Circling Back - Europe, the Texas Beach, & Kids Movies | Circling Back 6-23-26

Episode Date: June 23, 2026

Randy is back from Europe and has some takes, Dave is back from the beach and shares some observations, Dave's son watched a movie, Dave has a controversial battle scene take, and Dillon is shown a video that he won't like. Support us on Patreon and receive weekly episodes for as low $5 per month: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.patreon.com/circlingbackpodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Watch all of our full episodes on YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.youtube.com/washedmedia⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Shop Washed Merch: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.washedmedia.shop⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ • (00:00) Fun & Easy Banter • (13:50) Randy is back from his Eurotrip • (30:20) Dave's beach observations • (53:20) Dave’s son watched a movie, and he has thoughts • (1:06:25) Dave has a battle scene take • (1:12:20) You like this shit Dillon? Support This Episode’s Sponsors: - Ridge: you can get up to 40% off their best gear. Just head to ⁠https://ridge.com/STEAM⁠ - Earlybird: Get 20% OFF your order with code WASHED at ⁠https://earlybirdcbd.com/⁠ - Lucy: Go to ⁠⁠https://lucy.co/steam⁠⁠ and use promo code (STEAM) to get 20% off your first order. - Aura Frames: Exclusive $20-off Carver Mat at ⁠https://on.auraframes.com/CIRCLING⁠ Promo Code CIRCLING Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey, we're back. What's the fuck are you? What's wrong with you? I'm laughing at that joke you made right before the show, man. Yeah, I got fucking jokes, dude. Why don't you bring that level to the pod, man? Oh, sorry, I was just, I'm looking at Dave shirtless on Instagram right now and is doing something to me.

Where am I shirtless? On Instagram. Yeah. Story or hard post? You're looking handsome. It's all right. to you sick ass story post turned into a hard post real fast randy she i'm trying to find it right now hold on and give me a second i got a lot of pillows behind my back who's sitting here yesterday was it

you or will william de freeze he's not here today it's dave's here thank you to will though for filling in i listened to pod it was good pod uh hey guess what that voice is dylan shivery hey man um first of all still here sorry happy to have you guys back i missed y'all miss you guys a lot actually. It's not the same without you. No, it's been quiet in the office. That kind of sucked. Like last week it was just straight up quiet and I didn't love it. I need the boys back. You guys are gone. Will's gone. Brett was gone. It was just a whole thing, man. Anyway, did you hear my ad reads that I did yesterday on the pod? No, I woulda-wit-wit-wit-wit. They were low-key clean as hell.

Low-key, just clean as hell. People thought I wouldn't be able to do it. I did it. You've only been doing this a decade. I'm going to get DMs like, dude just a fucking go-ed D. Oh, congrats. Go to the ads. That's good. I said, thank you. It felt good.

No, I'm glad you were able to do the ad reads. Yeah. Because people are often like, how do you guys make money? That's it. That is one way. Believe it or not, we do a good pay for those. That's a big way. Yeah.

I am happy to have you guys back, though. That's real. Yeah, that's right. Randall Trumbacky is back in the producer chair. There you are. You're eating a sandwich. Yeah, we made sandwiches and brought them to the beach. I love a good beach sandwich. Sourdough wrapped in, it was sourdough, a little

uh, ooh, a little smoked turkey, a little salami. I have a sourdough sandwiched for lunch today that that Chechay made me. That's awesome. Yeah. Uh, wrapped in foil, train you shave you many at the beach. No, they don't really have a good beach delivery service there with the place we stay. It's like, let's just bring our own. And plus I hate, I'll get into this in a minute. I hate having leftover stuff that you don't want to waste and you're like packing up to leave and it's like oh there's a bunch of lunch meat it's like I don't want to bring that back

yeah let's just eat it all we hit HB actually my sister when we go to do our Port A trips we hit HB in town and just pack a big fat ass cooler bring it down so the closest one is like off the island

right before the bridge I don't know but also you get you get island prices you go to the store the store's high and it's not and also it's not H-U-B, which is goaded. I load up my wash-media cooler here, and then I go.

But Randy, we stepped on your intro. Hello, Dave. Got my bottle of water. Ready to podcast on this Tuesday. Sorry, I think I've developed a bit of an accent. Wait, say, say ball of water again? Bar-a-wara. Okay.

It's early days. It's passable. It's early days. It's passable. Man, you're so Euro, dude. Not really. I had, we'll talk about it more, but I had the most American self, uh, something in my head where I was like, I've never felt more American in my life.

But we'll get to it. That's just what I like to call a tease. He wasn't chatting no birds over there. Did you accidentally tip on a coffee? No, you don't drink coffee. No, no, no. Actually tip on a meat order or something? No, no, no.

Because that would be very American. You know, the only tipping I did was to the bartenders at the wedding. Otherwise, no tips for anyone else. It's not a tipping color. over there, man. Nope. You paid a fat wage. Yeah.

Oh, and the tour guides, too. Yeah, I've had the tour guides. You tip the tour guides? You tip the tour guides? Yeah. And a boy. Very cool. Welcome to everybody tuning in.

We've got a circling back on touching base later today. I have cut two clips this morning. Two clips, please. And actually, they're from back to back episodes. because when I saw the description of the episode right next to the one that I originally cut, I was like, well, I got it. We got to talk about that. Do you want me to give you a little tease or just?

Give us a hint. Sintilla. There's a little sports debate, but maybe not like professional sports. Maybe let's just call it aquatic sports. A little debate there. And then maybe a little talk about a tweet. Okay. I'm guessing that maybe the sports debate was Dylan saying like had he learned had he

focused on swimming he could have been an Olympic water polo player or something that is my guess no I can I can just tell you it's the it's the beach volleyball versus pool volleyball debate and then also the first time you guys ever brought up Jared's uh open gondom style tweet so I found both you want we should try to get him to pop on I don't know if he's taking calls right now. Is it because I know that I've said before that I'm nasty at pool volleyball. That has something to do with it. Well, Dylan, you're just going to have to tune in and find out.

I am, though. Or at least I was last time I played. It's been a very long time. 20 years? 15. Okay. God damn. I just live above the net.

I probably say that in the clip. A lot of people do. It's pool volleyball. No, people can't get up like me, though. So tune in to Patreon. Oh, I think I remember this. All right, good stuff. Next Tuesday.

Tuesday. We've got roommate week. Oh, yeah. And man, they're still rolling in. Just keep them coming. I don't care. I've got enough for two episodes. Must make it three.

I don't really care. David Watchmedia.com or hit the Haussline. You see, we got the Haasline now, Randy? Oh, yeah. I was here for it. I'm the one that came up with the name, Hoss Line. Oh, I came up with it. Did you really?

Yeah. Well, good for you. Oh, man. I don't know, man. I don't pull the tape on that. Okay. 877352 Hoss. That's 877352-452-4677.

I don't have it committed to memory yet. I was going to say, how long is it going to be until we haven't committed? It's going to be a while. Yeah, good point. We have a graphic. We'll post. But I will say the calls are rolling in. Were you ever able to cancel the other one?

Yes. What did they say? After I sent a follow-up email that they said, Oh, yeah, this has already been canceled. Like, okay, you can't just, you can't let a player know. Yeah, it's probably best practice. I will be checking the bank statement to make sure. Uh-huh.

Or else someone's going to get a strongly worded phone call. We will contact the Better Business Bureau. What, what are we doing? What? What are we doing? What are we talking about? I went from missing you guys to wishing you still out of town in like seven minutes and 42 seconds. Do you want to do the show by yourself?

Maybe. You go sit behind the producer. Maybe. You could probably do it. That'd be a fun bet pay off. You would think you can sit here and what do you do my job? No. I mean, I could do the camera switch.

