Circling Back - Dave's A Dad & Austin Is Frozen

Episode Date: February 17, 2021

After two weeks of paternity leave, we are glad to announce that Dave has returned to the podcast. Recording from home due to the weather in Austin, we discuss the effect the snow and cold has had on Austin, Colorado City Mayor's terrible take on matters, Dave being a new father, This Weekend in Fun, and Brett's Breaking News. Support us on Patreon and receive weekly episodes for as low $5 per month: www.patreon.com/circlingbackpodcast Watch all of our full episodes on YouTube: www.youtube.com/washedmedia Shop Washed Merch: www.washedmedia.shop (0:00) Fun & Easy Banter (8:30) Austin Is Frozen (22:30) Colorado City Mayor Has TAKES (37:19) Dave’s A Dad (51:50) This Weekend in Fun (1:02:05) Brett’s Breaking News Support This Episode’s Sponsors Sun Basket: www.sunbasket.com/steam (STEAM for $35 off) Hawthorne: www.hawthorne.co (CIRCLINGBACK for 10% off) Thompson Cigar: www.thompsoncigar.com (CIRCLING for 15% OFF orders over $75 OR 20% OFF orders over $99) Ritual: www.ritual.com/circlingback (10% off!) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/circling-back/message Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

all right we're back circling back podcast coming to you live from our kind of places of residence i guess my name is will defries on the screen in front of me we got david roth hey guys happy to be here i'm in domicile. Did you forget where you were for a sec? I forgot which podcast this was. It's been a minute. Is it podcast week? The iciest podcast week. If it is, I'm canceling it.

This is definitely not going to be podcast week. This week kind of stings, man. It's Glacier Boy week. Dave, you're a daddy man is that surprise you i think you've known this i've been a daddy this is this is your first well okay you're well you've been a zaddy now you're a daddy it's your first uh full like real episode back how do you feel feel, man? Uh, pretty refreshed. Honestly, uh,

fraternity leave was fun, man. I went down, uh, went through rush a couple of times, uh, met some guys, some good,

a lot of good houses out there. Didn't end up taking any bids, but it was really good. Did some four locos. With all due respect to, to your your son i hate fraternity leave maybe more than anything that's ever been said on this podcast before did you do any do you do a sidewalk slammer yeah dude i did i actually i got arrested too freaking uh pis, whatever, don't care My dad knows the judge Anyway, yeah man, I'm here

Happy to be here If you hear any crying in the background It's either my dog or my son Rhodes Hopefully it's neither It could be Alyssa Just watching something super emotional On daytime television too We haven't had TV on here

In a few days because we we lost internet which compared to what most people had to deal with is nothing but we uh we have not had the youtube tv going that makes sense that makes sense there's been some circumstances surrounding our lives that i think have stopped us kind of being online unprecedented it's a good scene you guys. I appreciate you guys taking the lead yesterday and rocking out a bachelor pod on patreon.com slash tricklingbackpodcast. That was very nice of you to do without me. We pulled it together somehow.

Yeah, me, Dave, Brett. We held the fort down while you were gone. You can intro me whenever you'd like, Will. I'm ready. Oh, he's not done. Nah. Yeah, we'll get to you, dude. We'll get to you.

We're only two minutes and 38 seconds in. We still have at least five minutes before we actually need to do it. All right. Actually, no. We'll just do it. The snowman himself, Mr. Shivery. Dylan. Shivery.

Yeah. Ooh, Shivery. Look, I have a case of guilt over here because I am one of the few lucky ones in Austin who has had power, internet, and water this entire time. I don't know why I was among the chosen few in Austin to enjoy all these luxuries. But yeah, look, it's tough. It's tough out there. A lot of people are just sitting in their freezing houses and have no way of getting warm. It's been a tough situation down here in Austin. But, man, I'm very blessed to have everything working still. I'm blessed and humbled.

Yeah. How about that? Yeah, I don't know if that really works here, but I'm happy for you. It's just your West Austin privilege, bro. I don't really know. A lot of people are saying if you're close to critical infrastructure, you're by a hospital, example stuff like that like you are powered because you share you know you're part of the same grid you share the whatever it is i

don't know the lingo but the circuit none of it makes sense to me i don't know how my i don't get it not somewhere that's like critical like the amount of stuff that surrounds my apartment you would think that it falls somewhere critical but but apparently it does not. Yeah, Will, you should have just moved somewhere that was more critical. What are you doing? Yeah, I guess living on the most popular street in Austin at certain times is just not critical enough. Is that in Elmburg or not critical? Let's talk about human Randy real quick. That poor guy, man. He's been without power for a very long time. And finally, finally, he was able to relocate to a place that had power. And as of about an hour ago, I think his new place lost power. So he's somehow making content out of it.

He seems to be in good spirits. I don't know how. I feel bad for him, though. I feel bad for him. But, yeah, I was going to say say if you're making content out of it and most of which i couldn't load because i had no service if you're making content out of it you're not doing that bad yet so i still didn't randy's a trooper and i had faith in him yeah i kind of feel bad that i haven't asked him to invite him to come over to my place but i actually have a full house i I've got a couple of friends staying here and a bunch of their dogs.

I don't even have room for old Randy, unfortunately. Sorry, Randall. It's a dog house, baby. It's a dog house. Should we get some real brief announcements out of the way before we can just go fully in on Austin Freesock? Dude, I'm so ready. I've got so

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we start talking about this uh freeze let's let's give a lay of the land for all the people out there and let them know we're uh what we've been up to these last couple days man i'll yeah so i i actually posted a gram uh when was this yesterday or two days ago uh i think two days ago and this was before like shit kind of got real and now like looking back on my gram it seems like i'm making light of a very terrible situation in Austin. But, look, it was kind of tight looking. We don't get snow like this in Austin. Unfortunately, though, it came with people losing power and water.

And it's been ugly, man, really ugly. How seriously did you guys take the warnings when you started seeing them on the news? Because they've been talking about this. We were talking about this Tuesday of last week at the very earliest. And I still like never was sold that we were actually going to get this far. But I also never took into consideration the idea of like power grids and things like that, which makes sense because I'm an idiot. I took them seriously. And I knew there was a chance of losing power for a little bit, but I think the plan going in was just the rolling outages so everyone would kind of share the load a little bit. Like I said, I didn't lose power.

