Circling Back - Instagram Down Bad & Flavor-Blasted Office Snacks

Episode Date: October 6, 2021

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Welcome back to the Circling Back podcast presented by Vizzy Hard Seltzer, the only hard seltzer with vitamin C and superfood acerola. My name's Will DeFries to my left, David Ruff. It never gets old, man. What a song. What a song. What a track. How many streams we had on Welcome to Wilmonds on Spotify? Can I guess?

Yeah. I'll say 1.2 million. You're close. You're close. Any guesses from Dylan over here? Really? I was going to say like tens of thousands. I guess we just think differently of the song.

No, it's a great song. You know, he is... Is what? Barry's not as well known as like Miley Cyrus, for example. I was going to say something like 50K. I feel like that's unfair to Barry. He is very well known to me. What's the number?

20,449 streams. I would like that to get over 21,000 by the end of the weekend. Barry, I tried. If you're sitting at home and you're listening to Circling Back and you're listening to it on something that isn't where you stream music from, just go toss on Welcome to Wilmonds by Barry Rigby, mute it, and just let it play on repeat

for the rest of the day. Let's get them up to a milli. Let's get a million listens. By the end of the weekend, I think, is a attainable goal. Somebody in this office is up to something. That's get a million listens. By the end of the weekend, I think, is an attainable goal. Somebody in this office is up to something. That's all I'm going to say. They showed me a little something they're working on that might be in that ballpark.

And let me just say, I like what I heard. You know someone else in here that's making a song? That's all I'll say, Dylan. I'm not going to give you anything else. You can ask all the questions you want, but I'm not going to answer them. Next question. We're not interviewing you, just to be clear. As much as everyone wishes it was me because they love my singing voice,

unfortunately it is not, I'm sorry to say. No one likes your singing voice. Are you kidding? No one. We've had reviews talk about it. We had one reviewer say she liked it. Yeah, well, she speaks for many. Can I make an apology before we get too deep into this episode?

Yes. I'd like to apologize if I sound stuffy. Your boy's allergy is just absolutely on one. We were talking about it yesterday, how much Claritin costs. What's up with that? I stopped by CVS yesterday to get Flonase and Zyrtec, and yeah, I'm now broke. Stuff is so expensive, man. Dude, what's up with that?

I don't know. I'm just trying to avoid some seasonal allergies over here. I'm just trying to breathe without my face leaking. What's the big deal? Well, definitely go with the generic. Definitely go with the generic when it comes to allergy meds. Okay. And secondly, or second, if you will,

you should never lead off a pod by saying your allergies are acting up because you will get a voicemail from some guy's girlfriend who doesn't listen to the pod and will be upset about you doing that because it kills her buzz. Because that happened to me about five years ago. Hey. Hey, Lister's girlfriend, guess what? We're the podcast that doesn't care.

Good thing you forgot about it and moved on, Dave, and it didn't affect you. I'm glad that that's not living deep within you. You know, we don't get a lot of blowback like that on the voicemails typically. But that one was very biting. You know what? They're probably not together anymore. I kind of want us to all come up with the lamest criticism we've received as a host of this podcast, but it stuck with us for some reason because it cut us so deep.

Well, that's probably mine. Back when we were writing, the comments, the criticisms I got from my writing stuck with me much more than podcasting. Really? Oh, yeah. I don't know why. I think it was different for me because I think like – can I pull back – do you guys mind if I pull back the curtain right now? It's what we do.

I think it was different for me because I don't know if the commenters knew this at the time, but like we could see the email that they registered their account with. And so like if I saw someone that really cut me deep, I could just Google them and be like, okay, like I know who you are now. I don't really – I don't care as much. No, they wouldn't be a loser. But I'd and be like okay like i know who you are now i don't really i don't care as much no they wouldn't be a loser but i'd just be like you know what i don't care as much because now i know who you are for and for some reason knowing that helped me yeah you realize um you realize that a lot of the stuff that people put on there is in jest and it just doesn't

translate because you don't know them and then you also realize that the stuff that's not it's probably somebody that's in a bad spot because i'll be honest i've been a i've been a super fan of the ticket out of dallas for 20 years i are you chris i have chirped them before i have chirped the hosts in the past. What's your problem? And I look back on those tweets. I've deleted many of them, hopefully all of them. And I'm like, dude, I was down bad. I was either looking for a job out of law school. I was in a bad spot, and that's why I did it. So knowing that makes it a little bit more easier.

So I have a little bit more empathy towards those people. But, Will, to your point, we did find your email addresses to the commenters who are the meanest and we did drop them into the dark web and we also signed them up for scientology updates that's true people who comment um like to your point dave criticize are often the people who like us the most like there are like you know like our most dedicated listeners. If you can't handle us at our worst, you don't deserve us at our best. That's well said. If you care enough about what we have to say to actually give us feedback,

even if it's negative, that probably means you care a lot about what you're listening to. Or maybe we just were trash that day. Yeah. Probably both. Well, you do have our trash days. Maybe they didn't like my column about... The Founder.

The Founder. No, not enough people read that to hate it. I think about 1,800 people read that, which is astonishingly low. Important business lessons I learned from Ray Kroc and The Founder. I think people probably thought it was sponsored. Like that we had some deal with the movie studio, and we're going to promote this movie. You did make a good point, though.

Okay. The golf course is the new Chili's. Okay, I feel like that's not an original thought, but I put it in the column either way. What was the thinking behind taking the company to that movie again, just to teach us about, like – I'll be honest. The movie was pretty – I thought the movie was good. I enjoyed it, but I think the point was to take us about like... I'll be honest. The movie was pretty...

I thought the movie was good. I enjoyed it. But I think the point was to take us from being optimistic content creators and turn us into bloodthirsty founding savages. Because the only lessons

I learned from that movie are that you have to be a complete asshole to the point where you ditch your wife in order to get ahead in the business world. Not only ditch your wife... Take advantage of good natured people. No, no, no. You're missing one thing though. You can't you ditch your wife in order to get ahead in the business world. Not only ditch your wife.

Take advantage of good-natured people. No, no, no. You're missing one thing, though. You can't just ditch your wife. You have to steal somebody else's wife. Oh, yeah. At a piano bar. Yeah, that guy was a dick.

And then you have to change the formula on their ice cream to where it's powder. It's much more cost-efficient. I'm also bummed that no one asked me to burn before we walked into that. You know that some people at Grand X were definitely burning in their cars on the way there. There's no doubt Carter burned.

Dude, yeah. I guarantee there were numerous groups of people, and I feel like a fucking nerd that no one offered it to me. No, we just went to lunch. Yeah, we probably went and ate a sandwich somewhere. Yeah, we went and had sandwiches. Losers. Everybody else was eating the weed pot.

Man, at least y'all got to deal with the PGP audience more so than the TFM. Yeah. Which were much, much kinder. Dude, part of the reason I never even volunteered to write anything for TFM was because I didn't want to deal with the commenters. It was just a slaughter, man. Like, I knew the entire time I was working at Grand X that I had the green light if I wanted to do a column for TFM. I knew that I could publish one on there. But knowing what happened in the comments section and just knowing how mean people were,

I was like, nah, I'm too sensitive to expose myself to something like that. Did you see what Joe recently said on Twitter about this? No. About how he gave up writing because he used to be a major writing personality on TFM. He gave it up because of the criticism he got. He's like, I'm tired of it. I get it. I get it.

The nicest comments you'd get on TFM are like, oh, this one doesn't suck as much as it usually does. Like, ah, thank you. Yeah. Ugh. Love it. Yeah, you guys built a real community of real jerks. I didn't build anything.

That being said, I mean, there were definitely columns that I would click that I would be clicking them solely to see the comments on them, and that was very entertaining to me. No. Yeah, it could be entertaining. I actually almost reached the point where I started arguing with a podcast host online recently because I have recently quit their podcast as they have gotten far too negative regarding something that I enjoy. Was it Club Cool?

It was Club Cool, yeah. They're out on Shackets, and I'm the Shacket guy. Dude, you Club Cool. Yeah. They're out on Shackets. And I'm the Shacket guy. Dude, you're going to kill it this fall on your Shacket. And so then, yeah. They're out on Shackets? No, no. I'm not.

I didn't say that. More on Shackets later, actually. Is Internet Party out on Shackets? No. Man, I'm reminded of, like, you know the back end in WordPress? You can ban certain words from people commenting. You could? Yes.

