Circling Back - Frat Debt Collectors | Circling Back 2-26-26

Episode Date: February 26, 2026

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Hey, we're back. It's a circling back podcast. There's a take two. My name is Dave. We were just the victims of an EMP device. False start on the media company. Moving back. We're at penalty.

Unforced. Replay, first down. Yeah, if you're just a listener, then you won't have any context. But yeah, we wrote everything went crazy. Hey, why, Randy's words not mine. Yeah, it was, that has never happened before, and it was quite panicking. Just, we went live and the audio just was crazy.

And then we were getting no audio in the system. So quite panicking. Take two. This is, but hey, hey, easy recovery. We're back. Only a five minute delay. Randy Trumbacky is the person responsible for the technical part of the show. Yes.

And I fixed it quickly. He did fix it. And hopefully everything is. We're here. We're here. This is what this is the person you need in the captain chair. What's the I mean, what's the chats? Are we in the same stream that we were in or did you have to create a new one? I created a new one. Oh. Yeah. So now just nobody, nobody can see. Like a parallel universe. No, people aren't the chat. People on people aren't in the chat. Are there else? Well, the link work that I posted. No, probably not. No. We need to relink. You want me to put you a new link? You know, how about this? I mean, I can't, it's going to, the show is going to suffer. I can do it.

I can do it. You should do. What can't he do? Can't Link, like, pull out his sword and then do something? I'm surprised you didn't think it's Zelda. No, that's the thing. Like, it's what I do with Randy. I do just barely off.

Surface level. Surface level, like, Nintendo slash movie characters that are, it's like off by a little bit. And I try to rage bait him in it correcting me. And sometimes they get him. Sometimes he goes, that, that, that, that, that, I know what you're doing. If you would have done Zelda there, that would have been one of those rage baits where I like, I know what you're doing. I was trying to say, doesn't Zelda have the sword? No.

See, now you're doing it. I don't know the difference between Link and Zelda. Link is the main character, the guy in the green get up with the hat. Link is in bio. Zelda, yeah, and Zelda is the princess. Oh, news to me. Okay. I thought that was peach.

See, nah, I see you doing it. Speaking of rage baiting, Dylan is not here. He's at home. He is day two of sickness. He is. He's day to day with the upper respiratory. He said he feels like he has knives in his throat. Yeah, that's what he said yesterday.

And then this morning, I just assumed because we hadn't heard from him, I was like, oh, he must be fine. And I didn't want to text last night. I just didn't. And he's like, dude, I'm actually worse today. I was like, if you had knives in your throat yesterday, what do you have in your throat now? glass? Could be. What's next up?

Don't know. Don't want to know it. No, honestly. Yeah. Fire? We wish him well. Yeah, fire. Maybe he's a dragon.

Wildfire. What was the, what was the fire in Game of Thrones that was very effective? The green fire? Yeah, the green one. Wildfire. Yeah. Battle of the Bastard.

Again, like just like a surface level. Battle of Back. Reference. It's kind of all I got, really. Surface level references to a lot of things. Brett, right before the show started, Brett was like, I don't know what this even means. He kind of like put his laptop down and he goes,

I think I'm sure going to go off vibes today. That's what it means. This is no lap. He just, as opposed to what? I don't know. Doesn't Dylan usually sit on his laptop and like look things up? Yeah,

kind of. Yeah. So now I'm going. Yeah. I think you just sits in just, just in case anything on Twitter pops off. But we're going vibes today. Thanks for having me, Dave.

Brett Merriman. The host of one, one host of the, excuse me, not cold stove, not anymore. The now defunct. cold stove. Sure. But the mail-in pod. Right.

Recorded yesterday. Sure did. Yeah, I got to make the rundown for that. We'll put it out this afternoon. Good episode. Old Randall Trambecky was on it. Yeah, I could hear y'all cooking. We'd cook. It cooked. I think we cooked. Good banter. Randy has, he had multiple updates about his hobbies. Birdhouse. Yeah.

Oh, God. People are going to love that. Yeah. It's a great week to be a patron. We dropped co-worker week on Tuesday. People are loving it. People are wanting more of it. And they might get more. We're recording voicemails today.

Pipelines 888-618-48-48-44-22. You can just call in, leave a voicemail now if you want. We may not get to it this week. In fact, we probably won't. But next week, that works. We need to choose a theme, Randy, for next month. We can do that in the coming days. Yes, yes.

We have some potential ones, like Ickweek. Did we not do Iq week? We haven't done, we did fumble the Cucci week, which is similar. But, uh, right, Iq week, gambling week, injury week, green week, which is all about, you know, high stories. Someone did, uh, I think I saw on Reddit or somewhere coming on YouTube said, can we get pledge story week? Or just people write in about pledges and stuff. And that could be pretty funny. And the stuff that they did.

Yeah. Just going back. Yeah. So like pledged ship week could be a pretty funny thing to hear. Okay. So we'll pick something. If people have ideas, hit us up in the chat. And also in the chat right now, we're going to do a little segment later where we check in the chat.

We usually try to do that like we announce it, but I want to have a whole. I want the chat. I want the chat. Do we put the chat up? We can have a chat up, but like the whole episode to give you guys some stuff in the chat, give a give some favor to our live listeners. So I'll be mining to chat for that segment later today. Wow. Speaking of chat, if you want to chat with us in person, next Saturday, March 7th,

truck yard, Dallas, Texas. Truckyard, Dallas, Texas. Yep. We're going to be there. Yep. Four o'clock. How long are we staying? I don't know.

At least until seven, maybe eight. I didn't even realize we're going at four. That's early. Is that too early? I don't know. It is Saturday, right? It was four o'clock on a Saturday. Yeah, I'm excited about it.

I like our chances of like, if we start earlier, then we like maybe in theory end the night, like earlier. I mean, Brett's probably going to disappear off to like... Bottleblum. Lizard Lounge or something. There's a monkey bar potential. I don't think we're anywhere near it, but well, I mean, I guess near as relative, but not that far.

But not terrible. We're right close to 75. You can just hop on. Yeah. I heard there's a potential Mexican restaurant involved too. Is that pretty? meetup? I don't know. I got to figure that out. I don't want to spill too many beans. A pre-meat-up. Yeah. Pre-meat-up meetup. Medieval Times is still, we'll see. We'll see.

We're working on it. We're working on it. A lot of moving parts to this. It's not as simple as just getting a hotel room and going up there. Because you got, Randy, we want to go see where JFK got, got, Randy wants to go to medieval times. Potentially. We should force Dylan to go to medieval times with you. That would be terrible. He would love it. You would hate it. He hates knights. He doesn't believe in medieval chivalry.

It's crazy. Why would he not? He just... I think maybe we pitched it wrong to him. Maybe we need to tell him that the knights were the jocks back then. Those were the ones that sporting people were watching. They were the alphas. I don't think he realizes that.

Yeah. That's accurate. Yeah. We got to rethink our whole plan. Like the knights are going to be the ones that were like bullying the scribes, you know? Yeah, we need to totally be like when like we're heading up there Friday, be like, by the way, you have to go to medieval times, dinner and turn. So would this be, we would be disallowing Dylan from going to the hockey game. Correct.

In exchange for going with Randy to medieval times. Right. That would be very funny. Yes. Are we riding up together? What's the deal there? I don't know. Do we even have a hotel yet?

No, I was going to book it today. I was waiting to hear how many rooms I needed. but I'm just going to book three and F it. Yeah. I take that sounds good. I'm ready, I'm rearing to go. I know I said that I'm saving the chat segment for later, but a lot of people are commenting about your feet right now, Brett,

and that your dogs are out and that no socks at work should be jail time. Dogs are out, stock sure on. I wasn't going to say anything, but yeah. I wear this all the time. You know that. It's a lot of comments about your feet right. take a good look he's just operating on vibes today why don't they understand that yeah look is this not is this not vibes i feel like jake owen i i did uh not say don't jake owen barefoot blue jean night

he's more flip flops not burkins stocks that's more jack johnson which i love jack johnson it's very good music but i didn't get the i didn't get the memo today on my uh on like some type of winter sports skiing shirt you you guys call ahead i'm wearing i'm rocking my yetty soccer jersey for the Austin Verde and look at you guys. Johnny Seesaw. It's a bar. You've been there? You've been there?

