Circling Back - Christmas Parties & Reality Shifts

Episode Date: December 18, 2023

It's "Mail It In" Week everywhere else but not Washed Media — We got joined by both Brett and KJ today to honor Podcast Week. Brett's Holiday Party review, Dave's triumphant return to the pod where he understood the assignment, how to respond to memes DM'd to you, being a shoe-on household, reality shifting, and more. Enjoy a free one-week trial on Patreon for additional weekly episodes: www.patreon.com/circlingbackpodcast Watch all of our full episodes on our new YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/circlingback  Shop Washed Merch: www.washedmedia.shop  (0:00) Fun & Easy Banter (13:45) Recapping This Weekend in Brett Merriman Christmas Cocktail Hour (38:18) How Are The Homies Supposed To React To Each Other’s Memes? (49:10) Uber Drones (55:30) Dave’s Life Update: Shoe-On Household (1:02:00) Whole Squad Reality Shifting Support This Episode’s Sponsors Aura Frames: www.auraframes.com (CIRCLING for $30 off) Rocket Money: www.rocketmoney.com/circling  Alfa Romeo Tonale: Learn More about the Alfa Romeo Tonale at www.alfaromeousa.com  Masterclass: www.masterclass.com/circling (2-for-1 annual memberships!) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

all right we're back circling back podcast coming to you live from the washed media headquarters in austin te. My name's Will DeFreeze. To my left, the return of that boy, David Ruff. Hey, is this thing on? Can you guys hear me out there? Hey, man, happy to be back. Hey, did you guys talk about Trump selling pieces of his mugshot suit? No, we didn't talk about it, but I'm willing to. Also, this is in conjunction with an NFT of his mugshot. It's part of the Mugshot Edition NFT set. People are still doing NFTs?

He is, and you get a piece of the blue suit and the red tie if you are on a certain tier. So I don't know if that's something you'd be interested in doing for the company, a little piece of history? Not for me, but something you'd be interested in doing for the company a little piece of history uh not for me but some people might be interested in something like that do you think we could convince Brett to flip his uh nft Serge Ibaka Serge Ibaka uh for this I I don't know if he's gonna get enough out of the the surge to acquire a piece of the dawn okay but maybe okay i think it's pretty worthless at this point unfortunately it's not exactly a fair trade if they used to call you the surge dawn back in the day no i don't recall why but you were throwing robes back then

were you uh working on a sailboat yes yeah a lot of rope work on a boat like that i had to quit sailing at an early age what did it look like didn't understand the starboard versus port side whole thing that's tough for someone doesn't know their their port and starboard yeah i don't really worry about directions in general i just vibe i just get into your vibe sure here's my impression of dylan on the sailboat yeah that's what i was doing a lot of that a lot of cranking too like cranking like arsenio hall no there's a reference that many people will understand dylan chivery ladies and gentlemen dave's back okay hey welcome back dave welcome back man father of two now that's huge for you in the squad do it i have a big announcement

i know a lot of can i i'm sorry go yeah you you just we just spent three minutes on you i don't get to do this very often i don't do it you do it quite often you know dylan he he takes account of uh you know how they do it for like the debates at the end of the debates when it's like rami talked for like 40 minutes nikki haley talked for 38 yeah that is me dylan dylan does that with our time on the mic here i just got four seconds compared to dave's three minutes anyway still going look a lot of people expecting me to come here with the cowboy hat on and i'm sorry to disappoint but it's not on why'd you take the cowboy i don't know i couldn't look i couldn't do it every day i couldn't do it every day but it is a great hat and i was worried about you clearing off the stuff behind your head with that thing.

Yeah. Well, I worked the other day. You were here. Was I? I'm a little annoyed with Washed Media that we don't go more all out with Christmas decorations in the studio. Maybe just like some little tasteful holiday additions like a wreath in here. And we just don't have shit.

Yeah, that's all Randy. A wreath right there would be beautiful. Yeah. Unfortunately, this is our last video episode of the year as Randy is taking the rest of the year off to go on vacation starting tomorrow. Yep. I'm here too, guys. Hi. Hi, Dylan.

No one introduced you. We just talked about you. Hey, bud. You're a little too excited about that. Hey, buddy. We're all going to be in the office all week and Randy's already in happy vacation guy mode. Which I respect. I respect that you're in happy vacation guy mode. I can't wait to go back up to Northwest Indiana. What a treat it's gonna be sick you're gonna be with the boys at wild wings though

dude absolutely buzzing hopefully or maybe we'll go to that twin peaks right next to the hooters oh tp sounds great right now what's your big announcement yeah what's dumb bitch what is it out with it oh um reveal yourself no we had a healthy baby boy congratulations let me be the first dude thank you will let me be the first you want to be the second second yeah congratulations yeah it's pretty much it so oh okay okay that's cool that's awesome that's cool oh i forgot are we gonna re i'll i'll roll it into my weekend and fun. Weekend and child rearing. Yeah. Or something.

Weekend and fraternity leave. Fuck yeah. I got a big announcement on that front. So I'm transferring. This morning I was walking Rosie and now I'm just on high alert. I'm scared of the blicky constantly down at the park. i'm just on high alert scared of the blicky constantly down at the down at the park um and this white van unmarked pulls up to the uh the area where i was walking rosie and i was like i'm so deep in the the mental gymnastics of this entire uh canadian or this egyptian goose scenario

that when i see an unmarked white van i think that like there's a shooter that's going to roll out of there and just like unload on me damn turns out it was just some dude just like wanted to sit on a bench for a few minutes he didn't shoot me you didn't get out of there man unmarked completely unmarked completely unmarked yeah could be feds he looked like he looked like a university student to me prefer my vans marked personally yeah and mark the license plate and mark yeah can you actually identify people through license plates like i don't actually think you can the general public cannot if you just like looked it up on the internet you will get nothing people go out of their way to blur them

yeah like whenever i'm like what it's just a license i don't understand that yeah what why like you when you drive around irl you see license plates all over the place are you looking up where people live and shit like no it's so dumb it's very public they're driving they are they're quite public yeah so stupid grow up that's why i just don't have a license plate well on google did i respect that about google earth like street view it's all they're all blurred out yeah but that one dude on tiktok could probably find which which car belongs to which residence yeah that guy that guy's why is that guy still on tiktok doing content why is he not contracted out by the government to like work like like top secret shit right

he's my number one draft pick off the board if we're not drafting civilians at one point i thought i could i could leverage my super recognizing abilities uh into a government like agency job based on one look of dave's new kid do you think it's dave's uh it's most likely days i thought it was too yeah most i'm not a super recognized we're doing we're gonna get a test on more than it's above 50 chance it stays 100 of lisa's though as she gave birth to it yeah i was there for that yeah that's cool you were that was yeah you got off the sticks you weren't playing video you weren't playing fortnight i was actually i almost missed it i was down in the hospital gym i was dreading i was doing a dumbbell shred hospitals don't have gyms right there's no way i did ask alissa that

she's like it's maybe but for like people who are rehabbing or actually need it. They don't have big boy weights, dude. They're not doing full body Friday. I'm just asking. No one's maxing out on a bench down there. Did you get to get all suited up and everything? No. Oh, really?

