Circling Back - Cheap Salsa at the Four Seasons

Episode Date: November 9, 2020

KJ Ellis fills in for Will as the boys discuss Christmas music at Nordstrom, their weekends in fun, listeners pulling the tape on Dillon and Sally's Pace salsa takes, touching on politics but not really touching on politics, an apparel drop at Concordia University of Michigan, and Brett's breaking news. Support us on Patreon and receive weekly episodes for as low $5 per month: www.patreon.com/circlingbackpodcast (0:00) Fun & Easy Banter (22:26) Recapping This Weekend in Fun (37:41) Is Pace Salsa Actually Good? (47:30) Not to get Political, But (1:06:45) Apparel for Concordia University Michigan (1:15:25) Brett’s Breaking News Stamps.com: Use code CIRCLINGBACK for a special offer that includes a 4-week trial PLUS free postage and a digital scale. MeUndies: Go to MeUndies.com/circlingback for 15% off. Vincero: Go to VinceroWatches.com/circlingback for 20% off. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/circling-back/message Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to the Circling Back podcast. My name is David. I'll be hosting today. How's everybody doing? Man, pretty good. Will's on vacation, we should point that out. Oh yeah, Will's gone. I'm filling in.

It's vacation Will season. I mean, we had vacation Randy, now it's vacation Will. I mean, we should point that out. Oh, yeah, Will's gone. I'm filling in. It's vacation Will season. I mean, we had vacation Randy, now it's vacation Will. I mean, what's next? You got something in the books, don't you? I'm going on vacation, but it's going to be over a break period. I'm going from New Year's Eve through the 4th. I'm going to miss one day. Huh.

Yeah. Interesting. New year, new you, huh? It's what they say. Vacation Dorn. I will be celebrating the new year in Colorado. Wow. Wow.

The Breckenridge Keystone area. You going to take some marijuana pills? Well, I'll have the homie with me, so no. Is he going to take some marijuana pills? He will not either, but he's going to see real snow for the first time. We're going to try to go skiing. It's going to be a big time. Not that kind of snow.

Come on, dude. When's the last time you saw real snow? Maybe I expect better from you. Hey, yo. Guys, we've got a special fill-in guest host. He's Too Much Dip's own KJ. What's happening? I thought it was the fill-out guest.

What does that mean? Like relative to Will. Is he filling out that shirt, Will? Well, I'm normally sitting there, and I think that's fair. That's true. That's true. We do share the seat. Thanks for having me, fellas.

Well, thank you, man. You always scare me because I came in this morning, and this happened last week, too, and KJ drives down, a lot of people don't know this, from the Dallas area. Yeah. I don't want to dox him again. But he drives down from the southern Dallas area, southern Dallas County to be exact. And he gets here early. And I walked in today and Brett's here.

What's up, Brett? Hey, guys. I was listening to Pearl Jam this morning. Yeah. I walk in and it's like Even Flow or something. I don't know what. Was it Vitology? What album was it?

I don't know. I don't do albums. Okay. Big album guy. He doesn't. You proved't you prove that with what's an album um it's a spotify generation yeah i don't like i don't know albums i don't either man not like zero of them so this story has no payoff but so i walk in and say hi brett what's up and i got randy with me uh my dog and he's kind of running around and walk in there to like like, in the other room, and KJ's just there with the headset on, lappy open.

And I'm like, whoa, had no idea you were here. Glad I didn't, like, talk shit about you to Brett. He usually does that when he gets here. Because that's normally, like, the first thing I do is just, like, find something that KJ did recently. That fucking KJ, man. Talk about what he did in Warzone the night before. It's never good.

It's never good. Yeah, it works out better. A, I miss traffic. B, you know, some grind boy shit. Get down, have a couple work calls. GBS in the building. You know, and then get ready for too much dip. You can find that also a part of the Washed Media Network on what, Mondays, Thursdays?

Mondays, we drop a pod. We do it right after this. And then Thursdays, we do a live stream on YouTube.com slash Washed Media. That's correct. Where we talk about the games, the football games, and we pick them. We play too much over there, I'd say. We do play a lot over there. Some might say too much.

Do you have like a, when you drive down, is there like a routine? Like you stop at the certain Chevron. You pick up a coffee, you pick up a muffin. Like what do you do? So I go with the homemade, boom and loud. I will fill up. I'll fill up on the espresso gas up the jet too actually shout out to cat but i fill up on my espresso at the house double up and then i hit the road i will get gas sunday so that i'm out the door usually before six um then whenever i get down here i will then get more gas i will stop at a local vendor of uh

coffee as well and then i'm hearing the stew what um i recently learned from david's actions last week is that there's a summer moon nearby oh yes right down the street uh i'm looking forward to rekindling that relationship i used to live by the one by Brett. It's my favorite Sinatra song. You lived at my apartment complex, right? Yeah. Very few people know that. I did not. Very few people know that.

I did not know that. In fact, I helped open that bitch up. Wow. First year that it existed. It's a good spot. There were just as many CSI vehicles outside of that building for me as there were for Brett. Oh, okay. It was a different time.

Unfortunately, there was a death in the building. Man, people must hate living there. When both of us lived there. Different deaths. You know, there's a backer who lives there as well, and I'm hoping, I haven't seen him at the gym since that whole incident went down. Hopefully it's not him.

Yeah. Hopefully it's not him. Wow, spooky season stays forever. His name is Ty, I believe. Ty, reach out to me, man. Let's do a little check-in with me. Damn! There was also another death in the building.

The Oak is no longer KHF. Oh, yeah. Prior to the Oak, we had the Porter, or Porter was what it was called. But I think two restaurants in five or six years is not bad. It's better than the Dylan Cheveryie scale of restaurants under apartment complexes. Dylan gives them like six months. Everything else down there, like there's room for like eight storefronts. And I don't know if there was anything in the other seven when I lived there.

Maybe a pretty kitty. Who knows? You guys, this might surprise you. I'm not into commercial real estate. That's not what I do. But I feel like every time one of these goes up, in any town, this happened a lot in Oklahoma City, they promise these businesses down there that are going to flourish. And it always ends up, not always, but a lot of times, I'm thinking particularly to my building in downtown Oklahoma City,

it's like a little sandwich shop that is heating baked potatoes and microwaves and make and like getting their ham from it's like oscar meyer ham and they're just making really generic sandwiches that you could make but you're too lazy to and so you're gonna you're gonna pay nine dollars downstairs and they're there for eight months i'll give them eight there are some legitimate places though that don't make it like with actually you're right good food the oak the oak. The oak being the poster child. Sorry, go ahead, Dylan. Lamar Union. I believe there is a Shake Shack there.

There is. And it's there. It's surviving. But it's almost always empty. Like it's got to be the least busy Shake Shack in America. It's weird, man. Yeah, I never go down there. I think I've made the point before.

Parking. Or at least the perception of parking is an issue. Stigma and parking are the two things working against them. And unless you're like brunch heavy or like hangover focus, what am I going to go downstairs for? Give me a post office or give me a convenience store otherwise. They need it to be the place that you go for a drink before you go downtown for the 500 units that are at that apartment complex. Big Games pregame opening soon. South Austin. So there's two other storefronts.

There's a dental place and a hair salon. Okay. Hair salon, dental place, sports bar. Yeah. They did too many things wrong, Dylan. Because the rent, I was talking to the gm about it we got in pretty tight and uh the rent's not crazy i was like oh that's because everyone knows that you can't survive there so you gotta yeah they were all they did i mean they were open till like 2 a.m and would get pretty raucous and

let's let's defy the odds let Let's open something up. Do it right. Dylan, when I tell you how much it is and how everything's already there, you're going to be like, we can do that. How much is rent? It's $7,500. It's not crazy. That's harder than I thought you were going to say.

A new fishbowl stew? You can come pay admission. Watch us screw this show up to say. A new fishbowl stew? You can pay admission. Watch us screw this show up every week. Boom. The Bottle Brunette? It's like an upscale, like a brunch place. A touch of gray. That's until someone opens, another one opens up called the Bottle Ginger.

Then we're fucked. Bottle Ginger sounds like a New York City dive bar that's really fun. Okay. Right? I'm just thinking of the Ginger Man. I think Clean Will's is an opportunity. We have an opportunity for that. Clean Will?

Yeah. Well, we already have one restaurant franchise. Okay. That's true. That's true. Yeah, don't put too much on Will's. Yeah, that's true. That's a lot.

