Circling Back - Eight Great Men in the Douchehub

Episode Date: July 17, 2024

Breaking down the "Eight Great Men" video that's taken Austin by storm, Elon bringing all his companies to Texas, billionaires get together at the Sun Valley Conference, Will offers up his mullet conundrum as we approach a haircut, an update on the fraternity consultant, This Weekend in Fun, and more. Enjoy a free one-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  (0:00) Fun & Easy Banter (18:40) Eight Great Men Dinner (35:00) Elon bringing Twitter/SpaceX HQs to Austin (44:20) Sun Valley Conference (57:00) Will’s Mullet Conundrum (1:01:45) Quick Fraternity Consultant Update (1:06:00) This Weekend in Fun Support This Episode’s Sponsors Rhoback: www.rhoback.com (BACKER20 for 20% off) Twillory: www.twillory.com (WASHED18 for $18 off purchase of $139 or more) Lucy: www.lucy.co/steam (STEAM for 20% off)  Bourbon & Beyond: www.bourbonandbeyond.com  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All right, we're back. My name is Will DeFries. This is a circcling Back podcast. We are broadcasting from the Wash Media headquarters in Austin, Texas. My partner over here, David Ruff. What about him? He's here. He is here.

Circling Back is taped before a live studio audience. I had a nightmare last night and I'd like to share it. Oh, Dave. I kept hearing this tick and this talk and this click and this clack. It was the sound of Randy mashing on his new keyboard. And then I couldn't figure out where he was coming from. And then right before I woke up, we were on the phone with somebody

and I gave them the last word and they used it and they outlated me. And then I woke up in a cold sweat. It was crazy. So it was like a two pronged attack. You got Randy hacking away on his new keyboard, his new gaming keyboard, I might add. And then we had, what was that guy's name? Regis?

Ty. Deuce. Deuce. Regis. I don't know, I knew it was something. Regis. Who wants to be a mayonnaise? I got Leonard.

I think Regis Philbin deserves way more respect than he gets in the afterlife. You know who loves Regis Philbin, right? Philbin? Tony P. Ohbin? Tony P. Oh, Tony P, he's almost too young to be like someone that grew up watching like Regis and Kathie Lee.

He must've been a Regis and Kelly guy. It had to have been like a sentimental, he would be getting ready for school or stay home sick and his mom would have that show on. Oh, my mom had it on all the, Regis and Kathie Lee, my mom had on all the time. I don't wanna do that. No, I think you should.

I think you should. You gotta reveal the hog. Show him the hog, Tony. That's good. Like he was awesome. He was a staple of American culture for a long time. And I feel like he's not talked about anymore. He was a top 10 Letterman guest.

What a little ball of energy that man was. Yeah, electric. Little ball, huge hog. Electric factory all the time. Even in his elder years. Of course. I bet if you watch his like blooper reels, it's probably one of the greatest like five minutes

of television you've ever seen. What's he like when the camera's not on him? That's what I wanted to know. Oh he's dead. He's been dead for years. I know, but like back when he was alive, like how was he like when he's not on, you know? I already is a real piece of shit.

Maybe. I heard he did a lot of cocaine before going on camera and that's why he got his edge. That makes sense Dave at least that those nightmares didn't actually happen in reality because that would have been a terrible situation No, it's something that never happens. By the way speaking of that cold call that you referenced Cold call is getting a lot of love on our subreddit right now folks, you know, despite a lot of love despite the first what four people yesterday not picking up

Despite the first, what, four people yesterday not picking up, we were, no one rebounded harder. What we lacked in abundance of people answering the phone, we met up for with quality of people answering the phone. Well, it was very front-loaded, the people that didn't answer, which was good. Yes. Did we hear from any of those people? Yes. I at least had one person reach out after we had recorded,

said that he was on the pot, and sorry, we were done recording. I think I had had one person reach out after we had recorded said that he was on the pot and sorry We were done recording. I think I had two other people reach out Okay, being like I think I got a call. I'm like, I don't think we called you It shows up the spam being on the toilet is probably for me The worst excuse you can give for not answering the phone for us If even if you're on the toilet and you say hey guys, I'm on the toilet Can you guys call me back in 10 minutes? That would have been fun.

I would do that. If big game can get up and go meet the property manager, then you can at least give us something on the phone. If you can hit pause on a Mondo to go answer the door, then no one else has any excuses. I was on hold the other day in the office and I had to use the restroom. So I went and used the restroom.

And then the person took me off hold while I was in the restroom. I had to use the restroom. So I went and used the restroom. And then the person took me off hold while I was in the restroom. It was like 20 minutes later. And I knew that when I was talking to her that she could tell I was in an echoey situation. And I was like, should I feel bad about being in the bathroom or should they feel bad for putting me on hold

for 30 minutes? The echoeyness of a bathroom always gives you away. This is why we need a phone in the bathroom here. Hotel style. I still think we need a desk phone in this office that we just use. You had an idea the other day. Yeah, it's called desk phone.

It's called desk phone. It's a series that we do where we have a desk phone in the office and if someone calls it, we pick it up and we record the conversation. Oh, that's what you meant. Or we just call people and just hang out for a little bit. Okay. Do we give out the phone number publicly?

Because it's gonna get out of control. No, so I think what we would do is I think we'd have to give it to... Patrons? Patrons eventually. But I think you start with like good friends of Washed. And if you select cold callees who know how to bring it Yeah, like deuce deuce is getting the number. Yeah, welcome to desk for Jake and st. Louis Jake and st. Louis He's getting the number. He's a grifting fool. You're gonna I don't know. I've given me a number He's gonna somehow use it. He's gonna start selling access to it. Yeah, that's true. That's true

He's gonna start selling it to backers for like five bucks a pop. I will only agree to a desk phone if it is a clear desk phone that has a cord. You want the DJ Tanner? And I can see inside, I can see the microchips. I like it. I like that. No, I want the generic desk phone

that has like 50 extensions on it, even though we don't have anyone else in the company that needs one. Yeah, we got Deuce on line 16. I want this to be like a black phone with like a dial pad right there that looks like a calculator. I want it to be like the most generic desk phone. College internship, the most nervous I ever was was having to answer calls and like

send it through to somebody important in the office and like I wasn't real sure. Oh, and I would hang up on people on accident and be like, oh, pretend like it never saw we got disconnected. I would do that all the time at my old job gave me anxiety We only had like three different phones that you could connect to but I would mess it up all the time and just leave People in limbo. What do we have a just a regular camera? Just stationary just points out the phone at all times So it's ready to rip. Yeah, I know you say that this is your nickname, but we'd have to use a tripod Yeah, we could probably we could probably use a tripod. Why do you call yourself that?

Well, I thought you- Is it because you want people to try our pod? Because I got hurt a lot when I was a kid. I always had a crutch. I thought you were a kick stand. I saw someone compare Trump getting clipped in the ear to a girl that broke her wrist over summer and returned back to high school with the cast on

and now she's the most popular girl in school. Yeah. It's exactly what happened. It's a very sympathetic situation. I was a little surprised they went with the largest available bandage. I thought maybe they would go for subtle, but you wanna just keep reminding people,

which I look, hey, I'm not saying I would do it differently. I would let that bloody ear just sit there and make people see it. Check this out. It's going to be, it's, it's kind of a pretty, pretty serious scar there. Right. I mean, a big chunk of that ear went missing. You know, your ears, the only, uh, part of your body that regenerates. That's not true.

Or any, it's the liver. Huh? It's the liver. Deliver what? No, it's not true. Or any. That's deliver. Huh? It's deliver. Deliver what? No, it's DiGiorno. I got the fucker rounds too. What are you going to do about it? That was a multi-layered joke there. Not bad. Well, no, it's not good. No, it's just cheese and sauce. It's multi. I'm sorry. I'm fading fast.