Damn it. Why didn't I fucking do that? The list of banned words on the back end of TotalFerretMove.com, it was, wow. A laundry list in itself. It was like every bad, racist, whatever word you can think of, and then like different variations of it because if you typed it out, you could like put like a period in it or something like to throw the algorithm off, whatever. So we had like different variations

of every single word. It was just terrible. It was a disaster. Did we not know we could do that, Dave? Were we not aware of the capabilities? It wasn't that big of a deal. Like I would have... It was like a...

It wasn't that... We never had that... I would have been beta cuck for a while. That's true. It started as a funny thing of like me like you know leaning into it and then it got to the point where it was like okay i wrote this comment something random like we don't need the word beta cuck thrown around all the time that's why you just need to brand yourself the texas cuck i true i banned hundreds and hundreds of people and they just hell yeah finding ways back on dude that's

what i thought i was out you could even ban their IP address yeah but Dylan dude you forget they create new ones dude the internet remains undefeated dude dude my IP that's it

my IP address is anywhere I'm at cause I've got such a small bladder true wow seriously though what's up with my bladder yeah it's small what's up with my bladder? Yeah it's small What's up with my bladder?

You guys seen this? Hey head over to Patreon We did spooky season yesterday We've got We're two episodes deep Into spooky season Have to say Been two of my favorite episodes

We've ever done Having a lot of fun doing it Dave has stepped his game up This year Not that you needed to But you're going next level We've got LED lights We should get an LED sound system here.

We've got seance candles. Shit. Next week, we're actually going to try to contact the afterlife. So I wasn't a part of the discussion where you guys bought the candles for spooky season. Was there any discussion of involving me in the candle talk? Or were you guys just intentionally leaving me out? There's a guy in this room who doesn't have a mic that might have been in charge of that project i will say i did give it the green light but um well unfortunately these were not well i don't want to give away the

i don't want to give away the game but these candles are different i'm just i'm just saying like i feel like if there's candle decisions being made at the company like i should at least be aware of them. But instead, I just got an Amazon alert to my phone letting me know that our scented candle order has been placed. Those things showed up the next day. Dude, that's the thing about Amazon. That's how it goes. Did they really start it in the Amazon?

Yeah. How did he name it? Was Bezos just like, dude, I'm going to go to the Amazon? Why is it named Amazon? It was originally a bookstore, right? Yeah, just books. Cool. That's like us.

We were originally a podcast company, and the next thing you know, we're a candle, maybe other stuff company. Now you can buy, let me check, oh, literally everything on Amazon.com. So that's cool. They did the thing yesterday. Alyssa ordered something, and I get home. There's a giant, a giant box on my porch. Pick it up and it's very light.

Pop it open. A tiny, tiny, tiny box inside. I'm like, what? This is wasteful. Yes.

So then I have to go break down the larger box to get it in the recycling. Otherwise, I'm not like, I'm not calling anybody out. Maybe that I live with or anything, but you know, I'm not just putting it inside of the recycling bin so it can take up a half of it without breaking it down that's not something i would do some people might yeah like i'm not going to call out anyone that i live with because i think that would be wrong but like hypothetically

speaking if let's say a couple weeks ago i did an experiment of you know whether or not boxes would get thrown out if I wasn't the one to break them down and throw them out. And what if hypothetically I told you that a giant pile of boxes started to pile up in our home office? Dude. And what if I told you that after about two weeks of letting that go, someone who might be me had to actually go dispose of all of them? Damn, I don't mean to call out anybody I live with,

but maybe when you eat your crackers, like eat them over the tray and don't get them literally all over the living room so your dad has to clean them up. Yeah. Not to get specific. It's not about anybody in particular. Dude, like I don't live with anyone that does this, but like if I did, I'd complain that like I have this person that I live with

and they just like poop all the time and expect me to clean it up. And it's like, yo, player. Damn, don't talk about Sally like that. Figure it out. Like, what's your problem? Dude, come on. So, yeah, spooky season. Patreon.

Breaking down a box is low-key satisfying. I'm really good at it. Once you get it to the point to where it's, like, it's flattened out and you're like, oh. I did it. Well done. I'm really good at it. I'm very efficient at it and I'm very good at stacking them and carrying a large number of boxes.

It's honest work. This guy can strip carry boxes. If there's two, I know that I can't mow lawns. I know that I can't do that and I'm sorry for that. You can't mow a lawn. The two things that I'm really good at are shoveling snow and breaking down boxes. I bet you can mow a lawn. I bet I could.

Yeah, there's not much that goes into it. Part of the reason I'm glad I live in a condo instead of a house is because I don't want to deal with the maintenance. Yeah. I like having a service that comes by and just picks up all the boxes. I like not having a lawn to go take care of. Wait, so you don't have to break them down? It depends. It depends.

No one's ever said anything, but I break them down, especially if they're larger. I break down, I would say, 95%. But if it's a pizza box, I'm not going to break that shit down. Sometimes I'll just rip the box up like an absolute animal savage. Damn. Who doesn't care. You should make the pledges eat it. No, those guys are fucked.

I'm done with them, dude. Goats. I blocked their numbers. Did you just say, fuck me? Is that your lead-in before you beat the shit out of somebody in the basement? Not my lead in, but I heard that no less than 500 times while I was pledging. What was your lead in? I didn't have one.

I didn't haze, man. You just walked up to him, you stared him in the eyes, and you're like, what? Tell me I have a fucking deal. Ask me what my fucking deal is, huh? I just made fun of him. I did a lot of like, hey, the blank called. They want their blank back. That makes sense.

Yeah. It's kind of like how you just treat everyone when you walk into the office every day. Yeah. Patreon.com slash circlingbackpodcast. You get spooky season. You get one voicemail episode per week. There's some chatter out there about us doing a one-off episode soon. More on that in the next few days.

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My earbud falling out of my ear ratio since switching to Raycons has gone down considerably. They're just not falling out anymore. No, and they give you the multiple sizes on the little rubber cap. Yeah. If you have any regular ear hole shape or size. I have two different ears. A lot of people don't realize that my ears are very different. Most people do have two different ears, Dave.

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buyraycon.com slash steam. That's buyraycon.com slash steam to save 15% on Raycons. Buyraycon.com slash steam. We had some major stuff happen while recording on Monday. We did? Ooh, what are we talking about? What are we talking, I are we talking i guess yeah uh global unrest actually we broke this news didn't we a little bit chinese incursion into taiwan's airspace

that also exists um stock market stonks instagram facebook and whatsapp going down that's the one you're going down down dude we talked about that five double x error we got trying to load uh the ground dude and we broke it and dude the awesome thing that came from this was just the absolute volume shooting on twitter that we got to witness from everyone that that fled to twitter for their uh distraction that i i enjoyed the um i enjoyed the exposing of people who were not frequent on Twitter, frequent posters. That was fun. There were some good ones. Did you like how the brands reacted?

The brands had a day. The brands were the worst part of it. The brands were hands down the worst part of the entire day on Twitter. It's just a dork fest when something like this happens and brands have to jump on the wave. It's just a dork fest when something like this happens and brands have to jump on the wave. Did you like tech guy Twitter hopping in and trying to explain what the problem was? Like, hey, this is probably what happened. This code got dumped here.

And then there was like overreaction. Twitter was like, Facebook isn't just down. It's deleted. It might be gone forever. The master code has been deleted. We're never going to see it. Okay. It's up a few hours later. Do you know what the chances are of us losing Instagram and Facebook forever?

It is literally zero. I don't know if it's zero. It is zero. It is going to come back, folks. Even if they lost the code, they would just write a new code. Yeah, it might take a little bit, but they'd do it. It would take a while. There was a 0.0 chance that anything was going

away zero zero and like the the the notion that there was going to be any long-term effects of this was just like crazy to me that people thought that there was actually going to be a major issue that we had to confront yeah like it had like like y2k vibes a little bit like we're gonna be fine yeah guys like this it's not that big a deal. Like, if anything, you just can't get a story off for a little bit. There were some really funny memes about it, but they got lost in the sea of just like overused, overplayed, lame ones that everyone was just volume shooting.

