Circling Back - May I Meet You? | Circling Back 11-17-25

Episode Date: November 17, 2025

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Marl Ranchos, Maddo Ranchos, Maddo Ranchos, Maddo Ranchos, Circling Back Podcasts Monday morning. My name is Dave, welcome to the show, producer Randy. Hi Dave Did you like those incense matchsticks in the bathroom? Did I? Yeah, no, I brought them, but I did not light one this morning. I think it was William to freeze.

Okay. I didn't mean to out him, but I've grown to hate them. Some are better than others. The remaining ones we have are not great. I don't love that I can smell it in the stew. Yeah. That's your sensitive nose thing, because I think they smell great. Dave's got a, by the way, Dave's got a great.

sense of smell it's like too powerful he's like a bloodhound basically that's why i call him the hound dog around here that's what they call me that's why i got those tally marks uh randy you're gonna produce huh yeah i'm here you sure hi dave yeah i did uh did just fluster unmuting you for a second but we're good to go we're hot start you're doing something with your hair i just got a haircut on on on saturday dude i almost i almost commented on his hair earlier because it was extra pushback today. It's not pushback. It's not slick back. It's pushback. It's what I said. More Scott Kong going. Yeah. It's just because it's short and it just has more ability to go up. Okay. But yes, I got a hair. Man, you're missing out if you're not watching on YouTube.

Yeah. This is some serious hair. There's just some serious hair as well. Dylan Shivry. Sorry, I was just ogling Liv Langdon's hunk of a boyfriend over here. It's just impossibly good looking. Fuck that guy. a six percent body fat at six four he's a absolute built in a lab i just don't fucking get it he's too powerful he's too powerful because there's i mean this applies to five percent of our audience this the latest one it's just it's too much man we have a friend named live langdon she used to do our show back in the day and uh we're still friends and she just doesn't live here anymore but she's uh she's since moved on i believe she's a doctor of something she picked

I don't know. And she locked down health medicine. Just the most handsome. The guy she's currently with is just absolute. Yeah. Like if you're just going on. If you're doing like a creative player, you just did hotness at 100 and then who knows what else is left for him.

Casey Smith has not seen him. No, she hasn't. No, no, none taken. She's not aware of this guy. How do you say this word, what she's a doctor of? Let me try to pronounce it. Naturopathic? Naturopathic?

Yeah, but I don't feel confident saying. I don't either. Naturopathic. Naturopathic. Naturopathic. Naturopathic just sounds. That sounds like something Randy would say, no offense. Naturopathic?

Natura. No, I don't know. It's a thing. I just don't, it's not one that I'm really comfortable saying. Holistic health care approach that use a natural non-invasive the therapies to diagnose, treat, and prevent illness by focusing on the body's inherent ability to heal itself? Correct.

Never heard of it. Well, now you know. And what is it? I was looking for the pronunciation. She needs to propose to this guy before he gets away. Yeah. Yeah. Hit a knee, Liv.

What are you waiting for? That's nice nachos, pussy. Yeah, he probably, dude, that dude hasn't had a nacho in 16 years. did you see um we have a listener who uh is a is a he's a pig he's a woo pig and uh the old GM of the Mavs uh most hated man in Dallas for whatever reason was at the Arkansas basketball game you know just making making some face time doing some face time in the suites sure this guy happened to spot him and snapped a pick and just sent it to me and just said nice nachos pussy

I'm going to think twice next time I want to order nachos somewhere. I mean, I want, yeah, next time I order nachos, I'm posting it. Yeah. It's only, it's only us, though, too. I have to. Here you go, Dave. Nateropathic. Nateropathic.

Nateropathic. That sounds a lot better. Naturopathic. We were doing naturopathic. Yeah, we were. David's shot. He gave a shot. She does naturopathic.

We're real proud of her. Whatever that he is. Yeah, Dylan, shivery. Stoke to be here, man. It's just going to be another excellent week of content, I believe. You've even got big game hopping in the stew for a little bit today. That'll be fun. You know, it's due to week.

It is due to week, yeah. Thursday? Thursday? I think Thursday. We're getting him on? I don't know if we're getting them on, but we are going to, we're going to hang out with them. So if you're a listener, I don't know. mean for you i don't know we'll at least get to talk about hanging out with him john duda formerly

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We dropped a newsletter. Friday as we do every Friday morning washout substack.com go subscribe all in all man it's gonna be a big week next week's the short week I don't even know what our schedule looks like we have we definitely have an episode Monday I think Tuesday's kind of up in the air uh I'll just announce it right now why not why not best of launching next week volume two I've heard it yes so we will I haven't heard that one yet are we gonna record Tuesday I don't So maybe we'll put it on Tuesday or Wednesday, but yes, you will be getting some best of. What are your travel plans?

I am staying in town, so I have nothing to do. So I will be available all week. What are he doing for Thanksgiving? I might just sit home and watch stranger things get really high. I don't know. Well, if you want to- Suppressing. Hey, if you want to join my family Thanksgiving, it'll be low-key, you're welcome to it.

We'll be at the ranch? No. It'll be in the neighborhood. He wanted to go or a farm at the ranch. I was going to go take pictures. Oh, so we did family picks yesterday, and it was with a nice lady who plays Bunko with my wife. And finishing up the photos, by the way, it was like 86 degrees. Cool.

I'm still rocking fall fits. And my oldest boy, Rhodes is sitting on this bench by this little, this pond. And she's like, oh, that's a really good one right there. She's like, I thought we were dumb, but we've got to get this. and he was kind of just over there like not even posing just kind of brooding and I go

oh look at him there he's aura forming and like Alyssa and her they looked at me and they just like didn't even acknowledge what I said and I was like

yeah I guess that's a little bit more online yeah I don't think that's made its way outside of yeah it's an online thing to say it's a Gen Z and online thing but if you saw what he was doing I'm gonna I'm gonna post the photo

when it gets he was aura farming parks knows what it is because of the kid on the front of that boat yeah oh yeah that is the most yeah or farmed ever and then he was doing too much then his 15 minutes burned out real fast because he he like he made a couple of appearances and everyone was like okay we get it yeah yeah that's all he had was just that one little move well see you later you didn't have the the hawk to us standing you're like there no what staying power that's what he's standing right there you didn't have the hawk to us

staying power. Right. He didn't know. He didn't rug pull us yet. Not yet. He has it dropped a fucking butt coin or whatever. What is it? It was a hot coin, I think.

