Circling Back - Dua Lipa Split the G

Episode Date: June 30, 2025

Dave and Will are talking Bezos nuptials, their Weekend in Fun, Producer Randy's wedding content, a new Mattel Rancho's Beer, Dua Lipa splitting the G, and FDNY's "frat house" behavior. Special shoutout to Brett for popping on. (19:21) Recapping This Weekend in Fun (1:02:00) Matt's El Rancho collab beer (1:23:30) FDNY "Frat House" behavior Support Our Sponsors: Rocket Money- Cancel your unwanted subscriptions and reach your financial goals faster with Rocket Money. Go to RocketMoney dot com slash CIRCLING today Fitbod- Get 25% off your subscription or try the app FREE for seven days at Fitbod.me/STEAM. Squarespace- Check out squarespace.com/steam for a free trial, and when you’re ready to launch, use OFFER CODE: (STEAM) to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All right, we're back. Circling back podcast. Welcome. My name is Dave, video optimized. Joining me today in studio, filling in for Dylan Chivory and just back on his BS, Will DeFries. All right, we're back, Circlingling Back Podcast coming to you live from the Wash Media headquarters

in Austin, Texas. My name's Will DeFries. Thank you for that intro, David. How are you today? Delightful. Delightful. It's been a vibrant Monday morning. Um a lot of people said Randy's gone. Dylan's gone. The two techiest guys in the company.

You guys aren't going to be able to figure out video. We'll crack out bad news. Dude, don't speak too soon. Yeah, you're right. That's a good point. This would normally be an opportunity for me to shit on Dylan and ask what he would do if he were tasked with figuring out the video for this, but I don't know anything about producing long form video in this way.

I was impressed that you were getting a tutorial from Randy on Friday before we left. Yeah, I thought I had it down and I came in ready to just make it happen without having to reference any notes or call him. Turns out Randy being the overachiever, he printed out step by step process on, he didn a little bit different. Turns out Randy being the overachiever, he printed out step by step

process on uh he didn't hand write it. Now, he typed it out for me which is very helpful. So, shout out to Randy. We only had to call him once because we're looking for a little micro micro SD card. That's where it holds the data. I

don't like calling people when they're on vacation for their job but when you. But when you're the only person at a company who knows how to do what you're supposed to do, you kind of have to expect that you might get one day one just to make sure that all the I's are dotted and the T's are crossed. Yeah, that's fine. And then we won't have to call him again.

He sounded like he wasn't doing great. I don't think, he sleeps in. He still knows how to sleep in as he as he should yeah, I'm happy for him You know how friend of the show Landry just had they just had their first baby. Mm-hmm So he was in town for ASTAC guys wedding shout out to a stag guy and missus a stag dude major I think that was the most talked about wedding of the weekend Yeah, I mean like it was getting a lot of lot of vibes on the TL

but Landry He I Think he tried to sleep in And I think he realized like you don't really get to sleep in anymore Even though your kids not here because he was here solo Like I think he was on the on the road Like ready to rock it like 9 a.m. Yeah, I've been up since 7. I naturally get up at 630 now Because our our one-year-old has gone from sleeping in until 8 pretty much every day

Which I know I was blessed for for that time. Damn. I'm just getting up at 630. It's clockwork. I would take a that's so nice Oh, I I wouldn't take just eight. I would's clockwork. I would take a that's so nice. Oh, I I wouldn't take just eight I would take 730. I would take 715 Yeah, we've entered the so he had that stretch where he was getting up at like 530 for like three weeks and that was hell Even though that's not I mean most people there There's a lot of babies that that's just when they get up and it's not a problem But like he he just hit switched it up. He switched up on us and out of nowhere It's like well now 530 is happening. No

That's when that's when I might just start like sitting outside of the room to make sure that like nothing bad is going on Watching on the cam from bed and just be like hey, this might just be your hour playtime until about 630 haus Yeah, just in there just saying like the three words, you know, or whatever over and over and over again um but yeah, it's um It's leveled off. We're good. We're in a good spot, but um No, dylan today, he'll be back wednesday

We did dude always on vacation. I I don't want to say anything but like He's not only always on vacation, but he's always just like running around flailing around the beach Flopping his hands around running all funny. Like I know that's an old like an older video I think it's like from last year when they did this trip But if he posts another video of he and parks running into the water and he's flailing again It's gonna be it's gonna be ugly dude. Is anyone overthink running like him then it's in it filming the next run video why is he okay putting a flail video on the timeline but not a slonk video on the timeline is it time to talk slonk-a-thon Dylan's not gonna like slonk-a-thon but I don't I don't really see a scenario where it doesn't happen.

There's been some talks about, look, we've got this video of our friend Dylan eating eggs and we tried to put it on the TL and he mashed the button, he pulled the card, he said, no, you have to delete it. He was threatening. Ever since then, people are like hey we really want to see this video of Dylan eating eggs like I totally understand why and then it we kind of were talking about it over the weekend like we need to just post it but what if we like made like a charitable donation like we did like a

telethon but instead of like telephones it was just Slonkers or something. There's some slonker component to it We raise money Everybody wins the backers get to see what it looks like a guy just housing Hard-boiled eggs and then charities get their money. I think it's a win-win Yeah, like he can't deny the charity aspect of it. That would just be really fucked up of him. No.

It's honestly, I had people ask me in my DMs if it was out of touch that he was eating that many hard boiled eggs during a time where the egg prices were just absolutely soaring. I hadn't thought about that. I don't thought about that. I don't think it's a pretentious move but I I do think people are throwing that term around in the DMs. He just

needs to like own up and get a chicken. We talked about getting a chicken in our house. Not seriously but like there's people in our neighborhood who have chickens. Dude. And I'm like I just I feel like it would be a total beating. I was

offered a chicken recently. Okay. My my mother-in-law has several chickens and she's got a really cool chicken coop. Like she loves taking care of them. They're like children to her at this point now that all her kids are out of the house. And something happened and like they had a bunch of chicks and she asked if we would like one and Sally did not immediately say no. She's like, oh, that could be like a good thing for like the boys, blah, blah, blah. I was immediately like, absolutely not. I'm not having a bird on my property.

What am I supposed to do? Have a front yard chicken coop? Yeah, I was gonna say the way your home is set up, you have room for it obviously, but like it's also visible to the street. I'm just gonna, it feels exposed. I'll just keep buying eggs. I also reap the benefits of my mother-in-law having chickens.

And so anytime she comes to our house, she drops off a dozen eggs for us. So like, if I'm getting that delivery service for free, why would I have a chicken in my yard that I have to like clean out? I'm not gonna clean out the coop. I don't even mow lawns. Yeah, and you're on the hope for like,

you gotta protect against snakes. Oh dude. Boxes, coyotes. I was out there one time when a coyote got to the chicken coop and it was an absolute massacre in there. Man. Dude, I was, not to ruin this weekend in fun,

I was walking home, or I was walking from a concert venue to a bar To get an uber from the bar as getting one at the concert venue as hell And it was me and the person I was with and then one other person sitting at a picnic table Just like eating something and a coyote just sprinted in front of us. I Have never seen a coyote It could have been something else the person that was with us said it was a fox, but I know it wasn't a fox.

It looked like a really skinny small coyote that just sprinted by us. They're pretty mangy. It looked mangy. Damn. Wait, where was this? There's a coyote. Campus, dude.

There's coyotes on campus? I don't know. It had an animal in its mouth. Oh, it did? Yeah. Oh yeah, it's almost's a coyote. Campus, dude. There's coyotes on campus? I don't know. It had an animal in its mouth. Oh, it did? Yeah. Oh yeah, it's almost certainly a coyote. Yeah, it had an animal in its mouth. And it just like, it just came up

out of like a little brushy area, ran across the street in front of us between us and the picnic table, and then kept going. And all of us looked at each other like, what is that the most wild animal you've ever seen in Austin? Probably. I don't animal you've ever seen in Austin? Probably. I don't think I've ever seen anything

cooler than a coyote in Austin. Armadillo's. Were you here when Dan was here a few weeks ago? Yeah. Okay. Yeah, he is. He's a pretty wild animal. Shout out to Dan.

