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Episode Date: June 22, 2020

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all right we're back circling back podcast coming to you live from the lodge my name is will defreeze to my right david ruff i'm feeling saucy today you you walked in feeling a little dangerous today yeah we had some issues early on, mainly me. I had issues as I texted the group about it. We won't talk about those. Yeah, we don't need to get into that. But I've got three times the caffeine here entering my system. That's big.

Yeah. Imagine having just like a single caffeine in a can. Dave, slam it into the trash can like old times, dude. I'm going to recycle it. Oh, okay. Reduce, reuse, recycle. It's big of you. You don't even recycle.

You told me that you don't even have a bin. That's not true. I recycle. And don't put that in people's ears, man. Dylan Chivary, do you not recycle? I recycle. Set the record straight. I absolutely do recycle.

I do my part. Well, I could probably do more, but I do some. Anyway, I'm glad to be here too it's gonna be a good week all right man gonna be a good week cool that's very sick speaking of very sick kovac's back pretty stoked on that meme by the way yeah what the dude my dog is sick or whatever that whole thing i don't know where it's coming from. It just makes me laugh every time I see one. Dude, I stan healthy dogs. Sure. Yeah.

Well, I stan sick ones too. Yeah, same. I'm sorry. That's true. You know what I'm talking about, right? Not really, no. You haven't seen the thing where people are like, dude, I had to take my dog to the vet because he is fucking sick.

It's like a video of the dog flipping a stick on accident and catching it. Wearing sunglasses or something yeah was i unintentionally doing that meme when i did my sick tweet the other day about the cool teens on their bmx bikes you did let me say dude you were ground floor you didn't even know it i was growing up sick were you patient zero meme i might have i might have yeah yeah chanel and i were driving to get some uh some dinner the other night we saw these kids on these bmx bikes and usually those are kids that i stay away from because they're going to beat me up. But I looked over, and I was like, oh, these kids are just circling the Raising Cane's parking lot, and they got masks on.

Like, they don't even need to have them on. These kids are sick. That's pretty sick. Yeah, love that. But also healthy. Right. Yeah, it was very chill of them. I don't know why they chose the Raising Cane's parking lot.

Maybe because it's, like, a busy intersection, and they just wanted to get seen, but was very chill of them. I don't know why they chose the Raising Cane's parking lot. Maybe because it's like a busy intersection and they just wanted to get seen. But kind of a swag move. Maybe they just like average chicken strips. Oh, come on. Are they average? They're good, man. Are they average? I don't know if they're average.

I like them. Randy might have to hop in and adjust that camera. I'm really limited on my boisterous reactions. I'm sorry. Randy's all over it. I'm getting smoked here. I know. When we originally set up the studio, I was like, dude, Randy, are you accounting for Dave's boisterousness?

I was trying to do this one. Might make for a funny clip, though. Yeah, Saturdays are for the boisterous. I was trying to do the Ross panda, kung fu panda. You remember that? Fine. Oh, yeah. i think it's been scrubbed from the internet at this yeah it probably has but it was it was one of it was amazing more on that later i still haven't seen kung fu panda it's a top 10 movie of all time per ross per ross which honestly like i haven't seen it either but i'm not gonna'm not going to fault him for having that take.

No, I can't contest the take until I've seen it. I could see how someone would think, even though I know nothing about the movie other than what the characters look like, you put that in your top ten,

I'm fine with it. I mean, you know, have you shown the homies Zootopia yet? I think we've watched Zootopia. Yeah. Because, like, I mean, people just love zootopia for its messaging if it's recent and it's you know pixar we we've probably seen it yep yeah yep yeah i mean

it's got some underlying social issues in that movie that you just want the kids to see you know yeah we did scoob recently that was tight not sure what scuba is scooby scooby doo it's a new new movie just released anyway scoop that's a that's a good uh shaggy isn't it yeah it's shaggy dylan did you see it yeah what were you doing that's actually our next stream room we're doing kids movies only now scoob we're doing scoob next scoop we're doing scoop next no we are doing days confused tomorrow where can we watch that uh right now i think we have to rent it okay yep sorry everybody you can watch it i believe you can watch it uh with ads on youtube for free so if you really want to skimp really and i respect that you can do that apparently

uh but yeah right now i don't think there's a great streaming option for this. I think we need to be better about that moving forward, choosing something on Netflix or Hulu or something. Next week, can I make a proclamation? Do it. Next week will be one that's available to more. Okay. Okay.

But you should, I mean, honestly, you should own this movie on DVD. It's true. Or VHS. Or VHS. Or VHS. Real quick, before people start throwing wild theories around on the internets, Brett isn't here because of the COVID situation. Yes. We're keeping a limited number in the studio.

Cases in Austin are, it's not even wave two. We plateaued, and now it's just sky high again. So we're just doing our thing. Yeah, Travis County not looking good. Dallas County, Houston, none of them are looking good. So, yeah. We were just trying to keep numbers down in the studio. But, yeah, don't get on Reddit and be like, dude,

did they ax Brett because of his Yellowstone take? No. If anything, I stand Brett for his Yellowstone take. I wish he would have doubled down on it, calling it small again. Yeah, that was a... Wow. A small to mid-sized national park.

Yeah. I think that's fair. So, yeah. The invisible enemy apparently is resurging. Yeah. I don't know how to feel

about it at this point. I mean, I'm just trying to avoid everything at all costs again. I'm going to look in getting us a company test, whether it's the antibodies, there's, there's some way to do it. Yeah. That would just give us a little bit of peace of mind. Like I trust everybody. I mean, we're all on a group text and we're all pretty, uh but like um i noticed that the other companies in this office building most of them are wearing masks like when they're walking about i did just encounter a guy who had one around his neck while we were and he came up and used

the urinal next to me and i was just like hey read the read the bathroom. Yeah. Look around, dude. Read it, bro. Sorry about that. You know, Parks is still coming to the studio with us. Shouts. Because his summer schools are closed. He's cold. So I went and found like an XL Bird Dog t-shirt out there. He's wearing it like a dress.

So it's covering him up. Very sick. It's very sick. That is cool, cool. Yeah, he's tight. He's tight. Anyway, sorry. it's okay talking covid yep right you missed out on the meat of it so just no that's yeah that's fine we don't we don't have to go back yeah we're just taking extreme precautions because we kind of want to live our lives after this so yeah we're doing our part we're trying we're trying we're doing we can and at the end of the day if we don't need to have

people in the office we don't need then they can the end of the day, if we don't need to have people in the office that we don't need, then they can stay home for the day. Because we want to be sick. We don't want to be sick. Exactly. Maybe I'll stay home Wednesday. Wow. Brett can fill in.

I think you should. Okay. Sit your ass at home, dude. I will. I'll develop business instead of Brett. We'll see what happens. How about that? What if I just...

Dude, are we about to go public on Wednesday? I locked down. Yeah, we IPO next week. Whoa, man. We stayed home one day. Really went off. Oh, that'd be funny. I would love to see our subreddit if we IPO'd.

It would be the most entertaining day on there with just bits going off and stuff like that. Just seeing what people are buying off. It would be fun. They would have a lot of fun with it. Let's just do it. That sounds really stressful. IPO? Yeah, we're not there yet.