Was it not a twit coin? What's a shit coin? Shit coin, yeah. I don't think you call it that. It's bad PR. I forgot what hers was called. It doesn't matter. A lot of people lost their ass on it.

There are a few people did, I guess. Yeah, she made it out okay. More about cryptocurrency later. Well, I'm going to bed. all right okay yeah more on that later man you know with these shorter days it's a good thing we have a great sponsor and better help yes it's that time of year man it's like dark it's seasonal

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That's better help, help.com slash circling. Um, yeah, there is that feeling. Like yesterday after photos, get home, look down. It felt like 8 o'clock. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know if I like that. It's kind of a nice little treat.

I don't know what it is about this year. Usually it's like, it takes me like, I'm weak or two to adjust, but like, maybe like a week, but it's crazy. Now it's getting way later earlier. Man, what's going on? Maybe it's two weeks. I still don't understand why we do the time change. You know, you can easily look that up.

You have a device right there. You know, 100 years ago, people would have killed for what those things. I prefer to think through things as opposed to look them off. Every single time you have this. Okay, touche. Every time this discussion brought up, it's something about farmers. Someone brings up Arizona and then talk about. how they're going to maybe change it and then that's like that conversation every time i don't know

i don't know why they do it i hate to break it to you but we don't lost the farm again i don't sound as good as i once did i've heard it's an energy play like when you extend daylight you use less energy to like power things like light whatever but if that were the case why didn't it wouldn't be that all year round daylight i like that you said energy you want to go home you know what i mean I like that you said energy play. Six foot. It's like, okay, now we're going to revert back to the time of year where we use more energy. Like, does that make sense?

That's a clock. There's a guy I was buddies with in high school. I haven't talked to in a long time. But he was actually on the team on the Louisiana Monroe. One of the Louisiana teams that beat Sabin at Alabama's first year. Remember, like, that massive upset? He was on that team. Anyway, he played for Duncanville.

Good dude. but out of nowhere one time I hadn't talked to him in like three or four years he's like what's up man I was like what's up just he just randomly like text me he's like energy could be a good play and I was like what

he's like just saying if you ever want to like you know if you ever want to talk we could look into getting like an energy fund going do you know what he thinks of you? Huh you're a serious man yeah I was like thanks for thinking of me but I'm just not at a point in my life

where I'm going to like pivot to an energy fund that's really funny so now my other buddy who i like immediately screenshot i was like why is he i was like what is this we now like have an inside joke and if he's listening sorry pat um but yeah we we anytime i hear energy i'm like yeah energy is a good play right now it's good play right now yeah let's go start a fund with me i've got a real background and funding the movers, the power brokers. It's a compliment, though. I know, dude.

You don't send that to an unserious, man. That's a personal phone call. Yeah, this dude's fucking serious. He texted me. Oh, okay. But, you know, it's almost as good as a phone call. Sure. That's how the kids are doing it.

You guys want to talk about our weekends? Let's go out this weekend. I bet you don't. I do want to. I got some explaining it. I got some ish to talk about. Are we bringing the other guy in? Are we just going straight forward?

No, I don't want to hear about his. Did you hear about his weekend? He's got his own segment later. He told us about his weekend out there and it just gave me anxiety. In a good way. He didn't hear about it. Oh, my God.

I just knew he had a wedding and he was going on a boat. That's all I really know. He's going out like he turned 21 like two weeks ago. Actually, when he comes in here, we're just going to make him, we're not even to like get a play by play.

I just want him to name the spots he hit because he had more spots than like I've hit in the last six months. Wow. All right. But anyways, for our weekends. Bro, let's go out this weekend. There's a crazy event happening.

I like to turn up. Bro, there's a crazy event happening. We had the party and it was lit. I got yelled out by a prostitute. Let's just go have fun and they'd go with it. David Wardrowles, let's go. This weekend and fun, presented by our good friends at poncho, Poncho outdoors.

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it really helps support the show. Randall. Oh, we're going to start with me. Okay. Friday was date night with the X. I hate it how you say that. You hate that? I don't like it.

So my old roommate, Jason, firefighter. We started off by, we went to a little firefighter party. Guy was smoking wings and stuff. It was great. Did the fire get out of control? Because if so, like, you aren't probably good hands. Yeah, yeah. Do you steal more valor? Uh, no, I did not. There was playing enough firefighters there that I did not need to steal valor.

Did they, hey, I got a question. When the firefighters throw a party, do they bring hose? Dave. Wait, is that, is that not a theme party that college kids do, firefighters and hose? Because it's got, it's got to be, right? It's got to be a good one. Right, Dave? anyway we should throw one yeah i don't think we're gonna throw a theme party i don't know i might be good we could so uh start off with that and then we uh finished peacemaker which i think you should watch peacemaker you'd enjoy it djohn sina he's a superhero

it's part of the whole dc universe now pretty funny okay uh and we we just ate a bunch of junk food I'm talking cosmic brownies, nerds gummy clusters, pizza, ice cream. You guys are just like two little 12-year-olds having a sleepover, just pigging out. We've known each other since we were like five, so this is all the stuff we want to do as a kid that our parents want to let us, but now we're adults and we get to go do it. It's great. You're really saving male friendship. I am saving a friendship. I still want to do the adult male sleepover where I just have like 10 guys just when we just place.

Hang on. Dylan sent me a video on Slack. titled the same thing. Anyway, we'll watch that later, I guess. Adult male sleepover, huh? Get high, go walk to Waterburger in the middle of the night. Did you walk to Waterburger? No, we had before, though, but I'm just saying we could do that.

How do you not weigh just like a lot? This is a way that you eat. It's a rare thing. That was a rare night. I don't eat like that normally. Okay, Mr. Chili Dog and Tater Tots on a casual Wednesday. You did. You did absolutely inhale a chili dog in here yesterday.

I did. Or last Wednesday, I guess. high metabolism, I work out, I guess. I don't know. I typically eat well. I'm eating like chicken or rice every dinner though. So it's like not eating much. Saturday was a day if I started a new project and just did chores got this project started. I won't, I won't talk about it because I know everyone hates hearing about things. So yeah, everyone hates hearing about things. So yeah. Sorry, a new project. And then a future the left wants. Worked on a design for a gift for my girlfriend for Christmas.