I'd say Dan should go as liver king for Halloween and just like fake it out, but I also don't want to I don't want to The liver King stuff is a little too depressing right now. Yeah, that story got like went from like, oh God arrested you can try to fight Rogan and then like you just kind of like peel back one layer and you're like, oh It sucked seeing a tweet that said that there was a quote-unquote manhunt going on in Austin for liver king It was like oh my god like Circling back. This is the most circling backstory we could ever have and then once I went to his timeline and started watching his videos I was like, oh man can't

Can't really kick my feet up and make fun of that very much. Yeah um We had a we had a clip a reel And I didn't I and I launched it on Twitter. I didn't post it on Instagram, partly because we just posted one. And then also by the time it was ready to post it, other stuff had happened and it was just like,

oh, there's really no point in this. We were already extremely late on the Karen Reed thing, which people pointed out. And it's like, dude, it's a regional thing. We thing we didn't know people I had seen stuff about Karen Reed but I do think it was very like Northeast until the documentary came out and then everyone sat back acting like they were like they knew everything yeah like us really Dylan and I I'm not opposed to watching that documentary now, but you know It's kind of like watching Titanic like I know how it ends now. Yeah, you do

So like why would I watch it? But now now it's like, okay Well, she didn't do it than who did and like, you know, you have your ideas but like, you know what they call that a classic whodunit People in the house a lot a lot of unanswered questions but like I people in the house a lot of a lot of unanswered questions, but like I Think I feel like with that it's something where like when I see like I'll see a headline like ooh a real mystery. That's interesting

But I know if I like read one article on it That's good I'm gonna be committing to like five hours of content ten hours of content Yeah, you know what I mean? It's gonna be much more than me just reading one article So like there's a a purposely for a long time. I did avoid it until Dylan brought it up on the show Yeah I'm not a true crime person these days. That's just not not really how I want to spend my free time. I Had this conversation the other day about with someone just that someone brought up horror movies And he he said I'm absolutely never gonna watch a horror movie

for the rest of my life. And I was like, yeah, I feel the same way. Really? If I have free time, I will watch a horror movie with comedy elements to it. Like I hear that 28, I think 28 days later had some funny moments. So I could be mixing it up with another movie.

Yeah. But no, I think I might be thinking of Cabin Fever. Did you ever see Cabin Fever? No. Oh man. be thinking of Cabin Fever. Did you ever see Cabin Fever? No. Oh man. Who's in Cabin Fever? It's, I went and saw it alone, I think, I saw it alone in high school because all my buddies were at like a band thing and I was not in the band and so I decided to do it.

Cabin Fever is absolutely hilarious. 2002. Yeah. I was right in the wheelhouse too. Yeah. Okay. Hey, guess what? We did our first patron only coffee Friday last week. We're going to be doing that once a month on there and it went really well. Will you

popped on? Um it was what Dylan wasn't here but it was just me, Brett, Randy and uh we'll talk about some stuff that we there's some things we need to follow up on basically mainly with Randy but you can try patreon free for seven days check it out as always we do listener voicemails on Thursday 888 618 4422 and then tomorrow we are dropping exactly five minutes that

Dylan and I pre-recorded last week So we got you covered tomorrow if you're a big Dylan guy or gal Also dropped washed weekly on Friday. That'll hit your inbox at like 6 or 7 a.m. Depending on how I'm feeling Well you contributed last week what you write about you you sent that out early because I was I almost sent you a text In the morning saying hey, I actually want to add a couple things to mine. Oh, my bad. No, it's OK. I appreciate that, because Dylan sometimes schedules it out for like 830.

And I'm like, dude, we got to schedule this out earlier. Yeah, I like to hit that inbox early. Yeah, exactly. What was your column? I read about shaming dudes who are reading in public, because there's been an epidemic of people Photographing dudes reading female literature in publics calling it performative And I think it's a I think we're I think we're down talking the wrong people

Even if these dudes are trying to get laid from reading a female driven book in public I still think that the offset of them learning something While reading is a net positive for society as opposed to them just not reading and just being douchebags. Agree. These sound like allies to me. I would like to award ally points to all of them. What was the last book you read in public? I did think it was a flex. I finished Graydon Carter, his book, when the getting was good. I finished it on a plane the other day. I went from page 100 to page essentially 400,

all in one sitting. And I feel like a scumbag saying this, but I was kind of hoping that someone around me would be like, damn, that dude just went in on that book. What a smart man. Dude, that guy's eating. I just didn't want to like purchase wi-fi and I didn't have anything downloaded on my iPad that was like that watchable for me at that moment. Like I can't download Love Island on my iPad

even though that's all I want to watch like on my iPad. But like I don't want to be the guy on the plane watching Love Island. No. Like imagine watching like one of those challenges where they're running around kissing people and making out like all lubed up and then you just have like a family of four next to you. Was this a famous fight we had on the show about watching Love Island or The Bachelor on a plane? I feel like we got into an argument.

Maybe. As a show one time. But yeah, I think we just, no, can you imagine watching like the, what's it called, the heart rate challenge? Yeah. On a plane? Exactly. No. Exactly, dude. Did they just do the heart rate?

Are you guys in Casa Amora in USA right now? We're past Casa. Hey, play that Love Island Boys theme song. I actually, I meant to talk to you before the episode because I thought that it would be a good segment for you to convince me to catch up on USA and I would convince you to catch up on UK. But I also think that you're in a better position than me and I should just be catching up on USA, not vice versa.

USA is hot on Twitter. There are like exposés, there are people like overthinking it, I love it. We've got like corporate accounts doing hudda memes. Huda, hudda? Huda. Huda. Huda. Yeah. Yeah, no dude, they're everywhere. Like I have, my sister hit me up last night, she's like, y'all need to, I know it's a little late, but y'all need to do one. I was like, thanks. Shout out to Kristen. She's a she's gonna be one of the classic characters of Love Island, I think. She is just she's a survivor. I don't know if she how she will be remembered, but she will be remembered. And I think that's

important. Okay, so on UK, there's a girl who, spoilers, pretty much was the first eliminated, and she was a motivational speaker. Okay. In my head, I'm like, how are you so young that you can be a motivational speaker? What life experiences have you had that allow you to be a person that can tell people what to do? Okay. And so I decided to look it up. I feel bad saying this, but I decided to look it up and

see why she was a motivational speaker. It turns out before she became a motivational speaker, she was one of those fire dancers who would like blow fire. Not laughing. Dave's laughing. I'm not laughing. Dave's laughing. I'm not laughing. She had an accident during a performance and got burns down her, which I then could see on the show and I was like, oh yeah, she does have this burn on her. And now she's a motivational speaker and I couldn't help but think, do you need more life experience than a than a fire dancing experiment

gone wrong she seemed nice that's not what I was expecting she was just a lot she she did something in the villa that you shouldn't do which is enter with motivational speaker voice it was just like yeah you're you're being a lot right now dude the motivational speakers are just on LinkedIn now. That's all LinkedIn is. People just like testing out their motivational material. See, I've just always been more of a Bluetooth speaker guy. Let's see, that's why you are successful. And if you're a motivational, if you're into motivation,

then you already own a Bluetooth speaker because you're generationally wealthy. When she came on Love Island, did they have her sleep in a van down by the Casa? That would actually be preferable in some scenarios. Is that for real a fire dance accident? Okay. It's not funny.

Like I don't want people to get burned fire dancing, but I just think that going from that to being a motivational speaker is like such a leap that you're kind of skipping some parts of the process here. I was thinking like a trauma that came from like an assault or like a time in the military, you know, things like that. Yeah. And I'm not here to rank traumas. Certainly not. That would be bad content. Ranking trauma.

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You thrown off? No. You should have just sat where I'm sitting. I've been thinking about it all weekend, because I haven't done this weekend in fun in a minute. So I had a big weekend. My weekend started Thursday night. I went to a concert for Austin's premiere, Grateful Dead cover band, Dead Eye. Never great when you show up to the concert

and they immediately say that the rhythm guitar player is out sick and there's not a replacement for them. But I have to say they were very good in the first set. And then we had an absolute dog of a guitar player drop in for the second set after he finished his set at Saxon Pub down the street from our studio. Oh, that's cool. And so he came in and like lit the place on fire. They were great. It was a really fun show. So wait, this band is a spin-off from

Touch of Trey. I think they might have existed before Touch of Trey actually. I've never seen them before. Touch of Trey, explain the difference. Touch of T tray is a fish grateful dead Cover band in Austin. Well, I've seen a couple times and I don't you know, I don't I dabble they're great. They're really good Yeah, they're really good And then the dead eye dead eye has a couple guys that are in touch of tray But they only do grateful dead music and they're they're like they're very very good. I was very impressed with them You know had a couple beers went went to Bill's Oyster, friend of the pod,

shot up my friend Stu and his restaurant, Bill's Oyster. Great burger. He wasn't there, my buddy wasn't there, my old roommate started the restaurant and he wasn't there, but someone in the restaurant must have recognized me. We ordered six oysters to split between two of us and they brought us a little

Seafood platter I felt so special damn it went it went hard, too Friday low-key, dude, just made some flank steak on the grill I Let my bluetooth speaker do the talking. Oh, yeah, so my new move my new move for the grill is to hang my bluetooth speaker off of it Oh, yeah, so my new move my new move for the grill is to hang my Bluetooth speaker off of it and Select a song that is the perfect amount of time that I need in order to flip stuff So for flank steak for tacos, I've discovered that you know Anywhere between eight and ten minutes is good for me based on how big a piece of meat this is Okay, so halfway through the song. It's all right time to flip once. I'm done. We're good Not much to going on there chill night at home watch some love Island caught up a little bit on UK

Saturday Had a little boat day action in the morning went to Went to the dock hopped on the boat went straight over to Ski Shores great spot. It's all local celebrity. I Saw Sam Taylor Saw her from afar It was one of those moments where like I saw her and it was like it was like actually seeing a celebrity in the point

I was like, holy shit, Sally, look over there. Did any part of you think like, if I got a pick right now, it would break the group test? Yeah, so when we left to go back on the boat and I had one beer down and one pina colada with a rum floater, I kind of surveyed the restaurant because if she had been sitting out near where we were getting on the boat,

I think I would have gone up and been like, hey, can I get a quick selfie? But I didn't. Who was she with? Just a friend of hers, I think I would have gone up and been like, hey, can I get a quick selfie? But I didn't. Who is she with? Just a friend of hers, I think. They were just, they walked out to the dock, took one photo and then walked back in. I was impressed with how little coverage she gave

of the dock at that moment, but I can't speak to the rest of it. I wish I would have gone to her story after. Yeah, it's cool seeing that. They say never meet your heroes though, so I stayed away. Sam Taylor if you're new here She's a local she's an Austin Running slash fitness fitness influencer and Of course the aforementioned Matt El Rancho's drop from one of her videos is how she got onto our radar the other and of course, the

I mentioned Matt El Rancho's drop from one of her videos is how she got onto our radar. Um of course, it's Matt's El Rancho but Sam did it this way Matt El Rancho's. Matt El Rancho's. Matt El Rancho's. Matt El Rancho's. So, it is

now, we now call it Matt El Rancho's to honor her. That is a great sighting. To my knowledge, you're the first one of the squad to see her out in the wild. Yeah, yeah, we've got people that are tangentially associated, but I hadn't ever seen her. It was cool, man. It was cool.

