Circling Back - Goodbye Luka & Gas Station Confessions

Episode Date: February 3, 2025

Dave discusses the obvious Luka Doncic news from the weekend, recapping our weekends that included wineries / rodeos / birthday parties, takeaways from the 2025 Grammys, a confession from Dave, and Arbtinis. Enjoy a free one-week trial on Patreon for additional weekly episodes: www.patreon.com/circlingbackpodcast Watch all of our full episodes on our new YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/circlingback  Shop Washed Merch: www.washedmedia.shop  (0:00) Fun & Easy Banter (12:25) Recapping This Weekend in Fun (37:30) I mean, we have to talk about it. (55:00) 2025 Grammys (1:09:00) Dave’s Confession (1:16:40) We doing Arbtinis? Support This Episode’s Sponsors DraftKings: Download the app and use WASHED for $200 in bonus bets when betting $5 Aura Frames: www.auraframes.com (CIRCLING for $35 off) Squarespace: www.squarespace.com/steam (STEAM for 10% off your purchase of a website or domain) Lucy: www.lucy.co/steam (STEAM for 20% off)  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We are coming. All right, we're back circling back podcast. My name is Will DeFries to my left. Mr. David Ruff. Just kind of catching up. I didn't get to see a lot of Grammys, but I'm looking at, it's cool that Kanye made an appearance and it looks like he's found a nice young lady that he has settled down with. I wonder where they met. Maybe the library or something. She looks cool. Is she okay?

Hang on a second. I'm checking out her red carpet fit real quick. Hold on. Hold on. She looks like she's being held hostage. Oh I've never heard her speak. She's nude. I've been told I've been I've read that she is in charge of like her own fashion brand Or something or she like was though She's not just like, you know walking around with him all the time. Is that what she was wearing? She's like, I'm going to be straight up honest with you. Like she was putting off like, yeah, like servant

last night. Yeah, she's one of the most transparent people I don't want to be here vibes. Yeah. There was one photo where she was just, he was off to the side and she was just looking at him and she was kind of looking at him like, can I

leave now? Dave, I heard you're straight up naked. You're transparent joke. It is her least acknowledgement. Probably not. Uh Bian straight up naked. You're transparent. It is at least acknowledgement. Probably not. Bianca Sensori. Hot name. Sensori. This is really uh

fitting. If you if you match on an app with a girl named Bianca Sensori, you're like, dude, boys. Like, I hope this works out so I can. Yeah. Say Bianca Sensori. She's got all five of my Sensori's going crazy right now. Like which ones? Sense of smell.

Really? What are you smelling? What are you tasting? Bianca Sensori is actually Italian for Brianna Chicken Fry. I did not know that. Yeah, a lot of people didn't. Wow. That's real cool.

Not invited, turns out. Asked to leave. Brianna Chicken Fry? Neither, her husband wasn't either. She's been at the other ones. That's real cool. Not invited, turns out. Asked to leave. We had a chicken fry? Her husband wasn't either. She's been at the other ones. Ye's back in the mix. He's on Twitter again too. Whether you like it or not, here he is.

He's showing up. Speaking of showing up, Dylan Shivery. I was in here Friday, first of all, I'm happy to be here, thank you. It's gonna be a great week of content. I will leave that. Secondly, I was in here on Friday afternoon just a few of us left they believe was just me and a day was

definitely here I guess wills only one missing anyway it doesn't matter and I was it was about about one o'clock and I was feeling a little sluggish I was like I'm gonna see if there any Celsius left in the fridge I walk over sure enough Sure enough, there's a Celsius right there. Just has my name all over it. Like, man, should I do this Celsius? And Dave was like, no, you're gonna waste it. Like, you're not gonna do anything else the rest of the day. Don't drink this Celsius. And he kind of like, he brought up like good points. Like I wasn't gonna write a column or anything, right? Coming here today, first thing,

Dave's drinking the very Celsius that he tucked me out of on Friday afternoon. I got absolutely fleeced by that. You played yourself, dude. I got fleeced. It was a long play. It was. I didn't realize what you were doing at the time,

but now I do, and sir, fogs. Tip of the cap. Hold on, ready? This is what it sounded like. I bet it was really good good too. Just glugged that thing. Yeah, you worked me. There were several times last week where I considered having a Celsius, which would have taken it out of both your hands. But I'm really trying hard to avoid Celsius at all costs right now. Because of the Yucca app, of course. No, it

has nothing to do with that. It has to do with my fluorescent pee that has now been brought into question by certain voicemail listeners. It's not necessarily a bad thing to have fluorescent pee. No, I know. But no, it also has to do with the fact that usually I deploy them later in the afternoon and then suddenly my brain's absolutely racing on my drive home. Okay. Yeah. Fluorescent pee.

It's a grunge band name from 1998. That's good. Yeah. Hey, sorry, man. I was just kind of messing with you. I didn't think you were actually going to not drink it. It's a grunge band name from 1998. That's good. Yeah. Hey, sorry, man. I was just kind of messing with you. I didn't think you were actually gonna not drink it. No, it's, I respect the move.

I do. It worked. And I would love to have had a Celsius today, but it's probably not happening now. That's okay. Did you have bing bong? No, I worked out. So I did some pre-workout.

Nitro surge is what I'm currently on. Okay. We're going back to generic names. I'm going hard in the gym, Dave. Good, good for you. Yeah, man. Then you should be riding them endorphins. You don't need this.

I am, yeah. I mean, I feel good right now, but they'll wear off by lunchtime. What, you swam with dolphins this morning? Yeah. What's going on? Yeah. That would be cool if that was an option.

Nah, I would jump at the opportunity. I would love to do it. Yeah. It's cool. It was one of those things where like, I think like they had it at a resort that we were staying at when I was a little kid. And my dad was just like, too expensive.

You're not doing it. I did the thing where two of them pushed, like got behind me, pushed my feet and I was like floating on top of the water. It was so sick. Little hop to it. It was so sick. Smart little fuckers.

Did you feed them? Yeah, I was smart. Didn't feed them, just swam with them. I just kinda wanna feed them, you know? Pat their heads. You're like, what up, playboy? You know, their brains are bigger than human brains. Get a little dolphin dap.

Did you know that, David? Well, if their brains are so fucking big, why aren't there any dolphin billionaires? Yeah, they don't use their brains as efficiently as we do. That's true. Efficiently? Efficiently. That's not a fish, is it?

It's a mammal. It's a mammal. Shark's a fish. I thought mammals grew hair. I've never seen a hairy-ass dolphin. Dolphin skin. That'd be gross. Remember I told you about dolphin skin? I'm really poking holes in this theory.

Remember day? Blow holes. Stop. Do you ever watch Flipper growing up? It was kind of in the block of like Gilligan's Island and all that. I honestly thought Flipper was such a downgrade from Gilligan's Island that it was a tough watch

every single time. Well I think it's, they're limited because Flipper has to be in the water so you're limited on the show. I actually just watched The Dolphin's Tale featuring J-Bone. True. Facts. If you ever watch The Dolphin's Tale and you're watching the scene at the end where some fans in

the stadium or arena or swimming pool, whatever, stand up, you will see that the first person to stand up is J-Bone, which he intentionally did to make sure that he was seen on screen. So smart. Yeah. Yeah, he's the first person to stand up in the entire thing. So it's very easy to spot the man. I think it's a Dolphin's Tale too.

I think it might be the sequel. I think it is too. And I'm pretty sure. You got the sequel. Short lived. I'm pretty sure that his brother who was sitting next to him was the last person to stand up in the crowd. That's good thinking.

Yeah. No acting credits for that for J-Bone. He didn't get a line, so he's not going to be in the Screen Actors Guild. Oh, I didn't know that that was the... I thought everybody had to be a member. No, I think it's if you have one line, you're officially in the Screen Actors Guild. So Dylan's definitely in. I don't remember. No, I think it's if you if you have one line, you're officially in the screen actor skill. So, Dylan's

definitely in. I didn't do cocaine when I was on the set of the rookie. Are you in the Illuminati from your uh time on the set of the rookie? Yes, I am but I'm not supposed to talk about it. Like, you've met Diddy. So, you've you've met a

Illuminati person. Oh, I met Diddy. All right. Do you think you've ever met anyone in Illuminati? I met Johnny football once. Twice, actually. Yeah. Is he is he in Illuminati? I feel like they'd help him out more. He he rushed. They're making him earn it. He didn't end up getting a bid. Yeah, he flew to he could be a liability for a top secret organization like that. Oh, I met Rudy Giuliani at a Brooks Brothers outlet

in San Marcos. Okay, so yeah, you're good. It's a true story. You're good. He was buying a tie. That's for Apple. He was running for president. What were you buying?