Dave, you were loving brand Twitter. You were just dropping a bunch of them in our group text being like, dude, this is hilarious. Look what McDonald's did. No, I was way too late. By the time I looked at my phone, I was probably at yoga or something. Not to stunt, but all the good tweets,

all the good volume shooting tweets were already done. I'm sad. I did something that I'm not proud of, but I knew that there's going gonna be one person within the wash media network who would absolutely hate what was happening and that person was john duda and i went to his feed and i went to his likes hoping that i could see a bunch of tweets that he had liked that were just ripping on it and he hadn't liked anything i was very bummed about this you know i was saying that i bet like this is like a faulty configuration change and i think i

was right because i remember we were talking before while this was going down i was saying that i bet like this is like a faulty configuration change and i think i was right because i remember we were talking before while this was going down i was like is it a networking issue um you know because uh there was a certain update which you know you had the border gateway protocol the bgp issue and it's just it was wild man dude i was thinking that same thing you know a lot about this, it turns out. Yeah. You know, even like the access cards that Facebook employees use to enter the building, they weren't working. Is that true?

I heard that. Somebody tweeted it. There's no way that's accurate. Will's pulling up photos of my son. I didn't pull. I'm not intentionally pulling up photos of your son. I'm just going to Instagram, and your son is on my feed. I was seeing if Instagram was still working. What's his at?

Fajita Baby Swag. That's good. Fajita Baby Swag. My favorite thing, so this is not on the topic, but my favorite thing about Dave and I going to the Verde game last weekend was the fact that our friend Hot Colin first met Dave through Warzone, and so he knows Dave as Fajita Boy Swag. And so when we were talking about who we can invite to the game with us, I was like, we

could get Fajita in the mix. And he was like, dude, get Fajita Boy Swag, please. And he only referred to Dave as Fajita Boy Swag. Did he call you Fajita while we were hanging out? He called me Fajita the entire day. Dude, the thing about Hot Colin is that he's hot and his name is Colin. Yeah. Yeah.

That's tight. That dude is an absolute wild card in Warzone, by the way. Dude, there's talk that he and I might be hitting the U.S. Men's National Team qualifier. Y'all need to go. If I was able to, I would go. There's talk. Can I ask a question? Is WhatsApp owned by Facebook?

It is. I didn't know that. I had some friends reach out from, I have a couple of friends that live overseas and they said that it was mayhem because so many people use WhatsApp to communicate that they just don't have each other's phone numbers. So you couldn't talk to anybody because you just don't have that saved in your phone. Yeah. Isn't that weird? It's lame. Like iMessage is not really much of a thing in a lot of places. Are we losers for using iMessage or do we need to upgrade our app game? iMessage works perfectly. Well.

I mean, it does. Yeah. Yeah. I don't like WhatsApp. WhatsApp is like, it's got like a cyber dust element to it. I mean, not that they disappear, but like it's encrypted and shit. Like you can't, you know. We have, I have a group text that's on Viber. You familiar with V, but it's encrypted and shit. I have a group

text that's on Viber. Are you familiar with Viber? I'm sure he is. David, what is Viber? It's the same thing. I don't know why we chose Viber as the place to do it, but that's what we have now. We're Viber people. You have a group chat that's on a different app.

Yes. We originally started it because one of our friends was living overseas. He is no longer living overseas, but we have not migrated the chat from Viber to anything else. We're just Viber guys now. Viber. We're thinking about switching over to Peach though. You should. Yeah.

Me and all my homies are on Peach right now. Was Peach down the other day? Peach has been down for like four years that's tough man no that's actually what brought it down if if you had the choice of having instagram or twitter go down which one are you taking instagram yeah like no questions asked i'd rather have instagram go down twitter is far and away the best social media platform all these fucking narps out there just seeing seeing facebook and

everything go down and they have to go over to twitter and get shitty tweets off a day without twitter would be nice just for me i because i look at twitter every day twitter is is where i get my news you know it's it's like a constantly breaking news source. I refuse to. With a lot of funny jokes and pictures and memes mixed in. You don't have to explain what Twitter is. I'm just saying, like, it's so great. I get my news from TikTok. Those people who do, like, the quick breakdowns

with, like, the cool where they're, like, pointing at bubbles, like, above their head, that's where I get most of my news. When I need someone to tell me, like, what China's doing doing in taiwan i'm like i need to go to the talk i gotta find out what's going on i need it in like 30 seconds i need some fun music behind it i don't even personally i don't even see our tiktoks when i go on my tiktok and i follow like 30 accounts every time i open it cat pat's the first person i see the algorithm does her well she's doing well we does her well. She's doing well. We wish her well. She's not going anywhere. If it wasn't trending on Twitter,

would you have even known that Facebook was down? No. You would have known Instagram. Here's why. Randy was at daycare. The only way I can check in on Randy at daycare is on Facebook. Don't get me started. But they post photos to Facebook.

Sounds like you already started, Dave. Go there, dude. No, it's fine. I would love to see an Instagram page. It was stories, so I didn't have to go get into Facebook. Yeah, I would not have noticed. Not on the book. Never go to the book. Have no reason to go to the book.

But the Grom, different story, of course. Add me on the group. Add D. Chivary. Check me out at DCRuff on Instagram. Add D. Carter Ruff on Twitter. No longer on Snap.

Deleted it. How many times did y'all see the MySpace Tom? Like, oh, we found out we found the guy who unplugged the servers. It's like, it's MySpace Tom? Like, oh, we found the guy who unplugged the servers. It's like it's MySpace Tom looking over his shoulder in that pic. It wasn't him, for the record.

Yeah, it turns out it wasn't anybody, right? Former Grand X employee, Matt, now works at Facebook. TFM tech guy. TFM tech guy. He explained what happened. It was actually very helpful. What did he say? I didn't see it.

Why don't you go ahead and just give us a brief recap. Yeah, let me just go ahead and pull his shit up. I'm not mistaken. He said, well, first of all, he quote tweeted a Barstool Sports article that was incorrect. He said, crazy how fast fake news spreads when Facebook is down. He says, so what actually happened, basically a change to our data center network settings incidentally removed Facebook's server addresses from the map of the internet.

So when you tried to go to Facebook.com or load the Instagram app, your phone didn't know how to find us. I didn't know the to find us. I didn't know the internet had a map. Here's what I don't like about what you're doing right

now. You're actually giving people information that is useful and that's not something we do here.

What's your problem? Why are you trying to make this into Dylan's informative news hour? I'm just trying to

tell people what happened, man. Anderson Cooper over here. Makes an appearance in the New Chappelle. Rachel Sadow over here. Mr. Sad Salad. That's a reach, but it's kind of funny.

Keep going. Cucker Tarleton. Yes, that's the one. Carlson. Dylan looks pretty put off. We should probably stop. Walter Cronfright. I feel like I got two hours of sleep.

Yeah, your boy did that thing where I woke up at 2.40, looked at my phone, was hoping it was like 6 a.m. so I could just get up because I was that awake at that time, only to realize it was 2.40, and then I laid in bed until about 4.30. I feel like I drank two bottles of wine and got two hours of sleep. That's honestly what I assume you do every night. Yeah. What? Isn't that kind of your nightly routine? You think I'm an alcoholic?

No. Two bottles of wine is not alcoholic. Every night? You're probably splitting it with your son. Dude, it's good for your heart health. I didn't have any alcohol last night, and I got plenty of sleep, and I feel like shit. Maybe you should have drank more.

Maybe I should have. I did get a text from parks and he said uh i think daddy dad's gone off that delta three is that what he said it's a say i was like i don't know if that's a thing he wasn't even with me last night how do you know his favorite varietal for wine and in the the fall time do you like that welch's grape juice yeah Yeah, he likes sparkling cider. That's what's up. Yeah. What? Can I give you guys a choose your own adventure segment? Would you guys rather have me go to the steam room,

or would you rather have me do exposure? Oh, fuck. Personally, because of the contentiousness, I would like for someone to get exposed. Well, I kind of want to pick Steamer so I can do the towel whip on Dave. Why don't we see how the expose him goes, and if we have time, you can whip me with your towel. Who's getting exposed?

Someone that works for Washed Media. Ooh, that really limits it. There are four options. I'm assuming you're not going to roast yourself here or expose yourself. I'm not going to expose myself on this podcast, just to be clear. I'm not going to expose myself. So you want me to expose somebody? Yeah.

