel is because all of the flavors on the everything bagel exist as their own standalone bagel. There's like onion bagels. There's poppy seed. Well, that doesn't make sense. Sesame seed. Well, that doesn't make sense. Sesame seed. I was thinking an everything bagel would be like a bagel sandwich with all sorts of dope toppings inside.

Yeah, it's just a bagel, though. It's just a bagel. It's good. I've never had that particular one, but it is my preferred flavor of bagel. When you buy bagels from the store, from your bagel place, do they normally cut it, slice it for you? Or is it a thing you do at home? Because these I have to slice, and let me say, I'm not a good slicer.

Depends where you go. Is it because the water here is different? If you go to a bagel shop, they'll slice them for you or let you decide. They've got a machine that'll just hammer them out. Having a bagel slicer machine, it's not even a machine. It's just a pop down and it slices it. It's fantastic.

Should I buy one? Well, if you're going to be in the bagel game now, yeah. That'll probably be the only bagel I have. You probably shouldn't buy a bagel slicer. So when Dave dropped this in, do you say something to the effect of, like, wait until you have one with, like, egg, cheese, and bacon on it? Yeah, he did. He took it there.

Yeah, Dave said he had a cream cheese bagel, which is a great, like, lake house morning bagel, cream cheese, toast that up. To be clear, this was at, like, 5 p.m. Yep. And then I said, wait until you throw it together with a bacon, egg, and cheese next level on an everything bagel. And then Will came at everybody. No, I didn't.

No. Go to the receipts. My text was tame. He expressed an opinion. He didn't come at anybody. My text was tame, just to be clear. He expressed an opinion. He didn't come at anybody. My text was tame. All I said was, and I will read this, I said, Unique take, but I don't like bagels as my breakfast sandwich bread.

Cream cheese and or lox only. English muffins or bread for sandwiches. Or biscuit. I'm not a big biscuit guy. I am. I like a biscuit not for a breakfast sandwich. It's too crumbly. Yeah. And, but the things that were left out of that are croissant

and someone called out tortilla, but that's not a breakfast sandwich. That's a breakfast. Yeah, I was almost that guy, but it's not worth arguing over. I don't like croissant either for a sandwich because it has enough flavor on its own that it doesn't need's not worth arguing over. I don't like a croissant either for a sandwich because it has enough flavor on its own that it doesn't need other stuff along with it.

I will co-sign your bagel take for sandwiches. Okay. I love bagels, but and I know what Brett's going to say is because you haven't had a good bagel, and he might be right. I don't know. But they're too dense for a sandwich for me. Like, they're too hard. It's like my mouth is doing too much work just to get my bite all the way through.

You've got to try the H-E-B one. Okay. Glides right through. Like they have like a water processing plant, and they use that water directly from it, and it's just like. I thought they had a pipe that they just ran all the way to New York. Well. Do you have extra bagels from this bag that you got to just buy like one? No. Well, Alyssa's the one

who, she likes them. She bought the bag and I was fiending carbs post-gym and I was like, I'm just going to have a bagel. I want New York Brett to try one of these. I promise you Brett would flame it. Oh, absolutely. I think I've had them before to be honest with you from H-E-B and they're just

nowhere near. I hate to've had them before, to be honest with you, from H-E-B. And they're just nowhere near. And, like, I hate to be. Is it the water? It's how they make it, Dylan. I don't know how. But how is it? How do they make it? So it's an ingredient, yes. There's an ingredient.

And a lot of bagels, even bagels up north can be terrible and trash and dry and, like, flaky and crumbly. You've got to know where to go. You've got to go to Weidman's or any mom-and-pop shop in New York. Let's meet up in New York. Let's just go crazy on bagels while we're there. If you're in 93rd and 3rd, Corner Bagel Shop. I don't plan to be there anytime soon, but if I'm in the area. Odds you'll fly up there this weekend.

