Circling Back - First Class-Flying Husbands & Curb Couches

Episode Date: May 22, 2023

Breaking down the penultimate episode of Succession (and some theories about the finale), the husband who flies first class while the rest of his family flies in coach, the viral New York City woman who rehabbed an $8,000 couch from the street, and recapping our Weekends in Fun. Enjoy a free two-week trial on Patreon for additional weekly episodes: www.patreon.com/circlingbackpodcast Watch all of our full episodes on our new YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/circlingback  Shop Washed Merch: www.washedmedia.shop  (0:00) Fun & Easy Banter (10:20) Recapping This Weekend in Fun (21:30) First Class-Flying Husband (35:50) Succession S4E9 — “Church and State” (51:00) Viral Curb Couch Support This Episode’s Sponsors Rocket Money: www.rocketmoney.com/circling  ROW by Academy: Head to a store or at www.academy.com/row  Earlybird CBD: www.earlybirdcbd.com (BACKER for 20% off) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/circling-back/message Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

all right we're back circling back podcast coming to you live from austin texas my name's will to freeze to my left david ruff hey thanks for having me um we all the way that they're doing a bad boys four i didn't know they had a bad boys three i guess was bad boys three the most recent new one and they had two old ones yes i knew about three but i never saw it is um my n in this one martin law Lawrence is in the movie, yes. Okay. As is Will Smith. I could be talked into this. That would require me going back and watching three, which I'm fine. I'm actually fine with doing a full Bad Boys rewatch. I was going to say, could you have been talked into three?

It's just that no one did it. Yeah, I don't. You could tell me it came out two years ago. You could tell me it came out ten years ago. And I would be like, yeah. Yeah, it checks out. But I don't know. Which one had Gabrielle Union in it?

Was that two? I think that was two. Oh, she looked good in that. Okay. Just saying, man. There's nothing else notable about the movie besides the look of one woman in it? Those are good movies. Bad Boys 3.

Bad Boys for Life 2020. That's what's up, dude. I'm a bad boy for life. Vanessa Hudgens. I know we're like going through a writer's strike i know that there's a lot of old movies out there that are considered legendary there are just there are volume shooting remakes at a clip that i can't be okay with at this point i uh i decided to dip in the other night after a couple couple margaritas uh into bad boy or i'm sorry uh white men can't jump starring jack harlow

oh how's that it's fine but like i started to realize like in it i was like is it do we need it does it need to happen there is a lot of that going on man this is redoing old old classics what's up with that this is this a series or a movie movie okay it's just a movie you said you checked it out did you watch the whole thing no it was like i said after two margaritas and uh it was kind of at the point where i was i was it was optimistic to start something two hours long when i had probably only about 45 minutes in me before i started dozing off so i mean it was entertaining enough but like it doesn't touch the original movie so like it's just i start to feel worse about it like something i've never understood is that

randy is like obsessed with the live action disney remakes like he says that they're all better than the original he absolutely loves them and like he just eats them up like i've heard him say that too he said that if like when he has kids he's only showing them yeah the remade disney originals isn't that right no god no you love it you were like dude i've never turned one off they're so creatively lazy that's all i have to say about it oh i like that that's a video guy the actual production yeah it's a lot of work and you know go for all those people but it's just so creatively lazy that was such a highbrow comment for randy that was fucking tight yeah creativity cinematography while we're here i don't know i haven't watched any of the movies but you can tell i haven't made

it more than 20 minutes into one of the live action remakes of the disney movies and i've tried they're they're not they're trash like it doesn't make any sense they should just stop doing it i think and i think i think there was a time in my life where I could have made a couple different decisions in life and become a Disney adult, which is maybe why I sympathize with them. So I feel like I should be really into these live action ones that are coming out.

Nah. Aladdin, trash. Lion King, garbage. I'm not doing it. I thought Aladdin was pretty well done. The live action one? Mm-hmm. Maybe I needed to finish it.

Maybe I wrote it off too early because I thought Lionaddin was pretty well done the live action one maybe i needed to finish it maybe maybe i wrote it off too early because i thought lion king was terrible um you know from like a filmmaker's perspective randy like it may not be that good but and it may have just um played all the right nostalgia notes in my heart but uh i enjoyed it i walked out of there being like okay that was cool from From a business perspective, Lion King and Aladdin are, I think, two of the top grossing, top 10 of all time films.

So they're not going to stop anytime soon because then they can sell all the merchandise again too. So from a business capitalistic standpoint, it's a really good move by them. Interesting. Are they going to get a bunch of scabs in to go against the writer's strike and start just rewriting shitty?

No, all the scabs are going to join the protest because they're going to start using chat GPT. Do you even need writers? No. You really don't. Sadly. It's a tough time to have a writer's protest with this chat GPT stuff coming up. Honestly, that's a great point, yeah.

I won't. I will not on just a moral basis alone i'm not going to go to a movie that's written by chad gpt at some point you're going to have no choice i think i think i'll have a choice to go to a movie or not and i'll probably say no i'm not i'm not doing i'm not doing ai generated movies what if they're all what if they're all ai generated then i just won't watch a movie the actors are going to like pass away and they're still going to be in movies because AI is going to just recreate them. That's fun.

Yeah, Tom Hanks said that's absolutely happening to him. Yeah. Which he's great. So yeah, bring it on for him. But you know. His estate shall get royalties. Sure. For his image and likeness, hopefully.

Yeah. But like if the only music available was like AI generated like edm stuff you probably wouldn't listen to it right because you don't listen to much edm now um yeah sure yeah so like if the only option there is to watch an ai generated thing right now my stance is that i think i'd be very against it if ai released a new like biggie smalls album i'm i'm all in you know what i mean no that's weird no what I mean? No, that's weird. No.

I think that's really weird. I think that's weird. Yeah. Okay, I'm doing it. It's weird. Like, especially coming from like, like we work in a creative industry. But if it puts out, you know,

14 tracks of straight gas, how are you not going to at least dive in? Because it's not written on his like life experiences. Yeah. It's like you're hearing just – I couldn't be more out. Yeah, that part didn't bother me, I guess. Oh, it bothers me so much.

Because it's taking money out of other people's pockets that are actually trying to make – hone a craft, release a single, do stuff. And then we got just AI-generated biggie. That's sad. I don't support what's going to be happening with AI and recreating stuff and taking jobs and all that. I'm just saying, if you put a Biggie Smalls album in front of me, like I'm going to spin it.

