Circling Back - Man Caves & Fighter Jets

Episode Date: January 3, 2022

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All right, we're back. Circling Back Podcast presented by Roback, where you can get 20% off your first order using backer20 at checkout. My name's Will DeFreeze to my left. David, that boy rough. Man, I don't really know how to do this. I don't want to be that guy, but I don't know how. What are we doing here?

How do you podcast? I feel like the chemistry in that week off is just not there. Completely dissipated. And I, I just don't, it's going to take us a second to get it back. Me, at least I'm speaking for myself only,

but I, I, I had some trouble wondering if I was going to be able to podcast when I came in today. And it's, it's just kind of coming to fruition right now. Just keep talking through it, man. You'll get there um thanks for having me on uh liquid death is what i'm drinking it's not a sponsor today i did sip that bing bong on my way in really what kind of bing

bong did you sip on there it is dude i was on that tj bing bong really was it hitting i told y'all i've become a trader joe's guy in the in our time off it's been a while since i've seen y'all and i'm a tj guy dude you've made a lot of changes in this time off man they were calling me tj ford stop calling it tj when you first said you want me to teach with the tj this morning i thought you meant tj max at first oh dude i'm i'm all the way tj max i thought you got on set at the Challenge or something. You got to see TJ's final up close and personal.

I thought you were going to buy 2019's line of polo shirts from TJ Maxx. Don't diss TJ Maxx with Randy sitting right there. I'm not dissing TJ Maxx, but that's what they do. They sell shit that nobody wants. Is TJ Maxx Randy's number one rival with Kohl's?

No, I think it's his safety. If he goes into Kohl's and they don't have what he's looking for, he just goes over to TJ. He beefs with T. Can you even imagine trying to go into Kohl's and them not having what you're looking for? They always have it. Hey, I think we're getting it back.

I feel a lot better about today's episode. Really? That's all it took? Yeah, I think we're vibing. Wow. Speaking of vibing, we got the vibe master himself, Dylan Chivry, in the building. Yo, it's good. Yeah, man.

It's been a while since we've been in here, huh? I mean, all this crazy. It's crazy. Being out for this amount of time, it's... You've really grown up. I think it's the longest we've ever gone without recording a podcast together. Yeah. I mean, all of us.

Yeah. I think it's the longest. Yeah. And guess what? I would do it again next year. Is it like riding a bike? I don't know. I think we should do this

once a month where we take a week off. It's fine with me. Let's do it. I don't know if that's going to cut it, man. I don't know. I was hesitant

to start speaking today. I was really worried that what might come out of my mouth was just gibberish rambling, but I don't think it was. Well, it was that bing bong that got your head right. I was sipping that Double B.

Double B? Sipping that BB, Dylan. Shouts to BB. What are we doing? I don't know. That's the official nickname. It's not. No one calls her that.

Did you know that the wine that y'all were sharing with us on Sunday or whatever day that was? The Chianti Classico? It was like a Bibiano. And I was like, is this intentional? The girl from The Bachelorette? I thought it was a Classico. It was.

It was a Chianti Classico. But the brand was... I think it was like, yeah, Bibiano. Did you Vivino it to see how much Dylan spent on the bottle before he shared it with you? What is that? Is that an app? Vivino? Yeah, you scan the label of a bottle of wine and it comes up with everything you need to know.

It's great. I have never heard of this. That's incredible. Yeah. It'll tell you how much it should cost. It tells you just like stuff on it, how it's rated, whatever. Oh, that's good for restaurants when you think you're getting a nice bottle.

And you do it and the waiter's right there and you show him, like, hey man, this was a $30 bottle I just paid $100 for. They actually marked it up 10,000%. I can't believe you did that at the restaurant. I'm not going to air anybody out, but I went to a party one time and people were bringing bottles of wine and somebody at the party who was hosting the party was

scanning the labels as people were setting them down, being like, oh, nice. That's a good one. Oh, okay. That's all you did for us, huh? $18. I told him. I was like, dude, you got to stop doing this. Not to brag, but that bottle was like $20.

Can I guess who that was? You don't have to. You absolutely don't have to, David. Because I have a – it could be one of two people, and these two people are – all right, we'll just move on. That's funny. It's an amazing app. Highly recommend. Not Spawn.

Not Spawn. Very, very cool. Man, how about that? Hey, guys, I'm happy to be back in here, man. I am too. Yeah, we get that. I didn't really want to go back to work last night. I was just not really ready for the nice little break to be over.

But once I got back in the studio today, I thought to myself, man, we're out here. Yeah, we're out here. Just mopping. That's true. And Dave had the bing bong on him, so I knew it was going to be a good day. There's some bing bong in that fridge in there. I'm going to sip some Double B after this. Are we using that right?

I don't know. Hey, but guess what? I think it's going to be a great year. I do too. Not just for us, but for everybody. I'm excited about the year, man. I think this might be the best year in Washed Media history. I think you could going to be a great year. I do too. Not just for us, but for everybody. I'm excited about the year, man. I think this might be the best year in Washington media history. I think you could be right, man.

Is this year four for us, technically? Big things are going to happen. We got three years in the rear view right now? 19, 20, 21. Yeah, holy shit. I feel like year two for us was kind of like a weird one because of the pandemic and stuff. The pandemic. We're kind of pulling out of that.

Our three-year anniversary. Is that right? Yeah. Is in 11 days. Dave, what are you laughing about? What are we doing for it? I don't want to interrupt. Dylan's making a good point.

No, go ahead. No, please interrupt. Talk about bing bong. I know you want to. It's a... I don't really know this context. It's Urban Dictionary. It says...

Hold on. Let me make sure what I'm reading here isn't offensive. If you ever go to Coney Island, take a spin on the cyclone. Bing bong. Isn't it supposed to be the sound of a subway door opening or closing or something? Like the little chime? Bing bong. I don't know.

I've never really understood what it means, but now it is coffee to me, and that's all that matters. I think that's the actual origin of it, but's now coffee yeah it is officially coffee there's a um a dialogue first guy fuck your life interviewer bing bong that's that's all wow dude that's that was an amazing transcript thank you this is good. We have a big, big announcement to get out of the way. We've already announced it on Patreon, but I think it's time we announced it on a free episode. We are no longer doing Bachelor content from the optimized tier on Patreon.

This is a big change for us, boys. I blocked off two hours from mine. Actually, three hours for tonight's episode. Okay. Before we explain what we're going to do, are you guys still going to watch this season of The Bachelor? No. I am going to

stockpile some episodes. I will be not watching them live ever, but I will be watching them on Hulu without commercials at some point. I just don't know when that point will be. I'm going to...

Bay wants to watch. I'm going to watch and see what happens. She told me it's because she's got a huge crush on Clayton. That's fair. Man, dude, you know he's intimate with two women. He is. He tells them.

By the way, one of us has already tweeted about bing bong. That's sweet. I wonder who it was. I guess it's mine now. That's fine. You can have it. You were too slow, man. I literally started the podcast off with it. Instead of Bachelor content, we will be doing a grab bag

for the first month. This is good news for patrons out there. Good news. You guys are not going to believe what we have in store for you. Tomorrow we are doing New Year's Eve Worst Of stories of which we have several that were already sent in. If you would like to get those sent in, please do at worstof at washmedia.com

or head over to washmedia.com to click on that Worst Of logo and fill out the form. Would love to hear from any and all of you. If we've got enough stories, might even run it back next week. But I think this month we're going to be seeing a little bit of Circling Dad again. Remember that one? You can get your questions in for that as well.

And we're just going to do, I think the main thing is I think we're just going to try some new different style episodes, see what hits, and keep doing them. Yeah. It's time for us to get a little more fresh. Yeah. Call me the Fresh Prince of Will Air.

No, please. I don't think we're going to call you that at all. Please. You're the pelican. You just ruined it. This is a story all about how my life got twist and turned upside down. Really? Mm-hmm.

No, it's a podcast. It's not about your life. Mm-hmm. I used to shoot hoops up in Harbor Springs, and then I moved down to work for a frat blog. Really? No, it's a podcast. It's not about your life. I used to shoot hoops up in Harbor Springs and then I moved down to work for a frat blog. Really? Yeah. That doesn't rhyme like the first part did. I lived with my Uncle Phil. Really? Yeah, his name's

full name Philium. Now you podcast with Uncle Dill. Dirty Dills. Big ups, man. Either way, we're going to be doing a lot more fun stuff from the feed. And for any non-Bachelor fans out there, we'd love to earn your business. Patreon.com slash Shirkling Back Podcast.

