Circling Back - Dillon's 40th & F1 in Austin

Episode Date: October 23, 2023

Breaking News: Will has returned from paternity leave. After a big weekend at COTA for F1 with Alfa Romeo, we obviously had to break it all down. We also discussed the Buffalo Wild Wings subreddit getting taken over by pervs, Dave’s children’s birthday party, and a Brooklyn cafe that’s banned influencers. Enjoy a free two-week trial on Patreon for additional weekly episodes: www.patreon.com/circlingbackpodcast Watch all of our full episodes on our new YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/circlingback  Shop Washed Merch: www.washedmedia.shop  (7:30) Dillon Is 40 (And We Got Him A Present) ft. Sammi Sweetheart (16:00) Recapping This Weekend in F1 (33:30) Buffalo Wild Wings Subreddit Commandeered (47:00) Will’s Paternity Leave Takes (56:15) Dave Partied (1:04:25) Restaurant in Brooklyn Bans Influencers (1:11:15) Herds Of Javelina Ruining Golf Courses Support This Episode’s Sponsors Alfa Romeo Tonale: www.alfaromeousa.com  Dunkin: Fall menu has returned! Lucy: www.lucy.co (STEAM for 20% off)  TalkSpace: www.talkspace.com/circling ($80 off!) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

all right we're back circling back podcast coming to you live from austin texas my name is will to freeze to my left david, that boy, Ruff. Lord forgive me, but it's time I returned to the old me. Thanks for having me on. And thanks to the listener who sent me this spooky bitch mug. Are you a spooky bitch? It'd be weird if I said I was. That's kind of for others to talk about privately in their own home. You're the spookiest

bitch yeah i was gonna say dave like i've been out for a lot of spooky season but you are the spookiest bitch i've ever met thank you i'm the spookiest bitch you'll ever meet oh dylan shivery ladies and gentlemen hey guys happy to be here um hey welcome back will thank you good to be here i'm gonna be the first to welcome you back to the host seat. Good to be here. We missed you. I missed the stew. We had a guest tell me I wasn't a good host.

Really? Yeah, Jake. You just sat right there. He's like, you guys miss Will right now. I was like, yeah. Oh, yeah, he did kind of come at you sideways, didn't he? He goes, Will's just really good at moving along the show. And I was like, I didn't think we were bogging that much, but apparently we were.

They wrapped it up. As a company that values transparency, I enjoy that Jake was being critical in the hosting seat himself. It was great. Great guest. I got a full night's sleep last night, boys. Really? I took some PEDs for it. I did take a Unisom last night as I knew that I was going to need to get a full night's

rest before heading to the office. It's a big day of content. I also didn't sleep after F1, but more on F1 later. What's the hangover of a Unisom, if any? There is a hangover of a Unisom. I've tried several different sleep aids in the past, David. Unisom is not my go-to. I will say that the hangover from a Unisom is probably one of the worst from over-the-counter sleeping pills that I've experienced. That's what I've heard. I think Z-Quil is actually the leader in the clubhouse for me when it comes to having absolutely no hangover, but I don't really rock that. I try not to do very many of those. Does melatonin mess with your dreams?

Melatonin gives me dreams that make me not want to take melatonin. It gives me wild ass dreams. It puts me to sleep. It also wakes me up at weird hours. Sometimes it gives me some weird dreams that if I wake up from a dream at 3 a.m., I can't go back to sleep. So I'm like, what just happened? Yeah.

Why did my brain go here? I'm not into that. I stick to early bird. That's non-spontaneous. I mean, that's what's up. You know, they're developing technology that you can actually play back your dream? I don't need that. Who's they?

My sister sent me an article. I didn't really think we could talk about it, but it kind of came up organically. I believe it's our good friends in Japan have come up with the technology. Where? Japan. Japan. How do they do that? Great question.

And, you know, probably something that i should look at before i bring it up on the show but i'll give you a brief rundown right now actually it's in vanish mode weird um not on there cool thanks kristen i don't understand can someone explain to me what vanish mode is on instagram it's it's like uh dust or what was it? Cyber dust. Cyber dust. So it makes your shit disappear? Yeah, what's the point? Anytime I've ever been in it, I have not known how we got there.

And I've been like, how do I turn this off? I feel like I'm freaking the person out on the other end of this DM that I accidentally turned on vanish mode. Is that for people who are cheating on their- It has to be, right? Significant others? I don't know the purpose of it other than that.

I just feel like if you're- Sometimes I like to go back to a conversation to have with someone. There was a time you were in vanish mode. I never knew why. I've accidentally turned it

on a couple of times. I don't know. Like, I don't really know how it's like a swipe to turn it on. It's not like some like thing that you have to go do. Like you can swipe weirdly

and it turns on and suddenly you're like, oh, now I look like a creep. I'm about to like fire off a nude to a listener that I'm responding to. It's for it's for nudes and sexy messages. Sorry to all the listeners who've gotten'm responding to. It's for nudes in sexy messages.

Sorry to all the listeners who have gotten our nudes. It's just annoying. Yeah, to all the patrons from early 2020 who accidentally saw our nudes drop. I'm going to start sending nudes to people in vanish mode so they can only get it for a short period of time. You could do feet pics in vanish mode. It's like any interaction with me. I think this might have been fake new i mean i'm seeing some some some links to such a machine the dream machine but i'm none of it's like looks reputable like

what are you gonna do go sit down on your tv airplay your dream for your like wife from last night like dude this was like there's nothing worse than hearing about people's dreams being told like at length. I don't want to watch someone's dream. A sex dream, maybe. I like to play back. Is that legal? To play back a sex dream? What if you had a sex dream with Pam Anderson, and then you're watching it on your digital copy from Japan, and then suddenly it's like, wait, you're pretty much making a weird version of AI porn?

Fair enough. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know. That's good good like you're on a boat well the sex dreams i've had i don't recall having like your dreams like of sex with people i like really want to have sex with though the coolest thing for my dreams is when i get to fly that happens like once every like three months those are sick control the flying and it's like it's just lit it's been a long time since I've had one of those. Yeah.

It would just be me watching videos of like, like trying to like fight somebody, but my punches are doing zero damage. And I'm just punching over. I'm like, oh, what's happened? Or trying to tee off at Pebble Beach and you just can't get the ball to stay up on the tee. I don't even know how to like initiate my swing.

A big dream needs to figure this out because the recurring stuff is just not cool. Don't play don't don't play as reruns when i want the new shit the golf dream that so many golfers have had is a weird one have you had that dream absolutely so many times i for me it's it's morphed from not having a backswing to me not having room to tee off because i'm left-handed yeah there's something is getting in the way of my swing where i can't get the ball to stay where i'm trying to hit it through a tight window

that doesn't exist. Either way, I can't tee off. And after I struggle for a few minutes, it's like, okay, this is one of those fucked up dreams. So I don't want to psychoanalyze you too much on the show, but do you think it has anything to do with your glaring lack of holding a handicap? No, I don't see how those two things

are correlated at all, actually, Dave. Yeah, I mean, if we have any mental health professionals out there that listen to Circling Back, first and foremost, thank you for coming down to our level. Secondly, if you would like to come on and break down our recurring horrible dreams, I'd be interested.

Yeah. I'd be interested. We got a loaded show today. Should we just start off with some quick announcements real quick? Mm-hmm. Will Montepallo is still available. Backer 20 gets you 20% off everything

from rowback.com. I got a new little pullover the other day called the fritz uh it's got some some michigans all over the the pattern i very much enjoy it i wore it during the the big blue game the other day um i did not know the play is going into the game but okay uh i did enjoy how it felt the i will say that the collar on it was stiff and I enjoyed how stiff that collar was. They got a ton of stuff over there on roback.com. Backer 20, by the way, but I would like to sneak in an announcement myself. Sneak in one.

So we have hats that are, we've teased them. They are at the fulfillment center. However, if you go to our website, the shop, washmedia.shop, you'll see it says sold out. That's not accurate. There's a sinking issue between our fulfillment center and Shopify. I'm working on it. I'm troubleshooting. I'm talking to customer service. So hopefully today that will get sorted out. Behind the scenes. Have they called the plumber? It's good. Hey.

