Circling Back - Mergers and Acquisitions with Intern Killshot

Episode Date: January 29, 2020

Former Intern Killshot joins us to talk about his life since Grandex, Brett touches on his former company's new $450 million valuation, Dave will be acquiring an air-fryer (which is a fryer than fries air), and This Weekend In Fun. Oh, and we got a new coffee machine too. Support us on Patreon and receive weekly episodes for as low $5 per month: www.patreon.com/circlingbackpodcast (0:00) Fun & Easy Banter (11:22) Checking In with Intern Killshot (31:29) Dave's Acquisition (39:19) Brett's Former Employer Stacking Paper (53:51) This Weekend In Fun Liquid IV: www.liquidiv.com (CODE CIRCLINGBACK for 25% off anything) Rhoback: www.rhoback.com (RANDY20 for 20% 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 everyone's a little thrown off right now i'll explain why in a second to my right dave ruff yeah i'm jumping to power through but i i'm so used to hearing hearing that coming through the headphones yeah the headphones are plugged into something else right now so you didn't hear the theme music I know it's normally like it's my starter

yep you guys were all very shook it's okay I normally look across at Dylan Dylan's over there like doing his little dance I feel like we just like false started yeah do the dance anyway

it's a cold start do the dance Dylan what is my dance? you go like you do some yeah it's some little did we just cold started. Do the dance anyway. It's a cold start. Do the dance, Dylan. What is my dance? You go like, you do some, yeah, some little. Did we just cold open for the first time ever? Maybe. No, I mean, not to the people at home, but for us in the room, yes, we did. What's up, Dylan?

Man, I'm so happy to be here. Thank you for having me again. Yeah, dude. I'm feeling pretty good, because can I pull back the curtain? What we did before we recorded this? I mean, why? Yeah, because can I pull back the curtain? What we did before we recorded this? I mean, yeah, you can. We did a little something before this pod, and I'm feeling it got me going. Is it the coffee machine or kill shot?

Which one are you talking about? Both. Oh. Both. So our coffee maker. Don't say it like that. Stop. Both.

That's why, yeah. Both. There's no F. Both. You have an L in there. There is an L. Yeah, both. Our coffee maker, which has been sitting in the closet of our office for a month, month

plus. Say it. Say what kind it is. De Longhi. There it is. Is that your name in Italian? It's finally operating. Got the first pot right here.

Yeah. First pot. I tried to make a little espresso. I did something wrong. It's pretty interesting that Blink-182 started making coffee machines. I mean, like, I never thought Tom DeLongey would. It wasn't Blink-182. It was just Tom. It was just Tom on his own?

Yeah, Tom DeLongey. Yeah, I heard that finding aliens didn't pay that well, so he was like, all right, I'm going to start a coffee machine company. This is gas, by the way, Dave. I haven't had any yet. Can you guys give me a review? I left, full disclosure, I was, not only was i sitting in 45

minutes for the traffic i left my my fucking yeti full of coffee on the kitchen table wow i realized i realized that when i got down the street and i was like already pushing it and i was like whatever i'm just gonna go and i was i was praying that y'all had coffee going and dylan came through i'll do my review you see that ceiling tile behind Will? I just want to do that to every single ceiling tile in here with like my face right now. So when we were setting up the studio, we were putting up some sound paneling and we had a concern about the office next door to us because the gentleman talks on the phone at a very loud volume. He's got pipes. So we decided we were going to start sticking some foam stuff maybe in the ceiling to kind of get rid of it.

And as Dave and I were watching Brett try to do this, we saw how frustrated Brett was getting. And Brett essentially just punched a hole through the entire ceiling. So now we just have one ceiling panel that's just completely fucked. Yeah, that's fair. No regrets. But yeah, this coffee's jazz. What kind of coffee do we get today? I've got three different kinds.

Okay. I forgot which one this is. How do you already forget, dog? I didn't remember the names of the coffee, dude. You didn't go McCafe? No. Or Duda's going to be not happy. I've got three just kind of fancy-sounding brands.

You do Breakfast Blend? Is this Fair Trade? I don't know the answer to that brands. You do breakfast blend? Is this fair trade? I don't know the answer to that. Where's the certified organic? Where's it sourced? Yes to everything. Did you see our buddy Ryan? I always gas up his Instagram because he's on like a world tour. He had the coffee that comes from a cat's poop or whatever.

Oh, yeah. I'd try it. He said it was fucking awesome. Well, yeah, I'd try it. Like everyone it was fucking awesome. Well, yeah, I'd try it. Like, everyone says it's the, quote, best coffee in the world. Isn't that kind of just based on personal preference? I've always wondered that. Well, yeah, it's definitely subjective.

Okay. What does the poop do to the beans? It's doo-doo, baby. I know, but hang on. Yeah, they're taking straight gas to a next level, you know what I mean? Too much. You ever think when you're in a car burning gas, it's just burning dinosaurs? Fossil fuels.

Yeah. Wow. We need to get off fossil fuels. I'll say it. Wow. They'd be more green. That's very bold of you, David. No one said that yet.

Almost as bold as this coffee. I saw a car yesterday. It was a VW, and the dude had a sticker on it with an arrow pointing down to the exhaust, and it said Prius Repellent. Okay. I was like, dude, that's the lamest sticker I've ever seen on a car. Like, what are you doing? Why?

He's basically flexing that he has a large carbon footprint. Yeah. Yeah, that's a bad look in 2020. In 2020, not a lot of people are flexing their carbon footprint. And it was a VW? Yeah. So it's generally pretty fuel efficient anyway? I don't even know, because when this guy took off from the stoplight,

you could hear it. And I was like, okay, this guy's got some aftermarket stuff. Did you already say this? VW makes the diesel model. Yeah, he dieseled out a VW? Yeah, the one where they lied. Is it not diesel? No, no, no.

They lied about their emissions. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, maybe. But I remember you could get the Volkswagen Passat with diesel. Yeah. And I always thought about, like, no. Somebody told me. They lied about their emissions. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Maybe. But I remember you could get the Volkswagen Passat with, like, diesel. Yeah. And I always thought about, like, why? It's weird. I didn't know about the lying about the emissions until J-Bone told me at lunch the other day. So, hat tip.

Hat tip, J-Bone. Never lie about your emissions if you're a car manufacturer. We always say that, yeah. You guys want to know about Kopi Luwak? It's a coffee that consists of partially digested coffee cherries, which have been eaten and, it's not that funny, and defecated by the Asian palm's savay. It's a cat-ish.

So the cherries are fermented as they pass through the intestines. After being pooped, that's not scientific, they are collected, and people drink it. So, whatever. Did you guys see, I'm sorry, usually I don't like to derail because of a text message. Did you see the text that Klein just sent us? No. While campaigning in Vermont yesterday, Michael Bloomberg met a dog and shook its snout. Met a dog and shook its snout.

This is more psychotic than when Mitt Romney picked the birthday candles off of his cake and blew them out individually. He shook the snout? He shook the snout of the dog. Okay, is this worse than Mayor Pete saying that he would bring chips and salsa to the cookout? I missed this. That was it. Will you explain this to me? Mayor Pete.

Pete Buttigieg. I don't know what you're talking about. Buttigieg. What's wrong with Bernie? You don't know who he is? He's a presidential candidate from Indiana? No, he's... Pennsylvania.

No, I think it's like Iowa or something like that. Idaho. Is there a video of him shaking this dog's snout? Yes, it's not good. I'll put that out from what's it called right now. Circling back, Will. What? The podcast.

What about it? The account that you couldn't think of? South Bend, Indiana, Will. You're right. I know. Dude, I've been watching hella debates. I was close with Idaho. Mayor Pete got absolutely dunked on in the last debate.

It was kind of sad. So he is not polling well with um people of color so he is he like was trying to answer this question about the cookout and they asked what would you bring and he said chips and salsa at least he didn't say like queso or something like yeah i'm gonna bring the queso that would oh my god it makes sense that he wouldn't pull well with people of color uh he he puts out a total boner vibes uh catch me shaking your dog's snout though that's a psychotic move dylan when you get a dog i'm gonna shake the shit out of its snout shake his snout dude come on i'm gonna bring fanta to a tailgate i'm gonna i'm gonna teach him how to actually shake shake his paw it's a pretty easy one to teach. Yeah. Although, like,

and it's kind of cute when they do it, when they don't, they're doing it wrong. Like, you're trying to get them to do something else and they just are like kind of pawing at you. You're like, no, no, no, not now.

You're like, good, but not right now. Yeah, like, I'm glad you're doing this. You know something needs to happen. I'm prompting you. Did y'all see I come walked on Instagram Live yesterday? What's that? What does that mean? It's the come walk. Is on Instagram Live yesterday? What's that?