One in 280. Okay. Ready? Uh-huh. One, two, three, 111. Yeah. Ready? Uh-huh. One, two, three, 111. Damn. That was close. That was like, no, it wasn't really.

The thing with bagels is- I have to book my ticket to New York. You need to buy a fresh bagel to really get the, like bagels in a bag are fine, but you need a fresh bagel to really get the full effect. And like the dense but not too dense. Because I know what you're saying, that some bagels are just too hard and rugged to get through. Right. I've had those before.

So I've kept mine submerged in water. Like, is that right? Yeah. Keep them from drying out. Yeah. Only if it's New York water, though. Oh. If it's just Austinork water though oh if it's just austin tap water you ruined it's because the minerals yeah oh dang it what will say something

about a hole what's wrong with the hole in a bagel the reason i don't like a breakfast i don't get me wrong because the guts spew out through the hole agree with that the last time i was in new york i was i had my last day there i had a little bit of time before my flight. So I was like, all right, I'm going to take a walk around this neighborhood that I was staying in. And so I Googled the best bagel spot, went in there, got a breakfast sandwich. And I was like, all right, I'm going all in. It wasn't my first ever, but it was, I haven't had that many in New York. Sure. So I did it. It was great. Absolute mess. so I did it it was great absolute mess absolute mess and it's the reason being is because of the hole in the bagel and it doesn't contain the stuff and so when you've got scrambled eggs and potentially I don't know some hot sauce on there stuff like that it makes it even don't

get me wrong I it tastes incredible I'm not coming at you it's too fucking messy and all of a sudden you just got like bagel shit all over your hands and you smell like it. It's just an absolute mess. Maybe just have a tortilla and take everything that was originally on your breakfast bagel sandwich and just drop it in the tortilla and wrap it up because it'll be better

anyway. No. I disagree with that. I respectfully disagree. I just prefer my bagels on their own. I like a toasted everything with plain cream cheese. That's my move. I just prefer my bagels on their own. I like a toasted everything with plain cream cheese. That's my move. I want the same thickness of the bagel. I want the same thickness of that bagel to be the cream cheese as well.

I just want all the cream cheese. All the cream cheese. All of it. What doesn't make sense, though, is the more I think about it, I like having a bagel sandwich with meat, lettuce, like an actual sandwich. I like doing that. But I think that's because I grew up – my mom would make them growing up. And so I think I just kind of got – I got grandfathered in.

I don't know if I've ever even tried that. Bagel is only breakfast in my mind. And instead of cream cheese, I do butter because it gets all in the nooks and crannies of it. Yeah. Similar to an English muffin. No, it's not similar to an English muffin because an English muffin has the deepest nooks and crannies that you can possibly have. I wish Barrett was here to talk about it right now. Are you supposed to toast the bagel before you eat it? I like to.

It's preference. I toasted mine. I've done both. He's done both. He's certainly done both. Hey, is it weird that I put mine on the Traeger and smoked it? I reversed. That actually would probably be pretty fucking good.

You smoked salmon and smoked cream cheese. So that's where I draw the line. Actually, I draw the line at anything other than cream cheese. But salmon on a bagel just sounds weird to me. Lots. Yeah. It's a thing that you— It's a popular brunch thing.

It's really good. You feel weird about it until you try it. Then it's like, you know the cream cheese sushi roll with salmon? It's like that brunch thing. It's really good. You feel weird about it until you try it. It's like cream cheese sushi roll with salmon. It's like that with carbs. No, it's like that, but not trash. Yeah, also that. And all you New Jersey folks out there riding for Taylor ham and pork roll,

relax. Relax. I told somebody I was going to come at a geographic region today. It's New Jersey. Relax. It's fine. You going to come at a geographic region today. It's New Jersey. Relax. It's fine. You guys, you have a good sandwich.

It's fine. Their bagels are the same as New York. It's just any, all those fucking snobs up there in the Northeast talking about their bagels and their pizza. I just don't care. I just don't care. If I lived there and I was like eating it all the time, maybe I might be like that. But like, just shut up.

