Circling Back - Cuttin' Checks & Spotify Wrapped Day

Episode Date: December 1, 2021

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all right we're back circling back podcast presented by row back where you can get 20 off your first order using backer 20 my name is will to freeze to my left david ruff well it appears that the internet has discovered none other than dick pound again as he is a top trending subject on twitter look i've always said anytime dick pounds got something to say you get you better to listen he commands a room. Yeah. He walks in and you immediately stop what you're doing and you listen. Who is Dick Pound?

Dick Pound, Richard Pound, longtime International Olympic Committee member. Wow. At what point do you just say, you know, maybe Richard? Wouldn't you feel like a douche introducing yourself every single time as Dick Pound? Or does he just, like, does he laugh inside every time? I don't understand the conversation his parents had when they're like, you know what, let's just go with Dick. Well, he's old as fuck. Well, keep in mind he's old as fuck.

They probably didn't use the word Dick all the time like we do. He is old as fuck. Will's right. Hasn't Dick always been the nickname for Richard? I don't know. You were the one alive back then, so you would know. Has Dick always been the nickname for Richard? I don't know.

You were the one alive back then, so you would know. Hey, do you think there's a, like a dog pound, but it's a dick pound? It's where all the street things come from. I'm sorry. What's your problem? I don't know. It's just funny, and I'm immature. He's actually trending in relation to the Chinese tennis star who went missing.

Correct. I wasn't going to. Yeah, I didn't want to. But sure. Yeah, but that's not the reason that he's trending. I mean, that might be the reason that his name was in the news, but that is certainly not the reason he's trending in relation to that. You're saying if his name was Marty Thomas? Yeah, if it's, you know.

If it's my fake name, go to. Randy just texted me and asked me to close the curtain, so I'm going to do that for him. Sorry. That's hilarious. Oh, he is doing it, folks. We're recording. Okay.

Anyway, Marty Thomas is not getting that kind of blood. Yeah, Marty Thomas is not going to have numerous people tweeting about him to the point where he's trending, unfortunately. Shouts to Dick Pound, though, man. The D-Pound gang. The original D-Man. DPG. Yeah.

We've also got Dylan Chivary in the building. Hi, everybody. I'm happy to be here. What are you giggling about? I was just laughing at your intro of Dylan. Yeah, there's low energy. I'm out of it today. I'm admittedly out of it today.

You know, I hit the snack shop yesterday. We got a full thing of snacks. You're pointing at your Celsius right now. For those at home who don't know what Celsius is, it's an essential energy. It accelerates your metabolism and burns body fat. I'm living proof. My worry is that

if I dip my toe into drinking Celsius, that I'll become addicted to Celsius, much like everyone I've ever met who has been drinking Celsius lately. Yeah, that's a realistic fear. Why are you off today? I don't know. I don't know. Fell asleep early last night, got up early today.

It might be because I did a morning workout today. Let's go. Not proud of it. That's supposed to make you feel good about the day. Kind of thought that. The endorphins pumping. Did you eat afterward? Are you craving some cows? Probably. Okay.

It's more of a head thing. I'm a little fuzzy up top. Dave brought some leftover tube steak that's in the fridge if you're hungry. Did you smoke it? I thought your Traeger was on the fritz right now. Don't do fritz like that. On the fritz to freeze.

I gave my Traeger to Will's son. He doesn't know how to use it. No. He has no clue. He's just been dumping milk all over it. He can't pick up the pellet bag. No.

Will, you seem too vest to be stressed. That's fair. I'm not stressed. I'm just fuzzy. Will came in stunning heavy on the guys. You want these hands, man? Dude, it's fucking short sleeves and vests season.

You want these hands? No. I just told you I'm feeling fuzzy. The last thing I want to do is fight somebody. Okay. Fair enough. He just wants to record a pod. I feel like I've already gone two rounds.

Get on with this day. Damn. I think Sally's going to have a big party for the Tommy Fury-Jake Paul fight at our place. She sent me a message yesterday that said, I think we're going to do a holiday happy hour for the Jake Paul-Tommy Fury fight. I'll pick up food and bring it. If you want me to pick up Valentinas or a spread. I've been invited to two other parties that evening,

so if I make it by, just know that you are a special person in my life. You won't be missed. Well, I should be clear. We have not extended any invites yet, so you're kind of making assumptions that you might get invited. If I don't get invited to the fight party, I'm done. I will quit. We're checking people's Love Island knowledge at the door. You have to answer three questions about Love Island before you can actually step in.

Okay. I thought we were going for a fight If Dick Pound knocks on your door And can't answer any of the questions correctly You're still letting him in You gotta go by Richard You have to Or just mere middle name

Is he just a douchebag? He's 70 Just change your name More of a dickbag Wow I didn't know you were savage, dude. I am. I woke up in savage mode.

I'm truly, madly, deeply. I'll be your dream. I'll be your wish. I'll be your fantasy. We need to watch that one again. It's been too long. I watch it weekly. Sometimes if I'm not in the mood

for anything and I'm just grumpy, I'll just toss on the Truly Madly Deeply Pub Bruvs. It always works. I thought you said pud. Buddy. Oh, man. What? You too? Oh! Are you feeling fuzzy too?

I feel great, bitch. Don't you come over there and slap your ass? Grass? Come see what happens. You can slap my ass all you want. Wake up. Wake up! I'm the one bringing the heat right now. Will's over there half dead. You didn't even close the curtains. You had to get up mid-pod. I closed them. All we need is candlelight.

Are you still doing lyrics? What are you doing? He is. You and me in a bottle of wine. Okay. I'll hold you tonight. Oh,. You and me in a bottle of wine. Okay. I'll hold you tonight. Oh, yeah. Dylan takes a sip of his beverage. What are you drinking? Just tell us.

Get it out of the way. Yeah. This is just good old-fashioned H2O. I had my Super Fantastic already this morning at home. It was a take-parks-to-school morning, so I got up pretty early. That's fine. We didn't need the entire break. Yeah, it's sick. I can't pound coffee anymore okay you dick pound it i only dick pound coffee no i can't drink it because dude i go to drop my son off and my bladder is just expanding it just it coffee

just goes right through me right to the blad They'll call me Blad Guerrero Bloddy Doddy, he likes to potty Congratulations on What's his fucking face This guy's back On who? Corey Seeger 32 mil a year, are you kidding?

That's more than we make Baseball dudes are getting paid As they often do. Are these like circus numbers? Like what does the back end of these deals look like? Is it just a bunch of Miguel Cabreras creaking around, just getting paid bank? Hard to say.

Wasn't he like a nine-year deal? He signed that deal about three or four years later than most people would have liked. That's why I only do a month-to-month with Washed Media. That's probably a good call. Every month we just have to go sit in a basement somewhere and smoke cigars and renegotiate. If you're going to be a superstar in a sport, baseball is not a bad one to be a star in. You get paid.

Why didn't you just play that professionally? You were on your way. Turns out I wasn't good enough, David. No, remember he lost that ball in the lights. I didn't want just play that professionally? You were on your way. Turns out I wasn't good enough, David. No, remember, he lost that ball in the lights. I didn't want to bring that up. I did. Is there any dude that's just been, like, DH for his, like, high school team, DH for his college team, and just went straight to DH in the majors?

No, no. Like, has that ever existed? This dude just pisses on it. If you're a DH in high school, it means, I mean, you have to play a position when you get to college. You don't have to, but you're not going to be recruited as like, well, if you hit the ball well enough, I guess you could be. But you need a home somewhere. Being a career DH would be sick.

It would be. You just leave your glove at home. Yeah, it's like, yeah, just sick. Just hit piss missiles all the time. Yeah. So you just didn't have the arm? First team all district. No, I had the arm.

Or the range? I'm telling you, I made one error and the coach lost his faith in me. One error? Yeah. It was very costly. I lost it in the freaking lights, dude. People don't believe me, but I swear. You know, I actually went back and looked at the box score of that game.

Turns out it was a day game. It wasn't, actually. So I don't know what lights, unless you're talking about the ultimate light, the sun. Actually, it was, the game was on prom night. Oh, so your head was somewhere else. No. Oh, yeah. No, that was later.