Again, Patreon.com slash Shirkling Back Podcast. Also, some big news. You know Spotify now allows reviews? Yeah, we talked about it like a couple weeks ago, Will. And guess what? We've been absolutely stacking reviews. Absolutely stacking. Get out there and go review it.

Is this a cap situation? Are you capping? When's the last time I capped, Dylan? Have I ever capped in front of you? That's a fair point. It's time. No, there was that one time you were clearly capping. If there's one person that doesn't wear a cap ever, it's me.

When's the last time y'all saw me capping? You don't cap very often. Physically speaking, I don't cap. Alright. You have a good hat selection, too. I do. You gave me some. I'm thinking about, should I just auction them off? Should I just start willshats.com? I don't think that has legs.

You don't? No. What if I donate it all to charity? Because once you sell the seven that you have, the website's useless. It's facts. It's just an archive. willshatarchive.com That might have sneaky legs. Please, let's like useless. It's facts. It's just an archive. Right. Willshatarchive.com. That might have sneaky legs. Please, let's move on. I think it's time for recapping this holiday break and fun

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Please, please. It's not just for hair. Man. Dude, you better be careful with that mattress. I thought I was going to be booming off that bing bong. was wrong is that neutral full it's both just to be clear okay okay and can i can i also give them credit for having a very aesthetically pleasing bottle dude the bottle's sick yeah it's heavy it's made out of glass right the bottle stays out on the counter yeah that's just facts dude i did not know that these uh 21 potential or potent natural

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Plus free shipping on every single order. Get $15 off at Nutrafol.com spelled N-U-T R-A-F-O-L dot com promo code CIRCLING. I got to say, first ad read of the year, we crushed that. Yeah, they'll be happy with that.

I'm feeling real good about that. They'll be pleased. They'll probably really like what I've done. Yeah, well, you're the hair influencer. Yeah, what am I wearing this hat for? You're capping. Bing bong. Dylan, what did you do this holiday break and fun?

Thank you Will Thanks for asking man I had a pretty excellent little break Most of it was spent like Settling into the new digs The new house A lot of unpacking A lot of hanging TVs and pictures on the wall

And just kind of settling like I said So I've made it known that I live close to Dylan. Dylan and I are country neighbors at this point. Fair. I drove by your house the other day, and I noticed there were a lot of people in the front yard. These weren't college honks, mind you. They could have been college honks.

They were closed, though. It was a little cooler outside. But they were doing a lot of yard maintenance in front of your house and I started wondering, is Dylan not doing his own yard maintenance right now? Ooh, interesting. What's up with that? Okay, well, thanks for asking about that, Will.

We don't have a garage? Nor do we have any kind of shed situation in the back? I can build you a shed. You have room for a shed. Plus, there is nowhere to store a lawnmower. Dude, doesn't Bay want a she shed? What's a she shed? Oh, from that commercial.

Correct. I love referencing commercials. She doesn't want a she shed. And so I didn't know where to put a lawnmower. And so I actually gave my lawnmower to my lawn guy. Dude, our man's just giving out lawnmowers. Wow, that must be nice. What if I wanted a lawnmower?

You never even started a lawnmower. That's facts. Did you put a little bow on it? No. I said, hey, I'm moving into a new place. I have nowhere to keep a lawnmower. It's actually a high-quality one, too. Why don't you just keep it in your garage?

Oh, you don't have a garage. I'm an idiot. I know. I just have a carport. Okay, but what about your kitchen? You've got a big house. You have room. I should ask Bay if I could just keep a lawnmower in the kitchen.

That would be great. Well, y'all gave us a little tour the other day. You didn't show us the man cave. Is there some book you have to pull out of a library wall in order to get into it or something? Yeah, it's a really narrow staircase that leads downward, and there's a secret basement down there. I couldn't help but notice when I was at your place that you do have the sick set up on the back porch with a television. However,

couldn't help but notice that that TV was not mounted. Well, we are not yet sure what we're going to do back there yet. A TV's going to be set up back there. I don't know exactly where to put it quite yet. There were some questions flying around the room about your capability of mounting a TV on a brick.

Oh, yeah. Freaking Bay questioned my shit on that. What's her problem? She's worried about the brick. You don't want to compromise the brick. There were two major questions that we left your house with the other day when you had us over for a nice little Rose Bowl celebration. The first question was, can Dylan mount a TV on brick? The second question was, how many fucking pieces of pizza did Dave eat?

Oh, yeah. I was going to get to that. Dave ate way too much pizza that night. It was very simple. Sorry, I don't want to spoil every day. No, no, no, it's fine. You were eating pizza. Hey, if you're sitting there at home listening, guess.

Put a number in your head how many slices I ate. The answer might shock you. Major development on the parks front. He got a baseball set from my father for Christmas. Before Christmas, had no interest whatsoever in baseball. Now he's dragging my ass in the backyard every 20 minutes to go throw balls to him. It's fucking great. Is he hitting piss missiles yet?

He loves it. He hit a couple over the fence. He puts the bat on the ball. He's like, oh, I hit four home runs. I'm so good at baseball. I'm letting him go with it. He'll be a contact hitter like his dad, not really with the power. He'll be a gap-to-gap guy.

Why don't you just get a giant hedge thing in the backyard and make a green monster for him? What if I put a batting cage in the backyard? You have room for a net. Don't you have a batting cage back there right now? I do have a batting cage. They just hang out back there. It's sick.

Really? Yeah. It's really cold last night. You might get in trouble. You bring them inside. They just hang out back there. It's sick. Really? Yeah. It's been really cold last night. You might get in trouble. Yeah, do you bring them inside? They're not happy. Nah. Binders full of baddies?

Yeah. And other than that, man, just kind of chilled. And we stepped out for New Year's Eve. We did. Dirty Dills? Nope. We went to dinner. And then that's pretty much it man it was an excellent

break chilling you like the new pad i love the new pad big fan might even come over again sometime i didn't go upstairs i didn't either it's a problem i saw park showed me his room got a sick bunk bed situation which i think what he's upgrading, right? Aren't you getting him a new one? Let me upgrade. Yeah, like Beyonce. Is he getting a Cali K? No. No. He's getting a sick little bunk situation. It'll be tight.

Have little friends over, you know, sleepovers, whatnot. They have that little toy room that Parks and his future sister locked me in. Yeah. Which wasn't cool. Big mistake their part is i i found the fully automatic nerf gun oh yeah did you light his ass up no but i did threaten him with it he sprayed the couch area with it that thing's pretty intense it is yeah they've come a long way with the nerf technology we need to get that nerf there's a sick little bar down the street that I can walk to. Does Dude Perfect have the Nerf bag?

Yes, absolutely. Yeah, we got to get the Nerf bag. I feel like now that we're all deaf, we need to start doing more circling dad on Patreon so that we can start planting the seed that like, hey, we need some kid sponsors. Because once we start getting that Nerf money, it's over. Would you rather have the Nerf bag or the Lego bag?

I think Nerf. I think Nerf. I think Nerf is a bigger player at this point than Lego. Okay. I could be wrong. I just see the things that Nerf is doing these days, and I'm just super impressed by it, and I just want to keep on that train. They have, like, that ball that, like, turns corners or something.

Remember that one? That was crazy. Dude, Burfee had it. That bing ball? No. I wanted a bing ball, Dave. Dude, what'd that boy get into over break? Oh, let me pull up my notes.

Is this Dave's five pillars of Christmas break? First of all, I would be remiss if I did not mention the new Apple Watch ad. Oh. They're basically scaring my family into getting Apple Watches. My wife was like, wow, that's a really effective ad. What happened in the room when you saw the ad for the first time? I thought it was for OnStar. Oh, interesting.

I was like, oh, I've seen this style of advertisement before. OnStar's a good thing. Turns out it wasn't for the Apple Watch. I've never seen the – like, oh, I'm going to rephrase this. You could hear a pin drop in our apartment. We were holding our breaths watching that ad just roll out. Never seen anything like it. It's very intense.

But my break was so much more than that Apple Watch ad. So much more. Really? You didn't just watch that on repeat? No, there were plenty of Kate McKinnon ads. You just watched ads all break? Dude, I mean, she must have gotten paid paid. I've now seen her commercial 78 times in the last two days.