Nightmare really kept me up last night. The click and the clack. You're just gonna have to get over it. It's a great keyboard. But it's so loud. It is the loudest keyboard I've ever heard in my life. I've had a recurring nightmare that is similar to the golf thing.

Really? I've had a recurring nightmare where I'm in a band and we're about to go on stage. And then I have the realization that I've never played this instrument before. And I'm like, whoa, I need to figure this out. Dude, really? I think I've had similar.

For some reason I'm the bass player. Fuck yeah. And I'm always like, well, there's only four strings. I should be able to figure this out. And I just get on stage and I just try to do it. And I'm like, okay, it's kinda working. I am not kidding. I had a dream last night. We were in here and you had a bass guitar and I was playing it. What, I slopped into bass? No, I was just playing your bass. My boys in middle school came up to me after a soccer game

and they looked at me and they go, we're starting a band. We think you should be the bass player. And I was like, I can't, I have no musical talent. I'm not doing it. And they're like, dude, it's only four strings. It should be really easy. You can't I have no musical talent I'm not doing it and they're like dude it's only four strings it should be really easy you can't just pick someone to join your band who's never played an instrument why not because you got to learn how to play the instrument you got to invest in your people yeah I respected that they chose me if you ever had two of the the very common recurring school related dreams one is where you forget about a class you've had all semester yeah the other one is where you forget about a class you've had all semester. Yeah. The other one is where you go to school naked.

I've never done naked. Never really do the naked one. It's typically like show up for finals and I like never show up to the class. I'm like, I'm not even in this class. Dream State will. I get those two all the time. Dream State will is unconcerned by not showing up to the class all semester. Dream State will tells himself,

Oh, I panic. Like, oh my God, what am I going to do? I'm glad I don't panic. Like, oh my God, what am I gonna do? I'm glad I don't panic because in the dream, I say, I have like logic in the dream and I'm like, surely they're not going to hold this against me that I didn't know I was in this class. I have 50 absences in this class.

How am I gonna make them all? Wait, so logic's in there just spitting bars or what? That's crazy. You went to school with logic? That's crazy. You want to just go with logic? Wanna start over? Dude, they just understood the detail logic, though. Here we are. If you wanna move on and intro me, I have something I wanna share.

Ten minutes in. Dylan Shiver. Yeah, it's got it's worse. Hey, I'm happy to be here ready for this podcast. We're going to do here. Happy Taco Deli South of Marday as it is officially open. Don't bury the lead. Happy National Hot Dog Day. No, no, no, no.

It's it very traditional hot dog Well, he might be actually but I'm not saying that it's the best taco in town Certainly not but it is nice to have that there because I do have good breakfast taco Oh, yeah I am willing to go out on this this limb right here and say that the LP Casito is one of the premier tacos in Austin Texas I agree. I think it falls off pretty hard after that when it comes to their lunch tacos There's nothing that even gets close to that problem with that take but it's still pretty good to me But Micah got so on his high horse when I was at dinner with him like probably a month ago that he said that you could always tell at Grand Ex during comedy lunch who the locals were because they

wouldn't be as excited for taco deli as everybody else was. And the way that he said it to me, I was so offended. What's his favorite taco? I was dis- I don't even know. I didn't even ask him. I was so disgusted by the way he was describing it to me. One, because I was present for pretty much every comedy lunch and I never saw anyone judging Taco Deli. I saw pure excitement. No, dude, we were happy to get it

because it was like, it was fine. For a company provided lunch, that's elite. Taco Deli is good. It's not the best we had, but it was good. The best we ever had was Catfish Parlor and I will ride for that every single time. We did a fried chicken place one time and a bunch of people were out of town and we had a bunch of chicken. On my birthday one

day I got I got to uh request breakfast for the whole company. Remember that? We had like scrambled eggs and pancakes and bacon. Didn't travel well the eggs. Wow I can't believe breakfast foods didn't travel. Dude that's weird that a bunch of eggs that sat in a container for like probably an hour didn't taste good. I enjoyed it. Yeah, I didn't get to choose anything. Remember when Dave's birthday happened and no one responded to the happy birthday email? Yeah, and then we just stopped doing it after that. Also the company was failing

and people were getting laid off left and right. So it took a lot of the wind out of the sails of the company. Happy birthday. Once the Yagi started showing up for a comedy lunch Friday, we knew it was done. The emails went down. As soon as they moved Tasha into a different role

and she was no longer doing the emails and it went to somebody else, it was like, all right, well. There was something to the way Tasha did the emails where he felt like, all right, yeah. Grand ex did have a good culture in that respect though for most of the time that I was there of making sure that everyone got called out for their birthday, like random stuff like that.

Like whoever was doing like the HR stuff did a pretty good job of all of that, no matter who it was at the time. Except for that girl who got fired right before I got hired who fucked up the snacks or whatever. Oh, did she fuck him up or did she spend too much? I can't remember. What was her name? I don't want to say it.

Yeah, it's like not a common name. But the snacks were withering away. Someone has to know her. One of the great all time Grand Ex moments, I think, was that email that I sent. That wasn't on you. What, you didn't realize that she still had access to her company email?

I did not realize. Okay, that's a slight. You made a pun about her name. I made a pun about her not being good at her job. Dude, shout out to her for still checking her email. Yeah, that was a- Oh, if I got fired from a company and they hadn't taken away my email access yet,

I would be checking it like crazy, hoping for something to come through that I could- We'll just guest up HR. That's on HR. Yeah, for sure. That's like the first thing you do. Restrict the access. I thought HR did a good job of making people have fun at work.

Most of the times, I think where Grand Ex did struggle was firing people. Many of the times that it happened, there were several times where people were let go in the middle of the day when it was like, can we not do this? Like, I don't know. No. 11 AM. There was one time and I was pissed at you guys about it. I was the

only one, the only one not informed about a certain beloved member of Grand Ex getting laid off. I show up there, hey, what's up, man? He goes, I just got fired but hey, man, good luck to you. I was like, oh my god. All you guys

stayed away from the office because you knew what was about to happen. Okay, okay. From my perspective, from my perspective, I'm, I was low man on the totem pole. Like I didn't have any, I didn't- But you knew. I knew.

But Dave- Because this fucker told you. But Dave, okay, Dave pulled me aside because we were the PGP boys. Dave pulled me aside to give me the heads up. And then I was in a position where I probably could have asked Dave, like, hey, should we tell Dylan?

But I was in a position where I was like, hey, I have privilege information and I'm the low man here. I'm not going to rock the boat. Cause I had bad service or something. And it happens to me all the time. I was so uncomfortable and I could have easily avoided by coming in 30 minutes late, like us. Yes.

You're a grinder. Anyway. Yeah. There was always times when I would be like, it'd be like nine o'clock and nobody's in the office yet. Like maybe Dave was like, Dave and I would show up at eight most days and like maybe Dave was out, like had an appointment or something and it'd be like nine o'clock and nobody's in there.

I was like, Ooh, is this my day? When everyone texted like, Hey, don't come in for till 10. Why is it nice being in an office like before anybody? It's the best. I guess because you have, especially when you have kids, dude, it's the best. And you're like, well, this is probably the best. I'll, cause you have, especially when you have kids. Dude, it's the best. And you're like, well, this is probably the best, all best I'll have to myself all day, you know? There are certain times like,

It's fucking awesome. Get to be alone. There are certain times where I know that I can get work done faster here, mainly because my computer here is just better than anything I have at home. And so I'll come in on like a Sunday morning, toss on some soccer, play some music, drink coffee. It's elite.