Interestingly. Am I right? Because of my error, we went into extra innings, and it made people late for prom. That's a true story. That's weird. Why would you schedule prom on a night when you got a game? You think I scheduled it, bitch?

I don't know. I just showed up. I was on student council, so I actually was the one scheduling that shit. I just showed up and hit piss missiles. That's all I did. I was the ultimate resume patter with student organizations. Sign up, go to two student council meetings,

not participate, just kind of hang out, fart around, shout out mr womack and then uh just be on with my business just leave me like this is going on the res yeah i was the uh i was the classic uh student council representative the lowest form of student council members what were you even representing yeah it was just me sitting in meetings so i could put it on my resume. I didn't do that nerd shit. Please. Dude, nerd shit. We got the benefits, the bennies that we got from being on student council. We did.

Parking pass. I got to park in the front row every day. It was great. They let us smoke cigarettes in the parking lot. They gave me a bunch of elevated parking passes, and I just gave them to my boys. Did y'all have assigned parking spots in your high school parking lot no we did it was awesome well unless unless you were on student council you got a good parking spot because seniors got priority and the earlier you got there on like sign up day you get to go like go pick your spot so we would just squad up

and i'll get spots together it was sick i have a friend who you have met maybe no and maybe you have maybe you haven't who allegedly made fake parking passes and sold them. You say allegedly. Do you not trust this person? That's a good scam. I just, I don't. It was hypothetical. Was it a flounder?

A statute of limitation. No. No. I don't know if I can tell. Never mind. You're literally telling tales at the school right now. Quite literally. Clay has a...

The reason... I'll let him tell it. If it's about Clay, now. Quite literally. Clay has a... The reason... I'll let him tell it. If it's about Clay, I want to know. It is, but I don't know if we've gone public with it. As to why he transferred high schools. Didn't realize he did that. He might have... Never mind.

Damn. It's nothing that bad, but I'd rather him tell it. I don't tell as good of stories as him. Until he tells it out of school. Fair. I got something to tell the people. Okay. If you're looking for merch for yourself, maybe for a significant other who's also a backer,

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You can also get free coasters with any Do You Even Burn candle that you purchase over at vellabox.com slash circling-back. We got links to all this stuff in the description of the episode. Go get your shop on. Did I tell you who's burning one of these in their home your parents my my parents so they do burn yeah and i'm concerning they didn't really ask what it meant and i was very uh happy about that because i didn't want to have to explain it you should just be like no it's just a reference to uh real bros of simi valley yeah your dad might like that. He might. I showed him some

I think you should leave sketches. Do you get scared when you show people sketches from that show? Because it's just so out there that you just think that you're doing something wrong? Yeah. Yeah. No, I definitely do. And the fact that I was limited to

what I could show them because of the family watching. What do you limit? Sorry, what do you start with? I went with the all safe for work. I went with the lunch meeting, hot dog up the sleeve. Yes, season two, episode one, right? Correct.

I think that's the move. There's a theme here. I went with the hot dog vehicle. The comedy is so out there. I think you have to just recommend it to someone, and hopefully they will just kind of go in on their own. If you ask someone to watch it and you watch it with them, it's too weird a comedy to be in an atmosphere like that, I think. I don't know.

You don't start with cough and flop like Sally's been trying to do lately? No. I showed him cough and flop, too. I turned on One for Baye and she was like, I can't. He's been waiting a long time for a hit on Corn Cob TV. Yeah. You know, good thing we were really

early on that show. Yeah, super early. Bones are there. It only took us two seasons to figure it out. Go to Washed Media on Instagram. Randy did a meme. I'll tell you this. Top 10 meme Randy has ever done. Wow.

It's a good meme, man. It's a good meme. It's a good meme. Follow my lead. We're also doing Patreon. Right after this episode today, we're going to sit down and do circling bachelorette. Hometowns, baby. Oh, yeah.

Major shouts to all the parents out there. Also, Friday voicemail is dropping tomorrow on Thursday. Can't wait. If you haven't gotten yours in, 888-618-4422. Again, 888-618-4422. Let's give a quick holler to our friends over at Early Bird CBD. I mean, it might be the most used sponsored product that we have at this point by ourselves. You want an anecdote alert real quick?

Yeah. Before we started recording, I was talking to Dave about Early Bird. He's mad because I'm taking it from him, but I'm doing it. And he was like, man, when I need to get a good sleep in, Early Bird is perfect. He says he checks his recovery the next morning. Dave, you can finish the story. No, it sounds like you got a great grasp on my story. He was going off on how great Early Bird is, and we weren't even recording a podcast.

The guy that you're telling the story for is right here. He's right here. I wanted to say it. I say it much better than you would have. You made it sound like I gave you like I was reading ad copy to you. Actually, he said, nights I don't drink, if I take an early bird, if I'm trying to get a good sleep in, it hits so perfectly. All I'm saying is on the on the

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Damn. Shouts to Brian Kelly. Maybe you're just trying to... This guy. Yeah, I'm a sports guy. Dude, Bama. They're looking good lately. You're right, Will. You got a big game coming up against Georgia. Yeah. It's a big game.

Better look out, Buster. Yeah. The record books? Psh. Kick them to the curb. Uh-huh. Don't kick your early birds to the curb, though. These things are precious.

Dude, they taste really good. I almost want, like, just, like, a big old jar full of the gummies. I might draft them next year in the Halloween candy draft. When you chew one, do you like savor it before you swallow because it's so good? Because I do. Are you asking if I suck on it, Dave? Yes, I suck on it. He sucks on it.

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20% off. Have you guys been on Twitter today? Because we have quite, quite the theme on the timeline. The non-Dick Pound theme? Yeah. Outside of Dick Pound, the most popular thing on the timeline currently going is Spotify Wrapped. Dave, you're a Spotify user.

Thank you, Will, for knowing that. Dylan, you... Okay, I'm on Apple Music still. Dylan's out here buying songs for 99 cents a piece. No, that's not what Apple Music is. It's the same thing. It's $10 a month for... It's not the same thing at all.

...whatever you want to listen to. But I will admit that it is an what Apple Music is. It's the same thing. It's $10 a month for whatever you want to listen to. But I will admit that it is an inferior product to Spotify. So why don't you just make the switch? Because I have all my playlists set up, and it's there, and it's easy. It's on auto payment. I'm just like, I just let it ride. I used to be just like you. I used to be Apple guy.

Heck, I was even Pandora guy for a minute. But then I changed. You can't be Pandora guy. Well, look, even Pandora guy for a minute. But then I changed. You can't be Pandora guy. Well, look, I've moved on from it. It's part of my past. You can't be Pandora guy. Hold on. Bay argues that the Pandora's curated lists are goaded.

I'm just saying. I'm just putting it out there. What's on her list? People can argue stuff and have it be completely wrong still. Let's do the honeymoon game. Give me her top three artists. Oh, gosh. Do you have a spot?

I don't know. I don't know. What's the honeymoon game? Or what is that game? Not the honeymoon game. Oh, it's like you just answer questions about your wife. Intimate knowledge about your partner. Oh, like the actual game show?

Yeah, it's a very dated reference, and I apologize. What was that called? I don't know. She probably had, like, glass animals on there. This guy who just tweeted me his top ones. Animals made of glass.

Oh. Maybe some T-Swift. Maybe Dua Lipa. Not the baby. Dude, when I hear it, when I'm, like, at the mall, because, you know, I'm a mall guy.

When I'm just walking around the mall and I walk into like the Gap or something or Old Navy. And I hear Dua Lipa. I just start buying shit and bobbing my head. Dave, I don't want to call you out, but you don't walk into the Gap. You fall into the Gap. I do. I mind the Gap. You guys hit up Spotify's curated playlist?

All the time. Are they lit? Yeah, they're really good. Fuck? Yeah, they're really good. Fuck. Like, they're really good. Apple's is not good. Except for the one that put Matty B on my like... Well, that was different. That was one that was like an algorithm serving it to you, whereas they also have a lot of

other ones. I'd kill for Apple to add that to my playlist. How do they not have that on Apple at this point? Makes sense. The curated playlist... Do they not have... They do. Oh, they do?

