Circling Back - Mattel Rancho's, the GOAT, Geeds, & Jeremy Piven | Circling Back 2-17-26

Episode Date: February 17, 2026

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All right, we're back. Tuesday morning. Circling back podcast, my name is Dave. Welcome to the show. Producer Randy, as always. Hi, Dave. Looking very dirty bills bartender. Yes, I am a little bit.

Got my Maggie Mays hat on, which was one of the first bars I went to in Austin. It made me really like the city. And then it's also a bar. that I'll probably never step foot in ever again in my life. That's probably the Maggie May's experience. Yeah. I probably,

there's very few times I ever want to be on Dirty Six ever again. Wise man. Oh. Oh, Dylan's breaking the couch. Bro up the love seat. Dylan Shivery. Hey, that's not a toilet seat.

It's a love seat. I think every time Barrett sits here, I think everything's just a little out of whack. Not to blame it on him, but it's his fault. Oh, happy to be here. I would like to, you're eyeing me up and down. You got something to say?

No, I'm still looking at this love. Oh, okay, okay. Because I just don't have faith in it. I'm like watching it because it just. I put it in the bracket. Okay. It's bracketed up right now. Anyway, I got called Fool last night and the gym by some Genzy Meathead,

but got called Fool in like the nice way. Remember how people used to say, fool back in the day? I pitied it, fool I'll tell you that much Here's what happened Yeah, I remember it I was doing a set on this machine And he, this

Ginzy meathead wearing a wife pleaser walks up He goes He goes, hey man You got how many more sets you got I was like, oh, I'm pretty much I was gonna come back But I'll just, I'll come back

And Matt, you go ahead and do your thing He's like, all right, all right man, bet, thanks And then I'm working out near him And he walks up and he goes he goes bro i change your settings he goes my bad fool it's like it's all right man don't worry about it but i just hadn't heard that in a very long time and it kind of warms my heart that gen z is is saying fool again yeah that was a big player um i'm trying to think awful that was the uh that was the crowd from about sixth grade through i would say sophomore year of high

school that was the white crowd that smoked cigarettes okay that's who said that yeah in my in my uh in my my my schooling i think it was like this the skaters in my school were we're big on full the skaters yeah interesting we had we had skaters uh i didn't talk to them but we had them but you just knew that they were big fool guys yeah it seems like the type the type that would said that yeah i never never really uh entered my vernacular Not awful. That's just, and like it, when I hear it, honestly hearing you said, it brings back like cringy memories.

Also, like, of like eighth graders who would really go out of, they would go out of their way to say it. It was like, and like it was very, it was very obvious. There's also a guy at the gym this morning. Yes, I've been to the gym twice since you guys saw me yesterday. That's true. I went to the gym this morning and there was a guy walking through the gym without a shirt on shirtless and seems like a no-no one of the employees quickly walked over to him and asked him to

put a shirt on what's the what was the reasoning there for him to just be shirtless think you just wanted to peacock a bit i don't know i once realized my shirt was inside out and i thought like i could do like a quick and then i was like i'm just going to go to the bathroom and do this it's not worth let it go dude is it was it was embarrassing no in my head what do you got randy nothing You had a look on your face. Like you had something. Nothing. What?

Don't worry about it. I got a cute text for my girlfriend. That's what? Oh, I'm like, God. In love Randy, as cute as it is, it's kind of annoying at times. You didn't have to call me out. Well, dude, you were almost laughing. It looked like you read something funny in the chat.

No, I mean, there's chat face. Just smiling at his phone. It was chat face. There's some fun stuff happening in the chat. A lot of people are. are just saying that Dylan's continued a bad take max. On what? What's my bad take this time?

I think it was about medieval times. There might be some calls coming in the pipeline way. No, here we go. There's no doubt. The fucking nerd hurts coming after me, sounds like. You can't really say you don't really like that era when you devoted so much time to Game of Thrones. That's why it took me so long to get into Game of Thrones.

I was like the last person to watch it. So it's like it just feels odd to be like, no, that actually sucks. I didn't want to be like the only person not to watch the show because everyone was talking about it. It was so mega huge. It's like I have to watch this show. And I did enjoy it, but that is not, that's not my favorite genre. Just a film at all or show as it may be.

Speaking of. You really, you really are cooking up bad takes. Hey, can I read this, can I read this tweet from Dove Clemen, who? I don't really know much about this person other than I think he's... Dove Clemen? He's regarded as just like a clown, like sports commentator. I don't know who this fucking person is. This is a real person?

I think so. He's known for his comedic National Football League news and aggregation on X, the Everything app. So Ryan Williams, the wide receiver for Alabama, who bursted onto the scene because he was a 17-year-old. playing very well for Alabama. Really good player. He is now engaged to be married. He's now 19 years old. He's engaged to be married at 19.

And this is what Dove Clemen says. Congrats. Alabama's 19-year-old star wide receiver, Ryan Williams, has announced his engagement to 25-year-old girlfriend, Alexis Hill. Hill has one child with a different baby daddy. A six-year age gap, dot, dot, dot. Congratulations to the happy couple.

And, uh, okay. I don't think all that information was needed. You could have just said congrats to the, uh, the happy couple, you know. So what is he insinuating? I think the insinuation here is that like, all right, all right, Ryan, go, go off, dude. Some decision you're making. I don't know. Because he's 19 and getting married.

He's 19 and getting married as part of it. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. just a weird way to congratulate someone on their upcoming nuptials. If I had that thought, I maybe would just withhold the commenting on it at all.

I think so too. You don't have to comment on everyone's engagement. There's been texts like that in the past too, haven't there where like it's congratulating and then they like just get like a random straight. It's very much a Trump move, but also I feel like there's backhanded. Yeah.