No. Oh, man. Maybe it's just because we did the pre-meditated,itated whatever scheduled c-section like i get to get all like dressed up and like the the hospital scrub things and stuff makes me feel like i'm about to go in an nba game they might make you put the thing around your beard yeah yeah yeah a mask bro but it's like the most electric feeling it's like i'm about to go like run through the the tunnel to like 98 bulls music or whatever it is except you have no medical training whatsoever no yeah you're just medical training whatsoever no yeah

you're just in there to vibe yeah that's what i do i get in there and vibe dog yeah that's just how i roll that's just that's his method man sometimes you just gotta get in there and vibe yep he's a vibe is still eologist yeah i don't like it i don't like when people overthink and try to label stuff dude like i was still eologist that's what we'll have to go to school for a lot of years to get that yeah it was very chill though so what would my major be vibosteleology covibeology okay okay i'm fine with that chill debris man i got an email the other day that's notified me i was unregistered to vote i think i actually am

registered but i i screenshot the the text from the random number just being like well this is kind of on brand right i might unregister can i unregister to vote you do get not registered to vote vibes if we're choosing if we're choosing between like biden and trump like i might just abstain this i might just toss a hand up and be like, yo, I'm over here just vibing, dude. Yeah, I might just stay home. Did you say you're just going to listen to Stained? Yeah, that's fine. No, he's in trouble, right?

He's taking a pretty big turn. He's, yeah. Hey, how much of those lemonade quotes were like real from Don? None of them. I thought the first one was. He didn't say, he didn't discuss the Panera lemonade

that will kill you. come on i i refuse to believe it's fake until i see like the original screenshots without the words on it i need to know people were like mad that the guy who posted it like did posted it and i'm like how can you be mad like it's great comedy it it's not his fault that people it says a lot about kind of where things are at when like people like, it could be real. Right. That's what I was thinking. You went kind of micro.

That might be funny. You went kind of micro, dog. I can't imagine how viral the guy who tweeted that went. Do you think it's more viral than your Deez Nuts tweet? Probably not. Was that this year? That's an early front-runner for my tweet of the year. Deez Nuts feels like two years ago.

Well, I know the Parks was seven when I tweeted it. Oh, that's a good point. That's a good point. He changed his name. He was famously seven at one point during this year. He was seven for 49 days in 2023. Yeah. I famously remember his birthday every time.

Famously. It was my boy Jake's birthday back in the day. Let's see what kind of numbers this guy. You know how you remember your really early on friend's birthday? There's no way I can remember what kind of numbers this guy he did you know how like you remember like you're like like really early on friend's birthday there's no way i can remember anyone's birthday now but like if you talk to me about my my best bud when i was four years old i got that shit on lock i can name their birthdays and also their parents home telephone number and you could you could probably identify their home sent a hole the bucks for sure this guy did 16 000 retweets so i more than tripled him not to brag you don't have to hang on the rim on this guy right not to brag it's good tweet

you did more numbers than the panera lemonade guy more than three times and you also but and you also made up the tweet like he did too it's just not true at all he did get the little um like readers added context thing underneath that said it's fake. They got to chill on that. They got to only put that on the click-through. It makes your quote tweet swagless when they have the community note on there. I respect community notes. Swagless. But yeah, after I quote tweeted Dua Lipa with that little sass pic, they added the community

note, and I was like, well, no one's going to care about this tweet anymore. This is lame. Speaking of Dua Lipa, I just saw a tweet that we need to notify our friend James about. Is everything okay? He's going to be on a big content guy on the same team for a little bit. Okay. A horniness team. I think that's a horniness play.

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the number one reason i don't want to go to trail of lights is i don't feel like dealing with the parking situation the traffic situation according to how far i'm seeing people walk from the parking situation is not ideal around the park not only that but they shut down that street at 5 p.m and that's my route home dog it's just it's a thorn in my side five o'clock light shows famously just ruined my december yeah yeah no kidding man and we did a little ferris wheel action a lot of people are wondering like was i able to do it considering i have a fear of heights yeah i did it so y'all should be proud is it a pretty big ferris wheel it's not it's not enormous i mean if you fell from the top you'd probably die were you were you aware in that moment that you were getting god's

toughest battles yeah and i got through it through it. And it was fun. Saturday, big day, man. Had the Merriman Christmas Cocktail Hour Plus, I think it's called. Good time. The cowboy hat made another appearance. I don't know if you saw that or not. Dylan, you understood the assignment.

Yeah. Where the cowboy hat stepped out in it. Had a good time. Yeah. Is that why there was water damage in the apartment below Brett's after the party? Was that from all the pants beers? That was from the pants beers. I only did six of them, though.

And somebody urinated off the balcony. Is that true? That's true? There's a rumor. There's a rumor. There's a rumor. That's a thing, dude. We don't go to many house parties these days.

Getting to sit in here with people that were at a house party and being able to recap what happened, it takes you back. There's a number of storylines that each of us weren't aware of. You know what else took me back being there is the freaking cops showed up. Yeah, dude. So sick. I thought I was in high school for a second. Should we get Brett in here to talk?

I want Brett's takes on how his cocktail hour went. The 5-0 showed up. The haters told us to keep it down. They pulled up, and we're on the balcony playing flip cup. And as the guy pulls up, the Bluetooth speaker is just blaring Hootie and the Blowfish. Yeah. He probably knew.

He's like, oh, okay. That's when he knew it wasn't Gen Z. Yeah. He's like, okay, these guys are... He's like, why are these guys listening to oldies? I only want to be with you, his seminal hit. That's a good... It's a good bar.

That's a good... Well, he also wrote Wagon Wheel. Dude, his version's better than... Dude, he wrote Wagon Wheel. Here he is. Oh, my God. We just gained a Brett Merriman. I'm trying to think.

The youngest person at the party was probably Omar, who just turned 29. Damn. It's toasty in here. Yeah. I think James Little Shorty was probably omar who just turned 29 so damn it's toasty in here yeah i think james little shorty was probably younger than okay i think she's like 25 26 there you go hey brett what's your general review of the uh the 2023 edition of the uh brett merriman christmas cocktail hour plus uh general review i, I think positive rating overall. Um, I did, this is, this was a me thing. I needed another hour for setup. Oh, okay.

You wanted another hour beforehand. I needed one more hour. Well, I tried to give it to you, man. I didn't show up till after, like well after it started. No, that was, that was fine. But I needed one more hour. We, we got a little, Randy and I got a little carried away hanging the skis. It took a lot longer than-

Did we all notice the skis? Yeah, it took a lot longer than we thought. Why six? Six feels early for a man of your age. I just knew it was not going to get going until 7.30. So if you say 7.30, people show up at 8.30, then it's late, quick. And most, it's something, quick. And there's neighbors.

Can you describe the spread that you did that you put out for everybody? We had some different cocktail concoctions going on. So we did a couple batch cocktails. The idea was sort of a BYOB. I was going to provide beer and two batch cocktails. If you wanted something else, bring something else. If you wanted something else, bring something else. We did a gingerbread martini as well as a Christmas punch.

The martini was good. Yeah, it was good. It was simple and it wasn't meant to be super, super fancy. But we just got a couple of cocktails in, did the buffalo chicken dip. World famous. New York Times. World famous. Also a Pate in a Blanket spread. Some glazed honey mustard Pate in a Blanket. Yeah, someone must have eaten those all by the time I got there.

Kayla made some treats. She made some cookies that were phenomenal. Also an eggnog puff treat. I don't know what they're called. I think it's just an eggnog cream puff. Eggnog what they're called an eggnog i think it's just an eggnog cream puff eggnog cream puff yeah it was really good she was all gone when i got there hell yeah yeah uh did a veggie did a little whipped feta veggie dish thing went went well yeah so the spread was great the desserts were great who was your mvp of the party? Yeah, I got to give it to Alexa.