So when I famously, in New York City, when we spotted Starlight from the boys, and I got up to Liquid courage to go approach her and she was with her friend who I believe is her makeup artist and asked for a pick and you know even asked if I could sit down and they were very nice and let me sit down and took a pic and I had shake voice it was very bad but got it well I from afar yes from afar it looked like it was fine but the funniest thing was turning around and seeing like

Alyssa and Sally, like the their faces were just like, oh, my God. They were expecting. It's my favorite photo from the trip. Yeah, you are. They are just they are so afraid of how it's going to go down. Yeah. But anyway, like I really think. It would have been very funny for you to go get that photo and then like post it and then for her to realize Oh this guy like because she probably follows scary. I got I got scared. I don't think she does I got scared that

She would know that we had made Matt's El Rancho a thing Or Matt El Rancho as a thing. I'm sorry and She would be like you're the assholes who make fun of me and you're the reason I no longer do my podcast and I hate you. She's not doing the pod anymore? No, she's not posting clips to it. I'm worried that all the uh I'm worried that all the comments that said podcast equipment needs to be more expensive eventually got to her. Not from us. People say that to us sometimes. Yeah.

Well, mostly it's that white men don't deserve podcasts. We did it before all the other white men though. We were some of the first white men in pod equipment. Well, I ended up on our trip back from ski shores over to the docks, I ended up getting an offer for a ticket to go to the fish concert that night for 60 bucks GA. When I had looked the day before there are 200 bucks GA.

So I was like, well, okay, let's do this. Let's do this. I get into the concert and like, if you've, if you listen to the episode that we did on Spotify wrapped last year, you'll know that Fish was in my top five this year, even though I wouldn't consider myself to be a traditional Fish fan. Don't you really like their fan though? So like I just have an issue with some of their fans who can't seem to enjoy their music without sliding other bands Like they just they always seem to want to be better than other bands rather than just enjoy the music for what it is Like they hate Goose. Oh, yeah, they're competitive with like dead and company and stuff And it's like we're no one's no one's even in this fight. Just enjoy it. Just enjoy it

And so because of all this I'm walking this, I'm walking to our spot in GA and I hear this guy say, Will. I turn around, it's a backer. He just goes, I thought you hated Fishman. And I didn't know what to do. And so I just hit him with one of these. It's a visual show. So I just hit him with one of these. It's a visual show so I just hit

him with one of these. I just gave him the shush. I gave him the shush. Okay. And we both we both laughed and went about our nights. Yeah. Had a blast at the show. The guy that I was going with he had been 91 fish shows. This was his 91st fish show and so he was kind of my shaman throughout it to figure out where to go, what to do, whatever. If I didn't know a song, he would let me know what it was or his wife would. And I have not been in GA that close to the stage since Warped Tour 2002.

Is that where that picture's from? Yeah. And so I was like 10 people away from the band and you know with their lights showing everything it was a very cool immersive experience compared to if I just purchased a ticket in the seats and probably left early you know. Yeah. So that was fun. Then yesterday was just a wash just cleaning the house doing long or I did get to see the Battletoat bad boy yesterday at my in-laws' baby shower. How's he doing?

Great, I'm gonna say this, Michael looks great right now. Great, he had the hair high and tight, clean shaven, smiling, he had the wire bar going, he was just cruising yesterday. Good. I met D-Man. Oh yeah. Of his office. How's he the man? Like I get I get I get why people are calling him D man

He fits he fits the bill in a way so yeah, it's good to catch up with him good Yeah, no, that's really all that's really all the excitement from the weekend that I had man. I Was thinking about the I was thinking about goose because there's a guy I follow who's our who's our boy? New York City Jake He was a goose over the weekend. Yeah, and I just started thinking about Jake. Yeah, I was thinking about like Band like people who gatekeep bands like that and like don't like You know They look down on goose because they're kind of the new guys and they're a little bit,

I assume Goose is a little bit more palatable. Like they might bring a guy like me into the fold, right? And I was thinking about like a hardcore band like Turnstyle and how they kind of get that from like the, you know what I mean? Yeah. It's so funny how that happens. It's so dumb. It's so dumb.

Yeah, it really is. Like, I don't know. I just, but my take on the Fish fans is mostly because of their, they have such a distaste for Goose. And it's entertaining to me almost to like go in and click into the tweets that are talking shit.

Just this morning, I saw a Fish fan tweet, how can I get Goose off of my timeline? And it was just like, dude, why do they own so much real estate in your brain? Like these people like them, and you just have to accept that some people like them and some people don't. That's, it's like, oh, look,

it looks like Goose went through another drummer or something, you know what I mean? It's like they just- They don't make it easy on themselves. No, I don't make it easy on themselves either though. Yeah. But Goose is a good band. Don't hate.

As for me, I did a lot of what I said I was going to do in the newsletter. I did catch up on Love, Violence. I'm now caught up, which is huge. Yesterday I went back to pins, pins, mechanical. Um it is the two weekends in a row, two weekends in a row is the

arcade slash mini bowling alley slash it's just a cool air conditioned place that has uh multiple bars um and a food truck outside. A food truck I've wanted to try for like the last three years. I had my first Jew boy burger. Oh, I've heard. Dude, dude. Slaps?

So we're getting ready to leave and I noticed that truck and I was like, oh. So I called Alyssa, cause it was just Rhodes and I. I was like, oh, I noticed that There's Leroy and Lewis burger and there's Jewboy burgers and those are like the people will say and Bill's has a great burger too. I was going to say like part of the reason I go I like going to Bill's before going to concerts because it's really close You can walk they have for me and I haven't tried Leroy Lewis. I haven't tried Jewboy for me It's the best burger in town and I'm not just saying that because my roommate started the place like it's a top burger anything I don't think this I don't think a seafood restaurant wants people to rep how good their burger is Compared to everything else, but their burger is so elite that it's hard not to get so we walked over and It's like they've got sliders and I picked some up for the fam sliders for the fam. That's what kind of guy I am

and pulled up and Just went to town at 3 It's very unnecessary. I felt terrible after 3 is too much. It's too much. They were delightful They were really do they're really good highly recommend But yeah dominated pins did the mini bowling Did Sat there and just dominated the Ninja Turtles machine the Ninja Turtles arcade Mixed in a little x-men

Completely avoided pinball We realized like Rhodes isn't gonna be a pinball kid and that's fine You just got to get him an old PC and let him do it on that like like we did in our youth Yeah, that's pinball game on the PC. It was dope. What's that game called? That game was I'll find it dude great game Highly recommend pins. I will say there was a parking lot issue So they have like a a dirt parking lot 3d pinball 3d pinball space cadets 3d pinball space cadet so pins is over by our old the old Grand Ex paint factory in the st. Elmo area and

right across from it's an apartment complex and There's like a massive dirt parking lot. So there's not actual spaces So you're kind of you get in there and it's a real like hope everybody plays nice and parks correctly, right? dude one of the guys from Pins is walking around with his phone. He's like, is this your car? He's walking up to everyone in the place.

There's hundreds of people in there. Uh these are cars. There's five cars that were parked blocking in people and they're getting they're on the overcome the uh intercom or whatever. They're like if you drive a Subaru out back, a

Volkswagen Atlas, they went through like five cars. I not to doc docs myself. I do drive a Volkswagen Atlas. They went through like five cars. I not to dock myself, I do drive a Volkswagen Atlas. So you have to run out there? I double checked, same color and everything, different license plate. Thank God it wasn't me. But they were working on this for like an hour and there was a guy with his kids who was blocked in and couldn't leave for like an hour. He was not happy. I felt so bad for him. Oh yeah, dude. I got blocked into Taco Deli recently. This one right here? Yeah, the one close to our office.