Like, I can't help that we live in Texas and we don't have some incredible bagel place to go to every fucking day. You haven't been to H-E-B, bro. White Men's has phenomenal bagels. Listen, Texas has... Sorry. Go for it. There are regional examples of that everywhere. Yeah.

Everyone rides for whatever their region does best. I know, but the North... Texas barbecue is just better. Texas barbecue... It's the water. Where barbecue stops. I've never been to a breakfast taco in New York, I'll tell you that much, because they're really good here. But it's the Northeast attitude regarding it.

They're so defiant, they just put their foot down. It's like, all right, I just don't care. I can't say that Texas is any less bad. The Whataburger thing, we've really pigeonholed ourselves. Buc-ee's, Whataburger. Breakfast tacos and brisket. Texas is very snobby. That's right.

Yeah, but I don't think that people are unnecessarily snobby about the brisket. It's the smoke, Will. I'm impartial. Will, it's the smoke. It's the oxygen down here. You're talking to me like I'm disputing this. You don't get it. We have different smoke here.

It's like the oxygen. It just mixes different. They don't understand. They wouldn't understand it. We have different smoke here. It's like the oxygen. It just mixes different. They don't understand. They wouldn't understand it, dude. The brisket in Texas is the best brisket I've ever had. Yeah. That being said, I've never been to these other places and tried their barbecue. I'm not doing the Carolina thing.

I'm not going to Kansas City. Okay. I don't have a— They do a good hog in Carolina. Shouts to Rodney Scott. They're known for their pork. Rod Allen, former Tigers broadcaster, used to love the Kansas City road trips because he would be able to go eat some barbecue afterwards.

How far is Kansas City from here? Driving. About 20 minutes. It's like hundreds of miles. So what, like a day? You can make it in a day? You can make it in a day. It's going to be a long day, but yeah.

I would be down to drive up there. It's a okay i've done i've done nine you trying to go tc is a top 10 circling back demo would you do a meetup is it really yeah i swear to hey we need to stop talking about doing all these meetups and actually do all these. I literally almost tweeted today when I was sitting at the longest stop sign on the way to my commute, and I almost tweeted. I'm just so horned up for a. I already tweeted that from circling back. I know. I almost did it again from circling back.

We should do it right now. Just drop it. We should get a gram off, like with a meetup gram, and just be like, how age are you for these? Not us, but like meetups., like with a meetup gram and just be like, how age are you for these? Not us, but like meetups. I would love a meetup. We'll do the long-awaited New York one at the Gem Saloon and we'll get bagels. Micah has somebody, and I don't know if it's someone that he knows or if it's somebody that he's connected with due to his fiance. But someone sends them fresh bagels from New Yorkork like overnights them and they get them

every once every few months he gave me one it was great like i think we just need to do this and just do a tasting okay i'm down i think we just need to throw down get some overnighted bagels i would love to be wowed by a new york bagel but people are going to say that even waiting overnight is going to completely compromise them so it it's a lose-lose situation. I think we should just go to New York and bring a bag of H-E-B Everything Bagels. Since that's the best ones down here, correct, Dave? Yeah, I think it's pretty clear. Do you think if somebody opened a New York bagel shop down here, would that do numbers?

No, they've tried. Really? I've been to one that was doing it New York style. do numbers? No, they've tried. Really? I've been to one that was doing it New York style and I have to say they didn't accomplish it and I don't, I haven't seen anything from them in a bit. It's just not, it's not the same. Dude, aren't we getting an East Hampton sandwich code down here? I know we, I think we've talked about this, me and you, but that's a place they do like the, some guy vacationed in the Hamptons and he liked their sandwiches. Apparently that's a thing. So he put one in Dallas.

I think we're getting one here. I don't think they do bagels, but I don't know. I don't know how he's doing it so good with the different water here. It's limestone-y down there. The Permian. In closing, my perfect breakfast sandwich. You ready for this? My perfect breakfast sandwich

would be a toasted English muffin, buttered, scrambled eggs. Actually, I might go fried egg. I'm going fried egg. Pivoting. Scrambled egg is good. Yolk is good. Yeah.