Stop. You don't always have to go there with it. What's his deal? I haven't lost power this entire time, but I expected it to go off very temporarily. And I think people who did lose power expected it to go off very temporarily. That hasn't been the case at all, though. Some people are going on like 40, 50-plus hours, I think, of no power. And it's been like the warmest it's gotten, I think, until now has been like 27 degrees.

It just touched 32, though though so that's a plus but well we so we we knew we obviously knew it was coming and then we decided to you know just we actually went to the store bought some food enough to get us through like a couple days over the weekend just because we kind of figured like we might not be able to drive places and then i woke up at 3 a.m on monday morning and I noticed that it was weirdly quiet in our apartment and that our fan was not going, which I don't think our fan's been turned off in our apartment pretty much ever. And I had the realization like, oh, no, I think we've lost power. But because we lived in a large apartment complex, I kind of figured that we'd be like priority to get it fired up again. But I just checked and we have not had one single ounce of power into our apartment since it went out at one 30 in the morning that, that day. And so we're

like, I mean, there are so many people in our apartment that just haven't had any heat. And luckily we got to make it over to somewhere that did have heat. So we're at least in a good position there. But overall, the amount of people who are just stranded right now with nowhere to go i mean it's just terrible my timeline is hazy um the last five days maybe even the last week have been kind of a blur mainly because of sleep deprivation with child and all of this but i will say they were prepared for the storm. And by they, I mean, the meteorologists, they were saying like everything they were worried about came true.

And that's very rare that they build up a storm like this and it actually delivers. Anytime you get like freezing rain and like, you know, cause that was the first thing like Thursday night or whenever it was, it was like a freezing rain event. And it's like, like oh man i hope that doesn't take out power lines right and then it just got so much worse and thank god we've got a little bit of snow on the ground that made it interesting and and made it fun for the dogs but yeah this uh sucks i've been a pretty big critic of big weather for the entirety of this podcast like you know you know, you know, I don't trust big weather all the time.

These meteorologists, do you think these guys are just high? Do you think they're high fiving in like the back room of like the news place being like, yeah, we fucking nailed this one. We got it. Right.

Absolutely. You're right to be a skeptic. Don't never trust big weather, but on this occasion, yeah, you know, they're in the bat, uh,

ordering cigars from Thompson cigars, more on them later. What have you guys been up to? Dave, you mentioned the timeline, man. Let me talk about the TL real quick. I've been noticing a lot of people just absolutely going in on Texas for not being able to handle this kind of weather after a couple inches of snow and basically just

talking a lot of shit. And I'm about to snap on somebody. Luckily once I think people realize how serious this is, like how dire the situation is down here, they kind of let up a little bit. Yeah, man. It's so many people I've been following have just been like, Oh look, look at Texas. They are freaking out over a couple inches of snow. They don't really get how Texas is just so inadequately prepared for this type of freeze, this hard freeze. Yeah, I've got a lot of thoughts on that because you always have your like, oh, Texans can't drive in this weather.

And that's fair. It's probably because we don't get this weather very often right um but then when they people want to start dunking on on texans for like our our elected political officials like and like dunking on all of us and it's like dude this is like disproportionately affecting poor people like they're people are dying like i don't know maybe maybe don't maybe you know Maybe hold off on the clout tweets. This is like a once in a 30-year storm, something like that. It never gets this cold here since the early 80s.

I don't know. Maybe hold off on it. I get that our politicians like the Greg Abbots, the Dan Crenshaw, Ted Cruz, the ones who are doing the tweets about California's rolling blackouts and Duncan on them during the wildfires. Like they deserve all the smoke, but like, Hey,

leave us alone. We're your, we're your friends in Texas, man. We're, we're, we're struggling. Will,

Will has, I can't believe Will's even on this pod right now. And in good spirits, I thought it was going to just be done for the week. I haven't seen a rolling blackout like this. And Dylan at ACL a couple years ago. I'll tell you that much. Okay.

Okay. No, overall – That's good. The videos of busted pipes in apartment buildings and the entire floor is getting completely flooded. What are you going to watch it? People sitting in their living rooms with a picture of the thermostat. It's like 42 degrees. It's terrible.

And like, I have people on, in my mentions being like, like how bad is it? Like you're the Northern guy. Like, are you going to stunt on these people? And it's like,

no, I don't think you understand what's it, what's like happening right now. Like Dave said, like, like if, if you're not like in a good area, you have a very large chance of just never seeing heat until this weekend.

People don't realize that. People down here don't buy cars with snow tires. They don't buy cars with four-wheel drive. People can't navigate, so it's impossible to go anywhere. The city of Austin has exactly zero snow plows, too. Makes sense. I legitimately think I saw a dude with a snow plow earlier out who was going down a road that was very clear. And I couldn't believe what I saw. I was like, well, did that guy actually have a snowplow? I mean, to put it in perspective, there's a bunch of these like hardos who like probably have giant trucks that like they could they're looking, look at them driving. And they're behind the wheel going like two miles an hour. And I'm like, oh, your truck's real big and bad now, huh? This is their Super Bowl.

Dude. This is four-wheel truck guy's Super Bowl. I love it. It's truck month too. It's crazy that this is happening at the same time. Podcast weekend, truck month converging. Well, so after I realized that, we spent the entire day in our apartment on Monday. And the only way that we had to charge anything because of our situation was that we went to the yoga studio in our apartment where

micah was sitting and micah was sitting this is this is the most micah thing in the world he's sitting in the yoga studio he has a giant like you know the the big balls that you use for like working out or like whatever he was sitting on one of those yeah he's and he's wearing a onesie that's all camouflage and he's just sitting there like on his like pc just like typing along like what is going on here so we finally get all that stuff done and then micah has the the bright idea to go out and grill and so we take all this food out and we realize that the grill is set up to the gas. So we were just like grilling up veggies, having a good time. And then waking up Tuesday morning, it was like, okay, now we actually have to confront this head on because if we stay here,

it's going to be quite miserable for everyone involved. And then everything seemed good. We came over to our new place where we're going to be moving full time in two weeks. But then the second we got over here, I realized that not only were the cell phone towers down around this area. So I had no service to like actually send anything, but I also couldn't do anything besides like, I'd have to go walk into like the middle of a park over here in order to even talk to y'all. And so it was just like,

yeah, I don't really know what I'm going to do with myself anymore, but we have enough Stouffer's lasagna to last us like a couple of days. So that's good. Oh, that's not the stuff. So good. Have you been eating like shit like dylan how's your how's your fitness journey going with this are you like making smoothies and shit uh man yeah i'm eating smoothies and um actually i had a i had a steak last night that i it was frozen in my fridge it's been there for a like a month or so so I had steak last night. I'm okay.