Yeah. Passive aggressive even. It's like why include all this information? I think someone very notable got got kind of in hot water over this. I forgot what it was. I feel like yeah, it was within the past year. It was like a Schefter type of account. It said something that was totally unnecessary about a situation. Anyway, this dude's kind of a clown, not Ryan Williams, but dove clemen. Dove. Well, you know what? 19, maybe just looking to settle down a little bit.

Got another year at Bama? Yeah, this is a third season at Bama. We'll be entering the Keelon Russell era at Bamma, most likely. He had a tough sophomore year, so he might not be three and done. I don't know. He needs a bounce back year, for sure. He's got the dropsies. Well, Keelon throws a better ball. Everyone's been saying that, yeah.

That's what's coming out of camp right now. And that could end up being a bad take for me, but I don't think it will. I think, I think, I think the tie is going to really enjoy the Keelon Russell era. I'm pulling for him. We got circling back on touching base this afternoon. And that will be our Patreon experience. Randy, give us a little teaser. So I just pulled some, like, the first one, just like a random fun, you guys ragging on Micah, talking about AstroTurf, talking about, like, smoking these meats.

It was just a very good segment of you guys being you guys. And then the second one. You guys being you guys. I heard you say we were ragging on them. Were we also boning on them? Anyways. Whoa. Have you ever heard of a little something called?

Micah's poolhouse. See where I'm going with this? Brittany T. I know. You found that one. Is it the Britney T. The T-shirt one? You see where I'm going with this?

Oh, yeah. Let's ride. She remembers it. Well, I ran into her last year at the final day of Mike Eisenhower's bar, Eisenhower's on rainy. And saw her there. And we said hello. And I asked her if she remembered that show.

And she said, yes. And I said, do you remember when? And she said, yeah. Well, you guys had her on multiple times. I didn't realize that because I don't remember that. Thank you to the backer that like was got all these episodes for us. There's like also the whole run sheet. So I just searched her name.

So she was on, I think, saved by the brunch to. And then she also came back on for the woman's towel like as a guest thing. So she was on like three times. She was on saved by the brunch? I think she, yeah, she showed up. Dude, shout out to her. Because that interview was, I think, February 17th or something like that. And, I mean, Say, Brother Brunch was South by Southwest.

It was like just a month later. Okay. Well, shout out to Brittany T. Friend of the show. More on Bachelor or Bachelorette, actually. I alluded, or we mentioned this last week, but it looks like we're going to be running back some Bachelorette content, some written content courtesy of the great Crick Watson and maybe some pod courtesy of us what did we call what did we call the pod it was circling batch circling batch the circling

batch boys yeah I mean it just seems like this season is getting so much buzz because of the bachelorette that like I feel like a lot of secret life of Mormon wife yeah secret lives of Mormon wives. I'm looking forward to it. The little I know about this lady, it's going to be a fun season. Maybe enough to get us back in for a little bit. Just get in, get out, be tactical. Exactly.

Do what we got to do. But yeah, the circling back on touching base, it's confusing, I know. You might be new here and not realize this, but we used to do a show called touching Touching Base. And that was a long time ago. And then that show got canceled. but we like to go back and revisit some of the classic audio that Randy has pulled the aforementioned audio. And we'll visit this afternoon.

That's only on Patreon. So go check it out. And shout out to everybody who's tapped in on Patreon. We had some, we've got some new listeners, some new patrons. A lot of people who have been backers before, been optobackers that are just tapping back into that. So shout out to you. Good people. Anything else?

Anything I'm missing? A co-worker week. Keep on submitting your stories. Got one this morning. Dave at Wash Media or call into the pipeline. Yeah, Dave at Washmedia.com. Email me a good co-worker story, or you could just call into the pipeline,

say, hey, this is for Co-worker Week. 888-618-48-44-22. And then I guess a reminder of the Dallas meetup. March 7th. March 7th. I might need you to do that graphic for me, Haas. Can I just put you on the spot and say, Why, why don't you make me a real, a real, a cute little Randy graphic?

You want me to make you a cute little Randy graphic? Yeah. Yeah, I do. Put some cute on it, man. Okay. Yeah. Maybe. We'll see.

Hopefully. Yeah. I don't know. We'll see where my day goes. I got to get prepared for, not to spoil it, but I got to get prepared for. I'm at all ranchos. Later tonight. More than that later.

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I believe this is, what is this one called? This is not the Western. No, this is the Western. You got the Western. Yeah, I don't know what that one is. the short sleeve one and I will leave this on. That one's called the super dope I think all weekend all weekend. I'll take it off to sleep in but this is my shirt. Ponce outdoors. It'll become your favorite shirt very quickly. Not on my body, not on my person is my favorite denim that is a pearl snap that I've

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Enter your email for $10 off your first order. That's P-O-N-C-H-O-Outdoors.com slash steam for $10 off and free shipping. and let them know circling back since you. Let's start with that Mattel Ranchos news. Tonight's the night that we get to do something that general public doesn't get to do. And that's go to Maddo Ranchos on a Tuesday. Typically closed, typically shut down.

Can't go you. Drive by, there's no cars there. But we're special people. Yeah, we do our accounting with the right accounting firm. Yeah. And our boy B-Mart's taking care of us tonight. Yeah. They, I won't say they wine and dine us, but they do margarita and floutos.

Yeah. And then we strong-armed Blaine into taking us out to dinner afterward, which is super unnecessary, but we do it anyway. Yeah, so least he can do. Yes. We're really looking forward to it. It's always a good time. Randy, you never know what Randy's going to do.