I'm not going to say what it was. And then Sunday was hanging out. And we tried out, Dylan, listen here, listen here. Went to Machi sushi, the new All You Can Eat Sushi Place off 35. It was good. It was very good. Off of 35? Yep.

It's like 35 and Oltorf. So like Travis Heights, go through Travis Heights to get there. It's, uh, it's good. Travis Heights sneaky, not even sneaky. Like, I feel like I've forgotten about. Incredible neighborhood. It's a nice neighborhood. Yeah.

It's pricey. It's close to downtown. It's pricey. Yeah, it's, you know, for all you can eat, like, all you can hear, all you can eat, like, oh, this is going to be shitty. But it's not like they have a buffet bar or you just go up and pick out that. You actually order from a menu, they bring it to you. Like, they make it right there. It's really good.

They have a little flag you raise when you want soap apias? No, but they do have robots that deliver food. What? Oh, we didn't have any robots. What? It only delivers to certain parts, sections of the restaurant, and you got to ask for it. Oh, okay, I didn't know. What?

Wait, no, seriously. Yeah. You have to request the, I know I've seen it. I posted a video. But like, you have to request the robot? I think, yeah, I think like, hey, can you mind it would be cool if the robot brought? Because I had parks with me and like, he's going to get a kick out of this. Like, can you have the robot?

And they're like, yeah, no problem. And it walks up. That would be real disrespectful. It stops and it, like, lights up and it says, it says something like your food's here. Hey, you're doing a fine job, but I'd actually rather see the robot going forward. they're fast too you order a roll the robots no just in

they move at a regular pace weren't really like that I'm just talking about the service like we order a roll we had it like in two minutes it was great but then I went to Coles that's why I'm wearing my

make it rain Coles cash shirt hell yeah dude you don't have to wear the t-shirt that's I'm telling you didn't do laundry no I actually I funny enough have all my laundry done this I had a completely clean wardrobe and I

decided to wear this. That just looks like a shirt that, like, you wear around the house and don't really wash unless, like, you really sweat in it. Nope. This is, this is all clean. Come over and smell me, daddy. Uh, but I had $5 in Coles cash and 40% off and I only had 40% off yesterday. Did they let you stack it? Yeah. Must be nice. Okay. But yeah, that was my weekend. Just a lot of productivity. Great time. Dylan. Pretty nice little weekend. Picked up Parks from School Friday,

and we went straight out to Enchanted Rock, which is where we had a little camping situation, the second of the year. We did one in the spring, if you recall, and then one this weekend. Could only do one night because he had a baseball game Saturday. We had to get back to. It was a great time, though, man.

It was really windy and woke me up a few times at night, but I invested in much better sleeping stuff this time, got some cots and some pads and a nice couple sleeping bags. We slept really well, despite the wind being crazy. It was great, man. We did scare the shit out of the kids with some stories around the campfire.

Hell, yeah. Oh, yeah? Yeah. Did you tell them your story about the road trip? You had to pull over? I didn't tell him that one. I talked about the goat man, and then weirdly one of the dads brought a book

of like campfire stories and the legend of the goat man was actually in this book so he just read it from this book and the kids were freaking terrified parks talk's a big game like i want a scary story but when it actually gets scary he's not about that live he's not about it dude he was hiding under his blanket like covering his ears he's a little baby everyone's tough until a scary story that's right you know we had a good time though we went on a really quick hike Saturday morning because he had a baseball game like i said so we didn't do the extended hike like the rest of the group did. So we got back Saturday. And yep, we had a playoff baseball game. They got the dub. And so championship is Tuesday, tomorrow. And I think Parks is going to have to pitch,

especially if one of their pitchers, he got concussed at school. So I don't know if he's going to be able to play. So Parks is like going to have to pitch. I'm pretty sure. And I don't know. He hasn't pitched much this season. So we'll see how that goes. But their boys were down early And then they ended up winning by five They just turned it on Yeah Yeah

A couple guy Dude one kid on the team Who is new to baseball He had zero hits all year And like frankly Wasn't even close to getting a hit Got two base hits Let's go

In this playoff game You just They were little dribblers down The third base line But if you know anything about Little League Baseball If you hit it to the third baseman You are getting on base

They cannot make the throw Across the Diamond No can't Even at that level. Even at that level. So I'm happy for him. It was a lot of fun. Watched just an all-time terrible day of football for if you're a Texas fan, considering A&M, their historic comeback.

Oh, you took down the top five Alabama in Tuscaloosa, and then Texas just got their asses whipped in Athens. Just a tough day for football. And then went bowling yesterday. I've been bowling in years. Do you have a weird soreness? Yeah. Dude, bowling soreness is really annoying. My hand, my hand hurts.

Nothing to my arm, but my hand is sore. All right, dude, there's this, okay, this guy in the lane next to us. My hand is sore. Sounds like a dinosaur. This guy in the lane next to us. He pulls up there, and he's got, like, his own shoes. He's got three balls. He bought three balls.

Too many. He has his own custom towel. He's got like the, you know, the wrist guard thing, whatever. He pulls up there, and Chelsea goes, I think this guy's a professional. I was like, okay, we'll see what he's got. He starts bowling. Of course, he does, like, the spin thing. And I'm there next to him, and I'm just, I'm just firing straight, you know, I'm just a, I'm an idiot podcaster guy who brought his son to go play bowling, whatever.

I shot a 146 my first game. It's not bad. I didn't play in years. It's not bad. Dude fires a 131. Like, look at this fucking idiot. That's not good at all. How humiliating.

I know he was watching my score or two, like comparing himself to me. He did bowl a 201 the second game, so he kind of redeemed himself. But I just fucking yammed on his ass. I feel like if you're going to have that much of an investment in bowling, you have to be north of 200. Yes. Like pretty much every time. I was like, this guy's not a professional.

And anyway, Parks thought that was cool that I beat him. And that's it, man. Solid weekend despite the football. Do you have any strikes? I had a few strikes. What was the video that the little thing played? They didn't do videos. I don't know why they got rid of it.