It's about it. Check this out. Could you do a washed substack? You do one. Wash. ubstack.com every Friday. Yeah. Two blogs at a minimum, please.

Sometimes three. Subscribe. Hit your inbox. You get into work. Boom. It's right there. Got something to do for the next four or five minutes. however long.

Maybe some people read slower, seven, eight minutes, whatever. Also, watch this show live on YouTube, YouTube.com slash circling back. Just give us a sub there, even if you don't watch it live. Also, go check it out on, excuse me, Spotify. And make sure you're commenting.

I'm back. That means that we're doing comments of the week again. Boom. Check it out. Leave us a comment. What else? That's about it. Oh, yeah, Patreon.

Go, go. You get a free trial. you do it for like seven days free trial seven days yeah i'm rusty ma'am i'm straight up like i feel out of it fuck i was on the road for six hours yesterday because somebody had a blowout not a tire unfortunately or fortunately alice got her hair done you missed one episode i know man i'm just i'm tired i got vacation brain i like don't want to be here like honestly the last thing i want to do is sit across from you this guy should be rusty over here nah i stay sharp i see i tuned in yesterday i pulled up my phone woke up saw Randy had some stories posted,

looked at one and looked up at how many more there were. And I was like, I'll check those out later. There's a lot. That was from two days because I didn't, I didn't get to post all the ones from Saturday. I checked in. When did you get back? I got back yesterday at like 5.30.

So how did you sleep last night? Pretty good. I actually went to sleep at like 9.30 or 10 and slept pretty well. Okay, good. I got a good amount of sleep on the flight back. The flight there did not. I had like four hours on the flight. You should have checked out our friends at Early Bird CBD.

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at CBD.com. I want to give a shout out real quick. There's a guy in the gym locker room today. His locker was above mine. And I was just always kind of like hovering. I was like, mine's right under your, as you tell me when I'll come grab my bag and I'll,

and he's like, okay. It's fine. He was getting dressed after his workout after his shower. He had a tiny portable fan that he set down that was blowing air on him as he was getting dressed. to help cool him down. And I was like, dude. Wait, had he just showered?

Yeah. The Micah special? I was like, love the fan. He's like, dude, he's like, there's times we'll come here, work out, shower, and I just like, it's like I'm putting clothes on as I'm sweating. Yeah. And he wasn't huge.

He was a guy. He was a little, you know, bigger guy. But I was like, dude, that's such a great move. You should have finished cold in the shower. You ever finished cold? I finished cold sometimes, yeah. You got to finish cold. Get those poorest cold.

close back to cool down it's so it's so hot in texas how hot is it water doesn't get very cold that's not true you can't get cold you can't get very cold water in that it uh most places right now you can't get like the cold cold you can get like a a cool yeah kind of like uh i don't know it still kind of feels like it's just drizzling piss on you it's not great it feels like it's drizzling piss on you. I don't know. What's that, what's that, uh, analogy you're always using? I don't know. Anyway, shout to this guy who had a fan. That's a, that's a ball knower move. I like, I heard the sound and I was like looking around. I go, oh, dude, great move. Great move. It's like a little, look like a little tiny little Amazon $3 fan. He was putting in work at the gym. Yeah. Yeah. Good for him,

man. It really is a bad feeling putting clothes on and you're still kind of hot and you walk outside and it's It's just, it's very, very human. Yeah, but that feeling leaving the gym after a shower you put in real work is a wonderful feeling, you know? Yeah. Your metabolism is just fucking buzzing. Your muscles are just screaming. You're like, man, that was awesome, you know.

What do your muscles sound like after a good workout? Ooh. Is that how you, that's how they scream? Yeah. What do they look like? No, not literally. But like, yeah, do like an intervie. Like an interpretive dance of what they would look like.

They're screaming. They're not dancing. Are we talking about it? I know you had your muscle screaming. I know he had you screaming. Randy, how was Europe? Dude, speaking of cold showers, I don't know how many cold showers I took there because I get into it all, but like, man, just no air conditioning just kind of stinks after

walking around all day and sweating off. Like, I was just constantly. know it's smoke crazy over there. Have to take like cold showers. What was the weather like in Portugal and wherever else you were? Both were warm. I would say that like the lows at night got down to like 65 maybe, but like during the days they were like mid top or 80s.

So I do have maybe, I'm not going to scale it back because I still like warm weather, but that's because I'm privileged enough to live in this great country. That's something that we do well over here is air conditioning. Yes. except for this unit right here that we're sitting in other than that i had that thought this morning and fingers crossed been going okay yeah we let's not talk about it is that why you're afraid to turn it down i notice you like it a little bit of warm i am uh yeah i don't i don't i don't want to overwork it it is it is in my mind that's why when i leave here to to save money ryan was sweating in here i could

tell to save money and also to not put too much stress on the unit which uh we keep it at like 75 in here oh you get okay i turned down to 74 this morning i thought that was the new agreed upon probably turning down to 73 i don't know somebody somebody's a sweatshirt and the studio guy occasionally 74 is it's not a true 74 74 is actually like 72 in here it absolutely is in the studio it's much if you put it on 73 it's an it's an absolute meat locker in here man i don't know true okay No, no, Europe was cool. I will say that I did enjoy it. It's very old, huh?

It's very old. That was the being able to go on the tours when I was in Britain and everything was cool because I didn't do much of that in Portugal. It was more wedding stuff and just kind of bopping around and shopping. So like being able to see all the old buildings, I was like, oh, this is cool. I get the history of it all. And it's very fun. The food was good, I guess. There was some meals that I had that were like, wow, this is amazing.

I had the best piece of fish I've ever had in my life like I've ordered fish at restaurants multiple times and every single time I kind of regretted it. Where at? It was after...

In Portugal. Okay. It was after the thing. And then to go on the flip side, I had fish and chips my last night in Britain and it was the worst fish and chips of the ones I've gotten.

Wow. The three that I've had here in Austin have been better than that one. Oh. So... Damn. Damn. So Edwards Tavern.

Get your... Well, you named it. Yeah. It had good reviews. It was just like a problem. Damn, that was Tavern. Just front street. It just, you know, like, I think, I don't know if it wasn't bad, but like Kelly's was

better, Garbo's was better and RIP Baker Street was better too. Okay. The Portuguese, how are they with Americans? What's the, what's the relations looking like? I would say overall, just, I didn't interact too many with them, but like there's just like a overall sense of rudeness there. Okay. I felt the same way when I was in Madrid.

Yeah. Yeah, I mean, most people are friendly enough, but you run into some people like, there was a guy sitting outside a restaurant who looked like the owner or manager, and I couldn't read the menus in Spanish. I asked them very politely up there because a lot of the menus there come in English and Spanish. I said you have an English version. He just goes, no, turn around and walked off. It was just super like, all right, I guess I'm not going to eat here.

Is this because of Iraq? It's just because of the global war and terror. I just say, yeah, I felt like that in Portugal, that they were just, and everyone driving there is just so, there's small streets. And like, I don't understand how pedestrians aren't getting smoked every single day. I heard some roundabout talk yesterday. Rainy, yes. It's crazy the way Europeans drive on those tiny roads that were built in like, you know, 1600s or whatever. They ride each other's asses the whole time.

Yeah. Go to, that was the first thing that blew me away in Italy was like, I was like, how is there not just constant fender benches? Just carnage all over the roads. It's like Houston, but like everywhere in smaller streets. Yeah, it's pretty wild. Where did Barrett and Laura do their honeymoon? Don't remember.

