Circling Back - Coffee Friday: Dave x Tron

Episode Date: March 14, 2025

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I have started the recording. So if you, I'm going to leave. We were just vibing. Okay. I'm just saying, are you leaving? I mean, yeah, you said I could leave. You don't like the content we're doing. I'm saying that it's everything is ready to go whenever you are. TC, do you know Randy? I don't think we've met formally. I know, I know of Randy. We have Randy on our team. You guys have Randy on your team. Big Randy, little Randy, things of that nature. I don't know if I could do a little Randy. not that Randy's only five eight. I am taller than Dave. Oh, come on, man Well, let's get let's give TC the intro he deserves Here you go

Always starting the timer bye bye Randy Oh, he's starting the timer. Alright, have fun. Bye, bye Randy. Bye, buddy. Closers on. Closers on. Closers on. Closers on. Closers on. Closers on. Closers on. Closers on. Closers on.

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PGA deal and a simmering movement. At Big Randy NLU praises At Tron Carter NLU's unmeasurable dog while At Springco marvels at his bold takes like Dottie's Morikawa jab. This is a disgusting quote from polls. At Tron Carter and L you ladies and gentlemen, Trump Tron Carter's here. There he is. D man. Hello. I'm assuming that was some sort of AI generated summation. That was grok. That was if you go to if you go to your profile and you just grok it and you're like, I'm

gonna see what this guy's about. That's what it puts together. So how do you feel about that? I feel like it's taking my polls quote out of context that was in relation to polls, you know, antagonizing coach Fluse after his dismissal. So, you know, otherwise there's some truth in there. Think rock rock, you know, didn't necessarily get to the bottom of it. But I know no falsehoods. Speaking of ball, how you feeling? You're still in on the Jags, right?

I am. I'm loving the new regime. So I think you guys overpaid a little bit, but you're going to love Jordan Lewis. Yeah, I'm a little like a I've heard good things. I like to tape. I'm gonna have to grind some more tape on him. But I'm just worried we have too many slot corners. We have like, we got Tyson Campbell, and we've got like three really good slot corners. And I don't know if we have anybody that's necessarily going to going gonna lock down that other island on the outside so we'll see and then we certainly need safety help too. I've got a hard drive with a lot of tape on it and I'll actually just send it your way. Please do. A good locker

room guy and he'll give you a quote he's not afraid to give you a quote which you gotta respect. That was what I saw yesterday. Who was saying that? Oh, St. Brown up in Detroit. I saw him, you know, kind of acknowledging how much shit that Jordan talks out there on the field. It was an edge that we really didn't have in Dallas. As you might know, we have a bit of a culture problem. But so- Not anymore with Schottenheimer and Fluse.

We got the Fluse. Look, things are looking a little bit different. People aren't talking about the offseason, the staff that the shot man's put together. But it sucks to lose him. But I'm happy he's going to your Jags because you know, friend of the show, too much dip co-host KJ is a he's a Jags guy. Yeah, you know, we were catching a little bit of flack for the Duval kind of delivery from Liam Cohen.

I love the new GM Gladstone. Looks like, you know, it looks like he's about 24, but kind of comes from that Sean McVay less need tree. And yeah, just as long as I think Baccelli is gonna do a good job. I love the coordinators, that's kind of lifers at coordinator. The only concern I maybe have with the staff

is there's not a lot of like grizzled vets or previous head coaching experience. Like you don't have that Wade Phillips or, you know, Vic Fangio kind of, you know, grizzled dude there, but we'll see. We'll see how it works. Anything can be better than, than the whole operation that bulky was running last few years. It's, it's a big mess considering Mike McCarthy was right there.

Like he was out there if you wanted, as he landed on his feet yet. I think he's back in the barn Okay, he's back. He's also grinding tape So I feel like I Feel like a major thing happened yesterday and because it dropped late in the day It didn't get a ton of buzz around my office, but we had a ruptured Achilles on the cat, which is kind of a big deal for anybody who knows injuries. I'm thinking six to eight months tops, get him some BPC 157, just get him on all the peptides and he's back

in the gym, back on the course maybe Christmas and then I think started next year we're good we're looking good what are your thoughts? Yeah, I guess is it his other leg? This isn't his messed up leg? This is his other leg? Left leg I believe. So yeah, I think his right leg is the bad one. Or was the bad one? Maybe they're both bad at this point, but I totally agree.