Oh, man. I didn't hit a turkey. Sometimes they do the turkey thing. Yeah. But I did have a streak of five spares or strikes in a row at one point. That's good. Yeah. That's good.

That's good. That's how it works. I'm sorry? It stacks. It does stack. That's how the point system works. That's true. Yeah.

Thanks, Randy. Let's talk about my weekend. We already know it ended with family photos. Just fall fits in 88 degree weather. nothing better just nothing better just sweating we're out Travis

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but uh Friday I mentioned this in my washed week like, hey, we've got this Dutch oven. My wife's got, she has supper club. Supper club. So I was with the boys, got them to go to bed. And I'll be Dan if I didn't just cook another ribby. And I went ribby and I just threw together some spaghetti.

Oh, spaghetti and ribby. Spaghetti, garlic, olive oil, red peasant. Pepper, Parmesan. That's about it. Threw it together. Nah, I ate that. And I did end up watching a little bit of ball. But Friday, watch another pluribus caught up there.

Just enjoying the hell out of that show. It is just an interesting show. I will say I don't know I could see I could see some people like getting into the first episode and being like oh and then the next one's like you're like oh yeah I don't know how long this is I don't know how they can sustain this but they it's really clever it's really good well written so I'm enjoying it Saturday was um get up and take the kids to the mall day real fun actually went better than expected But we had to go, we were going to go look for some shoes. Found a men's boutique that had baby gronk in the storefront. Like a cardboard cutout? Like a, like, yeah, I guess baby gronk is like pushing something and it was like, it was very odd. Anyway, we went and got some shoes.

We had to go to that makes me upset. Like if it was the Rizzler, I wouldn't be upset. But baby gronk, that makes me upset. It's baby gronk. Yeah. It made me uncomfortable. I was like, why? Why?

man i'll tell you man the mall the mall continues to just kind of be weird as fuck yeah people who go to the mall on saturday it's just a very odd group of people i was the cork looking david i don't have a great irish accent no that was really bad uh i think i missed a backer there i didn't go by the cork because i was with my family i just i didn't have time to duck out and get a beer at 10 15 in the morning but i thought about it you could carry around the But I want them all. Shoe shopping with kids is really fun. Like the baby is very easy, right?

But my oldest boy, he wants, like, he wanted to try on some shoes. Like, he wanted to try on some, like, orange Nike's. Ended up settling for some newbies that he will never, ever keep clean. But that's what he wanted. Any light up Johns? No light up, Johns. Got him home, hung out the rest of the day, watched ball, Saturday night. thought about stepping out, watch some ball.

Just a big ball watching evening and weekend. Last night, the Kim Burns American Revolution doc dropped on PBS. So I got in on that and Kim Burns going to Ken Burns. I'm going to continue watching it. It's very good. It's a nice, digestible, informative recap that doesn't try to do too much. um i shouldn't even say recap but they're not recapping the revolution got you know a bunch of historians we all we've all dabbled in ken burns stuff maybe not but if you know you know and uh that's

about it didn't really watch much NFL boys play tonight doesn't really matter but i'm gonna watch do i need to watch the bears they are seven and three they're inexplicably seven and three it seems like they keep on winning in the like the last play of the game i'm of course you of course the last play of game but uh yeah i'd say watch him and don't get too emotionally invested i mean look i mean be happy you've got a team that's very likely to make the playoffs that's nice and a quarterback who has you seven and three there's nothing wrong with that good enough for me still don't really know what to do with that information but um enjoy it enjoy it while you can um once you shoot brett a message Tell them to hop on in here

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That's my thing. Hi, Brett. That's good. Brett's here. And I want a Brett to come in here because we're going to talk ball. And I found myself in a rabbit hole like yesterday. I was really doing some SEC Twitter looking. I was checking out some burner stuff.

I was really curious about Ole Miss because I didn't get to watch Old Miss Florida, but I was tracking it. Sure. And I was also tracking the fact that Brett was out and about on the town. I was like, damn, Ole Miss is in a dog fight. I hope Brett's watching this. I was.

And then I was like, well, what's going on with Lane Kiffin? Surely he's like shot down any of the rumors, the open jobs that have seemingly been available to him. And I soon found out that not only has he not done that explicitly, he's kind of thrown out some language there and has done some things, family things that like, you're like, wait, what are you doing? So, Brett, what is your position? What's going on at Ole Miss? You know, Dave, I think a lot of things can be true in this search. I think the base level to this whole thing is in the absence of, you know, concrete information or a concrete decision the the zone's going to be flooded with a lot of things

uh i think if you gone to my head today i don't think lane knows what he wants to do and i think that's sort of the uh the problem in all of this he feels very day to day that's that's the the common thread is that if there's a guy that's going to change his mind a couple different times or maybe feel one one way one day and one way the other it's lane kiffin and it has been wearing thin with the administration administration the secretary of state of the state of mississippi yeah i don't really know how influential that that position is there but it's still interesting yeah he uh i was trying i was thinking about out there how i wanted to approach this because if you asked me like three months ago I would have said LSU is the biggest threat if that job opens up it has there's some there was some early obviously LSU kind of bundled the immediate response to Brian Kelly's firing

politics get involved the governor gets involved bungled it yeah they biffed it initially yeah I think they have since organized a little bit more productively. So I think LSU is certainly a threat. Kate and Durham went to Tud the other night. Anyway, sorry. Obviously, there's the Florida piece of this, which I think holds some level of like a dream job might be the wrong word,

but Lane clearly holds Florida on a pedestal as a blue blood program that's had, candidly, obviously a much better history than Ole Miss. And I think what's true now is that those jobs all have a relatively similar ceiling. He feels like, so my soon to be five-year-old, there will be days where I'm like, hey, dude, I'm going to make you chicken nuggets for dinner. And he's like, okay, cool. And then the next day or two days later, like, hey, you want chicken nuggets?