They're just not good. Why do you? In my experience, anyway. The ones on Spotify are very good. Okay. Highly recommend. Do you guys want to hear some, before we get into our personals, do you want to hear some stats that I found on circling back today?

Yeah, that'd be cool. Don't look at my screen, David. What are you doing, David? Fucking screen looker. my screen, David. What are you doing, David? Fucking screen looker. We had a... We streamed in two different countries

this year that we had never streamed in before. Are you guys ready for these countries? Any guesses? Nicaragua. Malaysia. I can find out a map for you if you don't know where it is.

It's not that close to Japan. We got our first ever streams from Macedonia. Oh. Can you point that out on a map, Joey? Macedonians. We also got our first stream from Jordan. Not Michael. He might be a backer.

There's no way he has ever put on a podcast. He couldn't tell you what it is. I put some of that Macedonia sauce on my tacos. Okay. Our top episode. Any guesses on the top episode? We had a lot of shit going on this year. I had a kid.

Dave had a kid. Dylan got engaged. It's hard to say. It was probably one of the ones that we all sang on a bunch. People were just sharing it. I bet it was the candy draft. Incorrect. Incorrect. People couldn just sharing it. I bet it was the candy draft from Halloween. Incorrect. Incorrect.

People couldn't believe it. How about you just tell us? If I've learned anything from our listeners, it's that major life events for any one of us, they usually gas our numbers up. I think the number one episode last year was the one where I got married. I wasn't even on that episode.

You guys just talked about me getting married. I was saying in 2021. Wait, no, that was last year. No, it was 2021. Okay. Yeah. Okay. The number one this year was, in fact, Dylan getting married. I was saying in 2021. Wait, no, that was last year. No, it was 2021. Okay. Yeah. Okay. The number one this year was, in fact, Dylan getting engaged.

Really? Wow. I should get engaged like every month. We'll just have crazy numbers. That's facts. That's facts. That's cool. We got two other employees not married.

I kind of feel honored about that. That's cool. Randy, not to... I don't want to put Randy on the spot, but 2022, man. Clock's ticking. Yeah. We need someone to get engaged. He's like 19.

I don't care. Do you guys have any idea how many minutes worth of podcasts we put out this year? If you had to guess how many minutes worth of podcasts we put out this year. Without putting pencil to paper, this is tough. This is just up to this point. This does not include today's podcast. I will say 300,000 minutes. That's so many minutes, Dave.

So many minutes. We only do two episodes a week. Okay, so that's two hours a week. I don't want to watch you work through this. Yeah, 120 hours. I said minutes, dog. Oh, that times 60 Yeah. 120 hours. I said minutes, dog. Oh, that times 60. 6,000, whatever, 7,000 minutes.

Dylan's in front of the chalkboard right now. That would be 7,680 minutes. No, you overwent. 6,669. Oh, so I was way off. 102 episodes. What did Dave say? 300,000. 300,000. What are you doing Dave say? 300,000.

300,000. What are you doing, dude? 300,000. That's too many, Dave. That's like network-wide, all of our pods. I thought that was the question. Not to expose you, Dylan, but do you have any next-gen analytics on your listening this year right now? I do, but I question its accuracy.

No, you can't question the accuracy. We did this last year. No, I can. I'll tell you why. question the accuracy we did this last no i can i'll tell you why last year we did the same exact thing and it pulled up a like my top three was a song that i had just added to my playlist like a week prior and listened to it like three times so it it gave it gave um preference to like newer shit hey hey, you're the one who's an Apple guy. I don't want to be an Apple guy anymore. Make the switch.

I need to. It's actually pretty easy. You just have to download the app. I have the app. There you go. Create a login. But you might have like your most popular stuff, but do you know what your listening aura is?

Did you get your aura, Dave? No. Dude, come on. Imagine not having your aura. is? Did you get your aura, Dave? No. Dude, come on. Imagine not having your aura. Why didn't I get mine? Brett's was angst and focused, which I think is actually pretty good for Brett. My audio aura was yearning and wistful. I don't really know what that means, but I'm out here just yearning. Yearning, not concerned in what nobody wants to say.

Okay, so. Mine actually says Amber. There's a song in my top three that when I was riding from the airport to Nobu in Cabo. Oh, this guy. Oh, fuck yeah. I had to drop Nobu. Okay. Go ahead.

Sorry. The driver played a song on the radio that was really good, and I shazammed it. I listened to it in Cabo a lot, and then pretty much never since. And it's in my top three. That's why I don't trust this. My top music moods are bold and hype. Dude, I didn't realize you were so hype. He's not.

Look at him. It says, I always understood the assignment. Yeah, it told me that as well. What is it? Just give me the data. Let's go through our big things, Dave. What were your top genres from this past year? Yours is so much cooler than mine.

You ready for this? Mm-hmm. Dirty South Rap is what it says. You and I could not be on further ends of the spectrum right now. But, okay, I mean, if you look at my top artists, sure, a little bit, but. I hit them with that cool jazz at my number one spot. Do you do background music? A lot, Brant.

See, I don't. Mine are always skewed because the only time I really do Spotify is at the gym. I do a lot of background music. I do a lot of just music. I do a lot of just casual driving music that I just play low because I don't necessarily want to like while out on my drives every day. I went

number one, cool jazz. Number two, jam bands. Number three, bossa nova. Number four, reggae. Major shouts. And number five, classic rock. It's like you listen to stuff just to like curate your Spotify rap. Oh, he's calling you. He's calling you.

I have to like. You think for an entire year. Oh, yeah. You think for an entire year. I sign on to Spotify and I'm like, okay. You know what? This will be good for my aesthetic. On December 1st this year, I'm going to get poured out if I listen to anything but these things.

He's saying you're inauthentic. It's like too on brand for you. Well, maybe things aren't always on brand. It's just who you are, Dylan. I don't know, man. I have an announcement, though. My top artist last year was Taylor Swift. She has been dethroned.

Oh, shit. Can I guess? Yeah. Huey Lewis in the news. It was not Huey Lewis in the news. It was not Huey Lewis and the News. Let me guess. Okay. I don't have a guess.

You have no guess at all. Out of all the artists. Chubby Checker. It wasn't Chubby Checker. It's probably like... No, I have nothing. One more. Dylan, just give one more guess.

Is it Billy from Bones Are Their Money? It was not a song from that. No, was it Billy? Who is it? John Mayer. Grateful Dead. I was not expecting that. You're going through a thing.

I was not expecting that. Dude, you're a ground floor dead guy, though. No, no, I'm very out there admitting that. I am new to the Grateful Dead scene. I think this year kind of it was a slower year for things. So I think I listened to a lot less hype music. I'm not hype like Dave right now. Or bold.

It went number one, Grateful Dead. Number two, Taylor Swift. Number three, Poolside. Familiar with them? Pretty chill. I'm not. Number four, Stan Getz. He's my favorite jazz. Stan Getz. Stan Getz. He's my favorite jazz. Stan Getz. Stan Getz. He's my favorite jazz saxophonist. And number five, no one had this.

Ebo Taylor. You ever heard of him? I hadn't until this year. Is that Acid Jazz? What is that? No, he's from Ghana. He's a Ghanaian guitarist. That's sick.

Yeah. I don't know. I went through a big – I weirdly went through a big Ghanaian music phase this year for like three months. No one had that on their bingo card. Just don't – don't know. I weirdly went through a big Ghanaian music phase this year for like three months. No one had that on their bingo card. Just don't undersell the Ghanaian genre. Since I know nothing about it, I couldn't possibly do that. You wouldn't know because you don't have curated playlists sent to you on Spotify. What were your tops, Dave?

My top artists were as follows. Number one, Sturgill Simpson. Sturgill. Really? Really got into his bluegrass stuff at the latter part of the year. Really got into it. Okay. Dylan, not a fan.

It's okay. Trap Boy Freddy, number two. What? Trap Boy Freddy. Who's that? How is this your number two? Dallas, Texas. Because I told you, I'm really listening to this stuff at the gym.