Peptides, get him up on some of that German blood spinning over to Switzerland. Some of the stuff that McCaffrey was doing last year. LeBron, I think, is currently in one of those phases right now. He's probably going to sit out this whole road trip. So but yeah, it sucks. It's sad. And, you yeah, it sucks. It's sad. And you know, it's at this point, I kind of wonder what he was doing. Like we just out practicing in your backyard or were you trying to trying to do like one legged squats and

pistol squats. I just can't quite can't quite figure out the cat. I think yours. I think he was rocking I think Are you a big rocking guy? No, no, but I appreciate the question No, I somehow never got into rocking What is rocking is that just having a heavy-ass backpack on your back and like walking around town? Basically, yeah, I would imagine there's a there's some light jogging involved if you want it and maybe some hiking, you know, doing the hills of Austin, it's very popular. But as me a guy

who just turned 40 and 40 hit me like a ton of bricks. So the last thing I need for what I'm trying to do going forward is like to just have more weight on me like putting pressure on my lumbar. is like to just have more weight on me like putting pressure on my lumbar. Amen. Couldn't agree more. Yeah, I'm just I'm just not into unnecessary strain. I did see you at the Titleist Performance Institute getting some.

I don't know. Look like you're getting some movement in. Are you holding to it or what? Yeah, that was last June. Fits and starts, man. I kind of fell off of it a little bit during the holidays as one does and then gotten back into it the last three or four weeks. It's pretty like light work. There's not a whole lot of crazy exercises. It's mostly just range of motion, light mobility stuff. I need to get my cardio up. That's just holding me back in a big way. Flexibility has gotten better. And then everybody on our team is just doing doing speed training. They're golf swings. Like they're all just addicted to speed training.

I'm refusing to do it. I'm just cruising right along at about a hundred mile an hour clubhead speed, which I guess I'm hearing reports that DJs up to close to 120. At this point, which is outrageous. Okay. We're going to need to see some tape on that. That would be like a 60 to 70 yard game. That's that's something. And I, I, I always, uh, I always compare my swing to DJs. Um, given, I think we have this, a similar flaw in our swing and I'm not here. I'm not smart enough to critique a golf swing, but I noticed he kind of will stand up a little bit on it and I'm real bad about that.

People call it the goat hump. The goat hump. Sure. Um, that's a, that that's a that's a golf tech. They love to point that out when you go get you a little package there. So that's that's nice to know that that's possible for guys like us. It's out there. Okay. I just gotta go. It's just a matter of whether you want to go get it with like, for me, I don't even know if I need it because I don't know if this is going to open up a bunch of unintended downstream

effects and you know stuff that I didn't ask for. Yeah, yeah. I feel like you guys are already utilizing sauna and cold plunge daily. Are you cycling your creatine or are you just taking it every morning? Yeah, I'm always so dehydrated. I can't imagine how, how, how many cramps I would get with creatine these days. I think the last time I did creatine was probably junior or senior year college. I was pretty yoked up for a while in college and those days are long, long past me. But I feel like at this point like why not just get on Testosterone just just just do HGH and testosterone. Yeah in the era of HGH TRT and peptides like there's really no reason not to

Okay, I mean I I You looked into it. I absolutely have my goal like the joke was in our early 30s like let's hold out till we're 40 Let's see. Let's max this out naturally and let's see what we can do. Well now I'm 40 and And like I mentioned earlier like I am noticing it and I I try to stay as active as possible I too am on a flexibility journey, but the recovery is just not there. A three day golf trip, that's gonna set me back. So I'm thinking I need to put a little bit of something here into the system and just get going and see what we do. Yeah, I went out to, I was on a ski trip with the family

last month and man, I just, like the last day, day we took Wednesday so we were out there Sunday to Saturday took Wednesday off to go dog sledding then skiing in Thursday and then Friday the foggy snow was kind of deteriorate and I was And I was like, you know what? I'm not going to ski or snowboard today because I'm like, there's a good chance that I'm going to hurt myself and I'm just sore as shit. And that's a new development of like, I've always been a first chair, last chair kind of guy. Like, hey, I'm going to get my money's worth

out of this Lyft ticket. But I just sat on the mountain and drank a bunch of cold beers and and operate, you know Yeah, it was just all day. I'll pray. That's the move So, you know, we took a ski trip a few years ago company here and it was my first time skiing I had snowboarded previously, but I was gonna learn skiing at like 38 years old Yeah, and I did it but I up, they talked me into going to the terrain park and they're like, I won't be that bad.