The parking lot stinks. I got blocked in and I was ready to rip someone's head off. What'd you do? Did you put your hand on your hips? What do you do in that scenario? All I did was hope that whoever was blocking me was getting something to go and Once people started coming out in about ten minutes had passed

I was like I'm gonna have to go in and actually say something and ask I didn't get through court Oh, you got a big car and so finally Someone came out but the issue that I had too was that this lady parked next to me so close that if you were in My drive in the my passenger side you wouldn't have been able to open the door, which meant that she couldn't do anything from her side. So not only to get her to-go order did she climb out of her passenger side door, she then had to go do that to get back in.

And I wanted to be like, lady, I want you to know that I feel bad that you're having to do this, but at the same time, I can't move my car like it's not going anywhere That parking lot is a problem It's a problem. It's walking distance from our office, but it's like it's so hot. It's almost a little too far Yeah, it's that I just try to avoid it I did not grill I did do I tell you I'm a steel pan guy now. I've heard I've heard I've been steel pan. I saw trending the other day actually Yeah, it's trending. I've been trending as well

We ended up doing a couple New York strips in the steel pan It's my first steel pan steak lately. I've been cast iron guy But with the steel pan we're gonna try it out, just see, knew that there's a learning curve, it's hard to get that heat right. Ended up going pretty well. Good, we're in the process right now of considering changing over our pans, because we just have a mixed bag, they look like shit.

We're probably getting microplastics out the ass right now. Yeah, toxins, things of that nature So I might I might need an in-depth analysis from you at some point and I've got one update I don't know if you're gonna like I'm two episodes deep on the bear. Oh Shit Forgot the bear was out. How's car me gonna get out of this one?

Dude, what's car me gonna do dude? He's so? Dude. What's Karmie gonna do? Dude, he's so tortured. Dude, Karmie needs to figure out his personal relationship. He needs to have a discussion with himself over whether or not running a restaurant's for him. Well, I know you're a good chef, brother, but would you be happier just being a private chef for someone in Chicago? Maybe.

Do you need to get a Mishy star? Through two, well, look, here's the deal. We're gonna have to get that star. I'm not gonna spoil it. We're gonna have to get that star, H'm not gonna spoil it We're gonna have to get that star house That's kind of what we're going for. I think that I almost feel like the narrative on the Bears flipped too much People are down talking it too much now Not your boy sauce

Okay sauce watch it in like a day. Yeah, that's too much There's always one episode. That's a day ruiner Yeah, and every season, and I'm not ready. I need that to ruin one day and not retain all the other episodes for me. I have not reached that at that point yet, but I was delighted when I remembered that the episodes are like 30, 35 minutes.

And so we knocked two out last year. Did you ever watch the studio on Apple TV with Seth Rogen? I never started it. Part of the beauty of that show is how quick the episodes are and how much they pack In yeah, that's a nice touch. It's now you finish it. Did you stick with it? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, I loved it I mean, it's not like I don't think it's Season one of the bear blew season one of the studio out of the water

I'll put it that way like I'm not I don't think the studio is gonna go down as some great television show in the history Of the world. Most people who watch it though enjoyed their time. Barrett compared it almost to Curb. Okay. In a way which I think is. Like a self-aware. It's just a guy who can't help himself.

Okay. Like he just gets himself into trouble all the time. Yeah, I know Dylan was in on it. I don't know if he finished it. I can't get Dylan on anything, man. He won't do Love Island. All three of us are pretty scattered when it comes to how we watch stuff. Well, I got into Love Island after y'all and then y'all kind of... Well, you're still in on Love Island, but like I'm now jumped over to USA. It's just it's all over the place.

Well, Dylan had... When Dylan was in Love Island, he had a romantic partner who also loved watching Love Island, he had a romantic partner who also loved watching Love Island, which is almost a necessity. Yeah. Now he doesn't like Chelsea ain't into Love Island. And so he's not just going to sit around watching people snog in the villa. Yeah, that's a lot. It's a big thing to devote time to if it's just you.

Yeah. Oh, hey, babe. Yeah, you're going to bed. All right. I'm going to go watch hot singles make out for a while. Well, listen, Alyssa my wife she um She does it right. She just pops in for like the the fire pit Yeah, like she pops in at the right time. She doesn't have to deal with all like the fluff She's just like okay wait, so she knows the gist of what's going on

so she'll time like, you know, she'll shower and stuff, then she'll walk out and stand behind the couch and just like, take in the last 15 minutes of the episode, which is all you really need. Yeah. So she gets it. She got to see a lot of casa more. Well, people I don't like I don't like saying this to people because it makes me sound like I'm lazy and piece of shit. But part of the beauty of the show is being able to scroll your phone until important stuff happens. And then you can set the phone down and enjoy 100% I

Do kind of wish it was live on TV So there was there was a live tweeting element of it like bachelorette was and bachelor that was always super exciting Yeah, and he takes it out and it was also free numbers. Yeah. Oh my god You just put it's like during the Super Bowl you throw anything up people are like well That's actually a decent tweet. So yeah, I don't ret retweet it this guy's on top of it thing about love Island USA Though is that all the bods are fit dude their bods are so fit on that show I love fit bod fit bod sponsors the show fit bod takes the guesswork out and tracks your progress So you get the most out of your workout routines? No need for a personal trainer let fit bod get you that summer body work with workouts designed around your equipment goals and experience

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big game. Brett Merriman. It's his is Mike up Mike four. What's up? Hi, you can't see me but you can hear me. Oh yeah. Randy is going to be realizing. Yeah, realizing this is not the uh the optimal wide shot but we'll we'll prevail. It's still a

visual show. That's the thing. It is. You don't really need to see me. I'm I'm on the back end of my battle with the the invisible enemy Hey, why don't we do that thing that band members do when one of them doesn't have a singing mic and we just talk into the same mic You don't want to be right there with me right now. Okay, unless you want it, you know get some sort of midsummer cold Right you've been talking this cold up for like a week now. That's what I do. I do. I I'm a ten-day cold guy Everybody knows that about me Well, I'm just checking time. You don't trust me on the board. No, no, no. I'm checking time stamps because we don't have the clock going today. So I'm checking time stamps so

that people have stuff that they can reference. I knew I couldn't manage the clock and the video. I thought about the clock as soon as I walked out the door and then I was like, I don't want to go back. That's okay. It's going to be off. So okay. Apology. That's on me for that's producer week Well, right you got dunked on all weekend on Instagram by Randy. Yeah, he really was going off. I mean I'm happy Look, look bottom line. I'm happy that he made it. I'm happy. I mean he made it in time. He was early He did he did have to pay for early check-in Yeah, there's a little caveat. Yeah, caveat. They're very fine print. Yep

Just just a little $50 early check-in fee, but I'm happy I am happy for him. I just it's off-brand for Randy to pay $50 for early check-in Yeah, it's paid $50 for any I could see if Brett did that if Brett paid 50 bucks for early check-in ready, but oh He would be discussed. He would give you so much shit. He'd be like, oh, of course you dad. Yeah Why what so I I'm happy he made it? I'm not happy at all the shots. Why he opted to fly up Saturday was going to be doing something I'm like, hey man, like, yeah, you might be successful in this venture, but like, you're really risking it. And plus you're just, you're risking with like the, the mental stress going into a wedding, all that. You never like just like hurried before, you know what I mean? And I thought it was strange. Like, dude, if your boys are getting married, like I want to be in the, I want to, even if I'm not going to the rehearsal dinner Friday night, I want to be in the mix.

I want to be, I like Chicago. I know he want to be in the mix. I want to be. I like Chicago. I know he's from that area 45 minutes actually Northwest Indiana, but but I want to be in the mix. I want to go after the rehearsal. Then I'll go meet up with everybody and get beers like

that's you know, absolutely he was not doing that. Okay credit to him. He's flying up Saturday morning and we're like dude you're flying American American wheels down 11. Not the best track record. No. As someone who's flown American very recently. Say a little like average hour to hour and a half to late.

For somebody like Randy, who's been, he's been talking shit about Sally's view on weddings on the mail-in lately. For someone to have so little respect for the wedding that he's currently going to, I just don't want to hear it anymore. That's a great one. I just don't want to hear it.

That was what I was talking about in the mail on Thursday and I got and Sally who Sally now hates weddings and Randy was just like I it's like it's a an obligation more than a celebration to him especially in this case. Okay. And I'm just like I don't I don't look at it like that. We found out Coffee Friday, our patron only Coffee Friday. Had a blast by the way, thank you for having me Dave. Thanks for co-hosting, it was a good time. He was already building in and going in with the mindset that he's probably gonna miss the ceremony.

He said he's okay as long as he makes the cocktail hour. And I was just like, man that's. You shouldn't go in with that mindset. Have either of you ever missed the ceremony? I've been late. I've been late never never missed it But like the ceremony started at 4 and I had 415 in my head all day I had one where I missed it. I felt bad about it But it was out of our control traffic traffic There was a bad accident on the way to Dallas and it was just like, well,

we're clearly not gonna make it for this. Yeah, there's people out there who will intentionally miss the ceremony. Oh yeah, oh yeah, there are. I would take that a little bit personally. I love the ceremony. I love seeing how people do it differently. I love the long ones, the Catholic masses.