Yeti thought they were there, and then they weren't. Did they botch it? I think they canceled it. This is all from like a year or two ago. Things you hate to see. I guess they missed the boat on it. I don't know. is i this is all from like a year or two ago things you hate to see but like that i mean if you i don't i guess they they missed the boat on it i don't know but i guess that's what happens when you have a 300 field chair i was trying to think of like a miss the boat yeti kind of

collaboration joke there and i just nothing came up i'm just still imagining the coffin cooler with like just a human laying in it just still imagining the coffin cooler with like just a human laying in it just chilling there yeah the undertaker just pops out of his yeti coffin cooler if we if we still worked for a company that had a website based around fraternity humor i think we would definitely have to get a yeti coffin like cooler and then make somebody rise out of it i mean we can make that happen anyway. That'd be sick. Should we have Randy do it?

Would it be sick or sick? Off-mic laughter from Randy. Some other announcements. Happy Hour Live, Wednesday. Send in your dinners. I don't know how we're going to beat last week's dinners. No, we're not. Dude, every week the bar just goes up.

But this last week was notably, like the bar was noticeably higher. Yeah. You know we have a guest. Sports locked in, Sinners. No, we're not. Dude, every week the bar just goes up. But this last week was notably, like the bar was noticeably higher. Yeah. You know we have a guest sports locked in per him for Wednesday who will be rating these meals with us. Who is it? It's Ross. Oh, Ross. I'll believe it when I see it. I agree, but

more on this, but I think I increased the likelihood of it happening by twitching with him yesterday. How did you twitch yesterday, by the way? I was on his twitch. Oh, okay. It was me, Ross, and Jared. Okay.

More on that later. I was going to say, like, I don't know how you don't, like, I was like, how is Dave twitching right now? I just, I'm just not twitching for us, but just when Ross twitched. Yeah, I was like, what the hell, dude? No. Did y'all catch a dub? No. We're going to talk about it, Dylan.

Oh, okay. We had some issues yesterday. Okay. Jay Bone is... Is he the weak link? He never ceases to amaze. Is he a liability out there? He is.

He is the worst kind of liability, and I'll explain. I don't want to jump into it yet. I can't wait for this, actually. I'm going to let Will steer the ship and steal the ship. Steer away. And as we said, stream room tomorrow. We're doing Dazed and Confused on patreon.com slash circlingbackpodcast. We'll be talking all things Dazed and Confused.

I think tomorrow's going to be good, given your Austin history and everything. I'm feeling pretty solid about this. Yeah, I have a few tidbits to add. I hope you have some anecdotes, because if you don't, then what the fuck are we paying you for? You better be reading in-depth articles about this. Yeah, I have a few tidbits to add. I hope you have some anecdotes because if you don't, then what the fuck are we paying you for? You better be reading like in-depth articles about this so you come off as the guy.

Like I said, a lot of it was filmed in my old neighborhood, which is tight. So here's the deal. So I'm going to just gas up J.R. Hickey. He has a BroBible podcast called Oh Yeah.

He has like inside info on every episode he does. So if you can't even match that dylan i don't know what you've been doing call me a little last down okay i'm not gonna calm down i'm calm like a bomb i'll bring some heat i'll just sit back and i came strapped with american pie stuff because it was set in michigan if you don't do this i'm gonna be mad and enjoy the ride that's all i'm gonna say what's the name of your ride what i have to say will amaze you it's called the uh i don't know the tilt adorn you're doing like a tilted kilt thing there no the tilt world is a common carnival ride

amusement park not even aware of that i'm sure you never even went to an amusement park as a child i feel like tilt would have been the better will would have been better you're right um I didn't go to the scary rides because you're all scary ass because I'm I'm afraid of heights man I don't do I don't do roller coasters and shit like that I was never afraid of heights I was more afraid of height this oh yeah good point it's always more scary yeah I love heights but I don't like heights I didn't used to like heights and I used to not like roller coasters, but now the only roller coaster I won't ride is the ones that drop you,

where you just go straight down. I'll do any of the ones that you're on a track and you're cruising. What about the slingshot one? No. That just fires you about 400 feet. I don't trust that one. Dude, get out of here. I've never seen one go wrong.

I'm sure there are videos out there, but I'm not going to watch them. But if I was the one that went wrong and all of a sudden I'm flying through the air, no. So I've always had this thought because this is where my mind goes when I'm watching those. There's basically two ways this could go wrong. So if both straps break and you just go launching. Yes. Or if just one does and it creates like a whip around and then you just smoke the ground. You just like smack your brains against the pavement.

And that would be worse because the one where you're launching, at least you have like 30 seconds of just sick free fall. You know it's going to end, but you're just like, dude, I'm catching sick air. There's one at the State Fair Texas. And you can see if you're sitting on the Texas side of the Cotton Bowl, you can see it's over, like, beyond the OU side. So, like, when you're watching the game, if you look up, you can see people doing it all day long. It's kind of tight. But every time it's just so distracting.

I'm like, I'm one of these people. Like, someone's going to die. I'm going to sit here and watch it. Six flags over Texas in Arlington, Dylan. They had the one where they just pull you. It's not even a ride. You have to just go pay for it. They just put you in like a – they strap you in, and you're on a bungee cord,

and then they just pull you back, and you just zoom across like 30 feet in the air over the park. And that one always made me nervous. And I was like kind of a thrill seeker when I was a kid, not to brag. The one thing – another one I won't do is the pirate ship. The pirate ship freaks me out still and i think it's because when you're on a actual roller coaster and you're doing stuff like you'll do something and then you'll forget about it two seconds later because you have something else you're about to encounter when you're on a pirate ship though and you're just going back and forth

it's like oh here we go again and it just it's for some reason more nauseating to me than just a regular roller coaster. Scared of the booty, are yous? Oh. Urr. That was good. Urr. Pirate Dave is really, really good. Yeah, Pirate Dave has legs. The headless parrot hoping for business.

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This is a buy that you won't forget. Sorry, it's a buy you won't regret or forget. You won't forget it because you're going to be like, man, how could I forget this dope-ass purchase? Exactly. Can we talk about what we did this weekend in fun? I think we probably should. I mean, it was Father's Day yesterday.

It was a very special weekend for your boy, being a father. Yeah, we played golf Friday, so we'll start there. Everyone minus you. Brett was there. Intern Klein was there. I played terribly, but I had an awesome time. You guys didn't do any content out there, which I was kind of expecting you to do some content around it.

Were there any controversies between the squad regarding some rules in Wolf or anything like that? It was just fun, man. It was just clean Wolf, a lot of pushes because there was like a streak of five or six holes with carryovers just because nobody went out there and took it. Yeah, yeah. Just a fun time.

I had a pretty sick meltdown. It wouldn't be a nice Friday round of golf without one meltdown i i didn't we were okay the wolf game was so and not intense but like good and not one person was you know there was not a runaway and everybody was kind of in the ballpark and uh i didn't realize I had a decent round going. And I went into 18 and tripled it. Oh, nice. To shoot 83. Nice. Oh.

Love that. Triple to shoot 83 is not great. Love that. Yeah. That's a kick in the D. Or it might have been 82. Klein had me at 83. I had myself at 82.

Either way. It was an 82. It wouldn't have mattered. It was an 82. You wouldn't lie. I had you at 84. Klein definitely adds strokes once in a while. You had me at 84?

I had you at 84, yeah. What Klein shoot? He shot like 82 or 81. Oh, that's. I had you at 84. Kline definitely adds strokes once in a while. You had me at 84? I had you at 84, yeah. What Kline? He shot like 82 or 81. Oh, that's why I had you at 83. Yeah, you know what? That's why I had you at 83. That's all kind of making sense. No, I keep score fun.