I'm going to expose someone. You guys might know him as Brett Merriman. I have a major bone to pick with him within the office. Front Street. If you follow us on Instagram at Circling Back Pod, or if you follow Washed Media on Instagram, you'll know that Dave went and upped our snack game. If you follow us on Instagram, at Circling Back Pod, or if you follow Watch Media on Instagram, you'll know that we actually, Dave went and upped our snack game.

I did. You guys aware of this? I even brought the gift of bananas yesterday. Dave brought some bananas, some Cafe Bustelo. We kind of forced Cool Adam to eat a banana yesterday. I don't know if anybody was here for that, but I was like, take these home or have a banana. He's like, okay, I guess I'll just have one now. You also bought some protein bars. I did. Oh, did home or have a banana. He's like, okay, I guess I'll just have one now. You also bought some protein bars.

I did. Oh, did he? Oh, okay. Which are officially gone. What? We might have one left, but it's got the most protein in it. And then the final thing that Dave bought was something that I actually personally requested. Something that reminds me of my childhood.

Something I used to post up on the couch with and sit there and just dump them into my hands and shove them in my mouth. I don't know what this is about. Talking about goldfish. These are your grandma's goldfish. I'm not talking flavor blasted. Legitimate traditional flavor. I also know you guys tried to blame this on me at first. No, I didn't try to blame you.

It seemed like something you would do. So as everyone knows, these goldfish, they're served in a carton-like container. I got the big boy goldfish. Yeah. Not the little tiny one that's like three servings. Everyone knows what you're talking about. It's like the three-gallon almost. It's a cardboard cube of goldfish.

Yeah, make sure you break it down when you're done. Yeah, for sure. Thank you. So as you know, the traditional way to go about eating these goldfish is to open it up like a carton of milk. You dump some into your hand and then you eat them because that not only keeps germs away, but it protects the integrity of them because it easily folds back in and creates a seal for said goldfish. Unfortunately, after 24 hours of having goldfish in the office, I looked over at the carton and I saw that it had been savagely ripped open to the point where it was beyond return. And it wasn't just the small opening that you can pour goldfish out of.

The entire top of it was ripped open like it was just like Christmas morning. Yeah. This was someone who was desperate for goldfish. Yeah. Who hadn't had a goldfish in years are you willing to go on record and say that you did not do this because you were the first person blamed for this i i'm happy to go on record saying that i would never do such a thing i do have a a reputation of opening cereal boxes kind of uh haphazardly i just kind of how scared are you to say that word i was trying no

i was trying to think of the right word, which I think I chose a good one. But this is different because you don't reach into a box of cereal with your hand and pull the cereal out with your bare hands. Facts. So it's not really a big deal.

But Brett... Go on. I'm sorry. I was going to say, we're in a worldwide global pandemic right now. Germs are everywhere. He didn't only admit to doing this to the carton, but he said he's a reach-in guy.

He reaches in and grabs a handful. That's what he described himself as. Yes. A reach-in guy. What are you? I'm a pour-it-into-my-hand guy, like a normal of society like just who do you think within this office is the best at throwing them directly in the air and catching them in their mouth i think you're trying to bring attention to yourself here right now that i think i was

kind of hoping you were going to be cocky guy about this and say that you're the best i haven't i haven't had a goldfish in years i have not even i don't even partake in the ones that are here so i don't know i'm probably not that. I noticed you didn't get the flavor blasted ones. Because they were out. There's like a shortage. That was the last box of goldfish they had. Blast it with flavor, David. I'll blast them with flavor if you want me to. No one needs flavor blasted. It's too much.

I'll bring my meat church. It's too much, dog. Seasoning and just dump it in there and shake it up. You don't need the flavor. They're flavorful enough. They're packed with cheddar. Real cheddar even. You probably like the pizza blasted ones, you fucking freak. No, I'm a flavor blast guy. You are a little freak.

You're a freak when it comes to your goldfish. I'm not a freak. You like the pizza. I rarely eat goldfish. The only time I do is when I get some from Parks. I'm like, I'm going to have a few myself. Dude, they have explosive pizza, queso fiesta, smoke and barbecue flavor blasts. I've never seen those.

I don't want my pizza explosive. How much different can the kick it up nacho be from the queso fiesta? Just asking. One's a queso party. The other one is kick it up. I don't need this many flavors. Can we do a blind taste test? This is what this YouTuber did.

We need to do a goldfish test? This is what this YouTuber did. We need to do a goldfish challenge. Joke for four. Yeah, literally for four. Yeah, I don't know. Look, I'm going to give the guy a break because he was very excited for the goldfish. And he got a little overzealous with the opening. It doesn't affect me as in I'm not going to eat them.

Are there any left? Did y'all finish the box? No, there's still a very hearty amount left. If I've learned anything, especially as a child, it's that those boxes can last for a very long time. Well, here's what I learned. I did not buy nearly enough snacks because most of them are gone. If there's a low-sugar protein option, whether it be a Quest cookie

or just a straight-up bar of some sort, everyone will have one immediately. And then like three days later, they're gone. Dude, I don't eat breakfast. It's not what I do. I have some coffee. I go on about my day. But if there's some low sugar protein bars in here, I'm going to eat one.

So that means I'm eating five a week. They're going to go quick. We need a low sugar protein sponsor. People treat our snacks like it's their lunch. Next time I go, I'm going to go quick. We need a low-sugar protein sponsor. People treat our snacks like it's their lunch. Next time I go, I'm going to bring Kool at them, and I'm just going to say, what do you want? Just tell them to go off for you. He says he's back with, like, fruit by the foot and gushers and shit.

Oh, no. Wow, why would you say that? Because he's in college? He doesn't give a fuck? Yeah. Why don't you let him do a supermarket sweep and just tell him he's got a minute and 30 seconds to run down the aisles so we can have Randy sprint behind him.

Dude, they always go for the turkeys first. That's because they're heavy as hell. And they're expensive. Yeah. If there's a ham there, you've got to get that spiral cut ham. What if Adam comes back with like seven full turkeys? Well, Thanksgiving come early, player. Whole squad feasting.

Might have some tiresome pods going forward, but we out here. I introduced Parks to Fruit by the Foot. Big fan. Does he roll it up all at once and then shove it in his mouth? Yeah, because I taught him how to do that. How else would you eat them? Is that better or worse than bubble tape? Six feet of bubble gum for you.

Bubble tape is trash. I've never been a bubble tape guy. What are you doing? What are you doing? Dylan, okay. You're going to try to act like you aren't a bubble tape guy. I was a big league chew guy. Yeah, okay. That's what I was going to say. I was a big league chew guy. Yeah, okay.

That's what I was going to say. He was a big league chew guy. Everyone knew that. Great flavor, big league chew, the goat gum. You were T-ball chew. Stop. Goat gum. What are your top three gummy snacks?

Gummy? Yeah, like Gushers, Fruit by the Foot. Fruit by the Foot will always be the goat to me. You can't put those in the same category as Gushers, right? I think they are. Fruits? Yeah. It's like, yeah.

Fruit by the foot, Gushers, Fruit Roll-Up. Fruit Roll-Up. Those are all the same. The shark one? What was the shark one? Shark bites. Shark bites. That's it.

Shark bites, huh? Those were always a treat. Those were always foreign to me, and when I had them, they were good. I was a big Gusher guy as a kid. Absolutely. I always bite them in half and let the ooze just kind of like fall into my mouth. That makes sense. Dude, noted intern Steve Holt at TFM was a very big fan of the Welch's fruit snacks.

I'll buy Parks Welch's. Those are bomb, by the way. The grape flavor of those for me are the goat. Okay. They're the goat of that pack, not the actual fruit snacks. I'm a Gusher's guy through and through. Gusher's are lit. Fun fact, I used to eat Funyuns quite regularly I would buy one

Parentheses, one bag of Funyuns With every lunch that I bought from the school And it's amazing that I didn't put Two and two together and not understand Why girls didn't like me at that point in my life Onions are fire I couldn't be sitting there eating Funyuns With the rest of my soccer buddies with braces just onions are fun smelling onions stink no they

don't unless they're sauteed that's such a bad take unless you're sauteing get out of my face onions add so much to the flavor profile literally anything it's nastiness no um they make me cry when i chop them no well they, that's not the thing. It just tastes gross. So you were doing big league chew in high school? Like in the dugout? No, I was a sunflower seeds guy. Really?