I've never even heard of Trap Boy Freddy. You're out here listening to him on the daily. He's a Dallas artist. Number three, Rage Against the Machine. Number four, Kanye West. Heard of him. Donda. Was that because of Donda?

Or were you running back the old stuff? No, I run through Beautiful Dark Twisted like every other month, like start to finish. Respect. Love it. Number five, Lil Baby. I thought you were going to say like Rhodes. Not Duh Baby.

Yes, my son's debut album. Dylan, I need to hear it. Rough Roads Ahead. I need to hear it, Dylan. By Rhodes Ruff. What was your most played? So mine, as far as I can tell, is only listed by song and not by artist. Okay.

What were your top five? My top one, again, I don't know if these are accurate. No, they're accurate. This is literally statistically driven. The Wanting by Cody Jinks. Nothing. driven. The One Ting by Cody Jinks. Nothing. Cody Jinks. Whiskey by Cody Jinks.

Do this guy. And then number three, the one I was telling you about, the combo one, is a Beatles cover song that's just an instrumental. It's just guitar. And it's And I Love Her, Santo and Johnny. It's a very chill, like like hang out at the beach song will i think you would love it shots of santo and johnny no it's not ghanaian william beckman in the dark great song you've heard it dave gary allen no but gary stewart is number five and again

i don't think he belongs on g. Gary Stewart? An empty glass. That is, yeah, I know Gary Stewart. That's a... And the last cigarette. Stewart? I like Gary Stewart, but man. Gary Stewart? And then William Beckman again, and then Leon Bridges. Drake.

John Party, what's up? That was waiting for the J-parts. Leon Bridges again. Which Leon Bridges are you doing? New, like, new cool Leon, or old school Leon, like we saw at ACL when we were smoking doobies with Stu? I have Texas Sun on here and Like a Shit. Dude, that was real. Texas Sun's a great song.

He's great. If you don't know that one yet. Also, Fort Worth's own. There was a moment at my wedding where I finally got done taking the photos that you have to take right after you get married. You know, that hour-long photo sesh that you go through? The best part. And I walked around the corner of the restaurant that we were having the reception at, and the sun was setting, and everyone was drinking martinis, everyone was having a good time,

and Texas sun was blasting on the speakers, and I was like, all right. It's a good song. This is a vibe that I can get into right now. Well, I mean, I curated that playlist myself, so I was expecting it. Don't take credit for a Leon Bridges song. No, I wrote— You had nothing to do with it. I essentially wrote Texas sun.

People are calling me the son of Texas, actually. I want to see Dick Pound's Spotify rap. Cody Jinx and Gary Stewart in your top three. Top five. I think you're putting on music with the rap in mind. Dave, I'm telling you, it's not accurate, dog. I listen to a lot of Drake and a lot of Kanye, and that's barely represented on my list.

Gary Stewart, does he do She's Drinking, She's Acting Single, I'm Drinking Double? I think he also does that one. All you want to listen to a lot of Drake and a lot of Kanye, and that's barely represented on my list. Gary Stewart, does he do She's Drinking, She's Acting Single, I'm Drinking Double? I think he also does that one. All you want to listen to is that one. It's not a bad song. An Empty Glass is the only one I really rock to because it rocks with me. I believe Randy Rogers covered that song. He did. He did a good job with it.

He did. Probably better than Gary Stewart's version. Don't you dare. Just saying. You might be right. Anyway. Shouts to William Beckman, though. Check him out if you don't know about him yet.

Why'd you point at Randy? I'm looking at the camera. Okay. Talking to people at home. To all the people out there who are sending us screenshots of how much you've listened to Circling Back, let me just be the first to say thank you. Keep doing it. Pretty cool to see that kind of stuff.

It really gasses us up. Yeah, and it's just pretty validating seeing a bunch of people have us as their number one through five podcast. I don't care if we're not your number one. As long as we're in that top five, I'm happy as a clam. We know that there's other podcasts to listen to out there. But we ask that you stop listening to them. Yeah. Thank you.

Yeah, to anyone who didn't have us in their number one spot, ditch the other podcasts. Yes. Also, shouts to Barry Rigby, who's getting a lot of play on the timeline. Noticed he wasn't in y'all's top five. That's facts. Sorry, Barry. That's unfortunate. I feel like he's definitely on my end-of-the-year playlist.

He has to be. He has to be, because I put that on a decent amount. Especially the day it came out, I just listened to it on repeat all day. I showed up 20 minutes before my haircut appointment that day, and I just listened to Welcome to Wilmonds the entire time. Welcome to Wilmonds. That's how it goes. That is how it goes. Damn. Is this like one of the

worst days on the timeline though? Just seeing a bunch of people just try to show how like hip and cool they are? That's basically what we just did. This function that Spotify created is so genius. I'm like jealous of the whoever came up with this. Probably somebody at Spotify. No, I understand that. But what a genius idea.

Everyone wants to share it. Oh, what's your Spotify shit, you know? It's like, come on. That's just marketing. It's brilliant. Look at Dylan. You know what I'm saying? Wow. A marketing department. Wow.

It makes me want to switch just for this function. You said that last year and the year before. I know. I'm going to do it, though. People are going to think Spotify paid us to do that segment. They're more than willing to do that. They're more than willing to do that. I would absolutely, yeah.

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As well as Apple Watch bands. My current wallet could use a little competition, if I'm being honest. Yeah, your wallet stinks. No, it doesn't. I could upgrade, but it doesn't stink. What if you got it like handmade in Argentina, like something like that? I don't know. That would be tight.

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Dylan, some big news came out of the Chivry household last night. Oh, this is not the segment called Dave's Got a Question? We're going to... Oh, here we are. Why don't you just follow the rundown? Yeah, dude. Yes. Why don't you not spoil Dave's segment that people were anxiously awaiting?

People are going to fast forward now because they want to hear my question. They're like, holy fuck, Dave's Got a Question? This is going to be good. I'm not going to skip ahead to your dumbass question. This is bigger news. We get a mega cute scene on Will's screen. Yeah. Sally just sent me a real cute photo of Fritz petting Rosie.

Boy, Rosie tolerates the pet. Actually, Fritz is a more gentle petter than my son. Okay, well, this is about my son, this segment. Okay, go ahead. Anyway, my son parks Edwin Chivary, the first, he lost a tooth last night, his third tooth. Yeah, big boy one up front, one of the front teeth. That's a big one.

Which is the cutest teeth to lose. Those two are the cutest ones to lose. How are the honeys going to react to this, though? They're like, oh, you see the P-man, he's really grown up. He's got a big gap in his teeth. Is that what they're calling him, the P-man? I don't know, maybe. I don't know what the kids are calling him. Parks. What's his name now? P-Man, he's really grown up. He's got a big gap in his teeth. Is that what they're calling him? The P-Man? I don't know. Maybe.

I don't know what the kids are calling him. Parks. Is his name though. P-Chevy? Maybe. Park Cities? A couple interesting anecdotes, or just factoids more like. He was eating leftover bay spaghetti when he lost his tooth.

That's just real. That's just facts. How cute is that? That's interesting. It's not like a food you would think would dislodge a tooth. too yeah was there a spicy meatball in there that he like bit into overcooked huh this thing had been loose this thing's been loose for a long time it was ready to come out less to do with what he was actually eating more to do with just the chewing that he was doing it just it was just time he was just mashing that hard chew button yeah he was just

chewing full last night but bay spaghetti is what's what did it in, finally. Very cute scene. So, how does he react? Does he get excited, or is he in pain? I can't remember. I know there was some that hurt, but most didn't when you lose them. Oh, I cried like a baby, I think, every time I lost a tooth

when I was a kid. Looking back at it, I don't think it's as much the actual physical pain of it. I think it's the idea of something getting ripped out of your mouth. Yeah. Because I can't remember actually being in so much pain that I needed to cry, but I was definitely crying. Yeah. Like a bunch of blood came out of your mouth and you didn't have a tooth anymore.

Like a bone falls out of your mouth. Yeah. And the bones are your money. Bones are their money. Yeah. You just got some currency. Yeah, exactly. Actually, literally, the bones are your money when you're a little kid.

