Circling Back - Brendan Sorsby Got His Beak Wet | Circling Back 4-28-26

Episode Date: April 28, 2026

Texas Tech QB Brendan Sorsby is facing permanent suspension for gambling on football, Dianna Russini made a playlist for Mike Vrabel in 2022, we look at our ChatGPT facial scores, and discuss the poss...ibly most severe fantasy football punishment.  Support us on Patreon and receive weekly episodes for as low $5 per month: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.patreon.com/circlingbackpodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Watch all of our full episodes on YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.youtube.com/washedmedia⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Shop Washed Merch: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.washedmedia.shop⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ • (00:00) Fun & Easy Banter • (13:00) Brendan Sorsby Getting His Beak Wet • (38:40) Russini Playlist • (51:40) ChatGPT Facial Scores • (1:01:40) Is this the worst fantasy punishment? Support This Episode’s Sponsors: - Fair Harbor Clothing: Head to ⁠https://www.fairharborclothing.com/⁠ and use code CIRCLINGBACK20 for 20% OFF your full price order now through 4/30 - BetterHelp: Our listeners get 10% off their first month at ⁠https://betterhelp.com/circling⁠ - Rocket Money: Join at ⁠https://rocketmoney.com/circling⁠ - Fitbod: Get 25% off your subscription or try the app FREE for seven days at ⁠⁠https://fitbod.me/steam Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:04 All right, we're back. This here's the circling back podcast. I don't know what you thought you were listening to, but that's what this is. So if you made a mistake, you can leave now. My name is David. Welcome. Producing is Randall Trumbacki. Hi, Dave.
Starting point is 00:00:33 Hi. How are you? Oh, I'm really good, man. I'm just leveraging AI to see how hot I am. So yeah, things are going pretty good. Oh, is that why you guys are such a sour mood? this morning. I'm actually, the results may surprise. KJ. Elise is in a good mood.
Starting point is 00:00:48 I'll tell you that much. No one's getting everyone pumped up this morning and everyone's telling me to shut up. It was just your tone. We don't like your tone. You don't like my tone. You know, am I? Dave, you ready this morning? We were doing our breathing, our box breathing.
Starting point is 00:01:04 God, you'd be a terrible camper, man. We're doing our, you ever do the box breathing? Not like a Houston pool party, but like something different. Dylan Shivery. Wow, do you set up your own joke, dude? Dylan Shivery. I'm feeling really good, all right?
Starting point is 00:01:21 There's that energy. That could be because I took Blueprint this morning for the first time. More on that on a later episode. Or it could be- The Rock is in the building. Every now and then we have a slate of topics that just get me really excited. Every now and then. And today's one of those days.
Starting point is 00:01:39 To everyone who found us through Slate, welcome. I'm really excited about today's topics. And we got KJ here to chime in. Hold on. That's a surprise. Oh, he already said KJ. Oh,
Starting point is 00:01:51 don't blame me. KJ. Ellis, live from Wisconsin. Hello. Hey, man. Thanks, that's the energy we need in here.
Starting point is 00:02:04 Hi, KJ. Oh, what's happening, fellas? Happy to be here. Thrilled to be here. That was a masterful, like,
Starting point is 00:02:10 toss off the backboard. To collect your own dunk, self-assist. there earlier, David. But yeah, fellas, I have to say, it's only been like a week or two since I've done a podcast and never have I felt more like, how the hell do I do this than like five minutes before joining this, like every single time. Like, all right.
Starting point is 00:02:35 All right. Now, how do I be funny? And then I talk to Randy and I'm like, okay. You know, you can be funnier than this guy. then your confidence goes way up randy's like the ultimate fluffer it's wonderful yeah i was his nickname in college i was not no that wasn't my nickname in college what was your nickname in college uh cool dude that that definitely was not no one's name they say hey there comes cool i'm example okay um well welcome i don't know uh what's that weather looking like i notice you're wearing a
Starting point is 00:03:09 short sleeve polo oh bad i ain't funny enough my self-consciousness in that five minutes of doubt. I like shed my little Lulu, uh, little jacket because we're, we're looking about 50 to 60s this week. It's storm season up here, bro. Yeah. I'm not getting hit as hard as like, uh, true blue tornado alley. But, uh, we're continuing our streak of like one alert day a week. And I'm, me for one, I'm not here for it. Yeah, I, I fully expected to see you jack it on. I'm jacking off this morning yesterday after school
Starting point is 00:03:45 Parks was supposed to call me because sometimes he goes to the playground and somebody needs to be picked up right away he called me from his Apple Watch he's at the playground y'all need to stop and he goes Are he sword on? He goes, dad, you got to come pick me up
Starting point is 00:03:59 it's too hot out here, bray it's too hot out here bray all right man I'll be there in five this morning was the I believe the warmest April morning on record for Austin or close to it. Seriously? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:04:15 Morning. The warmest April morning. Don't like how that's trending. Like 76 degrees. Nothing like getting up. Dewpoint high. Where are you going, big dog? Oh, we lost Randy.
Starting point is 00:04:26 Oh, no. Don't get lost and never come back. KJ, you need to be on the Randy method where he has like, if you ever get like the prepod jitters, just look down at your very, very specific checklist. I appreciate Randy's commitment to, like, adding some structure into his day. I think I told him about that. I think back to looking at a room filled with him, T-Man and Adam, in early lodge days.
Starting point is 00:04:55 And Randy being like, all right, you knuckleheads, like just sitting there going full boiler room, like boss mode. And I'm like, man, this guy's really grown a little bit. Yeah. Settle down into his ways. He runs a tight ship. brosive or not brosive i get here with the bro and broskey sometimes from kai who's uh broskis 6 in in july we had a brosky uh brosky a brosky phase for sure for sure brosky are you for real is too hot i hear it's it's bedtime but if i hear brett it might be a step too far
Starting point is 00:05:28 i heard uh i heard parks walked in on you watching some netflix thing and asked you why you were watching more unc slop we got to do we got to mix an unks slap here and there. Dude, you're the king. KJ, did you hear the UFO videos are just unkslaw? No, but I love it. Yeah, it's good. I love it.
Starting point is 00:05:48 It's good. I've gotten hit with, uh, hey, Joe Biden is what Kyle will say to me. And I'm like, I haven't searched it. I haven't seen it in context. I haven't seen it used elsewhere. I don't know that one. I don't even know what he could be referring to. But that's what he tries to call me.
Starting point is 00:06:03 Is, is that not like the Joe, Joe Byron from the, you know, Bing bong that episode It might be But I don't think my 5 and a half year old knows what you're referring to Or his stupid friends And so they probably butcher it And he's just adapted for some reason to say Joe Biden Who he also doesn't know
Starting point is 00:06:24 I don't know What an all time video that was Didn't Joe have a funny moment Sleepy Joe like recently? What did he do? The Cowboys facility? No, that was another ex-president I'd love to see Joe, I'd love to see Joe and Jerry mix it up
Starting point is 00:06:45 Oh, God Oh man Oh, I know what it was he brought did he didn't bring up a kid to say he looked like Obama And he made him walk up to the top of this like the front of the stage It wasn't a kid, it was a grown man The grown man, it was like, oh yeah dude He was like yeah dude to be fair he looked a lot like Obama It wasn't just like dementia Joe chiming in like
Starting point is 00:07:08 It's just a weird move to like that. You know what? This is crazy. You got to come up. Dude, come up here. Look at this. Turns out it was just like secret service double who'd like served for Obama for years.
Starting point is 00:07:18 And he's like, Joe, I rode in the car with you here. You see me every day. Oh, man. Well, welcome KJ. And welcome to everyone who has,
Starting point is 00:07:28 uh, found us through other mediums. Uh, guess what? Where? Where KJ? I'm sorry. Oh,
Starting point is 00:07:35 I'm sorry. I joined you guys from Jezebel. I'm really happy to be here. Okay. Yeah. Is Jezboe's still around? I don't think so. I hope so.