But I absolutely was not aware. I knew I was playing okay. I was thinking mid-80s. I didn't think it was going to be anything cool. And then I wiped my drive into the shit. I was graphic. I wiped it into the water and and then i was like oh yeah it's just it was bad and klein's like oh yeah man you had a good round going yeah i guess i did can we explain the situation of golf the other day like how this all

panned out you got and why you weren't there dude yeah i kind of got like i bumped myself eventually but i kind of got bumped from the beginning. Like, Klein did something, and I actually respect what he did, but I feel like we could have probably handled it better in hindsight. But as you know, hindsight is 20-20. But yeah, Klein – we wanted to play with five, and for some reason I was the odd man out. And so Klein booked me a tee time before the four-man tee time. And then when I called to be like, hey, can we just combine these tee times and make it a five-some instead? Which I think normally they'd let you do,

but I think COVID and maybe concerns or whatever, they're just being a little weirder. And he's like, yeah, there's a tee time between your tee time and the other tee time you're referencing. And it shows that you have a tee time for two people. And I was like, yeah, none of this is... Yeah, that isn't at all. I was like, none of this is going well right now.

And I was like, you know what? Let's just make this easy. Let's just cancel the tee time. And then I didn't tell you guys that I canceled it immediately because I didn't want to get the flack for canceling it so soon. But I was just like, at this point, I think I'm just going to bow out and make this easy on everybody. And there were offers out there like, oh, I'll go play in a two-some behind you.

Eh. Once you call about doing a five-some, you've got a target on your back. I would love to say we missed you, but honestly, we probably had more fun without you there. Nah, that's impossible. Nah, that's not true. That's impossible. But we did have fun. Were you the last one to commit to playing, and is that why you got designated as the...

To be honest, I'm not really sure. I honestly don't. I could have gone back and looked, but I was like, I don't really want to make that big of a thing of it. I thought about coming up with a really annoying project for Brett and just being like, hey, dude, you got to sit that out, and I'm going to hop in. But then I was like, no, you can't just be the dick that does that.

Hey, we need you to make 100 cold calls today. Yeah. Like, here, dude, here's a random spreadsheet. Can you just put some stats in there? I lost about $60 worth of golf balls. Was Dylan doing the pouty thing? No, not as bad. I mean, he did berate himself,

but not... I think he had no expectations because he hasn't played in a couple of years. I was in great spirits the whole day if I'm being totally honest. Yeah, he was. I rode in a cart with you, right? Yeah, we had a good time. We were cracking jokes. Yeah, it was... Dylan was surprisingly tolerable. What did he call himself when he was berating himself? You can't repeat it here. Okay.

Way to go, Dylan, you stupid dick. You called yourself a butt munch after putting a drive out of bounds one time. No, I didn't. Yes, you did. I swear you called yourself that. Oh, it never comes up a butt munch, Will. You called yourself something that a little kid would say, and I was like, why did Dylan's angry brain default to this G-rated...

I haven't said butt munch in 30 years. You called yourself one. No, I did not. So that was my Friday. years you called yourself one no I did not um so that was my Friday Saturday we went to my my dad's new house uh Haley and Haley's my sister and Kendall my brother-in-law we went there and we had steaks and and some wine and and it was fun good time what kind of steaks uh fillets wow they're primo they're very good your Your boy grilled them. No big deal. You grilled them?

Dave, come on, man. Okay. Come on. Sunday, which was Father's Day, of course, just hung out with my main man all day. So it was a perfect Sunday. Our neighborhood swimming pool was finally open. So we got a little swim off, Dave. A little swim off.

It was fantastic. Wow. And that was it. It was fantastic. Wow. And that was it. It was a great, great weekend. Dylan tried to order champagne from the cart girl on Friday. That's not true. I had a joke go completely. It wasn't even a joke.

I knew that she didn't have Vizzy, and I asked if she did. I like putting it out there so it's in someone's mind. Yeah, she's like, hey, a lot of people have been asking for Vizzy lately. She didn't even give it the time of day. I think she thought

I was making like some other joke over her head. Like, I don't think she even Dave, no offense. This isn't this isn't knocking you at all, but this is just kind of the cold hard facts.

A lot of the jokes that you make to cart girls go directly over their heads. It wasn't even but like Dave's trying to get niche bits off to like 19 year old cart girls.

And they're like, what? Okay, look. Look, Vizzy is paying us money. They're sitting there like the homie watching the computer screen. Like, who is this guy? Vizzy. He's like, no, we don't have that. This is a compliment to your humor.

Maybe you should get it. Yeah. Maybe you should put in the request, Run it up the ladder, you know? Did you clarify that you wanted Blue Palmy? I didn't get that specific. Okay. Maybe that was the issue. You're right.

I didn't really do much. I went up to Duncanville Saturday morning. Went and saw my mom and dad. Father's Day weekend. Huge. Had a nice little dinner. Hung out. Saw my sister and my brother Father's Day weekend. Huge. Had a nice little dinner. Hung out. Saw my sister and my brother-in-law.

My nephew, my niece, who's 13, she's at a ranch in Minnesota with one of her friends. I was like, okay. That's tight. Wonderful. Just already got that friend with the dope ranch. I didn't have that friend until college. Yeah, 13-year-old me did not have any friends with the dope ranch. Like, I didn't have that friend until, like, college. Yeah, 13-year-old me did not have any friends with dope ranches. Yeah, I was like, I'll stunt.

Flex on them. Flex. But, sorry, I just got the notification that my update's done. Oh, that's big. Yeah, it was a good weekend. Came back, listened to a lot of PGA Tour radio on the way back, listened to the golf, watched the golf when I got home. There was a delay, which worked out in my favor

because we didn't leave until later. The delay worked out in everyone's favor except for CBS's, who I'm sure they caught shit for changing over, but I didn't care. It was beautiful. Yeah. All in all, man, nice, calm weekend. I had a weird Sunday, and I ended up turning on the golf way too late,

and I was like, oh, we got a back nine for a lot of these guys to go. So I hopped in a little bit, but all it made me want to do is go to Hilton Head. Hilton Head looks tight. That course would just absolutely eat us alive. Yeah. Yeah. You're right. It's a Pete Dye.

You know, we cannot play. Chris Harrison. We know Chris Harrison's out. Yeah. If we invite him for our foursome, he's like, nah. Too many railroad ties for Chris Harrison. I want to know, he didn't really give us the insight as to why. Did he have one just round where he lost his ass on some bullshit hazard or something? Yeah, did McConaughey take $20,000 from Chris Harrison one day out there?

I need to know the story. He was so pissed. No one is that specific about hating a course. It's such a – As an amateur golfer. I love that Chris Harrison just has course architects that he just fucking hates. Yeah, like he only plays Coors Crenshaw. I'm imagining like just that meme of the woman like screaming and pointing.

I'm just imagining like Chris Harrison at like a dinner party where Pete Dye shows up and he's just like going to kill him. What about the one with Trump in the White House lawn yelling at the kid mowing the lawn? Like if Pete's there, I'm not going. It's like who's going to be there? Dude, don't tell Chris that Pete's going to be here. Calm down, Chris. It's just a golf course, man. If you're new here, we did a podcast with Chris Harrison.

Our first episode. Yeah, just go to it on Apple Podcasts or Spotify and then scroll as fast as you can to the bottom. January 2019. Is there anything worse than when you're trying to scroll like that and you have to take time to buffer? Like you only scroll like six and then it pauses and you know you've got to do that for the next eight minutes.