Yeah. Not a sink issue. It's a sinking sinking like in sync that so the hats are underwater yes we're not circling a drain are we no hopefully today guys that's what i'm trying to tell you they're great hats they are dave wears he wore one to uh f1 but yeah you look fast in that thing dude you should have seen how fast it was we'll be giving out updates to any shop stuff at washed dot substack.com. Also our Friday newsletter might be sprinkling in some other blog posts here in a little bit. We'll see. But obviously everyone's here just to hear about spooky season. Spooky season resumes tomorrow. How many episodes do we have left, Dave? We have tomorrow and then the final on Halloween.

Two. It's almost like a leap year when spooky season finale falls on Halloween. Very horned. Have we ever done one on Halloween? I don't think so. I don't think so either. There's almost like a leap year when spooky season finale falls on Halloween. Very hornt. Have we ever done one on Halloween? I don't think so. I don't think so either. There's been five seasons of spooky season. So if my calendar math is correct, no. Okay. We also did our ghost tour video, which was spooky season adjacent.

Go watch that over at youtube.com slash circling back. And as always, drop a five-star review. You might get featured during Will's five-star review of the week, everyone's favorite segment. It just goes crazy every week. You just see the listener spike. But without further ado, we got some big stuff going on right now. As we all know, it's Dylan's 40th birthday today. Dylan, welcome to your 40s. Yeah, thank you. You said you got a good night's sleep last night. I did not. I woke up very early thinking about turning 40.

It was not great. So it's owning real estate in your brain. Woke up at 2 a.m. And just my mind started racing because I'm now 40. My 30s are in the past. It's weird. It feels weird to be 40. Were you just on that Game 6 six high no adrenaline dump no i

did i woke up thinking about like like oh my god i will never wake up as a 30 year old again or you know in my 30s it was just it was weird man i did that entering my 30s and like i think my 30s have probably been like goaded in terms of my life yeah uh i i certainly enjoyed my 30s had some highs and some lows uh but it was great overall i enjoyed them 40 i'm just a little like i don't know what if we could give you a little boost what like the jab we're not gonna we're not gonna give you a live testosterone shot on camera right now but what if we told you we had a little present for you um i'd be interested in what this present is um but if you guys really thought of me that's that makes my day it makes me very happy yeah i just thought you would like um some some recognition of your 40th and i thought

hey man we should we should do something nice for the guy he is a part of the show is there someone here? He's the king. I don't think anyone's here. Somebody just popped out from behind this wall. John Duda's back there. Yeah, what Duda popped out from behind the set? That'd be sick. Shout out to Cat Pat for the wide load image she sent to the group, by the way. I hadn't thought about that in a while.

That's John Duda's name. Randy, can you roll that footage? What are you guys? What's going on here? Hey, Dylan. It's me, Sammy Sweetheart from the Jersey Shore. The sweetest bitch you'll ever meet. And I hear it's your 40th birthday.

Oh, yeah, baby. Fist pumping awkwardly with my left hand right now in honor of your 40th. Nice. Now, this special birthday shout out was given to you from David Ruff. They told me that you are a sweet bitch, actually. So it looks like you joined the club right with me. But he also told me a little message that I want to just get right word for word, so I hope I say this right.

He told me to just wish you a very special happy birthday, which you deserve. It's your 40th. That's a huge birthday. So honestly, I do hope you have the best birthday ever. It's your 40th. That's a huge birthday. So honestly, I do hope you have the best birthday ever. But he also said for me to tell you to get your Zah card.

Oh, wait. Look, I'm already messing up. He also told me to tell you to play your Zah card this week and to get your drip up. So make sure you do that, Dylan. Per your friend, David Ruff. Again. Also, he included your Instagram handle. And I did look and it looks like you have an amazing son and an amazing life going on. She's been on your growth, dude.

I just want to say thank you so much for being a fan of me and for just watching the show Jersey Shore. It means a lot to me. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And yeah, just for supporting me through all these years. Seriously, thank you. And what's really cool is now I could say happy birthday to you.

I hope we're going to celebrate Jersey Shore style. I hope you fist bump over there. I hope you have a blast. It looks like you're from Texas. And I actually have some family members out in Texas. So if you are from Texas, they live in Houston. You never know. Maybe I'll be out in Texas one of these days.

But yeah yeah you rock you're awesome the best 40th ever and um your friend david just wanted you to have the best 40th ever and it's like choose me only your friend happy birthday and don't forget to tune in every thursday jersey on mtv mtv 8 p.m no days off i'm back and it's like always be promoting birthday dylanth birthday, Dylan. Yep. That is just the sweetest bitch you'll ever meet. First of all, thank you.

Second of all, she looks fantastic. Yeah. She looks great. She is like a god. Thirdly, how did you settle on Sammy Sweetheart for this? Well, when Dave and I

came up with the budget for this a couple months ago, we were like, what's the best way we can spend this five grand? And so we found her. You found Sammy Sweetheart. Well, thanks, guys.

I was not expecting to hear from Sammy Sweetheart today. It was not being critical of Sammy. Sammy is the best. That's why we chose Sammy. Yeah. But I did say from the fellas. But I got my first and last name read by Sammy Sweetheart twice, which I'm not completely mad about.

That's something that, you know, you talk about dreams. You put me to the dream machine. It's just her saying my name. First and last. She went to the Grom, but I didn't get a follow or anything. Yeah, it's kind of BS, dude. She looked at the Grom, though. She did, which I appreciate.

She probably loves that you're a juiced up gorilla. I don't think I'm juiced up enough for her. I don't know. You got some pics on there that might indicate some juice. I don't know, man. Yeah, she saw Parks on there. think she'd wait i think she likes the way you look shut shut door a follow and just see what happens maybe the sweetest bitch you'll ever meet i think get verified first okay yeah verify yourself then hit samuel to follow get on that

radar she and plain lady could be sisters yeah i mean that as a pure compliment to both of them when she popped up on the screen i was like okay who is this i saw this cameo did you think it was tiffany gomez for a second or can't we can't afford her cameo i don't know i couldn't figure it out until she started talking then you could hear it in her voice but sweetest bitch man dave the actually fellas thank you for that hey dave spearheaded that yeah i i could have figured that out yeah that's that means a lot cameos uh cameos cool i forget about cameo one of the most fun things to do is just to scroll cameo and to see who's on there there was somebody i can't i yeah who got left on the cutting room floor dave what does sammy cost by the way i don't know that's tacky 50 100 bucks yes 100 bucks yeah

that's worth it she gave us uh our money's worth oh we're gonna talk for three i want to get some there's some i want to isolate some things she said just for future use um just because it's it's great just her mainly saying uh your name my name not wills not wills not the fellows excited to hear her say your name? It was weird, honestly. Like I was like, oh, that is me. Did you look at my gram? Did you see my son and my partner? Juiced up gorilla heads.

I'm definitely not her type. You might, well, you maybe a year ago when you were at your biggest. I need to put on. Avocado Dylan could have gotten. I need to put on about 40 LBs of good good mass i did a quick look at her gram it looks like she is dating a guy who does appear to be uh is he a juice head i don't know if he's a juice head but he does look uh juiced up gorilla adjacent so she's not with uh damn she's got a lot of followers no no it's probably good yeah ron seemed a little toxic. Yeah, she looks great.

I love the fact that she hit us with that promo. She had to, dude. Yeah, yeah. If I ever did a cameo for someone and I was getting paid for it,

I think I'd throw a circling back at the end, right? You got to. You got to. Double QR code, maybe? It's time. Our boyfriend's definitely a gorilla head.

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both of you guys, right? Correct. It was. Look, first of all, thank you to the people of Alfa Romeo. They took excellent care of us. As far as company events go, when we get taken to an event or we get taken somewhere, Alfa Romeo impressed me so much on everything that they did with us. They had a built-out schedule for us.

They sent us to all the cool spots. It was just awesome. Shout out to Cara and Vince, who kind of escorted us around. They're our go-to points of contact on the ground there. Allegra as well. Shout out to them. They took very good care of us.

Yeah, it was so much fun. But you're right. They had like, you got to be here at this time. We're going to do this. Then we're going to do this. Go get some drinks. Come back in 20 minutes.

