Circling Back - Dave Had a Morning & Taylor Swift Bangers | Circling Back 9-30-25

Episode Date: September 30, 2025

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Mattel Ranchos, Mattel Ranchos, Mattel Ranchos, All right, we're back. Oh, God damn. That was tough. That was really bad. It's the worst it's been. So circling back.

This is not a bit. This is Dave. here hosting the show ready to do some podding uh over there fixing the camera do your eyes cross when you look up that was weird did you see that yeah what the fuck because you're looking at something really close to his face that was very strange i forgot to uh i'm trying to look at uh dylan's little uh thing here because i totally forgot to i'll put dylan in focus i framed him up it did not you were looking up my little thing so so uh he is pretty blurry right your left eye was looking over here and you're right that

That was very creepy. That's Randall Trumbachy doing the producing. Hi, Dave. You sound fantastic. Oh, I don't. I'm trying not to bring attention to it. You look great. Yeah.

I feel great, honestly, other than the mic of voice. And we're both rocking that two tone right now. Yeah, we kind of are. It's kind of hot, dude. Yeah? I don't know. It's fine. I mean, that is a thing that is true.

It is a fact. Randy, what's up? Nothing much, just over here chilling, having a great time. I'm actually not having a great time, David. Okay. What's wrong? This ragweed is terrible right now. Oh, did the wagweed hurt you?

The whack wheat. The wagweed. Oh, the wagweed too much for you. Are you going to lose your voice too? No. No. No, but imagine what I'm going to sound like on Monday after ACL, after being out there in the dust and the ragweed.

You have the dusty ragweed bugs. The wagweed. got me down. Mm-hmm. Gonna be drinking, drinking alcohol, maybe a couple white claws, Trullies. Getting high,

smoking some of that ganja. I want saying ganja. It feels like a it feels like a 70s term. Yeah. It's a cool term. It's fine. Ganges.

I was not my favorite. I just, I just call it that sticky because that's the only thing I smoke. Sticky-ish. Boy, you are. on bad voice. You're going to be,

you're going to sound like me Monday. Probably. He's going to be a real peach Monday morning. Get you some, get you some sinus spray. I do. I have two bottles of it, so maybe I'll just,

I'm going to... Two bottles of shine to spray. I'm going to be a rocking a bandana. I'm going to be, I'm now with that ACL local person or I'm going to have a bandana around my neck and when I'm walking from place to place, I'm just going to put it over my nose.

That's not exclusive to locals. That's like pretty much everybody goes to festivals now. Yeah. You need a, flag. But if I see someone at ACL doing, I'm like, oh, that's a veteran. They know that ACL is extremely dusty. You should do a come and take it flag. Ooh, maybe I will. We used to do flags at Grand X days. We did. It's actually very useful. We did a, it was a TFM flag, I think. Yeah, if people would walk over to us and just be like, all right, do TFM. It was a, we wanted to be seen

flag. Yeah. Oh, this must be the, I wonder at Dorns over there. And you were. And they'd walk over and realize you have a big bag of nothing yeah i'd be like that guy kind of stinks he doesn't actually do tfms he's actually significantly like older yeah he's shorter and uglier in person too it's just not great i don't think anybody's ever thought you were shorter yeah maybe person maybe not i don't know you are shorter than you're adequate your height matches your your online demeanor okay i'll take that i mean johnny football's like five seven he's taller than you right johnny football he's six feet And the one picture we had together, as everybody knows, he was standing on a curb for some reason. I don't know why I let him get away with it.

I was just like, you know, I didn't want to be like, dude, what are he doing? Why are you wronging me? You could have stepped up on the curb. Yeah, that would have been the move, right? And what if he, what if you did that? And he was like, oh, okay. Can you get back down there, Bub? Yeah.

He's hit Johnny Football. Is it dude perfect today? Really? Yeah. Are they doing some kind of football toss? thing or... I don't know. Are having him on the podcast?

He might be doing the pod. Fuck, yeah, dude. We can't book Johnny football. To be fair, we haven't asked him. We've both met him. Yeah. I'll ask him. I'll drop him a line.

Surely the number I have of his from... I don't think he does that stuff anymore. From eight years ago is still his number. It's probably not. He was very nice to me when I'm out. His pod is good. I've only consumed it via clips. But the clips that I've seen, he seems to have a little juice.

Stud and shock me. He gets good guests too. Yeah, that's not shocking. In the sports world. Speaking of interesting people from the sports world, Dylan Shivery. Man, I'm pretty stoked to be here. Parks' little league team caught a dog last night. They just refused to lose, man.

They are like 4-0 or some shit. Just tearing the cover off the ball, flashing a little leather throwing strikes. Got a squad, man. Those parks hitting. good he he got two at bats last night and uh at bat one first pitch he took one on the arm took his base and then four straight balls his second you tell don't rub it like dude if it's close just don't rub it swing that bucker man get the lumber out dog did he at all like think about charging the mound i don't think so the kid was bigger than him so he's stoned kind of hard

those things those things get broken up anyway yeah that's true yeah can you mad Imagine Little League charging them out. Fun game, though. No, we never. There was, I can say, like, as somebody played probably four or five years of baseball of Little League, more than that, maybe, never saw a fight in game. No. Never.

Every other sport, yeah. I was never involved in a single fight in all the sports I played growing up, not one. You didn't throw out high school or anything. There was some shit talking, some gesturing. Yeah. I don't think I was either Not in game or in practice really There was a game in high school

I just got lit up in football There's a game in high school that I was a starting pitcher And this is at our home field home game And before the game One of the guys on the other team He pissed on our outfield fence And I guess our whole team took it As a sign of disrespect

And they're like Dylan you got to You gotta throw at this guy You gotta plug him I was like, you know what? I do. I do. And I think the guy kind of, he kind of knew that we were cooking up something because he almost like expected it.

And I didn't throw it ahead, but I put one in his ribs. And it was fun. Was there a warning issue, both benches? No. I hit him on the second pitch. The first one, I tried to throw out of him and I missed. And then the second one, I stuck him pretty good right here. how did he take his base he just took his base like i kind of had that had that coming it was

it was kind of a funny situation damn it's kind of respectful yeah baseball a game of unwritten rules man don't pee pee on the fence one of my favorite moments of my little league career was there was a team and like they were beat they were like the best team in the league and they were beating us pretty significantly and like their pitcher he started to like showboat and he saw me coming up and like he like looked back at this infield and he started throwing like submarine he started side-arming it and that wasn't how he threw it that's so disrespectful and i fucking i turned on one i doubled through the gap and it felt so good to barrel did you yeah fuck yeah i mean he's didn't really matter in the grand scheme of the game but i was just like

fuck you dude the parks is literally they do this thing that's really annoying and i've heard one of the coaches tell them like stop doing it at one point but whenever there's a hitter up that's like known to be a good hitter they'll say hey big hitter and they'll They do that in T-ball. Big hitter, scoot back. They legit do that in T-Ball. Don't give him the respect of knowing that everyone thinks he's a good hitter. Just fucking pitch to this guy.

I think in T-ball, like, a lot of it's a safety concern because it's like, at least, okay, so in Rhodes last league, when there wasn't like a real field and nobody played the real position, it was just kind of like, you're just out there? Yeah. It's like, all right, back up a little bit. Yeah. Because there'd be kids who were like five, like almost five in that league. So, hang on.