Yeah. Yeah. I love it. I love to operate when I'm not skiing up there. Yeah, that's great. That's where I go, Johnny Seesaw. Peru, Vermont. Still have, no one has stopped me in this shirt yet, but I know it's going to happen.

It's a very, as niche of a Vermont resort as you can get Bromley to the base of that mountain. And Johnny Seesaw is great, great spot. Highly recommend. You got your Lake Placid on, 46 years ago. I do. I do have some Lake Placid merch on. Love the place. Favorite place in the world outside of Saratore.

I thought Montana. Yeah, I thought Big Sky was. You need to pick a favorite place, dude. I mean, you're really. There's home. There's the, I don't know, like those, those are deep rooted. Big Sky is the new, the new favorite. Okay.

I walked in this morning and I was a little bit later than normal. And Randy had a, what, Google Earth on up? Yeah. And then Brett was listening to Toto's Africa. That's correct. And I walked over, put my bag down and looked at his screen, and he was looking at Africa on Google Earth. Yeah. And I was like, are you guys planning a trip?

What are you doing? Yes. Randy had mentioned something about a safari being like his, I don't know if you said bucket list or like your next big. His next chapter. Brett and I have a wedding in Europe coming up. We do. So we were just talking about just world travel. general because we're talking about after Portugal, he already has it completely planned out

where he's going. I don't know where I'm going or how much I'm going to stay in Europe after the wedding. And then I'm like looking at like, where are the places in the world that I do want to go? I'm like, there's not many places in Europe I want to go that are above like Australia, New Zealand are still top. And I want to go to like Africa and go do a safari in like Tanzania and see a Serengeti, like more than a lot of other places in Europe that would want to visit. So like where Rome is probably still is like probably top of my Europe list. Did you put the song on to then go look at Google Earth or did the song just happen to coincide with? Complete coincidence.

Really? That's just a shuffle. It is. It was on shuffle. It was on, ooh, it was on some of this like Eagles radio or something like that. Okay. Yeah. Well, yeah.

I wish you well on your travel endeavors. I think aren't safaris like I mentioned this earlier, pound for pound about as expensive of a trip as you can get. They can be expensive. Yeah. We'll see. I think so.

Okay. I think getting there is a whole thing. Sure. You got to find the guides. You got to tip them. Tip them well. Yeah. I mean, I want to do it.

Like I love, like, yeah. It's one of those deals where like, but now like my alga is just like telling me not to go. Because half of what I get served, it's like, well, here's a, here's a tour. that got a little close to the elephants, and they got charged,

and their truck got flipped. Ooh. You know what I'm saying? Or like, here's a hippo chasing down a tourist. Don't they kill? Probably rare, but still. Hippos kill more humans

than any animal in Africa. They're fast, yeah. Yeah. I feel like mosquitoes maybe. Okay, well. Man, that's such a Randy comment shot. I don't want to go there. But I think you're right.

I just, I think mosquitoes are the top killer? Deadliest animal on the planet. Dogs? Dogs are like top five. maybe top three. I bet you didn't know that. Yeah, I just think we're,

a lot of, there's a lot of golden doodles around that aren't exactly. In this neighborhood, putting up numbers. Yeah, not doing big numbs. Yeah.

I'll tell you what. Dave will do a numby next Saturday. Ah, come all, man. Come all, man. No, I won't.

Unless the song's on. Okay. Sorry, I don't want to, I don't want to air you out, but. Well, everybody has a song.

I heard, whatever you put on the table, if that song comes, on. I heard you say I didn't know what song you guys are talking about, but I don't worry about it. I have some songs like that too where it's like that song comes on, you'll get a second wind pretty easily. You put Billy Squire on in a bar, throw me as many lone stars as you possibly channel drink. Slide me a cold beer house. Tell you what, speaking of cold beer hosses, I love looking at old photos of me just housing cold beers. And I love that we have this

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going on at your school that you root for i adopted yeah alma mater um why does it seem like old miss sort of the burner verse ground zero burner yeah not like not that the SEC is not but old miss seems to have the finger on the pulse of the burn of verse like no other yeah Yeah, like stuff pops off. There's usually like a lot. Like if it's not happening there, then, but it doesn't matter like because Ole Miss Burners are all over it. So like in this story that's making the way around, it's been said to us a bunch of times

like frat there, I think Fidel, allegedly had the rush credit card, rush credit card stolen by a sorority member who might have been dating one of the guys. I don't know. I don't concern myself with these things. but there is a spreadsheet. Right. What's the interest rate on a rush credit card? That's a great question.

I mean, somebody's dad is probably, it's probably actually a very, it's interesting rate. It's funny to me that like, when I see the numbers, so the numbers, like apparently she stole the card

like back in November or something and charged like 13K on it, which honestly like, I thought it was 30. Is it only 13? I've seen 13, which isn't that? I mean, like, granted, it's not good, but it could have been worse.

I don't know what their limit was. But still, it's a lot of zoom in on this, Randy, if you have that capability. Right. Are you going to have to save it? Okay, good. You got a lot of Zara. Oh, my gosh. A lot of Belk.

Oh, Shostak's awesome. Al-O. Shostakov's Ticova. I totally get it. I wonder what she bought. She pointed her toes west. Good for her. Revolve.

I mean, she might be a keeper. I mean, this could be anybody's GF. But yeah, this is making its way around. And of course, the Burniverse is doing the thing that the Burniverse does where they're playing detective. Doing a little gum chum. Of course. Got to find a suspect and put her photo up there and name and everything. We're not going to do that.

But it is funny. We did have an incident with our fraternity credit card back in the day where the rush chair. He was caught like buying Taco Bell on it and stuff. And it was not that big of a deal. He spent like $8 on it. So we didn't have a credit card. We had a different system, but you could still use it a little bit. Okay.

Where we, every person that had a position, sometimes they would have funds. Like there was a social fund or there was a brotherhood fund or a philanthropy fund. And then you would have to buy everything on your own personal card, had the receipt, and like submit it to the form to our treasurer. And then you would get a check for reimbursement. So it was like pretty much like, hey, this money is coming out of this fund and like you have to maintain it. So there was no credit card. What's the, what's the brotherhood fund?

Mainly it's like, it was very small, but like if we went on like a brotherhood trip, like a camping trip. It's like, oh, this will take like gas money and like reserving the camp spot. Pitch a tent. Yeah. It wasn't. It wasn't a brotherhood fund. There was a brotherhood fund for brotherhood events, which were meant for just like, you know. If we got like, we paid pay per view for a fight night for a UFC for all the guys to be able to watch in the basement, that would come out of the brother heard of the phone.

Sure. Okay. Did the president have like a slush fund? He could kind of influence. The alcohol bill was not actually through the house in the chapter. We definitely never bought liquor or beer at all. Of course not. If anyone's listening.

But that was all cash and that was headed by someone that wasn't the treasure. That was completely. That was, off the books. That was phone bill. That's what we called it. Okay. To pay for the phone bill. The phone bill for the house.

Maybe that's what this old Miss chick was doing. We don't know. Allegedly. This is for the brotherhood. You know, just outfitting herself and her friends with a million different things from Revolve. Do you want her in the girls? What's Revolve?