It was perfect. Got some donuts. They put us in the paddock area, which I did not realize. I knew the paddock area was a hot area to be in. I did not realize how hot it was to be there. Yeah. Like every single driver you could have ever wanted to see was just casually walking around

that area, hanging out. They just like bumping into you. Bumping into you almost. You literally almost got trucked by Carlos. I know. I did. I ran into Carlos Sainz's kid. Ah.

Truck sticked the little dude. And then he looked frantic and i was like hold on like what just happened then i when i saw them walking away i was like oh it's probably because they thought i was like yeah trying to like meet him you got to have your head on a swivel in there because you're gonna you're gonna miss somebody really important if you're not paying attention we were just kind of standing out there and i lumbered over to this little red carpet area just to see what was going on and suddenly lewis hamilton pops out of nowhere and i'm like oh my god you couldn't miss him he He was rocking just a fire fit. He gets fits off. That's what

he does. I bricked it. I bricked my Lewis Hamilton interaction. I pulled out my phone to take a camera of him walking down the red carpet. And when I reviewed that video, I did not catch any of him in the actual video. I was too busy gawking at him from the side. He has a certain aura about him. He's just one of those types. We did get the opportunity to do a little meet and greet with the Alfa Romeo drivers. Yes, we did. That was sick. Joe and Valtteri, Batas. Batas. I've been a Terry fan for a while now. I was a Terry fan when he was driving for Mercedes. I was a Terry fan, obviously, when he showed his butt on Drive to Survive on Netflix. And I just kind of generally enjoy his vibe.

So to meet him was just pretty sick. And the way that he interacted with us and the way that Joe interacted with us, I will always cheer for them during any Grand Prix. Yeah, look, they get shuffled around to these things quite a bit where they have to sit down and talk to fans and people who pay for experiences like that. So I get how it would be just really annoying after a while. They didn't seem annoyed with us.

They talked to us. They answered our questions. They offered. At one point, Valtteri pulled out his phone and showed us some boots that he got at Allen's. I thought he was – when he pulled out his phone, I was like, oh. I thought he was texting his lady. It's over.

He's texting his boys like, dude, I'm with these dorks from a podcast. I shouldn't be hanging out with these guys. And then when he flipped his phone around and showed us his boots, I was like, oh, he's in the personal camera role right now. We're in the trust tree. Nice, guys. He's rocking what looked like black snip-toe boots with the little metal insert on the tip of the boot.

Very, very aggressive style, which I respect. When you know you're going to wear the boots like one time, you can get a little crazy with them. Have y'all heard? Y'all haven't heard? Uh-uh. Heard what? I think I'm going to slide on some cowboy boots. It's about time.

Told Randy this. I finally have pants in my wardrobe that can go well with boots. What kind are you going to get? I think I'm going to go with our boys over at Takova's. I like the price point. I like the look of their boots. And I think it's a good place to start. I think it's a good starter boot for me.

I don't want to go too crazy because I don't want to like, I don't want to go spend like $1,200 on a pair of Cayman boots. Nah. Chill out, Randy. And so like, I just, I think I'm just going to do that. That's exciting news. I'm excited. Yeah, I have one pair of pants that I think are going to go really well with a pair of boots.

And so I think this week I might – or maybe when Randy is free, I might drag Randy to the store with me and try on some boots. Dude, I want to go with you. I want to do a video. I want to go to the store. I just like being in there and smelling the leather. I would be lying if I said thatry didn't inspire me a little bit and once i started realizing that i had the pants for it i was like okay it's time so it's time they the bit for these f1 drivers and they come to austin it seems like a lot of the teams they immediately go get western cowboy

wear yes and so i asked i was like y'all just have like y'all get this every time you come to austin and they're like yeah so they have in theory just like, do y'all just have like, do y'all get this every time you come to Austin? And they're like, yeah. So they have, in theory, just like a collection of sick Western gear just at their house. And you asked him, one of you guys asked him if he takes it back home with him. He's like, yeah, sometimes. Yeah, like, I don't have to. How devastating is it about the hats? We left our hats behind. We had signed Bates hats. And unfortunately, we behind. We had signed, signed Bottas hats.

And unfortunately we forgot to get them as we were leaving. I'm really hoping that we can somehow secure these hats. The garage tour was also really cool. It's not pronounced that way. It's pronounced garage. The garage tour was very cool. Although everything in there seemed extremely breakable and expensive. So they tell you not to touch anything.

And I get it. Did y'all know, like did you i feel like from the video game alone you knew about the tire strategy i'm sorry say again when you played out the f1 video game like did you learn the tire strategy during the video game or did you just like like let it automatically do it for you because when he was explaining all that i was like i'm really really annoyed with myself that i know this from the f1 2019 video game. About how they have it coded? Yeah. Oh, because it's all open air radio? Well, no, just the strategy of the slick tires versus the whatever.

I think I figured it out either from the documentary or from playing the game. Yeah. But yeah, it's interesting. They took us around everywhere. They took us to where they heat the tires. They took us to where they do the engines, which they never... Even the guys that were working on the engines that were covered those guys were still like shielding us from seeing anything yeah that was interesting that was that was crazy we couldn't

take any footage in the in the actual garage it's proprietary we don't have the tech and they don't want us to have that tech ferrari engines by the way dude they all a lot of them do that yeah cut that out kidding that's a known thing right yeah how funny would that be yeah you get a call in trouble oh they got we got uh they're doing the qualify the qualifier for the sprint race and we got to listen in on the radio from the garage oh yeah we were just straight up in the pit with headphones on doing that i had no clue what was going on. I asked Dave before because, uh, Lewis and LeClaire got disqualified after.

And I asked Dave if he saw the FIA guy inspecting, uh, Terry's car when we were sitting in there. I didn't notice it. Did you notice it? No. It made sense that you wouldn't notice it because there was so much going on, but I couldn't stop getting distracted by the guy.

He was just kind of walking around the car, looking at scoping it out and doing it really this thing i was like man that's the scary thing to have in the garage if you're there garage the uh headphones and the little the thing that it was connected to um the radio yeah the radio what um i kept i kept looking down to make sure i was on like microphone off mode because i was like what if i accidentally like hit a button and i'm like accidentally accidentally talking to Joe or whoever's out there driving? Yeah. That would be the funniest onboard video of all time if Dave just hops on and starts chopping it up with Joe. Dude, how's it going out there, man?

What are you seeing, man? Watch that turn six, Blair. Dude, my lap is going to be so hot later. Yeah, do the hot laps too. It was very interesting going to the bathroom and just like walking by drivers going to be so hot later. Yeah, I do the hot laps too. It was very interesting going to the bathroom and just like walking by drivers going to the same bathroom.

That felt weird. Like Yuki popped out of a stall in the bathroom like as I was walking over to it and I was like, oh, what's up Yuki? Oh yeah, also Batas called us out for having beers

before 11 a.m. or whatever. No, he liked it. He said he respected it. Yeah. We were sipping on that Singha. It's good. It's a good beer. It was crispy.

It's a good beer at 10.30. Is it weird that y'all had a slower lap than I did? That I qualified higher than you guys? I don't think that's accurate. Is that true? Yeah, we actually, me and my guy did such a fast lap that they actually gave us official points for it. You got lap of the day. Really? Yeah. I actually, me and my guy did such a fast lap that they actually gave us official points for it.

You got lap of the day. Really? Yeah. I didn't realize that. Yeah. That's crazy because they were saying that I had the hottest lap. Really? Dylan kept on calling it a thought laugh in front of the Alfa Romeo people.