You like the Catholic masses? Oh, I I like the tradition of Their case to be made that if it's an outdoor ceremony in Texas in the middle of August that maybe missions Not the worst thing in the world sure we keep that I still couldn't do that unless I had an excuse Shots to client he kept it to like a 12-minute or outside Granted I was a bruise and so I was he was like less time than you guys were I was the least sweaty guy in The building so I don't care. I was toasting back there. I think I stood up I was I did full AC on the way to the ceremony while drinking a 32 ounce Yeti of ice water to get my core temperature down and

I did not I did not sweat nearly as much as literally any other guy in the building. I was so happy. Were you chasing a white Bronco by any chance? Okay, okay. AC. Al Cowlings, a reference that surely all of our audience understands.

You weren't even born then. Yeah, how do you know that? I was two weeks old. I was in California during that. Like in LA. I was in Sports Town in Arlington buying like hockey equipment with my parents and they had it on like the one TV. I was like, huh.

My mom being a Buffalo Bills fan, Niagara Falls, was very invested. Not really sure her, not really sure her OJ takes have aged well. She was a, she was a big fan of OJ. Yeah. Never believed he did it. Yeah. Not to put my mom on blast but. Damn.

Maybe we'll have her on. Call your mom in on a coffee Friday. Mom, you still think juice is innocent? Alright, Pete, juice. Oh. Oh man. You know, look. What did you think about the suit?

Because that's what, honestly, I was, I was a little worried about the suit. No, I'm, I'm happy sure. Oh man. You know, look, what did you think about the suit? Cuz that's what honestly I was I was a little worried about the suit. No, I'm I'm happy for him. I'm I it wasn't it didn't appear wrinkled. He did a great job with it. Say what he wants about

my clothing every day. I will always have a bag, always have a pressed suit and always have a immediately beforehand dry clean suit. So, suit wise, I'm okay. Say what you will about my t-shirts though. I think that is a, that's a thing you don't realize until like you're 25, 26 that you need a hanging bag. And maybe like if, maybe if you pack correctly like perfectly you're not bringing that much stuff you can get away with it. If it's only in the suitcase for a little bit. You can.

But you gotta really. You're still rolling dice, dude I'm getting the the last couple weddings. I've attended. I've gone like carry-on hanging bag and like backpack They give you the stink. I Real as if oh, yeah, you know I mean Brett you're not supposed to do that as if like the thing like that third item is is too much And so I did technically you're not allowed to technically are they right but I'm just like like put it up here there's a world where they make you gate check yeah absolutely I've done it before and that's so that's why you got

to have a kid and then you can you can use them as an excuse to have another carry-on because they can't take it away from the kid sure so just a smidge of a qualm with that I don't think a suit is really I've had to store it above before the compartment because they wouldn't let me put it in like the first-class as dangerous Yeah, so I'm like, yeah, that's that's rude. Okay, who took the picture of him in the church? I wondered if he I my last famous my initial thought was that he set up the phone against a pew and then hit that I think that's what which is a crazy Moves the angle is like up like I don't see one of his boys just getting low on the ground and doing it I think he hit him with the pew. I think he did. Yeah, I think he did too Well, I was fun. The suit looked good happy for him

Just he injected a bunch of risk into a Saturday that I I would not have now take it. It's not worth it How did you feel just taking the L all weekend? I was getting texts from good pals of the show being like, damn, Rainey's really pouring you out. Yeah, he really, yeah. At some point I just stopped to watch. I was like, okay, I get it. Thank you, Rainey.

I wonder how the knee held up. You think he hit the dance floor a little bit or he had a brace on under the suit? I think he said he was gonna go no brace. I can't remember. Or a sleeve? Yeah, I don't know man. Like, it's gotta kill Randy inside to not be able to go mix it up on the dance floor. At least, especially because he's sort of in this in-between where he's probably functioning around 75 to 80% and you know like I feel like that's where he

shines would be a wedding dance floor and to know that you can't go full 100. Yeah, it's like playing hurt right in the NBA Finals. He's a he's a dream wedding guest for a bride because a bride most brides they they want people to mix it

up on the dance floor. Sure wedding and if you see Randy on that guest list, you're like, oh yeah, well, we know we're at least getting the dance floor sure wedding and if you see Randy on that guest list you're like oh yeah well We know we're at least get the dance floor hardest at Bezos wedding this weekend If you have Leo there like Bezos did do you think you say like hey dudes coming out doing his yeah Do the can you do the thing do the tux thing that you do? I wouldn't be surprised because the the discourse on that wedding seemed to be like it was just a very What's the word like unfab? I think was going around like it just felt very Like nobody's actually friends with this guy is it yeah?

Well, that's a thing that was a big tweet going on like who are the like are you friends with these people or like just business? Are you showing face and like you're? Writing Orlando Bloom to this Orlando Bloom like I think I like Orlando Yeah, but like are he in Bezos boys inviting Orlando Bloom to this? Orlando Bloom? Like I think I like Orlando Bloom fine but like are he and Bezos boys? Does Bezos have no childhood friends that are at this wedding? It seems like it was just all A-listers. Yeah dude he's that's kind of empty inside. He probably didn't. Bezos is not going to become the richest man in the world. Bezos doesn't have a group text. Yeah like no loots? No he doesn't have

any loots. It's lonely at the top man. Damn. You think you had a bachelor party? She had a bachelorette party in Paris Staying in Paris, I don't really like Is it true that he rented out the city of Venice for this yeah, they weren't too pleased yeah I don't think the locals loved it. I had a friend that seems unnecessary There's a lot of Antibesos Graffiti around the city good

I'd be pissed at a phone party on the yacht that Why they had the phone party, but it's always but his kids birthday was his it was Lauren Sanchez is now why I get Lauren Bezos It was her sons and people were like I saw a tweet that just said hey man How'd you spend your 21st birthday party? It's like oh dude. It was sick I had a phone party with my father-in-law, you know Oh, I don't want to get gross here because Dylan's not here, you know, or my stepdad Typically well, I've seen that video

typically Phone parties are not known for good behavior. You know what I mean? Like, it's not like, okay, there's a reason that no one's doing a phone party after the age of like 20. It's like a thing. It's like spring break, senior trip, high school, then into like early fraternity years, if people were even doing those anymore because it's like it's the same reason that like dudes when they're like 17 or like should we turn on the jets in this hot tub when there's girls in there yeah no dude let's turn on the jets I know I want are you anti jet in a hot tub no I'm just if there aren't jets on like the guy that

is the first to ask about it is the guy who's trying to like play footsie or he's doing a horny play Yeah, it's a horny play Whereas like a foam party, cause it's not like, dude this is awesome, I'm covered in foam Hell yeah When the jets go on, we'll be gropin' Okay, yeah, I'm not, but Um

We'll be gropin' Hahaha I think, I'm trying to remember there was some Barstool blackout tour when they were the peak of the foam parties like 2012 to 2014 or probably even earlier than that where they just like the insurance bill was cutting their margin to like zero and Dave's just like we're not doing it. It just dries your skin out and like it's just gross. Foam parties? Yeah. I lost my favorite winter hat of all time at a phone party.

You brought a winter hat into the phone? Yeah, dude, it was like January in Oxford, Ohio. Damn. And you'll still pull the yellow part. If you saw the winter hat, you'd be like, okay, I get why you would wear this out. Was it the red brick tavern? Nah, it had a blue band with a white top

and then a ball on top and then it had just the Michigan block M right there. As somebody who grew up near Canada we never called him that. Which is insane. I never know how not even no one even said the word. From the northeast over to about Ohio skips Michigan and then to again comes back in like Minnesota and Western Canada how did it skip you guys I don't know you know what a to kiss Dave I guess but only through this show sure I mean Brett I'm glad Nancy Mace's in Michigan right now trying to defend the Canadian-American border did she take another photo op doing something

Shoot she was a Her is she the one that'll like put her on her and Christie gnome do a lot of those where they get like Amazon Costumes on and sick go in front of some like fence. Yeah. Yeah, that would be me That would be me if I ever got into politics. I would be a guy. Well, I gotta put yeah, it's like I'm going to south texas better put on some real tight wranglers. I better yeah, I gotta cosplay a little bit belt buckle and like a badge. Yeah, very unofficial lifelong lifelong guy. Do you think do you think Tom Brady? Do you remember the after one of their Super Bowls? There was just like at the post, like the video of him celebrating,

rocking like the sweatiest button down, completely stuck to him. It was like right when Fetty Wap came out, and like Trap Queen's blaring, and it's just Tom with just the whitest teeth you've ever seen, just sweating profusely, dancing to Trap Queen. Was that, am I conflating the Super Bowl parade like

yacht party where he was the drunkest guy on the planet? No, this was before that. This was not the one where he threw the Lombardi Trophy. There was a Lombardi boat-to-boat toss at some point, correct? You may be floats, right? I don't know. Ooh. Great question. It's a really good question sports science Damn, all right piece John Brinkus I'm gonna say yes. I'm not confident in that answer. Let's say no Hmm. We do have a buddy who's got one, you know, he's got to let us try right laying around

Why won't he let me wear a Super Bowl ring out? Just one time dude. He's a coward. Just one't he let me wear a Super Bowl ring out Just one time dude. He's a coward just one time. Let me have a Super Bowl ring out He won't dude. He's just won't let me cut any players He won't let me wear the Super Bowl ring And if he doesn't let us see the Super Bowl trophy floats then it's over It's probably because people don't respond to his text in the group chat When you text at a let at 1051 at night you cannot expect an immediate response from everybody the chat. I'm not going to chat. I'm going to chat. I'm going to chat. I'm going to chat. I'm going to chat. I'm going to chat. I'm going to chat. I'm going to chat. I'm

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I put it in a text I put in a text with Sally on it, too And I said she looks much more normal and proportional in real life. She looked good good for her. She looked good Good for her no issues with her torso like one of the members of this show has with a certain influencer? No issues with her torso. Not me. No, she had a great torso, man. It was not a Squarespace. Right, you're a big torso fan. Is that where you're going with that? Where would this show be without Squarespace is the question I like to ask.