You could probably buy that tie right now. Probably, it's probably at auction. Were you buying just like a really flowy? Probably buying a button down that's still in the back of my closet that would fit a man twice my size. That sticks out 12 inches on each side. Brooks Brothers makes quality products

and I feel like they're due for resurgence. They have, I feel like in, while most brands like the Peter Millars of the world have realized like we gotta get a little bit more modern with the way our shirts are tailored and fitted. Brooks Brothers, to my knowledge, is not a player. You know what? We know exactly what we're going for.

Look, if you shop here, you know what you're getting. We're not going to change that. Your shirt can also be a parachute. Did you fall out of this guy? Dude, one of my nice, I bought a tailored fit Brooks Brothers shirt and it was one of the nicest shirts I've ever had. But it was tailored fit. Huh? Because all my homies tailored.

Zana was tailored away. We're in the Taylor gang. Oh, what's up with Randy? Oh, well it's February 3rd, which means that, hold on. If my calendar in my head is telling me correctly, that means that Saturday was February 1st, which means that that was the first day that Randy was allowed to drink

because he did dry January. And if we hear the sound of Randy's voice, I think we can deduce whether or not he went out this weekend. Hey, Randy. Hey, Will. Yes, I did go out this weekend. Did you get twisted?

I got a little too twisted. And yeah, so I got low energy, Randy. How many grams of sugar did you consume via cocktail? No, I mean, I did have two old fashioned, so there was there. There's sugar and sure. Yeah. What's your bourbon of choice in an old fashion fucking dealer's choice? Yeah, whatever they got. Frat. Frat.

Right, right. I'm going to be drinking it so fast, it's not like I'm even gonna be able to taste it. So, what's the point? Did you ever buy the gentleman's handbook at the cash register at Brooks Brothers? I know what you're talking about. No, you never did. Do you remember the definition of a gentleman and they uh I know some of the K was it the varlet? Yeah, I don't I don't speak of it publicly but I do know some of it. I don't remember it at all. We were supposed to remember it and I did back when I was a pledge

But that was a long time ago. I don't remember any of the phytol founders if that makes you feel any better Do you fucking membership life long does yeah Thanks, dude How are you guys start drinking coffee. What? No. Says who? It just...

Says you? Given the limited time I've seen you today, I just feel like you would benefit. No, sir. I am just ready to perform at a mediocre level today. Okay. That's what you love to hear on a Monday morning. You know what? In celebration of Randy, let's just hop right into it

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Here comes a fine print. Lucy products are only for adults of legal age and every order is age verified. Warning, the product contains nicotine. Nicotine is addictive chemical. Dylan, what'd you do this weekend? Ooh, thanks for asking, asking Will I had a pretty lovely weekend the weather was fire by the way decided to enjoy that weather out in the

Texas Hill Country Saturday Chelsea and I made a little trip out to okay we plan on going to Fredericksburg we didn't actually make it all the way to Fredericksburg because there are wineries on the way we stopped at two of them and then by the time we were finished, we're like, we just need to go home now. We didn't spend the night, obviously. What was the bar that you went to? Oh, on the way back, we went to Pooties. Yeah, so I've never been to Pooties nor have I heard of Pooties, but it's it's

the rare establishment that the second I see the name, I'm like, well, I gotta have a beer at Pooties next time I'm out there. Apparently, it's a it's where James Vanderbeek hangs out all the time. Did not see him there. JVB hangs at Pootie's? That's his spot. Like, he's a reg.

You saying anything to James Vanderbeek? Yeah. So what's up, Beaks? How's he doing? Don't know. I don't know. I don't know if we've had any health updates from him. Is he sick?

Yeah, I think he's got cancer. Oh, I did not know. I think it's more serious than just a diagnosis. Well, tease and pees to our friend James Vanderbeek. Anyway. One of the only movies I've ever walked out of was Poodie Tang. He wasn't in Poodie Tang.

Maybe that's why he goes to poodies. Cause he got snubbed for Poodie Tang? I don't think he tried out for Poodie Tang. Definitely was not ever in the consideration for Poodie Tang. Yeah, I think he was probably making good Dawson's money. And if he wasn't, he was probably too young to be in pootie time. He did not want your life. Can I get back to my weekends events, please?

Sa-da-tay. Went to the Berg Wine Company. Our good friend Tate started that. He came in here around Christmas time and brought some wine by. I didn't catch him there, but I did save some wine for me, which I appreciate it was very good So we marked a few for you decided to go see him out there and he took very good care of us gave us Like the VIP treatment. It was awesome. We had a tasting and

Drink a lot of wine. Can I ask a question? Yeah, did he human decant it for you? Yes, he did dang that's the Tate way very generous, no, he's a great guy took great care of us and Left there. I purchased some wine from him to look at you and that set you back. Yeah, what's the damage on that? Just you can look it up. I'm not we're not doing that. Well, just tell us now. It's really good wine and Briana was her Bianca was a transparent. Why can't you be? South Shore boy, Tate. Brianna. Hung out with us, talked to him for a little bit.

Well, it's the American version. You get it. He's a Hondo peer. Yeah, recently married. Shout out to Tate and Remy. Got married earlier... got married in January. We're now in February. He got married last month. Longest month ever. Yeah. Dude, I didn't think January felt all that long.

I kind of felt like it zoomed by. It's because you were drunk the whole time. 30 for 31 baby. Thanks Randy. 30 for 31. Those are numbers. Yep, and the only day I didn't drink was a day that I said, Sally, don't let me have anything tonight.

You drink 30 more days in January than Randy did. It was quite the streak. Roger Maris. I never went crazy, but it was a bad time to be one or two Guinness after that five o'clock hour hit. Sunday, baseball season coming up again. Spring ball's coming up, so we got his new bat out that he got for Christmas, did some BP,

threw the ball around a little bit, getting him ready. What's the new bat these days? What's the cool bat that the kids are? There are so many of them now. Has he gotten fitted for a bat? His new bat's in Easton. You're gonna, well, yeah, I mean, fuck yeah, dude. He had to play the hits, man.

He got to pick it, to be fair. He was smacking the ball around, love to see it. If you had another son, would you call him Easton? No, it's, no. It is a popular name for kids, though. Oh, I believe it. It is. I believe it.

Yeah, just went for a walk and just enjoyed a little family time yesterday, it believe it. It is I believe it. Yeah, just went for a walk and just Enjoy enjoy a little family time yesterday. It was great. Have you seen the people on the trail who are following? like white marks on the trail that are like a map to Something have you seen this? No, I saw like a news story about the other day Like there's people spray painting some stuff on the trail And if you follow the marks like you can eventually get somewhere and I think there's either like there's something that's buried I just want to know I know that I don't think it's I don't I don't even I don't think it's like that special I think it's like some community people that are doing it, but I'd wondered because you walk the trail so often Have you seen the Instagram account that'll? They'll tape like a hundred dollar bill.

Find the cash. Find the cash. They did it, they do it around Austin. They'll video like they'll show the hundred dollar bill, tape it and they'll pan out like, okay, it's live. And then I guess people just sprint to it to go find it or something. Wow, that's stupid.

Well, I think that white spray paint leads to an underground comedy club with metal chairs. Bring your own beer. It's BYOB. I'm gonna look this up, Will. I'm intrigued. He's got it in here. I'm Googling white lines right now.

Of course. It probably notes that you Googled that 18 hours ago. Yeah, why is there any all links in purple? You should be able to micro dose cocaine Google it before I do it that's why those are called hyper links Dylan What are those white markers for in town like? And they snapped when they invented hyper links Yeah, they're pretty sick, aren't they? It's not just a link. Uh, I'm not seeing much.

