Circling Back - Juuls, Pizza Drugs, and NYC Predictions

Episode Date: October 24, 2024

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All right, we are back. My name is Will DeFries. David Roth. I've got a question and then an anecdote. What percentage of Canadian men, or actually, you know what? What percentage of Canadians support legalizing crystal meth? Dylan, give me your guess. Ooh.

8%. Will, 3%. Sadly, only 12%. Sadly. Okay. Will. 3%. Sadly, only 12%. Sadly. Okay. That's a lot of people who freak with the vision.

I'm anti-crystal math. I think they're goofing on a survey like that though. Yeah, do you think they're just filling that out just to like, you know. And this will be funny. Like maybe they get like 10% off at whatever weird ass Canadian grocery store they have if they fill out the survey. Why are the stores up there weird ass? You know how it is.

Like have you ever been to Canada? It's all true. No doubt. I want to. I forget what it is and I'm sure there's a backer out there who can help with this. But like your cell service changes and it's just some like dude's name.

Like instead of saying like AT&T at the top, it says like Dave. What? Yeah. The name, really? I didn't know this. That sounds interesting. Look that up and let me just,

I have an announcement for the show. This is Carl's service stinks right now. I, Anecdote time. I started a film last night and I did deal on it because I have to watch the second half tonight, but I've got good reason to. It's a three hour film and I started it at like nine o'clock

and I just wasn't gonna stay up. And it is the Batman. So you're pre-gaming Robbie Pat for the Pengi. Correct, I'm doing My pre penguin homework, okay, because I saw an online Good friend of the show guys always been really good to us JR Hickey's got a podcast and he was trying to get somebody to do like a penguin pod and that person was kind of rude to him online and their response and I was like fuck I'm gonna watch the show just to do his pause. So, JR, I will hop on your pod, man.

I feel like such an idiot responding to him. By the way, I sneaky enjoyed that Robert Pattinson Batman. So is it necessary to watch before going in on Penguin? Because I'm down to watch it. It gives you some context. It isn't totally necessary, but it does kind of paint the picture. I'll do that beforehand. Yeah. I mentioned the penguin on Twitter yesterday and JR Hickey was like,

Hey man, you wanna come talk about it on my podcast? And I said, well, I'm busy this week, but maybe sometime soon. He goes, no, that's okay. It's been canceled for four years. He hasn't recorded his podcast in four years. And I didn't realize that. I feel like such a dumb dumb,

be like, yeah, man, but not this week, but soon. He's been all in on nice touches, dude. Sorry, JR. Yeah, what you did was not a nice touch. It were a nicey. Certainly not a nicey. That's not a nicey. I don't know what he's up to.

Is that Chuckie face? What, Randy, too good for that? What is Gruden doing? Turn his mic off. What is the fucking guy doing? You know what he's doing? He's tick tocking. He's doing tick tock. I had I had fears that like a nicer Charlie was going to just start immediately, start looking like Chuckie. Like it's in their DNA that it's possible. Not talking about John Gruden, but the doll, the doll, not not John Gruden.

That would be you'd have some questions. Just keep the hair tight and no one will confuse your kids for Chucky. I did think it would be a really good Halloween costume at some point, but like, you know. How about that suck if you found out like later on that John Gruden fathered your child. I'm really excited for this Penguin journey

you're about to go on, but more importantly, I have someone in the office to talk about it. Hey man, it sounds like a nicey. The show is a nicey. Yeah, man. Look, I'm looking forward to Penguin. I'm going to watch the second half tonight and I'm going to probably hit Penguin on the plane tomorrow.

Good call, brother. I'm glad you're watching because if you didn't watch the movie beforehand, that would be such a bogey move. It would be quite a bogey move, wouldn't it? He's... I feel like he can feel Glenn Powell, like nipping at his heels.

Yeah, oh yeah. For Texas relevancy. I have an issue with Glenn Powell, if I'm being straight up honest. He's gonna step in and be the new McConaughey when he retires. Overly custom cowboy hat? I think Glenn Powell is maybe following

McConaughey playbook too much. He dressed exactly like him at the last game. And I'm like, dude, you gotta find your own path here. He did. Like I also feel like McConaughey in his statement about people throwing stuff on the field. I feel like McConaughey, there's no way he can actually speak like that all the time.

I feel like he puts his writing hat on and decides to be like, all right, I gotta get in my McConaughey voice and then starts going. I'm telling you, I think that's him. I think it's authentic. I did say when I saw him on a plane ride to New York City and he was typing on his laptop as I boarded the plane, I'm pretty sure he was writing his book, whatever that was called. Green lights. Green lights. There you go.

All right, turn his mic back. I wish I would have stolen his laptop. You should have. Yeah, at that time I was more concerned about Hunter Biden's. For good reason. What are we going to do about that? If you have nothing else on the subject, feel free to introduce me to the podcast. Dillion Shivare.

Allow me to be the first to wish myself a happy birthday. Oh yeah, fuck. I'm gonna go over the- Happy birthday, Dylan. We went the entire morning without wishing you a happy birthday. I'm just gonna go over the list of people who didn't forget. One of them is my dentist.

Got a text from them. There's a software thing. My leasing office. I feel so bad. A chiropractor that I used once about six years ago. Your back out. Never forgot. Emailed me happy birthday. All before you guys. So. Yeah. We just spent about, I just spent an hour and 45 minutes with Dylan and did not wish him one single happy birthday. I feel bad about that. Actually today it is actually today. Oh my god. Here's the thing. I was doing the thing like after 40 maybe people don't want to confront the birthday. So I was like trying to maybe just play it slow. I gotta be honest. This is the the least birthday feeling

birthday I've ever had 41 is just like who gives a shit. I forgot it was my birthday for most of the week. So don't feel too bad. Boom or a doom? It's still a boom. It's just not my favorite birthday. It's just kind of like, okay, whatever. I'm squarely in my 40s now, you know, it's a year end.

Anyway, I'm 41 today. Sorry. Don't feel a day over. Physically, I feel 32. See who died today that's famous that reincarnated into you. Good call. Yeah, let's get said. My upcoming birthday is 38 and it is not moving the needle for me at all. I don't feel like I'm that much closer to 40 than I would be at 37. 38 is such a black number that like, it's like, what are you going to do? I think I'm going to tell Sally this year, please don't plan

anything big with anybody else. Like let's just go on a nice date, call it a day, get out of there. Didn't plan a Matt's outing this year. Like I've done the past like four or five in a row. Well, I was talking to you about it, but I also talked to Sally about it that like, it feels like your birthdays are quick. Like they sneak up and then suddenly you have another one very soon.

I think it's because I'm the old guy. So it's like, it feels more momentous for me to be like, oh, another year for this old fucker in the group. Who is Dylan reincarnated as Dave? Wow. Any good ones? Yeah. Okay. Yeah, dude.

Like such as? Lim Goh Tong, Malaysian Chinese businessman, founder of Genting Group. I was thinking that one actually. 1983 to answer the question that you asked. Was there anyone from 1983 who died that day? Because that would be Dylan's most likely reincarnation. Like Randy and Kurt Cobain very for example

Christian Dior not 1983, but still Christian Dior Dior died this day. Okay, so that's a that's a name of note But the one that I think really suits you of course is Francis Ellingwood Abbott American theologian known in the scientific theism realm Okay American theologian. Oh. Known in the scientific theism realm. Okay. Kind of a nicey. Scientific theism. What about George Stumm, the German general

who died in 1942? Didn't say which war. Yeah, we don't know. Could have been one. We don't know. Could have been prior wars. Yeah. Yeah, he could have died of natural causes.