Big hitter, my ass. I mean, don't you want them to have good defense? defense, though? Like, this kid's probably going to hit it deep. We want you to be in front of the ball and not to go over your ball. I guess how many times balls go over the outfielder's head and minors literally. I don't know. I'm not at zero times. Okay. Well, there we're. Just glazing these kids. It's just

like, oh, be ready. Like, we're ready. Like, just pitch, man. My nickname was slugger back in the day, so that ain't no. That ain't true. That is it really? Mm-hmm. Why? Because I was pretty good at hitting the ball and I was fast. but I was, yeah. Slugger does not imply fast.

Yeah, but I was going to hit the ball. They call me slugger. There's no way they called you slugger. In first grade, they call me sluggers. That's a lie. Isn't that one like slugger? Isn't that what they call it? He's got a big bat.

Don't they say every kid's slugger? Yeah, sluggard is almost like a demeaning term. It's a you don't get them slugger. No, I would hit the ball. Maybe that's maybe you didn't realize they were kind of dogging on you. No, I was good. My nickname? My nickname was Pony boy.

why because we played pony ball and i was that boy okay okay okay because they were just like dude you kind of run this league you know where i played pony ball right huh do you know where i played pony ball where the same field where they filmed uh days and confused the baseball scenes i was in that movie that was my home field yeah i was in that movie no you weren't no i wasn't you were a little kid i know i wasn't in that movie i lied yeah i'm gonna fucking lie today and there's nothing you can do about it. I'm not lying. I've said nothing but truce. Why were all the parents okay with these high school kids

who brought paddles to the game threatening their tiny, the tiny pitcher? It was the 70s. They weren't woke, dude. They were like, yeah, this kid's gonna get the shit beat out of them out to the game. You know what? We're just going to go home. That's the way we liked it. That shit wouldn't fly. Takes a village to be your. If my kids out there, I'm like, hold on. You're gonna

you're gonna fucking take that paddle to my kids' ass after this game? My team. Where were Mitch Kramer's parents? My team was crazy in Little League. We had a, our coach was just drinking beer in the dugout and we were just, our team, people would be like, those guys are bad news.

Really? We weren't that good, but we turned it around. What was your team's mascot? That was a bear. Oh, interesting. Like, our coach was an alcoholic. He probably shouldn't have been coaching.

Parks' team name last season was the bad news bears. No, two seasons ago, the bad news bears. Then they went woke and they let the good news bears. A lot of the parents got, the fake news bears. Fake news bears is good.

That's good. That's good, man. No, for real. My nickname was Glugger, not slugger. Really? Yeah, because after every game, I would just drink. Just a big pour of wine. I just get pissed-ass-drawn.

Jesus. It's a problem, dude. Well, I think it was a situation where I think parents should have stepped in. I was raised by the street, so I would just show up to games by myself on my motorcycle for my dirt bike. Literally baseball content is a gift that keeps on giving, as we will discuss here in a little bit. I don't even want to read the other stuff because, like, I feel like I got to save myself to get to get to. get through the segies. I'll do a couple things. Why don't you go? We have a Patreon this week, of course, is Coffee Friday. It'll be this

Friday live, I believe, 1030 a.m. Yes. On Patreon. I believe it'll be. It's a live show on Patreon, the one of a kind. Will we have potentially a new sponsor alert coffee to drink on that Friday? Oh, interesting. Just saying. That's a great call. That's a potential. That's a great call. Something to make out for. We might. We got news later dropping on Friday. Of course, every Friday in your inbox before you wake up, before you can even enjoy your coffee. What else? We got, hey, big week next week is the launch of spooky season for this year. It starts on Tuesday, the first Tuesday of October.

We got spooky season all month long. I spent yesterday going through emails. I'm talking ghost stories. I'm talking creepy situations. I'm talking small town lore that creeps people out, all kinds of fun stuff. It is an excellent show. It is probably the favorite thing. amongst our listeners that we do find out why gets you a free trial and give it a spin

see if you like it check this out go get the free trial now or look here's go go join or do the free trial go to the back catalog go to spooky season one listen to it and if you like it which you will sign up and stick around for next week yes yes trying to think is this season six No. It's hard to say. You can't look stuff like that up, man. Email spooky at washtmedia.com. I need more.

I've got, yesterday I spent an hour going through stuff and we've got some bangers. First two episodes are basically done. That gets me excited, dog. This is spooky season seven. Dude, people always say the seventh one is when you really hit your stride. It's true. Yeah. I can't wait to see what kind of characters.

Dave's cooking up, man. Well, I'm workshopping one now. It's guy who... Runkitis guy? is this guy who just people are going to be very upset with my performance today dude I got bronchitis like six times my freshman years making out with so many chicks ain't nobody got time for that making out with chicks I do I just I just said no getting bronchitis I don't know if it's bronchitis I feel good otherwise I feel very good actually that's great feel good look good just sound like a absolute dee it's kind of sexy though yeah I don't know Randy was saying I should tell all the girls to sit on a a speaker and listen to this show. That is not what I do not say that. Someone else did.

He might have just said it again. I did not say that. That's good. I like it. Spooky at washmedia.com if you have a story, submit it in. I'll tell you this much. Before we get into it,

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Sounds like it, man. Some highs and lows. I get up at about 6.15. Got up, realized very quickly that it was going to be, from an audio standpoint, a communicating way. It's going to be tough. Voice was kind of gone. I texted these two guys, my friends Dylan,

Randy. And I was like, I don't, I mean, I'm going to go today, but just a heads up, you guys may have to just run the show. But it's actually, believe it or not, gotten better since this morning. I had some green tea with some honey. I'm rocking now. Okay. Great. Wave goodbye to my son as my wife took him to school. I took him to his school, dropped him off, tried to have a conversation with the ladies at the front as I often do realize quickly like it wasn't going to go well

and I just pointed at my I did this one I pointed at my throat and just gave him like a hands up like I can't do this by cool damn parked in the driveway

saw my neighbor he was outside just got back from a dog walk his dog is basically a friend of the family at this point but he's watching his kids Frenchie

French Bulldog yeah I live with one. Yeah. Shrek. So I've met this dog before. I know it's not the best behave, but I was like, whatever. I'll walk over.

I'm pet and Penny. That's the other dog, great dog. And the Frenchies on a leash, it's like hopping up, kind of yapping like it wants my attention. So I put my hand straight down by my side, which is a move, I think a Caesar Milan move, or I don't know, not knowing like, you know what? this may not be a great idea but i was like you can come sniff my hand and if you so choose i will pet you that's the move i didn't reach out for the pet i just put my hand down that's the move it's like you smell me i'm not a threat right and then you go in for the pet if if the dog is giving you the okay yeah body language body language it didn't even this fucker didn't even sniff me just bit my

hand twice actually it was a double bite i got the double bite on my right hand um haven't been bit by a dog in a long long time frenchies will bite you yeah um i learned that frenchies will bite you and like i just looked down and it was bleeding and i was like ah i guess i'm going to go home and clean that up what does your neighbor say just mortified he was like she's got our shots she's good i'm like I'm not worried about it's fine whatever so I went clean it up actually looks a lot better it's not really bothering me that much but it was just more like a blow to my ego because I I pride myself on being able to get along with every dog this one was just not having it today last time Shrek got me he got like three fingers in one

bite one of them got it real bad I had to I had to call a track house short because I just I couldn't spend the track ball. It hurt so much. Yeah, it looked like you had a nail polish on for like two months. No, it was like four months. Dude, it would not go away. Yeah. That was a tough scene.