Is that like a makeup site? I think Revolve is like Zara. Like Zara and Revolve are like. Do you want the girls looking good? Do you remember back? like girls in our day would go to like forever 21 sure that was that was the store now now that's too like fast fashiony i think i think all the girls now just go to hot topic and then they go to their barista jobs yeah and then they spit in your coffee oh uh but like i was the butter up chair

which is a buttermilts chair butter up so at perdu yeah at perdu for tailgating for football season and our end of the year like party week you would try to to like you would have a buddy which was a sorority that you guys would pair with to like you guys were buddies and like they would always come over for tailgates and stuff so there's a whole courting process throughout the year to try to get like a sorority to sign on with you and they so like you buy them gifts and they buy you gifts and it's like pretty much saying hey we want to be like football buddies with you here's like here's some gifts and stuff so like sending them a bunch of pizza or cheesy bread was one of it so every so often it's like all right and they're

be two cheesy breads for this sorority two jasy breads for this one two for this one and one for my so oh so a little little fraud so you could you could throw on a cheesy bread you could just throw a little extra something on there but any statute of limitations right you know it's funny it went like a bid night you're supposed to like invite a sorority and like take like the new rush class out and stuff and like one time we did it with kio and like they were mad at us for something and I don't know what it was and they just like only like five of them showed up. Oh, the classic. It was a big deal.

It was a whole thing. Yeah, Kappa doesn't like us. So they're not going to come over. They piss us. We pissed them off at the last party. Did like did it was Jason mean or something like that? Probably something like that. Well, there was before I joined my fraternity, a bunch of guys got arrested on Kappa's front lawn.

Oh. That didn't help. Okay. It's frat though. they do what they do uh man we're just going super frat here

we used to do drunk christmas caroling uh and like but it was like a fun thing and they would uh steal a bunch of stuff from the sorority houses

when they went over there and that became a big problem yeah drunk that devolves into uh theft yeah yeah sleeping under the rug it's not exactly guys being dudes

taking a composite yeah no let's steal their coffee maker. Yeah, we stole their fridge. Come on, no. That's, yeah, that's rude. Did you ever steal anything, Randy? No, I was a big non-theft guy, but there were, there were people. He was a big non-theft guy. I didn't really like it. So cheesy bread.

The funniest thing that was ever stolen by our house was during like rush some and like parties, some fraternies would get big bouncy houses for their front yards. And the pledges for some reason stole another fraternity's bouncy house and blew it up in our formal room. And we had no idea they did it. So we just all woke up for the morning and there was a bouncy house in the middle of our house. I mean, that's a that's an operation. Like that's old they were those things weigh like 400 pounds deflated. Yeah. I probably inflated too. People that stole our tire swing in front of us, our house and stuff. That's fighting words right there. Yeah. Oh, good old frat times. Take me back. That was a jead, man. I don't want to do.

It was a lot. Dude, we had the baseball house. It was fine. But I'm surprised that, like, this credit card could have just gone missing and then just without this being noticed. I want, yeah, this is, this is kind of on the fraternity. Like, you're supposed to, you know, you're supposed to look at your credit card statement at the end of the month.

They send it to you. They do. An online version, if you're exclusively online. Or, like, we get ours mailed because we're old school. I like to look at it. And, like, Dylan will get the highlighter and be like, hey, what's this? What's that? Yeah, they didn't do that apparently

Because they would have known Hey, somebody's doing some serious work at Zara Yeah And I'm not like, Beck, I don't mean to like judge here But I feel like none of the boys here are doing Zara Can't be one of the boys You gotta go to chapter and bring up And be like, hey, um

Got some interesting, uh, interesting charges I want to make sure there's no fraud going on But that didn't happen So it took all the way to February before somebody noticed I'd like to know Was the guy in charge of the card maybe perhaps

like romantically involved I did see a rumor that yeah it was his ex they had broken up oh so this is this is spite spending this could have been like the treasures could have been spite spending or it could have been he might maybe I don't know did he know something was gone we don't know

oh man that none of this we don't know we don't know but man it is funny I just I do like that someone has made a spreadsheet this is when like the alumni advisor comes down and it's like, you know, once a month they come down and once a quarter. Like, how? How? Right. That would be. There's got to be a bit like an econ major, a business major,

somewhere that's like responsible. There's usually at least five or ten guys that like have it together that would know like. Right. Especially, I mean, 13K is a lot. That would have, we never even had 13K in our account in our, our fraternity. We were a little baller. Yeah. You let some old miss. Oh, yeah. Ole Miss Frats. It's not a habit like that. Easy to over. Yeah.

Ole Miss Frat's seen as a different animal. Different, different beast. I would love, I might be able to text my Pledge Brother who is treasurer twice and just see what funds we had. Because I think our biggest fund. Oh, yeah. You have a treasurer for that. Yeah.

We, our biggest fund was definitely social. So like, just for all the parties. See, you just, you start going into a different line of work, though, when you're, when it's a credit card because that, that money is just to the, to the frats. It's like monopoly money. Yeah. Just worry about it later. That's why it's like having to use your own card and like because if they don't approve that receipt, then that's on you. You paid for that stuff. So it kind of keeps you a little bit honest. Should we start? I don't know, perhaps a frat capital where we extend lines of personal credit to frat's at gouging interest rates?

You serious? Yeah. No, we should do that. Yeah. I mean, I feel like that we're not. I have. I, I have. I, I, I feel like that we're not. I have. like we being like the company. I feel like we're not in that line of work. Okay. Now you as a side hustle, that's a great idea. I think you should do. I think you need more on your plate anywhere.

I like this. Credit cards for specific things, like for frats. No, it's just lines of credit. It's like golf. Had the, had like the boots with like free, hey,

sign up for a credit card, get a free pizza. Had that gone away by the time you all got to college? I feel like that. Like every single sign up onus. That was a real thing. Every sign bonus I ever saw was like,

you this much cash back or get these many flight points. Randy was doing this thing in college where if you read like four books, you get coupons. Yeah. You would get personal pan pizzas from pizza. I saw a real. Reading is fundamental. I saw a reel the other day. And Randy's whole freshman year, he was booketing pizzas. It was just like a TikTok or a real. And guy was just reading a book. He's like, rewarding myself with a personal pan pizza every time I finish a book because this is my culture. I'm like, that's good. That's relatable. Told you.

Yeah, I think we did fried capital. We just need like a partner bank. That's it. Yeah, I mean, we know people in banking. You think that that pitch would be easy. Okay, go ahead. All right. We get a personally guaranteed line of credit for you,

Kappa blankety-blank. You pay us back. We pocket the interest on top of that. So we take out of the line of credit from the bank at like 10. 10. We provide it to the fred at like 12, and we pocket the two. Rinse and repeat. What could go wrong?

What could go wrong. Okay. I want you to go down to University of Texas. I want you to go show up in the meetings. Whenever they do their meetings, their formal meetings, I want you to go pitch it. I want you to go. Hey. Yeah.

We'll be like, we don't, we're not. We're not charging fees. We don't need an annual fee. He's the king. Look, we were you once. We did it. Easy transactions. No fees.

You guys have fun. We don't ask questions as long as we get paid back. I knew people that were at SEC in SEC fraternies that like they would say like, yeah, we found out like after the fact that like some of the guys on exec were buying like new golf clubs. Yeah. And stuff. And like nothing ever happened to them. Yeah.

Because there was just so much money in those accounts that nobody would notice. Well, to A, we'll say zero transparency. We don't need that. We don't need transparency. As long as we get paid back, we don't ask questions. Tadeline. Okay. You need to look into the camera when you do a cell like that.

That's a new thing we're going to do on. That camera right there. There you go. You pay us back. We don't ask questions. Frat capital. What is in your wallet? Now, that's already a thing.

Fred capital. Who do you know here? What isn't in your wallet? It's not the grade you make, it's the hands you shake. And potentially destroy your life with predatory loan. This isn't a goddamn social credit. Frat Capital, if you don't destroy your life with alcohol, it will put you in debt, Haas.

The Haasus is, it makes it endearing. Yeah. They're like, oh, these guys are cool. Yeah, like we don't need all the money back today. No. We'll put you on a payment plan. That's fine. We'll put you on a plan, performance plan.

It's going to go up. It's kind of go up. But, and if you don't pay, we'll send Randy after you. We'll send, we'll send Randy over there. And he's just going to talk to you about, like, what he's building over the weekend. He'll steal your bounce house. Randy is going to come hang out with you and, like, tell you about whatever piece of woodworking he's involved in. I'll know you to death.