I would just take a massive wad and just stuff it in my mouth, and it would last me like four innings, and then I'd reload. Pickle flavored or what? Usually ranch. You ever fuck with the pickle flavor, though? Pickles are good. Yeah, I've had them. Not my fave.

One time this kid brought, we played this game before every game in where the loser would have to provide sunflower seeds for the whole team. And one time this idiot brought low-sodium sunflower seeds for everybody, and we almost just, like, kicked him off. We almost just beat the shit out of him. Low-sodium. Like, we're 17. We don't need low sodium sunflowers.

That's why I always bring a salt shaker to the dugout before a game. And you shake it like one too, player. Yeah. I just – because I'm like, dude, if some idiot brings some healthy shit like that, I'm like, dude, what do you think we're doing here? I always had a fat lip, man. Just – seed just sitting there. It was sick.

I was doing Copenhagen before when I had to pitch. Really? Yeah. Just to remind me because I'm just – Long cut. I'm forgetting. How late into your life did you play baseball? Up until freshman year.

Okay. So you were 13 years old and you were just piling long cut Copenhagen in. Yeah, horseshoe, double horseshoes even. A lot of guys on my team dipped like during games my coaches didn't say anything they didn't care well as long as they were pissing on them and hitting dingers who cares you know i've always said that that's true i'm a big dinger guy yeah we pissed on hey garrett cole could have used some last night am i right have the playoffs started the wild card game was last night oh fuck i actually i'll admit this i actually like watching the wild card game was last night. Oh, fuck. I actually, I'll admit this. I actually like watching the wild card game.

I'm a little bummed I was watching it. I mean, we'll get to it. It wasn't a good one. You had the two, like, teams that don't matter, the Yankees and the Red Sox. Yeah, the Boston Red Sox. Oh, yeah, I did see some chatter about that on the old Twitter.com. No pinstripes, huh? Boston advanced.

Spoiler. Good. They could have used DiMaggio last night. Put the ball in play, huh? He's retired, unfortunately. Not alive anymore. He died. I saw a picture of Roger Maris the other day.

He was a good-looking dude, pretty strapping. Big flat-top guy back in the day. What does that mean? He had a flat top. What do you think it means? I had a flat top in middle school. You had a frat top in college. I did.

You loved getting frat top. Yeah, you were always looking for it. Stop. What? You said it, dude. I didn't get frat top. I feel like I once almost owned a Warren Spahn rookie card. Wow, this dude almost owned a card.

I think my grandpa had it. I don't know. i don't know what happened to it i gotta find out who took that my potential warren spawn rookie card maybe you could buy it as an nft dude we got some players out there who have flat tops right now but they're approaching the age of 35 which means one thing and one thing only it might not remain up there and that's why they need to check out keeps oh my Oh my god, this guy is just the ultimate segue into Ad Read guy. I've never driven a segue or ridden on one. I think they were kind of a failed

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Dave said he was packing horseshoes. We got 50 million dudes out there putting them on their heads. It's unfortunate. Keeps offers a simple, stress-free way to keep your hair. It's convenient with virtual doctor consultations and medications delivered straight to your door every three months. You don't even have to leave your home, which is the beauty. Everything's automated these days, and I think

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Turns out they discover a lot of dinosaurs, like, all the time. There's still just new ones dropping all the time. Why now? I believe that climate change is causing erosion. I think it's always been that way. And it's making it easier to find their bones. I think it's always been that way. And they've gotten Randy Travis on board.

Oh. They've gotten quite efficient at digging up bones. Should they have had Randy Travis be the guest star in Jurassic World instead of Jimmy Buffett? Damn. Was Jimmy Buffett in Jurassic World? Was Jimmy Buffett in Jurassic World? Yes, he was. I don't remember that.

David, it's like you don't know anything. They had a Margaritaville at Jurassic World, dude. Was that the Chris Pratt one? Yeah. Oh, yeah. I only watched one of those. I saw it in theaters. They're not good.

In fact, they're bad. No, no, no, no. Oh, yeah. I only watched one of those. I saw it in theaters. They're not good. In fact, they're bad. No, no, no, no. Oh, Jurassic World is a good movie. Thank you. It is a good movie. Thank you. Well, see the Rotten Tomatoes. Yeah, because Rotten Tomatoes has it all.

Oh, they get us. That's where Dave gets his shit, huh? The newer one is not very good, though. The first one was good, like legit. Oh, absolutely. Oh, I'm sorry, Dave. Yeah, what'd you find, old Davey boy? Oh, I'm sorry.

What'd you find? Is it certified fresh? I'm sorry. Dude, is it certified fresh? I don't know how these ratings work. Is this good? Dude, the tomato meter's got a 71%. And the audience score, which is the one that actually matters, 78%.

Audience doesn't know shit. Yeah, the audience is the score. Most people have bad taste. Seems like it was pretty good. So, have you guys seen what Brunch is doing? They're pitting two movies against each other with the same tomato rating or whatever you call it on

Rotten Tomatoes. And then they're deciding which one's the better movie. That's a good idea. I like this idea. I like this. I don't know which ones they're doing first. I saw it, but I don't remember. Those guys, man. I think they were doing The Pest and Godfather 3. if I had to guess. I bet they have similar scores.

I bet they have similar scores. What Godfather do you think has the highest score? Probably 1. But 2 is – some people prefer 2. 2 is just as good. 3 stinks out loud. 3 is just one that I wish they would just remake, but they probably can't because everybody's

old or dead so i'm sorry that's just that's just facts joe pesci in any of those no he was never in any of the godfather he just sold his crib for like a lot of money love joe pesci i think he just plays golf now she's great man he's a sticky bandit. What do they call him? The wet bandit. The wet bandit. The wet bandit. They rebranded to the sticky bandits. Which one do you like more? I was always a wet bandit guy.

No, you're the guy who still calls weed sticky icky. Unless I'm smoking that kill, then I'm a sticky bandit. Only the stickiest weed for me. For inquiring minds, the dinosaur found is distantly related to the Tyrannosaurus rex. It has the body size of a chicken, though. See, I don't... Okay. I'm listening.

200 million years ago. That's when my mind breaks. It's crazy, isn't it? 200 million years ago. I don't think it was that long ago. It was. No, I think big archae ago. I think big archaeology is gassing their numbers up to sound more impressive.

Who's going to fact check them? Us? There's no one out there. We're not going to go to the archaeological dig and be like, nah. I think it's fairly easy to date something, though, isn't it? If you know what you're doing. We should show up... We should show up at a dig good come on man we should show

up at a dig in a helicopter and park it too close land it too close to the dig and then don't hear something mega cute so parks wants to be a paleontologist when he's older but he has a really hard time saying paleontologist and he just fumbles it every time and it's so cute i was trying to talk him out of it i was like dude the the career trajectory is just not there yeah they don't they don't make that much. He'll probably change his mind somewhere along the way, but for now, I'm going to let him have it. How much does a paleontologist make?

I have no idea. $180K? Dude, they make way less than I thought. That's a fairly large range. What does it say? Well, one range says between $26,000 and $110,000 per year. The other range is $84,000 to $130,000. I don't know what kind of work has to go into you becoming an archaeologist or a paleontologist,

but it seems difficult. Well, all the entry-level jobs want three to five years' experience, man. They do it for the love of the game. What paleontologists are going on Glassdoor.com and rating their job? I feel like that's just not something you need to do yeah no one's like i'm gonna go on glassdoor and see if i should work for this museum yeah why is my son so cute man it's crazy do you know what this you know what this dinosaur is called no it's called the pendrag milneray or something like that but it translates to chief dragon. I was going to say chief dragon for sure. Chief dragon.

Yeah. Here's a quiz. I'm going to chief on some dragon later. Here's a quiz, hot shot. What's the heaviest dinosaur of all time? Hevasaurus. The brontosaurus. No, the, fuck, what's it called?

Brachiosaurus? No. Brontosaurus? No. My guess would be Bront. I'm? Brachiosaurus? No. Brontosaurus? No. My guess would be Bront. I'm going Brachiosaurus. I believe that one's the longest slash tallest, but the heaviest is the Argentinosaurus.