We need to get focused on this. My own place to have a Touch Tunes where people hop up on the bar and sing Mariah Carey or Whitney Houston every single Friday and Saturday night. Sounds like Coyote Ugly. It's Dirty Bills in my mindset, but I don't know if they've gotten rid of that Touch Tunes over the years. They did. That's a hard one. They have a DJ now, and I do it in quotes. I like going to a bar that has Touch Tunes so our friend Micah can set up a walk-up song for himself when he enters a bar, which he hasn't been known to do.

What is his walk-up song? It's Hall & Oates. It's normally Hall & Oates. Have we not told you this story? He did this at Woodrow's. I knew it, but I didn't know it. We were at Woodrow's, and we knew he was en route. And suddenly, Hall & Oates comes on over the speaker.

Someone got it on touch tunes. And, of course, he has the app on his phone. And I think he stood outside and waited for it to come on until he walked up to the bar. What a guy. He paid extra to skip the headline. Nothing more awkward than the immediate cut-in to the generic song with your song. And if it doesn't hit, you're like, it wasn't me. It wasn't me.

And then if I'm leaving, I'll play Purple Ring because it rides for like eight minutes, and it'll kill the mood and get out of there. Oh, I do. So I'm probably banned from the—well, I'm not because I went with you, but the Wild Wings in Cedar Hill. Oh, yes. Our move used to be just to go put like $10 in and just play Who Let the Dogs Out on repeat and then leave.

It was very uncool of us, but we did it. That's terrible. It's really annoying. It's potentially the most annoying thing you could do. See, I'd walk in with Billy Squires, like the stroke going. Great song. Billy Squires got a number of songs that would go well. But you got to pay a little extra if you want a deep cut.

Yeah. I hate that. Yeah. Yep. That economy is not great. Deep cuts only. Deep cuts cuts only you know that's an office dco yeah hey follow at circling back pod on twitter and instagram it's weird to see the the uniformity between the twitter and the instagram because we don't have that on too much dip

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Stay tuned for that. That's what we call a tease. Wow. I just teased them. You know something about teasing. Biggest tease I've ever met. If you're not an opto, this is going to remain a mystery forever because you're not going to listen to it. You've got to be opto for it. You have to.

I'm sure word will trickle out like, wow, this just dropped and the results will not shock you. But it's going to be worth it. Also, we do Twitch. We're tweaking our Twitch schedule, but follow us at least on there for now. Twitch.tv slash Washed Media.

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Hey, I've got a little something before we get into it. I went to Nord yesterday, Nordstrom. Oh. I had to pick something up for the wife. Thank you for saying Nordstrom and not Nordstroms, like everyone says incorrectly all the time. Why do people say that? People can't read very well.

Do you think more people put an S on that or on Franklin Barbecue? Franklin's Barbecue? Yeah, because his last name is Franklin, but people could say possessive. People could say possessive. It could be possessed, yeah. But the name of the place is Franklin. You're not going to get an argument from me. I don't think either way.

Also, Jimmy Eat World doesn't have an S, and that blew my mind. I knew that. I didn't. I think I knew that, too. I'm a big Jimmy Eat World guy, Brett. It just takes time. So, yes. Keep going? Yes. So are you going to keep going? Yes.

Are you upset by the Christmas music playing in early November? I buried the lead. I walked in, and first thing I hear was, I believe it was a Sinatra take on an old favorite. Was someone in there tickling the ivory, as they say? They have not gotten to ivory tickling yet, and I'm hoping that's not going to be a casualty of the ongoing global pandemic although we got a vaccine baby oh sneaky shout out to pfizer um stonks yeah i want and and i was like okay and like there were people like it caught people off guard like there was a lady

and her daughter and she's like oh my god they're playing Christmas music oh my god that's my impression of her and I was like that's interesting and then I struck up a conversation with the lady at the um the pickup counter and I was like man do y'all normally break it out this this early and she said no she says I think we're doing it because we're worried that we're gonna get shut down again again, which is not funny. I shouldn't laugh. And they're just trying to put it out there, put out a vibe, which I'm not against. I'm not either. Actually, true story, I drove back from Wichita Falls yesterday. Shouts to my North Texas people.

And it was close enough to Dallas that I picked up a Dallas radio station called The Star maybe. I'm not sure. 100% Christmas music. And I listened to Christmas music for like three hours straight. And it was fantastic. It really put me in the mood. You listened to it the whole way? As much as I could until it went out again. Yeah. It was great. I want to

call you out for that. I don't care. Just say that's insane. Call me out, dog. I feel like I have no choice but to respect it. I'm not standing, but I'm not canceling. I'm muting. Okay. That's fine. I don't know.

That's a long time. You've got to mix in some. I love Christmas, David. I love it. It's my fave. Yeah? And I'm going to take advantage whenever I can. Okay.

Tis the season. I stand that. Which season is it? Is tis it, should I say? It's a lot of seasons. Sorry. name a few all all four of them uh there's one in particular i'm curious if it's what ah never mind there's a viral thing a couple years ago final thing it's gross we're really yeah okay yeah i'm this is usually middle yeah yeah i'll put a pin in that and say i agree with dylan and It's gross. We're really, yeah. Okay. Yeah. This is whoosh. Usually middle of audience. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I'll put a pin in that and say I agree with Dylan, and we'll go 2-1. It is the season now. As he sees it. Oh, come on. That's not what I was going to say. No, I was going to say, Dave, I had to get our friend here. He needs some help. You see your sales guy, though, at Nordstrom?

I did. Dave has his guy. Wait, you have a guy? He's not a formal stylist, but we have struck up a business relationship where he kind of knows when I'm coming in, I'm very particular. Okay.

And I'm not a big spender at Nordstrom, so he's not going to have a payday off of me. But he's nice enough to indulge me when I've got questions about whatever chinos are on sale or I'm like oh look at these new AG pants that are very very very expensive that I won't buy but I'm going to ask you about yeah that's that's the kind of relationship we have but he did he did help me find something yesterday I bought a um and you'll just have to wait and see it's being delivered it's a it's a it's a it's a like a slicker rain hoodie that's orders it okay and it's got the draw it's it's different hmm I'm a well you're built different that's the thing that's what he told me I don't know if I can pull this off you

gonna wear a blazer over it so you let the hood stick out the back you know I've got that super cool guy that's in my playbook we go we know that's dude we're a tech company technically. Yeah. Why would we not dress like tech CEOs and entrepreneurs? So new money. New money trash. Yeah.

New podcast coming soon. I don't know. I just thought it was interesting. I'm here for it. I am here for it. You mentioned the pianist. The guy tickling the ivory. When I go here for it. You mentioned the pianist, the guy tickling the ivory. When I go into Nordstrom.

Thank you. No S. When I hear Christmas music, I want to see that dude over there doing it. I know it might be a little early for that. Maybe everybody's cutting back a little bit. Surely they've lost money during this ongoing global pandemic. He's playing next to a 12-foot fake tree. Speaking of fake, I'm going to throw the HSO out there.

What's an HSO? Yeah, I guess that doesn't even land here. Hot sports opinion that this guy is Westworlding it. That piano's playing itself, and he's just going along for the ride. That would be a great gig. Wow. I'll leave Vanilli in it. Because you know if you're a piano guy, chicks dig it.

You're getting all the attention. Piano guy always gets it it Pianos are so dope Would you rather be Guy that can go to A piano bar And hop on the keys Or acoustic guitar To bonfire guy

Piano guy Piano All day every day Give me the guitar guy Just cause the The scene is way better Outside that piano bar Literally anywhere

Outside of a piano bar The scene is way better Yeah but there are A dime a dozen of those guys They're're everywhere. Yeah, we went to Texas State. I can name you five guys that could have been decently successful Texas music guys, but just weren't. What's the excuse, like minor league baseball player, like Torres UCL, what's guitar guy's excuse for not making it big?

Just the music industry is a racket. Yeah. Not there for the real guys. Okay. Just not Nashville. You know, not selling out to Nashville. That's the one. Yeah, true.

And then you do, and then you just lean all the way into it, and then people get mad at you, thinking about a couple people in particular. Way long back. Pat Green. PFG. Randy Rodgers. His music did get noticeably worse, though, when he went mainstream. Noticeably.

Came back, opened up a really badass bar that's still thriving. Shout out to the Rustic. You've been there. That's his? That's his bar. Well, he's at least part owner. No wonder he was playing there the first time I went. Really?