What are the worst things? It's an infinite scroll, but is really infinite you know it's not infinite dude we should do infinite scroll on our website dude it's the new thing about that it's the wave you can scroll forever i'm finite scroll yeah wow i like i like having a beginning and an end wow okay yeah we should consider that's why I don't eat pie. You guys want to hear what I did this weekend? 3.14. On Friday, I had a very lit day. While you guys were golfing and stuff, I came in here and I did about 30 minutes of work

and then sat here for like another hour just kind of doing nothing. And then I went home and made lunch and just kind of hung out. You know, it was really fun. And then, yeah, it was really sick. Missed you guys a lot. Sick. Saturday, didn't do much. Got some pizzas.

Had a little pizza party with Sally's sister. Drank some wine. Where from? Bufalina. Oh, wow. You know your boy. We got two staple pies, and then we got one that had a squash puree as the base of it. What is wrong with you?

I hate to say this. It actually tasted pretty damn good for being what it was. I puree as the base of it. What is wrong with you? I hate to say this. It actually tasted pretty damn good for being what it was. I don't want to hear it. But it was definitely the pizza that had half of it left over, whereas the other ones were finished completely. I guess I'll be the weirdo here, but I guess staples in my pizza don't sound right. Yeah, I don't know why you have to order stapled pizza. It seems dangerous, honestly.

I did it because I was having a pizza party with two girls, and as you know, Saturdays are for the boys. Did it hurt your throat? I was trying to get them to evacuate. You were swallowing it? Yeah. So then we did that. Also got a little burrata as well, not to stunt too hard. What if you went and picked up pizza from Staples?

I don't think that would be good. I don't think that would be good. Yeah, you've got to think that's not good. You've got some computer paper too. Dude, we did something Sunday. I'd say that no one else is doing, but a lot of people are doing this. It's kind of in vogue right now. You guys heard of laundry stripping?

It's disgusting. So laundry stripping is this thing where you get these three cleaning products that are pretty generic. One of them is Borax, which I think that's kind of sketchy, isn't it? Don't you want to be careful with that stuff? My wife. Bah. All right. She's nice. which I think that's kind of sketchy, isn't it? Don't you want to be careful with that stuff? My wife. Bye. Bye, man.

She's nice. So you take all your work. You know how your workout clothes just start to smell? Randy likes that. As a guy who works out, I kind of know about that kind of stuff. Mine don't smell. Yeah, I know. Then you're not working out hard enough, Dylan.

Dylan doesn't sweat when he works out. That's not true. You're weird. That's not true. So you take all your clothes, your stinky workout clothes. You can do it with your sheets. You can do it with your towels, whatever. And you put this mix into your bathtub in warm water, and you just let it sit.

And I think we let it sit for a couple hours. I think you just need to let it sit for about an hour. And it strips your clothing of all the nasty stuff that the washing machine does not. So super clean. Yes. And when you're done with it, the water in the bathtub was completely black. Oh, my gosh. Dark, murky, gross water.

I always assumed that the washing machine took care of all the nasty stuff. No. And so the one shirt, I have this one shirt, it's made by one of those bootleg athletic wear companies that you would never know the name of,

but they print collegiate stuff and the shirts are like 20 instead of Nike 30 ones I was just a shot at Under Armour no I like that though I like that and so I had this one TCU shirt that Sally got from graduating and I wear it to work out a lot and it smelled terrible and so that that shirt was like the test case of like if if this works as well as it's supposed to this shirt will not smell anymore will it remove permanent pit stains it won't remove stains i don't believe i don't think it's a stain thing i'm more just a disinfecting yeah process and from my initial sniff of the shirt it has worked and i'm kind of amazed by this entire process was it disgusting seeing like this dark water and having to like wring out the clothes from it,

knowing that there's just all this nasty stuff in there? Yes, it was absolutely disgusting. But am I excited that I don't have to replace my workout gear now? Yeah. Yeah, I am. I've got to say, I've been using the same workout gear for a long time. Me too. I've got a Nike shirt I've had for five years. It makes me think of my undies that I've had for three-plus years.

We did underwear as well. It's got to be just like – I mean, I've never noticed a stench coming from them ever. Have you never noticed your athletic – you work out in cotton though, right? No. Well, not really. Occasionally, I will wear a cotton shirt, but usually it's a road back athletic tee, obviously. Yeah, yeah. I soaked all my robecks as well those ones didn't smell but i was like i work out on them so i might as well just

you know toss them in there just a good measure yeah i'm gonna look into this it i feel like a list i could see a list of getting very into doing this sally's friends were getting into it and then all of a sudden people are like oh are you watching this and i was like i i'm not watching that i think people are just talking about this process. Chrissy Teigen do this or something? Who knows? Who knows? But yeah, people are like, are you watching this really niche show on HGTV?

I'm like, no. What's the detergent? What's the product? Let's see. I can look it up right now. It's really easy to figure out. Perrealsimple.com. Simple shoes.

That would be sick. PerRealSimple.com. Simple shoes. That would be sick. Per Real Simple, all you need is Borax, washing soda, sodium carbonate, and laundry detergent. And then you start with your just-washed laundry, either wet or dry. You strip the laundry either in a clean bathtub, a large bucket, or a top-loading washing machine. You fill it with hot water. Then you mix it all together.

Bada-bing, bada-boom, let it sit. Ta-da. Enjoy your clean-up clothes. Then you mix it all together. Bada bing, bada boom, let it sit. Ta-da. Enjoy your clean-up clothes. Interesting game, set, match. Damn, point. Okay. Shout out to all my strippers out there. Hell yeah.

Catch me in the strip. Yeah, I should have been doing that. You call it the strip club? I should have been calling our bathroom the strip club all yesterday, but I didn't do that. We should get a group together and do it, and we'll call it the strip club. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Get it, David? I do. Probably not, dude. No, and we'll call it the strip club. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Get it, David? I do. Probably not, dude. No, I get it. It wasn't subtle. You're like one of the cart girls at the beverage cart girls. It's right over your head. They don't have to be girls.

Your word's not mine. They always are, though. Oh, wow. Aren't they? I don't know. I'm just firing back at you. Yeah, let's not get Dylan canceled right now. I don't think I've said anything cancelable, so.

I don't know. Have you? Hey, could you do that to hats? That's what I was wondering. So I didn't think about that until it was too late, and I was like, should I have soaked some hats? I have a number of hats that could use a soaking. I have two hats that are athletic hats that I wear backwards sometimes.

Oh, sick. That's sick. When I'm working out. Not just pimping my backwards hats. That's sick. But I'll wear them backwards when I'm working out. Not just pimping my backwards hats. But I'll wear them backwards when I'm working out to catch a little sweat. And I regretted not putting them in yesterday. Yeah, I

have done the soak with detergent in the sink on hats. But you know what? I might give it a shot with the stripping. You're going to strip it. So previously you've only had experience with soaking. Okay. Leaking. give it a shot with the stripping gonna strip it so previously you've only had experience with soaking okay leaking the mormon soak such a weird thing we were gonna laundry strip his clothes and we ended up putting bleach in it oh come on man hey if we can't bleach your butt when we need to be able to at least bleach your clothes i don't think there's i don't okay uh and then last night your boy got some tortellini off oh shit we saw that oh man

yeah no not at all you know what i wish i would have done though instead i wish i had a sun basket laying around have you ever had their moroccan chicken with sweet potato mash roasted tagarashi salmon yeah i don't know miso glazed eggplant black bean tostadas diablo with cabbage long guacamole. I fed some of what you just mentioned, not all of it, but yeah. Yeah, as you know, they go very, very hard, and they're all from Sun Basket. That's what I got, at least.