I don't like those. Yeah. Very, very much, like Lane feels like a child at heart. He is. He is. he's he's emotionally incredibly mature he's a narcissist and he's a fucking fantastic football coach like and there's a little like empathy doesn't exist with lane kiffin uh emotional stability and maturity doesn't exist with lane kiffin i think that's been proven over the years i think

he can talk about how he's a changed man physically and he is he's sober and he's going to hot yoga every day he's lost 50 pounds or whatever he looks great hanging out with theo vong hanging out with Theovani's an unbelievable football coach who is probably not as changed behind the scenes as he makes it out to be. It's wild that it's just wild to have a team. This is the best Ole Miss team. But if they win against Mississippi State on Black Friday, it'll be the first 11 win regular season in program history. Okay. So you're a playoff team. And all that, knowing all that, you can't like you're still leaving uh people and you know fans of the program and big money donors boosters like wanting more because you just can't come out and just say you can't commit yeah and i

think calling out the student section right he's been doing that for years but it it now wearing thin more like to to be like hey we didn't sell out the citadel game no shit lane like you're not going to sell at the citadel but when south carolina comes to town and florida comes to town and Georgia last year, the environments are, are incredible. Now, like, does Lane wish that Ole Miss sold out 80,000 seats every dime? Of course, but they sell out 68 and plus some. And it's just he, he, the trolling piece of it, everybody's like, Elaine, such a Twitter genius, he knows, he knows what he's doing and he just doesn't care what he's

doing he put out like the home emoji with red and blue circles next to it saying you know oxford is the velvet ditch that once you get in you never leave saying that stuff while also sending his you know ex-wife and children to scout high schools in gainsville today well yesterday that's pretty crazy bad and ruse confirmed yeah and again like that doesn't mean he's leaving I'm sure there's a degree of due diligence, but it's a new world where I think if you gave Lane his perfect choice, he'd say, all I want to do is coach football, let Jimmy Sexton, you know, let people back channel on my behalf, I just want to coach football to the end of the year, and then I'll make a decision. That's not possible anymore. You can't do that between the portal opening up January 2nd, between early signing day on December 2nd, or third or whatever it is this year, and frankly, Ole Miss, which I'm shocked they did, but I'm glad they did, basically telling him, and not basically telling him, you can coach the regular season, but if you don't commit to our program, you're not coaching in the playoff.

I think that surprised Lane that he would have sort of that semi-ultimatum. Right, so they actually said that to him? That is reported by those that would know. interesting that would be that would be insane can you imagine who steps up and coaches that team in the it would be you know it would probably be a combination of golding and and joe judge the quarterback's coach i think joe judge would have the better path because he's not a coordinator and he can kind of step up in that admin role yeah more of just the head coach call timeouts and do that time Okay.

But it's impossible to give Lane the exact time frame that he wants in this day and age. Everything else is going to be equal. Ole Miss is going to match and has matched Florida offers, LSU offers, even exceeded in some points. Yeah. With NIL and with assistant coaching salary pools. Would he, do you think it's like a job around here opened up? Yeah, oh, Texas, he'd be gone. Like within like, I don't know, five miles.

I think Texas and Alabama, Texas and Alabama are the two schools that if offered, Lane would take the job on the spot. I think if the Miami Dolphins came calling, he would take the job on the spot if McDaniel's out. I think the Giants have some, like there's some Jackson Dart connection there that I don't think is as serious. There's rumors that the Tennessee Titans famously loved in. the state of Tennessee, Lane Kiffin,

to be the Titans head coach. And so... We'll monitor. We'll track. There's no doubt that Lane loves the attention. It would be really annoying as a fan. Oh, it's... It's bothering me,

and I don't even really care. It's bothering me as a fan. It's bothering, like, obviously, I didn't go to Ole Miss. There are people that have much more emotional investment over the last 60 years. since Ole Miss was a national championship team back in the fucking 60s who like the people are hurt and now in this day where people are literally and I'm sure in the state of Mississippi

who people like football is next to religion who are overextending themselves to try to invest in this program like the big money donors who are who are putting millions and millions and millions of dollars like the real tree camel guy like the Jordan family of real tree and and Lane's not giving them anything in the form of a concrete hey I love you back and it's finally like it wore thin with the Auburn stuff three years ago

last year if Florida came open this whole thing was going to do the same thing last year and this year if Florida State comes open it's going to be the same thing Lane has this sort of mental tie to Florida that he can't he can't give up and i frankly like that there's part of me that feels for lane there's part of me that is pissed at lane there's part of me that gets it on every side i think a lot of things

can be true in this and i think it sort of comes down to lane doesn't know what he wants to do and everybody from jimmy sectioned to florida to lsu to old miss is telling him hey we need to call now and they're not wrong and lane just doesn't have that ready to go i want to give you a little fun fact. Yeah. In conference games, in conference play only. Okay. Ole Miss is number five in the SEC of rush yards per game.

Sure. At 171.9 yards per game, but they're averaging. That is 100 yards more than the University of Texas is averaging. Texas is the last. That is unbelievable. Yeah. Can I ask what, why did, why do they give up? up on the run a little bit in that game because I thought they did.

The chatter about this Texas offense, it's mostly about what happened in the off season because the Texas O line had four guys who moved on from a pretty good offensive line. Running backs, he had C.J. Baxter who was coming off in ACL and even he was not like an explosive guy. And so Trey Wisner was the other guy who had. a pretty good he rushed for a thousand yards last year um the portal window came and went and he decided not to sark that is decided not to go get a running back or an offensive lineman and it's like all right well i guess they must have confidence in what he has coming back and that just has proved to be a total failure of a strategy there but the offensive line is

atrocious they don't have an they don't have a single explosive running back on the roster and yeah Yeah, you're right. They have given up on it. Actually, against Georgia, in the first quarter, they were moving the ball okay. And then for ever reason, just completely abandoned. That's what I was saying, because it seemed like they, did I hear right this morning, they ran the ball 10 times? That seems really, really incredibly low. I don't know. And from what I watched, I remember it. Like, I was thinking back, I was like, wait, they were actually moving the ball. I'm not saying they were gashing Georgia, but they were having success. It seemed like. I saw someone tweeted like an in-game update. It said Texas rushing yards first quarter, like 31. In the third quarter, Texas rushing yards 21. They went the other way.

I think they rushed for more yards on their first drive than the rest of the game combined. Yeah, that checks out. Yeah, the Texas offense is just a disaster. Arch also went for a negative 17 rushing yards. A little sack adjusted situation. Yeah, sacks will do that. It was ugly. Yeah, I don't know, man.