Yeah. Amazing. That's a cool bar. That's a cool spot. We were actually going to do our Dallas meet up there we tossed it around

weather was not permitting weather we pivoted like the day before I think because of weather that's

damn that changes things oh the place we went I can't remember the name it worked out the backyard yes right next to the Bottle Blanc

which we also yes we were doing some market research oh man anything else on Christmas music at Nord's the Bottle Blanc, which we also doing some market research. Oh, man. Anything else on Christmas music at Nords? I think I'm ready. I agree with you. The Star, quick fact on that, they play Christmas music

year-round. That's their whole bit. Delegitimizes it. One whole year. Where? The Star radio station. Oh, really? Year-round. Did not know. Because it reformatted about 50 times. You need to download that app and stream. Former radio industry guy here.

But that was what they went with. They were like, our ratings from that being early and late on Christmas music will be better than anything we could do of adult contempt for the rest of the year. I believe it. I'm into it. Yeah. I believe it. I'm into it. Yeah.

I worked at a place or interned at a law firm outside of Dallas. And they look at me. And when it came time for this, they had like an old school. He brought in his like old school boom box that had like the speakers that you could detach and move like, you know, six inches because the wires weren't very long. And we listened to I think it was K-Love or 98.7, whatever station at the time pivoted to that. And they played like the same 10 songs. That was it.

So I was hearing Mariah Carey on the hour, like every hour. And it almost drove me like to drive off of a bridge. It was, dude, every hour. And I'm not exaggerating. In a small office. There's no getting around. Well, they've got 11 now. They'll throw the Casey Musgraves album in there. And you'll be good once a month.

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Yeah, I watched all the boys. And, you know, we'll talk about this in too much depth, I'm sure. But not bad. Not bad showing for the boys. Talking about the Dallas Cowboys. The Dallas Cowboys, yeah. Some of our listeners don't sports. Yeah, that's pretty much it.

I had a low-key Friday, didn't do anything really, and then just took her out to dinner and celebrated her birthday a little bit, and it was a good time. What did you all do? Where did you all go eat? Or did you make dinner? We went to a restaurant called Fox Hill, and I had an undercooked strip. How undercooked?

Exposable. Leanne Rimes undercooked strip. How undercooked? Exposable. Leanne Rimes undercooked? I could only eat part of it. I could only eat part of it. Really? Yeah. You didn't send it back? I don't like to be send back guy.

Was this a nice steakhouse? It's a nice restaurant. It wasn't a steakhouse, but they had steak on the menu. Okay. If it was a steakhouse, I would have been. Are you a medium rare or a medium guy? I'm a medium rare. This was not even rare.

It was red. It was still moving? It was red, yeah. I don't mean to shit on it. Otherwise, good experience? It's a great place. It really is. Did you get your Brussels sprouts?

I've been there many times. The only time I've been less than completely satisfied. Did you get your sprouts? I didn't get any brussies. Because I know how you get when you don't get any brussies because I know you get when you don't get your brussies it came with green beans and potatoes how about hmm they made a fine vodka martini dirty vodka martini though mmm let's do it yeah you know how I do fucking high-class you know how to tell

false ballers what's up Brett well we let's see, Friday I had Caroline in town. We did Friday night. I'm trying to think of what we did Friday night. Can't even remember. You didn't go to the Oak. We did not go to the Oak. We went to, I honestly don't remember where we went. You got a pizza place off at some point, right?

We did that. On Saturday. Yep. We did that on Saturday. Yep. We did that on Saturday. Lucky pizza place. I'm literally drawing a blank. I don't know where we ate dinner. It must have been a memorable weekend

with your girlfriend. Did you go to 28? No, we went to Mako. Oh, you did? We got sushi. That's why you can't remember. We got sushi off. You and S-Bombing.

We got a little inebriated on Friday. That'll happen in America. That'll happen in America. It was sneaky. The hot sake is very good. Did you get a sake set? No, we just did three hot sakes.

Somebody sake. Yeah. Okay. And sushi. It was fantastic. Yeah, man. They had my favorite roll, the chorizo roll. Did you spend $25 a person?

Every time I go there, it's exactly $25. I think it was $54 total for hours at Mako's. Is the chorizo roll just gobble ghoul? Chorizo roll? It's not. It's chorizo roll. There needs to be a gobble ghoul roll. Do you see the emoji now?

They have a- Do they? Yeah. With the chef's kiss emoji. kiss yeah we taught the world how to eat did that uh saturday got up and went to the uh the new easy tighter location okay oh yeah tried their their brunch out it's fantastic did you get the breakfast sandwich i did dude how good was that very very you watched me eat it on uh friday i did and i said i need to go back. Oh, gross. Oh, okay. Sir. Said I need to go back.

Generous. I did. We watched some college football. They don't have TVs, though, at Easy Tidier, which was annoying. You know, some places they don't want to attract the crowd, the game guy. Game day guy. Yeah, big boy stack. They don't want a Jersey guy in there.

They don't want big boy stack dude who's going to be walking around anxiously clapping and looking at the ground. They don't want Cowboys jersey and cargo shorts guy rolling in there. UT polo guy. We walked in and I was like, oh, they'll have the Texas game out somewhere. And just zero TVs in the entire location. Other than that, the food is fantastic. The beers are fine. What'd you go with?

We went with mimosas. Oh. Come. Saturday morning. I call them sars. Sars. Ah, sars, dude. Not mimos?

Mimos. Mimos is too many sillies. Out there finding mimos? Too many sillies for me. Yeah. And then, honey, I watched some college football. Dude, fuck yeah. Hell yeah, bro.

Did some stacks. You know, got some college football. Dude, fuck yeah. Hell yeah, bro. Did some stacks. You know, got some pizza off. Dude, that over last night killed me, man. Or should I say under? Yeah, under. That killed a lot of people. Anyway, went to Pine House, Dylan. Your favorite.

Love that place, man. I got their special pizza, the Billy Bird. They don't miss. It was good. I need to try one. They don't miss. It was good. I need to try one. They missed on that. It was fine. Did they miss or did they make contact?

They put it in play. Look, whenever you try their specialty, like this is here for a week pizza, and then we're going to take it off the menu, be careful. There's a reason why they don't always offer it. I'll say this. It was good. My expectations were too high. Yeah, okay.

If you put buffalo chicken anything on a menu,'m like oh here we go it was fun it was it was you ordered a buffalo chicken pizza yes then you're not allowed to complain about i know i'm not saying i'm complaining i'm just saying okay all right i'm just saying buff if you're getting chicken of let alone buffalo chicken on a pizza, you should expect the worst. It was a one and done. They did the thing where some people do their buffalo sauce was only French Red Hot. That's trash. Not the French Red Hot's bad, but on pizza.

French Red Hot is the base. You need butter and you need garlic. You need the things that make a buffalo sauce a buffalo sauce. You can't just have hot sauce on pizza. If there's anybody that knows Western New York, it's you and me. Arguably, we're the only two. The only two. We're the authorities.

The only authorities in the podcast game. I did hear there's a buffalo bar in Austin called the Nickel, maybe? They're like a Sabres, Bills. Really? Yeah. You just go in there. Oh, like Buffalo Nickels. Like backyard wrestling.

Oh, shit. Clever. See, his brain figured it out so fast. Yeah. You just go in there. Oh, like Buffalo Nichols. Like backyard wrestling. Oh, shit. Clever. See his brain? Figured it out so fast. Yeah. I went to Buffalo Billiards immediately. I was thinking Wooden Nickel for some reason. Nickel City is what it's called.

Nickel City in East Austin. No idea. Man, I still think I'm on to something. You are. Okay. You combine Eastside with a Buffalo bar that caters to their sports teams. Like, that's a recipe there. Do they, like, jump on tables from the roofs and stuff?

Do they just constantly fall through the skylights? Yeah. Throwing kegs through windows and stuff like that? No, they just play shout when the Bills score. Let's go. Is that a whole different situation? That's a good bit. No.

But the Sabres play this. It's let's go, Buffalo, when they get to that part. Hey, hey, hey. That's a good bit. No. But the Sabres play this. It's let's go Buffalo when they get to that part. Hey, hey. That's cool. Yeah. So that was my weekend. Uneventful Sunday. That went from like absolutely nothing to like a really good explanation.

What do you mean? Like you couldn't remember it. It all hits you at once. You did quite a bit. You did quite a bit. We did get a little liquored up on Saturday to the point where after May Day, we stopped by Woodrow's for one more. You know, like one more vibe when you get to keep the party going.

Or in my case, just one. Right. Exactly. It's all I can do these days. Right. Right. But good weekend. Young KJ.

