Circling Back - Dillon Hates Christmas & Instagram Hates Likes

Episode Date: November 11, 2019

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all right we're back circling back podcast coming to you live in the early bridge cbd studio in austin texas my name is will defreet to my right dave ruff hey all you vets out there have a day be tactical enjoy it this one's for you that's Enjoy it. This one's for you. That's what they do. This coffee's for you. It's Veterans Day. I don't think Dylan's aware. No, I am. If there's anyone that's not aware, it's Dylan.

Dylan just gave me a look like, why are you doing this? No, I had a happy Veterans Day. It's a little spiel prepared, but you just cucked me as you do. Yeah, happy Veterans Day to our veterans out there. Okay. That sounded real. Big ups. Take the day off. You can't be the sounded real. Big ups. Take the day off.

You can't be the second guy to say it. Take the day off. It doesn't sound as authentic, Dylan. Don't look at me. You can't just come in on the coattails of Dave over here. God, dude, you're off my wave. I love our veterans, man. And, of course, our active military as well.

Yeah, I fuck with them all heavy. Didn't you absolutely flame some vets uh christmas tree recently i don't think so no oh we'll get to that but i'll tell you this if some vet wants me to rate their tree and they have a trash tree i will i will give it to them i will shoot them straight whoa i don't make exceptions easy with the choice of words guy yeah i don't know exceptions what are with the choice of words, guy. Yeah, I don't make exceptions. What are you doing? Try not to do like that here. That's not what that means.

So what is it? What are you doing? Yeah, what's your deal, Dylan? I'm just happy to be here, man. Cool. Hope you guys had good weekends. You are wearing a circling back big cat shirt. Yeah.

It's looking especially tiny. It's because you're fucking ripped. Barely covering those shoulders. Okay, there you go. I think that's better. I'm getting you're fucking ripped. It's barely covering those shoulders. Okay, there you go. I think that's better. I'm getting fat. I was telling Will in this one, Brett. He legitimately was telling us before you came into the studio today, Dave, that he was getting fat.

I feel like I'm getting fat. Why? You've been eating a lot of pizza lately. I'm gaining weight. Fall beers, too. I am gaining weight. You think it's bad weight? No, I mean, it's... I could probably shed some weight, You think it's bad weight? No, I mean, I could probably shed some weight,

but mostly it's good, but it's not all good. So I've noticed that you had a little extra around your belt line. Dude, stop. I know. I'm kidding, dude. Chill. That's pretty sorry, Will. I swear to God I had not noticed it. It's really hard to put on muscle and not gain fat at our point in our lives without peds which i'm thinking about getting into which if you do let me know okay

because i would definitely like to get bread on some yeah do you guys want the announcement you're on peds no but i am getting my t checked by the same doctor that did dave and dylan's i believe oh i don't think so. Did you go to a different place than him? I think so, yeah. Oh, I thought you went to the same place. So I will wait to look at my results until we get live on air. This is happening early December.

So first week of December, we'll have live results. That's exciting. I can't wait to see. I need to be higher than you guys. I need it. I might just pay the doctor. What were you saying, Brett? I just know I'm higher than all of you,

so I might do it just for fun. Yeah, you're like 14. You just got through puberty. Brett, I don't know if you are. What is that supposed to mean? I'm just saying. Dave's always had the theory that I've had the highest T, and I don't think it makes sense

just based on how I feel all the time. Remember when we did 23 and me and uh dylan got his results back first and he was so excited to tell us that he got like the what is what's the trade it's an elite power elite power athlete and he was like so excited about it we're like damn that's awesome and then we both ended up with the exact same thing if you look at it we should start a basketball team or something. Yeah, the four of us. Yeah, just elite power athletes.

I love running fours. Yeah. I think we'd be pretty bad, to be honest with you. Yeah, I think so too. We should do 23 and T though. That's the one where you just send away to get your T check. That's pretty good. That's good.

That's good. I need to hop on that. I have not checked my 23andMe in a minute. My mom just did it. Shouts to my mom. It did link us as mother and son. Huge for you. I was a little worried that they wouldn't.

Not because I don't think she's my mom, but just because I was like, I didn't know how well it worked. So you got a notification that like, hey, we did your mom? I didn't mean that. That's worded differently mom's? That's not how the notification was. There's a family connection tab. That's the worst notification you can get.

Within your results, it says connections via DNA. Yeah, and then it has a family tree function too, and it just immediately put her as my mom in the family tree. And I was like, okay, all right, I feel better about this. I just kind of thought, who knows? What if they didn't do a good job testing and then all of a sudden it put her like some other thing it just would have been weird so you know i had two done because you remember the whole fiasco yeah your dna is somewhere they stole my first one it was lost in the mail russia has it yeah rush and then they got then it okay so then they sent

me another kit because this is for an ad deal with a previous podcast which shout out we need to get them back they were they were nice um so i sent the second one in and they turned it over really quickly and then like three months later or maybe even longer my other results from the original one showed up i was like uh what where did these go where are these uh where's my dna been chilling i don't really that's weird so do you have two profiles now are these uh where's my dna been showing i don't really like that so do you have two profiles now do they think there's two dave russ in the world and they're different interesting like the percentage of italian it very it's like 48 on one and like 43 on the other it's weird when i looked at my mom's results and hers were very

interesting compared to mine so now i need my dad to do it to know where his heritage comes from. Because my mom was so strong in certain areas that I didn't have. I have to know now. Yeah, you got to get it. I'm probably going to get it for my dad for Christmas just so I can know. Smart. Yeah. We should have the homie do it and see if Dave comes back as his father.

God. That's so fucked up, man. What's wrong with you? I back as his father. God. That's so fucked up, man. What's wrong with you? I'm not his father. He's just assuming the responsibilities. Jeez, that little shit looks just like me. That would be the real, yeah. He looks nothing like me.

I mean, yeah, it's true. He's so handsome. He kind of looks like Dylan. Jeez. Hey, you know what we're doing tomorrow? It's a debut episode of The Worst Of. That's what I hear, man. I was going to wait to tell people this, but we don't have to anymore.

It's going to be on the main feed tomorrow. Just give you a taste of what to expect on Patreon from now until New Year's Eve. Wow, you're welcome for that. Yep. So if you want a free taste, just listen on Normal Feed tomorrow. It'll be there. Don't word it like that.

What? You're in the perv chair today. I like it. You don't want to say it if you want a free taste. Not everything has to be... Yeah, it does. It's a bit of a chill. Pervy, Dave.

Oh my God. Tomorrow we're just doing a fastball down the middle. Worst weekends. We already have enough stories for worst weekends. But if you have some, pass them along. Worst of at washmedia.com. Or if you have night before Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving, holiday parties, whatever. Send them along.

I'll sort through them. I enjoy it. Or if you have a holiday story where you sent some internet personality a photo of your tree, and then he flamed you into oblivion. Send that in, too. Yeah. If your Christmas has already been ruined. If Christmas is canceled.

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What's going on, man? Why are you such a scrooge, dude? Dude, I'm not. What's your deal? I don't have a deal. I like to have fun on Twitter a little bit. In this tree rating business, which I've been doing for years now, this kind of thing, sure enough, every November comes around and people will just start hitting me up again about

their tree ratings. And so I deliver. And I'm always honest. And sometimes it's not very well received. Well yeah, because you're absolutely flaming people you encourage people to cyber bully i'm not going to give her ad out because she did go private after you absolutely flamed her uh but her name's hillary hillary is a very nice young lady we've we've had conversations before she's very nice um i sent her a a private

so the statement i put out on twitter well why don't we explain for the people who haven't done that for the for you know i had parks right she said in my opinion she put up a fire tree and she said hey d shivery i'm nervous to ask but rate my tree she even led with that she was nervous to do it and you still just laid down the hammer people who ask for a tree rating they know the deal they know i'm gonna hit the hit him straight like i always do if it's a great tree i say this is a great tree if the tree sucks and i let him know this tree didn't suck but i was just having some fun i mean based on what you said about it if you felt like you were saying this tree sucked the bow topper was obnoxious i think we can all agree to that you did say it was vomit worthy the the tree topper

was vomit worthy but it was other that, it was a fine tree. I apologized to her, and she said something along the lines of, oh, no, I didn't remove my tweet because of what you said. She said other people started to comment about other things going on in the picture, and I got scared, and I deleted it. That's what she said. She just didn't want to make you feel bad. No, I believe her. That's what she said. She just didn't want to make you feel bad. No, I believe her.

You said it's fake. Too many ornaments, and the bow topper, quote, makes me want to vomit. 6.1 out of 10. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I got a little aggressive, but, you know, it's all in fun.

It's all in fun. Dude, her mom made that bow topper, bro. Like, what are you doing? I don't care who made the bow topper. It doesn't matter to me. I just hit you with the facts. Her mom handmade it. That's great. It sounds like opinions to me.