He's like, check out this bird. He'll build you guys a bird house. They're like, yeah, dude, how much longer do you have to hang out with this? Wow, you guys got to pay it back. Cut the check. Just cut them the check. They're like, all right, dude, just fucking go. So you got a rush her back?

or something like that. I can talk to the P&Ms. So who's this guy? Who's this older guy? That's Randy. He's like, we haven't paid off our debt. He's a threat collector. Yeah, he's just going to be here hanging out. He gets to come to all the parties. He's even coming to formal. Are you going to formal? Yeah. He's going to be on the bus to New Orleans. It's going to be a whole thing. He's actually

going to drive. Right. Yeah. And it's very easy. To get rid of Randy, you just have to cut the check. Oh, buying some more kegs, I see. Where are you getting the money for that? God, this guy's just off-putting. What's going on? He's going to show up wearing like a Camorra. He's got a sword. Howard's odd.

It's like, yeah, he has like, what's the word for the white boys obsessed with Japanese culture? Yeah, like this total weeb. Like he went to Japan once and now he like, he actually showed the rushes his sword. He's like always, we're trying to watch football. Then Randy's schedule becomes very busy because they're not going to want to pay. So, like, where's Randy this week? You know, he's at Oklahoma State. Yeah, he's trying to collect.

They're in Fiji. They're 90 days late. He's up there. He's up there and he's making him, uh, he's making him watch anime instead of, uh, football. Like, he shows up on Saturday. He gets there early and just like, turn, he just controls the TV. He's always bitching him out Purdue football and basketball. He doesn't believe in him.

No, I don't. Again, he's like 30 years old. Uh-huh. How about this? Is he, is he even, uh, you know, alumni? No, no, he's a different threat. He's a different school. He's been out of school for like a decade.

Let's just do predatory frat financing. You want a boat? We got you. I don't like how much you're thinking on this threat. I like it. You're really pulling too hard. We have too many listeners out there that could, like imagine we'll get flounder involved. Oh, you want Wagyu State for your, he's in enough businesses.

For your event? Oh, we got a guy. What if Randy just becomes their sleep paralysis demon? Oh, I can be a great sleep. And they're just like, oh, God. And they look and it's like, oh, no, what's it going to be? And it's just Randy like, so I got to, I had to go get a new table. So I had to go to Lowe's.

And they're just like, Jesus. Okay. Okay. Randy shows up. He just puts a boombox on the front line and it's only playing like Lord of the Rings soundtrack. That's fucking sick. Dude. That's the coolest thing he could do.

Oh, damn. But unless you pay it back, you pay it back. you get no you get no randle yeah like i don't know man he was real chill like he wouldn't talk to any of the girls at the party because he's like telling everybody he had a girlfriend and then like he like he like we thought we lost him but turns out he was just like getting a face time connection he's facetime with his girlfriend the whole time but he wasn't wearing headphones so we could just hear the whole conversation it was just really annoying we got to pay this guy we got to we got we got we got to pay him somebody somebody get him out of here and there you go do mind if i get the ox

That's in the contrast. Yeah, he's just telling us about this Kenny Chesney show. I hear you guys are ready for Kegging the Closet for five times in a row. Like, yeah, it's a good song. I don't know. Hey, let me tell you, being an alumni, enjoy this because this is what it is. You're looking back at these days. Listen to this song.

Eventually, they're like, do we need this line of credit that bad? Can we just like use Jason's dad? He invited his buddy Jason. He's like a firefighter to come hang out. And like, I didn't think that was in like the rules, but he was able to bring Jason. It was like his best friend and they just hang out. Oh, yeah. It's in the fine print.

He's allowed to bring Jason. That's what happens. That's what happens. That's what happens. 90 days delinquent. That's what happens. Yeah, you get Jason. And then before too long, he brings Brett.

Brett shows up with his fucking dogs out. Oh, God. Then they know. Then they know they really. They're like, all right, dude. God damn. Jake Owens here. Just break my leg or something.

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On Monday's show, I believe he... Tuesday. It might have been on coworker week, so maybe... I can't know if everyone knows about this, because we brushed on it a little bit yesterday with Ross, but it might have been behind the... Should we just clip it? I'll clip it. I'll clip it for sure.

We should ride while the algos got us hot. All the goodwill he earned from his app draft. We got to tank it with his phone convoy. But he's got to... he's got a buddy, Mikey, who does this bit. We've explained it before where he throws a phone, turns the light on his phone, throws it, and if you can find it, he'll give you $100.

Because his house, like, backs up to, like, a hilltop or a canyon or something. He says he'll find it. And if he can find it within 20 minutes, you owe him a hundred hundred years. He just wants. He's a Labrador retriever. He wants to play fetch. Yeah. And get paid to do it.

No, no, no. He'll pay you, I believe, right? No, no, no. He'll only pay you if he can't find it within, 20 minutes. He gets 20 minutes. And you pay him if he finds it. So in passing, yeah. In passing, Dylan was like talking about it like, yeah, I kind of want to try.

You know, I could, he said something, I could throw a phone. Is either 70 yards or 75? I think he said 75 at first. And we're like, wait. Very seriously. Record, record scratch. Like, hold on. And then he, I could tell like he was kind of thinking about like, wait, okay, that is kind of far. But his claim was, he could chunk of phone 75 yards, not even like down a hill, like just like straight up.

And I think that's insane. Now, Dylan is a guy who back in the day could throw a football quite far. Right. I've seen it. That is true. No. He climbs 60 yards.

At least 50. I can tell you that. Here's the thing. Put a baseball in Dylan's hand, 70 yards is no problem. So I think where his heads at is like, oh, like a five ounce. object, 70 yards, not an issue. So I think if in a vacuum, literally, we're going to do it on a football

field. Right. In a vacuum, put a phone in his hand, I think he gets, I think he gets 70. I'm going to agree with him. Now, I think the biggest issue with it is the way the phone's going to come out of the hand, it's going to, it's going to curve and or catch air because it's an, it's an odd shape and it's going to no way. I just can't picture how he's gripping this phone. The way that somebody's, was it you or him, so they're going to, he's going to hinge it and grab it here and go like that or are you going to, are you going to rock skip, throw it? You can't. What are you all? You know what here? Let me be able, I'm going to try to find it. You guys keep talking. I could probably pull up the video.

and see if I can find it, because he even explained how he would grip it. So I'll go look for that while we talk. Anyway, we're, but Ross and I, Ross did the show yesterday, and we're both thinking like, okay, that's crazy. But you seem like, I mean, you played baseball. You have the build of a guy who can throw a ball a long way. I do.

Like, you can, we used to throw a ball. You tried, like, the ultimate test, can you throw a ball over the wall 300 feet away? And that's like, give or take 100 yards. You can throw a baseball 70 yards. I don't want to say no problem, but like easily. That's not that's not egregious at all. Okay.

Now, I think it's the shape of the phone that's that's going to be the problem. Yeah, because if you could throw it like perfectly like it'll cut right through any wind. Exactly. Resistance. But if it's just off a hinge, it's going to get like. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Even if you try to sidearm throw it and no, it's going to catch too much air the way the phone is angled and you're toast. Now you throw a baseball.

Like we'll take the baseball out there. You could throw baseball 70 yards, probably tomorrow. Ah. Arms getting stronger though. With t-ball. Like I'm not getting a soreness when I'm out there throwing a ball with the other dads. There's a couple dads who like we clearly like are more concerned with just like. like moving off to the side and having a little game of catch with each other.

Because it's like, what are we going to do out there? We're just interfering. I got tea ball tonight, actually. Dave, I want to coach, man. I want to coach. Come by. Come to a game. I'd love to.

I mean, I say that they're fun. I don't know if they'd be fun. I mean, I'm not going to like brown bag drinking left field, but I could. I'm not going to tell you not to drink. Do people drink? I mean, I've definitely had a beer, a one beer buzz when I've gone to a game. Is that illegal? You're going to call the police on me?