That's all I'm saying. I saw that they did a Frank Sinatra version of Little John's Get Low. I've not jumped into it yet, but. Have you ever dipped into the Frank Sinatra Biggie remix album that was from like 15 years ago? No, I like to keep those genres separate. I respect them both. I just, I like to enjoy them in different occasions.

It's legit good. I mean, you put Frank on anything, it's going to be good. All blue eyes. Sure. Yeah. To be clear, if AI chooses to cross the picket line, we can't support that. So AI, you need to figure it out.

It's coming, Davey. I don't like how in you are. I'm not in. Oh, you're in. I don't support this. I don't support. I'm just saying, how could you not listen to a fire album that it creates? How could you not? Did you listen to the song, drake and weekend song that everybody was

yeah i did well i listened to 20 seconds of it like you could you could tell like how this would be a good song potentially if they recorded it it didn't sound good i don't think their their voices sounded good like it sounded off if that's like the first iteration of what it's capable of you know it's probably going to get better it yeah probably i mean it's it's going to get better in like two weeks the whole thing's problematic i can talk about this for hours it's really interesting to me actually yeah i can't i can't get on the supportive i can't get on any supportive train of this i mean ai could just create our recreate our voices we could just sit back and let it do podcasts or someone else could figure out how to have it recreate our voices we could just sit back and let it do podcasts or someone else could figure out how to

have it recreate our voices and then they could sit back and profit off of us yeah like so why it's just yeah no there's no there's no we can sue there's no angle that i'm going for can we sue probably not do you think there's laws around being able to like take ai generated right now we could yeah we could sue we'd throw the book at them oh yeah we'd take that book and we would just throw it across the room i'd probably just quit i'd probably just quit altogether if they started replacing our voices with our own voices and doing something that's when that's when you need to pivot because it's it's inevitable they'd like to see him do live streams how about that i'd like to see him do uh barbecue live streams but they can't do that

youtube.com slash washed media if you want to go check out our live stream from last thursday it was fucking lit on that note you can intro me i have something to say about it dylan shivery yes thank you will happy to be here so we did the live stream in my backyard at my home and the lawn people showed up in the middle of it. Therefore, my backyard was very long. So this morning, since I don't have a lawnmower at my house. You scissor-cutted it. I had to borrow my father's. So I went to go get his lawnmower, and I mowed my backyard this morning.

So this morning, I've mowed one more backyard than you have in your entire life. That's fine. Just already this morning. That's fine. Before 9 o'clock. The fact that you expose yourself in the live stream of having a team of guys that normally do your lawn is more than enough for me. Yeah. Again, I don't have a garage, nor do I have a shed.

No place to keep a lawnmower at my crib. Just a carport there. So that's my excuse. I'm sticking with it. Also, it's reasonably priced. What if you just kept it in the box what if each time you mowed your lawn you took it apart and put it back in the box and just put it in storage or in your attic or whatever remember when everyone was doing that the dick in the box jokes all the time i guess yeah it's a long long time ago yeah people were going real hard on those, man. This is a popular Halloween costume for cool guys.

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They had the lead in the second half. They were up 2-1. Unfortunately, they gave up two goals late and took their last and final L of the season. All L's. No dubs. Parks was not a happy camper. I know, man.

Probably because y'all weren't there cheering him on, honestly. He's been like, where are Will and Dave? How many games? I think they played six. Fuck. It's a short season. Okay. Okay.

At least it wasn't like – I scared you were gonna say like 14 or something like dude you're just losing 14 parts would have stopped showing up if it was 14 isn't enough it sounds like they're just now hitting their stride yeah they might have a little bit more to hit their stride after a lot of time yeah the rest of my weekend was pretty chill had uh my sister and brother-in-law and their two little my two little nieces in town and hung out with them and it was a nice cooked out and went to zilker park it was chill man nothing wild though hit the z-paw did yeah i told y'all i was gonna throw it i was gonna drop a line to y'all on sunday i ended up not doing that obviously yeah i was ready to go fly fishing i had all my shit

ready no like drop a line on the phone. Those time flies all Saturday night waiting for you to call me so I could show up. I actually made one called the Woolly Dorn. Really? Yeah. I didn't know that. Yeah. Maybe next weekend.

Okay. What about you guys? What about you, Dave? I'll just hit the highlights, of which there were not many. But I will say that my weekend essentially started Thursday afternoon with the live stream brought to you by Academy. Um, did some ribs. It was fun. Haven't, uh, haven't brought out the smoker or the meat smoking in a while, but a good way to kick it off, uh, Friday course uh dropped a drop the stars dropped an ot just gut punch

uh to your vegas nights and um that would become a theme so we did some hockey wasn't going to bring it up we did a lot of pga we watched some golf watched a lot of golf saturday is the saturday and sunday i got to give a shout out to my son, Rhodes, who I think is listening. Is he your partner too? He's my son and my partner, famously. He normally doesn't let me watch anything. He commandeers that television, whether it's Toy Story, Paw Patrol, Bluey, maybe some Mickey Mouse. It's his.

And I don't put up a fight. I'm fine with watching whatever on my laptop or my phone. He's him. But Saturday, he watched golf. and he was happy with it and when it at one point youtube tv crap youtube tv crapped out he goes what happened to golf or said in in less coherent terms and i was like did you like watching that is this gonna be a thing i don't know if it is but we got to watch some golf i bet you it's pretty it can be soothing for a little lad you're better than dad than me because i uh when fritz wants to watch something and there's like a major on manchester united game i'll relegate myself for the main tv if i need to for like another soccer

game but if it's something that i'm actually emotionally invested in, I toss the iPad in front of them and then I get the big screen. Yeah. Yeah. And I was very emotionally invested last night or yesterday afternoon, I guess, game two of the Western Conference Finals. And, well, you talk about coughing up a lead. Watching that on my laptop sitting at my kitchen table, it's bad. And I'm having to mute myself because either my son's taking a nap

or he's sleeping or he's there and I can't say what I want to say. But he knows something's wrong. He'll look at mom and say, what's wrong? What's wrong with him? Well, his favorite team's down 0-2, so not looking good. We'll get two in Dallas. I think we can do that. Anyway, very low key.

Didn't do much. Picked up dinner last night, did a little Thai food, and thus concludes the highlights of Dave's weekend. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. We're not glossing over the Thai food order. We're not glossing over the Thai food order. What was the Thai food order? Pad King.