Let's see. Friday night. uh good weekend young kj uh let's see friday night me and uh the gentleman from my i'm called former but other podcasts affiliation we did a live stream on friday it was mostly political driven and just a lot of shooting the shit um we do not repost those things because things are said that uh probably shouldn't be said over a live stream went for about two and a half hours it was a good time. Saturday, I did my first drive-through baby shower. That was a solid little experience.

Shout out to the Rays. Sunday was all football, meal prep, normal shit. It was a pretty chill weekend. Did you smoke anything? Yes, I did. Spatchcocked a couple chickens and smoked that. Excuse me? You already spatchcocked a couple chickens and smoked that. Excuse me? You already spatchcocked a couple chickens. What is spatchcocked?

It sounds way more complicated than it is. You basically cut out the backbone, turn it over and flatten it, throw it on the smoker for about three hours and you're good. Okay. I've never heard that term, but I've seen that done. It's very, very easy. But then the rest of the day was on the griddle i've gotten pretty solid on doing a whole week's worth of cooking in about two or three hours in

the griddle it's good you're a meal prepper i'm a meal prepper yes the woman that owns my house uh it's very demanding schedule with the little one and uh i knock out all of her food and some of mine for the week because i'm at the house otherwise interesting yeah i like that um i actually watched some of your live stream friday night i was in there for jeffrey epstein takes i didn't get to the epstein stuff oh well god damn it did it get uh jake or who's been on the live stream before has been solicited to be a Jeffrey Epstein consultant. The email. You're right. Now it's coming back to me.

Yeah. Okay. I watched that for an hour, dropped into Verdansk, played a couple games with J-Bone, him and his buddy Handjob Swag. I got a dub last night, by the way. You did? Not to interject. One of those will translate to Twitch at some point.

And I went to bed fairly early. I had a big Saturday lined up. Had some friends in town from Houston. They were all, it was basically they were trying to get away from their kids for a day. So they came up. I went and met them for a beer in the day. Oh, we bought a crib. We bought a baby crib Saturday morning.

Nice. Yeah. So we got that. Making moves. What was the closing cost? Now it's going to get real. It was a lot. The paperwork was. Let me say this.

Anytime you get a new crib. We found one that's like an in-between price, but there's some expensive baby cribs. Oh, yeah. Here's the thing, though. They don't always use it. They grow out of them, and then you're like, I got this $2,000 baby crib. Well, it's a four-in-one. So it converts into-

Not domestic? No. Oh, my bad. It's a bed, a full-size bed as well. I'll probably sleep there at some point. Okay. Let's go. I think it's four-in-one.

I don't know. They tell you that. What else could you use this fucking thing for? I don't know. They tell you that. What else could you use this fucking thing for? I don't know. So we did that. Then I met those folks out for a beer east side. Went to Luster Pearl East. Have you ever been there?

Yes. You've definitely been to old Luster Pearl. I believe I have been there, yes. It's a cool spot. It's completely outdoors. Unfortunately, they subscribed to the no TV policy. Or they have one, but it's way tucked over on the side, and it was very crowded over there, so we didn't go.

So we were following the Texas game on our phones. Big boy stack purposes. Oh. Boys pulled it out, man. They did. Did not cover, but that's okay. Yeah. It's a good win. West Virginia's not a bad team.

And then went home, and then the wife and I joined them out for dinner. We ate in the private room at Uchiko. Must be nice. Pretty nice. Must be nice, man. I hadn't had a dinner like that in a long time. Did you do the hot rock? We did the hot rock.

We did the hot rock we did um the shag roll no gobble ghoul roll which is a bombs hey but it was very good sure they even had this little fried chicken um it's fried chicken it's very good okay very good and fried we had uh fried cereal for dessert interesting fried cereal Fried cereal? They fry up milk, and there's chocolate, then a big scoop of ice cream, and then some cereal. Is you shitting me? Go off. This sounds like something you get at the Texas State Fair. It does, and you're right.

It's like a gourmet version of something you'd get at the fair. Nice. But it was good. Fun night. Oh, yeah, I was with the noted New York Times bestselling author W.R. Bowen as well You know what you just reminded me? That I have

A happy hour reservation At Uchi this week For two And no one to go with At this point I just booked it Like in advance Take Randy

I gotta find someone You wanna go with me Randy? Whoa Randy Hardshook No What the hell? Holy shit He did Kimbe Mutombo They have really good deals For happy hour He signed your paycheck What day? You have to go with me, Randy? Whoa, Randy Hardshaw. Oh, what the hell? Holy shit. He did Kimbae Mutombo. They have really good deals for happy hour.

He signed your paycheck. What day? You have to go. What day? Wednesday, I think. Hell yeah. You trying to roll? I'll roll it.

Let's go, dog. Wow. Look at that, Randy. What a jerk. Turned down a, he's probably going to put it on the company card. I was just going to pay it out of my own kindness. I was going to pay myself. Why did you have that res?

Did you expect? I was talking to Dallas, who's Parks' mother, last week, and she was going. And she was like, it reminded me that it's a thing. People go to happy hour there. It's really inexpensive. I mean, for Uchi. And it's from 4 to 6.30, I believe. And you got to get a res.

I was like, I'm going to book it just in case. See what happens. I like that move. And I found a date. And see, he's sitting right next to me. Very cool. Not that guy over there Fonda San Miguel after me

Yeah then we go to Fonda Oh yeah Yeah Good stuff I like Uchiko More than I like Uchi Okay Atmosphere seems a lot more

Just the atmosphere It's a lot more open Like Uchi is very stuffy Like Your waiter Everybody's really serious there I feel like Uchi's dope though It is dope waiter everybody's really serious there I feel like and I've used it is dope like if you go if you're going to like an anniversary date or you're just taking your your buddy who you work with

it's a great spot but Uchi Ko is a little bit more relaxed just a little bit Uchiwala is like a great great song didn't age well I couldn't I couldn't stick the landing but let me tell you. They just played it over the loudspeaker and said, eat you the whole time. That's a song that, upon review, is not great.

Wait, why? It's just, if you, the lyric, it's very, very, Then there's some forceful, There's a lot of stuff that you're like,

non-consensual. I need to revisit that one. Yeah, I mean, I think so. Could be interpreted that way. I mean, there's a, this is,

you know, the great Nas, but, sorry to hijack your weekend. No, that mean, it could be interpreted that way. I mean, this is the great Nas, but... Sorry to hijack your weekend. No, that's okay. That was it. Yesterday,

I watched the sports. I had a beer, which was cool. You went Vi. Did I? Too much dip? Oh. Yeah, we did.

Is that what we're calling Vi these days? Oh, okay. A couple hundred thousand views on that. Oh, he did more. I think we're calling a vibe these days? Oh, okay. A couple hundred thousand views on that. Oh, it did more. I think it's close to half a mil. That's solid.

Check out Too Much Dip Podcast. With two P's. Too Much Dip, two P's. Too Much Dip, two P's on Twitter. Too Much Dip Podcast on Instagram. We'll talk about that on Too Much Dip. By the way, you're filling in for Micah. Sorry, breaking news.

Let's do it. He just texted me. Breaking news. I don't want to break in for Micah. Sorry, breaking news. Let's do it. He just texted me. Breaking news. I don't want to break news for Micah, but Micah might have an announcement soon. Not having a kid or anything. Nothing like that. I don't want to create speculation more than I already have. Speculation.

We've got to do something here. I think this is important because we've gotten a lot of mileage out of some of Brett's takes in recent months. What's wrong with them? Recent years. They're fine. They're a lot of fun. A lot of them are fine. Some of them are just a little bit outlandish.

There's definitely an age divide. And you combine that with the cultural divide of this being a southern state and you being from the northeast. Oh, regional. I thought you were talking about New York City. It's crazy. Okay. Come on, man. We get some, and your glaring lack of geography knowledge as well. Right. Wires get crossed.

They get crossed. And with our general lack of knowledge as well, it's just a lot of idiocy across the board. That being said, you issued a statement a few weeks back. Maybe it was longer than that. Who knows? 2020. About salsa. Do you want to restate your take on salsa?

your take on salsa? My take on salsa is that cheap salsa, like Pace and Tostitos specifically, is better than salsa you find that is, I don't know, pretentious. Maybe you find it at El Alma or Matt's El Rancho or in a central market that costs like $7 a bottle. Cheap salsa is much better than expensive salsa. Okay. That's fine. And we heard that, and we, I think, rightly jumped all over that. Yeah. Probably hung on to it a little bit too long. We definitely didn't let it go, and the listeners did not either. The internet certainly didn't.