Well, here's the little thing. You don't need to go to the terrain park. If you are a 38 year old, first time skier as, um, immediately I've, I wandered off course and somebody hit a jump and did a backflip over me. Um, and then I ended up just pizza-ing down the entire mountain just to get out of there. Quads were just flaming, just throbbing quads. I didn't touch skis or even think about it for the rest of the trip. What was your impetus for going over to skiing? You just didn't want to sit down and strap in?

Sit down and strap in I think lists. Um, I Just had never done it and I was like I Don't know. I don't want to I don't know when the next time I'll be doing this or have the opportunity to learn skiing And I don't want to learn ski. I'd rather learn skiing at 38 than 42 or 45, you know but the best thing I noticed or like the the most glaring thing was the just how good the three and four year olds learning to ski were as they're just going by me with their little low center of gravity. I'm just like, Oh man, it's really easy for y'all.

Cool. Fearless. Absolutely. So you mentioned off air that you had a day yesterday. Can we how much of that can we reveal? Most of it, I think. Yeah, it was, you know, so really nice weather here. I've got the garage door open today. Actually, you may hear some birds chirping out there.

Windless, cloudless day here in Jacksonville. So we're out here at the beach. It's, you know, it's gonna be in the mid 70s. Just nicest time at the beach. It's, you know, it's gonna be in the mid 70s. Just nicest time of the year. But DJ flew in. Sally's playing in the creator classic this week. So he's been getting ready for that. But yeah, yesterday just went over to TPC Sawgrass, checked in, got my media badge, sat down, saw some old friends. And then Jay, steamboat Jay Monahan had had his press conference, which you know, he

was he was wearing a vest yesterday and look good. No, no sport jacket, he had a little bit better posture. He kind of looked like he was in kind of a DGAF mode of, you know, kind of flipping it the last few years, he's been very much playing defense and just looking relatively gaunt and, and, you know, age, but he looked like a new man this year sounded like a new man and seems like he's just kind of just kind of sending it. So sat through that. And then we went over inside the moat over the global home and we

had a creator council meeting. This is the first one that I've attended. This is the third one. You know, you had Trent Riggs and Frankie and the four playboys and Paige Spirannick and. Heavy hitters. Roger Steele. Yeah, Jay. You know, Jay, Jay popped over for

that. Hang on. I hate to interrupt you. I must have missed my invitation. Look into my honestly, you were you were missed on the Creator Council. You would you would you would be an exceptional resource. Yeah, that's fine. I knew this was a thing that you guys were involved in. We talked a little bit when y'all were in Austin and you explained it to me and I was I was taking it back. I was happy for y'all. I'm happy that you know, first, I guess the second meeting was kind of a disaster. This was kind of recouping from that. It was interesting. I think we definitely sit at a different kind of spot in the group than everybody else. We're more of a media company and, you know and we're critics of the tour than we are like, hey, watch our YouTube video kind of thing. But yeah, so we did that big

Q&A session with Monahan and then we went over there. We went over, we did a Fandle thing with Gronk. I spent about 15 minutes with Gronk, which was interesting. He he reviewed our ball knowers QB rankings. So we'll have that coming out on the socials here over the in the coming days. Yeah, and, you know, Gronk was even more Gronk than I than I thought he was going to be just a massive human being too. And then and then, yeah, from there we went.

We actually had a meeting with the head of NBC Golf or NBC Sports, Sam Flood, after that. And then I had all the boys over the house for a big barbecue. It's some, you know, Korean short ribs, like the flanking ribs and some burgers and big macaroni salad guy had some macaroni salads. Go off. The little coronitas and Modellitos, you know, the little eight ounce ones.

Yeah. So, yeah, just had a night. So and then, yes, I was playing the creator classic today. He's paired up with Roger and Gabby Golf Girl, which I guess she's got close to a million followers on Insta. She's like 14 or 15. I told, I told Sally to really lay the hammer down and not, you know, not let her off the mat.

Like you gotta, you gotta be competitive here. Yeah. It's a teaching moment for her. Um, so when you are, let's say, let's say TC is doing stakes or the fam. What's your go-to cut? Uh, either strip strip or filet. I'm a big filet guy. I think filets are underrated. I actually do for steak a lot of time. I like to do on the cast iron. I'm a big lodge cast iron guy.