Guess where they lived, Dave. That sounds made up. It's not. Look it up. Argentinosaurus. Big boy season. These things are mid. They're sick, sick dog They're mid

You find it? Okay It looks just like the brontosaurus Yeah let me guess This existed 300 million years ago Yeah I'm sure I don't know Probably a couple thousand years ago

You could say anything about a dinosaur And I'd be like yeah You know dragonflies lived During the dinosaur era? Isn't that crazy? What dude? The dragonfly is my favorite flying insect. They've been around millions of years.

My dad told me as a child that if I swore, dragonflies would come and sew my mouth shut. He was wrong, wasn't he? I was scared shitless. That would be weird if that's what they were designed to do. The ninth hole at the Harbor Point Golf Course, the golf course where I used to play as a child, had a very large body of water next to it.

Not very large. That was not correct. But they had a body of water on the ninth hole that you had to hit around on the dog leg. And it was the home base for a lot of dragonflies. And for a long period of my childhood, I would try not to hit it towards that body of water for fear that a dragonfly would sew my mouth shut. Yeah, that would be a problem. water for fear that a dragonfly would sew my mouth shut.

Yeah, that would be a problem. I got to say, I think dragonflies are a sign of a healthy lawn if it's moist. They like the water. So when you're watering the lawn a lot, you'll have like 100 dragonflies out there. And they're big, but they leave you alone. They don't mess with you. They're fine. They're chill.

I think, if anything, they eat the little mosquitoes and stuff, right? Probably. Hard to say. Nobody knows. No. I'm a friend of the dragonfly. That's all I and stuff, right? Probably. Hard to say. Nobody knows. No. I'm a friend of the dragonfly. That's all I'm saying. Hurts nobody.

Hurts nobody. Grossy ecosystem. What's up with the woolly mammoth? They make one yet? Dude, they need to. We do this story every three weeks. I know. We talk about the Russians and the woolly mammoth.

The permafrost. Things of that nature. You guys want the new TikTok trend? I would love it. I don't know if it's a trend as much as it is a cringy TikTok that went viral only for other people to start recreating this TikTok. And I'm talking about the surprising your boyfriend

at college TikTok. Ah, yes. You gotta stop surprising your sig at college. Have you guys seen the original video got to stop surprising your SIG at college. Have you guys seen the original video? It was brought to our attention. I saw it the day before, but I didn't think much of it. And then CatPat brought it to our attention by saying, like, this is going mega.

Yeah. It had major. This is going to be a niche reference for Bachelor Watchers only, but it reminded me of when DeMar. Oh, who's this? Correct, correct. Who's this? Damar on JoJo's season.

When the dude got surprised, he did a little slick pass of his phone over to somebody else. He was obviously hanging out with like. Yeah, but the dude was on the sticks sitting on a couch with three other girls, right? No, two girls and a guy. Okay. Well, look. Okay. counts with three other girls right it was no two girls and a guy okay well look okay it was the most

dormiest uh looking dorm ever because there was like an acoustic guitar leaned up against the wall you had like a playstation four people on a futon it was it was a bad scene he didn't know he what he didn't get busted red-handed but you know the hug was awkward he was trying to get busted red-handed later oh dude what that's it that's what his girl said when she was never mind don't ever don't ever visit somebody don't surprise them at their college i did that once it went fine that was just that was a couple years ago right what are you doing? When Sally was living in Houston, she decided to surprise me one night,

and I have to say it didn't go as she planned. I was ready to get settled in for the night, get my chill on. I was watching a movie with my roommates, and suddenly I felt a hand on my shoulder, and I was like, man, I was about to fall asleep on this couch and really just go to bed. Now I have to talk to my girlfriend. She was not impressed with my lack of enthusiasm, but I think I made up for it the rest of the weekend.

I think I was a nice guy. We'll see. Don't surprise your significant other. If you're in college right now, if you're a freshman, first of all, why are you listening to this podcast? Second of all, don't go surprise your boyfriend or girlfriend at college. Also, the relationship's going to end at some point. Yeah, also don't date someone who goes to a different college or a different school.

It's not going to work. It's most likely not going to work. If you're going to surprise them, don't do what the girl in the video did. Don't walk in with your backpack on. You don't need your embroidered L.L. Bean backpack on your back when you get absolutely pied by the dude. Also, don't have your friend filming it. No, have your friend film it.

We want to see. Well, you know, it just makes it that much more awkward. Because, you know, the guys on the couch, the guy's probably been smoking Delta 4, probably doing something like that, some drugs of some sort. And he looks up, there's the girl he's supposed to be dating, and then there's a camera. He's like, is that Dom DeLuise, this candid camera?

Will knows what I'm talking about. Kind of. I was more for it to catch a predator guy. Okay. It's different, but yeah. Kind of same scenario, though. Why don't you have a seat? It's just people surprising other people that are horny.

Same thing. That show was unreal. Didn't the host of it get in trouble for low-key being a predator? He is available on Cameo. He got in trouble for something, but I think it was like he had an affair. It wasn't like he was talking to minors or something. No, he was at a bar that he opened that had photos of him and his wife all around, and he was dancing with young ladies.

Touching their butt holes. Touching their butt.. Touching their butt. Above-close touching. Heavy petting. Ex-TV host Chris Hansen was briefly arrested on Friday after a Michigan judge issued a warrant for him not appearing in court on a sex trafficking case. Oh, this is a lot different than what you said.

Yeah. Wow. Yeah. So he was probably just a, what would the word be? He was having sex in a traffic jam. Yeah. You can't do that. It's okay.

Is it not okay? No, no. Chris Hansen, of course, not to be confused with Scott Hansen, who's a friend of the show, who also once swam in the Ganges River. Amazing. The giraffes, ran with the rhinos. If you want to hear those stories, you can. All you got to do is just get a hold of him.

Are we expecting anything less from a guy who carries an entire show alone on every Sunday afternoon without pissing? He is excellent on that show. Oh, he's definitely got his D in a bottle or a catheter. He's getting up. He's peeing at some sort. Do you want to transition this to the question we received from a backer? Do I need to explain?

Yes. We had a backer reach out to us. They said they don't have any social media, so they would like to reach out to us via text to ask a question for the listener voicemail episode. What they said was that they were down bad one day and really had to pee, and they were so far away from something

that they knew that they had to pee in their car when they were on the highway. Oh, yes. What they ended up doing was not peeing in a Gatorade bottle, not peeing somewhere that's disposable. We're not pulling over to the side of the road like I would do. Nobody does that anymore. Why?

Because you have Chris Hansen pop out and be like, what's up, dude? That's a crime crime. You don't face the traffic. You go find a bush and you get behind it. I use the door to shield you. Well, what this listener did was that he took his S bottle and he peed in the swell bottle and the question that he asked us is whether or not this swell bottle after being washed after being put through the dishwasher if that swell bottle is tainted depends on how hydrated he was the answer is absolutely yes sounds like he knew he was

tainting it even though there's no remnant of your pee still in there and it's gonna be perfectly clean just the knowledge that your pee was once there and it's going to be perfectly clean, just the knowledge that your pee was once in this bottle is enough to never go back to it again. Some people have to drink urine if they're lost in the desert, Dylan. I don't think this guy was lost in the desert. No, but I'm just saying it's not that crazy. I think he was just like 30 minutes away from an exit. It's not like he had bleach in there.

He had pee-pee. Yeah, but, okay. I'd rather bleach be in there. I brought a Peloton water bottle to the hospital when Fritz was born because I was like, you know what? I'm going to have a celebratory drink of my favorite drink that I've been currently doing. It was scotch at the time.

And I brought some scotch in this bottle, and to this day, to this day, it still smells like scotch when I drink out of that water bottle. It doesn't taste like scotch, but I can't use it during my rides anymore because I started getting nauseous just drinking that blend. Damn. Gross. This guy's got to get rid of that Swell bottle, right? You have to get rid of it.

You have to. Eh. I mean, it's... Dave, you're the germ guy, too. $20 item. What germs? $20. It's BP.

Replace it. Yeah, that's fair. Look, if you're wealthy like these guys, you can just replace your swell bottle. Then, yeah, go ahead and do it. You have the same job. I'm just saying. You're the one over there, oh, $20 for a swell bottle. I don't care.

I'll buy 100 of them. I'd pay $20 to never drink out of something my piss was in before. Yeah, I would. If that means I'm rich, then so be it. Dave, would you let your boy piss in your swell bottle? No. I only trust my own pee. Okay.