I don't have supplies to last me too much longer though. I'm going to have to hit the store here pretty soon. People are hurting. Look, I'm worried about like the stores being completely cleared out. There's nothing on the shelves right now. I don't know when they're going to be able to get shipments in from suppliers and all that. So all this sucks, man. It's not even just like stores being out, it's stores being open. It's having people to go actually work at them.

We went to CVS the other day to just try to get some, some like food and water and stuff. And like there was one dude working CVS and he looked like he wanted, he was like, if he didn't quit after that shift, then he's a lifelong CVS employee who will never leave that company. Will, I've got a question. Did you guys ever look into a hotel? No. And I think that if we didn't have the option that we chose, which was coming over to our place, we probably would have looked into a hotel maybe. I mean, we were very fortunate in that the place

that we're moving into is currently being rented by Sally's sister. And so she was out of town with her boyfriend. And so this place was vacant. And so it was kind of a leap of faith to even come over here and hope that there was power here because we really had no way of knowing if there was power or not. But when we showed up, we were fully packed with everything we needed. And we just kind of went with it. But I do know people staying in hotels in Houston and stuff like that. I mean,in's bad

but houston's just as bad if i mean i don't know i don't know i've been too offline to know the scale of what cities are doing worse than others but just talking to people from houston it sounds like they're in real bad uh dire straits and i feel terrible for them yeah i mean it's all three and and you can even lump san antonio into there because i think they had a they've lost they lost some water yesterday or they had a boil notice, which I've been worried about here. No, did you see?

You didn't see because you weren't online, as you've said multiple times. But the prices were... To get a room at the Ramada was at one point like $900. That is ridiculous. That's bullshit, man. That's ridiculous. Surge pricing, man. That's ridiculous. Surge pricing on hotel rooms during this?

Fuck those people. And a lot of the hotels like didn't even have power. Like this whole thing, man. You want to hear a crazy story? Yeah, I love crazy stories. Is it about that game of poker? Dude, so yeah. So we were playing poker last night.

No, no, no. So I was taking a walk yesterday trying to get some service and check some emails and just do whatever. Try to be connected in some way to know what was going on because I hadn't really talked to y'all much. And I saw this gentleman next door to our place who was having trouble getting his car up the driveway that he was parked in. And so I was like, all right, Sally, I'm going to go help this guy. Like he's clearly struggling. I walk up to him and he's got a hat on from a Marina that started in Harbor Springs. And I was like, oh, you go to Michigan much? He's like, oh, I used to have a place in Charlevoix, which was our high school arrival 45 minutes away. And all of a sudden I just had this little shot of hometown energy in

my veins, just helping this guy push his car out of the driveway. And it made me feel, it kind of made me feel back at home for a little bit. It was kind of nice. And, and luckily for me, they were the owner of it. They own a very popular cafe down by the water. And they had several chocolate dipped strawberries that were left over from Valentine's day because Valentine's day fell on Sunday when, you know, things were kind of getting hairy around here. And so now we're the proud owner of a 48 chocolate covered strawberries. If you guys need any,

we'll be living off those for the next couple of days. That's a lot, man. You can, you can power your place with those. If it comes down to it, I'm hoping to, I'm hoping to,

I was like, man, we don't need 48 but thank you that's nice very very weird coincidence that he had a harvard springs michigan hat on from that it's just like this this should not be happening i've seen three people since this pandemic has started and uh it doesn't make any or not pandemic sorry since this uh out it just started and it really made no sense we're still still in a pandemic too, don't forget. This has got to help with that, right?

Does this help or hurt because people who are huddling together? Or is it because people aren't going out to restaurants? Is it going to flatten the curve? How does that work? I would think that the people aren't going to be out conversing with one another. But if you're sick and you're having trouble with COVID, then I don't think being in sub-freezing temperatures is exactly what you want to be in. So I'm hoping that people are safe out there.

I don't know. Man, it's crazy that this is all because of the wind turbines freezing, man. All of it. Hey, do we want to talk about the Colorado uh, the Colorado city and what he said? Yeah. Sorry. I'm getting choked up over here. Your, your story brought me a little piece of humanity and it's, I'm like, uh, losing it. Yeah. Uh, so Colorado city is the, uh, where is Colorado? Is that West Texas? It sounds West Texas as hell. It's gotta be. I think it, I think it's West. Yeah. as hell. It's got to be. I think it's West, yeah.

Their mayor, former mayor now, he has resigned, did a little Facebook posting a few days ago, as people often do. My general rule is to just never post on Facebook. It's a good one. It's a good one.

He's this guy's a local elected official, so maybe he felt compelled. Let me read what he posted. This is a great start. Let me hurt some feelings while I have a minute. Double exclamation. Right out of the gate, he's just letting you know. We're bringing the fire.

The heat might be out of your place, but he's about to warm your place up with some takes. This is the first time I've read this. I've only heard it. No one owes you. There's many typos. I'm going to read it as posted. No one owes you or your family anything, nor is it the local government's responsibility to support you during trying times like this, exclamation. Sink or swim, it's your choice, exclamation. The city and county, along with power providers or any other service, owes you nothing. All caps. Exclamation. I'm sick and tired of people looking for a damn handout. Exclamation. If you don't have electricity, you step up and come up with a game plan to keep your family warm and safe. If you have no water, you deal with it and think outside the box to survive

and supply water to your family if you are sitting at home in the cold because you have no power and are sitting there waiting for someone to come rescue you because you're lazy is a direct result of your raising okay it doesn't make sense nature over nurture baby he didn't say that. I did. Only the strong will survive and the weak will perish. Okay. Call it Darwinism. Darwinism. He's the wrong parish too, by the way.