You're right. It's not a fact. I just hit him with the very honest, brutally honest, some would say, assessment of the tree. Can I ask you some questions about decorating trees? Yeah, man. Okay. decorating trees yeah man okay if we're going on your one to ten scale that you operate with where does a fake tree how many points are getting docked off for a fake tree it's an automatic one full point deduction okay so if she had a real tree here it's 7.1 which i still think

is too low for that tree uh yeah um the ornaments really played a big factor in this. It's over-ornamented. Too many ornaments. I need to see tree. I want to see the tree. Furthermore, the ornaments... I might need a reminder of what this thing actually looks like,

but I like a personalized, meaningful ornament. I don't like the ornaments you can buy at Hobby Lobby in bulk. What are you talking about? What do you mean, what am I talking about? You can assign meaning to any ornament. No, you can't. Yeah, you can. If you go buy a bundle of the globe ones, the colorful, those don't mean shit.

What are you talking about? Okay. She has on here an Eiffel Tower ornament. Like I said, I don't remember what it looked like. It's Dylan's favorite ornament. Yep. Every ornament on my tree... And look, my tree is not a perfect ten.

I'll be the first to tell you that. But every ornament on my tree is meaningful. I've collected them over years and years. They're from family members. Everyone has some kind of significance to something in my life if my parents gave me like a box of old ornaments i would probably have a meaning like meaning with almost every single one of those ornaments even if they look like a generic ornament so you would probably score high on my scale then good for you no but to your eye you might look at one of these and be like oh this is just a deer sitting here and it's

like oh no will used to love putting that on the tree when he was four years old i'm talking about the generic meaningless ones that you buy like just a just a clear bowl yeah like that i mean shit nothing on it yeah i don't think she had that many like you don't like filler i don't like the filler ones no if it looks like it belongs in the lobby of a hotel or at a Macy's, then it's going to get shitty scores for me. Dude, you can already get your photo of Santa at the mall. I saw it on Saturday. I was in a grocery store the other day.

I was in a grocery store. I actually went to four grocery stores on Friday. We won't talk about that. And two of them were playing Christmas music, which just felt too early. I love it, though. One of them didn't even have Christmas stuff up. They were were playing Christmas music, which just felt too early. I love it, though. One of them didn't even have Christmas stuff up. They were just playing Christmas music. And I was like, okay.

Christmas music, I love it. Do you get a real tree every year? It makes me happy. Or do you have a fake tree? I currently have a fake one because I've been doing the apartment thing for a while. And it's dragging a real one up the elevator down the hall. It's just a mess. You can't really do it.

You know, on my scale, that's a two-point deduction wow no one no one respects your stupid your stupid scale david my scale fucking rocks your scale i think i think the one point deduction is is appropriate for a fake tree that being said i do like fake trees a lot i have a fake tree i'm never going to shame anybody for having a fake tree there's some good looking fake trees out there but a real one just hits different. Everybody knows that. The smell. The only issue I had with hers is the shape of the fake tree. I've never understood why people buy narrow.

The skinny ones are trash. Especially, she has enough ornaments and decorations to cover the entire damn tree. Where do you fall on colored lights versus white lights?

This has been a big point of contention in the past. I'm pro-colored lights, actually. Really? Yeah. Even though you can't see them? I can see them. Do you even know the difference?

I just see them a little differently than you see them. Do you even know the difference? Yeah. I can see color well. This is a very hot topic in the DeVries household. To me, colored lights are just more um festive and comfortable and homey less light elitist and yeah okay yeah more white lights yeah sign me up for white lights i think most people are white lights people it feels inconsistent with your general

view on trees why because you strike me as a tree elitist i'm not a tree elitist oh you have tree elitist tendencies and the white lights tend to be elitist i think okay traditionally yeah that that's fair i the only time i i prefer colored lights over white lights is when they have the giant bulbs that are kind of reminiscent of like old school christmas ah those are yeah i'm talking about the big the throwback fat ones i really like those my dad has one tree that we do in front of our house that he puts those big boys on and i always like it those are typically outdoor lights but yeah yeah but i know what you mean i like those what's up with all the the rich people in texas just hanging those orbs from their trees outside of their house. Do you know what I'm talking about?

It's I've, it's only really in like rich neighborhoods. So like Tarrytown, or if you go to the Heights in Houston, all these rich people just have these giant ass orbs hanging from their big ass trees. And I'm like, what, what are these things?

So it's like, they're supposed to be ornaments, but they're huge. But they're huge. And they're on their like Oak trees or something. Yes. something yes okay yeah i think i know what you're talking about i don't know what the deal is i don't feel like that's like a are they made of like platinum or something you definitely have to have like somebody go up and do that and i'm imagining that the people that live in these houses are paying people to go up and do that 100 because you're not in order to

hang these things you'd have to have serious equipment or just big balls. Well, yeah. I have neither. That's why I don't have any of those. It is a hassle hanging and taking down lights from the outside of your home. What else gets points knocked off, Dylan? The shape of the tree,

how full it is, how tall it is. Ornaments and lights and not doing doing too much like if you have you gotta have a sash at the bottom you know what it's called what do you call the thing you you place around the base um it's like a blanket but it's like a circle i don't know what the exact term for it you gotta have one of those people are screaming a duster yeah isn't it a duster yeah i don't know i think think it is. Do you take into consideration? Is it a skirt?

Actually, that's what I... Yeah, skirt. Sorry. A duster is what Brett is when he plays hockey. Sorry. I didn't know that. I'd say one of the biggest fouls you can make is just doing too much. People do ribbons and they throw fake snow on it and shit.

And it's just you're doing too much. Let the tree breathe a little bit. Let it do what it's supposed to do. Growing up, my parents, one year, they gave in to me because I wanted to do the fake snow on the tree. And it ended up being a disaster. Yeah. It stinks. It makes a mess.

Don't do fake snow. Yeah. Do you take into account the ambiance around the tree? Let's say there's a fireplace with Christmas stuff on it. I try to keep it just about the tree, but I'd be lying if I said that that doesn't influence me a little bit. Okay, that's fair. Just to be totally honest.

You're being upfront. If you have a dope situation with a nice stone fireplace with a big hearth and the fire's going and you've got stockings hanging behind the tree, come on, come on. You cannot be influenced by that yeah that's that's fair what do you think about the ribbon wraps the entire tree you don't like the ribbon at all not a ribbon guy with all these things if you can do it tastefully i'm okay with it but there are certain things like ribbon a lot of times you're doing too much you don't need that i'm saying we it's always a it's always a point of contention in our household not me and sally but my family of whether or not to put tinsel on the tree

trash my dad likes tinsel growing up i like tinsel because it kind of created the bond between my dad and i against my sister and my mom um but i think now i don't think i do tinsel these days tinsel looks like something like Lady Gaga would wear in concert, which is why I'm pro tinsel. Well, I'm a little monster. So yeah, I'm a darling guy.

Do you just crank to that dress that she had when she had like meat all over? No, I didn't crank to it. You freak. I forgot about the meat dress. You ever want a meat dress? ever want a meat dress never worn a meat dress no i will be posting my tree at some point and i'll give it a fair rating it'll probably be 7.8 ish that's what it was last year i believe there's one person out there and i can't wait

for them to send you their tree is it a member of the young family no his name is hashtag chad coleman oh yeah he goes all out for Christmas, and I can't wait for him to send you his. Chad has a great tree. I've seen it in years past. He has a great tree, but it's teetering on the doing too much for me, for my taste.

Wow. It's a great tree. He does go all out, and that's a home that I would love to spend Christmas in. Have you ever given a 10 out no come on no do uh do y'all have like a really christmassy mall around here that's the one time a year i like going to a mall it's like christmas season no nothing that's a bummer yeah like there's no like a macy's where the guy playing piano in front of the big tree best christmas Christmas time mall is North Park in Dallas.

Oh, yeah? They do it right. You get in there and you feel like you're in New York or something. Not really New York, but you know what I'm saying. I'm going to miss that about being down here versus up there. Well, the energy up there is different. The Christmas energy up there is insane. Hey, I just got a snap from Parks,

and he told me that you told him that y'all weren't doing christmas this year what's up with that uh that's just not true he actually spent all weekend putting together a christmas list his what he wants for christmas what's he want he wants everything oh really a little kid wants everything a lot of it is Paw Patrol and Transformers related. It's a very long list. I'll just say that. Like a costume, maybe, that he can wear next year for Halloween? Transformers?

You should make the Transformers thing for him for Halloween. How pumped would he be if he just got to wear that around all Christmas? Oh, he definitely would, too, right? What a kick in the ass that thing is. Dude, go on Nextdoor or go on Craigslist or something and get you a handyman to make it. Didn't they used to call you the handyman back in the day? No, they didn't call me that.