He may, you may look up and he may just be networking in the course. corner with a plate full of floutes. And just that's what he does. He's different. Maybe. Have you looked at the menu at the restaurant we're going to, you, at Jay Carvers?

Jay Carvers. Have you looked at the menu? I have not yet. I've just been told that I get to pick my knife. If you order a steak, if you order a steak, that's what he's looking forward to. You get to pick your knife. It's really fun.

I'm going to order a steak because I want to pick my knife. They have a Japanese option. I know. I could see Randy bringing his own knife. I wouldn't suggest that. No. a Wakutashi or so I can't remember what the the knife of the sword is called it's hard to pronounce but either way maybe I'll just bring my own I'll bring my own katana no again don't do that

they'll have knives there for you be weird yeah don't bring a katana okay maybe go down to the shell station and buy a sword that's weirdly for sale it's true they do have swords there you know what even though I'm like I don't want to calm out there it's a good gas station even though not everyone there is like super talkative I'm going to find out about the sword. I'm going to beg, how many swords do you guys sell them? Yeah. People often come in, grab a case and just a sword. I mean, that's like the hell yeah simulator. I mean, it is hell yeah. I'll just, I'll get a, I'll get a tall boy, pack sigs, and a fuck yeah, yeah, take, give me that sword. Yeah, sword. I'm going to go home and watch a dinosaur, uh, electric guitar

videos. You know, I'm talking about. I know what you're talking about. Um, can we pull up the MJ video? All right. Did you know MJ is the co-owner with Denny Hamlin of a NASCAR team? And they won the Daytona 500. I knew that he was in NASCAR, in the NASCAR world somehow. Yeah. Everybody's freaking out about this.

MJ is, of course, the goat. I don't think anybody would debate that. It's pretty disturbing what's going on here. It's really, the explanation makes it not. Oh, I don't know that. I'm going to, I'm going to just, I'm going to absolutely be the MJ's mouthpiece. Okay. Then we'll watch the video.

So here's the video. I'm happy to know that there's an explanation. It says him, this is, again, MJ's team just won the Daytona 500. A big deal. I don't think we really need audio. There's none. Here he is. He's grabbing this kid's shirt from behind.

Okay. They scratch in like the back of his knee. It looks like he's just grabbing. It's very unfortunate. Is he just scrubbing shirt? It looks like it's full on cheek, to be honest. Here's what I've been told. If you notice.

The kid is wet. His shirt is wet. Okay. In the post-celebration, post-raise, this kid got covered with ice and champagne, as most everybody did. And the explanation from all the MJ apologists, myself included. The kid had like ice and champagne on his shirt. MJ was like scratching his leg because he said the champagne was like sticky and itchy. I'm doing Denzel Giff when someone's name is trending and they're not dead. That's what I'm doing. right now. Sure. That is such a relief. I've been wanting this to like not be a thing because he's my goat. I grew up watching MJ. I think he's a lot of people's goat, as you said. And I was very, I was very uncomfortable about this whole situation. But since there is an explanation and that does make some sense. That is that is the one they're going with. And I'm, look, I, I'm going to just that is, that is what's going on. That is what happened. That is the explanation. And nothing

further. But I think the real story here is, MJ, I don't know if you saw his quotes afterward, but he was like legit ecstatic. He said this is like win in another championship. Oh my God. Okay. Okay. Is he still involved in any NBA franchises? I know he was with the Hornets for a while. Bobcats. Bobcats. I don't know. Let me, that's a great question. I don't think so, but we're about to find out. I'm so happy there's an explanation for this. It still looks a little weird. Don't condone putting your hands on a kid. He's now a, he's now just a minority partner.

He was the majority owner from 2010 to 23 of the Charlotte franchise. Okay. Interesting. Are they the Bobcats now? Is that what you said? Didn't they go back to the Hornets? They're back to the Hornets. But when he, I believe when he...

I had no clue. but I guess I'm not Mr. Sports. Damn, I didn't realize, sorry, there's a lot of MJ stuff that I'm just now finding out. Anyway, yeah, so MJ and Denny Hamlin, I don't know who the driver is. Is the driver Denny Hamlin? I'm looking at you as if you know anything more. Deni Hamlin is a NASCAR driver? But is he still the driver?

Oh. Because it says he's a co-owner. Dude, I have no idea. Does the chat know? Chat, let us know. I'm sure there's some NASCAR heads out there. might have tickets to one in Austin

Okay I don't know if I'll go Well we get those tickets before we get the rollerblades I mean I don't know You know you have tickets You've been wrong because You've been painted as the guy desperately wanting rollerblades and there was like

Three of us out there yesterday like Where's the rollerblades? Yeah I don't know After Brett's a roller skate video Dude he I think everyone It really shows that We need a not rag on Brett as much.

I'm guilty of it too because everyone was like, hate to say it. This is great. It's like, they don't have to say it. Hate to say it. Brett looked great. And he was doing a great job on those roller skates.

Go check out circling back on Instagram to see what we're talking about the most recent this weekend and fun video. He was absolutely cooking in the rolling rink. He really was. That's impressive. Quads, uh, it's a little bit different. I don't know when the last time you put on some quads was,

but it's not. It's not easy. I don't know if I, probably like when I was five. There was a, there was a girl in my roller hockey league when we first started playing. Her dad owned a rink and she played, she was the only person to play in roller skates, but she was like a world-class roller skater. So she was like fast. But when she stopped, the noise she made when she hockey stopped in quads was just the loudest noise.

It's a very different thing. So. She's nice with it. She was nice with it. Shout out to her. Yeah, dude, MJ did nothing wrong here. It's just bad timing. You need context before you judge a book, man.