Starting point is 00:07:43 I think they went under with Gawker. I mean, it was a Gawker brand. Okay. Hulk Hogan. Duttspin, I mean, Detspin's not around, right? Despen's around. Is it really? They're back.
Starting point is 00:07:54 Yeah, they're back. Never mind. They'll get dunked on like a couple times a year. And you just feel bad for the people over there writing because it's like they're just trying to make a buck. It's hard. Yeah. Blogging.
Starting point is 00:08:05 And then people are like, oh, old Dudspin would Never do this. They were a force for a while. They were. Then they got Peter Tealed. Anyway, we have a Patreon. Yes, we do. And when a wonderful episode today.
Starting point is 00:08:20 I'm still getting submission. So it's going to be like, it could be a long episode. Could it be a run-it-back situation if we have enough to do two? I'm just saying, I have high expectations for today. I've had a few that are like very fun. It is dating. Some that are, like, insane and some that are, it's dating out. So it's just stories from dating app, good and bad. Some of them are like very cute. Like,
Starting point is 00:08:43 oh, that ended very cute. And some of them were like, dude, I cannot believe people are like this. It's bleak out there, some might say. But check it out. That's only on Patreon. Go subscribe, support the show. And check us out on Spotify. Specifically, you can watch us on Spotify. How about that? Comments from yesterday, Electric. The comments in Spotify have been really good. We've been enjoying them. The Spotify commenter is better than the YouTube commenter at this point. That's true. Not the chat, but just the commenter.
Starting point is 00:09:14 The chat's great, but maybe that's a shot at you guys on YouTube. Maybe you need to be commenting more. Spotify is eating your lunch. Oh, wow. Yeah. Like a pool party. Okay. Do point what it is.
Starting point is 00:09:26 It is a limited amount of time this year to eat my lunch, but go right ahead. Do point. It's no longer ass the rural eating seasons, is what I'm announcing here. Once that D-Point hits a certain level, humidity's too high for playing around those games. Hey, if you work for Vizzy, we'd welcome you back.
Starting point is 00:09:46 We enjoy your product. We really do. I miss talking about it. Other items with Acarola eating season. I wonder if that's why they didn't renew. Like, you got a good bit. Where should we cut the budget?
Starting point is 00:09:59 Oh, how about the guys who keep talking about aceroli eat in season? It was a good bit. It was a good bit. It was a good product. Like, that was like legitimately,
Starting point is 00:10:07 my favorite, I don't drink a lot of hard celtars, but that was one I really enjoyed. It was legitimately good, yeah. They had the best flavors. Best flavors says Randy. Yeah. And I'm a connoisseur. He's a connoisseur of a fruity alcoholic drinks. That's true.
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Starting point is 00:10:45 For real? Yeah. That's crazy. Holy shit. What did you hit today? Our cycles are synced up, I think. Okay. I did chess and core today.
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Starting point is 00:12:01 He's out there patrolling the... Just roaming that backfield. Roaming it. Just rolling it. KJ. I wouldn't say like my personal careers a lot to highlight about it, but I was, I wouldn't say the year that I was at Texas Tech. Like, it was just the wildest confluence of names that are still relevant in football. Sonny Dykes was on staff, Dana Holgerson, Danny Mandola was there. Lincoln Riley. I don't know. Lincoln Riley was there notably.
Starting point is 00:12:28 What did he say to you? Was he nice to you? He was the offensive GA at the time. So he was my position coach as a scout team player. And he accurately described me as a female reproductive part that I won't say here on this program because I'm a professional. Is this because you showed up eating nachos? No. It was because I was one cheeking in a drill. And he just said, stop acting like a pussy and finish the drill.
Starting point is 00:12:55 You said it. Okay, man. Well, I was trying to quote him accurately. So it was like my ex-wife. Anyways. I'm sorry. We're not here to talk about me. We're here to talk about the $5 million man, Brandon Sorsby, quarterback.
Starting point is 00:13:08 Brendan? Brendan. Brandon. Brandon. I think is Brendan. Brendan. Brendan. B.
Starting point is 00:13:13 Sorsby. That's the name of a guy who gambles on football, by the way. Brendan Sorsby. Like, you know that motherfucker's just gamble. He also has the look of a Texas Tech quarterback. Does he not? Okay. He does, but the guy who I think, so Will Hammond, he looks, he's got, he is,
Starting point is 00:13:32 everything that I think of when I think of like old Texas Tech quarterbacks just like a blonde like just kind of gamer-esque yeah and his name's will Hammond for some reason that's Texas Techie to me don't ask me why it's like he might like should still be in high school but you know like he looks young yeah anyway Brendan Sorsby is in some hot water yes the five million dollar transfer portal over from Cincinnati who I believe when six and six last year Cincinnati, not great. He's good, though.
Starting point is 00:14:05 He's good. He's got some talent for sure. Highly coveted in the portal. Absolutely. It was like Sam Levitt, Sorsby, were like the two guys. Lagway, of course, now a Baylor Bear. People just clamor for. Rayola was another one.
Starting point is 00:14:18 Went over to Oregon. I was going to make an asserola. It's stupid. Yeah. It was forced. I shouldn't even brought it up. Go ahead. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:14:27 Well, the people who know what they're talking about talk. It was announced yesterday that Brendan Sorsby has checked into a gambling rehab facility. He's got a bit of a gambling problem. Only made worse by the fact that he gambled on college football while a college football player. Not only that, but his own team. He was at Indiana in 2022 as a true freshman, I believe, true freshman or registered freshman,
Starting point is 00:14:56 one of the two. And gambled for his team to cover the spread. Indiana, that is. Pete Rose. According to some very quick research I did, this comes to us from team rankings.com. Indiana was four and eight against the spread. What website? Team.
Starting point is 00:15:15 Team rankings. Go ahead. Team rankings.com. Okay. They went four and eight against a spread in 2022, which I believe was also the record in 2022, maybe five and seven. I don't know. What are you trying to say?
Starting point is 00:15:32 I just he he hitched his wagon to the wrong horse maybe I don't know should have faded the boys if he was trying to make some money that would have been a worse look if you faded the boys under percent yes has anybody found his Venmo I'm sure people have looked I don't know um so the fact that he's in treatment does that that makes this all go away right it doesn't look like it you know there is precedent here Iowa State, there was a gambling story. Iowa State football in 2023, I believe. And a quarterback for Iowa State was given a permanent ban for betting on college football.
Starting point is 00:16:18 So there's precedent here. It is like NCAA rule. If you bet on college football as a college football player, you're done. That's probably the right thing. It doesn't look good. Okay. I got a hot take. You're ready for this?
Starting point is 00:16:35 Hot take. If you're betting for your team to win, I don't think, I don't give a shit. If you're betting against your team, then yeah, of course, if you have an influence of the game,
Starting point is 00:16:43 but if you're betting on your team to win, get on you. Yeah, but you're also, like, thinking of it in a world in which, like,
Starting point is 00:16:53 this player then doesn't have the ability to contact somebody on the other team, that's in a position to affect the outcome, be like, hey, bookies, whoever laying 250K on us to win or on us to cover. All I'm doing is I'm calling the punter, who's not getting any NIL money, who's the holder on field goals or whatever to do the slightest of hand movement to shank a
Starting point is 00:17:19 fucking field goal to secure that this, you know, to secure the cover, we're already winning, whatever it might be. So like you can influence it beyond just your own play, even if you're betting on your team to win. Let's see that. What if you're a, what if you're like a special operator and you've been tasked with removing from power, the Venezuelan president, and you lay a little, little coin on the boys to get it done? I don't have a problem.