Oh, you mean because of the tooth fairy? Yeah, because if you need to get your bread up, it's like, alright, I gotta rip a tooth out so I can go get this thing at the store. I did that once. I owed some guys some money and I was in trouble, so I just ripped all my teeth out and put it under my pillow. I woke up with $15.

Wasn't enough. They kicked the shit out of me. Wow. But. So the other interesting thing that happened is that the Tooth Fairy, a.k.a. his daddy, his dad. That's you. Didn't have any money. I was cashless. Fucking broke ass.

I had a few bucks in my wallet the other day, and Bay needed it for valet money, so I gave it to her. Wow. Blame Bay. Other people parking your car. Yeah. Must be nice. You people parking your car. Yeah. Must be nice. You know they take Venmo these days. That's right.

I should have told her just to do that. They do. Thank God. Because I always am embarrassed when they don't, and I have no cash. So I didn't have any cash on hand. But I did have a checkbook. I did have a checkbook. So the tooth fairy left him a check under his

pillow and um wait a minute he woke up this morning and from his room at 5 45 a.m i hear him screaming for me not screaming like upset screaming just like trying to get my attention dad dad come here like i'm thinking like oh he must have had an accident or something. He's upset. But no, he was fine. He was in his bed. And he's like, what is this? He said, is this $10? I said, yeah, that's a check. He doesn't know what a check is.

$10? Is that the gold rate for a tooth these days? Or do you just feel guilt because you don't have any money? I remember getting coins. Are you kidding me? His mother tooth fairy, his mom, has set a high bar. His first tooth, he got 20. Then he got 10.

The fuck are these teeth? I don't know why. Sally has like one of those... Like a bunch of $2 bills. Those are swag. I'm just going to make Fritz get a $2 bill every time. So your son wakes up. First of all, is this check on your letterhead?

Doesn't it have your name on it? Can we confirm whether or not this was a Dylan Chivary check or a WASH Media check? Because after your pizza performance, we might need to review the finances. It was a Dylan Chivary check, I promise you. There's nothing better. Imagine being a kid waking up and finding a negotiable instrument under your pillow. Yeah, he saw it, and he said, where I filled in $10, and he said, is this $10? And I said, yeah, buddy, that's a check.

You don't want to check this. He said, no. I said, well, it's just as good as money, I promise you. He's going to walk up to the candy store, the ice cream man, and hand him a $10 check and think he's okay. Here's the thing that I had to come clean about, though, which I'm kind of sad for. I basically told him that his parents are the Tooth Fairy.

I spoiled it for him. Well, yeah, the check didn't have Tooth Fairy written on it. Yeah, right. I was like, well, buddy, I wrote this. Just so you know, it's me and your mom who are actually giving you the money. And he was like, I said, did you know that already? Did you put four tooth? And he goes, no, I didn't know that already.

I said, yeah, I said front tooth on the memo line. Did you put your address on there? Your driver's license number? No. You know you can write a check on anything? What do you mean? Like on a piece of paper? Really?

As long as there are correct information on it, you can write a check on anything. As long as it becomes negotiable. Is that big time facts? I just Googled it because I remember hearing that at one point in my life and thinking like, so I could just write it on this napkin. You have to have a routing number, account number, all that shit.

What about bones? Those are also money. Okay. Yeah, those are also currency. Man, so why didn't you just go into your Coinbase wallet and just hit him with a little digker? I think some cryptocurrency might have been more confusing for the six-year-old than he doesn't understand blockchain does he not like generational wealth his dad doesn't understand roads and fritz have been texting like about like they're in on like

a lot of the altcoins some of the coins too really wait what's their favorite one right now party coin baby coin baby coin coin. Baby coin. Diaper coin. Milk coin. Yeah. Anyway, so Parks has a $10 check. And I told him, like, I'll take this in and I'll get the money for you, buddy. Don't worry. Oh, so you're not going to make him deposit his check into the bank account that he doesn't have using the phone that he doesn't have? Right.

Yeah. I'll do the legwork for him. It's on me at this point. Why didn't you just do an IOU? Like on a little post-it note. That's basically what it is, right? I'm just going to tear the check up. You might as well have just left him a note under his pillow

that said Tooth Fairy doesn't exist. Figure it out. Tooth Fairy's broke. I'm just going to write Fritz a check for the equal amount of how many teeth he has versus what it'll eventually be when he loses his first one. I'm like, here, I'm just paying you up front. she's giving an advance and all his lost teeth that's reckless do they make do they still make a production dude it's gonna keep going up that's a great point true

do they still make a production at school when a kid loses a tooth because like if we went into school the morning after losing a tooth the teacher would sing a song with the class about you losing a tooth. And how'd that song go? I don't know if they do that. You want me to sing it? Yeah. Why do I feel like I've sang this before?

Because you went to school where you sang it. Parks has a loose tooth, a loose tooth, a loose tooth. Parks has a loose tooth and a hole in his head. Something else. That's a weird song. Very cool. Hole in his head. Wow, dude. That absolutely slaps. He's going to be

absolutely spitting game on the playground today. I can't wait for him. I'm excited for him. You know what? In retrospect, not a good song. He's going to go to the cafeteria today and toss a straw up in that thing and just blow some mud. Oh, yeah. Dude, all the honey's going to be lined up to get a peek at that gap in his teeth. What was the show that

normalized tying string to your tooth that's loose and slamming it in the door? Because I never did that. I definitely told my parents I wanted to, and they're like, no, that's a terrible idea. You have all sorts of issues at the root. I don't know if you would. If it pulls it out at a weird angle, I think it can do something with the nerve endings

or something. I don't know. That's a hard-o dad move. My buddy's dad did that to them. He was also the dad that just threw all the kids in one room when they got chicken pox. Called it a day. I just made one of my homies punch me in the face, lose my teeth. We did that to the pledges.

We gave them chicken pox and locked them in a room. Really? Kidding. That's terrible. Do you think pledges these days are like do you think like being vaccinated or not it's like something that these pledges have to deal with that's a funny that's a funny thought it's like nah dude we want him but like he's fucking vaccinated he's vaxxed like yeah like like we don't know He's vaxxed. Yeah.

Like, we don't know. Yeah, J-Ron's got antibodies. Yeah. No, no, no. He's cool. Like, he got vaccinated, but, like, he got, like, Pfizer. So, like, he's probably going to get it. He said he's immunized.

Yeah, no boosters, dog. No boosters. No, you get a booster, you're out. Are we up for... Do we need to get booster? Yeah. My boost! They're available. I just asked for some Yeezy boosts for Christmas.

I don't think it's going to work the same way, unfortunately. It'd be a lot cooler if it was. The invisible enemy does not enjoy Yeezy boosts. Just hates the entire concept. You just slide into some Yeezys and you're immune? That'd be sick. That would be so sick. Remember, you have some Yeezys.

Uh-huh. I've been wearing them. You're wearing them right now? No, I got my boots on that I just got to be done. You're a new old boot goofing today. Dude, I love these boots. And I got major compliments from the man who fixed them up for me. The shoe surgeon at the shoe hospital?

He said, look, if you want to unload these boots, I will gladly take them off your hands. I love them. I said, sir, no. These are mine. Why don't you calm down there? You know, I've had these for like 18 years. I got them in college. Wow.

And I was in college 18 years ago. Wow. I wasn't going to say anything. Isn't that crazy? I love these boots, man. I'm doing the college. Wow. And I was in college 18 years ago. Wow. I wasn't going to say anything. Isn't that crazy? I love these boots, man. I'm doing the math right now. That means you're between the ages of 36 and 40. I've worn them in the rain probably 20 times.

They look freaking fantastic. Look at that. Get out of here. That guy did great work. He did. I definitely threw out my only pair of ostrich because the soles were just ruined. What a mistake. Yeah.

Are you stupid? Yeah. Well, look, they made it through college. They were all torn up. They were bad. Shaking my head. Probably some water damage on those things. Do I need to text him and tell him congratulations on the tooth?