Damn. Was the name of the establishment, order. What was the Thai food order? Pad King. Damn. Was the name of the establishment, was it a play on words of sorts? No, it was Tuk Tuk. Okay. Thai restaurants, they love to do that. Yeah, Tuk Tuk's kind of our go-to. And shout out to them.

Very good. Pad King. I don't really know. The dishes, they're very similar, but this one had a lot of jalapeno in it and let's just say i was feeling that today can you beat that weekend eggplant parm summer it's not competing with chicken piccata summer they can exist in their own spaces people are wondering if it's on. I put it to the test on Friday night. It might be.

It might be. I can't imagine looking at a menu at an Italian restaurant and being like, yeah, I'm going to do the eggplant. You know what? You know what? You know what? I'm glad you brought this up. I looked over at another table that was eating the chicken parm, you know, the meat eater's version, the carnivore's version. And I looked over and I was like, man, that's just like a bunch of white meat sitting there, whereas this eggplant has been cooked and it's taken on some of the spices, some of the sauce.

Don't say the J word. When the two combined, it was the juxtaposition and i looked at the i looked at the piece of chicken and i was like man that's just white chicken just sitting there that's a little boring to me it's chicken though that's a little boring to me we'll have to say um we'll pop top the other day not on camera unfortunately for everyone who's watching he did pop top i saw him shirtless he you look great well i mean, I'm at my Peloton weight right now. Clearly trimmed down a bit. And I think it's because of your,

on your Pesco. People like me a little heftier though. A little heftier people. Who are people? Dan register is one of them. He loves fat. Well, he likes a little something to grab onto.

Yeah. He like, he Dan Dan's disgusted by me when I'm not chunky. My Dan's favorite version of me was a time when he didn't even know me, which was just red wings, play Off Beard Will. But yeah. And so, yeah, I was on my eggplant parm grind the other night,

and I was very happy about it. We got some new friends that moved into town. Their names are Nick and Allison. It's been wonderful having an injection of two different friends that we didn't have before. So I had a little lunch with them on Saturday. Went to a little place near the stew called Lou's. Dave, highly recommend if you're looking for somewhere to bring the

Rhodes Man, where you can run around freely and the waitstaff loves it. They're very accommodating, very fun. That's always a key. You can find one of those, keep us coming back. Yeah, we were eating good. But the real main event of the weekend was just really having just a chill-ass Sunday. I was feeling a little dusty. Had a little cocktail hour at my place the night before with a couple of my in-laws. And I was just whipping up watermelon margaritas like they were going out of style. Oh, shit.

We had a bunch of watermelon that we kind of forgot about in the fridge. And it was like, we got to get rid of this. We can either eat it or we can make margaritas out of it. And the bar was open and so sunday i was a little dusty and i cured my hangover with uh just the way that i do it now i went to matt's all rancho and i ate some enchiladas i went to the record store right after and made two cops talking heads and goose for those keeping track at home damn you can follow me on discogs you're on your goose right now and then yeah i mean in more ways than one my man in more ways than one oh I know and then uh rounded out watching

that PGA Championship just chilling the most what a time watching that PGA Championship what does it feel like to you guys to have a live uh golfer with a major under his belt I don't love it but you can't hold that dude back for too long, you know? I mean, it was inevitable. There's a few good players on live. Cam Smith, he's going to get another one here. Yeah, but he's been playing like shit. He got turned around like Brooks did. He's kind of – he had a good Sunday.

That's interesting you went with eggplant parmesan. Why? I just have never been able to get past the fact that an egg planted that parmesan. Yeah. I'm not kidding when I say that. I legitimately think it tastes better at Sammy's than the chicken. I don't want to hear any more about your eggplant.

It's a sauce play. Okay. You know, I don't. It's a different thing. It's a different feeling. With the chicken parm, you feel like you're eating a piece of chicken covered in stuff. With the eggplant parm, it almost feels like you're eating some kind of lasagna hybrid. It's really nice.

I just told you I don't want to hear any more about it. Oh, it's a juxto play. Everyone knows that. We're not doing that. Dude. Juxie. Hmm. You good?

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don't know who would call their kid that. Wrote into this. It says, my husband loves to travel and always the other pays for it, gets an upgrade into the first class cabin. When we travel together with our children, he buys himself a ticket in first class and puts us in economy or economy plus. He even did this recently on an overnight flight to Paris. He justifies flying alone in first class because of the cost and the fact that our kids, 12 and 16, might feel alone if I were to travel in first with him and leave them in the rear cabin. I feel this is unfair. I don't think our kids would mind if they were in economy plus and my husband and I sat together in first class. Is it unfair for me to want? My husband has suggested traveling alone on a different flight ahead of us so that we don't feel badly about the disparity,

but this does not really address the problem of the inherent selfishness in his thinking. Am I wrong? We are happy to travel and love going places together, but it is still very strange. Thoughts? Thoughts? It seems obvious. There's two ways this can go. You either switch off here. I'll fly first class there.

You fly it here, back home. Or this guy just doesn't fly first class and sits back there with his family like a normal person would do look um yeah this guy uh seems incredibly selfish not just a little bit that this is a bizarre move i can't fathom trying to pull this off with my family like looking at my wife in the face of me and like have fun back there with the kiddos i'm gonna be up here drinking champagne and you know you know fully stretched it this does not make sense to me at all i might see if maybe he's working up there like he's like i've got to be on my laptop doing work guy things but it's just it doesn't look good and what are the ages of the kids again did you say 12 12 and 16 12 and 16 16

16 like you don't need to worry about the emotional state of that kid just throw him in the back row of the plane and let him vibe out like he's not gonna give a fuck he's got headphones in there's no doubt 12 year old too if anything they'd like to be i think they'd like to be without their parents that's setting a really weird uh it's really it's gotta be weird for the kids like oh dad gets to do this every time we did we travel this is not strange to me and not us it's either gonna be both parents or zero parents you can't you can't do it solo my absolute favorite part was this part my husband has suggested traveling alone on a different flight ahead of us so that

we don't feel badly about the disparity that is a wild way to negotiate. Or here's a crazy idea. Sit with your family, buddy. No, no, no, no, no, no. I like it. Take a different flight so that you don't see it. Babe, I'll go a little bit before. I'll make sure the hotel room's all set up and everything. I'll enjoy the extra day vacation. You're right. That suggestion is so much worse than everything else going on here. It's so tone deaf to the situation. I'll get there a couple hours ahead of time. I mean, I feel like this woman has Stockholm syndrome. I'll be at the pool in the first place because she has to write into the new york times about this and she can't just have one of her friends be like hey your husband's an asshole your husband is an asshole ma'am i'm sorry to say you know you're not listening but what did uh the ethicist

have to say i don't know i probably probably easy to guess yeah uh i mean it it seems it's it says they close it out by saying still if your husband thinks that only one adult per trip should fly up front why not suggest taking turns i mean you can't so okay so i was talking this out with somebody you can't really take turns mid-flight like i think they would stop you from switching seats if you try to do it or at least some flight attendants might stop you. Because we were talking about, what if you bought one first class ticket for a bachelor party? Say we were all flying to, I don't know, Las Vegas. We got one first class ticket.