Yeah. I don't dislike having people in the office, but there's something about being completely alone in your place of work and just being like, man, nothing's inhibiting me right now. I can grind. It is nice. It is nice.

Let's get some official business out. Yesterday was cold call. Cold call's electric. If you're not a patron, we implore you to become a patron. Go opt-o on them. $10 a month. We'll get you two episodes additionally a week uh yesterday we did cold call next week we haven't decided yet i'm i kind of want to do a touching based it's been a while i feel like we can figure out some

type of uh conspiracies that move the needle but more on that later i'll do the marin morris one okay whether or not she was wearing underwear. What the fuck? 888-618-4422 for voicemails again 888-618-4422. Teased it on a recent newsletter, but we're talking about doing a director's cut of some segments from Touching Base. Beyond the Paywall, please keep an eye out for that. But like I said, we've got the newsletter, washed.substack.com. Go sign up, get your weekly fix. Also youtube.com slash circling back. And tomorrow we're doing Dylan's Track House on the Wash Media YouTube channel,

youtube.com slash washed media. To all who celebrate a happy National Hot Dog Day, we have security detail bolstered up in the studio today for obvious reasons. Who with the glues? No we don't, there's no security here. That's how good they are. Oh, are they in the ceiling?

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need something to jumpstart it something like like a dinner with, I don't know, seven other great men. That dude on the left is dying in this photo. Which one am I? I wanna be the tiny guy. You're in the middle, yeah. Randy, are you the tiny guy? He's a little fella. I think Randy's the tiny guy.

He's fine with being an attitude. Who wants to be the guy with the scoop neck tee and the capris? That can be Barrett. Randy play the video. What is this? I hosted a dinner for eight great men last night here in Austin, Texas.

These were entrepreneurs, coaches, creators and high level performers. My intention of bringing together this group was to create a space where men could connect on a deep level. I've requested that no one bring alcohol to ensure the conversations were genuine and sincere. The prompt of the night was, what's the hardest lesson you've had to learn and what's the story behind it? We all took turns

sharing our stories with the group followed by time for follow-up or reflection questions. We even got to celebrate a 29th birthday. All in all, the night couldn't have gone better. You truly are the average of the people you spend the most time with and these men inspire me to be and do better. Okay. Holy fuck. Dudes rock. I got so many things on this. Just say it. I'm not going to say dudes rock right now. No, say the other thing you're thinking. Okay, I will. I got a few. First of all, you got to have alcohol. If your reasoning for not having alcohol is that you want conversations to be more genuine? Like that's simply not a good reason.

Are grown men hurting for friendships so much? Yeah. Do they have to brand all these events? Like, your friends are over for dinner. Okay, so- They're just making steaks. I don't know if you have ever had anyone in your life who does what my wife has done a couple times now, but she has been going to like Mahjong night, the board game. I don't think she knows how to play

this game. Dude, it's like when my mom used to go to bunko night with her friends. Like, is that even a real game? No, exactly. But from what I've learned from my wife is that they have a much better handle on creating a reason to get together, even if that reason is not something they actually care about, whether it's book club, mahjong. Like I used to set up for bridge days at this restaurant all the time, every Wednesday, just like a thousand women come in and play bridge. Guys don't do that unless it's golf. And we need to be better about it.

Poker used to be a poker thing. Like come over for poker. But when did poker become like a, if I told Sally like, yeah, I'm going to, I'm going to go play poker at Dylan's. She'd be like, cool. That could go a couple ways with Dylan. Yeah, Dylan, you're always trying to poker at your place. Would you stop?

But what is it? Bonko? What's it? Bonko. That's what Alyssa went to. Somebody made fun of me because I called it a female dice game, but that's what she goes to now. Is it, is it? I called it a female dice game, but that's what she goes now.

Is it with dice? I think it's dice. I think I said domino game. It's a dice. My mom did it too. My mom plays Bunko every single week. For a while I thought it was just like what they called like girls' dice. I didn't like, is there a real game? We're going to have to host it apparently. I didn't know how you played Bunko.

I was like, what do I do when you're hosting Bunko?. Our house isn't that big. I'm just gonna be hanging out. Yeah, like, okay, mom, go have fun playing bunko. We're gonna be watching Sandlot in the bedroom like a component. I'm gonna be in there wishing I was with seven great men. If I was duped into this evening with seven other great men, if I showed up, not knowing what was going on, And the guy pulls out his phone, and he's filming from all different angles and everything that we're doing. They got the tripod set up during prayer.

It's like, bro, what are you doing? His reflection, Will. Sorry, during reflection. I am Irish good-byeing, so I'm dipping out the back door within the first 10 minutes of being there. Oh, I'm dipping. I'm going to a big old sap in. Like, for a dude. Have you ever done an upper decker with seven great men around you? Like, dude, there's no deer, beer. I don't know why I said deer, there's no beer here oh bro, you have a tripod set up, we've got some fettucin jerky in the freezer, you have a tripod set up you want a group picture with all of it, what is going on? you idiot, these guys don't have people

roasting them like they need to, also, well I mean into their okay so they need a grifter to come along and say hey you guys are douchebags can I say sorry great I'm gonna put this week in washed weekly I might do my application to be the ninth night great man okay it's like the 12th man if you refer to your peers as high level performers you are a total boner and you don't deserve to have any friends I mean you can just do it all night. One of the main issues here is though that guys have turned like building an empire into their hobby.

Like that's their hobby now. It's such a hustle grind. Also it's a shoes off household. They're all in socks or bare feet, which is funny too. I don't know why. This hangout that they're doing is not that much different from what would happen if we put like our kids together. Just be like just them standing around like not drinking and talking about a bunch of stuff that doesn't matter. Yeah, it's pretty much how it goes. The hashtag this dude throws into this post to a really funny

mindset, balanced lifestyle, growth mindset, life design, like shut up. These are the guys who buy the expensive all access South bypass. Yeah. Yes. And they go to every event. That is so true. There was a guy like that at our last South by event

a couple of years ago. You see him walking down West six with the lanyard on. Yup. He came up to me and was genuinely interested in what we did. And I was like, okay, cool. And then like, you could tell he was trying to figure to me and was genuinely interested in what we did and I was like, okay, cool. And then like, you could tell he was trying to figure out how it would like work with what he

did and it just didn't cause he made like some kind of like gaming app. And it was just a very bizarre. You could see that's the only thing on his mind. High level performers. Dude, shut up. Do you perform at a high level? You hit your sales quota last quarter. Like cool. I love Austin. I think it's, like cool. I love Austin. I think it's a great city. I truly do love it.

And I feel like my love for it has gone up in the last like two years more than it did in the first seven years. Like I truly love this city. But there are so many people in this city that wanna make us hateable. It's become a douchebag city. Like we had just like a month and a half ago, yeah.

What up? It's a douchebag city. Like a month and a half ago, yeah, what up? It's a douchebag sit. Like a month and a half ago, we had all the recent grads at Barton Springs pool and everyone's like, no one works in Austin, it's two o'clock on a Tuesday, blah, blah, blah. And then we have these guys who are the complete polar opposite who make their entire personality working

and grinding and whatever. There's no, like Austin, from a people perspective, we just have the biggest collection of douchebags ever. Yeah. Yeah. And if you go to Sixth Street, that's where we all convene. It's a douche hub. It is what it is.

Is that band in Texas? Is that band in Texas too? Douche hub? Douche hub. Douche hub. It's a douche hub, man. It's a very specific. These guys suck. I just don't get it. Dushub. Dushub. It's a Dushub, man. It's a very specific.