She got the Bing bag. In addition, shout out to potential governor Don Huffines. This is a Texas thing. But, man, the ad spend that guy put forward yesterday, just remarkable. Dude, he's running on the idea that the Cowboys are going to win a Super Bowl. He's saying that if he is elected, they will get a ring. What a platform. And I just don't think that's how it works. And while I don't think I agree with him on most of his policy stances,

he has got to say this whole idea that the Cowboys will win a Super Bowl if we elect him, that's hard to turn down. Are you swayed? If someone tells me, hey, if Manchester United will win the treble, if you vote for me, I'm voting for that person. We'll see how it plays out. We have no choice. In addition to that

I watched the New Year's Eve shows Why? I had nothing else going on after the bowl games Did you do anything that didn't involve a television? We stayed home We stayed home And I checked out the New Year's Eve shows And

Miley's was probably No It might have been the most entertaining They had some good bits And Miley's was probably, no. It might have been the most entertaining. They had some good bits. Pete Davidson had some good bits. But Anderson and Andy Cohen, as they often do, they kind of stole the night. And all they do is just, well, Anderson's fine. Andy Cohen, all he does is just brown out.

That's all he does. And just says some shit and just has dead eyes. Andy Cohen all he does is just brown out that's all he and just it just says some shit and just has dead eyes Andy Cohen's electric he is electric he is yeah have people not realized that that's what that show's all about

people are like wow I can't believe Andy Cohen's just on here drunk I'm like well first of all it's New Year's Eve and this is what he's done every time he's been a part of

one of these things so that was entertaining it was a nice little New Year's Eve we went to the ballet so it wasn't every time he's been a part of one of these things. So that was entertaining. It was a nice little New Year's Eve. We went to the ballet. So it wasn't a musical? Was it a musical? It was not a musical. The Nutcracker.

We went to Bass Performance Hall. Did you sit next to the Muppet dudes from your box seat? I did have that thought. The Muppet guys in the box were just in my mind the entire time because I did take an early bird, and I was on mushrooms. Honestly, taking mushrooms before going to the Nutcracker might not be the worst move. That's my first adult ballet.

I've been to kid recitals and stuff for nieces and whatnot, but I was blown away. Was it sick? I loved it. How many nuts did they crack what i didn't love just a bowl full of pecans or what they cracked my nuts me trying to get a hammer his name was gallagher i couldn't even get in the door without getting my nuts cracked they uh apparently sent out an email and buried in that email was their uh covid policy and you needed a uh negative test or uh your vaccine card to get in and apparently they were letting people who had a photo of their card which i somewhere

i was scrambling to find it i couldn't find it on mine for some reason i didn't favorite it which is a big mistake so alissa got in and this was our my christmas present to her because she's always wanted to go see the nutcracker there i had to go walk down the street uh to a dumpster Dylan and get a rapid a 65 dollar rapid seriously yeah they had a play it wasn't a dumpster it was they had like a room rented out and it was the most depressed it was all these people dressed up to go to ballet just sitting there waiting on their COVID tests. That is so weird. And it was a five – this is a Frasier episode. It was a five-minute test. And I was like, really?

I thought the rapid was 15. We're going hyper rapid here. How far did they stick that swab up your nose? They do a quick swipe to the inside of the nostril? Not far. Yeah. No one got a positive test that entire night. There were six people in there waiting.

And they would tell you, like, the lady, nice lady, the nurse, she would be like, 15. She would read your number, and you'd stand up, and she'd say negative. You'd walk out. And I was just like, man, it's going to be really awkward when somebody gets that positive, and hopefully it's not me. And everybody, we went six for six, and I was like, I don't know if those numbers stack up. You think there are any dudes that just didn't want to be there and they just went back and told their wife that they tested positive? I'm not about it. Oh, sorry.

I have to go back and watch this bowl game. There's a bar down the street. I'll just meet you after the show. Yeah. Have fun, though. I almost went out in the stockyards by myself. I thought about going down to Cadillac's. Anyway. Fort Worth. Cowtown. Yeah. Does Fort worth ever cross your mind will funky town you know i'm a fort worth boy love the ballet was so impressed we it was actually the last show

because they they had to cancel because of covid and uh fantastic i i completely i was i thought i had a lot more fun than I thought I would. Because I didn't know what to expect. Ballet. But it's a, I was trying to figure out the story of the Nutcracker. Like what exactly I'm watching. I still am not completely sure. There's a guy with an eyepatch, which is very cool.

Yeah. Didn't speak. It was more through interpretive dance, ballet. Eyepatch, you go back to 20s gangsters? didn't speak. It was more through interpretive dance, ballet. I patch you go back to 20s Gangsters? I don't know why he did that. I just went along with it. I was thinking more pirate. Arr! Arr!

That's probably makes more sense. I'm sure there was a gangster. My wife is cracking me nuts. I'm getting killed today. She stripped my man cave. What is his new character? Byron's getting beaten down at home By the wife She hid me Xbox

That's so stupid She took away me sports package Smoked a rib roast Oh shit That's so stupid. She took away me sports package. Smoked a rib roast. Oh, shit. Seven pounder. Really? We did a rib, full disclosure, Christmas. Did you spit roast it or just like normal roast it?

What I do behind closed doors with my roast is my business. But let me tell you about this. My dad, I guess this is like a part of the Christmas gift. He bought like a giant rib roast to do for the family on Christmas. And he's just like, hey, you want the rest of this? I didn't cook. It's like seven pounds. I was like, I mean, I'm going to try to smoke it.

I don't even know if this will work, but I'm going to do it. You can smoke anything, David. Come to find out it's the best thing I've ever smoked outside of that bing bong. It's the best thing I've ever smoked outside of that bing bong. Only the stickiest bing bong for days. It was fantastic. We're so back right now. I got to get an electric knife carver, an electric carver,

because that would have made it a lot easier to slice. But it was great. I've been grazing and just feasting off rib roast for like five days. That sounds pretty sick. Alyssa was like, oh, you're going to turn into a rib roast. I was like, that's hilarious. Dude, they always say that you are what you eat, dude. That's crazy. Got my hair cut at a place that offers both scissors and scotch.

Wait, is it hard for them to cut your hair while you're scissoring what are you doing they're like do you want a scissor and i was like it's like 11 a.m on a tuesday i don't really want to scissor at this point yeah that's a little aggressive they have a full bar in there and this isn't an ad like i don't even take no it was 11 a.m did you partake there were guys in there drinking like old f't an ad. Did you partake? No, it was 11am. Did you partake? There were guys in there drinking like old fashions. There's a whole there's like a membership component to it. They have an actual bar bar.

You're drinking scotch. It's not just a bunch of Scottish people hanging out scissoring. You get drunk and scissor. Hello, David! Scissoring in their kilts actually makes sense. It would be a lot easier. Access wise. We need to normalize kilts. I'm just going to put that out there. Did you ever have a kilt guy? I don't want to be a kilt boy. No to normalize kilts i'm just gonna put that out there did you ever have a kill guy boy no we didn't have kill guy there was kill guy in high

school he would wear it like every now and then let's see like i had a kill guy if you know what i mean he's like a goth you killed a guy yeah i murdered someone or like irish um i'm sure he was irish like in some capacity but yeah you just would wear a kilt you're like oh there's kilt guy cool i just i just picked up on your killed joke that's pretty sick only the stickiest for you yeah i remember big mota guy yeah well yeah so i guess what i'm telling y'all is i got a haircut wow you well you're the hair influencer well that's cool man your locks have been looking luscious as hell lately are the drinks complimentary? Maybe give you one free one or freebie? So they have a bar with literally three tiers of alcohol. There's the complimentary, which is your basic.

Then there's the membership tier. And then the top tier, which you have to pay for no matter what, they've got the exclusive bourbons and scotches. Johnny Blue label. Dude, I got my buddy Tanner. He's actually a top-tier member at Scotch and Scissors. There's 100%. That is a thing.

That's a little embarrassing. Right. If you're just like a top-tier member at a haircut place. Depends how often you get your hair cut. If you're a once-a-month boy like you and I, that's kind of a weak flex. But if you're going in every week to get faded up, you don't need to catch a buzz when you're going to get trimmed up. Dylan, I walked in there at 11.