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He chose based on what he knows about us. And when he hit me with a chicken dish first, and then Dave got bacon-wrapped filets, I was like, wait, hold up. He likes Dave more than he likes yeah he's told us that that being said when I was trying to kill me when I was eating the Moroccan chicken I was like you know what this tastes phenomenal yeah if you're looking to reduce unnecessary trips out or avoid sold-out grocery stores altogether then check out Sun basket it's a perfect and delicious solution for the times that

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Okay, that makes sense. The battle was won. The war in my gut goes on. I'm really liking the sweet potato mash that I saw in yours. I want to try that. I love sweet potato mash. Turkey picadillo, Dylan. Yeah, go off.

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Okay. But here's the thing. This happens every few months with him. But this does seem to have more steam behind it. There's a segment of people who just don't like Joe Rogan. And there's a lot of things he's said and takes he's had that I completely understand. But this came up like Friday night or Saturday. He was trending.

And the usual suspects are pointing to jokes he's made in the past. What got him in hot water this time is he's been pretty much on the wrong side of history. I believe on the COVID stuff, him, Brendan Schaub, that whole crew it's, it's honestly turned me off quite a bit to it. Not because like, I'm fine. If you want to like question the numbers and if you want to have like use logic and stuff, but they just come off as dicks talking about it.

Like his quote, I think was Matt wearing a mask is for bitches, which he's a comedian. Him and how he talks to his boys. It's different, but he does have a huge platform. So if he's got 2 million people listening to this podcast and he's turning people, he's making people think that you shouldn't wear a mask or you're like a, you know, a P for wearing a mask.

He's probably legit. That's not a good thing. He's legit responsible for like actually thousands of people deciding not to wear a mask. And he likes to say that he's like, guys, I'm an idiot. I don't know what I'm talking about. Like he openly says that. But Joe is he knows a lot of shit, which is different than being intelligent, but saying that's kind of dicey though.

Yeah. Because even though you're saying that you're trying to, you're clearing yourself of say like of things, but you still have to be responsible what you say. Exactly. That big of an audience, because even if 0.01% of his audience does something, that's still more people than like,

he has an effect on more people than we have. If it's 0.01%. Probably. It it's crazy yeah so just the mask takes and then everything from the past people are like they use it as an opportunity to jump on and like make make points and like bring up old stuff that he's done or said um you saw this when when the bernie campaign a few months ago used him a clip of him endorsing bernie sanders you know people uh people on the left like to use it to jump on they're like no no we do not want this guy endorsing one of our candidates blah blah blah here's the thing with joe though he just signed the deal with spotify let's say that Spotify says, no, you know what? Too much heat.

You're done. It's not going to really affect Joe. No. Joe goes on. The more you try to cancel him, the more powerful it makes him. And that's true. Is he too big to get canceled?

I think he might be. He's in the conversation. I mean, for sure. Because like his audience, I mean, we were, you know, we were like for the first year of our original podcast, like talking Joe Rogan like every week, right, in some fashion, or at least joking about it. We had a bell.

We had a bell. We had a bell. He had a bell. How many? That's the new Joe Rogan bell. But anyway, yeah, I think he is, Will, because let's say he did lose the Spotify deal. He could go do a subscriber thing.

He could go to Patreon. Assuming Patreon wouldn't de-platform him. He could go to Patreon and he could have a million people paying $10 a month. At least. He might make more money on Patreon. Yeah. We should get him on Patreon and just ask him for a cut. Like, dude, Joe, we'll set it all up for you, dude.

So it's interesting with him because the thing that I've always really liked about him is the thing that's turned me off on him. And the thing that I like about him is that he is really good about having his other comedians that he's buddies with, people in his a circle he puts them on and like blows their careers up and he gives comedians a chance to come on pimp their specials whatever there's a lot of comedians on the show yeah a lot and at the same time like some of the ones he has on like his fight companions which like you know if there's a big ufc card and he's not calling it they'll watch a fight together they'll watch like the whole card and they they don't they barely talk about the fights

they'll talk about everything else but a lot of times like you have like he'll have eddie bravo on who's like not a comedian it's his buddy who's like a uh world-class jujitsu instructor and like he comes on and just throws out like the most illogical outlandish conspiracy theories about everything and they were doing it about covid this is like a week after joe just had like a microbiologist on who told him who was like really giving him the rundown on why this is going to be very serious and right what we should you know what we need to do and like just the fact that you're putting that guy on and you're not really shooting down his takes outside of being like oh eddie's drunk or it's just like i

think it's a little bit much. And, you know, he got a lot of heat for having Alex Jones on. But I think almost like Alex Jones, having him on, I think most people realize Alex Jones is an absolute ridiculous human being. He's a crazy man. He's just trying to do entertainment. He had him on for the entertainment value, not for the actual. Exactly. He's not trying to teach people with the takes that Alex Jones is spitting out.

Yeah, he's not. But, like, I would, if you were to say it's still irresponsible to have Alex Jones is spitting out. Yeah, he's not. But if you were to say it's still irresponsible to have Alex Jones on, I wouldn't argue with it. Okay. That's understandable. Yeah, I wouldn't fuss with you about it. But it's just the COVID stuff is weird to me because, like I said, he'll have a serious doctor on,

somebody who is just on another level of intellect. And Joe will act like, wow, I can't believe that that's crazy so you'll be like oh joe gets it then a week later he'll be saying master for bitches it's like dude what which joe rogan is going to show up to this and that's really frustrating i mean i just think about it in these terms we we record a podcast a day pretty much for our job, our work week. And it's usually between an hour and an hour and 20 minutes. He talks like three hours a day every single day about things that are very serious. He's not playing stand, mute, cancel, or bae, mute, or goals.

They're talking about serious issues a lot of times. And you're eventually going to get yourself in trouble whether it's a take that just doesn't age well or just you just talking and trying to work something out in your own brain that's why a lot of times when we talk about something important or something that's serious i have to do way much way more thought work ahead of time because i'm like i don't want to say something knee-jerk and then all of a sudden shoot myself in the foot but for him someone who is talking about serious things all the time and constantly putting out these takes that could be seen as controversial, this probably doesn't face him as much.

No. Because he expects to turn a lot of people away while making some people happy at the same time. And then later on it will be other people who are mad at him for certain things he says. So this kind of thing for him is like a blip on the radar. So he endorses Bernie on one hand, right? But then he'll have on

ben shapiro or somebody like that and like you know seem like seems like he's really into who go in hard on on things that like uh you know cancel culture or whatever like he goes really hard on that and it's like well which which uh jo which Joe, what do you really believe? It's weird. I don't know, man. I really love his MMA stuff. It's what got me into MMA, listening to him just talk to fighters and coaches. But I can't.

