Circling Back - Coconut Milk With The Boys

Episode Date: April 7, 2025

The boys recap their Weekends in Fun, White Lotus season finale with Will deFries, Brett's Masters Calcutta, and Dillon's Proud moment as a dad as Parks earned a game ball. Support us on Patreon and receive weekly episodes for as low $5 per month: www.patreon.com/circlingbackpodcast Watch all of our full episodes on YouTube: www.youtube.com/washedmedia Shop Washed Merch: www.washedmedia.shop     •    (0:00) Fun & Easy Banter      •    (10:00) Recapping This Weekend in Fun     •    (35:14) White Lotus Season Final w/ Will deFries     •    (1:07:48 Brett's Masters Calcutta     •    (1:18:45) Parks got the Game Ball Support This Episode’s Sponsors:     •    Lucy: Go to Lucy.co/STEAM and use promo code (STEAM) to get 20% off your first order.     •    Factor Meals: Get started at factormeals DOT com slash backer50off and use code backer50off to get 50 percent off plus FREE shipping on your first box.     •    Squarespace: Check out squarespace.com/STEAM for a free trial, and when you’re ready to launch, use OFFER CODE STEAM to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hello fans of podcasts. My name is David. Welcome to the Circling Back Podcast. I'm going to host today and joining me in studio is the only other human being in the studio right now with me. Awkward is all hell, it's Dylan Shivery. Despite just doing a two man weave today,

this week man, there's something about this week. Not only is it Masters week, which is always just super exciting, but the weather is perfect here in Austin, Texas and it will be all week. Well, you know, it's also podcast week. It's podcast week as well. Vibes are high. I would also like to take this opportunity to quickly shit on our our good friend, Randy. Hold on. Let's introduce him. Who? Randy. Hey, Dave. Ah. Randy's not here. That's not a good Randy. So, Hold on, let's introduce him. Randy. Hey Dave.

Ah. Hi Dave. Randy's not here. That's not a good Randy. So Randy went to a bachelor party over the weekend. And he- Boy, I've got a whole segment blocked out for Wednesday because I have a ton of questions.

Here's the thing, he got back yesterday. Like he's in Austin right now. He's at home. He builds into his trips a one day hungover buffer day, which is why you are not seeing video today because Randy is presumably at home in bed hungover And that's what we're having to deal with It's funny, but like get it together man so I Respectively good today, too. You can't even see our face. I look good.

You look fucking good. I look good. I slept really, really well last night. You got eight and a half, man. Inches? Hours. Fuck. I was gonna say.

Yeah, yeah, no. You should carry some chairs. Right. Another reference to Randy. Yeah, the buffer day's huge. Randy, I think it's it's no secret. He is particularly affected by hangovers Despite the fact that he's like 24 years old. How old is Randy?

24 he's like 24 More so than any member of washed media he comes in here after a big weekend and he's down bad. Gravel voice, sounds like he's smoked like 18 cigarettes, but he clearly doesn't smoke. So I get the buffer day for him. Sometimes it takes him, yeah, like two days. Like it's, he won't be right. Now he'll come in tomorrow, he won't be right.

So that was me in my early 20s. Randy's actually 31, 30. Randy's not 24 is what I'm telling you. He's 30 years old. No wait, he just turned 31. Whatever. He's something like that. There was a time in my life when I would go out Friday night and I would go really, really hard. I'll wake up Saturday and I would do it again. And I would go back to back hard nights. And then I would not be great. I would not be normal until like Tuesday afternoon. And that's no way to live. And that was me at 23. And I could, I could manage, I never like lost a job over it or anything. But there was a road where I was going down where I was like, this is going to affect me me negatively like outside of like long-term health

Effects I've been very blessed and I've talked about this a bunch before in the hangover department I have to like really really get into one to get it To be hung over the next day like really like borderline blackout But even then give me half a day and I'm okay. I'll have a headache. I'll take some Advil I have a little uneas'll take some Advil, I'll have a little uneasiness in the stomach, but that goes away by late morning. I'm just blessed, man.

So, um. Get you a boozer and calls. All this to say maybe I'm a little judgy with Randy because I do know how much it affects him. And he would be a massive fear in here today. Yeah, I've got so many questions. I'm very excited because if you followed him on Instagram, you can definitely follow me at DC Ruff,

at D Carter Ruff on Twitter, of course. But if you follow him at whatever his at is, you'll see that they did some unique things. It's no shocker to anyone that Randy's crew does unique and fun things. Like when they're on a bachelor party. It's not just like a bunch of dudes going to play golf and going to go eat a steak dinner. They're going to do a Danny DeVito bar crawl, which is what happened.

And I completely forgot and I saw Randy putting on his little getup on his post. I was like, what the fuck is this? But yeah, we'll talk about that with him Wednesday, assuming he's back to one hundo. But yeah, he is just sitting at home. I actually fully expect him to start getting content off. Once he gets wind that we talked about it here, I bet he goes and does like a bunch of like active things.

Like he's gonna go on a hike, he might work out and he's gonna post about it. And then he will post a gram Wednesday at about 11 a.m. when we're about 20 minutes into the episode. Dude, I'm gonna be on Instagram watch because I could see him post in one wall. Or he could do it right now. He'll do that too.

I'm gonna keep an eye out. When he was in Japan, he scheduled, I think I'm remembering this correctly, he scheduled an Instagram to go live while we were recording and he was like sleeping in Japan. Obviously very different time zone over there. It is different. I thought it was a pretty dope move on his on his part. Hey, hop on our Patreon. I think last week we had some

strong Patreon episodes. We drop one every Tuesday and then one Thursday. Listener voicemails, of course, every Thursday. What do you want to do tomorrow? I want to do cold call tomorrow. Two-man cold call? Let's do a cold call. Oh man. Yeah, let's do it.

We'll have Randy in here. We'll do a cold call. Okay, pretend I'm totally prepared for this. What is the best way to submit your information for a cold call? I believe if you go to washmedia.com. Dylan has, you can't see it folks, but Dylan is on his computer typing away, hunting and pecking at the keys.

I will have, oh, the internet is just crawling for me right now, give me a sec here. Just fucking riding slow. Oh come on. We're gonna put it up on the socials. Go follow the socials either way, Circling Back Podcast. Okay. It's a two man weave. Um that just took me to a different place. You know what? We're cold calling somebody. I'm

going to tell you that right now. I keep looking at the camera. It's not on. This is very awkward for me. Okay. Watch media.com slash cold call. What's that mean? What's a cold call? I'm not in sales. Okay. Okay. We did him a few weeks back and they were delightful. It's it's uh we heard from uh someone over the last week that it was their favorite show that we do. Our boy Jeff. He said that he loves. Oh, shut up, Jeff. He loves cold call. So, it's

great. Okay. And we're going to bring the heat tomorrow. And then of course, listener voicemails records every, we recorded actually Wednesday afternoon. It drops Thursday morning. The pipeline numbers 888-618-4422. So it was a, you know, little question, little comment, a concern. It's a lot of fun. We also have a newsletter. We dropped one last week. Dylan, Will and I all contributed last week. I finally got to

write my- Much anticipated. Yes. Weird ballpark food column. Yeah, I finally got to write my uh much anticipated. Yes. Park Weird ballpark food column. Yeah, I just wanted to I I wanted to write a little something. We've got the the uh 26 inch burrito, the boomstick uh out at the ballpark um in uh Arlington. I

guess that's not what it's called anymore but yeah, check it out. Where can you go? Oh yeah, just go to Substack washed out Substack.com um and this being the outlier, this is typically a visual show. It's one that I recommend watching on YouTube. When you go home, throw it on YouTube. It's also YouTube week here,

despite the fact that Randy's not here to do video. So go subscribe to our YouTube. It's youtube.com slash circling back. You'd be helping us out a lot. I'll pull back the curtain. We're trying to get more YouTube subs. We're trying to really really up that YouTube game. It's something that we've just never cracked the code of. Be honest, we haven't thrown a ton of resources at it. We have all, we have a good, we've got good clips that go live that Granny does a good job with it. We've just

never been able to to get that. We have the technology. The tech is there. The tech is there for us. We have cameras and we know how to use them and we know how to upload videos to YouTube. We just need you guys to watch more of them. That would be great. Here's an awkward thing. So we canceled Dylan's track house last Thursday. Why did we do that?