You're just trying to use the Tim Taylor sound effect? What? You can't do the sound effect and then play the sound effect dude it's good all i have to say to you davis that was not what i wanted to do apologies i haven't gotten a i haven't gotten a handle on the new soundboard yet you're like a little kid on christmas yeah each button is a present if you have a tight christmas mall out there please send it to me because i want to go to one well there's like there's three malls in austin so honestly this

place stinks this is the worst this is the worst airport in the history of airports chicago o'hare that being said the little hallway or whatever that they used for home alone they did when they deck that out with christ, it feels good. It's very nice to be in that little area. I want to be in New York the week before Christmas for like a couple days, but I can't wait. Park Avenue at Christmastime is unbelievable. Are you familiar with the Trail of Lights?

Depends. I think every city has a Trail of Lights. Okay, probably so. So Zilker Park, where they have ACL and all that, you know? I'm out on them. I'm gonna i'm not gonna do it okay i'd rather go to a mall and like be in the the atmosphere i was just gonna say if you want just a like a shot of christmas spirit in your you know in your veins that's probably the best the best place to go for it in austin what over it no i'm not a big of it. I'm just saying that's your best bet. No, what I liked about it last year

was that every single cool display was just totally corporate. Yeah, it's all sponsored. Oh, cool. Yeah, that's sponsored by HEB. Oh, nice. It's the Hewlett Packard Yuletide Law. Yeah.

Oh, man. I love this. Yeah. Yeah, I kind of felt like scumbag when I went there. I also went to UT night, which is supposed to have some UT theme. I thought Sally would like it like scumbag when I went there. I also went to UT night, which is supposed to have like some UT theme. Thought Sally would like it. There was no UT theme that night.

So it was just me and a bunch of UT people. That's like being in Austin at any moment. Yeah, it's true. It's true. Do you guys have a Santa con down here? No. Where like college kids dress up? No, I'm actually surprised Austin doesn't have one.

It would seem like something that would take off. So many transplants, it's only a matter of time. Yeah. Seems like something that would be fun if I was 10 years younger. It's a nightmare no matter what age you are.

It's fun to do it once, but in New York anyway, it's just a disaster. It looks like one of those, it looks like one of those deals where like you kind of like roll your eyes at the people doing it very much so like you know when you're out at a this happened more in dallas

than austin but like you run into like a bar crawl and it's like a themed one oh yeah and i'm always like okay and it's because i'm like out of touch and i'm like i'm in my mid-30s now so it's like i'm not i'm never gonna do that most likely but when i see that i'm like oh cool you guys are tied man just like do what we do wear tuxedos at the bar that's like the ultimate i thought dylan was saying that we should do a santa con though and just kind of invite the colleges i don't think i put them in the i don't recall saying that at all actually hey some hey there were some people saying that you were gaining weight so you could be santa have people sit in your lap is that true i don't think so i don't think that's true no there's that's why you're growing out your white beard too oh come on man what's going on here you know all the the reindeer names if you give me how many are there? Seven? Well, there's nine. Nine. You want me to try it?

Yeah, go. Sing a song. Do the song. There's Rudolph. Oh, that was a dude. I like that you went with a deep cut. Donner and Donner Vixen. Are you sure there's a Vixen?

There is a Vixen? Yep. I don't know all that. Not a shocker. Dylan got that one. Are you serious? Dude, you're leaving out some really easy ones. Do the song.

Blitzen? Yep. I don't know. This is embarrassing. You're missing some really easy ones. Do you want me to read some to you? I said Donner. Dasher, Dancer, Prancer.

Vixen, Comet, Cupid. Cupid? I would never have known that one. Cupid? Cupid. I would never have known that one. Cupid is one that I don't think I would have gotten. Are these... They're all male, right? Well, they all have antlers, so yeah.

Yeah, just making sure. You know there's the one that they don't talk about anymore. Yeah? Dahmer. It's kind of... Yeah. Weird man. He was the 10th not a reindeer anymore

do you want a trash admission from me I don't have a Christmas tree you what I don't have a Christmas tree and I haven't had one since I moved down here why I knew that yeah well last Christmas I spent it away from Austin the past two I think the two before that we went to Mexico Why? I knew that, yeah. Well, last Christmas I spent it away from Austin.

The past two, or I think the two before that, we went to Mexico. That's my favorite Christmas commercial, by the way. The Corona one where they have the palm tree that lights up at night. Yeah, that's good. It's been going on for 20 years. It's great. I love it every time. It's great. Is it true that when y'all are in Mexico for Christmas,

you and the Young family, y'all get a bunch of sombreros and you just sit around and eat tacos and stuff? Isn't that what y'all do? Yeah, but the top of the sombreros is shaped like a Santa hat. So it's two birds with one stone. Okay.

Or as we say, dos birds. Con uno stone. Wow. No, we don't really... Stop. We haven't really had much. i think we might do one this year we have the room for it and the the need for it i think you should part of the issue is that i don't have any like you said i don't have that many personalized uh sentimental ornaments we probably have a dozen ornaments at our place and that's not enough to fill a good tree. And I don't want to have some little tiny tree

that sits on a table. That's so lame. I'm a big garland guy, though. Keep an eye out for my garland. Big garland guy. Garland's nice. I think most people move to Richardson or Plano, some of the other outlying suburbs.

I don't even know Garland was a suburb. Is it a trash move to put my tree on my patio? Uh, no. Will they let you? It's a room thing. Could be a fire hazard. Really? I have lights out there already. Obviously. What kind of lights?

Wait, do you really? Yeah, like the gas light, the Austin gas light type of stuff. Oh. Yeah, I'm basically like that. I don't even know what you're fucking talking about. Like the lights that hang. They look like every bar in Austin has. Yeah, the orange.

Yeah, I like them. I might go full McGannon this year and just do the chili pepper lights. So I had chili pepper lights hanging from my bed when I was growing up. That's tight. That's all your dad. I also had chili pepper wallpaper. That's ranch to freeze. My dad asked me, when we were moving, he said,

hey, choose a wallpaper for your bedroom. And he just gave me the book, like a giant book. It had hundreds, if not thousands of wallpapers in it. For some reason, I just landed on the one with chili peppers all over it. Wow. I was a chili pepper guy. That was when you were living under the bridge, right? See, I didn't even like the chili peppers at that point. I still don't like them.

Yeah, they're not good. I just wanted to have something zany and fun. Do they? Snow? It was Suck My Kiss. I think that was originally a Christmas song. Yeah, it was actually about a mistletoe. Snow or Suck My Kiss?

Suck My Kiss. Okay. That's what Dave says before he kisses anybody on a mistletoe. No one has ever kissed anyone on their mistletoe. Let's just say that. Dude, I'm getting one. Oh, it happens. I'm getting one.

No, it doesn't. In 2019, if you do that. I'll come over, dog. You need to chill. Yeah, you got to be careful. Let's see what happens. Don't be the guy carrying around a mistletoe at your office Christmas party, just FYI. Yeah, that's not the move.

That's going to end badly for you. That's not being acceptable in like 1989. It's going to end poorly. Let's talk about our friends over at Quip. You guys brush your teeth this morning? Oh yeah. Dylan? Aren't you just a nighttime guy? No. Do you guys know what actually

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i gotta start brushing more but yeah go to getquip.com So I should clean back What's this news about Instagram Getting rid of likes Add me on the group What was that Brett We'll hit a sound effect That was in my general direction Oh yeah sorry You thought Brett said that

What was it What was what Add me on the group Are you kidding me What That's so tight I know Dude I had to do it to him I had to do it to him I think I was out of the room Or something I didn't hear it Are you kidding me? What? That's so tight. I know.

Dude, I had to do it to him. I had to do it to him. I think I was out of the room or something. I didn't hear it. No, you were here. You were on the podcast contributing. God, Dylan. Oh, it was during the recording?

Yes. I guess because the headphones were down, I didn't know what happened. Hey, you must have. So forget about it, cuz. Will you hit me with the Grom kit one more time? You can't just tee him up like that. You have to make it organic. fuck i love it is this even a real story like i've just been confirmed no yes the ceo said it so who zuckerberg so i thought is it zuck who is a ceo i don't know he's like the

least known ceo out of all these his. His name is Adam Mossery. M-O-S-S-E-R-I. However you want to say that. I don't care. Anyway, I thought that when I saw the headline, I thought they were getting rid of the ability to double tap a post. They're just getting rid of the count.

You know that? Can you still see it privately? What do you mean? How many people mean like it cannot yeah will we be able to personally see how many likes we're stacking i believe you can still look at your own analytics but they're not going to be displayed publicly there's actually a screenshot of what it looks like because it's already rolled out in some countries so this post that says liked by and it has one account name, one handle, and others. That's all it says.