Seriously. This is a happy revelation for me. How many NASCAR championships does LeBron have? Look that off. As far as I'm aware, he doesn't have any. He has no skin in the game. I'm thinking zero. Okay.

never lost a finals. It's pretty good stat. LeBron has. He has. He got J.J. Barread. I was watching J.J. Berea highlights last night. He got Tim Duncan just as well.

Yeah. J.J. Barreya. No one cares about J.J. Barreya, do I hate to tell you. Yeah, a lot of people care about you. No, no one. I didn't even know.

I don't even know who that is. Well, he's not a know or a ball. He's not a guy. He's not a guy. I don't. You're not an hour of ball. I don't know ball. He's a little point guard.

nothing flashy about his game he just dishes that's it uh he's a big reason a big reason uh that that heat team lost their uh their first NBA finals just a little fun fact why do i feel like we've argued about j j brayette before i think i think i try to dunk on him one time and you were quick to his defense and that's what you're you're thinking of yeah well we've seen what happens when you try to dunk yeah i did break my leg you should see what happens when this guy puts in a lucy though. Oh, got one in right now. Big dog.

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It says which region is out drinking the rest? Pick sent to Rains. I've seen this graphic floated around social media the last week or so, and I think it sets up a good conversation. Okay. Can I get, I'm not going to look at the graphic. I've not seen it. How are we doing in regions? It's the United States broken up into, looks like 12 different regions.

Okay. And there's not really much rhyme or reason other than states that touch each other. Okay. So like, it's not just Midwest because Midwest is broken up into, it looks like two or three. three different ones. But you can look at it now, Dave. Texas is somehow grouped in with Hawaii. Don't know why?

Alaska. Alaska, sorry, Alaska. In Hawaii, I guess, is part of the California group. That wasn't a color thing, was it? No, it was a shape thing. I knew it wasn't part of the lower 48. I just looked at it quickly and spoke too soon. I think town for pound, Alaska probably drinks real hard.

Pound for pound, yeah. I think pound for pound. I'm also confused why Alaska's one little island down here is also part of Hawaii and not part of the rest of Alaska. It's hard to say. It doesn't really matter. It says at the bottom, clearly six and it's not even close. And I think I am co-signing that. The number six region, which is, you know, we got Wisconsin, you got Michigan, you got Illinois.

What's Indiana's up there? What's the one? Minnesota. Minnesota. Yeah. That is my number one here. I think they outdrink the other regions. Oh.

Texas and Alaska, I'm going to rank them like, I don't know, somewhere fourth. I don't think of Texas as being like a major drinking state. I don't know why. Man, I'm kind of saying seven has something to say about this. Oklahoma. Missouri, Arkansas. Missouri, Arkansas. And is Tennessee in there, too?

I'm having a little trouble. Yeah. Tennessee is in there. I don't know, dude. That's in my top three. Oklahoma is a hard drinking state, even though it is like geographically and culturally Midwest.

You mean because there's nothing else to do there? Thunder games. And drinking. That's it. That's pretty much it. Go post up at cookies, maybe sing a country boy can survive and karaoke there

and maybe watch your law school classmate fall through a table, Tommy boy style. That's pretty much all you can do there. Florida is its own. Its own here. Yeah, Florida, oh. The only one that's a single state.

If you put Florida in with 10, with like Georgia and the Carolinas, I think that would have something to say. Yeah, that's hard drinking. That would be a good, a good one. Florida, Florida, there's a lot of booze in there, a lot of vacation booze in, but also just a little hard-living booze. Number 10, even without Florida, I think, is up there. Yeah, 10's got something to say. Eight as well. Eight of course is Mississippi, Alabama.

Yeah, that's a good one. That's pound per pound pretty strong. Okay. I'm going to say 13 is probably on the low end. I think one and 13 are probably near the bottom of this. One's interesting because you've got Cali, Washington, Oregon. So you're in wine country. Number two is also near the bottom of this list.

But why I feel like one, the aforementioned West, Northwest, Pacific Northwest, it feels like they're more moderation. It feels like they can handle their shit. Yeah, and they're smoking that sticky also. Yeah. A lot of these people are getting peepants like eight, nine, ten, they're getting peepants drunk. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. California, Oregon, Washington. And that's, if it was who can out smoke, like, yeah, that, that's, I was six. Talking about smoking pot, region two, marijuana cigarettes. Smoking the refre. Region two, we got Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado. That's near the bottom.

They're not, that's not doing much for me in the drinking department. Well, three has Utah, which, you know, not to say that everyone there's Mormon and not drinking, but, yeah, three is definitely, uh. Yeah, three's pretty soft, too. Who, what's the general consensus? I agree with six. Six, I mean. Is number one. Wisconsin in itself is a very big drinking beer and all that.

And like, yeah, I go with six. I think of Chicago is a major drinking city. It is. I mean, there's much. Especially in wintertime, right? My drinking cities, I'm going to say when I think of drinking cities, I think of Boston. I think of Chicago. I think of Boston and Chicago.

Philly. Yeah, I guess Philly. Philly's just kind of sneaky, sloppy, no offense. Yeah. Love Philly. Wow. It is what it is. I mean, I guess Wisconsin, one of their major sports team is named after like beer.

So it's true. The brew crew, the dumb zones in Arizona, it's spring training, I believe, for the brewers. Yeah. Love that. Randomly. Yeah. You know what? Okay. I believe that who put this out? Was it some kind of big beer? I don't know who did this.