Dylan sits there and gets a few free drinks. And then we rotate and we just start switching. And the boys are just all getting free cocktails. So everyone just shares the price of the upgrade, you're saying? Yeah, just one. And so it's an extra $50 per dude on the plane. I don't know. They'd catch on to you and they'd stop you.

Right? I don't know. I think that in that scenario, yeah. There might be an exception for someone whose family is in economy. And maybe, hey, we need to switch because the kids are acting up whatever the teens are acting up but i i can't it doesn't shock me that there's people who live like this and do shit like this but it's this is giving uh giving kendall roy vibes i i've oh kendall wants to be with the kids kendall wants to be with um does he he was willing to

lay down in front of the car he's willing to be with them does he he was willing to lay down in front of the car he's willing to go to a court he really tried real hard i've upgraded to business class never i don't know the difference between business and first class really but i've upgraded to business class a couple of times not to brag it was very reasonable when i did it it really is a total and it's okay if you've flown first class it really is a total you don't have to apologize like it's the experience is you're not a man of the people okay the new york times is also the same uh people that published a column recently about how kids should not fly in first class at all which to me is not as that's a super privileged move because kids don't they don't give a shit i mean they do but like they don't

need first class no but to say that kids shouldn't be there because they're kids is also like... If a family can afford it and you want to fly with your kid and you want to sit in first class, you shouldn't be shamed for having your kid there. If you're flying with a group of us or going on a golf trip or something, if one of us wanted to upgrade to business class, that's not a big deal. We're not a family unit. But this guy is true yeah i what i mean if i'm flying somewhere with a group of friends unless i'm sitting directly

next to someone like say david i'm on the aisle dave's middle we got someone there if i'm not in the same like row as you i'm probably not talking to anyone the entire time even if you're across the row i'm not going to be sitting there like chopping it up that's something you do in your 20s when you're going on like your first couple of bachelor parties and you get up and you go and you just go chat it up in the middle of the flight. Like once you get to our age, it's like, yeah, we, we pretty much know the drill here. I'll see you on the other side. Yeah. Now that I know what it feels like to travel with a kid, like having three hours on a plane

with no kid to manage and just like an iPad in in front of me it's legitimately a time i can use to actually enjoy myself and like like read or watch something i need to catch up on i don't know maybe i enjoy it should we should we do like an andrew tate segment where we make a case for this guy i don't think so man okay all right his poor wife like that's that's just so rude it's so rude it's she needs to start upgrading herself using his credit card and just upgrading herself and being like sorry oh oh i'm sorry it feels like he's just conditioned her to think this is acceptable he has yeah you could also convince me this is not real because it's so egregious yeah like it's like i'm sorry but like if no one writes in i feel like no one should write into the new york times about this like if you know it's that bad that

you're going to write the new york times like then you just need to figure it out right but there are i mean there are people who think this way there are like oh yeah totally selfish dick heads like you know what i'm just going to take care of myself and and the rest so be it there are people like that so it probably is if this case isn't real there are real versions of it you know not talked about enough that on the flight to dylan's bachelor party in which many of us were on uh one of your high school buddies who i won't name eugene was on the flight and my best friend growing up my best man at my first wedding didn't um didn't like okay i didn't know he was on our plane until we landed was like six rows up and like wait that's your buddy eugene

and he just like didn't he knew that i was on that flight yeah psychotic we got there i'm like uh gene what flight we're gonna go dude i was on your flight oh really you're just now telling me now that we're in nevada that that was hilarious that i've never seen that done before he's he he moves to the beat of his own drum he's one of those guys he's like oh i did some work to do so i was on the computer like okay yeah what i had to do is saying hi to me the it's my bachelor party i invited someone who had never really met him before and as somebody who i didn't realize that was happening had i known that situation had happened in that way i think i would have avoided talking to him during the entire bachelor party just being like well he clearly doesn't want to hang out with us so i'm

just not gonna hang i'm not gonna give him the time of day knowing him as well as i do it wasn't totally shocking to me because he's just he's just different he also looks just like beto he's a beto clone younger version but okay yeah better hair he gets it all the time the guy that harassed me at the park this weekend had a beto sticker on the back of his car and it kind of turned the tide like i used to love beto because like dave and him like bonded over chicken nuggets at Chick-fil-A at an airport. Still get shit for not approaching him. But no, no. Now that I didn't approach De Niro with his son, I understand why you didn't approach Beto with his son.

It was airport. And I was like, man, you know what? If I was Beto, if I was anyone like of note, I don't want to get approached in the airport with my kid in line for Chick-fil-A. I will say the kid was well-behaved and I will also say Beto did not get Chick-fil-A. He went to the salad place next door. Okay.

Well, I respect your position. I do think an airport is maybe one of the places that you have more clearance to be like, love. What up? Yeah, I guess.

I mean, sure. As a, as a low Yeah, I guess, I mean, sure. As a low-level regional celeb, yes, you can do that. But just like, I feel like with Beto, politics, that's dicey. Just especially with the kid, I'm sure he gets approached by mainly fans,

but there's always an outlier out there who's gonna you know go tell him why um this policy is bad brett's on my car the other night is that true i mean he's probably just eugene he thought it was beto yeah you probably have to ask brett it's probably just some accountant yeah not that there's anything wrong with that accounting no no what's up huh yeah this guy gets the asshole award of the week i don't think we should do a segment where we make a case for him it might be a tough sell but we could definitely try it like i think we should do i think we should start doing uh segments where we give both sides we put out clips for both we see what gets

more traction and then we just go in those directions a b test yeah well a b test takes i like and then we'll see like when people start filing in more on tiktok and things like things of that nature i mean polarizing uh takes do get traction maybe we should just do a segment called the a b test where we like one of us takes the other side and then the other one takes the other and we just really, really try it. All right. So hear me out. Dude. Like hardball in its heyday.