Shouts to Fitzy's fiance. What's your criteria? Just electricity from show up to exit. She was quite electric. Electric. She made an impression. I think mine was friend of the pod, Gordo, for showing up in a full bagpipe outfit.

No bagpipe in tow, but. Kilt. He was kilted. Incredible. He was also mixing up drinks. Shouts to G. Kilt. He was kilted. Incredible. He was also mixing up drinks. Shouts to Gordo. Yeah. He was making himself Manhattan's own.

Absolute renaissance man in that scenario. He understood the assignment. Stop. I thought DeVries put in a flip cup performance that you don't see very often. You don't see 36-year-olds hitting the flip cup table and going five for six on flips. That was fun. I'd play flip cup in a minute. Did you get on the table, Davey?

I got in a few games. Davey was on the table davy i got in a few games davy davy was on the winning side with me um i had one that we won despite me like yeah you is bad i think you were anchor that time and it was like oh shit i knew you had that dog in you i wasn't worried dave i wasn't worried i think yeah i think it was a good good mix of watch of life uh good good music the whole time i thought the decor turned out. We were trying to do a lot of lights. We ran out of time, Randy and I, on the pre-party set.

I was cracking the whip. He was like, put up these lights, put up these lights, all this. I'm like, man, why'd you even make me come? What? What did y'all do? Randy was distracted for about three hours before the party because he was trying to craft the perfect messages to a person on Hinge.

So I'd be like, hey, Randy, can we do the next step here? No, I was a little distracted watching my Purdue Boilermakers beating the number one team in the country, Brett. Yeah, that's going to be so sick when they lose to a 12 seed in March. Ooh, 12-5, you got to watch out there, famously. Yeah, so I think overall success. Did everybody have a good time i had a good time i had a good time as well tough getting an uber out there yeah but yeah good time good times we had i'm glad everybody i always get nervous because it's tough to find the place you got to go in the second entrance

do the gate code it's a lot the second entrance is what throws people off for some reason my apartment complex has permanently shut the front gate the first one that's right by my place it makes no sense security probably but like if you have a fob you should be able to just beep it open like you can the other gates you can't even beep it open can't beep it open oh it's silly i uh i don't want to throw someone underneath the bus here but i do think i needed to expose someone uh you know some of those some of those jello shots were the chewiest jello shots i've ever had that's not what you want to hear about jello shots i didn't make them they were chewy they were chewy that was a friend of the podcast james jello shot never had a chewy jello

shot until saturday i'll say it i don't think i don't think they were bricked i thought they were just fine i thought they were good fine. I thought they were good. There were some that were chewy. You had to chew them to get to swallow. Is that not typical with jello? I don't think so. Oh, usually just suck down? Yeah, usually.

Like an oyster? Yeah, you can just have straight-up gums and get it down. Just gum it. Just a straight-up gummy on that jello. But the taste was fine. Yeah, the taste was good. Shout out James. Peppermint, he whipped those up the taste was good. Shout out James. Peppermint.

He whipped those up. I really appreciate him helping out there. I mean, we just had a bunch of friends at the pod. Shouts to Spanish Oats Ryan. He was there. Is that what we're calling him? Harbs was there. Harbs, he was putting a dent in DeFreeze because he was like,

Will wants to be better friends with Harbs than me. In 2024, it's a big goal no friendship famously declines after 35 even worse after 40 we gotta start acting now boys yep that's how i'm gonna start marketing the meetups the new meetups in 2024 yeah be like dude guys it's now or never last chance buddy now's our time yeah a couple people left things there which i think indicates a good time, like coats and shoes. Anything in the fridge? Yep. Like what?

Just some ingredients. Some Shiner Cheers? Yeah. Well, Brett, thank you for hosting the party, man. Yeah. I had an absolute blast. It was a good time. Let me be the first to say

the Merriman Spooky Monster Bash has now been replaced. In the future, going forward, it will be the Merriman spooky monster bash has now been replaced in the future going forward it will be the merriman christmas cut to lower plus again i'm okay with that i'm okay with that sounds great well thank you brett thank you we appreciate you popping on yeah thank you guys for coming and shots to uh alissa ruff and sally defries who famously just had kids and famously pulled up. Yeah. Rolled through.

Their dogs. I was shocked. I'm like, you're like your kids. We crowd surfed her in. We did. That was cool. Yeah. She's my DD.

All right. Thanks for having me. All right, Brett. It's been a pleasure. Nay. Any cherries on top of your weekend, Dylan? Sorry, we kind of cucked you with the whole bread over here. Yesterday, I took a nap. That was the highlight of my day dude i took a nap yesterday i'm not a napper man i was groggy the rest of the day i can't do it dude i woke up just moody and groggy i was like

ah fuck like i need some nap tips out there from real nappers yeah real nappers come through i found that like not getting under the covers keeps me from uh getting too too intensive a nap that i wake up groggy from so i'll just i'll remove my shoes more on that later and get a top of the comforter and just lie there like dracula style and wake up like 30 minutes later and i'm good yeah i did it under the covers nap during the cowboys game so you can't miss much under the covers nap is just that's that's asking for see, you can't be doing that. Didn't miss much. A little cozy boy? That's asking for groggy. I was a cozy boy. Oh, yeah.

Did you wake up with a big old hole in that mattress? I woke up just totally disoriented. I didn't know where I was, what day it was. Oh, yeah. It was getting dark. I was like, oh, I don't know where I am. What's going on? Yeah, I matched that red zone nap button around 345,

and it just was not what your boy needed. The boys stink, baby. Going to have a big game on December 30thth in arlington dude are we going the loins we'll see about it our our son's too young to bring up there see that was actually a question i had for sally i was like could this be an opportunity for a first ever lions game will and dave watch one and a half quarters of a game they just spent yeah you want a good amount of money yeah i i get to watch my son throw his nachos on the ground that'd be sick he doesn't waste nachos dude that kid loves queso yeah dave how was your weekend man it's been a month it's been a minute um it was great you know um kind of kicked off, was able to make the Washed Media holiday party, holiday dinner at Carve,

which we did recap, I think, quite well on the live stream, Coffee Friday. Check out YouTube for that. Friday night, we finished something we started maybe a week ago. We've been spending our time. He's so back. We've been spending our time while our son Sammy takes naps and Rhodes is, you know, he watches it with us.

We've been doing Lord of the Rings. We did a whole rewatch. And I have since started The Hobbit, which I had already seen. I saw The Hobbit in theaters, but I'm running back The Hobbit. So we're doing the whole Tolkien thing. Tolkien, tolkien right that's a tolkien john yeah yeah jrr dude good stuff good stuff uh big fan don't i think i think you need to jump into it i think that's safe to say i know you've had people try to sell you on it but i i'm

jumping back in it's standing the test of time. I shouldn't run HP first? I would do HP first. If you're going to do HP, though, you need to start HP right after Thanksgiving, and you need to watch all those between then and Christmas. Why? Because they just have Christmas vibes, dude. It is for some reason.

Really? It does have some good Christmas vibes. I don't know why. But Christmas isn't actually in the movie. There's no Santa Claus in Harry Potter. There's some Christmas stuff in it, but it's like Halloween through Christmas. That's the perfect time to watch Harry Potter. It is.