It was so we could go watch our good friends, the Dumb Zone do a live show at the Rivian Space on South Congress. Yeah. Seeing their setup. Wanted to see their setup. What impression did you get from their setup and what- Holy shit. In relation to our setup. Which is, they've got a lot going on. the But the reason I say it's awkward, Thursday is kind of a big day in the world of sports. And-

Oh, that's right. Oh yeah, are we doing track house? Can we do, can we get a second TV? A second screen? Can we do track house while we're watching the masters? We could. I know, but yeah, we just gotta get a different- But are people gonna watch us watch the Masters?

That's the real challenge. Some live in-game commentary. We can't even bump it to Wednesday either, because Wednesday's stacked. You would probably like that. Yeah, that's true. Wednesday's kind of stacked. I don't know, TBD?

Now, Wednesday's stacked up. TBD on the plane for Trackhouse. We'll figure something out. Did you hear my joke? No, I missed it. I said it was stacked up like Sidney Sweeney. Okay. Because her schedule's very busy.

She's doing everything. She's a is very busy. She's doing everything. She's a busy young lady. She's making the rounds. We typically do Dylan's track house every Thursday. We will do something in that time slot. We can watch the Masters, obviously we can't have the Masters on the screen, we can have it behind,

and we can give our commentary on the Masters as well as your track house. It'll be fun for everybody. Yeah, yeah. You don't even have to watch us, just go like hit the button and just give us that view. Ooh, we have Bit Madness too. The final Bit Madness.

Did we record that yet? No. That's probably tomorrow. We're recording it probably tomorrow. And it'll go live this week and you'll see, we'll have the final four and the championship. So that'll be exciting. The final four is, or is it just the championship? I can't remember. Yeah, we have the final four and the championship. So that'll be exciting. We have the final four is, or is it just the championship?

I can't remember. Yeah, we have the final four to do final form. That'll be good. That'd be quick and easy. Also coffee Friday. Dave did a coffee Friday last week with Brian McGannon. Yeah. I had a, if you're new here and you don't know the origins of this show, origins of

me, like who's this Dave guy? Did he walk through a portal? We know Dylan, uh, came to this earth at some point in 1988 through a portal. But Dave, what's his story, right? That's what people are asking. Started an account called Post Grad Problems in like 2010-2011. It soon became a website. I partnered with my friends at Grand Ex and we brought Brian McGannon in to run the site and he did so very, very well. He's a very accomplished writer.

He's a funny, funny guy. And yeah, we spun Touching Base, the first iteration of this podcast off of Post Grad Problems and I decided to have Brian on for Coffee Friday. It's the second one I've done solo. off of post-grad problems. And I decided to have Brian on for Coffee Friday. It's the second one I've done solo. I did one with Tron from No Lying Up. And then we did one with Brian last week and it was great. Go check it out.

It's on the feed. Highly recommend it. Just gonna do those from time to time as we continue to just kind of experiment, man, with new forms of content. You understand? I love a Coffee Friday. So Brett and I pulling back the curtain again,

this curtain's just off actually. There's no curtain anymore. Not only did I take the curtain down, I set it on fire. Do you smell that? That's the smell of the rubber from the curtain burning. I do. It's not good, we shouldn't be in here with it. But we're gonna start trying to get

the live Coffee Fridays going again. We've done it a couple of times. Dude, those are one of my favorite things that we do. I love the chat interaction while we're recording. The chat. That's a lot of fun. That's what we do it for at the end of the day. Yeah.

We kind of feed off of the chat and it's fun. We need to do more of that for sure. Yes. So look out for those. Go check it out. It's on this feed. You don't have to subscribe to anything else, but check out Coffee Friday. And that's about it.

Watch Media.shop, go check out our stuff. Got some dope stuff. Been talking about some new stuff. We've got the wheels spinning a little bit. I think we'll have some good merch coming soon. Anything else? I'm ready to talk about my weekend and fun that I just had.

You wanna talk about it right now? Yes. Bro, let's go out this weekend. There's a crazy event happening. I'd like to turn off. Bro, there's a crazy event happening. We had the party and it was lit. I got yelled at by a prostitute.

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Yeah, you know I'm a breaker guy. I have one in. You are. I have an eight milligram Apple ice breaker in currently as I do pretty much every time we're recording. Yeah, Lucy, they sent us a bunch recently and the pouches are my second favorite thing, but I go in on the breakers. I have a monthly subscription actually to the breaker.

And so yeah, Jake was here and I gave him a log. What do you call like the big, like you have five of them together. It's a log to me, Hoss. It's a log of Hooters. Gave him to Jake and he was very appreciative and he brought him to his live recording on Friday actually.

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he's So he's 10 and so the they're like 9 and 10 year olds on his team and this is this game Felt more like like an actual baseball game than anyone that I can remember like they were making plays in the field It came down to the last inning and they had to keep the other team the field. It came down to the last inning and they had to keep the other team under four runs to get the dub and they did and it was exciting. They had a guy on third base with two outs down one. And we got a cut we got a strike out to end the game and it was it was exhilarating. It was thrilling. That kid learned a very tough lesson that day parks had a great game

Probably his best game. He's ever had and got the game ball, and I'm gonna talk more about that near the end of the show It was one of his dad's prouder moments Who is the best kid on the team who's the best all-around player you don't say his name But like is there like a standout where you're like yeah there is that's a Dude there is there's a stand that he's got it His team they've got it that we have about three or four pitchers who can find the zone and at this level that is that's a recipe for

Dubs because kids at this age. They have a hard time throwing strikes Oh, yeah, and so a lot of a lot of the games I've been to is just like walk, walk, hit batsman, you know, E six and it's just like bases are loaded before you, before the E the ending even gets going basically. So if, if you can find the zone, if you can throw strikes, you're going to, you're going to get a lot of outs and his team does that well. They hit, they hit decently well. But yeah, he's got, he's got one, one kid, um, who's real, who's good.

He's a pitcher and probably our best hitter. So he can play any position really? But yeah, he's got one kid who's real good. He's a pitcher and probably our best hitter. So he can play any position really? Yeah. Yeah, he's strong in the field, but not as strong as he is batting. Okay. And so, but Parks was a major contributor in this game. And I was, well, I'll talk more about it later. Is there a dad out there with a radar gun?

No, no. Is there anybody throwing gas? No. No. Hear that catcher's mitt pop a little bit differently for some of these kids? No one's throwing gas, you know. They're nine and 10.

But, man, it was an awesome, I can't wait to talk about it later. I remember the first kid, like, he wasn't't in my league He was in like the select league, but it was like Chris Chris Bauer That was the name ended up becoming pretty good friends to them in high school But that was a net you'd hear and they're like dude. He's fucking touching like 70. I remember 12 years old throwing seven in Little League I remember the first kid that was throwing gas against like he was you know, the deep pitcher in our little league Eric Zoboletta was his name. Oh man oh man he just do he and I was like man okay I gotta find a way to catch up to this and it was so when we did end up playing his team like the next season it was like when he came into pitch it was like

just a joke I can our dugout so like everybody's laughing, nobody was up there trying to take it seriously, because they knew we couldn't hit him. So we would like go up there and try to bunt. And I was like too scared to even put the bat out. Because he, I mean, it was just, the sound of it hitting the leather was just different. It was very intimidating to an 11 year old spare

like myself. I think in all sports, you have that one like humbling experience as a kid. You're like, oh, OK. Now I see what a real ball player looks like. Or it could be basketball or football, whatever. But man, what a game that was. How about Saturday?

Saturday, Chelsea and I stepped out a bit. We went to Maddell Ranchos. Maddell Ranchos. Maddell Ranchos. Got a knockout, as one will do. It was cold Saturday. We sat outside and I was ill-equipped for the weather. I was a chilly boy, but it was great. We had fun. And that was that.

Saturday was chill, man. Sunday was a day of, we ran some errands. We were productive around the place. We, while running errands, we did stop into a little place called Deep Eddy Cabaret and had a beer. And we had a beer. We had a beer. We had a beer. We, while running errands, we did stop into a little place called Deep Addy Cabaret and had a beer.

Okay. Yeah, just had a beer. And the Texas baseball game was on, and I would watch some of that. Walk off, right? Oh yeah, buddy. There we go. Swept the number three Georgia Bulldogs here in Austin. Dang, so when are you buying your natty tickets?

Going to Omaha? Dude, this team is exceeding all expectations right now. I call it Omaha's. The pitching coach that Texas poached from Texas A&M, his name is Max Weiner. Yeah. He's fucking legit. This pitching staff,

they shut the door. Is he calling it Weiner? Or is he doing the Weiner thing? Believe it or not, it's spelled just like our friend, Michael Weiner spells his last name, but he just, he just straight up wiener. Okay. I'll call Maxie, Maxie Wienes. Yeah. Max Wiener going forward. And he's fucking legit. This team is awesome to watch. So that was fun. And watch a little Lotus last night. Okay. We'll be talking about that later. And we'll talk about that later. We got a guest popping in for that.