Starting point is 00:17:48 I don't have much of a problem with that one. Yes, I'm on your own team. Yeah, so you're betting on the, this was, okay, that would be tough if you bet against it and you're on the mission and you're just like, you go. Yeah. You go in there, you fire off some warning shots like, oh, crap, this thing's discharging. I get your point, KJ. You're talking about Maduro backdoor covered?
Starting point is 00:18:08 So there's somebody hiding in the closet. A backdoor Maduro cover. So this, his gambling, his gambling began in 2022. And I don't even, was this even NIL era or like the beginning of it? Either way, he was, he was not a big name. He wasn't bringing in NIL money at that point. So these were probably fairly small wagers on his team at that point. Apparently, he's addicted to gambling.
Starting point is 00:18:28 So this has been going on since then. I assume his wagers have gone up since then. Not trying to make light of gambling addiction, clearly as I'm the guy who reads the disclaimer. Called the Hopeline. Or 1-800, my reset. But, big butt there. I'm just curious how you treat that,
Starting point is 00:18:52 like any other addiction. But I'm just wondering because it's, if you treat it like, there's all these alternative treatments where it's like, you know, if you're addicted to substances or something, you can go like do Ibogaine's the new one, right? I wonder like what all you can do to treat a gambling. Or do you just refocus that that like need for action elsewhere? I don't know. This is the problem because to a normal person like us, a lot of people I know that have overcome addiction of whatever, they get really into, let's say, working out. Yeah. Or something.
Starting point is 00:19:25 this guy's an elite quarterback. Yeah, you can't. I'm just wondering like where are you. Yeah. And I, I really am curious. I don't, I don't have a lot of experience with that. So I agree.
Starting point is 00:19:38 I think what you're looking for is like how do they treat the impulse if, but I doubt that the gambling is related to the trigger of being around football. I doubt. I don't know, but I doubt. The timing of this, you brought up Iowa State. I think that's phenomenal.
Starting point is 00:19:55 Notably. That story sat at like the bottom of the too much dip rundown for like months. I was so like, hey, I'm going to go read up on this Iowa, Iowa State story because there was a quarterback and were like 20 other players on both teams. And what they got tied into was these were daily fantasy sports bets. And then when you see it written out like play 678 bets or wagers over a certain period of time, I think when they write it, even if they write those daily fantasy sports to people who don't understand, you think. You're making a call. You're reading a newspaper and you're picking, you're making a pick. That's one.
Starting point is 00:20:30 Or you're going to a counter. You're making a pick. And that's one like action. When in all reality, you could load up like 12 bets in daily fantasy sports app very quickly. And in 2022, it's like when all that mobile stuff probably took off. DFS. Started to bubble. I mean, it's probably earlier than that.
Starting point is 00:20:51 But I feel like that's when we started to see the stories. So I'm not saying that. to excuse this away because again he knows there's the red line of do that for women's water polo and you're fine go find japanese professional football like real human beings yeah play the games at 2 a.m and bet on that but just stay away from NCAA like he knows he knows the rule i mean that's like you sit these guys down like freshman orientation it's like you can't do this it is very much against the rules the consequences are extreme don't do it bet on baseball man, bet on basketball.
Starting point is 00:21:27 Just stay away. I just don't understand why. That's like real addiction, man. It has to be. Word got out that he was going to Cincinnati Reds games and betting like balls and strikes on like every single pitch, like $2 here and there just just to like really, just to feel something. Oh yeah.
Starting point is 00:21:42 That's that's that's a super addiction. He's like he's seems like he's actually has a problem. Yeah, this is tough. Man, he must be really kicking himself like, hey, if that was around like nowadays like Kalsi was around when he's, you know. know, 2022 and he was at the heyday of just betting wild, like, you got to think that he's already up on some of these, like, futures bets.
Starting point is 00:22:03 What you hit on that hair dryer bet? Yeah. Yeah. Airport hair dryer. Oh, yeah. That was insane. I was going to say, what, what's more, like, what's worse, betting just balls and strikes on, like, a Wednesday or, like,
Starting point is 00:22:16 betting, like, the straight of Hormoos, like, like, hey, how many, uh, how many you're getting through today? Like, if you're betting world of things, I don't know. I don't know. What do we think happens to? Two is, okay, hypothetically speaking, he gets banned. Like, he's suspended for the whole rest of his, you know, this is last year anyway. Safe to assume, yeah.
Starting point is 00:22:34 Do we, the NIL money is, is Texas Tech getting that five mil back? By the way, this also. Like this didn't just save it all? You don't think he's just sitting on it? This also coincides with Cincinnati trying to get back the million dollars for breach of contract for leaving early to go to tech. So he could be, financially, he was flush. you know, two days ago. Now it's like,
Starting point is 00:22:57 dude, this dude might be really hurting. Claude, Claude tells me, I've leveraged Claude again. He's facing a combined $6 million of potential legal liability per the aforementioned. Yeah. I think they're just adding the five and the one,
Starting point is 00:23:13 but none of us know the payout terms of those, of the five million one. Like, I don't know if it's all front loaded, guaranteed. Like, I doubt that that's how that works. Or if it's like game checked. He needs,
Starting point is 00:23:24 installments, whatever. Yeah. I'm guessing he's like, at this point, he has to just go all in on rehab so he can just try to play at the next level. I'm pretty sure he knows he's not playing college football again. I would assume that. And I think here's the thing that would be like the immediate action. I agree.
Starting point is 00:23:44 Rehab is the best true solution and PR force field. I don't know what this means for Texas Tech. they've got the number one transfer portal roster in the history of ever they'll be okay right right sure whatever i don't know you seen that schedule i honestly don't know pretty light is so soft pretty light little schedule what did they know what did they know um but with with swords me though honestly i think that there's a conversation to be had of okay great we saw that uh we'll get to in second fable got out of his rehab and you know 47 hours or whatever let's say sources he spends a week, you know, on the reservation, just drying out.
Starting point is 00:24:28 That's the wrong place to be for gambling, actually. Wherever he might be. Don't go to Choctaw. There are those like supplemental drafts that happen for ineligible players in the summer. There's like four players some years. Sometimes there's two. There's potential that he could probably navigate his way to a roster. I don't know the ends and outs of that or the timeline.
Starting point is 00:24:51 But if it's not, hey, I'm going to work out for a year. be rested and be healthy for next year's draft and eligible, I wouldn't be shocked if there aren't like conversations happening like, well, could he be signed to a team? You know, is this a possibility? I'd be all in on that if I'm him because then you get money
Starting point is 00:25:08 and then you get the hell out of this story too. Man, the old tech would have just like found some kid from like a frat intermurals or something. Like Leach would have pulled some dude. Yeah. And made it work. Now they're pretty, they really don't have a lot of room here.
Starting point is 00:25:23 Let's talk about what tech does. Okay, let's, again, hypothetically speaking, Sorsby is out for the season. They have Will Hammond on their roster, who started a handful of games last season when Morton was out and was kind of okay. ACL. Towards ACL. So he's recovering from an ACL.
Starting point is 00:25:38 He may or may not be ready for, you know, game one in the fall. We don't know. They brought in a transfer from Tulsa. His last name is Francis, I think. I forgot his first name. Not great numbers. I don't think they were expecting him to get much playing time at all. Are you aware of the out-of-window transfer punishment scenario, KJ?
Starting point is 00:26:03 Yes, because locally it is a hot topic. Yeah, okay. This discussion was triggered two off-season ago, maybe last all-season. A Wisconsin player, University of Wisconsin player, wanted to transfer after the portal closed. Wisconsin was like, no, bra. NCA says no, we say no. It says like, all right, cool. I'm going to withdraw from school.