I think it was in Spain. Okay. Wherever they were, there was some definite anti-tourist sentiment. Oh, yeah. And I couldn't remember if that was Portugal or not. So, I mean, like, compared to Japan and Britain, like, it did just feel like Portuguese people just were a little more standoffish in general. So I was like, or whatever,

like, you know, the food was good. Getting to see like the old world type stuff was really cool. The tiles and the scenery was great. So that was fun. The wedding was a lot of fun where the venue that they had it was beautiful, got to see a castle of distance in it.

It was great. Shows to Nick and Nisa. Congratulations. So that was good. The Airbnb was cool. Just being able to open up a little, you know, the windows and be able to stand down,

the balcony and it's just like looking down this old street loved all that uh britain very cool i really i mainly did tours so there were some people that hit me up that were like backers that were in britain and portugal but i was like busy the whole entire time so sorry for the people that couldn't meet were you by yourself on most of these uh on all in britain i was completely by myself yeah and then actually i met up with at night one of my pledge brothers lives in london with his wife and kid. And it's just so happens. Another one of my Pledge brothers and his girlfriend were visiting that, uh, that weekend. Brothers for life. Yeah. So I went to go over to his flat. Do brothers. Brothers without boys. We hung out. So that was cool. Something I didn't expect. Okay. Okay. Can I ask you some

wedding questions? Yes. Your bow tie looked good. It did. What about Brett? How did Brett look? Brod was good. Yeah. Brett helped me out with the bow tie. Okay. How did my tux treat you? It treated, it treated me quite well. Okay. I didn't do the white, suspenders because every single person told me not to. They're like, you can't wear white suspenders. It's like too close to the bride. I'm like, I don't think so, but like multiple people. Who told you that?

Like seven different people told me not to do it. Yeah. But the thing is, I don't think I ever took the jacket off too. Too close to the bride. They're suspenders. I know. It's kind of like you're black tucks. You're trying to make it about yourself.

Trust me. I thought the same thing. They were wrong. I'm like if so many people are saying this, whatever. Who was Brett one of them? I don't know if you, I don't think he was. Okay. Dude, those are white lin.

Those are dope suspenders you didn't wear them. So what did you do? I just didn't even take the jacket off the whole time. Oh, so no, no suspenders, no comer about anything. No. Got it. So, which like the actual night of the wedding where like we were dancing, everything, was a pretty cool night.

That was like the chilliest of all the nights there. So that was fun. The knee held up. The knee held up great. Great. Which is crazy with how much I was throwing my legs around. So European water. Yeah, it must have been.

Did you juby slide? I did for like one second. Dude, no one's done that over there. You brought it over. I'm the first person in Jubis Lai. That's huge. It's about to take over Portugal. Dude, you're a sensation.

It's something in the European water that is not served with ice. Yeah. Yeah, that's not a weird thing they do. It's so you have more question about the wedding before I get into Europe? No, no, no. Jump in.

So I guess I'll go more into Britain. Did a lot of tours. Got to go see some castles, Windsor Castle, Leeds Castle. Got to go see Canterbury. and see the cathedral there got to go to in bath uh britain there's some roman baths there so overall like i wanted to go see the castles and that was really cool and like hearing about the royalty henry the eighth they cannot stop talking about him very big part of their uh their history but the castles were cool i did not know how much i was going to enjoy canterbury

uh cathedral and the roman baths which both of those make me really want to go to rome i i already did. That was on my bucket list, but being able to go see Roman ruins and go see the Vatican, I like way more, like, encouraged to go now. Okay. It's that Catholic upbringing. You should. So yeah, I definitely go to the Vatican. That's, that will be soon. I'll wear pants. But overall, very cool. Got to do some meat tasting. So in general, I think I am very proud to be American, never have not been. I have a re like resurgence, resurgence, if you will, of patriotism after this, after this trip. I enjoyed it. It was great. I love America. Like, the people, people have ice in your water, air conditioning. And then during all this, I'm on TikTok and

Instagram, just seeing hundreds of reels of Europeans experiencing American culture and like how amazing it was like in how great America is. I was like yeah I do love home. I got served a reel of some Dutch guys going to Twin Peaks and just getting their minds blown. It was just like people who just go into Walmart and like this the portion sizes and like getting a giant medium size water burger. It's fun. It's fun if you're here for a little vacation. Yeah. You know it's there's a look you're you are you're pro strip mall not enough strip malls over there for you. That's true. And that's okay. So yeah, I enjoyed it, but like, I definitely would never live there.

What was your moment? Your big moment. So my big moment where I was like the most like the most American I've ever felt. Yeah. So in Britain, like I kept on getting these like, I think they're called cornish pies. They're pretty much like British empanadas at bakeries. And I saw it multiple times where it was takeaway was like five pounds or like sit in was like six pounds. So I eventually just asked one of the guys.

I'm like, so why is there a difference between like me eating in and me taking stuff away? And he explained, oh, it's because of, it's because of taxes. So if you got, if you're here eating, you're technically using our water and our electricity, then we have to like clean your dishes. So it's like a like a service tax on us and we just have to like do that. And in my mind, I was just like, we're right to fucking revolt against these fucking British idiots.

Like that made me feel so American, just getting mad at British tax. I'm like, no, fuck that. I'm gonna go throw some tea in the harbor right now. Okay. I mean, a different way of looking at that is you could save a pound by taking out. Yeah, so I did. I mean, I just, every single time, I took it away, I was just like, why is there a difference? And it's because British taxes.

And then I heard about other, like at one point, there was a window tax in British history where the king just taxed how many windows you'd have on your buildings. So if you had a house with windows, you had to pay more. the British taxes, man. Okay. So it was just their version of like service fees. Mm-hmm. I guess so. Go, I mean, look at, well, okay.

Okay. But I was just, I felt so American. Dang, I was hoping you had an interaction with somebody. No, no. You make you trip friends? Not really. I don't really talk to anyone. Okay.

I mean, it was mainly, I was on tours like the whole time. So there were some interactions with people on the tour, but it was, it was go, go. go. Didn't get stopped by any listeners on the streets of someone did DM me and said that they just saw me walk by in Portugal and then didn't realize I'm like you should have said hi so today that guy next time okay see me all right but yeah but I'm happy to be back in America any any funny stories any funny Brett Brett stories or anything like that uh not really I think Brett's having a blast in Europe your stories are like yeah I enjoyed Europe but Brett was like

living the European life, like, fucking loves it. I'm definitely going to have, I'm coming back with a more greater appreciation for America. He's going to come back with a more hatred for America. That's just, you know, that's cuck Brett, you know?

That's cuck, Brett. I'm never done the UK. I've never done Portugal, but, man, I love Europe. I think it's, I think the history and the oldness of everything and the sites, I think it's fucking sick. Yeah. The biggest takeaway, the first time I went to Europe is like, wow, our country is so young.

Oh, yeah. It's wild how, like, brand new this place is compared to how it is over there. It is, like, seeing the Roman ruins in London and, like, learning that culture and just being like, someone carved this stuff in the stone, like, thousands of years ago is insane. You didn't do Stonehenge? No, we were supposed to. I saw a wildrove or heard Will drove by it. We were supposed to do Stonehenge.

which is funny. The tour, I actually got a refund for it, but they called up the tour company and said that their capacity, they can't let anyone else in because the day I was going was the solstice. I did not realize that. Did you and Will almost cross paths?

No, we were ships throughout the UK, never actually passing. Ships throughout the UK. Okay, totally understand that. Two ships in the night. Yeah, two ships in the UK harbor. Two ships in the night of UK. Yeah.

Okay. All right. But yeah, Europe was cool. What did you do for a hotel or hostel? I did hotel. We did an Airbnb in Portugal. And then I did a really, really shitty hotel in Britain. Really?