I'm probably lucky he didn't get my, uh, fingertips. Because he just got me like down here on the knuckles. They're strong little fuckers, man. Yeah. I'll boxed him up after that though. Yeah, good. You got to, you got to teach him a lesson. You got to show him that shit is not going to fly around Davey.

I was going to say, is this the return of Dylan's segment. Uh, should I have kicked this thing? no it was it was so you can't kick your neighbor's dog you kick a robot dog if it bites you but not not your neighbor's a real dog so after that i went in clean it up showered i had previously eaten breakfast but i was still pretty hungry i did something kind of weird do want to know what my second breakfast was what about second breakfast it was uh i reheated some leftover meatballs from last night and just ate meatballs you had meatballs for breakfast for your second breakfast yeah okay how were they they hit during for breakfast uh not better than you thought

like better than you think i mean i i make great meatballs we had them last night so i've had in total i've had five meatballs in the last um i mean realistically 15 hours isn't it kind of weird how certain foods yeah taste better or worse at different times a day yeah what's a up with that? And that kind of an interesting psychological. I don't know, man. Society's conditioned us to say, you can't, you shouldn't be eating fried chicken for breakfast. Imagine having a pork chop and broccoli for breakfast. Like, that just sounds bizarre. Whoa, whoa, whoa. You can definitely have chicken and waffles for breakfast, David. Brunch. Don't, don't step on the point I'm making.

I know. Why'd you step on the point even? I've never even considered breakfast for dinner. I know people do it but like i don't want to have i'll do that i'll do breakfast tacos i will do that i like doing that i do that like twice a month breakfast is a great time to get some protein in man yeah or breakfast for dinner i also don't eat breakfast anymore so you're not a breakfast guy no i mean just what time of day is when you take your first bite of food uh usually like 11 30 it's good for you if you can do that yeah so i try i'm intermittently is intermittent intermittent fasting like yeah that's my dad's thing but i do have breakfast get my bit because i can't talk yeah Yeah, exactly.

I do have breakfast foods on the weekend. I just cook them at like 11. But like during the weekday, I'm not going to whip myself up an omelet in the office. And for those asking, the meatball did have sauce on it, marinera. Rayos, not a not a homemade. I haven't homemade a sauce in a couple of years. No one called me out yesterday. Usually I cook something in the microwave here and people are like,

hmm, that smells good or what is that? I had reheated Panda Express yesterday for lunch. no one noticed. Are you okay? Yeah. Like, imagine having a ham sandwich for breakfast. You know, that's such a lunch food that it would just feel weird. But it's weird because, like, okay, if you deconstruct it, bread is a breakfast food if it's toast.

Ham, granted, it's lunch, you know, different kind of served differently, but can be a breakfast food, breakfast ham. Just saying. Yeah. Like, I guess you can have a ham egg and cheese, but I think I'm never going to have like an Italian, like, a salami and all that for breakfast for sure like that's that's yeah like ham cheese and pickles you know like for breakfast it just doesn't clock no it's not clock into them you understand david yeah just like man this would just taste really good in like four hours yeah just use the timer on your phone okay okay right that's a callback yeah just use the timer on your phone randy do you get it

yeah you've going to send behole picks to your girl oh just use that fuck use the timer use a tripod and the timer. Yeah. But so all in all, lost my voice, got bit by a dog and ate a meatball, two meat balls, really. So you're never going to recreate this morning ever. It's a once in a lifetime morning. I guarantee there's somebody out there right now. Just like, same thing happened to me recently. Dog bite meat, meatball for your second breakfast. And you lost your voice. And you lost your voice all in the same morning. That's never happened. So what was your first breakfast? I missed that? If you want to know, I had one egg because Alyssa was making eggs and I was like taking a pill that I needed to eat with food. I was like, he whipped me up an egg. And then I had a yogurt

with blueberries. I put some ham parts in it for some omegas. And then I had some kimchi. So that was breakfast one. That's a nice little breakfast. You're doing a lot for breakfast, bud. And then breakfast was two was two me balls. Like an hour later. I don't know. It worked. I don't did it? I don't know.

You got bit. I got bit by a dog shortly before that. I'm like starting to notice like bruising. Yeah. That's not good. Yeah, it'll show up. I got to play golf this weekend. What if you turn in a French person?

Like a French werewolf. Oh, ooh. Oh, sounds pretty good. Shockly blue. Hello. Hello, Randy. I lost my voice this morning. Yeah, you silly.

Dylan, it's me, your great, great uncle. Pepe. Hey, uh, hey, Pepe. Well, sorry, what kind of dog? What happened with the dog? I am, I never want to see you again. Oh, shit. You have embarrassed me.

What did I do? Your podcast is not that good. Damn. I mean, you guys have your moments, but I like the other guy. frequent guests on this podcast. What happened to Will? He had to take a step back. He was my kind of guy.

Randy kept making all these dumb jokes. I know. Randy talks about nerd shit too much. Jeez. It's not really my thing. I had to cancel my Patreon. What's his Renfair bullshit? The Renaissance Festival was the last straw.

I don't do Renfair. Do you know what happened? To us, the French people. I'm sure there was some historical war between our peoples. The Italians and the French, probably. Those Europeans are always against each other. I think Renaissance, I think, Italy. It's a very limited character.

I'm going to go harlot the moon. Now, Randy's doing it. He's still on the werewolf. He's on his werewolf shit still. Anyway, man, love you guys. We'll always support the show, but I just cannot pay for your Patreon no more. That's bullshit, dude.

Sorry. Too much content. Spooky season starts the next week. I know. It's just, we get it. Okay. Okay, please still subscribe. I don't like being scared.

I'm scared enough. I'm French. Okay. Fair enough. Pepe. I do like your freedom fries. They're good, right? Hungry.

Dude, they do, they put fries. They give you fries with everything over there. Do they really? Oh, my God. When I was in Paris, every meal I had came with fries. And they're fine. What's the meme? What's the meme about put the fries in the bag?

It's very much a world of shirts guy. It just pretty much means like just go get a job at like a fast food place instead of like being content creator, something like that. I don't know. DeLone, I hate to do this to you because you are family, but just put the fries in that bag, bro. I'm thinking of the meme and when it's used. It's like when someone... You're watching Dylan think of a meme. It's like someone doing like a hot take.

video and people are just like it's just a way of dismissing something right right like no one cares what you think dude you're you're the fray guy dude i was reading a spooky season story yesterday it's four mondays or tuesday's episode next week and i was it creep me out so hard really it's not even like demonic it's just like anytime there's one i don't want to give away too much but like that's has like a and i know it's all this is all being sent to me by some i don't know but like it has another person who experienced a similar thing that is unrelated you know i'm saying like a corroborator that's what always get that's that's when i get the chills man a corroboration because it's like it's so easy to dismiss one person's account of

something but then you got a second person it's like oh buddy yeah Dylan your great great great great aunt gave me the chills what'd she do you do you really want to know yeah oh i think this might uh be unacceptable for youtube oh oh it was a purve play you're supposed to say i don't want to hear that oh it was okay it was perv play i thought pervert alert okay yeah okay i weirdly can talk better in that accent than i can my own voice right now so i could continue the show I thought maybe she overcooked your steak or something. No. Okay.