It is. So, yeah, I might even implore you just to hit that Lord of the Rings immediately. Yeah. All right. We'll see about it. If you got really into Game of Thrones, you can handle Lord of the Rings. Just make sure you don't forget about our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. He's the reason for this season.

No, sure. I won't forget about JC. I kind of want to start Fargo. I'm total out of left field, but Barrett was talking about it with someone at the party the other night. He was hyping it up big time. Yeah. I don't think so, Tim. Okay.

There it is. Okay. You just got Al Borland. Okay got you just got al borland okay she's got al borland all right all right um other than that weekend was good i mean i kind of got in a little bit of trouble took a had a quick trip out to dc uh was supposed to do a video in the congressional hearing room with the body of mine. He ended up getting some hot water for it. Yeah. I'm sorry, dude. I don't know if it's ever going to get released. Did he at least get to keep his job or anything?

Hard to say. I don't think so. But, you know, other than that, it was pretty chill. That's sick, dude. Did I tell a story about the Astros fan i tell that on coffee friday the salty astros fan i did okay yeah you told that story okay i made a mental note to bring that up you'll have to check out coffee friday on youtube for that i felt kind of bad i've been i've honestly been overthinking it for the last two weeks no dude don't feel bad don't feel bad

um if he's willing to talk shit in a public domain like that, you can talk shit back. Yeah. He found the wrong guy that day. I do think there's a chance he was just really socially awkward and he didn't know how to interact. Do you know who the cashier is? Have you met? Because he's like a very, you would know him. If you go to H-E-B Brody, which you probably don't anymore.

No, I don't. His name's Brody. That's chill. No. Brody. Shout out Homeland. What else? Oh, yeah.

So we had our kid a couple weeks ago. Great. Healthy baby boy. How's the sleep going? Last night, he's – so compared to Rhodes, this kid's a sleeper. He doesn't have the pipes that Rhodes had. But he's good. He's good. Rhodes was uh Rhodes would keep us up Rhodes was very loud uh we're doing a few things differently this time mainly like not worrying not like having to go

peek over the bassinet um every 15 minutes be like you're trusting the process more yeah being like oh yeah I don't have to like put my hand to make sure like he's breathing every 10 minutes just that whole thing first kid you're really uh yeah did i did i put the swaddle on too tight is he breathing right now that is a that's a real thought it's so funny yeah no but uh he's he's great uh roads is a great big brother um um seeing the two of them but i didn't have a big brother growing up and for me it's the juxtaposition between roads and sam in what way where are they juxtaposed dave well you have roads who is kind of a little bit more of an extrovert. Very loud, like screaming, me, me, me. Whereas Sammy, Sammy's kind of chill. So you put them together, it's like, oh, this is a clear, like, this is a clear differentiating factor.

Okay, you know what? That makes a little bit of sense. You understand? Yeah, sure. Here. Hey, Foggs. Foggs. Yeah.

I can't cheers because I don't have a coffee and I also wasn't in a frat. Yeah, it's too bad, man. It's true. We'll do a GDI cheers later. You can join in on. What's a GDI cheers? I don't know. It's just like a quote from Beer Olympics.

It's a really bad handshake. We don't know how to go in. You just quote Dane Cook at the pregame. Come on. You don't have to do him i'm sorry he had his time well he he did famously marry someone very quickly after she became legal yeah what's up with that i don't know yeah tough yeah tough one there yeah am i right don't know how long they were together. Got some questions there. Yikes.

I was following the Washed Media from afar. Okay. The Washed Media? The Washed Media. How was the Washed Media from afar? Quite good. I enjoyed it. Micah brought it.

We were cooking a little bit. I was on the board a couple times. I don't know if you saw that. Yeah, I heard it. They were calling him Charles Oakley. Yeah. Just crashing the boards, man. Yeah.

It was quite good. Also, did something crazy. You ready? Did you know you can download the Spotify app on your television, your smart TV? I did know that. I finally did that. We do that in the office like all the time. I know.

I don't know why it took me. It's pretty cool, man. Technology is wild. Yeah, dude. You hear about these TVs these days? They're smart. Yeah, man. It's pretty crazy. Yeah, no is wild. Yeah, dude. You hear about these TVs these days? They're smart. Yeah, man. It's pretty crazy.

So, yeah, no, it's great. Good stuff. Very cool. Yeah, I didn't do anything else that you guys didn't do. Just absolutely licked the wounds on Friday from that WASH Media holiday party, which is exactly what you want to be doing. Daddy was a little hungover. Yeah, yeah. We didn't need to try every style of alcohol.

We did, though. We did, though. and that felt good um i didn't do much this weekend outside of the brett merriman uh christmas cocktail hour plus um i went out to go i really wanted to go get some gifts for the squad go out and do some some christmas shopping on saturday afternoon so i went out and i uh went to two record stores and before i was like man i don't really feel like being out right now. I'm just going to go home. So I just did a bunch of shopping for me. That's what's up.

Yeah, that's what's up. I did get Brett a gift for his contribution to just our social lives and throwing a party. And so I brought him a vinyl. That was very nice. And then I didn't do much until that cocktail hour. I've been pre-gaming. I'm going through a Manhattan phase right now. Okay?

Okay? And so I made an at-home Manhattan. I didn't have the things to dress the drink up with. I didn't have any brandy cherries or any lemons to do a little real existing with or anything. Kick the party off. But, you know, I'm enjoying the Manhattan life. It's a dangerous game to play.

It's kind of replaced my martini at this point. Manhattan, is that the one that's notoriously strong, or am I confusing that with the Long Island iced tea? No, it's booze forward. Manhattan is some rye whiskey with some sweet vermouth and some bitters. Yeah, yeah. So just keep an eye out.

New York, baby. The concrete jungle. Dreams are made of. City that never sleeps. How many can you put back? One. Just one single, yeah. If you see me ordering a second Manhattan,

just know that things are going to derail pretty quickly here. But yeah, after the Merriman Christmas cocktail hour, I just went home and sat there and and enjoyed myself just absolutely vibed out and thought about life until my dog woke me up late at night and sobered me up and made me take her out for a little walk and so you know looking forward to moving in a couple weeks so i can just have a yard for once uh after midnight she was letting it all hang out are there is there like a a high school scene or like do kids go hang out near your place like late night no they absolutely could like i they absolutely could

they would be a really prime spot to go hook up if you're a high schooler i'm not telling you to because i don't want high schoolers hooking up like right next to me but if that was something that someone's trying to do like i've always found boat launches are pretty good places to do that hell yeah yeah yeah sitting out there on the dock moonlit think about a day sitting by the dock of the bay watching my something go away yep yep yep we saw santa yesterday or i guess it was saturday he's not supposed to be out till 24th he's he's he's in austin and, Rhodes got to meet him. It's great. And then, uh, Alyssa, my wife posted a story and, uh, Phil Battaglia, a good friend of the show.

He was Santa. He, uh, he would not be a great Santa. No, he'd be bad. I'd like to see it though. Uh, his wife, uh, responded like, Oh my God, where's we want to go today? Where, where's this at so we told him and then um like four hours later she messaged she's like yeah we tried to go but the mall was shut down what happened oh there was a fight and uh somebody got shot yeah oh cool cool i got well santa okay santa's fine okay he was back on his bullshit yesterday he's just shooting on sixth street as as well. Yeah. Somebody got killed. Yeah.

Dead. Very interesting. Pulled a Thule on the 5-0. Man, this weekend in fun is really taking a turn for the worse. You don't pull a Thule on the 5-0.