These guys suck. I just don't get it. Like what? If you wanna do like a corporate retreat or something, just go do it. But you don't need to like, if... I'm gonna be in this. I'm gonna join them one of these days. This guy's a life design coach.

Oh no. How many life design coaches are there in Austin? And what are these people doing with their lives besides being life design coaches? What are the quotes? What major do you have to have? What's it like to be a life designer? He says, I help entrepreneurs optimize their life

to align with their goals. Free resources coaches. What does he tell them to do? Like drink more water? Oh, he's got a podcast. Make to-do list? Stand up. He's a podcast douchebag?

Oh, he's followed by one of our friends. We need fewer podcast douchebags in this city. Give me the initials. TN. My buddy? Yeah. Yeah. Follow this guy.

Love it. Oh, can I? I can't wait. I'm going to this. I'm going to get the invite. You're not a high level performer. I perform at a decent level. These guys have spooky season. Something that's lost in all this that we're talking about right now is the lack of complete vibe of this party. If you're going to throw a party and you're going to be taping every single moment of it, please get some candlesticks. Please fucking like just do anything. Turn off your overhead lights. Like what are you doing? They had dogs though, that's tight. They were cooking steaks.

We were cooking steaks with the boys. Just set the ambiance, dude. Eight great men. Turn the overhead lights off. Eight douchebags more like. No, I'm gonna go to this. Dude, this short guy with the scoop neck tee is my least favorite character here.

No one's worn those tees genuinely, genuinely like outside of Timon since like yeah 2018 this guy's this guy's he's many Timon like it's he's getting served ads that are like that you shouldn't be clicking on And have you seen the new bulking teas that they have? The new compression teas. I'm getting served ads for these all the time They're compression tees, but the guy was bitching about how he's cut, but after he eats, he gets like a pot belly. And so he needs a t-shirt that doesn't show that.

And so he shows off this new compression tee that's really tight in the shoulders and arms to show that off, but it gets a little blousier through the stomach area. Is it an undershirt? It's okay to have a bra. It looks like a compression shirt that you would wear if you're like a baseball player

under your jersey or something. And he just wears it around? I guess. Dude, that is a level of insecurity that I hope to reach one day to where I'm that worried about my belly sticking out because I just ate a steak. The entire ad, the guys wearing the compression shirt

that they're promoting, but for the first four-fifths of the ad He's tucking it behind his shirt and holding it in the back so that it's tucked around his belly that he's sticking out And then to complete the ad he just takes he takes it off. He's like look at this shirt I'm like, what are you fucking doing? If you're buying if you're buying a compression shirt that doesn't show your beer gut you're working on the wrong muscle groups Can I say there's just an inordinate amount of olive colored pant in the eight great men?

It does, it makes you reconsider your green pants. What's going on here? Well, you're not a great man, you wouldn't get it. These guys, can you zoom in on the second from the right? These guys go out at the domain. You think there are any like side combos? Like that's underrated. Like you catch a boy out on the patio and you're like,

hey man, what the fuck is this? Like, why are we here? Well, I'm gonna find out. Cause I'm gonna get in on one of these. You gotta get invited, Dave. Well, they're gonna read my column on Washed Weekly. On how you're a great man. On how I need to be the ninth. I need to replace one of these guys. Yeah, who do you wanna replace? You know what? I feel like you gotta have Scoop Neck in the game. So I'm going far left. Far left, you're out.

By the way, the top comment that has over 21,000 likes. That's a lot of likes. Single click, single click, single click. Single click, single click, single click. Single click, single click, single click. Yeah. So I'm going far left. Far left you're out. By the way, the top comment that has over 21,000 likes. That's a lot of likes. Seems kind of gay.

Lot of likes. Lot of likes. Seems kind of gay. Yeah. I knew it was bad when... So Dave sent this yesterday and I knew it was bad when I saw that the shares on the video were about 10 times what the likes were, which no, you just know people are getting roasted in the DMS. This is what we do every day here. It's just five of us and we don't eat dinner together.

No, we don't even get lunch together. No one in this company eats lunch together. Have you ever gone to someone's house and they have a tripod set up just to record the whole thing from thing from numerous angles? Yeah, but that was a different deal. They never actually paid me. Oh, okay. I hate these guys so much.

I hate them. Hope they all get laid off. That's so mean. I hope they get laid off so they can pursue their entrepreneurial stuff. I think the biggest issue I have is- Yeah, those grind harder. I think you either didn't have a rule where it's no socks or socks. You can't have a mix of bare

feet and socks. That's bothering me. There's got to be one guy in this video who was kind of like a hanger on, like a tag-along guy. He walked in, he's like, wait, what are we doing? He's not that great. And he was like, whatever. This is so bad that like, no one's going to actually see it. Or I'm going to stick around because this is great. I'm going to have a story to tell the rest of my boys after this. But dude, if some guy applied for a job here, and we really needed to fill that position, and then we later found out, he's like, oh yeah, like I do this thing called Eight Great Men Dinner. Like there's no way we could justifiably hire him

knowing what we know now. God, he's getting absolutely just torched in the comments. What if it was originally seven great men, but they brought one guy in because he was good, he's been teetering on the edge of greatness, and they brought him in and they had a ceremony and he didn't know it and they made him. And it was like they initiated him, he became a made man or a great man. And now you have a great man. So now he's untouchable. He's one of the greats. As someone points out, there is an open beer on the table in one of these shots. So he requested that no one bring alcohol.

Maybe he just did that solely. Someone had at least one beer. Okay. So that's my kind of town right there. Is that, is this a Miklo? Is a Miklo Bolter? They're reaching out to me. It's a Mikki bang bang, lime cactus.ter? They're reaching out to me. It's a Mikki Bang Bang lime cactus.

So what if I'm gonna double down on this? Good identification. You're like that geography dude, Randy. What are you doubling down on? Double down Dave. So they read my application and they're like, they hit me with the call and they're like, hey, wear something nice.

Here's the address. I walk in empty room. I look around, boom, I just blow my brains out. Oh my God. It just take me out. This got real dark. Oh, I'm just saying. There's a corona too.

Yeah, there's a corona. Lying ass. I wouldn't wanna work with people that lie at this rate. I wouldn't either. Wait, that's a 0% corona. I don't want to work with people that lie at this rate. I wouldn't either. Wait, that's a 0% corona. I don't recognize that light blue label of corona. Corona light?

It could be a corona light. I'll do some research. While you do your research, Randy, let's hear from our friends over at Bourbon and Beyond. So Bourbon and Beyond, you're like, hold on, what's Bourbon and Beyond? As you know, we're a big, big Louisville, Kentucky podcast, such a big fan of the city that we say it correctly on this podcast. Can you guys say it, please? Louisville.

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It's crazy that Neil Young and Beck on Thursday, Dave Matthews band and Tedeschi trucks band on Friday, Zach Brian, Cody Jinx, Saturday and Tyler Childers in my morning jacket, a Louisville native band on Sunday. Whiskey Myers? They even got Matchbox 20, the national, like Dylan said, Whiskey Myers. Mount Joy, Dylan. Mount Joy.

It's not a festival unless Mount Joy's playing. Hey Dave. Mount Joy's stage. Baby, why don't you just meet me at the Marin stage? I will. You can catch me there. Well, listen, Teddy Swims. Teddy Swims, Davey. It's a really good, like, not only is it just a straight up good lineup, it is a lineup that is so in our wheelhouse that like we'd be fools to not go, which is why we're

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during revival. Really? Yeah. Can they wear their shoes or not? Nope. Okay. They're gonna come out and they're gonna do revival with them.