I listened to like 20 minutes of the Jocko. He had Jocko on. He also has a podcast. You know Jocko Dillon. Jocko Willink. I don't know who that is. Oh, you know, you're a Goggins guyink i don't know who that is oh you know you're goggins guy not a jocko oh yeah i'm a different navy seal okay anyway similar vein

though and they it's just like he throws out like joe joe's he had some takes in the first five minutes it's like why would you even say that why are you trying to put your guest here like in that position to even joke about this stuff it's it's so weird uh and if you saw the bill burr clip that was a good podcast he had bill burr on a couple weeks ago and you the clip that went viral was the mask comment yeah the mask comment and and and bill absolutely he sidestepped it pretty well he he made joe look like an idiot he's like i'm not gonna sit here with no medical degree and talk to you with no medical degree with what do you say american flag behind you while we're smoking cigars and talk about this and like joe just tried i don't know it's like joe was trying to

like put him in a position to say like oh yeah masks are lame or something and bill didn't take the pay but it's just like what why like dude just wear a mask don't be a dick putting a take out there like that is just totally irresponsible and doesn't really add it doesn't add much to the conversation i mean even if you yeah what what is the I mean, what is the harm in wearing a mask? It's keeping your germs to yourself. So basically choosing not to. That's what pisses me off so much about it is that you not wearing a mask

is not increasing your chances of getting it more necessarily, but it's increasing everybody around you should you be carrying it and don't have symptoms. It's just such a selfish act. And I, I don't understand it. And the people that are so against it, I don't under, like, I've never heard a good argument for why somebody so against it. People are staunchly against it. Yeah. But it's like wearing, like, I mean, like I wear a t-shirt, I wear a shirt into the grocery store because it's the, it's the social norm and that's what you're supposed to do. And like if I am in the grocery store and I'm not wearing a mask and I look around and everybody else is wearing a mask,

I feel like the people that aren't wearing masks are just like – they think that they're doing the right thing. But I don't understand how you can just look around and be like, oh, like all these people are idiots. I'm above this. And it's so many people out there. There's people who think that, man. They think that this is all like a... I don't think anyone would say it's a hoax now, but they all think it's just like

people are trying to weaponize it. What's the harm in doing it, though? I just don't understand. What's the harm in wearing a mask and taking that extra, very minor step and, like, maybe not spreading this more. I don't know. And putting lives at danger.

I don't know. It's such an easy thing to do. There was a woman yesterday. I was in the meat section, you know, picking up some meats. And there's a woman yesterday and she was probably 50 around there. Whatever, between 40 and 60. Let's make it very broad. She wasn't wearing a mask and everybody was kind of like sidestepping her like, I don't

really know. And it's like, I feel like she could have just forgotten her mask. You know, she, I looked at her for a significant amount of time trying to like, be like, all right, don't get closer to me and see if she like coughed or anything. Cause I was like, you know, I'm on high alert. I'm seeing my parents relatively soon. I don't want to catch anything. And so I'm, I'm just on higher alert than normal. And because cases are rising, but I just looked at her like, why? Wouldn't it just be easier?

Wouldn't you just feel less bad? But I don't think these people actually care. So now I think you have to wear a mask inside of a business. Like they won't let you in. We're back in whatever stage that is. Abbott's doing a press conference today at 2 p.m. I'm interested to see what's said there, but I'm worried it's going to be a whole lot of nothing. Can't wait.

Yeah, it's probably our fault for the spike in no way related to the opening of the economy. I'm at the point, too, where like I've posted something from Scaries a couple days ago that was about just, you know, pretty much reinstituting self-quarantine and stuff like that. And like some absolute idiots in the comments just started asking questions like, well, are cases going up? Are blah, blah, blah going up? And I'm like, I'm not even going to engage with you. Like, what's the point of engaging with these idiots? Somebody called somebody. I had a retweet.

I did a quote tweet or something of like the cases in Oklahoma spiking. Yes. And somebody somebody called us woke media. The joke being we can pivot to that. And somebody called us woke media. The joke being because we're woke now. Yeah. Because we're concerned about the increase in COVID cases.

So, cool. Yeah, I don't know if that's like woke. I feel like it's more woke to be anti-mask. Yeah, I don't know. Isn't that more woke at this point? Woke is fluid, apparently. Because i always considered being woke as being somebody that considers themselves to be smarter than the general population like they have it all figured out and i feel like the people that aren't wearing masks are the people that are like

trying to be more woke it's like no you're a sheep you're a sheeple you are kind of a sheep though dylan dude i just know my zip code is not looking good on cases and now maybe you can point to like increase in testing we're finally getting testing and man that makes sense but it's it's not a positive i don't like knowing that my zip code is one of the highest in travis county so it's like i'm gonna be very uh cautious yeah catch me at the dog park standing like 20 feet away from everybody i apologize to anybody out, but that's just what it's going to do. Although these new masks that I've got, man, these are kind of hard to breathe in. Like, you can't do any outdoor activity with them.

Look, they're not comfortable to wear. We get it. They stink. Yeah, they're not fun. I mean, on the flip side, we have this new Ja Rule ad. So that's sick. Where's he come down on all this COVID stuff? I don't know.

I've never had a time in my life where I've been, I don't want to say excited to go check what's trending in the morning when I wake up, but it's like it's must-see TV now when I wake up and I'm like, all right, what's trending right now? And this morning when I saw Ja Rule was trending, I was just like, oh, no. What did he do? You thought it was murder. Yeah.

I didn't think it was murder, but I respect where you're coming from. What I didn't expect, though, was Ja Rule doing a Greek deli commercial for, I don't even know what this place was called. He's wearing a black t-shirt that just says, I heart Greece. And even though Ja Rule kind of looks like shit, his trap game is stupid. He's wearing a black t-shirt that just says, I heart Greece. And even though, like, Ja Rule kind of looks like shit, his trap game is stupid. He's thick. As someone who's been in Greece,

I can tell you, it is pretty cool. Ja's definitely put on some mass. Do you want me to play this ad for you guys? Sure. I would love that. All right, you guys,

I mean, you should go on Twitter and just go look for it, but if you don't want to, then here's the audio from it at least. It make you wanna to slap your mama. Papa Cristo's got the best motherfucking guy rolls, guy rolls.

You have a fucking egg in your life. It's so good. Make more lip-sync to it. You got the hat. Peters, Peters, Papa Cristo Peters. They got everything. I'm going to just give you a rundown of some of my favorites. They got tzatziki.

Oct, oh hold on. Octopod tequila. Well, whatever, but it's good. I, I, apple lime wine-o soup, and cup of pizza. And they got wine too. I'm telling you, come on down to Papa Christo's.

You can't even pronounce the food, it's so good. Show them what you're working with, Papa. Show them how you do it. Hey, Papa. Hey, where are you? Papa Cristo, are you here? Papa, Papa, Papa Cristo, are you here? I guess I'm in. Come on down to Papa Cristo's.

2771 West Boulevard, Pico. Or you can call right now and get it delivered. Papa Cristo's. Oh, make you want to do the dance. So, Papa Christos. Apparently, this is a spot for a new TBS reality TV show, Celebrity Show Off, where stars compete with each other to create compelling content in order to attract YouTube views. And it seems Jaws up to a really, really good start.

So this is fake. He's not actually doing an ad for Papa Christos? No, I think it is an ad. I think it is an ad, but it's an ad. It was intentionally, I think it was intentionally bad.

And the fact that it's jaw rule to get more likes or more, more views. So this is, I think it's a real place and he did an ad for them, but it's all part of, like, another plan. Interesting. It makes more sense. But the bigger story here, this could be the resurgence of Ja Rule's career,

post-Firefest, post-50 Cent, post-everything. Do we need a resurgence? You know what? I like a good comeback story. Ja Rule, like, he was never one of my favorites, although, look, let's be honest. I was bumping I'm Real in 2002. Does anyone actually think Ja Rule's like – does he have respect in the rap game? No.