Starting point is 00:26:29 Here's all your money or whatever. You'll have a good time. And then when school opens back up, I'm going to enroll at Miami. And he went to Miami and was on the roster. I don't think it was a big contributor or anything. But he was at the, I don't know that he was under a current NIL deal at the time because this was like in that December window. they declined to let him transfer there's something weird about and he just withdrew because of that
Starting point is 00:26:55 they wanted to say like hey well what's to stop these players from just doing that they enacted these like out-of-window transfer penalties and they wanted to narrow down when people could start moving so so the penalties another school's an option the penalty is extreme so they could like people are throwing out the like dylan raola who transferred from Nebraska to Oregon and he's obviously the number two at Oregon because they have Dante Moore there. All right, if they were to go get Dylan Rayola, this is just as an example. The penalty is that McGuire, the head coach would have to, he suspended for 50% of their games. So that's a six game suspension.
Starting point is 00:27:37 Also, they have to pay 20% of the total, they get fined 20% of the total revenue on the season. That is such a stiff penalty. Is it worth exploring this option, though, if your tech? Because you're set up, you mean, you have a team that's set up to make a run. They're going to cruise to the Big 12. Like the schedule is really soft, right? Is this even worth a discussion if your Texas tech? No.
Starting point is 00:28:04 No, I think that there are probably other players available that we're not aware of. You still have opportunities for grad transfers at this point. Who aren't going to be good? I don't think this is going to be like a notable name that we're, like chasing like a Dylan Reuola situation. I don't see that happen. There's no reason Oregon would want that to happen. Like they would see Texas Tech as like
Starting point is 00:28:25 direct competition at this level basically. But you look at like TCU's starting quarterback this year is going to be the guy a guy who transferred in from Harvard. Like that's not a name I would expect, but TCU's like high on them. There's a lot of buzz around them, whatever.
Starting point is 00:28:41 And I'm only saying that to say like that's a big 12 program who's going into the season knowing that our guy was the quarterback at Harvard. So I don't think that you're finding somebody who's number two already on a big roster. It's going to be somebody from a different tier, you know, D1A star or something like that, who we don't know. Yeah, you have guys that entered the portal in the window who are just sitting there waiting for a team to give them a call. Correct, who haven't signed. Correct. Yeah. So unsigned portal players or I think you go and look at like Cam Ward was at the D1A level or whatever they call it now. incarnate word before Washington State.
Starting point is 00:29:20 Then what was the guy, Trinidad Chambleau was also the lower level, I think, right? Yeah. So, like, I think you're going to be looking for whoever that guy is and maybe taking that route. But I don't think it screws their season. I think, as we pointed out, their schedules are going to be favorable. They've got a lot of talent. But I don't, it's definitely going to, you know, we're not talking about. Heismans and Natty's anymore.
Starting point is 00:29:48 Comes to playoff time. You look at like a two law, like if they mess around and lose like two, two or three games with that quarterback that no one, you know, people are going to be like, oh, yeah, we looked at your schedule plus the fact that you like you're here
Starting point is 00:30:03 with that guy that you just pulled off of a random, I don't know, grad transfer, yeah, you're not getting in. Because, I mean, I don't even know what's their, what's their non-conference?
Starting point is 00:30:10 It's not good. It's the whole thing's week. It's not good. It's weak. It's not their fault. The conference is low, but their non-conference is terrible. There's is, Indiana's is,
Starting point is 00:30:20 and there's like two others that are, like, relatively high, but have terrible schedules. But to say the inverse, if I'm a tech fan, like, let's say they win 10 games with whoever it is, whether it's Will Hammond gets healthy or whoever it is, the story is going to be so hot that they persevered through this. Like, the PR is going to be just as strong in their favor, if they're still 10 or 11.
Starting point is 00:30:44 By that point in time, nobody's thinking about right now. Like think about Jake Wright's left from BYU. Got kicked out of BYU. Going into the season was like a top three quarterback. If you was returning at BYU, clap some cheeks and then like ended up at Tulane last minute. So maybe that's your approach.
Starting point is 00:31:05 Go honeypot some kid from BYU, get him kicked out and there you have it. Honey pot. What I'm saying is like, I don't know what the fuck I'm saying to be honest, but no, what I'm saying is, is uh we'll say is that like shit's gonna change the store by the end of the season none of us were thinking about jake rights left not being at b yu when b yu is playing texas they were happy
Starting point is 00:31:26 about bear can't think of it's lasting number 47 their quarterback yeah all those yards he puts up i'm sorry on the ground the 72 rushing uh passing yards and 98 rushing yards uh hey i have an error that we regret uh we two uh two is on the falcons Okay. I forgot about that. Completely forgot about that. So is Quinn the guy? It's Malik. At the moment, is he going to be QB1?
Starting point is 00:31:54 But yeah, I forgot that he is now on the Falcons roster, which actually kind of makes sense. So anyway, all right, well, I don't really have, we'll continue to monitor if y'all are okay with it. Can we want to track that? Yeah, it's a great story. Of course, if like either way this story goes, it's going to be interesting to see what happens to him, at least for a little. bit. But if he comes back, I think that that just adds a bigger target on Texas Tech's back. We're like, hey, how the fuck does this get approved?
Starting point is 00:32:25 Like, NC is a joke? Yeah, what is, what is Cody Campbell's? I almost, every time I say his name, I almost say Cody Canada, by the way. 100% that's what I was hearing whenever I'm saying it. Yeah, but what's, how much is he involved in? Because, I mean, he's, isn't he like involved in like a commit, like some kind of, congressional hearings on college sports. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:32:50 Maybe that's not it. But there's something. Turns out the guy, he's the billionaire oil guy is very well connected. He's back channeling somewhere, trying to get something going in their favor already. We're going to get a true social tweet here pretty quick about Sorsby, like in the next week.
Starting point is 00:33:04 Can I bet on that on Kalshi? I am a Kalshi partner, these people know. Gambling culture, I mean, gambling culture is out of control. You can, like we talked about with the old Kalshi's stuff. you can you can gamble on anything it's like this this kid's a product of like what everything i mean every media you consume like is promoting gambling including us like everyone's doing it's i don't know it's just the punishment of this doesn't fit like the culture that we're building around it yeah
Starting point is 00:33:36 in a way right yeah i mean and this is going to continue to happen yeah it's just call it dude call it College dudes love to gamble on ball. Yeah. That's, you can gamble on, you can gamble on like which schools these transfers eventually sign with. Like that is so easily like manipulative, sure.
Starting point is 00:33:55 Manipulative. Anyway, you can easily manipulate that and be like, hey, I'm going to Texas Tech if you want to get, you know, your beaks wet on this and give me a little kickback. Like,
Starting point is 00:34:05 it's so easy to do. It would be like if, I don't know, like a commander in chief, like was about to announce like something, saying a little something out there about like maybe a pending geopolitical conflict. And then like an account on the aforementioned Kalshi was created and dropped like 100K on whatever was about to happen.
Starting point is 00:34:27 Yeah. It would be like that if something like that were to happen. Yeah. Yeah. You got to think, I mean, we've caught a few of these here and there, but how many of them are going on that just to stay under the radar? I mean, it's got to be. A busted roads.
Starting point is 00:34:41 I busted a roge. He was gambling on some stuff. Was he? Yeah. A roll block or something. There's a tee ball. Oh, really? He's betting on his own team, though.
Starting point is 00:34:50 That's good. He said, not. Okay. I think that's fine. I think it's fine. Peter Lofloor did it on his dodgeball team when they were the underdogs. And guess what?
Starting point is 00:34:58 He bought Global Gym. You can't have the... David, what were you saying? I don't know. I fucked it up. And then I... No, you didn't. It's fine.