I was like, Dylan, stop, dude. It's not funny. I had him pull over at one point. I saw some baddies in the stands so I can holler at him. No, he just kept going. Really? You were able to pinpoint baddies? Yeah. I said, hey said hey see those three right there i did think it was funny that for your hot lap you did it uh dumb and dumber style or no ace ventura style and you just put

your head out the entire time yeah man how hard they have to break on the turns was it was crazy well they're not race cars so they had to like break numerous times and it's like i really hope these don't go out he was he was downshifting and braking at the same time did it concern y'all when they had to like uh take the blowers out in between laps and and like cool down the car cool down the brakes yeah um it concerned me that they had the same blower that i have in my garage right now it's a little battery blower which i think is is are you gonna start cooling down your brakes when you get is that what when you slide home in your jeep is that the point so you guys are cooling the brakes angles yeah didn't really do much i can't imagine that the 10 seconds

of a leaf blower blowing on those brakes does anything but it made me feel cool just blowing like it's not even cold air it's blowing air was there any moment that you thought like uh-oh like for you like during the hot lap that we fished out at one point a little bit we did too we did too which i i actually i loved that i wanted to feel a little danger we're gonna put we have uh very produced videos of our onboards so i'm sure we will post those in some capacity on the uh washed media uh or on the uh circling back instagram i'm glad we didn't try to bring our gopros is that was that tossed around we we thought we were like because we didn't know that they were going to have cameras,

and we certainly didn't know the level of production of the video we'd be getting. And if we brought a – it would have just been funny. If we're like, can I stick this little GoPro on my hat here? The helmets were dope. So I knew I needed to get a bigger helmet, but by the time I made that decision, it was kind of like you can't go back now. And my cheeks were just squishing in into it it was just not a great scene i could use a bigger one too well you got a fucking huge head though my head is larger than most yes thank you i just want to get out in front of this if you see some moisture on my face um running down

my cheek it's not actually tears of sadness it's it's tears of adrenaline look it up like they say like the people with like the most testosterone and the most adrenaline like often will have to like release some of that because your body can't support it so it releases it releases it in the form of tears so that's why it looks like i'm crying okay it's not because the driver was playing fast car by tracy trappan he played the other version i was like dude y'all hit the aux no i didn't get to play the turn the radio on if you if you get in the car and he throws you the aux and you have like 10 seconds before like what do you even put on free bird going to like the

four minute mark uh the only like so i've only been to jackson hole once so what i'm talking and it was for work so it wasn't a bougie trip. But as we were descending in the plane into Jackson Hole, which is in the middle of a mountain range, you're pretty much going straight down, it feels like, at one point in a commercial jet. And I was listening to Freebird at the time. And the way that I felt, I felt invincible going into Jackson Hole, listening to that guitar solo as we went down. That's sick. I'm going Kenny Loggins.

I get it. Both of those are top picks. I had the Aviators on. Y'all saw that. My lap was fairly silent. Honestly, I wasn't sure how much I should bother him even though he's a professional driver. It wasn't Terry or Joe, but it was – I think his name was Dan. Just some dudes.

He was tight. But mine, I don't even know if we'll post the whole video. I'm very silent. And it's funny. I joked to Dylan. I was like, I don't think I've ever seen a video of me having that much fun for that much time. And I'm like, wow, I really was kind of just taking it all in.

Also trying not to blow chunks. It's a fun track. That first turn is just straight up. So cool. It's up. So cool. It's great. So cool. If anyone has an opportunity to go to an F1 race, just go do it. Yeah.

It's really cool. It's a Port Afro Mayo. Turns out it's very loud. When we were – so they let us – after the garage tour, they let us – garage tour, they let us go out to the – The pit lane wall. The pit lane. The pit lane.

And then like there was a point where they were revving the engine of Terry's car. There were cars flying by us behind us. And the cyclone of sound that was happening, I was just like, dude, this is so fucking cool. They were also practicing their pit stops while we were doing the pit lane walk. And what do you call the tool they used? It's called the... Yeah, that thing. That's a cool sound too.

Hey, that was pretty good. That was good have you been working on your sounds yeah yeah first that laugh or spook you know the do it again that's what it sounds like you try it now i'm gonna try it ready mine's faster they do have some quicker ones yeah yeah yeah that was good that was a fast change yeah dude like one that was fucking impressive dude will. Yeah, that was good. That was a fast change. Yeah, dude, like 1.2 seconds. That was fucking impressive, dude.

Will Record. That was fun. Did you all see any coverage from yesterday where you were like, damn, could have rubbed elbows with these people? Yeah, so we didn't get to go out on Sunday like we originally thought we were going to. And there were some heavy hitters out there yesterday. I saw a photo of Prince Harry standing in the exact spot that we were just kind of lingering in for a majority of the day. We got to let it linger.

I thought we could have linked and built with Prince Harry, but it just simply didn't happen. Obviously, Marsden's like a top pick for anybody. It's just Marsden. Rory was out there the day we were. Didn't see him, but he was there. Adam Driver was there all weekend. Oh, he was? Yeah. We saw Chloe. What was her name? Chloe...

Dallas Cowboys cheerleader. Randy, do you know the name of the actress that we saw? Someone spotted her. I didn't know who she was. Chloe Grace Moretz. Alyssa was very familiar with. Yeah, I've seen her in some stuff. She's in Zombieland. Dave and I were just total narps, just being like, I'm not really sure she looked very approachable she looked very nice every single

person in our area looked approachable because it was just like a it was a pretty chill sitch everybody was very very much like uh not in awe but like very like oh this is awesome yeah like no one looked like they weren't having a good time who is the e course former e correspondent that was out there yesterday with alpha uh daisy fuentes oh wow daisy fu that was out there yesterday with Alpha. Daisy Fuentes. Daisy Fuentes was out there? I don't know. I'm not sure. I'm not sure.

What was your favorite item from the Alpha Romeo lunch buffet, which was absolutely bussing with good food? Y'all stole all the tenderloin. Yeah, buddy. Me and another dude from Alpha had to wait for it. Okay, tell me what I should have done there. There were two pieces of tenderloin left. No, you had to.

And I wanted to eat some meat. You can't leave one piece of tenderloin. It really good the tenderloin melted in your mouth it was really good yeah do you have any yeah that's why we were just up there hovering and you're waiting we looked at the rest of the line like dude we're we're not going anywhere it was all good i i piled my plate i could have gone back but i didn't want to be like that guy the guy in front of me took about four giant really good looking pieces of tenderloin. I thought he was going to take it all and just leave me out to dry. And he left me two really shitty pieces.

That little shrimp dish was good too. Dude, it was a whole vibe. With the capers in it. Whole vibe. Really good. Shout out to Alfa Romeo. Shout out to everybody. Shout out to Terry and Joe.

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keep my ear to the streets and i hear buffalo wild wings happening um you got to dive in and i'm not sure that i'm happy with what's going on this actually happened in september but i think the the pr team of b-dubs did such a good job of kind of dampening the story that we didn't actually get it in the mainstream media. Did you know that there's one member of Washed Media, at least one, who's never been to a B-dubs? Who would, is this Brett? Nope.

It's me. It's this guy. You've never been to a B-dubs? Never. We had an ad deal with B-dubs at Grant. Oh no, you had just been like, oh. Oh. Wait, really?

Yeah. Yeah. We missed the B-dubs bag? Yeah, we did a full 12-person B-dubs lunch at B-dubs after you guys were let go. We missed all the good shit. What the hell? I felt like ass after. They were waiting until Dylan got let go.

They're like, all right, now let's do it. That guy's never been. He doesn't know what it's all about. I cannot explain to you the lack of energy at the group lunches that we had at Grand X after y'all were let go yeah it was just zombies just hanging out y'all no gas well a tweet was sent to uh one of our group chats this week we've got several watch media group chats about someone getting topped off at a uh at a b-dubs and i was like well that seems normal i think they do all you can drink soda i was gonna say yeah you just fill

your drink back up yeah What does that mean? Apparently, the kids these days use topped off as a slang term for oral sex. Oh, come on, kids. Be better. Damn, kids. Freaking kids. They're freaking with that, John. Are you serious?

The original tweet was about a gentleman who was trying to get topped off, as the kids say, at a B-dubs. And this was all through the subreddit. And so I decided to go into the subreddit, or I decided to do a little more research on this. And Randy, if you could cue up some of these. It's a little inappropriate. So if you're around children, please cover their ears. Ooh.

Do you guys want to read some of these to me? I think Dave should read these. Is it safe to go to B-dubs? Dry, ashy penis. Where to go? Somebody sucked me. I'm wondering if anyone knows B-dubs girls in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, SD. Pro tip, waitress, tipped? D, question mark, topped. I don't know what's going on here. One user questioned, if I go to Buffalo Wild Wings, are there going to be people clawing at my waistline trying to suck me? Okay.