Because it feels like this is trying to get the conversation towards drinking again because we all know people are drinking less. Could be just a random Redditor that put this together. I don't know. Okay. Whoa, whoa, whoa. I thought you weren't drinking anymore. No, not me personally. I am not drinking anymore. But now at the same time, I'm not drinking any less. Yeah. That's a thing. But other people are drinking less. I'm saying, yeah. I think the studies will show that people are drinking less.

less. Interesting. We'll see what it goes down tonight. We're going beer tonight or Margs? I think I'm just going to do, I'm going to nurse like two beers at the thing. Then I'll probably have a glass of wine at dinner. You're not going hard? No. Tomorrow's Wednesday. We have two shows tomorrow. I'm going hard. Okay. I'm going to get annihilated tonight. Yeah, please do. I think I'm going to try to limit myself to four drinks tonight. Okay. You probably have to do a face time when you get home. What's that time? What's that time? Our dinner's late. Five, five hours?

Right now? Is she already there? Four hours. Yeah, four hours. So I'm four hours ahead. When you drop something in the mail, how long does it take to get to her? About a week.

Okay. Unless you do FedEx's expedited shipping. Here's a little PSA for everyone here. Listen up, everyone. You're listening? So sent Valentine's Day stuff. And it was going to be $60, I think, to send it to her. And it was going to get there in like 10 days.

And that was going to be after Valentine's Day. And they're like, well, we could get there in like five days for Express, like Super Express. It would be $90. I'm like, what? Like, oh, or we could do our pre-packaged two-day shipping. It'll be $15. So if you ever shipping anything from FedEx, just do their expedited, like, their pre-packaged two-day shipping. It'll probably be $15 or $30 to like, I think, any.

anywhere in the country. It's crazy that they don't like let you know that off the top. Randy, you should do like a little weekly Randy's long distance relationship column. It's just that I've said, because that's very, that's useful for people. I like ship stuff to my brothers and like, you know, back home in Indiana or Michigan or I sent something to Jaybone when he was in town. Can I ask what it was?

He got a bunch of stuff when he was doing all the F1 stuff. Like he got a bunch of free stuff through Cash App. Was it a disc? It was, he got some meta glasses. He got a bunch of stuff, but he didn't bring enough, you know, luggage to take it all back. So he's like, hey, can you just send this to me? And it was 90 bucks, which if I had known this in the past, I probably would have been able to just send it for 30 bucks. Can you imagine how annoying J-bone would have been at the Grand Ex office with meta-glasses?

He would have been just unbearable. It would have been such a good bit. Jay-bone. Fucking turn those off. Meta-J-Bone. No, I don't think so. No. No.

No. What do you mean? They're not on. No, not, not what are you talking about? I can see the light on it. I know they're on. No, they're not. Would somebody wears meta glasses?

Can you tell that they're on? I don't know. It's a great question. But you can definitely tell meta glasses pretty easily. If you're looking out for them, I think your average person that's not like in the know of new technology might not know. But like I think any of us would see someone wearing glasses and clock them as meta glasses pretty quickly.

I'll tell you what. They should have a light that lets you know that it's recording. Otherwise, it feels like too invasive to me. They might. They're not as, right. They do look like regular Ray bands. I understand. I totally, what you're saying is accurate.

They don't look as ridiculous as the Snapchat, the Snapchat spectacles that Micah had. Micah had. Yeah. Let me find those thing. Why did Micah have those? I think that they just sent to the office and Micah was the one that was like, I'm going to wear these. That checks out. Let me find those.

It always blows my mind to find out the Snap. is still, like, thriving. I know. Because it's, it's, I've aged out of it. We've all aged out of it pretty hard. It's a young man's game. Yeah. Oh, my God.

Those are terrible. Those look so stupid. Yeah, Mike, you used to. Anytime you see an SEC quarterback getting in trouble for like, you're getting, getting, uh, put on blast for like sending like a, like, you know, asking for, uh, it was always on snap. It was always Carson Becked. Yeah.

Dude, it's, it's Snapchat is where that's happening. Yeah. I definitely sent you guys a Snapchat once of me being Avian one. A lot of people did. Snapchat feels sleazy to me. Yeah, I re I hopped on mine. I opened it up, signed back in probably two years ago, just to see like, okay, what have I missed? Have I missed like a bunch?

There's a bunch of people reaching out. And it was, it was nothing really. I was like, oh. And then it was, they're, they're, it was just bad. It was a bad place. Like the content they were serving me was bad. It just was like, okay, well, I redoleted it. I redeleted it time.

There's a lot of fun stuff in the chat talking about the interactions between Jaybone and Micah. If Jay Bone had meta classes, specifically like the POV of him stealing Micah's identity. Doesn't get, that just doesn't get better than that. It doesn't get better than starting a business and doing it with Squarespace like we did. You damn right. This show is brought to you by Squarespace. Facts. The all-on-one website platform designed to help you stand out and succeed online, whether you're just starting out or scaling your business.

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But I feel like that's a good question. And I don't know the answer. It's probably been a while. But I know he's doing some kind. And I couldn't he get work if he wanted? I think he's doing standup. Excuse me. Which is not,

I don't think that's part of the Jeremy Piven experience. But this is making the rounds on Twitter or X, if you will. And zoom in a little bit, Randy. This is April 25th, 2026. It's a night with Jeremy Piven. Because like personal appearances are for famous people on the downside of their careers. That's the way I think of it is what I'm trying to say. But Jeremy Piven, like, he could get work if he wanted to.

He's still like, he's still Jeremy Piven. I think you'd be surprised with the amount of working actors that you would, that show up to, maybe not like this where it's being billed as like a VIP experience, but like who show up to like Comic Con. or something to get paid like an appearance fee. Like, oh, I went to XYZ Super Bowl Party. I got paid to be there. But this is not really that. This is a Q&A.

It's an unforgettable night with Jeremy Piven. Of course, noted here in parentheses, entourage is already gold. VIP tickets, $150, seating at the same table as Jeremy Piven. $150. That's inexpensive. Pretty affordable. Yeah. Especially when GA, as you'll see here, $110.