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I know, you were champing at the bit. Here's the thing, dude. Squarespace rules. I didn't know how to build a website, I know you were champing at the bit. Here's the thing, dude. Squarespace rules. I didn't know how to build a website, so I Googled website template builder, website builder, blah, blah, blah. This was like 13 years ago. Squarespace came up and I was like, wait,

all these sites look better than the other sites. Their backend seems to be very easy to navigate. Are you at the point where you can identify like which website, like who's using Squarespace? Yeah, for sure. Yeah. I went with it because it was good looking and it had the best aesthetic to it.

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Okay, not with us, but we're getting there, kinda. First email I got this morning says for immediate release. Brett, that's kind of your thing. Immediate release? Austin Texas, June 30th, 2025. Today, Meanwhile Brewing Company and Matt's L Rancho announced the release of a 1952 limited edition Tex-Mex lager brewed in celebration of the 73rd anniversary

of Matt's El Rancho, the iconic family-owned South Austin restaurant. Together they have crafted a beer that captures the flavor of tradition, the spirit of collaboration, and a deep love for the city that they both call home. I'm gonna need to see this. I was told that imagery was attached and there was no imagery attached, which was kind of

a bummer. They kind of beefed it. So let's hypothetically say that we go there and we order this beer. Are they calling it? It's called 1952. I think they're calling it? It's called 1952. I think they're calling it. Let's say we get that and they serve it to us in the shaker that they use for the Mexican martinis. Oh yeah.

What are we splitting on this thing? Oh. Well, I guess my first question would be, do you think they're gonna serve it in a plastic glass? Well, based on their glassware for everything else these days, I wouldn't put anything past them. True. I would kind of like it if they served it in a tiny glass.

There's something about a beer in a tiny glass. It's kind of refreshing. What's up with those 25 cent margaritas being limited one per person? Okay, that is... It's a bait and switch. Did they cut it off after we talked about it because people started showing up there?

Maybe. Dylan made it sound like he had more than one. He definitely did. Did they just say... No, he didn't. He did make it sound like that. And then he said that they ordered it at 458. And so they could only have the opportunity to order one.

I think he said that he was willing to get more. Yeah, I just don't know if I need a mini-marg. What, like, what's the problem with having two? Let me have two. You're probably getting the margins question there. Yeah, it's not good business. No. Also, frozen margaritas just for me are a disaster.

But it's also, in my opinion, it's not good business to tell people how much they're allowed to drink That's remember Matt's try to do that to us one time. There's like a new waiter. We're like no Did I saw the gold ring guy the waiter? Oh, yeah, just walking across South Lamar When when there's like that very very obvious and safe crosswalk that has like red flashing lights Like 15 yards away from him where other people he was at the Sonic across the street with were crossing, and he chose to just walk in the middle of the street. It was such a power move, and it made so much sense.

If you've ever had the Gold Ring guy, who was like the fucking OG waiter there. You don't fuck with him. No, he would, dude, traffic just stopped. He just parted the sea. He's unfuck with-able. He really is unfuck-wittable. This says,

brewed by Meanwhile Brewing Co. with Mays, honey, and a hint of lime. 1952 is a crisp, easy-drinking Tex-Mex lager designed to complement bold, flavorful dishes and warm Austin afternoons. The can features artwork inspired by Matt's classic branding, creating a visual connection to the restaurant's long-standing heritage. If done right, this could be a big deal. I'll put it on, it's on my will to try list. My problem with Meanwhile has always been

they've put the branding before the product and as a guy who's been in beer as long as I can remember. My dad was in beer for 30 years. He's a beer guy. He just like chilled in a beer. Paradox, paradox, P-A-R-D-O-X. They built their business beer first they were running out of a garage and the success of the product and how

the quality of the product allowed them to build first a draft house and a little brew pub and then eventually the full brewery that you see now about the exit 29 in North Hudson New York beautiful facility so you're you're just you're a trust but verify guy when it comes to this. I'm a trust but, and I've always thought, meanwhile, beer was mediocre. Okay, again, thank you all for the... They do a good lager. Everything else, I've always been like, ah. But that's what happens when you just put, you know, say you get $10 million to make a brewery out of nothing.

And make it look dope, great branding, great merch, great names, all that stuff looks good. Like, oh yeah, we have to brew beer too. This could be the beer of the summer. I mean, I am more than willing to let the 1952 talk one night and just see what happens. Are you putting the lime in it? Me and who?

No, I typically don't lime the beer unless it's an absolute necessity. I don't I think people over lime things People are just they just assume Oh Mexican beer better lime it up. Try the beer first. Nah, I'm gonna lime it up I'm gonna if that's what if he so underrated red stripe with a little have you seen have you seen what Corona is doing? Yeah, it's fucking up bread What oh? Oh yeah, it's fucking up bread. What? Oh, he thinks you have coronavirus, dude. So Corona is doing something that I'm actually, I hate Corona as a flavor, like the flavor of the beer itself is one of my least favorite beers out there as far as macro brews go.

But they are doing something that might draw me in this summer. This is Vortex Bottle Ad bottle adjacent almost. Wow. They have made cans that have a wider opening in the mouth so it's easier to fit a slice of lime inside of it. Appreciate that. As somebody who tries to stuff the little lime in it gets all over the place. Okay. We need to do more bits with our beer cans and our vessels.

I don't see why other companies aren't doing this. Do you remember when Diet Millers allowed you to pop a shotgun, or not a shotgun shotgun hole but like a hole in the back so that you could drink it more easily? No, Diet Millers? Miller Lite. No. I think they get in trouble for that because people were like

gas and beers. Yeah, I don't know. Still leading in a rapid clip. I just think it was probably like they didn't they didn't need to do it. So it's probably whether they're't they didn't need to do it so it's probably so they're not gonna change the formula so it's like well how do we like every three years like just kind of like do a little do a little something yeah a little something what's it what's a I've heard I've had Mexican lodgers obviously I've had regular lodgers what's a Tex-Mex log? Why the maze? I believe that's corn. It's the juxtaposition between the Tex and the Mex.

Facts. Do they have any pairings with this? Did they mention? No. Pairs well with Mexican food. Have you heard about the new tacos there? I didn't forward this information to the group. What? Did I? Was I not on the... Is there a group text with Matt? No, this... My buddy Hot Colin sent this to me. They now have the Ben Crenshaw tacos, which takes the classic Ben Crenshaw rib eye and makes it taco form Okay, okay this this goes right to Dylan's take that every

Dish and of Mexican food is more or less the same. Mm hmm. Like meat, tortilla, take eye distance from. Um so is it a separate menu item or is it like an out like if you know you know kind of thing? Cuz I would like to know that. I will tell you. I'm pretty sure it's on the

menu. The Crenshaw ribeye is not great. Oh. The one time I had it wasn't good and look I just saying. You are a guy. Just saying you are a guy that does you like Dave and I respect this about you. You will go get a get a hunger meat at at really any

restaurant. True. Sammy's Italian food. Dave's like Lomacia, LaVaca. No, thanks. Give me give me a steak. Matt saw Rancho. He does. No, I'm good. I'll have I'll have a rib eye. If I'm going to hit my 250 grams of protein a day that Dan recommends, I mean, that's how you have to live. Can we order more name redacted for the office?

David bars? You want more D-Man bars? No, I was thinking of the name redacted protein shakes. Sally walked in from the grocery store the other day with a bunch of David bars. Okay. I looked at her, I said, who do you think we are? They're good.

You think we're Richie Rich? We can't afford David bars. Wait, where did she get those? Central Market. Yeah, that's C-Mart. Okay. That checks out. Yeah.

They are good though. They are good, but they're pricey. It's like $36 for four bars, I believe, right? That's insane. I don right is that's that's insane I don't know. I'm officially a Costco guy on this stuff Yeah, I would love to be but I just don't mean to give you my Costco card and you can just go down there and get The name redacted shakes for some reason we're redacting Sponsored the pot dude. They actually did actually did yeah drop the bag again. Why do I know? Oh?