How's your hydration level been lately? Would Tom Herman be impressed? Unbelievable. Do you think about Tom Herman every time you have a clear pee? Because I do now. It's unfortunate because I fucking hate that guy. What's his obsession with clear piss, man? Dude, I respect it, honestly.

His chart was like, the more yellow it was, the bottom one was like, you're a bad guy. That's true. The top one was, you're a good teammate. Bottom, you're a bad guy. I'm not a bad guy. I'm just dehydrated, coach. It was the Longhorn football hydration chart. What did the bottom one say?

One through three are very tainted, like watered down. It says championship hydration levels. That's what I rock with all the time. Four and five levels, which are very yellow still, say selfish teammate. Six and seven, which are dark yellow and a borderline mustard color, says blatant disregard for your teammates. You are headed to Area 51. I don't know what Area 51 is, but I'm going to assume it's some type of training area on the practice field.

And then number eight, which is essentially brown. You know that piss. It's after a long night of drinking. You know how dark that piss can get. I've never had a brown urine. It just says in all caps, you are a bad guy, exclamation point, exclamation point, exclamation point, with bad and guy also underlined. You're a bad guy.

Let me say this. He's not accounting for one thing. He's not accounting for vitamin P. Ah, vitamin P. Vitamin P is a real tricky one. Like electric yellow. Yeah. And you're like, whoa. Oh, I took a multivitamin earlier. Huh? What's vitamin P. Vitamin P is a real tricky one. Electric yellow. And you're like, whoa. What's vitamin P?

P after you take vitamins. It's bomb ass P. Is there beet P? Where your P is a little tainted because you're eating beets? You don't know what we're talking about? Vitamin P? Nah. I just heard you say you had a massive shortage of it. It smells too.

It's quite potent yeah it's like yeah it's like bright bright yellow it's like neat it's like highlighter yellow almost is there anything scarier than after you eat beets and you forget that you ate beets i wouldn't know because i don't eat beets please it's great for your oxygen levels in your blood i don't care. Actually, save me at Elevation, too. Elevation. Shout out to Beat Elite for the samples. I wonder if Jay's still working there. You're a big Beat Elite guy. The Elite Beat.

You get it, Dave? I like Beats. I actually had Sweet Green for the first time since I got food poisoning from it. Okay, Dwight. You guys see this show? Shut up. Beat Elite sounds like a Petey Pablo song. Beat Elite.

Beat Elite. I'm in. I'm in. I've had a real hankering for us to record a rap track lately. Huh? Wouldn't it be really funny if we just did a rap song, but we actually put a lot of effort into it, and we actually sounded good? No. That would be cringe, and it would be bad. After Dude be perfect did it we can't top that so why would we

even try i think we should try there's nothing because dave has actual bars there's nothing you can do to make me even think about participating wow okay okay you're gonna drop the bag i'll handle the melody you know i can you're gonna be like the old chain smoker who's just wondering why he quit at the wrong time dylan can give me all of his swell bottles and it's not gonna change my mind. Dude, you're going to get left behind when Dylan and I are just like popping bottles with Drake in the club and stuff.

We're going to go to do a live stream Thursday and instead of all the muscle milk that Dylan has in that cabinet, it's just going to be swell bottles. Full of muscle milk, ironically. My milk. That hand sanitizer. How about it?

I don't know what to do with it. I still have a bunch, man. Can you run your car off of it? Why don't you start drinking it? I don't know if I'd do that. Get twisted on it. Sounds deadly. Can we do this weekend in fun presented by Vizzy Hard Seltzer?

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I think we're legally obligated to say super fruit, which then opens us up to Dylan singing every single time. Will, I don't blame you at all. Is that soap afro? You're doing your job over here. Soap afro? It never hurts. It's like super freak.

Yeah, we get it. Yeah, we've heard you do it every week. Super freaky, super fruity. Yeah, and as someone who absolutely hates that era of music, it just makes my ears bleed. I need to dig in on that, maybe drill in on that too. Dude, you have no culture. No, I just, for some reason, I can't get down with the super freak.

Okay. More of a freak elite guy. Yep. If I'm choosing between super freak and Petey Pablo, I'm choosing Petey Pablo every single time. What about super fruit? I'm choosing super Fruit every single time. There it is.

Because it's the choice that makes everything a little bit easier and more delicious, too. Not to jump the gun on my weekend and fun, but I will be having Vizzy on the golf course this weekend. You'd be an idiot not to, David. Are you going to bring your own reserve, just in case? I'm going to bring my secret stash. It's weird, because I got this new phone because... It's with the high school guys. Mostly because I wasn't getting texts from you.

And still, still it's not coming through. You would have zero fun on this trip because it's four rounds of golf. Huh. And the guys are... You would be disgusted with my friends. Yeah, but he could take a really cool nap. I'll teach you how to nap.

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this weekend, which is going to ACL. Tell us why you're not going to ACL, Dylan. This is why I'm not going to ACL. So, Bae acquired some tickets for work. She takes clients to do certain things around town for fun. ACL was the plan for this weekend. She was going to take me and another couple of our clients, and she acquired the wristbands, three-day wristband.

Great, ready to go. She pulls them out earlier this week. Guess what? They were Weekend 1 wristbands. Weekend 1 has come and gone. It is in the past. So we are without wristbands currently. So sadly, I'm not going to ACL.

Double sadly. Double sadly. She's going to eat the cost of those wristbands. You're going to make her eat the wristbands? Yeah. Is she a pledge? That would be a wasteful activity. Do you think you can find a time machine?

My weekend is wide open. I don't have parks Friday, Saturday, or Sunday, which is kind of sad, but I am open. I'm available. Here's a question. Does Lifetime have a hot tub? Oh, yeah. You should get in and see if it's also a time machine to see if you guys can go back,

and then you could go to ACL Weekend 1. You need a time turner. Okay, and let's proceed under the assumption that I don't have access to a time machine. A hot tub time machine. Or a hot tub time machine. Good movie, by the way. Travel back in theaters. Saw it in time, but make sure you don't see yourself because that can mess things up.

Texas OU is this weekend, of course. Spider-Man meme. Randy knows what's up. 11 o'clock on Saturday. yourself because that can mess things up. Texas OU is this weekend, of course. Spider-Man meme. Randy knows what's up. 11 o'clock on Saturday. For whatever reason, Parks' games are always scheduled right in the middle of Texas' games, so I have to maybe pause.

Is it because Texas is getting the absolute shaft on the time for games? The Texas OU game is always either 11 a.m. or 2.30 kick. What about the other three games surrounding that game that are also 11 o'clock kicks? Wow. Horns down, huh?

Okay. Well, I don't know what to expect in this game, which I'm really kind of excited for. So you have no expectations? That's probably the best way to go in. It really is. If Texas wins, I'll be very pleasantly surprised. If they don't, I'm like, eh.

Expect the unexpected. That's all I'm saying. Much like I'm undefeated at the Q2 stadium, I'm also undefeated at the Cotton Bowl. Can you go, please? I've never lost a game. Please go. You've only been to one, right? I'm 1-0.

There you go, batting 1,000. Still saying facts. 100%. I wonder what that menu looks like this year at the State Fair. Ooh, I bet corn dogs. Of course. looks like this year at the state fair oh i bet corn dogs of course probably like a fried oreo cookie shake on top of a fried bagel or something i had a fried pb and j there it was delish god damn i love the fair fried butter i had fried butter once it was good it was kind of good

yeah probably not good for you i did a fried chocolate bar. They have fried Coke, as in Coca-Cola, not like cocaine. Does that just get stuck in your sinuses, Dylan? You got to do a neti pot afterward? Got this fried Coke up here. Dude's just walking into bars with a bunch of chicken tender paraphernalia falling out of his nose like an idiot. It must be tough transporting fried kilos. Have you ever tried

snorting an onion ring? It's hard. I haven't. No. Anyway, that concludes my weekend in fun. It'll be wide open, folks.

I'm actually, what I'm going to do this weekend, I'm going to watch the Steve-O video where he snorts wasabi in Japan. Japan.

Don't do that, David. I'm actually going to Frankston, Texas, a little bit south of Tyler, East Texas. Small town. Going to a little golf course out there called Pine Dunes. And I'll be playing in a golf tourney with the boys. So four rounds, three of which are tournament, one of which is practice with heavy gambling.