The internet is, they were having fun. Some backers decided to dig up some old tape, though, in an attempt at a gotcha moment here. Let's listen. Oh, we have it. We have it. Okay. From the mail-in. One, I'll even eat bad salsa.

Like, even if it's not great. I actually recently had a tweet that I am a fan of Pace, and I'm not ashamed to admit it. Oh, Pace is good. Pace is really good. Like, Stick, This question is actually making me want to go to the store as soon as we're done and go buy some salsa and just hound some salsa. Because I love chips and salsa

so much, I will put salsa over everything. Real takeaway here is Sally loves salsa. I do too. So, Dylan, I will yield my time to you. Yeah, I have no problem addressing this whatsoever because i feel like i know i jumped on immediate when you said pace i was like i think i've been consistent

pace is is not good it's bad as i think a lot of cheap salsa is if not most i assume that dylan shared that take the tape says otherwise and i don't know if you're getting exposed or not what i'm not i'm not if someone would like to dig up audio of me saying pace is not good have at it i would i don't recall ever saying that pretty sure i never have uh look pace is good but and i have i think i have a good analogy here it's like so is pizza hut pizza hut's good i can i can order a pizza hut and i can enjoy it. But anyone who knows anything about pizza knows that it's a trash pizza compared to

like legitimate pizza places. Same thing with Pace. Pace is good but it's not like it's not high quality salsa. It's not like I would never choose it Pace over you know Pace at a nice Tex-Mex restaurant.

You know what I mean? No one's throwing this in my face here, unless you're about to hit me with some other audio that I don't know about. I'm not. If I may interject on that, I wasn't present for the original argument. I kind of got the gist over time. And I let Brett know this pretty directly when we talked about this earlier. Pace is absolute trash, without question.

And I think the difference here, I do appreciate the Pizza Hut argument. However, when comparing like, I don't know, Fantasma is the name of the pizza place. Fantasma. Yeah, Fantasma versus Pizza Hut. There's an accessibility thing here. I can't for $10 get pizza from Fantasma in 25 minutes. pizza from Fantasma in 25 minutes. However, when staring at a shelf full of salsas,

I can select Pace or I can select a Mrs. Renfro's or like 13 other options for like 50 cents difference at the same time. If I'm at a Super Bowl party and you put a bowl of Pace in front of me, I'm going to go to town on it. That's the worst Super Bowl party ever. With them more categories. You know what I mean? Free pizza is better than any other pizza. It's good.

It's good in that. I will eat it and enjoy myself and it's going to be just fine. I would never choose Pace. I've never purchased Pace in my life. I can tell you that right now. New York City. I think that's the crux of why this made sense is because I would choose it. Dylan wouldn't necessarily choose

it. And that's why you're getting shit on. He would settle for Pace. Yes. Dylan would It's going to be fun. I can enjoy Pace. See this is where you and i differ because if i'm in a super bowl party and they are like hey got some nachos you got some chitin salsa like cool badass let's see it and they have that big ass gallon that clear gallon of pace and they're just dropping the chunks out oh yeah not only am i leaving that party but i'm calling police on that party and like that there's drugs being done.

So it gets broken up. I'm flipping a table. Officer, there's pace at this party. Get my money back from Square's. I'm fucking out of here. I'm fine. I'm watching the game at Wild Wings. I'm also going to eat Pizza Hut at that Super Bowl party.

I'm not going to make this up. I wish it was fantastic. I think Pizza Hut stinks. But I like Domino's. Domino's might be my version. Domino's is better than Pizza Hut. That's why I didn't choose that for this argument. Thank you.

Because I can still enjoy Pizza Hut. Thank you for knowing that. While also recognizing that it is a trash pizza. Stay tuned on the Domino's Pizza Hut situation. There might be a video coming. Oh. We doing blind taste tests? What's going on?

I thought you were going to say they're about to sponsor the pod and we just rip them. I'll eat all of them. Presenting sponsor ripped them. I'll eat all of the pizzas. Presenting sponsor. I'm going to have all of the pizzas. No longer. He waits for me to just completely rip on him. Shout out to Reddit user Club Twirl for the girls for finding this. It's always amazing to me when people can remember or go through the backlogs and just hear something.

It kind of stinks that we have, I don't know how many episodes we've done at this point, hundreds and hundreds, if not thousands, episodes of stuff that we don't remember saying that people can just, like, go to at any moment and pull it up and throw it in our face. I am curious to see what your, when I came out with my Salsa take, what that audio looks like.

I think I was pretty quiet, honestly. I'm worried about what Wednesday's episode's going to look like. I think, no, someone could correct me, but I think I was pretty quiet during that whole segment. Quiet, honestly. I'm worried about what Wednesday's episode is going to look like. I don't remember either. Someone could correct me, but I think I was pretty quiet during that whole segment. Well, here's the deal, Dylan. There's a number of people calling for both of your jobs. Yeah, I saw that. This is from a Reddit user.

This is egregious. Fire them both now. Is that me and Dylan or is that Sally and Dylan? I think it's about Sally and Dylan. Now, Sally, to her credit, she was not, she was just stating that she was a fan of Pace Salsa.

Tell him to come see me because I stand Sally and will stand in front of any bullet that's being shot in her direction. That ain't happening. By God, I think that's Brett Merriman's music. This does help you. I understand that. It doesn't, by no means, by winning this argument because I Airman's music. This does help you. I understand that. It tilts.

It doesn't. I don't. By no means am I winning this argument. Because I understand. Like, that's what I said. It's cheap salsa. The polls move four points in your favor. I'm just saying that.

To make an election. I got bad news. You've been downvoted into oblivion. On the subreddit. I saw that, yeah. And that's fine. I don't care. But, yeah. I don't. I didn't put my foot in my mouth at any point.

I didn't. I'm glad to know that at the Merriman Christmas Con. I didn't. I don't think you did. I have many times before, but this is not one of those times. If you did, we're going to know about it in 48 hours. Of course. Yeah.

A lot of people saying that they'll buy your shares of washed. Those are not, to be clear, those are not up for sale. It's going to cost you $6 million. Damn. Unless somebody wants to hear an IPO rumors. Okay. I think we can circle back to that at some point. If there's incriminating audio out there, don't send it to me.

Don't send it to Dylan. It'll be brought up. Send it to an arbiter. But I don't think it exists. We'll to me. Don't send it to Dylan. It'll be brought up. Send it to an arbiter. But I don't think it exists, honestly. Well, hold for additional evidence. How about that? Dylan, I think you should applaud me because I was about this close to cutting a drop. Just you saying, oh, pace is good.

But I was like, dude, Dylan might absolutely, that might be a step too far. Like, he does not want to hear that. Now, I may have said that your take is trash, and that's just because my point still stands. If given options, choosing Pace over Superior Salsa would be a trash take. That doesn't mean Pace isn't good, though. I wouldn't choose Pizza Hut over Pine House. I'm with you.

I'm with you here. Just making it clear with you. Okay. I'm with you here. Just making it clear. Yeah. Okay. But, you know, it's fun to go to the archives and try to embarrass people. I think you are right

and I think you don't have to put your... You did not put your foot in your mouth. However, I don't think you're right enough to where the internet will let it go. Oh, of course not. Of course not. We'll see. That's the nature of doing what we do for a living. Oh, of course not. Of course not. We'll see.

That's the nature of doing what we do for a living. It's all good. That's all right. It's part of the gig. Now I just have to get Dylan to admit he's one-handed a burger before. Right, right, right. But it was a small one.

Someone's going to find a video of Dylan in college. The quarter pounder. Yeah. With him at the soup peddler getting chilly. The plate's going to be in his pinky and ring finger. The burger, the slider's going to be in his hand like this, and the beer's in the other hand. My favorite is a guy who sent us a picture of him eating a burger with one hand,

but 75% of it was eaten away. So he had one huge bite left, and he's like, look, one hand. Dude, the whole burger's missing. What are you talking about? Where's the rest of that burger? You already ate it. Probably with the assistance of hand number two. Oh, man.

All right. New segment alert. You ready? Not to get political, but. Is there any reason that you waited until the gives off not registered to vote vibes co-host of this podcast was not present to debut this? That somehow landed on me in recent weeks i think will like just like deflected it to me that i put off that vibe and i still don't know what i i was registered and let me tell you this i might have voted you exercised

your right maybe i don't talk about this stuff publicly sure no i did um there are some things that happened over the weekend that we should talk about now the the one that we don't really need to get into, because I think everybody knows, we have a new president-elect. Oh, Randy, what happened? Wow, Randy. Randy's mags were getting political. Randy desk-popped over here. Desk-popping.