So for $40 more, you just sit at a table with them. Are you just going to completely gloss over that you get a free license plate with each ticket? Ari's Ferrari. Okay. It's a call back to entourage. All GA tickets will be able to meet and greet and take pictures with Jeremy Piven. Okay. Now the menu.

Entree? grilled salmon, black Angus sirloin steak, chicken parmesan with linguine, and a penny prima vera. And of course, there's a cash bar available. Starters is these, you've got the soup of the day. They've not let you know what that is yet. A salad and, oh yeah, dessert. I mean, if you go out to dinner and you buy all those things minus drinks, you're going to spend close to 100 bucks anyway. Mm-hmm. Dessert is included. Brandi, I know you were wondering. I was wondering, and there's the license plate right there. This is it, the Adelphia.

And this is in Jersey. Yeah. Oh, this is a, this is, this is, you know what? I'm not saying I would ever be above doing something like this. I mean, we do meetups. We don't really get paid to do them. We've literally never been paid to do a meetup. But like, you have to sit down and like, you're on.

It's just you and however many tickets. they're selling 100 people. And it's like you're the guy. You've got to answer questions. You're sitting at a table of VIP. You're going to get so beaten down by entourage quotes. When we do meetups, and this not to imply that we're like anywhere close to Jeremy Piven,

but we meet our listeners there. And man, for me, it is very mentally exhausting to be on for the, I don't know, the two, three hours that we're at the event. It wears me out. March 7th in Dallas, come wear us out. Yeah. Come wear us out. I do enjoy them, obviously, but at the end of it, I'm like, oh, I just need to lay down

for a little bit, man, because I'm pretty introverted by nature. So, like, to be on like that and be very outgoing for those two, three hours, it takes a lot out of your boy. Yeah, I found, I found them to be a lot easier once I stopped drinking heavily at them, which the first couple was like, yeah, let's just go in. Oh, yeah, you up, you. Oh, this guy listens to the show. He wants to buy me a drink.

Better take it. You don't have to take every drink. Now, you do have to take every hamburger that you bought. That's true. I did a shot of Mallort before the Chicago meetup, like immediately when I got there. I did, I can't remember why we did it. It's something with Will's past, but the guy brought like hot sauce or something. Or no, was it Worcestershire sauce?

I remember this. Yeah, I did a shot with him because. Will has something in his past like doing shots with that. That sounds very Michigan ski resorty. Yeah. I forgot what it was. Let me ask Will. I'll ask him on today on circling back on touching base.

You should be a patron and you can get that answer. Somebody should go to this and document. So he's going to be aware that it's become like an internet bit and that like... I'm sure. And honestly, this has probably helped ticket sales. There's probably somebody who lives there and they're like, 150 bucks yeah this is so gettable i can go 150 bucks is like i mean that's like uh i spend 150 bucks to go see jimmy buffett one time this is this is philly it's i think no it's jersey

oh jersey it's the it's the idlphia close okay but it's close right i mean i know that uh ish like everything up there's close i don't really know though hey i know we have a philly fan in the chat jake remember he went viral when the eagles lost maybe we should send him there Let's see how it does. You know what? If you're a backer and you're interested in going, reach out. Reach out to Randy at washmedia.com and we'll reach out to Dave. No.

Remember when Jeremy Piffing got mercury poisoning from eating so much sushi? Yeah. Yeah. Just love sushi. I get it. It's good. Pimp C ate so many shrimp. He got iodine poisoning.

Is that true? That's what he said. How many shrimp did he eat, you think? I don't know. Iodine, huh? Yeah. Okay It's tough

Don't know much about what iodine does to your body Protects you from radiation poisoning Pardon Pretty sure protects you from radiation poisoning Iodine That's what they give you I believe there's something to that Yeah iodine tablets

Yeah Have you been prepping? Yeah How much sushi do you have to eat to get mercury poisoning? There's some fish that you don't want to You know you don't want to eat a ton of According to AI overview Yes, Rainia, I know it's not always

accurate. Eating sushi more than six times a week, particularly types with high mercury fish like tuna and swordfish can lead to mercury poisoning. While safe for moderate consumption, eating three to four servings of high mercury tuna weekly, over several weeks can trigger toxicity symptoms. What if it's in retrograde? Is that affected? There's no, there's no note here about retrograde. Oh, happy Chinese New Year to everyone. Happy Lunar New Year. You're the horse. Also mackerel and sea bass are high in mercury. Holy mackerel. That's good.

Be here all week, folks. I'm getting Chinese food for lunch in celebration. That's good. Dave's got something. Holy mackerel. Oh, dude. You're just a comedy genius. An evening with David Ruff.

What license plate will they be getting if they come to you? Deal closer only. Oh, DCO. DCO. It's a blast from the past. I think that trademark expired. I mean, I did, I believe. I got an email about it.

Oh, dang. Wait, which one? Deal closers only. Oh. So we can get it. We can get it now. It's getable? I think it's getable.

I don't know what we'd really do with it. um 630 to 8 30 it's only two hours you know what good for jeremy get the bag dude you and get out that's that's nothing he didn't nearly have to i mean what how many stories you know he's got like some probably got some entourage stories some staples he goes to like oh yes one time dude why we so mean the lloyd yeah what was that about man i was just playing a roll man what's lloyd doing the characters you regret you regret uh you know showing up to the office with a paintball gun that wouldn't cool great that's why that's workplace violence that is hr is there any part of entourage that aged poorly that you'd like to address right now never watched

oh yeah good show okay that would all right i'm going to go to this find me out i'll go and when i get the mic to ask a question uh you sir uh right there in the poncho outdoor shirt uh you have a question oh yeah Oh, yeah. You would get laughs for sure. Oh, yeah. But I just stick with it and I just slowly fade out. Okay. Oh, oh, yeah.