Could have been a, obstentor? What's the word? What are we gonna say? What's abstainter? Like as he abstained from the war. Some did I guess. A pacifist? Sure. What'd you say? I dabble in pacifism. What's your line? What's your line? I dabble in past that J-ism. Hey, if you don't stop, I'll pass off. Yeah, yeah.

And speaking of Nicky the Knife, he made a special, special appearance yesterday on Do You Know It, a game show podcast, spooky season edition. If anyone has any possible tiebreakers for the end of spooky season, should it end in a tie, please reach out to Randall Trimbaki. Not that it did, go and listen, you know. Maybe a tie machine too would help. If you can maybe go find a tie machine and let Randy know that's a possibility.

It's only the second time it's happened. So you'd think, you know, fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on Randy. That's okay. I do have, I have something for next time, at least as a backup, just a quick one. We did a spooky season themed, do you know it, a game show podcast beyond the paywall yesterday, patreon.com slash circling back podcast. But more importantly, this Saturday, this weekend in fun, Gem Saloon, Saturday at 5 PM, we're having our New York meetup in tribute to the

Saturday at 5 p.m. we're having our New York meetup in tribute to the St. Jude's Children Hospital Fundraiser that we did. How much money do we actually raise for that? We raise and donated a shade under 18 grand Oh, that's pretty good. I was gonna say 14. Yeah, so shout out to everyone in New York who won that meetup. I'm very excited to go Bop with the boys can't wait and the girls and everyone in between did you hear because of that special guest is gonna be there Jude Messina our old friend. Oh, let's go Joe for two people JD Messina gonna be there. No, Jodie's Jodie. Sorry, Jodie Mike Messina is gonna be there. Mmm. This is gonna this is gonna be the biggest meetup we've ever had I think so think so calling it now What time is the deal ball game that night? I think there's a ball game. Which one World Series? Oh the baseball game Of course, I don't know. They've been calling me Willie ball game lately. Is it gonna be in New York?

Dave's gonna look this up and as you can look this one up believe it or not Saturday no, it's in LA. Oh, this is gonna be. So this if this is 708 LA time. This is gonna be right. No, that's not LA time. That's that's our time. So it'll be a 808. Oh, is it New York time? Okay, that adjust. So can I ask a dumb question? If you look up European soccer, the home team is the top team. Oh, different here. It always confuses me now, because I look up that more than I look up other sports. It always confuses me.

That should be the rule. I agree. I think it makes a lot more sense. Yeah, I don't know why they do it like that. It always, I'm not just throw shade at my wife right now. You know I love my wife. It shocks me sometimes when I'm like watching like a hockey game and she goes, oh, where is this?

And I'm like, just look at center ice. Maybe it's a baseball play, the home team being second because they bat second always, maybe. I also, whenever I like click on the actual game, it says, you know, whoever at wherever. So maybe it's that, like you're reading it, like it's at second team. Yeah.

Sure. Yeah. Sure. Who are you guys rooting for? I just hope both teams have fun. I'm rooting for the Yankees. I don't really know. Maybe the Yankees. I'm running with the Dodgers. Ohtani.

I like Ohtani, but I don't know. There's something about New York winning a World Series during an election year that just feels so American. They are a very successful franchise, yes. The most successful franchise. My buddy and I, during the whole Yankees Red Sox like peak rivalry back in the day, we each decided to take a side and he wanted the Red Sox. So I rode the whole Yankees Red Sox peak rivalry back in the day, we each decided to take a side and he wanted the Red Sox so I rode with the Yankees.

So there's always going to be a little part of me that was like, you know what, I think I kind of like the Yankees. There's a lot of Red Sox hats at Texas State in 2005, 2006. Yeah. A ton actually. Weirdly. I guess they were just the team you could like. It's I get on actually. Weirdly. I guess they're just, they were just the team you could like. It's like the Cubbies. That's the year they won the world series, right? Oh, five. That was

the year. Yeah. That was a three-oh comeback. I believe that what that was the year the light socks won the world series. That's the only time around there. Maybe oh six. Isn't that era. Sure. Look, email Randy at wash mediaia.com, let him know. Or dillion at washmedia.com. Or dillion, yes, I will definitely get it. So two nights ago, I was just absolutely chilling out. I was watching my Grateful Dead class, and I thought, you know what? You know what'd feel really good right now?

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I'm not familiar with the new director Do you know who Luca Guadagnino is I do I do Actually, no I was thinking of a different one. No, I don't know who this is either Oh actually, okay. I have seen more movies from him than I anticipated. Okay, he did I guess the first one I saw from him was Call Me By Your Name. Great movie. I have not seen Challengers.

Yeah, I've only seen one movie from him. Call Me By Your Name was good. I guess that's enough of an endorsement that I think I can get excited for this. Challengers is the tennis one that has the- The threesome scene that you should not watch on a plane. Yeah. Especially if you're in the middle seat.

Shout out Zendaya though. She's been looking crazy good lately. Well, yeah. I don't know how Tom Holland can handle all that. Maybe she's has a hard time handling. I doubt that based on what I've seen about him. Do you think it's an ick that like, if Zendaya saw the video of Rory McIlroy

not knowing who Tom Holland was, do you think she gets a little ick being like, oh, he doesn't know who my boyfriend is? Has Rory spoke on that? That was still- He needs to. Just incredibly humbling. Let's reach out to the no laying up guys and say, next time you get Rory,

can you at least ask him what his favorite Tom Holland movie is just to like maybe gas him up a little bit? We need that to happen. Who do you guys want to see as the new American Psycho? I could see Dylan not even seeing American Psycho at this point. Have you even seen the original? Of course I've seen the original.

Okay, just making sure. Yeah. Just making sure. Are you sure? Is that bone? Have you seen it or you just know that scene? I've seen the movie. Okay, name every character.

I think Rishi should be the new American. No, he can't handle it. Yes. My one thing about the new American psycho actor, whoever's going to play Patrick Bateman, I just sit like, no, I'm not trying to be like, you know, racist or anything, but I don't want it to be a non-American. You can't have an English dude playing American Psycho. But that would reflect the nation of immigrants that we are. Okay, fair point. But like, Elordi's, I think, I think if Vegas was putting money or like putting odds out, I think Elordi, who's Australian, would be number one. Alordy's a good one. He's already worked with the director on other stuff before. Oh, okay.

There's a photo floating around of them having lunch together that is not regarding this movie. So this hasn't been announced? They haven't chosen the lead actor yet? No. Alordy, I just said that. I do think Alordy would be great, and he does a good American accent, so maybe I need to scale back my national mistakes. I think Glenn Powell would also be a fantastic one. That would be a good role for him to transition out of these like rom-com things that he's been doing and just get into like a serious role that would get some actual attention. Show a little range.

I don't know if you want your first like super serious movie though, to be a remake of something. I feel like you got to hang your hat on something new. His level of attractiveness though is not unapproachable. He doesn't need to be. I think American Psycho, Christian Bale, hotness in American Psycho was like so handsome, but unapproachable. Just like very much like, okay, like I don't want to talk to that guy, but I have to acknowledge that as a very handsome man.