He just desk-popped. He just desk-popped. Come on, dawg. So, I don't know if you guys saw this, but the media has declared Joe Biden to be the president-elect. I missed this. I got to catch up on my internet. Yeah, you to be the president-elect. I missed this. I got to catch up on my internet. Yeah, you were off the grid, man. You were in Oklahoma, basically.

Basically. This created one of my favorite phenomenons on Twitter, and that is viral tweets. There were many of them. A lot of people going vi. I don't know if you guys saw this but the wickedly talented dina menzel i actually said what she had to say she had a great tweet that went real vi and this is so cool what a relief my son just hugged me and said mommy no more kids in cages tears of joy and tears of sadness how cool is that like I don't know how old

her kid is I assume very young but not young enough to to not be able to comprehend you just want to blow this kid's mind and show her like some go-go videos or some shit of kids like just women dancing in cages that's like that site reminds me of those like Ben Shapiro asked tweets where he's like I just left the coffee shop in LA or whatever and people were just talking about vote for Trump and like the whole like shut up like I did not have a shot you made that up best response to those tweets hands down is the I'll take things that didn't happen for a hundred which by the way I

don't know if you're doing this in breaking news. It's not necessarily. I'm all set in breaking news. Okay. I don't want to cuck your seggy. But Alex Trebek is deceased. Yeah. Yeah. Quite a career.

Great. I mean. All-timer. I mean, like, Mount Rushmore, like. Are you kidding? Up there with Chris Harrison. Of course. Big shoes to fill.

Chris Harrison. Big shoes to fill. As far as game show goes, he's the guy. Is there any names that are getting tossed around for replacements? Or, like, can they just stop doing the show? No. I don't want it to go on. They threw around some of the guys that were some of the, like,

highest winners of all time. We're talking about, like, Ken Jennings and the other gentleman, I can't remember his name, were, like, once he announced that he had this illness. Is it not Ken Jenningsnings no no no i was i'll tell you later okay because i i could have said dan jennings no no no you're it was ken jennings um but there were two or three people that were tossed around at that time but then he was like you know what i'm gonna keep fighting i'm good so and he did and it was a bummer it was cool to see the reaction on this was cool like twitter at its best a lot of people you know the highlight reels some of his funnier moments which there were so many

great sense of humor on the guy but um uh have you seen ken bone's name get tossed around i don't know why that's what i thought when you said ken jennings i know they're very different people famous for very different things oh i just think it would be funny if the bone man was hosting jeopardopardy. No, they need to shut the show down. I know that will make people sad, but I'm fine with it. He was the show. Give Pat Sajak a chance.

No, he's not good. He's good on Wheel of Fortune, but he's not – Yeah, you can't put Sajak in that. Pat Sajak. Yeah. The sage? Then who are you putting that – Chairman of the –

Chairman of the – He needs to be – Tom Hanks? He needs to be Tom Hanks. He needs to be in that realm, right? But he can't be, or she. I shouldn't say just he. Wow. Leslie Jones? I don't think you're getting Tom Hanks to record that daily show.

I can't say with a straight face. She's objectively bad at what she's doing at Supermarket. That's a bad show. I'm out here and I'm yelling. That's a bad concept. Nobody else impersonate that. That's a bad show. I'm out here and I'm yelling.

That's a bad concept. Nobody else impersonate that. I will say if you see how long it took to get to Steve Harvey and what he's done with Family Feud, you're probably going to have some downed Cowboys years before you find your next quarterback per se to sports it up here. You might have found him. More on that later. But I think you've got to carry that torch what if you get cat williams

jesus and on today's day i can't do it i'm not gonna do it no more no more i've got no more reduction i'm the one who catches all the smoke for saying that cat williams is good i know it is falling off but dude his old stand-up is good. That's my take for the day. I feel very Michael Scott and a bandana-esque right now. Don't do it, Michael. Back to not to get political butt. Four seasons total landscaping, huh?

All time. All time. landscaping huh all time all time um i don't if you didn't see this there was a um so our current our current president who is contesting the results of said election through uh litigation channels the court system and whatnot uh they held a news conference in a northeast philadelphia parking lot outside of a landscaping firm known as Four Seasons Total Landscaping. And this, and Saturday people were so confused because the president tweeted out that they're going to do this at Four Seasons. And then he deleted that tweet. And then he put up Four Seasons. In Philadelphia, we should say.

Yeah. And I was like, oh, that's a weird name. Because, you know, like sometimes hotels have, a lot of times, they've got names that are. La Quinta. Yeah, exactly. They all have names, but they have names that are like, I don't know, have something to do with the community or wherever they're at. And I was like, total landscaping. I'm like, this place must be badass, like ivy everywhere.

Like, what, this is about to be a baller press conference. This is going to be good. Yeah. No, it turns out is about to be a baller press conference. This is going to be good. Yeah. No, it turns out it was just in this industrial park. Is it bad that I play video games so much that it kind of looks like Storage Town? No, that's, dude, that's accurate. Quick anecdote here. And, you know, to forgive those who made this mistake,

when I'm not here entertaining the masses, I'm doing my normal job, which is, I don't know, you can call me a healthcare consultant, which includes going to small towns throughout the Midwest, finding doctors for those small towns. One of those small towns is in Northwest Iowa and Spencer, Iowa area. Shout out to Iowa. For the longest, I hadn't toured that place, and so I searched it online, and I found Four Seasons Resort, Lake Okoboji. And I told doctors for no less than six years that there's a Four Seasons off of this gorgeous lake, which the lake is nice. And if you Google on your own Four Seasons Lake Okoboji, I will tell you that this place is not a Four Seasons. It might not even be a Motel 6.

It's a Motel 4 1⁄ a motel six it's a motel four and a half like it's hideous and nobody questioned me until like five years in and somebody in the next like row over was like there's a four seasons in iowa like where and i pulled it up clicked on the link i mean mistakes can be made i'm forgiving uh giuliani and the crew here okay i don't know how why they showed up and followed through. I have found the resort. Yeah, it's not good. Wait, and it has the name?

Why has there not been a season to assist? Four Seasons Resort on Lake Okoboji. Okoboji. It's, well, there's the room. Okay. I mean, not great. You might see, you know, Jesse Breaking Bad might be in there with a nice lady. They do have the dry dock down in the lake, food and spirits.

It looks a lot like the whatever they called it, the Bluebird or whatever in Ozark that they bought. Okay. That makes sense. It is also right next door to the Ritz. Yes. Which is also not the Ritz Carlton. This apparently was adjacent to or near a crematorium. Okay.

Ominous. Which is what they call it. No, I'm kidding. And also near a sex shop, which is kind of funny, I guess. Dylan did not swing at that pitch. He just stepped back from the plate and knew it was a ball. No, no, no. You know what he knew?

He knew it was 99 in the black, and he just let it go. He's like, no. That's a broken bat. Nothing there. But, yeah, this is just one of the more bizarre stories from the weekend. But they are good news. The Four Seasons Total total landscaping company has started selling merch yes yep yep just t-shirts with their super generic landscaping logo give

me a letterman jacket since since 1992 it says respect it's just a classic mom and pop philly shop support local business but they are now a meme and i'm very curious to see i hope somebody does a follow-up because i want to see uh what kind of numbers they're going to do did you see their press release dave no you would you like to read it i thought i i thought you wanted to but okay oh it was very generic very generic i had it up and now oh i did see that they tweeted they have a twitter account yeah they just stated they have no relation with the hotel. Sorry. They're hoping they didn't just get exposed and now they're going to get the C&D.

Yeah. I thought I was giving Dave a layup and it was just an alley-oop pass. And I just threw it like 10 feet over his head. No, that's my fault. That was a miscommunication. I'm pointing at me. It's on me. Miscommunication.

I am looking at their – would you like me to read it now? No, it's okay. We just buried that one. For those interested in purchasing shirts, our website will have a merchandise tab uploaded by Monday morning. Just bear with us. Go Birds! Great ending. Go Birds.

Go Birds. I think we handled this. This looks like every Philly. There's a lot of these industrial parks. I love Philly, by the way. For like 30 square miles outside of Philly, there's this. Row upon row. This and this, yeah.