It's been a. It's been a very... A questionable season from an offensive strategy standpoint. How frustrated, how hurtful was that onside kick? How did that, like that just felt personal. Dude, okay. So Texas in the third quarter, Texas had, Texas grabbed momentum from like mid-second quarter to the end of the third quarter.

They did. Like the defense was they think Georgia, we went punt, punt, punt, punt, interception at one point. There was a path. Yes. And so Texas scores to bring the score to 10 to 4. 14 so they're down four going into the fourth quarter so they threw the manning through the touchdown pass to wing go to bring it within four points archmanning didn't get the ball back again until texas was down 18 points because georgia scored a touchdown on side kick scored another

touchdown and then texas finally got the ball back so by by that point the game was over the offense that i mean the on side kick was kirby dude fucking sneaky and you know what kirby when they got that's like all right And that was a fun run while it lasted, and then he's never got momentum back. Yeah. Ugly. Just two more things in the lane thing real quick. Dude, why do you sound so sad? Because it is, it's frustrating.

And at a certain level, it is sad. Like, you feel for, you feel it for the program that has given him absolutely everything. He hasn't said, hasn't said no one time. and he is if he does leave on the way out basically trolling them on the way out he and and that's one of the two things I wanted to mention one it's sad because it's it's potentially the greatest season in program history especially in the modern era and there are storylines on this on this team that are awesome he won lacey their best running back perhaps ever most touchdown scored ever Trinidad Chambliss coming in for Austin Simmons as the backup and performing so far above

expectation after he got here in like May and was a late spring transfer to then pick up the offense and perform the level he's performing at the defense coming along they have young guys that have been waiting their turn which doesn't happen this day and age that are now playing out of their mind in Cam Franklin and Will Eccles like there are stories that would be so fun to dig into and you can't because of the distraction that the head coach is providing and he says it's not a distraction of course it is all these kids are as online as we are

like it's insane so that the second piece of it all is I think Lane truly thinks in his heart of hearts that if he leaves Oxford and Ole Miss will owe him this big big gratitude hugs on the way out wish you the best tip of the cap like Lane we love you like thanks for weighing all your options

keeping us in limbo for months at a time but we're so appreciative that you decided to stick around and we're so appreciative that you built this program up from what it was in 2019 to what it is now we love you and we wish you the best and we're just going to be go back to being a little old oxford and that is absolutely not going to happen um you definitely don't want to be playing your in-state rival um with this hanging over who's actually competent i'm not saying you know what Ole Miss Mississippi State has played as hard as they've played in five years it feels like since that is unfortunate Mike Leach passing like yeah they are they are a good football team with talented kids that just need more talent but they're giving people fits it's tough it's tough

and I'm I am less worried about that game than I am about lane leaving obviously I want him to day. I think the way he's handled this is is poor. I don't know if there is a perfect way to handle this. But if he, two weeks from now, comes out and just fully commits to Ole Miss, all will be forgiven. All will be. So we do this again in three years. And the thing is, I think there will be language in that contract that either shuts down back channels or something like you can't continue to do this. What if he's playing chess and he's about to whip out as a bishop. Well,

there's, and he's waiting. There's a theory that like the laundry, obviously the laundry you wait, and the longer you string along anybody, whether that's LSU, whether that's Florida, whether that's Arkansas.

The longer you string this along, the more hurt their portal efforts will be. The more hurt their head coaching search efforts will be. And so if you're telling, which in the program, people think coaches think he's going to stay recruits think he's going to stay yeah Theo von was telling everybody on the sideline

on Saturday he's staying he told me he's staying Florida thinks the same thing I think lane has a little bit of propensity to tell people what they want to hear frankly and then make a decision on his own time in his own head and it's it's sad

what it's come to and I think the only silver lining here is that you'll get clarity this week is this week yeah why do you think this week by week a lot of meetings lined up with i think every side and old miss is saying to him the egg bowl's it if you're not committed to this program um brett before we let you get out of here well you just you don't have to go into like every how you got there and all that But you just give us a rundown of every bar slash restaurant you went to over the weekend. Yeah, shouts to my friends, Jake and Kelsey getting married this weekend in Austin. We did hockey on Thursday, so that's the hockey bar, little P6 in there as well.

Friday was little woodrowers, if you've heard of it, followed by wedding, followed by Don's Depot. So, Saturday was a booze cruise on Lake Austin, followed by Carve, followed by Whitehorse, followed by Deep Eddy Cabaret. That weekend in Fawn. I'd still be in bed. That is such a you weekend. Is that why you're so down or is it all lane? No, it's all lane.

It's all lane. I just, I'm tired of it. You know, I think fans have a right to be tired of it. I think the administration has every right to be tired of it. and i think lane is lane could shut this down with a tweet with the tweet well thank you bret he enjoys the drama of course he does a malignant he fucking loves it actually of which hell of a ball coach dealt with a few hell of a ball coach but man if he uh if he does leave it's it's you throw a lot of things out the window well you know brett you had yourself a hell of a weekend and

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Class half full. Yeah. It's ugly, man. Kirby Smart just coaches circles around Sart in a way that no other coach is able to. Man, our group chat watching this game, the Ryan Wingo roller coaster, because early on we were like, dude, fuck this. Yeah, I know. And then it's like, ah, well.

And then he had like one incredible catch. It gives you flashes of five star greatness. He should have mossed somebody. And then he caught that touchdown pass, which was another good grab. He's just super inconsistent. He fights the ball. He's very, he's frustrating. He fights the ball, but he's incredibly athletic and fast and twitchy and all that stuff.

It's frustrating to watch. I mean, I watched a little bit. I saw like three drop passes in a row from Texas. I'm like, what do we do here? You guys all in the hands. I think they have four drops in that game, ugly. Dude, Arch looked good, man. He looked good.