My haircut was like at 11.30. Went to the actual bar they have with a bartender. There's like four dudes chopping it up, telling like Air Force stories and stuff, drinking old fashions. And I, of course, ordered a coffee. Do people go there just to drink and not get their hair cut? they said, the young lady who cuts my hair she said, yeah we have people who just come by here

after work it's over near your old place it's right by Brett right now yeah, I think he goes there now whole squad scissoring Brett pays like $800 for a haircut though it's weird because I paid like $36 I a haircut, though. It's true. It's facts. It's weird because I paid like $36.

I don't think he goes there. Unless he just switched, but you may have. Well, maybe he wanted scissors and scotch. It's true. Fair. It's true. Fair point. That's pretty much it.

I laid low. I had a great break. I thought I was going to be a little bit more active, but just had fun, man. Just had fun at home. Got a Nintendo Switch for Christmas And I was just playing Mario Kart Dude, Mario Kart on Switch is sick Is it goated? We gotta get in on this

Okay Tell Parks to download it I'm interested I will Oh, do you download games for that thing? You don't like toss in a cartridge? Parks has cartridges Yeah, it's 2022

He has cartridges Like jewel cartridges? Or, like... Gaming cartridges. I'm sure you can do both. Just like you can with other consoles. Facts? Yeah.

Do you guys even care what I did? Like, I just feel like you guys don't even care that, like, I did stuff. Oh, why don't you tell us, man? Yeah, go ahead, man. I gave Fritz his first soccer ball for Christmas. He's just a little lad now. He absolutely loves it. Is he out there just dropping, what do you call it?

He's more of a goalie right now than anything because I've just been throwing soccer ball. I've just been throwing it at him, and he just laughs whenever it hits him. Oh, it sounds like he's better than you, a goalie already. That's unnecessary. Yeah, we got the clip. I thought we talked about it. We weren't going to bring that up anymore.

I'm sorry, man. No, man, that's cool, dude. You think I can score on your son? Yeah, I think you can score on my son. He can't currently stand. He can't even walk, Dylan. So, yeah. Fritz, guess what, buddy?

I got you. He is saying da-da. Just put it out there. That's big for the squad. Not sure he's talking to me. I think he's just saying da-da-da-da-da. It's lit, though. And then a couple days after Christmas, we matched that San Diego button.

You guys familiar with this place? There's a Marine layer there. SoCal. Yeah, yeah. SoCal. Yeah, we went and just chilled out. Max, we relaxed all cool. Shot some b-ball outside of school.

Don't look at me. Why'd you go to a school? Because there were a couple of guys there that were up to no good and i thought i'd just like crack their skulls is that how it worked out or did they end up getting the best of you then your mom you were just driving along and you saw two guys just up to no good they were making trouble in my neighborhood and you wanted to crack you don't live there dude i got in one little fight and fritz's mom got scared your Your wife, Dave's little whiskey girl. Yeah. I now live with my aunt and uncle.

No, so we went to San Diego and yeah, I ate some tacos there. You guys know that they're known for their burritos? Yeah. I also had some burritos there as well. Do they put fries in their burritos? They do. And I have to say, it's a move that I'm a big fan of. I didn't think I was going to like it all that much. But instead of putting, like there was no rice in the burritos that I was eating. There were just French fries in there.

And I think I prefer that method. It was wonderful. You know me, I'm a rice guy. I'm not. I think you could also make a case that we are taco influencers at this point, because the taco stand that I went to called the taco stand is someplace that we went to when we first started this company. They remember you. That's Chad's favorite place. And we went to when we first started this company. Do they remember you? Dude, that's Chad's favorite place. And we went there two different times when we were there as a squad. He can recite the whole menu. He knows it by hand. He doesn't have a favorite.

He just loves everything. And, dude, now there's like literally times there where you have to wait like an hour to go up and order. You could say that we kind of kicked that place off. And we aren't even from San Diego. Yeah. We're just guys who just pull up sometimes. Yeah. I was driving down the 101 and I went to the taco stand and ensignitas it was sick got fries in my burrito i've always said that my burritos need more like deep fried potatoes right you have always said that do you guys want to know a situation that

you never want to find yourself in? I suppose. Avalanche. At the base of an erupting volcano. This is worse. This is worse. You would simply outrun it. I would just walk the other way. This is worse. I wouldn't even run.

I found myself in what is the most hellish situation you can find yourself in. We ate lunch at Torrey Pines. Oh, that sucks, dude. I'm so sorry. And we had a view of the first tee. Oh, no, man. And I wasn't playing golf. Did you yell mashed potatoes?

I thought about it. Thought about it. And there's no worse feeling than when you get done with your lunch and you walk around and you're pushing a stroller in front of the first tee and you're walking by four dudes pushing push carts with their clubs on it and they just look at you like, man,'s beaten down they don't know that i got a man cave at home though oh shit this guy's got a man cave it's like that meme with the guy standing in the corner at a party they don't know i have a man they don't know if a man somebody needs to make that it was such a beating just seeing these dudes just have have all the faith in the world that they're going to go

out there and just go low at Torrey Pines, and I'm just pushing a stroller. Were they cool looking? Yeah. Yeah, I ate next to some dudes that were total alphas. Did they put a good move on it? They talked me into getting the pulled pork torta. You guys familiar with these tortas?

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You see it? No, I didn't see it. What did he say? He screenshotted a picture of me, and I was looking a little. It was just a weird angle. I was sitting down, and he's like, oh, someone's gotten to the Christmas cookies this holiday season or something. Oh, I'm sure that guy's in great shape. Yeah, I'm going to pop top for a real player, see what happens.

Put it on the timeline. Yeah. Sorry. Bitch. Yeah. Sorry. Bitch. Anyway. Wow. Still doing the ad read. Yeah, so FitBod will get these pounds off of me.

Dude, I need FitBod more than I've ever needed it at this point. I have the app pulled up right now. By the way, rebrand alert. They updated their app, their logo. Let's go. I love their user interface. Let's go. Yeah, I do too, David.

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That's what I need to do. You need to call it HIIT. I probably won't do that. And then you get to type in, or not type in, you get to select where you're working out. Is this at home? Small gym. Big gym with a bunch of equipment. And it tailors your workouts exactly to what you need.

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off your membership at FitBod.me slash steam. Speaking of people, I mean speaking of people who've probably been using FitBod lately, what's up with Bezos? He's on a heater right now, and we need to recognize it. The Bays?

The Bays. Will, I need you to hit my sounder. What do you want? You know what I want. TMZ Day! Headline. No, no, HGH. Source.

It's all natural for Jeff Bezos. I'm looking at his shoulder-neck combo, the traps. At his age, I just don't think you can do that naturally. What are the sources that say that he's doing this all naturally? Because I don't believe it one bit. Well, Will, I'm glad you asked. It says a source of direct knowledge. Wow.

Direct knowledge. I have been working out pretty much nonstop since 2013. Have you? Dude, chill. I have. Are you working out right now? My arms. Shut up.

My arms look nothing like. How old is he? Is he 60? How old is Bezos? He's at least 55, right? I'm going to say 56. 57. My arms look nothing like this dude's arms.

There's no way that Jeff Bezos has superior genetics. Do you think he goes harder than you? Do you think he could afford, I don't know, a better personal trainer than what you could afford? Personal training can be expensive i don't know so okay so he's no longer the acting ceo of amazon correct i believe that's accurate so since he has not done that he's just been going to space getting absolutely shredded he's got a nude girlfriend who's clearly good-looking. Was that his Gumar? I don't know what Gumar means, but yeah, for sure.

Wasn't this a side piece? Oh, yeah. He had his old wife. This dude's going through a two-thirds-life crisis right now. Yeah, like a side- No, no, no, no, no. This is Bezos we're talking about. Two-thirds-life. No, no, no.

This dude's just getting started. He's going to live to 200. He's going to live forever. Fair point. Yeah, he's at a quarter-life crisis right now. He's going to live forever, Dylan. He's going to cross that river. How old do you have to be in order to start your midlife crisis as someone who just turned 35?

36. 35. Because I'm starting to have certain thoughts creep into my psyche. What are they? That I don't have cool enough hobbies, that I don't really do anything in life, that I might need to start doing other stuff. That you're not pushing like an exotic foreign sports car.