Fantastic. Well, I'll talk more about Thursday. The dumb zone had us out to the Rivian space. Shout out to Stu from Rivian, met Stu, good dude. Met our friend Jeff that we've been emailing with. Always good to see Jake and Dan. Of course, we had Jake on last Wednesday. People, some good reviews from that pod.

A lot of people really enjoyed that. I did. Always an edgy time here with Jake Kemp. He's a great guest. But from going to see their live show, so their audience is not that different than ours. They filled up that thing with probably 50, 60 listeners on like a Thursday afternoon and just did a live show. So, their their audience is not that different than ours. They filled up that thing with probably 50, 60 listeners on like a Thursday afternoon and just did a live

show. Yeah, a lot of generic white dudes who yeah, just shout out. Just like our audience. Absolutely. Um I was waiting for somebody to like approach us in a hostile manner. Yeah. Oh, you're the guys that they did the crossover episode with. We had you. You guys tried to fuck up our show, huh? Yeah, we you try to take the dumb zone boys down and we didn't.

No, we really didn't. We just we just wanted to and continue to sell advertisements for them on a on a national level. Yeah Jake was very upset and he was very apologetic that he wanted to have us on. I Don't think he realized we were leaving. So you left you had to go do something with parks and then I had to go pick Up the boys. So I left probably about 45 minutes into the show and I didn't, I just kind of ducked out. I wasn't going to like walk up as they're doing a show and be like, Hey man, I'll see you. A funny dynamic. So their, their deal was sponsored by Lone Star Beer. Shout out to Lone Star. They kept the Lone Star Beer cooler up by the stage, up by like where they're

doing the show. And I was like, that's an interesting place to keep it. As soon as they went into an ad read, like 10 dudes just get up and walk up there and just start grabbing beers. Yeah? Yeah, it was like they were waiting. People were just champing at the bit to go get a beer. And as soon as they found like a little lull on the show,

they all just went at the same time. That's kind of sick. It was kind of sick. I bet when someone, when they saw one person do it, like, okay, now it's okay for me to do it. I had myself a cold beer too, Hoss. I had one too. Let's see, Friday.

Okay, so, Friday's kicked off a wedding weekend. A buddy of mine I grew up with played high school golf with him, went to college with him, just like a lifelong friend got married and They did a welcome dinner at the armadillo den, which is a Kind of a hybrid indoor outdoor open-air bar in South Austin far South Austin and it is a very cool spot

I actually had never been I thought I had that little area. There's like a luster Pearl South Actually never been I thought I had that little area there's like a luster pearl south The moon tower bar that I think a lot of people know about and then you got armadillo. Dan. There's a lot of stuff Went had a great time Saw some people I hadn't seen in like 15 years 20 years 30 years some parents. I hadn't seen so it was one of those it was like a I'm gonna be making the rounds as well. I'm gonna be in conversations with people like playing catch up with,

man, I got cornered quite a bit, man. We were talking and before you know it, you look up, it's midnight, we're there. Got home, was in bed 1230, pretty good. Felt pretty good Saturday morning. The wedding was at 330, which is kind of a new phenomenon for me. Maybe like a destination wedding I've been to

was an afternoon star, but this thing kicked off pretty early. That's really early. I was a little, yeah, it kind of caught me off guard. It kind of threw my day into a blender because I had to get up, had to take Rhodes to a birthday party, shout out to Meanwhile Brewing. That seems to be the spot where him and all his buddies do it, which I'm fine with, that place kind of rules very easy.

Uh, get you a beer, get you a stout or just get some coffee. What time did this 3 30 wedding shut down? Dude, I left. I left at nine. It was still rocking. Jeez. I think it went till 10, which is a long damn day. The wedding. So that was also in South Austin. It was over off of Old Manchac Road. It's like a vineyard type deal that had like a it had like a like a little house with a courtyard in the middle of it but it was outdoors.

It was cool. Let me show you something. Have you ever been to a wedding that featured what I'm about to hand you and Randy is not here to put it up, but maybe I'll post it. Go ahead and zoom in there, buddy. Let's see what we got here. Oh, okay. There's a sign here that says potluck. These items contain THC.

Please enjoy responsibly. This looks like a. A bud bar. Yeah, a weed bar. There's a weed bar at the wedding. Different strains. Pre-world Jays, I'm seeing. Wow. I've never seen this at any social gathering I've ever been to, much less a wedding. Yeah. So yeah. That's insane. Yeah. And how many people partook? That's insane. Yeah. And how many people partook a lot?

So people are walking around stone. You know, I totally was thinking that at some point we're going to look over and like my buddy's got great uncle is going to be just zooted, absolutely zooted over at a table. And he wasn't. There was no there was nobody. It was like over the top. I think most people were just taking it to try later. Now I did. Now, there were some guys I went to high school with that were just

walking around with joints behind the ear and we just let them rip. Um I would have I would have taken one home as like a uh a party favor. Yeah, most people did. Um but I don't think I would have I burned right there when I got

when I got word that um this was going to be I thought it was a joke. I was like there's no way like I knew I knew that was like a this was going to be I thought it was a joke. I was like there's no way like I knew I knew that was like a this was a kind of in the scene that looks like um not a not an inexpensive weed bar. No, it's

a lot of there's a lot of drugs there. Yeah. Yeah. We were like so that was um the food. It was catered. Oh, this is another thing I love about this wedding. Some place called like Biggie's that does uh it's like a food truck. They pulled up the food was a buffet. They had smash burgers, pre-mades that they were making in the truck and then like chicken strips and then waffle fries. And it was so damn good. Oh my god. Dude, I've been waiting for a wedding to just say, fuck it and do something like that.

And they they did it. Imagine just getting stoned off your gourd and then walking over and hitting that smash burger waffle fry button. Mm hmm. Yeah, that's the situation. Yeah. The only thing I saw, there was like a salad option for vegans, but you know, we're not doing come on, we're not doing we're not doing that So my buddy plays the congas in a band um the groom

The groom. Yeah He uh, he put there's a local band here called brother thunder and um If if you go out in austin, you've probably seen them they jam They really jam and he he plays the congas which if you know him he's not like a musical guy no offense to Justin but you know he wasn't like in the band I think he played a little percussion like I did like in middle school but you know from there just wasn't like a thing

that he did for the rest of his life but anyway they played some songs and that ripped they're really good. It was just a fun wedding and it was really weird that you look up and it's like 8 30. And I'm like, do I need to call an Uber? It's 8 30. I've had like 12 light beers, probably time to go. I went home with full intention of linking back up with everybody after the wedding. Just didn't. That's not gonna happen. I didn't. That was never gonna happen. Yeah, it really wasn't. No, a number of people did make it out.

I did not, and I was very, I kind of felt bad. You kind of feel like you let everybody down, but you gotta get over that. I'm 40 years old, so it's fine. The show went on without me somehow. Sunday. I've got an Austin food take. Okay, I'm ready. Um the

best. It's not Tex Mex but I'm going to say the El Alma El Alma. If it's not the best Mexican food restaurant in town, it's right up there. Dude, I'm right there with you. And I don't know why it is not as popular as I think it should be. So you're not going to go there and get fajitas. They don't do that.

It's what they do. They have a full line of tacos that are fucking gas. It's much closer to like interior authentic Mexican than it is Tex-Mex. You're right. But I think is it full on just like interior Mexican food? I think it's a hybrid. Like the only thing they don't. So they do enchiladas, they do tacos.

You're just not going to get fajitas, which I know is like a major red flag for a lot of people. And I'm a, I'm a founding member of the sizzle squad as you, as are you. So like that's tough to say, but there's one in South Austin now, which you're not going to get the ambiance. Like the one, the, the original over on Barton Springs, that place is cool. They've got a cool, um, upstairs at whole type, great patio, great patio, recommended drinks are great.

Go there. That should be a spot you go. It's not that hard to get in. So Chelsea's parents will be here this weekend and we've already made plans to take them to El Alma. It's a great spot. Their chips and salsa are great. Their actual chips have the perfect thickness. This is not an ad read, but it's, it's, I'm getting into ad read voice right now.

Perfect thickness. They give you the green salsa. They give you the red, the Roja and the Verde for those who speak. I get the duck and cheese. You got to go dunk and cheese. Yeah. Alyssa likes those too. I did like a tinga or something.