Fried egg, cheese. I might even put some bacon on there because I'm a wild boy. Do it on two meats and a sausage patty. You're going double meat. I'm going sausage patty and bacon, and I'll be a happy boy. Isn't it the same sandwich? Goodness. Did I stutter, Brett?

No. That's quite the sandwich, Will. What do you call that? It's just a little puck, dog. Just a little puck. That's the thing about English muffins. They're contained. You can contain everything.

Yeah, but one bite and it's going to spill. I feel like the English muffin's flimsy. Yeah. It's not like as solid as a – I know it doesn't have the hole in the middle, which is the biggest issue. Okay. No, the issue with the bagel being so formidable and, like, tough is that when you bite into it, it just pushes down on everything. Yeah. When you bite down an English muffin, you pierce it.

It doesn't just shoot everything. It does smush all the insides when you bite down on a bagel sandwich. Doesn't an English muffin scratch the roof of your mouth? Absolutely not. No. Absolutely not. And way no more than a bagel does. English muffins are very soft.

You're going to get a jaw workout with a bagel. Yes. Yes. Which is a good thing. Some people are looking for jaw gains. I'm going to pull up with the jowns. David. I'm an over-easy guy, by the way. So similar to a fine guy. I'm an over pull up with the Jones. David. I'm an over-easy guy, by the way.

So similar to a fun guy. I'm an over-medium guy. My perfect breakfast sandwich is any really, really good breakfast sandwich opened up, all the ingredients dumped into a nice homemade tortilla, wrapped up, and then eaten. I thought you were going to be like, anyone that I can beat the piss out of Dylan before I even want to. What would I do? Dylan's catching strays today. You're going to need a, anyone that I can beat the piss out of Dylan before I even want to. What would I do?

Dylan's catching strays today. You're going to need a lot of tacos for that, David. Do you guys want to continue the food train? Yes. You guys see this story about a mafia boss who bites off and swallowed a guard's finger during a cell inspection? What? This is news to me.

He did the sicko mode button. He did. A Sicilian mafia boss serving a life sentence for killing an investigator was so infuriated during an inspection inside his Rome prison that he bit off and swallowed the guard's pinky finger, according to reports. Giuseppe Fanata, age 60, who was locked up on the Rebibbia prison, attacked seven guards when they came to inspect his cell, the Guardian reported. The cannibalistic Cosa Notra. I don't even know. Who's that?

Cosa Notra. Oh, is that like a place? You don't talk about Cosa Notra. Our thing. He's nine years into his sentence under Italy's tough penal code. Ew. Toughest of penal codes. Reserved for mob bosses who are isolated behind bars to prevent them from running their clans from inside the joint.

Hey, oh. Why did this guy try to attack seven guards? He's got the mafia boss mentality, which I like. He does not give an F. He'll be out in a year. They'll brick him out with a drone or something. They always try to get this guy out. They're get they're gonna chop those way out of there they yeah it's it's very similar to how they were just able to get el chapo out of like the first five five presidencies ever in

or like somebody's gonna fly a helicopter over it and like drop a rope and he's just gonna climb out hanging on it this is a this is an all-in move did you know this guy from your time in Italy? Sicily, right? Giuseppe. Giuseppe. I never really went that far south in Italy. I'm not a Sicily guy. Although I do hear they have lovely seafood.

I would like to go one day. It's the bottom part of the boot. Did you go to Sicily? What makes the seafood there? It's not even like the bottom part of the boot. It's like the island part of the boot. Did you go to Sicily? What makes the seafood there so good? It's not even like the bottom part of the boot. Coastal. It's like the island off of the boot. Yeah, man. I was trying to just do a snobby bagel connection there.