Probably not in the rap game, but, dude, all the Irv Gotti, Ashanti, Ja Rule, all that stuff with the you know sing the melodies on the hooks and mixed in it was transformative

I mean that was a big deal that changed hip hop I think to a large extent like and he got roasted for that

by like even 50 Cent roasted him for it and then 50 Cent went and did the same stuff yeah 50 can't talk yeah

so I I don't think he gets maybe he does get respect I don't know I don't think he gets respect. Maybe he does get respect. I don't know. I don't know. His hip-hop, just hip-hop career was like, okay, you know, he had Holla, whatever. Holla, Holla. Great song, by the way.

I've never understood the phrase, like you eat something that tastes good, makes you want to slap your mama. I don't get it. Is that a thing? It is. That's how good it is. I've never tried something that was so good it makes me want to assault my mom. Well, it's made me wonder if my mom...

I've always thought my mom was a pretty good cook growing up. Have you ever wanted to smack her? No, and now that I've never had the urge to slap her after eating something she's made, I'm like, wait, is my mom not a good cook? Exactly. Yeah. No, Nancy's probably a really good cook. She's great.

She's great. He was wearing socks for the entire ad that he taped in front of a green screen i think they were just like dude you can't get the green screen dirty just like don't don't wear your shoes what do y'all stand on greek food love it i absolutely love it enjoy it yeah i found that the pita bread is very filling i can eat that and i'm full like for three and a half hours that's why I don't like pita chips. They fill you up? Yeah.

When I'm eating a dip, I'm eating this for the dip. I need the cracker to be mostly a vehicle, maybe have some flavor to it, maybe a little seasoning. But most of the time, I want it to be a vehicle. So a pita chip is just pointless calories for me. He's going out of his way to mispronounce some of this, or at least he just didn't even try to look into it. It's all part of the...

I'll be honest. Some of the things that he was saying, I was like, I've never seen this word. The octopus one, I don't know what that was. You've probably never even eaten octopus, have you? Was that calamarius of some sort? I've had octopus. Have you ever ordered a gyro, yes or no?

A gyro? You call it gyro. A gyro. Yeah, I've had a gyro. How do you guys say it? If you're actually at a restaurant and you're ordering it... Gyro. I say gyro. Yeah, I've had a gyro. How do you guys say it? If you're actually at a restaurant and you're ordering it. Gyro. Gyro.

I say gyro. Yeah. I think that's right. No one really knows. Oh, you don't live in my area anymore, but there's one around the corner. Tino's and family owned. There's going to be someone that studied abroad in Greece who's going to comment on this episode being like, well, they just embarrass themselves.

Well, Dylan summered there. I always have a shot of Rocky before i eat my greek food so i don't know how you guys enjoy your greek food but that's how i do mine well i've been there they call me the greek freak when i was over there it's weird no one did that yeah i had quite the reputation in a few days where'd you go freak though it's a thing uh santorini i don't practice it though Anybody? You know they like that song We're familiar with Who sings it?

Sublime Okay Surprised you know that God I fucking crushed that Just knocked it out of the park Sweet spot of the bat man I do want to holler at Grease At some point though

Dude holler at it Santorini is cool. It's cool. But as you know, I've never seen Twister or anything like that. I'm scared of the lightning over there. Scared of the lightning? Yeah. Everyone's always talking about Greece lightning and how, like...

I thought you were making a Zeus reference. Oh, I don't think that's the same Greece. It's not the same Greece. Is Zeus a Greek god or Roman? No one knows, man. can't look it up either you absolutely cannot look that up we should power rank the greek gods i'm up there i'm like top three they called me the greek god when i was over there no i don't think they did i thought it was a greek freak that's very different well i was there for a while i don't think i don't think

greek people have a god that's wearing a fedora. I didn't wear a fedora. Why did you just gallivant around Greece with a fedora? I've never owned a fedora. You own a fedora! We've seen the photos. That hat that I got was in Italy. That was after Greece. That hat is not Va Benet. It's a Panama hat.

It's electrifying! Just draw a Panama hat. I don't know. Y'all are so uncultured. God. I'll admit. I'll be the first to admit I've never stepped foot in Greece. It's too bad.

I've splashed it all over myself. I'm making bacon. This guy, man. It's popping. How many more Greek? I mean, a good gyro goes a long way. Yeah, sure. Very refreshing.

Although I do find it unstable that the meat that they're shaving from is just sitting out like that. Kind of gives me a little pause. It's constantly twisting. I know, but it's just... It twisted meat. I don't know if I like seeing such a chunk of meat. I'm in awe at the size of the meat is what I'm saying. You usually don't have a problem with chunk.

Go ahead, what? Excuse me? I like Greek food, man. It's good. Wow. You just reversed the car. Remember those big Alpha beers that I had when I was over there? Yes, I do. Yeah, those are tight.

Unfortunately, I do. It just says Alpha. Part of the reason I liked your Euro trip so much was because I was getting so much love commenting on your photos on Instagram that you wouldn't stop posting. At one point, I think I had a comment that did more numbers than your Instagram did. Yeah, you called me a flail boy because I jumped into the sea there and I was flailing. Dude, you can't be a flail boy. Are you scared to get big air? No.

You look a little nervous once you clear 10 feet. So flailing was just, I was just shifting the orientation of my body. So I entered the water going straight down. I don't care how strong your mind is, but if you're jumping from a height, like a high anything. It's actually height. Height.

And you're telling yourself that you shouldn't flail, everything goes out the window the second that you launch. You're always going to just revert back. You're not in the air like, oh, be tough right now. Don't flail. Don't flail. I try to hold the air like, oh, be tough right now. Don't flail. Don't flail. I try to hold the toothpick until I enter the water completely,

completely submerged. Well, when you're jumping from a high elevation, that's the best way to enter the water, at least resistance when you – Yeah, I'm familiar. Yeah. I pretty much invented the toothpicks. Well, I don't think you did, David.

Okay. I was the first to put a 180 on it. Whoa. Dude, no one's doing 180 toothpicks. It's actually more difficult than a 360 because you have to be very careful with how much momentum you put because you could rotate too far. I call it a pencil, though. Usually. I call it pencil diving.

I call it a pin 15. I'm known for my flying squirrels, by the way. I don't think you are. I've never seen you do it You're the type of dude Who thinks he is And then you can't hold it Oh I hold it You let go right

And cover your head I hold it It doesn't feel great But I do it For my fans I've never seen you do that For the fans You'll see bitch

I don't think you need To call him that That seems unnecessary I can fight my own battle Oh you need Will call him that. That seems unnecessary. I can fight my own battle. Oh, you need Will to step in for you? You're lucky he's between us. Oh, man.

Oh, yeah, I just looked it up. 93 weeks ago when you posted from Camara Beach in Santorini, I said, OMG, you're a flail boy, cry face emoji. It got 202 likes. I'm surprised I remember that so well. Yeah, I'm surprised you did too. Now I'm just going to go through all my things. I'm like the top comment in all your photos from here.

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We worked with both these guys at our last company. J-Bone's been on here. He's done the live stream. He has some of the best audio. He had the best audio of anyone who's ever done the live stream. He had the second best audio. Who was first, Micah? Oh, KJ.

Good point. KJ's first appearance. I don't know if he went full setup second appearance. His first appearance, his audio was on one. It was so soft. Sometimes I just lay in bed listening to that performance. And Rod was like, hey, I'm doing a Warzone Call of Duty Twitch at like 6 30 or 7 y'all want to hop on run trios i was like man it's gonna be tough for me i'm driving back from duncanville but i'll try

jared's like i'm in so i get home watch the uh ending of the uh rbc heritage and then i hop in with him and the way ross it, because he's on PC, I'm on Xbox, Jared's on PlayStation, but I think the main issue is that he's on PC. So game chat, there's some setting that he has an issue with so he can't hear us. So we do it through the Discord app. So I'm playing with my headset on over my Ray-Ban earpod.