He's so put off by everything. Going off what you said, well, do you have a problem with Christian have to acknowledge that is a very handsome He's so put off by everything going off what you said Well, do you have a problem with Christian Bale being the American cycle? He's an English actor No, what good point? Yeah, maybe I do. It is a good point. Hey, I'm just in the arena trying things right now I'm just putting out takes and then and I'm scared I can scale back whenever I want because that's what we can do on This show how old should this actor be? I think they should be. 35? Right around 30. All right, Bradley Cooper, too old.

Too old. Chris Pratt's probably the answer. We're not doing Chris Pratt. It's a me, Patrick Bickman. Doesn't have to do it in Mario voice. Okay, I think Glenn Powell would be great. Can I put out some names? Yes.

Dio James. White Lotus. Oh James. White Lotus. Oh yes. Yeah. He might be too built for it. You mean built as in like physically or just like, this is makes too much sense. He's kind of built like a house.

This guy. But tell me this guy wouldn't do an okay job. He does have a ability to have like an empty look behind. Patrick Bateman is built. Is handsome. Yeah, but he was lean built. He was lean. I always saw Theo James. He can lean behind. Patrick Bateman is built. Is handsome. Yeah, but he was lean built. He was lean. I always saw Theo James.

He can lean off. He can do a thousand of them now. Like Theo James is a problem. That dude's so handsome. I've got the answer. What? Andrew Garfield. Andrew Garfield would be good right now.

He's having a little Renaissance right now. Have you guys been watching the clips with him and the girl that hosts the podcast whose name is Escaping Me? Bobby Althoff? No, you won't think of it. No, that's- Hock Tooh?

Not Hock Tooh, not Haley Welch. The girl that does the dating? Yeah. He has sexual chemistry with this girl that is years in the making and everyone just wants them desperately to date. How do you not have sexual chemistry with Theo James? I mean-

No, I'm talking about Andrew Garfield. Oh, my bad, my bad. I've been seeing a lot of the clip online of the clip where he finds out in social network where he is going to not have the equity that he once had. It's just been on my timeline a lot. And I think that movie is a little underrated.

It's a great movie. Or his performance in it. That's one that when I revisit it every two or three years. I'm always like I Have not properly rated this we watch that for stream room, right? I remember watching it for stream room being like this might be my favorite stream room Sit down and watch that we've had yet who could forget The stream room did anyone in this room watch girls on HBO just you I watched like the first couple seasons of it Allison Williams, someone said y'all aren't ready for this tag. It was a tweet, but she would be a great American psycho if they went a female angle on it. And I actually think

that she would be hilarious because she almost was playing as an American psycho in that show, just under the radar, just crazy. You know they did that when they tried to do the sequel with Mila Kunis American Psycho 2 yeah, I forgot about that. It's regarded as one of the worst sequels ever. Yeah, and with Mila Kunis is uh, you know Association with uh, I don't know Child traffickers, maybe they should delete that from the internet. What about gillenhall? Jillenhall could do it. I just worry he's a little too old for this right now. He's a, he fits the bill. He was so ripped up in Roadhouse.

It was unbelievable. It was off putting. I've seen a lot of people saying that, we talked about him on retail therapy last week, but Drew Starkey from Outer Banks, he's kind of having a little ascension right now. Oh, Rafe. Rafe, yeah. Did you guys watch Outer Banks

or is that just me, Randy and Brett John? I did not watch Outer Banks. This guy's getting a lot of chatter just for big roles in general, but he's been floated as being a very good option for it and I actually think that is a good assessment. I kind of hope they do like a black guy just to make people mad.

Just cause people will be like, oh, that would be sick. Honestly, how unhinged Rafe is, I think he can do a pretty good Patrick Bateman. If you picture this guy putting on a face mask in the morning. No, that's good. Like Michael B. Jordan, I don't think he's got the American psycho gene in him.

He doesn't look, he's got too much approachable. Yeah, he's too approachable. Randy, who is the actor that plays in the cinematic universe of Marvel? The Falcon. Many of them. What is his name? Matt Bomer's another one, but he's 47.

He looks younger than 47, but that is one handsome dude. Whenever I hear something, yeah, he could, actually, he's. He's he's 47. He looks younger than 47, but that is one handsome dude. Whenever I hear something Yeah, he could he could actually he's scorching on he's good-looking enough that it would work Anthony Mackie back. Yeah, you know something else. He's played some dark roles before and crushed You know this exercise has been generally positive, but it's made me realize something. I don't know a lot of young actors Like the 30 that range I am very much you've named you guys have had a lot of young actors. Like the 30, that range, I am very much, you've named, you guys have had a lot of name drops and I'm unfamiliar with their work.

And that's sad. Here, Randy, I'm slacking you a name because I don't know how to say it. But I saw a tweet that was like, he would be, this guy would be hilarious in the role, but I'm not sure that he would be like the best for the role. It's the guy from Righteous Gemstones

who became a stunt man. Oh, okay, this kid. I think he's too goofy looking. No, I know, but like that, I think him having the psycho undertones would be like even more entertaining. Yeah. Do we know if this is gonna be a rewritten movie

or is this gonna be just a remake? I think that's my biggest question mark on the movie even more than who will play it. I don't really know if I want it to be modern day because I feel like it'll age really poorly. If it's a crypto bro who's living in San Francisco, it's not going to hit the 80s nostalgia of the waspy American guy.

I remember on PGP somebody, or maybe it was just on touching bass we Talked about it, but somebody like talked about the modern one being Silicon Valley tech bro type you could do it and set it in Austin You could you could and it and it works. But again, it is like what you said. It doesn't have the vintage Wall Street 80s feel that everybody liked about the first one, but I kind of hope they get unique maybe do a female or Just a non-white guy just to mix it up. Yeah. Yeah sticking on the white guy, uh Train, um austin butler might be okay Played elvis. Yes, he's

He has been uh floated by like gQ and some other outlets as a possibility that would work really well. He's got a little Nick Vile face, doesn't he? Yeah, he's unapproachable, good looking, in my opinion. He's tall as hell. Scarsgard. Ooh. Dude, Scarsgard.

Scarsgard would be, he would dominate. Dude, Scarsgard's built for this. He would dominate dude scars guards built for this he would dominate that here i have i think i have it pulled up what they said about what the modern day american psycho would be let me see okay this is from brett easton ellis who wrote the original book he said sometimes i think that if i had written the book in the past decade perhaps bateman would be working in silicon valley living in cooperino with excursions into San Francisco or down to Big Sur to the Post Ranch Inn

and palling around with Zuckerberg and dining at the French Laundry or lunching with Reed Hastings in Manresa and Los Gatos wearing a Yeezy hoodie and teasing girls on Tinder. Certainly he could also just as easily be a hedge fund manager in New York. Patrick Bateman begets Bill Ackman and Daniel Loeb. I don't know what that means, but word.

Okay, I want it to be New York. I think I want it to be in New York. I do too. He worked in finance? Finance. He did, right? Murders and executions. M&A, executions or acquisitions?itions executions mergers and executions.