Oh. People got it, I think. Anyway. It's just like the salt water from the Mediterranean. It's just different salt there. It has more sodium. Is that why their seafood's so good? They come out of the water already seasoned.

Yeah. You don't even need to salt it. You know how you salt your steaks? You don't need to do that. Because if you get steak from the Mediterranean, it's super salty. Well, that's why Whataburger tastes so good. Whataburger? The water.

Yeah. Me and Clem were talking about it the other day when we were dove hunting. He ate the dude's finger? He actually swallowed it. He swallowed it. Who's doing that? How do you know it's swallowed? Is that so they couldn't reattach it?

I think so. I think that's what you do, right? You're not getting this thing back. You've already got the finger in your mouth. You might as well just swallow it so the guy's, like, fucked over and doesn't have a finger anymore. Was it a piece of the finger? Like, the whole damn thing or what? He said the whole finger, Dylan.

I don't know. There's no video of this. So, in theory, he's going to have a finger anymore. Was it a piece of the finger? Like the whole damn thing or what? He said the whole finger, Dylan. I don't know. There's no video of this. So in theory, he's going to have a finger in his butt. Yeah. At some point. Well, exiting the butt maybe. David.

Still in it. David. I'm just saying. What happens when the bone doesn't digest, right? Fingers and sisley, you're supposed to taste yourself so much better. Is that going to be a problem? Yeah.

Everybody says that. I think it would be, right? Or what's that thing on Billy and the Bird that people eat, bones and all? Oh, it's like a French delicacy. Yeah. It's really creepy. Oh, yeah. Are you talking about succession?

No, succession. Is it billions or succession? Succession did something with it. I mean, if billions did something with that, it wouldn't surprise me. Yeah, they eat the beak and everything. Yeah, it's just a bird and they just eat it.

I mean, do you get worried eating soft-shell crab? I need to know more about this bird that they're eating. I think I looked it up when I watched that episode,

but I forgot it all. I'm doing it right now. The, okay, whoa. The Ordolon. It wasn't Billions. What they do is they, they also did it, that, whoa. The Ordolon. It wasn't billions. What they do is they-

They also did it, that's weird that they did it in both. Oh. So what you do is you throw the bird, you drown the bird in brandy, and then you- That's rude. They're just like, yeah, see ya. You drown it? Literally drown it, yeah. Don't you feed it a ton of food first?

Yes. You feed it a ton of food, you drown it. Torture the thing. Yes. Correct. And then you appear to fry it or pan, you know, saute it, and then you eat it in one bite. How much does it cost for one of these things?

I'll say $7,000. Let's see. Single bird going for $180. That's significantly cheaper. That's too cheap. But it's illegal, so it's like, okay, good. As it should be. Yeah.

I'm looking at photos right now of doing it. Why do you have to wear the cloth on your head? It's like a ritual of some sort. If I walk into a restaurant and a bunch of people are eating Ortolan, I think there's a KKK meeting going down because that's what this looks like. You want me to do a dramatic reading of how Anthony Bourdain described it? Sure. I bring my molars down and through my bird's ribcage

with a wet crunch and am rewarded with a scalding hot rush of burning fat and guts down my throat. We've done a lot of gross things on this pod. This is the one,

this is making me feel the most uncomfortable. I will say it. Rarely have pain and delight combined so well. I'm giddily uncomfortable, breathing in short, controlled gasps as I continue slowly, ever so slowly, to chew.

I'm creeped out, and I love Bourdain. With every bite as the thin bones and layers of fat, meat, skin, and organs compact in on themselves, there are sublime dribbles of varied and wondrous ancient flavors. So, Santeria. Crystal Ball.

I don't practice Santeria, Dave. Figs. Armagnac, dark flesh slightly infused with salty taste of my own blood. Brett, you're creeping me out, man. Is pricked by the sharp bones. As I swallow, I draw in the head and beak, which until now have been hanging from my lips. Are we still talking about this bird? And blithely crush the skull.