Starting point is 00:35:07 I just... Not for today, but... I don't know if I want a pod anymore. future yeah I know I find that future discussion I think this pairs well with
Starting point is 00:35:18 a nice cap but also stories about players who are like buying real estate or houses that are like well beyond their size and life because somebody in wake I don't know what player
Starting point is 00:35:30 was like posting about a big ass house he bought and like the picture and caption was put out there like this is what and I know money is going towards this is what they're doing I'm like wait what wait there was a bailer was lag away i think it was no no no it wasn't lag it was a baler basketball player and it was fake yeah it was okay good i'm glad it was like and like and like i was like that's like a madge people were real mad about it like a four million dollar house in waco yeah like he's probably exists he's probably living with like
Starting point is 00:35:56 a couple of the boys yeah it was a neighborhood in waco's what you're talking yeah yeah i was like where is that where did chip that's got to be 100% that was chip and jillana chip was just folded up as a Yeti. He hadn't transformed into his human self here. I did see him on the front porch with refreshments for the Amazon driver. My bad. Man, I don't know.
Starting point is 00:36:21 Catch me. What, Randy? I didn't know what was happening with the hairdryer situation. Do you guys not talk about someone in the chat explained it? That's hilarious. Yeah, it's pretty great. There was a, yeah, like a weather sensor that he was just blow drying to like make it, the temperature read warmer than it was supposed to be.
Starting point is 00:36:36 And he was, he made like 30 something thousand dollars on. on him. So, yeah, embarrassing hand-up moment. I read it, but I read the story really quickly on my phone, and it said blow drying. I read it as something else. So when I tried it, I was doing something else to the sensor and didn't. Yeah, for the folks at home. I love FitBod. Okay. I was just going to explain it more, but whatever. Here's the deal with FitBod. You want to look like this guy? FitBod. What is that exactly? It's an app, and it's a workout app, and you say, I got a, look. Let's just say I got like a 20-pound bag of cement or I got like a two, two 20-pound dumbbells in my garage. I need a workout. I'm trying to shred, trying to gain a little muscle, ride me up something. And it does. It'll tailor your workouts, like Dave said, for exactly what equipment you have available
Starting point is 00:37:24 to you. Maybe you've got a full gym to work with or maybe you got bands. Maybe you're in a little motel, you know, workout center there. You've got to have much going on. It'll tailor your workouts for what you have available to you and for your desired results. It's fantastic. Maybe you're trying to look good for a pool party in Houston. Whatever it is, they can help you out.
Starting point is 00:37:43 FitBod creates a personalized workout routine based on your goals, fitness level, and available equipment. And here's the thing, Dylan, these workouts adapt to your growth. So each workout is challenging enough to push you to make progress. True story, I use FitBot every time I go back to my parents because my dad legit has two 20-pound dumbbells and some bands. Yeah. I just like, all right, let's mix it up.
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Starting point is 00:38:46 I fully support people gaming the system like that person did. So for the people that don't know at home, it's some dude in France who bet on the weather with Kalshi broke the system by taking a hair dryer to a sensor that controlled the weather readings for the entire region. Yes. So that's the story. Pretty great. The video of him doing it is so great because he immediately like pops his phone up to check. That's great. Anyways. The weather sensor shouldn't be accessible or accessible. I don't think it was.
Starting point is 00:39:14 He like broke into a gate. It was gated. It was near an airport. It was supposed to be secure. He got back there. Anyway, on the latest edition of, were you trying to get caught? Diana Rossini had a playlist that a public playlist on Spotify that she shared with one other person. This person's name is Mike.
Starting point is 00:39:36 And the playlist. Mike. Mike. The playlist is called Turn in the page in all caps. And apparently this was right after a Titans losing streak that she created this playlist
Starting point is 00:39:52 and shared it with Mike. Don't know who that could be. And I don't know if you guys wanted to go through these songs real quick, but this is Diana Faves. This is Diana Faves. Actually, no, this is turning the page. So it's just loaded with Seeger.
Starting point is 00:40:09 Gotta be. missed opportunity. That's what I was looking for immediately. She zigs when you zag. Pull up the songs, Randy. Go to the next. There you go. Can you zoom on that bad boy?
Starting point is 00:40:19 How you know, I can't. Okay, he can't. I can read some of them. It's okay. The text's not there. All right. Starts off strong, a little Beyonce. Two Beyonce Johns in the first three songs.
Starting point is 00:40:36 Hey, no, no pushback from me. Is that both off Cowboy Carter, I'm assuming? If you say, Hey, how about we zoom in just to one letter? And we'll do this a letter at a time. Thank you. If you send me a playlist with Sam on it, I'm immediately just going to exit out of whatever you sent me.
Starting point is 00:40:55 Now, if it's got his brother Mike on it, that's different. If it's a mic, if it's a mic on John, yeah, that's totally different. Okay. So as I read through this, we got Cuffet by Beyonce, big energy by Lotto, break my soul, Beyonce. Go back to Pink.
Starting point is 00:41:11 I said that. Raise your glass. And then before that, really quick, David, I just wanted to see, like, my brain pivoted right at the My Love Line. And then after that, I'm like, wait a minute. Was this whole thing like a sex playlist? Pump it louder. I guess this is a sequel to Pump it by the Black Eye P's. Pump it louder.
Starting point is 00:41:31 T.S. I'm sure it's a really good song. Black IP has never heard of it. I'm sure it's a really good song. Many people. Ace down low. Can't stop. Got last resort on there from Popper.
Starting point is 00:41:42 This is Shirley Peppers. The last third is where it really takes a turn. And there's also a report that during practices, he likes to listen to a lot of these artists, he being Mike Vrable. And so stuff just lines up pretty incriminatingly. Can I say like 11 through 15, this is what a college kid thinks a good 80s playlist is. And it's just all chalk. Welcome to the jungle
Starting point is 00:42:09 photograph, deaf leopard, renegade sticks. Look, I'm not saying these are bad songs. They're not. I'd say renegade's a great song. One time I was living at home with my billionaire hotel magnet father, and he was like,
Starting point is 00:42:24 you can't take over the company until you go back through because you cheated your way through school via me. I was paying your teachers. It's like, you've got to go back through school. I was like, God, all right. My life was just a big party.
Starting point is 00:42:35 And one time, like, it went awry, and I was living in this big tent in my backyard, his backyard, really. I didn't pay anything. And I had this moment where I was listening to sticks real loud and I walked out with an empty keg and I just kind of threw it and fell. That sticks? That's sticks? I didn't know your dad was a billionaire. What was the thing we learned on, do you know it? That sticks was like something?
Starting point is 00:43:02 The river sticks is what you cross in the underworld in Greek mythology. There you go. You have a touch the water, you die. Yeah, don't drink it. Yeah, I pay a fee. What's the fee? I mean. A coin or something.
Starting point is 00:43:16 The fee is if there's someone twerking off to the side, you have to swim up and. That video is so much real estate. Hey, I noticed she didn't have any, I noticed that playlist doesn't have any, like, like piano songs with, like a guy who's, like, somehow stuck in the piano. and a lady playing it. No one knows that reference, Dave. Just the people in this room.
Starting point is 00:43:44 You're just referencing stuff that's been in the group chat. My 4 U-Tab has been bad lately. It's not good. Don't watch any torture viz. So when did she send this? Was it coinciding with like a... December 19th, 20202.
Starting point is 00:43:57 And it's like a big loss period for the song after he just lost. The heels of a losing streak for the Titans. You got December... So... Yeah. Four losses in a row. she creates the song on Monday, December 19. Was this his last season as a coach of the Titans?
Starting point is 00:44:14 Took a year off. No, it might have been one more year, I think. He did not deserve to be fired, right? Like, people widely repanned them firing him.
Starting point is 00:44:21 I mean, there were seven and three through week 11. That's a strong start. And then it just went south, man. Okay. I'd have to see what injuries were. Like Derek Henry might have been injured or something for the rest of the season.