Oh, yeah. It was definitely maybe a third of the size of the studio. Did party, you want to walk around town with a lantern at night, like late at night? A little bit. I did want to get a little more British on them. Also, I saw apparently there was a dragon flying around London on Sunday. and I was, I think, in Canterbury during that, they were doing a promo for House of the Dragon.

So I didn't get to see that. There was like an animatronic, like, dragon flying around. Okay. I've been sick. You're going to watch tonight? I am going to watch. Come.

Okay. Good. But overall, we'll go back to Europe. We'll go to Rome. But give me, I cannot wait to be back in the air conditioning and drinking my big old Bucky's drinks. American idiot.

American trash. American white. Green Day wrote a. I am. If you can even notice, I'm wearing my American rowback right now. 250. You missed UFC 250, dude. Dude.

Is it true that England and America are facing Fourth of July for the World Cup? I've been seeing, like, posts about that. I don't know. We play Turkey on Thursday. Yeah, let's not get ahead of ourselves. We got some games to win. Yeah. I've been seeing it on TikTok.

I'm like, I wasn't sure. But yeah, seeing all the Europeans and the Japanese. needs to be did you get to watch UFC 250 no I did not okay well here's a little cool thing about our culture uh one one of the fighters called a former first lady a man after he won a fight so that's what we do oh how about that Nancy Reagan no not Nancy if you got any good photos why don't you put them up on this oil frame right I'm just waiting for him to do a post while we're recording no I'll do it tomorrow I did mine I thought about waiting to do mine I did it right before you all went live yesterday.

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Hey, Brett. He said, Randy, you are absolutely correct. About? I'm just assuming his opinions on Europe. Oh. He's having a blast. He's having a blast. And he might just move there.

Randy, I had a little American road trip that you might have liked. You need to do poor a. Yeah. It's on the, it's on the to-do list. It's just easy. We did Port A. This is year three. We did it.

took the boys loaded up that wash media cooler went on down uh same little house over uh by the golf course um ran in our golf cart or is my uh my two-year calls it the monster truck thinks he thinks we got a monster truck grave digger all we had to do was just drive it around he was satisfied um drive down was great got down there Friday um went to dinner. You can see some photos. I did a little post at DC Rough on Instagram. Weather was dicey at times.

We battled some rain. We battled some rain. Sunday morning was kind of a washout, and it cleared out about 10.30. Then we went down to the beach. But some overall beach observations, if you didn't know, a lot of the Texas coast and definitely Port A,

you can take vehicles, motorized vehicles down to the beach. park it back behind where all the chairs are and stuff we took our golf cart down there only saw one trump flag which was definitely down from last year last year there was at least five i keep a mental note that's how i try that's how i get a pulse on where the culture's at one trump flag one saturdays are for the beers flag oh okay done in the style of saturdays or for the boys but Saturdays are for the beers. I'll co-sign that.

That means you drink on beers on Saturday. Yeah, that's what I drink beers. And I did. Zero Confederate flags this year. Oh. None. None whatsoever. Man, there's a culture shift going on.

Dozens of high school kids and big trucks that they shouldn't be in. Dude, did you see the light up wheels? No. I think I saw that last year. I don't know how. Last time we were there last summer, the thing, the teenagers there, they get these big old trucks, they jack them up, and they line the wheels with, like, LED lights, all of them. I was going to ask, I remember there was one of you talking about the high school.

Didn't they all have, like, dyed blonde hair or something to? Yeah, there's a lot of that. Okay. These kids are the kids that are South Texas Beach kids, they're very much, they'll do some bits on you. But yeah, like, you're in the water and it's just waves crashing and, like, it doesn't matter, hundred yards behind you, you'll hear an F-250 go by and just revving it. Just going so hard.

Are they rolling coal? I didn't see any coal, which is good. Don't roll coal on the beach. How many Gavin Newsom flags were there? Didn't see Gavin Newsom's. Didn't see any Talafriko's down there, but also no Kent Paxton stickers. So I don't know what that means. I don't know what turnout's going to look like.

That's going to be the key. I just love that your scope of your beach vacation is based on the political. I like to see because, look, beach flags, the beach, people like to do beach flags. And especially down there, you're looking to see like, where, what's, what's going on? You know, we've got a hotly contested election coming up, didn't see any much political stuff. Maybe that could be a beat on the polls too. Maybe people are just sick of it. Maybe.

Apathetic. Uh-huh. Or apathetic. Have you, do you see any frat flags? I did see some Sigma Kai flags Fuck yeah No pike flags Fuck yeah

Fuck yeah Fuck Mike One observation I've got Another one You know what's big right now On the beach Sack Hacky sack

kicking sack around Big on the beach Also kicking Doing just juggling a soccer ball A lot of A lot of kids A lot of high school age kids Just stand in a circle

Juggling a soccer ball Park's got his first Hackiekekeye sack over the weekend. That's huge. We were at, uh, I mentioned Tyler. We were at Tyler's and they had some at the checkout and he was like, these are kind of cool. I was like, yeah, it's a hacky sack dog. He said, uh, can I have one? Yeah. Tossing a little sack. He's not good at it yet, but it takes, it takes practice. Yeah, there, there was like multiple groups of, of teens just in a circle on the beach, just vibing out, doing a little footy. Hell yeah. I don't know if it's World Cup related or just kind of, uh, another culture shift.

But it was cool, cool to see. You know, it was not cool to see. People feeding the seagulls. What are you doing? You're feeding the seagulls on the beach. There's like people hanging out, people bring food down there, and there's people who think it's funny to like toss them food, and you know how that goes.

You give a seagull one thing. Next thing you know, you have 40 of them. And they're not a clean bird. It's not a nice bird. No. They're scavengers, and they just hang around. and you don't want them around. They poop as many birds do.

Not cool. To the point to where, like, people next to us were watching and they were like about to get up and go say something. And I was like, this is about to be an altercation. But they didn't come to fruition, thank God. The waves were rough. Sunday, like I said, we had a little system moved through. And on its way out, man, kept the tide pretty crazy.

A little bit of a pull. Me and Rhodes went out there. I spent the entire time just jumping over waves, but mostly watching Roads do it because, like, he's old enough now to where he'll go out and he wants to walk out. Like, I don't let him go out to like the sandbar or anything or like very far, but like far enough to where he can get tossed around. And he's not wearing like a life jacket or anything.

He can swim. But you're still, I'm still like just watching him the entire time. It's kind of a high stress situation as a dad. And then if you have a two and a half year old who also wants to go out and do everything Rhodes does, that makes it real fun. So he can, he's wanting to watch. walk in, you're holding them by the hands and, you know, pulling them up as the waves break.

And man, dude, the kid just doesn't. The kids are relentless. There's nothing like a kid's. Kids love the beach, man. It was fun. It was a lot of fun. I definitely need to do Porta. It's easy. It's fun, man.

You just hit San Antonio. Boom. Go east, southeast. You're right there. About three and a half, four hours. My ex just moved to San Antonio. Ex roommate, that is, Dylan. You're no longer apartment mates? No. I mean, his wife moved to San Antonio.

If I lived in San Antonio, that would be a place. Port A would be a place I would maybe look at property at some point in life because it's probably two, two and a half hours in San Antonio. I have something to pitch you. So we can get a property together. Okay. But like we would only be, you'd only be able to go certain times that you. year and then I could have certain. Dylan, if you want to get on this too, and then you could pay for it, but we share time? Yeah. We would, we would share some time. Okay. It'd be like ours to, it'd be ours.

Dude, don't you think the people who own those houses down there are just absolutely cleaning up? Probably poor days kind of blowing up. That's what, like, when I go down there, I'm just like, man, because it's, it's not cheap to stay in those houses. Like, we're there for like, you know, five days and it's like, you know, it ain't cheap. Like, man, these people are just raking it in. Well, I don't discuss my finances. But the property there, the property management, I think they collect a pretty hefty fee. They do. And they're a little hit or miss.