I'm out. Brett, have you killed a man? No, that was weird, though, Bourdain. That got increasingly more people. I like Bourdain. Bourdain is the goat. I will choose to ignore that part of his record. His word's not mine.

And I will acknowledge that I didn't get into Bourdain until his passing. Really? I was into it, but not as into it. Like I went through and watched a significant amount of Bourdain afterward. You should read Kitchen Confidential. I've heard. Great vacation book.

Yeah. Started on the plane, knocked out a couple chapters at the pool, hit it on the way back. Easy read. Highly recommend. Okay. The book club's coming soon.

Hey, it's small business September, Brett. Sure is. Dylan has one. He's got it out of the way first, but then I'll hit the real small business September. Yeah. Can I talk rollback real quick? Oh, yeah. Look, we have big news on the rollback front, folks. We have a new promo code. The other one was compromised, unfortunately. So Rosie 20 is out. Stella 20 is in. Use Stella 20 at checkout for 20% off your order. You want a pro tip? Yes. Load that card up because it's a one-time use only.

There you go. If you buy a shirt, you're going to love it so much that you're going to want to come back and buy more. And you're not going to save 20% the next time around. Load up that card. I love it so much I prematurely pulled out the quarter zip today. Yes. I'm wearing their hat right now.

They have the best fitting hats in the game. Athletic tees that Dave and I wear at the gym all the time. And, of course, their polos. They have a dinosaur print one now. I don't know what they call it. I'm calling it the homie. And I think I have one en route maybe. They even have a dinosaur mask.

And a mask. Their masks slap. I'm actually about to buy some maybe. They even have a dinosaur mask. And a mask. Their masks slap. We love all that. I'm actually about to buy some full price just because I need some more. Stella 20 at checkout will get you 20% off. Speaking of Small Biz September and the homie, how do you like the dinosaur chocolate from Woodhouse? He hasn't had it yet.

Oh. Yeah. Okay. He hasn't had it yet. Last time I was with him, we went to the ranch, had a busy few days, so he didn't really get to spend much time at home. But I will report back. I've been going hard on that chocolate.

The Woodhouse was unbelievable. They had this milk chocolate peanut toffee thing that it's just been rocking my world. Well, these guys are going to rock your world too, Dylan. Fetch, CLT, Fetch Charlotte. Backer Leah, she runs a small business called Fetch. Look at that puppy dog. She's a full-time teaching facilitator at an elementary school in Charlotte, North Carolina. And in her spare time, she makes dog leashes, collars, custom bandanas, bows, and bow ties, Dylan.

What's Stella got around the neck? Just a standard collar at the moment. Well, that's about to change. I hope so. She's been running Fetch for a little over three years now and originally started it to just make things for her dog Archie, who is a very handsome German Shepherd. He is a stud German Shepherd.

Absolutely. He's just lengthy. He's long. He is long. It grew into something that's now a legitimate part-time job for Leah. She has a space in a store in Charlotte, and she's always looking for opportunities to grow her business. Let's go.

She is this week's Small Biz September shout-out to FetchCLT.com. Backer, her and her fiancé say this is their favorite podcast. Oh, how about that? Damn straight. Glad to help out then. Yeah, they make awesome little dogs. They have a Will Dogs bandana that we're looking at right now. I see that.

Yeah, we're going to sue them for all their work. Seize and desist. Going to need them royalties. Love seeing that on the site. Go to FetchCLT.com. Shouts to Leah. This is an awesome little small business. Hope things are going well. They even have stuff

for humans. They do. Scrunchies. It says specifically for humans, Randy. Hope you're paying attention. The Theo Scrunchie. That's my personal favorite. FetchCLT. You're a big fan of Theo on the real world, right? Dude, he's now a comedian. No, he's not. Are you serious? Dude, he's now a comedian. No, he's not.

Are you serious? Dude, he's legit. He's kind of like big time now. Really? He's in the Rogan-Brennan-Schab circle. Is this Theo Vaughn? Yeah. Dude, he's got a following. I've never listened to his stand-up, but people love him.