I mean, our like hockey dads, like used to drop us off at practice. They all go to Ruby Tuesday. One time in high school, we played a tournament at a course. I don't think it's there anymore. They redid it called, I think it was Zbo's. DFW people know. It's a muni. And Zeebos, I believe, was next to a gen.

establishment in Arlington or Fort Worth. And our coach would drop us off. And this is alleged, he would drop us off and then not stick around. And the thought was he would go to the gentleman's establishment. Right. Never proven, but that was the thought amongst the entire team. Got it. Because this is back during like JV and like he didn't care.

Oh, sure. He wouldn't worry about us. Okay. Good wings at Zibos or at next to Zibos? Goaded apps. Goaded apps. I mean, we're talking, of course, like calamari, Southwestern Egg rolls, chips and salsa. Fried pickles. All the apps that people really like are like, oh, mad respect. You've totally get it. Yeah, no. I added some of my own on the mail in some some brisket. The brusquet, good, good ad. Yep. Some bacon wrap scallops. Ooh, that's, see, I got some blowback for the calamari being like,

Oh, right. Bacon wrap scallops, though. I'll fuck with it. Where my head went when you guys were talking about this in the office was like past apps or durs, perhaps, at like a wedding. People looking online, God, I can't get past this draft. It's clearly operating like way too much in my head. No, but I think a lot of people saw it and were like, we were drafting as if like we were actually eating this before the next meal. before like it was before a meal of food not just like I'm gonna go get an app and bring it home you know what I'm

saying sure kind of changes the dynamic and again I'm not mad the people online are mad not me right I mean totally not mad I'm totally over it I'm cool I'm cool with not having the best draft allegedly even though I'm pretty sure a lot of people love what I did they love what Randy did one guy did a couple a couple people not many two people two people two people I mean look there's allegations of bot farming and and really Dylan's buying by buying by No, I didn't say Dylan, but there's allegations. It's allegations. Well, when you're in a pod slump, like he's been with takes.

Potslop. That should be the name of our ad agency, pod slump. Pod slump. It's like, fuck. And you really need a win? Yeah. And you put something out there that you need some engagement on. I don't want to accuse him, but like, that's what I would do.

That thing didn't go, okay, the app draft didn't necessarily go viral per se, but it did, But it did do well. It outperformed a number of our clips. So I will say that, you know, Dylan, Dylan carried that. So good for him. I think we just. It makes up for him playing hooky so he can, I don't know what he's doing at home. Building a PC, a gaming PC or something.

I think that's what Dylan's actually doing at home. Do you imagine Dylan trying to build a gaming PC? Dude, I asked Ross, because I thought Ross had built one. I don't know why. And Ross's like, fuck, no, dude. I bought it. I bought one. I bought a built, somebody built

and I was like, that's what I would do. I'm not trying to do what this fucker did. He played like Legos with Taiwanese electronics for six months. Just sending around like goth girl memes on it. Yeah, what are you even playing? Do you play games? I play hell divers.

Hell divers, Fortnite. I play a little Space Marine 2, Warhammer 40K. I did a little bit of Arc Raiders. It's too much of time investment to be able to just lose everything that you do. But I mean, I am Boulder's Gate 3. course.

Is this in your cave, in your cave, the PC lives? Yes. Right. You have a cave? It's just, I have a second bedroom. It's a two-bed one bath. So that second bedroom is just, no bed.

It's just, uh, is my studio, art studio workout room and, uh, computer done, all that. Okay, let's see. You found the clip? I found, play it for Brett. I'm gonna,

I'm gonna run into the bathroom. God, you look so cocky with the jacket. All right, let's, let's, let's, let's play this. He does this $100 cell phone challenge where he will, it's got to be, it's, he waits

still, he gets dark. I can't hear this, by the way. And he turns the flashlight on on his iPhone. And he says, here, throw this as far as you can. If I find it in 20 minutes, you owe me $100. If I don't, I owe you $100. Turns a flashlight on and you can just, I mean, think about how far you can throw an iPhone, especially when you have like an elevated advantage.

Like you throw it into the, into a canyon. What's people's method of throwing is it? at disc, not for his I think it's like, this is how I would throw it. I would do it. So that's how I would like. So he throws, I think I could throw this thing a little flick. I could throw this probably

70 yards. With the canyon or on flat ground? Flat ground. There we go. So there we go. So he throws, he goes rock skipping hand for me. Well, he said that he would go it would be over. Like I was thinking like

I would do like this rock skipping. I'm saying it's rock skipping the way he holds the phone, but he'll go over the top with it. And I think in a vacuum, he can do it. I think the air, like again, the air resistance, how it's going to curve is the issue. Yeah. And so there you go.

Dave, you can see right now. He's holding it like that. And he says that. See, I got no chance because I got, I got very average hands. you're going like that and he said 70 yards on flat ground so with all this being said that we we've been discussing it and there's been uh there's been reddit posts about it and i have some old iPhones that like i just didn't like turn back in and then now they have battery and i mainly keep them

around if i ever want to do like a prop if i'm doing a ticot and like i can have a phone thing because there's no reason to turn a man in case you need to contact your handler i guess too but like you trade them in after time like they're like oh yeah, you can get like 50 bucks for this. I'm like, well, I don't know. I don't want to go through the process of feeling like I need it. You should just throw them in the ocean. Yeah, just like car batteries.

So I do have some old phone that we could test this out and that doesn't matter. So we might go to Zilker and I can measure it out or we go to a football field. But there's a good potential that we might put him to this. So funny thing, Randy is like secretly like hates the fact that. I saw secretly. I am very outspoken. Or donut. Yeah, when Dylan said he could punt a donut hole.

or throw it down a hole like 30 yards. It was punted. It was punted don't a hole 30 yards. How did that even come up? Anyway, Randy's mad because we didn't like tape measure at all. Randy wasn't working with the company yet. This was right before. We just paid.

We just had Will pace it off. Did you make his video? I made the video. You filmed everything. Sabas. And this was right before I got hired because I got hired March of 2020. And this was around October 2019. I know that because that was the,

when you guys did it. There was like people's Halloween decoration. Yeah, this is like my third week on the job. We're in the yards. So it had been October. And to this day, I still like, you just went off vibes. It was totally going on vibes. It was not good.

We'll just paste it out. And you went to a cul-de-sac. And you guys- In Barton Hills, one of the hillyest neighborhoods in Austin. You didn't measure where, how far they actually went. If you go back and watch that video, I make up all the like, all the yardages. It's a toll fraud. It's a fraud thing.

So I'm like, I would like to go back and make sure this is done right. We could see how. far he can actually get it and then maybe bring the donut holes back out there and see how far actually imagine wow a reduction because i want to try planting a donut hole too unrelated but i just thought of a new sleep paralysis randy and this is only going to be like funny to the people in this room but like you wake up you can't move and you look up and you see randy he just goes let's get you framed up i have one too imagine you wake up and randy's just next to your bed and he has an origami oh god and he's like it's just the same thing

sound of the paper. Oh, God. So be looking out for this. We might actually do this video because it's very low lift. I just would, we just need to go out somewhere with the tape measure, an old phone that I have. And maybe I'd make some markers so that we can have a visual representation of how

far things are. Yeah, but do you have the lav mics ready? Yeah, I don't know. Lab mics are great and all. I might just want, I want to get a, like, actual video camera that has a good. like a mounted shotgun mic on it because that's a lot. I got that after that you'd get you want to cost.

I know. Like the ones that Brenna uses for the, the pizza reviews. That's what I would like. Get you a silver pigeon over under? I got Dave on one. I don't like, I don't know if this character is.

Brett's got a shot gun guy, I guess. I don't know. That's right. Brett hasn't had a guy in a while. I show up to. I got a guy. I got a guy.

He gets you to call. I show up the cat, collect the frack capital. I'm like, oh, you guys need a keg. I know a guy that has a keg guy. Yeah, you get. They're like, yeah, dude, we're fine. We're fine. We've got, we can't even have kegs in the house. Like, we've got 30 racks. Why don't they sell 30s in Texas? What's up with that? They do. 30 racks? Can you get 30s in Texas? Yeah. I thought 24s were the grocery stores. The only, the only beers that sell them in 30s are beers we're not drinking anymore. Is that what it is? 30 rack of stones, 30 rack and natty maybe. Yeah. Hams, all those come in 30 racks, but like Miller lights, Bud Light, all that. What's a ham?