He did. He spelled it like Jefferson Parish. Okay. Folks, God has given us the tools to support ourselves in times like this. This is sadly a product of a socialist government where they feed people to believe that the, oh, the few will work and others will become dependent for handouts. Am I sorry that you have been dealing

without electricity and water? Yes, exclamation. But I'll be damned if I'm going to provide for anyone that is capable of doing it themselves, exclamation. We've lost sight of those in need I'll be damned if I'm going to provide for anyone that is capable of doing it themselves. Exclamation. We've lost sight of those in need and those that take advantage of the system and mesh them into one group. Double exclamation.

Bottom line, quit crying and looking out for a handout. Exclamation. Get off your ass and take care of your own family. Exclamation. Bottom line. There's more. You got it. You got to punctuate it.

Bottom line. All caps. Don't a part of problem. Be a to punctuate it. Bottom line, all caps, don't a part of problem, be a part of the solution, double exclamation. Thank you, Tim Boyd, former mayor of Colorado City, Texas. The TLDR of

that is just, we know it's cold outside, but stop being a pussy. I've always agreed with them, though. I've always thought that local government should, they should not do anything for their, their people that are in their municipalities, their counties,

their cities, whatever it is, but the local government should not help at all, especially in times of need. I mean, isn't that kind of like a big part of their job actually is to, yeah, no,

what an absolute idiot. No. So you just have a, you just have a skewed view of what governance is supposed to look like dylan you and your little west austin privilege bubble you're just so used to socialism and whatnot you don't even know how to pick yourself up after your bootstraps or whatever man i felt like i felt, a tinge of anxiety about all this. Cause I, I feel so like, I legit feel super guilty that I am one of the few that it's,

no, you shouldn't feel guilty for having it. You should be happy that you have, you have the luxury of being able to like house other people and help them. I mean, it's, it's like, if you have,

if you have heat, water or anything, like you're, you're in luck and you just gotta be thankful. It's like if you have heat, water, or anything, you're in luck, and you just got to be thankful. It's just terrible for everyone who doesn't. I don't know. I'm trying to get – Mike has been staying in his apartment. I'm trying to get his ass over here to sleep at our place tonight. He doesn't need your handouts.

He doesn't need your handouts, dude. He's a big Tim Boyd guy, actually. You know what I did? Mike, you have to unfollow him. You know what I did? We did have power this entire time and I turned our power off. I did just because I wanted to be amongst the common people. The people who aren't fortunate enough to live around the corner from a nursing home, I guess, is why I have power. I don't know. I think it's the nursing home. Which, you know, it really ups the property

value. You get what you pay for, apparently. With the new one at home, cutting the power, that's a bold move, Dave. Crime boy shit, dude. You got to earn it. That's a good point. You got to just tell Roach to pick himself up by his bootstraps, man. He's got to figure

the South stop being a pussy. It's like, dude, hey, man, you need to peel off that swaddle and go out there and turn the water off. Yeah, go get some wood to burn, man. What are you doing, Rhodes? What are you doing, dog? Has he even forged yet? Dude, I made him go outside and wrap all the faucets. Roads contribute to nothing, man.

What's he doing? I don't know, dude. It's a problem, man. Please. Can I say that that is a big fear of mine is having to shut off the water to my house because I'm not completely familiar with where it's located. It's somewhere in my front yard and I don't know how to go about it. I spent like 30,

like 30 minutes earlier trying to locate mine by just like, I put on my, my snow, my snow boots and I'm just like kicking snow around to try and locate it. And I can't, I can't find it. I have not found it yet. So y'all are about to yet so y'all are about

to have y'all are about to have so many dads in your dms mansplaining how to find your how to turn off your water so it's not hard when you find it gotta find the valve man i think you just need a crescent wrench and you gotta find the valve but after that it's it's i don't know it's easy pickings but like we've been lucky. We're doing the drip. We got the drip going in all the faucets. I don't know how much that's helping, but people on Nextdoor have some all-over-the-map takes on how to prevent your pies from freezing. It's crazy that it's not a good source. I'm really glad that I'm not super connected.

I'm sorry I'm freaking out right now. My hamstring just cramped up in a way that I'm not, uh, super connected. Uh, I I'm sorry. I'm freaking out right now. My hamstring just cramped up in a way that I don't know what to do. Oh no, this is bad. We'll just get injured. Uh, it was out four to six.

Yeah, dude, I'm doing ghost. I have to do ghost Peloton rides because you can't connect to the internet. It's been rough. Uh, I don't even know where I was going. Cause my hamstring just completely cramped up and took my mind out of it.

Oh, all the armchair experts out there, just like explaining the weather and stuff like that. I'm almost glad that I can't be on Twitter right now. Cause I'm like, guys, I can't handle it. Like I can't handle people being like, no, you got to do this or this. How's Rosie's luck? I mean, she's doing fine. She's doing fine. She absolutely loves this snow. So this has been big for her. She's getting used to she's doing fine she's doing fine she absolutely loves this snow so this has been big for her she's getting used to her new place it's been it's been good for her at least i mean she hasn't she hasn't noticed that was a a little polar bear man this is she thrives

in this weather she's constantly oh yeah she's crazy about it randy randy's legit depressed that he's not outside all day like he is he so our downstairs is like 55 degrees even though like our power's on and our heat works randy just stays downstairs looking out the front door like he just wants he's seeing if any of his buds are out so i took him out i put on the ski gear that will and brett loaned me and i'm out there at the park with him and he he's loving it. He doesn't want to come back in. He gets those little ice balls in his paws, though, that you have to pop out. Oh, really? Yeah, he gets little clumps of ice stuck in there, and it looks painful,

but he loves it. Yeah, Sally's been freaking out about getting the ice out of Rosie's paws, and I'm like, what do you think farmers do to their dogs, Rosie? They're not just sitting there picking ice out of their paws at the end of the day. It's going to melt in five minutes. She'll be fine. Then I go help Sally pick the ice out of her paws because I'm just a little cuck.

Yeah. You are a cuck, man. You can't even deal with a little bit of a cold spell. You can't even deal with an inch of snow. You're the new Texas truck. Sally's dad said it earlier, and I will echo him. I will never complain about plus 100 degree days again. I'm done.