They will ride for him. It blew me away. This is one of those moments that just blows my mind because I never put together that Theo from the real world was Theo Vaughn. Yeah, dude. It took me a while. Good for him. Dude, he's doing well.

Good for him. Interesting. You know his full name, if this is real? Theodore Capitani Vaani Von Kurnitowski. Unless this is a bit. It's on his Wikipedia. I could be reading into the bit. He's only 40.

I hope it's a bit. He's a Louisiana kid. That's right. Okay. He was a good character. Should we do this weekend of fun presented by Miller High Life? I think we probably should. You know what Miller High Life is at this point.

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Ooh. Bottle or can? Can. You love to see it. Love the can. Don't poo-poo the bottle, though. No, I just like the can. I know. The bottle's great. It's bottle, though. No, I just like the can. I know.

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I have nothing on the docket whatsoever. I'm going to be watching a lot of sports. I think you guys probably will too. Football is starting up. College and NFL, I believe. Correct me if I'm wrong. I mean, college already started, but it hasn't really started. Yeah, what's up with that?

Bama doesn't play until the end of the month and stuff. Texas plays UTEP. It's not like a big game, but Texas plays, so that's big for me. 42-point favorites right now. 42-point favorites. Ooh, I would hammer UTEP. Ooh. Shut up.

Hockey, of course, will be on. Dave, good luck to your stars. I don't really mean that. That's it. If you guys are getting into something, I mean, holler at your boy. I don't have Parks Friday or Saturday, unfortunately. We'll try, dude. We hit you up every weekend.

But fortunately, I'll be up to do something. So holler at me please i'm begging you make sure to get the message through to me send me a snail mail if you have if you have to stop by the crib just get the message to me somehow smoke signals we'll do it from dave's trailer is that a native american joke i don't know we're smoking bagels we're going to be smoking some bagels, some brisket, and we'll just. It's a bagel and brisket party. We'll just get you over there.

So just look at the sky all weekend. Anybody put brisket on a bagel yet? Surely. Probably, but nobody, like, not formally. I'll put it that way. Okay. Cut this clip. That concludes my weekend in fun presented by No High Life.

Why don't you have a patio party? A patio party? Yeah. We'll see about it. The whole squad hasn't been to your place yet. We'll see about it. I've been there. We've all been there in different capacities, but.

Okay. Go to a fashion house party? Yeah. Like, you have an Instagram-worthy patio with, like, the ivy and shit. I do. It looks like the back porch at Irene's. I'll turn the Cupid Shuffle on. We'll have a little dance party.

It'll be fun. David, what's your weekend looking like? Low key, man. Low key. I'll be hanging out. Weather permitting, maybe I'll do a little golf thing. I don't know. Just kind of.

We'll see. Just kind of keeping a low profile. I am out next Monday I will not be on this pod or too much dip Due to a Procedure Catch a boy on the boards Is it technically a procedure?

It's a colonoscopy So I have to prepare for that with my diet So I don't want to like drink I'm not going to drink a lot or anything I'll probably have one or two Miller Highlifes. Enjoy that. And Sunday, it's all

liquid diet, clear liquids only. And then more to come on this. I'm sure I'll talk about it Wednesday, but my Sunday night's going to get real interesting when I take the prescription based laxative. Oh, yeah. Buckle up. You got to clear that system out. You ever done that before?

Nope. Have fun. Prescription, huh? Yeah, man. We're looking forward to it. Thanks. You're going to be a leaky faucet over there, man. Yeah, your leg's going to fall asleep on the toilet. Mark my words. Have fun. That's when you know you're getting one done. When that leg falls asleep.

Clear it out, dog. Yeah, that's the point. Got to clear that colon. Right. Fun. Clear colon, can't lose. Must win. What is it? Yep, you nailed it. No, that was perfect.