Okay, yeah, okay, I would but I am currently timestamping for a Lovely show that's coming out this weekend. Okay a tease Love some tease. Yeah. Yes. Yeah So I will be occupied for about an hour Are they gonna send us some of this beer? I don't think it was like, I think it was more of just like... Based on how little they've ever hooked anybody that I know up at that restaurant, there's no way.

Are they mad because one of our listeners... Hypothetically put a picture on the wall and... Yeah, I mean mess with their decor. Like, come on. Spots wide open. How many Danny and Mandle photos do you need? Next backer that does that, please bring a drill and drill it into the wall. Yeah.

Yeah. Ryobi. You can make it, it's so loud in there. Of course. Just on like a Friday night. Oh yeah. Oh, I heard Friday night this week was nuts to butt every single place in that restaurant.

I can't believe it. Really? I can't believe it. What was going on? I'm officially, this is looking at you, camera. I am officially retired from going to Matt's El Rancho or Matt El Rancho's on Friday nights, unless I'm childless. I ride with that tag. Unless I can get in there at like five, five 30,

the latest with the kids, like no, not trying to stand there with that. Absolutely not. No, he was at like some dad wearing like some Howard brother out dad bumps into the kid and he's oh I'm so sorry and it's just you know it's okay and it's like I shouldn't have brought my kids to the restaurant. It's just you know it's too much man. Yeah, I'll wait that I'll wait the few hours and go to the next morning at 1130 and walk right in and have a nice little lunch there. I'm a firm believer and this this ties in well to the Friday night situation. I'm a firm believer that METS has sort of an honor system, not an

honor system but like a ranking system. So if your if your numbers been thrown in, it's better than an inner system, if you're number if you have gone there enough your cell phone number acquires some sort of like badge where you get moved higher on the list. No, they print a receipt for your table. A social currency, if you will. They print a receipt for your table that they do not leave on the table.

But when they print that receipt, it has your total lifetime spend associated with your phone number on it. Okay, so this makes sense then. My issue is everybody knows that to be seated at Matt's you need your full party there. Yeah. What's happening to me now is my number, and I'm usually as I have no kids, no dog, live by myself, I'm happily the go-first guy. So now you're getting my number. Now you're getting the nod to go quickly.

And I'm happy to do so. The problem being, they're like, oh yeah, just let us know when your party's here, Hoss, we'll get you right in. And I'm like, ah, it didn't used to work like that. I'd rather have you tell me it's gonna be an hour. Yeah. Because that's how we've always planned it.

Correct. So now I'm in a point where do I say everybody's here, get the text and just hope for the best in terms of arrival from my friends, or do I do it kinda how I've been doing it, sort of massaging it a little bit, be like okay, and then go up generally around when I think everybody's gonna get there,

and then risk it. It's tough. I wish we could go back to the old way where they're just like, all right, cool, your name's in, it's gonna be risk it. It's tough. I wish we could go back to the old one where they're just all right, cool, your name's in, it's gonna be an hour. Perfect. I accidentally reported my phone number, text from them is spam.

It says like, you don't have this in your contacts, spam and delete. So now if I put my phone number in, I get zero text from them. And so I never know where I stand. And so now I can no longer do it, which is kind of a bitch. Kind of a bitch.

But I guess my question to you both is and I've read in this issue multiple times What do I do? What do I do? Stop being the person that does it? Get a burner number a Matt's burner you don't have two phones. I don't have two phones nor do I have two phone numbers Just a little flip phone. It's like my Matt's phone It's kind of like my credit card that I only use at Matt's because. I think this is your cross to bear. I think so.

And I think I'm just going to, I'm going to start going closer to the noted arrival time and just saying everybody's there. I don't think it'll, I don't think it'll hurt you in the Matt circle. I just don't want like what happened last time I was there, right? They gave gave they called me after I hit one to say we're on our like our tables ready press one to confirm they're usually waiting for you like they're like okay get in get out

it was a good 15 minutes after and they called me and I was like hey we're coming we got seven of the nine here is that okay? You just gotta blame it on kids. They don't care, dude. They still like, it's so annoying that they don't care. Like, oh no, you need everyone here. I'm like, well, my father-in-law's currently standing outside at the koi pond with my two sons trying to, you know, get by with them.

Like, can they not meet at the tables? Do you want me to go walk out there? And then we walk out there and our table's right next to the koi pond. And I'm like, what are we doing here? Stop, just let us sit down. Come on. And they're doing, like, that little backup area

behind the counter, when there's two parties of 14 being set, it's just, it is. Just hovering, lurking. It's mass chaos. It's not good. This is my official plea to Matt's to do away with the seating that is closest outside to South Lamar, so closest to the sidewalk, that like hallway that people sit in. That's the

worst spot to be. Take that, cover it up, make it into a bar, make it into the waiting area, clear out the front of the restaurant, allow us to spread our wings a little bit. No one wants to sit there most of the time anyway. Use it as a storage space. Just segment the people off. Standing patio tables perhaps. Correct, because if you get sat in the bar there, you got people just putting their ass in your face while you're trying to eat your latas, you know?

I don't like that. It's almost as bad as a guy standing up on the plane too soon. But you always call them munchalotas. Munchalot, like a... Oh yeah, we didn't get into your weekend in fun. Yeah, no, I I started off by shouts to our buddy Blaine winning the UT summer member guest net tournament do they have a million tournaments out there I think they do yeah he said they were missing some heavy hitters so it's okay we went

he acquired one he's fine hey we got the we got the job done got the dub That that dub we did I think we tied I think was tenth gross, which is that's a good show Yeah, you know that gets you invited back to the tournament next year for sure. Absolutely. I think Matt's I think Will's right They should do away with it and do a leap Since it's a visual show. I'm gonna play this next video on my laptop with the screen here. Okay, it's of noted Dua Lipa. She looks great doesn't she? Allegedly splitting the G and I just want everyone's take All right, yeah, I mean I can tell she hasn't had many Guinness in her day I mean, I can tell she hasn't had many Guinness in her day.

On account of like her body's insane or she just is having a little bit of both? It's gluten free. Is it? And I don't think so. I don't think it is. I don't think it is. Are we not doing that yet? Yeah.

Like we need to understand that as popular as splitting the G gets, we need to have some specific rules around it. And while I will listen to any case of between the harp and the logo or resting on the G, whatever, I'll have that conversation. A conversation that I will not have is allowing people to split the G and hold it up and be like, oh yeah I did it and then tilt the glass. We're not doing that. It has to be tabled. It has to be tabled so it levels out

and you see where you're at. We've got to have standards. I don't know if this is, I don't want this to be tabled so it levels out. Yeah, and you see where you're at We gotta have standards You know what I think I don't know if this is I don't want this to be very like all eyes on me But I went through a nice little phase of sending split the G videos to our Lutz group text. Mm-hmm Should we do a super cut of those? Put it on put it on the gram Yeah, I think would actually do okay We do have a video of the five of us on the ground splitting the G at Kelly's Irish Pub.

It did numbers. I think it did well. Yeah, that's good. People trying to take Kelly's Irish Pub is theirs. I just want to say and we were there opening day. Just want to say literally with plywood holding up a window because a car car drove through the place. That's what I knew. They were a great bar when they didn't close it down Iraq's day one because a car drove through it It was like, okay. I'm gonna ride for them pretty much for the rest of my life. He's the Irish dude They know that's getting more than some

Vehicle driving through the bar to shut them down. Well, unlike Matt's Kelly's actually makes enhancements to their restaurant. Like they improve the menu. Yeah. They like do happy hours, like whatever. And like Matt's, they made the water glasses smaller while the salsa gets spicier. People were wondering if Carmich is gonna stop

changing the menu every night. Dude, I heard he got locked, I heard he got locked in the fridge recently. It was tough. It was tough. Is that still an issue that he wants to change the menu every night? We're wondering. Look, we're just trying to get, we're trying to make it a little bit more palatable, a

little less. Look at me. People, a restaurant instead of one Michelin stars will switch the menu like every three nights. Like you don't have to go every night, Carm. Yeah. He's just doing too much. It's just that he's just in a battle with himself. But yeah, to your point, whatever it is we were just talking about, like we need to just we need to start splitting the G more. And shout out to Dua, man. She just she's, whoever runs her like PR

is like, hey, we're gonna get you like to thepots. We're gonna get you out and people are gonna think you're accessible, even if you're Dua Lipa, you're not accessible, but they're doing a great job. Dance a little broken spoke, that kind of stuff. She was at the spoke. Now look, would she go to Don's? Everybody else is going to Don's. Yeah, Don's is hotspot.