She burns my baguette. What's a baguette again? It's a diamond. No, a baguette is like a large, large piece of bread. It's like a French bread. Cole Campbell always talks about his baguettes. Oh, really? And his Amazon purchased fake jewelry that he buys.

It sounds like, it sounds like an early 60s, like spin off of like the Ronnats or something. Like a female. The baguettes. Yeah, the baguettes. Yeah, the French version of the raisinettes. Yeah, they're not very good. No, because they're French. Yeah, of course.

I'm sorry to the French people. Hey, my last name is French, dog. We don't know that. Yeah, we do. Didn't you say, like, we just don't know? Chevroix. No, my last name is of French origin, but my grandfather was adopted into that name.

Therefore, like, the lineage, you know, is a bit uncooked. That was after he lost the farm. It was. yeah he got adopted after he lost the fall he got adopted a very old age yeah so stupid you just adopt a 60 year old man that'd be weird like I lie that's pretty weird it is weird

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So I do understand she released the name of songs, but not the. the music itself that's at a later date when is when is it when is it when is it coming out the album it comes out Friday yeah October 3rd new music Friday she's been kind of the the public eye because mainly I think the NFL has been around so that everyone's not talking about her and I think she's been doing her tour in Europe too so it's not doing like American stuff but like yeah since like her engagement like there was a long time before she got engaged that barely heard anything about Taylor Swift was also bringing a carpenter well funny you say that she has Sabrina carpenter on one of these songs

which yes so we're going to go through all these just we're going to do a guess here i want to play banger or not banger all right um i'm hoping that this album is a little bit more popy i like my my t swift to be a pop favorite album of hers is a 1989 a lot of synth pop uh I'm going to co-sign that. I don't really do the, I don't do like the emotional shit. I don't know what that says about me. But I don't do like the ever long,

or not ever long, but you know, the Evermore, the folklore and Evermore. I don't like that either. I wasn't, I wasn't in on that shit. I went, I went to, when I went and saw the ERIS tour, I went and got a double vodka soda

and took a big old piss during that time. That's true. Okay. All right. You're going to go through these? Did I tell you about that piss? No, tell me more about it. fucking huge just a big long one you're storing it up for a while just straight up peeing okay in the

toilet not in like the corner or something you got to i know why you got a double vodka soda because i'm like that no because it was a pee play yeah drinking beer you got to keep going back to the bathroom and a double you get more bang for your buck so you're consuming less alcohol per uh or less liquid per alcohol ratio totally right yeah yeah yeah real bladder heads now yeah All right. First song, The Fate of Ophelia. That's going to be a mess. I think that I don't think it's going to be slower.

I feel like it's going to be slower. First, yeah. First tracks on albums are rarely hits. Is that a wild thing? Well, we're talking about bangers, not hits. Okay. It's rarely a banger. I disagree with that, but I don't, I can't really provide you why.

What I'm saying is I think you're wrong? I can't tell you why. What's the first track on 1989? I think it's similar to, um, A baseball lineup, I think your three and four holes are your power bangers. Not the first two? No. First guy gets on base.

Second lineup is your contact, your contact hitter. Just going to slap one out there. Okay. And then you got your power hitter coming in at number three. You know, I appreciate your information. I love what you're trying to do here. You're making a point, but I have to introduce the fact that the first song on 1989 is Welcome to New York. And that to me is a banger.

It's also a hit. Not to me. It's no Blank Space. Blank Space is the song on that album. What track number is Blank Space? Two. It's a cut. Look, it's getting a hit.

It's Derek Jeter. Dude, one, two, three, it's Welcome to New York, Blank Space, and Style. Okay. That's coming hard. Style's great. You're right. Number three. Banger.

I know, but I'm just saying that one, two, three punch. Wildest streams on there, too, right? I like that one. It is. What number? You're asking me, three. Eight. No, nine.

Bad blood is eight. God, what an album, man. That's a good album, too. I can't wait to go back and see how wrong or right we were about this, but I'm with Dylan on this. I think Fat Ophelia will be, it will be just fine. Yeah. Hey, you know what, man?

I'm glad you guys are ganging up on me because I can't talk. You're going to get 45 seconds in. Yeah, I'll shut up. 45 seconds in, you can be like, I want to see what the next one sounds like. It doesn't, it doesn't clock to you that this is a, about Hamlet. This is, of course, about Ophelia, who famously drowned in a bathtub. I'm unfamiliar with the Hamlet story, if I'm being real with you. I'd rather hear about an omelet story, hungry.

The fate of omelet. Track two. Okay, I'm going to go ahead and say banger, but just to be a contrarian. You say number one, fate Ophelia is a banger? Yeah. I'm not saying it's a hit I'm just saying it's a bang I'm going to write down our things just so that we come back on Monday

and see how wrong we're going to come in and defend it It's just like a slow acoustic song Question. Have any of these songs been released as singles? No. No. I haven't heard any of anything.

I don't think a single one of these has been released yet. So no one knows what any of these sounds like. Elizabeth Taylor is also not a banger. Oh, I think you're wrong. I'm with Dylan on this one too. I don't think it is.

Do you even know Elizabeth Taylor is? I don't know. It's two first names. You don't? She was like the late-night punchline for like being divorced nine times. She would marry every Hollywood hunk. She was a mega movie star back in the like 50s, 60s. I mean, the name sounds very familiar.

In her day, dude. Yeah. Pull her up. Beautiful in her younger years. And her later years, actually. Yeah. I'm talking eyeballs popping out of the head, tongue rolling out. Beautiful eyes.

Like Michelle Pfeiffer era. I feel like I've heard the name Michelle Pfeiffer but I don't really know any movies No, this is way before Michelle Fythe She was a catwoman How do you not know Michelle Pfeiffer? I know her, but I just don't know much about it. Shell Fiper's a fox man. Scarface?

Yeah. I never seen Scarface. I never even had the poster. Did you even go to college? This guy didn't go to college. Were you ever in a frat? You never had a Scarface posted up in your dorm? No.

You idiot. We had the college one where it was like Balushi? No, it was like two beer pong racks and there's a lot of scantily clad women in Sports Illustrator stuff on the walls. Perlert. Perlert. Perlert.

Paul, Elizabeth Taylor. There she is. That's a real leading woman there. That's a dame. That's a dame all right. Okay. Yeah, I know. I mean.

She doesn't look familiar? No. Not really. All right. All right, man. I guess Dylan and I just respect women more. Maybe you guys are just old as fuck. That's very, that's very fair.

Yeah. There's a big part of our audience who does not know Elizabeth Taylor. I'm saying banger. Opa Light, I'm hoping it is a sequel to Opa Gangam style. I don't know if that's going to be the case, though. Opa Light is going to be a banger, man. I got to stick to my three-hole theory. Ooh, what's the three-hole?