Let's hear about. Yeah. Like pardon the interruption. Ooh. In its heyday. Still on? Yeah. Sure, man.

I'm asking. Yeah, I think it is. I think it's all like Zoom cams now though like they're never in the studio together which i don't know but that i mean i'm fine with that i guess like they're getting older tony's probably wrapping things up relatively quickly woody hayes still writing quirky shit different different show dog come on show watch sports one time my guy around the horn yeah that's right yeah remember your version around the horny yeah that didn't That didn't sail.

But it was a good idea. It's doing all right. Can we talk about last night's episode of Succession? Season four, episode nine, Church and State. We had Logan's funeral last night. I can't believe what happened in the bullpen before we started recording. Oh, man. See?

Did I go too far? No. Did I bad cop too bad cop? brought up succession last night which was the penultimate episode right uh in my opinion a fantastic episode really intense plenty happened um a lot of influential people throwing their weight around so i was like man what an episode a lot of a lot of people emerging in roles that they like they previously weren't doing we had a character just absolutely break down we had a character absolutely sore yeah it was it was full of it was awesome anyway i floated out that i liked the episode in the bullpen earlier and um we have a co-worker here who owns a little piece of texas out outpacus way he weighed in and said nothing happened or very little happened something like that did not really

like the episode and i i don't understand it let's a b test it he said it was a classic nothing happened succession episode and i i could not disagree more did he accidentally watch something from like season one see brett is just such a he a – he's a business guy and he just wants to see the pieces move. Pieces move? He's worried because there's only one episode left and he wants to know like – he wants to know what this board is going to look like. He wants to know who's going to be running this thing. He wants to know who the CFO, the CSO is going to be. He's just like get to it.

He's champing at the bit. The guy loves business. He was champing at the bit the guy loves business well we have he was chomping at the one more episode and i assume they're gonna wrap it all up but this was a fantastic setup to the finale here's what we need to remember what we need to truly remember when it comes to brett is that brett doesn't traditionally watch tv i think the only reason he watches succession is so that people like don't say to him like wait you don't even watch succession what are his shows or does he not have his shows?

Exactly. Like Randy can support me in this. Like Brett doesn't he hardly watches anything. Like it's Succession and like Outer Banks and then Sports. He gets horned up

for Outer Banks when it comes out and then it's just Sports, Sports, Sports. That's a great line. That's a my girlfriend likes to watch this so I'm gonna watch it

show. Right? OBX? Right? I don't know. Everyone loves a treasure hunt i mean for him to choose those three he doesn't have a girlfriend he watches it okay okay okay thank you well great but of all the shows available if that's the one you hone in on like i don't know

i'm just it might be a girl yeah randy's girlfriend is sarah sarah cameron it is it is kind of crazy especially like you got all these shows to watch Like we're in the era of prestige TV You've got Tulsa King Among others You've got Love Island Barry Barry Back to the episode

Church and State So damn good More of a church and skate guy What did you like about it? I liked how intense the um eulogies were it they do a good job of like making things feel very very real in the moment like uh episode three when logan passed this was like oh my god this is super intense i feel like i'm in the room with these guys um and to see roman absolutely just lose it in the way he did and break down

and shake and not able to speak was very intense were you expecting it i thought it was one of the the best acted scenes i'd seen in a minute i was not expecting a breakdown i was not expecting a breakdown i asked the sunday scary's followers on instagram beforehand for predictions so many people predicted the utter breakdown that it like i i thought it might happen but so many people were like adamant that it was going to happen that when it started happening i was like oh i kind of feel like i spoiled it for myself by crowdsourcing takes. Before the episode, no, but when the episode started

and he was overly confident, just like, you know, in the mirror, just very confidently delivering some lines and like ad-libbing, it was like, okay, something might go wrong here. You kind of felt that that would happen, but not before the episode. He's finally come to terms

in his grieving the death of his father.'s finally he's finally come to terms in his grieving the death of his father and as he's walking up to the podium he's like what does he say i pre-grieved gross he's been saying i agree for a while yeah was it carl that was uh or friend i think it may have been frank it was like he said how you doing son or whatever yeah i pre-grieved and i'm not your son or whatever he said yeah he's been uh i guess i don't know if it's compartmentalizing it but he has been saying i pre-grieved and that's kind of how he's been referring to it turns out he hadn't uh he was edging the grief yeah you almost felt bad for him but at the end of the day he's a little bitch i mean he's a scumbag like he's

through and through the guy's a scumbag i Like, through and through, the guy's a scumbag. I know he lost his father, so that sucks. This family cannot stop talking business, even when it's, like, super inappropriate to do so. Like at your father's funeral, the former CEO of the company. I want to see the cutting room floor of the takes that were not used for the scene where he was talking in the mirror

and hyping himself up within the confines of that place. Because I think they just said like, hey, walk around and be Roman for as long as you possibly can. And I bet it's really incredible. The view from his bedroom is so sick, by the way. Of New York City. I'm familiar, yeah.

I'm familiar with that place. Yeah, you were just there. Oh fuck, I was. And I was. The funeral scene was incredible i thought the way that kendall swooped in and kendall just showed like okay you're clearly that you you have dog in you you have dog in you now well he's always he's always shown um little hints of having that dog in him like the press conference when he threw logan under the bus but i also feel like he

was so concerned with the way that his dad viewed him that he could never let that dog eat. And last night, that dog was eating good. Yeah. He, it was a hell of a performance. And then, of course, they were supportive of Roman in the moment because he was going through it and he was like, he really, I mean, he embarrassed himself.

But then when they finally, like, when things calmed down a bit and it was just, it was just Roman and it was Kendall one-on-one. He was like, look, you fucked it. That was an excellent scene too. That was an alpha dog move. Like, you fucked it. It was a total pat on the head. Like, yeah, you fucked it.

You just showed everyone why you cannot be on the floor. Exactly. He knew exactly what he was doing when he walked in and had the casual. Yeah, he fucked it. You fucked it. And Roman was like, all right, man. Come on. Like, take it easy on me. And had the casual. Yeah, he fucked it. He fucked it. And Roman was like, all right, man, come on. Take it easy on me. Well, you fucked it.