All right. That's exactly how it goes. What about you, Will? Yeah, unfortunately, I don't have a lot going on this weekend. The weather, like everything's weather permitting. Dude, this is like meat pie weather, man. It's weird. Dude, it's so meat pie weather.

Rest in peace, Darcy. Yeah. Speaking of meat pies, English Rest in peace, Darcy. Yeah. Speaking of meat pies, English Premier League starts up this weekend. Big. Big stuff. United's not playing, so I don't have significant investment, but there's a lot of games on this slate, so catch me ass deep on the couch. Ass deep.

I've got room on my couch if you want to come through. You want to watch soccer with me? Sure. I have room on mine too You can pick up bagels Dude, a bagel and soccer party? Are you kidding? No, we need meat pies, dude Let's just make meat pies this week I'll text you

Yeah, other than that, not much going on I've got a lot of TV to catch up on I'm not going to lie I've been watching Love Island every night Which has kind of been taken away from my series. So I'd like to do some catch-up. I don't know. Maybe catch me on the sticks playing a little Tony Hawk Pro Skater again.

Maybe catch me doing Fall Guys. I would love to do a co-op online thing with some Tony Hawk just to shut the haters down. Have you played multiplayer yet? No. I haven't either. Do you know what the deal is? I don't know.

I have no clue. What they should do is just do two-minute sessions where you play somebody online, and then you get to, and the winner goes on or something like that. Yeah, I think that's maybe one option. I'm going to try it today, I think. I'll play. You want to do a co-op later?

I don't think we can do cross-platform. Dude, I love crossing swords platforms. I know. I do, too. It's a bummer. I like crossing people. We'll look into it. Maybe you can. I'm platforms. I do, too. It's a bummer. I like crossing people over. We'll look into it. Maybe you can.

I'm sorry. That wasn't funny. You need to work on your bounce passes, though. Yeah, that's fair. They're very dry. Brett, you got anything going on? I do. I'm very much looking forward to this weekend.

I am going to be at Intern Klein's ranch. Oh, wow. Yeah. Wow. We're heading out there. So pretty excited. i thought he would have might have caught the invite but i did catch the invite that's right okay the the no dog policy really keeps me from going out there for the next 12 ish years unfortunately i would like it's my

one of my favorite places to go i just can't you know i can't leave stella at the crib that's fair i don't have a significant other at home like these guys do to look after the homegirl. Hey, don't bring us into it. I'm just saying. I don't have that luxury. That's true. So we'll be out there. I'm excited for that.

We'll go up there Friday to Sunday, probably make some burgers, steaks, go fishing. We did good food there last time. We did do really good food there last time. They have a good situation out there, so I'm looking forward to it. Maybe get a couple wolf owls off. Man, that is the sight of your very, very poor wolf owl. I'm going to have to redeem myself. Is there a video of this? No.

No, it was just – honestly, even if there was, I wouldn't share it. That's how bad it was. It's borderline as bad as, like, the Fight Night video. Epstein didn't kill himself. I think you got wronged on that. You did not get wronged on that. That's just how it happened. Is Ghislaine still alive?

Yeah. Yeah. As far as I know. She kind of went quiet a little bit here. Well, she is in jail. It's not easy to do stuff. Anyway, that's all I have planned. Then I'll come back on Sunday.

Apparently she's just complaining about being in there, which seems like something people do a lot in jail, so I don't really know why that's news. Maybe she'll bite off the guard's finger. She should. I don't really feel bad for her. Yeah. Oh, I'm sorry.

Oh, you had to live this life of luxury for so long while trafficking little girls. Oh, got him. I'm sorry, Gh Ghislaine shouldn't have been part of a global pedophilia ring to cater to the elites that's where she messed up really there are definitely people out there complaining about her

but I think they might have some more grounds to stand on hard to say alright guys hell of a week we'll see you guys on Friday patreon.com slash circling back podcast to stand on. So hard to say. All right, guys, hell of a week. We'll see you guys on a Friday, patreon.com slash circling back podcast. Again,

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