You're into some crazy shit. I just told you. The third one in the lineup's got to be a banger. It's your power hitter, man. Some fans believe this might be the lover girl song of the album. So I. According to people. I'm going to say I don't think there's going to be any misses, but I think we're just going

straight binary here, banger or not banger. So I'm also going to go with this one banger. I think this is going to be a banger. So Dylan and I are both the bangers on this. What about you, Dave? Not a banger. Oh, wow. David's picked against us every single time.

Yeah, but Dave doesn't know ball like we do. No, he doesn't. father figure number four so i think george uh michael has writing credits on this song which leads me to believe he's either on the song participated or wait is george michael dead yeah is george michael's been dead like from uh so he probably doesn't have much to do with this song well she must sample him or she she quotes him on the song uses some of his lyrics has he been dead for years he died in 2016 at the age of 53 Okay, I'm sorry

God, jump all over me I'm gonna go ahead and say I'm gonna go ahead and say not a banger No, that's not true, banger, George Michael He has my, he does that Sax song that I like so much, right? Yeah, give us a little taste of the sacks Do do do do do to do

No, no, you always You always mix them up That's a wrong song That's not it. That's a wrong song, my son. No, that's it, dog. Oh no, that's Baker Street Shut up, it's not Baker Street

This it is You're thinking Careless Whisper Which is No, that is Baker Street That's me That's me fucking hitting the notes I don't like, don't do that Careless Whisper is

Do da da da da Damn that song uh whose version of faith do you prefer george michael or a limp biscuit i'm not joking the limp biscuit version stinks man do you ever do you get out of bed and just kind of say man i'm gonna go into the show today and just have the shittiest takes i'm gonna go ahead and just have a big bag of nothing is that what you do you have your coffee you bring bang and say yeah i'm gonna go in there and have some bad takes yeah All right, what are you saying for, you're saying that is father figure is going to be a banger, Dave?

Yeah, just because of George Michael play. Okay, and what about you, Dylan? Which one? Father figure, number four. Banger, banger. I'm saying no. Dude, are you all, are you four for four on bangers or no? No, the first two were non-banger.

That's right, the one and two whole. I only said, at this point, I've only said one banger, and Dave, you said three. I'm optimistic. Well, I'm sorry, let the guy live a little bit. I had a meatball this morning. This album is only going to have three bangers on it. I'm going to give it four. Maybe.

Three bangers? And Dave's already said three of them are bangers. That's a pretty average batting average. What? Three bangers on an album is pretty standard, man. I don't think that's right. They can't all be bangers, David. No, but it can't all be bangers, but there's 12 songs.

So you're saying 25% of the album is not good. Okay, 1989 was an unusual bangor-laden album. It was completely banger-laden. Folklore, how many bangers it had have on it? Didn't listen to it. And this isn't just a Taylor Swift. This is just an all-music thing. You can't...

Have you more than three bangers in one album is a lot. But you put off, don't listen to entire albums, guy. That's not true. You do put that off, though. You have to understand that. If it's an artist I like, historically, I will give it one spin through. You can't judge an album on one spin. Yeah, you can.

At least 18 spins to understand it. That's way too many. That's way too many spins. That's way too many spins. That's way too many. Oh, your record guy. That'll take me three months. Okay.

No, you need at least two spins. Three bangers on an album is average. I think that's... An average hit rate. You're not saying a bangor is a hit, are you? What's the difference between a banger and a hit? A hit is one that goes popular, mainstream. Boom.

Goes platinum. Okay, that's a fair point you're making. Bangers is like a... This is my personal taste. My personal taste. But maybe, maybe every hit is a banger. I don't. believe that but some people might yeah i would say every hit is a banger in general there are hits

that aren't bangers and there are bangers that aren't hits that's fat that's just straight facts i guess that's true uh but i yeah i think there'll be at least two hits t lop for example t lob has like in my opinion like eight bangers on it but how many of them became hits two or three seriously how many of them became like hits hits that's a good question love that album You, you, we're talking about Kanye. You sent me some video on how he's been like unfairly characterized in the media. Can you pull that up and show it? Because I don't remember sending it.

Hold on, let's see. You deleted to that conversation? Yes, I just don't think this is appropriate for office hours. Okay. You don't want to be that, go back to him. All right. Let's just skip a few. I want to go.

No, let's stick with it. Number five, oldest daughter. That's going to stink. I'm going to, I also think that's not bad. That's going to be a snooose fest. Why? Just an absolute snooze. I agree with you, but I'm asking you, I want you to take the heat as to why.

Oldest daughter, because we're not, she's, you know, boring. It's nothing, nothing about, like, relationships gone wrong. It's just, it just sounds lame. It just sounds lame. So we're all in consensus that that is not going to be a banger? Yeah, I'm putting, I'm putting my, uh, I have one banger left. I already know which one it's going to be. I see, I haven't even got to my bangers yet.

I've only, I've only, Opelais is the only one I've said a banger at the, this point. The worst song on this album is going to be canceled, number 10. Oh, I think that I think that one's going to be a bubba bang. And also, she spelled it the British way with two Ls instead of one. Oh, I wonder if that's about Matt Healy. Of course, Matt Healy. I know who Matt Healy is, but for those who don't, why you go ahead and explain? Matt Healy is her previous love interest of the 1975. Of course. Of course. Who was famously not canceled, but he went on a Comtown or is at that point? I don't know if it was Comtown or not, but in laughter, I don't know what happened.

They made a joke about Ice Spice and she was catching heat because she's like hooking up with this guy who like went on Comtown and there's all the thing. I don't know if that's about though. Number six, ruin the friendship. I didn't, you didn't ask me. Canceled is going to be. No, we're not cancel is number 10. We even get that.

I'm just going to go and say it since we're talking about it. it's going to be a banger. Okay, yeah. I think that's going to be one of the, I think it might even be a hit. But so, okay, well, jumping forward that banger for Randy, banger for Dave, and a stinker. I won't even put stinker as, yeah, I said it's going to stink, baby. Yeah.

I'm going to, and I'm going to put hit for Randy. That's number 10 on the album, so. The best song on this album, well, the first one is going to be Opelite. Second is going to be wish list. That's also a banger. See, I think wish list is not a bang, not a banger. The name gives me like, I agree. Emotional and shit.

Number eight wish list, Dave and Ibril saying no binger. I'm all my emotionally unavailable shit lately. Banger. Okay. If you think I'm available emotionally, you're fucking wrong. I had meatballs for breakfast. Exactly. He got bit by a dog. I got bit by a dog.

I lost my voice in a three-hour period. In a three-hour period. Nothing in my life worth smiling about. Let me go on record and say, I think the song with Sabrina Carpenter is going to miss. Oh, I think in general, I think the namesake song of an album does not do well for some reason. But I think with Sabrina Carpenter, this is going to be the hit, the, the hit of the album. What's it called when the song is the same name as the album, album title or title? The title title track.

The title track, yeah. I think that that's going to be like the hit. No, title tracks never hit. That's a rule. I usually agree, but I think Sabrina Carpenter here, it's kind of hit. Title tracks do not hit ever. I'm put in a big old banger and also parentheses hit. But you guys both think that's not going to be a banger?

Nah. No. I got you. It's a title track. Oh, buddy. No. Back in black, Hotel California. Imagine.