Hambs? You ever had hams? Come on. Ham's dinner? Really? No, I thought you meant like 30 like hams. No, it's a type of beer. You pull up to the party with just a bunch of hambs, like, I want to cook these?

You know, Dave, Dave, you got you. You're on 30 hams, right? He's like, yeah, yeah, yeah, I got you. I totally misunderstood the assignment. You just bring you in a bunch of meat. They're like, dude, you're the worst debt collector ever. You fucking got to go. What if, like, they end up liking Randy so much that they initiate them?

Then we'll never see our money, though. Because Randy, we'll just, you guys are good. We offload Randy. Yeah. Randy gains like new brothers, though. No, I got loyalty. I'll say, sorry, I'm a dealt. Can't.

What if it is dealt? What if you affiliate? You can't send me to adults. I have, you know, conflict of interest there. Yes, true. Guys, I'm going to have to sit this one out. You send Dave. And Brett, I don't know if you know about this.

Membership is lifelong. So brothers for life. Do you understand that concept? No, I've heard that once or thrice. So we just so we so we so we send Dave to the Delta house What's up y'all? Hey don't need you guys pay back that 12 grand They're like dude how old are you?

I'm like man don't worry about it Come on we can do it over beers it's fine We'll figure it out Come on man Find a way You want to go post up at Carve We'll send Will there Just keep on playing Grateful Dad

They're like yeah we get it dude Yeah it's good it's good stuff Is this the same song Still playing Oh. Damn. It's harsh. The songs are long.

They're good. I thought you meant like every song sounds the same. No. Sounds like you might have been thinking that the way you reacted. Sounds like this is you. What? I can't talk. I can't talk.

You're Dave fan. What are you talking about? You know, he does the thing where he just kind of. How does it go? He yells. It goes. Kind of man. a band of my son-on-o-d-tri-d-tall.

Bringing another bunch of a bunch of Chicago tourists. Okay. No, if I had more free time, I would totally, I would be, I would be into the dead more. Hey, did you get your record player yet? No comment. Oh. Not yet.

I bought a record player so I could listen to Sturgle album because it's not going to stream. I finally did it. Maybe this is how I actually get in the dead. Honestly, it's, I mean, not a bad, not a bad way to get into it. They say it. No, it's just, I know. I can't, here's the thing, I would never be able to just be a superficial dead fan with like my, the friends that I have that are like all the way in.

Right. There's not like a me just like, man, yeah, I kind of like that one. Oh, yeah, yeah. It would be like, I have to make this like a big part of my life now. It's funny that like I have a big vinyl collection that keeps on growing. And I'm not like super into vinyl. I just like having the collection of music. That's what it is.

You're performative. It's just more. The guy reading at the bar. I like having, being able to put on an album. That has been something I've been. enjoyed, but like, I never really think, like, vinyl sounds so much better. It's just like, I like being able to say that I have the album, like, my favorite albums. I have all the Blink albums that I really like. And I can put it on on. Like such as? Take off your pants and jacket.

I've never thought that I wanted to listen to Blink on vinyl. Exactly. That's why it's like, blink doesn't strike me as a band that, like, you just got to hear it on vinyl. I don't, I don't need to. I don't need to hear anything on vinyl. It's just that I like being able to say I have an animal estate and I can put it on and just listen to the whole, the whole album. I'm doing something around the house. There you go. I mean, I can do it on Spotify easily, but it's just kind of nice to have there in the corner.

Yeah, it does give you something. Yeah. Something about the vinyl. It just gives you a little, that little chish kind of record. It's a hobby, too, to collect stuff. It is a hobby, but I do like the idea that people are listening

to an entire album, like, all the way through. Because, like, you're not going to go stop. Especially for me and, well, you know what I mean? That's the thing. We grew up in, like, the streaming era, kind of that. We didn't really listen to a lot of it. You asked me, like, what my,

what my favorite Green Day album is, I couldn't really tell you. Like, I know, like, I know the Dookie was an album. I know, like, honestly, like, I, I think of songs. The first song I ever put on my iPod ever was American Idiot. Yeah, iTunes, Napster, and, 99 cents per song.

LimeWire, really ruined it for us. And then we had to go search LimeWire and FrostWire was mine. I don't even know about FrostWare. That was my illegal streaming thing of choice. And if you actually had to go, had some type of go get to yourself. I don't know where I'm thinking there.

You would actually get the album art and put them to the songs because not always, they wouldn't always be linked. If you got it from iTunes, the album art would be on the file. If not, you had to go out and find it. You had to go find it, do yourself unless you, or else you just had the little music note.

Mm-hmm. Tough times for us, Dave. Yeah. We used to get like a $100 gift card to Apple for, like that was a Christmas gift. Yeah, I remember. Be like, sick, I could put 100 new songs. iTunes card.

Mm-hmm. It's a whole thing. You can buy an album for $9.99? Yeah. I mean, I remember buying like a double CD that was like $18 and being like, oh, man, $18. That John Mary, he's a real piece of work. You know why? Favorite album of all time, where the light is live at Nokia Theater in L.A., John Mayer.

It's a four-disc album. It's like 20 songs. There are size to some of the records that are like two songs apiece. and you're just like, okay, well, I just, this was seven minutes of listening. Okay, flip. You have to go, you have to flip too many times. Yeah, that's, that's not. I want to get to my favorite song on side H.

Come on, John. We don't, we, come on. Let's get the grooves a little closer together and I don't want to flip nine times. I finally, I, so many flips. Too many flips. I still have CDs in my car. I'm, like one of the few people that still do. You still listen to the radio.

I still listen to the radio. I still listen to the radio. 904-7. The point. No one listens to Bobby Bones. He does. I thought Dylan and Bobby Bones were friends. No, the guy on their lunchbox, it was like a, some kind of, like, I don't know, his, his schick.

He's, he's, he's the, he's the bane. He's definitely like, one that puts out the bad takes and is kind of an asshole. Kind of the Dylan of our podcast. Wow. Damn. He's just in a slump. He's not, he's not, he's not an asshole. Wait, but, like, the lunchbox guy is, like, lunchbox is always, like, super cocky and, like, he's,

the uh what's the word i'm looking for not bane like the bain yeah oh not bane of existence he was born in it that's a terrible take yet another terrible take from you sir he's like he's just always selfish and like has bad things to say one of us has to have that tape i'll listen to us sometimes but like one of us must die in the tape conage

wait did you say he selfish how often do you listen to this show I'll listen to a lot. You know his whole personality? Listening to him talk is like, people want to punch him in the face. Wow. He's kind of annoying and like, in a way that he's like cocky and like,

but he just. Fuck around and find out, brother. Randy and I had a radio show for a bit there. R&B. Bring it back. Errigant, I guess is a good way. That was blessed. We can't really do it.

Do you listen to the show a lot? I would listen to in the mornings. I like, I like, I listen to a bunch of stuff in the morning. You called him the bane of the show. show. I don't know Bain. The super villain? Like, whatever. It's a word. I know. I know. You made the mistake. You gave me an

opening. No, I'm going to just, I'm not going to like it. No, Dave is going to take it. Dog with a bone. I must take advantage of your error. Like the person that's always like against the grain, you know? Oh, contrarian. I guess contrarian. That's not the word I'm looking for. But yeah. He's very contrarian. I'll fuck off then, brother.

You will be in the wreckage. You'll be in the wreckage, brother. Awesome. I got to put the thing in front of my food. So, I'm a record. Damn. Well,

that's nice, dude. Fuck it. I'm not, what if I just got super into Dead and Co. Like the dead. Not Dead and Co.

But, you know what I mean? And just didn't tell anybody. Like, like, Yel just came over and I just had like a sick collection. Just become a real friend of the devil, you know?