I did a couple of chicken tacos yesterday. It's fantastic. So I just want to say I'm putting big fan of the sunken cheese. Yeah, Alyssa likes those two. Um I did like a tinga or something. I did a couple of chicken tacos yesterday. It's fantastic. So, I just wanna say I'm putting that out there. That is my favorite Mexican place in town now. I don't I don't hate it. I don't hate to

take it all, Dave. Um one other major development as of yesterday. Um somebody taught my son like what juggling was, my older son. No, he can't juggle, but he knows what it is enough to like, he wanted me to juggle for him. He's like, dad, can you juggle? And he kept calling jungle.

Well, actually Dylan, I can. You can? I can juggle. And I didn't think I could still do it. And it took me like three or four times. Dude, I can juggle for a good 15 seconds. I've known you since what? 2003? Yeah. I, this is the first I'm hearing of this. I'm going to do, we'll do a video. If we've

got three balls out there, I'll juggle them. I think Randy can also juggle. It would be weird if he could not. That would surprise is literally no one. No. You can juggle? I can juggle. Just three. Just three. Nothing. I can't do anything crazy. Of course crazy. 10 seconds, maybe, I can do 10, 15 seconds, but I can do it enough to where, dude, it's the coolest thing, he thinks I'm so cool now. No, it is cool to juggle. I was like, I didn't know I still had it.

There was a time, and I was never really good at it, but there was a time I could do this back in high school. Dude, I saw, not to one-up your story, because I am impressed that you can juggle. I saw a video recently of, you know these like mega dorks who do like a Rubik's cube real fast? I do.

He had three Rubik's cubes unsolved. And as he juggled them, he was solving them. And he did it in like a couple minutes. There's like a spectrum of like so impressive that it's like I can't even fathom it. So it's not impressive. I don't even wanna think about that. You give me one Rubik's Cube in a week.

I'm not sure I'm solving it. You don't think you could do a Rubik's Cube in a day? There's like a formula to it. My stepbrother is one of these guys who can do it, shout out Zane, really quickly. But you gotta know how to do it. You can't just like fill your way through it. I mean you probably can,

but it's gonna take you a really long time. This dude was juggling three of them and solved them all in a couple minutes. No. Fucking nuts. Yeah, it's cooler than juggling just three balls for 10 seconds. So Rhodes thinks you're the man right now.

Yeah, he doesn't know what a Rubik's Cube is yet, thank God. Okay. We're not there yet. Yeah, we're not. Don't introduce that to the juggling yet. No. You won't be impressed with your skills then.

No. But that was kind of cool. That was maybe, I know that's not necessarily an athletic feat, but it was something that I was very proud of. So take that. All in all, man, great weekend. Yeah, sounds like it.

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factor well Folks He's back hello. He's bad. Hello. You couldn't keep him away. I was a bit madness last week Yeah, he was I was a bit madness. How you feeling big dog? You know have you guys explained what's going on behind the scenes here today? We haven't.

Will is down kind of bad. I think if Will were still a regular part of the show, I'm not even sure he would be recording with us today. No, no, I actually thought like today would be a good day to hop on for an entire episode. And I woke up this morning and my left ear is so plugged that I just simply can't hear out of it. I woke up this morning and my left ear is so plugged that I just simply can't hear out of it. And so like driving to work today was such a weird sensation

because not only could I not hear like traffic around me, but I turned on a song and just nothing, just nothing in my left ear. I can't say that's ever happened to me before. I've never had it that bad for this long. I have a little relief right now. Like there was a little ease of pressure, so I feel better right now than I did

even when you guys started recording. But it's not good. Does it feel like your ears are popping like you're on a plane, like 50,000 feet up? No, because it's not that pressure that's giving me like a headache from it. It's more just like an undefined dampening of sound. And before someone comes at me, I know that planes don't fly 50,000 feet. I don't know how many feet they, or just like an undefined dampening of sound.

And before someone comes at me, I know that planes don't fly 50,000 feet. I don't know how many feet they, I wasn't gonna call you out player. Between 30 and 40. It could be like a military grade plane that was on that hypothetical. That's true, could be a F-35. Yeah, you know, it could be any plane.

Right. It could really be anything. It could be a helicopter. Well, I'm sorry you're down bed, but we would like to steal some time from you to talk about the finale of White Lotus if that's okay. Yeah, we can do that. Okay.

Here's the thing, like it's not a big deal when your ear hurts when you have like a concert you're going to that night. Do I tell the audiologist that I'm going to a concert tonight or do I just like go, should I go buy some earplugs on the Lolo? I don't know if you want to eat earplugs to a concert. No, dude, I think I might have to. Okay.'t know if you want to eat your plugs to a concert. No, dude, I think I might have to.

Okay. It's pretty normal to wear your plugs. Yeah, people be doing that now. Oh, is that a thing? Yeah. Oh yeah. I don't really, you know what? It really helps with Dylan. It helps with drowning people out that are just talking.

Yeah. Oh, I love that. I bought earplugs to go to Taylor Swift, eras tour because all I heard was like, dude, it's the loudest thing you'll ever go to. And I made it at first few songs, but once she hit like Style or something, and I had earplugs and I was like, dude, no, I wanna hear the real deal.

Do cool teens make fun of you if you do it? Probably, yeah, it's a, I don't think there's gonna be a lot of cool teens at the Sturgill pop-up show though. I don't think so. On a Monday night. Yeah. Those Austin High kids will probably be there,

those pieces of shit. Oh, they'll have the best seats somehow. They'll fucking, they'll have the best seats somehow They'll fucking they'll be backstage somehow those guys. They know somebody Parks is supposed to he's gonna go there. I Mean he's going to stir. There's a good there's a good chance my son to go there. He's gonna He's gonna change the narrative though when he's there. No, they're gonna make it cool. He's a real frat star All right lotus Lotus time. Lotus time.

Lot happened. A lot happened. So, what'd you like, what didn't you like? Okay, I was lukewarm on this season as a whole, I think, but the finale brought it home for me quite well so I went from giving it like a b- to a b- plus because of the finale I enjoyed it. I was kind of there with you I was just happy that Tim didn't end up killing most of his family yeah and himself yeah there was like there was a part of me that was wondering

if we were gonna walk into this episode and something horrific, horrific was going to happen. Me too. I was worried that maybe the entire family was gonna die somehow from a poisoned smoothie. I was worried that there's just gonna be a mass shooting and Mike White was just gonna make society confront people's favorite show ending with like a mass shooting.

And I guess it kind of did have a mass shooting. But like- Think five people died? Can we just skip to the end when people get shot real quick? Start there. Rick had to die. He was living fast. He had to die.

And I feel bad saying that, but like he couldn't kill his father and then have the love of his life dot. Like when- He's not equipped to live with that guilt. No, he had to go. When Chelsea got smoked, I knew that either Rick was gonna get shot

or he was gonna shoot himself because how do you live with like killing someone who ends up being your father, the guilt of that even though his father is a piece of shit and Then his girlfriend dying because of choices he made like he he was done You know, I was a little worried as he's fleeing the him murdering his dad When Chelsea's there and he like grabs her and is like running off with her. I'm like dude first of all You clearly didn't think this through. You're not getting off of this island.

Like you're not getting out of here. Don't bring her with you. Run the other way. You need to take this fight as far away from her as possible. Yeah. Y'all aren't about to escape. Literally impossible. She, her character ended up being like so much more

than I thought it was gonna be. Just a real bright light in the show. Easily the most likable character of this season. She changed Saxon's life. Yeah, you see him looking back as he's watching her run up to Rick and he got to see what real love looked like and a life of his empty life of just jacking it, getting jacked by his brother, things of that nature.

Like he's low-key an ally now. Yeah. Or he's thinking about becoming an ally. He's reading books. Yeah, he's reading books. You ever read a book, Dylan? He's looking longkey an ally now. Or he's thinking about becoming an ally. He's reading books. Yeah, he's reading books. You ever read a book, Dylan? He's looking longingly at her like, damn, the one that got away.

I know. It was funny, she was like, oh, you're reading the whole thing? He goes, yeah, I went to Duke. Yeah, I can read. Yeah. Yeah. I went to Duke.