No, it's not that so much, but I just feel like there's a vacancy in my life that I've never experienced before, and I'm worried that i'm in the beginning stages of going through a midlife crisis and i feel like 35 is a really good age to start that midlife crisis i support you in your life crisis no i'm i'm will i'm right there with you man do i get shredded like bezos is that my only move for 2022 we've been trying to get you in the gym for i don't know five years now i don't man i wouldn't touch what you're doing

with your arms. They're beautifully tiny. I'm not at the level that that kicker was. What is that dude doing? That tall dude? Dude, Bezos probably eats that dude for lunch. He did the big man walk. He had the smallest arms I've literally ever seen.

Yeah. He's arcane. What team was that? Nobody knows. The football team. The. What team was that? Nobody knows. The football team. The Washington football team? I don't know. It was college.

Are they changing the name of that team? Why have we all accepted the fact that they go by the football team? I like it. It's not even weird. I've gotten to the point where I actually think it's awesome. I wish it was the Washington football club. A little bit of a nod to Will's. No, they can't do Washington FC.

They can do a soccer nod. Why? Because it's a football team. So football can't have a club? It's technically football. Norti Americano, but... We're kind of burying the lead of Bezos' fit. He's on a fucking tear.

We jumped over his fit from New Year's Eve where he clearly went to Dan Flashes and got a super complicated shirt. That looks more like a white coke garment. Do you think there's a billionaire group text that they all just sit in and why it's just like, dude, will someone please wear this shirt to a New Year's Eve party to kick off the new year?

I need to drum up some sales. Christmas didn't go as well as we thought for Black Friday. That shirt is bad. I mean, I'm sure it costs like $20,000, but it's not a good-looking shirt. And he hit him with the heart sunglasses, too. Get out of here, Bezos. What's he doing?

I mean, it looks like he's living his best life. He's in good shape, man. You got to respect it. That shirt looks like it's painted on, as do the pants. The skin-tight white jeans with the shirt tucked in, he's really just doing the most right now, and I don't hate it. I don't want to sexualize Jeff Bezos, but I need him to turn around and show a player what that dumper do.

That's facts. He's acting like he just came into money. He's new money trash. He is new money. He's been very rich for a very long time. It's been enough time. He's been rich for 20 years.

Yeah, but when you think about those people, like the rich people who were just born into it, like if you asked Prince Harry how much a gallon of milk costs, he would have no clue.

Jeff Bezos knows how much that stuff costs, mainly because he probably also sells it on Amazon.com. He's acting like he just inherited 100 mil and he's just going buck wild, which sounds dope. If someone wanted to give me 100 mil right now, I would take it. No, it's like legit pocket change. He's had enough money to where he should be wearing khaki shorts and polos tucked in and have a frat swoop. He should have the old money look and not wearing the intricate patterns that he is now, which is a scream of a guy who just sold his company and got paid out,

and then he just went immediately to Den Flashes. Okay. That's quite the picture you just painted. Thank you. He is hair challenged, I will say. Needs to hit up Nutrafol. Probably has the access to it if he wanted it. Are you talking about Bezos?

Yeah. He's a scalp influencer. Does he have a wrinkly scalp head? It doesn't look like it from the photo that you have up. That thing looks perfect. Honestly. Like what his name has? Did he have a helmet like Fritz did when he like quit the job?

Because like his head is hell around right now. An adult helmet? Yeah. I'm thinking about getting one when I shave my head. Really? Mm-hmm. Now that that neutrophil is hitting, though, I don't have to worry about it. That's what's up.

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. I'm just picturing Leo in... What's the movie that Duda basically became? Oh, The Wolf of Wall Street. Because Duda is the Wolf of Wall Street. That's who he is. He's just not.

Just on the yacht with the white polo two-button just tucked in. But no, he's going a different way. And he looks good. I'd like to look like Jeff Bezos when I'm 40. That's kind of my goal. Okay, he started Amazon when he was 30 years old. What did you do at 30? He became successful, like mega successful, like three years later, something like that.

He's been doing this over 20 years. Been a rich man for a minute. You've been doing content for like what, like 15 years? A lot of people are saying that Washed is the next Amazon. That's what people are saying. I invited Brett into the situation. I think our next segment is going to be something that Brett wants to talk about. I feel like he has a lot of insight into Bezos. I feel like he probably is going to be something that Brett wants to talk about. I feel like he has a lot

of insight into Bezos. I feel like he probably knows more about Bezos than we do collectively. No comment. Okay. Are you like, did you ever meet Bezos

when you were at Barstool? Did he ever go to the office? Yeah, he came to the office one day and he was just like, you know what would be much cooler? If you dropped the stool off of this.

Wow. Wow. Wow. Just bars. Bar sports. Holy shit. Holy shit. That's wild. That's just a business brain at work.

They should have listened. Did he really go into the office? No, never seen him. Why would Bezos ever go into the bar stool? He sold it like it was a real thing. That's why I was confused. There were multiple people that I walked in and I was like, oh, that's cool. I guess a power player is through that office, man.

I wouldn't be super surprised. He's over here poo-pooing it. It's just Bezos, though. We're going to move. Does Elon step foot in the Barstool office in 2022? That's the question that I have. Ooh. See, that's not out of the realm of possibility.

I want to see Elon in Austin. I want to see him ripping around. Will has. I saw him once. That's right. Yeah. Is he tall in Austin. I want to see him like ripping around. Will has. I saw him once. That's right. Yeah. Is he tall? No.

He's not? No. I get tall vibes. He wasn't that tall. Not noticeably tall. Did you whip his ass? But I'm six feet tall. Did you whip his ass?

Five eleven and three quarters. Answer my question. No I did not beat the shit out of noted billionaire. Is Bezos tall? Nah. No he puts off five eight vibes. But does he roll with a small crew so he looks big? No offense No, he puts off 5'8 vibes.

But does he roll with a small cruiser? No offense to my short king. He's 5'7". Bezos is 5'7"? Oh, man. Shouts to him, though. Short kings rule. So is Zuck.

Do you think when Bezos is hanging out with DiCaprio, he's just annoyed? Not only does his girl want him, but... He's 5'7"? DiCaprio's 6'. Yeah, no one. Turns out short kings can do amazing things as well. not only does his girl want him, but... He's 5'7"? DiCaprio's 6'0". Yeah, no one... Turns out short kings can do amazing things as well.

I think Jeff Bezos ends the year at 6' tall. I think he's going to get some type of surgery. That shin? Chimplants? Yeah. There's no way Bezos ends the year under 6'. You can just pick your height at that point. He's on a heater.

At some point, his brain and face will just be living inside of a robot that's very tall. Aim Jeff. No, no, no. It'll still be his voice. Maybe that is his voice. It could be. Did you guys... I know at least one of y'all has seen Don't Look Up.

One of y'all? Oh, I watched it. I watched it. I watched the trailer last night. That CEO guy who was just like a combination of Bezos and Musk and Zuckerberg. That was a good character. No spoilers. Yeah, don't spoil it.

No spoilers, dude. I enjoyed it. That didn't make my top five moments of my break, but it was good. It was up there. Watching Don't Look Up? Mm-hmm. Yeah, it was certainly a moment in my break. Really?

Yeah. Give us your top five, Brett. Give us your top five. Ooh, top five moments. Really? Yeah. Give us your top five, right? Give us your top five. Ooh, top five moments. Let's see. Number five would be like eating the, it's called a dough boy,

Dave. It's a local series of sprints. They used to call me that too back in the day when I was pushing weight. He gets dough boy. It's like,

it's pizza crust with chicken and scallions and inside kind of wrapped up. You dump it in hot sauce. It's really good. That sounds great. Really good. Well, they changed the formula a little bit.

They tried to... Never mind. Did you eat a beignet at Cafe Du Monde? No, we wanted to, but we were kind of like trying to get on the road. Best meal in NOLA? The shrimp po' boy that I had. Phenomenal. Hold on.

Phenomenal. You know how Willow is about shrimp po' boys. I don't. Po' boys in general. They stink, baby. Ooh, that's just a bad take. That's a bad take. That's right. A lot of better Cajun food out there. This guy with the freaking takes.

Ooh, my dry bread. Here's some shrimp that are going to fall out the back of it when you take your first bite. That's the thing that they did because it was doused in this remoulade that was phenomenal. I gotta stop saying phenomenal. Did you hit the Popeye's on bourbon? Nope. I didn't. We got to stop saying phenomenal. Did you hit the Popeye's on bourbon? Nope, I didn't. We went to Pat O'Brien's, though.