It was it was murders and executions mergers and acquisitions. I think what music you wanted to put on in American Psycho remake is gotta be something from life of Pablo. You get him back to the department and you just start explaining the merits of like I Don't know Something off of life of Pablo or something off a beautiful dark twisted. Just like this is why Connie is a genius Yeah, I could see it. I Am excited for the

The remake I am I don't get excited about a lot of remakes. Did you read the book? I did not. I had some backers accused me of not reading the book and I can proudly say that in the last 10 years it's one of the like six books I've actually finished. Good? Yeah, it's a lot darker than the movie. Why did they just go at you for that? I don't know. What did you do? I thought it was a little out of bounds. I was like what? I you for that? I don't know. What did you do? I thought it was a little out of bounds. I was like, I'm very upfront about how little I read. So to say that I actually did read something, I feel like that's a point of pride for me. You just didn't finish the fourth book and just continued out the series. Dude, fuck Harry Potter. I'm not even going to

finish the series anymore. I'm done with Harry Potter. I'm out. Bye. It's very unlike you to not be in on Harry Potter. It's such a bad take. Wasn't even a take. I just said I was gonna move on. Hey, I didn't know Austin Butler was a Disney Channel guy. He's what? I didn't know Austin Butler was a Disney Channel guy. I did not either. Didn't he do the method acting thing for Elvis

and he just couldn't get out of character? No, he just kept the Elvis voice. Yeah, he's still Elvis. I get it though. It's like if you do the character, whatever it is, like in your Elvis, like fuck it. We ball now. I never saw that.

It was good. Okay. I enjoyed it. It was different. I had the opportunity to go to Graceland when I was younger, but I told my parents I didn't care, so take someone else. Very artsy in the way they filmed it.

Okay. But it was good. The music obviously was excellent. Are you sure? Were you positive it was a musical when you entered? I had no clue. I hate this conversation so much. When's the last time you ripped a jewel?

It's, it's been a while, but I have ripped a jewel. I can't speak about it. Unfortunately, I've been advised to not speak about it. It's pending. Pending a legal issue here. But I can't say that I have in my life. Multiple times. Multiple thousands of times, maybe.

I've never purchased one or anything, but I mean, if one of your absolutes has one on the golf course Sometimes you gotta you gotta hit that thing with them. There was an absolute jewel movement for a while everyone I just want people to know that if you're in a if you're in a foursome with me and we're teeing off in the afternoon Might have a couple drinks in the mix I just hope that one of you has a jewel there because it'll be it'll be fun for a couple holes Can't find them anymore, right? They've been yeah Yeah, but you can find like elf bars and whatever they're called.

What were you gonna say, Randy? I was gonna say, I think that there's three podcasts hosts here that may be in trouble because they got a certain producer a jewel back in the day. Oh yes, I did. I bought Micah a jewel for the white elf. Was the white elf in it just a gift exchange? It was like a secret Santa.

Did you get addicted to it? Okay, yeah. It was just you. Did Micah get popcorn long? I don't know if he actually used it, but I just thought it'd be hilarious to get Micah a jewel, so I got him one. I can confirm that in my time of hanging out with Micah

since touching base, I have never seen Micah hit a jewel or even talk about jewels. I'm not sure what he did with it. I don't think he used it. Well, should we have joined this class action lawsuit? Cause we've hit Jules before. Cause like I've seen payments on,

I've seen screenshots of payments going out for this that range between $1,200 up to almost $10,000 to some person. Damn. Can you just join class action lawsuits if they're just out there? Do they need like proof of purchase or something? Yes.

How? How do you prove your purchase if you're just like Apple paying at a gas station? You just pull a credit card statement? Can I just be like, yeah, this $60 tank of gas was actually like, I just bought 10 jewels. I did buy the one jewel that I gifted. That's the only jewel I ever purchased. So settlement class includes all individuals who purchased in the United States, a jewel product from a brick and mortar

or online retailer before December 7th, 2022. If you are in this group, you are a member of the settlement class and you must make a claim in order to receive payment. So you should do it. You should see what happens. I'm actually, I was joking. I've literally never hit a jewel.

Did we miss the window on it? Yeah. No. Oh no? Dylan actually told me that he was watching a spooky movie the other day that he had to turn off because it ended up being point of graphic called Brickton Murder.

That's a good one. I would watch that. Brickton Murdered. You just, you know, bricked up and then you get murdered is what's going on in that one. Yeah. What what do you have any scary movies on your radar before Halloween? I've been working through a few of them already parks it. I got parks into the Halloween series We've watched two of them so far and he's loving them Except for the nude scenes. I'm not letting him watch you're gonna say like except for the nightmares. He's having

Camp Crystal Lake. I'll never forget that. Camp Crystal Lake. I wish I would have jeweled more so I could get like the bag right now. Of course, the murderer in Friday the 13th is not Jason. It is his mother. Spoiler.

Jason the murderer. He takes over the killing in the second one. Why are they paying people out? What's the what's the class-action lawsuit even about? Pop is it popcorn lung related? I would imagine what just the dangers of it. What I don't know It's I haven't read any of this. I don't think I guess I don't hmm The lawsuit alleged the plaintiffs paid more for jewel products because Than they otherwise would have if accurate information concerning the products, addictiveness and safety had been provided and that jewel products were unlawfully marketed to minors.

Yeah, I get that. Have you guys ever joined a class action lawsuit and gotten the bag? No. I got 30 bucks for like an airbag thing one time. Sick. Okay. I've definitely had one. I can't remember for what though.

Yeah, I remember getting the check and being like, oh. Okay. This is interesting. Cause you'd think miners would already have long issues. All that. It's the black lung, pop. That's good, Dave. That's real good.

You've been cracking up lately at Ben Stiller's Kamala endorsements doing Zoolander. Dave's been sending me every video. I've not seen him. Is he doing Zoolander? He did. Someone made like a cake that's like, that was White House themed and he was with Kamala's husband

and he did the whole, what is this? A White House for ants thing. And it was fine, but like, I'll be honest, I don't think any Trump voters are seeing that video and being like, oh man, I got a switch now, that's hilarious. It's a good quote. The settlement we did frequently back in the day. The settlement has closed, you can no longer join yet.

Another Skarsgard movie. That's true. I just clicked through and said. We never did Zoolander for Stream Room. You can't hop back in. That's a miss. I'm gonna download I'm gonna download Zoolander for the flight. Zoolander is a great movie. I'm gonna be kicking the seat in front of me laughing so hard. Hmm. We never saw the sequel or did we? No, no, no. I don't think I'm going to. Yeah, that's pretty, that's crazy because I mean, that was a movie I've seen many, many times.

And there was a time where I would have been all in on a sequel and now I have just no desire to go back and watch that. It's like, I've never seen Dumb and Dumber. No, no, no, no. I just don't need, I don't need to tarnish the original. The original for me is, I think there's a world where the original Dumb and Dumber,

where I think it's the funniest movie I've ever seen. It is such a great movie. That's... But if it's not number one, it's in the top four. Yeah, it's a top five comedy. Yeah, like, there's some Adam Sandler movies from that era that are maybe competing with it, but when I watch Dumb and Dumber, I am pretty much at my happiest watch Dumb and Dumber I am pretty much at my happiest. Dumb and Dumber was just a level of dumbassery that like you hadn't really seen in a movie that they just did it right like the pest it was like okay here's the pet I know bring up the pest again it's like okay this is this guy's just fucking this guy sucks and whatever but Dom and Dumber I mean they had like

Jim Carrey at the height of his powers Jeff Daniels like a legit actor and it worked. Yeah Was the redheads name Holly? They ended up getting married in real life. They did Jeff Daniels. No, no Jim Carrey. Oh Well, that didn't last right? No. Yeah dumb and Dumber two, which is spelledrey. Oh, well that didn't last right? No. Yeah. Dumb and Dumber Two, which is spelled T-O-O, one of the worst movies I've ever seen. Yeah, see, that's the thing.