That is the one song. Was that like their one top 40? Yeah. I don't want to go there. Because I don't know. No, they had one, I think they had one,

like, high charting song. I think it was, It was either friend of the devil or fire on the mountain. I would have guessed fire on the mountain, but I think it's friend of the devil. There's got to be somebody. This is a good time to go to the chat. Can we go to the chat?

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and make sure you use our code circling 20 so they know we sent you. What's the chat say? What is, what is, you know, I can just look at this. Man, here we go. some people are saying that me being butter up chair was pretty much pay picking and yeah butter up chair yeah pretty much touch of gray touch of gray that was their only top 40 single okay is that somebody said we we had we had CDs too I'm saying that yeah it was the uh we were right on the the cusp of the the streaming I'll tell you what a game changer is when I got a CD burner yeah And like one that was easy to work, that was a game changer for me. Compared to like my older brother, that's six years older than me, I had a couple CDs

where all of his music were like on his Walkman stuff. My first personal music device was really an iPod where he had Walkman's. Yeah, iPod shuffle. I had a walking CD player burn a couple discs on that. Some mixed tapes. Dude, I had a really bulky MP3 player for a minute. It was a game changer. I got the little tiny square.

Was that the shuffle? It'd hold like 20 songs. No, it held more than that. I don't know. What's the chat saying? Let's check in. How are we doing, chat? Yeah, Poppitee knows.

There's touch of gray. Okay. Yeah, okay. Again, like, you know that none of us are that into it. Will would have known. I think Will's the one who told me that last week. No, Richard Bond, 69. Not a fan of mine.

KJ can fill in next time, sure. What did Richard Bong say? Just the tweet KJ to fill in next time. I almost yeah sure fine Bobby Bones I don't think is related to J. Bone

go up here a little bit yeah I like this one Frat Capital raising limits lowering standards That's good That's a good tagline there

I don't think Dylan's driving A 350 Thought about cold calling Dylan See what he sounds like Oh he actually doesn't sound good I don't know if it's He's probably in the gym Just powering through it

Oh, Zune. Did you guys ever have a Zune? What's Zune? I don't think now. Zune was the Microsoft version of the iPod. Really? No doubt sucked. Yeah.

Zunes. I forgot about it. Bill Gates met into some infidelity. How about that? Bill Gates, not having a fun time. Funny thing about Micah, somebody notes, let's give Micah a call. It's Papatege again. Didn't he say he wanted to come on?

Yeah, because he went, okay, it's funny. So he hits the side. He was like, I'm going viral. We might want to come on the show this. So he could talk about it. Went and looked at the tweet. And it was doing, it had like 45 retweets. Okay.

Which is good. I don't know if it's viral. Yeah. No, I don't want to. It's a good tweet. I retweeted it. May 45? I don't want to gate keep virality, but it's probably got, let's look at see what it's at now.

I wouldn't say that's viral yet. You need to get. He called his shot a little. early. I bet it's well over 100. How are the lights doing? I think you need to get at least four-didge retweet. I think four-ditch retweet you're in viral territory. 108, 196,000 views. 81 bookmarks. Maybe give him the micro tag there. I don't know. He went microvi. Dylan stopped throwing up shots because he had a couple of bangers in a row and I think it's kind of. I mean, clavicular. Yeah. He's kind of out of the zeit guy.

Just taking some time off You know, he's day to day with the upper respiratory Right, right Man We should have done a graphic for him today Oh, that he was out Yeah, Dylan out Still out

Throat hurts Probably won't be back to him It's tough, dude, you don't want to fuck with strep That's why he needs to go to a doctor Tomorrow's a... Oh, this is tough He's got to get on, he's probably gonna have to get on some antibiotics and it's going to put him in a real tough spot.

A lot of people are commenting in chat earlier. Should have finished the antibiotics. They commented it yesterday and today. Yeah, strep is one. If you're on antibiotics for that, you don't want to get off. Unless you have viral strep, then you're kind of just fucked. Yeah, how is that even a thing? I don't know, man.

Tomorrow would be quiet, huh? I'm going to be here. Who's here? Are you here? I don't know. Yeah, I guess I can. What? Okay. Yeah.

What do you got playing? I guess. what I have planned is this I have a FaceTime plan brother I need to get a tan before Hawaii Oh yeah Rangers wants to sit in the sun all week Weekend that's his plan

My plans this weekend are to do my taxes And sit out in the sun As much as possible this week go I'll be driving down to Port A tomorrow What time? Like three I guess Why don't you leave earlier? Do you have something to do?

Well I was going to be here But I know but I'm telling you Like I don't think you really want to be driving through San Antonio. I would agree. I'll tell it's my buddy. It's Austin, the Austin San Antonio corridor is just hell. We'll, I'm gonna, I'll hit my buddy up, see what time he can leave.

Yeah, strep is the name of the bacteria. That's the thing. So when they say viral strep, it just confuses me. Because it's, you can be like a carrier. I remember, because I got strep a lot when I was young. And I would always finish the antibiotic routine. And my doctor at one point was like, you just may be a carrier of, Maybe it's the bacteria.

If it's viral, then you're, then you're, it's a different story. Fuck. Yeah. Viral. Man. There's nothing better than coming into the office and Mike had a tweet that had like 20 RTs and he'd be like, your boy went viral. Dave, your boy's viral.

Viral. Chet, where do I go in Port A? What's the deal? Should I take the only fair in the south? I mean, there's only, there's not a ton of places. We gave you the good wrecks. We have the house is next to like the deck or whatever it's called right there, the beach deck. And I would assume we're going to spend plenty of time there, along with the 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.

fishing charter on Saturday. So time's kind of limited. Something fun you can do is, I think it's called a flounder gigging. Flounder digging. Where you go around on like a little low wake boat, like there's like a little trailing motor and you just have like like a spear and you just go spear flounder. Yeah. Yeah.

Fried flounder really good. Yeah. You get a ton of flounder that way. I just remembered something. I was supposed to announce this. I announced this during my intro, but we had a big old haywire happen. I forgot. Now that we're talking to the fans, everyone, go to Reddit.

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I don't know phone tossing Dylan is on there. Dylan tossing his phone. That might just be part of bad take maxing, but who knows. Guy says La Playa for dinner, Brett, elite Mexican food. La Playa.

Okay. No, I want to find an Irish bar in Port A. Let's see what's going on. Let's talk about our weekend, fun. Ooh. Bro, let's go out this weekend.

There's a crazy event happening. I like to turn off. Bro, there's a crazy event happening. We had the party and it was lit. I got yelled out by a prostitute. Let's just go have fun and they'd go a little. David Wardrowles, let's go. This weekend and Fawn presented by Shopify.

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Yeah, I'll be making the drive down with my boy, Aaron, for my buddy Zach's Bachelor Party. And- Is a rowdy crew? These rowdy jents? I believe so. Zach Brown's bachelor party, actually. Oh, wow. Not that one. The band?

No. Although I believe he probably does have a bachelor party on the horizon as he is marrying one. Tori Bert, not Tendrous. Kenner Scott. Yeah. Don't listen to that type of music on the boat with Dylan. We found that out on last week's voicemails. Not a big fan of ZB.

I doubt he is. Give me Kenny over Zach Bryan. Be down there. Zach Ryan or Zach Brown? Zach Brown. I was going to say, it doesn't seem like you. Got a big couple days planned, head down to Port A, make the drive kind of mid-afternoon tomorrow. How many people do you know on this trip?

I know four. and I believe there's 12. So a couple of, a couple of his old college buddies. I think it's going to be a relatively rowdy crew from the, it's a couple of his old hunting guide buddies. Port A brings out, because Port A is not like a busting metropolis.

Sure. It is a place where you go. It's a fish in town. Fish and park your truck on the beach, go cart or not go cart. Golf car, whatever, and just go bar hopping on the little seaside bars. Yeah, I think that's the plan. Our house is literally on the beach.