POB's? Famous for the hurricane. Yeah, there's a lot of dudes that definitely said, oh, let's go to Pat O's. Were you tracking your sugar intake? No, Dave, because I had about 30 times the normal amount that you should. But did you get one before you went insane?

I don't get that you should. But did you get one before you went insane? I don't get that. Okay. We're just doing Jimmy Buffett references. You are. You're doing Jimmy Buffett. Fins to the left. When you had a tweet saying that you went hand grenade hurricane B to B

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from New Orleans and intake just a quick 63 grams of sugar. Well, yeah, you can't just go from drinking all that sugar to drinking no sugar. You have to wean yourself off. Yeah. They call me Big Wean. Hey, what segment are we in right now?

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I brought Brett in here for a reason. It's because I think Brett's going to want to talk about what we're going to talk about real quick. Are you ready for this? Hit me. I was blessed with an opportunity that I did not know I was going to have when I was in San Diego. You guys ever heard of Miramar? I have. Yes.

I got to go there. I had dinner with Sally's aunt and uncle. And Sally's uncle is, they say, once Marine, always Marine. He's a Marine. It's number five, baby. He's now moved on to more of a commercial industry. But he gave me an opportunity, and this is a very rare opportunity, to go check out some F-35s. Is it like the new Ford truck line?

Yeah. Pretty much the exact same thing. Truly was a December to remember. I didn't know much about F-35s when the opportunity was brought to me. And then once I Googled it and I jogged my memory a little bit, I was like, oh, I'm about to be in for a morning tomorrow. Is that the cream of the crop right now? Is that the top dog? Okay, Brett. Well, you know, there's a little bit, there's a discourse out there that the F-35 is, you know, perhaps rushed in development.

There's some cutting corners as far as budgets go, a lot of delays, a lot of... Here we go. I don't want to get into the bureaucracy of it. It becomes aviation, Brett. Yeah, military, industrial complex, Brett. I immediately regret bringing Brett in here. But the F-35, I'm a fan. I think it's cool.

It's cool as hell. bretton here but the f-35 i i'm a fan i think it's cool it's cool as hell i'm just saying that in in discourse aviation discourse there's some some people poo-pooing the f-35 well not not not my guys who were giving us a tour they they looked sick so we got we we went onto the base and i got like we did a little car tour going around checking everything out and i did not know that that's where they did top gun oh yeah and i think it was uh i'm to anyone who knows more about this than i do i'd like to apologize just from the get-go that i do not know certain terminology i might say things incorrectly we're podcast and i apologize for that you see uh tc there i didn't see anybody that i knew i'm sorry uh maverick oh sorry yeah no tom cruise was actually not there that day.

But we did get to go by the place that they kind of said it was like a sacred place for fighter pilots. Was Meg Ryan there? No. There were no famous people there. Dude, when the Pelican rolled in, they were like, we got to roll out the red carpet. They were like, oh, Pelly's here? Call sign Pelly. I mean, it has numerous meanings.

It's kind of perfect. So did they let you fly it around? So that was the first thing I asked. I was like, where are the keys? I would love to get in this. Where are the keys? We barely even got to look at it because it's so top. Some of the features on it are so top secret.

Are we going to get in trouble for you even speaking of this? No. So he asked me to wait a few days as there were some things that had to transpire before I was allowed to talk about it. But we've waited the appropriate amount of days and I'm now allowed to talk about it. He actually implored me to talk about it. They put Flowmasters on them. Really?

So now it sounds tight. You asked for the aux by any chance? I should have. Do they have switches in there? Like you hit switches? So they wouldn't even let us look at the cockpit. They don't have switches. Like hydro.

The first thing they said was like, no photos unless we tell you you're allowed to start taking photos. They did let us get up close and personal, though, and we got to go look at pretty much everything on it, except for the cockpit. These things are insane. Did you know they're invisible to radar? I believe it.

They said pretty much everything that is done to the F-35 is done with, what's the word escaping me? Invisible cloak. Stealth in mind, yeah. And that kind of blew my mind. Do you also know that there's no two-seaters on these? Only one-hitters. Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah. The pilots, there's a lot of electronic stuff that takes care of what the other guy was. Where's Goose going to sit? Exactly. Makes you wonder. Oh, he's dead, Dylan. Spoiler alert. You go through 13 simulations before you actually get thrown the keys to this

And I was surprised it was only 13 simulations I don't think they have keys No they do It's a push to start Yeah Yeah they couldn't find them They were like where are the keys I'm kind of bummed you didn't get to do the

The training thing Where they strap you in And spin you on the gyro Wasn't that a thing they only did on like Nickelodeon? They did it on the Bachelorette I'm in the sim dude Yeah the G-Force simulator. That would have been sick. You would have thrown up everywhere. You wouldn't even hit 1G.

You can't handle a single G, dog. There's absolutely no way that I can handle a G. You're doing a G right now. They used to call me OG. Literally, this is 1G. What's 2G? Twice the force of gravity. That's a little lame.

They were talking about, like, so they showed me the, you know, the suit. Yeah, the suit that they wear and the chains that they made in that. It's, like, not a vest anymore. It's all long sleeve. So if you get ejected from it, it stops you from flailing where you could possibly, like, break an arm or something, and then you're stuck in the middle of the ocean with a broken arm. They should make those suits. Suylan squirrel suits so when you get ejected you can squirrel fly uh to wherever you need to go they should make them gucci too

just like gucci like you want gucci to design the flight suit yeah i don't know if gucci i i haven't seen house of That'd be sick. I don't know if Gucci... I haven't seen House of Gucci yet, but I don't know if they're set up to make military-grade stuff. Just let it simmer. You know who would, though? Ralph Lauren would make a... He would love to.

Yeah, he would love to. He would absolutely love to. He would have just the overly large horse on it. Dave wants a squirrel suit. No, it makes sense, because then you can be a weapon while you have disembarked your weapon. Bet you didn't think of that, did you?

Dylan doesn't even know what halo jumping is. Do you want to play guess the price? Halo jumping? I don't. What is that? Dylan. It's when you jump out of a plane, perhaps, but you get super, super, super close to the ground, like, very dangerously, so you can insert into a battle or a location much more quickly.

Then pop in top at, like, 10,000 feet and just kind of gliding down. That seems reckless. Isn't that what you guys do in Call of Duty? Yeah, kind of. Sometimes I don't even pull my chute. That's bad. That's bad boy shit, dog. I know.

That's tight. It's pretty tight. How much do you think the F-35 costs? Too much. Like a couple hundred bucks. No, I don't know. Millions, tens of millions of dollars. To buy or lease?

I think just for buying it, yeah. Can you get 0%? I didn't talk to anybody in the accounting department. $250 million. I'm going to say $260 million. No, it's $250 million. Fuck. Helmets are $150,000 for these.

Yeah, not cheap. The helmets were, I think, the most mind-blowing. Not the the most mind-blowing thing but seeing the helmets and how much goes into that and talking about um they have cameras set up all over the plane so you can see underneath you when you're flying that is sick it's like a glass bottom boat doing glass bottom boats they make the rock jackets with the reverse camera on my Toyota. Pretty much the same thing. Pretty much the same thing. You ever thought about how bad it would suck to not have that camera?

I don't know how we got by without them for so long. Just running over leaf blowers. When Sally's uncle was parking his truck. Is that what you did? When Sally's uncle was parking his truck and he was a fighter pilot, I was like, I wonder if he's even going to use the backup cam to back this truck in. He didn't even think about it. He doesn't need it.

Fighter pilot, that's the coolest job. You know what's cool is that you get their name on your jet. Dude, I would have thought they kind of split the jets. You know, like, hey, this one's in the shop today. Like, I'll take... Everybody gets their own jet? Dude, their names are just on it. They're painted on.

That's so dope. They took us into the bar where the pilots get to go and, you know, relax after maybe a long day. Played great balls of fire. Dude, they had, like – I mean, they had customized bottles like Jack Daniels that said, like, Black Knights on it. They had all this stuff. They had – like, everything in the bar was made out of something. Like, it was all made out of, like, you know, old equipment. Taxpayer money, Brett.

Dave, you're telling me. Hey, they're doing the three R's, Dave. They're recycling, reducing, and reusing. That's cool. Is it a joint base? Is it like Air Force, Navy? Because Tom Cruise, Maverick was a Naval Navy. Yeah, I think it was just filmed there for... I don't know.