You just Googled title tracks. Like, born to run. Heroes, David Bowie. David Bowie. These are old, though. Like. You're fucking old. Yeah, that's back when title tracks used to hit.

It's how it can master of the puppets. Give me something in the last 25 years. Born in the USA? I mean, these are all, I don't know. I just did like a quick title tracks. Can I tell you why? I think the song is going to be the hardest. Wood.

Was that a pun? Or do you actually think that's going to be a banger? What are you saying? I think it's a thing. It's just going to go hard. So you're going to say number nine, wood is a banger. It gives banger. I want to say banger, but I'm sticking to my three bangers on this track.

So you're saying not a banger for wood. I'm going to put wood is not a banger. All right. So we got three left here since we hopped around. Number six, ruin the friendship. No, it's going to stink. I think this is not a good song. This is probably about Blake Lively.

I am going to, I think we're in agreement here, not banger. but I believe if any of them that could I could be very wrong on would be this one. But I'm going to generally say no. Who is it about, you think? Possibly Blake Lively. Oh, they had a falling out. Yeah, over Justin Baldoni. What was Taylor and Taylor's involvement with Justin Baldoni?

Balboni. Wasn't Balboni. Yeah, he had them chains. Those six and a half foot chains. He's trying to, because Blake Lively's in that litigation with, Justin Baldoni, and she, like, threatened him saying, I know, I'm friends with Taylor Swift. She will ruin you. And apparently, like, Justin Baldoni's trying to get Taylor Swift to, uh, who wants to depose

Taylor Swift as a witness. That's a whole thing. Because they were pretty good friends. They were. Like, I'm pretty sure. Like, I remember her wearing the Deadpool costume for Halloween, like a couple years ago. How does Dave know all this stuff? Well, I have a wife who, dude likes this shit.

And I asked her about it. All right. Two left. Number seven. actually romantic. I'm going to throw on here that I think this is going to be a banger but not like as in a holy shit banger.

I think this is going to be like a love song banger. A very much like... This is going to be a hold your girl tied on the dance floor. Yeah. Like a love story or like you belong with me. So like a very romantic banger.

This is going to be about like Travis Kelsian and it's going to be like, look, I know what you're thinking. This guy is a total limbo. He's actually romantic though. He's actually. You're right. This might be about,

About trav. Kill a trav. I'll say this is a banger. All right. Kill a trav. Not a banger, but it's decent. I've given out way too many bangers. I'm not going to skip it, but I'm also not going to add it to Dylan faves.

Okay. And then last one, we have number 11 going back to it, honey. Nah, I'm out on honey. I might even listen to it. I'm going to skip it before I even give it a chance. I think honey's slow and I don't like it. Yeah, not a banger. I think we're all.

not have bangers here. All right, then we have gone through all of them. I have given out one, two, three, three, four bangers. Dave has given out one, two, three, four, five, six bangers. You're crazy. And Dylan, one, two, three. That's a crazy hit rate. That bangor rate is not going to hold, dude. You're expecting to get up to the plate and go four for five? I mean, that's what you think is going to happen. She's the most prolific, she's the most prolific artist of our era. Okay. And how many songs from folklore are bangers? Again, I don't think this is going to i don't listen to folklore i'm just saying i'm saying this she's mega talented i'm not taking anything away from her i'm giving her an average an average banger rate on an

album i know but i'm just saying at her best she can do 50 percent i think she did 50 percent of 1989 so i think on this what did i give her six and that would be six out of 12 so you're expecting her to have a 1989 no i think it'll probably be between four and six okay i'm happy to overshoot it because I respect female artists unlike some people in the room. Wow. Drake's batten like a 0.085 on bangers in his last like three albums.

No way. It's all filler in one good song on every album. It's garbage. I think some in the chat said this was going to be about a 45 minute album so it's a little more tactical than Drake's. That's how I like it. Yeah.

So we can actually be able to like to listen to all this. So, ooh, wish list. I didn't even notice that wish list is spelled with, if you can see on the back of the albums there with dollar signs. Should that change our opinion? Oh, maybe, are you saying it's a money play? I don't know. Wishless is going to hit.

That's what I said. Number eight, Dave and I both gave noes and you did give a bang. That's the best song on this album. You didn't tell me that it had the money sign. Yeah, it does. That changes everything. Okay, that might change my... So you're saying banger?

I don't say not a banger. I'm going to say, like, you're looking at it and you're like, oh, it's a bangor alert, but you're, oh, that's a fine song. Okay. I'm not going to give up the full off banger. I can't be fully convinced that's a banger, but I mean, that's very cashier coded. We've gone 52 minutes already. It feels like we're 20 minutes in. It does.

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So I have this little search bar. I'm on a PC and like there's always on this windows thing, there's a little icon and it always tells you what day it is, like if it's National Waffle Day or National Puppy Day, national margarita Day, you know, stuff like that. So I saw a little headphones and I looked at it's International Podcast Day. So I would like to, how are you celebrating it, Dave? I'm here right now.

We're recording a podcast. That's one way we're celebrating. International podcast day September 30th is an international celebration of the power podcast. A celebration is a great

opportunity to connect with fellow podcasters, podcast listeners, podcast enthusiasts and leaders in the podcasting industry. Who's Todd Cochrane? I don't know,

but he, I read a little bit more about it. And he just like, it's like, oh, there's National Waffle Day and stuff. So why isn't there a national podcast day?

I think he created this back in like 2014. So I guess this is like, Go back up. That wasn't early in the podcasting business. Yeah. Bro, imagine you know they're going to shoot a photo of you. Like, they're like, hey, we need a photo for this international podcast day.

And you're like, you know, I better put on my best Under Armour Polo. Yeah. Yeah, he probably got it done better than that. Grown-ass man, Rock your Under Armour Polo. It's like the one you buy at Academy. Yeah, right here, it says in 2014 National Bot. It's so like, what? National Podcast Day.

So, sorry, I just, um, but if you were wondering, Dave, here's some, how can you, uh, how can you do international podcast day? What can you do for it? Here's how you can get involved with international everyone's wondering what, what can they do for it? Here's a little checklist. Okay. Yeah, I want to hear this. Uh, use international podcast day to engage with others, uh, worldwide. Use the hashtag, of course, worldwide. Uh, grab your mic and camera, ask someone about their favorite podcast. Share their response on social media. okay I'm going to use that hashtag

when I promote the show here oh promote by posting the official banner image on your website okay this is what made me find because this guy in his polo here's the thing

don't download that no this just goes a thing so here's all Grand X logo this is exactly what podcast week was originally supposed to be right it was supposed to be

like banner ads on the website I don't know I think Michael was just trying to drum up eyeballs on the paw ears he did mention you want a banner ads and stuff

and they also say here that not a podcast or become one oh I don't know for me anymore podcast do you want to change your social media image to the international podcast day logo should we do that for today's episode? We're not who's doing that? This isn't like us like raising awareness

for like something going on in the world this is podcasts. See I agree with this one over here meeting up with podcasters and podcast buddies makes lasting friendships. It does. We enjoy it when you guys come to the meetups.

Well, we've been trying but they're ignoring us. We've been trying to get fucking Bill Simmons on for two years and you won't respond to our emails. How do we throw our names in the hat for like those podcast awards?