That sucks. You don't know how many likes it has. Dude, as somebody who's consistently going for a dig, this is tough. See, now we can't blame people who don't do numbers. Yeah. This is going to cause people to post more because they're not getting the validation that they wanted oh god and so like the unfollow button for me is going to be as heavy as ever that being said i don't

hate the move for some reason and i don't really know why have you been like dipping out of four digit territory not really not really i i always i'm a new guy in that territory, and it's a lot of fun. I know what my posts are going to do. Are you, the user, going to be able to see how many likes you get? Literally just ask that question. Sorry, I have a breaking news thing that I can't wait to bring up. Oh, okay. We're not sure.

Okay. So Mossery, the CEO of Instagram, he admits that this may hurt the popularity of the app of Instagram but he says and here's a quote we will make decisions that hurt the business

if they help people's well-being and health that's bullshit oh dude shut up that's what Homeboy said to be fair that's kind of what

Jack Dorsey did with the whole political ads thing they're going to lose money on not allowing political ads. I actually supported him on that venture. Oh, I 100% support that. And then Facebook just went the other way.

And we're like, no, we're going to let people do it even if it's fake. Facebook's inherently bad. Yes. Zuckerberg is inherently bad. Like, you know those graphs that people put up? They look like tic-tac-toe boards. And it's like neutral evil. Chaotic evil.

Like, Zuckerberg is like as bad as it gets over there right was it pretty clear that i really had was not familiar with what you're talking about when i just gave you a because he looked at me and i was like yeah he knows i don't know you're not you know what i'm talking about but i can imagine it but you're right it just says like lawful good and then it has like a picture of like someone happy lawful neutral i don't fucking know i don't make these. So they want to create a less pressurized environment where people feel comfortable

expressing themselves. Dave, you get to express yourself more now. You know, you make, that's how diamonds are made, pressure. That's true.

I guess we won't be making diamonds on Instagram anymore. This has already rolled out in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Ireland, Italy,

Japan, and New Zealand. Yeah, and I don't like it, mate. Look at old Canada. They just kind of liked everybody's pictures anyway, so that's not a really big change.

Hey, Dawn, come on down to the Outback. Have a Forster's, mate. Man, I was just thinking that you can... Do it for the Grom. Some accents you can't do without it sounding really bad. Like racist kind of. Anyway. What does this mean for sponsor?

What? I was going to try to do like a Japanese accent. This is going to be weird for sponsored content. That's one you want to avoid. See what I mean? It's weird. Sponsored content is going to be very bizarre. Is this the death of the influencer?

Because that kind of... A little bit. I think a little bit. Mildly concerned. Just from a... You know know like a developing business standpoint here's a better here's a here is something that can help your concerns okay wash media as a company we're not doing huge numbers on the grom no we're not which was a goal to increase but maybe we don't have to so now now we just need to figure out a different strategy for it you know this is good for us oh does this make it more uh a better investment to buy followers because like you can always tell when an account has purchased their followers because they don't

have the yes the the uh likes that match up so why don't we just buy like a hundred thousand dave's follower account about to shoot way up i'm gonna come in tomorrow so i don't dave don't do this don't do this i'm gonna get out of the caddy like Spice Adams in that video. Dave, I wasn't going to tell you, but for Christmas, I was going to give you two at the Christmas party. I actually bought you 100,000 followers. Damn. Wow, can you just give it to me now?

Yeah. I want to open it now. We should all be thankful that I'm not sitting close to that soundboard. I would hit the Grom Kid button about 50 times during this conversation. I mean mean it makes sense yeah it makes sense i'm on the grom so yeah this is this is happening apparently folks i'm okay with it i'm okay with i want to see how it pans out i feel like all these people that like really are starved for likes are really going to be upset about it and the more upset you look over

it the worse you look you can't be the person that's like devastated and ranting about it so me also in this article it notes that twitter ceo jack dorsey you heard of this guy day we just talked about him about three minutes ago what'd y'all say i was digging shit up in here oh my god okay what this is why people hate you that he's hinted at removing the likes from from twitter for a while i had actually that. They've talked about that for years. If they do that, then I might just retire altogether. I don't think you should do that. We need you.

Twitter should not remove the likes. No, how am I going to know if I'm going micro? I see a lot of things just because of people like, liking stuff, you know? For some reason, my Twitter doesn't have that anymore. You don't get any likes? No, I don't see like will defries like this oh i think that's i i didn't want it which is kind of cool but yeah there's a setting when you see somebody you can select that tweet you can go to the settings you can say see less of because there's certain people where like i

don't care what you like sure let's just use you as a an example here brett I don't care what you like. Sure. Let's just use you as an example here, Brett. You don't care what I like on Twitter. Let's say that my timeline is just filled with Brett Marion liked this. Say my last name. Marion? Did I say Marion? Yeah. Merriman.

Thank you. And I don't want to see that. So I would select that and say, see less of what Brett Marion likes. I did that on purpose. I'm sorry. Okay. I'm just saying I haven't had that issue

in like six to seven months. How is Zuckerberg letting this happen? Doesn't he own... Doesn't Facebook own Instagram? This seems like something that he wouldn't want to happen. But he's not the CEO. I don't know how that works.

I mean... Maybe he wants like the yin yang he's the he's got you know the one side of facebook which is just fucking you over taking your data and doing shit and instagram is like helping the world out by like not making people feel bad about themselves whereas facebook just inherently makes you feel bad about yourself. Yeah. Just because you realize that all the people you've become friends with

over the years are just scum. Yeah. Post trash. I'm off the book. Are you really? Have you guys seen, do you guys know

that Jack Dorsey has a very small nose ring? Really? No, I didn't know that. I don't think I've ever noticed it because I've never seen a photo of him so close up. How does this make you feel?

No, I don't like it. That's weird. He sure does. How old is he? You could tell me that he was 55 and I'd believe it. You could tell me he was 35 and I'd believe it. I don't know. Give me fuel.

Give me five. Jack Dorsey's 55. Is he really? No. I have no clue how old he is uh he's too old to be having a nose

he's 42 okay makes sense he's look he's it's a stressful job he runs Twitter I think he's my

favorite founder out of the fucks we just talked about I think it's because you just like Twitter so much yeah Twitter's so tight

yeah no I do really like the move of not having political ads get paid for talked about. I think it's because you just like Twitter so much. Yeah. Twitter's so tight. Yeah. No, I do really like the move of not having political ads get paid for. I like that. I think it's a very smart move. And I think that it does help the platform itself. Even though he gave us the great smoking these meats soundbite, Zuckerberg is my least favorite.

True. True. But he does smoke the meats, so. By by the way i got hundreds of emails telling me to smoke meats which means dave is not going live hey you guys ruined it i was gonna go live but you had to do it to him so way to go i got a lot of retraction emails as well which only doesn't about in my inbox more saying oh just listened back again heard that i'm not supposed to do this you got some real-time, live, in-game emails. Yep. I got emails.

People went to the contact. Yeah, it was great. People went to the contact form on washmedia.com, and they submitted some, and those emails go to me. That's where we're at. Cool. Cool. Anything else on this Instagram news? No.

I'm getting a gram off this weekend. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. If I get just one gram off, I'll be very... One will be upsetting. One will be upsetting.

I might go three in one day like I did in Chicago. You never know. No one's doing that. Yeah, you don't see that. Oh, I feel... Honestly, I feel bad. I don't know what I'm supposed to do

when I go to like England and Scotland. I'm going to be so trigger happy. Dude, just let them fly. Fuck it. I think I have to. It doesn't matter. The lights don't count.

Yeah, if you get boned by the algorithm, no one will know but you. Dude, yeah. When the second lights go away, I'm done posting stories. I'm only posting just straight grams. Groms. All the time. Add me on the group. I'm sorry.

I shouldn't. Ah, never mind. What, Dylan? Are you going to gym today or what? Yeah, Dave. Are you calling me fat again? No, I'm just asking a fucking question. You just need some energy.

Like, you're just disgusting right now. What the fuck? Do you want to start working me fat again? No, I'm just asking a fucking question. You just need some energy. You're just disgusting right now. What the fuck? Do you want to start working out with me? No. Okay. I'm just trying to help you out. I don't have to keep taking weight off every time you hop on. Oh.

That's true, actually. See what I did there, Will? Yeah, that was mean. Well, he called me fat. No, I didn't say that. You all weigh me by 50 pounds. Of course we're going to change weight. Do you think Dylan would be too big for the Arby's shirt?

No. Stop. You can't. I have the... Dude, I need to... I'm waiting for a time to wear it. What's the size of that shirt? Is it X or double X?

I think it's triple X. Vin Diesel. Wow. That's not good about it, cuz. The reason I played that was because he was saying it to Vin Diesel. Yeah. Don't explain it. Was he saying it to Vin Diesel?