What does that mean? It's the cum walk. Is it an elephant walk? It's where I make Randy walk to me. And we're supposed to walk, and I'm supposed to repeatedly tell him, cum, cum. So dog training is going well is what you're saying. It's going pretty well.

Okay. That's good to hear. Does he cum when you say cum? Yeah. Yeah, you can see it on Instagram Live. It might still be up on Circling Back. Wow. I watched it live.

A lot of good comments. Hey, thank you for participating, Brett. I did. I jumped in. I said, where can you get that sick robe out you're wearing? See, this is business, Brett. I have my Instagram notifications turned completely off, so I always miss it when people go live.

I just happened to, right place, right time. I put a gram up yesterday, and I refreshed, and there was Dave. Boom. off so i always miss it when people go live i just happened to right place right time i put a gram up yesterday and i refreshed and there was dave boom are you just a constant refresh guy no i was you are i'm not like your thumb is sore today no it's not sore hey let's talk about liquid iv before we unveil a segment that we did prior to this podcast you guys do you guys know that everyone's talking about Liquid IV's hydration multiplier? Yes, Will. I love hydration multipliers.

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Ew. You didn't offer any up. That's interesting. Yeah, you really didn't. Sally sat hers on the kitchen counter and was like, here, have at it. I don't like to share my Liquid IV. That's fair. I like for it to be just mine.

That's why I keep all the free products in my cupboard at my house. Oh, yeah? Yeah. I mean, if you don't know liquid IV, you need to. They have an energy multiplier that gives you sustained energy throughout the day. It fights fatigue without the crash. Essentially, like one of these drinks is like drinking multiple glasses of water. This was big for us because when you're on the ski hill,

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It's been a long time since we've talked to this kid. It's been a straight minute since we've talked to this kid. Intern Killshot. He's not our intern anymore, but he stopped by the stew. He did. One of our Grand X days. He's all groansed up. Yep.

And he came bearing gifts, too. Yeah, it's kind of nice seeing an intern from Grand X, you know, go on and have a full-time successful job. It's great. You love to see it. Especially one who just is so structured and disciplined and shows up 20 minutes early no matter what. Yep, yep. If you're 15 minutes early for him, you're on time.

Just a go-getter, that kid. Yep. All right, we talked to him for about 20 minutes. Here it is. Killshot. All right, we're here with somebody that you've probably heard of before. We've talked about him. We've had a working relationship and a personal relationship with him for how long?

Yeah, business is personal. When did you start? It was this time of my freshman year in college, so four years ago. Wow. Dude. Wow. And you were with us for a total of a week and a half so four years ago. Wow. Dude. Wow. And you were with us for a total of a week and a half. About eight hours.

It was the best week and a half. It made major ripples in the world. It's Killshot. What's up, Killshot? Killshot was our... Happy to be back. He was an intern. Whose intern was he, even?

He was mine. I feel like Dave and I got more content out of him than TFM did. We pretty much... We just kind of stole him and started doing content. I wrote like one thing for TFM, and it was a story that you told us. I won't repeat it. But the traffic, so we had Chartbeat, which is a way to chart traffic on a website, and it spiked, and it was going off.

And then like an hour later, you're like, hey, can you delete that? We're like, yeah, we can delete that's fine well i got a call from my dad and he was like you know your mom has the internet too right and i was like yeah i'll talk to my bosses oh we were gonna do you like that but we did realize at that point that if you put intern in a title people were clicking yeah i i hired him as an intern and then uh y'all just hijacked him immediately for pgp and you turn him into a content we had so much so that he had to quit yeah that was kind of i mean yeah you could make the case that it was on us you were orbiting the earth and we somehow got into your uh spaceship and rerouted it to the sun and you flew directly into it yeah and i And I just took the wheel and kept going.

Not even too close to the sun, just directly into it. What was the, what was the Hawaiian used to wear? Was it a Astros or Texans? Uh, Texans. I still have that actually. You just always wear Texans. You're like, you're wearing a Texans QZ right now. My sister got me this for Christmas and I like it.

You know, it's going to be sunny and 70 later in the day. So I got to just have a light jacket. Oh, you're going to pop it oh you're gonna pop it yeah I'm gonna pop it sick dude Alexa told me 61 today oh really we might have conflicting reports I think it's gonna be a beautiful day maybe a little bit crisp so I think you're gonna be fine with that I think I think it'll be a good day so we got you on to talk about Bill O'Brien what's uh what are your thoughts there noted Texans fan we were talking about it a second ago, and like I said to Dylan, I'm just happy that now he can't really pass the buck to anyone else. He's got the official title of coach and GM,

so all the blame lies on him now if he has a bad season next year and he doesn't have anyone to point the finger at. As a Cowboy fan, I think Dylan and i can both say that there's you know nothing better for a team than having a gm who's not actually a gm yeah it's that's it's always worked out well for us yeah obviously y'all have had a lot of success in the last 25 years so yeah what two playoff wins or two i think i'd take that i would absolutely take two playoff are you a lions fan yeah i've had one in my life. It was tight.

I was four. I've had three. What year were you born in? 96. Cool. Yeah, so you've seen zero Lions playoff wins. Oh, your Lions playoff win was over the Cowboys, wasn't it? I think so.

Like 91? Yeah. I don't even remember who our quarterback was. I think we had Johnny Morton on our team and stuff. Dude. It was a great time. Wasn't John Kitna? No, that was definitely pre-Kitna.

So, Killshot, can we say what you're doing now? You've graduated from the University of Texas. No, from St. Edwards. Oh, fuck. Okay. What's up, Hilltoppers, man? Let's fucking go. Y'all do the handshake. What is a Hilltopper? It's a goat. Okay. I kind of like that. Yeah, they're cool, man. Hilltoppers. Whoa, let's fucking go. Y'all do the handshake. What is a hilltopper? It's a goat. It's a goat.

Okay. Yeah. I kind of like that. Yeah, they're cool, man. I'm glad it's not like some dude from West Virginia that just climbs hills and scales mountains and stuff. No, it's a goat, man. It's not a goat, man.

It's not a goat, man. It's a comma. It's a Billy Goat. It's in spooky season. Did you guys have goats at all the sporting events and stuff? Yeah, a topper. Wow. Yeah.

Wow. They used to call Dylan Topper. Yeah, they did. They did. It was weird. Weird time of my life, but I'm over it. Man. So what are you doing now?

I'm working now at Waterloo, Sparkling Water. Hell yeah. Austin Zone. Austin Zone. You hooked us up, man. You see that stack of Waterloos in there? We got big boy stacks of Sparkling Water out there. We do. If only we had a fridge to put them in. Yeah, we don't have any fridge to put it in, but that's okay. How many Waterloos do you drink a day? up man you see that stack of water lose we got big boy stacks of sparkling water out there we do

if only we had a fridge to put yeah we don't have any fridge to put it in but that's okay how many how many water leaves do you drink a day honestly i don't drink it oh okay but that's just a personal thing i don't i'm not a huge well i use it as a mixer mainly that's okay oh yeah that's that's what i've already used it for i don't drink i don't drink sparkling water unless like sick unless we have some on hand, but we always have Waterloo on hand. The coconut just hits so hard. I asked Dave what flavors y'all liked,

and I just brought our top four sellers. We only drink coconut at Wilmot. Nobody responded to my text yesterday in the group. It took like an hour. I was getting my dick kicked in yesterday. I couldn't respond. I was doing the grocery shopping just looking for someone to interact with me. Me and the homie were running errands.

Sorry. It's okay. What kind of groceries did you get? I went off on fish. We did surf and turf last night. Did some scallops and steak. Wow. The scallops were excellent.

We cooked them in bacon grease. It was fucking good. That's a big-ass Tuesday. Yeah. Post-vacation surf and turf. Who's doing that? Yeah, you don't see that. You don't see it from anyone. I thought you were tired of red meat because you were eating so much. Yeah. Post-vacation surfing turf. Who's doing that? Yeah, you don't see that. You don't see it.

I thought you were tired of red meat because you were eating so much. Yeah. And you just hit him with the surfing turf. I was going grass-fed though. Wow. Wow. Yeah. Sometimes you gotta do it. Yeah, you have to. Dude, so you're officially a water man.

Yeah, I was once a water boy, but now I would say I'm a water man. What are you doing for a living? It's been great to see you grow from a water boy to a water man. It was a tough transition. Are they flexible with your hours? Do they mind if you show up three hours late on the first day? Yeah, do you show up on time now or what? Three hours might be generous to kill shots.

I feel like we set you up for failure. I'm glad you landed somewhere good. Yeah, luckily I don't show up like three hours late anymore, but they're cool with my hours. It's a really fun place to work, honestly. I really enjoy it. Follow-up question. Do you still Uber into work?