Granted, you know, I don't have Texas Roadhouse sending me care packages either. So, you know, I got to do, I got to do, make do with what I got as far as seasoning wise, but I'm a big a poivre guy if I do fillets or or You know the kind of the peppercorn brandy sauce. Oh, yeah Think what else I like I like a good I love a good skirt steak, man I've been making a lot of carne asada lately underrated Yeah, and then but otherwise like I can mess around with the tri tip I like doing a little coffee rub on the tri tip. That's good on the open fire.

Get a little bit more of that wood grilled action in there. And then I've been doing a lot of fish lately. It's kind of seafood season down here in Jackson. We live at the beach. Got a great local fishmonger fish market. And so a lot of golden tile and tuna and co uh, you know, tuna and, and Kobia and Wahoo, all sorts of good stuff. So when you, I don't know, when you're putting together like, uh, your Texas strip, are you

pairing it with some freedom fries or what? Oh, okay. So you're, you're going Texas strip. Okay. Brandy and I were talking about that on the trap track this week. Um, yeah, you know, freedom fries and trying to be I'm trying to think of something derogatory towards Canadians just so I can. That's a favorite past time of mine is shitting on Canadians and everybody's describing that

to recent events. And I'm like, No, that's's that's very much a long-running bit. Yeah, no I was actually but I've got kind of an open weekend coming up and I was I was gonna maybe I don't know it's seafood season here too maybe get some shrimp from the Gulf of America. You seen this? I have, I have. Is uh, is uh, apple still still holding out? As far as uh changing it on they're gonna lose their seat at the table if they don't you gotta be careful You gotta be careful. How'd your ribs? How'd your ribs turn out last weekend? So I feel like you're kind of basing your entire entire

You know 48 hours on these ribs right I was and you're probably wondering like well why didn't you post a pic of the ribs why didn't you like privately text me a pic of the ribs because I knew you were reading it here's the deal I did I didn't end up having time to do the ribs it ended up being a much more chaotic situation so they're still frozen they're frozen they weren't thawed they're they're in So I can, I can do them this weekend if needed. Um, I do feel like kind of a, I don't know. I, I never claimed to be like a meat church level, um, smoker of meats, but I do good

ribs, man, and ribs are easy. You can, anybody can do ribs. You can do good ribs in a, in a crock pot. You can do good ribs in an oven. And ribs are easy. You can, anybody can do ribs. You can do good ribs in a crock pot. You can do good ribs in an oven. But I do good ribs and that's kind of my go-to.

I know exactly what I need. I don't have to pull open a recipe or something. I don't have to reference anything. I have everything there. So I go to it. You go to what you know and that's what I do. Do you always do pork ribs? I do. Or do you do pork ribs? I do.

That's around with beef ribs as well. Beef ribs got really expensive. I don't know if you noticed you seen these eggs by the way. Oh my God. Actually big, big news though. I finally finally got my hands. I'm a big chicken thigh guy. Oh yeah.

I don't like chicken breasts. I'm a big chicken thigh guy, but they only sell them, like I can only ever find them boneless, skinless. I finally found boneless with skin on them, which is like, because I love chicken skin too. Like that's skin guy. And they, you know, essentially, they essentially, you know, I like to, I like to brine it and some pickle juice.

Oh, yeah. And then and some dill and stuff like that and then you know add a little heat while it's on the grill But yes, the boneless skin on did you ever go through the phase? I feel like this was really big during kovat people just had time they're like Everybody had an air fryer and it was like oh Look, I found this recipe and it's how to make Chick-fil-A chicken sandwiches or chicken nuggets. And you know, there's like the pickle brine all that. And it was very intricate. And we were going to do it one time. And then I realized I could just go

to Chick-fil-A and get it. So I didn't do it. Yeah, I've never been in I've never owned an air fryer before if I fry anything. It's just in the you know in a big kind of Dutch oven kind of thing or or in the In the cast iron my cousin's got a really good fried chicken recipe that I use but it's just so messy You sent me that recipe. Yeah, it's really good. Um I'm not a big chick-fil-a like I love chick-fil-a fries And all their accoutrements. They got the key lime lemonade right now. There's one like six blocks from our place. So kids love