I have not talked to him in a couple days. Just talk to him at dinner, dog. Aren't you guys hitting CC soon? I think he's at lunch right now. He's going to go to Jason's Deli. He likes their salad bar. Really? Just like his old man.

Yeah, I guess. How many hard-boiled eggs can he eat there? He can only do like one and a half. They're quite filling. Those are rookie numbers. Yeah, well, he's young. Maybe he'll pay with his $10 check. I ordered deviled eggs from a restaurant the other night to go with our to-go order,

and they gave us five deviled eggs. What do they do with that other one? Is that just like the chefs that he gets to eat? Because if you're cutting them in half, there should be six in that order. Do you think the chef's just kicking them back every time he has to whip some up? I don't think that's what happens. I would be.

I would be, for sure. I love deviled eggs. What, bitch? Nothing. Don't look at me like that. Just imagining you just sliding deviled eggs down that gullet of yours. Are they hard to cook?

No. It's really easy. Well, you've got to get the devil to make them. He's not always available. You're telling me the devil made these eggs? Uh-huh. Hey, dude, Dave, your battery's running low on your laptop, dude. That's sick.

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Weird. I ended up just deleting stuff from it and just doing ad reads as I saw fit. Yeah. He's a wild card, man. Is he still doing the F1 show from the car bed? Yeah, I thought that would not last too long. Doing a seated pod as an older feller, an old chunk of coal like we are. Old bag of bones, if you will.

Old bag of bones. I can't imagine. I hope his lower back's okay. I hope he's going to yoga. He's going to get scoliosis. I do have a question um here in a couple weeks i'm going to see a show you won't believe the show i'm gonna let you guess christmas themed You can probably guess. The Rockettes? Close. The Nutcracker. Cracking nuts, baby.

This has Alyssa written all over it. This is something. So we were supposed to go when we were dating, like a long time ago. And this is when Dallas, the city of Dallas, had a freeze. North Texas was, you know, inch of ice, snow on top of it. We couldn't go. Anyway, we now have the opportunity to go. We're going to the Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth.

So it's nice. Bass is nice. Now, my question. Is it named after Lance? It is. It's actually his thing. My question, Is it named after Lance? It is. It's actually his thing. My question, Will and Dylan. Well, you could both maybe have an answer.

Yeah, I think I'm going to win. No, this is definitely for me. Am I wearing a suit? Dave, what do you wear? First of all, have you been to musicals before, Will? Because I have. You have? Yeah, I've been to a few musicals before. You ever seen Rent?

Maybe Joseph in the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat? I went to Lion King. Go, go, go, Joseph, you know. Let me just say, musicals are just the worst. Okay. I think we'll still have a good time. You will. You're going with your lovely wife.

Of course you're having a good time. Just musicals, they stink. Okay. In person, you think they stink? It's the nutcracker. No, in person it's a totally different beast. If I'm watching on Disney+, I'm like, all right, whatever. There's no vocals, right?

If I have to go to one, nutcracker is going to be up there because it's fun. It's serious. It's just instrumental. Well, dude, he's cracking nuts. Yeah, he cracks nuts. That's the thing. Is he going to do that for like two hours? Yeah.

So they bring people up from the audience. It's a ball buster. No, they bring people up from the audience. It's a ball buster. No, they bring people up from the audience and you play nutball with each other. Somebody got me good in here a few weeks ago.

We told Dave that he was going to be... You don't wear a suit to a musical. We told him he was going to the Nutcracker but he's actually playing nutball.

You don't wear a suit. Wear your seats. Are you up in one of those boxes with binoculars and shit? Yes. How'd you secure those? They're not that expensive. Must be nice.

I mean, it's a Christmas gift, so, you know. Well, if you don't wear a suit, where are you going to put your monocle? Let's do something tight. I want to wear a top hat. Wear like a dope-ass scarf or something. You don't need a suit, though. Can I wear a top hat? Ooh, maybe you go suit with the scarf.

Boots with the front. You think you're Abe Lincoln in Ford Theater? I hope not. Yeah, very much hope not. John Wilkes Booth. You got killed there, dude. Six Semper Tyrannis. I went to that theater, man.

It was cool. Dave's going to be drinking so much champagne at this event that he's going to feel like he got a bullet through his head the night before. Mr. Box Seats. Damn. Well, anyway. No, we got offered tickets to this last year by somebody who had really good tickets because of work and we couldn't make it happen and i was very upset but i will say that i

had a lot of concern about what i was going to wear to that show i think what i settled on was just wearing a nice pair of slacks with a nice sweater and a button-down shirt under it but like i don't know if i felt good about that. I might rock a coat. You can do a coat. You don't need a tie. Okay. It won't be a try-hard. An all-time episode of Frasier

is when they go to the theater and they don't have tickets, so they have to stand in the will-call line, and the entire episode is framed around them trying not to get spotted by their rich friends while standing at will-call trying to get tickets. It's a really good concept that I was like, this is the most snooty concept.

But whoever walked into the writer's room was like, yeah, I fucking crushed this. Highly recommend. Are you saying that I shouldn't wear shorts? It's in, when is it, December? Yeah. Here comes the Nutcracker David Ruff. Wear slacks. Little what boy?

Slacks, button down And a coat Okay Don't get dressier than that Let me throw some nice boots on there You can borrow mine if you want What if I'm sitting next to like the mayor? Dude, you can't wear another man's boots to Nutcracker

Or even like the city manager The city manager won't be in a suit My suit What if you're next to like You can't wear another man's boots to knock back. Or even like the city manager. The city manager won't be in a suit. My suit. What if you're next to like Sandra Bullock? What if I'm next to Leon Bridges, Fort Worth? Funkytown. I wrote a song for him once. He'll be wearing something cool.

Yeah, you think he's wearing a suit? Leon? It'll be like a cool suit. That dude's got swag. Will wrote a song for him once, he said. I did. It's called Texas Sun. Oh, that's right.

That's a good song, man. Is that the one where the skeletons came to life? Mm-hmm. It is. Worms are their money. Bones are their dollars. I'm going to just do Don Giovanni quotes the entire time. Like Shooter McGavin and Dirty Work.

Don Giovanni. Can anyone name his actual name, Shooter McGavin? No. Chris McDonald? Christopher McDonald? I think. Michael McDonald. Christopher McDonald.

How'd you get that? Didn't you meet him once? I did. On 6th Street. That negates your correct answer. Because you've already... If you've met him, you've probably looked up his name. The time I met him, there was a text sent out saying, like,

oh my gosh, Schumer Gavin's on 6th Street, like, posing for pics with people. This is at, like, 2 in the afternoon. Like, okay, that sounds pretty cool, but I won't be there until, like, 11. I got down there at 11. He was still doing it, and he was hammered. Good for him. He was just riding the wave. Out of his mind, he was doing the shoot-up.

Good for him. He did the finger pistol. How many times did he do the shooter that day? 1,000. 500 at least. Like all day long, he was just shoot-up. He's got to get tired of doing that. He was hammered.

No, but if that's how you make your living, you got to keep doing the shoot. Well, he makes it. He makes it in film. I don't know if he's still making it in film. What's the last thing he did? Check the IMDb. Dude, he's been in something very recently.

You're right. I just can't think of what. A show that we all watch, I want to say. He would be a funny foe for Logan Roy. He fucked his photo up for IMDb. Are you kidding me? He's hitting him with a forest green turtleneck sweater, and he's absolutely smoldering having a hair day.

You didn't have to go that hard, Christopher McDonald. Chill out, my kid. Could you tell us what he's in recently? He was in American Crime Story, The Land of Dreams. He was in Hacks. I forgot about Hacks. Underrated show. And I did call it that the lead in Hacks would win an Emmy, which she did.

Shouts to her. Walking with Herb. Oh, been there. Dude, he's carrying. He was in Ballers. You're the big Ballers guy. You're still watching that show, right? I never watched that show.

He was in The Real Bros of Simi Valley. Is that what you're thinking of? Maybe that's what I'm thinking of. He plays in Ballers. You're the big Ballers guy. You're still watching that show, right? I never watched that show. He was in the Real Bros of Simi Valley. Is that what you're thinking of? Maybe that's what I'm thinking of. He plays a serious role in something. Dude, he was in the Real Bros of Simi Valley. No, that's it. All right. Unless you've seen some of these other ones.