No, he wasn't. He was saying it to Tyrese. Tyrese, yeah. Shout out to Tyrese. You know everybody on that set of that movie hated each other? Like on the new one? Hobbs and Shaw? Like they hated Rock.

The Rock and Vin Diesel like don't like each other. How could you hate The Rock? Oh, maybe because he's an overexposed hack. Don't call him a hack, dude. He was the greatest. He was the best.

That guy's awesome. You're right. He's good. That scene's a good actor. WWF, he was the best. Dude, I was early in on Rocky Maivia. I love The Rock.

An excellent Grom follow as well, The Rock. I unfollowed him. I unfollowed him as well. I got tired of it. Oh, man. I like to watch it. It's like, here's the thing about it. Yes, it's impressive that he's still, how old is he?

He's 50-ish. Sure. He's around there. He's in great shape. He's a beast. But he's probably on all sorts of testosterone. Don't care. So it's like, no, it's fine.

It doesn't bother me. But it's like, I'm not as inspired by you if you're on like tea therapy. Because it's like, dude, that's like when movie stars are like, oh, dude, you put on 30 pounds of muscle. Yeah, he had a nutritionist, a trainer, and he was on tea therapy. So yeah, of course he got jacked.'m just saying it's not that inspirational give me like the guy who's give me the guy who's like working eight to six in like an accounting firm uh those are your your real heroes that dude hits that dude hits golds like when he gets off work and like goes home and like eats like a protein you'd

rather follow him on the grom i'd rather follow him give me that kid's gains if you're if you are one of those people that is going to gold's gym and grinding it out and getting gains that's tag dave in your next my hero tag day do you know he's the highest grossing uh actor of 2019 so thus far that is that is insane i think he has been in the past several years running. Is that because he just doesn't turn down any roles? Yeah, he does every movie. Well, the movies he does are all blockbusters. They're all guaranteed to do really well in the box office.

Dude, what? He had a movie about scaling a skyscraper. They're all wild ass action movies. They just crush. Oh my God. I like the idea of The Rock more than The Rock himself. He's a nice guy. He's just crush. Oh, my God. I like the idea of The Rock more than The Rock himself. He's a nice guy. He's just everywhere.

He's a little overexposed. That Nate Diaz, Masvidal fight, he brought the BMF belt, the bad motherfucker belt. He brought it out. The Rock, I mean, yeah, The Rock's badass, but I could think of 10 other. Give me Daniel Craig or Jason Statham, like bringing out the PMF.

No, dude, you can't have, you can't have two British dudes bringing out a belt and the, it could be British dudes are bad. MFs. Who would you want to bring out the bad motherfucker belt? Then?

Well, kid rock. That's fair. Were you a wrestling guy? Pro wrestling? Yes. You probably could have guessed that. I thought so.

I didn't know for sure. You know, I was once sent home for wearing a... I went to a Monday Night Raw taping. And the next day... It's taped? Yeah. The next day, I wore the shirt that I purchased.

It was a D-Generation X t-shirt. And it said, if you can't beat it, suck it. Nice. And I got sent home. It was in ninth grade. It was a bad day. It was a D-Generation X t-shirt and it said, if you can't beat it, suck it. Nice. And I got sent home. It was in ninth grade. It was a bad day. It was a bad look.

Probably a tight show though. It was super dope. The Rock actually fought that night. So. Man, I've never seen the Rock in person. It was from like section 300, so.

I don't think. So it just looks like two ants just battling it out. Yeah. This is pre-Cowboy Stadium, so there wasn't like a giant screen to watch. God, that screen. The screen's tight. Can't take your eyes off of it. Let's talk about our friends over at Untucket.

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that's the thing like i didn't know that i made the mistake of assuming it was only a button down company. I'll pull back the curtain. They gave us a little money to play with. And when I went on the site, I was like, all right, what button down am I going to get? All of a sudden, I'm walking out of there with a shacket.

You know what a shacket is? It's a shirt jacket. I got wild on that crew neck. I got a cardigan. I went loco with it. Why haven't you worn this thing out yet? Bitch, just wait. Just wait. It's unbelievable, the stuff they have on this site. And even more so, i want loco with it why haven't you worn this thing out yet it's just wait just wait it's

unbelievable the stuff they have on this site and even more so like i didn't even know how well it fit as someone who had never purchased anything now i'm like i'm like oh this is amazing let's do this i mean shirt shopping stinks if you ever want to wear a button down untucked it just never really looks good never too much tail, there's always too much. You've had that problem, Dylan. Yeah. Yeah, that's usually less of a problem for Dylan

and more of just, you know. Knuckle that day. Dude, I have multiple button downs that I still like to wear, but I cannot wear them untucked because they look so stupid. Because you look like you're wearing a puffy shirt.

Yes. Yeah, it's stupid. It looks like I've got a parachute on. Yeah, you don't want that. In a Missy Elliott video or something. Squirrel suit. Squirrel suit. You're about to jump off somewhere in Vancouver.

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deck uh hey how about this whale playing fetch with a rugby ball? Yeah, I saw this video last week and it's super tight, but is there an update that I don't know about? I saw this video for the first time while sitting at dinner and somebody was just holding the phone up, showing it. And you know how those situations go. Normally you're like, you act amused for the first... Was that me?

Yeah, I think so. You act amused for the first seven seconds, hoping that they put their phone down. But this was one of the ones where I was like, oh, hold on. I'm not done yet. I'm not done yet. Got to see this. Was this at Pine House the other night?

Nope. Oh. Maybe. That got out of hand. Pine House. Dude, shut up. Watch them, the best odds player of all time. Oh, fuck.

Yes. You won odds twice. In a row. And then I challenged you to odds and it backfired on me. So I lost again. Sure did. You're a dickhead. Man, I picked better numbers, dude.

You had beginner's luck. You're going to even out and it's not going to end well for you, Brett. It's not going to end well. Odds you tried the rest of my Red Bull. Right now? Yeah. Can I feel how much is in it? Sure.

Ooh, I kind of like the unknown. Nope. Yeah, I like it too. Okay. I will do one in ten. All Sure. Ooh, I kind of like the unknown. Nope. Yeah, I like it too. Okay. I will do one in ten. All right. Ready? All right.

Yes. One, two, three, six. Fuck. I wish you lost and it was just like one little backwash sip. That would be the worst. That would be the worst. That's the worst case scenario. That would be the worst.

Anyway, Will had to chug a porter or a stout. Stout. Which is disgusting. And then Dylan had to chug a porter or a stout, which is disgusting. And then Dylan had to chug a lager, I believe. It was an IPA. But still said it was worse than Will's for some reason. It was an IPA, dog. No, I would have rather chugged yours. Are you sure, mate?

I'm not saying it's worse than the stout. I'm saying it's still a heavy-ass beer. I had to chug a Foster's. And then I had to chug your white wine. Can you imagine trying to chug an oil can? Do it every night, mate. This dude. Helps me sleep. The only 25-year-old in Austin drinking, what was it?

Sauvignon Blanc. Sauvignon Blanc at a pizza joint. That literally makes our own beer. I don't know what you're doing. So I had to chug your white wine in front of all those people. And I felt great the next day. Yeah, there was like some little girl there with her parents and i was sitting right next to her like back to back and i was just chugging porters there was an old an older woman next to us who kept looking over like hey uh no she was too old to understand what was going

on we'll do the beluga whale after this segment because we have to talk about pine house yeah because that this is only scratching the surface oh yeah brett fell in love at pine house too oh gosh summer man shouts to summer two ships in the night so you went to the men's room and i looked at dylan because like so this place pine house it's picnic table seating inside and i saw these two younger girls younger i thought they could have been 18 they could have been 22 they looked really young but like i saw them like looking at me and giggling or looking at us and like i kept making eye contact i was like dude this is awkward i could i thought they were flaming me like these girls are it had the feel that's the age dude that's what age we're at instead of thinking that people are checking us out we're like oh 100 are they

just making fun of us right now like i looked at dylan i go dude these girls over your left shoulder they're i think they're roasting me oh my they're just looking at us laughing and he's like who who and dylan turns around and then brett comes back and then this girl walks over and what did she say to you brett uh i think that the exact quote was you are a beautiful man yeah i think that was the exact i think that was the exact one i gotta say what you were pretty you were pretty on one and you you your reaction was great what was my reaction i forgot you just kind of leaned back started laughing you're like what uh shouts to summer for having the uh absolute cojones yes fortitude yes for having the uh the confidence to pull a move like that just walked right up and said that which is which

is awesome i could never do that no never either and so just just a summer i get like i get nervous just complimenting somebody for something that's not even their physical appearance like like i remember one time this girl was wearing a sweater that i really liked and she was the checkout girl and i really wanted to tell her because like that that sweater goes really hard and beforehand i was like hey i like your sweater she was just like thank you but i was like man that's so awkward god like i wasn't even hitting on her brett is it true that she's coming to the christmas party with us uh yeah i texted her her and she said, yeah, sorry about the Venmo.