He went to Duke. There was also a part of me that was worried that he was actually gonna kill himself in that Duke shirt last night, and that we were gonna have to deal with the social fallout of you know Duke killing themselves in their jerseys and then him killing himself in a Duke t-shirt. You've seen the controversy like Duke is not happy about that. Yeah and Duke needs to relax. They should stop making it a bigger deal. They didn't choose like some NARP school. Yeah. They chose Duke. Like you

guys are gonna be fine. Y'all are baller enough that they chose you as being a school that they're saying people from shouldn't kill themselves because they're successful in life. Good basketball, good academics, tobacco road. What's not to like about Duke? We're just not going to see anyone's reaction to the devastating news that they're about to get. We see no one's actual, we don't get any discussion surrounding it. Yeah. When they're on the boat leading the island. Meanwhile, the love of Saxon's life just got shot

within the last couple hours. Do they even know? No discussion. I don't know if they know who died or anything. They have to. Should they be allowed to leave the island? No. When there's an open investigation going on

regarding the murder of some people on said island? Also, your son, your son just like, his body shut down because he drank the suicide tree seeds. That like, that made me a little bit emotional. Like I didn't cry, but I had a lump on the throat. Like it was, maybe because I'm a dad, but holy fucking shit, can you imagine the guilt of if that T were to actually, I'm also an uncle.

Think about that. Like that was just fucking absolutely devastating. So if he's gonna die from the leftovers in the smoothie container, like there were people that were drinking the pina colada. Doesn't it seem like they would've... At least get sick? Maybe not fist bump God like Lachlan did, but... By the way, did anyone else call it like I did?

What'd you call? Early in the episode, Lachlan asked Saxon if he could make a protein shake. He's like, no, I already made one. The stuff's in the cabinet or whatever. And then the talk about the fruit, I was like, I think, I looked over at Chelsea, I said, I think Lachlan's gonna accidentally drink the poison,

thinking it's a protein shake. There was a lot of foreshadowing. Yeah. Yeah, I think, my biggest issue is like dude, why don't you just rinse it out before you made the protein? Yeah. Yeah. Like you

just gotta be rinsing that thing out. Remember how like the coconut milk went bad? Also, Tim just rinsed it out. Tim should have rinsed it out after he made the the poison. Oh, Tim's been on Xanax for about a week now. He also, yeah, he almost did a murder suey

of his entire family. That was, that was quite a scene. He was way too calm for a dude about to go down that road. The anxiety I had watching that scene. I guess that's the drugs. All time high. I guess that's what that drug, is that the best or worst commercial

for the rosipam or whatever? Murder your family with hardly any emotion attached to it. Yeah, dude, it'll actually it's not that bad Also, he went he asked every every member's family like what like could you go on without money and Lachlan was the only one to say yes That's why he didn't want to poison Lachlan, dude How about Piper with with the turn like half we want that was great Not that great Parker Posey looked like she was leaving snail trails on that chair after Piper started talking about not wanting to go. That's what we're missing. Like the excitement that she was displaying made me happy.

I was laughing out loud just at how proud she was of her daughter for being a bougie little princess. Poor Tim's sitting there like, fuck, I thought if there was one, I had one in the family, it's Piper. But no, it's not organic. Food probably wasn't even organic, you know? Do you think, like Piper wanted to go to Thailand

so she could get her like world opened up and she could see like her destiny in the world. Like she kind of did that. She kind of went there and realized like, oh wait, I need to be pampered in life. She sneaky just pulled like the ultimate rich kid movie, like just lied to her family to go on a dope vacation. Something that I like, okay, Tim's going to go home.

Tim's going to have to confront the FBI or whoever's after him. Tim is going to have all of his money probably held. Oh, assets are frozen. But here's the thing, Tim rolls with probably a pretty good crew. I'm going to say that someone at Tim's Country Club probably has a house that they can live out of while they get all this sorted out. I'm gonna say that people are gonna really help Tim out

in this situation, and I feel like there's an angle where he doesn't need to go to federal pounding prison. Federal pounding prison. And you can just go somewhere else. I still feel like the route for Tim is going to be an annoying one, but I feel like his life is still going to go on. Yeah, I think he's less worried about himself and more worried about his family living a life

that they're not going to wanna be living. Yeah, that's valid. The first thing that he might be worried about Parker Poe's leaving him. Yeah, I thought that too. And then the first thing that Alyssa said after the show was she's like, I would watch a spinoff just on this family's fallout of this whole deal.

And there's a good chance that Parker Pose in season four, right? I mean, they bring back characters. That's not unusual. Yeah, I'm kind of disappointed Belinda didn't get capped at the end of that. What's up with Belinda getting the bag and then turning a cold shoulder to our man

Pornchai? Like why you gotta do Pornchai like that? He's just trying to glow up like you and you get the bag from a murderer and suddenly you're too good for him? You gotta at least break him off a little bit. Break him off! That's what I thought. I thought maybe she would become the uh the uh angel investor that that Tanya was. If you're the son are you like, I'll take a million please, thank you. He's gonna he needs a cut. He's gonna expect a few stacks. I just made you so much money, you're ready to take a hundred grand and I just made you five million dollars. Like I'm getting a million dollars right now.

I didn't know Tanya had it like that by the way. Half a bill? Sheesh. Yeah, I didn't either. I did think a hundred thousand was a little low. Yeah, initially I was like no no and it was smart of the Sun to go want to negotiate it That kid this he's got you know how TI talks about the swagger of a college kid in Whatever you like his seminal hit That's what this kid has. Just way too much college kid swagger. I'm not recalling those lines from that song,

but I'm sure there's something there. Wait, did he, that's a first. Yeah, crazy. Did he rep U of H Business School? Yeah. How about that? U of H having a U of H. Seriously? Yeah.

Famously took down Duke. Took down Duke. That's right. Yeah, a little sports tie-in. If you like those kind of tie-ins, I'm looking at the camera. Check out Too Much Dip recording later today. So no one's going back to the monastery. No one's going to do the Buddhist. I'll play. The year of Buddhism. Buddhism. Buddhism. Do the Pinnacle Odyssey. I I on edge dude. Oh my god. I would've done with applesauce. The coconut milk has gone bad.

Is he going to are they going to have to address what made Lachlan sick and he's is like what's going on there? That's a great point. That's easy to explain away on vacation though. How? He ate something weird and almost died from it. Almost died from it dude. He I'm like, I'm like glad that I didn't kill him. I'm probably not gonna tell him that I tried to kill him. I think I'm gonna sweep that under the rug. You know what I don't wanna do?

If I just drank a poisonous protein shake and like was on the cusp of death, go get on a boat to then go get on a plane. Two activities I don't wanna do at all. You gotta do a bonus night. You gotta take him to the hospital. You need to put a Randy Day in. In lieu of events, they should stop checking in other guests

and just simply let the other guests decompress for the night after the mass shooting. It was weird how it was business as usual with the Lotus. Waving with smiles on their faces when the boat was going away. The women on the boat, they looked like they were shook because they had just witnessed firsthand a murder. But there was no

discussion about the their back though heinous scene that they just left at the resort they went to the resort five days broke up and now they're back yeah friendship finds a way yeah i thought the the culmination of that entire storyline just kind of annoyed me yeah I enjoyed like I did enjoy the Carrie coon realization. I thought she was gonna let them have it when she started in on that little monologue there. Yeah. I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know if I was satisfied, unsatisfied. I wanted more. I don't know what I wanted out of them,

but for me last night they were pretty uninteresting. For what reason do we think the old man, Rick's father, didn't tell him that he was Rick's father? I think he's a real piece of shit. He kinda did, I think if we go back and watch the seventh episode, the penultimate episode, I do think if we rewatch that exchange between he and Rick that we would see that he's kinda saying,

like hey, if you put the pieces together, I might be your fucking dad. I didn't get that. I didn't pick up on that, I guess. He said something during that scene that made me wonder if it could be that, but then I was like, nah. He would've said something.

It never crossed my mind. could be that, but then I was like, nah. He would have said something. It never crossed my mind. But the way he confronted Rick, he was like, dude, look, your mom, drunk, slut. That's fucked. Yeah. You're asking for smoking that. Also, I got that thing on me, just letting you know.

See this? I got that iron right here, hoss. Also, I'm way too fucking old to snatch it from you if you try to snatch it from me first Yeah, to your fucking son Yeah, doesn't know that he's your son, you know Good for it killing him Did y'all see the the talk around Rick and his hairline and how he's he's he's bringing Receiving hairlines are like favorable now. Yeah, a lot of people are talking about that. Yep

I've seen it's a lot of places. I saw a tweet that said suicides over boys goggin's orders Yeah, something about like receding hairlines being hot now because of uh goggins I just shot a dm to swains Did you yeah? Saw I was like dude. Look at that. I'm fucking getting killed up here. Check this out. You know, I kind of wish would have died in the show. Mook and Guy talk. Pointless human beings. Does Mook suck?