Sounds pretty fun. Big boy stacks? Big boy stacks. Dude, are you aware that i've never won this tournament this is a small place david it's very there's not shit around it you don't leave the place population 1229 people in frankston texas how far does that drive i've never heard of this place it's south of tyler about oh i think it's like he's almost three hours from here, yeah. Not much growth in the population there since 1920. Yeah, and, you know, driving out there, you'll probably figure out why.

There's really not a lot going on. Just kind of East Texas. Shout out. Shout out to the Pines. Is it a nice place? The course is fantastic. Really? Yeah, it's good.

They're trying to add, like, really nice, like, homes on there and, like, it's good. They're trying to add really nice homes on there and sell memberships. We stay in these—they're basically like trailers that have running water and electricity. They're not bad when you're in there, but they're— Glamping. Yes, basically. Dave is glamping this weekend. I'm basically glamping and golfing. This sounds—

Golfing. Honestly, this sounds a lot of fun. Are you going to pay tribute to Frank Beard, the drummer of ZZ Top, who was born in Frankston, Texas? Is that true? I didn't know that. That's a fun fact. I hope you dress correctly for the humid subtropical climate

that Frankston's known for. Yeah. It is humid. Very subtropical. I've said that often. I see about getting this Wilder Fury fight on the phone, but I don't know what the connections are going to be out there. You've got to think Frankston's not wired for that kind of –

What's the fight going to be on? They're on 2G. What's the fight going to be on? Probably Showtime pay-per-view. Okay. That sounds lit, dude. Sally really wants to go to this fight. Dude, if you have a chance to go, go.

I've never been to go to this fight. Dude, if you have a chance to go, go. I've never been to a heavyweight fight. All she wants to do is go and just try to hope to see the Love Island crew that's going to be there supporting Tyson. They will be there. No doubt about that. Oh, they're there. What do you got, Will? It's a big weekend for your boy.

Tomorrow night I might be going to the U.S. Men's National Team game against Jamaica. Is this a big game? Is this a qualifier? It's a World Cup qualifier and it's a team that has underachieved as of late in terms of their performance during the World Cup qualifiers. It is an important game. How's the squad look this year, man? Couldn't tell you. I don't know shit

about U.S. Men's National Team. You went to a game recently. Yeah, I didn't know who anybody was, man. That's not good. I don't really follow it that hard. What about the hot shot kid? Pulisic? Yeah. He's injured right now, so he's not going to be... Son of a gun. I also think the other best player, Weston McKinney, I think he's also injured

at the time, so it's going to be tough. Freaking hell. Friday, if any backers, and this is an actual thing that I'm going to say right now. If any backers are going to the Widespread Panic concert at ACL Moody Theater on Friday night, and you're trying to catch a beer around the premises,

holler at your boy in the DMs, because I'm going solo. So I do have a seated ticket, which means that I'm not going to be hanging out in the pit. I'm not going to be loving anyone in the pit, David. But I will be there, and I will be looking to have a couple beers. So if you're going to go to that concert, please hit me up.

I'm looking for a friend group for the night. I'm old. I'm going to concerts alone. Damn. And then Saturday, no plans. I had trouble locking down a babysitter, so I'm officially not going to a tiki restaurant that I was supposed to be going to with Micah. And instead, I'm going to be watching the Fury Wilder fight from the crib.

Who knows? Maybe I might try to recruit some people to come over. I might have a couple pops with the boys. Okay. Can you come in? Do you need my phone number? I think I have your phone number. Okay.

I think I have it. My phone is working. It's charged up. I have full bars. So, yeah, I'll be looking. It is an international break, as you know, because the U.S. men's national team is playing, which means there's no club football this weekend,

which means that my schedule is more open than it's been all fall. So anything's on the table. Holler at a player and see him in the streets, man. Maybe. Perhaps. You guys ready for a new segment? You going to break some news? It's called Will's Breaking News.

Is this just like Brett's Breaking News, but it's Will? Yeah, it's just me. And instead of breaking actual news, I'm just going to talk about myself. My bones are still broken from Brett's bone breaking news. He came a little hard yesterday, man. Oh. Ew. I know.

I wasn't expecting it. That Saratoga story was spooky. It was bone breaking. Do you guys want to do a little choose-your-own-adventure? Who usually gets to choose the adventure part of this? Let's let Dave lead off, man. All right, Dave, we have try something new. Meat forecast or clothing news?

I'd love the meat forecast. Well, I got to say, the meat forecast is not looking good for your boy. I'm looking for any reason at all to start a pot roast, and the temperature this Sunday is not even getting close to under 70 degrees, which means that the meat forecast is not good. No pot roast for your boy, Dave. We'll get a little front

blowing through in about a week from now. About a week. For those wondering, I'm going to freeze the pearl onions that I have. I'm going to leave them in the freezer until it is officially pot roast season, but it's not this weekend. You hear what I'm doing with bananas? You're freezing them. Yeah.

You're also peeling them before you freeze them. It's wild. Do you guys want some clothing news or trying something new? Clothing news. No, sir. Sir. Clothing news. Who gets to pick?

Clothing news. You want clothing news? Yeah. I think I'm going to buy a shacket this weekend. Oh, let's fucking go. Yeah. That's your news. Let's fucking go. Yeah.

Yeah. I have some feelers out there, and I think it might be the time when I upgrade my shacket. Have you put eyes on it yet? Do you know a brand? No. Don't tell him any of this because he's going to get it. No, no, no. Yeah.

If you think I'm going to give you my shacket intel, you're crazy. Look, I'm just happy you're getting in the game. He's the shacket cuck. What? How many original shacket guys? Dude, Klein might have an argument that he is you're not the osg klein was nice enough to send us a shacket and it was just way too huge on the west for life you need to put shacket in your in your twitter name the original shacketeer shacket guy shackadelic shack we can do this all day god i can't wait for shacket weather yeah I have a couple things that you could consider to be shackets,

but I think I'm finally going to upgrade and get a certified, tried and true, true blood shacket. Let me upgrade. What if you ate a shakaroni from Papa John's while wearing a shacket? I could do that. Is that a real thing? And also, for those wondering, just to be crystal clear, for those wondering, a shacket is a shirt that's also a jacket.

Yeah, it's like you could wear it as a shirt, but also kind of as a jacket. Kind of like cool weather, in between shirt and jacket weather, you kind of wear a shacket. You cover all your bases there. Do you get it, David? What? I'm excited for you. Thank you. I'll be putting it on the TLl once it's once it's acquired i cannot

wait you guys want the final news trying something new i tried something new oh you ever heard this delta 8 stuff uh-huh dude i don't know who the hardos out there are that are like oh it's not weed dude that shit is potent you guys gotta be careful that shit was. Dude, be careful out there if you're a Delta 8 person. A lot of people in Texas are on this wave right now, and I got to say, it's a tough wave to be on. So it's just straight up legal? I don't know. Is it legal, Dave?

What's the deal? They were able to because of the way the laws were written. They were able to be legal. Just be careful out there if you're trying it. And that's our Will's breaking news. How did you consume it? He vaped it. trying it. And that's our Will's breaking news. How did you consume it? He vaped it. Take it.

Dude, I snorted an onion ring that was laced with it. That's weird. Yeah. He had some fried Coke. I'm trying to find the stickiest Delta 8 in Austin right now. So if y'all have a lead on some. I think you can just go online and order it. Yeah, you can probably get it at a gas station, honestly.

Can you sort from stickiest to less sticky what's the opposite of sticky i don't know hey you know stop lights they go like up and down what's the order that it goes up and down green is always on the bottom or the right okay i was just quizzing you because i noticed the other day when I saw one that was horizontal, that red was the first one, red, yellow, green. And I was like, man, I would have assumed green was the first one. Then I was like, you know, I was like, I wonder if Dylan's even colorblind or if he's just trying to get like the sympathy vote.

As a colorblind guy, it's helpful to know that. You read from left to right. Most do. Some do, at least in this country. And so you would want red to be first. Oh, because stopping is more important than going? No, so that way it can be red. Oh, okay.

Oh, I get what you're doing. That's a lot of mental stuff. And at that, he just puts his mic... He walked off. He walked off set. I think it's time to leave. Guys, it's been fun. If you want voicemails tomorrow, patreon.com slash circlingbackpodcast.

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