I'm done complaining about the hot weather. Get me a tee time at 1 p.m. on a July afternoon where it's going to get up to like 107, and I'm sweating out of every part of my body. afternoon where it's going to get up to like 107 and I'm sweating out of every part of my body. I will sign that pledge, but I reserve the right to break it. Yeah, there's definitely some... I'm pretty sure I'll be bitching again come June

about the weather. Probably. Probably. Well, hopefully by then the wind turbines have like thawed and like we have power again, man, because it's crazy. It's like the Green New Deal, you know. It's all about the turbines. All about the turbines.

Freaking hell. Did you miss Greg Abbott talking about that? I knew that people were trying to blame the turbines, but I didn't see the extent of it. And now that I'm kind of seeing everything else afterwards, I'm like, oh yeah, maybe you didn't want to hang your hat on the turbines. Yeah. Our governor was blaming frozen wind turbines and, you know, Texas reliance on green energy when in fact like 80, I think 80 to 90% of Texas energy comes from fossil fuels. It shut down. Kind of a weird thing to say. Pretty much every source of power, nuclear, natural gas, coal, all that stuff. Oh, wind turbines were affected by the weather.

It was across the board. And the wind portion is a small, small percentage, I believe. There's experts on Twitter that are going viral with tweet threads. Jesse something or other, look him up. He's very smart. He's a Princeton guy. You know how they are, very smart guys. He's a Princeton guy.

You know how they are, very smart guys. And as Greg Abbott noted Duncanville Panther alumni, I'm embarrassed to be associated with him, man. He's on there just politicizing it, going after the Green New Deal, which will never get passed anyway. It's the most predictable thing. It's disappointing. Remember this when you vote.

Dude, I'm sorry, man. The Texas cut going in I love it I'm trying to Thaw everybody out here with my takes Dude yeah Hang on cause it's about to get hot I'm about to offend some people Hey Yeah you think it's cold in Texas

Ha drag in Clones Any closing thoughts on the Austin Freeze it's cold in Texas, drag in. Clones. Any closing thoughts on the Austin freeze? Hopefully, hopefully this is remedied by next week and we can get back

in the studio. Thank you to everybody who reached out that was genuinely concerned. I think, I think yesterday people realized that this wasn't just like a,

oh, we can't drive on ice thing. This is like a, oh, people are going to die if somebody's not dead about that. Yes. Yeah, holster them.

People have passed away. Holster your Twitter jokes if you got them because they're not funny to a lot of people, including me. I'm sorry, let's not forget Austin has a pretty big homeless community too because we have very friendly homeless laws here. Also, it doesn't usually get cold here. A lot of homeless folks live here who are living outside on the streets, obviously.

I don't know what the hell they're doing in all this. The wind chill was in the negative teens at one point. It's been a tough season. Not fun. Dylan, you called this on Too Much Dip. You said we were going to touch teens is, you called this on Too Much Dip. You said we were going to touch teens is what you were saying on Too Much Dip last week. I did say that. Of course,

I was talking about the temperature in the teens. Just to be clear, but yeah, I did say that. Yeah. Thank you, Dave. We'll talk about Hawthorne real quick. hasn't been easy lately guys we all know that but looking feeling and smelling your best doesn't have to be hard with one short quiz hawthorne makes grooming for the modern guy almost effortless hawthorne is a premium grooming brand that tailors your personal care routine to your unique profile first you take their quiz they ask

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Dylan probably still failed it. Okay. Just kidding. I don't think you can actually fail it. Just kidding. I don't think you can actually fail it. It's like you're calling me stupid over here. I don't really know what I did to deserve that one, but okay. No. I actually know you passed because I've smelled your work and your play colognes that you've gotten from Hawthorne and they both smell absolutely

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But I mean, Dave, you're a father now. Yeah, if you can't tell, it's really changed my, how I do, Dave, you're, you're a father now. Yeah. If you can't tell, it's really changed my, how I do things, my perspective on things. I've just got a new outlook. Uh,

yeah, I am. I'm a father. I guess I haven't really talked about it. I don't know how, if this is just a coincidence or not, but your mustache is looking crazy thick. Now that you're a dad,

like extra thick. They say your tea drops up to 30% after a kid, and mine's done the opposite. My tea is just spilling. It's becoming a problem, dude. My arms are getting really big and veiny. It's just like not what I'm looking for.

No, that's not what you want. But yeah, thank you for that compliment on the stache. I've been able to maintain it in this uncertain time. But yeah, thank you for that compliment on the stash. I've been able to maintain it in this uncertain time, but yeah, we, we welcomed a baby boy into the world, January 30th.

God, that was, it seems like, I mean, it's crazy that the timeline, my last three weeks has just been insane, but everything went well. He's doing great.

He's made, he's, he's kind of going through a little bit of a grunty strain phase where he's trying to figure out how to poop and what the muscles do. And it's pretty sad, but it's pretty funny because you're just like, dude, we've all been there, Brad. We get it. Dude, kind of crazy that he's been alive for not even three weeks

and he's living through a pandemic and a once-in-a-generation Texas freeze. This has been kind of wild for him. He has no idea what's going on, I know, but you'll get to tell him about it one day, I guess. He's a little passive-aggressive. He's been like, hey, man, thanks for bringing me into the world, dude. This place stinks. Yeah, this is great, man.

He thought it was just going to be a bunch of tea times in february and stuff and he's sitting inside just like kicking himself like damn i should have waited yeah he was he was six days early man if he i'm oh man i'm glad i'm glad he was six days early like in retrospect because dealing with him a week ago during all this would not have been as fun. Have there been any surprises or anything? Is there anything that you just didn't account for that just sticks out in your mind? Yeah. Well, the first night at the hospital, we stayed two nights. Technically three because we went early, early, early Saturday morning because we thought she was in labor.

Didn't deliver until that afternoon. and then we were there two nights did you take it on saturday because like you knew it was a boy and you were just like well we got to get this out today yeah no absolutely i was like dude the boys the boys will never let me live this down if this happens on sunday um you had a tea time the next saturday that you didn't want to miss You had to do it the one before I know I tried to leave the hospital and go play But it didn't really work out Yeah so at the hospital They have them in the little Container

Tupperware looking thing It's not Tupperware but it's next to the bed And he's all wrapped up in the perfect Nurses swaddle And he's just like an angel He's great and they come and wrapped up in the perfect nurse's swaddle. And he's just like an angel. He's great. And they come and get him throughout the night and they bring him back in to feed.