I showed you the other day. So we'll be right there. We'll park a couple cars out there. I think there's a lot of grilling planned tomorrow for when everybody gets in. Like I said, we're fishing all day Saturday. Got a charter. And we have a reservation Saturday night at a place that's going to cook what we catch, which I'm pretty excited about it. I've never done that. That's fun. I mean, I've done it

in Florida where we go out with like my uncle and he filets it up and cooks it. But I've never done it. Like the restaurant sounds pretty cool where they just kind of take care of everything for you. Granted, we have to get stuff, right? Yeah. You will. Last couple times when I was at, famously got skunked dove hunting. That's tough to do. Got skunked bass fishing. Come on. Except the one time where I caught two bass. We'll see. Then drive home Sunday. Kind of a quick, quick jaunt. Have some fun tomorrow night. Have some fun Saturday night.

And back here Sunday afternoon. You think you'll drink more beer? It's a beer crew for sure. You bring in your, you bring any booze down? Getting some hams? Yeah. I'll grab some bush lights, I think. That's Zach's favorite.

So we'll, I think it's going to be a very beer heavy crew. Yeah, it's a beach. I got to, uh, I got to pack some. my sun shirt for Saturday. Get your ponchos, hoss. Yeah. Oh,

yeah. I'll have the poncho on because it's going to be sunny and I can't be 12 hours in the sun's a bad. Yeah, put on sunblock for us. Oh, well. I don't want, I don't want beat red Brett showing up here Monday.

Beat red Brett. No, I'll be careful. I know it's too. I don't have any tan going on right now either. It would be, it would be dangerous to say the least. So I'll get a hat.

We get the sunscreen going. and drink a zillion beers. A zillion. A zillion. A zillion, he says. Big weekend plan. Wow. That's kind of it.

Yeah. Randall. I kind of said what my weekend's going to tell. Okay. Well, just fuck off. I know. I'm going to do taxes because next weekend will be the meetup.

And then right after that, I'm heading to Hawaii. So big tax weekend this weekend. But it's going to be very sunny. I'm trying to get. Calendar. You get checked the calendar. Okay, go ahead. That's pretty cool, dude.

Mm-hmm. You know, and he's doing his taxes. Oh, there it is, right? He's going to Hawaii. Hawaii. Which I guess I should, I mean, since I'm talking about it, I don't have much talk about my weekend. Just going to try to be outside in the sunshine as much as possible, get a tan, hit up the pool,

maybe going to walk, you know, pretty bleak. Nothing much of that, but. They're calling you bleak 182. Yeah. I guess it's two weeks out, but I'm going to be gone for a, about a week in Hawaii. So you will have Dan register here producing that whole week. Wow. A registrar himself. Oh, Dan. And maybe I'll just announce this right now. Should I do it? If I'm announcing things, I'm just announcing things. Dave, you want me

announce something else? Eyes emoji. This is huge. This is huge. Everyone in the chat. This is about to be huge. Next month is a five Tuesday month. We usually just double up on cold call or double up on exactly five minutes. I've already told Dave that I will commit to, with the five Tuesdays, one episode of Do You Know It Will Come Back? So I will do that either the last Tuesday or the second of last Tuesday because Dylan is hopefully going to be out Tuesday in Mexico. If that trip is still going on, we know all the stuff going down there. El Mancho. So not Dylan, the cartel boss they caught.

Killed? Killed. Yeah. So ideally, they got his ass. If it's the last Tuesday, we'd have to record that on Friday or Monday. So we'll just figure it out with Will and Dylan's schedules. It'll be one of the last two Tuesdays. So do you know we'll come back for an episode in March?

How about that? Do you know who the game be? It'll be all of us. Oh, no. Who's the producer? Yeah, exactly. I'll have to look to see who won last time. Yeah.

Who lost? Michael. Friend of the show, Dr. Mark just texted me, and it's a photo of him with Shail LeBuff. Hell yeah. In New Orleans? In New Orleans. Sick.

What are you doing, Dave? Tea ball? I got tea ball tonight. I have a... Maybe Sunday. Cutting right now. But I have a free Thursday for the first time since hockey season started. Just get some sleep.

I don't think this is a crew that's going to be, like, out all night. I say that, man. Port A, it feels like at least like five of these dudes are going to stay up to like three just drinking. That's true. It won't be like just on the back porch of the house. Yeah. We won't be like downtown Port A. Nah.

Yeah. Okay. I got nothing planned really. Maybe I'll just peep the cognizant. That's not a great field. No, it's not. I've seen some criticism to the course. Really?

Yeah. Yeah. No. You pull up to carve last weekend at all? No, I didn't. I ended up going to Deep Eddy with Dylan. That's right. But yeah, I didn't.

I should have. But maybe this weekend, I mean, I've got like, I need to go hit golf balls. I'm planning a UT member guest in a couple weeks, three weeks, I think. So I need to start hitting some balls getting out there. All right. I got a last night or yesterday I got home, got Rhodes, my five-year-old's new, a sandwich and we were out with the wiffle ball golf balls putting a putting a move on it yeah okay oh yeah i'm showing you know he's he just wants to whack at it and walk over you know keep whacking hey

slap and slap and chop you're all that's that's the start just hey dude go hit this ball a million times yep and then like you know he it's frustrated i'm like yeah just just wait just like pal he got 80 more years of getting frustrated in that day. He's not not calling himself a stupid dick yet or dumbass yet? No, he is it? He has it picked up on my signature insult for myself, which is I call myself a coward.

Yeah. Doesn't even really make sense. I do more of the J.T. route. Okay. Yeah. Looking for another close sponsor I saw. Yeah. Grayers. Grayson's out. Grayson. Yeah. Wait. Grierers was the one with that guy

that did. Yeah, different, different one. always confuse those too. The CEO, like, had the most awkward, like, sales pitch ever. Dylan, I love that guy. Yeah, I need to go find that. That's good. All right. So you got, you got some, uh, some free time.

I got some free time. All right. So we'll see. Turn on traders, I'd assume. Traders tonight. Mm-hmm. You should, uh, smoke something. I should.

I mean, I'll tell you what. I wouldn't hate if there was just some day of rough ribs in my future. I haven't made them as good, man, since that time. Really? I don't know. I mean, they've been okay. I just, I have a pretty high standard now. As you should, they were fantastic.

You know, one of these days, I'm just going to show up with a rack, two racks. Should we just do a parking lot grill session at some point? We do have a pizza oven somewhere. Pizza oven right next door. Yeah. I'm going to get a house before any of you guys take that. And that's nowhere even close to being in the future. I might just take it.

You're saying you're just going to take it? I'm just saying that by the time one of you guys decides who's going to take that pizza oven, I'm going to be a homeowner and I'm just going to take it because no one else is. Take it. Pizza oven one more time. It's a nice device. It's a nice device. We'll call it a device.

It's a device. It's a device. It's a device. Bro, let's go out this weekend. There's a device happening. I'm not allowed to do it. have it on my patio. I know. It's big, dude. I know. I'd love it. Next to you know, you know, you'd have like a... I'll re-dift it to some... You have like a chick taking a pee off your balcony

while your pizzas making pizzas. What? What? Have you been to Dylan's new home yet? Yes. What's the yard situation like? I didn't go back there. I walked in to use his bathroom, then left. Yeah. It's hard story. You job at Mondo? He's got a... He's got room for it. Yeah, that's... I could see him make it, like, getting really into making... pizza. I mean, like, I make, he's like, I know you're going to laugh, but I'm making the best pizzas. I mean, he makes the best hard-boiled eggs, the best omelets, best breakfast in Austin. Wow. He makes the best pancakes. May as well get this guy making some pizzas. Does Mike to have a pizza oven? I could see Mike did. Yeah, Micah has to. Doing pizza as well.

Micah has to. Yeah. Fun show, Brett. Thanks for hopping on. Thanks for having me, Dave. Listener voice mails dropping tomorrow. Great time to be a backer. Uh, Pretend to be a premium backer, Opto. Mm-hmm. Patreon. Check it out. Head over to Reddit. Vote on the Bit Madness seating.

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