That's the only part I remember the song. Nice. You didn't watch the show. It's funny if you watched it. Man, that's a good show. Fun show. Baby bro. Baby bro.

Yeah, the guy who keeps doing baby bro and just singing obscure parts of the song, I'm sorry, you're even. evening with Jeremy is ended. And then there will be no free dessert for you. Dude, Vinnie Chase, big time Austin guy, Randy. Yeah, I know. He was in a mask. He was not in the mask.

No, no, but he was for Halloween. And Dylan saw him, trick-or-treating. How do you know it was him if he was wearing a mask? He wasn't wearing a mask. I thought he pulled it up and you were like, oh, shit. Oh, maybe he did. Yeah, that could be it. Was he like, was he trying to like take over the old factory?

and he was like pretending to be a ghost and y'all pulled the mask off of him and he's like ah and you had your tongue I would have gotten away with it too if it wasn't for these meddling frat stars it's funny because he used to be Dallas's like number one Dallas being Parks's mother

my son's mother so we had joked like that was her hall pass was Adrian Grinier and so we were at trick or tree and we were with Parks so it was with her and you know I was like Dallas look

that was your chances and she just heard jell hit the floor she couldn't believe Ha ha ha. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Still very handsome, it turns out. Luzana commune.

You follow me? Yeah. You understand? Hey, I know earlier I wished everyone a happy Chinese New Year. I don't want to also not wish everyone a happy Mardi Gras on Happy Fab Tuesday. Quite the day. You know the shirt you said used to be your pop shirt when we went to Coco? That is a very Mardi Gras friendly shirt.

Very. teal, it's like purple. Yeah, it does. You should have worn it today. Should have. Dope shirt, Randy, I must say. He's a good shirt. Yeah, the only way I could describe it is, oh, yeah.

I was born. My dad was wearing it when I was born. Pretty cool thing to realize. That is cool. Very cool. And now I'm wearing it to drink frozen Dr. Peppers with Dave at our lunch dates. He was also wearing it the day Kurt Cobain died. It's true.

It's very true. Good point. The day Kurt's soul left his body and entered yours. We lost Kurt, but we got Randy. I take that as a win. Yeah. Calm as you are. That's not.

As you were. Man, don't do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, man, you were. Man, do, bo, bo, bo. Why? Okay. It's a good song, dog. You doing like the stand-up bass? What's going on?

I once learned the first like five strums of that song. It's open, open, open, bum-pum. Yeah, it's super easy. That's why I learned. One, two. Open A string, I believe. So you've been there too. That's a very 90s kid first guitar.

Like, well, you'll learn as come as you are. I had a Pledge brother that played bass and he would use to do the Seinfeld theme and every single time I see him at the base like Seinfeld theme and make me laugh every time. It's a good thing to be able to do. I saw your ex at the time.

My firefighter ex? Yeah. Jason? Yeah. How is he? He never notices me. He's probably just embarrassed to see it. I was working out like 15 feet from him

and I walked up to dab him. He's like, oh. I was like, I've been here for the last five minutes. He's just locked in. He probably gets cool. call fool all the time. He was putting in work. He was on the squat rack.

He's doing triathlons now. Really? Oh, yeah. What can't he do? I don't know. Yeah. He responds first. Nobody's responding before him.

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off and make sure you use our code circling 20 so they know we sent you. Oh, yeah. God, people are going to hate that, but it's so fun to do. Sometimes I'm just driving to my car and I just start doing that. It's true. Randy, I sent you a link. I had two links here. I don't know.

Let's do ASU frat leader being exposed as not a frat leader. What? Allegedly, Hoopify, take us away. This is real journalism right here. This is real journalist. Dude, I saw his Instagram and he said he tagged Arizona State Pike. Dude, fuck Pike, first of all. For fuck, Mike, dude.

Let's see who Hoopify has to say about that. What if I told you the ASU frat leader wasn't a frat leader? What if I told you he wasn't even in a frat? Well, I'd be telling you the truth. I just got info from an inside source that Varus has never been in a frat before. But I'm sure some of you are thinking, oh, that's weird. It says ASU Pike in his bio. Well, after all the clav stuff, Pike put the ASU frat leader in their group chat as a joke and he took it way too far. He thought he was actually a member. Once Pike heard about this, they kicked him out the group chat immediately, but the ASU frat leader is still claiming he's a member in his bio.

This is crazy. It turns out the ASU frat leader was just fraud maxing the whole time. What about it? I miss this guy in his fucking TikTok voice, man. I haven't seen him in forever. He's the original, you know, baby grog.

Yeah, he's all over the baby grog saga. Dude. This guy is a... He totally exposed. Been fraud maxing? Frat leader. I cannot believe we've got fraud max. He's stealing frat valour?

That's not cool, dude. Not at all. You know the guy. the guys at pike were like dude like your buddy was over and now he's like putting in his bio like he's not a brother here he took it too far by the way this guy i don't know i was served his instagram account somehow i wasn't looking for him i promise his instagram page is very cringe he doesn't have he didn't have a shirt on in a single picture how's the um i mean this in like an objective way well i'm objectifying him what's the lower body this guy got is this guy got steroid twig legs or is he

Is he yoked up? He's got rocking quads? I don't know. What's his name? Let's see. I'll look him up. He said the name. Varus.

Varus. Gila? Gila. Gilage. Gleaj. We'll see. Varus Gilage. All right.