Do you have your own vehicle? No, I have my own vehicle now i'm big time i'm whipping a 2013 jeep patriot it's named car and driver's safest compact suv of 2013 wow wow dude it's good to know it's comforting to know you're safe out there on the roads yeah i'm looking at this the clean ass whip yeah it's clean do you ever need what color is it silver i had a feeling you were gonna say that yeah wow the trunk space in this looks wonderful yeah y'all know i drove uber for like the last two years of college really oh yeah did you have any like horror stories from driving uber i mean one time i've had a lot but one time i picked up a couple from like a date event and they were having an all-out

argument like in the backseat of my car just going at it for screaming at each other for the whole ride you should have weighed in and been like dude I'm riding with him I was just he sounds right I was dying laughing the whole time but I didn't want to interject because they were so drunk that it would have been a one star I got a five star rating right now i'm not trying to mess that up hell yeah yeah what uh what's your uh strategy on music do you let them pick or you just yeah do you put on fish or something so you're a fish guy someone snapped off the aux cord in my radio like in the in the port they snapped it off when they were just i had a drunk customer and they just broke it off. So I have to get my radio replaced.

I still didn't intend that. Dude, I feel like Uber should do some of the responsibility for that. You should look into investing in a Bluetooth speaker. I have a Bluetooth speaker. In the whip? Put that in the cup holder. I feel like that's a little ghetto to just have a Bluetooth speaker in the back. You're right.

Yeah, it is. You know, I might enjoy such a thing depends who you talk to i usually just throw on some npr and just yeah just coax people to sleep yeah exactly calms everyone down get gets everyone a little educated do you have any tricks of the trade that you did during uber that like guaranteed that you got five stars just talk when people want to talk to you and don't talk when they don't that's it pretty much it's not that how many people asked you first thing like so uh how long you been driving uber for yeah i'm like a day yeah not very uh not very many people ask a lot of people just get in and they're like they just don't say anything and i just drive

but i say if you're trying to make the most money driving Uber, at least in Austin, picking people up from the airport is a good move because they'll be driving to the domain, and you can make like $80 off of one ride. Yeah, that makes sense. What do you think of people that ride in the front seat when there's no one else in the car? I've luckily never had anyone do that.

You've never picked up Will to Freeze? Boy, if you ever had picked me up like well i think you have that thing but no sometimes i get in the front seat when i'm drunk and i have a good rating yeah really good rating okay 4.92 i think i would i would dock you a point i ask i ask them first i say is this okay and sometimes they're like yes i actually prefer it and then uh i've never had someone say no okay the only issue is that some people put like a bunch of shit on their front seat because they assume that they're not going to like need to do it but i'm like well what if four people roll up and then you have like all that shit on

your seat yeah i don't know i i've luckily never had any solo riders hop up front with me but uh if i did it would probably make me very uncomfortable. Anybody blow chunks in your car? No, luckily. I've had some people leave a pizza in my car before. That's bonus pizza. That's your pizza. That's just my pizza now. Thanks. That's sick.

Mine house? Ropolo's. Nice. That's a staple. I've always called it Ropolo's. I have too. I wasn't going to correct him. Yeah.

I might be wrong there with my pronunciation. Ropolo's. Dude, I kind of like Ropolo's. I have too. I wasn't going to correct him. Yeah. I might be wrong there with my pronunciation. Rapolo's. Who knows? I kind of like Rapolo's. Rapolo's? I've never even heard of this place. I grew up with a Rapolo. They're all over downtown.

Oh, really? Yeah. Yeah, it's like 6th Street, 36th. I don't really eat that many pizzas in Austin. I eat about two places. I feel like it was one of the first dirty six late night food carts. Yeah, they're trailers. Trailer, yeah.

It's good. It's a good New Yorkork slice it's like a sabaro plus you know the water's different up there and that's why the pizza tastes that's what i've heard you know that yeah yeah it's all about the new york water right for the big yeah man there's just something about the minerals it's hard it's hard ass water yeah it's just hard as fuck like it's in the gym all the time i think there's a bagel place in houston that ships the water in from New York. You liar. That doesn't happen. That's Hot Bagel Shop? Yeah, Hot Bagel Shop on Shepherd, I think.

Dude, I don't think there's any truth to the whole water thing, but Hot Bagel Shop is the best bagel I've ever had in Texas. Really? In Houston? Yes. Yeah, it's fire. They have these little mini dogs that are like corn dogs that you just can buy in the morning, and they're the greatest taste.

They're like sausage, and they're just rolled up. Oh, it's the best. Damn. We should take this out for the next time I go to Houston just so I don't have to wait in line longer. So I was going to say, if we do a Houston meetup, which is probably going to happen before the summertime. Oh, it's not happening during the summer,

so I'm going to make sure that it happens before the summer. Are you going to roll down there with us? Yeah, I will. Okay. What about your brother? You going to bring your brother? us? Yeah, I will. Okay. What about your brother? Are you going to bring your brother? Yeah, he's in D.C. right now. He's a big wig on Capitol Hill.

Oh, he's doing the rat race. Yeah. I'll see if I can get him down for that. He might actually already be in Austin by that time. I think he's moving back here starting in May maybe. Does he still listen? Oh, yeah. He's a big listener.

I texted him right away when I told him I was dropping this water off. Nice. He was like, don't talk about Ted Cruz. Dude, you know, I listen to his podcast. Interestingly enough, we have Ted Cruz in here. I listened to his pod yesterday. Oh, how'd that go? I'll save that.

Okay. He's the number one podcast, right? Yeah, according to him. Many people sent me that. They're like, dude, because it was Ted Cruz one, Joe Rogan two. Have you been listening to any other podcasts, Killshot? I listen to part of my take, and then I'll listen to some Joe Rogan's every now and then. Never heard of those.

Yeah. Those must be small. Yeah. I haven't heard of them either. Pardon my, what is it? Pardon my take. Okay. Pretty big pod?

Yeah. Just, you know, it does a little bit in terms of numbers. I'm looking it up now. These guys look pretty chill, yeah? Yeah. Joe Rogan. He is the guy that used to be on Fear Factor, right? Yeah.

I think that's mostly what he's known for. Yeah. Well, I'm going to have to check both of those out. Yeah. Put them in my rotation. I started listening to Jeffrey Epstein ABC podcast. Like True Crime? Yeah. Yeah.

I don't think that you'd get five stars if you had that on during an Uber ride. Yeah, probably not. That should be your first conversation starter, like, in every Uber ride. Like, so what do you think about the Epstein thing? Did he do it? Did somebody get in what happened yeah yeah i mean i think that would be a good way to just let them know what i'm about from the jump people love talking ep and the ubes yeah it's true yeah pretty much all the riders

i've had i haven't driven uber in a while but good i wish you could look up i wish i could look up like certain drivers and just see why can't you flag drivers as your favorite? That's a good question. I don't know. I'm going to bring that to Lyft and be like, hey, if you guys really want to surpass Uber. Let's start a ride share app. I think you can do that on Lyft.

You can? Yeah, I think so. We've got the capital. We can start a ride share app. Dude, let's do it. What I would do in college is I would just tell my friends, like, yeah, I'll give you an Uber ride, like, $5 a head one way and back. So I'm just driving people I know, and they would just Venmo me instead of me having to turn on my Uber app.

So then I'd make, like, $40 driving them both ways, there and back from six. Sounds great. Yeah. It was an easy way to make money when you were in college. Honestly, I enjoyed driving Uber. Pure money, right? Yeah. Fuck yeah, dude. oh yeah dude yeah oh man what's hunter up to i'm sorry uh dave do you want to do you want to ask the question that everyone's wondering yeah thanks will um so what's next for kill shot in 2020 um what's next for me i don't know i just need to keep grinding in my job why is that funny

yeah why are you laughing just what's next for me in 2020 it's gonna be probably more of the same that i'm doing right now did you say you are doing merch yeah we got some merch so i'm doing merchandising i will wear waterloo stuff i'm not opposed to it yeah we just with one one sparkling water company in texas it's gonna be waterloo yeah thank you i appreciate that your allegiance to the lives yeah very much appreciated but we're lou boys uh we just got some new swagging actually so i'll bring over i'll take some pictures and y'all can tell me what you want dude let's go let's get a group text going waterloo of course the original name of austin probably y'all didn't know that i didn't know that yeah why did you just look that up it took you a long time to to drop austin i know why they changed it

something to do steven f austin i don't know it sounded like a fucking water park and everyone showed up and they were like what oh where's the deer snooker just a chill-ass city where's the wave pool turn it up where's the bubba tub it's good to see you're doing well man yeah we've missed you i've missed y'all too i know been a while I know that I've been kind of busy Recently at least And I haven't been able to Like I I was working the day

That y'all had your Austin meetup So I wasn't able to make it But What part of town are you in? So I live in South Austin Oh Like Westgate

Kind of I run into Ross At like Breadbasket Wait what street What are your streets? I live on It's like right off of Stassney And Manchac

Dude you know I'm like Westgate Davis. It's a little bit north of Dave. Oh, really? Oh, yeah, I'm Southside. Southside? We're all Southside boys. You should dog sit for Dave. South Awesome boys.