This is something I watched recently for sure. I can't. Shooter. You think at the end of the night, just like, shooter. Shooter. Like, puts the pistol like, shooter. Yeah. Shooter. like, shooter, shooter. Like, puts the pistol, like, shooter, shooter. Sorry, dog.

Is it time? Four? This weekend in fun, baby. And you know what I did? It's presented by Bird Dogs because they're a fun sponsor. They're very fun. Bird Dogs shorts, pants, joggers, built-in underwear. Most comfortable pants, joggers, shorts ever.

I wore mine at the gym yesterday. You saw me. No, did I see you yesterday? I did for a minute. Crossed the way. Dylan told me you saw some hot-ass dude wearing Bird Dogs. It was me. That was me. Idiot.

He said he was just caked up putting up weight. Dude, they're great. I used to swim in these things. The reason I don't is because it's very cold outside. Or the pool water is cold so I don't swim anymore. Didn't you say you were swimming in something else whenever you wore them? Tell us about your gym experience? I lifted weights in bird dogs, and it was fantastic.

You were probably pretty comfortable, weren't you? I had the built-in liner that's comfortable, durable. I can squat down low, and it's not a problem. I can drop it like it's hot. Not a problem. That's what I was thinking of. I can get on a handstand. It's not a problem.

Anything else? Do a handstand, dog. Right now. You're not wearing your bird dogs. It's not a problem. Anything else? Do a handstand, dog. Right now. You're not wearing your bird dogs. You can't do it. I wore my bird dogs pants the other day, which I don't know if you knew this, are also my happy hour pants. My golf pants. You know what? They're my everything pants. And Bae said,

I've never seen you in these. I said, first of all, yes, you have. She goes, you look really good in these. I said, first of all, yes, you have. She goes, you look really good in these. I said, yeah. I need to re-up. I'm worried that mine are getting a little too tattered. I wear them all the time. You got to stop wearing them to the discotheca.

Dude, I wear them all the time. Just grinding in your bird dogs. They're so nice. And, dude, friction. What's beautiful about these two is the built-in liner in the pants. It means that you don't have to wear underwear out, but you're still getting taken care of downstairs. It's just comfortable when you're out, and no one even knows

that you're not wearing underwear. Sometimes when I go to the urinal to take a pee at a restaurant or something, I'm like, oh, I forgot I'm not wearing any underwear. This is easy. It's nice, isn't it? It's great. Do you really go to the urinal, though? They're so comfortable. Shut up, David. When you go in the stall... If it's empty, I go to the urinal.

Goes to the stall. What if you're mid-pee, and then someone walks in while you If it's empty, I go to the urinal. Goes to the stall. What if you're mid pee and then someone walks in while you're peeing? So I was actually peeing on the golf course. I was peeing on the golf course the other day and I looked the wrong direction for where people would be coming from. And a nice, a nice older lady dropped her sweater on the hole before. We did not see it. And she doubled back and I had to cut my stream off. It was very uncomfortable.

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for any football season. That's birddogs.com, promo code STEAM, and boom, free Bird Dogs whistle-tip football with your pair of Bird Dogs. You will not take these things off, I promise you. Dylan, what are you doing this weekend? Well, thank you for asking, Will. I have kind of a wild week. I'm actually, later today, you know, it's not the weekend,

but Bay and I are closing on our house, which is very exciting. We bought a house. You're just going to go shut a door there? We are purchasing a home today. And it's a very exciting time. I can move in for a while, though. However,

we've got a project to do before we're able to do that. Put the Christmas tree up? We are going to do that ASAP, like Rocky. Maybe put the lights on the house, too.

Pretty cool scene over there. Don't you pay someone They put lights on the house too. Pretty cool scene over there. Don't you pay someone to put them on your house? I have in the past, yeah. Let's not go there. I was just fucking with you, but you just exposed yourself. So was Dave. Why would you drag me down? You don't want that revealed about yourself.

Dude, anyway. Kings don't drag down other kings like that. So this weekend, I'm pretty much just on like, I'm in pack mode because we're moving in a couple of weeks. And I got some packing to do. I got some furniture to sell and to donate. I just got shit, man. It's going to be one of those weekends.

Not a fun one. There's too much fucking shit on you. There's too much fucking shit in this house. I don't want to be around anymore. Anyway, that's pretty much it. It's going to be a boring one. But exciting times coming up for this guy. Wow.

And for our little fam. What are you doing, David? Okay. Thanks for asking. I'll be out of town. I'm going to be a little bit west of here. A little place called Llano, Texas. Been there.

Doing a little ranch weekend. You're about to get Ranch Dave activation. Is Flounder going? No. Okay. Fuck. Different crew. College crew.

Yeah. Think the guys are... This is where I got my one and only deer a few years back. I have that option, but I don't think I'm going to hunt. I think I'm mainly there to hang out with the lads. Drink a little brown water. Oh. What? I'm talking about whiskey.

Is this the deer that left you with a little scar on your face for a couple days? No. Okay. I didn't get a deer that time. I'm a mess. I was going to say, maybe you shouldn't kill anything this time, because last time you went hunting, we had a slight issue? No. Okay. I didn't get a deer that time. I'm a mess. I was going to say, maybe you shouldn't kill anything this time, because last time you went hunting, we had a slight issue at work. Well, I didn't plan

on hunting until I got this scar. I was just in the blind with my buddy, and he's like, take that one. I was like, I don't really want to deal with it. I don't want to clean it. It's a lot of money. That's where I am. It's weird to clean an animal after it's dead. It doesn't make a lot of sense. Do's where I am. It's weird to clean an animal after it's dead.

It doesn't make a lot of sense. Do you just take a bunch of Dawn and just put it all over it and then just scrub it? Cleanliness is godliness. Is it because of the germs from being a dead animal you have to clean it? I'll say this too. Not to out my wife. Texas Tech listeners are punching air. My wife doesn't really like venison.

What? My wife doesn't really like venison. What? The only thing she likes from it is the summer sausage you get from the meat market processor. I'll do you a favor, Dave. I'll take your leftover venison that you have. If I get one, I will bring much meat. You'll have some backstrap with your name on it. Dude, she didn't like the little cutlets, the little butter?

What is she doing? I don't know. A little gamey. I get it. I guess you can put it in milk she doing? I don't know. A little gamey. I get it. I guess you can put it in milk or something. I don't know. Like, I know. What if she just poured like a glass of water on it or something?

Sloppy venison? Steaks? Sloppy backstrap? Uh-huh. That was your nickname. It wasn't. Sloppy backstrap. Yeah.

How'd you change your Twitter name to Sloppy Backstrap from now until Sunday? I'm not doing that. Come on. I'm excited. You should be. That sounds exciting. I haven't been out there in a couple years. Maybe I'll shoot a hog.

I don't know. It's always hog season. Always hog season. Trust me. They've got them. They've got big ones. That's such a Sloppy Backstrap quote right there. Always hog season. Always hog season. Trust me. They've got them. They've got big ones. That's such a sloppy backstrap, like, quote right there. Always hog season.

30 to 50, in fact. What if – man. Good stuff. I got bad news. I ain't got shit this weekend. Ooh. It's bad. You didn't rig shit.

Yeah. Sally's working nights, which means your boy's on baby duty on Friday. Saturday, absolutely nothing. Sunday, absolutely nothing. I'm just probably going to be trudging through a bunch of Glenn Maxwell information since the mainstream media's not following it. The GMAX

trial. Dude, I'm just going to have to be trudging through Twitter and trying to find stuff. One of my Twitter follows for that, Dave, that I'm trying to really read the tweets from, when I search his name on there, he's shadow banned, so we can't even see it. You think it's a coincidence that all these CEOs

resigned on the day that the trial started? Wait, Classfield? He's shadow banned? There's someone shadow banned that i follow for the maxwell trial and he's like that guy's like the one you turn i don't think it's that guy legit journalist i'm going down too many rabbit holes of this this trial let's talk about it fuck don't even don't even get me started i can't wait i can't wait till this episode ends so i can go on the timeline let's go hit some sub stacks let Let's go sub stacking after this. Stacking subs.