The people who, like, where we stay, the operation, we love, the house is awesome. Access to the beach is awesome. Can walk to the golf course more on that a minute. Like literally, it's right there. But also, like, you kind of get the feeling. Like, man, if they just had like a couple more people hired, it feels like everybody's doing like multiple jobs down there. It's not run like a big beach resort.

It's mainly like some like last year they didn't, they weren't, you couldn't order food and have it delivered down to the beach. This year, this guy pulled up in a golf car. He's like, yeah, it's back. We're doing it again this year. Like, oh, that's good. You deliver food and drink to the beach. That sounds sick.

Take advantage of that. So it's very, it's interesting. It's still in its infancy stages. Like port A in five years, I think is going to be. absurd. Yeah. Like I think it's going to be almost a no-go because the road, the bridge and the infrastructure, the road into town and like the one ferry on the other side of the island, like, I think it's going to be kind of crazy. Right now it's still small enough to where you can get in there and it's, it's easy and it's got everything you need. I mentioned the golf course.

my oldest son and I I posted this we played the loop which is the three hole par three all roughly 100 yards 110 yards and you just walk it you can play as many times as you want

and we went over there you'll pull up my IG can show you a little bit of what that looked like but we played the big course last year which is the nine hole and like Rhodes hit a couple shots, but he didn't play. This year, like, we, um, whoa.

Is that circling back, so discover page, so. This year, this year we were teeing it up from the T-box. He does not have the, uh, yeah, that's him after his, uh. That looks nice, man. The guy, it's in great shape. It's in really good shape. Um, yeah, this is after his first, that's, so he's never putted. He's posing like he got a hole in one.

Well, he four-potted. Okay. But he did put, he, it wasn't a bad for putt because he's literally never had a putter in his hands. I was showing him how to do it. And like his first move was to like swing it like a club. I'm like, no, no, no. Don't have to do that. Watch this.

He's barely take it back. And he surprised me with that. If you want to roll through it, there's a couple more of him. That's us playing a new know. That's Sammy with a napkin over his head of dinner. Shout out to him. This is him pulling out his first, it's his first made putt. Wow.

Yeah, which is huge. Then there's another one. This is a dope one. That's the one right there. That's a good-looking setup, dude. I thought so, too. He's starting to figure it out. He can make contact.

He only has a sand wedge and a putter right now, which he can't hit the sandwich 100 yards yet. So he's basically taking three or four shots to get to the green. And all he wants is a driver. All he wants. I have a second-hand bag that I got parts of Christmas a few years ago that he doesn't touch. It's got like five clubs in it. I think he's probably outgrown at this point.

I'll just give it to you because Parks is not going to use it. You don't want to hold on to it? Yeah, I think he's too big for it now. I don't know. Yeah, his, I don't know what neck. These were my dad got on these, my parents, and like, I don't know. He wants a driver. And I don't really, I'm like, you needed a driver to like be able to play these holes,

but also like, I don't know. It doesn't really matter. You've never played golf. You've never had like a golf lesson. So like, let's just go out there and have fun. hit the wedge around, make some putt. But it was great. Highly recommend the golf course there.

Bring your bug spray. A lot of mosquitoes. You can see any rattlesnakes? No, but I look for them. Every time I go over the bridge, I look down, see if I can see them. I know they live in those dunes. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Didn't see any of those. Didn't see much wildlife, honestly. I did see more in the water the first day we were there. like 10 to 15 fish jumping out of the water, not stingrays. They weren't flying. Okay. But they were just hot, like flying out of the shallow water. And I've never, I've never seen so many do that.

Interesting. I was like, what's going on? Yeah, that's about it. Thoughts, questions, concerns. I'm done talking. Did you enjoy your time? I did. Thank you.

Good. Just makes you want to get back down there, man. Yeah. First summer and I guess we went the last three summers. First one, four years. We haven't done it. Best meal of the trip. Ooh, we did a place called Stalach over in Cinnamon Shore.

Oh, yeah. That place is $5, dude. Dude, it's everything down there's a little overpriced. We've never eaten them. We've stayed in Cinnamon Shore each time. We haven't eaten at that restaurant, yeah. It was like our father. It was my father's day dinner.

And shout out to all the dads. I had chicken alfredo, which is good. I had the same dish last year. It was good. It was one of those meals where, like, we sit down. Sammy's, like, not fussy, but, like, once he gets, once he realizes he has someone, like, watching him, like, a, the waitress or, like, a, there's a table of, like, high school age girls.

And they were, like, you know, kind of look at him, you know, he's a little, cute little baby boy. And he's, like, starts performing a little bit. He starts, like, he starts feeling it. He's flirting. And I'm just like, and then, then. we're like, okay, how is this going to go? So then we ordered him both mac and cheese.

And then it was good. But if you go over, back over a couple, a lot of people ask, what's going on in this dinner photo? And I'll show you what it is. This is the point in the meal where he decided he'd cover his head up with the napkin and just be a crazy guy with napkin overhead. Was he eating that bird? Yeah, the quail or whatever.

The one that you're so shamed. You don't want God to watch. you eat it. No, he's eating French fries and mac and cheese. Okay. No. Okay. You wasn't eating the Bourdain bird. God, dude. Yeah, this is. That's cute. This is a cute scene. It was, I was like, just hold it together. It was, it was, it was ended up being, he was, he was great. Um, but yeah. I, uh, it was a white knuckle dinner for a few minutes. I'm, I'm assuming, I haven't gone back to listen to all the episodes. I will though. I will. Don't listen. I'll listen to all them. Uh, did you guys talk? I'm assuming you did about the Japanese

man's tweet about chips and salsa? In a larger segment, I feel like we did. We did talk a lot about all the World Cup travelers here. The specific tweet, you did not see that? It's incredible, incredibly written. Yeah. I feel like we did. We talked about it.

But that dude, I learned he's not here for the World Cup. He's lived in the United States for several years, and he's just an excellent writer who does that on Twitter all the time. I'm looking for the World Cup traveler to come over here and just like try something like, yeah, you know. I saw one on TikTok today that it was like this European guy and he's in the backyard and he's like, is this what American sunsets look like all the time? Like, look at this.

It looks like the sky's on fire. And like all the responses like, do you guys literally have nothing over there? Like what is going on? Are the sunsets that different over here? I don't know. Like the parking lot sunsets are over there. Some of it shocked me. Like now the best one I saw one of my favorites is a group of like Dutch dudes going to Bass Pro

shop for the first time. Yeah. And they walk in, they're like, oh, fuck. They found, like, the giant aquarium and stuff. They found, like, the mountain that has, like, billy goats on it and shit. Yeah, they were blown away. But it is funny that you could come over here

and, like, just go do American shit, and it's like, you're going to do numbers. Next World Cup. I don't know where the next World Cup is. You probably look it up. We need to just go and just be like, and just clickbait or a farm. Like gassing up the whatever.

country it's in it's it's yeah it is so funny like i saw like a italian guy that's just like was just getting refills of coke just because he could yeah that's that's all the ice you can yeah that's the biggest miss on all this the italians not making the world cup how fun how funny would this be if you just had like italians over here i didn't realize they didn't make it yeah that would be a whole not they missed out that's a big miss on italy's part oh that is but yeah no I've really been enjoying all that content. You saw like, were you here? We talked about the Japanese cleaning up after themselves.