And they are very, very proud of it, and they do very well. Dylan, do we want to touch Mr. Kenneth Copeland? Yeah, I mean, I want to, but I don't want people to think I'm taking shots at, you know I think you're okay Yeah, we're not here to critique his profession and or his opinion on the matter So he's an evangelist, right? Yes Okay, he's an evangelist, a televangelist, I think, he's all over TV

And basically, I don't think we have the audio, but he reacted to... Dylan, we've got the audio. Okay. He reacted to the media reporting that Biden had won the election, and he was not too pleased about it. Let's see if this is how y'all reacted. This is how he reacted. Let me know if this is what y'all did when you heard the news.

The media said what? Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. The media said Joe Biden's president. There it is. This goes on. It goes on like this. It's not a short video. 41 seconds.

He's still going. He like slyly does that. Okay, everybody else, stand up. Everybody stand up. That's the one. That's the part. The punctuator. I had seen this guy before on the internet before, like little clips and pictures, because

he's got a weird face. He's got a look. He's got a look. You're saying weird face. Guess his age. Ooh, 71. 83. Oh, my God.

Does that change your opinion? That's why his look is that look. Okay. So this video comes out. I'm like, okay, this guy's crazy. It kind of led me to a mini wormhole of this guy. Mini. That is not even close to the most Egregious video of him

There's one Okay so this guy He flies private everywhere he goes Like he owns a private jet Which Not the best look for You know someone It's a PJ

You know For a pastor or whatever Evangelist who You know Doesn't pay taxes And gets You know Donor money from his Followers or whatever evangelist who you know doesn't pay taxes and gets you know spawn you know donor money from his followers or whatever it's just a weird look so some reporter like went up to him and asked him as he was getting into his escalate at the um i believe right after he got

off his pj and he was quoted as saying before that he doesn't fly commercial because he doesn't want to get in a tube with other demons. Getting in a long tube with a bunch of demons. Just call it a plane. Long tube with a bunch of demons. So this reporter walks up to him, camera in his face and all that. I was like, can you clarify what you meant by, you know, why you fly private and how flying commercial means you're getting in a tube with demons. And so he bought his plane from Tyler Perry,

and his response to it is just like he's crazy, and kind of loses. He snaps on this reporter, and I'm not doing it justice. What you need to do, you need to go to YouTube and just search for, what's his name, Kenneth Copeland, Kenneth Copeland Kenneth Copeland private jet interview. We'll probably get you there. I think it's

a pretty popular video. The guy's fucking insane. Notes, a fact. Married three times. Nothing wrong with that. But guess the man's net worth. Also Dallas Fort Worth based. Let's have a note. $48 million.

Oh my gosh. $33. Is he doing Osteen money? Brett? $85. Anyone want to combine these for us? What? Oh, my God.

$300. $300. Damn! Yes. According to his wiki and his online postings. But yeah, based in Tarrant County. So we've got Jeffries in Dallas. Which I think he's the one that's the White House remake that's off of 183 near DFW Airport.

Oh, really? I think that's where he's... I always wondered what that was. Yeah, Mega Church. It's right off of the highway. If you've flown into DFW and headed to Dallas, you'll see it. Born in Lubbock. The point in the video that I said where he kind of snaps on her and he gets in her face and points at her.

It is chilling how crazy this guy is. Well, to be clear, have you ever flown in a tube with demons? I wouldn't be in a tube. I don't want to do that. According to him, that's all I've ever done. Dude, that's crazy that you only fly with demons in tubes. Yeah. Whereas I've flown Pry twice. And he also said that God wants him that's all i've ever done dude that's crazy that you only fly with demons and tubes yeah whereas i've flown pride and he also said he said god wants him to fly private isn't that the dabbo line i don't know there's something i don't know i think so and again i'm

not i'm not i respect all religions it's not what this is about but this guy is a is an absolute hack and scary well we just lost the Kenneth Copeland listeners. Well, I doubt we had any of them. You never know. He's worth 300 mil. I mean, that's crazy. He will be okay. Yeah, but if you like circling back, you don't listen.

Osteen's got to be half a bill. I will find him. Because Osteen's the GOAT. Also Texas-based. Also Texas. We are the megachurch capital. I didn't know that Copeland was Texas. His says $100 million, which makes me think something's off, Joe.

And I'll just do a general search for Copeland's because his wiki says, yeah. Kenneth Copeland says $300. Joel Osteen says $100. There's also a video where he's, quote, unquote, blowing away the COVID. Oh, yeah. He's on a microphone like. He did pray to, which, hey, it didn't happen immediately, but it's gone. Thank you, Kenneth.

So. Thank you, Kenneth. Shout out to KC. He had to blow so Pfizer could live. Wow. Pfizer has the vaccine. Yeah. Hey.

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Dylan, have any of you guys seen this? I know nothing about this. Concordia University, Michigan. A listener sent us this. That was in between St. Ed's and Texas State, right? There is a Concordia in Austin. We used to call it Condorkia. A bunch of dorks went there.

You know Flounder went there for a minute. True story. Really? I think he played golf there. They had a baseball field that was right on I-35, and it was a really short field. Like to left field it was, I don't know, like maybe not even 300 feet. Like it was very short.

You could take one out oppo. And you could hit one onto I-35 or like close to it. You had to really get up on it. That seems dangerous. It was crazy. Well, it's in Ann Arbor, I see. I heard they go hard there. Well, they've got some merch out there that I was not aware of. Randy, Dylan,

let me know if you would wear any of this. Yeah, there it is. Oh, man. Come on. Exactly. Go Cardinals. Look at these Kandorkia dorks. How does this get made?

Is this a bit? Are they in on the bit it has they just that clueless i think it's a bit i think they i think it's one of those like let's see if we can get away with this you know until the school shuts her down i will absolutely wear it this is what it says i will wear a cum cardinals hoodie it just says cum really big on on really big like glaringly big. It just says cum. Is that more or less egregious than the C-U-M with the heart around it? Because they love their school kids. You know someone's mom went to the bookshop to drop her kids off, and she went in there to support her kid,

and now she's walking around with a cum shirt. Yeah, there are parents who don't know this word in that context. All right, we should take this to too much dip. Like whoever – can we make the loser of whoever does worst in the game picks has to rock one of these? I'm thinking mainly the hat. I was thinking it's got to be one of the ones that says Cardinals at least. You got to leave some.

This is a bit. Yeah. No one's – this isn't like, can you actually buy it? Here's what they did. They went. That's what I'm seeing is their other merch is CU Ann Arbor. Well, this is a little misleading. They switched their name, or maybe not switched, but they went Concordia University Ann Arbor.

Yeah. So instead of Michigan, I think somebody realized the acronym and they went Ann Arbor instead. So now they're CUOM. Are you saying this is fake news? Is this a brand new university or something? I think this is fake news. Oh, man. I don't know.

We still have hope for Concordia University in Minnesota. See what they do with their merch. Or Massachusetts. No one's this. Massachusetts. No one's this reckless. I still think it needs to be the bet payoff to's this reckless. I still think it needs to be the bet payoff.

To wear this around? Oh, they even have a note about this thing. Concordia University Ann Arbor is aware of the apparel websites that have recently surfaced. These are independent sites and are not affiliated or endorsed by Concordia University Ann Arbor. But they're real. Somebody is selling. I mean, it's like selling accepted, what was that, college or like old school apparel. Like somebody is selling.

It's not official licensed apparel. You're saying. Technically, it's real. What you're telling us is we need to get this stuff before the cease and desist hits. Perhaps. Okay. They can't C&D cum. Maybe the one that's saying Cardinals.

No one's ever done that. I'm not a copyright lawyer. I don't know. Come Cardinals, man. But they're profiting off of the lightness. I mean, some of this, the hoodie, though, is actually pretty aesthetically pleasing. Yes, that one I can see. Oh, yeah.

That red on Heather Gray is a good look. Concordia is currently taking diligent steps to have the apparel removed from its websites. Okay. A lot of billable hours there. What's UNT's deal? So University of North Texas has the— Collegiate University of North Texas? They have the unfortunate problem of putting out mugs that occasionally will have a different color handle

than the rest of the mug they'll have a white mug black handle and it'll say c-u-n-t um the handle yeah yeah yeah that that will be normal to see uh for that university interesting that's tough i don't you know what this isn't that though. I mean, I had friends in high school walking around with Cox hats. Yeah, that was the go-to. Those kids, man. Shout out to Chris Bauer. Those kids. Are you saying those kids because you were one of those kids?