Mook, Mook. She's judgy. Is that, Mook had a terrible storyline. They, those two talk to each other like they're video game characters. I had a good time on our date last night. I did too. Well, the date didn't seem like it went well, by the way. The date was very boring. Like, Hotel Manager also left a lot to be desired. They should have switched the

characters of the Hotel Manager and then the woman that was keeping all the phones. They should have just had her be the Hotel Manager because she was electric. Hotel Manager, like, there was like this little bit of a, I mean, it wasn't like a A storyline or even like a B, but it was like, he's going to perform and you're like, okay, he's either going to be like weirdly awesome or like just fucking suck. I thought he was going to poop his pants. And he was just fine. And there was nothing else.

I was like, oh yeah, he performed. Like that's it. That's all we get out of this dude. Like, yeah, normally, uh, your hotel manager and white lotus is kind of a Sneaky like high point of the show of the season. Yeah, it's kind of it's like It's a central character arm on and then you had the italian chick last year It I feel like they can tinker with the the storyline so much that they have to be interesting in some way. Yeah

But this dude wasn't they're gonna keep the series going they kind of yeah, they are sure for sure I think it's a sought-after role for anybody Yeah, I saw a clip of Patrick Schwarzenegger Finding out yeah, that was good. You see that too. That was good running out that he booked the role No, I didn't see it was a cool video. He was he was with Presumably some family members or something or some friends and they were like crying for him. I'm so happy for you. Yeah, Arnold was not there.

Sally heard a secondhand story that I can validate pretty easily last night of someone that she knows who was sitting in a hot tub with Patrick Schwarzenegger before the season had released. Okay. And the person had said to him, so you said you're an actor like I seen anything you're in he's like well, I'm in the new season of White Lotus and

He didn't put it together like oh, he's probably he could be like a big person in this season and then seeing the show immediately It was like oh, that's oh, that's the that's the guy. Yeah, the person know his last name I don't think so. I think that would explain a lot. Yeah, that would get that quite a bit away I meant to ask this, does he jump, would you know he was a Schwarzenegger if you didn't know? No. No, I think he almost looks more like Maria Shriver. Yeah.

That's her. He has like her eyes. Kind eyes, Dylan. He looks much smaller than his dad. I mean, obviously his dad's. He's a bodybuilder. Famously a very large man You know what he compared a good pump to?

Arnold who I do know this but I forgot remind me he said is that calming? I'm gonna do jimmy. No have a good pump. It's like calming. Yeah, I I yeah I'll co-sign that coming Yeah, I I understood what he meant by calming. Yeah. We are coming. Yes. Can we have Brett make that AI so it's an Austrian dude saying it after a pump?

Ha ha ha. Oh, man. Who are we forgetting? Oh, Valentin and his crew. Looks like they're going to get away with it. Yeah. Guy talks to made man now. He really didn't know how to. He blasted Rick. Getting off. Get away with it. Yeah. Yeah. Guy talks a made man now.

He really didn't know how to. After he blasted Rick. From behind. And the other, and the two other bodyguards are dead. So he's like the guy now. He's not a good, going to be a good bodyguard. Well, this may have given him some, you know, some blood thirst. Here's the deal.

When he met Val, when, when he talks to Valentin, like after he figures it out, he tips his tips his hand like immediately lets Valentin basically know he does let him know like without letting him know like I know you and your boys were in on it like he just has no tact. His

game is very limited with mook. She's way out of his league by the way, but that's whatever and yeah, he did shoot Rick from behind twice. Like, okay. Your first body's the hardest though, Dave. That's true. That's true.

So I hear. Yeah. I just, I don't know. I would be very upset if we saw more of him going forward. I'm happy for him, I guess. He seems like a nice guy. Yeah. Who's your MVP and LVP of the season?

My MVP is Chelsea. I think she was just a delight amongst a bunch of terrible people. She was like, just very, very likable. I liked her character. Am I ready to say LVP? Let me think about it for a sec. Do my MVP might sneaky be Gary? Look, he took care like it cost him a little bit of money.

He took care of the the loose strand or whatever the loose thread. He's just the white lotus cockroach, all seat part of every season and just keeps on like ascending got sneaky, got fits off every episode. Nobody wants to give him credit cause it's Gary, but look, he was getting fits off his place is baller. It is places baller. And it looks like at the end, um, Chloe found a guy to, uh, totally cuck him with. So that's pretty dope.

That's his thing. He might have found happiness as just being like just a multi-millionaire cuck. It's a good gig if you can get it. Yeah, I mean, look. My MVP is gonna be Parker Posey. No. She was a scene stealer.

I enjoyed the one-off scenes that they did with her where she was just hilarious. I did see some criticism heaved the way of her and Leslie Bibb when it came to the scene where they knew each other, but Parker Posey didn't want to admit what was going on. Nothing came of it. Like that scene alone is a very weird scene

to have in the early parts of the season to never have anything come out of that. You're right. That's really bizarre very weird but outside of that she was the one I saw some talk like last week that maybe Leslie Bibb's character Kate Maybe Kate knew maybe Kate knew what was going on because you know, you saw Kate on her phone

And maybe she knew um what was going on with Tim. Okay. Tim's like financial crimes that he's you know and she was like gossiping about it and maybe I thought maybe that might come into play but no they're you're right there was never any it's weird. My LVP I'm gonna give to um the hotel manager., like I'm sorry bro, but like that's just how it's gonna be. You could have solved a lot of issues had you just listened to Tanya. I guess Tanya ended up getting the bag

so this ended up working out for her, but like he really should have stepped in when the Gary stuff started getting talked about instead of just being like, no, we can't, we're not gonna talk about that. My LVP, I'm going Belinda. Wow, dude. I'm just, her character has run its course.

You don't think she should have taken the bag? No, that's fine that she got the bag. I don't care about that. I just hope she's not in the fourth season. I'm just, enough Belinda. I'd like to know if she opens up a place or if she just lives off of that money it's not generational wealth but it's wealth if she goes to

White Lotus insert next location for season 4 she just wants she just wants to find trouble I think she's followed her from resort to resort it's like eventually you just got to get away from it sure and now that you're rich maybe you don't have to go work at the White Lotus. I think she needs to move on with her life. Dude, sneaky MVP could be Valentine and the boys because not only did they get away with it, like they all like two two-thirds of them got laid and the way they left it.

They're just back out doing it again. They're just out mixing it up. Kind of facts. Like I kind of want to know what they left Russia for. Because like the way he was like, dude, we can't go back. Like, we'll die. I kind of want to know. I have so much anxiety for Rick's buddy who played the director. Sam Rockwell's character, Frank.

Frank. That dude, that dude's going to derail. He did already has. He did a barrel roll in the hotel. He did. Yes, he did Well at the close the closing scenes he was in a Buddhist temple or whatever. So he's bad He was like, all right, I need to reset. Yeah, that's good. Yeah, I'm worried about him long-term Yeah, I love when I like that. There's a dude who can fall off the wagon and not just fall off but like fucking Really really push it and then just find his way back

I'm proud of all the people that I know in life who have remained sober. I hope they continue to do so. But for a guy like him, it's gotta feel really good to fall off the wagon. Yeah. And just be like, dude, I'm gonna let it rip tonight. You know, like that night alone must just feel really great. Shout out out to vacation Rick for like Just being I think he came around as a good character But sneaky like almost fucked. I mean he did fucking ruin Chelsea's life because she's dead now She's dead him and also like frank. I mean, he's the reason frank was off the wagon

Like he's that that's because of rick true that like he he almost fucked it up for frank again He left him high and dry. But he kinda had to. You gotta get out of there. Yeah, you do. Gotta get out of there. Like one or two ladies of the night, fine. Four or five, it's getting a little weird.

And he got Frank doing barrel rolls in the fucking hallway. Yeah, he's been up for way too long. You think that was improv'd? Yeah. That was absolutely not in the script for him. Just a barrel roll. I can see that, I can see that for sure. I wanted Rick to give Chelsea a little bit more when he returned to white lotus he was kind of like him back and he was clearly happier and like he was smiling but

She deserved a little bit more from him. I think I Love her. She's smitten by him. She is and he's a little puppy. No, I just never her do Reciprocated love. No, part of me was wondering if he like, like was into her at all. Yeah. You know? Yeah.

I don't know, but Rick Sneaky got fits off too, all season long. Kind of crazy. Dude, is it about to be a Goggin summer? I do like his style. I'd be fine with that. In this show. He's so lean.