Starting point is 00:44:33 I don't know. I don't know. So have we had any comments or, statements from any of the family members of either side? I don't believe so. I don't think so. I went and looked up to see what her. I felt bad doing it,
Starting point is 00:44:48 but I went down and was like, I got to see what her husband looks like. Good looking dude. Nothing wrong with him. He's just sitting in the chair in the corner of the room. It looks like a younger Mike Drable. I don't know what his Claude score would be, but it's,
Starting point is 00:44:59 yeah. All I'm saying is like until I don't think they need to come out and put out a statement. I think it's kind of weird and tacky when they do. I think like the cold play situation. Like we immediately got statements or like reports or somebody got in touch with the scorned wife on either side or whatever. And here without that like are we, the collective we all interested in this and only to know
Starting point is 00:45:30 like this was really just kind of an open relationship. Both sides were okay with it. But they didn't want to ruin things for his kids. I don't know. like was there some sort of a known agreement here and everybody else is making a big deal his apology leads me to say no um but it just seems so long term and involved that like dude what'd you think was going to happen yeah we were wondering if they had some kind of agreement privately yeah that's my thought but her statement would indicate i mean she she pretty much
Starting point is 00:46:01 denied that they were up to anything nefarious at all so and of course that he said my previous actions like let down people's She made her statement before the New York City pictures were released from years ago, indicating this has been going on for like six years. And so I don't think we've heard from her since that was released. I don't know, man. It's bad. And obviously he's somewhat acknowledging it now and going to rehab or whatever he was.
Starting point is 00:46:31 Counseling. Day three, though. It was just day three. Yeah. I don't know if we talked about it. that like people have too much time in their hands. Like, because you said like people on Twitter
Starting point is 00:46:42 were pulling up old clips of her saying stuff. To think that like, I'm going to go check when her Spotify playlist were created is insane. All the, all the easter eggs she's left along the way have been hilarious, the people that have found them. It's just so funny.
Starting point is 00:46:57 He's not sluice, man. The, I mean, there's somebody going back and watching like every interview she did with Simmons. And they're just finding like, and that clip's going to go around. it's going to get all the action. Like trashing your husband on these shows.
Starting point is 00:47:10 Yeah, he's, he's just a white furry guy meme. Yeah. I don't know. They have kids. It's sad. I hate it.
Starting point is 00:47:19 Yeah. I don't know. I'm like you put this next, uh, Sharon Moore situation. I'm like, I don't care about this. I had the Sharon Moore one looks so much grosser and so much worse.
Starting point is 00:47:34 So much more acceptable given, you know, all the important. factors, but like that makes this look really, really pedestrian. Like it sucks. It's a weird story. But I do love the fact that this exists. Like I do love that like Dave's judging all these sleuths out there, but he did call out go check the Venmo history. Uh, to see if there's like a baguette and a football helmet or something like who did they get? Who did they get with the Venmo recently? Matur, it's here. Which I, it's surprising to me.
Starting point is 00:48:07 me that nothing came of that because the timestamp of those Venmos were right after the college football games that he was referencing in the Venmos. It looked pretty bad. Come on. It's just kid stuff. It wasn't on his own team. But I'm fun. It was still, no, I'm not saying there's anything wrong to it. I'm just saying it's squarely against the rules. Yeah, it's nothing. To me, it felt like the Iowa State thing, obviously there was like consequences, but I feel like the story wasn't, I guess because it's Iowa State. No offense to Iowa State. No offense to Matt Campbell formerly. But as I would say in Iowa, both programs had people involved. It felt like nothing over two dozen people. It felt like it wasn't like this big bombshell story that we kind of thought it was.
Starting point is 00:48:51 Because it was Iowa State. Right. Yeah. Yeah. I guess if it's I would say there's there's probably an element of this Soresby story's huge because we know of as an IL money. Pretty much because of that, I think. And like the projections on him. had he been at Cincinnati not transferred and this happened, do we care as much? And it's not like we care because it's Texas Tech. I think it's just because that NIL number, I don't know that he would have had like so much attention going into season
Starting point is 00:49:21 that like everybody would care about Brendan Sorsby if he was still at Cincinnati this year going to be. Even if there's like a top projected pick, like I think this would have blown over. It's just that dollar amount is key. It's a bigger deal because of NIL and Cody K. Campbell is like becoming one of the faces of coach football now and he's throwing so much money around in tech got really good so suddenly and they're made the playoff on the big 12 and and they're like they're like a force now. I mean they're you can't you can't take them lightly. It's they're they become they've become a headline. That's why I think. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The $5 million NIO price tag is is insane. It's tough. It is very tough. It's crazy, man. It's crazy. crazy, man. I'll tell you what else is crazy. These times that we're living in. Yeah. Financial stress. This show is brought to you by better help. Financial stress, it affects
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Starting point is 00:51:46 I'll walk out right now all right so who found this some some yahoo on fucking Twitter decided to type a prompt into chat BT chat gpt those are the right GPT yes
Starting point is 00:52:02 to basically just give them a give him a facial score with notes and comments and we decided to do it ourselves we used using the exact prompt that he shared it on twitter i got better scores on claude than i did on chat gpt i am um i claw first i went i leveraged claude first because that's usually my move and then i leverage chat gptt and i got the same score on both i've locking it in. I'm done Claude. I did chat, GPT, and I got like three different scores because I had to run it back. Well, Dylan got a low score, and then he's like, this can't be right.
Starting point is 00:52:42 So he just kept taking different photos. That's not true. He's like, God, this is broken, dude. We took a selfie in the steel, and it was not flattering. They're going to have to build a data center just for Dylan to upload this photos. Then I just uploaded a picture that I had from Instagram, and it was a little bit kinder to me. but it gave me a 7.6. Are you staying?
Starting point is 00:53:10 Are you locking in at 7.6? I mean, I'll accept the 7.6. It's very critical of my skin quality. Ready, pull up the graphics. All right. So I'll start with mine because it was a little mean to me with a 6.7. But Claude gave me a 7.4. And then I did my selfie.
Starting point is 00:53:29 So I want to see. I re-uploaded on chat GPT with a nicer photo. Re-uploaded time. But so this is kind of. know what it looks like. So you can see here. Uh, just, it just facial beauty report. And I, and it says I'm above average, which is nice, but then it gives you like your, your symmetry, proportions, bones, bone structure. But I feel like if I reuploaded this, reupload, uh, it would just give me something completely different. So does I have nice cheeks.
Starting point is 00:53:57 Go to the areas of improvement box. Uh, slight asymmetry in brow height, mild under eye darkness, which is true. I have, uh, I've been staying up a little too late. Nose prominence in profile. I'm sorry. I'm not going to end up his job. That's not, I got a big old nose. To improve that, yeah, you got to get surgery. Skin texture and hydration, midface could appear more to find. So.
Starting point is 00:54:20 My areas of improvement. Slight asymmetry in brows and smile. Skin texture and poor visibility, poor as in P-O-R-E visibility. Okay. Lower third could be leaner, tighter. Fuck you. Sun exposure, fine lines prevention,
Starting point is 00:54:36 and neck definition. fine lines prevention yes interesting it also guesses it guesses your age and it said I was between 35 and 47 I believe is what it said okay mine said 30 to 35
Starting point is 00:54:52 so that's not that's not giving me hope in the the AI propping up the stock market it's like yeah dude you could be anywhere within these 12 years yeah of course yeah my lowest scores on skin quality I got a 6.8 out of 10 Mine, Mine, uh...
Starting point is 00:55:10 Well, that's a 7.1 on this one. I was accused of having a soul patch, which is not... A sole patch to me is a standalone. Maybe mine's more pronounced than I realized. I need to be doing more when I got my scruff going. Like, is this putting off a vibe that I don't like? Is it like Torinawa does not like this? Is that what's happening?
Starting point is 00:55:30 What are we thinking here? 7-1 on both. I'm taking, I'm locking in, and I'll take my 7-1, and I'll go home. I want to see what chat GPT said for my nicer photo of me. It was critical of my early. You're showing early signs of hairline recession. And I was like, buddy? Early signs.