I will, actually. Yeah, dude, Randy would love you. Randy and Killshot? That's a killer combo. Holy shit. It's almost too chill. No one's collabing like that. It's almost too chill.

Do you have a dog yet? So, I don't have a dog personally, but one of my roommates has a dog. It's an Anatolian Shepherd. His name is Tank, and he weighs 130 pounds. It's a unit. He is ginormous. It's like a wolf, living with a wolf. Big boy.

Good dog? Nice, friendly dog? Really, really friendly dog, but he is a psycho. Because he's one year old old and he's 130 pounds. Oh, my God. He's bigger than Randy. Yeah, and he just got fixed last week. So he's been kind of chill this last week.

But before that, it's hard to deal with a dog that weighs more than an average fifth grader. Yeah. Dude, that's a big dog. dog yeah it's like living with a wolf um which is kind of sick that's kind of my dream it is kind of sick yeah always wanted that um anything else for the kill shot i mean i don't think so i could talk to kill shot all day but we got other stuff we gotta talk about don't be a stranger man yeah open door policy for kill shot yeah open door policy i'll be i'll be literally our door doesn't lock so i'll be through y'all y'all know me i'm i'm always around oh yeah i ran into kill shot at a moon taxi concert one time of

course it was chill yeah i see i saw you outside of uh green light yeah i think it was the weekend they all did your fantasy football draft and uh, my God. So Dave was torched? Yeah, we were both. I think we just saw each other in passing outside of Ranch. It was a special moment last year for sure. It really was. But I think we were both doing our own thing that night. Yeah, we were.

I was with a bunch of Houston guys, actually. They were wanting me to take them to all the cool bars. Like, let's get bottles, man. I was like, dude, it was like the first week in school was back in town. Yeah, no, exactly. And it was so crowded, and we ended up just going back to the hotel, Barton Creek or whatever. Yeah, I mean, we were going to West 6 all the time towards the end of college

just because, I guess, when guess when you're senior you're not really trying to go to dirty anymore but uh i don't know i'm not really go to dirty every weekend what are you talking about where y'all going no i can't remember the last time i was on dirty i've been on dirty i prefer randy if i'm gonna go anywhere i just i just don't go out anymore i prefer not going out yeah i got drunk in my apartment and go to sleep. Rainey's a great spot, obviously. It's a good place. If I can drink, I usually am doing it in the day.

We may have to tell you, there might be a week in March where we may need you to take a day off. Yeah. Because we may be having a little something. Can't announce anything yet. And it might involve Rainey. That sounds pretty intriguing to me Just keep an eye out

Keep an eye out Are y'all going to be at the match play? I mean Hard to say Probably Hard to say I'll be there for sure So

I'll be looking out for y'all Just come up I'll probably be at the water Let's link and build Yeah let's link and build Sounds good I want to meet your manager Yeah

I can make that happen Is she going to listen to this? Yeah, I think so. Oh, no. Oh, no. I'm so sorry. I apologize. We'll find you a role here if it doesn't work out.

Let's get Killshot out of here before we get him in trouble. Yeah, seriously. All right, buddy. Thanks for coming on. You want to plug the socials? You want to plug the Grom? No, I just kind of want to remain a mystery. Love it.

Love it. Okay. Thanks for coming on, dude.. Love it. Love it. Okay. Thanks for coming on, dude. Appreciate the water, guys. We'll see you. Dude, it's always good to hear from Killshot. I miss that kid. I miss him every day of the week.

He's the new water man. Makes me happy to see him out in the wild sometimes. Yeah, I think I said it, but last time I saw him was him in line for the ranch. On West 6th, which was fun. It's always fun running into him when you're out and about. You've got a few in you. Say what you want about the ranch.

I like it. Never been. It had a nice run. Is it done now? Oh, I don't think so. In my life. Yeah, as far as going to bars down on 6th Street, going to the ranch was never a worst-case scenario for me.

I was like, all right, I can do the ranch right now. Saw Tyler Childress there last time I was there. Like, was he performing or was he just there? During South By, he was performing. That's tight. It was real tight. Ooh, South By. Ooh, South By.

South By. Dave, do you want to make a major announcement? Major washed media announcement. There's a lot of media announcements happening today this one might be the biggest one i'll do my emergency podcast announcement okay i'm about to become an air fryer guy what yeah i have a question what is an air fries the air i don't know yeah i don't know how this works How do they work? So it takes You put like some chicken in there And instead of frying the chicken

It fries the air around it And it cooks the chicken I don't think that's how it works I don't know how it fucking works I just know everybody I've got like 10 people I follow That are posting Like really good looking chicken wings

And Super Bowl's coming up The big game I don't know if I can say Super Bowl Can I say it? Yep say it The super bowl is coming up the big game i don't know if i can say super bowl can i say it yep say it the big game's coming up the big game's right here uh-huh i'm gonna i'm gonna air fry some wings i'm probably gonna do a gumbo too um but uh yeah is dave having a super bowl party that none of us have been invited to yet like what's the deal we're talking about we're trying to figure out what the plan is okay okay sounds like you have a plan you're making gumbo no well i'm definitely making What's the deal? We're talking about, we're trying to figure out what the plan is.

Okay. Sounds like you have a plan. You're making gumbo, aren't you? No. Well, I'm definitely making gumbo. I'm eating it somewhere. I'm either traveling with the gumbo and the wings, or I'm eating them at home. Are you going to give the gift of gumbo to people that aren't in this room? If I do give the gift, it will be at a big game party.

According to Wikipedia, the air fryer works by coating the desired food in a thin layer of oil while circulating air heated up to 392 degrees Fahrenheit to apply heat and initiate the reaction. So do you have to apply the oil or is it...

How does that work? Works by coating the desired food. I think it does it for you. Really? So you have to fill up a little oil What kind of oil, I wonder? I don't know. Because you know I only fuck with healthy fats. You put batter on it and you. Really? So you have to fill up a little oil. What kind of oil, I wonder? I don't know. Because you know I only fuck with healthy fats.

You put batter on it and shit. I'm sure you do, right? Can you get infused oils and stuff and put those on there? Can I get some chili oil? Toss that on? I don't know if you want to fry up chili oil. No one's doing that. I bet you can.

That might burn the odds. No one's doing that. Dylan, you can because I've seen... One of the first things I saw about the air fryer was that there's a way you can replicate Chick-fil-A's nuggets. And I'm assuming there's some batter involved in that. So, yeah, I bet you can. People are going to hit us up because the air fryer is like the new Instapot. According to the—

No, come on. Yes, dude, I'm telling you. Instapots are so versatile. No, dude. I'm not saying it's as versatile, but it's like the new fad kitchen appliance. What about sous vide? No, it's taking over for sous vide. Yeah, I think sous vide is more of the comparable thing.

According to thekitchen.com, an air fryer is actually a lot like a countertop convection oven. So it's an oven. Okay. Do with that what you will. Can someone tell me why I shouldn't get a sous vide right now? I can't, dude. Aren't they cheap? Bet you won't buy one right now, bitch.

Inexpensive, I think, would be the word you're looking for, David. Let's not slander sous vide. I think you can get a nice model if you want to. My buddy got one for like $200. It's like the small one that you just put in there. Yeah, you just put it in a bucket or something. Oh, then they're more expensive than the air fryer. Because I was pricing them yesterday and under 100 bones.

I was going to say, I just saw an $84 one that had some really great reviews, Dave. Does the air fryer have a better ROI than a BTS? I think this is a very valid question. Dude, you're young. You don't know finance that well, so I'm going to let it slide. Air fryers don't actually fry, which is a common misnomer, I believe.

What do they do? It cooks the food by blowing hot air around it. So it's an oven. Convection. God, that's hot. That sounds like these chicken thighs are just getting a tan, you know? Oh, shit, dog. Why were you calling yourself Rocky Mountain Thighs?

I was not. Did I? I could see myself doing that. You know I like chicken thighs. I have the most ridiculous tan line still from this past summer because my legs got so tan. It still hasn't gone away. I think I stained them. I don't think you stained your skin.

I think I stained my skin. That's tight. Hey, you guys, I have some breaking news. Oh. After weeks of attempts, Manchester United has finally signed Bruno Fernandes. Oh, my gosh. I've been waiting for this news, dude. I feel bad for all the sporting fans out there,

but this is big for Man Utd. Imagine not signing, what's his name? Bruno Fernandes. Bruno Fernandes, imagine. Great name. Yeah, yeah, that's big. Bruno. Yeah, it looks like I can get one for under $100, by the way.

You absolutely can. So I'm probably going to get one today. Do it right now. Yeah, let me know. Do it live on air. No, no, I want to go get it and bring it home so i can i want to like i'm one of the people the reason i didn't buy it yesterday is because i was i knew i wouldn't have time to put together and clean it and in time for dinner so now if i get it early i can have it ready for tonight fry some shit up i don't know what fish i don't know if you can fry i bet you can but it's

not great well it doesn't actually fry i explained that to you yeah sorry okay dumbass well what are you gonna call it then i don't know air cooker it just didn't have the same ring you're right okay so catch me air cooking air frying very soon i will and you know what if you've got a great recipe shoot it my way but it's gotta be great not something that I'm gonna see like a hundred different places

if you got something like proprietary blend you wanna hit me with let me know hey what's up with what's up with like finding recipes online and having to scroll like

a mile before you can actually get the recipe they like to like give you the primer they give you the every fucking... Are they just putting us through ads? They all think we need a backstory about how the food came to be.

No, we don't. Just fucking give it to me. Show me how to make this dip. I don't care about your fucking cake. And have you noticed that there's, like, they copy and paste, like, every... There's, like, five different ones, like, that are the top results that have the exact same copy right in there. Like, recipe, nothing changes.

I have one guy that his website and he works for the New York Times. And so he puts his recipes on the New York Times. But then he also puts them on his own personal website for free. Got to think the New York Times doesn't like that. But he doesn't do all the bullshit stories and stuff. Just straight gas on that recipe. He gets right to it. Yeah.

What's all about, man? You're my guy right now. I like that. Yep. They should do a daily like podcast. Sorry, I didn't mean to steam so hard. He gets right to it. Yeah. What's it all about, man? You're my guy right now. I like that. Yep. They should do a daily podcast. Sorry, I didn't mean to steam so hard. No, it's okay. No, it air fries, Will.

They should do a daily podcast, and it's just instead of a news story, they just go in on a recipe. Welcome to the air fryer. Turns out podcasts can be pretty lucrative in the long run, you know? Which button was that? You know, because the headphones aren't plugged in, I freaked out, and I'm worried that that wasn't the right button. That was like the mail-in intro or something?

It's entirely possible it was the mail-in intro. We're really playing. I know, I've learned finally which one the mail-in is. There's a special announcement for the mail-in this week, isn't there? Yeah, we announced it on Twitter, but not here yet. I missed that.

Yeah, the mail-in is all female again this week. Shotties only. Yeah, so Sally, Lily, and Mrs. Ruff will be on. It's a family affair. Yep. Brett, do you want to speak to your former employer? Who's that? Oppenheimer?

I'm not sure. Denver Broncos. Denver Broncos. Congrats. No, Barstool was just sold is not the right word, but they took on an investment from Penn National Gaming. And I just want to say that I am incredibly, incredibly proud and happy for everybody over there. It's a, it's been a long time building that company up from, you know, when I got there, 20 employees to now 200 something employees. And it's, it really is a testament to what happens when you have insane talent and insane, um, hard work on the backend and shots to Erica shots to Dave. You know,

I'm, I'm very happy, very proud for everybody over there. So thanks, man. I didn't really have anything to do with it. No, you're,

you're good. No, Dave Portnoy. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, sorry.

When you said hard work on the backend and Dave, I thought you were just, yeah, you know me right now. That's where I get my work done. He's a light guy in the gym. I've seen him. It's hard work done on the back.

Yeah. Can't you tell? Can I ask a dumb question regarding this? Yeah. What does that do to, like when they buy that stake, what does that do to everybody else's equity? It just fucking reduces the shit out of it?

Well, what they probably, I would assume, is that they issued just a bunch of new shares. So it's like the shares were owned, like created by Barstool and then they bought those new shares at a certain price. Which dilutes everybody else.

Maybe people did sell their shares. I don't know. I'm very happy for them. Very proud of them. I've always been a Barstool fan and defender. They are really an outlier in digital media. Dude, if you want to leave here and go back there and like become a multi-millionaire you can i i think i'm i think i'm good where i'm at you know we're gonna make you five if you stayed here and we all became multi-millionaires together instead i think that's kind of the move like you know in a weird way this is sort of um a really good problem for us

not a problem but a really good opportunity for us. When you see companies like Barstool being built up and sold for that kind of thing, not like we're prepared to sell out to anybody or anything, but it's awesome. I've always been on record saying that I can't wait to sell out in life. Yeah, that's my plan. What's the rising tide? Lifts all ships?

Lifts all ships. Dude, my goal is to be making steady five-figure income by 2022. We could try that steady five-figure yeah we'll get you there that's big yeah i've always said that um but yeah if the pirate ships they're doing pretty well especially today and i'm happy for them and what does what does that we have like a canoe right now what's our ship oh it's a dinghy dinghy no, we're like one of those fishing boats. We're like a rowing team. We're a crew team. It has a little trolling motor.

Like a jumbo? Yeah. Okay. Or, oh, no, even what's the one they do on the bayou with the hovercraft with the big fan? Oh, with the big fan? That's us. Fan boat. We're a fan boat.

Fan boat, yeah. We might be a crew boat because we're all in sync together like all the time. Yeah, dude, I'd take that, Will. That's very bougie of you to say. Yeah, let's be a crew boat. But I'm going to bring bonus gumbo. Brett would have to shave his head if he was on a crew boat because we're all in sync together all the time. Yeah, dude, I'd take that, Will. That's very bougie of you to say. Yeah, let's be a crew boat. But I'm going to bring bonus gumbo. Brett would have to shave his head if he was on a crew team. Why?

Too much drag on that. Come on, now. Can't you just wear the swimming cap? No, I think you just wear a backwards hat. I feel like a backwards athletic cap. Yeah, that's true. Backwards dad hat with Cape Cod oars on it. Yeah, that works.

If I had gone to an elite private school in the Dallas area, because there's a lot of sports that they have there, like lax and crew, I think crew would have been my sport. I think you could have done well at it. You'd be a great coxswain. Thank you. What is that? A coxswain?

Yeah. You know what a coxswain is? I've seen wedding crashers. No, no, a coxswain. A coxswain? Yeah. You know what a coxswain is? I've seen wedding crashers. No, no, a coxswain. A coxswain. What is that? It's spelled coxswain. C-O-X-S-W-A-I-N.

Are they at the front or the back? They are the tempo moderators. They don't actually row. No, I think you want Dave rowing. I'm a back guy. Dave's got the upper body strength. Thank you, Will. I feel like you're noticing.

But the weight that you have, I think it would be ideal for that. Put me at the front. I'll be one of the, you know. One of the guiding rules? Yes. I'm not saying I'm the guiding light of this because I'm not, but I feel like I would have to be that person because my upper body strength is not great. I thought you were just going to be the photo guy.

Oh, yeah. I can just go on the side on a jet ski and just be taking photos with you guys. Look, Brett, just get us to a $450 million valuation. That's all I'm asking. Is that it? Yeah, your task is, just get us to a $450 million valuation. That's all I'm asking. Is that it? Yeah, your task is just to get us there. $450. I'd take $14 million.

We're editing your job description. It just says $450 million. If Barstool has the moon, should we buy an asteroid or a scoop of a drop of Jupiter? I don't know. I'd do a drop of Jupiter. Hey, tell me. Hey, I played my 90s playlist on the way to brett can you vouch for it yeah i enjoyed it yeah you had the tasteful amount of gin blossoms

i yeah that's that's accurate i had the right amount of gin blossoms on that playlist no yacht rock was what we played in the place that was me there was a playlist that apparently played on friday night in breck that apparently was amazing that was yacht rock no one knows no it wasn't though we went back and reviewed the playlist and there were songs that apparently played on Friday night in Breck that apparently was amazing that was yacht rock no one knows no it wasn't though we went back and reviewed the playlist and there were songs that were played that were not on that so there's this mystery playlist of heaters out there we just can't figure out so it was after y'all y'all were either in the hot tub or went to bed and that's when I that's when I smoked my head yeah it was a lot of um a lot of early 2000s hip-hop r&b it was pretty good the girls are liking it the word on the street is that it It was a lot of Early 2000s Hip hop, R&B

It was pretty good The girls were liking it The word on the street is that It might have taken I put on Jason Derulo Riding Solo That got a lot of play There are people that are saying

That it might have created A radio station From Riding Solo And that's where all the hits came from That's pretty plausible I think Did you ever like that song Dylan? Riding Solo?

Yes Not really Dude going Derulo On a trip full of just Plausible, I think. Did you ever like that song, Dylan? Riding solo? Yes. Not really. Dude, going to Rulo on a trip full of just people who are coupled up is just, I love it. Yeah, yeah. I mean, Jason Derulo has a very Travis Scott-esque thing where it's just, J-R. We weren't all coupled up, Dave. Yeah, you and Klein were sleeping in the same room, though.

Bay was not there. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. Bay stayed back. You and Klein kept sleeping in the same room, though. Bay was not there. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. Bay stayed back. You and Klein kept it PG in the room, though, right? Yeah, I did share a room with Klein. It was a good little situation down there. Can we talk about Roebuck real quick? Of course.

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Polos. Quarter zips. I need a co-branded hat with them like yesterday. They're the most comfortable hats I've ever worn. They really are. Keep an eye out. Keep an eye out. They just do it all. I've ever worn. They really are. Crazy comfortable. Keep an eye out. Keep an eye out. I mean, they just do it all. I'm going to take a look right now at their charitable polos.

People forget their vests are just straight heat. They do. They do. That was my biggest regret in Breck is not getting a vest off. Really? That's your biggest regret? It's the one. You had a good trip then.

I had a great trip. It just, there was not a situation where I needed a vest. Why didn't you? It was either, it was just, I don't know. I brought it. I had the rowback vest ready, but I didn't get one going. So apologies to them. That's okay.

That's okay. Randy 20. Yeah. Whether you're looking for a vest, QZ, button down, like whatever you want. We even had some, we had some dope ass winter hats too. Yes. Fleece lining. Nobody was talking about the fleece lining in those things.

Very comfy. Rollback.com. Randy 20, make it happen. Should we talk this weekend and fun? Big news. Sally just finished a workout on the Peloton. So you can see that. Yeah, I got a notification.

That's good. She somehow scratched her cornea when we were in Breck, and it's been just like a saga ever since. I got bigger news. You burned 228 active calories. Is that good or is that mediocre? It's okay. It's okay.

Some guy on Twitter photoshopped my head onto Will's body into your famous parking lot photo. Yeah, why was that the photo that was chosen as the don't Photoshop this? Because you were holding something. Did you tweet that? Yeah, I did. That makes it better because I was like, I thought for sure Will tweeted it. No, I didn't tweet that.

So I was logged off Twitter for a while yesterday. And so when I signed on and saw that, I was like, oh, no. Dude, catch me taking FitPix with Zaps, though. Yeah, you don't see that too often. Are those the best chips going right now? Nah. You guys think it's Harvest Cheddar Sun Chips? Oh, my God.

I like Sun Chips, but don't even. You said that's the best chip? It's my favorite chip in the world. More than Garden Salsa. Hey, that's my opinion. Garden Salsa's the best Sun Chip. I don't love that opinion. I don't care.

Dylan, that's one of your worst takes, and you're a guy who has bad takes. It's not a take. It's just my opinion on food. Hey, if we do a Super Bowl party, what are you bringing? I'm bringing hard-chopped sun chips. Will you bring hummus? Also bell peppers and hummus. What are you bringing to the cookout? Bell peppers and hummus.

Bell peppers and hummus, baby. I like the orange ones the best. That does sound good. Bell peppers? Yeah. I like just an array. I don't think I like one or the other. I think I just like seeing what's in front of me and grabbing them.

Green's the worst. Yellow and orange. Give it to me. Red. just an array. I don't think I like one or the other. I think I just like seeing what's in front of me. Green's the worst. Yellow and orange. Give it to me. Red. Red too. Is there a difference in taste? I don't actually know. I think so.

I don't know why, but... Or is it like Skittles? I thought everyone said that they're the exact same, but I don't know why. I always think that the orange are a little sweeter. You kind of seem that way. Doesn't it? Yeah. Yellow too, kind of.

The red just seems a little more hearty. Green tastes most earthy to me. What's the date of the Super Bowl? February 2nd. Dude, let's get Mike in a throw party. He'll be off the Whole30 train. He'll just be fiending to get hammered. Isn't he like 0 for his last four parties though?

Yeah, but that's because he's been doing Whole30. So he owes us. Dude, tell him. He'll have a dog, too. You have to facilitate because you're the closest to him. I will bring gumbo and I will bring

air-fried chicken wings. Holy shit. Wow. Or I might smoke them. Smoke them if you got them. That's what they say. And I might do it. They do say that.

I might smoke them and then air-fry them. Who knows? Okay. I'm in. That's your pitch. I don't know what we're going to bring yet, but I'll keep you guys posted. Bring chips and salsa like Mayor Pete.

Speaking of presidential candidates, did you see Bloomberg issued sort of an apology for shaking the dog's snout? He tried to. He's doubling down on, like, I'm a dog guy. It wasn't really an apology. It was more of, like, let's lean into this. He's trying to show people that dog people like him. Or that he's pro-dog.

If you don't know what we're talking about, I did quote tweet the video. The new one? It's dog saying that he's going to create more jobs. Huh. I don't know what's going on right now. Why is he investing so much money into this for something he will absolutely will not win you know you'd think that there'd be a better use for that money i mean maybe he's gonna it's like a somehow he's gonna save on taxes there's got to

be something what's the other boost boost his own profile oh uh the the guy the climate change guy yeah say what you say what you want yes stire say what you want about him his tie game is absolutely Oh, the guy, the climate change guy. Yeah. Steyer? Yeah, Steyer. Say what you want about him. His tie game is absolutely fuego. He's just doing plaid ties at all times. It's hotter than the oceans because of climate change. Yeah, if he wants to lower the temperature across the globe, he needs to stop wearing those fits.

Damn, what a goddamn snack that man is. How bummed is Yang that Rogan endorsed bernie and not him i was a little sad for bernie went on rogan right he did and did too not worth listening to you will learn nothing it's not a bad podcast but it's there's really not much to it i mean dylan look at that time yeah that's fuego like how do you not how do you not love that that's big time he's just throwing a heat out there did y'all follow any of the backlash that Rogan got? Just a little bit. Because the Sanders campaign, they, like, Joe didn't, like,

officially endorse him, but he just said on his pod with somebody else, like, yeah, I think I'm going to vote for Bernie. And they took that and made it into, like, a campaign ad, and people were not happy about it. A lot of the Sanders bros, the Bernie bros. Because, you know, Joe Rogan's toxic masculinity alpha cage fighter guy. If you can have the top podcast in the world repping you, it's not a bad thing.

It seems a little short-sighted. It seems like a hilarious waste of anger and resources to go after Joe because say what you want. His audience is huge, even though he's been dethroned by Ted Cruz as the number one podcast in the world right now. And if you can convince some of his audience who probably wouldn't be inclined to vote for Bernie Sanders, I feel like that's a good thing if that's what you want. But who am I to say? What is Joe's like? What's the platform that Bernie is running if that's what you want but who am i to say what is joe's like what's the platform that bernie is running on that joe's like all about is it like the weed or is it

joe's a liberal about he's a liberal guy i mean he's he's a liberal dude where people get upset with him is because he's uh i don't know he's had some controversial statements about, like, transgender people, like, fighting. You know what I mean? Sure. Got it. In the UFC or in MMA, saying it's not fair. That kind of shit. Okay.

And he's a comedian, so he's made some off-color jokes in the past. But he's definitely a liberal guy. I think he's a good guy at heart. I'm going to tell all the Bernie supporters who don't like Rogan my senior year quote in the yearbook. Are you guys ready for this? Yeah.

Go. We can do a hell of a lot more damage in the system than outside of it. SLC Punk. SLC Punk. Yeah. That's how punk rock I was. Wow, dude. No one's quoting Matthew Lillard.

Dude, I can't watch that movie anymore. It's too depressing. Too depressing, man. No one's quoting Matthew Lillard. Dude, I can't watch that movie anymore. It's too depressing. Too depressing, man. Dylan's probably never seen it. There's no way Dylan's ever seen it. Which movie?

SLC Punk? Of course not. No. What the fuck is that? I could not think of a less Dylan movie than SLC Punk. If I ever kidnap Dylan

and want to torture him, I'm going to make him watch that on repeat. Please don't. I won't. I'm going to strap you down and make you watch SLC Punk and then a bunch of soccer games. And Blink-183. No don't. I won't. I'm going to strap you down and make you watch SLC Punk and then a bunch of soccer games.

And Blink-183. No, no, no. Newfound Glory playing in the background. Simple Plan. They're all trash, so it doesn't matter. Some of them are trash. A lot of them are trash. I don't think I can tell the difference between Newfound Glory and Simple Plan at this point. Newfound Glory's a little whinier. All Time Low

is still dropping music, though. They had a new song Friday that I'm kind of into Okay Of Dear Maria fame My Marie That's Valerie Let's do this weekend in fun Steve Winwood

Y'all rock 2.0 And 1.0 I'll kick it off Thanks man Kick it off Oh go ahead Dylan David So Friday I will have the homie I'll kick it off. Thanks, man. Kick it off. Hey, so... Oh, go ahead, Dylan. David.

So, Friday, I will have the homie. We are going to just be chilling. Might get a pizza off. Don't know. Might watch a movie. Not sure. Just chilling. Saturday.

Don't go get pizza with him Friday, because he's going to have pizza Thursday. He's going to be full. Yeah, he's going to be full from Thursday night. He does not like... Actually, we just planned his birthday party, by the way. What? Yeah. We planned it literally yesterday. Will, calm down.

Where are you all doing it at? Fiesta, Texas? That indoor trampoline park that's kind of near you, actually. Dude, catch me hitting misty flips out there. Wall rides, all that shit. I can do a rodeo. Can you misty with a vehicle to misty with? Just a flip in a 180, right?

True story. I can do misty flips on a flip in a 180, right? True story. I can do Misty flips on trampolines, by the way. True story. The food they serve for the birthday parties is CeCe's pizza. Is it really? Yeah, it really is. That'll be fun. Are we catching an invite to this or what?

I don't know yet. It might be just kids from his class and then obviously family. If I bring a kid, can I come? Yeah. Okay. Everyone bring a kid. I'm going to find a kid If I bring a kid, can I come? Yeah. Okay. Everyone bring a kid. I'm going to find a kid and I'm going to go to this party. Saturday.

What if I bring a kill shot? I am driving up to Wichita Falls. We could be his dad, actually. Hey, it's my fucking mic. Oh, sorry. Wichita Falls. Y'all keep cutting me off, man. I'm sick of it.

Yeah, I'm driving up to Wichita Falls. That sounds awesome, man. I'm going to go see Bay. That's tight. For just a night. Saturday. Come back Sunday. Watch Super Bowl here, man. Gonna go see Bay. That's tight. For just a night. Saturday. Come back Sunday. Watch Super Bowl here, probably.

With your dickheads. Watch the Super Bowl at Micah's place. How far is that drive? It's four and a half hours, David. Sheesh. Yeesh. Yeesh. I know.

Can we get like a... We need a high-speed rail in Texas. It's so bad. They actually used to call me high-speed rail. Like in your water coke days? Yeah. Damn. Yeah, when I was living in Miami.

Just hanging out at mansions. Cool, man. All right, who's next? So I feel like they talk about a high-speed rail every decade. It's like they're trying to get it passed, and it just falls apart. I don't know who's blocking it. I have to do a lot of eminent domain to

make that happen, but whatever, man. Think of it on the flip side, it's sort of like an injection into the economy. If you're paying people for all that land, like, you know, why not? Look at the brands on bread. Why not? Macro bread over here. I love it. Taking the train from London to Edinburgh was the greatest travel experience

of all time. What if they, instead of like a high-speed rail, it's like a high-speed gondola? That'd be fun. That'd be sick. Have you seen like the proposals for that thing that's, it's on a rail, but it basically flies up like a hundred feet above the rail? No. Catch me not doing that. It's ridiculous.

Catch me not doing that. It's, I've never seen anything like it, and I think it's dumb. It's basically a train with wings, but it's always attached to the ground. I don't know the purpose of it. Is it run by magnets? I'm out on that. Magnets. I don't trust magnets.

Ooh, you're not a maglev guy? The only mags I fuck with are maglites. Is that by that tactical company on VHS? No, maglites are more legit than the tactical company. Okay. Maglite's, if you don't have a Maglite in your F-350, you're not talking about it. Maglite is what cops carry, right? Yeah.

Can also be a nice weapon if you need it. Just saying. Beat someone over the head with that thing? Yeah. Dave, what are you doing this weekend? I don't know. Getting ready for the big game. Maybe just air frying. I got a uh matt kelly's

coming in town wow friend you've met you've hung out with you shut down my wedding with him yes i did last been standing he's coming in town saturday so i'm thinking uh we're either gonna play golf or did y'all see the bar i sent to y'all last night bolden acres or whatever yeah nobody responded i didn't click through i'm sorry it was late i was watching i was watching Did y'all see the bar I sent to y'all last night? Bolden Acres or whatever? Yeah. Nobody responded. I didn't click through. I'm sorry.

It was late. I was watching The Outsider. It puts off... Well, I'll say it just pretty quickly. Katie Trail. Well, you're not invited anyway. Katie Trail vibes. Yeah, you're not going to be here, dude. Oh, wow.

So we might hit that up. Okay. Okay. Where on South Lamar is that? I don't know, Dylan. You can go back and click the text I sent. I'd rather not. I'll never go. Okay. It's at Darcy's Donkey. Don't say that, man. You can go back and click the text I sent. I'd rather not. I'll never go.

Okay. It's at Darcy's Donkey. Don't say that, man. It makes me sad. The next place that opens up at Darcy's Donkey, I'm protesting. Catch me outside with a sign saying, bring back the donk. Why does nothing make it there? I don't know.

It doesn't make sense to me. It's a terrible location. Probably has a lot to do with it. It's an excellent location. I actually think... If it was excellent, it wouldn't have failed. It's an excellent location. Nobody goes down there.

There's so much foot traffic. It's right by Zilker Park. What are you talking about? People go down there only for ACL. It's the parking, dude. Maybe the lease price is crazy. When the parking is like $14 just to go have a meat pie, you don't want to do that.

The parking lot is trash. There was like six spots. Yeah. Not sick, but six. Yeah. Then Sunday's the big game. I'm doing a bonus gumbo and potentially air fried wings. Or smoked.

We'll see. I'll be here, though. I'll be in Austin. What time does the Super Bowl start? 530-ish? 530. Oh, yeah. Wow, that's weird out here.

Dude, I can't wait for the commercials. You know? Oh, yeah. Those are the best part, usually. Has there been like a weird – Remember the last couple years, I feel like the commercials have been leaked ahead of time. Like, here's what you're going to see in the Super Bowl just to get them more views.

Yeah, absolutely. Because obviously they're a huge investment. Like, Friday they'll start coming out. Yeah. It's really annoying. I always thought it was like two weeks ahead of time, and I haven't seen any commercials ahead of time this year. I always miss the commercials because I always get on my phone. And I'm like, oh, fuck, I just missed it.

And then everyone starts tweeting about this awesome commercial. I'm like, yeah, I missed it because I always get on my phone. And I'm like, oh, fuck. I just missed it. And then everyone starts tweeting about this awesome commercial. I'm like, yeah, I missed it because I was already looking at Twitter. The Super Bowl has kind of become a sneaky volume shooting night. Not a sneaky one. Oh, yeah. Not a sneaky one at all. Really? Yes.

It's straight volume, dude. Yeah. All right. I'm going to play a game. It's the rep name and hair of straight volume. That's Twitter nights. Let's play a little game here. It's all volume.

What do you think a 30 second ad costs during the Super Bowl? I thought it was like 2 million. I had no idea. That's a good guess. 5.6 million dollars. You were a little over. That's why we have

Brett in the business side of things. Should we do a circling back commercial? I bought a second if that's cool. Hi life! What are we filming it with?

It was cool. What did it say? Don't worry about it. That would actually be really funny it's just it's just dylan spraying people on skis that's it okay and then our logo pops up for half a second i couldn't fit the whole thing damn there's not even a link it's just people what is that so i don't know if that's gonna be effective man but it will be because people are gonna google like what was that no rules just right circling back boom i don't think that's not legal 200k yeah we might get in trouble for that one then we lose our more money in legal

fees worth it though it's all about making a splash that's true should we make a splash the one second clips i mean i'm doing a cannonball i might go live you might do a lot you guys want to know what i'm doing this weekend yeah somebody asked why we didn't go live. You might go live? Mm-hmm. You guys want to know what I'm doing this weekend? Yeah. Somebody asked why we didn't go live during the meetup, the Dallas meetup. I was like, dude, that would have been an absolute disaster. We can't go live during – I'm not touching my phone. I'm just talking to people.

And there's too many – there's wild cards. It's also like – we do need to start getting pictures off, though. I think we just need to hire a photographer. We need a hundred bucks. We just need an intern that's like, hey, cover this thing. I guess I was supposed to be this person, but then I just, I'm talking to people literally for eight hours.

You were doing body shots. You should be. Yeah, you're the shot guy. Why'd you keep doing body shots? Because they were fireball. Off yourself. I wasn't doing all, I can't, I don't have dexterity for that.

You had a rib removed so you could do body shots off yourself. Me and Manson. Manson and me. That was the rumor. My belly button's deep as hell. Like, I could be really good for body shots off yourself? Me and Manson. Manson and me. That was the rumor. Honestly, my belly button's deep as hell. Like, I could be really good for body shots. Is that what you do? I've never done a body shot.

What? You don't want to do a body shot off me? No, man. I'm good. Well, that's what I was going to say. This weekend, I'm only doing body shots. If you do a body shot after, like, senior trip in high school, like, it's a problem. I don't think I've ever done one. I've never. I've definitely never done one. I think I did one in Cancun senior year. i got a chill last weekend coming up what is it ready

for this friday night i'm not doing anything i might get a dinner off real quick but your boy i'm not getting drunk you're gonna eat dinner yeah i'm gonna eat dinner uh saturday i'm gonna wake up get a quick peloton in and then you can add me a will to freeze i've been accepting people as long as they look chill and uh i'm to get a Peloton off before watching some soccer. And then the day is my oyster. People are saying I'm trying to cop a new chair for the crib. Is it Weekend of Will? It might be.

No, it's not Weekend of Will. But I might be copping a new chair this weekend. Because we've got to do some rearranging in our apartment with this new Peloton. Based on your new car in the parking lot and the text you sent us yesterday about not spending money until 2021, I feel like that's going directly in the face of that proclamation. Yeah, I'm probably going to not get a chair, but I'm going to try. I'm going to try. If you get a good deal on it.

Yeah, we'll see. And yeah, Sunday, big game, I guess. I don't know. I haven't been really all in on this NFL playoffs yet. Oh, you got one more game. For the Super Bowl, there's the teams that I wanted when the playoffs started, I haven't been really all in on this NFL playoffs yet. Oh, you got one more game. For the Super Bowl, there's the teams that I wanted when the playoffs started, so I'm happy with this matchup, and I will be watching.

Who is everyone supporting here? Chiefs. I'm supporting Mahomes. Mahomes. I was talking to some guys I was playing Modern Warfare with last night who are from Kansas City. If I was putting big boy stacks on the game, which you know I am, I'm going San Francisco. I just have that feeling.

I hope it doesn't happen, but I have that feeling. I don't really care who wins, actually. How many big boy stacks are you putting up? I don't talk about that. Wait for the sports pod. It'd be fun to see Mahomes go on a run. I agree. I agree.

I love Mahomes. I will be riding with San Francisco, but I do want the best for Mahomes. I want to see him just go off, and if he wins, I will not be upset. I will just be bummed if Kansas City wins and Mahomes shits the bed or something, which I don't see happening, but it'll just be a bummer for me. No, he won't.

San Francisco, their front four and their running game, I just think it's going to be might be an ugly game, and I think everybody wants to see a high scoring, like Mahomes, you know, throwing his sidearm, going behind the back. But I don't know if it's going to happen. I want to see Andy Reid get one.

Yeah, I agree. Totally agree. If you don't like Andy Reid, then you're just terrible. Yeah. A couple of Super Bowls he lost back in the day. I'd like to see him get one and make a critical timing decision in the last two minutes

that flips everybody's opinion on him. Might not work still. Clock management has never been an Andy Reid. He's more of a cuck management guy, you know what I mean? Sorry, I didn't mean to do that to Andy Reid. He's a nice guy. He's a great guy. Do we have any breaking news today, Brett?

Not really. Just, I mean, be careful of coronavirus out there, guys. Seriously. You got to be careful of coronavirus. I don't know enough about it to really speak on it, but it appears to be kind of taking over in China. Is there any confirmed U.S. cases yet? Is it lethal?

How serious should I take this thing? It's like a flu plus. Yeah. I think it's flu pneumonia combo. Which is bad because the flu is in itself dangerous. Correct. Something more dangerous than the flu. Anything we can do besides get your shots and wear one of those masks around? I don't think there are

shots. Yeah, I guess the hospitals around the country have been warned about the signs and what to do. I don't think there's much. There's not like a cure. It's a virus. You just kind of have to let it do its thing. The scary thing about it is, there's many scary things, but you can

transmit it even if you're not showing symptoms, which is a little bit different than the flu. Yeah, that's not great. Had a backer reach out and said that he was at a wedding, an international place. I don't remember where that international place was. And they had to cancel the wedding because the city or country banned gatherings of over 100 people.

So they couldn't have the wedding. Damn. That's how serious it is. It's scary. Sounds real scary, man. Yeah. That's how serious it is. It's scary. Sounds real scary, man. Yeah, it's kind of freaking me out. I told you the other day, I'm not afraid to be the surgical mask in the airport guy or on a plane. My buddy's been doing it.

He's over in China and he's been traveling with a mask on. And I respect that he's traveling with a mask on, but I don't know if I want to see him until, like, it's confirmed that he doesn't have it. Yeah, that's fair. I think it's, like, a seven-day thing. Either you're dead or you're okay. Damn. I don't like those odds.

It's all or nothing. I don't like those odds, so I'm going to avoid it. Stay safe out there, everybody. I'm going to try to. Brett, is it true that you that by leaving Barstool, you left hundreds of dollars on the table? You've got to think hundreds of dollars were left on the table, for me personally.

All right. We'll make it up to you. So $450, that's my number to beat? Yeah, dude. Yeah. Give me like 20 years. If you can beat that number, we'll be happy. You've got five years.

Five years to do that? Yeah. Okay. Well, Barstool did it in 17 ish. The media landscape is rapidly changing. What's the ringer worth? Is it worth more?

They're getting talked about selling too. I forgot what their number just came out recently. There's talk of them getting sold. I think it was Bill Simmons wants 200. I don't know. He stands to make big boy stacks. How much of Bill Simmons died today when he woke up and saw the news? He probably just woke up and saw this.

If you're a competitor, though, you feel good about it. Unless you're just so personal. I feel like he hates Dave Portnoy. Does he? I don't know. I think they've always had kind of this hate but respect for each other. It's one of those things. Bill, he's the one who did it first really.

And then I think it's always been like a healthy, competitive sort of relationship. There was probably a time when Prez was sending emails to Bill Simmons trying to get like a gig out of it. I don't know. Maybe. I don't know. I don't know. Early in the early days when he was the Boston sports guy on ESPN,

I read all his mailbags and stuff. It would make sense that you would try to hop on that train. What is that? What is that nerd Clay Travis saying about this? Anything? That is so funny. Dude, Clay Travis at one point said he was worth $400 million. He should have just bought Barstool.

That guy sucks. Why didn't he buy Barstool? Yeah. Yeah. He should have put his money where his mouth is and just bought Barstool. Yeah. Bear hug situation. At some point he said he was worth hundreds of millions of dollars on by Barstool. Yeah. Yeah, he should have put his money where his mouth is and just bought Barstool. Yeah, bear hug situation. At some point, he said he was worth hundreds of millions of dollars on a Barstool program.

That's crazy to me that someone would talk about their finances publicly. Weird, right? Well, it's Clay, so. That guy sucks, man. Dylan, will you give me a bear hug when this podcast is done? Of course, dude. Cool. I love bear hugs.

Thank you. Two weeks ago, so Clay is like, now Clay is like the, he's commenting on it as if he's like breaking news. He's keeping his sour takes to himself. Yes, he is keeping all sour takes. What a boner. That guy sucks. Fuck you, Clay Travis. Oh, I see The Athletic got a 500 mil valuation last week.

Dude, The Athletic's been serving me some real good ads lately that make me think like man i want to read this so i do think it's funny how i'm in the wall street journal thumbnail of the barstool sale article really oh yeah there's your boy dishing out t-shirts let's see oh that's awesome has anybody pointed that out yet i was through in the group text and they thought it was pretty fun hell yeah man um yeah look at you. What are you wearing here? I'm wearing sweatshorts and a long-sleeved Barstool t-shirt. That's how you always dreamed of making the Wall Street Journal, isn't it?

Wearing sweatshorts. Dishing out t-shirts, which I drove the RV earlier that day down to, that's at Gillette Stadium. And we were passing out, that was the towel stunt. Remember when we tried to turn gillette blue with goodell towels yeah that's uh that was that that moment a lot of fun you've had a glow up since then brett yeah i mean your hair's your hair's firing on all cylinders now as opposed to this photo where it looks like you've been wearing a winter hat that was uh that was at the end of like a 94 degree day and we had just been we had been dishing out towels for I think like eight hours at that point.

So it wasn't my best look. For sure. You're hot now. Congratulations. Everybody who works at Barstool seems to have a glow up. At some point. Makes sense. Should we get out of here?

Yeah. I think it's time. Guys, it's been fun. Thanks to Kill Shop for coming in. think it's time. Guys, it's been fun. Thanks to Killshot for coming in. And for the water. Oh, yeah. We'll be back Friday. Listen to our voicemails, patreon.com slash circlingbackpodcast.

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