Well, okay. Dave, what'd you do this weekend? I kind of like the mystery of it though. Yeah. More on a touching based. Maybe send Randy when he, uh, give him a couple of days to recover from his first night out, um, my son's birthday was last week, so we celebrated it. What did we do Thursday?

We went to, um, he likes to go to restaurants or he likes to talk about it. It was really one that we feel comfortable bringing the most comfortable and it's Mattel Ranchos, Mattel Ranchos, Mattel Ranchos, Mattel Ranchos, Mattel Ranchos, Mattel Ranchos. Can you prep me next time? Sorry. I think you did a pretty good job. I did it as fast as I could. Mattel Ranchos. So we, you know, just the family, the four of us. It's a tactical thing when you got two boys, a one year old, a four year old, You go in, you already know what you're gonna get. You know what they're gonna get.

They're not looking at a menu. You just order like right there. Kind of a in and out under 60 minutes if you can. And it was delightful. I got the nachos. I did this thing that I've done a couple times. Kind of a new off menu. It's lefty style.

And what is lefty style? Well, lefty style. I went steak, but it's just a fajita meat on top of the nacho with the beans and the guac and they do the circular onions. It's a thing and King, it was delightful. I think you snapped. I'm learning to be called something else. Like you saw. No, I've heard that I've heard it's like a secret menu item that sounds a lot like only real ones can do. Not different. Notacti style. No, I've heard that. I've heard it's like a secret menu item that sounds a lot like Poncho style.

Only real ones can do. No, it's different, dude. I'm not familiar with that. I do remember Poncho's Raise the Flag, remember? Remember that song Lefty and Poncho Day? I remember Poncho and Lefty. I remember Colt McCoy's ad deal with noted shirt company Poncho. That's true.

Yeah. He's also doing local pest companies. It is called Poncho and Lefty, not lefty and poncho. You're close though. Hey man, you were getting there. I had the words correctly. You were not the right order. You were 33% there to the right title. Friday, Friday. We just, I kept it in house.

I started a movie, been a minute since I've seen No Country for Old Men. No Country for Old Men. I think it was award winning. It is just a good movie, a good vibey movie. Vibey in like an ominous sense, existential dread, things of that nature, but just a good movie nonetheless.

This might be a spot on take, it might be not, but like if you're looking to watch a movie like that, I feel like you can watch No Country or you can watch Oil Man. There will be blood. There will be blood and like they're both going to scratch a very similar itch. It's like I want to be a little on the edge of my seat. I want to see some old school badass stuff. they do occupy a similar part of my brain. Mm-hmm That's like absolutely fair. I feel like I had the need to watch both of those at one point in the recent memory and then once I watched

No country for all what is it called? Why am I blanking so no country for old man? God no once I watched there will be blood. I was like, I really need no country anymore. Like, I'm kind of fine. Yeah, that's fair. Saturday. Wow. Saturday, we celebrated. We did like the full on party with friends for my son's fourth birthday.

We hit up a local like that. Has a very nice playground. Um that the kids love. Turfed and picnic tables, stuff like that. Um a lot of fun. Went off that a hitch. We even had a surprise appearance the the hit of the party that I did? I got I wish I had the camera out for you. You did a flip? They're like a cartwheel round off flip. Someone a kid asked you to do something right?

He asked me if I could do a flip. People parks come on out parks. Rose kept on asking me if I could climb on the walls. I'm like, oh my I'm not going to do that because it would be respectful. When they said flip, I'm like, I could do like a little friend. He did like a was it like what of cartwheel variation kind of you should have climbed the walls, but dude, he did a great it was it like of cartwheel variation? Kind of. You should have climbed the walls, bud. Dude, he did a great, it was good. And the funny thing is one of the little girls that was at the party

afterwards, we were talking about Spider-Man. I was like, yeah, did you see him do a flip? And she goes, oh, it wasn't really a flip. It was more of a, and I was like, oh, okay, well, yeah, he's trying. All right. He was skeptical. Dude, uh, Rhodes wanted to see the bottom of your feet, man. He was like, okay, well, he's trying. All right. He was skeptical, dude. Rhodes wanted to see the bottom of your feet, man. He was like, kind of like, what's going on with this? You get what I'm saying? I think I see a zipper. And they are like, oh yeah.

They wanted me to take the mask off. And I said, no, it's secret identity. I can't do that. Would he recognize you? I don't know. I don't think he would. Probably not. He's like my sprint away at the end.

Uncle Rainey not coming around enough? Probably not, no. It's messed up. The sprint was great. Rainey just chopped out of there and all the parents were just dying. It was, it was so funny. I didn't say the city. You did, yeah, you told him.

No, he, he had a blast. He was asking about it last night. He's like, why did he, how did he know to show up there? I told him his Spidey senses. Rainey, did you drive home in the costume? I told him his spidey senses. Randy, did you drive home in the costume? No head. No, I took it off. When you walked up, did you change in the bathroom there? I changed in the back of my car. Okay. You don't want to ruin any kids days by having them see you change. Yeah. Yeah. Did anybody when you walked up with their parents like, oh, yeah, there were there were some people like there's a lot of kids from like all over too.

So while I was waiting, I was saying hi to other people. Yeah, it was a good time. Kids were like, oh, Spider-Man. I'm like, fuck it. I am Spider-Man. And you were drunk the whole time, too. No, no, no. It was February 1st, man. I only took one shot beforehand.

Oh, OK. I was looking at the beer menu, Dave. think I'm gonna have to do real or fake Austin beer names, please do Please do I kept it. I kept it in house. I rocked the coffee Coffee porter dude, bro. You didn't hit the misfit voyage the oatmeal stout. That's 8% It feels like most of the beers they have are not for me. 8%. I can't do that. That's just too much, man. That's like two beers at 11am. Come on now. Yeah, but they did get the hops from Chinook and Mount Hood. That changes things. Yeah, it does. I didn't think about that. Yeah. Oh man, what else went down Saturday? Let's get there. Saturday afternoon, evening, my wife was like, Hey, let's go to dinner. I'm like, Hey, we went to dinner last night.

She's like, well, my mom's here. She can watch the boys. Let's just go. Let's go eat. Let's go eat at Carve. Carve. American steakhouse. Oh, yeah. You're familiar. I was like, all right. Let's go eat. Let's go eat at went hanging up shirt on the right end. Yep. Shirtless just pulled up fucking on two wheels, shirtless. Two wheels. Yeah. That's dangerous. Oh, sure. Sure. Skirrup. Uh, went in, ate some, had a rib eye. Really? She went for, I always get the filet and I'm like, you know, I'm kind of feeling a little bit more, give me a little bit more grizzle, a little more fat. Rocked the rib eye. It was delightful. Um, Caesar salad.

You know what it is. Cauliflower, cheesy bread with the San Marzano. Sure, dude. You crazy. I'm I'm really like that. Saturday night, got home. It's like I'm gonna just kind of throw on the TV. Maybe have my phone here. Check it out. Oh, who's texting me? It's like 1030. What's going on? Um yeah, I got some news, it was interesting. Stayed up a little late. Maybe we'll get to that here in a little bit.

But then yesterday, you know, not a lot. Yesterday was kind of a slow day outside, very beautiful day, day of rest, a real day of rest in every sense of the word. So, Will, how about yourself? Man, man, you know what it is. Friday, I headed up toward Funky Town, Fort Worth area. How's the drive on? Easiest drive I've ever made up. Seriously, seriously. Open road the entire way. Never hit one spot of traffic.

Was just in a great spot. Blasted some 2016 club anthems on the way there. Dabbled in my Peloton playlist. Even, even put on a little Shania Twain radio as we pulled up to Funky Down. You are just all over the place, man. I had a great lunch up there. the show. Shania Twain radio as we pulled up to Funky Down. You are just all over the place, man. I had a great lunch up

there. Can I give a little nod of approval to a restaurant there? Yeah. Hudson House. Great lunch spot in Fort Worth, man. Had some oysters. Had a couple peronies. You went off. Yeah. Hudson House sounds like a four-star out of Lake Travis. It was good. Yeah, it does. Dude, Hudson House, man. Huddy. Oh, he's going to be a good one. It's going to be a good one. It's going to be a good one. It's going to be a good one. It's going to be a good one.