Beer or no beer? No beer. With one Corona. No further research, that is a non-alcoholic Corona. Yeah. All right, no, no, no. That is my... Okay, stop. Come on. Corona is not good. Non-alcoholic... If you're drinking non-alcoholic Corona, you have got so many issues with it. But I'm pretty sure that is a Michelob Ultra Lime,

Prickly Lime Cactus. So I don't know what was going on there. Corona sucks. It's my least favorite Mexican beer. It's definitely my least favorite Mexican beer. It's one of my least favorite, just like mainstay brand beers of all time. I think it's fine. If somebody wants to tell me that they're drinking a Corona on the beach because it just fits the vibe,

I will listen to that and I will understand. But from a taste perspective alone, I think it's one of the worst popular beers out there. I think you might be a little too harsh on it. I don't like the clear bottle either. If I'm drinking out of a clear bottle, it better be Jimmy Buffett's Landshark. I remember being really excited to try Landshark

and being really disappointed when it was just fine. I don't know what I thought. I was like, that's gonna be like a game changer. Buffett's beer. It was cool. The dudes buying Landshark were the dudes who brought salty piece of land on spring break. Oh, it's a flounder? Hit me. I'm dumb. I didn't know that was Jimmy Buffett's beer. Yeah. Yeah Rest in peace very well off man. She was a great man

Sure, you would have fit perfectly in that group not he drank far less than you would have ever imagined really? Yes, probably wouldn't have worn shoes. So it probably would have worked. He was a very big weed smoker. I Probably wouldn't have worn shoes, so it probably would have worked. He was a very big weed smoker. I burned too. His entire brand was drinking. Apparently he never drank. Not never, but rarely drank. Anyway, yeah, catches that bourbon and beyond. We were talking about how miserable Austin is, and I think we should continue that by talking about how it might possibly get worse. Elon is officially bringing Twitter and SpaceX headquarters to Austin. I don't know where SpaceX is out of right now, but I do know that Twitter is in San Francisco, obviously. So many high-level performers are about to move to Austin.

Do you think... Do you want that up? I think we need something up before we continue with the segment. Dude, I was to bring this up. This is the second time in as many days he's posted this AI picture of himself. That's not AI, is it? It is the most AI picture I've ever seen. Yeah, it's Elon in a cowboy hat and this he's killing it like leather. I don't know fit wise you can't hate what it's he wearing it. But you're a billionaire who could probably just fly to like Jackson Hole, buy all this stuff and just actually take a cool photo of yourself. But instead he's probably like laying in bed, like getting an AI generated photo.

With the real Elon wouldn't look this cool. No. He just flew there and bought a t-shirt that said that on it. He's like, hey, put me in a, do you want to go there? He's such a d it. He's like, hey, put me in a, David go there. He's such a dork. He's like, put me in Yellowstone.

He's such a dork. He actually is replacing Kevin Costner in Yellowstone. That was really, that would suck. That would suck. The way he talks is so. Bringing Twitter here is not that big of a deal. 1300 employees. 1300 smaller than I thought.

Well, he fired like everybody. This is after the massive layoff. Yeah. I mean, he laid off so many people. And truthfully, I think the layoffs were probably a good move for Twitter. And SpaceX is moving to out around Brownsville way. SpaceX to me is a much bigger deal.

Is that where it's moving to? Yes. It's in LA right now? LA. I at least know they launch stuff in Southern California. I mean, it will be kind of cool for us to see launches in the air if we can see that. I doubt we'll be able to.

I don't know. I couldn't tell you. That seems like a massive undertaking to move a company like that to a different state. Yeah, but it's all a tax play for him. All he cares about taxes. He just cares. I know. Yeah, like, he wants Trump to be president and he wants to have all those businesses in Texas so he can just make more money. How do you

move all the space all those spaceships from California to Texas? He's flying over. I think you just fly them. Yeah, I think you just pack all the shit in those. You pack all the computers and shit. All right, this one's full. Really, how do you move all those? Your employees are like jumping on like it's Noah's Ark. You can't just throw those on a truck and drive them down the highway. You know what I mean? I'm gonna ask a dumb guy question. Maybe a real estate friend. You're a real estate friend.

Go ahead. 1300 people moving here in theory, give or take. Is that enough to put a little boom in the housing market? Like shoot up the prices again? It's not a big number. No. How many people do they say move to Austin every day? Or what was the number? I don't think it's that number anymore

last I heard it was like 70 something and that if that went down for the first time in Either in 2023 or like when when they reported everything it was like the first time that that number had dived Yeah, I moved here. It was great fallatio that number had dived since I moved here. It was great fallation. How much do you as a local Austinite care about the people moving in versus the way that the city has changed geographically? My big complaint has been the same for a while and it's that, well, I have two. One, it seems overcrowded, like the infrastructure in the city is not built for this many people. Secondly, just the cost of living has gone crazy.

Yeah. Because you always hear about like, oh, the Californians coming in. But as somebody who moved here, I have no stake in that. I mean, the city has obviously changed a bunch, but it's like it's changed for like, it's not like a terrible city. It's like some cool things have happened here, but it's just so freaking expensive. If you took the cost of living going up out of the equation and you took Austin of 20 years ago versus Austin today,

like as someone who moved here and does not have a stake in old Austin, I look at the city now and I'm like, well, it's pretty bad-ass. It is a pretty bad-ass city, but we got, it's a douche hub. I mean, the people here now are just like, so like the guys we just saw on that Instagram. They're so like, I don't know. It's kind of just another big city with bad

infrastructure, but it has a college. Yeah. A big college. Because otherwise, if you look at it, the stuff that made Austin cool 30 40 years ago Even 20 like just look at Rainey Street like 20 years ago when it was a Rest a street of like houses and a handful of bars that were Converted homes and it was cool and even for like the next decade. It was cool and now there's still some cool bars But like if you look at the shit that's just built up there, it's like, this is unrecognizable. And it's under, it's one of those towns that's gonna be under a constant state of construction,

infrastructure-wise, everywhere, condos, towers, skyscrapers, all that shit. By the way, on that note, I saw a post from 365 things Austin the other day. I don't know if you guys saw this, actually maybe yesterday. Austin has been shortlisted for MLB expansion. One of four cities.

I think that's the most appropriate major sport to come to Austin. That would be my top pick. I think a football team would not make sense. A basketball team would not make sense. Tickets to MLB games because there are so many are so gettable. Yeah. Yeah. Modified season ticket packages, eighteen games. Sign me up. Awesome. Yeah, that's

interesting. Baseball of all the pro sport. You you could convince me on hockey or baseball. Yeah. Right. Those are the two. Right next to Lady Bird Lake, where the now vacant awesome American statesman building is would be a perfect site. And I've heard that thrown around a bit. I feel like I've seen a mock-up of that before. It's right by Congress in Riverside, right over there.

See, down by the Riverside. This is where you really have to have good people in control of the town. Give me a whoa, whoa. Give it to them. Whoa. Because if it ends up they get one and then they're like, well, let's actually put the stadium in Pflugerville

or Round Rock, like how the Rangers and Cowboys are in Arlington. That would really fuck it up. You gotta have it close proximity to the cool shit in town. And you have to have sufficient public transportation to where you can get out there. And Austin, I think is gonna do it right if that were to happen.

But that's a big contingent. Austin FC Stadium is not an ideal location, but it's not bad in practice. Yeah, like when you actually go to it, it's like but it's not bad in practice. Yeah. Like when you actually go to it, it's like, that's not bad. Yeah. That's easy. That's very easy.

I don't know. I'm just, I just don't want to, I just don't want to deal with like, I don't want to be standing there at Mattel Ranchos. Mattel Ranchos, Mattel Ranchos, Mattel Ranchos, Mattel Ranchos. Just have a bunch of dudes in like ex Patagonia is standing in front of me with no purchase history there.