I'm saving myself for marriage, so I'm just making sure I'm okay. So did this get posted in a subreddit, and then did Reddit just completely take this and double down and triple down and quadruple down and has been running with it? Here's one that says, my three daughters all work at B-dubs in Lubbock. My wife is a manager there. Should I be concerned? The B-dubs in Lubbock? Is that what you said?

No. B-dubs where? Because if it's Lubbock, then yeah, you should be very concerned. Yeah, this one does not specify which location. Okay. Somebody has edited a menu to include 10 boneless wings plus fries plus bj for a thousand calories oh by the way i sent you that column um b-dubs and blowjob day i don't know if it's gonna get posted on yeah we should post that during a major ad deal that we

have like we did at pgp can we tell that story have you ever told that because i didn't realize someone always wanted to jump on that shit at Grand Action. It drove me insane. Someone posted a photo of a B-Dubs interior, which has made me realize that every B-Dubs interior is the exact same. And it just looks like the one from my hometown. This says, nobody inside, nobody outside. Do I check the nearest hotel? Already popped a blue chew. D is throbbing.

Shout out to Blue Chew, I think the former Touching Base sponsor. This guy showed up ready to go. Robbing. Shout out to Blue Chew, I think the former Touching Base sponsor. This guy showed up ready to go. I love the internet for a lot of reasons, but I really enjoy the fact that people just decided to start piling onto the B-dubs Reddit, and then B-dubs corporate definitely had to have a conversation about this. Backing up a bit, when Touching Base, when we had that Blue Chew sponsorship, they sent me so much Blue Chew. I don't think I ever got any.

I have a cabinet full of Blue Chew that I haven't but now that i'm still have it now that i'm 40 who knows does it expire does it have an expiry date i don't know you should use it for like uh workout purposes that's a banned substance right you get in trouble if you're an athlete just to get bricked up while i work out what does that blood flow for me? No, blood flow. Okay. Think about it. So someone said, they gave contacts in an anonymous account and said the sub was normal slash boring

slash barely active a week ago and someone posts claiming a girl gave him a blowjob in the car park and Redditors found that funny and are now pretending

like there's this whole established underground thing with B-dubs. It's like an off-menu order. I was originally going to holster this and use it for my first, for the

return of touching base to conspiracy podcast and and question whether or not b-dubs is a brothel but it seemed to be it seemed to be just uh all hearsay i feel bad for the uh for the people currently working there who don't you know just minding their business trying to earn a buck and people are making jokes at their expense you don don't think that there might be some more people walking in the doors when they hear about this? Like, I'm not trying to say I'm trying to get topped at B-dubs, but B-dubs wings sound better to me right now than they did three days ago. Okay. You mean because it's being publicized or they want to be a part of the bit? Here, pull up the B-dubs menu.

Pull up their sauces, Dylan. Since you haven't been there, you don't have a familiarity with their sauces dave i'm going to assume that you know there's their sauce menu by heart um you sit down to b-dubs right now and you got an unlimited credit card you got a gift card there that's just unlimited what do you what's your order what are you going with um all right i got the sauces here i'm going garlic i'm going um traditional hot and honestly those are my two. Ooh, Thai curry sounds good. Thai curry is good.

Nashville hot, jam and jalapeno. Ooh, Nashville hot's a new one. Original buffalo. Original buffalo you can't go wrong with. Mango habanero. Blazing knockout is a new one. You got to be careful. Honey barbecue, Parmesan garlic, teriyaki sweet bbq i don't know if this is a

psycho move but i would get their potato wedges never had they used to cover them in cheese i don't know if they still do that so i'd slide into some of those then i think i'm gonna go about 16 wings i'm gonna split them eight and eight are the wings good i'm gonna go asian i'm gonna go boneless in this scenario. Better than pluckers? And I'm going to go Asian zing and spicy garlic. Nice. Spicy garlic, boys.

You know, the first time I met KJ in real life was at the Cedar Hill, Texas, Buffalo Wild Wings. We sat at the bar and we just talked about like, hey, we were Twitter friends. That's actually where I met Sally for the first time too really yeah yeah we just we looked into each other's eyes and just wiped each other's faces off with uh napkins okay because we had you know sauce all over them it's really sweet that's cute that's a meat cute now look at you a literal meat more of a chicken cute that's a literal meat cute cute. Yeah. We're cute. You're cute. Happy birthday. Oh, thanks, man. Cool.

Are you going to B-Dubs for your birthday? No. Parks wants to go to Home Slice. Well, it's not his call, so. Well, I let him pick. It's your call. It's just the two of us tonight. We're going to Home Slice for Din Din.

So you're doing what Sammy said and you're playing your zalkar i am just because sammy sweetheart said so and because park said so so okay i guess we'll just go to lunch or dinner somewhere else yeah i'll just cancel the reservation for the pool at pop and we're doing dinner friday we go to perry's or something yeah pork chop yeah doing dinner friday well maybe see about it oh man you gotta show up you don't have to but i would like for you to what if i show up with sammy not like as a date but as a friend that'd be that'd be excellent what if you went on a date with sammy at sammy's wow wow you think you live in here and be like can i can i take you to dinner here show our sammy's you should. That'll get her to Texas.

You should do a post on Instagram and you should tag her and acknowledge like, hey, thank you for this. Or we will, we'll do it. We'll post that video

on Circling Back. Send me the video. I'm going to send you the video. I'll post it on my shit. Yeah. So you're not going to get topped off at B-Dubs for your birthday?

No, that's probably not something I'll be trying to do this evening, especially since I'll be with my son. You don't know what the night's going to do. I'll be with my son. It'll be a whole thing. That's a good point. We'll probably just enjoy some za at home slice

and then call it a night and go home. I heard Prince Harry hit the B-dubs after the F1 race. Yes, I did. Yes. I chop it from Kota to Slaughter. Was Megan with him? I don't know, dude. I don't care about her.

I don't either. She's in suits, though, and I'm tearing through suits right now. Why is everybody going through a suits renaissance? Because Netflix is putting it front and center. It's not a good show.

It's entertaining. Especially since Abigail Spencer's on there. Ooh-wee! Well, the new Jennifer Lawrence film on Netflix that dropped this weekend gets the Sunday Scaries rom-com seal of approval. It is rated R, so be careful.

Because there's a scene where Jennifer Lawrence is fully nude. Fully? Dang it. Fully nude. Not a stitch of clothing. I will say that if your ears just perked up and you got a little excited, it is not a particularly sexy scene.

Is she painted blue? Yeah, she looks like an X-Men character. So from the backside, she's like going full frontal. I don't know how I can explain this to you, Dylan. All right. It's a funny scene. That'd be aggressive.

She's a really good actress. I love her. She's really funny in this movie. And it's like it comes... It was not... I expected it to be a shitty rom-com that I enjoyed. It was not a shitty rom-com. It was a good rom-com that I ended up enjoying.

I'm going to check it out, man. Yeah. Check it out tonight. What's it called? I'll look it up. Is it bad? I'll get back it called? I'll look it up. Is it Bad Teacher? I'll get back to you. Let me look it up.

Remember Bad Teacher with Cameron Diaz? Yeah. People were really obsessed with that one. Never saw it. I am going to go see Killers of the Flower Moon this week. You want to go with me? Dude, when I found out how long it was, I'm just not going to watch that movie, especially in a theater. Too long. I'll probably long it was, I'm just not gonna watch

that movie, especially in a theater. Too long. I'll probably run it back. I did read the book famously. You didn't. I did. The Jennifer Lawrence movie

is called, I read, No Hard Feelings. It's a Jennifer Lawrence-led R-rated film about a 32-year-old woman who was hired by the parents

of a 19-year-old boy to, quote, date his brains out. Opened this week to reviews that were perhaps unsurprisingly mixed. by the parents of a 19-year-old boy to, quote, date his brains out. Opened this week to reviews that were, perhaps unsurprisingly, mixed. That's a good movie review voice you have there.

Thank you. That is a good... Have you been working on that, too? Yeah, I spend a lot of my paternity leave workshopping stuff. Just doing better sounds. Yeah, I got tired of updating the soundboard, so I figured I'd just teach my mouth to do it. i got nothing else okay i got nothing else on b-dubs blowjob situations let's talk lucy how about that like i love lucy no lucy is the uh tobacco-less

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In one day. Did you hit a mid-hot lap Lucy? I actually did have one for the hot lap. It sounds like the time to have a Lucy, honestly. I I actually did have one for the hot lap. It sounds like the time to have a Lucy, honestly. I popped a Freshie in for the hot lap. A Freshie for the hot lap. Yeah. So they have pouches.