I'm not willing to- But they got the same actors together and they still just absolutely whiffed on it. It's weird how that- The comedy doesn't hit the same so long after the fact. And they were like, they clearly had aged a bunch because it was filmed much later. And it's like, it doesn't work

as well I think that like american psycho can work because there's so many different takes that you can have on it that are departure from The original whereas like a movie like dumb and dumber like you're really pigeonholed to stupid humor And that stupid humor was so funny because it was the first time i'd seen humor that dumb before So jewels how do we get down this road? You know, people get in the bag and I'm happy. What will our friend Blaine do if I show up with an elf bar to to the little golf outing I'm doing in two weeks? Probably hit, said elf. Blaine, I know you're listening. Please reach out. I have an Esco bar at home. I'll give you.

Pablo? Damn, you're living that life of Pablo. I think the moral of the story here is keep your receipts. Yeah. Yeah. For like auditing purposes? For, yeah, for Blaine purposes and also for future class action possibilities. Yeah, Blaine's our accountant slash friend. Yes. Not in that order, but sometimes in that order,

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I've been in New York since I was 21 years old. I have not been, yours is a longer period than me. I have not been since spring of 2023. I also just didn't do it right at all. Well yeah no one in their younger 20s. I actually went there to my girlfriend who had recently broken up with we planned this trip like way in advance. She was studying there like for a semester and so I went to visit her and we were just we were broken up and fighting. It was just not good.

That sounds sick. It was not good. That sounds like a sick trip, dude. Man, just cancel that flight. Didn't really get to experience the city in the ways that one should when you visit New York. So I'm excited to redo it. Haven't been to the city since I was a child.

Fuck yeah, Dave. I did go to McDonald's down there and I did buy a New Jersey Devil's Jersey when I was there. What the hell, dude? It was like in that area of like childhood where like you were just into teams. Like you still, I guess still was riding with the stars, but I was also like collecting cool logos and cool. And the Devils have an objectively cool jersey.

Well, at that point in our lives too, like it was peak cool logo season season for the NHL. It was very easy to be like, you know what? I would do that with mini sticks. We played mini sticks a lot. Okay. And so I would always buy, if I went to a random game or whatever, I would always buy a random cool logo. Yeah. When the Mighty Ducks came out with their new logo after the Disney movie and stuff, it was like, yeah, give me all of that. Yeah. When the Mighty Ducks came out with their new logo after the Disney movie and stuff, it was like, yeah, give me all of that. Yeah. What, anyone have any predictions?

I'll start. Okay. I think less than 50% of people will have a costume on. And I think that number will go down as far as a third. Do you think anyone will out costume Randy in the Doug Dimmadome? Are you Dimmadoming? I have committed to Dimmadoming

a second weekend around doing Dimmadome. I have to figure out the hat. It is going to be hilarious seeing Randy and a group of people in a bar walking around with a giant ass hat on. Yeah, traveling with that hat might be a touch and go. I think you just buy paper when you get there, man. I think that's what I'm gonna do. I think I'm gonna actually bring the hat part

and then recreate the poster board actual top hat. I can just go to Walgreens and get poster board pretty easily. That's a good call. What time should we arrive at this meetup? I know it starts at five. We should arrive at five. Exactly at five or do we arrive early to like make sure that everything's good

or do we do fashionably late at like 5.15? In Chicago, we were about on time. We were. Okay. We were, I know I was. I think there were like, anyone else was like five minutes after me. But I don't know, I get peak nervous in that 15 minutes

when you arrive and then like you're sussing everything out. Because you think no one's gonna show up. Wait, like the biggest thing about Chicago was like, where do we do it? If we go upstairs where it's actually better for this, like are people gonna know to go upstairs or people just gonna leave? If we do it downstairs, everyone's gonna fill in

that's not at the meetup, like it's just a stressful time. There's also that when you first walk in and you start seeing people that you don't know, but you're like, okay, are they here for the meetup? Should I go talk and smile and shake this person's hand? Are they going to come up to me? Am I a douchebag for assuming that they would know who I am? Here's what we're going to do. Here's what we're going to do to zap this anxiety that we all have. If you are on time to the meetup and we walk in, do the Micah finger wave. Yes.

Do the Micah finger because I wanna know immediately because I will gas you up. Actually, people are doing that, Bourbon and Beyond, it would help. More than anywhere. Good, Bourbon and Beyond, that was a big player. It's finger waving season. I like that.

Yeah, it's the identifier. Is the gym saloon, is it two stories? What's the? I don't know. I don't know anything about it. Don't I don't know a thing about it. I've heard basement bathroom much like Chicago, big in Chicago. I think that's a gym. I talked to Micah about the gym saloon and he said that he was unfamiliar with the gym saloon, but he and Boo Boo ended up eating lunch there during a Cowboys game and they ended up staying for the entirety of the Cowboys game there. And at the end, Boo Boo said that Micah looked at her

and said, this is a great place to watch a fucking game. Really? Yeah. Okay. She might've not dropped an F-bomb. She's, she's a leader. College football will certainly be on in the bar then. And then when the baseball game starts, that'll be on the TV as well.

Yeah, you would think that the New York bar might play a World Series game. I have a prediction. Okay. I have a prediction that either Randy. I like either. Either Randy or Brett will have the bed all to themselves one of the nights.

Because they are sharing a bed. But one night, it's your own bed. Calm down. I don't know, I didn't say you. I am gonna have the bed to myself one night it's your own bed. Calm down. I don't know, I didn't say you. I am gonna have the bed to myself one night, that is Thursday night, because Brett, it's not getting until Friday. Either Friday or Saturday, it's one of you.

Do you have any friends in the city, Randy? I don't really think so, no. I think I might know like two people, I'm not gonna hit them up though. Do you have a- All my friends moved out of the city, and my one friend that lives in the city's got like a kid now, so he's not exactly boppin'.

So you don't have a baddie lined up for the weekend? No, I do not have a baddie lined up for the weekend. Baddie? Baddie, you sound like Brad McMillan. You're a good looking feller, I don't know. Dude, this city is gonna eat Randy alive. No, Randy's gonna. He's gonna look like Kevin McAllister walking down the street.

Randy's gonna eat this city alive. I need you on the subway. Ooh, going to the Sticky Bandit would be funny. Fritz would love if I went as a Sticky Bandit actually. Maybe I'll do that this year. Who do I, I'd have to look more like Marv. Yeah, that's okay, you can do that. I'm just so pigeonholed into costumes

because of the beard, it sucks. Yeah. I don't wanna shave the beard for a costume, that's so lame. So Brett has claimed, the reason that the gem saloon has been such a player on this show since Brett arrived on our, uh, in Austin is

cause he has a loose relationship with manager owner, I think something. I think Brett drank enough at the gem saloon because it was very close to the bar stool headquarters at that time that like, it was just his watering hole. So like, you know, you know how Brett is like he, he makes friends with all

the staff. Okay. I'm looking at the IG. I feel like if you scroll down far enough, they're going to be like, Brett needs a plaque on one of the bar stools there. I might just do that. I might just buy a Will to Freeze little plaque and just screw it into places that I like. We've tried this at Matt's. We've had people do it for us. I think we just need to take control of the situation yeah I'm predicting are you headed let me ask you this before I make this prediction are you headed straight from the your friend's birthday party your friends kids birthday party I am yeah the birthday I'm going to I'm going to a one-year-old birthday party, and it's for one of my longest, one of my biggest loots that you can even fathom.