I had Venmo'd myself, so I don't think she's going to be in. Yeah, she did get your number, right? Or you got her something like that? She put her number in my phone, yeah. Dude, she had some BDE. Absolutely. Let me be clear, though. She was a total poser.

Oh. No one's talking about that. Explain. She was rocking a Nirvana t-shirt and um look i'm that guy you come over you come over hitting on my buddy and you're rocking a nirvana t i'm gonna make conversation i wasn't trying to test her i was just like you you were literally said after i was trying to test her you were trying to test her she called me out for it she's like you were trying to test her. You were trying to test her. She called me out for it. She's like, you were trying to test me.

Did you ask? Well, you failed the test. You asked your favorite album or something, right? I'll go, what's your favorite Nirvana album? Pretty simple. And she's like, um, uh. She's kind of like, uh. And I was like, oh, no.

I didn't think it would go here. I was hoping she could give me something. And maybe we would have a nice little conversation about Nirvana. I love talking Nirvana. If you want to talk Nirvana, email will at washmedia.com um i know nothing about nirvana but i was never a band i understood she's then she's like uh the one with like aneurysm on it and i was like okay and then she's like you were testing me she's like wow thanks a lot like so i'm embarrassed there and. I didn't mean to embarrass her, but... She had all the confidence in the world,

and then Dave just shattered it. Yeah. Brett, when we hired you... Shout out to her, though. When we hired you, I didn't know we were hiring a heartthrob, man. That was the second night in a row. This same thing happened to Dylan at Matt's El Rancho

with a waitress. Oh, yeah. That was a good one. We told that story on YouTube. Yeah. Why doesn't this happen to you and I, Dave? waitress. Oh, yeah. That was a good one. We told that story. Yeah. Why doesn't this happen to you and I, Dave? I don't know, man. It's just.

We're actually getting roasted. We're actually getting roasted by the cool teens. To be clear, that girl might have been 16. She was very young. So congrats, Brett. Let's not go there. But yeah, I'm going to make sure the waiter IDs her at our Christmas party the night before

at the Oak catch the fever I was hit on as well he walked up to me and said you have extremely nice hair

dude it's that hair man you on a hot streak Texas dudes don't have that hair this is why he doesn't be dating ass everyone's much more high and tight down here

yeah or the bangs right Bama bangs yeah is that a thing I mean I don't think it's bangs. Yeah. Is that a thing. I mean I don't think that anymore. It's weirdly a thing in England now with

the young soccer players. These young guys coming up in the academy that are getting subbed on. They look like such little fucks.

Kids in the southeast are still doing it. Got it. OK. How about Pulisic. Man he can't stop. He's legit.

How about Liverpool. Shouts to Will for that was fun. That was a blast. That was a fun game. Will's a blast. That was a fun game. Will's back in the game, so to speak. Am I going to start gambling on Premier League every single weekend now?

You might. I might just start giving my pick of the week leading up to them. Let me know, dog. You're one for one. I was actually thinking about making a 60-second theme song that I just played every single time, and then I gave a 15-second pick, and then we just moved on. Seems like a 60 second theme song that I just played every single time. And then I gave like a 15 second pick and then we just moved on. Seems like a lot of, of intro.

Okay. It's an, it's an intro heavy bit. And then, and then we'll sponsor it on top of it. So it'll be like a 30 second plus a 60 second plus like an 80 second read. And then I'll give my pick and then we'll move on. I'll hit it.

Cool. So this beluga whale. Yeah. What happened here um i saw a thread yesterday um a guy on twitter at ferris jabber or yabber j-a-b-r-f-e-r-r-i-s-j-a-b-r bueller on twitter um he's a science writer contributor contributor for New York Times Magazine and something else, and I don't know what that is. And he says, the viral video of a wild,

in quotes, beluga playing fetch is not what it seems. This is likely Vladimir, with an H. I don't know if that's H-Vladimir or if it's silent, probably silent.

Or Valdimir, a once captive whale who may have escaped a russian military program alone malnourished and injured he roams the seas seeking food and attention from people so that's uh that's kind of sad why doesn't have a pod if he's right there why don't they just get him he's a loner yeah did he do blood in blood out he looked healthy as fuck, though. He looked like he was well-fed and happy and healthy. Yeah, because he goes up to people and they just give him shit.

They say he's... So, yeah, he said he approaches boats. Some lady dropped her iPhone in the water and he got it and brought it back to her. Nice guy. Good dude. You think Vladimir's happy out there? Well, that's the thing. They're saying no because he has not joined a wild pod.

Which, if he wants to join a wild pod, he should hop on here. We got one right here for him, baby. Dude, should we make a wild pod shirt just in tribute to... We should do a wild boys podcast. Where we go back and re-watch the wild boys. I think we should just start doing wild boys episodes where we just do this stuff. I would love to. Nobody's wilder than the wild boys. Everyone we should just start doing wild boys episodes where we just do this stuff i would love to nobody's wilder than the wild boys everyone knows that he needs a squad man that's sad do if anyone out there knows of any pods that he could join like hit us up maybe we could be the liaisons between everything introduce them we always try to cut

out the middleman but i think this is for a good cause sure well this seems like an unnecessary point belugas are highly intelligent and social but truly wild wares wild whales are not familiar with rugby they don't know what to do with a ball if you throw it at them the oh really yeah we get that oh really they don't play rugby out there they're not big scrum guys he doesn't have like rugby league pass like you're right does this guy have a name vladmir vladimir okay with an h or valdemir a valdemir whatever dude can we just call him like ted or something i'm gonna call him h we're not calling him ted if you think we're not getting a rugby ball for the new office in hopes that Vladimir comes, or Ted, sorry, comes to the office to play with us, you're crazy.

He's not going to stop by the office, Will. He's a whale. There's no water access to our building. We have a moat. It's dry. There's a literal moat in our office. We can fill it up. It takes one hose.

We're not going to fill up the moat and put a beluga whale in there. I got a hose. Different area codes? That was a terrible, terrible... Is it crazy that the Russian military is using whales for spy purposes? No, I think that's part of the course. Are we even sure this is a real whale? Like, could it be a robot?

Do you think it's a guy in a whale suit that they were testing? You have to think it's hard to breathe. Yeah. He was above water a lot. Whales are smart, man. Dylan lives above the rim. No, he doesn't. You're damn right, Brett.

No, you don't. I haven't seen you get above the rim since you shattered that foot of yours. I grabbed rim at Lifetime recently. I did.

Dave was there, I think. Don't bring me into this. It was when Duda was in town. It wasn't recent, but it was after my leg break. First time I tested it. You say so. You say so. I don't know.

Hopefully Vladimir finds a pod soon. You gotta think he's not going to based on the fact that he's in captivity for so long. That usually is a death knell for wild animals. I don't get why they don't just grab him and put him back in captivity where he'd be happier and not in danger. I'm usually against putting things in captivity,

but if you escape from it and need to go back, like... We should take him in. Maybe see what he knows. Can we sponsor him? Can we divulge anything? Do beluga whales have natural predators? An orca, for example?

Are they going to fuck up a beluga? I'm going to guess no. I'm going to guess they do not have a natural predator. It's a pretty large animal. Yeah. Very smart, too. They have one. Gray white. G-dubs.

Polar bears. What? If a polar bear touches a whale, that. They have one. Gray-white. G-dubs. Polar bears. What? If a polar bear catches a whale, that's on the whale. Yeah. That's absolutely. Stay away from them. Beluga whales have two. Two natural predators.

Killer whales and polar bears. Killer whales make a lot of sense. Yeah. Killer whales make a lot of sense. That's sad. I actually think beluga whales are kind of tight. Oh, they're great. I would love to see a video.

This sounds depressing. I would love to see a video of a polar bear attacking a beluga whale. That's scrap. But I would like to see it in... How does it happen? The beluga whale end up getting away. Dude, polar bears are excellent swimmers. Making them even more...

Better than whales? No, but they can hold their own. Like, they're sneaky. Yeah, but once you grab on, I bet those things just get taken for a little ride. A polar bear? Yeah, bring them down and kill the polar bear. Polar bear sneaky might be the most badass animal on the planet. Sneaky.

It might be the pinnacle of apex. The apex of apex. They're bad. Polar bears? Oh, dog. You don't even know. This ain't your grandma's Coca-Cola commercial, bro. It would take 100 Bretts to put up a fight against one polar bear.

Probably like 20. 100. Any animal that is dying because they're losing their habitat isn't that badass. Come on. Oh my God. You are ruthless.