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Nicotine is an addictive chemical. Paternity leaf. You know your boy was on it my second ever second ever paternity leave yeah did you go dealt this time around or what yeah yeah i talked to a couple houses um some good dudes yeah i got a few bids really yeah congratulations yeah it was pretty cool it was pretty cool. It was pretty cool. I did spend way more time on campus during this paternity leave than I thought I would. Okay. I went to campus numerous times. Okay. I even thrifted on campus, surrounded by college kids. You thrifted? I sent Dave a text message. I got some film developed one day. Intern Callie sent me the way of Lago Vista Film Lab on

campus. They will develop your film and send you high res prints within an hour. Highly recommend. Very cool. And so I went there and I decided to thrift one day when I had a little time during Fritz's nap. They had a spooky season shirt that I wanted to get Dave, but it would have looked like an Arby's polo on him because it was just fucking huge. It was a cool shirt. I would have worn it.

If you were trying to thrift in Austin, Texas, going to campus is is a great place to do it those stores are absolutely overflowing with dope shit but i'm not here to talk about thrifting on campus okay i will say that as someone who's now had two uh paternity leaves it's nice to have one under your belt going into the second one i'm excited for you to enter yours dave. Yeah, I have a full head of knowledge and I'm looking forward to it and being able to appreciate it more the second time around. It's a little easier the second time around from an anxiety perspective.

Yeah, doing it all over again without as much anxiety sounds delightful. Like you have proven that you can keep a human alive. So far. Thus alive. So far. Thus far. Thus far. I have been taking Fritz on his little scooter out in the parking lot lately. And I'm like, dude,

I'm going to kill a car if it gets even remotely close to him. We've got, uh, we've got roads. So aware of cars that he is scared of the movie cars. Like, like the, you know, cars it's on Disney plus. Oh, the movie cars like like that you know cars it's on disney plus oh the movie cars yeah he's like uh he won't watch it he says the cars are scary and i'm like dude did we go too hard like warning him about vehicles he just doesn't like lightning queen dude i know i'm like i've never seen it he's out on lightning watch it interesting yeah i'm gonna say this about uh round two of

paternity leave week one absolutely electric you feel great you're riding the high kids just like feeding the entire time just kind of sleeping the entire time so you have nothing to worry about a new little bambino in the dude it's it's it's lit and then week two hits like hits you like a ton of fucking bricks and suddenly the sleep catches up to you kids crying more kids having more sleep issues and suddenly you're just not sleeping the worst night of sleep that i had that entire paternity leave was after f1 the other night went to bed at about probably 10 slept for four hours and then didn't get didn't get to sleep the rest of the night that's tough it's just not ideal yeah did uh did sally play the okay you've been having fun all day card, so now you get to step up and take care of the kid? I have learned through Fritz that when I return home from an

event or something, if there are children awake, if there's a child awake that you can't, I just roll in like, hey, all right, I'm going to hop in the shower, got to go dad mode. This paternity leave, I did have more time to think, to know, to sit around and just think about stuff. And so what I spent most of my time thinking about was food trains. Hmm. What I found was that there's certain ways to do it. There's certain benefits to the food train. There's certain flexes that people do in the food train.

You guys ready for my food train flexes? Yeah. We had probably the biggest food train flex that I've ever seen from somebody. I highly recommend having a child during Texas OU weekend when everyone from Austin is driving up to Dallas because we had just an absolute overflow

of kolaches from Check Stop in West Texas. I thought you were going to say that brought you like deep fried PB&Js or deep fried butter. Fried Coca-Cola. Would have. Would have. Or some Fletcher's hot dogs. I'm going to give my award right now to my, I'm going to give the trophy over to the people who had the single best food train run for us.

And that was the kolaches from West Texas, Check Stop only. And that goes to my sister-in-law and my brother-in-law emily and ryan it was just an all-time move from them they even hit us with some uh some pumpkin kolaches which were just delightful does anything travel as well as a kolache no i feel like you're getting the same quality how do you guys heat up your kolaches at your house everyone's got a different method it's been a minute since i've done that so i don't even know i wrap it i wrap it in paper towel and i put it in the in the microwave for 25 seconds and it seems to do the job for me okay you know quick yeah that sounds right

all right uh i will also say uh the one of the biggest flexes you can do on a food train if you're doing this for somebody is just by simply getting them dessert i've had more cheesecake in the last two weeks and i've had my entire. That's what you told me the other day. I'm just feasting on cheesecake constantly. I didn't realize how popular cheesecake was as a dessert option in Austin, Texas. Apparently, it's a big dessert option at every pizza place in Austin, Texas. Not opposed to it. I think I gained probably five or six pounds over this paternity leave.

Daddy loves cheesecake. It's one of my faves. It's in my top three. We had someone do an ultimate flex on us. I flexed so much that I had to waste food. I don't like wasting food. You guys know that about me. I'm a Clean Play Club perennial member. We ordered some potato salad. Sally and I

both got some sides of potato salad with our meal and our friend decided to get us the biggest thing of potato salad I've ever seen. See that water bottle you have right in front of you, Dylan? This one right here. That's how big of a thing of potato salad they got us. From where? Local foods, downtown. I still have never been to that place. Goated potato salad in my eyes.

It's just so good. I have, I ate so much potato salad that I simply couldn't eat anymore. It was coming out of my ears. That's a problem. But upgrading someone, if someone has two common sides,

then you upgrade them and get them a larger side. It's such a J.R. Hickey, nice touch. My final, my final flex that I think is actually a larger side. It's such a JR Hickey, nice touch. My final flex that I think is actually a great one, the Ruff family actually did this. The gift card. The DoorDash gift card, the Postmates gift card, the Uber Eats gift card, that is always welcome to anyone on paternity leave. It's just a great thing. To anyone who gave us food, it was awesome. We have too much

food now and I'm going to retire from our food train. I love that. You just get forced to play your Zot card so many times, Dave, that I'm worried about you going on paternity leave. Yeah. I feel like I'm going to have to look at it, see if there's an exception carved out for paternity leave. Yeah. Do they have like a grace period after you have a kid? There should be a month grace period. All I want is either delivery service gift cards or tuna melts. It's good. Homemade tuna melts. Yep, yep.

I can do that for you. I kept on – Sally was like, why are you on the patio? It's 2 a.m. And I was like, well, I thought Dave might be making gumbo this weekend, and I was kind of hoping he might stop by. She's like, just go to bed, Will. It's not happening. Just go to bed. Well, this weather has been – it's been in and out of hoping you might stop by. She's like, just go to bed, Will. It's not happening. Just go to bed.

Well, this weather has been, it's been in and out of gumbo weather. Yeah. If every morning was like it has been, then every day would be gumbo day. God bless, man. Mornings have been great. Today was a nice, I mean, it wasn't very cool, but.

We got some good rain. Decent rain. How was that rain last night, boys? I missed it when I was on my over-the-counter sleep drugs. Quiet. I didn't hear any thunder. I couldn't believe how wet everything was this morning when I took Rosie out.

It's a nice feeling, right? Stella does not like to go out and pee when it's raining, but she's going to have to learn. We still went. You could just let her piss in the house. No. No? No, that ain't happening.

To everyone who reached out any listener uh who reached out and said congratulations thank you so much it was really nice hearing from uh so many listeners and so many people pumped up that we're having a second kid it was awesome dave you're gonna feel an absolute outpouring of love from our listeners when when number two happens for you looking forward to it yes i i am too i'm uh i'm happy that how much older will uh charlie be than uh or fritz and charlie two and a half years okay fritz is two and a half right now he's handled it pretty well that's my next question there's a sleep regression that will occur dave that uh maybe it won't occur but fritz did not nap for like the first week so it made it really fun.

Got it. Yeah, really fun. Every sleep regression that has been, that people warned me about for Rhodes has come to fruition. So I just assume that's going to happen too. I just say if something happens, I'm just like, yeah, probably a sleep regression.