He did. And it changed their strategy. This episode made me wanting more from Ewan. To my knowledge, it's the first he's appeared in this season. And the idea that Greg was just going to be able to like not like just prevent him from speaking like really what did you want greg to do he couldn't have done anything like i loved it when greg looked back at him i think he like they showed shiv right after but he just looked at the kids like what the fuck am i supposed to do he said you're making a scene he goes no you are greg

how do you think it plays out if Ewan doesn't speak and Roman does get to do it? He's first. Roman's the first. Does he nail it? You think he completely torpedoed Roman's- I think it got him thinking about like his dad and who he was and for the first time, like his legacy maybe, kind of existentially.

And it obviously rattled his cage obviously like yeah quite a bit it turns out i also i also found it that the the last scene with with roman when he's like i'm gonna walk home which i thought that was gonna end way more poorly for him than it did. As he's like, you know, provoking protesters. I'm like, I was waiting for Antifa to just jump his ass. I thought he was going to get like real fucked up. I did too. That was the only unrealistic thing of the show. I was like, oh, there's no way this would have been just like him getting a little bit of a,

you know, pop to the eye or whatever happened. That made him look pitiful. Another scene that I really enjoyed and it also made me uncomfortable was when they were all just jockeying for Mencken. Mencken? Mencken? His attention when they're after the funeral

and they're all just trying to get some face time with him. I mean, Roman. Oh, my God. Kendall's legitimately just standing there trying to get shit done. And when Greg pops up out of nowhere, it's like, yes, this is exactly who I wanted to pop up out of nowhere and talk to Mankin. Terrible timing. This is not important.

Save it, Greg. And then, of course, Lucas wants some FaceTime with him, too. Connor. Connor. The whole shit. Dude, we'd love to see Connor's eulogy. Oh, we were robbed of that. We were robbed of that. And I'm that and i'm man yeah there's no

way he wrote that himself it's so connor's connor's so good there's so many fantastic characters um love the episode so much predictions Predictions. I think Kendall is the successor. I think he's the choice. But it almost seems so obvious that it's not going to happen. Whose choice? I think after the eulogy he pulled off, I just, and he's always, he been like the underlying like main character throughout the entire series i think i don't even think it's been underlying yeah you're probably right i mean

everything you're probably everything does revolve around kendall like he has he has a little bit like there was the episode where logan said you're not a killer right and i think he's shown that he has a little bit of that killer in him i don't know i just i think it's he goes back and forth right because like he showed at two episodes ago that like he is kind of incapable of running like dealing with election night of dealing with like problems on the fly yeah but he steps up in a lot of situations and like destroys even though it was kind of a lot of word salad, like what the, you, his eulogy, it was still delivered quite well. Uh, I think what's going to happen, my take, my take, I think the deal goes through with Mattson. I think so he, when he called Shiv

and told her like, kind of like, Hey, this is going to go through, we're going to do an American CEO. I think the American CEO, I think he's going to, he's going to fuck over Shiv. I think he's going to go with Kendall. And that's going to be, because it's right now, it looks like things are too perfect for Shiv. Not, not, not, not perfect. She's in a, she's in great spot um in her own mind as far as her career shiv ain't shiv ain't end of this series as ceo that's not how this is i don't think so if she does i will be the first one to admit i was completely wrong there you can't it's just

not gonna happen my dark horse is tom so i'm not allowed to give my take before you start talking dark horse's dog my my i think i think if if it's not one of the kids, 100% Tom. I could easily see Tom wiggling his way in. Tom's married to the game. Tom's married to the person who could be the CEO if Mattson goes through. Tom could be an easy default if there's something that comes up with Shiv. And Shiv is like, well, I want the father of my kid to be the ceo of waystar true i'm doing this like there's too many things tom i'm still hooked on the the thing that tom told greg about uh keeping information inside until you can slap someone in the face with it or whatever he said like i still i feel like there was something to that scene that i want to see more from what is

the information that he's alluding to i don't't know. Could be that maybe he found out about Kendall in Scotland or wherever they were. I mean, Kendall still got that body that he caught. He talked to that. Was that his old driver last night? Old security guard? Old whatever that he was kind of saying, like, work for me. You're working for me. Come work for me.

That was Logan's security detail. Yeah. No, not Hugo. No, not Hugo. It was a guy after Hugo. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah but like that he wants that guy on his side like i don't think that's situations really we might see some some of that i kind of love hugo he's really slimy but like just like whatever well fuck yeah wolf i'll

be your fucking bitch yeah it's pay me i'll do whatever you fucking he's kind of he's a dude you want on your team i mean if i if i'm assembling my team, I want every one of those guys. I want Jim, I want Jerry, I want Frank, and I want, what's his face? Like, I want all of them on my team. Yeah, like, none of them have shown, like, they're all shitting their own way, but they all want the same thing, which is a huge amount of power and a huge amount of money. I want all of them.

Yeah. Is there any way that one of the C-suite people become ceo on on the low i feel like there had to there would have been more set up like i agree for that in this episode jerry maybe but like i i jerry's what dave said what dave said is what i'm thinking right now like there's there wasn't enough from any of them in in the last episode in this it could also be a safe safe choice though the kids are so unhinged there was part of me thinking that this episode might have ended with an actual solution and then the final episode might have been an afterthought because a lot of series have done that in the past where like you you kind of find out the information that

you need to know in the second to last episode and then the final episode is almost like the the ripple effects of that because if they like fast forward second to last episode. And then the final episode is almost like the ripple effects of that. Because if they like fast forwarded to what these kids are doing, or if they just kind of showed like a different lifestyle for them, I think it would have been super interesting to see. Question. Yeah. What is your finale excitement level compared to, you know,

classic series like Breaking Bad? Like how excited are you for this thing to get wrapped up? Not nearly as excited as I have been for other series. One, I don't want it to end. Two, I feel like the cliffhanger from last night's episode, which was essentially the Shiv news of her finding out that Madsen was going to get the deal and there's going to be an American CEO,

that didn't get me excited and it didn't piss me off. Like, it didn't really do much for me other than say like okay we're getting closer um and I think that there's so much to wrap up that I'm worried about this finale more than I am excited for it we know we know that it's 90 minutes we got an hour and a half which is probably the longest they've ever done. So I like that. We have Stewie per the trailer. Stewie was in the mix a little bit. Dave and I have been clamoring for more Stewie for a while now. Yeah, I got to get Stewie.