And I'm out here trying to just absolutely mob Pancho style. You know? Yeah. Oh God. Don't California my Matta Ranchos. Can we keep talking about billionaires and talk about the Sun Valley Conference? Have we never talked about the Sun Valley Conference

on this podcast? Nope. I have no idea what it is. Is that like Bohemian Grove? I think it is, yeah. I think it is. Sun Valley Conference sounds pretty dope. It sounds like a mid-American football conference on the West Coast. They're gonna they're gonna scrape like very barely squeak into that 12th playoff spot and just get their doors blown Sorry, it's a sports thing what are you doing man? Yeah, but they have that quarterback who can hold the ball behind his back and trick uh, oh It's a ball boysie play. Hmm. I Didn't watch that game walked into my my ski instructing job the next morning and everybody was talking about it

and I've never felt so lame in my entire life. One of the sickest games I've ever seen. I was just so bummed. Everyone was just like gushing over how sick it was and I was like, yeah. And that dude proposed to his girlfriend like in the end zone, like right as they won. It's incredible.

One of the cooler bowl games. Yeah, yeah. Well, the Sun Valley Conference is a summer camp for billionaires Warren Buffet is unfortunately out this year, but Zuck has gotten the nod. Oh That's they're gonna have a blob. What the fuck do you talk? What do you do? What do these people do here? Is this just like a pissing contest to get invited to it and then you just like go hang out and sit in a room With all these people they actually talk about shit. It's just many great people.

Like do the eight great men look at this and be like, dude, we'll get there someday. If we grind hard enough, if we tell people that we grind enough, we'll get here. Did anyone at this, at the eight great men dinner say like, dude, this is like the Sun Valley Conference, but like in its infancy. This is Austin Sun Valley.

Is there a blob? Yes or no? I don't know, David. Probably not, man. You could launch Warren if you needed to. I think Warren's more of a you push him off the end and watch him launch someone. Is he a man of size? I don't know.

He just doesn't look very mobile at this point. I worry about, I worry about what would happen if he hits the water wrong. He just doesn't look very mobile at this point. I worry about what would happen if he hits the water wrong. That's fair. He's an old fella. What billionaire would you most want to get sat next to at like a dinner? Oh, God. Michael Jordan. He's a billionaire for sure? Yeah, give me that net worth player any guesses You know what? I didn't even think of him. But if that is true 3.2 billion. Yeah, michael jordan's yeah, but even he's not gonna be cool I mean like it would be cool to sit next to him. He's not gonna he's not like known as like a cool dude He's got that shoe money. Do you think he ever looks over at people?

It's just like what are you the greatest of all time at? Yeah. Yes everything you know about him. He's an asshole Did you see this? I saw a tweet the other day That was a story of him He paid He paid the luggage people on a bull's flight to put his bag on the conveyor belt first And then he made a bet with everyone on the team that his bag would come out first And he cleaned up. He just made all the money Dude, come on. That's a J. That's a Jake for st. Louis scam dude. He just made all the money. Dude, come on. That's a Jake for St. Louis scam.

Dude, he's just, he's such, he's the most competitive dude that like even bags coming out, there's no part of my brain that wants to bet on bags coming out of a baggage claim, but he is so fixated on taking people's money and being like the best that not only does he think about it, he thinks about it so in advance that he sees it through. Did he would play high stakes golf between playoff games

against like guys from the other team or guys on his team. Do you want me to read the plaque that I saw in Las Vegas that had the Michael Jordan story on it? Kinda, yeah. Do I even still have this? Here it is. In 1996, this is Las Vegas Country Club. In 1996, a high profile match took place at LVCC,

which included the sitting president, Bill Clinton, four sitting state governors, LVCC members, Brian Greenspun. Spun. Okay. Spun. Not. Spun. Not Alan Greenspan. They, I think they spelled it wrong on this.

I think he's a lawyer. I can't tell if that's an A or a. That's a U. That's a U. Anyway, and Michael Jordan. Perhaps intending a bit of gamesmanship, Nevada governor Bob Miller leaned over to Jordan as they reached the tee box and said, if you really hit this drive hard,

you might be able to get it on in two. The Barb did not have the intended effect, as Miller recalls, saying that it might've shook me up, but Jordan just rose to the occasion and hit the ball completely out of sight. Jordan proceeded to hit a six iron onto the green and make his eagle winning all bets. First of all, that's not like it's such a cool story that you need to put it on a plaque. It should never be on a plaque. Also, he hit a six

iron into the green. You didn't have to hit that drive that far if you're hitting a six iron into the green. I don't think he could have gone three wood really. I can also note that I three putted, but I was on the green in two and it was not a very impressive feat for me. Okay. I was on the back edge of the green. What year did this supposedly take place? Like 96 or something.

Maybe the course went under some construction or something. Technology was different. Those are prime Jordan days. Yeah. If I'm sitting next to a billionaire, I might choose like Rihanna. Is she worth a Billy? Yeah, really?

Who isn't Jessica Alba sneaky, like almost a billionaire or a billionaire? What's her skin care or like whatever? She owns what's it called? Forever 21. No, you're not really close. She's a third of the way there. Oh, not trying to poop whoop You still doing great. Yeah, I'm not trying to poop who that but she's still in one of the eight great women the honest company Ah, yes. Yes. Yes. Yeah, they make all kinds of stuff

Not familiar I want to sit next to Michael Rubin This fanatics guy who throws the white party and I just want to just I want to see what's going on there because there's something I don't like about it. What you mean the not him necessarily but just his entire vibe in this party. I don't trust it. It seems like it's the LinkedIn. It's like a LinkedIn event for for like athletes and like well you know what the most famous white party ever was. Did he? Yeah did he's white party. I feel like white parties have a stink on them now. Is he doing that this year? You got invited, didn't you? You were in photos with him famously. I was in one photo with him, yeah. We didn't exchange information, no.

He can't give me an invitation. Harbor Springs threw a white party one time. And yeah, there. Harbor Springs is a pretty white city. It is. My friends and I rolled up to it and we kind of looked everywhere. We're like, is this too white?

Like, do we need to, should we just go do something else? And we left and we went and did something else. White on white. We were like, this is too white. Like, I don't like what's going on. Yeah, like this just feels a little weird. Let's get out of here.

Let's go to the bar. They do some white party in Houston. That's kind of fun where they do like street music stuff I've been that I had a blast at that. Yeah the one time I did it Greenville believe is where it takes place I don't know. I don't know man. Oh, it's fun. I hope to get invited to this one day Do you get do you guys ever watch do to recommended it to you industry no No, but I've heard that first season's electric. First season's really good and I haven't finished the second season admittedly, but I did watch

a significant portion of it. There's a corporate retreat that I imagine is very much like this. And I think there's corporate retreats in succession that are probably feel much like this. That was maybe some of my favorite parts of succession. The corporate retreat angle and like the stuff they did at the end when they were trying to sell, that felt very authentic,

even though I have no basis for saying that. The boat, when they were all just like on the family boat and they were all hashing everything out in that season finale of the second to last season, I just loved it, loved the idea of it. If you were showing up to this, I think it's in Idaho, so it's a temperate climate up there. Let's say you show up,

it's nine o'clock in the morning 55 degrees What are you wearing to the billionaire conference? Probably my Tuileries coat. Okay. Am I trying to fit in or am I letting the freak flag fly? Do you floss? Like do you show up just kind of chilling or like do you like do you out billionaire each other? Yeah, do you like your fits? Do you go Idaho fit with it do you go Jackson hole you go Cuban you go old mark Cuban with like a vintage tee and like a blazer over it and I This guy's a different billionaire if you just like Tony's a friend. I would just do like a bowling shirt and black oversized slacks

I like that Nike Monarchs, maybe because you know like old white guys Sure a lot of them I think I'm gonna go I Nike Monarchs maybe, cause you know, like old white guys. Sure. A lot of them. I think I'm gonna go, I think I'm gonna go Dave Ruff True Player for Real t-shirt. So they know I've got money. I don't hate that. 69.99 actually.