I love throwing it out. Every parent just nods. Or, oh, it's a leap. Yeah, they're growing. Their brain is growing. Oh, oh, it's a leap. Yeah, they're growing. Their brain is growing. Oh, okay. Cool. Makes sense.

The doctor said that he thought Charlie's brain was the biggest he's ever seen on a baby. Really? Yeah. Just super smart. Wow. He was like, dude, this brain is fucking crazy big. This stuff is so in my rear view mirror, like the raising a newborn stuff. It's been eight years, man.

Almost nine, actually. I kind of forgot a lot of shit, man. It's crazy. rearview mirror like the the raising a newborn stuff it's been eight years man almost nine actually i kind of forgot a lot of shit man it's crazy it's just not as easy as i remember it being it's okay though yeah it's fun hey did you party i partied it's a big party weekend not only did i party in the paddock not only did i do a hot lap right shout out alfa romeo um yesterday we did something we went to a one of my son's classmates birthday party y'all get a ton of invites to classmate birthday parties i'm very jealous this one was unique in that they sent out the invitation to all the classmates. We had never met these people.

We knew of their daughter, but just from Rhodes, kind of name dropping a little bit. But we'd never met them. And we never, honestly, Alyssa knew one person at the party, but it's a weird dynamic going to a birthday party for someone you've never met. You're like, oh, yeah, Rhodes is my son. You don't know who knows who. Dude, it's the new version of not knowing anyone at weddings. Yeah. And hanging out there and just trying to feel out who wants to be talked to and who doesn't.

That's exactly what it felt like and luckily like great hosts they they did pine house pizza that is such a flex they had like uh they could have gone yagis or something they went pine house they hit him with pine house which was a nice touch um they had the every not a not a not a light beer to be found you would have been you would have been in heaven it was uh craft brew central in a big old fall beer season yeti cooler oh yeah let's go you're not brown for your 40th or what no man i haven't had one all season actually what's your problem i don't know somebody caught me uh i was they had the dead red zone on on their in their living room somebody caught me like looking at my

my fantasy thing and like they walked by like how's your team doing and i was like you want to know not good yeah i was like you see this number right here that's my team see this one that's the other guy's team he's like oh yeah even got some unsolicited dak takes. I was like, great. Let's talk DAC. Let's do it. They weren't positive. No. They weren't positive. No, I get it. But I will say they had the very, very large inflatable bounce house that also has a slide.

Any water involved? No water in this one. That's good. They owned it, which you can buy these for not they're not nearly as expensive you would have told me like 20 years ago longer than that like oh dude you could buy one of these i always said oh it's thousands of dollars to own such a thing they can get it for like a few hundred bucks like a big one a big one you should go for the stew it's just bigger than the stew it's about stew size randy would be so annoying if we got a bounce house you would get

any work done. No, he wouldn't, dude. He'd be in there all time. He'd be sweaty at like 3 p.m. Yeah. No work getting done. Woke up one morning to a bounce house

inflated in our fraternity's formal room because some of the, some guys told the pledgers to go steal a different fraternity's one. It just blew up in our formal room.

That's so frat. That's life when you're a motherfucking that is so bad man brothers for life dude y'all had some good guys y'all weren't like top tier but y'all had fun man i went to one of y'all's parties one time i wasn't there long but it was cool yeah y'all weren't y'all dave's right you guys weren't considered top tier but like you guys threw some fucking awesome parties solid alumni yeah solid alumni like if one of my boys were gonna rush with you guys i'd probably tell them like you know you gotta take what you can get but like at the same time like you're gonna have the time of your freaking life that's live when you're a motherfucking frat star damn do you black out of this party yeah that's why i look like shit today i figured the broads have a good time

he had an awesome time oh we encountered a kid a couple years older that was being um a little difficult uh they had the um it's like a it's like a roller coaster track and there's a little like little four-wheel vehicle that you can sit on and you kind of push them they go down they go it's fun like, like Rhodes was enjoying pushing it back up the track and he had a kid like walk up and say, let me do it. You're not strong. Oh,

them's fighting words. Yeah. Uh-uh. Yeah. No. I told my son he wasn't strong. That's bullshit. And at this point,

we're like, hey, he's like, he's like two and a half, man. We were at a kid's party recently and they had, they had like the same bounce house thing,

but they had a water slide on it. And so there was a lot of water involved. And at the end of the water slide, they had like a turret that was a water gun. And this one girl at the party just turned around the turret and started spraying all the guests with it constantly. And like my dad, my dad instinct started kicking in being like, what's, hey, you got to stop. I wanted to tell her to stop. But then I realized like, hold on.

No, this is hilarious. Like I'm just going to, I'm going to get out of her line of fire and I'm just going to watch her do this. It my chaos yeah it's like i don't care yeah drench drench someone dude dave you'll find yourself getting uh really defensive of your kid when you see other kids like pick on them yeah this happened to me a few times and i'm like i get that you're four but i will i will drag you out of this place if you try that shit again just full full real bros of simi valley man like two years ago parks was at a birthday party and he's he got

grabbed some pizza and sat down in a seat and this kid walks up to him and was like that's my seat and would not leave parks alone until he got up and moved i'm sitting there like i want this kid's parent to see what's going on so he can correct his behavior because if he doesn't do it real soon i'm gonna have to take it into my own hands and it's gonna it's not gonna be pleasant he's being such a dickhead to parks so parks gets up and moves he's eating pizza with like tears in his eyes and it's like no one should eat pizza that way it makes it made oh man it's tough and parks is he's like smaller than pretty much every kid so they're like i got that to deal with too. It really, really bugs me.

Did you get the name of the family? No. Have you thought about hiring like a guy? This kid had like an asshole haircut. He had like a mini mullet situation with like a line on the side. Okay. Okay. Your parents just want you to be a dick.

So it was like baby Gronk. Yeah. Baby, baby Gronk. Did you addicted like baby gronk yeah baby baby did you beat up baby girl i would how far could you why don't you just hire a big four-year-old to beat up the kid i made i made eye contact with this kid and i gave him like a you better look out buddy buster yeah he's a loose cannon make my son cry because he sat in an empty seat get the fuck out of here dude that kid probably had played his Zod card at least three times that week too.

Fuck him. Loser. Loser. Have fun, dude. Getting your card revoked. Should we stop cyberbullying this four-year-old? Yeah, maybe. Okay.

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say that that's what we did what if i told you there's a war against us oh i don't know whose side i'm on what if i told you that somebody's against the influence well there's a brooklyn restaurant uh that has banned influencers. They don't want photography and TikTok shoots. TikTok shoots I totally get because it's really disturbing. It's irritating. Well, DAE, D-A-E, is a new design shop and cafe that opened in Carroll Gardens this summer that has meticulously curated space with no laptop policy.

This did not stop, quote, hordes of influencers armed with tripods who descended upon the shop in recent months. This has caused them now to write a message to everybody saying that, hey, you're out. It says TikToks and Instagram photo shoots have gotten a bit out of control.

It's free pub though. It is free pub. Like what's the line here? Do you want free pub from people that are insufferable with their tripods? Or do you want your place to be a chill spot that people don't fear like being, you know, viral for just sitting there drinking coffee? If you pull a tripod out at a restaurant though, I get, I get it. Like that's, that's kind of over the top. I follow an influencer who's very public about how she does it. I'm not going to at her because I don't really trust

her content enough to hang my hat from it. She gets a little controversial sometimes. But one day, somebody was doing an AMA with her and they were like, how do you influence in public without feeling like an idiot? And she was essentially like, well, you don't. You just kind of have to commit to it. And she showed what she does and it was just setting up a tripod

in a coffee shop. And I was like, oh my God, dude, that is the most shameless shit I've ever seen. You have to commit to it and she showed what she does and it was just setting up a tripod in a coffee shop oh and i was like oh my god dude that is the most shameless shit i've ever seen you have to be totally shameless did you all see the guy that went to target that was getting roasted yeah like it's good that dude set up a tripod in the checkout line of target oh and then walked out of the store and had to walk in and get his tripod dude he like, that was like the fifth cut he did. He set it up all over the store and then in the checkout line and then on his way out. I didn't think he deserved to get as dragged as he did by Twitter because I thought he kind of went crazy with it. Dude, that's too shameless.