Don's is the hotspot. I think she had Enough ball knowledge from other people when she entered Austin and know what to do Our tray was at Don's after the show really really well, it's funny So when we were at the dead I show that the cover band for Grateful Dead They said they were like, hey guys, sorry, but our guitar player is sick So he's not gonna be here But they're like we do have a special guest coming out for the second set. Numerous people being like, dude,

I wonder if it's Trey Anastasio from Fish. I was like, I don't think Trey's gonna come out to the cover band show. Okay, that would've ruled them. Oh, no, there was a part of me too that was like, you know what, Garth Brooks did a pop-up at Broken Spoke. These things could actually happen, but I was like, there's no way it happens

But did I stick around long enough to see of course I did these special guests you're kind of like You didn't know there's gonna be a guy from Billy and the Loopers or whatever I don't do they threw him they threw this guy into one of the hardest songs you could possibly Play like right off the rip and he absolutely crushed it. We were just standing there like okay This guy just earned our trust. I will go see him play another gig somewhere else in Austin even if it's not dead themed. This is the traditional weekend of Phish three nights at spec. Always 4th of July weekend. Usually 4th of July weekend. I'm satiated with my Phish concerts for the

year I'm good. You only have 88 more to go. You can catch that one dude. I know I've only been at two That's insane Trey is opening for debting company At the show that I'm gonna go to in San Francisco though. Okay, that's cool. Does that count? Kinda I think it counts get your get your tray in I'll probably come in a little late. Yeah Okay, I hope that he comes on stage later Hey, having not actually read the the facts of the fire department officer who is suspended for giving hot girls rides on the fire truck, I don't know what else is included in the frat house behavior, but if all it is is given hot girls rides, like come on. I think our country's really losing its heritage if we're not gonna allow firefighters who I think are the most like across the board Net good

Yeah, I mean they're not mustache rides, right? Come on. Come on. It's the fire It's the fire truck it's like if you know with firefighters You got to look within it yourself like firefighters are they're doing the good fight You know like no, that's no one's got beef with firefighters They literally fight fire let the boys have hot chicks on the car every once in a while on the truck Oh, wow If I drive by the one down the street from our office the fire station And I saw like these guys entertaining a bunch of hot girls. I'd be like hell. Yeah, of course

It's better than like they what they you just want them to sit around playing pickleball all day. Now, which these guys do by the way, my question being what is the like is the outrage around like what if they get a call while you know, Jerry's running around on the truck with a bunch of like

a bachelorette party like does he bring him out with him and he's like, alright, it's time to fight fire. It's suit up. I just don't know if I trust their abilities being very untrained. Can I read you this quote? It shows that the frat house atmosphere

of FDNY firehouses is still strong when they feel they can pick up a group of badge bangers and give them a- Badge bangers. Lights and sirens ride through the neighborhood, a veteran department member said. Badge bangers, man. That's tough.

I didn't know that was a thing. No good What do you say lot lizards? What do you think like NYPDs comeback is? It's not cool to ride around a police car, right? No, it's not in fact. It's kind of it's kind of the worst Yeah, it's like what are you doing? I've always wanted to do a ride along but my my fear is that if something goes down and I'm just pot committed at that point And it's like well, you just put on the hat. Here we go, Will. You are a siphon though.

I mean, it might not benefit them. The jaws of life isn't working. We need to get the siphon out here for some reason. They show up to like the scene of the crime and the dude's a backer. Oh, dude, dude. Yeah, man. I miss you on the show. You help me with this fire hose. My son tries to arrest people all the time. I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, No. Yeah. No. Be careful. I want our firefighters to...

Fraternizing? Fraternizing, yeah. I think that's good for morale. I do too. I do too. I think these guys are literally running into burning buildings so we don't have to. So like I think we let them hang out with hot chicks on the truck. You want them in there playing Wii all day?

Exactly. No. Just staring at screens, playing GoldenEye? No. I mean, yeah, that rules, but they gotta get out a little bit. They entertain the kids. They let the kids, hey, try on a fire helmet, cool.

Yeah, they show? Also entertain the ladies, the lassies. I think they should take all the girls that they found this guy doing it with, make a calendar out of them, and then use all the proceeds to dedicate towards the FDNY. Agree. We're going about this in the completely wrong way.

I'm for that. Make lemonade. There you go. What if we just started showing up at like hair salons, sitting in the chairs doing spinnies. They just need hot dudes, just the girls cutting hair wanting to show their show that'd be tight doing spin what is what are spinnies yeah like just get a little where we're going

exactly okay I'm in I'm just trying to think of what profession has the hottest women working it hmm well I had my my short-lived reality television show. I don't know if you guys heard about it. What was it? It was a cooking show and I would show up to single mothers and teach them how to cook for some reason. I can't remember how this bit started. Was it called Meat Spin?

It was not, no, it wasn't Meat Spin. It was D-Spin. Now, I don't know what it was called. That's how short-lived it was We only launched the pilot and they're like this isn't very good You're just here like you're not even that good of a chef. You just got a steel pan two weeks ago Like you don't know what you're doing And I was like, you know what? You're right. I don't know why you guys offered this to me a Couple episodes though. Like any residuals on that? Uh, no, I signed actually a really bad deal. Yeah, sorry. Yeah, sorry, dude. No.

Yeah. So you were just making dinner for single women. Correct. I was. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Using their Blackstone owner. Yeah. And it was weird because like, I clearly was like married with a family and stuff. And it's like, what's this guy doing? That's like, that's how your Love Island audition went to right? it went really poorly. Yeah, I was like, why am I here? Yeah, and they're like no no everybody likes you. I'm like I'm 40 years old like I don't need to be here I'm on I'm 40. I need my phone on me, you know Yeah

I don't this my dumbass for thinking that when Meg the stallion announced that she was gonna be on the show that I thought There was like an outside chance. She was actually going in Yeah, but that I do really, you know, you're, you know what? The way that she announced it, didn't, it wasn't just like I'm doing a musical performance. It was like, I'm going to the villa. And I was like, holy shit, did they actually get her? Okay, it's crazy you thought that, but also sick

because that is like a fun, like, like what if to think about, you're like, oh man. It would be like, oh man. They will throw in old people from the show that have like huge Instagram followings and those people immediately turn heads because I think like the girls or the guys will be like, oh, well like I wanna be with this person and get really famous.

Oh yeah. If you put like an actually famous person with talent and like a resume, like that's gonna be a huge problem for every guy in the villa. I can tell you this about USA's cast. There's not a guy in that villa that could handle her. That's a risk reward thing. That is correct. You can't go to those dudes. I haven't met the entire cast at this point, but based on the ones that I know, it ain't happening. Maybe Pepe. Maybe Pepe. And I think he might be too nice for her.

Meg the Stallion would have ruined me. Oh yeah. Absolutely, she's putting ace through the drywall. Cause don't you need to be coupled up to keep advancing? Yeah. So she would, like are you making a run? Being like, hey, if you wanna. If Meg the stallion's in the villa, I'm making a run.

You have to. But risk your word. You owe it to yourself, Brett. Yeah, I agree with you. I'm just saying, like that, if you leave something safe to go taking a run. You have to but risk it to yourself Brett. Yeah II agree with you. I'm just saying like that if you leave something safe to go make a run at Stallion and she

swats you out the gym. Miss Stallion. She's going to break your heart. Yeah. But is it like a are you like you're kind of throwing your chance for winning out the door. Fine. You're forever the guy who who took a shot. He shot a shot at Megan the stallion. I would rather go home from the villa because I pissed off the girl that I

was with because I went after Meg the stallion. Legend. Never take the shot at all. You're a legend. Group texts are like, dude, I wasn't was on uh Jeremiah the He was pleading He doesn't want to go back to fucking rainy England right now. He's like I've been there like four days here, dude I it was sad and I honestly I thought he was gonna be like guys Send me home. Yeah, I deserve to go. Yeah. No, it was more like hey Don't know if y'all noticed we had this great conversation before me and Hannah and like we're actually doing really well That was a shocker though. He should not have like we're actually doing really well. That was a shocker though. He should not have gone home. No, no. You

gotta do more than four days, right? Or is that is that kind of how it works? It was it was not four. He was probably there a little more but there's a guy Jalen who came on as a bombshell who'd poor guy, sweet dude had never left the country. Mm. Just

got a passport. First stamp on the passport. Fiji. He was there like three or four nights. He wasn't built for that show You can kind of tell when someone comes in and they're gonna get Yeah, get gone. I think he picked up a bunch of tik tok followers. He's a truck driver Oh hell yeah, good for him. Okay. Hell yeah, he comes out with something Is he a little bit country a little bit rock and roll? He's from like small town, Georgia He's probably more of a lot lizard guy than a badge banger. Oh, yeah, I think Georgia he's probably more of a lot lizard guy than a badge banger yeah I think well

Dylan hates lot lizard humor why I don't know it grows his mouth for some reason I kind of get it yeah it is gross well Brett will what a what a treat what a pleasure yeah thanks for any parting words no thanks for having me on I sorry for hijacking this episode. I was just having having a blast. Oh, it's gonna kill Randy that you've been out of frame the entire time. Oh, absolutely.

You it's kind of funny to me. The last difference baby. No, Randy loves it when Brett like does something without telling him if you listen to coffee Friday, the first two minutes of coffee Friday are unbelievable. Me versus Randy.

That's where that's where a lot of the vitriol came from on Saturday. Was him, me hijacking. He was mad because Brett was like, let's do a cold open. And Randy's like counting it down. Like, fuck it, cold open. And Randy's like, I don't know. My intro video.

Yeah. We didn't even know there was an intro video. Whatever. Man. We'll see you next time. Bye-bye. Bye. whatever man we'll see you next time bye bye Thanks for watching guys!