How much was the Garden of Snake? We didn't upcharge the Garden of Snake Dave shirt. No, we did not. We did not. We sold more of them than the Dave Ruff True Player for Real. I think we sold like two. Maybe it was a price play. Two of the $69 shirts. Did you ever get one?

Yes, okay, I don't have it anymore just making sure you got one yeah, that sucks we never got the IP for that shirt We could probably figure out it's gonna come for us at this point. Why don't we just apply for the trademark today? I Just don't know if there's a market there for true player for real sure yeah it's a little pricey. I remember I can tell you what we were doing when that shirt came about. We're in the hotel room in Chicago doing a podcast. I feel like you were in underwear in bed and Dudo is in the room. We're just doing a pod and then like, yeah, we should sell that shirt.

Okay. And we did and then made it's all to about it shirt. And then, like, yeah, we should sell that shirt. I'm like, okay. And we did and then we made, sold two. I thought it was Madison's idea. No, that was me. Oh, it may have been his idea to put on a shirt. Yeah. You came up with True Player for Real.

True Player for Real came about in that weird, we're probably still hammered from the night before podcast. Do you think us buying 2000 of those was part of the reason Grand Ex went down? There's no way we bought 2000. I think we bought 2000 True Player for real. They dump them off in like a struggling country. That'd be great. That'll be awesome just to see like you go visit some country you're on a mission trip you roll up to some like some remote desolate

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Clicked into youtube.com slash circling back on Monday when the episode was launching around 2 p.m. Central Standard Time. And I saw what my hair looked like. It wasn't good. It wasn't good. There was not enough hold. It really started to make me question things. I was already feeling insecure. Suddenly, I started getting screenshots from people. From both the episode, from a clip that we had posted. People are being like, dude, the mullet's wild right now. I don't want the mullet to be wild.

This mullet was never intended to be wild. You're a wild boy. It's kind of inherently wild. I saw the clip of me on Monday and I just thought to myself, I think it's time. I hate to hear it. I've already wanted to get a haircut. Getting a haircut right now with Dylan and my girl. It's not the easiest thing in the world. I don't know what I'm going to do.

I liked having the mini mullet. I just feel like it's gotten so long in the back now that it's become a full blown mullet. You can take it down in the bag and still keep the mullet. Do I need to keep the mullet though? That's the thing. I saw an old clip of myself the other day while I was scrolling on the circling back Instagram feed.

And I saw a clean cut, Will. I looked at that guy and I thought, wow, that's a great man. And I just, I don't know. I'm very torn on it. Like I don't want to be the guy who has the mullet forever, but I do like the pretty boy swag that the mullet offers. Like never in my life have I gotten so many comments from people being like, dude, love the mullet. But I just don't know what I might. I feel like if it's not this next haircut,

I need to get it cut off at the next one but I don't know what to do with it. You're living in the perfect era and location to take a bit and have it just work so well that it becomes you. It's true. It's true. This is what happens. It's in the water here. I'll be sad to see

it go. I love the way that it looks sticking out of the hat like I feel like I'm a I'm a hockey player player. Feel like I'm like Darien Hatcher in the nineties, just going out and playing golf with the boys. But outside of that, I'm just kind of struggling to reconcile having this for a long period of time. Should I just try to get a little mini for this next haircut and see how it goes?

Sure. Okay. Do you think our hair person is going to be offended if I go somewhere else and let them touch the mullet? She's going to know. That's her baby. She's pretty cool about it. She understands, I think. She gets it.

But why not do business? Oh, just because you can't book her right now. That's what you're saying. Correct. Gotcha. Correct, yeah. Yeah, her only appointment was during listener voicemails this afternoon

and Dylan turned it down. So I didn't think it was going to be a good look for me to take it and then make everyone reschedule. I went and got my haircut yesterday and nobody said shit. Literally everyone gassed you up and you walked in. I walked in and we gassed you up. I said look at the swag on this guy with the new cut. Dick.

Yeah but you didn't. You got your dick cut yesterday? No you guys just. I heard that's not fun. You lost your balls I can imagine. Yeah why don't feel I heard that's not fun late last man. You already lost your balls. I can't imagine. Yeah. Why don't you just do that all at once? I still have a pin 15. I went to the bar though. It says there's some scotch. You're a drink. I had diet coke. They hate it. They

like you wasted my time. I'm like, look, I have a membership here and I know I'm entitled to a free drink every time I come. I just want to diet coke. I'm not trying to drink right now. You get a free drink? Yeah. In Chicago, before the meetup, I walked up to the bar at my hotel and I asked them for a iced coffee and the guy looked at me. I was like, yeah.

Went and got it for me and just said, you're good. Get out of here. Like I was going to, oh, he's wasting my time, sir. Okay. I'm not icing your coffee, Pearl. I want to be like, I would have just given you it it like I would have paid for this and given you a tip Yeah, he was so disgusted I don't have any cash on me so it'd actually be more convenient if you did this so I didn't feel like a dickhead walking

Away scumbag with the mini mullet. Yeah, I don't know fucking guy with the mini mullet comes in here fucking drinking all that coffee Hey real quick, I was chatting with our old intern, our old friend Curry on Instagram yesterday. We both followed the Alabama fraternity consultant. How's he doing? They call it consultant or Curry.

Both. Curry in life is seemingly good, but I will say he's had something happen and I just wanted to say he apparently DMS with the Alabama fraternity consultant and Apparently most of their DMS are regarding Texas football versus Alabama football and SEC football and he is now blocked by the Alabama Shut up, and I'll read the back and forth the biggest troll at Grand Ex is now blocked by the Alabama consultant. Shut up. And I'll read the back and forth. Wait, the biggest troll at Grand Ex is now blocked by the frat consultant? Yeah, so the last, I don't know what led them into this,

but it just says, this is the fraternity consultant speaking. It says, well, we beat, or no, this is Curry. Curry said, well, we beat Georgia. So consultant, blind squirrel. This has been fun. I'll check back in a month. Curry, oh no, I'm sorry. Well that guy said let me just start this whole thing over Consultant. Well, we beat georgia. So curry called him a blind squirrel. This has been fun

I'll check back in a month consultant and this is five unanswered six unanswered, uh dms Four times to their beating us once lol. You're the blind squirrel. Get back to me when you win the big one That's all we care about. We are the standard." Then he blocked Curry. Curry said, no, don't block me. Bring me back, King. Curry is great, man. He's funny. He just de-embed his guy about Texas football. He might've had the best page views per column at Grand Ex. Ooh, him and Harrison.

He could get a crowd riled up. He could. He could. So I just want to say when he was at, when he would be in the office and I could see him working on something, it always got me excited because I was like, not only are we going to have good numbers today, but I'm going to be very entertained when he presses publish. Oh yeah. One of the goats.

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dog. Okay. What are you doing this weekend, Dylan? I'm just going to skip straight to Saturday because I'm leaving town Saturday morning. A little family trip to the coast. Going to Port Aransas, Texas with my son Parks, my sister and brother-in-law, their two little girls, and my father. I'm pretty excited, man. It's kind of the opposite of Spiffaday.