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It's going to be a good one. It's going to be a good one. It's going to be a good one. It's going to be a good one. It's going to be a good one. It's going to be a good one's what I say That's what they say. That's what the that's what the green horns say to cowboy folk like me Did you get any uh street cred with the ranch hat? Uh, just from just from one of the guys I was with he was like Oh, that's a sweet hat Um, and so yeah, you know people were wondering about the fit. I did forget my shirt that I was supposed to wear So I had to pivot at the last moment

Uh, I actually didn't go cowboy boots. I hate to admit. What the fuck? I know. So here's the issue. Here's the issue. I brought the boots, but when I put the boots on with my amended fit, they were simply too wide for the pants that I had to wear. And I wasn't going to show up looking like a noob with the shoe to my boot. Yeah. Protruding. That's crazy. He would look like a guy who doesn't run the damn ball. Exactly, exactly. I'm trying to grow the game, not shrink it. And so I went just normal boots, just kind of some casuals, but I had a good time.

I have to say, I love me some barrel racing. It's so close the time. They're just all in the 16 second range, just absolutely doing it. I love it. Who won barrel race? Think her name was Bailey. Hard to say.

Sounds to Bailey. Hard to say. The Fort Worth local girl, unfortunately, did not place first, which would have been electric within that arena. Sure. Dickie's Arena, great host site. Had a couple beers there, went down real good. Rodeo beers hit different. What is the entertainment outside of the, like what's going

down there musically? They had a rodeo clown, which was pretty lit. They had a dude playing piano. He is an orchestral dude and he absolutely diced it up. I was a little bummed that he was on a trailer playing the piano that was connected to two horses and the horses weren't taking him around. They just brought him out and brought him back. I'd be saying. Kind of thought they needed to give him a little spin.

Yeah. But you know, it was good. It was good. Saturday, just drove back. You never wanted, you don't like to drive back from a rodeo. Sally and I did something absolutely insane. We didn't listen to one ounce of music on the entire drive back.

Some people would refer to that as raw dog in the drive. Just you talked or was there silence? We just sat there and chatted for like the first half of the drive. Made the stop at a check stop, picked up some kolaches, ham, cheese, jalapeno for the real ones out there. And I was like, we haven't listened to any music yet. And she goes, all right, let's keep this.

Let's see if we can keep this going. We just kept it going. Next time I'll probably cue up some Shania Twain radio again, but you know. Of course. You know, every once in a while it was nice to know that we can actually carry a conversation for long enough. And then the rest of the weekend,

it was just, you know, stock weekend stuff. Hung out all night on Saturday night. Just kind of chilling. I got 10 and a half hours of sleep Saturday night. 10 and a half. Yeah. That's a lot of sleep. Yeah, bud. Yeah, bud.

And then Sunday, the main part of the day was just a little trip to one. Mattel Ranchos. Mattel Ranchos. Mattel Ranchos. Mattel Ranchos, Metal Ranchos, Metal Ranchos, Metal Ranchos. Went mixed, mixed, what am I doing? Mixed fajitas, gosh. And just enjoyed it.

Mats is really bringing it guys. I know. Mats is having a little renaissance right now where the food's maybe never been better. I've been on a fajita run there. Yeah. The last like five times I've gone, I've gotten fajitas. I think they got word that people were trying to, you know, throw their name under the bus

when it came to the fajitas scene in Texas. And like they are really bringing it lately. They heard that some local influencers were maybe not speaking super highly of the food. The fajitas, if you're going to Mets, don't be afraid right now. We've never been in a better time to get the fajitas there. And that was a weekend, nothing crazy. Nothing too crazy at least. I have to say, if you're going to the Fort Worth Rodeo for our closing weekend, this upcoming weekend, don't sleep on the little donuts at the Funnel Cake Stand.

One of the best bites of food I've had in a long time. Wow. Yeah. Just saying. You kind of went off. Just saying. Well, my buddy went off and I just snagged one of his because it looked so good. So do any stockyards like bars or anything?

No, no. We ended up going out to dinner beforehand, took a little long time. I'm officially retired from a bone marrow, Dave. Dave famously was out on bone marrow and I'm famously joining him. I've never been in on it, I've never had it. You know, we were just kind of scraping it off

and putting it on some bread and not the most appetizing thing, but it actually tasted really good. And you know, I hadn't had it in a while. I didn't have any like major tum tum issues the next day. Like I wasn't like, we weren't on stop the car watch or anything, but I felt like I just had something bad inside of me all day. Devil wanted to get out.

It was that marrow. I'm blaming it on the marrow. Last night we let the marrow talk. Woof. I know that feeling. It's not pending doom, but like, you're just like, I really wish I wasn't aware that that's going down. Like it was bad enough that I wasn't able to eat a kolache

between check stop and home. I had to punt that to the next day. Aware that that's going down like it was bad enough that I wasn't able to eat a kolache between Check-stop and home. I had to punt that to the next day. That's never a good feeling Yeah, that's a great oh man that backside of that drive home 35 you got you a little check stop your check stop guy, right? Is that what you said? Not Slovakia? Yeah, yeah, you know, come on, man. I think- A lot of people write for Slovak Czech. I don't think it's even a contest.

I haven't had either in a minute. Dude, ever since I sat in Slovak Czechs looking at a shirt for five minutes that said, Namaste avocado, trying to figure out what it meant. Like I've never been able to shake that. You can't have that up in your establishment. What does that mean? Namaste avocado. Like that doesn't, it's not even a pun What does that mean? Namaste, avocado.

Like that doesn't, it's not even a pun. There's, it just means nothing. You're just throwing like trendy words from like 2019. What does namaste mean? I think it's what you, it's the thing that you say during meditation. I know that, but like what, what does it mean? You know?

I bow to you. I bow to you avocado. Okay. Imagine liking avocado that much. It's lame though. You're just worshiping avocado. Yeah, I got in trouble. Two a day. Because of some avocado.

You were doing Namaste way too hard, my man. I was doing the big dogs too. You shouldn't have gone on that. What? Okay. Yeah. I did hit Bucky's on the way there though. Got a brisket taco. Yeah. I'm not good on that. What? Beaver Nugs. No Beaver Nugs. Uh didn't have to hit the head. So

I didn't. I went I went straight. No piece. Both trips. You gotta hit the head just to hit the head there. Yeah, I'm different dude. I'm him. I'll go in there and just sit down and check my phone. Goaded, absolutely goaded road trip bathroom. It is. There's a lot of valid criticisms of Buc-E's.

It's a lot, but the bathroom situation is. They have, they have 200 stalls. Yeah, we parked. 200 journals. We parked on the merch side of the entrance, not like the entrance that goes to the food, and ended up having to walk like three football fields in order to get to the food. Yeah. A lot of breath. It's a large the entrance that goes to the food and ended up having to walk like three football fields in order to get to the food. Yeah.

A lot of breath. It's a large establishment. Yeah, yeah. The brisket tacos, not great. Every urinal has its own hand sanitizer, dispenser. It's like, it's like master's level stuff. Yeah, it is. Good call.

I've been. Nice pull. I've been, thank you. Thank you. I chill the pull ratios through the roof lately. Yeah. Man, I know we're talking about this weekend, but like next weekend, we got that big game. This ain't the little

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Got to talk about it. Don't me to set the scene. What's the scene? What is the segment? I was hoping. Like anytime I think I can speak for everybody. Like we all have our sports allegiances. Anytime, like a player that's been at an organization for so long, anytime a player means that been at an organization for so long. Anytime a player means that much to the fans, anytime a player is mistreated by your organization,

you feel like it's a personal shot at you. And so I think I'd be remiss today if I didn't bring up Marcus Rashford leaving Manchester United and going to Aston Villa. We were all shocked. It's been tough. I've been thinking about you ever since that went down. It's just the biggest sports news of the weekend. And Fritz don't even know yet.

I saw a bunch of videos of people in Dallas seeing that Rashford had gone to Aston Villa and they were just in shock. I heard people screaming no around a pool. Heard girls crying in the background. I heard Fritz was going to burn that jersey when he finds out. screaming no around a pool, heard girls crying in the background. I heard Fritz was gonna burn that jersey when he finds out. I don't know how to tell him that like his favorite jersey is no longer eligible. It's kind of a throwback. No, of course, of course.