No. No, no, no, no. That's something I've learned to not do in my life. Don't do it anymore. I drove by a bike cop today. Not a bike one. he was on a motorcycle and he was just looking for people on my street do you have that blicky i put my blicky away as i

drove past him i don't want it i don't want to throw any flags this way get that click clack on you yeah yeah i was i was you know just getting my motion down to spray the block you're practicing out the window yeah you're You were doing dry runs? Yeah. Christmas is – holiday season, for obvious reasons, is prime. Just go to the grocery store, go to the mall and see, you know, off-duty police officer patrolling on like a Segway or on – in a golf cart. The golf cart at Lifetime is very funny for some reason. I don't know. They get the private security detail and like a pull in,

and half the time the guy's not even patrolling. He's just texting. They got a security guard on a golf cart? Yeah, a lot of break-ins. A lot of break-ins. Really? At the HEB there.

Yeah, he's like on a, not Segway, but it's like on a cart. Oh, okay. There's a lifetime, there's the golf cart, but the one at the HEB, it's like a,

it looks like a fake Segway. Something about Segway cops is don't really, you know, instill still fear in you you're not really worried about the the blue line well i mean like i mean speaking of like segues like i would love to get a segue as a gift you know what else i'd like to get as a gift an aura frame it's a great segue there thank you that's such a good segue dude come on oh on. Oh my God. What's he doing? Oh my God. I'm not kidding when I say that this aura frame has made a very positive change in my life. We

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Let's get him. Dylan, we go holler at KJ real quick. We got KJ in the building today. I have too much dip podcast fame. If he's not here, we can also cool it out um i have some questions regarding some things um you guys are familiar in general with what i would call memes memes yeah memes yeah uh are you drinking a charged lemonade right now kj hello welcome okay thank you it's great to be thank you for welcoming us i gotta sit up straight oh no oh no get the get the still frame now while i'm sitting

up right no no no can i scoot up a little bit just to emphasize this um were you asking us if i was familiar with memes so yeah do you know what memes are um vaguely vaguely i'm only aware of photos rendering me at actual size and dylan and equally proportionate size that's the only meme i'm aware of a lot of times you like you'll be sitting there on instagram you get a little notey you probably get a ton of them from like baddies and well yeah like that's just how you roll dog bags but like you know sometimes you're one of your boys will hit you with a meme where you're like, oh, man, we talked about this like two months ago. And now we can like rehash this. And like, you're sitting there like.

And sometimes you respond. Sometimes it's really good. You're like, oh, dude, that was good. Sometimes you just heart it. Sometimes I just leave it be. But this morning I walked into the studio and I decided to show Randy a meme of a table. It was a coffee table. And on that coffee table was a tech deck skate park. And Randy immediately just said, no. He didn't even hit me with like a sure. He just

hit me straight up. No, absolutely not. Don't care. You didn't respond to my meme the other day. I'm not giving you anything for this. Wow. Because I sent him a meme about a tech deck thing, and he famously does not respond to any of my memes I send him. He doesn't even hit me with a like. At least I responded to Brett with a sure. How are you supposed to? How are you supposed to? When people are, like, volume shooting memes at you,

how are you supposed to? No, I signed in. I had two memes from Randy that I needed to respond to. Like, I don't know. I can't just, like, be like be like commenting on every single meme. You can heart one. You can heart one. He didn't heart either.

He can't get back to all his DMs at once. I'm sorry, bro. I got one of my boys and he sends me memes all the time. And we are okay with leaving each other on read. We're still exchanging those back and forth. I send you probably one meme every two weeks. And then you just leave me hanging. I'm like

did he even see it what do you guys do you guys do you guys heart every single meme that your boy boy said let's let's distinguish here because you have direct direct message meme correct and then you have a group text meme where everyone unless you put in an absolute banger that no one's ever seen you're not going to get however many people in the group text to react to that it's just not happening you kind of hope that somebody else reacts so you don't have to if you can get half the people to acknowledge it that's a fire you've done well you've you've you understood the assignment don't i feel like if anything like landry and i hold the role of like you know ball boy and or girl and basically like we're the cleanup crew for some of the acknowledments in the group chat sometimes.

Cause you know, if you throw out a meme in the middle of the day, like you're not going to get the level of attention it deserves. Sometimes it's like Landry or myself, depending on what it is. One of us will at least be like, Hey, acknowledged,

received responding on behalf of, you know, yes. You're a proxy. You're the group text proxy. Uh, no, I,

I, I think Randy sends me a lot of memes and I will most of the time give you a heart, right? Yes, or even like a response, or like a what the fuck was that? Like he always responds. I'm still a WTF guy. What about, I do too, I think.

If I'm not in the mood to at least acknowledge your meme, I just won't open it to begin with so you don't have this thing that says like well like tiktok makes it even more pressure filled where like if you send someone a tiktok and they watch it in the app it tells them if you've watched the tiktok that somebody sent you really so you're like well now i now i have to respond to them in this no i don't need that um i i do want to point out a small theme and and first we preface it by saying i i amongst anybody in this room i respect our first responders assuming you know i'm correct about the employment of randy's roommate there seems to be a heightened level of sensitivity possibly uh amongst these uh

friends or roommates as uh one was warring with dylan and now another is picking a fight with Will over someone's minor items. So maybe that's the common thread. No, no. Will just does not respond to my memes. Is this on Instagram or Twitter? It's on Instagram. It's on the Grom, dude. Yeah.

A double tap is such like base level, so easy to acknowledge. But it's like a pat on the head, like good meme, Randy. Yes, exactly. I feel like it's almost demeaning at some point just to hit him with the heart and not like actual words. And so it's like I don't think people are going back and checking the receipts on this like, wow, did I offend him with that meme? You may have lost the judgment call of is this a group text or a personal meme? Oh, it's only personal. I only send Will personal memes.

He does. Will will like this. This made me think of Will. But you throw it in the group text, everybody knows who it could be for, and at least you're saved by, again, somebody else catches it and it brings it back to Will. I always feel like Klein gets wrong. We have a group chat that's just kind of the wash boys and Klein, since he's an intern here and uh he will put some stuff in there that'll just go crickets all afternoon it's like oh shit we gotta we gotta do some damage control right now he's gonna call us out later especially if you want to like say something in there that has nothing to do with what he put in there and you don't want to like just step all over it so you just kind of hit him like oh my

god that's so good then you like wait 30 seconds and you're like, actually look at this. Well, it's a tough one. Like all of us are sitting in a room together and we can see something come through and talk about it and then he just gets forgotten because he's remote.

Yeah. But also if what you drop in there isn't like actually funny, I don't want to reward you by letting you know that I think it's funny when it's actually not because you should probably be better.

I sent Will a cool soccer video from Twitter that he didn't acknowledge. was like dude i thought that was great exactly this is what i'm talking about okay okay i'll be better i'll be better i want to talk this out i honestly wanted context from you i want to be like oh it's like were you who it's i i should have asked i just sent it to you blindly but i'm also in the territory now where i'm falling asleep so early that if you send me anything after like 9 p.m there's a very good chance that I'm not going to see it until 4 in the morning when I get up. I'm going to go ahead and call the kibosh as the original double dad in the room. You know, you'll grow through this, as you can see with the bags under my eyes and the gray hair and the spear and just completely bricked fit for a day I've known about for weeks.

You look great. Yeah. I think you look good. Yeah. I'm reminding people that I do not look great. I think you look good. Yeah. I'm reminding people that I do not live currently in the state that I'm present in. That shirt's kind of gas. I do like it. It's like having a 30A sticker on the back of my car is what wearing a shirt feels like.