I'm really excited. I mean, I hate to see this show end because it's so fantastic. Interesting Stewie wasn't at the funeral. The funeral had a couple of production things that I would have maybe edited. I can't believe Tom didn't go to the funeral the funeral had a couple uh production things that i would have maybe edited i can't believe tom didn't go to the funeral i know he was very busy but still you got to at least make a make an appearance right he made it to the memoir i'm not a big continuity guy in these shows because i understand the limitations but with how empty the room was when they started to start the funeral and then when they pan to everything, how full it was, it was just like, oh. They didn't do a good job of doing that for a show of this ilk.

That's okay, though. I'm not here to shit on the show. It's probably my favorite running show right now. Yeah, I'm excited for the finale, but not... I'm anticipating kind of an open-ended, up-to-your-interpretation finale. So it's hard to get stowed for those. Maybe I'll be wrong.

I don't think it'll be definite. This is what Kendall's doing now. This is what Shiv's doing. And I don't think you'll get a wrap-up of each character. You'll probably get some kind of meta thing with Kendall. Ultimately, where he takes control and it's like he's gonna lose his family but now he's like he's becoming his father i don't know it's kendall it's kendall i don't know right or what if a wild card like fucking connor

connor swung a deal listen to him i don't listen to him say, I don't know. He's the one who first said Kendall. I know, but it seems like such a logical choice that I doubt myself when I predict that, you know? If it's just Shiv, then I'm sure they'll do it in a way that won't disappoint, but that would be a little bit like, huh, okay. If it's any kid but kendall i'll be bummed if it's it won't be like if it's tom i will be like okay we're riding let's do this

anyone else i'm gonna be like man that didn't end the way i wanted it to like i want to see someone that i like in power i like tom i think tom's ruthless i think tom is like sneaky ready for this like i think he would love to do it yeah well like yeah like i think that tom would be a hilarious person to get the role and so that's why i kind of want tom to get it i would love it if tom got it just for purely entertainment purposes tom tom would be a great person to get it tom's so great and madsen madsen's madsen sucks he's like a shithead he He's a piece of shit, right? So it's like he's exactly the kind of guy who would not give it to Shiv because she's pregnant.

Like he joked about it. But that is something that is in his mind. He kind of looked weak for the first time when he was in front of Mencken. Like he looked like he was annoying him and he was just like, I don't know. Mencken's face. Yeah, like stop talking to me. No, i'm just saying i want to punch his face oh it's very punch his response but that too when luke me was when lucas was talking to him it was like yeah i don't want to want to hear this right now any closing thoughts can't wait let's hear from our friends over at Rocket Money. Rocket Money is an app, a service.

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free and putting them in your place stoops are tight man i know we don't get stoops down here yeah i saw some people sally and i were taking a walk and we met up with barrett lauren when we were in new york it was a nice it was the wednesday of the event and we were just taking a walk we were going to lunch um it was quiet we were in a nice neighborhood and there were just people chilling on the stoops and i was was like, man, I'm jealous. Chill, right? Yeah. Remember Hey Arnold?

You probably don't. You know, childhood. I wasn't really into that. Hey Arnold had a stoop kid. Kid just hung out on a stoop all the time. You never loved a stoop? Stoop. You got to think this will only enhance her following.

Shout out Bob's stoops. Yes. Good job, Dave. Shout out to the renegades. Yeah. Some people are listening to Slightly Stupid. I'm not one of those people, but some are. Never went through that phase. a lot of people did so this this young lady she posted a tiktok which she's now gotten somewhat roasted for there's a lot of discussion surrounding

it uh some would say it went viral okay familiar with viral stuff oh i've done it so yeah 30 million views and she found this couch. It's a hip couch, I guess. Not something I would want in my place, but apparently some people do. And it usually goes for about $8,000. She found it on the street. She decided to rehab it, get it all cleaned, had some people help her out, and she put it in her place and posted to TikTok.

And this says, those familiar with the pricey brand were skeptical about the authenticity of her found, and some outright called it fake based on the analysis of the couch's material seen in the video. Quote, this is not a real Roche Bobois. I don't know if that's how you say it. I think you crushed that. Based off the fabric, but I think the knockoffs sell for one to two K. So nice find for her, someone said. But others were more concerned about the risk of bed bugs and mold after Joy said the couch had been rained on after she found it in the viral video she's shown steam cleaning the furniture and placing it in her apartment

okay um down here down in tex down texas way if you leave something by the street it's like the universal sign of this is up for grabs anyone can take it stoop couches can anyone just grab a stoop couch and bring it home grab a stoop couch so was it at the street or was it i mean this i don't know the context of what's going on in this video right here but this is where she finds it and she's kind of looking like dumbfounded like oh my god i just found my dream couch if i have to heavily clean something that i have gotten off of the street i don't think i'm ever going to be able to get over the idea that that thing was once as gross as it was. But I also don't think this applies to just anywhere. I feel like if I found something in Austin,

I'd be less sketched out than if I found it in New York City. Right. Right. You walk down the street in New York City, you just get smells that you never even knew existed. And it's just like, what is that? There's no telling, A, how long that couch has been there. B, what's happened on that couch?

How many homeless men have cranked on this couch is what you're asking? There might be some fluids that you want to get rid of. Pizza Rat might have been over there on that thing. Dude. Yeah. Can you imagine a viral blue couch and Pizza Rat combined, dude? Dude, imagine.

Can you imagine that brand activation? That would be huge what company love it yeah i don't i have questions about if this is your dream couch the couch it looks comfy it's not my style but this is only someone's great dream couch because they saw it on some like yeah yeah trend website and was like oh that's sweet this is not a practical couch no this looks like it doesn't look comfortable no this looks like it would be in like your kids like kindergarten classroom yeah which is fine i'm grossed out you can't clean it enough yeah bed bugs are something that i've been lucky to avoid in my life oh i got bed bugs what's

the scene with those man like what's what's what's the mentality that you have once you discover you have bed bugs? I don't know if I had bed bugs, but I got scabies once, and I'm pretty sure it was from, it was just my apartment was infested with them. A lot of my friends got scabies. Oh, you got the Sunday scabies? I got the scabies. You got the Sunday scabies? Very uncomfortable to get scabies.

Yeah, yeah. I had some friends that got scabies, and I don't, like, I honestly, based on the situation at hand, I think I should have gotten them too. I never got it. I did the bug bomb in my house. We got to clear it out for 12 hours or something. Yeah. So that killed them.