It's true. Yeah. It's a good boy. It's not spring, though. Are you taking the time off because for National Hot Dog? No, they just coincident sit. It's it falls within a few days of each other. Okay. Yeah, I'm pretty pumped man Where are you going poor day? Yeah, cinnamon sure Eight great hot dog. Are you gonna go to cinnamons?

If cinnamon sister restaurant, yeah, I'll be there one of cinnamons. Mm-hmm sick Yeah, the other wood-fired pizza and to Cinamon's. Sick. Try the wood fired pizza. Or coal, whatever. Don't do the cinnamon challenge. Have you ever done it? No. I haven't either. Don't look.

My face is gonna look dumb when I spit it out. What's the cinnamon challenge? You gotta like just dry scoop it? Yeah, you just swallow like a handful of, or a spoonful of cinnamon. Ooh. And it's apparently really difficult to do. I'm scaling back my milk takes gallon of milk takes I did some pretty hefty chugs from a gallon of milk the other day when I was hungover didn't make a dent

What fuck why milk? Sometimes Dave the best ability is availability and in our refrigerator all we had was like drinkable yogurt and milk and that was pretty much it. Got it. And I just needed a quick fix. Okay. I'm not judging. I've been drinking more milk actually.

True story. What animal is that? More milk? Yeah. Oh dude, mores are the best. You should try s'mores. It's pronounced s'more. Ah, you're right. Go on. Are you going to run into the water? I'll be there. I'm going to sprint into the water.

I have part of it with the sharks. Don't tell parks. He follows the news. If he's scared of things like that, does he follow the water if he finds out? Okay, well, don't let him see the news. I'll keep him away from the news. It was one shark did all that shit. That was Padres for themselves. But still, there's one in Galveston too. Yeah, that's fucking, I don't like that.

Bought a jellyfish in Galveston when I was there. Really? Yeah. I saw some in Port A, dodged them, but yeah. You guys- A lot of jam fish too. Oh yeah? Yeah, you see the tiny dusk? Dude, I don't like what there's,

I don't like the beef that's looming between the two that you're firmly involved in. I don't get, nah, I not even going to get into it. I don't get why, why one, why, why do you, why do you rain on other people's art? I don't know, I thought that was strange. You don't need to do nothing about the band. I don't, I thought that was weird. Don't you rent a golf cart? You got to. Yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Got you. Did I fuck up by going to Galveston instead of Port A? No. Dude, cinnamon sure is pretty dope situation.

I know, like Dave, no offense to Galveston, the photos from your trip to Port A made it look like so much nicer than when we were in Galveston. The hotel we stayed at in Galveston was nice, but just the area, I was like, I don't want to leave this hotel. No, you can, I mean, look, Texas coast, you can, look, Texas coast is Texas coast.

Now Galveston has got some cool spots. I haven't been to Galveston in a while but we didn't branch out at all from Galveston. We stayed at the hotel for two straight days. Yeah you know we did too. We stayed and I kind of wish we had gone up a little bit north. It's not hard to do. You can even you can drive the golf cart up the beach. It's like a 20-minute golf cart drive and you're right there in town. Yeah, so Well, that's gonna be fun gas-powered. Yep. Oh, yeah Are you all next week? I'm gone all next week That's rude gonna be the best don't need me around here. It's gonna be the best. Oh no more Randy

Hi David, it's real time Hi, David. It's Ria time. We'll miss you, Dylan. We'll miss you. Are we taking a week off from Track House? Yeah, I guess y'all can get on the sticks, the ball. Yeah, for sure. Well, you want to finger pop each other's assholes on the live stream on Thursday? Yeah. Maybe I can find a local establishment that has Golden Tea and I'll do it live from Port A. You can just do it from your phone? I be fine with you if you were just live streaming from your phone in port a i'd be so excited you don't have it in you to put up a tripod dude you're right i don't you might get your ass kicked doing that no that's true dude the rough oh man those gas stations if you stop at a gas station right before you get into port a that That the the guy who lives near the beach, not near the beach community,

like the locals that are like there's a lot of jacked up truck, like cool teens that are like scary as hell. Oh, yeah. Like that's a different breed. It's a little rougher down there. It's rough. Yeah. Yeah. You'll be careful. I had some cool teens speed through my neighborhood the other day. You probably get more respect with that haircut. I bowed up to them a little bit.

You stared them down? I did. Yeah, they pulled up next to the stop sign at the corner that we live on and they came up insanely hot. And I just was like, oh, okay. I'm gonna walk back there. And I just kind of gave him like a little,

they didn't care. They didn't care at all. They weren't intimidated by you? No, I'm still workshopping the dad stuff in that respect. Like I haven't fully grown, I haven't become dad enough to yell at other people's kids yet. Okay.

He's trying to be a great man. Yeah. I got you. I'm trying to uphold some standards. What's that boy getting into? Oh, let's see. Friday. Friday. Got to maybe got a couple buddies

coming in town. Might do a little dinner. Saturday playing golf. Uh out around uh Bass Drop away. Uh formerly Wolf Dancer, I just hate that they changed the name to Lost Pines. You know what they say? There's too many pines. Bastrop will make your ass drop.

That's right. They just scrubbed the floor with it. It's called Lost Pines now? Yeah. So a player is not gonna remember that when he's typing it into Google Maps on Saturday morning at 7 a.m. You can still access that with Wolf Dancer.

Will it take you to the back entrance again too? Yeah, you wanna go back entrance. Always go back entrance if you're going there. It's so annoying. Yeah, gonna play some golf and then Saturday night. I think there's a Mattel Ranchos in the works. So, I'll be real low key, be around here. Willie? Oh, I don't have much going on playing golf on Saturday with you. I'm going out to dinner.

Might be scampi season Friday night. Have you had your scampi fixed this summer, Dave? No, it was on a menu at one of the places in Port A and I just I think I opted for fish and chips. I might have whiffed on that. But you're in your brat era right? I am. It's broad boy summer. Bratty Dave. It's me. Yeah, I'm going to Sammy's for the first time in a really long time on Friday. I'm very excited. While I'd like to go scomps, I think chicken piccata is going to be calling your boy's name. The piccata is good. Dude, it's so good.

It's so good. It's even better left over. I think it's piccata season. Yeah, it's a good dish. Outside of that, nothing. Playing a little golf, hanging out. That's it. Kind of excited.

Very cool. Good episode. It was decent. You're okay. I thought it was pretty good. Is there anything? It was good, not great. Is there anything trending that we missed during the episode that we need to confront? Um, yeah. No. We've got SEC media days. That's it. You see Drake's house was flooding. Yeah. What's going on there? Didn't look great. No. If you're Drake though, are you like,

one, I can just replace everything without even thinking about insurance and two, like insurance is going to take care of me and I'm not going to have to deal with any of the logistics because I'm Drake. He's probably sleeping just fine. Yeah. People were pointing out that his house looks like an Ann Taylor store. Which house was that his Toronto home? It was. Yeah. Yeah. Damn. He's probably got a house in Houston too, right? He loves Houston. No, dude. He bought a ranch in Washington County. Oh, yeah. I forgot he bought that ranch. Between here and there. I don't know how often he's there. Does he have any land out Pecos way? No, I don't think he, I, you know, he kind of missed the boat on that, sadly. Sadly.

I don't think he did. I think there's plenty of land available. You think? Oh yeah. I'm going to buy something that's like an eighth of an acre bigger than Brad's Pecos. No, you should just buy the minerals. Buy the minerals and then you can do

whatever you want with them. What's going on out there? What minerals? Like the ones that the dude in Breaking Bad had? Yeah. Just vibing. Let's get out of here. Everything okay? I don't see anything going on. Some rumbling outside. Sounds like some rumbling is outside. Bye. Thank you.