I, but no, I saw the clips of that, yeah. But I wasn't out here for you guys discussing it. I thought a lot about Japan yesterday as I was driving. Welcome. Welcome to the thought of us. Yeah, I'm into the weeb life. I was weeping out like Randy. No, we pulled over on the way home to, uh, I, Rhodes is now, I'm at the point with him

where like, if he's got to pee, I'm like, I don't really want to go to a gas day. because it's a whole thing. He's going to want like a protein cookie or something. Let's just pull off on the, we'll exit, goes like a, you know, a road off the highway and just piss on the side of the road.

Fuck yeah. We did it twice, actually. The one spot we picked, apparently someone else had picked it, and there's just like a dirty diaper and like a bottle of Sprite. And I'm like,

this had never happened in Japan. No. I mean, come on. I pulled off to like, just a random spot. I got off the beaten path and it's somebody else beat me to it, baby diaper on the ground. Come on.

Japan is so clean. Like, it was, it was a shock when I went into the train stations of Japan. And I was just like, oh, I'm used to Chicago train stations. These are much nicer. Cleanliness. Clenliness is godliness. It's a culture of respect and honor over there, Dave. Port A, though.

Check it out. Check it out I definitely will I've got look the only thing it's missing and I just maybe we haven't found it is like a good I haven't found like the Mexican restaurant

like a good text mex spot where you just go post up and dude there is one I've told you about it it's a it's a seafood Mexican place which is kind of an interesting combination it's it's there's a line at all times

I've got what it's called it's really good good margaritas too it's right there in town but But you have, they don't take reservation. You think you have to get there and get your name on the list and kind of wait. I just want to go somewhere around some cheese of chips, maybe some flalasas.

My father's name flalta's maybe. Yeah, it's not really Tex-Mex. Oh, yeah, happy believe to Father's Day to you guys. Thank you, Randy. Thanks, dude. You're the first. Yeah, thank you. Love it.

Yeah, we, I didn't get to watch much U.S. Open. I probably, uh, I watched more Keith Mitchell than anybody. I had a vested interest in Keith winning it. Gave it a little run. 70, 70, 70, 70. But yeah, I've been, I've been a prize that he is, he's aware of the meme. He's aware of the tweet at D. Carter-Rough is, yeah, I did a tweet. I want to highlight this comment from the chat from Alex.

We taught the world how to abuse. We really did. That's facts. Like if you, that's a thing. I was just thinking about those. plane rides home for those euros. Like you come here, it's like, yeah, Terry Blacks eight times.

Yeah. Dude, he must be, he must have gained 15 pounds already. I don't know that, but just judging by what he's eaten. And assuming lack of physical exertion. I don't know if we talked about it on here.

I think we did. We kind of raised some red flags about early Freddie, but something's going on here. Brett, Brett, I think was, I think Brett was definitely a part of that. Like he thought it was,

It was just like Freddie was a plant. He seemed like he was going to too many of like the perfect places. It was like, oh, I guess I have to go to Magic City in Atlanta. Oh, I've got to go to any, like every place he went. It was like he went there knowing it would blow, like would blow up more on Twitter. And I was like, okay, okay. And then I saw I got on a private jet. Somebody flew him to the Germany match.

Yeah. Maybe it's just people were like, all right, this guy's. Maybe. I want to set up. have to be a totally organic, just a natural like, hey, America rules. It is weird that he's kept his identity hidden, right? Thought so, too. What's the point of that?

He didn't want the fame? I don't know. He doesn't want to go back to his country, a hero? Do you think you, I don't know. Maybe he's about, maybe he's going to drop it when he drops his podcast. Surely there's going to be a podcast. He's got to capitalize on this somehow. Has to.

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All right. Your son watched a movie. So I mentioned we had a rainy day. Sunday was We were stuck inside Until about 1030, 11 It was a little bleak We've had a lucky

Good weather the last couple years And this year was kind of dicey at times So like, okay, well we logged in a Netflix And what did we watch for the first time ever? Truck Rookie of the year Okay Okay

I haven't watched rookie in the year In 25 years probably So you're going to try to break his arm now? Oh, he probably loved it because it was the Cubs too, huh? That was a big seller. Had to really explain to him why he was, why his little league team was the pirates and then why he went and played on the Cubs. Very confusing. But we watched it and did he like it, you might be wondering.

We got home yesterday. He went in our bedroom and turned on a rookie of the year. He's watched it twice now all the way through. All right. Um, that movie's pretty good. Pretty good. Some thoughts I've got on it. There's a Pepsi commercial in the middle of it, you know, because he's a sensation,

um, where he's doing kind of a Ray Charles bit. If you remember the old Ray Charles Pepsi commercials, probably do. Uh, he's sitting at the piano and he's emulating, uh, the late, the great Ray Charles. And there's these three like nice looking 90s women, not 90 years old, but they look very 90s. They're good-looking broads. They got the sequence dresses on it. And they're, like, kind of behind them, and they're all like, you know. And it's like, ah, this is funny because he's a kid.

But then, like, at the end, like, of the commercial, like the director, like, cut, cut, cut. And he walks over. He's like, Henry, you're doing great, buddy. But can you be more sexy? We're like, ah, that made you well. It's probably one you all back. You don't want to say that to the middle school kid. Yeah, you probably didn't need to do that to the kid.

The whole premise of it's great, though. The tendons tighten, like they heel back and they tighten up. Don't you think they should have pulled him, though, when he lost his ability to throw a... There had to be another option. You got to get someone fired in the bullpen, man. I'm sorry. Somebody should have, like, they should have done a mountain visit. I mean, like, hey, what's going on?

Hey, we noticed that your fastball went from 100 to 43. You want to talk about what's going on with your arm. Your first pitch, it didn't... Your first warm-up pitch, it didn't even get over the place. Let's go, what's up? What's happening? Should we leave you in? There has to be a major leaguer in our bullpen right now.

Could you go back to that fastball that we, the reason we signed you? The old hidden ball trick, though. Yeah. I forgot that that was how they did it. Good movie. Heck you have to good movie, dude. Some themes in it, you know, I was like, is this too mature for my soon-to-be six-year-old? Dude, Chet Stedman?

Come on. Gary Busey. Gary Bucy. question is when are you going to show them the sandlot i saw like a video of these like kids just at night they're with their families they were just watching on their little league field they had like set up a projector behind home plate and they were just watching i'm like that's that's he's not seen san lot yet no i i think if you watch rookie of the year you can watch san lot dude yeah yeah san lot might have a little bit more that it's the the when you pair for corn scene is a little

bit, you know, kind of forces some tongue action on her, but that was the scene that the TikTok was in all these little, like, kids, but crazy. Did you see the, uh, did you see the dude at the Knicks parade who passed out and they were trying to, like that, there's a group of people trying to get him back up. Like he wakes up and like one of the ladies, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, helping him. She's like, actually was an EMT or is. And like, his first move is to like try to kill. kiss her. It's like, numerous times. Like, what, what's fucking going

all? You think he was just confused because he gained consciousness and it was just a reaction? I mean, you'd love to get, given the benefit of the doubt, but it's a weird reaction. Very, very bizarre. Yeah. Very weird. But yeah, I think we're going to show him, we'll watch Sandline.

That's going to be the one he loves. That in the dip scene, the dip scene which he won't fully understand, because I didn't fully understand the tobacco on the Ferris wheel scene for a long, time. Oh, really? Yeah. I didn't know. Yeah, to be fair, what that was in I was eight. I had to explain it to parks. It might be a good thing to show them like, hey, you should never do this. You should never do this stuff unless it's in a pouch. Big Chaw. Or unless it's like, you know, taped in between

your toes during pledgeship. Yeah, unless some guy who's like in your same demographic, a year older than you, like makes you do like a horseshoe up top and bottom. Or if it's an ice party and instead of actual ice cream, they give you a scoop of butter and they sprinkle Copenhagen on top as the topping. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Unless you end up being like the pledge class president and they say you got to do this

because your pledge class sucks and they just stuff it in your mouth and tape your mouth shut. Unless that's what. Tape your mouth shut. Did that actually happen? I don't know. Maybe not. Maybe not. Who knows?