Our man went to Target though. You better hope that more restaurants don't implement this in Austin, especially you, Dylan. Why is that, Dave? Well, didn't you say that you you bring your tripod with you everywhere you go okay it's true you didn't have to take it it's true you didn't have to go there with it no i don't i don't you know what i say try our pod everyone else did wow that's really good i thought about getting a tripod for uh recording golf swing

i didn't get one i thought about it though i did the co-owner of this said people were coming in and literally doing photo shoots they would just get one drink and stay for two hours shooting how is this like i know this is more of a public nuisance but like that's is that that much different than getting one drink and sitting on your laptop for two hours taking up real estate is that the Brett? Is that what Brett does? Sometimes I look at people and I'm like, dude, you have not taken a sip of your coffee in so long. And you're sitting in like position 1A of this coffee shop, my man.

If I'm a restaurant owner, manager, I wouldn't want that. I mean, some places do have rules against like opening laptops and just hanging out there for hours on end with like one or two cups of coffee you know how like at whole foods here they have like the the little parking indicator lights that go red and green so you can see from afar if there's an open spot i think they should have those at cafes and when once your light goes red you have to get up and leave yeah put a time limit on it my laptop won't like keep a charge for more than two hours so i can pretty much know that if i go without a charger, I'm just in there for probably a quick, quick little sip.

Yeah. I'm trying to think if I've ever violated that. Like I I've definitely, if I'm bringing my laptop somewhere, which I don't do often, I almost feel like I have to like over order. Yeah. I don't know.

You know what I mean? Yeah. Otherwise I'm just there just using their wi-fi the most railed out i'll get on coffee is when i'm at a coffee shop working and i feel like i need to like sit down and drink coffees to keep the the employees happy over tipping just so they don't like god this idiot's over here just with this headphones on austin's probably a bad city for, you know, if you don't like influencers, but I've, as much as we've gone to dinner,

I mean, maybe it's because we're doing it and I don't realize it. I don't really see that many people that are like obnoxiously. New York's way worse, dude. It's gotta be. New York's like everyone on the streets doing it. Like you'll see people with certified tripods

out in trendy areas and it's just the worst. There's videos like that have come out recently. There was a video that I saw recently where a guy's standing on a corner and he recorded one person on a tripod over here one person over here and then another person doing a selfie video it's just like what are we doing guys oh my god it's black mirror worst we do is just take pictures of food like that's it yeah we're not the tables yeah i mean once yeah if you if you see some sizzle coming out of the back of matt's you see us all just get our phones out and start going crazy. Which is common.

Like, no one bats an eye at that anymore. Who the fuck doesn't record their fetus coming out? What's the point? Get off your high horse. What's the point of ordering it? Yeah, you order it so people turn their heads and look at you and they're like, holy fuck, these guys are tight. Y'all going to sizzle on Friday?

I could be convinced. It's been a minute since I've sizzled. I mean, if it's a big group, I'm going to over-order so that everyone else has to pay for it. I've been told there's some new menu updates. There are some new items. What? Menu items at Matt's El Rancho?

New ones. The two that I both got, a spicy bob, which is instead of ground beef, it's fajita beef, and they have grilled jalapenos. What? Spicy bob? Yeah. Spicy bob sounds lit. We're going to have to try that.

And then also a pork, an al pastor quesadilla, which was phenomenal. I feel like that's got Dylan's name on it. It was delicious. It's in the appetizer section, but it's priced like an entree. You like pork?

I just got it. That sounds dank. I love al pastor. Yeah. Every time I go there, you always hit that al pastor. Randy, think of this huge update. It was great. You should be al from home improvement dressed as a pastor for halloween did you try the spicy bob yeah it was good it was good i would it's priced a little like probably

i think five or six dollars more expensive because it's fajita beef and i liked i think it was good but if i were to go back i would just get a regular bob just okay because the price but it's fajita beef. I liked it. I think it was good, but if I were to go back, I would just get a regular Bob just because of the price. But it's worth trying. It's worth trying for sure. Hey, Will, if you or Charlie are having trouble falling asleep,

you should just go back and listen to Coffee Friday, but specifically just the parts where Randy's talking on the mic should really help you. Randy sounded like absolute shit on Saturday at that point. Yeah. Friday was the like absolute shit on Saturday at F1. Yeah.

Friday was the worst I've ever heard. Like what? What is with your vocal cords, man? Are you just screaming? Just got J-boned. Do we want to talk javelinas on this golf course or what? This is sad. I know.

I think you know how we have Save Muni? Just like the charity that just supports golf courses. I think we need to have a foundation that we start that keeps wild pigs off of golf courses. I've never seen such an egregious tearing up of a golf course. It's really sad when you see the groundskeeper put up the video and be like, if anyone has any tips, let me know. That guy is just down bad. How do you even go about fixing that? You have to lay a new sod down, don don't you the membership cannot be happy about this well they i mean what are you gonna do i mean do we all regret singing dame mas javelina back in

the day because they're just coming out in full force now yeah i mean i've thought about it like did we have a part in this i mean this thing is wrecked yeah dylan that's what happens at golf courses did you guys ever have anyone like as a kid like mess up with your your local golf course and it was like a big deal like we had someone do a donut on a green at one of the golf courses in harbor springs and people were not happy about it that would that never worked into uh our shithead behavior that is the most shithead shiphead or shithead behavior it just shows that not only do you not respect golf you don't respect grass

that's a very good point very well managed this course looks nice I know I need to know what course this is in Arizona they probably got

some low fees right now I think do you get relief from javelina tracks that's gotta be ground under repair top comment is are these areas

not treated for grubs then the same guy says we treat for grubs what does that have to do with it at all because the javelina are treated for grubs? Then the same guy says, we treat for grubs. What does that have to do with it at all? Because the javelina are eating the grubs. Can I ask you guys, am I the asshole question for something I did

when I was in Michigan playing golf with my buddies? We were playing for very low stakes, but we were playing for money. So I'm not saying that I'm not without guilt. But I had a mud ball in the middle of the fairway and I was like, I'm not hitting a mud ball when I'm playing with my I'm not without guilt. But I had a mud ball in the middle of the fairway, and I was like, I'm not hitting a mud ball

when I'm playing with my boys on vacation right now. So I picked it up. Dude, I did it. I got absolutely roasted by all of them. You did? And for the rest of the round, I was still getting roasted. And I was like, I get it. But at the same time, if you guys want to pick up your ball

and clean it off in the middle of the fairway right now, I'm absolutely okay with you doing that. Local rules, Will. Come on, man. you shouldn't have gotten roasted who was it was it tube socks tube socks no tube socks wasn't the leader he wasn't the leader of it it's classic tubes though dude that is a torn up fairway that's why i mean if anybody's seen the video of dylan's 12 foot putt at his bachelor party that he drained, there's a reason I hit such a subtle gritty. 112-foot putt. I respect the course.

That looks like the range when you're done, Dave. No, when I'm flushing it. You don't even take divots? No. That's sick. That is so sick, dude. Really? It's a poor golf course, man.

I don't even play golf, and I feel bad for it. For your birthday, I set you up with a handicap. You got me on the gin app? Yeah, yeah. I spent the a uh a handicap you got me on the gin yeah yeah i spent the 45 to get you on the gin app and so i'll be logging your scores for you when was the last time i played golf it was probably it was probably klein's wedding it was yeah it was which i don't remember you playing i remember you had a stretch on that where you played incredibly yeah i think you smoked me on the back nine like you should just maybe play more i don't know about that yeah i mean i just yeah i could i could get decent if i actually played it was a cheap round of golf yeah don't like

climbing here this it's only a small loan yeah well guys thank you for covering for my ass while i was out i really do appreciate it it feels good to be back in the uh back in the teamwork dream back in the driver's seat it feels good it feels good yeah i was you know what i i used to kind of dread doing it but now i kind of enjoy it just kind of feels like a it helps me be on my game more it's kind of fun when one person's out because it changes the entire dynamic of the show a little bit and it it just feels a little different it's kind of it's kind of fun sometimes but uh yeah back tomorrow with spooky season tomorrow episode four season five they always say four is where you hit your stride.

We'll see you guys later. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye.