Circling Back - Meet-Ups, Meat-Ups, and Conor McGregor

Episode Date: January 20, 2020

Huge Monday. We break down our trip to Dallas for the meet-up and Stars vs. Sabres game, give shout-outs to the MVPs from the trip, and lick the wounds that still exist from being so old and going that hard. We also talk Combat Sports Minute and briefly discuss this weekend's NFL slate before Brett drops his breaking news. Support us on Patreon and receive weekly episodes for as low $5 per month: www.patreon.com/circlingbackpodcast (0:00) Fun & Easy Banter (12:08) Dallas Listener Meet-Up Recap (35:36) #Sports Minute: McGregor, NFL, Man U/Liverpool (57:44) Steam Room, But Like Actually (1:00:51) Brett's Breaking News Postmates: Down the app and use CIRCLING for $100 in credits Zapier: www.zapier.com/circlingback (free 14-day trial) Figs: www.wearfigs.com (STEAM for 15% off) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/circling-back/message Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

all right we're back circling back podcast coming to you live from the lodge my name is will defreeze to my right dave ruff happy mlk day thank you hey appreciate that back at you dave i've got another announcement. What is it? It's podcast week. Oh, dude. No one was expecting that. That's big. It's cool how it coincides with our first week in the lodge. Kind of how we drew it up, honestly.

Yeah, it's pretty cool how that worked out. Check out the calendar. The thing I like about podcast week is that I just pod so much harder during it. It's just different. I thought you were going to say it because it's a week for podcasts. Nah. Nah, dude. It's just different. I thought you were going to say it because it's a week for podcasts. Nah. Nah, dude, people were expecting that. But everything that happens in the lodge is unexpected.

Hey, I'm going to pull back the curtain. You know our little mic stand thing? Mm-hmm. I just banged my knee for the first time on it. And let me tell you, be careful if you're crossing your legs. Okay. It doesn't feel good. Yeah.

Screw right into my meniscus. Not ideal. Let's introduce Dylan real quick before we start talking about the new studio a little bit. I could not be happier to be here, first of all. Second of all, pulling back the curtain, which Dave just said is one of the things that we've said over and over again on this podcast. We have an actual

curtain in the room now, which we haven't had before. Do you want to pull back the curtain on the curtains right now, Dave? I could pull back a literal curtain right now. Here's the deal. Dave was in charge of hanging the curtain rod yesterday. He crushed it. I mean, is it hanging? It's hanging.

And here's the deal. We joke a lot about pulling down the curtain and just ripping down the curtain rod. It might actually happen. It might just come down on its own. This curtain rod might actually just do it on its own, which is tight. There was a moment yesterday, Dave was putting it up,

and you could tell he was just getting more and more frustrated to the point where it became a competitive thing within him to make this thing work or else. It was me versus myself. At one point, I was like, should I help out right now? And then I was like, no, Dave is clearly really pissed at this, and I'm going to let him climb this mountain solo. You can free solo that curtain rod.

My thing is, so let me let me pull back the curtain even further on these curtains dude no one's doing this so we have a big window and it looks out to the parking lot and we bought these like noise canceling blackout curtains unfortunately they're not we bought two sets and they're not long enough to cover the entire thing so we bought a third we just don't know if the third is too much for the extremely long curtain rod to handle. I think most curtain rods have a slight dip in the middle. They're this long.

I was looking at mine at home, and it definitely does. I just don't know. I think what we need to do is put a third thing in there and just have it be weird. Get real sad you with it? I'm going to get out in front of it. It might fall down one day in the middle of a pod. Well, this middle brace up here, can we not utilize that in some way?

No, we need to. It's just, Dylan, the logistics of this, they're mind-bending. It's going to be hard for you to understand right now if I just explain it to you in layman's terms. We could get a curtain and just cut it in half and put each half on either side of that middle brace. We're just going to cut a curtain in half. Why not? Because it would be all frayed and weird looking.

Dude, what's your aesthetic in 2020? Just like homeless, dude? We could singe it with like a flamethrower. You could do that. I don't know if we could do that. There's probably other ways to do that. Did you ever fray your jeans? No, dude. Will did, yes. I don't know if we could do that. There's probably other ways to do that. Did you ever fray your jeans? No, dude.

A little bit, yes. I did back in the day. Dylan was just a big fray-the-end-of-his-hat guy. I used to be so geeked on fraying my jeans that I would cut them, and then they wouldn't have the fray yet, so I would just wash them over and over until it frayed. I didn't like frayed jeans. If anything, I would try not to do that.

I hated the kids that would go outside when it was, like, wet outside for recess, and they would just let their jeans get, like, wet up to their ankles. You know what I'm talking about? On purpose? No, no, no. They just had long-ass baggy jeans, and they would just get, like, sopping wet. And it was like, dude, like, you can't look like that when you go back to class. It's trash.

And the backs of them would drag on the ground and get frayed as hell and then they just get dirty and gross and it just i hated it weren't you listening to the fray at that point too i never went through a fray stage i can happily say dude that reminds they never saved my life they never saved my life my roller blade move was to get my sud's jeans and just roll them up and cuff them, like, right around the ankle. Dude, that's kind of swag. I was ahead of my time. Yeah. Well, it's good to be in the new lodge, guys.

We put a test clip up on Patreon. No one's doing that. It's going viral. I looked. People are impressed with the sound quality, which is great to read. Sharon reviewed it. She said, hi, David. I don't know Sharon.

Sharon's got the best bit going. She's seen my barbecue, dude. Dave, you know who Sharon is. What? Did I have a barbecue? Yeah, it was fun. I was tight. It was a meetup.

Oh, okay. What did Sharon say? This is all so exciting. We should pull back the curtain or just tear it down or just let itself fall over. I'm not sure which one we should say at this point. But the only room that's set up, which I'd say we're about, I don't know, 60% set up in the actual studio.

It's functional. Give or take. It's functional. It's functional. It's a functional set up. It's a 65. The rest of the office is completely empty. We won't be giving any tours anytime soon. Yeah, we're not going to be doing an MTV Cribs yet. Don's a functional setup. The rest of the office is completely empty. We won't be giving any tours anytime soon.

Yeah, we're not going to be doing an MTV Cribs yet. Don't show up here. If you show up here, I'll turn you away personally. If you show up here, I'm going to be like, how did you get our address? This is weird. It's probably not that hard to find. Yeah, that's true. Have you looked at Google address yet on Google Maps?

No, just do what Grand X did and never change the address from the old address. So that your new hires just show up at a yoga studio instead. Oh, that really did happen to you. Yeah, it was great. Oh, man. It's good to be here. Someone notes on Patreon that it feels like he's in the room with us. Wow.

Which is cool. That'd be weird if we just went to your place of work and then record an episode. Or if he was in here with us in the lodge. I like the Krispy Kreme comment from Jaggers. Shots a long time, long time caller. Krispy Kremes Kings is what he says. Sounds tight. Will, did you do the moat before we get in?

Yeah, I swam some laps today. Dude, Parks loves the moat. Dude, it's weird because there's no water in there. Oh, Parks does love the moat, by the way. Dude, that's sick. We talked about there being gators in there, and he was like, let's go find the gators. It's weird because there's no water in there. Oh, Parks does love the moat by the way. We talked about there being gators in there and he was like, let's go find the gators. So you told him that there were actually gators in the moat? We'll drop the ball on that.

He knows it's a joke. Does he know that there's actual dinosaurs on the planet right now and they're Komodo dragons? And chickens. I feel like he would be, okay, chickens too. But Komodo dragons, I feel like that's something I didn't know about until later on in life, like teenage years. That would have blown my mind as a kid.

What do you mean it's an actual dinosaur? I'm just saying they look like they're dragons and they fuck people up and they have like deadly bacteria in their mouths. How related to dinosaurs are they actually? Possibly not at all. Okay. I don't know. I'm not a...

I think they're both reptiles. Archaeologist. Well, he's a snake. Snake's not at all. Okay. I don't know. I'm not a... I think they're both reptiles. Archaeologist. Well, he's a snake. Snake's not a dinosaur. Stupid dumbass. Well, dinosaurs are reptiles, right? I think they might have had feathers. That's the new hypothesis.

And then they... I think they walked that one back. Did they? Yeah, a little bit. Good, because I don't like picturing my dinosaurs with feathers. I agree. Are we going to bring dinosaurs back at any point like we did the woolly mammoth? Yeah, Jurassic Park, dude.

Watch it once. That was a movie, not a documentary. I watched Jurassic World recently. The first one. Yeah. No, Jurassic World is the first Chris Pratt, right? Yeah, but there's another one after that. There's another one after that.

Let me just tell you, I had seen it before in theater, and it's so much worse the second time. Really? Oh me just tell you, I had seen it before in theater, and it's so much worse the second time. Really? Oh, it's terrible. I actually liked it the first time. I mean, I didn't love it. It wasn't better than the first Jurassic Park or anything like that, but when I went to the movie, I was like, you know what?

That was really fun. No, it's a good movie. The most recent one, though, stinks. Yeah, that's what I've heard. There's one coming out with Jeff Goldblum. He's going to be a very big part of it. Oh, I have not seen that one. Let me talk about him real quick.

Now that you bring it up. Wow. Is he hurting? No, I think he's dominating. No, no, no. Why did he agree to do the Independence Day sequel? I also watched about 30 minutes of that recently, and that is absolute filth garbage.

Dave, I think that he is not hurting i think that he is capitalizing on his recent like internet fame and he's probably getting paid more than most people on those film sets i wouldn't be surprised yeah he's got i don't his there's no way he's hurting he's never been more popular than he is right now that movie was so poor i was like how could you look at this script and be like, yeah, I'm bringing it back. Well, you think, I mean, it's Independence Day money. He's just like, he doesn't even care about the script. You know who's in it?

Remember the scientist down in the lab, the Area 51 lab with the long hair, who was kind of quirky? He's even in the sequel. I don't know how he was killed in the first one by an alien. I think he's back. He survived that. I swear he's in that movie. Unless it's Mandela Effect. Maybe they're going back.

Back. To Cali. No. It didn't even take place in California, did it? It was Nevada. It was Nevada. Nevada? Nevada?

Just no. It's Otta. It was Nevada. It was Nevada. Nevada? Nevada? Just no. It's Otter. I say Nevada. I say Nevada. I say Otter. You're a Colorado guy, though. Ugh. You know people from Colorado say Colorado.

What do you say? People from, I just said, people from Colorado say Colorado. Dylan, you and I are going to need to drastically change where this mic stand is. Yeah, I can't see your stupid face. Dude, I can't see your hot face. Dude, I can't see your hot face. Oh, man, I take it back what I said. Your face is hot, too. No, this is kind of too late for that.

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Dude, that's big. Wow. That's huge. I actually used Postmates on Saturday when we got back from the meetup. Did you? Yeah. It's two of us. I took a screenshot.

I think that was a big Postmates day for a lot of people. I took a screenshot, and I sent it to Dave, and I said, this might be the laziest I've ever been because I got Popeyes, which is two blocks from my apartment, and I just couldn't bring myself to going out there and doing it myself that's bad yep if you're not familiar with Postmates they're your personal food delivery grocery delivery whatever kind of delivery service you need all year round 24 7 365 baby you gotta think there's a pretty good chance we Postmates in Breckenridge now it hard to say I don't know we. We might need red wine at four.

I'm going to order some pizzas at some point in Breckenridge. I need Advil. Dude, we are absolutely going to crush pizza. Well, ibuprofen's at 10 a.m. on here, though. Oh, yeah. I could just wait that out. We get up hella early, though. Don't ever let me have ibuprofen or Advil.

Can't have it with my kidneys. Tylenol boy. What's wrong with your kidneys, dude? I'm fucked up kidneys, man. I swear to God. Is it maybe because you drank 20 Red Bulls a week for about 20 years? Well, no. This is like a when I was born

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Was it Jim Courier? No, it was not. And I was just like, man, this was way faster than I thought, but it makes sense because you literally had to cross the street in order to bring me my Popeyes. Yeah, it was a shockingly close Postmates order, but I still respect it. We've got big news for everybody at home, though. Shockingly close Postmate order, but I still respect it. We've got big news for everybody at home, though.

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Brett, I want to hear more about the kidney. I didn't know about this. Sorry. I just feel like we need some closure there. I feel like this is going to be underwhelming. Prove me wrong. It's called nephrotic syndrome, and it's where basically your kidneys can't uh filter out the protein in your in your like system didn't say you couldn't eat

meat for like the first like 16 years of your life years of my life yeah probably more like the first 10 to 12 and then it was like a kind of a cautious period after that um but yeah so basically uh my kidneys would be clogged and I would just blow up like a balloon with waste in my body because my kidneys couldn't. Did you have to pack a lunch every day for school and stuff? Yeah. Eating a salad and stuff? No, I was eating peanut butter and jellies. That's not the worst thing in the world.

When I was two years old, it was touch and go for a little bit. Your boy was in the hospital for a long time. Sorry to hear that. It's all good, dude. Like I say, don't let me have Ataville like you're just fiending for it. Like, don't let me have alcohol. If I was, like, super hungover and somebody's like, oh, like, you're taking these. Yeah, what do you do when you're hungover and you have a headache?

I just power through. What do you do? Well, you're not powering through because you're not a bitch. You're powering through because you're not a bitch. Physically, it would be dumb for you to take anything. Let's say that, like, last night, for example. Last night was mad real. What are you going to do?

Yeah. No, I'm going to probably jump on liquid iv and wow those i drank four of those yesterday so except you call that added value business av hey let's maybe social we have some coming up this weekend by the way can we talk about the reason that we all sound kind of you know not great i sound the worst i'm sorry is it because the meetup yeah we talk about the reason that we all sound kind of, you know, not great? I sound the worst. I'm sorry. Is it because of the meetup? Yeah. We went hard during the meetup. Hey, remember when the meetup started at 4 o'clock and then it was supposed to go till 7? And then at one point, at 1.30 in the morning,

I found myself walking around a club with random backers? Yeah. Turns out we went way past 7 o'clock. Why don't we even put a time frame? You know what I mean? Yeah, it's just like show up at 4. That's what we should just say going forward. Brett and I left at 8.30 to get dinner.

Then we stopped at a bar after that too. We came back and you guys had not moved an inch. You were still talking to the same backers in the same spot in the bar. The crowd barely thinned out. Like, I'm serious. I was like expecting when y'all left, I was like, all right, well, everybody came to see Dawn and Brett, so they're going to start filtering out.

They didn't. That was by far the best turnout we've had. Yeah, that was the biggest. It was the biggest. I don't mean quality-wise. I mean the best as in the most people. The quality was there, too. Oh, the quality was very much there.

There's a reason I stayed until after midnight. What does that mean? I was having a great time. Oh, from an outsider's perspective, who's only been to two meetups at this point, I was borderline shocked with how good the turnout was. I knew we were good. I knew Dallas is a big market of ours.

I didn't know it was going to be that. I knew it was going to be the biggest one we had, but I didn't know it was going to be that big. In retrospect, we should have seen it coming because uh dallas is huge yeah like for our demographic like like you got to see it's also easier it's easier to get to than austin is too which i didn't take into consideration there are a couple people that flew in i was like oh yeah i guess getting a direct to yeah to dallas is way easier dallas to love and stuff gotta be cheaper than austin too i mean definitely dude can. Can I give a quick shout-out?

Yeah, shout-outs to that, dude. I want to give a shout-out to the four or five dudes who all worked at Lockheed, but who somehow didn't really all know each other. Yeah. I know Lockheed's huge, but it was just funny because I kept meeting people like, yeah, I work at Lockheed. I'm like, dude, didn't we talk like an hour ago? Like, no, I just got here.

I'm like, you too? Lockheed, we are the official podcast of Lockheed Martin. Dude, I don't think they need our help, but they're pretty tight. How about the guy who brought us golf balls from Lockheed? Yeah. With the fucking fighter jets on. I was ticked. I pulled out the, I had the jacket that I was wearing at the meetup,

and I pulled out the sleeve of golf balls and the sleeve was completely empty and I was devastated huh so I reached in the other pocket and I saw there were three golf balls in there so it's all good I chipped all mine into the toilet yeah yeah tight why are we doing that I bet someone's like bet you can't hit a flop off this bathroom floor into the toilet and I was like watch me he had a wedge with him i did i brought i had my wedge i kept it in my pocket dude i knew fulton oil and gas was gonna be showing up with babes but like he showed up with his mom he brought his mom and also apparently a date while he was there dude he might have been the first person to ever show up with his mom to a meetup

and walk out with a date that wasn't his. People were more excited to talk to him than any of us. Oh, at one point I looked up, and he was just surrounded by people just asking him questions about stuff. At one point, I remember I was talking to somebody, and I was like, you see that guy over there? I pointed to him, and they were like, yeah. And I was like, that's Fulton. And the look on their face was like, oh, my God, that's Fulton?

I was like, what is happening right now? Halfway through the night, he pulled the chain from inside his shirt to outside his shirt. He told me it wasn't going to be on until he did that, and then literally two seconds later, he just pulled it out. Which I think is him transitioning into sicko mode. I think that's what that looks like. I don't even think he got

into that mode, though. That's a thing. I feel like he wasn't sicko on Saturday. Did he go to the club with us after? Hard to say. I don't remember. Do you want me to read you guys the tab that we had? A bar tab? Yeah.

I took a photo just to make sure that nothing sketchy was on it. It should be noted that I didn't put hardly any drinks on the tab because backers just kept bringing me a lot of champagne. They thought that was a funny one. That is funny. But I did enjoy the champagne, so thank you. Alright, the first thing on the tab is one Ad Topo Chico.

That was probably me. Okay, second thing. One Heineken Can. Definitely not. That was for the Friday Beers guy. Shouts to Friday.Beers. One Pacifico. You gotta think that was Dave, right? There's a good chance that's the D, man.

Seven Guinness. That was you. That was your boy. That was your boy. You had seven Guinness at the bar. And that wasn't even accounting for the ones that got purchased for me. Yeah, wow. Yeah, when I read that, I was like, man, that seems like a lot of Guinness.

And then I was like, well, no, I have been here for over eight hours, so maybe that does make sense. Two Dallas Blondes. I think that's talking about the ale. That's probably Dylan. I did get at least one of those. I got two, actually. One Mick Ultra.

Two more Pacificos. You left with one, too. I'm sorry. I don't know who got these ones. Two Patron Silvers. You know, I don't think it was me, but I could see. I think I only got one shot the entire night, and the guy who got in, the big tall dude with the vest,

I think his name's Jack, he hit me early, and I took a shot with him. He gave me a champagne. I said, that's it. He had a great robot cat. Well, said two Tito's, two just well vodkas, which shout out to who? None of us ordered well vodka. I might have gotten my sister something on the tab. Okay. And then the end is what is the real concerning part the very final thing on here i wonder what this is

uh i circled it so that i wouldn't forget it when i took a photo of the tab yeah um add four red bull okay do something you'd like to tell us talk about it brett i know i think people were uh that explains the well vodka. You got vodka at Red Bull. Yeah, that's got to be me. Back on your bullshit. Four Red Bulls and the two well vodkas. I don't think you're actually giving it the old college try right now.

You're back on the sauce, man. No, I'm not. I have a new drink in here today. It's not a Red Bull. Let me see this. Let me see the sugar content. What's the sugar content in this thing? It's 29 grams of sugar.

Jesus. That's more than I'll have all day. I didn't want it. I was forced into it. Because I didn't want to get a Red Bull at the gas station. They have sugar-free options, man. You know Christmas was just like a couple weeks ago. You could have just asked for a coffee machine or something.

Yeah, I need to get a coffee maker. We want you around for a while. I want to be here, dog. I'm not doing Red Bull. Not doing Red Bull. unless it's with vodka okay that's not it's not a great thing it's like saying you're not smoking cigarettes unless you're drunk like you're still doing i also did a i did a fifth at the club after that shout out to the dude who bought me uh dinner bought me my burger that uh my now infamous hamburger thank you to uh Flounder for capturing me taking what might be the largest bite in history. Just unhinging my jaw and just shoving a burger.

In a situation like that, you have to take a big-ass bite. Yeah, I was in a hurry to eat it. I was eating right next to Dylan and ladies he was with. I did what no one should do during a listener meetup. I didn't eat the entire day. I had breakfast, and then after breakfast, I didn't eat until the very next morning

while I ate breakfast with Dylan. To be fair, you had a huge-ass breakfast, though. Dude, yeah, your boy did go off. Oh, yeah, we ate at Knife. It was Knife. This is sick. Knife.

Hey, you know who's my MVP of the meetup? Moose and Rusty. I was going to say Moose, for sure. Moose and Rusty were dominating. They were with so many chicks, too. Well, I was talking to a bunch of people. Those were dogs. And then Brett comes over to me, and he taps me.

He's like, hey, dude, I need you to meet somebody. And I was like, all right, dude, one sec. So then 20 minutes later, he goes, dude, Will, seriously, I need you to come over and meet this dog. And I was like, who is Brett already calling dog right now? Sure enough, he just walks over, and there's a dark brown. Obviously, that's what Boykin Spaniels look like. I was like, now I get why he was so adamant about this.

That thing was every bit of a puppy, too. Oh, yeah. That thing had the puppy energy. I was really happy to meet Moose, and I kept picking it up. One time, it finally just scratched my face. I was like, yeah, I deserve that. You're a puppy.. I was really happy to meet Moose, and I kept picking it up. And one time it finally just scratched my face. I was like, yeah, I deserve that. Yeah. You're a puppy.

Moose was wiling. Yeah. Seven-month-old Boykin Spaniel. He was wired. It made me rethink whether or not I should ever get a Boykin Spaniel because I was like, man, Rosie was energetic. This dog is bouncing off the walls. And then there was Rusty who was just happy to be there.

He had a PBR. He was a good dog, too. Shouts to Rusty. who was just happy to be there. He had a PBR. He was a good dog, too. Shouts to Rusty. I have an MVP. Hit me. I forgot his name, but the guy who brought me. He really made an impression on you. I don't remember a single name from that.

I'm bad with names. Good with faces. Anyway, the MVP is the guy who brought me the colorblind glasses. Did you all see that? No. What? Some dude who was also colorblind, he had the colorblind corrective glasses, and he brought them to me in the bar, and I put them on.

How did we not do anything about this? Someone posted a video of me trying them on on Twitter. Did you cry? Retweet that. I did not cry. Hang on. We didn't even know. This wasn't even told in the car.

This was early on. This was probably 30 minutes after we got there. No shit. Yeah. How were colors, dude? This was like probably 30 minutes after we got there. No shit. Yeah.

How were colors, dude? I needed to be outside, I think, in daylight because it was kind of a dark bar and had a lot of neon lights situation, which was cool. And he showed me his phone. He had some of the colorblind tests with the colored circles, and I saw everything on the test. No way. I wasn't taking them off. Couldn't see it. Put them back on, and I could see it.

It was wild. But I need a better light perspective. But thank taking them off, couldn't see it, put them back on, and I could see it. It was wild. But I need a better light perspective. But thank you for that, guys. Well, you don't want to be in a dark-ass bar. I mean, when I'm trying to see colors for the first time, you know, probably not. Probably not the best environment for that. Let me say this about that bar. I had never been to that bar, and I went off recommendations. That bar was great. I want to give a shout-out to the bartenders at that bar. I went off recommendations. That bar was great.

I want to give a shout out to the bartenders at that bar. They were great too. Because if I was working somewhere and I was like, hold on, some people are clearly holding an event here without even talking to us. I'd be maybe a little sketched out and possibly annoyed. And once they realized what was going on, a bartender came up to me and he was like, hey man, if you need absolutely anything, my name is blah, blah, blah. I think Zach.

He's like, just come holler at me and I'll get you set up. And I was like, thank you. I was never expecting that. If anything, I was really scared to talk to the bartenders. They were very protective over your tab as well. Yeah, they were. So I went up and I was talking to a group of people. And this girl next to me was like, hey, you're clearly busy and you're clearly also trying to get a drink.

Do you want me to get you a drink since I'm ordering one now? And I was like, yes, but just put it on my tab. Like, you don't need to buy that drink. I hear her say to the bartender, the bartender's like, are you sure? And she pulls me aside and she was like, hey, there's a lot of people ordering drinks on your tab. And I was like, well, like, what's it at? And she didn't really tell me. Then she pointed, she's like, that blonde guy with the tall hair over there

has put numerous drinks on your tab. And I was like, oh, god damn it. Who do I need to go beat up right now? And I was like, oh, that's just Brett. I was like, he's good. Don't worry about him. You call me the blonde guy with the tall hair? Yeah.

Dang. That was the easiest way of identifying you. You didn't say like the blonde dude, the hot blonde dude, and the sick bomber? She was like, yeah, this super jacked dude in the bomber jacket. That was the easiest way of identifying you. She didn't say, like, the blonde dude, the hot blonde dude, and the sick bomber. She was like, yeah, this super jacked dude in the bomber jacket. That's right. No one's talking about our mall trip. Yeah, we hung out at the mall. We crushed North Park.

Why did we do that? We hung out at the mall for possibly way too long. We just went back to, like, high school, man. We saw a porn star in Nordstrom. We all copped Johns, too. We did all cop something. We just posted up on a bench and made fun of people Back in the day

Did somebody buy pants though and not wear them? Oh I definitely wore my pants Dave wore his pants I definitely wore my fit I wore mine Mine were joggers so no I did not wear mine I bought joggers and wore them Because I forgot every other pair of pants I had

Which is not what you're looking for When you go to a meet up I think you wore exclusively joggers and wore them because I forgot every other pair of pants I had, which is not what you're looking for when you go to a meetup. Yeah, I think you wore exclusively joggers for four days. Yeah. Big jogger guy. Yeah, I didn't really have a ton to choose from. Realizing that I forgot the stack of pants that was folded on top of my thing in my bathroom, I was just like, yep, I'm a fucking idiot. But at least I had like six sweaters for a two-day trip.

Yeah, I think they all got some polite, too. Shouts to the Buffalo Sabres, by the way, just smoking the stars on Thursday. Oh, yeah, we didn't even talk about the game. God, they just really took it to them, didn't they? What a third period. Yeah. Oh, wait, we completely missed it because we just stood in the bar just doing shots the entire time.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's a weird move to do the shots the night before the meetup. But shots to our boys, the Rockwell brothers. Oh, you mean Luke and Chad? Luke and Chad. They were fantastic hosts for not only the Stars game, but when we were golfing at like 500 feet. We were on a sim. We were on a sim like at Elevation.

Doing club head speed contests. No one had any idea that Brett had the club speed head he has. I had a pretty good idea. He hits his three with like 290. I know, but still. He gets it back there pretty far. I have a long swing. It's just a very long swing.

I think that's a reason why I'm both good and bad at golf. I thought Klein would be better, but he maxed out at, what, 110? Yeah, just a really slow swing. He hit 117 once. By the way, my club head speed was 122. Dylan, you were in the same. You were like 123, 124?

We're going to get a text in two hours just to say I hate you guys. That's what it's going to say. Klein's not going to be happy about this. I kind of want to double expose Klein right now. Is that fair? No, I'm going to throw Klein a solid since he treated us well over the meetup. He did. Klein touched 133 on the club head speed. Also called out Dylan on Twitter and might have deleted the tweet.

Why did he delete it? I don't know. Was he getting no traction? No one responded to it. He didn't do numbs? Oh, that's tough. Oh, Klein. Klein is very concerned about his Breckenridge outfits, by the way.

He called me last night. He's like, dude, what do I do? I'm like, man, just throw on like a crew neck. He goes, I don't have a fucking crew neck. He's such a jig, man. I'm worried about my health going into Breck. I haven't felt right since the meetup. And we're three days removed from it now.

Listen to me. Go to the doctor. Get a tune-up, man. I want to put this out there. I don't think they just do tune-ups. Every meetup we do needs to be on a Friday. Yes. Never on Saturday. It should never be on a Saturday.

I never want to do a Saturday meetup. I can't feel like I felt yesterday on a Monday. That's fair. I like the Friday thing. I like kind of people coming out of work in biz cash, too. Yeah. Normal people could say, like, maybe just don't go as hard at the meetup. But, like, that's not why I'm there.

I'm there to go hard. Did you see we had celebs there, too? Did you know hashtag Chad of Callaway and Dude Perfect fame? I was really bummed At some of the people That I didn't get to talk to Enough at the meetup And Hashtag was

At the top of that list One of the nicest guys I've ever talked to In my life Hashtag was awesome He's all class man His wife was great too Flounder had a

Hell of a meetup Performance I think Flounder People are very excited To see Flounder there Dude he has a hell of a Performance everywhere

Also one of the original Touching Base guests, JB, Jonathan Buchanan. Yep. That's a deep cut. I don't even know you can find that episode anymore. I think they might have expired from the Touching Base feed. Check out City Club Golf if you're in Dallas. They'll hook you up. I was legit overwhelmed by all the people there.

Yeah, it was fun. I was legit overwhelmed by all the people there. Yeah, it was fun. I was too. In a good way. I would be talking to a group of like seven people who were just, you know, bullshitting, asking questions back and forth

and then I would turn around and I would get trapped into another, not trapped, like I didn't want to be there, but just group after group I was just bullshitting with over and over again.

Well, we've done numerous ones of these at this point, but still every single time I show up, I think to myself, what if no one is here? Yeah. What if no one is here? That is me. That's me in the car on the way there.

But two hours later, I looked around, and I was like, dude, there's like 150 people here right now. It was nuts. What are we doing? Yeah. Absolutely nuts. I walked in, ordered a beer, saw our friends Jake and KJ sitting in the corner, said what's up to them,

turned around, there was like four or five people, and then it was just full throttle all the way to the end of the night. Like, I feel like I didn't talk. People like Chad, Jake, KJ, I feel like I didn't get a chance to talk to them enough. But I think they understand. If you came out, thank you. That was awesome. Thank you.

Incredible turnout. Thank you, thank you. We had a blast. If you didn't come out and you're debating going to the next one and it's in an area close to you, just know that it was 100% worth it. It was so much fun. We're going to run it back in Dallas. We have to run it back in Dallas. And probably hire a photographer or something so people believe us.

Hey, look, if you're in Denver, we're doing one of these in a few days. What? Are we? Yes. Oh. Hit me with the the deets i literally had no clue oh we did yeah i'm doing this we've been talking about this for weeks i'm doing a dramatic i didn't think we were actually doing one yeah it's not nothing's official we're just gonna announce where we're going encourage the denver people on thursday night yeah thursday night dude oh okay i will go on record saying right now that i'm not going as hard as I went at the last one. I won't be there, and I will be mixing it up. I'm not trying to ruin my trip.

Yeah, if I do that and then go at a high elevation, I will be done. I will not be going as hard as I once was. There's a no-shot rule. No shot. No shots. Yeah. And maybe like four beer max. Yeah, I can't do what I do.

But we are going to do it. But we are going to do it. It's only for me. We don't know where we're going yet, so stay tuned. Do they have a Cheesecake Factory in Denver? It better. They have a Rainforest Cafe. Oh, can I ask?

Anna Maggiano. I want to expose the three of y'all. Okay. How did we go to North Park Mall, have a great day, and then not cap off our mall trip? Let's see where this is going. Dipping into P.F. Chang's. China Bistro. Fuck you for trying to expose me right now.

You've been exposed. I said I would go. I said I would go with you, and nobody else wanted to. The problem with that is that two hours prior, we had the biggest breakfast of 2020. That's correct. My breakfast wasn't all that big. I had two eggs, toast, avocado. I will had avocado and some sausage

like it wasn't that big coffee. You ordered a hilariously large breakfast. Yeah, it was awesome. Okay. I just want to say it's not every day you walk by P.F. Chang's and have a chance to go in there. Sure. Sure. Yeah. Sorry, Dave. I mean, we were we also had the it was like one thirty and our meetup started at 4. And we still had a golf sim to get to as well as go home and change. Look, dude, all your voice of reason, like actual good points you're bringing up, I don't need that shit. We could have dipped in. We could have gotten in, done some wonton soup, had some lettuce wraps, and just gotten out.

Wonton soup is one of those things that I always think I'm going to love and then it's just completely underwhelms. It's a top three soup for me. Really? I love wonton. Maybe I need to go somewhere else. I just feel like I always want more out of it. I'm more of a chunky soup guy, so wonton's not exactly like bringing. It's not hearty. Yeah, it's not bringing that.

It can't be the sole part of your meal. Correct. Correct. Will needs like Donovan McNabb's mom to give it to him. Oh, I went through a big chunky soup phase. Now say

Quan Barkley's mom. Is it? I'm surprised chunky soup's still around but good for them. I ate a lot of their stuff They're a top tier soup company.

Top tier canned soup anyway. I'm down for you to do that. What? Oh, I thought you said you're going to reach out to some. I will. I'll go chunkies versus Campbell's whoever wants the business. What's the chunkiest soup? It's owned by to reach out to some. I will. I'll go Chunky's versus Campbell's. Whoever wants the business.

What's the Chunky's? Chunky's is owned by Campbell. Okay, well. I could see you being more of a Progresso guy. Dude, come on. What's your pasta sauce of choice? The homemade stuff from Central Market. Central Market pasta sauce?

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Oh, yeah. Yeah. Which one do we want to start off with? Football, Connor, the Man U-Liverpool game. Dylan, do you want to start with Man U-Liverpool? Who ended up winning? I couldn't believe that match, dude. Bed, Bath & Beyond when you recommended it.

Man U did not win that game, David. The boys out there on the pitch just getting after it. Yeah, they did not win that game. They didn't deserve to win that game. Liverpool might be the greatest English team we've ever seen. Maybe the best European team we've ever seen. The most solid goal was one of, I mean, just the atmosphere

at, what do you call Liverpool's home field? Anfield? Anfield. The atmosphere at Anfield was tight. It's always tight when a goalie assists a goal and that he is the first person to celebrate with the person that scored the goal which means that he just sprinted the entire length of the field he was he put in a hundred

yard sprint oh and he had to have started prior to him scoring the goal i think so i think so because he was the first one to it was tight fantastic sorry about your men united uh red canes or whatever the hell they are it's's okay. The good news, that was the Premier League Sports Minute. Man. I enjoyed it. Let's talk the fight first, because that happened well before. Did you put any big boy stacks on this, Dave? Dude, don't ask stupid questions.

Seriously. Why would you bring that shit? I'm sorry. I'm sorry, too. Yeah. No, so it's funny. We talked all this game like we were driving back. Shout out to Brett for driving us home.

Shout out to Dave for letting me drive his brand new car that I was terrified driving back the whole time. I almost Von laid home. Well, there's too much construction to be like free-flowing. You're right. You're right. So when the shoulder is six inches from your left tire, the entire like half of first first part of the trail yeah you did a fine job pretty anxiety you got it it was who was the next person to to be on the power rankings of driving home back behind uh brett dylan i i had my mind it was it was brett dylan me than you no offense dude absolutely

none taken i do not like driving 35 yeah so we're we're driving back and you know we're all kind of struggling but having fun so we decided to make some calls so we got called up we called Flounder Flounder was great entertain us called my buddy Norris great called Micah we're like dude you gotta watch the fight with us he's like I can't I'm doing Silver January

Dave you know Micah I'm like no you're not doing that you're watching it with us and he's like well I'm supposed to go to my buddies. He's like, all right, we'll do it. Fine. Um, it didn't happen. Will texted me. I was going to, I told Will, I was like, I'm showing up at your apartment at seven o'clock, no matter what. Will texted me at like four 30. He's like, I don't know if I can do it, man. No, it was later than that because I was like, man, it's getting to the territory where like I'm texting too close to when Dave's actually supposed to be over and it's going to be like kind of a dick move yeah and um

I was kind of glad you did it because I was like I'm in no condition to go uh hang out with the lads and have pints and watch the fight well there was I didn't think there was any way I was gonna be able to stay up for the fight and so I was like yeah I'm not gonna have Dave over for this and then I ended up just, I made a martini, which is a really aggressive move on that kind of hangover that I was working with. But I thought, you know, I need pure fuel right now. Like if I'm going to get hair of the dog, like I'm getting a lot. So I made one martini and all of a sudden I was like, dude, I feel great.

Dirty with it too? Yeah. No one does what I just did with this martini. I went dirty on the rocks with vermouth soaked cocktail onions excuse me what dude i didn't why do you have all those ingredients because dude i'm going through a big martini phase right now i didn't know you were doing martinis at home though i thought it was just like you're out in a nice place well i've always i've always enjoyed in a good at home mart, and I've been trying to hone it so I can do a good job of making them.

And just recently, a sponsor for Sunday Scaries bespoke post, they sent me a new cocktail shaker, and it's elevated my game, and now I'm like, I'm making one a night. It's not healthy. Damn. You're having one every night? Yeah, kind of. Just one.

Damn. Just put your ones up, dog. So what was the text that Will sent you? Like, how dick move was it? It wasn't. And actually, I didn't even. Dave was asleep when I sent it. So that made me feel bad.

Not only was I asleep, it was one of these. It was on my couch, shoes still on, hanging off the side, and my hat just pulled down over my face. It was like it had golf nap vibes. Like it was one of those. And when he texted me that, I was like, yeah, this is good. I ended up just going to a HEB and getting a sixer, Peroni, drinking two of them, watching the fights.

So we both paid for the fight, basically. Yeah. How much was that, by the way? Like $64. It didn't tell you on ESPN how much it was going to be, and I just kind of like press purchase and hoped that wasn't 150 so I had a nightmare scenario so when it came time to buy it I do ESPN plus on my TV and I go in and it was like need you to sign in and I was

like no because I had I don't even know what email mine is. I don't have a keyboard for my Xbox, so I was doing the controller one, and I couldn't remember my password, and it took me like 20 minutes. I would have made a new account. I'm excited that you enjoyed it, though, because you told me you were watching the prelims. Well, I did what you should never do, and I was like, man, I was debating watching the fight, and what you should never do when you're debating spending $70 on a 40-second fight is watch all the hype-up videos prior to the fight and what you should never do when you're debating spending 70 on a 40 second fight is watch all the hype up videos prior to the fight so for two hours leading up to it i was watching like the youtube series the ufc does called embedded which is just like behind the scenes shit it's really well done and then i watched a whole half hour special i watched the

entire press conference i watched like a recap of the press conference i just watched and by the end of it i was like dude i can't wait to watch this fucking fight. Yeah. The one guy you text me about the, the Jamaican guy who's a teacher. Uh, he lost. Yeah. He got the, he got subbed. I have a question, Dave, a pay-per-view fight like that. How do they allow clips of it to hit social media right after the fact? Cause I saw it like 10 minutes after everyone else and I didn't pay a dime for it. The entire fight. Yeah, but you wouldn't have seen the entire fight

had it gone like five rounds. I would have seen the money shots. Yeah, you would have seen that. No, that's true. I think the UFC is more forward-thinking than, like, say, MLB is the one that's notoriously terrible, right? Yeah, they will take your account down after like one offense. I think Dana White, UFC, they're smart enough to know that all it does is create more hype and more talk.

Yeah. MLB, they don't know what they're doing. There's a reason most people can't pick Mike Trout out of a lineup, you know? They're terrible with their social media. Or NBA and UFC. If there's an illegal stream on Reddit, I think they get those taken down pretty quickly. But when it comes to the social clips after, that's just building the brand.

You know about that. Yeah, but it's a pay-per-view situation. They want people to pay for it, man. Yeah, what if we were just releasing our Patreon episodes and then 10 seconds later on Twitter, people are just releasing the best clips from it? I'd be devastated. That's what I'm saying.

We should be clipping our patreon episodes though just saying dude just okay then fucking clip them dog that's a i will it's a 2020 initiative don't be audacity i'm in i uh what it's free were you yeah were you happy you got it or were you like dude that was like yeah i was happy well i because i i do kind of want to start watching more i don't know i was in one of these weird mind space like head spaces when i was watching it. And I started thinking to myself like, dude,

it's so alpha that these dudes just decide that for a living, they want to beat the shit out of each other. And so the more I started thinking about, I was like, dude, I am kind of interested by this entire thing. And anytime it's Connor, I'm going to watch the fight no matter what.

And this was, this just happened to be the first time that I ever watched a Conor fight alone because I was too hungover to do anything. So I was very happy. Even though it lasted 40 seconds, I was happy that I did it. The lead-up is part of my favorite part. I love watching them walk out. I love just hearing Rogan just talk about random shit.

It was definitely worth it. Joe Rogan might be top five at what he does in the ring. He breaks down fights so well. Tony Romo does really well. People like to bust his balls, but if you really listen to him, if you never watched it, and the jiu-jitsu stuff is what most people don't get. I didn't get it. I still don't get it. And he'll explain, this is what he's trying to do.

He's passing guard. He's trying to choke him out under his arm whatever like he breaks it down like on a rudimentary level and he doesn't sound like an idiot are he and dana white boys they used to be do they have the same head shave guy you gotta think so it looks so similar it's so funny the weirdest thing was after the fight because you know espn now obviously they've they own all the rights to the ufc right uh it was joe rogan i don't know the other and then the other guy and then stephen a smith yeah stephen didn't need to be there he was on the espn like channel where espn plus had john annick and joe rogan though and the other irish dude who they did a

great job i still have not seen uh the actual interview i've only seen the photos and the other Irish dude. They did a great job. I still have not seen the actual interview. I've only seen the photos and the memes. People were saying that Joe was kind of like, why is Stephen A here? Oh, yeah. Stephen A does know boxing. He knows the fight game, but I don't know about UFC. He was calling out Cowboy, and I feel really bad for Cowboy.

I like him a lot. I texted you before, and I was like, dude, this guy seems incredibly nice. Everybody likes him. Fuck with him. What do you think of Conor's, after the knockout, his going over to Cowboy and kissing him on the forehead? It was nice. In all the lead-up, there was not your usual.

You just kiss other dudes, man. That's just what they do. You kept seeing how much he respected him before the fight. Cowboy has the most wins in UFC history. I've heard that. Cowboy's a legend. Even though he's never won the big one, he's never held a title, like, people love the guy.

And Conor, it would have been a bad look. Conor's probably smart enough to know that if he would have just completely, like, showed him up or shit on him, it would have hurt his persona. Well, from what I gathered watching all the pre-stuff, like, Conor and all his legal troubles, he doesn't want to be an asshole at this point and just let people pile on. And Cowboy seemed like such a good guy that it's like,

yeah, how do you talk shit to a guy that's so happy about fighting Connor? It's the biggest fight of his career. It'd be weird. It'd be weird to be addicted to that guy. I think Cowboy made like 250, 200 on the fight. Connor much more. I think Cowboy made like 250, 200 on the fight. Conor much more.

Which, you know. Do they, what's the finance, do they get a cut of pay-per-view too? After the fact? Yeah. Okay. So Cowboy just like, that set him up. Yeah. That's good.

So Dylan, could you last longer than Cowboy did in the ring with Conor? No. I would last seven seconds. You couldn't last 41 seconds? No. Dude, Conor just came out and threw that bomb. Oh, yeah. I swear, I don't know if people are talking about this,

but when Cowboy ducked it, it looked like he took a knee. He did. Yeah, he did. That might have started the whole thing. And then, dude, that head kick. The head kick? How about the shoulder bombs Conor was throwing? Nobody's doing that. Dude, no one is doing that. I can fully say I don't think i've ever beaten anybody up with my shoulder you

don't see shoulder pops like that man was that has that even been like like you're more in the game than i am i've seen john jones do it okay who does connor or come on john said he was john roger or joe rogan excuse me was like that's that's something new in connor's bag like connor hasn't had that. It's a really smart thing to do if a dude's just trying to post up on your shoulder. I love the gigantic left, and then when he ducks, you know he's going to duck, hit him with the knee. Why doesn't everybody do that now?

I can't believe it. I might become a fucking UFC guy, and I can't believe I've reached this point. I've avoided it for so long. People were saying the combat sportsman, it wouldn't even go 40 seconds, but they were wrong. Let's talk some NFL. I watched the games, but I didn't give a shit about either of them as long as the Packers lost.

I watched the first half here. At the Lodge? Oh, yeah, we were at the Lodge for the Chiefs-Titans. None of us thought the Titans were actually going to win when they were up 10-0, right? None of us were sitting here like, oh, we were at the Lodge for the Chiefs-Titans. None of us thought the Titans were actually going to win when they were up 10-0, right? None of us were sitting here like, oh, man. Yeah, not after last week when you saw the Chiefs score like 40 unanswered points or whatever it was.

51? 51? They poured it all in. It was ridiculous. But the slow starts are, you know, if somebody does, I mean, granted, they came back from whatever, but I don't know. I don't think they're going to be able to do that against the Niners.

They can't because the 49ers are going to run the ball so much that there's not going to be the ball backing up. This Super Bowl is going to be tight. I'm into it. Yeah, I am too. It's a good matchup. I cannot get past, we've talked about this before, the 49ers have a guy who's pretty vital to their offense,

and his name is Mostert. Dude. I've had so many tweets that I've not tweeted out. I can't believe it hasn't even entered the group text yet. No, I think every damn time I hear the dude's name. Yeah, why doesn't this get more pub? He came out of nowhere. Oh, how do we not talk about fucking Baker getting absolutely, like...

We got to talk Baker. Screwed at the fight. Dude, his fit was absolute filth trash. I'm glad they didn't give him any pub because he looked like shit. He's getting roasted for his fit. He should. It was terrible. You know who might have had a worse fit, though?

Rob Lowe. Yeah, so why was Rob Lowe just wearing a generic NFL hat? You know who I could see wearing an NFL hat is Duda. Yeah. I think you think that because I'm pretty sure he just has a NBA logo hat. Are there any leagues that have just their logo that people actually rock? I don't think so. What was he doing?

Was he just not wanting to upset the fan bases? Will has an MLS hat, though. Like, look, dude, just ride a plane right down the middle. I would buy an old-school MLS hat. You got to think he was there for, I don't know, 15 minutes just to get that camera shot. He was. It was like, so he's promoting that show, Lone Star 911. It looks terrible.

It's in Austin. Same reason why McConaughey was at the fight, promote the gentleman or whatever. Right. Rob Lowe was there for 15 minutes. They gave him a hat. He's probably wearing some hat that they didn't allow. They're like, here, wear this. And then we'll get your camera shot

and you can bail. The jawline on Rob Lowe. I was going to say, what a handsome man. The jawline is ridiculous. Stupid. No one his age should have a jawline like that. I would have to get so much cosmetic surgery in order to get that jawline. How old is Rob Lowe? You can't even look it up.

Yeah, there's no way of knowing. You can't even look it up. If you do, let me know if it's true. 55. Are you guessing or is that his actual age? No, he's 55. Wow. Him and Brad Pitt are the same age. Brad Pitt looks like a goddamn snack.

Did you see the photos of him being flirty? Yeah. Is it weird that I just didn't care? No, I don't care. I was just like, yeah, I don't give a shit about he and Jennifer Aniston. Him and Jolie are divorced? Yes. Aniston won the award for best actress from the SAG Awards last night for the morning show.

No. You said she sucked in it. I thought she was very good. I didn't think she was that believable at all. And the SAG people agree with me. Yeah. I feel like SAG is the most respected award you can get because you're getting voted on by your peers, right? By the Guild.

Guild. Yeah, the rest of my fellow guild members seem to agree with my uh oh are you a guild member well i was 2014 for what um i had that role when i was in denver i did some stuff on the side jay bone jay bone should be in the screen actors guild for the time that he uh was in a dolphin's tale that I was in The Rookie. I should be in it. You were in The Rookie? Yeah. You were the one who, when Dennis Quaid was throwing past the speed limit sign,

you see that? You were the one testing that out beforehand. No, that wasn't me. No. I was in the first big tryout scene. Oh, no shit. Yeah. That's kind of cool.

Crushed my shot, too. I was actually in Godfather 3. No way. I don't think you were. A lot of people don't know that. What did you do? Yeah, what was your role? I was a henchman.

Nice. My buddy, shout out to Captain Cons, was actually in The Dark Knight, which is kind of sick. He was one of the police officers in the big battle scene. Oh, that's cool. I've never been in a movie before. Dude, our life is a movie. I was going to say, except for life. Stop.

Dude, the meetup was like a movie. Dude, it's a movie. At one point, I knew that Brett was over being around us for that long when we were standing in Dave's driveway after we got back and we were unloading the trunk of the car. And I stepped out of the car and I said, damn, that movie and then brett just snapped he goes dude stop there's just one it was one too many times yeah brett how was it being with us for that yeah you had a room with me you've never yeah i thought how'd that go how'd it go man i thought me and dave had a pretty good

dynamic i found out he uses the same hairspray as my wife. Do you enjoy us more or less after this trip? More. No, it's more. I think it's fun to, like, that was our first trip as, like, a group, right? We've had the, you know, we work together, we go out together, but we've never, like, done the business trip kind of thing. I think we're going to get along. I think out of everyone here, I'm the one who's most ready to, like, get away from everybody after a trip like that.

Jeez, why, dude? What's wrong with us? No, don't get me wrong. I love doing these. Like, it's so much fun. But, like, I think I enjoy my alone time more than most people do. And so, like, by the end of these trips, I'm like, just put me on my couch for three hours just to, like, talk to nobody. Okay.

Sorry to disappoint you so much. During the fight, I was like, damn, I wish Dave was here right now because I didn't think I'd be awake. Yeah, I had a squad at my place. You could have hit me up, man. I would have maybe called an audible. I had a squad at my place Saturday night for the fight. Yeah, you didn't invite us.

Yeah, there wasn't a text on my phone saying, hey, I'm getting the fight at my place. Well, here's the deal. I didn't know I was going. We were at SoCo Hotel. Is it fine to call it SoCo or no? No. Don't call it that.

I was at South Congress Hotel. Great cocktails. They're a terrible service, though. They need a shout-out for their happy hour, which goes from 4 to 7, and it includes everything. Shout-out to their cocktails are phenomenal. That bar's flirty as F. It's a flirty bar. There was a birthday party going on, too.

Oh, yeah. That's where I had my engagement party. I bet somebody in there was on their worst behavior. Yeah. I bet that. Dylan, you have to look me in the eyes now. How does that feel? I don't like it.

Yeah, we switched seats in the new studio. Everyone's kind of, I don't know where to look. I don't know if I'm into it yet. We'll figure it out. I'm not tied to this seat by any means. If we need to change things up, I don't know where to look. I don't know if I'm into it yet. We'll figure it out. Do you think, I'm not tied to this seat by any means. If we need to change things up, I'm down. I'm actually, this is my spot, so don't try. I'm in the old Dave spot.

I can see the front door from here. So if anyone comes in, I got eyes on them. I was going to say, I am in the worst spot if somebody wants to, I'll protect you, Dave. Don't worry. If we actually turn into like a mob, you're in the worst spot. Yeah. Why do we have to turn into a mob for that? I don't know.

I can see it happening down the road. Okay. I don't see that happening. Anyway, I didn't know we were going to my place until like 1045. You did nothing wrong. I was not going to meet new people Saturday night. Yeah, there was four of them. It was either going to be me and everyone that I knew very well or me by myself.

It was going to be anyone in this room plus Micah or me alone on my couch. Yeah. Even like a fringe friend that I've met out at the bars a couple of times, I couldn't do it. No. That's totally fair. No. No.

But it was fun. Do you guys want to get figgy with it real quick? Can we call it something else? No, dude. Let's get figgy with it. I know there's something all of us can agree on. You guys ready for this? Doesn't matter because you're going to agree either way.

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That's S-T-E-A-M at checkout. Speaking of STEAM, we went in in the steam room on Saturday together. It's the first time that we've all steamed together. We did so much over those three days, two days. You guys finally got me in the gym. Curtain pulled back. We were originally supposed to play golf Friday, but weather did not cooperate, so we just went to the mall.

Went to the mall and they got a steam room. Yeah. This is the first time we've actually all stepped in a steam room together i think we did pretty well it was quite enjoyable i had a good time i honestly felt better after leaving the steam room i did too i did too uh i want to do i do want to give a special shout out to klein for ruining my post steam shower as i entered the shower he said by way, these showers smell like shit. And then the entire time I was in the shower, I couldn't stop thinking of why the shower smelled so bad.

Yeah, shouts to the Uptown Lifetime for having stinky-ass showers. Yeah, you guys got to figure that out. Otherwise, nice facility, though. Oh, otherwise, like the service, everything there was great. You know who works out of that gym? Cubes. Does he? Mark Cuban, yeah.

Say what's up. How about that? He wasn't there. He texted me. He was bummed he couldn't go to the meetup. I will call out their parking situation is weird. The parking garage, you know, if I'm going to dot points from that, that's probably where I'm going to start.

Oh, if something's a 10 and I have to go park in a parking garage for it, it immediately goes down to a 7.5. Shouts to the guy playing basketball when we were standing there just kind of looking at him from that ledge up there on the staircase. He goes, yeah, office manager Brett. Yeah. While he's running fives. I think he had the ball.

In the middle of the game. He had the ball. Running fives. He might have had the ball, like bringing the ball to the court. He's like, that's Brett. Dude, that game was like a parody game of dudes at a gym playing pick-up ball. Dude, that game was a movie. That game was a movie it was like guys who

were they were almost i mean borderline athletic but just bricking jump shots i will say this no dude the first four jump shots i saw them take they drained after that never saw one i got out there and it just it looked like a eastern conference basketball game from like six years ago i think i could have been on that court and not stood out as being a mediocre basketball player. Those guys were right up my alley. I witnessed the one rule you absolutely cannot break in pickup basketball. And that is when the fast break coming back up the court, like turnover fast break. Guy who wasn't in the game was doing layups at the other end.

Oh, no. And the fast break, he got run into with a guy trying to do a layup. You can't do that, dog. That's my biggest fear. And they were like, dude, you have to leave. Just leave. You're not running fives with us after this. You're out.

They told him that? They told him that. They said, get out of here. That must have been their boy. You can't just say that to a random guy. The cardinal rule that I saw broken was that instead of a dude just putting up a layup, even if he went opposite hand, he tried to finger roll it in. I'm like, dude, that's never going to work for you right now.

Or was it he had so little of a left that he tried to do a right-handed layup from the left-hand side going left? It was ugly. I had no left hand. Even I know not to do that. If you think about finger rolling, just stop under the basket and pass it off to the dude following up behind you. You're going to fuck this up.

I would rather stop, pump fade, fade away with my right hand than try a left-handed layup. Yes. Hey, Brad, do you have any breaking news for the squad? As a matter of fact, well, I do. Just one piece of breaking news today because it is significant enough. Actually, there's two. We can do it too.

But the one, I'll just lay it out there. Shouts to Anthony Weaver, Saratoga High School graduate. Toach? He's now the Toach. He's now the defensive coordinator of the Houston Texans. Wow. Yeah. Saratoga, we're not going to lie.

Anthony Weaver looks tight. We're not known for our athletes in Saratoga, Dillon. We're more like musicians and actors and things. Says he was born in Killeen, Texas. He was born in Killeen, Texas. But he went to Saratoga, you're right. He went to Kangaroos. Shouts to Killeen, man. He went to Notre Dameilleen, Texas. But he went to Saratoga. You're right. With the kangaroos. Shout out to Killeen, man.

He went to Notre Dame. Notre Dame. You know I'm not a big Notre Dame guy. Saratoga class of 98, I believe. But he's really the one guy who's made waves as an athlete from Saratoga, played in the league for a while. But now he's at DC. Go Toads, man.

Go Toads. Go toads, man. Go toads. And number two, I think I was trying to read back into our group text for Breckenridge to see where we're doing dinner on Thursday, to see where we would do the meetup Thursday in Denver afterwards. How'd that go? I can't find it. That group text is out of control.

I was going to say, any information that you're going to say after that restaurant, I was going to say completely disregard it because that restaurant doesn't even want us there. Dude, it's turning into a playground. The guy has pretty much straight up said, like, no, we will not accommodate you. This is the guy that's, so we have 11 people, correct? Mm-hmm. And the reservation's for 10? He's cutting us off at 10.

Is it anti-Texas bias? I don't know. He's cutting us off at 10. It's like, dude, can't we just squeeze one more chair in? Pull up a chair, dog. It's not a big deal. What a jerk. I might just go eat at the bar just so you guys can all enjoy yourselves

and not have to worry about anything. I will do that. I love eating at the bar. I'm the first guy at a dinner. I want to get a weirdly nice dinner. Let me pull back my curtain here. I don't want to do a fancy dinner Thursday. Let's just go to a Mexican place and get weird.

No, stop. Dude, everyone stop suggesting Mexican places in Colorado. I'm not going to a Mexican place and get weird. No, stop. Dude, everyone stop suggesting Mexican places in Colorado. I'm not going to a Mexican place in Colorado. Where do you want to go? Not a Mexican food restaurant. We eat so much of that shit down here

and Klein's out here throwing out Mexican food restaurants like they're going out of style. There's one next to the hotel that he said is his favorite touch spot in Colorado. Dude, Klein took me to a Mexican place when I was up there last summer

to play golf. Two summers ago. All right, we're going to when I was up there last summer to play golf. Two summers ago. All right, we're going to end up at View House just having like French fries. Oh, we're not going to View House. Why not? It's a cool spot,

but it's just bar food. I want bar food. So you want to do a real deal dinner? I want real food. I don't care how nice it is. Okay. I don't want, you know, chicken tenders and fries.

Man, you'll play too much. Do what? Play what? Golf? I can't wait to ski, though., you'll play too much. Do what? Play what? Golf? I can't wait to ski, though. Did you get your rentals yet, Dave? No, I'm going to do that today.

I got a bunch of housekeeping stuff to do. I forgot to mention during the Combat Sports Minute, how big of a power move is it for McConaughey to show up right before the Conor fight, and then he's there, watches the fight, and leaves? Yeah. That's amazing. of hate to show up right before the Conor fight, and then he's there, watches the fight, and leaves. Yeah. Can I? That's amazing. So, you've got to imagine, Saturday night in Las Vegas, there's like-

For the boys. Sure. But there's people, like, going out after is probably more important than the fight itself. Definitely. Who is, like, the- there's got to be guys, like, organizing that kind of thing. Like, tables getting bought. All those guys, like, Conor had an official after party. Right. Already lined up. Win or lose.ables getting bought. All those guys. Connor had an official after party already lined up.

Win or lose. Oh, yeah. All those guys. I want to know the logistics of planning that kind of thing. Say you're Tom Brady and you decide day up to go to the fight. Do you just have a guy that lines up the sick table at Hakusan afterwards? I think he did go, didn't he? I heard he was.

I saw him. He did. I remember seeing him in the tunnel. He looked like a stud. I like to imagine Baker Mayfield got left out of all those after parties. Yeah. Because he's such a twat.

I would think so. Him and Miles. Fuck Baker. I let Miles in before Baker. Oh, yeah, because... Miles Garrett was there? Miles, that's who... That's who was sitting next to him.

That's who was sitting next to him that got the camera time. Baker did the ha-ha, pointed at him like, this is the dude, which he's right. He is the dude. And they were only talking about Miles Garrett. Didn't even mention Baker Mayfield sitting next to him. You know what? It was probably the hat. Or like the beer gut. Beer gut. Yeah, he didn't look great.

He looks like shit. Dude, he looked terrible. He was on the Freddy Kitchens diet. diet dude after my peloton workout i felt better than than he looked yesterday yeah you look very hot today shout out to peloton i did my first ride yesterday i did a uh i did a sunday ride just a casual 30 minute one because you know i was not feeling up to it dude i felt so inspired leaving that bike you need to vlog I don't know why you're not vlogging. I know. I wasn't in vlogging shape yesterday. I looked like trash.

Let me say this. I've got my sneaky shouts of the week. Are you ready? I added some shouts because I do want to give a shout out to some of the people at the thing. Chattanooga, Tennessee. Big shout. Wow. Aztec guy.

Yes. His t-shirt. He told me his name. He's like, my name is mark we talked to mark we talked about him because he's the one who made the t-shirt with the homie and dylan's christmas tree on it yes friend of the show couldn't be there kita you shot all your your dfw people out i don't even know where she's from uh and and landry luca luca dom thick oh yeah noted twitter personality who tried to big time me, by the way.

We've interacted on Twitter a thousand times. Walks right by me. I'm like, you know what I mean? To say hi? What's your problem, Dom? He showed up for seven minutes. And then he was like, I got to bounce. I got a party bus to be on. Dude, hell yeah.

That's tight. And I tried to catch that invite. I was like, dude, can I go with? And he's like, he gave me just like the nah. Your party buses are sick. Yeah, it's a bus that's a party. Good point. Oh, and also T-Man.

We left him out. T-Man was killing it. I was happy to see the T-Man. Dude, I told T-Man, I was like, we got to start playing more FIFA. Dude, holler at me once in a while. He never talks to me anymore. Last person.

Name slips my mind, but dude in the Phoenix Coyotes jersey rocking cowboy hat. Yes. I told him, the second I saw him, I was like, you officially have the fit of the meetup. You know he knows his sister. Somebody knows one of the youngs. I'll say this. Not the last time I hang out with that guy. Oh, wow.

Yeah. I'm going to hang out with him again. I have a couple of shout outs, mainly because I need one of these people to DM me because I have some questions. The stylist girl. Oh, yeah. I have some pants questions for you. So I was not kidding when I said DM me.

Golf ball dude. The dude wearing the Eric Cantona jersey. And the girl who told me that I don't cook duck badly. I'm just too white. I agree with her. Yeah. She's like, no no you're not doing it wrong you're just white and i was like oh okay that kind of makes sense her and her boyfriend or husband i'm not sure uh they were awesome they were kind of upset with me because i didn't rock my jays yeah well it was too wet outside it's way too he wore his he's a pro i'm yeah i met the guy early on in the meetup and he's like oh nice to

meet you man i'm trying to get into the pod. I like it so far. I'm like, oh, cool, thanks. I see him like two hours later, and he had had some drinks in him. He's like, I didn't realize you were the homie's dad. Oh, my God. Yeah. Big fan. Yeah, he was tight.

Love those people. Yep. That's it. Should we get the hell out of here? I got one more shout out. Shout out. Casey. Miles Graves?

No, Casey M. She didn't make it. From Dallas, who self-proclaimed better Cavs than Micah. Yes, she is correct. She did pop the leg up, and she showed us. Wow. Yeah, if you're an optimized backer, you would otherwise know Casey as Turkey Baster Girl.

Oh, Turkey Baster Girl. Explain that a little more because it kind of. When she introduced herself to me at the thing, she said, I'm the turkey baster girl. And I immediately was like, you've got to be kidding me. I never thought I'd meet you. Did she have scars from that? No, I asked her.

I was like, since you got burned so badly, she accidentally had turkey liquid. What do you call that? Turkey liquid sounds so... Turkey juice. I don't know. Like the juice from basting a turkey that you would use to baste a turkey.

It accidentally squirted on her on Thanksgiving, and she got very, very badly burned on Thanksgiving, and that was one of our worst of stories. And so, yeah, when she came up and introduced herself, I was pumped. I met another person who submitted a worst of that was really bad. I think he puked on the back of his wife's.

No, the guy who had the girl drinking scotch at the Christmas party, and she blacked out. I met this guy. Yep, that guy was also there. I love meeting the people that send in those stories. It's so much fun. Yeah, that was, man, can't say it enough. That was fun.

Thank you for coming out. Yep, thank you. Hey, guys, I will say this. Great episode from The Lodge. I enjoyed it, man. Feels good to be here. One for one on good epis during podcast week. We're actually two for two because a preview we dropped on Patreon this morning went pretty fucking hard.

No one expected that to happen today. Nobody was. Is that for everybody? Yeah, if you're a paying member of our Patreon, congratulations. You got a five-minute episode. So it's not for everybody. Well, no. It's for everyone who's on any level of Patreon.

Correct. Okay. Yeah, the general public can all listen to that. Proprietary information only. Okay. Entry-level backers apply. Yeah. Non-backers need not apply.

Should we get out of here? We should. Bye. Bye.