it. I don't really think their chicken is that good, if I'm being honest. I'm much more of a Popeyes, Bojangles, that sort of side of the equation. So what are your thoughts on hot chicken? It's a case by case thing. You know, I think there's nothing like bad hot chicken really sucks. You know, good hot chicken, like a place called Hattie B's. I think they're like franchised now, but it's out of Nashville. They do a good job. I really like Korean fried chicken like some of their hot chicken that's kind of that's kind of my jam. I think it's the best hot chicken. Yeah. If you can find a

place and it doesn't get the fanfare that Nashville chicken does. We have a Hattie B's in Austin now actually right down the road from the office and it's, it's good. There's a better place in Austin. I'm going to gas it up tumble 22 and they do their take on, um, Nashville hot chicken and it's excellent. And I wanted to ask you, cause you were in Austin a couple of months ago for the nuptials, um, what were your thoughts? You, I mean, I, I'm always curious.

Cause you hadn't, I know you pop in and out of town maybe yearly right for for bears golf things but you you had a chance to experience more of the town. I'm curious what your thoughts were Austin. Yeah, 2020. The weather was fucking awful. Yeah. Bleak. Disgusting. I felt Yeah, I felt bad for Randy on that front. But no, I

always like coming to Austin. Actually, Delta, I think, is adding a Jax to Austin direct here in the next couple of months, which is great. It's a great place to come for two or three days, I think. You know, flew in, had went to, went to like the, not South by Southwest, but the Austin City Limits did like the, went to by Southwest, but the Austin City Limits. Went to a Wilco show the first night at the cool little theater concert venue there. Went to Die, is it Die-Doo?

Die-Doo-A? Die-Doo-A? I don't know. Yeah. It was cool. I had a really good meal there Really, you know interesting Texas wine list there we stayed at the South Congress Hotel kind of a scene had had had

drinks with you went across the street to Kind of the buzzy was something on June's all day. You made it to June's excellent made it to June's yeah Cody and my wife Alex and I we just kind of popped in. We're lucky enough to to get a walk-in spot over near the bar and and had a delightful brunch set up. That's a really good spot. I wish you had had better weather for it because they do offer some seating right there on South Congress. But yeah, that that's one of my favorite spots. They've got a great chicken sandwich. A great burger as well. So that's I'm happy you made it your major way over there.

Yeah. And then we what else? Yeah, Randy's now in laws had a great, great outdoor party. One of the nights. Weather kind of cooperated for that. And then I'm trying to think we went to a we went to a really good Mexican seafood spot kind of up in northeast Wadrant. I can't remember what it was called. But yeah it was that was that was solid. And then I'm a big Perlis guy. I know that's probably a stereotype or a trope at this point. But no, I just I don't know. I like oysters. I like that space. They have a fun wine list always.

So Poosh and KVV and and Neil and all of our significant others, we went to we went to Perlis and just tied one on, for three or four hours before we had to go do stuff. It's a great spot. It's a very great spot. People watching, if you sit outside, you got that big tree over you, it's a really good spot. And I recommend it to anybody who comes in town

for the first time. Yeah, and then had some good coffee all around town. Went to a few coffee shops. I went to a couple other breakfast spots. Met a buddy, Henry Schimp, at a place kind of up northeast as well kind of where we're kind of up near Didoo. And then yeah we went to the Continental Club after the nuptials and had a nice, you know, Randy's, I guess, uncle-in-law was was playing in a band there one night. He was a drummer. So yeah, just just a cool, cool setup. Good weekend. Yeah, that's you did a lot. Yeah, that's you did a lot. Yeah, yeah, we flew in early we flew in. We flew in like Thursday midday, and then, you know, we got the heck out of Dodge on

Sunday morning didn't really stick around for any of the post stuff. Yeah, I had almost a full like, three days to kind of explore and Like I said, I love going to Austin. I love going to LA, Seattle, like, I don't know, places like that that I can just, I hate natural personally, but love going to places like Portland, Maine, Providence, places that I can just get in, get out two or three days, great food. And, you know, and it's, like Austin, it's just a little crowded for me these days but I'm preaching the choir there. So you are aware of the parking lot situation here at Washed Media right? That was like the number one thing I wanted to talk to you about because from what I'm understanding you guys got completely back down. So we thought we had we thought we had come to a resolution

without actually ever having to you know mediate the the matter. Got in today a little bit earlier than normal so I could sit down with you and we realized Will was in here and Randy was in here as well we realized like that's not the case at all we're back to where we were wow and I'll set the stage real quick and I will acknowledge that like we're we could have handled this better at the beginning just by like introducing ourselves to our new neighbors but there's, um, once I got a, I got a special guest. No, come on. Come on up here. I got, uh, I got the pie man. Oh my God. It's the speed demon.