His son is turning one, and so I will be pre-gaming the meetup at a one-year-old birthday party in Brooklyn. And so I will be going straight to meetup from there. Are you Subwaying it? Yeah, Subway is easy. Subway is very easy. Oh, we got a picture of the Jim Saloon here. Okay, so this is what it kind of looks like. So there's an upstairs, but it's not like a... it looks like a...

Oh, yeah, there is an upstairs. Cool. But I don't know if the upstairs... I don't know. I'm gonna trust Brett. Looks like a half upstairs. Looks big. Yeah, but Brett didn't... he didn't select this this place we did because of his love for it. I Have a prediction. I think on the washed media tab that covers our company. I think the most Purchased item on that tab will be Guinness That's it. That's a good call And if I need to if I need to go overboard just to make sure that that happens and my prediction comes true

I will do that. I find myself not drinking a ton of these things. Well, yeah, not all of them, but yeah, just cause we're just in conversation the entire time. Houston. I did a bunch of shots and got absolutely obliterated. Chicago was so chaotic that I didn't, I had four light beers, Houston, none in a vortex bottle. Houston we messed up because we went straight from LT Yompo to the, to the bar and we were already toasty. And I did, I did my one shot rule per meetup.

And I had that shot pretty much immediately when I walked in. And then the more buzzed I got, the more liberal I got with that plan. Yeah, I'm gonna politely request no one buy me, no cocktails. Somebody at the Chicago meetup, I think it was one of the triplets,

just walked up to me with just the fattest ranch water, just a glugger of a ranch water and just handed it to me. And I was like, looking at it made me just wanna vomit. I don't wanna turn down drinks from listeners and attendees because I mean, without Randy bringing me a lean Christmas, we might not have Randy in our lives right now. That's facts, dude. It could be lean Christmas season, dude Randy bringing me a lean Christmas, we might not have Randy in our lives right now. That's facts, dude.

It could be lean Christmas season, dude. Ooh, a lean Christmas? What's a lean Christmas again? Just water and Rumpelmints. Honestly, it was so good though. Like it was so good. That's a good name. A lean Christmas.

Did you come up with that? Yeah, me and my friend did. Oh, okay. Back in college, it's like, yeah, it's just like, it's low calorie, it's lean. It's great. It's like Christmas. Oh, okay. Back in college. It's like, yeah, it's just like, it's low calorie, it's lean. It's great. It tastes like Christmas. It's great. I have a prediction. I think, I think Alyssa might be the person that people want to talk to the most at one point. I think she's going to have a crowd around her. Outside of the Austin meetups, she has never been to a... She's never been to an out of town

meetup. Yeah, I think she's going to have some chatter flying her way. I'm excited for Chelsea will be coming. I'm excited for Chelsea to see what these are all about. This will be her first meetup. Is she going to be sketched out? I feel like it confuses some people. She won't be sketched out. She's going to be like, wow, you guys actually do have a fan base. That's really cool to see. It's more just reaffirming, no, it's legitimate. This is legitimate. It's a legitimate operation.

Anyone else dressed, you're not dressing up, are you Dave? No, no. Costume, I mean. Am I gonna be the only one of us that's dressed up in a costume? I'm 50-50 right now. don't really want to pack a costume So I'm thinking that if I do something it's going to be like a game time decision in the city Like I think if I see anything that would be funny, I'll buy it and do it

But I don't really want to like I'm carrying on and I don't really want to have like a costume take up a bunch Of room in my suitcase. That's the biggest issue for me I want people to dress up like I don't want people to be out in New York city the weekend before Halloween and not get to dress up if you're a Halloween person. But I think it's also working against me that I'm just largely not a Halloween person. How many-

I do have a pants beer idea though. Oh, I ain't talking about that. How many costumes do you think are going to be specifically circling back bits? Like two. There'll be a will to freeze there. Someone called in the mail and asking about doing a bit for like kind of wash media, but I wonder how many they're going to be. Like how many tides are we going to get?

Yeah, tide would be good. Tide would be good. If someone's dressed like tide, I want them to start bartending though. Do you think we can ask them if they can do rum floaters for free just for like two hours? We can certainly ask. Yeah. What's the post meetup meal looking like? Ooh, I think I'm going to get a just a big ass New York slice. I want Zah.

Based on the reviews for this place that I just looked at, the food here is pretty good. I saw a club sandwich on that Instagram feed that is owning a little bit of real estate in my head. Brett has said that the food here is good. Yeah, but Brett also, like his favorite food is bruschetta. My prediction is I go in hungry and a backer has to buy me a burger and I'm going to have to unhinge my jaw and eat it, even though that picture is nowhere to be found. Is there any like more panicked feeling than when you try to take a big bite of something and your jaw starts locking up? It's tough.

It's just like, oh, please unlock. Look at that. Yeah. Oh yeah, baby. Yeah, maybe fuck it. Maybe I'll just eat at the gem saloon. Do they have tendies there? They gotta have tendies. He's giving tendies.

Yeah, but I don't know if I can have tendies again. I've had the best tendies I've ever had in my life in Louisville. Those were great tendies. Dude, is it a sneaky tendy city? Louisville? Yeah, they should lean into that more. Maybe.

It's because the chicken feed's different there. Okay. More minerals. It's actually candy corn. That's good. Call back. Yellow, orange, white. It's the descending order.

Learn that in my preparations for Spooky Seasons, do you know it edition. I'm not gonna share any predictions about Brett's fit. I'm not gonna do it. Come on. He's gonna be in New York. I feel like if there's a place where Brett thrive with fits, it's New York.

I saw him wear, like during Christmas time, he had that shit on. So I think he's more of a New York. Like I saw him wear like during Christmas time. He had that shit on. So I think he's more of a New York dresser. Yeah. He's going to be volume shooting. It's going to be believe in the fifties while we're there like at night. So cool. Not exactly cold. Think any backers will bring a vortex bottle. Not exactly cold. Think any backers will bring a Vortex bottle? Ooh. Any New Yorkers out there have any access

to some original recipe Vortex bottles? Like you know where to go. If they present one to you, will you drink it? Yeah, for sure. For sure. I might get kicked out for bringing in outside liquor, but like that's a cross I'm willing to bear. Pants beer is gonna happen here?

Maybe I'll pants beer. Can you get in trouble for pants beering outside liquor? Probably. Yeah, they probably don't want you to do that. Okay. Okay. I'll do it in the bathroom over the grate. Okay, okay, but then I'm kind of excluding female backers from being able to see the pants beer. It's just for the loot. You can step outside, sidewalk. Go live. Yeah, we could go live for a pants beer. I have a prediction Brad and I are going to be out way too late. Yeah, we could go live for a Pantsberry. I have a prediction Brad and I are gonna be out way too late. Yeah, I think you guys are gonna look like absolute dog shit on your flight home on Sunday.

Oh, fuck. Hopefully it's our flight Sunday, I forgot. Not as early as mine, buddy. I asked Dave to push it back. It's not like crazy early, is it? Mine is at 7 a.m. sharp. Yikes. That's okay, I'm built for that.