Starting point is 00:55:51 Yeah, dude, you're right. I am, man. That's crazy. I better do something about that. Thanks for pointing that one out. And like the things you can do, it's like, man, you should just get on some finasteride. You got to do some pills, awesome. It's interesting that all of our reports look similar, but they're all different.
Starting point is 00:56:05 like we didn't have this yeah i know that it is i found that interesting too so it's just kind of in the big face picture like he got i don't have i'm cooked i'm chopped is all it said mine just it's like nah bra onk status okay okay kj i didn't see that you said claud uh clod did do me a little better than what you're about to see from chat chp t claude gave me a full point higher but i got fucking smoked 6.1 for kj
Starting point is 00:56:35 brrah damn dude questionable. It said facial darkness mostly. I don't know. I haven't read the area. I'm not lying. Areas for improvement. Under eye darkness, which yeah, you can see some shade there. Skin texture and poor visibility. Cool. Beard lines could be more defined. Brian, shave that day. I'll never shave. Brow shaping. Fuck out here. More contrast in hairstyle shape. What? Seems problematic. But hey. On the other side,
Starting point is 00:57:09 Claude did say strong, well-projected cheekbones and stand-out structural feature, or are the stand-out structural feature. Genuinely above average. Thanks, Claude. Love you. Bone structure overall, 8.2 bilateral symmetry at 8.1.
Starting point is 00:57:24 The main drag. Drawline softness. Come on. We got a guy. We'll send you soon. We got a guy who can help you with that. A couple tools here and there. You can just hammer away out.
Starting point is 00:57:37 Yeah. He's going to be a dad soon. Have you heard of bone smashing? Wait, we got two different directions there. More of a bone crusher guy. Facial looks maxing, very aware. But yeah, clavaker, the clavicle. Clavicular.
Starting point is 00:57:55 Yes, the dead, clavicular, the dad is definitely going to be a sight to see. Are people going to like see this and be like, oh, I can do, I could have it break down other parts of me. Like I could do like a shirtless one be like, Hey, where could I improve here on my body composition? Yeah, sure. Or maybe. Or maybe your wiener.
Starting point is 00:58:19 Hey, what's up? What's going on here? Like, what do you think? Like what you see, Claude? You got to think that that's been done a million times. It's got to be done. I mean,
Starting point is 00:58:29 half of only fans is run by like AI chat bots anyway. And like half of the services that people do is like, they will advertise. We'll do dick ratings. So I guarantee people are out there sending their dick to the AI 100%. That's like a moment where you need to like, that's intervention. Like Gary Patterson song, take a step back. Nobody remembers that he created music but you and me.
Starting point is 00:59:00 Take a step back. It's a great song. Defense coordinator for USC. That's right. Big things coming this year. Gary Pee. Yeah, well, I feel, I'm fine with it. Cool.
Starting point is 00:59:14 Randy AI says that you're scrumdileumptious. How about that? I'm going to, I'll be leveraging Randy going forward. Thank you. These are, this is fun, man.
Starting point is 00:59:27 It was fun this morning, us doing it all, like taking the selfies, trying to get better lighting and everything and just, it just wasn't. We're getting, getting smoked. I think let's,
Starting point is 00:59:37 uh, let's throw those back in. to chat GPT or Claude or whatever, but then also serve it a sample of one of the flash media newsletters of your writing and say, okay, now feed me the report back in the tone of David Rough or Will to Freeze or Shivery. And then let me see the report in your own words. How about that? I think my favorite criticism of the morning was that it criticized that Brett was
Starting point is 01:00:07 wearing a tie-dye shirt. He didn't ask anything about the fit. And it just went to have it to be like, dude, by the way. Like, don't wear that. By the way, dude. By the way, you brick this fit, dude. Now, now what, no, man. That ain't it.
Starting point is 01:00:21 That ain't it. This is a facial, uh, facial eval, but while you're here. Hey, man, I know this a little outside the scope. I normally don't do this. So you got you here. I felt compelled. I couldn't let you walk out of here like that. I need you have a seat.
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Starting point is 01:01:54 He's really blowing up my algo. And I had an idea and I hate the idea. I hate him. I'm even putting this into the world. Yeah, play it, Randy. I don't even know if you need sound, although sound is part of it. Yeah, you need. What's his name on Instagram?
Starting point is 01:02:08 He does these dance, just dancing without any music. Yeah, which makes it more awkward. Okay. He's got a big pizza. He's not eating all that. It's a visual show, everyone. You just put a monster chicken center on a on a burger or a chicken sandwich. Yeah, you're doing too much.
Starting point is 01:02:37 It looks delicious. It does. Here we go. There's so much food. Okay, pause it. Okay. No, not. This is the part that...
Starting point is 01:02:43 All right, all right. It's good. You gotta get to the... You gotta watch all of it, then. I've never made it to that. Not line. It's gonna... Okay.
Starting point is 01:02:57 Damn it. What if this is your last place, fantasy punishment? It's a great one, but it's also like a really extreme one, I think. I mean, imagine doing this. I cannot. I can't... Okay, here's a thing. The second-hand embarrassment I get just from watching it.
Starting point is 01:03:10 I want to go. Maybe I need to do this. I want to go find his first one of these videos because he had this idea. What, KJ? If you are looking for previous videos, you would have to search under his former name, which was the grooving gorilla, just wanting to make sure those who don't recognize him as big groove. Okay. Previously known as the grooving gorilla.
Starting point is 01:03:33 Yeah, I don't know how I feel about that. Agreed. I've just, I just say like at some point he was like, all right, this is, I'm going to do this. And he went into a place and did this for a first time. I would just, I would pay, honestly, I would pay probably $40, US dollars to, to watch. If I had like the security camera footage or somebody was recording it, like the reaction, the first time he tried this, maybe the first few times, right, the first 20, when people are like, uh, the fuck's going on here.
Starting point is 01:04:02 Wait. So he buys all this food and like, what happens to all the food? Yeah, what's going on? Does he donate it? That would be a nice story. I got breaking news, followed by one, Micah Weiner. okay it's pronounced a
Starting point is 01:04:13 nobody it's like no myca follows a lot on instagram and that's one thing I've learned big group you cannot scroll
Starting point is 01:04:21 through your discover feed or your 4U tab and be like man this is a good video I mean I'll take back to the Lats and you look down you see 40% chance
Starting point is 01:04:29 like by Michael Wiener's already going to be there do you share with group chat no is he out there liking it absolutely Mike is very very very active on Instagram
Starting point is 01:04:39 yes he is uh So let me give you a counter. I don't have the video since it is visual show, but I was thinking about the same concept as far as worse, but pay off. As my 4-U feed right now is like very, I don't know if it's Nicky Glass or one of the random female comics
Starting point is 01:04:58 is all over my feed. But they were doing the Jennifer Hudson walk to the stage. Are you familiar with this? No. Jennifer Hudson walked to the stage. Maybe, yeah, I believe it's the Jennifer Hudson show. She hosts a like Kelly. Oh, whatever.
Starting point is 01:05:20 Yes. And they walk from their green room to the stage. And it's shot down that hallway with the actor turns the corner. Then bam, not only is there a camera, but both sides of the hallway are lined with what I assume to be members of the staff of the show, producers, other people. and they coordinate and sing and clap like a hype song specifically for this person. David Ruff is on the show. David Ruff is on the show. And they'll throw in a random fact,
Starting point is 01:05:51 but like they'll have some sort of consistent rhythm. And the reactions are never good. Whether they're talented and have rhythm or they don't, it's always the most. It's cringe. Like I watch it every single time. That's why it's the feed. but is this a uh was that a reaction to uh the demise of ellen and it's like hey look they love
Starting point is 01:06:14 working here i'm not mean to them at all the support staff is great look i got them in the best bit on the show i'm not going to have to move to europe treating your employees like they work at i don't know chilies at a birthday routine or a fucking uh chucky cheese every quarter of the hour and like that's your perk to your employees like bless your heart but damn i don't know I would probably do the big groove jello gorilla moves over walking down a hallway of people clapping and chanting my name and like trying to implore me to do a dance. Like the soul train line terrified me as a kid, traumatized music. And I don't think I could ever perform in that moment.