Can't hear you, but hope all is well. He called you the speed demon. I heard things. It's, I heard things. It's crazy. It's crazy. I just got getting texts from people. Do we need to refit you? It's nuts, man. I don't even have the game might be.

I might be post golf at this point. There's so much speed. It's nuts. Let me get you on the stack. Do you man? Yes. I yeah, I'm doing thumbs up. You'll tell him.

Yeah, that's I'm so happy. He looks like a different guy. Yeah, that's I'm so happy. He looks like a different guy Yeah, he's he's I think Milwaukee's just done done wonders for him He's loving the seasonality up there. Not you know, nice to get him down here to the good weather this time of year, but You know, he's been he's been making the most of the winter he's been training and he's got cool little garage area and Training in there and he's about to take it out to the course here the next couple months So happy for him. I'm gonna I'm gonna send a little side text give him like a little message a little congratulatory message

Positive reinforcement is always always welcome. So our little complex here. There's three offices all separate there three little buildings and each one has like, we're supposed to be allotted five parking spots. Is that, is that in your contract? Yes. Five parking spots. Now they're not, they're not like reserved. They're not marked for wash media. How long have you guys been in this space now? Oh man. It's been, I think three years now. Maybe, maybe longer.

Do you guys go year to year on the lease or do you? We did a five-year five-year. Okay, five-year. Yeah, if I'm not mistaken And the Aussies who were right across the way that we loved shout out to field They moved they outgrew their space. They were rocking like 11 people in there at one time, which is insane if you've ever seen it and so we got some new tenants at the beginning of the year and it was fine. And then we noticed we were competing for spots, which is fine. You can park on the street. Parking on the street is dicey though, because there's a lot of like random windows getting busted out. it's Austin. We're on South Lamar,

people's cars get broken into from time to time, fine. Then one day they put up two signs, reserved signs. They got reserved parking, two spots. So, okay, we found out. No comms either, right? Like, it just happened. No, there was no communication. This is very Cold War, like bad Cold War, like's no communication. This is very cold war like bad cold war. Like post JFK.

Have you guys always had a good relationship with your landlord or the property owner? Yeah, for the most part. Yeah, we have. We've had some AC issues, which we don't need to litigate here. But you know, we'll look at the lease. Anyway. So they put these two up and we contacted the Atlanta we're like what's going on and they're like well They negotiated that in their lease so they get these two spots. So that's two spots that are taken away from the pool of like Say, I don't know nine or ten spots, right? We have five people in the company. So five spots were allotted makes sense. Well they started just ignoring their reserve spots. So they what they would do and they did this today.

Yeah, in front loading their front loading. They did it today. They're they're basically as well, will the freeze put their their saving seats on a Southwest an old Southwest flight as it would be big news yesterday, big news. And so they, someone will get in early and say, well, I'm going to, I'm going to take the, the, the front spot, which is right in front of our office. And that way that'll, you know, then there's still two spots open for our other employees here, these reserve ones.

So like we're basically going to, those are going to be worst case scenario, are reserved ones. We always have those two. So it's just really annoying. And I know Dylan wrote it up in washed weekly, which you can catch over on Substack, but you, you message me cause I feel like you were incensed. I was, I was pissed. I was, you know, and then I felt to aid, do these guys have, or, or gals, do they

have, are they parking within the lines? Are there any other red flags going on whether the vehicles that they're driving or the way that they're parking are they backing in sadly uh sadly they're doing everything by the book um you know i'd love to have like another element to to stew upon just something to keep me up at night but but no, and they're backing in and everything looks good except for the fact that they are just blatantly doing this. And it's where we're, we're baffled. We're like, we're very nice guys. They walk right by our office to go get the mail. The mailboxes are right by our office. The trash cans are cycling right there. It's very strange. It's very strange.