I'm talking about something that's pretty much gone largely unspoken. Icy day in the group text yesterday. Dave, how are you doing? I'm okay. Yeah, I mean? I'm okay. Yeah I mean I'm I I've ignored a lot of texts I've ignored a significant amount of DMs just because I'm like I don't really want to there's a few people I want to talk about it with and those are people I try to like talk about it with people who know more ball than me.

So yeah, I mean, have you texted Woj? I have not texted Woj. He was probably, I wonder when he found out. Must be, he probably misses out on those nights like that. You don't think they like let him still be in the group text? He probably, it was probably a very sad day when he left a few group chat texts, like their account fucking real this time. It's been a day and a half now. So you've had time to process a little bit and cope. You're okay.

Yeah. Okay. I mean, I yeah, I mean, yeah, it's interesting because there's always a very real possibility. Every real Mavs fan had it in the back of their head for the life. Since Luca got here, that he would maybe one day leave for the next. Demand a trade. You just never really thought he would be moved out and it would completely be news to him and everybody else. So yeah, I got texts about it and I was checking. I was like, I thought Shams got hacked because I was like, it didn't make any sense. And then as other accounts started to report it, I was like, okay, is this like a mass hacking? And I get my head I'm like, because I was I was still kind of buzzed off the

two car pours I had. Shout out to that McMurray, Pino. Yeah, did you think you were like hallucinating at any point? I take it an early bird. I take it an early bird. And I was kind of like, what? I was seriously, I was like, okay, this is real. I was like, this isn't early birds, not early birds, not making me hallucinate. It's the other stuff. It's the other stuff for sure. But usually when you get this kind of news that's so shocking, usually it's in the other direction. Like, holy fuck, we just traded for who? Like, it's so rare to find yourself in a scenario where a franchise player like that just... Yeah, it's unprecedented. Like, there really is not a comp. You're like,

what? And then you're kind of like, you're trying to figure out what's going on, what happened behind the scenes that they're not telling us. Is there any booty chatter about anything that could have happened behind the scenes? No. Not been a prize? No. That's the only thing I can think that would make any kind of sense is there's just like some serious disdain behind the scenes that we just don't know about.

I heard the locker room's ever been the same since they took that beer out of his hands. It's true, maybe. That video does like kind of, that's pretty funny to watch now. Cause you know, the thought was like, or they even said like the GMATS GM, Nico Harrison, who people I guess

are just now discovering is the GM. And I said, he doesn't essentially said he doesn't fit our culture and we want to be a defensive team. That's how you win a championship team that went to the finals last year and lost to probably the best arguably the best offensive team ever in that Celtics team. They were insane. But anyway, yeah, like, uh, To have it happen in the middle of

the season is very weird, um, to go from your 25 year old generational player to a 31 year old soon to be 32 Anthony Davis, who's a Arguably the best defender in the league one of the best But also like notoriously misses a lot of games and it's 31 Is you're like what and then? It's just you're I don't know It's very yesterday was very very strange very strange. Very strange day processing it and you kind of were waiting for more to come out and nothing really did come out

and the Mavs had a game at 2.30. Dennis time, which was like pulling teeth if you watched it. It's good. Yeah, I saw the halftime tweet. Yeah, it was tough. Score wasn't great. Also like no starters played that game.

And Anthony Davis hadn't, he wasn't playing yet. No, he was hilariously still in street clothes. Was there any part of you, I've thought about this a lot, was there any part of you that thought about the caller who called in recently on listener voicemails and asked us if we could take any player and put them on your team to win a championship, who would you put on your team?

I said during that segment that we didn't need Barry Sanders on the Lions, which I might take, like, you know, doesn't feel great in hindsight losing the very next game after that voicemail. But now I can't stop thinking of it in the reverse of like, which player is the most devastating to get ripped from any of your sports teams? And I don't think there's a more devastating player

within the WASH media family to get just taken away from a team than Luka. There's not. Yeah, only one of us wears a t-shirt with their favorite players face on it, and that's Dave. I washed that shirt. But you burned that and sent it to the abs, right? No. From the abs.

Whoa! Honestly, if I had been in the area, I would have gone to the Dirk, the dirt statue and, and made, paid my respects. Uh, no, that's funny because I was doing laundry last night and I grabbed that shirt and I was like, oh, I'm not going to just stop wearing it. In fact, I'm not going to stop rooting for Luca. I will root for the fucking Lakers. I will root for that team this year. Now if it's going to be awkward if they run up against each other. But like, I am I have no problems. I've never really had a Lakers hatred of all the teams

he could end up at. Like big market teams, Lakers, Knicks. I'd much rather be a Laker because like, this is a really bad slide on Laker fans. I don't really take them that seriously. They all seem like they're in that realm of cowboy fan where like there's probably a lot that like grew up watching them, but there's also a lot that aren't actually like don't have that much of a connection. They just like the brand and the fact that LeBron's there. So I have no bones about just jumping on that and pulling for Luca and absolutely wanting to see him and I'll root for that guy forever. I don't, you know, it doesn't change anything there.

As far as like the Mavs, like, yeah, I'm pretty disgusted. It's, it is the ball. It's the ball's the most move a GM is maybe ever in the NBA. I don't know, man. I don't know what the comp is as far as like trading a generational talent. No one has any, no one's arguing that he's not a top five guy, it's even like setting aside like the basketball aspect of it. Okay, you want to become a more defensive team. So you're trading away a guy who obviously is great

offensively, not as strong defensively, but aside from like the basketball part of it, what he like, he is like the face of your franchise. He is a, everyone loves the guy. There's invested a lot to be said for just keeping a guy like that on your team, even if it's like, okay, we're not happy with the defensive effort. It's just, it's bizarre to trade away a superstar,

a 25 year old superstar. Who wants to be there and who they even admitted in that they had no, he'll be up for a super max next year, which not anymore, right? Not anymore, you're right. And so he had, he loved Dallas. And that was always a thought like, man, is this guy want to play like LA or New York?

He was gonna I mean odds are he was going to resign and you would have that that generational player And I am of the uh mindset and maybe this will change and maybe this is coping and this is I don't know I would have rather have seen it out even with his You know his um even with his, you know, his, um, and his, his defensive woes and things like that, like, and like the, the baggage that comes with Luca, see it out. That's your guy. That's your generational star. That's the dude who drafted him.

Yeah. Like maybe he's there for the next 10 years and you get close, but you never get to that mountaintop. Like that was what made the Dirk narrative so awesome is that for so many years you got so close and you never got there. You had your heartbreaks and then when you finally got that one, that one dude had been with your franchise the entire time. So much so that you knew everything about him. You knew his personality. You knew his shortcomings and like when you got that one, it was, it made it all worth it. And you were kind of on that track with Luca. Um, but yeah, it is a, it is a cold hearted move.

It really is. And like, I think people are discounting Anthony Davis. Like if he's healthy, like how good the current team will be. I don't think they're down the trade deadlines Wednesday, I guess Thursday. that the current team will be. I don't think they're done. The trade deadline is Wednesday, I guess Thursday. But it's it's it's shocking. It's it's unlike anything. And like I was trying to compare it to moments and like sports fandom my life and like, I was I was five when the Herschel Walker trade happens. I didn't know shit about that. I didn't know why that was a big deal. But when the Cowboys traded Herschel Walker for a boatload of picks, right crazy ended up leading the three Super Bowls First one I could think of is when the Cowboys fired Jimmy Johnson when Jerry fired Jimmy Johnson

That was big deal and I was old enough to understand it I didn't know what egos were at that point But I know it made all the adults that I was around my dad very sad, very angry. And I'm like, oh man, this is probably similar. Then the next one is yesterday morning was the closest morning I've felt to the morning after the Rangers lost game six to the Cardinals, where you wake up and you're kind of like, you're awake and your eyes are closed. And you're just like hoping that everything that you were already thinking about was fake. And you jumped it. That's what I felt like yesterday morning. And it's rare to have that at our age. Yeah, like it's rare because that's a feeling I associate a

lot with being a little kid when you're like so invested in it. So when it happens at this age, you just know how much it hits. It's just like, oh man. Yeah. Crazy. And then yeah, you just know how much it hits. It's just like, Oh man. Yeah. Um, crazy. Um, and then yeah, it's you just are like, okay, like you're, I'm waiting for more to come out more behind the scene stuff. Maybe if there was some kind of rift there, but it's just, what about the weight, the weight thing is just like, that's what I hated. That they're throwing that out there. I like on his way out. The Dallas beat reporters are like, you know, told to be like, yeah, like that's not a secret that he's had issues at this weight, but like, okay, you wrote that dude, like that overweight dude in quotes,

you just single handedly took you to the finals. Yeah. And was the best player in the, in the, in the playoffs. Like he was insane and he was completely banged up. I don't know. There's some thoughts that like, he's very in the off season, he goes dark and they can't get a hold of him. And he does his own training stuff. And that's tight.