Like the IHeart Radio or like the Webbies or something like that? Yeah, the potties. We can also play the international podcast audio or video promo on our show. If you'd like to, it's a 29 second video.

Why would we do that? It's right here. Is it a banger? No. International Podcast Day is September 30th and you can help spread the word. You may be asking, what can I do to get involved? It's pretty simple.

Head over to internationalpodcastday.com and check the suggestions. Then use hashtag International Podcast Day to join the conversation. You can reach out and connect with other podcasters, listeners, and your favorite podcast hosts. Remember September 30th, International Podcast Day, a day long celebration. of the power of podcasts. The power of podcast, David. This is some corny shit, man. Who made this logo?

This is make me uncomfortable. I hate it. This is what you do. This is your life. I hate it. You have to like it. This is why. No, one's wondering how they can get involved in international podcast day.

No, people need to do something. You tell me, Todd's not motivating you to pod harder? It's spooky season next week. Today is international podcast day, Dylan. So I hope that you would be celebrating accordingly. I mean, I'm doing a podcast. We just raised awareness. I guess we did.

I guess we did. Not enough people know about podcasts and the power of their influence and how more people should have them, apparently. Dylan, let's do your story and then we'll close out with small biz. We've got a little story. A little story to tell about Little League Baseball. Parks had a game last night, like I mentioned, caught the dub, of course. And there's this kid in Parks' Little League.

And I'm going to describe this kid as like a crowd favorite. Everyone loves him. So he has actually, his sister is on Parks' team. There's one girl on Parks' team. And it's his older sister. I think she's about two years older than this kid. And I think this kid, because they're siblings, and he's honestly too young to be in this league, they let him play in the same league as his sister.

But they're not on the same team for some reason. They always have been up to this point, but now they're not. Their dad is a coach, coaches the other team. Anyway, this kid's electric. Like, he's so funny. He's tiny because he's younger. He's a kid you'll see, like, dancing out in, you know, right field, just having a blast. He's bouncing around, just, like, gooseing people, and just, he just, he's just one of those kids.

He's just full of energy, a lot of personality, and we all enjoy him. He's also sneaky, a really good ball player. He had a double last night. He needs tiny. Anyway. Someone on the opposing team. brought eye black to the game and it's not you get like the eye black strips you see sometimes but this is like the the old school like looks like a you know lipstick tube basically eye black you put

on your face apparently the the kids got to do i black themselves and the first inning they all come out and some of them have just like the line some of them have like this one kid had like you drew a mustache on himself it was kind of funny they're kids you know they're having fun what kind mustache just a regular a full one a full mustache yeah that uh edgar alan poe uh and this kid i'm talking about he comes out the first inning he's got like aggressive eye black on he's having fun with that you know he's got

like two lines he got his you know on the side of his cheeks whatever it's like oh he's he's having fun second inning is a little different story i guess he was um he found the the eye black and he was in the dugout between innings and he was uh on unsupervised for a number of minutes. This is good. Oh, no. And he just went crazy with the eye black. He did it down his arms.

His arms were covered with it, and he basically, he just covered his face with it. What do you mean exactly? The dude, he goes out, he plays second base. And I didn't notice it at first. I'm out there, just kind of scanning the field, whatever. I see it. I'm like, oh, my God. Full black face.

I mean, full black face. It was like just the characters you see in the old films. I mean, it was like his entire feel, like a perfect circle right here just covered. I walk up, I sneak a picture, and I'm not going to show the picture. He's a kid. He did show it to us, though, and we can test. It is bad. I walk up to Parks' coach, who's coaching third base at the time.

And I was like, did you see insert name here? He goes, dude, he goes, we're doing a full black face now? I think word starts to get around. The parents are, you know, they're kind of, you know, snickering in the crowd or whatever. It's hilarious. This kid's so funny. His dad notices it because when the ending ended, he went to the dugout.

His dad took a big rag and just did his best. You can't, they were so much. You can't get it all off. Just kind of did what he could to, like, wipe it off of his face. So his kid was no longer walking around with blackface. And he looked like the Zoolander family in the coal mine. They just covered, you just, look like he had soot all over him. It was hilarious.

So now that kid is hosting a late night television show. Yeah. He's actually the prime minister of Canada. He's actually, yes. He's a prime minister. I mean, it's cute because the kid doesn't know what the hell black face is. He just found, he just found the eye black and decided to go to town. What do you do? As a parent, you're like, okay.

I don't know if that's even a teaching lesson at that age. I think, I think this kid's like seven or eight years old. Like he's really young. But like, if you're a parent who's like, at least aware, you're like, okay, don't want this to be like an incident also don't want to interrupt the game yeah but also like you're looking around you're like i think the move as a parent you wipe it clean and you're like look do you play the whole inning like that the whole inning oh yeah the whole time you're just like looking around hoping nobody has their phone out the one other adult i talked to also took a picture of this kid

so i'm assuming that there are other pictures flowing around i mean it's not going to be like a story like the kid doesn't know what the hell he's doing like i said and the dad did the right thing, he wiped it off. But for a good 15 minutes in there, just out there, full black face. It was hysterical. What do you, do you like explain to Parks or like your kid? Like, do they know it's a thing? No, Parks, no. Like the kid, how old are these kids? Parks is 10. Most of the kids are 10. Like, like I said, this kid's about seven or eight. Like, he's really young and tiny. How hard is that? I've never, I've never used Eye Black of any kind. Yeah. Like, I mean it just was never a thing how hard does that stuff to get off you just soap and water it

comes off but you can't like you can't like wipe it away with your fingers when in high school i used to do eye black across and then i would do like i took my fingers and i would go down like that just smear it down we call it horns you give yourself horns that and that was you know pretty standard see this is why you got to have somebody supervising the dugout yeah this is this is why i'm like hovering around the dugout the lesson here is uh don't give kids eye black and let them do whatever they want with it because it's going to get out of parents he made his arms were covered it was hilarious damn anyway shout out to that kid still still love him he's hilarious still got the dub everyone loves him still got the dub yeah he pitched

too at the end the game after it had wiped away but he was just you know look like he did he understand like was he was he like what why this looks sick why you wiping it off i wasn't obviously it wasn't the dugout when his dad explained to him or why he couldn't do that but um i'm sure he doesn't get it i had to take roads to the bathroom midgame the other day so he could poop uh it was uh i was like it was like they're they're bat's you know like on the field's go and then i told i told one of the coach like he's not going to have a left fielder right now because it's it's it's do do do time yeah so i got run over there i'm like we got because he was bad and he was like leading off the next inning so i'm carrying him and i'm like

Do you make it back? He made it back. But I, uh, it was kids, man. I was running back with him. Dude, baseball at that level is just so funny. I was so funny. I was like, the shit you see is just too much, man. Yeah.