Starting point is 01:06:52 Just ain't happening. Did you ever attend a wedding where like, you know, at the end of the night, dance floor is a circle and like one of your buddies kind of pushes you out there and you're like, oh, no. And you got to like, you kind of got to do. you're like, do I want to be the guy who just like walks back and everybody's like, oh, boo? Or do you want to be the guy like, you know what I mean? Try to like, like spent like the last two months trying to learn some dance and then does it. But then like makes somebody fall out of a chair.
Starting point is 01:07:21 Like not to make too many assumptions. Separate situation. The juby slide had nothing to do with that lady falling. Not to make too many assumptions. But I feel like if you grow up in Duncanville or in, you know, random parts of Arlington, like, you're at random events like that where you're expected to have rhythm and if you don't you'll hear about it. And again, going back to the big groove element of this, you pull that bullshit and I'm like sitting there eating my food or you know, you implore me to do this. A, not only not going to
Starting point is 01:07:56 do it, but like if I had to absolutely do it, I honestly can't think of many things other than checking out early. That would be worse. like of the restaurant or life you know what if uh what if they got big wait what is it big groove big groove what if they got big groove at the correspondence did bang
Starting point is 01:08:21 a lot of food shark bite a tremendous amount of shark bite he's fucking dipping and dodging he's got a mouthful and he's fucking matrixing I need to know, like, if he's like, if afterwards, it's like, all right, I'm not really going to eat all this. Like, have you seen the movement to cancel the restaurants? Yeah.
Starting point is 01:08:45 They're paying him to go there in like review and like, not review food, but like showcase their food. It doesn't tell me anything about the food. It just shows me their food. There's a guy who he has a list going on Twitter of all the restaurants he's going to. He's like, all right, we're banning this one now. We're not, I don't want nobody going to go. You know what? The hell yeah.
Starting point is 01:09:02 That's, I have to believe, like, that the other patrons are, fully aware and prepared and understand or maybe their food's comp. Like that's always the problem for me is like the innocent NPC in these videos. And far too often in like the man on the street are just jackass in a Walmart. The NPCs have no idea they're not in on it. But I think with these restaurants, there's so much prep that goes into it that like you've got to think the guy at the bar
Starting point is 01:09:29 behind him is aware, right? Yeah, I was I was wondering that too because like, Oh, Jesus. I'll make sure that it's not a playing. Did we just add the White House correspondent dinner to the board or something? Everyone there knows what's about to happen. I would love to know what this looks like. For me,
Starting point is 01:09:48 the smack of the pizza. You can't smack of the pizza. He's smack to the pizza. Respect the Zah, man. Because the clientele at this bar looks like they wouldn't be, you know, you know, appreciative of this. So I guess I want to know what it looks like beforehand. Like he's like, hey, everyone, I'm going to do something.
Starting point is 01:10:05 going to be loud. You can open his mouth so freaking wide. I think they're employees. I think this is like the place is closed. The other waiters and kitchen staff are like being told like, hey, just look down, act like nothing's going on. I've watched enough bang bros to like suss out who's in on it and who's not. Please stop playing this video. Those dudes are in on it.
Starting point is 01:10:25 Okay. Wait, who's not in on it? I don't know, man. That's the question. That dancing bear video that KJ sent me. that's where I should have gone yeah that's true there's there's there's more buy-in when there's a room full of a batch as if I know as if I know what am I saying I don't know the plot lines of dancing bear we talked about the dude who goes to the mall or like the gym and just
Starting point is 01:10:48 does like his little shuffle his little like edm shuffle and like those it's like okay well he's at the mall food court they didn't shut this guy doesn't have the clock to shut down the food court and it's really just some guy some guy on his his lunch break. He's been selling cell phones at a kiosk. And he's like, God damn it. I got to go get some bamboo bistro or whatever. And he's just in line. Then all of a sudden, like this dude's like in his workout gear, takes his shirt off in his tiny shorts. And he's like, oh, this is in the video. I didn't consent to this. Come on. Goes back to the cell phone kiosk. Thinks about the time when Dylan used to work with him, the singular store. And I was just a better, better era. Just sad, bleak, really.
Starting point is 01:11:32 I mean Oh my God There's some punk kid Go back for samples Me I'm not I'm not cancel in the restaurants Let me at least comment on that
Starting point is 01:11:48 Like I'm not out on the restaurant Do what you got to do to survive In this economy Whatever the food looked all right Like if the food looked like trash I think would be like Kind of happy is punishing himself The food usually looks good
Starting point is 01:11:59 And people are like upset that it's good I can't imagine slap it pizza like that. Like, does that sound? It's just off-putting. He did another one in a pizza shop and he covered it with like Parmesan or whatever and just wipes it with his hand. That's the part where I'm out. You don't need to add that to the,
Starting point is 01:12:15 you don't need to add that to the mix. No. I feel like you don't. But like 2.2 mil on Instagram, I think he's like almost a 7 mil on TikTok. He's doing all right for him. So 6 on YouTube. Yeah, I think. Jello gorilla sells. So fuck us, I guess. All right.
Starting point is 01:12:33 Dave, go do. this. Honestly. Let's go to Sammies and you'll go do it. The thought of doing this amongst my peers it's just I had
Starting point is 01:12:45 I said to be funny to do this with like a Guinness poor. You go to like the Irish pub. It's all kind of quiet midday and you just do this and they're like looking around like what the what's he doing? What is he thinking?
Starting point is 01:13:00 Go on get out. You can't do it here. this one go to the house just leave you go you know you call the your kids school and you're like hey just had a really great week I wanted to do lunch with my son okay but you're performing at the school cafeteria you slap the square pizza I could think of no audience less forgiving just bear your face in a room full of kids bear your face in Texas goulash meat bean nachos like it's a pool party in Houston. You can eat that cosmic brownie?
Starting point is 01:13:42 Oh. The food now is good, dude. Whoa, whoa, whoa. What was that reaction to cosmic brownies, David? Cosmic brownies are delicious. Everything now, the kids now, they just like, they get sun butter, sun butter and jelly sandwiches, you know, allergies. Some butter.
Starting point is 01:13:57 I don't. Sun butter. Yeah. What is that? Is that just a peanut butter substitute? Sunflower oil based. Oh, yeah. Oh, interesting.
Starting point is 01:14:04 All the schools do it. Yeah. I bought crunchy peanut butter home on purpose of there because, you know, if it's just me, I'll choose to. And I thought my kid told him I was putting him up for adoption. He was never more offended and upset about like a product being different than what he expected. It's like, what is, what did you put? Why did you do this? Like, no, it's just crunchy.
Starting point is 01:14:28 It's got more peanuts in it. You know, whatever. Move on. No. And he usually had no tantrums about food. daughter does but he won't but he was livid I get it man I don't mind crunchy
Starting point is 01:14:40 I don't go out of my way to get it but if somebody snuck it in on me I would I would handle oh I order a crunchy he did I buy crunchy that's all I get that's all it gets that's all he gets well Kj thank you for joining us been a fun show you demand Cage
Starting point is 01:14:55 well you anything you want to promote uh no check out my cousin big groove you can find them on all the socios hopefully in a donut shop near you soon. KJ Ellis on Twitter where you'll see me retweeting all the best sweets of the day. Walk down Mamary
Starting point is 01:15:14 Lane. Five stars across the board for me. Okay. Thanks, KJay. Good stuff. I loved it. Bye-bye. Bye. Frozen lasagna, medium power. 15 minutes. Sounds like Ojo time.
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