That is so cruel. The taping in the toes, I'm pretty sure it was. in the Tfm book. Yeah, that's a, I guess it gets in your bloodstream. That's not, that's the, people say that's a very absorbable part of your body

you're between your toes. Okay. I can't imagine. Yeah, I don't know. Doing dip down there. Yeah, screw coffee animals. I'm just going to start doing coffee footbath. Just take coffee grounds

and just put it between your toes. That's like an old folk remedy. When you're sick, put, I swear to got cut up onions. and put it in your socks and sleep with it like that overnight. Really? What? I swear. Onions or garlic.

You know it smell crazy in there. Just pulls out toxins from your body or something. I don't know. It's not something I've ever. I know I'm my most likely to try that. I get it. I have not tried that and I don't plan on it. I don't need onions in my socks.

Oh, there's Dave. San in his bee hole, son in his bee hole with his onion socks on. Oh, fucking onion. Oh, onion socks to the sky. I've never heard that one. There's going to be somebody who's done it. Like, dude, I swear it worked. I had the flu and it cured me in a day.

Do a little research on it. Please do. He liked it, though. And he was very confused. He was like, because the movie ends that the last game is like to get into the playoffs, like a divisional. Did you find it? A.I. overview for the onion and socks folk remedy.

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or they pull toxins from the body. Okay. I know that I think if you put onions and garlic in honey and then let it sit there for a while, Like that's an actual like that. I do that every, every fall for, I ferment garlic in a jar of honey and leave it sealed. And you burp it, you pop it open and then shut it for like two weeks. And it ferments and you get all like the garlic benefits in the honey.

So that is, that's as far as I go. I'm not putting it in my feet on my feet. I don't know about this fucking guy. Yeah, you're going to put any feet. You should, that should be your angle there. You start fucking onion and honeying your feet. I'm sure though. You've got patrons reaching out.

The community would love it. There's people actively reaching out on Patreon seeing if Dylan's series about the foot tier. It's going to be really expensive if we do it. I mean, we don't have to do it. You should just be doing it on the side and not telling me. You need to have just like a little secret sub-community and don't tell us about it.

And also don't report that money on here. That's exactly what would happen. I would not tell you about it. You should. That's one where I, even if I found out about it, I wouldn't even bring it to the show. I'd be like, all right, dude. Get your bag, I guess.

That's not even, I'm not going to do you like that. Oh, bullshit. You would, you would expose me immediately. No, I would probably, you surprised me with a segment. I would not do that. Okay. I wouldn't want that stigma on the show. People are like, this is the guy who,

he's got, this is old onion foot. Exactly. Oh, onion foot. People know you as the guy from the rookie. That would immediately go out the window. Yeah. They knew you as onion foot. That's right.

I hear the guy from the rookies doing feet content now. Yeah, but he's doing it like with folk remedies. Jeez. Well, yeah, the movie ends. They win the division. And that's where it ends. Like, all right, we made the playoffs. Well, they can't use them anymore.

And well, here's the thing, right? It's like, do they win the championship? I'm like, that wasn't the championship game, but the final scene is him catching a robin a home run. run in Little League. So he's like, he's down with major leagues for now. Goes back, catches it. And then he's there all celebrating. And boom, he throws his fist up and you see his World Series ring. And Rhodes, I had to explain to him. I'm like, when you win the World Series, which is the championship of baseball, you get that ring. I was like, so

the viewer is left to conclude that they did win the World Series. Presumably with him on, obviously he was on the team. I don't know if he pitched. Probably not. You can only get away with 40 miles an hour so long. No, it's not going to hold up for very long. Unless he's thrown, unless he developed a knuckle ball. You know, that could be a real quick. That could be a good segment of the sports movie draft. But like we have to specifically.

Let's get Kyle. We can get Kyle on movies with balls. They have to specifically pick like the rounds are each one. So we only have one baseball movie, one basketball movie, one like, that's good. And like, I was just thinking like kids movies. I'm like, yeah, no, we could do there. Like, because I'm thinking like, Angels of the. Outfield, too. That's another, like, kids

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Warning, this product contains nicotine. Nicotine is an addictive chemical. I was pointing at you because I thought we... $100. I was flipping it with, I had the disclaimers mixed up in my head. I told you, man, that drive home yesterday, it was a long one.

And not because, it was just, Sam had a, Sam blew out his diaper in his car seat, right when we hit San Antonio, which is like the home stretch. Oh. And pull over.

He doorned it. Gas station didn't have any soap because the guy, it was good, Ray. Yeah, it was a good pool. Gas station said, guy said,

I had to take my soap out because he said the junkie's still my soap. I wonder if my underwear is still on the side of I-10? Probably not. Oh, yeah. Hopefully a Japanese fan picked it up. We have a Japanese patron. He's just so clean. He, like, went back and found it.

That was a tough day. Sorry, did interrupt your... This guy crapped his pants on time. Yeah. Road about it. This was, oh, gosh. 12 years ago at this point, I think. Long time ago.

A couple things. I've got a battle scene take here. This could be my, this could be a bad take. I'm ready. I'm ready to tell you it's a bad take. You're probably aware, this isn't a spoiler for Hot D for House of the Dragon. House of the Dragons. What is it?

House of the Dragon. There's going to be a naval battle. Okay. Ships, fighting. that doesn't it's not shocker things as such as that nature wow i don't know what no that was it i'm going to tell you this and i i've watched plenty of uh maritime battles naval battles ships fighting parts of the caribbean and such i much prefer a land battle on camera didn't game of thrones have a really dope a number of them like ship battle scene so they had the first one well

was just one ship, really. Well, they had the, not Baker's Bay, Blackwater, the Blackwater Bay. That's what I'm thinking of that. That's the one where they use the wildfire to blow up the... So that wasn't really a naval battle, though,

that's, yeah. It should have been. But then they had another one. They had one later on where the Ironborn and their breakaway, not Theon, but his uncle. Yeah. He fights...

DeNaris and her dragon. Yeah. There's some. Yeah. And I'm watching and I'm like, man, this is incredibly well done. But man, I would just rather watch dudes just sword fight and shit. I don't think that's a bad take. I think a naval battle has to be done really well.

It's too chaotic. Pirates of the Caribbean was fun because it's like this lighthearted, like, you know, fighting and choreographed and all that. And you get that element. But if you want like a real gritty battle, like it is very chaotic. It's just too deck. Yeah. It's like, here's a ship. Here's another ship. We're going to fire some arrows. We're going to try to sink. We're going to crash into it a little bit. We're going to drop the bridge over. We're going to go. It's just very, watching it is not as visually fun for me as watching just some guys sword fight and shit. Or a siege. I'm a siege guy. I love watching a castle try to get. Seged. People trying to seize. What's the word?

People are trying to siege the castle. Sure. Seized. It's seized. I don't know, dude. Whatever you want. The siege is like, you know, putting it under siege. I guess you're trying to take control of the castle.

Yeah, you're trying to seize it. When you were looking at all the castles over there, where you're like, this is probably a weak point. This is a choke point right here. Oh, they get into trouble. They explained how the castle would be sieged. And like the one that Leeds Castle specifically had a mill on the inside so that if they tried to cut off all the, you know, the trade routes and start of my.

they'd be they'd be fine for like weeks i'd just be in the back launch and shit with the catapult dude i'm not a front guy there was uh at leeds castle they showed like like all right and here is where that people could like uh it was called like a hot hole or something like that because they were just go and like put a bunch of like hot metal down to like rain down on people that were trying to get in and like they're like there's the two holes where the chains would come out for the draw drawbridge i'm like this is fucking sick hot metal burned soldier that's a ton of That's a tough way to go. That's a tough way to go.