We're friendly. We've hosted happy hours before. we'd like to do that again and invite them. But now it's just awkward and it's beyond the point of return. It's like, well, we can't we can't be the first to go over there and, you know, olive branch. So that's that's a development since since Dylan wrote it up was like is it Because because at that point you guys hadn't even had any any interactions with them whatsoever, right? It was it was basically hey these guys came in they got the reserve spots and They're like ghosts. We don't see them, you know, we don't even see them take their trash out kind of thing So so it sounds like there's there's movement on that front. There is. And there's been like some smiles exchanged in the parking lot between other

members of the company, which you know, basic pleasantries, but never the elephant in the parking lot has not been addressed. And at this point, I'm like, I don't know what we do. I mean, the only thing we can do is get here earlier, but it's tough because you know, three of us have kids and it's just like uh Whole deal Maybe you guys have to institute some sort of carpool ride sharing program. Yeah We've thought about it. You know, we have a an e-bike which is uh controversial for other reasons that that dylan will will ride into work Some days, uh san's helmet. Um, I was gonna say, where did he net out on the helmet thing?

No, that was, he hasn't, he's refusing discussion. He's refusing, but ran producer Randy, as you know, he's a avid cyclist. Um, former Jimmy John's delivery guy and he'll, he'll put on like the whole bike gear, put on the helmet and he'll ride in on occasion, but you know, it's, it, I feel like we're getting back down here and we shouldn't because we have great tenants. Do you guys, like this smiles would indicate that, that they know. My, they know that you know, my theory is they don't have any idea that this is even

like a thing. I don't think they realize how like petty and how immature we are over here at Wash Media. You don't have to out them, but generally what kind of company are they? Design. Design. Yes, I believe commercial space. It looks like a great company and they all look great. They look like people that would have a good time and mesh well with us.

It's just very sad that this parking lot thing has driven a wedge before we even had a chance. I tell you what you should do is you should, you know, in advance of your next deal, you should get the number of their commercial real estate agent who showed them the space and thought to negotiate this into their deal. Right. It's, it's, it's embarrassing that we didn't think of this when we locked down the space. That's the thing. It's like, you know, you gotta look inward and figure out how do we improve on, you

know, on this and listen, I don't want to throw your, your agent under the bus or, but, uh, you know, at some point, you know, and, and granted, I know circumstances have changed and it's probably a different scene than it was three years ago, but you got to get out in front of it. You got to be four steps ahead, right? Yeah. We know this is a mistake that we won't make again. It's kind of like you take your licks, you learn from it, you become stronger as a company. And I think, you know, we have reached out to the landlord about getting some spots.

We threw out like, Hey, we want two spots too. Like as well. And they were like, we'll get back to you, which they haven't. I think we're going to end up with one, which I think would be a dub. It would give us a chance to make like our own unique washed media sign, which we could go a number of ways with. Maybe we could be a little passive aggressive with it. Maybe. We'll see. Do they? I'm trying to think of other stuff that you could do that would be super passive

aggressive and just sort of saving spots. Like, because there was a whole, I lived in Boston for a couple of years and when you dug your car out of a spot or when you dug out a, you know, a spot, like that was your spot even if it was empty like you could come back into that spot that was just kind of the the custom uh but i'm thinking like man if you guys just pitched a tent or you know bought a you know bought maybe you park the e-bike out there that's not a bad idea it would definitely get stolen stolen. But it would send a message if they saw it. No what I'm thinking about doing is I in my garage I still have from high school my 215 Rockford Fosgates with an amp and I'm thinking about just putting a system in my car, my

Atlas that has a third row. it's optional third row. And we'll just take that option out and we'll put a system back there. It'll be a little bit of a problem when I'm taking the kids to school, I have to turn down the bass a little bit. But I'm thinking about just throwing the system in and just in and out of the office complex bumping project pad. I like that project pad. And yeah, that would be a little little little chicken head or something. Oh, yeah. Yeah, really putting them on notice. Totally people that would be a real people think

I'm joking, but that is the setup I had in my 1989 Jeep Cherokee in high school. And boy, that thing rattled. It did not sound good in the car. Did not sound good out of the car. It did not sound good in the car. It did not sound good out of the car God as far as systems go, uh my So neil and I drove I drove it first. Our mom drove it for you know Nine ten years. We had a tahoe It was maroonish purple. Uh, so it kind of I had the I have the beholder there Um, it was a four-door tahoe like first or second model year they even did it.