Incredibly lean. Like he's so lean. He's like a sub eight body fat. You can't recreate that man's fits unless you're like lean as hell. Nah. Dylan, don't think about it, dude. I enjoyed the season overall.

I'm not gonna listen to any slander and any group dinners in the future. Do you care to rank the seasons? I'll go for me. I'm not saying like I'm the indb here You know, I'm not the movie critic I'm no rotten tomatoes. You have an opinion though. How about you just share it my favorite season was season 2 Followed by season 1 followed by season 3 that's also my my order

But I don't think season 3 was a bad season of television like I'm glad that I watched it I gave it a B plus. Probably won't watch this. I'm less likely to watch this season again versus season one, which I'm very likely to watch again in season two, which I'm pretty likely to watch again. I go one, I go one, two, three, and that's not a slight of three.

It's like, it's just that one with Armand was arguably the best character. And Shane, Shane was so good. Their dynamic was... Were excellent. You haven't seen anything like it. It was perfect. Yeah, it really was.

It was just great. Did Mike White write all three of these seasons? I think so. Yeah, I believe so. Says it ruined his relationship. Really? White Lotus just got two front face in for him. Huh, I've seen him in movies.

Yeah, have you watched the Survivor season? No. He was on Survivor. Okay. Was he? Yeah, I didn't know that. Like before he was famous. Oh, fuck.

That's interesting. Yeah. Okay. Shout out to Survivor. Sure. So do I need to start watching the studio now that I got a vacancy? Dude, it is so good.

Okay. Can we watch the studio, Dave? No, I'm seeing got a vacancy? Dude, it is so good. Okay. Can we watch the studio, Dave? No, I'm seeing a lot of hype. Dude, it's awesome. I'll hop in the stew. You know how I talked about adolescents in the one-cut scenes, one-cut shows? They do a lot of one-cut scenes, and it's super fucking impressive, but even without that, it's just so entertaining.

Yeah, it looks great. The cameos go crazy in that show. Okay, say no more. Oh yeah, I will be starting that. Highly recommend. I'll be enjoying it. Okay, do you know Seth Rogen smokes weed? Dude, sick. I've heard that, yeah.

Yeah, okay, I'm gonna have to check that out. He likes it. Well thank you, Will. Yes, thank you. I didn't give you the proper intro. It says you're a self-proclaimed reality TV junkie and zen enthusiast, believe the world's gone soft since the days of LimeWire and Flipcup, and you're self-proclaimed reality TV junkie and Zen enthusiast believe the world's gone soft since the days of limewire and

flip-cup and you're proudly competing in life with it with no non-compete in sight swag that's fucking sick oh yeah I did have an item not oh yeah I had a tweet that said that I would never sign a non-compete cuz I'm always competing ah yes that that checks out that's pretty good that's a good tweet that's my grind I gotta say man this is a big get. The X community buzzes with Will DeFries' antics from Booty Banjo joking about his 420 baby to wash quotes roasting his Lincoln Logs take. Shout out to Booty Banjo.

I didn't know you had a Lincoln Logs take. I didn't know I did either. Is Booty Banjo Delph? It is, shout out Delph. Shout out Delph. Shout out my son and his 420 birthday. You're forever linked with Delph. When you tap out, when you tap right in.

I'll tap a player in. Yeah, we gotta talk some, unless, you can also stick around for the Calcutta discussion if you want. I'm gonna go do some stuff to my ears. Okay, yeah, that's probably a good idea. So I'm hoping to hop on later this week. I'll be in touch.

You got anything you wanna promote? Let me think. Take your allergy meds every morning. If you're in a place right now where things are going bad, because you might wake up one day and not be able to hear out of your left ear. Yeah, especially if you're in the podcast world, because it's tough for us.

I don't think I'm ever going to be able to wear AirPods ever again. Oh no. Like I wore them last night before going to bed to do some dishes and clean up and I was just absolutely ripping, just having a little dance party with myself. Nice.

I'm worried I compacted something. I just shoved more shit in my ears with the AirPod. I bet it'll miraculously bust open for you. I know. We pray that your ear pops. If it goes well before the doctor at two I'm still going to the doctor at two. I need some ear drops. Just go to doctor and vibe I think I might all right. I'm gonna go get Brett. Yeah, Lay

Hey, thanks, man. Hey, thank you It's will to freeze ladies and gentlemen We've got a really should knock out it looks like a square space while's settling in. Why don't you hit it with his hauls? Oh, this is a will, John, if I've ever. I know, we just had the best Squarespace reader ever. But this podcast is sponsored by our good friends at Squarespace. We encourage everyone out there to go check out Squarespace.

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It's Brett Merriman. Thanks boys for having me on. Thanks for hopping on, big dog. It's Masters week. One of the best weeks of the year. I got that email this morning. I'm gonna pick him, Brett, you're in it too. Sure.

I think thousands of dudes in the Texas area are. And that thing hit my inbox this morning and I legit was giddy. Hit pretty good. I mean, the March madness pools are one thing, but the Masters pick them, emails. Hit pretty good. I mean, the March Madness pools are one thing, but the Masters pick them, emails, Calcutta. So you're doing a Calcutta. I am.

I have never done a Calcutta. I've always been intrigued with them. They sound like they're a ton of fun. Walk us through what a Calcutta is and what your week is gonna look like. Sure, so the best way to think of a Calcutta, it is more or less an auction. So there is a field of players competing

at this year's Masters, and what a Calcutta does is you get around with a group of guys, you can be on teams with these men, you can be, or women, you can be solo, you can create a syndicate. Like buying shares of a group basically. Yeah, exactly. And what they do is you basically reserve the favorites,

say the top 10 guys, reserve them for last. And then in alphabetical order, so starting with Young On or Aaron Rye, whatever you wanna go first name, last name, you bid or You as a representative of your syndicate or yourself or your team bids on a player So it can be ten bucks. It can be When you get down to the favorites, it can be thousands of dollars. I've done this one time

I did the Austin, Calcutta with some people from Grand Axe we We had a little group and we went into it. It was over at Canaan Ables on the lake or Ables on the lake. And it was in person and we got our doors blown off because we didn't realize what kind of money some of these dudes were going to be playing with. And like Spieth went, this is like 2016 speed. Oh, I mean, I think he went for like 20 or 25K. Yeah. Meanwhile, we had pooled together like,

Couple grand. Got like Heinrich Stenson, who was like our dog. We're like, oh, fuck. It very much depends on what kind of money you're playing with. So like, you know, some of the, and what they do is instead of just going through the guys who are like 200 to 1 to win, they'll basically group them into separate groups like, okay, top 10 guys are reserved, you know, 11 through 65 are the alphabetical auction guys. And then the last 20 or 30 guys are grouped into two groups.

So you can like, group one is 75 through 80. Group two is 80 through 95. By a group. And you can buy it, you can bid on the group. So you're basically picking guys who really have not got a wood, no shot of winning, but you can kind of spread it out a little bit. Do you have an idea of how much money is going to throw around in this particular

Calcutta? Like what, like example Scotty presumably will be the most expensive. What do you think Scotty's going to go for? I do. So the spreadsheet that we're working off has the last, I believe the last five years of Calcutta that this group specifically has participated in said Calcutta I heard that Scotty I believe last year went for like 1800 bucks. Okay, so it's it's The prize pool gets up into the 15k range and you get paid out If you got it's first place or second place money, there's third place money. There's first round leader Second round leader low round of the week. There's there's money. There's first round leader, second round leader, low round of the week. There's a lot of built in ways to win things.

Let's say your team has a horse that's in the final pairing. Sure. Sunday. Are you going to get together with that group and watch together? Are you guys? You know, I would have to make a trip out of it. So.

Oh, OK. Oh, yeah. You're going to Houston. Group techs will be busting. Yeah. The group techs will be busting. I can't wait for that. It is yeah. You're going to Houston. Yeah, I'm going, I'm, the group techs will be, will be busing. I can't wait for that. It is a

Houston-based Calcutta. Okay. With a lot of, I believe, oil and gas and those kind of folk, which I'm excited about. So, I will be driving to Houston tomorrow afternoon to attend the Calcutta auction. Will you be by yourself representing the

group? I will be representing my syndicate, Yes. I'm man. I'm the delegate You're the guy I'm the delegate. Yeah, I will have the give it like a little card to hold up or how does it work? I don't usually it's just a bunch of drunk dudes yelling at each other. Mm-hmm And so there's one guy who's kind of the arch near he'll be like do I have 50 do I have 60 do I have 70? And you just yell over somebody to get that I have 60, do I have 70? And you just yell over somebody to get that. That's really fun. So the email I got this morning was for the pick them.