But then the first night home, Will, I told you this, and Dylan, this won't be a shock to you, but the first night home was a absolute rude awakening. He apparently wasn't getting enough food because it takes a little while for the milk to come in. And he was scream crying every 30, 45 minutes. And there was nothing you could do. So I'm holding him, trying to be like, singing him stupid songs like I sing to the dog.

And nothing's working. He's just screaming in my face. And I was just like, Ooh, you know, singing them stupid songs. Like I sing to the dog and nothing's working. He's just screaming in my face. And I was just like, Oh my God. I had these, these thoughts of like, is this what the next year is going to be like every night? Cause like, I mean, we didn't sleep. Luckily we mixed in some formula. We would start pediatrician the next day and we had mixed in a little bit of formula and that all we needed was some food. I don't know why he didn't just tell us that.

Just a little hangry, if you know what I mean. It's like Dylan. Like Dylan. I can relate. I can relate. Dylan hasn't eaten and he's waiting on his champagne. Did you ask Rhodes what he wanted? He was just, milk! Milk, fresh milk, fresh milk.

Dave, how was driving home from the hospital? I remember going like 40 miles per hour on Mopac, just like as carefully as I possibly could. So our hospital is downtown, and it's right next to 35. And as we're like loading him up in the car seat, I was like, you know what? I'm not doing 35. If you're from Texas, you know why. 35's a beating through Austin.

It always has been. It always will be. It's sketchy as hell. So I just drove all the way through downtown to Mopac and took it because I'm more familiar with it. But yeah, I was driving like, it's weird because I find myself getting more angry at other drivers because I have a baby in the car. But at the same time, I'm like, I can't be like this. I can't escalate because I have a baby in the car. So I got to just chill, man. I got to just let it go.

late because I have a baby in the car. So like, I got to just chill, man. I got to just let it go. How did it feel peeling the plastic off the sticker on the back of the car that said baby on board? Oh man. Dude, I get it now. I get it. I saw a dude the other day driving a Mercedes van, like one of those giant Astro van things. And I've never seen more children, you know, like the lineup stickers that they have that just get smaller and smaller. Dude had like eight kids. I was like,

dude, if you have to drive this Mercedes Astro van to get all your kids in, like you got to stop having kids at this point. Was it Phillip rivers? Might've been. Is he looking for a job in Austin right now? Might be. Yeah, no, I already had one. I just had to like sharpie it out

I had one that said Bay on board Which means I was delivering pizzas It means I had pizza in the car Did you peel off the Calvin and Hobbes sticker That it was pissing on Who's Texas State's rival? Did you have one of those? Where it was just like pissing on A&M or something? It was pissing on. Who's Texas State's rival? Did you have one of those? Where it was just pissing on A&M or something?

It's pissing on a lumberjack. I got to meet Rhodes. Both of y'all did. Yeah. I brought Dave to the barbecue and got to meet Rhodes. It was lit. He's a little fellow, man. Will brought the...

Yeah, he's a baby. Can I do an admission real quick? I've never held a baby that small before. I was scared shitless. Dude, I was – I don't remember Parks being that small. So when I saw Rhodes, I was like, oh, my gosh, I forgot they actually come this small. This is crazy. He was –

I didn't know they came in that size. He was 6 pounds 8, 6 pounds 7 ounces at birth. Parks was 6 pounds 4 ounces. So imagine Parks being even smaller than that, man. I just don't remember him being that small. It was wild. Dave, did you think about telling them to put them back on the scale and press your finger down?

Get those extra.2? Here's the thing our nurses were great shout out kaylee and co um they put him down at 6.7 i have photo evidence of him on the scale was 6.8 and i think i told you guys in the text that he was so close to 6.9 which would have just been i mean it would have taken this podcast to another level how's um how's how's the diaper changing going day um it's not so bad is it it's not that bad the the honestly like the first couple weeks um he screams anytime you you take you know his clothes off of him he's just like ah fucking naked you know who doesn't i get it i totally get it man i hate being naked

i normally just cry but um yeah he uh he's gotten better with it man he's he's good you have to learn pick your choose your spots with the pacifier um but yeah man it's good it's it's you know i had some early success with like waking up you know him waking us up and me like being the one to like try to get him back to sleep by rocking him and and that that's since gone out the window because now it's just like i've lost whatever powers i had he just he doesn't care anymore. If he's going to fuss, he's going to fuss. Well, Dave, welcome back. Congratulations. He's a cute kid, man. Shout out to y'all for coming by.

Will brought some Q. You, Dylan, brought the gift of bourbon, which, by the way, Good, right? It's very good. Micah came by, which, by the way, Good, right? It's very good. Micah came by unexpected right before the storm hit.

Brought some nice gifts over. It was good. We saw the Dudleys. Having fun. Kid shit, dog. I'm excited for you, man. He looks exactly like both of you guys guys it's crazy how much he looks like both of y'all eyes closed i had him looking like alissa eyes open i have him looking like dave that's my take that's honestly like when he was like a new newborn, people are like, oh, my God, he looks just like you, Dave.

And I'm like, OK, let's hold off on that. Like what he tried to say about me. I look like a big baby here. I get it. Maybe give him a few days. I feel like all babies like they may they may differ in skin tone, but they kind of look the same. You know, they got the little puffy eyes and the nose depending on how easy it was

for them to get out of the birth canal. His hairline is great. I told you when Parks was born, his head would look like Stewie Griffin. It was just elongated. I was freaking out. What the hell is going on

here? By the end of the day it actually only like a few hours later it had reshaped to like normal i was not prepared for a misshaped skull from the jump it was really strange my skull dude it's getting icy it's like way icier now than when we started. Yeah, Dallas is texting me, asking me if I want to come get parks today. I just don't know if it's a smart idea or not. I really – it's been three days since I've seen them. Dude, take out the F-350.