And I think Neil, after I graduated, Neil threw, he threw two JL 10W12s or 12W12s in the back of it or whatever. I don't even remember, but you can hear him coming from a while away, but he didn't replace anything else. He had a new head unit and the subs and then the amp, but all the all the other speakers were the exact same. So it sounded fucking horrible. Hell yeah. But it was the kind of kind of Tahoe where like you go over a speed bump and then it would just bounce and glide for the next. Oh you know mile and a half basically and then actually I had a after I graduated college my dad had a mini cooper s and like the stock

amp went out on it I like the Harman Kardon system and it's stock amp went on it and they're like hey it's gonna be like a thousand bucks to replace for the stock thing I was like cool I'm just gonna put in a little you you know, 10 inch woofer in the back and all that. So that that thing had some serious knock to it as well. That's tasteful. Yeah, it was very, very tasteful. But the Atlas with the system would be would be wild.

Now, you know, I'd be concerned that it might get stolen if you're parking on the street. That's fair. It almost certainly would as mine in high school did. So I had I went through two different systems. One, yeah, somebody followed me home from the high school and to scout to scout my you know, we were running alleys out in Duncanville, Texas. You had a which I miss. I miss the alley system. We don't really do that in Austin But yeah, they got a hold of it taped up the back windshield and busted it out and they were they were out of there So Neil Neil had his stolen God, this was this was one year you So his girlfriend lived down

Closer into town in Brookhaven Atlanta and he went to you know, he snuck out one of his girlfriend's place didn't lock his car they even it was back when like you know the iPod was connected to the you know via the little headphone jack and all that stuff and his system got stolen and then he so he came came home went back to bed came home and then the next morning acted like his system got stolen from our parents driveway. Okay. So the Sandy Springs police come. Oh no.

It's like, like, like, my parents were like, yeah, we're gonna report it. And Sandy Springs police come and they're like, hey, like we have not had a single instance of burglary or theft in this neighborhood in like six years. Like not even a report. And like, are you sure? Are you positive that like one of your friends didn't do this or whatever? So then years later, I finally told my parents, I was like, like it came out somehow. I was like, Oh yeah, like Neil was clearly girlfriend's place.

Oh, they were shook by that. Statute of limitations later. Oh dude, that's yeah, that's great. Shout out to him for just holding true to the story. Tight lift. Yeah. He's still pissed at me that I told him, uh, real quick. What's next for TC in 2025?

Uh, good question. Solid TC in 2025? Good question. So I'll enter going up to Tree Farm next week. We're doing Tree Farm. We're going to try to stop by Broom's Edge. Camden Country Club's been on my list for a while, so we're going to stop and see that place and then we're going up to Pinehurst after that. So some good G next week. And then, yeah, and then I'll be here at home for Masters. I'm going to Vegas for the first time in a few weeks. Never been to Vegas before.

Okay. Are you playing? Yeah. We're going to play a little bit. We're going to do a little city tour action. What's your hotel of choice out there? Ooh man I like Bellagio. I'm fine with that. Aria, we did the Aria for my buddy Klein's bachelor party. Aria was fucking great actually. That's hard to beat. It all kind of runs together but like like I was gonna ask if you were playing

We played Paiute which is I think that's where we're gonna play. We're gonna play Paiute and we're gonna stop by Angel Park, dude Paiute was It was I've never played anything like it given to like where it was weather Weather changes on a dime weirdly just the overall climate it was it was it was, whether changes on a dime, weirdly, just the overall climate. It was so fun. That was like maybe the most fun round of golf I've played in the last decade. So I'm happy for you. That'll be a blast. Yeah. So we got that going. And then Neil and I are going down to New Zealand,

sneak trip down to New Zealand end of April. And then I'm planning a solo trip to, I think I'm gonna go to England. Is it either England or Japan? My wife's taking the kids on a cruise with my mother-in-law. It's like their yearly tradition over Memorial Day. So I'm like, cool, I'm just gonna go somewhere by myself. Go play a bunch of golf. And then then yeah, otherwise planning a big trip to Maine this summer with summer vacation with the family. Little Nebraska road trip. Shout out Matt rule.

Yeah, yeah. So you know, all sorts of good things in the hopper. Delightful. Well, you've, you've delivered. You've been a great guest and thank you for popping on Thanks for experimenting and it's fun to fun to be at the bleeding edge. Yeah, we're right there man. Big things coming Yeah, keep me posted on the parking stuff will do I would like I would like periodic updates there I will let you know All right. Thanks TC. Thanks dude. Coffee's for closes only. You think I'm fucking with you? I'm not fucking with you. I'm not fucking with you. Coffee's for

closes only. Closes only. Coffee's for closes only. Thank you.