If anybody wants in, just email me davidwashmedia.com. It's open to anybody. Put it in the pool. Yeah, fuck it. It's pretty simple. It's like the, it'll give you page one, it's like pick one of these or pick two from these and it's like your top 10 guys. And then it'll be pick three from this group and it's like pick one of these or pick two from these and it's like your top 10 guys

and then it'll be pick three from this group and it's your next tier you know it's like that. Yeah you're picking tiers of guys. Yeah. Last year I did I overly researched. Last year I was going real hard on the research. Have you seen his fucking grid? I'll be referencing the grid. There's been a lot of data going into this week. It's a data play Dylan. It's a I understand man. Today's a big day. People think it's just vibes. It's not just vibes.

No, you gotta you gotta run the numbers. Dylan's probably gonna pick like a first time starter to win at Augusta. Yeah. Who's your guy Dylan? Uh yeah. Uh Wesley Bryan. No, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know if he's playing. Yeah, Sandy Lyle. Oh, I think last year was his last year Yeah, yeah on hell Cabrera. Oh actually will be will be there

I know one last champions toward I saw that so you still got it on him. Yeah, that's a that's a high-value Like my end of the yeah make cut or like t20 those old guys they give out though They got they got two and a half rounds on them. You probably get good odds on Angel Cabrera making the cut. I bet you can get a little return on that. Yeah. Just get out the clink for Domvay. Yeah.

Did he? Yeah. I guess that's not funny. I shouldn't laugh at that. Way to go. I'm not editing it because Brandy's not here, so. You want to hear a couple stats I'm interested in? Yes, I do.

How about ball striking between 175 and 250 yards? OK, where's Tommy Ladness? Great. Oh, yeah. Elite. Potter's going to be a problem. Always is. How about apex height on your iron shots?

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sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not you know, you can't just look I had to scrape data from this guy that builds a chart. So it's like a color chart. So you kind of have this graph. You're scraping the data. So I had AI basically assign a value for where the little dots appear on the chart. Who's circled on your list? Why aren't you doing this shit for your job? Can you do this for work? Because you don't win every time.

Go scrape some data for business. What am I gonna scrape? I don't know. There's gotta be something. I scrape emails, that's easy. There's gotta be something you can scrape here for the don't know. I just gotta scrape. I scrape emails. That's easy. There's gotta be something you can scrape here for the boys. Alright, I can I can scrape. If you have graphs of companies that spend on

podcast advertising, please email them. David Washmedia.com. Please do. I'll scrape them. I want I want I need to give Brett. He just have his like Tuesday scrape session. Tuesday scrape. Yeah. So, I got a couple guys I like. I got a couple guys I like. I like. He's being coy. You know, I don't I'm not I'm not done yet. I'll put it that way with the analysis. I don't want to throw it. I don't want to throw it. I would have guessed that this guy's done but I would have been wrong. So,

I was told recently that Bryson wasn't playing. Like Dylan told me that. Right. I got him a cock in there. We've been over this. Yeah. So, you're saying that the Matt Stafford passed to Bryson DeChambeau broke his sternum. I got Hugh

Jane in there. I got him in there. I got him in there. I got him in there. I got my cock in her. We've been over this. Yeah. So you're saying that the uh, I got the matt stafford Passed to bryson dechambeau broke his sternum. I got huge anus. Yeah We've all been there. He'll get you. You have all been mcfarland. It's okay Well, dude, i'm excited. That's uh, that's when you told us last week that you're gonna be doing like a little trip to do I was like, yeah what and then I was like, oh, that's. Gotta have an in-person delegate. Shouts to the boys over there in H-town. Where's it at again? I believe it's Shady Acres Saloon, something like that.

Just hoping you could swing a little. Something, some T-ampho trip out of it. Yeah, I don't think I'm gonna be able to. Unless I go late night, which. Not above that. I'm not above that. No. Staying at a lovely hotel in Katie, Texas.

Hell yeah. That's, you know what? Nothing wrong with that. You hop right on 10. Hop right on 10. Boom. Save you about 30 minutes. You got anything you want to promote?

No, I'm trying to think of if there's any more Calcutta. I just, I love, I love a Calcutta. I love, I love a pool. I'm going to be betting out right anyway. Oh yeah. You want in Dave? You want, you want part of you want part of you want maybe to be quick. Let's talk. I need to talk to you Yeah, you want some action. You got a physical check though. I've also I'm not done scraping my data So I don't have I'll let you know though. Okay, if it checks out with yours, hopefully it does We've got a future sponsor that I've got a little cash to play with. Sure do hop in

there too. Okay. Future sponsor alert. Man. Um. Tease it. I'm excited. Alright. Alright. Alright, Brett. Thanks. I'll keep you posted. I'll keep you posted on what we're looking at. Uh I will. Oh, is that a little indicator? JT Poston? He he the

model lights. Does it? Alright. Post and JJ Spahn. Okay. And Sebstka. I'm just I'm this is the mall. Like said, struck a not my data. This is this is one of the variables I'm considering. Okay, I hope you're taking notes Dylan. I am. Yes. I'm you too. That's your big web. Let's go. All right. Thanks, Brett. Thanks, Brett. There he goes. Brett Merriman. All right, before we close it out of here, can I talk about Parks' baseball game the other day, Dave?

Talked about it this weekend and fun, but yeah. You're going to get in depth as a proud pop. Yeah, you know, as I said, it was one of the prouder moments of fatherhood for me. So Parks, I've talked about this before. He's a small fella. He's routinely like the smallest kid in his class, smallest kid on sports teams. He plays on, it affects him big time. He hates it. Uh, I was like, Hey dad, when am I going to hit my growth spurt? That kind of stuff. It's tough for me to hear and he hates it. So sports have always been like,

he's just a little bit behind growth wise. So he's not, he's not, you know, matched in the ball. He's not as the ball. It was like hit the ball. Hell yeah. And it was the first time that he's hit the ball. It was like that's a real base hit like a rope. He's gotten hits like he he'll knock it around the infield a little bit. He'll hit some pop flies that the kids

drop and like those are great. I'm you know, I love those but this is the first time the kid he the kid who was pitching was throwing hard too and he just turned on it man connected and connected. It was a sweet hit on the sweet spot. And it was like he needed something like that to happen. You know?

Just really needed it. And I could tell, like, look on his face, like he was just fucking pumped. I'm the official scorekeeper for the team. And I have an app. Like, I record every pitch, every out. You know, I have to keep the pitch count, because that's important for kids at this level. And so I didn't have it on video. I need to get

Chelsea to like help me do some recording when he's up to bat. But it was just an all-time moment, man. He got the game ball. I saw this. Coach gave him the game ball. And that meant a lot to him. And he's the kind of kid where if things aren't going well, he gets really down on himself. But if things are going well, his confidence just soars. And we're on an upswing right now. And I just fucking love it, dude. It was just a great, great dad moment, great, great time for Parks. And it made me very happy. Who wrote the little message on the ball?

I did. His coach wrote with a pen. He just wrote like, Park's game ball and then the date, but on the other side of it, I kind of, we have a collection. So this is like the fifth or sixth game ball he's gotten. Okay. And so I have all of his game balls and I write on them the date, the opponent, and like why he got the game ball.

That's sick, man. I'm happy for him. Yeah, yeah, it was a great moment. He's got another game Friday and a game Sunday and hopefully He keeps riding this confidence. It keeps it his swing looks fucking good Like I I have no notes right now for him. Like that's how good his swing looks And usually I'm like hey you're doing this, you know, you're kind of you know, whatever doing a little something different with the bat They don't like but his swing right now looks pure. He's swinging hard

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like that. I don't like that. I don't like that. I don't like that. I don't like that. I don't like that. I don't like that. I don't like that when they don't need it's like in t ball like it took a little bit for Rhodes to realize like when he hit it hard and like that he did something like good but now he knows he knows when he doesn't like when he hits the tee a little bit and like the ball he still hits the ball and it's it's it's t ball he's obviously going to get on base but he knows the difference now he Now he's like chasing solid contact. So he knows. Having played a growing, I played football, basketball and baseball.

For me, the best feeling in sports is just squaring up a baseball and just hitting it right on the nuts, you know? Oh yeah. And just fucking riding the bases. There's nothing better than that. Man, shout out to Parks. I know he's working hard at it.

He is, a lot of practice and it's paying off. Boys out there watching a game. All right. That was it. That's the show. That's the show. We'll be back. Okay.

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