Pete Mitchell was my fake ID name, actually. But in the actual place, they had a flag up and they had people's patches and you could see all their call signs. And I started getting really jealous that we don't just have call signs for each other. Well, you're Pellicat. I'm Pellicat.

I'm Pelly. Dylan would be Dorn. No, he's Cumrocket. He's Possum. I'm the Possum. You're Possum Possum? Possum Possum. I didn't see any possums on the patches. He might be good. You think I'm out of the dogfight because I'm dead? Turns out I'm faking. He's possum. I'm the possum. You're possum possum? Possum possum. I didn't see any possums on the patches.

He might be good. You think I'm out of the dog fight because I'm dead? Turns out I'm faking. I'm not dead. You fake being out of the dog fight. Yeah. That's a weird move. I'm like, whoa, what you doing?

Did you re-engage? Call the ambulance. But not for me. If you ever want to feel like less of a human, go to lunch at Torrey Pines and see a bunch of dudes teeing off in front of you while you just eat a sandwich. And then go to hang out with a bunch of fighter pilots who just make you feel like the least alpha person in the world. Sometimes when you play golf there, you'd see the jets flying over. It's pretty cool. I don't want to sexualize them, but were they hot?

Yes. Every single person on that base was hot. You have to be. Every single person was hot. Literally, if you're not hot, they're just like, how's refueling sound? You don't have the right stuff. I thought about shaving my beard before going in just so they didn't think

I was just a total burnout. Are you allowed to have facial hair? I think you're allowed to have a mustache. Yeah, that would make sense. People confuse me for a fighter pilot all the time. I'm like, dude, thank you for what you do. And I'm like, podcasting?

They're like, oh, my bad. I thought... It's call side demon. Dude, we should... There's places that do this. We should get in the sim and just dogfight each other. Something tells me that I don't know if we're... I don't know if we have the prerequisites

in order to actually know what's going on in a sim. Does dogfighting happen? From what I was told, yes. Will, Will. Whoa, yeah, careful here. He kept on asking me if I had any questions. Do aliens exist? And it was so – everything was blowing in my mind so much that I couldn't come up with any questions. And so I was just this silent dude walking around with his mouth open like, oh, my God, that's sick.

How fast do these bad boys go? Fast. Mach 1.5, dude. That's your answer. What does that mean in miles per hour? Probably 1,200, 1,400. Man, you should look that up because you might be way off. There's three different versions of these.

One of them can hover. Yeah, that's sick. And that can fly about half as long on the same fuel as the other ones. And then the one that doesn't hover can go about two hours in the air. Imagine not hovering. Catch me hovering. Give me that one. That's sick. That's cool. I am incredibly, incredibly, incredibly jealous. Obviously, I already had the utmost respect for what these guys are doing.

Seeing it up close and personal, it was a moment where I was just like, okay, there are certain people in the world that have much different purposes in life than me, and it is a much more noble purpose. Yeah, they're badasses. Unbelievable stuff. One of the coolest things I've ever done. And I had no clue I was even going to do it until the night before. And it was just like, hey, do you want to go with us?

Yes, I do. Did anybody buzz the tower I was even going to do it until the night before. And it was just like, hey, do you want to go with us? Yes, I do. Did anybody buzz the tower? We didn't have any buzzing of the towers. It was family day there, so they had a lot of stuff packed up already so that the families could kind of run amok in the hangar and kind of do the stuff. So I think I didn't get to see all the top secret stuff, unfortunately. That's cool, man.

What if I said something on this that just completely tanked the national security? It's like, oh yeah, this idiot from circling back. No offense to you. I don't think they would have revealed that level of information to you. They gave me a whole dossier that I've just been sitting on. Really? Mm-hmm.

Can I check that out? Yeah. You have to search my hotel room and then go find it. Okay. Did you enlist Fritz in the Air Force by any chance? I wish I could have brought him, inspired him to be a fighter pilot. Oh, that would have been mega cute. He's the nuclear football.

You could be that for Halloween. Ooh, can you imagine Fritz in a little fighter pilot uniform? Yeah. He'd look so sick. Yeah, that's sick. Call sign Fritz is already tight. Should we actually do that for next Halloween? It is tight.

That would be really cool. What would your son's call sign be? Boop. Call sign boopop boop bing bong oh there's gonna be a tiktok kid who becomes a pilot he's gonna be call sign bing bong or something bing bong bing bong's back i'll take a big game that works that works that works right that's not too long no but i think you might have to make it all one word you You'd be co-signed floppy. Floppy? Why floppy? Your hair.

Oh. Because you have floppy hair. Fuck. That's true. I could go with boomer. That was my nickname growing up. That's a good one. I feel like someone's already got boomer, though.

I have to. Are call signs one of those things where you can only have one? There can only be one? They're unique? Yeah, because it kind of seems like that would be the move. Hollywood was my favorite from Top Gun. Maverick is like, yeah, Maverick's chalk. Viper.

There were some cool ones on the board. Hello, Iceman's dope. Iceman's dope. Joker, I've always liked Joker, too. Joker's good. Who was the guy that freaked out in the cabin? Was that Viper? Yeah, the panic attack.

That's what gave Maverick his opportunity. Oh, that's a good question. Cougar? Cougar. Cougar. a good question. Cougar? Cougar. Cougar. Come on, Cougar. Lost his edge. Come on, Cougar.

You hate when you lose your edge. Panicked. I live on the edge, David. Do you? What? We did not discuss that. Are we trying to get out of here? No.

I know he's got to break news. What was your favorite gift for Fritz? That I gave him? Just like, yeah, the one that you're like, oh, that's dope. You didn't bring him into this world. The mini soccer ball. I got him the high visibility EPL soccer ball, and he really took to it and was giggling all morning as I was playing with him,

and it was kind of a validating moment. I was like, oh, we're sports guys right now. We're just doing sports stuff. He's going to be a soccer player. I hope so. He is. After seeing some of these hits go down in that Bama game, speaking of, have you guys seen this Bama team?

Dude, you were on that, man. You're one game away from the prediction of the century. Everyone counted them out except for you. They're different. They're a good team. This coaching staff, look out. That's the thing. It's a well-coached team.

Do you think they're going to get their whole coaching staff poached? If I'm a school and I see what Bama's doing, I'm wondering why I don't have that head coach. I'm going to go try to get that head coach. That's a good idea. That others have not thought of clearly. They would have gone after them already. My team did. If I'm Texas, I'm trying to get Bama's head coach of clearly. They would have gone after them already. My team did.

If I'm Texas, I'm trying to get Bama's head coach right now. They should. A lot of good real estate out there. Wouldn't be a pod if I didn't have to. Brett, break some news while Dave gets a tank off. Sure. Do you want to go, Will? I went to NOLA.

Pork punishments or berries? I want to start with pork punishments. Sure. An Ohio student. He was a high school football player. Okay. This is where the story begins. You might know, do you know voluntary workouts, Will? Are those the opposite of involuntary workouts?

They are, but they're pretty much the workouts, like if you don't attend in the summer for your voluntary workouts, you show up. Are those the ones that Aaron Rodgers skipped earlier this year? Probably. He's immunized. So this poor kid skipped a workout, Dylan, because he had a slight shoulder injury from his last weightlifting

session. Okay? We following? Yep. As punishment for missing said workout workout his coaches made him eat a pepperoni pizza the whole thing in the middle of the high school gymnasium on a chair here's the caveat he had converted to um let me get this correct hebrew israelism when he was 10 which means he cannot consume pork. They made him do it. His coaches made him eat a full pepperoni pizza, pork pepperoni.

Well, that is pretty effed up. In the middle of the gym, and now he is suing them. He tried to refuse 10 times and kicked the pizza box away, and the coaches went after the pizza box, brought it back, and insisted that he ate it. Is this a high school? Yes. Oh, man. Either eat the pizza or be boobied. I was the high school type to skip.

If there was a voluntary workout in high school, I was definitely skipping it. Why in the gym? Did people gather around to watch? Because he was making the other players on the football team run around the edge of the gym until he finished the pizza. Oh, I see. In the middle of it. Wow. Damn, if I knew that skipping workouts in high school

meant that I got to eat pizza, I would have been doing that all the time. So do they select pepperoni because they knew the kid, like it was against his religion to eat it? I guess so, yeah, because you know what? The kid said that he took the pepperoni off the pizza, or they said you can take the pepperoni off, but there's still pepperoni residue on the pizza, so we can't eat it.