Survive in advance. Adapt. Well, I mean, the ones who survive, they are, kind of. Right? They're trying to. Yeah, they're surviving by now

they're having to eat whales i need to get the facts on that now i would really like to see one versus like a blue whale you know blue whale is the largest mammal in the world weird that'd be a weird one okay so i record i'm pro polar bear so blue planet by the bb. It's an older show. It's like 10 years old. It's on Smithsonian a lot. They have a video of a polar bear hunting beluga whales. They don't show it actually capturing a beluga whale. I don't think it was successful.

But the way that he was doing it is that there's a pod of beluga whales and they're all swimming towards this opening in the ice. The opening in the ice is where the bear just chills at. Smart. He's just roaming it and then he jumps in and just tries to get him yes that is the move for him i think i'll say this if polar bears ever figure out how to throw a spear then it's over for these beluga whales yeah you gotta think i asked sally a really dumb question about animal evolution the other day and i think she thought i was the dumbest person on the planet.

It is, Todd. I was sitting there, and I was playing with Rosie, and I was talking to Rosie, and I asked Sally, I was like, do you think that dogs are ever going to evolve to the point where they can respond back with general words? And I was like, I'm not saying it's going to happen 10 years from now, 60 years from now, but in 400 years, do you think dogs will be able to be like food they're around us a lot if if chimpanzees can't

even do that like they can't they can't form words but like a thousand years from now like things are going to be evolving i mean if the if the earth is still here what did sally have to say about it she was just shook i don't even know if she gave me an answer i think she i think she asked me if i was high at the time she was like are you are you high right now no just i just think it'd be cool if rosie could talk to me if if it does happen i think it'll be more like a bio it'll be more of a machine thing like we'll put a chip in that can you know do something like that rather than pure evolution what if the voice just sounds like the uh the laurel thing like remember the little clip like what what do you some people heard laurel some people heard the other thing and it was just that really weird yeah that was

terrible laurel laurel that freaked me out what kind of accent would you want your dog to have i want well rosie's is a english springer so I think I'd want her to have her native accent. It'd be really annoying if she adopted Sally's voice because then I wouldn't know who was talking to me. I would want Randy to have a badass accent. I already got one person barking orders at me. I don't need two. Oh.

Randy's an English cream, right? Yes. It'd be weird if he just came out and had like a British accent I think hello David hi mate that's

hey Dave you wanna go for a Forster's he's like an old grizzled Aussie he's not an Aussie cream I'm a big Jenny cream guy that's a western New York beer, Jim. That joke sucked.

Do you guys know how many minutes polar bears can hold their breath for? I'm going to go four. I'm going to say seven. Twelve. No, they got big boy lungs. I'm going to say seven. Just tell us. No.

I thought it was going to be longer. That's why we all went low. It's more toward two minutes. No. I thought it was going to be longer. That's why we all went low. It's more toward two minutes. Okay. So not all that impressive. Why did you even share the fact? Because it was shockingly low. That's the shockingly low fact of the week.

They're huge, though. But those are teeth. I know. They have big ass lungs and shit. Maybe. Yeah. How long did they live? I did.

People don't talk about the fact that I did beat Dylan in a contest of holding our breath. Dylan cheated. How long can a beluga whale hold his breath? I mean, they're aquatic. You gotta think a long time. It's gotta be an hour. I know, but they breathe air, dog. They have a blowhole.

It's a mammal. Don't you anything? My guess is like half an hour. Any other guesses? 60 minutes. I have the answer. I'm going to say 24 minutes. Again, you guys are all high.

17 minutes. I was closer than anyone. That's pretty good, though. Yeah. That's like a Kanye album. He's just underwater with his beats on. Dylan's wearing his sweatshirt like girls do in class when they're cold yes dude that's exactly what you're doing just i can't get over the i'm like

looking over them like hey tracy like are you cold tracy tracy that's the first name that came to mind but i would have said amanda what's gonna keep me warm big boy i don't want to dylan you're wearing your shirt like a like a girl does in class. Such a beautiful man. You look like a 10th grade girl sitting in like pre-chem. Sorry. It's comfortable over here. Pre-chem? I don't know. You still having that problem? I almost

failed pre-chem. Pre-cal? No, we had pre-chemistry. Really? And pre-physics. I didn't do well in either of them. A lot of pre. Yeah, what I learned in those classes is that that is something I should not pursue long-term. Not a big science guy.

I thought I might have been. I was not. I'm very... I like animals, but when it comes to the chemistry of everything... You weren't Will Nye? No, Will Nye, the science guy, is not a thing. Hence why I think dogs are going to be able to speak in 60 years. He didn't get me too, did he?

Bill Nye? Yeah. No, but he's just kind of been outed as not actually being very much of a science guy. Oh, he's an entertainer for a for-profit entertainer that, yeah. I mean, I'm sure he knows more science than we do. Science rules. But I think some people were a little upset with some things he says. Yeah, when he says something,

people like to point out the fact that he has an engineering degree or something. Which shouts all the engineers out there. I can't get one of those. I'm too dumb. Yeah, no, certainly not. But Neil deGrasse Tyson's the real deal? Oh, yeah.

Is that the... Oh, yeah, he's an astrophysicist? He's a very smart man. You're a big fan? I am. I am, too. He's very charismatic, too. I always enjoy his Rogans. He's a very smart man. You a big fan? I am. I am too. He's very charismatic too. I always enjoy his Rogans.

He's good on Rogan. Have you ever been to a planetarium? No. They're tight. But the one I went to had Neil deGrasse Tyson narrating like the

journey through the stars. And it was one of the more like therapeutic things I've ever done in my life. Sign me up. Do you eat mushrooms? No. Yeah, what kind of edibles were you on?

Oh, we didn't even talk about Dion Waiters. That was my... Oh, okay. Go ahead. Is it time for Brett's Breaking News? No, it's not. But like... Don't act like you have a sound effect for it.

No, I don't. I just want the Breaking News. I think PMT has that, so sorry for those. So you want me to get PMT's breaking news sound effect and just rip it? No, I don't. But shouts to PMT. Dion Waiters was on a plane. Who's Dion Waiters?

A basketball player. Okay. I think he went to... I have no idea. Kentucky, I'm going to guess. I don't know where he played ball. I think he went to... I have no idea. Kentucky, I'm going to guess. I don't know where he played ball. Survey says...

Syracuse. Really? Cuse. New York, you should know that. I should know that. They call themselves the flagship team of New York. And they're just not. The Orange Men.

Donovan McNabb played there. Who's the flagship team of New York? Who's the flagship flagship team in new york nobody you don't have one you don't care about you don't care about college sports juice um i was a bc guy growing up but diana waiters passed out on a flight from la to miami because he was too high were you a marquez haynes guy i don't know who that is okay and he was too high yeah he ate a bunch of edibles in California and then passed out on the jet and wouldn't tell anybody who gave him the two of them. Suspended 10 games.

Stitches get stitches. Also had a panic attack. Yeah, they had to drown the plane. No shit. Not like that. Yeah, that happens. I mean, this was the team plane? The team charter.

Unfortunately, yeah, people have panic attacks when they take too many edibles sometimes. Damn, they suspended him 10 games. 10 games, no pay. Dude, he'd be a break. Oh, my God. And he's not allowed. So he misses out on that game check, right, for 10 games.

And he physically can't get his 70-game performance bonus. So he misses out on like $3 million there too, which sucks. Okay. That's tough. Just for eating edibles. I mean, like maybe fine him because, you know, cost the team time and money, laying on the plane and shit. But don't suspend him.

Let him clear his system. Three games max. Three games max. You got to wonder maybe if it's 10 games, is it not weed? Is it something else? I don't know. There's not revealing truth. It just makes too much sense that it would be weed coming from California.

It does. It really does. Being on a plane. The only thing that should matter would be if he was on a performance enhancer, which, I mean, arguably, I don't really care about that. Is Adderall banned in the NBA? Good question. I know NFL is. Major League Baseball,

I think if you can, you can get a medical exemption, right? Yeah. I think you can in every sport. It's easy. It is a performance enhancer. Yeah. Oh, for sure.

It enhances the fuck out of my performance, but like... If you're asking me if I want my closer like hopped up on Aderall or not hopped up on adderall i want him hopped up on adderall oh yeah your closer yeah yeah just get dialed in i don't know i want my sweating before he even throws no i want my closer on coke to be honest i'd rather have a closer on coke than adderall okay give me my put my starter on adderall closer on Coke than Adderall. Put my starter on Adderall. Closer on Coke. Extended release. Charlie Sheen in, what's that movie?

Major League? Major League. I want Major League. Big League? Sorry, I don't know. You played third base for that team? Yeah, well, the guy was pretty good. I mean, he made the play, but I didn't play third base for anybody.