Hello, Brett. Hey, guys. How was your Thanksgiving? It was good. How was yours? It was good. Is it time to break some news? Sure.

Let me pick today, man. You got it. What do you want to do, Dylan? Do you want to go? Things not to do on a flight, Xenobots, or the Chicken Sandwich Wars, Rage On. I got to tell you, anytime a Chicken Sandwich Wars thing comes up I'm so uninterested in it. I'm sorry. It's too much, man.

KFC, you may know him. They've been doing chicken for a while. What's new here? Well, they've added the new Filet and Chicken Cutlet Sandwich to the menu. It is two different, and I forgot to send Randy the picture, two different styles of fried chicken

on the same sandwich. Can you see that here? This is too much. Not a fan. They're doing a minced chicken cutlet. We don't need this. And a fried chicken filet stacked on top of one another

with sauce and lettuce. I hope this doesn't catch on. It's in Japan. This is so stupid. Wait, where is it, Dave? Japan is what he said't catch on. It's in Japan. This is so stupid. Wait, where is it, Dave? Japan is what he said. Go on. It's near Malaysia.

Yeah, he's got the picture up over there. Looks like shit. I'm out on that. Greg gets it. Is KFC, like, have they upped their chicken game as of late? That's not original recipe. That's extra crispy, right? Dave, can I cuck your segment real quick?

Of course. Cuck it. Dave, I got a question in auck your segment real quick of course dave i got a question in group text the other day and i almost defaulted to you but there were some good takes in the group chat so i didn't need to top three austin fried chicken restaurants oh man you put dave not fast food a lot of pressure sorry not fast food uh can i i will eliminate the traditional take popeyes out of it take Popeyes out of it Because everyone knows that you're not going to go wrong if you go to Popeyes Lucy's

Tumble It's actually pronounced Lubies Not Lubies Lucy's, Tumble And Gus In that order? Yeah, and Lucy's just has the sides Their sides are goaded

Those were the top three Not necessarily in that order? Yeah, and Lucy's just has the sides. Their sides are goaded. Okay. Those were the top three, not necessarily in that order for everybody, but that's what everyone said. Sorry. Anyway. Okay. I've never had Gus's. It's good.

Spicy. No comedy lunch Gus's? Spicy boys. Maybe not. Maybe. I don't know. Where is Gus's? I was too busy laughing. I think it's downtown.

Not sure. I've only gotten to downtown. Is it a truck or is it an establishment? I think it's a brick and mortar. Oh. What is mortar I've only got it. Is it a truck or is it an establishment? I think it's a brick and mortar. Oh. What is mortar? Cement and water. God.

Again, the Texas Tech contingents punching air. It's such a ridiculous question. I'm not even going to answer it. It's where you have to bring the ring to, Mordor. My precious. It's so good. It's so stupid. Dave, you want to know what to do?

What, Randy? What to not do on a flight? Think you're better than me? I can name about five things off the top of my head. Well, you won't name this one. How about breastfeed a cat? What? With your breast?

A woman on a Delta Airlines flight from Syracuse, shouts to Central New York, to Atlanta was not arrested or anything. They just kind of sat her down afterwards for breastfeeding a cat. Okay. And refusing to stop. What is wrong with people's brains sometimes? That sounds like so painful. From the flight attendant. Doing that in the privacy of your own home

is still very, very strange. It's almost creepier to do it without people around. It sounds kind of beautiful to me. This woman had one of those, like, hairless cats swaddled up in a blanket. No, the fact that it's a hairless cat makes it so much worse. TMI. Her shirt was up and she was trying to get the cat to latch and she wouldn't put the cat back in the carrier

and the cat was screaming for its life. End quote. That's the last thing you want on a plane. That's from the flight attendant. Dave, can you do an impersonation of the cat screaming for its life while it can't get on the breast? I'm looking for the sustenance of milk. This cat speaks English, apparently.

Please, someone help me. I don't do very well with turbulence. Also has an accent. Yes, I'm from a... Call that furbulence. Are you from Transylvania? Yes, I am. I'd rather have bloodbulence. Are you from Transylvania? Yes, I am. I'd rather have blood than milk.

You need to suck your blood. Dude, I know we've had like Gardener Snake Dave and stuff, but you have to think breastfeeding hairless cat Dave from Transylvania has legs. Hello, that's my cat. Sorry. I don't know. I don't think you should be on the flight.

She wasn't arrested, right? No, she was just taken by this elite Delta task force of flight attendants that is one level below the police, but one step above the flight attendants after the flight. I mean, she's sitting there. She's like, show me in the laws here where I can't breastfeed my cat. And they're like, well, ma'am, we can't do that. Because it's never come up before, ma''am i wouldn't have said a damn thing i would have been like you know what that's beautiful interspecies breastfeeding it's not beautiful

you don't think that's disturbing you don't think women should breastfeed if they want to uh they're uh they're human babies yeah that's fine oh you think she should have like gone to the loo i don't think she should have done it, period, David. The Lavre? Is it the Lavre is what I'm looking for? Not the Louvre. Yeah. She wasn't going to go see the model.

Yeah, they were going to go take her to a very large museum in Paris. She's in there breastfeeding the cat, vaping. I'm like, man, you can't do any of this. What are you doing? Can you breastfeed on a flight? Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely.

That's cool. Unless Dylan's sitting next to you. Yeah on a flight? Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. That's cool. Unless Dylan's sitting next to you. Yeah, unless Dylan's there. It's the easiest way to make your kid shut up on a flight. Didn't know that. Facts. You just pop them out for a real player. You probably do it at the Louvre, too.

They're a really good exhibit. Yeah, you can do it at the Louvre. It's France. You can do anything. Dude, I've been there. Everyone's popping titties out in France. Ever hear of the Mona Lisa? Probably not.

Didn't you spell it a different way? The Louvre? No. What, Mona Lisa? I'm lost. I'm sorry. What's up with these xenobots? Well, they're robots that can reproduce by themselves for the first time.

I saw this headline, and I was so scared of it that I decided not to click it. How do they reproduce? Bones. No, they do a form of reproduction not previously seen in nature. What? Dylan can see this. They're little xenobots. They go around in circles, so they pile up

a few hundred stem cells together. They're little Roombas. And the stem cells just come to life. Nope. I'm so out on this. Out. This is dumb. Don't know why we need robots. Yeah, but the robots are... They're just made of stem cells, and they said... People think that robots are made of metal I'm so out on this. Out. This is dumb. Don't know why we need robots. Yeah. But the robots are just made of stem cells. And they said, people think that robots are made of metal and ceramics, but not these.

Just watch The Matrix one time and tell me we need more robots. We don't fucking need it. New Matrix coming out. I'm in. Yeah. I don't know if I'm in. It's not going to be good. It might be good.

But I'll watch it. I'll watch it when it comes out on HBO Max. Very cool. You ever see The Matrix, Dylan? Yeah. You didn't get it. I didn't care for it. You weren't really sure. You were looking over like, what is this?

It's like, you can't dodge bullets like that. You know that Will... Dylan was walking out. He's like, any more chicks in the movie? Will got a phone call to go to The Matrix. He just didn't pick it up. Remember that? Okay.

Oh, from the elevator? Yes. Dude, I was in there the other day. Yeah, I was in there the other day again, and I think there must be a phone line connected to it because somebody was leaving a message on the elevator that I was in. It freaked me out. I tried to pull out my phone and take a video of it for spooky season,

but I couldn't get my phone out fast enough. I mean, I was shaking. I was trembling. And, yeah, sure enough, someone was just leaving a message on our elevator. Huh. Thought about pressing the button and talking back, but I don't want to startle them. Is that all, Brett? That's going to do it for breaking news.

Good news. That's sick, dude. I think it's time to get the hell out of here. Yeah, it's time. Bye. We'll be back tomorrow. Patreon.com slash Circling Back Podcast for all things voicemails. And we're doing a bachelorette this afternoon.

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