Look, I have four-wheel drive, man, and I was – I drove on Sunday, and I was sliding everywhere. It was not a good situation, and it's gotten worse since then, so I don't know if it's smart for me to do that. I don't know if it's smart for me to do that. I miss a little shit, though. Will, did you break out your skates at all? Nah, man, I wanted to.

I got my skis out and just ready to go, but it's a little icy out there. I'm going to wait until there's some more fresh powder. Hey, seriously? I don't know if it was you or Brett that loaned me the ski bib, the spider ski bib. I don't know. I think you gave me the jacket. Either way, I have been so gold at the park, dude. Out there, even if it was like five degrees, people were like, whoa, you're prepared. I'm like, yeah, you know, I skied one time and I borrowed clothes.

Yeah, I'm a ski guy. Not to brag, but I ski in Colorado. Yeah, wearing ski gear unironically in Austin has been a weird move. But yeah, I got in a conversation with a guy down the street from me. I was outside playing with Stella. He's like, oh, you ski? I was like, yeah. Obviously.

Not to brag. I don't like to talk about it a lot, but yeah, I kind of ski. Dude, you should have seen him in college. Dude, hitting the slopes left and right. On spring break trips to Breckenridge and whatnot. Hey, Dave, I have one last question before we go into this weekend and fun.

Did you do absolute numbers on your first Rhodes post? You know, it's not really about that. I didn't look. No, I think I did. If you want to see that post, at DCRuff on the gram. about that. I didn't look. I think I did. If you want to see that post, at DCRuff on the gram. Pretty sure I double-tapped that post from

at DShivery on the gram. Let's see. Let's see if I double-tapped it. Hard to say. Not sure. Not sure. RIP Rush Limbaugh, looks like. Yep. He died, unfortunately.

Ooh, broadcast legend. He died during a recording? Like his own? No, while we were recording. Oh, oh, oh. That makes a lot more sense. Okay. I don't know why I'm laughing.

Sorry. He's a man who had some really, really bad takes, but cannot argue that he's a broadcast legend. Much like Larry King. We could have talked Larry King. Larry's getting smoked in the afterlife. The ex-wife going after that will and codicil. You don't like getting smoked in the afterlife, that's for sure.

No. Unless you're a dope-ass cow, like a Wagyu or something. Then you're getting smoked in the afterlife and making people happy. To be fair, if I'm going to get smoked, I'd rather be when I'm dead than when I'm alive. That's true. Smoke something, bitch. Smoke something.

Wow, so he really did die jeez I knew he was sick man a lot of people's parents are upset right now yeah my dad people are punching air folks do you guys want to talk about this weekend's fun real quick presented by Thompson Cigar

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And so we planned a little family dinner for friday and unfortunately i don't think that's going to happen anymore so his birthday is going to be just a major bummer this year i feel kind of bad for him um damn it makes me i was wondering if you delayed it because yeah my my invite never came in so i figured out that it must be it must be pushed back a little bit the poor kid i. I got to – all this – everything that's happened since last, I guess, February, a lot to take in for a young lad like him. I don't know how he's processing all this. But, yeah, I'm not doing anything, man.

I'm just staying home and going to hopefully get parks at some point here pretty soon. Drive on these roads to go get them. I don't know how smart that's going to be, but I'm going to do it anyway. Got to get my kid. And yeah, I'm just going to hunker down. Hunker down. Not doing anything. We should launch a podcast feed called

Hunkering Down. We should. Gosh, that might already exist. That's weird. Dude, go match the subscribe button. I forgot we did that. I did too until someone posted it to the Reddit page. I was like, oh yeah. We did that. I never forget because every time

I log into Spotify to look at stats and stuff, I always see that it's there and it gets two listens a month. There's content on it? I think there might have been an intro episode or something because we needed something to put up to get it approved, but then we never ended up doing anything with it, so now it's just sitting

there. Oh, we could turn that into our parent vertical. Two listens a month. I don't think we can quite monetize that yet, but we'll see. That's monetizable. We have a very engaged audience on there, even though it's only two listens.

We know those two people personally. They're awesome. I'm going to watch the depressing snow thaw out. The big melt as it starts to mix in with all the dirt.

It just gets muddy and gunky. Randy gets all dirty in it. I'll probably with all the dirt and it's just kind of gets muddy and gunky and Randy gets all dirty in it. I'll probably be doing a lot of that. A lot of verdansking if I'm able to continue with this power train that I'm on right now. We got wifi back last night, late last night. So maybe that'll stick around and I can hop in and do some online gaming. Other than that, man, I don't see, I don't see much. I'd like to get like a nice meal. Other than that, man, I don't see much. I'd like to get a nice meal. I don't know.

I wanted to get pizza last night, but nobody's open. I was ready to tip a significant amount, at least 20%. Hot pizza sounded great last night. When you said something about pizza last night, it was all I could think of. Me too, man. I saw somebody was talking about pizza and pizza's bae. From that point on, I said on pizza, we settled for spaghetti and meatballs. Oh, no. But we're good, man. No big plans. I'd like to play golf next week.

That's not really this weekend in fun, but it's just I'm going to be thinking about playing golf next week is going to be my weekend in fun. Sounds fun. Yeah, I don't have much else. I got a, I got, I kind of got a brutal couple of days ahead of me between this weather, trying to get some work done. I'm leaving town next week for a couple of days, so I got to get stuff done before then. So I might be every, everybody might be working for the weekend. We'll see. But, uh, it hard to say, I don't know. I'm just hoping to get out of this place and be able to go weekend. We'll see. But it's hard to say. I don't know. I'm just hoping to get out of this place and be able to go back to my old place.

We have to move in a couple of weeks and we haven't even started packing. And that was going to be something I was going to try to tackle this week. But just based on circumstances alone, it's not convenient to pack when you're in the place that you need to pack for. So I'm just going to sit here just looking. You did it in the wrong order i know yeah you're not supposed to move in before you pack i guess it's it's really annoying oh i mean that might be the most dud this weekend of fun we'll ever have like what are we supposed to do here it's just frozen we possibly do about it man, man? Is there any heat dropping on Netflix or anything? We have an Epstein doc coming out or

anything. I'd love to get into that. Don't watch the Britney Spears doc yet? Not yet, man. I stand her too much. I'm scared it's going to make me feel bad. I'll watch it a little bit. Might need to discuss that at some point if not for just a couple minutes. It was interesting.