So they were just like, what a wild story. And now he's requesting $10 million in damages. Good for him. Get that back, player. On suspension or anything? I can't imagine that they're still employed. I don't know for sure. That's pretty messed up.

Fired in June. Toasters have been fired. What's up with these berries? You familiar with blackberries? I am. They're pretty good. Well, classic blackberries, as of tomorrow, will no longer function. Why?

Dude, I've been using a curve for 20 years. I like blueberries better. I put them in my smoothie. That was good, Dave. I was more of a pearl guy. Dylan had something. What was that, Dylan? I put blueberries in my smoothie. I do too.

Along with strawberries. I go frozen, dude. Actually, I do do blackberries, if I'm being honest. Blackberries are one of the more satisfying berries to eat. Yeah, I like a blackberry. Why? Because of the texture and the size. The blueberries at TJ's, where I got the bing bong, they are healthy, they are robust, and they are good. Do you freeze them?

Nope. I just eat them with a spoon. Sometimes I put them in my yogurt. Sometimes I just pour them down my gullet. I just get sketched out by the fresh food at Trader Joe's. I feel like it's not real. That's the thing about TJ's, man. Is it cake?

Might be cake. I'll show you cake. Do you get the berry medley for your smoothies? I do. Triple berry, frozen. Let's go. Brett, can I say that I was a little disappointed? I sent you a story on Slack.

Oh, I didn't check my Slack. And I think you, I mean, it would have made the cut. East Texas city of Texarkana experienced a rare weather event. Oh. How about fish raining down from the sky? I have to think that's rare. It's raining fish. Will, that's got to be pretty dope for you.

Why? Just walk outside and just fish. Just getting just a bunch of rainbow trout just smacking you in the face. Like they're so small they got evaporated along with the water. Tim, I might have to seek shelter in my farmhouse. It's called animal rain. I just stole your news. I'm sorry. No, please. Can I do this to it? Yeah, go for it. I think you're just like because my farmhouse. It's called animal rain. I just stole your news. I'm sorry.

No, kid, please. Can I do this to it? Yeah, go for it. I think you're doing it because of the weather. Go for it. It was raining fish. Animal rain. Animal rain.

Is that purple rain? Tornadic water spouts or updrafts are responsible for fish and small animals falling out of the sky. They get in the vortex and they just fall down. I'm out. It's very biblical. I'm out on that. You could open up your smoker, dude. Can you smoke fish?

Yes. Yeah, I guess we can, right? He locks out a bagel one time, dude. What are you doing? Can you smoke fish? I've just never seen somebody pop the Traeger top and throw on some fish. Dude, you should try it sometime. It's honestly really good.

I know Cedar Plain. I would love to use Dave's Traeger sometime to smoke a little fish. I have a Traeger too. Can you fish? Oh, and you live closer to me. Can you fish in your backyard? Like, what do you catch out there? Hard to say.

Snapper? Yeah, I don't like to spread that around too much. I don't want people fishing in my backyard. Well, that's cool. It's very public, so. If you have a Blackberry, point of the story, if you have a BlackBerry, it doesn't work tomorrow. If you're on the legacy software, if you have the old shit. Seven people are going to be really disappointed tomorrow.

You were on BBM, right? Actually, weren't you, Will? Absolutely. You were like BBM. Yeah, there was a point in our lives where all me and my buddies, we all got BlackBerry Pearls. Familiar with that? Uh-huh. Had a little Pearl there. I used to push these. Don't forget that. And buddies, we all got BlackBerry Pearls. Familiar with that? Uh-huh. Had a little Pearl there. I used to push these. Don't forget that.

And so, yeah, we went and got Pearls, and yeah, we all operated on BBM exclusively. You see that little red dot going? You knew that somebody was just blowing your spot up? Let's go. That shit was trash. The red dot, dude. If iPhones had a red dot thing, I would want it. What's a red dot? What does that mean? It means you got a text.

So you didn't have to worry about it. It didn't light up or anything. You just saw that red dot going. It's like, oh What does that mean? It means you got a text. So you didn't have to worry about it. It didn't light up or anything. You just saw that red dot going. It's like, oh, bae just hit me. I've got a text. We all know what that means. Y'all don't. Facts.

I went to New Orleans, guys. How'd it go? It was sick. Oh, you're an Orleans guy. I know. I flip-flop. New Orleans, New Orleans. What do the locals say?

I don't even know. Knowledge. Knowledge, baby. They do say that. Knowledge. What a cool city. I spent 18 hours there, and it's officially on the I need to go back list. It's a great city. One which Nashville and San Diego are tops.

I told Brett. I gave my buddy. This is also breaking news. Gave my buddy clearance to send an email regarding a certain bachelor party. You know, because everyone has a bachelor party after they get married. And the original plan of San Diego, I think I might be leaning towards New Orleans at this point. I think I want to go back. I go back.

Galatoire. I go back. We're back. Galatoire. I go back. We're back. The last 15 seconds. That's what we'll say when we set foot on Bourbon Street. We'll just be like. What if we walk into Galatoire's and they have facial recognition software and they're like, you guys have to leave.

We're absolutely not allowed to be here after what you guys did last time. Is Galatoire's tough to get a res at? Because I've had a number of people reach out about it, and I just am like, oh yeah, you should do Galatoire's. And I'm like, is that going to be difficult for them? Micah made his reservation way in advance, but I think that was also for a very popular Friday lunch. I don't know. Or do you do just a normal

dinner there? It was closed when we walked by Saturday, walking to the game. It was closed that Saturday night. Which was also a very cool walk we walked down bourbon street took a right on canal street and then made our way to the stadium i i love new orleans like i it's awesome it's like a cool history city it reminded me of saratoga like saratoga's bar district on steroids because everything's like super historic super old architecture i. I was all about it, man.

You didn't go to Lafitte's, though. I didn't. I probably walked by it. Is that on Bourbon? We went to Pat O'Brien's. It is on Bourbon. It's at the far end of it, though. Okay.

I might have passed by it. Every bar was some form of neon sign and packed. It was sick. Yeah, Lafitte's is not like that. I'm jealous. Shrimp Po' boy went down easy. Hand grenade was better than the Hurricane, but also it tasted like you were drinking a bag of Sour Patch Kids.

Wasn't huge on that. Sour Patch Kids go, though. How'd the tum-tum hold up? Fine. I mean, honestly, fine. Felt good. I got to say, you look better than expected. Thank you.

I feel fine. I mean, we, you look better than expected. Thank you. I feel fine. I mean, we had Louisiana legend Raising Canes. Was it Raising Canes? Yeah. Yeah. We had that on the way home yesterday when we drove from New Orleans to Houston. Then I got on a bus from Houston to Austin. Oh, so you had a day yesterday.

I did. Felt fine, though. I mean, we got pretty blitzed on Saturday. I'm jelly. Was able to tone it down a little bit at the very disappointing Sugar Bowl game itself. Sorry about your ribs. Thank you.

Matt Corral went out, and it was tough sledding from there. But all in all, New Orleans would do again immediately next weekend, although I'm going to Park City, so I cannot do it. Keep it on your radar. I think you'll find that I am more of a cold weather Nolan's guy just because I just like experiencing it.

But I will do I will do an August trip with you. It gets soupy. I won't. It gets a little soupy. I don't want to be soupy. I'd rather go when it's

it was 70 like 6 this weekend. That's perfect. That was nice. I'll do it anytime. I'll sweat. I'll shiver. Damn this guy

this guy's loco. I love New Orleans. That was nice. I'll do it anytime. I'll sweat. I'll shiver. Damn, this guy's loco. I love New Orleans. I do too. What do you have against po'boys that you don't like? It's an inferior sandwich. Well. I enjoy a po'boy. It's not my favorite Cajun food, but I do like them.

It's a lot of bread usually. It's just terrible. It was a lot of bread. It was good. It was good. Horrible. It's not horrible. They're the worst.

I don't think they're horrible. I wouldn't consider them that. So I didn't tell you all this. I'm actually doing keto, and I've been doing my Po' Boys lettuce wrapped. Wow. Really? It's not as good. Yeah, I can't imagine.

Should we get the hell out of here? Yeah. Yeah, it's time. First episode of the year in the books. How do we feel about it? Pretty good. Pretty good. I came out of the gates wobbly, but I think I got my

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