He's good to help me, ooh. So I have not watched Houcher's Dragon yet, so I haven't seen this naval scene. It's great, great episode, but I am interested. I was just watching it, not that the alleged scene is bad. It's just, I'm like, for me, I'm like, I kind of like to have a better sense of what's going on. And I'm also like, I'm like, I wonder this, is this how it went down? I mean, it's very, I'm like, it seems very, very, it seems very, very, you know, it seems very, very difficult in like these battles go real quick and I know they're there they're it's it's a fictional

but it's just like I don't know there's also always something about like there's a ship chase people are just getting thrown overboard like are that guys like just stranded is going to die yeah he's just going to tread yeah if he's wearing armor he's double screwed right yeah no I don't think that's a bad take I like I think because my favorite battle scene of all time still probably to be battle the bastards with, uh, great, great. It's just amazing. So sorry. Apologies to the chat.

I understand that may be a bad take. I was thinking to my head. I'm like, this is my take. This could be bad. Oh, well, Pirate Dred Roberts says you also besiege a castle. I believe that is great. That makes sense. Yeah.

It's a fine take. I don't, I don't feel strong. I love, I love watching a good sacking. I love when a, when a castle or like, you know, a, Like Colin Simmons. God, you've been awful quiet about Texas baseball ever since what went down last night. I've talked a lot about college baseball. Yeah, we did a segment yesterday.

Nonetheless. Oh, you won. They got on an absolute heater in the postseason. What was the final score? 13 to 2. Dude, they took out on the way to the championship. I mentioned this yesterday. It took out the ACC champion, Georgia Tech, the Big 12th.

champion, which I believe is Kansas, SEC champion, Georgia, and then they beat North Carolina and the Natty. Pretty wild run, dude. Shout out the team. For a team that was under 500 in the SEC play. It's pretty crazy. Yeah, I look forward to turning it on after Alyssa and I watched House of the Dragon last night, and it was like 6'1. I was like, oh, okay. Yeah, I stopped watching it halfway through. I guess I'm out on this. Let's close it out with a new second. It's called, Do you like this shit, Dylan? Show them, Randy.

Dylan, I have a question. You like this shit? Do you think, yes, do you think you will like this shit, Dylan? What do we got here? Riders experienced a tense moment at Six Flags Over Georgia Amusement Park when one of the park's tallest rides suddenly stopped, leaving them suspended in mid-air. Just hanging out up there. Dude, come on.

I don't understand why people... Is this worse than the roller coaster? No. You think this is, okay. No, because a roller coaster, you actually have to get out of your seat and make your way down. And I don't know how they fix this. I get the ride going again, obviously. The roller coaster is worse.

260 feet tall. I mean, that's pretty much how high I was up. I wasn't suspended on chains like this. But, yeah, I was just stuck at the top. Did you guys ever watch that movie I told you about the Netflix movie where those two girls climbed that? I thought about it a couple weekends ago. like it just was giving me, I was like, it's two tense for what I'm trying to do. It's pure tort.

I mean, if you're afraid of heights, it is pure torture. This looks terrible, but this isn't, this isn't as bad as roller coasters. What would you, would you be like, would you shut your eyes and just like focus on breathing here? Or would you like take it in? The thing about me is I would never ride this ride in the first place. So I wouldn't be in this position. But let's assume.

Well, Parks wanted you. Hypothetically speaking. Oh, I wouldn't. I don't care. Oh, come on. Chelsea and Parks can go ride whatever they want. I'm going to stay on the ground and watch them. I don't know how it would have.

this but I would definitely be freaking out. I'd be panicking. I'd probably be holding on for dear life. And I don't know. How long, how long were they up there for? Do you know? Eight hours. Shut off. I don't know. I didn't, I didn't read the story. It's just a, it's just a clip. I mean, it looks like they're, they're safe. I mean, they're not, I don't, those contraptions aren't going to fail. They're not going to fall to the ground. Um, yeah, the roller coaster one, you have to get out of your seat and you got to climb down and I, The climb down is scary. Yeah.

Because you know it's windy up there. You just know. Yeah. Yeah, you do. Do you get anything good from the replies? I was like hoping somebody would say how long they were up there. Yeah, that's what I was looking for. I'm sure they're just calling the ride woke or something.

Oh. I'm not saying it. This looks. Yeah, it looked terrifying. Would I give your girl the egg? If Chechay was down there watching you and your little feet are just dangling? Yeah, like sitting on a bar stool where you can't touch the floor. She's like, ugh.

She's like, yeah, I was really worried about you. I looked up and your little feet were just kind of dangling. My number one fear in the world is heights. Sheesh. No, I'm not seeing any political commentary on this. Because if you fall, you're dead. That's the whole thing about it. People are forgetting.

If you fall, you're dead. You're not surviving. Yeah, that's true. Think about your mind processing, what's how to be. happening on the way down. Like, I think about that. Hopefully, do you pass out? Probably not, right?

I've heard, I've heard heart attack is in play. But that's not a guarantee. There's no way that's a guarantee. It's like an automatic heart attack, you know? Yeah, you don't, your body doesn't match that. I would hope my brain would just shut off and you just go black and then boom. Your brain just like, do. But processing what's happening to you as you're falling is got to be, it's got to be just

the worst thing imaginable. Yeah. Yeah. Your life flashes before you. your eyes yeah yeah i don't i mean i don't know you think about that time on i 10 where you had to pull over i doubt i doubt that's what i would be taking more like family memories like the birth of my son that kind of thing happy stuff not and not the time i shit myself on i 10 or the time you had to wait in line at franklin's barbecue and a dress yeah yeah there's a number that was interesting or that time

bortals just fucking bodied you the time the NFL quarterback blake boarders do a football farther than me yes that's your final thought. You're about to the ground. You're like flailing around. That young lady seems fairly calm. Yeah. I think this is the close I found to any political commentary here, Dave. It says there's got to be a law for these amusement parks to make sure they don't skip out on getting their rides maintenance frequently at POTUS. Hopefully. At POTUS. So I hopefully the They tweeted at POTUS? Yeah, hopefully Trump will see this one. Okay, good. I believe the word they're looking for is maintain. Yeah. That's why I say maintenance. You never used maintenance as a verb?

I haven't, no. Yeah. I did go to, right before I went to Europe, I went to my town's, like, festival, American festival. There was like a Ferris wheel and all this stuff. I was looking at some of those rides. And I was like, damn, I kind of want to go on. The Gravitron was there. The zipper was there.

I kind of wanted to go on the zipper. A little slice of Americana. Yeah, yeah, a little slice. Have you ever been on the zipper, Dylan? Do you even know what that right is? I don't know what it is and no, I have not been on it. Oh. It's like it spins you around.

Kid, I'll know you can just Google Zipper. Yeah, there you can. You might not like what you find. Oh, yeah, yeah, fuck this. Nope. This is from just the me being able to handle it at this age. That's just to get sick. Yeah, I'm chunking.

Uh-uh. I don't, what? It's just torture. Like, what's the point? Dude, flip it around. It's fun. You know, just like a zipper. Yeah, I never really understood that.

Zippers don't do that. My zipper does not do that famously. All right. Hey, good show. Welcome back, guys. Hey, glad to be back. Glad to be back in the States, man. Yeah.

You know what I'm saying? Hell yeah, man. Different perspective. All right, we'll see you later on for circling back on touching bass. Bye-bye. Bye.