Found him. He's got good legs. Okay. Yeah. He's pretty yoked up from top to bottom. Dude, I can't believe he was fraud maxing. I can't believe he got hoop-a-fied. He's a fucking posers.

Are you telling me? This is real journalism. This is real journalism. What if I told you? This guy, I love this guy's voice. I hate it, but I love it. I need, I need. There was the sound effects on this video.

I need more. Yeah, there's no. Wow. Or just like the chimes and stuff. Like this guy was, oh, the baby gronk video had so many sound effects. We got to make sure. Could we post us to circling back IG? I need, I need this to become.

big that people realize that the frat leader is a fraud so that I can just see the Photoshop of the newspaper that just says ASU frat leader exposed. You're laughing. Just the fucking jeed. You're laughing. This guy is not even in Pike and you're laughing. That's even worse. Clivocular didn't even get framedonged by a frat leader. It was by a jean.

By a jeed, man. Oh, my God. Clavicular doing the Adam Friedland show should be out on YouTube right now. So check that out. see what see what kind of juicy he's got um

this guy's definitely going on spring break yeah well spring break is for GDIs yeah it's a very professional spring break or school

no offense like you have a sue yeah it's a scene man yeah probably it's not a place I'll ever go no

I think once you turn like 24 you're too old to go there yeah yeah well this is disappointing to hear it's not cool

I mean I'd prefer to know the truth with the living ignorance though so thank you hoopify oh yeah this is bigger than an Epstein drop so we're saying yeah some are saying um let's save the randy question mark for tomorrow sounds good i want to lead with that tomorrow i don't i don't even really know what's about but sure you could probably guess if i put randy question mark there's a few things you could I saw what it, the location, so I'm assuming that's where.

It's like an eight great men-esque men's retreat. Gotcha. Okay, we'll talk about it. But it's for, it's randy coated. We'll talk about it tomorrow. Exactly. Got to say, live golf finally did something cool. We were pretty, we were skeptical of live.

We have been pretty consistent on that. But their Adelaide tournament, Australia, looks to be a banger. It's probably their best event. And go see who wins it. Who comes back from five shots to defeat Bryson D. Shambo? He rallied? John Rom. None other than former Sooner Great.

Former Dallas resident, current Dallas resident, we don't know. AK. Is this his first dub? He's first dub since like the Shell, the Houston Shell open in like 2010 or something. That's, okay. Is the lore of Anthony Kim more fun than him playing golf again? Because like, remember the story of Anthony Kim, right? I mean, it was very well documented because he accepted an insurance policy for lots of money.

I heard 10 million. The caveat there is he couldn't play professional golf. For a number of years. For a number of years. And it was like, oh, this dude was so good. and he could have had this great career. What was the injury he had? I don't remember the injury,

but I know he battled substance abuse as well. So he's been, he's had it, he's gone through it. Yeah, like he was a legend because of the decision that he made. And he disappeared.

Like no one had seen him. It was very like, you would hear things in Dallas. The guy who I bought my wife's wedding ring from, the diamond people or whatever, not to stunt. It's not really stunning at all. It's pretty typical.

typical. He told me, he was like, I don't know how we, I don't know how Anthony Kim comes up in that context. But he did. He's like, oh yeah. He's like he plays at X, he plays at Brookhaven or one of these clubs, Brooke Hollow, whatever it is in Dallas. And he plays these big money games. But that's all. And like, but like, but nobody sees him outside of like the course. I was like, really? And this is like 2014 or something. So that was the only thing I'd ever heard. And you never saw posts of him. I don't think he had social media. He just disappeared. He was electric. If you were watching golf from like 2005 through 2010, really, you remember the AK experience because he was swagged out, super cocky, who's a Nike guy, he's boys with Tiger, and he was good.

And he was on President's Cup's team, President Cup teams, Rider Cup teams. And he was just, you're like, dude, this is this guy's going to be like our, this guy's going to be a problem for years. And then, like, don't say, he just disappeared, right? Guess to go work the DFW country club circuit, but not play professionally. And then he wins it live. And it's a big deal. It's like their big tournament.

And it was cool. And he was dialed in. He came back in one. It was fun. So I don't know what this means for him going forward. But it's like the only time I've gone out of my way, really literally to ever go watch live stuff, to go watch high stuff. at least. So you tuned in for this? No, I went and watched like the highlights. Got it.

I, you know, I don't know what I was doing at the time. Okay. But shout out AK. Good for AK. Yeah. Pulling for him despite him being a sooner. It's okay. You should, you should like respond to it like a tweet be like, hey man, it's so cool to have you back. And I'm saying this is a long home. I think that's always cool when people do that. And that's our show. Like when someone gets like someone gets sick and it's like

sooner here still hoping you get better yeah this is coming from us sooner like not gonna let that stop me dude's got cancer like you just this is just a human level thing

you don't have to no no no you don't understand that's how much like that's crazy coming from me though you'd have to be pretty rotten to think otherwise I think no no it's cool it's different

that sounds like it what's the guy's named dove dove dove clemen dove clemen yeah hey man pulling for your wedding your marriage dude hope it works out and this this is coming from a Auburn fan you know you wouldn't you wouldn't think you're going to hear from us but yeah like Brent Venables his his wife has been sick for a while I think she has cancer and like you'll see like people who are like uh despite being a longhorn fan I'm hoping uh you know wish for the best for your family it's like okay It's the same guy who like when a recruit like a 17-year-old kid that you thought you might go to your school, went to a different school. It's like, hey man, just letting you know, wish you the best, man.

Why? You know what? I hope it works out. I hope you don't flame out and die. Pulling for you, man. You're a good kid. This coming from a sooner. So you know.

An SFA lumberjack. All right. We'll see you tomorrow morning. Bye. Bye.