How long is it to get to the airport? Don't wanna think about it. Don't ask me these questions. Dylan, we have a very used story. We do? Yeah. Dave. Look at the old runny here. 11.35 a.m. That's good for you guys actually, out of JFK.

Oh, are we talking? This is not a Dylan story at all. We're talking Zotkarts. So does this count as playing your Zotkart? We need to know. German police busted a pizzeria in the western city of Dusseldorf. They also delivered a side order of something else when customers asked for item number 40 on the menu. One of their best sellers.

Take a wild guess what pizza 40 was. What do you think they were giving you? Little rum floater on the za? Maybe a pizza oil. Maybe like a 40, like a 40 ounce. A 40 ounce, okay. Yeah Okay, I'm all like old English It's cocaine cocaine cocaine cocaine Yeah

Police were tipped off by suspicious food inspectors in March when the drug squad officers began observing the Pete pizza restaurant They soon discovered why pizza 40 was so popular It was the cocaine you were getting cocaine. That was the secret thing. What's popular. It was the cocaine. You were getting cocaine. That was the secret thing. What's the pizza itself that the cocaine comes with? That I don't know. That's a question that might go unanswered, but it's a question that I would like to know. Yeah, I would like to know what they decided to attach it to. I feel like every college town, big towns even, they have a place where where like that's always like a myth.

It's like dude, if you order the 18 and you like wink twice and clap, you can get a, they'll give you like a bag of weed or something. Like back in the day. What's the place you all went to in Chicago? A milkshake? Oh, what? Oh, chocolate. If you order a chocolate milkshake at Wiener Circle, you get some, you get some titties

in your face. And then someone did it and it was hilarious. I saw it. Police said that the restaurant manager who was released from detention after a few days soon reopened his business and started selling pizza number 40 with the cocaine side order again. Nice.

This gave investigators an opportunity to look into the supply chain. And after several weeks, some 150 officers busted an entire drug ring in Western Germany. Seems like too many officers arrested three suspects, including the 22 year old head of the drug operation. So this guy went in, agreed to cooperate, then just started selling it again just so they could bust all these other people's. This dude flip. It's kind of like the oh, so he flipped on him.

That's what it sounds like. Okay. It's not like a situation where, you know, you have this guy that is an arms dealer and then you get him and then you release him for WNBA player and then he starts dealing arms again. It's not like that. It sounds a little bit different,

but I see where you're going. Okay. A lopsided trade in some eyes. This is actually a smart way to deal drugs, if I'm being honest. It's pretty fast and loose. But like, it's smarter than some ways of doing it, I guess. What is the marijuana-themed sandwich shop

that we just discussed here the other day? The one on campus, Chiba Hut. Chiba Hut. It's also a built-in money laundering operation. It's perfect, yeah. But do you think they have to make the number 40 pizza completely unappetizing so that people don't just randomly order it?

What if you're just in Dusseldorf for the day and you're like, oh, I'm so tired from the day, let's just order a pizza into the hotel. This number 40 sounds good. Like why does this pizza cost $300? Yeah, what if, and then like you get it and you're like, wow, this is some really interesting looking grated Parmesan, but whatever.

Yeah, hopefully no one makes that mistake. I can't be doing that. Like the 40 couldn't be like a Meat Lovers. No, no, it couldn't be a Hawaiian. No. What are you trying to say? I think I'm all in on Hawaiian pizzas, dude. Why is that specifically?

Oh, here we go. Don't just look. I'm asking Will a question. Why is that specifically? You know why you're asking me. He knows why you're asking me. That I'm in on him? Yeah.

I mean, I got some Hawaiian pizza leftovers for lunch today. Most pizzas are very savory. Okay. But there's some, like when it comes to a Hawaiian style pizza, which isn't even, you know, from Hawaii, it's from Canada, as we've learned, you know, you have that savor, you have that salty,

the Canadian bacon or ham, some even add some, you know, salty bacon or maybe even some pork belly to it. But what really drives it home for me personally is the sliced pineapple. It adds a certain je ne sais quoi, a sweetness to it. And when you try to boil down the reason that the pizza tastes so good, I think, you know, at its roots, it has to do with the juxtaposition. Oh, yeah. Of course. That makes sense.

Of course. Between the sweet and the salty. Yeah. The salty, the savory. What's annoying is that this is one of those times where it actually is a juxtaposition of flavors. A lot of the times you guys are just absolutely reaching and talking to you Dave. I don't think you understand the word but that's okay.

The flavors are quite juxtaposed in this in this particular scenario. I just think I think being anti Hawaiian pizza at this point is a pure harto play. I'm not anti I don't like I'm not one of these guys who like oh that's not your real pizza but it's not for me. But you like, oh, that's not a real pizza, but it's not for me. But you would eat one single slice. Like if we had a pizza party and we had four different pizzas, let's say one's a meat lovers. Let's say one is pepperoni jalapeno and let's say one's a veggie for all the veg heads out

there and then one's a Hawaiian. I feel like you're going to snag one Hawaiian just to see what's up with it. I did try one not so long ago because Chelsea in parks both like Hawaiian pizzas, unfortunately. Do they also enjoy the juxtaposition? They didn't say that specifically, but that might be at play here, sure. I might just go get a Hawaiian like, for lunch.

You can't. You can't punch your Zod card when you're about to go to New York. Oh, no, you get a vacation exemption. You get the vacation exemption. But the vacation exemption only applies when you're on vacation. You can eat it twice there. Go on, Rogue. I don't care. But did I, I famously had pizza on Sunday night and remind me if the court would remind me when the clock resets? would remind me when the clock resets. It's sundown, dad.

Fuck. You're toast. Okay, I'll abstain from lunch today and honor the vacation exemption. Do you think they're eating the Hawaiian pizza on the big island? You gotta think they are. Do they even eat Hawaiian pizza in Hawaii?

No, we looked it up on Monday's episode. Oh yeah, that's right. Yeah, it's Canadian. It's Justin Trudeau's favorite meal. Which makes sense because they got the Canadian bacon. Canadian bacon. What, Fidel Castro's son? Yeah, Fidel it's Canadian. It's Justin Trudeau's favorite meal. Which makes sense because they got the Canadian bacon. Canadian bacon. What, Fidel Castro's son? Yeah, Fidel Castro's son.

It makes sense that he would be a Hawaiian pizza guy if you really think about it. Meatballs, Canadian comedy. Do you have a favorite pizza that's non-traditional? Like do you freak with barbecue chicken pizza? Sally loves a barbecue chicken pizza. Not really. I'm pretty bored when it comes to pizza.

I like Italian sausage, pepperoni, and mild pepper. I feel like jalapeno is not traditional. It's common, but you're not gonna see that in Italy, are you? Maybe. In New York, are you? Do they do that up there? I'm sure they do now.

But I will count that as a non-traditional za that I do enjoy. My favorite's the macaroni pizza from sissies Is it actually good? It's all right. Mr. Gaddis used to have an apple pizza. That was so good See, I have I married someone who does not like pies that have outside of barbecue chicken She does not like pies that don't have red sauce So if it's like a white sauce or an olive oil situation or something like that, she's just like, no.

I don't rock with that. Red sauce pizza is impossible to beat. Like I said, I got some leftover pizza. I'm gonna put some of that orange sauce on it. Ooh, I'm excited for that. Thank you, Kevin. There was some- Shout out Kevin.