It's in RayCon. What did I say, Ray-Ban ear pod that's in. Ray-Con. Ray-Con. What did I say, Ray-Ban? Yeah. Ray-Con, whatever. You're wearing your sunglasses inside? Maybe.

And I've got it connected to the Discord on my phone, and that's how we're communicating, through the Discord app. Don't ask me how it works. I don't get it. Anyway, J-Bone's audio is certified trash for some reason. But we got past that. So we're playing. If you're unfamiliar with this game, basically it starts.

You have teams of three, and there's like 100-something people, 150 people in there. And as time goes by, there's a circle of gas, and it shrinks. And it has to bring everybody closer together until you get to a final circle. Ross and I, Jared's not a bad player. Jared's actually good. But tactically, he is the worst player I've ever been involved with. That's what I've heard. How so?

I've heard this. He falls in love with, like, if he finds, like, an RPG or a good sniper rifle. He will be dead set for the rest of the game. You know, contracts be damned. Anything, you know, like, hey, we need to get to this building. Let's go here, get a good position here. He's like, no, no, no, I'm going to snipe somebody. So, like, Ross and I will be running off.

No, I'm going to snipe somebody. No, I got this guy. I can get this guy. I down him. I down him. I cracked his armor. So Ross and I will be like off. Nah, I'm going to snipe somebody. No, I got this guy. I can get this guy. I down him. I down him. I cracked his armor. So Ross and I will be like, we're running or something. And like Jared, you look on the map and you see his little cursor,

his little guy is like 100 meters the other way because he's like on the roof still in his own world trying to take down a helicopter with a pila. And you're like, okay, we don't really need to like he's the jared's jared is good he knows how to play well but he will engage a group that you're like we don't need to engage them we need to just move so jared randy knows what's up randy's probably void with him jared just gets lost in his own game so yesterday ross and i were making a run for it and jared had just died went to the gulag, redeployed. I got that.

So that's how you get your first kill. The first time you die, you go to a gulag. You go one-on-one against somebody. If you win, you parachute back in, and you can land wherever. So Ross and I are making a break for it from an area called Stadium, and we get pinned down. There's some snipers. Worst bar in Oxford, Ohio.

Stadium. Is it really? Oh, it's the worst. What's in Oxford, Ohio. At that stadium. Is it really? Oh, it's the worst. What's in Oxford, Ohio? Miami University. Is that where my, okay. Yeah, the bar called Stadium is one of the trashest bars I've ever been a part of. Okay, we should go there.

We should do a live event there. So Ross and I, we're getting cracked from, like, there's a couple snipers on a building, and we're, like, we're pinned down. Ross gets downed. And then, like, me, I'm, like, I'm trying to, like, get to him. And me running to, like, because you can save your teammate one time. Yeah. Or revive them.

And Jared's dropping in, and I get downed. So we're both downed. Once you're downed, you have like 20 seconds before you die or your teammate comes and revives you. Rather than coming to revive us, Jared decides to land where this other team is, a full team of three, to go hero mode, to go full Leroy Jenkins, and to take these dudes out. And you drop in, keep in mind, with a pistol.

You don't have, like, your full array of weapons when you drop back in. So he drops back in 300 meters away where this crew of, like, expert-level marksmen are, and Ross and I are just sitting here dying. He did this because you guys were live. There's no way he would have done this if you guys were just playing at home. He's doing bits? Dude, Ross and I are like, we didn't even realize what was happening. We're like, wait.

Until we both died, we're like, wait, Jared, did you really land on those dudes? I thought maybe he parachuted in from the other end of the map. He could have dropped on us and saved one or both of us, and then we could have gotten out of there. But best case scenario, he kills those three guys with a pistol uh and it's just him by himself then and maybe he could buy us back or something but as opposed to just saving us and we and the three of us get out of there and just you know figure it out it was it was absurd and like we didn't even we didn't even call him out immediately we like we like wait

jared hold on did you just Did you really just do that? And he's like, yeah. He's like, I can't believe you guys didn't call me out until now. So he knew what he was doing. Oh, J-Bone. Jared, I played with him and seen him get like nine or ten kills. He knows how to play. He just goes absolutely rogue.

It's J-Bone, dude. He's like the dude who if he just avoided like a quadruple bogey he could break 80 but like he insists on trying to carry the water from 250 with three wood and you're just like dude you don't have that shot in your bag i know you don't have it am i missing out by not playing uh team Yeah. Okay. It's so fun. Okay. I don't even know how to do it. I fired up the PS4 on Saturday morning and decided to go back in on some Call of Duty.

And I will say I did the training and then I did some kind of, I don't even know what it was after, some level. Put that in quotes. I don't know the fucking terminology. I will say, I don't think I'll ever get to the point where I'm good enough to do anything. I'm absolutely terrible. My brain does not do the side-to-side movements along with the up and down. It's just too much. It's too much. Park's played for the first time at my crib.

Did he get a dub or what? I put him through the training deal deal so he learned the controls and you know all that stuff how to open boxes and all that uh he dropped down and he he actually killed in solos so it's you versus basically 149 solos intense it's intense that's the only one i've ever played by the way i don't know you know how to do the other ones. The homies sound loud. So he drops down, and I recorded it. I sent the video to you guys, but he took someone down. He got smoked soon after. He's five, okay?

But he killed somebody. And if you've played the game, you know it's kind of difficult to do, right? Yeah. I mean, it's, yeah. So that's my homie call it a story hey off my granny question since it was on ross's twitch stream is that is it available to go back and watch like if people wanted to go see it okay if you go check out go check out ross bowen's uh twitch stream because you can see it on there. You can see it happen.

We may have to cut a clip. We might be doing him kind of wrong, but I think that we'll ultimately be proven. He's going to want to come on Wednesday on the live stream. Yeah, he's going to beg to do it. No, no, no. I have to defend myself. I did not get bumped. I kind of want to play with Bone now.

The Bone Man. Me, you, and J-Bone? We would just get slaughtered, wouldn't we? You'd just have everybody just going their own way. We'd have no team cohesion. I don't have a headset, though. I would have to acquire one. You've got to get a headset.

Okay. Let's get you a headset. I don't know if I can take myself seriously. No, Dylan, you're already playing the game. Go all in. That's like another level of being in. No one's going to see you. What if we start twitching?

Then you're going to have to play with the headset. And people are going to see you. We are going to start twitching. We're going to figure it out today. We're going to get that set up. Okay, if we can turn it into a... Twitch. Stream of revenue.

A monetization endeavor. See, Dylan will do anything for money. No, that's my way of self-justifying. Like, okay, I get the headset, dumbass. You can actually make a buck. Why will you play video games online for money, but you won't bleach your butt? That's a great point. I don't see the correlation.

Can I tell you this? What's the difference? It's money. It's a big diff. Let me tell you this. The first time you post a gram with a headset on, it is going to be your most like gram of all time. Why?

Most engaged. A lot of gamers out there, huh? It's going to be hilarious seeing Dylan with a headset and a mic on. I hope that never becomes public, that image. I'm going to make sure it does. Shall we, boys? Yeah, that image. I'm going to make sure it does. Shall we, boys? Did you have fun? Yeah, that was fun.

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Good stuff. I had fun today. Everyone stay safe out there. Bye. Bye. you