No, no. It's like we get it. Bauer was a baseball player. I'm going to baseball practice. It seemed like a baseball guy thing. I know, but no one from Duncanville was a legit South Carolina fan. No, absolutely not. They got the hat because it said Cox on it.

Nobody knew what school it was associated with. They just ran around with the Cox hat. Oh, Cox? What? We would get dropped off at the Parks Mall in Arlington, run into Lids, and see if they had any more hats that had funny names on them. Those university bar hats, I think that's what they were called. Those were tight.

Dude, bring them back. Yeah, those were sick, man. I had a few of them. Unfortunately, you can only have one guy in the crew with a Cox hat. Yeah. You can't have multiple dudes. I remember the bill kind of got a little frayed. Oh, yeah.

I was probably cutting my Abercrombie dad cap into a visor. True story. Fold the beer bottle top onto it. Yeah, I had a fishing hook that I put in there just to put off a vibe. Keep your ball marker in there too. Keep the ball marker. It was doing a lot of hat bits in high school. The fish hook guy, that was another bad one.

Flounder, Clay. Well, he's probably actually used that fish hook. But it's still absurd. I think you could buy them at Abercrombie. Because Abercrombie used to be kind of an outdoors brand before they pivoted to border borderline child uh pornography in their magazines it's true look it up um they're just very risque like these are kids what are you doing yeah uh they used to like they would sell like you could buy the hat that had the fish hook in it already yeah so bad

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A little choose-your- chooser adventure here today. KJ. Love it. Since you're the guest, I will leave this up to you. Oh, yeah. Would you like to go Big Pharma, Big Tech, Big Tingsman, or Big Max? As a fan of the Ting Tings, give me Big Tings. Well, do you remember Tom Hanks' son, Chet?

Oh, no. Yes, I do. I think I saw this, Chet? Oh, Jesus. Oh, no. Yes, I did. I think I saw this. Chet Hanks is back. Boy. He is culturally appropriating patois culture again with his take on the presidential election. What? Yeah.

What the heck? Yeah. I will not share it here. It's all over everywhere if you want to go take a look. It's all over everywhere. He's saying that we should not respect a certain outgoing president because of, you know. Doesn't he do like the, he like sells it one way and he's like, and then he just flips the script. Yeah, exactly.

You think he's about to go on this very pro-Trump diatribe. He flips the script. Shows you these coastal a coastal elitist? Yeah, exactly. Does he get away with it because he's having the correct take? What's Randy doing? He's just chilling. I don't know. I mean, it's just

he joked about after the Golden Globes thing that he was done with it. He's like, I can't believe people would pay attention to that. He doubled down. He pulled the Melania, I don't care, why do you, or whatever. I don't care, do you. I think part of the Q lore is that, look at Tom Hanks' dad, he's involved with some seedy things, but if you look at Chet Hanks' tattoos, they might indicate that there's something nefarious going on there.

Interesting. That's why West County didn't win any awards. Exactly. Speaking of nefarious things. Dude, that was a... Not a bad show. It's not a movie. Not a bad movie.

Dave, I got something for you. In big tech news, the former CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt, has applied to become a citizen of Cyprus. Okay. Do they have extradition? They have pretty lenient, like, I can get you a passport if you make an investment in my country laws. Wait, what? Like where Caroline's from?

No, none of that. No, not the Houston suburb. Not the Houston suburb. Okay. Cyprus, the one that Dylan frequents. Gotcha. With his tax dollars. With his tax dollars. This man's on fire okay um so here's the deal he he is they have a passport for sale program that if you have

billions of dollars you can kind of get get by and uh once you have a cyprus passport you pretty much can go anywhere in the european union without without much trouble but you have a Cyprus passport, you pretty much can go anywhere in the European Union without much trouble. But you have to be in Europe? Well, you have to be in Europe with the passport. I'm good. Well, that's the thing. Cyprus is becoming a home of oligarchs, some of whom may be Russian, European as well. When you started that with allah i thought

you were going to say olive gardens and i was like dude sick dude i could not make the bottomless breadsticks or endless breadsticks joke lamp but i'm glad you beat me it didn't land but i made it so here's the problem cyprus uh they went bankrupt in 2013. hell yeah. And they've brought in $8 billion in citizenship access since then. What are they near? Are they near closer to Greece or Italy? Dave, I'm not going to do it. No, no, no. Give us your best guess.

My guess is that they are off the western coast of Italy. Okay. I'll confirm to the listener, he did not pull up maps. I was about to, and then I was like, I knew where we were going with this. Honorable man. What about Big Pharma, as we're looking at that? Oh, that's embarrassing. As we're looking up this Big Pharma, what is it?

No, for me mainly. Cyprus is just south of Turkey. Is it not in the ocean? It's in the ocean. No, it is. It's just nowhere near Italy. Oh, okay. It's nowhere near Italy.

Anyway, there's a vaccine that Pfizer has developed, KJ, that is over 90% effective. We got them, ladies and gentlemen. Great timing, too. Great timing. Who could have thought that? No one will have any speculation right the the thing about the timing is that uh you can connect big pharma it's just circling conspiracies to uh pretty much anything at this point it's like when you do a wikipedia race back in high school and

you you try to get to like you have your your thing you get to before you can dive back down into whatever you're racing to big pharma is just like stop number one for any conspiracy theorist. Yeah, it's almost like all these people are part of like, you know, the same club that we're not a part in. Yeah, that's OK. It's too bad. Anyway, we'll see where that goes. They said they could potentially be doing 1.8 billion doses of this vaccine by the end of 2021. I mean, there is a problem, however, that the vaccine, in order to be effective, needs to be

stored at negative 80 degrees Celsius. Okay. It feels cold. It's tough to transport that without some... You can't just do dry ice? You can, but it's like... Or do a Yeti cooler. Boom.

Collab. Do that Yeti vaccine collab. Yeti X. Let's see where the Yeti cooler. Boom. Boom. Collab. Do that Yeti vaccine collab. Yeti X. Let's see where the Yeti stock is, Dave, this morning. Because Dave and Buster's right now is the big winner. Up 38%. Let's go. Have they been closed this whole time? Hard to say.

No, they are running ads. I think they've opened back up. Dave, you may be onto something here. Yeti is down 12% this morning. Ooh. Hmm. Bu this morning. Ooh. Hmm. Buying opportunity. By the dips.

Interesting. By the dips. By low. People say that. This is not stock advice, but I will say this. If you can buy low on a stock and then sell it for a higher price, you will make money. Stonks are busting today. Meaning they're doing well.

Cool. Dave, you mentioned Olive Garden earlier. Their parent company, Darden Restaurants, up 15% this morning. Let's go. Wow. Let's go. I'm a significant investor in them, full disclosure. Other big winners on the day are Pfizer.

Made sense? Yeah. What are they up? I'm curious. As of the second, they are up 10%. Let's go. I would have thought it was 20. People might be ripping profits.

Are people short selling it? I don't know. I'm kidding. I'm just saying things. It would appear that they're not. I'm just saying things. In Big Mac news, Dylan, you're a fan of the Big Mac, right? No.

Well, McDonald's Christmas menu now includes a double Big Mac. Are you shitting me? Well, that's great. They're doubling down on a terrible burger. That is four patties, lettuce, onion, cheese, famous Big Mac sauce, and three pieces of bread. Well, that makes the problem of their bun-to-meat ratio a little bit better, but it's still not a good sandwich. You tell me, Dave. That's so stupid.

I'm going to pass. That is so dumb. I'm going to pass. Just give me more cheese in between those patties. I will admit here on this very podcast, I can't one-hand that sucker. Look at that. What a guy. He's so humble.

Along with jerk chicken sandwich and a salted caramel latte. Okay. Bringing it back to Jamaica. Big tings, man. Big tings, man. I wonder if this is all tied to beef futures. You know that's the McRib, right? It's all about pork futures.

I'm surprised y'all didn't know that. How could you not know that? It's just fucking idiots. It is trading places. They call the market one time. Hey, fun episode. KJ, thank you for doing this. Hell yeah.

You're the best, KJ. Guess what? This exact same group is about to do TMD. We're about to just talk sports. So if you like that. You got no Micah today? No Micah. What?

No Micah. You hear that noise out there? Crickets? Calm down, people. Stop celebrating. Man, we're just going to run it right back. We're going to run it back. Okay.

Good stuff. We'll be back Wednesday. Check it out. Bye. Thank you for your business. Bye. Bye. Bye.

Bye. Bye. Bye. Thank you.