Yeah. Off the grid a little bit. I don't know man I think I can live with the guy being a little husky when oh I don't know he's one of the best offensive players in the history of the game like he's a world-classed out he is the kind of dude that people they're bringing dudes in they've got clay Thompson to sign there to play with luca because of how good of a passer and a facilitator luca is it's i don't know man i felt really bad for those guys for the guys on the team it's like that's a really weird thing and then they had to turn around and go play a game or awful it's it's fucking bizarre i so yeah i it it fucking sucks

man and it sucks it sucks being on twitter and being online and seeing like other fan bases laugh at you. But I'd be doing the same thing if I were them. I'll be laughing at them when their team does not want a title this year. I will. I've bookmarked a number of tweets. There you go. And you know what? If the Mavs don't win it this year, I would love to see LeBron and Luca go get one.

They got to go get a center though. They got some work to do. But yeah, I'll probably have more to say. I will have more to say on too much dip. We're not gonna just ignore that, but yeah. I am all in on the conspiracies though. So should David Stern have blocked this one like he did the Chris Paul trade,

the ghost of David Stern? What do you have? I don't even, I'm not even going to begin to act like I know what goes into that because you're still getting Anthony Davis for Luca. So you're getting, you know what I mean? It's not like peanuts. I mean, people want to make it sound like that, but like the Mavs are about to be a, if healthy and insanely stout team on the defensive end. So I don't know. I, that was what I was hoping for on Twitter. I kept seeing, I'm like, okay, they're going to deny this.

There's no way I can't. I don't confirm him. It's like 12 30. And I'm like, surely. And he's over is going to block anybody. Nah, nah. Oh, I'm sorry, Dave. It's all right.

Well, you know, I got, I got sad because like, luckily my oldest, he's four. He's not old enough to like, he knows the name Luca just because he has the Luca shoes, but he doesn't, he's not invested in the team or Luca as a player. Cause I was thinking how bad that would suck if he were like six or seven and was watching games with me and had, and I had to explain to him that, cause that would, so a lot of people There's a lot of people who named their fucking kids in the last year, dude, and it's a dope name either way, but like oh

Ugly it's messy man. It's very messy. He's my messy. It's just like when messy left just like Barcelona for PSG, man So, thank you for giving me the time. Of course. I holstered a lot of volume shooting jokes about the trade just to let, I really wanted you to verbally work through that and I'm glad you did. Well, I appreciate that but feel free to joke away. I got thick skin. It's hard to frame a situation like that that lacks aura. But what if I told you I had something for the listeners that doesn't lack aura and I'm talking Aura frames. Wow.

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Well last night we had the the Sunday Night Award show, the Grammys. Um while I didn't watch much of them, I think most of the excitement usually happens before the Grammys. Then you can just kinda get the exciting parts after the show. The highlights hit the TL. We've got some headlines for you guys. Not actual. We're not doing headlines, headlines. We're not doing headlines. Okay. But can I spit some stuff out for you? You can see where you wanna go

first. We have Kanye naked girlfriend, then kicked out. That's the one I've seen the most of. We've got zero awards for Taylor Swift. Pretty minor there. Pretty mid album, if we're all being honest with ourselves. Beyonce wins best country album. I cried during the actual award ceremony for some reason.

Okay. What was going, what was happening while you were crying? You want to start there? Yeah. Okay. I don't know what happened. I've never even heard music from this performer, although I'm sure she's great because she won an award.

Dochi won best rap album and she started her speech and something hit me halfway through the speech, just like her excitement and how pumped she was. And she started talking to all the little girls out there who should not be told where to, and for some reason, she just hit me and I started crying. That's really sweet, man. Still never heard a Dochi song. Yeah, I think you owe her at least one spin. She touched my heart, like out of nowhere.

I was just sitting there. Sally was in the other room talking to my son and she came back in and I just had these red eyes. I thought she thought I like hit the weed pen too hard or something. No, I was crying, my son and I and she came back in and I just had these red eyes. I thought she thought I like hit the weed pad too hard or something. No, I was crying dude. Don't you

got me? Oh yeah. I am. She first gained recognition on TikTok of course for 2021 song yucky. Of course, fruitcake. Of course. Don't you check her out. Yeah. Only the third woman in history to win best rap album. Well, how about that? Trying to think of the other two. Lauryn Hill, Cardi B. The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.

That checks out. Yep. Yep. Yeah, Kanye brought, what's her name? Bianca? Bianca. Bianca Sensori. she wore a heavy coat fur coat and then peeled it imagine your boy shows up to a group dinner uninvited like Kanye did to the Grammys and then his girlfriend sits down with a fur coat at the table and she just takes it off and she's wearing a completely sheer dress. What if when Dan went to that wedding and didn't have a plus one but he showed up, what if that's what his day wore? Still one of my all-time favorite touching base segments. He goes and gets her a plate. Yeah. Yeah, here you go, babe. You might put the coat back on.

You're nude. Yeah, she left nothing to the imagination whatsoever. I think Kanye should be allowed to just show up to the Grammys if I'm being honest. She's Australian. Like I think it needs to be like a golf tournament thing where like you get, if you win in the last 10 years, like you get an exemption to get in. Yeah, the way he like walks her around,

like she's like a pet or something. The way he, he like, walks her around like, she's like a pet or something. Like he dresses her up. Well, I think that's Kanye's MO when it comes to relationships. She doesn't speak. I think he wanted Kim to be like that. And he puts her in these ridiculous outfits. This one being the most ridiculous, obviously. I think he looks at his female counterpart

as almost like an extension of his art, which is not a compliment. Yeah, you're right. I think he's just like, no, this is my muse. I'm gonna dress you up like this. I'm going to, whatever. And he's such a control freak. I just get the vibe he takes it way too far.

Yeah. That's Kanye. There was a moment where they come back and Trevor Noah, Dylan's favorite comic, Trevor Noah, he's introducing the guy who's the head of the Grammys. He's going to come out and speak. They always have the head of the Academy if it's the Oscars. Ted Grammy. Yeah, old Teddy Grahams. And he was like, you're gonna wanna see, like he was building it up,

like we're about to see some monumental thing. Like, I don't know, I was like, oh fuck, are they gonna bring out like Obama or something? Like this is about to be like some, and they brought the guy out and like the whole thing was like, talking about people, artists criticizing the Grammys, I guess the weekend, the weekend had had some, he had been boycotting the Grammys for a few years over

some stuff. So they're corrupt, tweeted they're corrupt. And the big the big surprise was that the weekend was going to perform. He was back in on the Grammys, which the weekends huge. Great. But it just I don't know, I thought the build up to it, I thought we're about to it just, I don't know. I thought the buildup to it, I thought we were about to see like, I don't know, peace in the Middle East. Like they're gonna come out and like do a truce right there or something really major.

It was just the weekend doing a song. Yeah. It was a good song. He just dropped a new album. He did. He's a very talented lad. Did he? He did.