Dude, that's so, that's so, like, it was great. I would love to see, like, what everybody, like, how people are handling that. It's obviously only funny because he doesn't get it, you know. Otherwise, it'd be a problem. You got to do, like. You got to do the Legion of Doom Eye Black That's probably what the horns came from

Like the hawk and animal The old school like fucking Eye Black can look good I think Bryce Harper Might be the only dude to pull it off Where it looks like super tight Otherwise you gotta just go with the old school Just the lines under

Just the lines is good Yeah You see people get carried away What does it What does Jackson Dart do Just down one side of his face or something What did you say you did? You said you did lines

No no no I did horn horns yeah i didn't horns the entire thing was just to set up that one thing that one joke it's good how's that make you feel it's pretty it's pretty it was decent the crowd is just now getting it yeah i knew they were gonna get it at something they liked a dog pile at the uh after each game because coach makes them run the bases and they all dogpile on home plate and road's face got like smashed into the into the dirt he looked up he had like just fucking dirt caked in his eyes and shit he was like mortified dude kids man got to get bread in here

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Uh-huh. There you are. You think you're out going to sing right now because I'm not. Man, small business September, everybody's favorite segment where we give some pub to some small businesses out there who, you know, their budget in their marketing world doesn't necessarily translate to podcast reads. People helping people is what we're doing here. So we had backers right in a few.

We've highlighted some over the last couple weeks here on circling back. Well, I have sort of a rapid fire edition. You guys ready for some small biz? Oh, yeah. This one's from Ryan in Texas. This is Kingsgate Logistics. Kingsgate is a family-owned third-party logistics company founded by her grandparents in 1986. Love that.

Coming up on 40 years of business. Damn. They specialize in moving food and beverage and retail freight nationwide. She's part of the business today as they enter their 40th year, like I mentioned. Start moving confidently with Kingsgate. Check out Kingsgate Logistics.com today. I know there's people out there looking for some logistics help. You're looking for help with your golf events, Dave?

Yeah. How about golf events guy? This is Scott in Illinois. Need golf events set up, charity scrambles, outings, fundraisers, and any golf-related events. Make golf events guy your first stop. They'll manage everything from online setup to tariff. head to golf events guy dot com to learn more maybe we should look into that wash media scramble wash media scramble how about zillicoa brewing company in woodfin north carolina okay this comes

in from cormick in north carolina okay zillicoa is a small brewery in the mountains near ashville which was wiped out in hurricane helene ah too bad they've built back from nothing to brew some of the best beer you'll ever drink 10 minutes north of ashville if you're ever in the area head to Coa Beer.com to check them out. Oh, no, don't send us a six-by. Oh, I'm trying to find them. Trying to find one IG. I bet you they make some mean fall beers, too.

You ever seen Asheville in the fall? No, I haven't. Oh, I'm looking at them now. Good aesthetic. If this is them on Instagram, yeah. It's got to be. Hell yeah. How about Clubhouse Closet?

Okay. This is from Connor and Colorado. Shast of Connor. Clubhouse Closet aims to bring light to lesser-known golf courses across the country by releasing custom branded golf apparel in their honor in the form of a monthly subscription box. Each month, their patrons receive limited edition

golf apparel of their choosing, highlighting small clubs across the country that are unable to traditionally build out a full custom store. Check them out at Clubhouse Closetco on Instagram or clubhousecloset.com. There you go. Kind of a cool idea right there.

That is cool. How about Zab's hot sauce? Okay. This is from Maddie and, Florida. Have I had Zabs hot sauce? That sounds like Zabs. I think we've, I think there's the Zaps we've had, but Zabs, Zab, Z-A-B. I think I've had Zabs. It's ringing bells. It does ring a bell. Maybe we do have some Zabs. But Zabs is a three-person company trying to, trying to be the next Tabasco, Dylan, using rare D-T-Till, D-A-T-L, Peppers,

grown on her family farm in St. Augustine, Florida. They started selling Zabs hot sauce at farmers markets and now work with a few restaurants and grocery stores. Snag the original recipe, St. Augustine's, Augustine styles, excuse me, or their hot honey. Dude, I've definitely had this. You can purchase on their website at zabs sauce.com. Yeah, I've had this. I've certainly had this. I don't know where, but they're followed by some hitters.

I can tell you that. Yeah, I mean, Zabs is just a good name for a hot sauce, too. It's a good-looking bottle, too. Yes, it is. It's a good-looking bottle. Shout to Zabs. I could use some sauce. You make a good rib, David?

Thank you. You could throw some zabs in there somehow? Let's do it. Let's do it. How about Outfield Grass? Okay. This is from Grace in California. She's an artist and a Padres fan who recently began selling proprietary drawings on T-shirts

and a few other items in a San Diego Padres merch shop. Oh, we know this, Grace. Get your custom Padres T-shirts, jackets, and more unique pieces celebrating baseball in San Diego by checking out OutfieldX Grass.com. have such a cool scene. They do. Yes. That's just,

I'm going to go ballpark any night. It's a great ballpark, man. Can I tell you a little bit about power field energy? Yes. This is from Corbyn in Texas. Okay. Powerfield energy is a four-employee, American-made solar racking manufacturer

with a day one backer from Houston, Texas. The idea is simple. Make clean energy deployment faster and more affordable, whether it's a DIY backyard, project or a full utility scale solar farm. Yeah, I get that Pekus. Bray, you can talk to this guy. I have.

By simplifying the racking process, the power rack helps drive down the overall cost of solar and makes renewable energy more accessible for everyone. You check them out. Does your land have access to electric? It does. Check them out at powerfieldenergy.com. How about raging ostrich? Oh, yeah.

Three years ago, Parker in California started a passion project. creating ethically sourced apparel featuring awesome ostrich graphics yeah we've been wanting that known for their quality golf polos he partnered with the American Foundation for suicide prevention giving 50% of all proceeds directly to the cause awesome ostrich uh check their year out at raging ostrich raging raging raiding ostrich.com I'm gonna check it out right now about that guy who messed around with an ostrich Randy no it's a letter Kenny reference. Oh, yeah.

Oh, if this is them, these are sick. Shots to raging ostrich. Dude, let's go. And then finally, I'm wearing that. You don't think I'm going to wear that? That's good looking shirt. That's a great looking shirt. I have meat balls for breakfast. I'm going to fucking wear that. And finally, our friend Hunter in Utah telling us about skis on the run. If you're headed to Utah this winter, don't waste half your day in a crowded rental shop. Skis on the run brings the ski shop to you. They'll fit you wherever you are, no lines, no holl

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Ski's on the run. Hunter, I'm going to hit you up for some skis. I was just looking at rentals the other day. Would love to go to skis on the run before I ski at Solitude and Snowbird. Let's go. Always a pleasure, Brett. What a great, small business September. Small business September.

Fantastic. Thank you, everybody, for your submissions. I also like the people that submit giant multinational corporations. That's a good bit Or for Halberton Yeah And I'm like Oh can you do our

I'm like yeah You're all right You're fine If you pay us We can happily do something But Yes Thanks everybody's stuck around

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Only the weather would cooperate Weren't you saying You're doing Mocktoberb when you're Only drinking Mocktails at bars No I did not

I will never do that Didn't you say you're going to do Cocktober? You know, Daddy likes to get annihilated. Cocktober, that's when South Carolina traditionally puts on their run in football. I don't know if that's going to happen this year. Doesn't look good. Lenoris? Yeah.

They're off to a tough start, aren't they? Yeah. I'm going to do Doctober. What's that mean? You got the doctor? No. Me and my boys. You got to talk up with your squads.

Yeah, we're going to. 19 times. That's good. Yep. All right, bye. Good show. You know,