But the scabies lasted on my skin for a minute. I had to go to the doctor and get – it was gross. Was that the year you went to ACL with Ross in the rain? No, no. Ross – we got scabies two different times. Good. with Ross in the rain? No, no.

Ross, we got scabies two different times. Good. Like you've had scabies twice or you and Ross separately had scabies for a total of two times getting scabies? We separately had scabies once each. Well, he might have gotten it since then. I don't know. But I've got it exactly once.

What did he get it from? Is he going to like that we're talking about his scabies? No, he's written a quite... Yeah. It's a pretty hilarious story. He thought it was... Oh, I forgot about that. He got it at ACL, he thinks, in the – it's a pretty hilarious story. He thought he had herpes. He thought it was – Oh, I forgot about that. He got it at ACL, he thinks.

It was 2008 or 2009. It was a rainy, rainy ACL, ponchos, and not making him a fan. That's a good sponsor. Not raising the flag. Everybody was just wet and miserable in the mud, and he got scabies. Yeah, scabes. I never got it. I think most people don't get it i know but all my buddies

got it one summer and it was like well when's will getting it my whole group of friends got it man i also think but i also think i have something with my body that is averse to those like itchy things because i've never gotten poison ivy oh i've never had to worry about that kind of stuff your boy is very alert your histamines are different yeah yeah they call me powder this because i don't itch this couch has some kind of bug embedded somewhere in it out of all the city like i can understand doing this in a lot of cities in a lot of places where you find something on the side of street you rehab it yourself and you make something beautiful out of it i ain't taking a sopping wet couch from outside of someone's apartment in new york city that's just not what i'm doing look you can even

see in this photo like like it's like when you're you're the the kid from high school who wore the really baggy jeans that like walked in from the rain at recess it that's that part is grossing me out like how long does it take to wash that totally out it looks like it's been sitting in a frat house for six months you know no one's cleaning that shit at least not the one we went to dave like sal and i bought it we bought a fabric cleaner thing and it's like one of the most satisfying things of all time to do and is as efficient and nice as it is it still doesn't you know it doesn't rectify everything and if everything. If there's anything sketchy in this couch, like... There's no way to sufficiently clean this couch.

There's centuries of just nastiness coming from the pavement in that city, just getting up in your couch. But New York City people are also built much different than me. So like maybe they just... I feel like if you live in New York, you have to live with the general amount of filth that other people in other places aren't okay with they're walking everywhere we're not we're getting in our nice air-conditioned cars and just going straight to our door they get their steps in yeah yeah well i can't i can't believe

this is an eight thousand dollar couch potentially, potentially. That's shocking to me. But couches are expensive, man. Couch-flation? Couches are very expensive. So I can see how if this became popular, especially among trendy internet people, that I could see how it could get up to $8,000. But it still seems very dumb to pay $8,000 for a couch

that does look like it should be in a children's museum. Is this one of those couches that comes in a small box and you just open the box and it just unfolds itself? I don't think this is that type of couch. It'd be cool if it was. I like how mattresses tell you that you have like 30 days to return it. But like they know you're not going to figure out how to get that thing back anywhere. Like what am I going to do? Shove it back in the shrink wrap and send it back to you?

Yeah, how do you send it back? Get out the bungee cords and strap it to the roof of your car like it's mitt romney's dog on a trip shittiest thing i ever did not ever but like a shitty thing i did was we got a free mattress through uh grand x and i just sold it to a dude and he was like why are you selling this match this brand new mattress you haven't even taken out of the packaging i was like i host a podcast and we got it and i already i just got a free one like three months ago so like i don't know what to do with this i don't know if he became a listener or not i think he was more yeah and i'll check it out i think he was more confused than anything as to why i was just getting rid of numerous mattresses but that was also when i was mentally gone from grandex not life yeah no yeah yeah you get it this chick looks cool yeah yeah like i think

overall she might be cool yeah she looks cool i feel bad that uh she's getting just absolutely roasted off the face of the earth 30 million views man that's that's pretty good well maybe i'd get bad i'd get bad bugs if it meant getting 30 000 or 30 million views for something at wash media best case scenario for her and if anyone says differently, you're done. The Boobwa company, they see this, and they just send her a canoe, and they're like, hey, check it out. That would be – That's a smart play.

They should do that. But I don't know if – a luxury couch company, I don't know if they're going to do bits like that. My bug bomb killed a scorpion, too, that I did not know was in my apartment at the time oh man yeah crazy man dude i had a scorpion bite me the other day and i flexed my muscle and it just popped the thing out it went flying you should have collected its venom as it is the most valuable liquid in the world i did i snorted it oh really how'd you feel do you hallucinate it's weird i passed out for like eight hours yeah saw the other side i just got a crazy headache just now dude i had one as i

rolled in this morning i had to take something ton of bricks yeah dude i'm worried that we have like allergy issues going on in austin that aren't like nasal anymore and they're just going straight to the dome piece man think about all the pollen that's collected on that couch yeah gross that's where my head goes there's just going straight to allergies yeah like obviously like blood piss cum all that stuff i'm thinking about but pollen is the one i mean i famously got a new lounge chair for our patio and the other day i walked out there and like i was like oh i need to shake this thing out it's just covered in pollen. Yeah. Dander. We didn't even mention Kendall's line of you're too online,

which felt like another like – Wait, when was that? I must have missed it. He was talking to his baby mama. That's good. You're too online. Dave, he wants to be around his family. He does, but he's torn.

It's the duality of Kendall. He wants to be around though he wants to be at this good he wants to be the good guy but he just can't help himself he throws the election or you know joins joins roman and tom it's just yeah no i think deep down he does and maybe that that kendall comes out on uh next sunday but I don't know, man. Shout out to Rava, though. Something else we didn't talk about was the way that all the ex-wives got kind of drummed up and sat in the row together. And the mistresses.

I really enjoyed that. Yeah, that was funny. I'm sorry that I can't differentiate the names. They haven't been around enough for me to really learn. Caroline's the original mommy. When she said like, oh, yeah, she was this to me. was my carry that was just like that was perfect yeah that was perfect unhinged yeah that was nice unhinged yeah if i'm ro if i'm logan and i'm looking down i'm like hey i did pretty well for myself in these years don't know if i need the mistresses sitting front row with uh but you know what

hey all in all they're all kind of bad though in their own way you know sure yeah yeah no they they are shout out to the moms uh touching mother's day tribute you ready to get out of here yeah let's do it bye bye bye