I haven't gone in yet. No, did he's not on it. He did I've been gone in yet now did he's not on it I have a question about the Grammys last night The Jaden Smith Loki eat I'm so over this dude Randy can you toss him on the screen for a player? Yeah, let me get it. Dude, bro wore a

house on his head. He wore a house on his head. Oh, househead looking **** Dave, you should wear this for spooky season. You can be a haunted house. Randy, can you start working on a house for my head? This is something you could make. it yeah you could make that this doesn't

look particularly different you could easily make that dude you paper down there yeah like just do it what does he do one trip to Michaels and you're good he's eating dude he's not eating look he's he's look out look at his stature for this photo look at his stance Derek guy would take major issue with the fit of those pants I'm zoom in on that the bottom, the footwear as well. What's going on? Careful, Randy's zooming on a, oh, that's a good,

I like that he's just doing this. Okay, he's still, he's bowed up like that dude. Of all the things that he does that are weird and annoying, the thing that annoys me the most that he does is the way he tweets and he capitalizes the way he tweets and he capitalizes the first letter of every word and I can't stand it. You notice it? So I sometimes do that for rundown topics even if it's like low-key a sentence. I just feel like it's so

tidily when it comes to how I write it out anyway. And I always think about how you hate that. I cannot stand it. Why does he, it just takes a lot of effort? He's just a lot, man. He's just a lot. He's just standing there and all I'm thinking as I'm looking at him, I'm like, yeah, you're there because your dad's Will Smith. Like, okay.

Like, I know he's a recording artist, David. What? What am I missing? What what is his uh, what is his album that I have not like does he have actually some bangers? I don't know if he's got bangers. I haven't I haven't given him the the time of day unfortunately. Well he's maybe I should look at his threads on being just a weirdo. I said here's a tweet and it's just Here's a tweet. And it's just, here's a tweet. Would you rather he type like Cam Newton? Yeah, I would know you wouldn't. No, you wouldn't. You're like,

fighting off a stroke every time you read his what is Kim Newton's bio say on Instagram? I'm not going to stop talking like this. So stop asking or something like that. Bad. Bad. Cool, dude. You found a cool font. Two big award noties of the night were that Beyonce won best country album and Not Like Us by Kendrick Lamar, one song of the year. If you were a country dude in your truck

taking a selfie for your profile photo, what would you say about Beyonce winning best country album? for your profile photo, what would you say about Beyonce winning best country album? That ain't country. Grammy's gone woke. Does that has people upset? Probably, probably. I think there are already people upset

that she was even considered to be in the category. But I also don't think that, I don't think the countryside of the Grammys is like what people really tune in for. I was gonna say, I don't know how big of a deal. I feel like the CMAs are just like what they actually take as word. The year before Laney Wilson.

She was up for it this year. One. Yeah, okay. And then the year before Willie Nelson. I'm familiar with Willie Nelson. Chris Stapleton. Dude, Stapes. He got robbed last night. He's probably good. I don't care who wins any award because I don't think it's that important, but I will say that I think it'd be difficult to find someone who's about to have

a worse week than Drake. Last night, Drake had to watch a diss track about him win best song at the Grammys with like everyone from Taylor Swift to like any other artist dancing and singing a minor as Kendrick walks on stage and takes a trophy for it. Drake is up for like zero awards. He wasn't there, right? I don't think he couldn't have been there. You think people are texting like, look, I think Ted Grammy was like, dude, don't go. It's really catchy part of the song. Yeah, it's just very hard to hear that song and not do it. But now he has to turn around and see at the Super Bowl halftime scene,

Kendrick undoubtedly performed this song. Like he's not not going to, I'm worried he's gonna perform it three times. Poor Drake. Poor Drake, dude. I kinda hope he doesn't like play the whole like do it multiple times Ever been a more lopsided just beat down. It's tough and Drake's now taking it to like a lawsuit Yeah, which like you don't want to be the narc who takes it to a lawsuit, you know

It's not a good look for anybody involved Has he made any music since this all happened? I don't know man. Yeah, I'm afraid he's just gonna like disappear now now he has But I don't I mean like the fact that we don't really know right, right? I don't know if he's done a whole album, but I would if I were him I would drop something right before the Super Bowl. Yeah, the day of you got to do something Yeah, maybe just drop an entire like album of diss tracks right before the Super Bowl and try to He doesn't want to start any more beef. So man Yeah, what if you do that right before the Super Bowl and then he goes out and plays it like seven times in a row

Who's the who's the last the last rapper who who buried him too? It was uh, push a t push a t He never really even responded to push. He got push a t got him good Exposed his son That he was hiding You could say that he was hiding. You could say that he helped him. Brian Johnson style. Mm hmm. Yeah, there you go. Somebody, uh, I guess the, the, the tariff with Mexico's like no longer a

thing and somebody I saw a tweet that said Brian Johnson's son's erection lasted longer than the tariff, uh, the Mexican tariff. That was funny. I don't know how accurate it is, but the only tweet that I left, and son's erection lasted longer than the tariff, the Mexican tariff. That was funny. I don't know how accurate it is, but. The only tweet that I laughed at was that about the Luca stuff, Dave, was when someone said that JFK got treated better in Dallas. A lot of JFK jokes.

A lot of them. A lot of them. Good time to drop the docs that will be heavily redacted and won't tell us the whole story, but definitely drop them. I'm sure JFK was in Dallas other times other than the time he got assassinated. So I can't speak to how he was treated before then. That's a good question.

Nah, yeah, I was traded very well. Eh, I got nothing. Kind of snuck into Bernie there. Are dudes just volume shooting Luca jerseys across Dallas right now? I saw a little kid yesterday wearing one. Oh, I'll be rocking dude. I've it's business as usual on the Luka front. I look I just had a segment on this. I'm sorry. I'll just

No, it's okay. It's okay, Dave. There's a there's a there's a your love for the player like that doesn't especially when they don't leave on their own accord. It doesn't stop because they're not with the team anymore. Dave, last night I almost texted Alyssa to see how you were doing to circumvent texting you directly because I didn't want to like annoy you No, you wouldn't have I didn't realize how inactive I had been in that group They are too much dip big group text like I I saw that and I was like, oh shit. Yeah, they probably do Yeah but that No, I mean, I was better than, you know, if this happened five years, 10

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Again, that is squarespace.com slash steam for 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. Dave, are you gonna go to the confessional real quick? Yeah, I forgot this happened and I meant to bring this up on a show at the beginning of the year, but I did something over the the break the holiday break that I have never done And it is it is embarrassing but I feel like it would be uh doing everyone a disservice if I didn't admit to this so at one point I had a uncickable cold slash sinus infection over the holidays. Just would not go away. So rather than get on antibiotics,

I did like the Teladoc thing. They're like, I'll write you a prescription for prednisone. What's prednisone? Prednisone is like the steroid. You can either get the shot or they give you like the, they give you the pills and like first day take five, next day take four, all the way down to one. And the steroids? Yeah. Is that what I took when I didn't get a hangover? Probably. I think it was. Yeah. One side effect of them that affects, this is probably the main side effect is that it you kills your sleep. You just, you feel there's like those first few days, you have like a palpable brain fog that you just, you're able to go out and do stuff,

but like you don't feel like you're mentally there. Like you just are off and it's not a fun feeling. It is not a fun feeling. If you have stuff you gotta go there, like you just are off. And it's not a fun feeling. It is not a fun feeling if you have stuff you gotta go do. But so that first, second day I was autumn. I slept horrible that first night. It was just, I was like sleeping in like, like first gear the entire time. You couldn't get into that deep sleep.

Woke up, had to go run a couple errands and had to get gas. So I went to my local gas station right by my house, got a good rapport with the guys in there, go in, get a Celsius, because I need something. Leave the pump running, pay for the Celsius, go out to the car, get in my car, get my music going, crack my Celsius, drive off.

I fucking drove off with the pump in my Man and the disconnect yeah, I made it like I didn't make it. I mean I didn't like I pulled up I drove like five yards and I realized it I could I could not feel it in the car but I realized it and I stopped I feel it in the car, but I realized it and I stopped. I threw it in park and the handle, I guess there's a switch on it to where it detects because this happens fairly often, I guess, and I get out and the old guy- It made them so they pop off.

Exactly. Happens so routinely. So I get out and I'm like, oh I'm like fuck and my head I'm thinking Oh, this is about to be expensive. Yeah, it's just flow first thing that hits my head and I thought there's about to be yeah I thought it was gas. Did you think about siphoning any of it and spinning it back into your gas? Yeah, I was kind of waiting for you to show up. Yeah, it was putting up the siphon call. I was behind I was looking my chops when I saw you driving off Dude, you're lucky that you didn't drive off and someone got a picture and posted it on like next door or something.