He needs help, but like he's putting the ball where it needs to be. He threw an interception, but if you look at the play, his receiver was clearly held. I'm not, probably wasn't a great. pass i'll i'll die on this hill so you don't have to get all the heat and it's not just georgia but you're right colin simmons though so any good edge rusher is going to get held like we got to watch michael parsons as a cowboy for like five years and it was so fun but also insanely frustrating he's like dude he gets held a lot and they don't call it Colin Simmons gets held a lot uh it was

in the vandy game was worse the vandy game like just grabbed and like slung to the ground it was really bad but he's so he's so unbelievable texas secondary looked way worse than i thought that was kind of getting those dudes back getting taff back and uh mcdonald i was like okay i'm like talking myself into like okay i can see texas do this and they didn't look good no they didn't at all which is weird because this is the same group of guys minus they lost a baron of course the thorpe winner minus him i mean it's the same guys coming back and they just they just they look lost in the secondary. I don't know what's going on. At the end of the day, like, you really don't, there's a, there's a good chance that, like, you're looking back on this in two months and

you're like, oh, yeah, Georgia wins the national championship. And you're like, you know what? Yeah. That checks out. Because that's a really good team. And because they've had some of those games that were they didn't look great and eeked out a win at the end or whatever. Carter Stockton is, I mean, he's a gamer. He's not, like, he's not going to wow you with his abilities and his arm. I'm giving him, I'm giving him gamer plus, though. That dude is a baller, man. He's a gamer plus. And, of course, it helps when you have a lot of talent around you.

I understand that. But, yeah, Georgia just owns Texas at this point, man. It's not fun. Does a team like Georgia ever have, like, a down O-line year? No. Especially in the portal era. But, like, they gave up, well, it's weird because going into that game, you kind of thought that this would be like a real opportunity to just absolutely disrupt that.

And they didn't look. Yeah. They played pretty well. I had a quiet confidence going into that. the game and then it i lost it pretty quickly i lost all my credit i i made that my dave rough uh he did upset of the week kj was bullish on him too both you guys were kj was all over uh oh u oh you took down alabama in in tuscalo weird game because gave up a ton of yards and just didn't convert the a and m game 30 to three at halftime

i'm so i'm already celebrating i'm texting my brother and i'm like this is fucking awesome there was the touchdown right before half where the state trooper like fucking elbowed those guys in the in the tunnel just totally embarrassed himself and all that this game's over and then it was one of those like once A&M grabbed the momentum

which they converted a fourth and 12 in the third quarter I think it was the first drive of the third quarter they converted a fourth and 12 on a Marcel Reed scramble and I was like oh fuck there was a fourth and two South Carolina went for it was a momentum swinging drive and I was like they're never going to get it back

yeah it's just a slow down they had South Carolina had a chance to kick a field goal at one point and they opted to go for it which I normally like being aggressive and it's like man if you don't it's but you're watching it knowing like if you guys don't get this you're probably going to lose this game which I know that's like very very hindsighty but like you just you just felt it coming yeah yeah it was just like I know how this is going to end you didn't get to watch the first half of that game. And we weren't exaggerating in the group chat because you were camping. Yeah. It was, if you were to write a script and be like, all right, this really good team had a bad half because they weren't focused. Let's write about what we're wrong. You wouldn't even

believe it. Just poor throws. Drops. Yeah. Just unbelievable. It was, it was one of the worst like inexplicable backwards pass that when they were on the goal line. It just made no sense what was happening. Chip shot field goal they missed. Dude, it was crazy. It felt like a game where, like, an NBA game where your team, like, the better team on paper is losing, but they also are shooting like 10% from three. You're exactly right. And you're like, they're not going to shoot this bad in the second half. Yeah. You know it's like when Texas, Texas will play Duke or North Carolina and like they're up two at half.

You're like, all right, we're winning. But you know, it's going to be, there's going to be a double digit loss because they're not going to maintain. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, because it's going to, it's going to even out. Crazy. Fun weekend, though. I mean, like, despite the fact that didn't go well for the, for the horns, does a three-loss Texas team who beats A&M last game to season? I don't know, but I don't enjoy this conversation because Texas doesn't belong in the playoffs, and if they did, they get bounced quickly.

So it's like, okay, they might make the playoffs, but it's like, who fucking cares at this point? I do think that the A&M game is still going to be a fucking dog fight, though. For sure. For sure. A lot of hate out there on A&M's strength of schedule. Yeah, they play Samford this weekend. I guess Samford.

But they're a 10-win team. They keep winning, man. They're a 10-win team. They went up to Notre Dame, got that game early, and that's their... Jealous of their receivers. they have some very fast guys who just who catch the ball yeah they really do texas does not have that oh it's gonna be a fun game it will be our friends the dumb zone are going to be in town they're going to be doing a live show from canaan ables that day

really here in austin yeah okay jake was asking if you're in town he kind of was like wanting you to pop on maybe i was like i don't know what dylan's plans are i'll be in town i know he's going to be in town i know what day looks like but i will be in town yeah that that'll be a fun live show Any other college football thoughts? No? Can I ask you a favor? Yeah. Can you knock out a Squarespace read while I go, uh, go peepee?

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wow yeah oh man that's Stone Creek coffee coffee in general It's not specific to them. Who's our boy on Twitter, Bill Ackman? Bill Ackman, who I was unfamiliar with.

He's the CEO of Pershing Square, which is some financial services company. I'm not exactly sure. He's got a ton of followers, by the way. Yeah, he's a very wealthy man. How did this guy get so many followers? 1.8 million. Anyway, he's worried about the lack of role. man's, I guess, going on amongst the youngsters. So he tweeted this the other day, and it's been

gaining a lot of steam on Twitter. He said, I hear from many young men that they find it difficult to meet young women in a public setting. In other words, the online culture has destroyed the ability to spontaneously meet strangers. As such, I thought I would share a few words that I used in my youth to meet someone that I found compelling. I would ask, may I meet you before engaging further in a conversation. I almost never got to know. It inevitably enable the opportunity for a further conversation. I met a lot of really interesting people in this way.

I think the combination of proper grammar and politeness was the key to its effectiveness. You might give it a try. And yes, I think it should also work for women seeking men as well as same-sex interactions. Just two cents from an older, happily married guy concerned about our next generation's happiness. and population replacement rates. The Uber wealthy and powerful, Uber wealthy and powerful people are very concerned about replenishing our population. We notice that.

This is an Elon thing through and through. Declining birth rates are a major problem for these people. Yeah. Well, we know that for Elon as he's out there just. That's true. Just firing it into anything. May I meet you. Yeah.