There was a restaurant that doesn't do it anymore, but they did like a cacio e pepe pizza, and it fucking hit. All right, well, I'll walk up, I've got this, I'll put it down in front of you, and then I just hand you the pepper cracker, and say, you put on your own pepper. What's that gonna look like?

Stop. Would you stop? What? That's a lot of pepper. A lot of pepper. A lot of pepper. Okay. All right. Now you hand it over to Dylan who also got a pizza. Oh, toss the eight. Good catch.

Now you're going to put the pepper on. How's that going to look? Okay. Little indecisive, but fair. I'll be honest. Last time I went out and had a someone cracking pepper over my Caesar salad, they just did the amount that they desired. They didn't give me the option to say stop. They just stopped and I was like, uh, it's not how this works. This is not

the social norm. Keep going playboy. That's Johnny. Johnny Hamchak just lets him keep going as long as they'll go. You see Johnny Hamchak was opening up a bed store next door to an existing bed store and he was warning the guy that he was going to compete with his business. Was it a spite coffee shop like Larry David's? He goes, we're going to have a guy out front with one of those spinny socks right in front of your store that points to my store. Fucking asshole. Oh man. Fuckin' asshole. Oh, man.

Have fun out there with your za. I'm gonna bump our next topic to next week's episode. It's not timely. It'll still be there. It's still a good segment. I'm excited to hear about that one. That'll be good. Bro, let's go out this weekend.

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looking forward to in New York? I'm most looking forward to, um, maybe central park this time of year. I've heard great things about New York in the fall time. The weather is going to be very, very nice. It'll be nice to be in that. Just seeing the city, man, walking the park and grabbing, grabbing a bite. Yeah. Just walking the streets in the park.

Why are you fucking looking at me? Nothing. I wanted to see what your response to his response was. No, I think that's fair. I love walking Central Park. Like I know it's very, I know it's touristy and whatever, but like there's something nice about it. It's beautiful park.

I'm intimidated. Are you familiar with the word Sonder? I'm not. Why are you intimidated, Dave? Just because it's New York City. Yeah. I'm just like, oh, can I keep up? I don't know where to, you know,

indecisiveness is not looked upon. I don't know much about the city. I don't know much. I don't know about the spots to hit. I really don't. The word Sonder is a noun. It's the feeling one has realizing that every other individual one sees has a life as full and real as one's own. That feeling always hits me when I'm in Central Park that you look around and you're like, oh, all these people are in their own different,

they have their own world, but we're all in this one place. I don't know why. Okay. I just look around at people. I just, people watch there and I'm like, wow, everyone's just fucking on their own wave right now. Yeah. It's good word, man. Hey, it's a pretty good word.

What are you most excited for Dave? Start texting the Lutes. You know, I'm really, I'm going to do Central Park. I'm, I'm kind of looking forward to having And I think this is honestly the majority of the trip Just walk around and pop in and out of wherever I want to go. Yeah Find a place that I can grab a drink post up

Temperatures that lend itself to a nice sweatshirt and just enjoying a Guinness, a pint. Walking around. A creamy? Creamy, yeah. I'm gonna keep it creamy with you right quick. I'm gonna have at least two Guinness on this trip. I think the over under for my Guinness consumption on this trip is at 10 and a half. Ooh. Okay. I think meetup day is gonna be when the real work goes in,

but I don't see myself having less than two on a casual Thursday, Friday. I don't think I'm gonna see anybody from this company until the meetup. You will. I feel like everyone is going to, man, the term side quest has kind of been ruined. We'll be looking to link that.

Side quest sucks, dude. It was cool for a minute. You're not doing a side quest, you're just like, you're just doing something. I know. Usually that's the best magical loot. But like, if you're doing a side quest, if you're doing a side quest, what is your main quest?

Just living life? Like, I don't, what is the main quest here? If you don't want to see us on this trip, just say it, all right? We're doing something else, we're doing the side quest thing why are you so mad because i want to hang out side quest day i want to hang out with the loots man i don't think i there's not i'm gonna i'm gonna issue a request to new york city backers can you please dm me on instagram or twitter at d carter off on twitter at dc ref on. If you know places, we were saying like say central,

central, southeast ish, that area. Good like got a pop in pop out. Oh, it's a great place to go. You know, you can go get a stand up at a bar top have a Guinness just good spots. Let me know. Yeah, me too, please. I have no plans at all. This thing sent me some nerd shit. Brett sent me with some neighborhoods to go walk around. Like, do I need to go, if I want to get like good slices of za, do I need to, we need to go down to like little Italy,

little Italy. Just pull up the one bite app, Dave. Okay. Not a bad call. It's okay. Portnay already did the legwork for you. I might try to go za every day. At least Friday.

Play that exemption card. Yeah, I wouldn't hate getting like a mid afternoon slices on Friday. I'm gonna be eating. I'm excited to meet some backers we haven't met before. Yeah. A lot of people flying in too. Pretty cool. I'm excited to see people flying in too. Pretty cool.

I'm excited to see Lucas Dolingowski. Pretty cool. Our absolute from the trashy peas. Noted backer. Yeah. I'm excited for a lot. I don't know. I like being in New York City when it's cool outside.

We getting cat pat? That's the question, man. Recent mother. That's the question. Don't know. Have it not hurt. If she wanted to, she could set the record for bringing the youngest backer to a meetup. It's fair.

That is fair. Yeah, I don't know what I'm most excited for. I think, you know what? No, fuck it. Here's what I'm most excited for. I don't know where we're going to do this. I don't know how it's going to pan out, but there's going to be a moment on Friday where I sit down for lunch at a restaurant with my wife, maybe one of my lutes in here.

And there's going to be a moment where I order a drink at that lunch and that drink is going to be such an exciting first drink of the day. Might be a Bloody Mary. I once ate lunch across the street from Central Park at some very New York feeling restaurant and I had the best Bloody Mary in my life there. And it's just owned real estate in my brain for like a long time. What's the place called? No idea. Okay.

No idea what the name of the place was called. I love a good Bloody Man. See, I don't know anything about New York City. I intentionally don't harvest information in my brain about it because what's the fucking point? Prediction someone's gonna see Chet Hanks. I think he's in New York right now If you're a loot with Chet Hanks, please bring him to the meetup. I would love to meet him Chet Hanks could be in play We you know who we're missing. We're missing a noted ballplayer Brent Rooker by one day. No really Can he go extendo on him? He's doing, I don't know if I'm breaking news, but he's going to be doing some work or some broadcast, some stream work for

the World Series. Oh, nice. He's going to be doing it out of New York City. I thought this might have been the Mets chatter that we've been seeing on the news wire. No. Don't want that to happen. I mean, it'd be sick to happen for him. I know that you want him to be a Texas Ranger of the baseball kind. Yeah. I know. I felt like that ship sailed.

I saw one article floating a little Detroit action, but that would be too good to be true. Can be fun. I'm looking for a bulldog bar moment, what's a bulldog bar moment? I have a very fond memory of the Bulldog bar in New Orleans because there was one trip there where we just Everything peaked at the right time. We had somebody Unexpectedly showed like pulled up who we didn't even think was going on the trip out of nowhere and just vibes were immaculate for like 90 minutes it was the highest of vibes you could ever imagine so now whenever I said think in New Orleans I always think of Bulldog Bar and I'm hoping to have

that moment in New York City I'm pumped so excited excited. Pumped. Shall we? We shall. Bye bye. Bye. Thanks for watching guys!