Yeah, I don't know how. Steroids and brain fog. Dude, I don't know how people make it that far because it was pretty obvious as like, anyway, and the older guy who works there is right out there. He was like changing the trash can. Oh, come on, man. He starts yelling and I'm like, I'm so sorry. I'm like, and he grabs it and he's like messing with the spring and gets

it back on there. And I'm like, just let me know what I need to do to make this right. I really apologize. And he like, he's just like shaking his head. Like he's fucking mad. Keep in mind, this is the gas station I go to all the time. This isn't the first time he's dealt with this. He's like, no. Yeah. And I was like was like, dude, I'm so sorry. He's fine. He's like, kind of like, it's fine. Do you blame your kids ever? I got two young kids at home, man. I'm tired. I'm on steroids, man. I mean, dude, I was thinking it and I, and I have not been back to that cast. Oh, there's one right across the way. It sucks. Cause like, I, you know, I don't go to the gas

station that often, but like, it's always in the back of my mind too. I'm like I like looking the side of you me or me Okay, forget I call the list. I was like you will not fucking believe it. I was like I've never done this I don't think I've ever even gotten close to doing this and I've seen I've seen it I've seen cars driving down the road with it. I've seen it happen like a number of times, but I've, I just like, it was so funny afterward. I was like, once I realized like that they had, they account for that and it's not that big of a deal and they threw, I didn't cause like an explosion. I was like, okay, that's fucking embarrassing.

I was like, what, what do you do if you're pulling away and you look in your rear view and the gas station is just exploding? Like the Joker. Man, I'm back before they added the like safe release stations just exploding. Like the Joker. Uh huh. Man on fire. Back before they added the like safe release mechanism, they probably saved a bunch. I wonder like what kind of damage it used to do. I'm sure it had to be bad spray and had to

order a whole new hose and yeah dude. And that's that's kind of what I was thinking was about to go down and I was just like, holy shit. That is like, as far as like a brain fart moment or whatever, that one was like, oh my God. I was at Slavicheks once, the Czech stop of the South and I had this like giant Ford F350 breathing down my neck when I was pumping gas. And so I was like trying to skedaddle out of there

so he didn't beat me up or something. And I just put the pump back and I left my thing open. Like, and I, even then I was like, God, you absolute wimp, dude. You just cowered down and drove off with your shit all open just cause you had this F-350 staring at you. Like your cap thing open. Yeah, like not even a big deal.

But I still was beating myself up. I was like, what a noob. This guy was looking at you. What, your cap thing over there? Yeah, like not even a big deal. God, this shit happens often. But I still was beating myself up. I was like, what a noob. This guy was looking at you drop off in your Ford Fusion, just all scared with your tail between your legs. It was just not a good feeling. Oh man, it hurt so bad to like, oh, that guy. I'm like, I was like,

I was mortified talking to him and he was just not even really talking to me. He was just kind of like putting it back. He put it back together in like three seconds. Yeah, he's probably back up. He probably done it before. He shouldn't have been so put out over it then if it's that easy. Yeah, I get it. I was like, but I also, I don't know. It was embarrassing and luckily there weren't people around to really see it, but I was like, damn dude. I was like, I wish I doesn't happen more

with people with kids and stuff. I didn't have- Oh yeah, dude. But I will probably not ever take that shit again if I don't have to. Cause I- If you do take a day of just my, my one thing that will get you over the non sleeping

and you actually get to have fun is just get absolutely hammered night one. That's how you bring yourself back to like normal. Yeah. Cause if you get drunk enough, you'll just pass out and you'll get your hours of sleep and you'll wake up feeling spry it's it's kind of a good steroid hack that I Tell were you warned about it by your position like this could yeah fuck you. Oh, yeah, it's yeah. I remember Micah Micah first started at Grand Ex and he's he was like

He I remember him telling us like how he was on he's like's like, I haven't had a good night's sleep in two weeks. That does explain how I felt the rest of the trip that I took when I was on those because I didn't have one good night of sleep the entire time I was in Michigan. Yeah. I was like ready to, I felt bad but I was like ready to leave because I was chalking it up to like my sleeping situation but it's totally because I was on steroids the entire time. Yeah it's not fun I was on steroids the entire time. Yeah, it's not fun. And I will say it does work. Yeah. But it also, you might embarrass yourself in front of your favorite gas station.

Luckily, it wasn't any of the Lamar gas stations. That would be devastating. Well, Dave, next time you do this, just drink like a few Arbtinis before bed. Great point. Yeah. Randy, can you kill up the Arbtini for us real quick? Randy, we want to talk about this on retail therapy, but it does feel more circling back-coded. You know us, we like to talk about just anything cocktail-related, especially if it's disgusting.

The Arbtini, we have it on the screen right now for youtube.com slash circling back users. It didn't say what kind of spirits are going in there, but where you lose me is with the Arby's sauce. Um. It didn't say what kind of spirits are going in there, but where you lose me is with the RB sauce. Why? I think the RB sauce could be a nice little kicker. That's the that's what you want. It's just a little squirt squirt. It empties the whole package into it. No, it's just a squirt squirt. Just a little squirt squirt.

It's just a little squirt squirt. I'm trying this minus the sauce. Are you OK with the pickle juice in it? Yeah. Pickle juice and I assume, but he doesn't say what. I hate to say it. I actually don't think the Arby's sauce

makes it like that much more unpalatable. I mean, the garnishes to me are the worst part. Yeah, what's in that garnish? Curly fry. They don't have mozzarella sticks there, do they? It's got a good color to it. The drink does. Damn, we're hitting that

This is vibey. Okay, they don't say anything. Do you are you sound for? Wafting the glass over the the roast beef sandwich. Oh god. I like that. I like doing the dry rinse I'm so do for an Arby's true This is so soda so pie soda so pie soda so pie dude, I would fuck with some Arbitranies. I would drink one. I'd try it. I have a sip. Well, what do you place that Arby's sauce, little horsie sauce, like little horsie sauce. I wouldn't put a sauce.

Oh, horsie sauce would be interesting, David. Yeah, I'm not going to lie. Might open up them sinuses. A little horseradish in the martini. I could do that. Go suey on them. I'd prefer that. What's an Arby's sauce? Arby's sauce is more. Go. So, I'd

prefer that. What's an Arby's sauce? Arby's sauce is more like vinegar. Yeah, it's it's pretty vinegary. It doesn't feel like uh like a barbecue sauce but it feels a little more like uh just a really tangy sauce. Arby's sauce is

very good. Um I don't know. I'll be snap when they started making big Montana's. What was the big Montana? It was just a big sandwich. A big roast beef sandwich. That one might have had like uh lettuce tomato on it. I'm trying to remember. It

might have just been the huge. Oh my god. Yeah, it's just pound. Half pound of stuff. Oh my god. I mean, I got a half pound of fajitas yesterday and that was a lot of meat. I can't imagine all that being on one single sandwich. You load that thing up with some Arby's sauce, you're gonna have a good time. What's your ideal Arby's sandwich? Just, I do plain roast beef.

No cheese? I'm not opposed to it, but if I have to choose one, I will go with that. Okay, you and I are on the same wave when it comes to Arby's. I'm not gonna say no to the cheese, but like, yeah, if I had to wet my sandwich with one. I will go with that. Okay. You and I, you and I are on the same wave when it comes to Arby's. It's really a sauce. I'm not going to say no to the

cheese but like, yeah, if I had to wet my sandwich with one thing at Arby's, it's going to be Arby's sauce. It's a sauce play. Yeah. Yeah. Curly fries are good. I mean, damn. Yeah. Like in Arby's. If I wasn't having tum tum issues today, I

might hit that Arby's up. Yeah. You should give it a few days. Yeah, maybe I'll do a drive by. Do Arbtini Friday. 80 Minute Monday. You love to see it. That guy's just feasting right now. It's a real one. Any feelings on what we should do

tomorrow for uh Patreon or should we release that later on the circling back Instagram story? Let's talk about it. Okay. Let's talk about it. We had such a nice cold call a couple weeks ago. It was a nicey. I'm champing for it, but I know I need to give it a little bit. I do want to do a touching based sooner than later, but I don't know if tomorrow's the

day for it. Let's do a cold call, huh? Maybe. All right. We'll be in touch either way. Bye. So Thanks for watching guys!