Do a jersey swap right now. Right now? Absolutely not. Hey, what are you sitting on? Do a jersey swap. Is that a cup of serious mud? No, why is that charged lemonade? This does look like uh the big d has

hit me with a uh sparkling orange celly but uh you know i just wanted to make sure i wasn't without my security blanket i didn't want to pull bring the full ipad in here and be distracted and reminding you guys and where you can find your nearest black santa um kind of difficult just gonna say travis county do better be better be better. Okay. But I'm here. I'm here for at least several hours if anybody needs me to swing through. We can make this work. You going to put on an outfit?

Shit. I will. There's a price. Randy's probably got one in his car. It's true. Throw some tinsel at me, daddy. You don't have anything? Look at this.

He already knows how to get me to do things for him. All I'm going to say this, Will, is that you are out here talking about male friendship declining after 35, and then you're acting like that. No way you're getting in my group chat real eaters and soft dubs. Wow. Whoa. That seems a little harsh. I was going to go out and buy a PS5 and hop on my grind, but...

In our personal interactions, everyone in this room has a better opportunity to get in that group chat. Okay. Actually, want to drop in with us, KJ? Are you a Fortnite guy, KJ? I'm not opposed. I think once he did share the information that there's no build Fortnite, that certainly piqued my interest. Similar to you, i am in a uh transitory period from a home standpoint shit's boxed up long-winded way of saying that it's

like as people have been jumping on the sticks i've been like fuck you got unboxed i'm not unboxing it and then like reconnecting my xbox account which shouts to probably non-spawn here rocket money for let me know i was just burning 16 bucks a month on a live account i hadn't used in eight months so uh yeah there's there's steps to get back there but i'll drop in soon good news xbox is not on the do not mention these brands list we're good oh we're good we're good it's more of the rocket is our Fuck yeah. Dude, hell yeah. Hey, can we hear from our friends over at Masterclass? Yes. Masterclass is just awesome.

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No. So I'm not going to play the music. These don't go up that high, unfortunately. But hey, KJ, you getting on these Uber drones that are set to take flight probably in 2025? You've got to explain this to me because when i think drone i think uh you know pocket device this is i can maybe peek over some right you know higher fences see if one is tanning during the summer okay how is this a transport transport these are less horny vehicle uh okay from the this is from a business insider flying taxis could take to the skies by

next year okay and uh let's see the it's like it'll hold up to six people so it's it's quite large it's probably like the size of like the bullpen area out there so do i need to request to get this since it's six people i'm will's asking some questions here i'm looking for logistics here the company is called archer and honestly it's that's your favorite cartoon too that is dude that's so sick apparently it's going to cost about as much as a regular uber will cost i don't believe that's how no like where okay the question is like how when do you start to trust these things never well i don't know it depends i need to see like when you know how like when i click on an uber driver's profile and i see that they're like 4.9 stars after 5 000 trips i'm like oh we're

good like i'm gonna be cruising here i don't know i'm gonna need some additional verification from these pilots when it comes to soaring through the skies and cities it's also unclear whether the these are unmanned or if there's an actual pilot. I'm not getting an unmanned aircraft. Unwomaned or unmanned, yeah. Unperson. Thank you. Thank you, KJ. And either way, could you get it like, would you want like an AI Avi like in the front seat?

Do you need that human-esque interface to just be letting you know and soothing you with soft tones? Like a hologram up there? Yes, I do. Yeah. Like with Barry White's voice. It's getting expensive. You know, soothing you with soft tones. Like a hologram up there? Yes, I do. Yeah. Like with Barry White's voice. She's getting expensive. You know, Lena Dunham's face.

I just need to know that it's going to get me somewhere safe. Point A to point B, right? Point A to point B, Dave. So like you're trying to go to like, let's say you're going downtown and you want to get an Uber down to Ranch 616 to enjoy some ranch waters with the lads.

Like where's the area this is going to land in? That's what I also need to know. Hits the intersection? Is there a road they drop down and you have to rappel? The former rattle end? If you live downtown, do you have to go up to the rooftop or something? I really don't understand. Yeah, I can't just go to the top of an apartment building and then just take an elevator down.

Where are these things going to land? I don't know that part. I guess that all needs to be worked out. You say that, but there probably is prime real estate at the top of a bunch of those parking garages that would gladly take a check yeah but what if there's a random dude looking for pokemon goes up there i'll tell you what if i lived in a high-rise building like downtown austin i wouldn't go to the roof and get on one of these things that's way too high i just wouldn't trust this it's gonna it's gonna fly higher i don't know i don't know how high it's gonna fly if it's if it's taking you like for if we're going from here to matzo rancho for example it's not gonna go like

400 feet in that sky is it would you take this method for that like barring i don't know f1 weekend i picture it just hovering like close to above like like traffic now what if what if they have a hologram in the front it's scott's staff of creed and he looks back in his cowboys jersey and he says do you want to go higher mash that creed button you think about that dave i'm glad that you went with that one because i was like loaded to come in here with a really bad chester bennington reference once you said something else ruined my december okay and just remind you that, you know, he did that first. But I would think that the flight path has to clear power lines,

traffic lights. That's my real worries, the power lines, Sitch. You know. Lost a lot of good squirrels out there. But to your point. They don't survive. The landing pattern has to be like a hovercraft like you've got to be able to helicopter you gotta have a lot of space to set this thing down yeah you've got to be able

to set like vertically up and down for that to work unless it just like lowers you hell yes beam me up scotty anyway i'm not the tech is not there i need i need several months of documented like accident free transport before i'm hopping in there's no there's no way that i will do it like in the next three years there's no what the whole squad's doing no would you let them do like okay unmanned unwomanned drone but instead of you going into the vehicle it's kind of one of those like everybody wants to be a badass navy seal but it's like an evac ladder type situation where you just kind of harvest a harness in and you're just hanging on yeah one hand up top it's harnessed around the belt and it's just dragging

you down west six like and then it's like a rope you unhitch right on the ground it's like a zip line toss that carabiner exactly then you get get to walk around with your utility belt on the rest of the night, too. I don't think it's going to look like that. Why not just do the David Blaine mechanism? We don't have that kind of magic in us. The balloons? It wasn't magic, though. It was just helium.

I thought you meant the levitation thing that he does. No, let's do a lipa. I thought you meant the non... Never mind. Go ahead. No. No. I'm pretty sure, didn't he have no – like he went well beyond the November concept,

but for other things too, I believe. Did he abstain for that long? Abstained from like all – I don't even want to use the word. He refused to nut. No nut, no – he kept it all in, I feel like, for about a month. Was this his story? He was like suspended i feel like for about a month yeah was this his story he was like suspended in a cube for like a month and i don't know he might have made messy in his nappy but i'm not sure what the fuck oh yeah he went 44 days in that cube in 2003 oh yeah you couldn't do that

dude okay no i couldn't no i'm good what are you doing to work well he just he just got in there vibe do you eat i think they might have is david blade a real eater they gave him crackers and shit do you think he's a real eater no it was a no beat no eat situation that's tough man which is tougher this time of year definitely no eat like it's acerola eating season everybody knows true okay god okay it's true we probably got too much mileage i'm saying what a callback back in the day dave you have a life update for us does this have to do with your new son not really oh okay maybe okay this is bigger than

that some things are bigger than sports some things this is clearly you guys are going to be blown away you're gonna first question i'm going to get out in front of it how have you not been doing this sooner and no i'm not talking about downloading the spotify app onto my television my smart television what i'm talking about is we are officially a shoes off in the house household wow oh now this applies only to us if you are a guest at our home i'm not going to be like hey can you take your shoes off i won't i won't do that but we are trying to make a better effort to just do that why you might ask i don't know it's just like when you don't know i'll tell you why because the bottom of his shoes are disgusting well and like roads our son goes to

to you know his school where it's hella dirty and you know he was trying to put his shoes are disgusting. Well, in like roads, our son goes to, you know, his school where it's hella dirty. And, you know, he was trying to put his shoes on the couch. I was like, no, shoes on the couch. And then we're like, hey, how about like no shoes like on anything? Like just take your shoes off when you walk in. It's much more comfortable. I fully support this. Yeah.