I think it's a problem worldwide, too. It isn't like Japan is having, like, baby visas pretty much where you can come over and be a citizen and you're just there to pregnant. Yeah, I'm not a... Yeah, I know what you were doing over there? I'm not an economist. I'm not an economist,

but I think it's the outrageous price of raising a child, which is a big part of the problem. It is very costly. Yeah. And I honestly, I think a bigger part, and that is part of it, I don't mean to dismiss your point, but like,

more people are just out there like not fucking dry-humping yeah randy more people are just out there going gene on gene straight up friction in yeah someone walks up to you and says may i meet you what's your initial reaction uh-huh um sure yeah what's up i mean you already started talking to me that's kind of we're kind of already there may i meet you that's so awkward i think what a better uh can i meet you. I know May is like the more proper way. Right. May I meet you? I almost never got a no. Okay. Uh, fine. Someone did get a no. What? No way. This is foolproof. Can you play the NFT Nick video? The first one. No. This one. Okay. By the way, he's on a generational run right now, NFT Nick. Nick O'Neill in other words. Okay.

Hi, excuse me, may I meet you? What? May I meet you? Later. Bill Ackman suggested that we have a crisis of men unwilling to approach women and just suggested that I say, may I meet you? The way he looks at the camera. Okay, we'll meet later. I guess you're eating at now. I got a later.

Bill Ackman really fell through with that advice. Crazy. For the people listening to this, he went up to a lady that's doing a public TikTok dance and she's on a tripod dancing in front of it. What is that place in New York City with the arch? That's a known spot. I'm almost positive I was there. It's a very hot spot in New York City.

Apologies to our friends in New York. So Bill Agman, he would later quote tweet his own tweet and add more context. Oh, we needed contact. He said, I failed to mention that this works much more. effectively when you are moving. So on subways, elevators, escalators, airplanes, buses, and even walking down the street, it is most effective. With that fall-up information, our friend NFT, Nick, did another video. So that was the problem that you don't want to go up to someone statically dancing in front of a tripod. So here he is on a New York subway.

Dude, extreme New York City. With a beanie on and his his trademark yellow tinted glass is attention ladies of new york city may i meet you bill acman just tweeted that simply uttering those words would result in women approaching me especially on moving trains like this should there be a line that forms please line up single file should there be a line that forms once again may i meet you. Bill Ackman's advice clearly was awful. Oh, I know. Dude.

Nick O'Neill's self-awareness is one of the reasons I love him so much. He knows that he's just a generally really off-putting person. So when he does experiments like this in public, He knows the reaction is not going to be a good one. A terrible bet payoff would be to have to do some kind of video like this on a New York City train. Dude, he's doing a lot of these, like, addressing the public videos. Like, he'll go into a Starbucks and you'll say, excuse me, I may have your attention.

Would anyone like to buy me a coffee? And in exchange, I would like to break down my investment strategy for you. And no one responds to him ever. I was taking a screenshot of this right now because that's just an all. time a little i don't know how he's so great i'm trying to think of like the word oh yeah you know i had one i probably said this on the show i was never really particularly smooth with uh you know trying to meet a lady um just approaching a bar or whatever i did have one extreme failure um at uh at honk talk honky talk out in arlington where i i walked up to a table and uh you know i thought

I had a wingman and I just walked up and I like look glance at a lady and I said kind of so what's your deal and she's like did you ask me what my deal is? No that's a good line I'm sorry that should play I was very drunk and I said what's your deal

and it almost sounded like what's your deal like somebody might say to you and it just was one of the more like I immediately just backpedaled out of there what's your story is it going to what's your story it was like I had to get out of there like you know there's that defensive

back drill where you just kind of back pedal slowly and methodically. I did that to get out of there. You hit like a little shoulder shimmy. Yeah, and then I roller skated it off. And you roller skated out of it. I roller skated off and still think about it to this day. May I meet you? Man, I can't imagine. I can't imagine like saying may I? Yeah. May I ask you a question? Like, I think that when Bill Ackman said, he almost never got to know all the yeses he got were people who were just like. They knew he was a multimillionaire? That's part of it. Or if they didn't know he was, it's like, I don't know. Like, yeah. They were just confused. and didn't want to be rude.

Yeah, just sure. But then after he walks away, she turns to her girlfriend, and he's like, that guy's fucking weird. Did that guy say, may I meet you? And so people are just dunking on him now, and it's been a funny weekend on Twitter. I'll say this. I've been iffy on NFT, Nick,

but this is my Davis-Claug shit-the-pant moment where I go, okay, I'm all in him. This is a very funny guy. Once you realize that Nick is very self-aware is when you start to love him. I know he's for real rocking the luboo around his neck

he's awesome may I meet you you know the first part of Bill's tweet is you know it's all it seems like it's coming from a good place he's just concerned he's heard from many men though

right who's he talking to a lot of men are like man I can't meet chicks man but he's right like I don't know how to talk to him yeah um no there's there's plenty enough that

online, TikTok, it's like a lot of girls are like, why don't guys approach girls in the bars anymore? And then everyone in the comments, like, well, because you told us to leave you alone. And then it's like, well, then the only guys are approached, it's a whole fucking mess. And I'm glad I'm out of it. Randy's spoken for ladies. Sorry. Sorry. I'm not going to, hey, I'm not, may I meeting anyone anytime soon? Actually, they said same sex. So maybe I'll just go up to a guy and go, hey, man, meet you. May I meet you? Yeah, dude, fine. I'm going to start doing that to Capa Sigs when I'm with Harbs in college towns.

You loves it too. Hey, may my Kappa Sig friend meet you? He went through about 20 years ago. May he meet you? May he say, hello? May he? Oh, man. We're in trouble, man.

We're in big trouble. What are we doing tomorrow on Patreon? All. We don't know. That's a great question. Maybe I had another cold call? It's a cold call. Yeah.

Not the best look here from the pod. I feel like we should know that. Probably on me for bringing it up. But tomorrow's Patreon, I guarantee it'll be really good. It'll be fair. As will tomorrow's show. All right. Well, thank you to Brett for coming on and being really sad,

way more sad than he was when we were talking about it out there. He was really sad. He's kind of, he's worried, dude. A somber breath. He's a sad puppy, man. When I came back in from peeing, he hit me with a. Lane just quote tweeted somebody with a heart. emoji. I was like, okay, thank you. He's on full. He's got the noties on. He's getting

Elaine Noties. We'll see you tomorrow. Bye-bye. Bye. You know,