You kind of look like a 1920s baseball player. Was it Roger Dorn? Oh, thank you, David. Yeah, you kind of have that look.s baseball was it roger dorn oh thank you david yeah you can have that look i got you there you will yeah roger dorn i know okay i wasn't gonna give you that satisfaction whatever man i can't get no what other breaking news you got you didn't even give us the options everybody's just firing shots sorry can we get can we get the options for the final two yeah the other two are cold front and matt gallo what do you want dude i always go cold front. Yeah, I agree. I think I know what's about to happen.

A cold front, Dave. Very soon. It's like as we speak, the cold front's coming in. The low tonight, 28. Oh, it's bearing down on us. Hey, don't forget to bring your pets inside and wrap up your faucets or whatever you're supposed to do. And plants.

I think you're supposed to wrap something else up. Okay. Note to self, put a cricket's soundbite on the board. Wrap it up. You know what blew my mind? You know what blew my mind? This is probably in pre-chem that I learned this. Stop saying pre-chem.

Pre-chem, dude. Call it something else. I learned this in pre-chem. Pre-chem, dude. Call it something else. I learned this in pre-chem. You're saying that you need to emphasize the chem, not the... Pre-chem. When farmers in warm areas like Florida, that they would spray water onto their trees

before a cold front comes through so that it would freeze over the oranges, it would protect them more against the elements is that true i need to tell you this in pre-chem i need someone to actually explain that to me we have farmers who listen is that why like if you're a dairy farmer or like a cattle farm rancher like you you hose down your cows you freeze your cows yeah The case we saw this in was oranges. So that's all I knew. It doesn't work for cattle, right?

Yeah, it does. Don't forget to hose down your pets. Please don't hose down your pets. Please don't do that. That's how you kill feral hogs too. You just freeze them and then you can dispose of them that way. When I was playing my old home course tangle ridge a few weeks ago there's definitely fairways that have been ruined by hogs they got a hog problem everywhere has a hog problem but they've got them out there and it's just the they don't fuck with the greens i guess just because

it's not as thick because they respect golf they respect the game they know it's like you can't do that but like they they're ruining fairways. How many came through, you think? Gotta think 30 to 50. Is there a foggy side? Are they going to put turrets on the side of the golf carts out there? I think they're hiring private contractors to come in.

Just a hit squad. You can pay extra to have your cart just strapped. Imagine pulling pipe and pulling turret. Hey, yeah, 16's car path only. The fairway's just covered in blood. Your caddy's just like, he's packing the whole time. Hey, will you shoot that hog carcass out there?

What do you think out there 175 180 yards you want to take the you want to take the five iron now you have the 30 out six i think it's about 205 to the hog slaughter what are we talking about cold fronts coming through coming through will the freeze coming through tonight uh and then the met gala theme was announced yeah okay i saw this i didn't know what it was i didn't know what it was last year either i was really confused the theme is pre-cam uh last year was camped and all white but it wasn't like it wasn't like it wasn't camp camp it was like a different kind of camp this year is called about time that's like if i got

the invite to the met gala which i mine might have gotten lost in the mail last year i would have shown up wearing like Patagonia. Like great outdoors. Yeah, like kind of stuff like that. And yeah, no one else did that there. So this year's theme is fashion and duration. It's based on the 1992 movie Orlando, where it's basically just looks like Elizabethan get up. Not a fan.

This seems way too niche. Way too niche. Fun fact. You were invited to the Met Gala? I did not know the Met Gala even did themes. I didn't either, David. Yeah, they were going to do country club pros and tennis hoes, but that got thrown out this year.

Oh, that's too bad. Anything but clothes? Yeah, they were going to do an ABC party as well. That got vetoed as well. He does Sweatpants of IHR Tuesdays in college. That was a fun one. Why Tuesday, though? I don't know. that got vetoed as well Dylan he does Sweatpants of Viagra Tuesdays in college that was a fun one why Tuesday though I don't know

cause you can't do it Saturdays it's for the boys you can't have a bunch of dudes walking around with sweatpants and Adderall that's not fun or not Adderall

Viagra hey we have some niche wash news too we booked the ski trip guys we did thank god we did we lost out on the house.

Lost out on option one. Which? Option A. Oh, did you sign that contract? No. I was thinking about that this morning in the shower. I looked at it. I did look at it.

I was at Honeyham the other day. Yeah, we got to sort out that contract before it gets signed. I got a news though. Is it airtight? Yeah. Those sons of bitches. This is a well-oiled machine. These people probably own multiple properties in Breckenridge.

The second I pressed send on booking the house where they had my credit card information, my phone rang from a woman who just started profiling us as if we were like college kids going out. What did they ask you? She asked, the first thing she asked was, so you got nine people? I was like, yep. Yeah, well, the house sleeps sleeps 15 i was so matter of fact and not having it i was just like yep nine and she goes uh okay um so like what are you coming out for i was like to ski enjoy the scenery like i was very put off the second she started talking to me about it she goes okay uh so how many people

are under the age of 25 oh what the fuck and then i was like uh none i was like i'm 32 and i'm one of the youngest people on this trip and she like and so and she was so clearly profiling us which i know you have to do in some case but when i said that we were 32 and like we're just going out to ski and enjoy stuff like i wanted her to understand the fact that we're not going to be like throwing couches through the window and stuff like that. Booking a house. It's over a thousand dollars a night, right?

Yeah. Isn't that what it is? It's an expensive ass house. What are some punk ass kids? When you, when you, yeah. Like if, yeah. College kids can't afford what we're doing. They don't have jobs.

I got to say, if, if you're're gonna be this worried about anytime someone tries to rent your airbnb like you're in the wrong business like you clearly you're you're doing this for a money-making venture it's something that may not be worth it guess i'm gonna send her a check for our security deposit that she'll uh cash and then give back to me a month later after we uh don't break anything that's bullshit man i'm gonna i'm gonna i'm gonna contact her directly and be like hey is there any other later after we don't break anything. That's bullshit, man. I'm going to contact her directly and be like, hey, is there any other way that I don't have to send you a check? You can just use the credit card I have on file with you. That's a lot of money to have

tied up in that for that long. Three grand? Yeah. You got to think they're going to invest it, make a return, and then give us back the original. Well, smart on their part. So on another note, there's a post on our subreddit, a Veterans Day post, and the guy has a GoFundMe to raise money for homeless vets.

And I'm looking at it, and I'm trying to verify. I don't know how I verify. I think it's legit. I assume it is. But I just want to be clear. And I was looking. There's been some donations. It turns out a nice young lady, Catherine Moss, gave $20.

Jerry Ashworth, $100. Wow. Hugh G. Rection, $20. That was big of Hugh. Hugh's a great shooter. Were you in pre-chem with him? Yeah, Hugh and I were actually lab partners. Lab partners?

Lab. Actually, yeah, everyone go to this. Everyone go donate. I think, I don't, yeah. He and his wife will be matching $1 for every five. Hugh? That's like our 401k. No.

We'll give it $1 for every five that Brett puts in. Okay. I don't have to have a 401k yet, guys. If it's in the cards, it's not worth it. Put your money in CDs. Yeah, 401ks, they're a hoax. Hey, would you rather have a 401k or health insurance first? I have a year left on my health insurance god you're so young

yeah are you doing the cobra the blue cross blue shield i know i don't know the the driver just oh i got a phone call today with these people i forgot oh hell yeah i would love health insurance i feel like we can talk about this off air yeah no no people want to know it's behind the curtain stuff people love this so uh what's the bedroom situation in this house Will dude I'll be honest I have no clue the fact that this was put on my credit card is just I think it was solely

so Sally did not have to pay her just one giant room with 16 bunk beds in it you and Klein are sleeping on an air mattress I hope not no no I think you and Klein will be in the room I think there's a room with two bunk beds so it you incline or sleeping on an air mattress i hope not no no i think you incline will be in the room i think there's a room with two bunk beds so like you guys will each have a bunk bed to ourselves yeah i think so you know what they say good chance i'm rolling solo too so i'll be right next to y'all probably you don't have to be all right man no just do the classic

move just walking in throwing your bag on the best bed and walking out the second you get in there i hate when people do that shit. Oh, bachelor party? It's a must. The second we got in that house, I was like, I don't care if these guys like me or not. I'm just going to put my bag down in a decent room. I like for there to be a discussion. Turns out I made the bad decision because we got the room with no air conditioning.

Oh, in San Diego? Oh, man. It was pretty hot. It was pretty hot. I was sharing a bed with uh Sally's brother was the party bus like suspension

kind of off too or what I don't know the party bus went horde horde horde the coke left a lot

to be desired wow should we get out of here yeah hey we'll see you guys tomorrow for the worst of first episode. Really looking forward to it. Check the main feed.

Anything else? Bye.