It doesn't make sense that I'm just now doing this. It's me, noted germaphobe of the show what's the norm in life when you go over to someone's house um i've got questions about the someone first i don't know then i can answer the norm okay okay let's say let's say it's a first relative shoes Shoes off? It depends what they do. I think that's the crux. It's like you watch them. My sister and brother-in-law, they are a shoes off household.

But do you ever worry that – like have you ever been in someone's house and you're wearing your shoes because they didn't tell you to take them off and you look around and you're like, oh, man. I'm the only person wearing shoes right now. Is it an event or is it just like a visit? Because if it's an event, I think it's assumed everyone is everyone's gonna wear their shoes like you're not asking 20 people in your house to go shoeless i saw a tweet the other day that was just like just mop after the event just fucking mop right if it's an event it's unacceptable because like think about when people do you know as a midwest boy you've got to have a space for all the coats and all the other shit that you're dropping off if you've got another shoe tree for 25 people, never mind if they're winter boots.

That's going to be a cluster. You enter one men's public restroom. Oh, yeah. And just think about what's on the bottom of your shoes. Isn't pee pretty sterile? It's pee. It's not even the pee. It's pee.

Bro, let's go out this weekend. There's a shoeless event happening. I like to combat what KJ said here. Go ahead. Give me house parties in the Midwest. You're going to everybody, man. Yeah. Why are you just taking direct shots at everybody, dude?

You're going on vacation. If I was going over to Brett's house just to hang out, yeah, shoes off. But at that party, shoes on. Correct. But in the Midwest, especially during Christmas and stuff, with the snow and everything, everyone had their boots and shoes off. Yeah, that off, but at that party, shoes on. But in the Midwest, especially during Christmas and stuff, with the snow and everything, everyone had their boots and shoes off and they'd just be at the front door and stuff.

It's different in Texas where there's no snow and sludge and stuff. It makes it a little more worrisome to enter someone's house and not immediately pop them off. I will say this, the daycare scene heightened my awareness of it. But I imagine having a dog is probably what made you think, this is kind of a fool's errand. Your dog's then tracking everything. It's true.

Are you getting things more dirty than your dog is? I respect the shoes-off household when it's requested. I'm not going to put up any fight. But I still feel like a little kid taking my shoes off in a grown person's house after the fact. I'm like, I feel like a... I'm an idiot. You recently searched for a new dwelling.

At any time during that search, did you have to put on the surgical booties? No, no. Because that's the most defeating feeling. Luckily, we didn't have a long extended search, and so it was pretty straightforward for us. And yeah, it was... I never had to do that. I had done for like scrubbing in and all that stuff like more so than taking your shoes off like i'm past the age where i have to wonder okay i don't care if they missed there if they're not matching but like i'm past wondering if there's like a hole in my sock i remember as a kid that was like the most self-conscious thing ever was like oh shoes off day i'm like shit you're about to see my tube socks folded all the way over the top in high school i got worried up my feet were gonna

smell bad in front of like girls and stuff it's like dude just varies if blah blah blah sister like sister brings anyone over right now my feet smell like this is gonna be bad for your boy is it tough for you because like most of your socks are pretty like starchy uh yeah you do have to both lubricate your feet to keep uh yeah to keep the stiffness uh balanced but no it's um as a household we also go shoeless in general i do find myself like i don't know i won't say annoyed but like if you're going to be a shoes off household and expect guests to like match you in that vibe you've got to come prepared you don't necessarily have to have the booties you don't necessarily have to have slippers but like there's got to be a clear comfortable space for them to also like remove their shoes and it can't just be

i think the universal sign is doors i mean shoes left by the front right like you see them but then like i don't want to see just a pile of shoes. It's the Midwest in me that needs a mat. Yes. I need a mat there with the shoes on it to be like this is where they go. This is the only spot they go. Yeah. That's a good call.

Or some piece of furniture for them to go in. Like having a rubber mat just makes sense to me. Yep. But it's not the most aesthetically pleasing. But at the same time, like I think having a mat there and not just a pile of shoes really says like take these things off. And also a nice little bench in the foyer so that people can sit down. Oh, wow.

Randy's got room for benches in the foyer, dude. That must be nice. I mean, I don't. Get some more square footage. Yeah. Build out that foyer player. Yeah, I may have to transform that garage. Level the space.

More square footage. Well, Dave, if you want to transform that garage, I think you should transform it from the inside out with the brand new Alfa Romeo Tonale, dude. Wow. If you haven't seen this thing, you got to go check it out. These things are all new. They're beautiful cars. They're loaded with tech.

They got the big touchscreen. They got that safety tech, the automatic emergency braking. Who doesn't need a little help braking sometimes? But more than anything, these things are fun to drive. They make running errands

feel like you're just zipping around an F1 track. We had the you're just zipping around an F1 track. We had the absolute pleasure of zipping around an F1 track in these things, and like, wow, the performance, insane. That thing could move. It was singing. Right now, you can check these things out at Alfa Romeo USA. You can go take an entire tour of these things,

so you can see the plug-in hybrid technology, the freedom to choose between gas and electric. Just go check these things out. Learn more about Alfa Romeo Tonales at alfaromeousa.com. Again, that's alfaromeousa.com. I've been trying to keep my ear to the streets lately when it comes to what the younger generations are doing. Did you guys see the Reddit thread that went viral this weekend about the dad who was concerned about his kid who was in his 20s and all he wants to do is play video games with his boys. I miss that.

Everyone was like, this is very annoying. He's like, once in a while, he'll hook up with a girl on an app, but I'm worried about him. There's not like a relationship. I'm like, this guy's living the dream, dude. Like, yeah, this guy's in a good spot right now. But wasn't it about like how his son and his friends like don't talk to girls ever?

They have no interest in like talking to girls. They don't just play video games. Yeah, they just play video games and do like boys meetups, he said. Did the dad say he's concerned? Was the subject like, I'm concerned my son's not a real eater?

Yeah, that was pretty much the ethos of it. Yeah, yeah. Wow. But, you know, even though I did enjoy that post and the idea that these kids are just playing

too many video games with each other, another post came up that just kind of exhibited some other stuff about this generation. It says, apparently there's a trend called reality shifting where some gen zers believe you can shift into an

alternate reality by using your imagination there are multiple reddit communities dedicated to it and they delete all comments from people saying it isn't real and now they've put out some things in here where people are talking about how they've shifted and they've been practicing shifting someone claims even to have shifted into a billionaire lifestyle that they lived for 12 years and they were out of their normal body for a day and a half. This is just DMT. They're just doing drugs. Yeah. No, dude, they're mini shifting. Have you guys not tried shifting your reality?