Maybe I'll kick it into gear tonight or over the weekend. We've got a special guest coming on the pod real quick. Oh, my gosh. You guys might know him as Brett Merriman. Some people know him as Brett Scaryman. Some people know him as the Magic Bullet. But we have some Brett's Breaking News. God, this week's Brett's Breaking News,

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Hey, guys. Good to be here. How's it going? Doing great, man. Okay. So just a smattering of the board. Well, excited to be doing some breaking news. Breaking news over here, it's currently icing on my door and I can hear it, so it's unfortunate. But anyway, a little choose your adventure here. Some good breaking news this week. Dylan, you are the elder statesman.

Would you like to go? Blink 182. Let's go. Jackass 4. Or the chicken sandwich wars. Oh. I know where Dave wants me to start, but I'm not going to do it. Sorry, Dave.

Let's go Jackass 4. You're a selfish lover. Unfortunately, Bam Margera has been fired from Jackass 4. Oh, Will, you miss this great i wanted to text you about this so uh bam the last couple the last couple weeks here he's been posting some pretty questionable stuff on the grom um and uh sources close to the the-year-old said producers informed him that he's no longer on the new film because he broke his contract because he did not get some addiction issues in check. Oh, man.

Get it together, Bam. How can Jackass 4 go on without Bam Margera, though? Isn't he like the biggest name left, or is Johnny Knoxville still part of this? Knoxville definitely is, as far as I know. Okay. But they probably are going to get Ray Kion. I was going to say, Ray Kion, I think, is their biggest name. That's where they allocated all the funds to.

Dude, most underrated. Well, that's too bad. All the best the best to bam dude that's such man the story he posted where he was like just shit-faced drunk and i don't know what else and he was throwing up man it was it was hard to watch i mean anytime someone's posting that it's hard to watch but when it's like a guy who you grew up watching even though you were watching him like you know who you grew up watching, even though you were watching him shoot fireworks out of his butthole. It was still tough.

And you thought he was in good shape the last couple of years too. It seemed like he turned things around. But no. Anyway. Dave, do you want to go Blink-182 or Chicken Sandwich Wars? What's my age again? Blink-182 or Chicken Sandwich Wars? What's my age again?

Blink-182, Brett. Thanks. Sure. You're aware of Travis Parker, right? I am very, very aware. Well, not only, I think you guys mentioned it, not only is he dating Kourtney Kardashian now, the 42-year-old has now started his own cbd company dave travis barker directed uh fans to his instagram story for barker wellness co which promises to deliver premium quality and ethically made vegan th-free cannabinoid-infused wellness products for your body and mind.

This makes sense now with the Kardashian stuff. She probably got some equity. She's going to do one post, and it's going to send this company to the moon. Wow. This is a business decision for him, and I love it. Good for him. Whatever. He's leaning into the vegan lifestyle.

He's an investor in a restaurant in L.A. called Crossroads, which only sells vegan and gluten-free items. Cool. Cool. I mean, that's just, I like Travis spark. I like Travis Barker.

Obviously he didn't, he wasn't the drummer on my favorite blink album, dude ranch, but I always have a better drummer. He is definitely a better drummer. He absolutely is the best. He's one of the best drummers in the world. And I can say that as a guy, I played snare drum in sixth in the world. I can say that as a guy. I played snare drum in sixth grade band,

so I can say that. You've got the resume for it, for sure. What's up with these chicken sandwiches? Yeah, what's up with these sandwiches, dog? Dylan's ready to go. I'm having a good time. I miss you guys. Burger King and Wendy's are throwing their hat in the ring here.

Burger King is trying to differentiate themselves with a chicken sandwich by being hand-breaded. So they're saying that because it's hand-breaded, it's going to be their sort of je ne sais quoi addition to the chicken sandwich wars set them apart. I've always said that if there's one thing that I wanted more of from Burger King, it was their employees' hands on my food. So what about – I mean, Wendy's has been doing chicken sandwiches for a minute,

not just that. It's like the most underrated chicken sandwich in the game. So what are they doing? Dylanylan i'm glad you asked uh they're they're doing the jalapeno popper chicken sandwich oh okay welcome to chachkis i'll try it i'll probably pass uh it's 5.99 and slathered with jalapenos and flavored cream cheese along with three slices of bacon and cheddar and pepper jack cheeses and chicken. There's a lot going on there.

I don't know if I'm about that. Yeah, Dylan. The more you talk about it, the less I want it. I can feel the heartburn already. That's going to be brutal. Seriously. Dude, the spicy chicken sandwich from Wendy's Is already a top three chicken sandwich

In the fast food game They just need to up their promotion They don't need to worry about it They never promote it Question If the Wendy's or the new Burger King chicken sandwich Is hand breaded

What's the other way of breading it? Like what else would you use? I was wondering that too. I feel like it's like a frozen option, like pre-breaded, and they just take out the patties. I don't want mine breaded with – what? Come on, dude. I don't know, man.

It's pretty much the same consistency as egg white. Okay. I'm sorry. Do we need to end this episode? What's wrong with y'all? I don't know. We have cabin fever, man. This is terrible.

McDonald's is also in the mix with the new chicken sandwich. I just... Dude, they got the spicy chicken nugs too. I saw those. I saw that commercial. Love commercials. And boy, I thought about how miserable that would make me feel. But I want to try them.

Did you have any Super Bowl takes? I guess you covered them on Too Much Dip about commercials. I know we weren't able to talk much to you about them, dude. I've always said the commercials are the best part, man. Oh man. Should we wrap it up boys?

Yeah. Do you know that Dan Rather lives in Austin? Yes. The only reason that makes, yeah, I was gonna say the only reason that makes sense to me is because Dave and I saw him in the airport one time, which was very confusing.

Well, he's without power. Just so you know. He's not happy. He's not happy. Yeah. I bet he wishes he – never mind. I botched that. Fuck me.

Let's end this. What, do you think he'd rather live somewhere else? Yeah, that was it. And then I just – dude. I lost my fastball. It's going to be a long road to recovery for Dave to start podcasting at a high level. Just bear with me. All roads lead to recovery.

All right. See you guys later. Bye. We'll be right back. Outro Music