Yeah. The title of this thread on Reddit is, how do I shift again after I've mini shifted? Dude, she mini shifted and now she can't shift back. She got too comfortable in the shift. So they just watched season one stranger things they're just all trying to 11 i'll be i'll be honest i don't even if someone asked me to describe how stranger things panned out or not stranger things um uh true detective like panned out with the all the supernatural stuff i have no clue how that that even worked i just remember the yellow king dude he was so yellow similar thread i think stranger things like in the end they marry underage or something

like that like i know what happened 11 i don't know is she still 11 married 20 year old at 17 or something anyways i think it's her and drake are hanging out drake um yeah i feel like, what's that one movie, Keanu Reeves? The Matrix? No, the cartoonized one that was all about drugs and another state of mind. I know which one you're talking about. I'll look it up. Something likely or something around those lines. Anytime I think about people who are living in an altered state, either you're just way too into Sims or as you mentioned,

DMT and like your brain is fully whatever. I mean, Dylan, what if you, what if you walk into your place and you see parks on the couch with his eyes shut and he's just, just vibing. It's funny because this person has a whole post about mini shifting and then shifting again and everyone is responding like it's like, this is a totally legit practice. Yeah, dude. Like a full day is definitely not just a mini shift like there are no rules in this that wasn't a mini shift you literally shifted

like you're thinking of a scanner dark a scanner darkly exactly i want to shift back to brett's holiday party i need to know if this is again and then keep shifting yeah can you go back to the past it's a drug-induced. Can I shift to crazy events that are currently happening or have previously happened?

Crazy events only. Or do you shift to certain events in history or do you just shift to a different reality? I guess it's just a different reality.

Are these just Dungeons and Dragons kids of the current era? Be careful. Hey. We're talking. We have a Dungeons and Dragons kid

of the current era in this building. It's true. It's become more mainstream now, so. Yeah, T-Pain's into it, right?

Yeah, a lot of people are into it. Is that on your end list of 2024? Oh, D&D is big. Is that because I said T-Pain? I don't know.

I don't know if T-Pain is in it. I'm sure he is. Dungeons and Dragons. I'm not commenting. I'm not commenting because I think we're somewhere above my pay grade right now. This is the next step into universal consciousness. Which is? That's pretty much where it ends.

I don't have to go as far as I could take this thing. We'll just upload everything, you know, into the matrix. Correct. Bro. This is like an episode of black mirror, man.

I haven't watched the new season. Well, dude, are you actually dreaming when you're asleep or are you just shifting back into your other consciousness and seeing the way that the world actually is? Oh, this is Billy Eilish. This is the Billy Eilish effect.

Isn't that like her thing? I don't know. She had a great performance on SNL this past weekend. Did she really? Yeah, she did a Christmas song. That girl's got pipes, man. I'm a fan of Billie. Is it becoming easier to say SNL is just trash current day

or I don't watch it anymore? Is that just becoming too cliche? Because it's not entirely accurate. Here's how we operate. I feel like I constantly find myself, anything I see coming just becoming too cliche? Because it's not entirely accurate. Here's how we operate. I feel like I constantly find myself anything I see coming out of it, oh, it's pretty good. Well, they had a really bad skit

to open up last week's episode. It got just widely crushed online. What? Was it Santos? No, no. It had to do with the hearing of certain collegiate presidents. And it just wasn't funny.

Wish I could comment on higher institutions. It didn't go well. That was a tough pill for a lot of people to swallow. I will say that Weekend Update's been a delight. They did their recent joke swap. I know that always goes well. I need to watch it. I saw people...

Michael Che busted out a very unfair advantage for himself in the episode. It feels shorter than in years past. I almost wonder if they, like, yeah, they obviously couldn't edit it down, but I was like, did they holster some stuff? Because they did not go as long as they could have. It was very funny. Colin Jostman just might have put the kibosh on that.

He was like, no, no, no. That's a guy's excuse when it doesn't go as long. He's like, sorry, babe, I was holstering some stuff the next time. Just wait so long. So into it. Just wait. I got some stuff you'll see down the road. Do we have any programming notes over the next week

for the backers out there that are still listening to today's episode? Because we've got normal Patreon. We have a little Coffee Friday that'll be dropping later in the week. It's going to be a normal week. I think we're having content weeks. No Randy. But next week, we are not going to be recording anything. Tune in to the last, I believe, did we establish the last Too Much Dip of this prideful calendar year.

Today. We'll record shortly after this. Later today. If you haven't had a Black Santa in your day, that's your last chance until Jan 24. I'm going to catch a shift after this. Really? Where are you going to shift to? An alternate reality.

I don't know. In my alternate reality, I'm going to shift to where the new bagel food truck is open. That would be wonderful. The door is open. I'm going to walk over there and just see. Confirm the door actually is open. Confirm the door works.

I want to do a taste test of each of their cream cheeses just to see which one goes hardest okay i want them to just put out like a thing give me one bagel and i'll take a swipe of each of them see what's more smear me daddy yeah can i tell you a very problematic joke that one oh my god yeah we're after actually we're at this we're at the 69th minute of the podcast i'll quickly so why don't you undo this philly cream cheese uh commercial that came on this week, and I didn't see it. It was on mute and on the TV, and it happened to pause. And there was a large fellow, not unlike myself visually, laying in a bathtub of white cream. And it was Philadelphia cream cheese on the screen.

Again, it was paused. We were not listening to it. To which an older relative of mine just looked and said, I understand the Philadelphia part and the cream part. I'm not seeing where the cheese is. And I just was like, I don't want to even explore what this means. And I don't even understand what was going on in the commercial. But anytime I see a black man in a bathtub now, I'm just going to only think Philadelphia cream cheese commercial. So when you hit your bagel with some of that, think of me.

Think of my older relatives. Just think of KJ in a bathtub with a Santa hat on. I do that anyway. So me, I'm my Whitney Houston grind. How about that? Well, KJ, when you're eating your bagel, when you're eating your bagel and you have all that, uh, all that cream cheese in the middle thing, do you, do you lick that? Are you a real eater of that cream cheese?

Or do you wipe that on the, uh, on the paper that's covering that bagel? I go, I do something. I don't know if it's rogue, but I don't see it done enough. I do the, uh, what do you call it? The bread slice with bagel. I go, I do something. I don't know if it's rogue, but I don't see it done enough. I do the, uh, what do you call it? The bread slice with bagels, the bread slice.

Yeah. So instead of sliced down the middle, they just slice it into like long strips. Oh, come on. Dip it up. You might as well hollow that thing out, dog.

You get to hollow it out. You make too many sandies with it. You can't cut it hot dog style. Correct. Well, I guess, I mean, then I've got like 10 slices of bagel. Sandwich slice. Do it. haul it out too many sandies with it you can't cut it hot dog style correct well i guess i mean then i've got like 10 slices of bagel sandwich slice do it do your bagels this way try it out you'll have a different experience you're not i don't i don't like this you're not scooping your

bagel bro just saying i'm not scooping it we're not cutting a sandwich style bro that's more inappropriate than the bathtub yeah what you're talking yeah what is wrong really tank your stock people out there in the comments don't forgive me for the cream cheese thing it's it's the brand but maybe look into the sandwich slicing of the bagels because i think you'll you'll you'll find a better you in the new year i apologize i apologize to all the new yorkers out there throwing up right now yeah i'm gonna shift yeah i'm shifting all right we'll see you guys later bye you