Circling Back - Pneumonic Plague & Deep Friend Ranch Dressing | Circling Back 10-6-26

Episode Date: October 6, 2026

Dave responds to a Midwestern Backer, we wonder how serious this plague situation out of Russia is, we check in with Texas Roadhouse, and Dillon goes over some of the new menu items available at the State Fair of Texas. Support us on Patreon and receive weekly episodes for as low $5 per month: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.patreon.com/circlingbackpodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Watch all of our full episodes on Spotify: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/6GWLSnyJKGMDIWsYC0RBG2?si=f9e2bcc01d2a4573&nd=1&dlsi=dd35daf7973642a1⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Watch all of our full episodes on YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.youtube.com/washedmedia⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Shop Washed Merch: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.washedmedia.shop⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ • (00:00) Fun & Easy Banter • (17:45) Dave responds to a Backer • (28:25) Sup with this plague? • (43:50) Real Quick Roadhouse Check-in • (52:40) State Fair of Texas Menu Items Support This Episode’s Sponsors: - Factor Meals: Head to ⁠https://factormeals.com/backer50off⁠ and use code backer50off to get 50 percent off and 1 free breakfast item per box for 1 year, while supplies - Rocket Money: Join at ⁠https://rocketmoney.com/circling⁠ - Poncho: Go to ⁠https://ponchooutdoors.com/STEAM⁠ for $10 off your first order and free shipping. - BetterHelp: Sign up and get 10% at ⁠https://betterhelp.com/circling Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All right, we're back. It's Tuesday morning, circling back podcast. Welcome to the show. I have to begin on a bit of a somber note. We've decided that we are not going to put out spooky season today because we recorded it and it's just too spooky. I didn't find it quite as funny as Dylan that the people aren't going to get what they want. But yeah, it was a little spooky and we're like, we can't in good faith put this out.

What if we issued like a warning, you know, at the beginning of it and then release it. Like, hey, if you're easily spooked, this could kill you from a heart attack or something. I just don't know if I just don't feel good about it. Like putting it out there knowing that it's going to terrify a number of people. Any of your thoughts on it? Did y'all get that sense when we recorded? Here's the thing. I'm going to put it out.

I don't care if it's too spooky. I'm the producer. I'll put it out. I don't care. I don't care. Sue me. You want to sue me for spookiness? I don't care.

Sue me. Giving the people what they want and what they don't want, which is to get too spooked. Your Honor, my client is just too spooky. Rydell-Trimacki producing. Hi, Dave. I'm going to give a shout out to a backer.

A little small business October here. We have a backer that's sending us a little Widows Bay, like, Lighthouse. He said his wife does an Etsy shop, and she got a bunch of these little lighthouses from Goodwill and, like, kind of paint him over and made them look like little keepsakes from Widows Bay. Love that. Sending it to things. So if you're looking for some yourself or just some nice stuff, go to Basic White Stitch Shop. Also what people call this pod. White Stitch?

Basic white stitch shop. So is that going to go in the studio? I think so. So I probably need to watch this show. You should be watching it right now for sure. David, it's freaking awesome. It's great. I still have to watch the last two episodes, but.

Don't you all watch sports? There's so much sports on. Yeah, I watched the White Sox win yesterday. I mean, if it's a Tuesday night and you're in bed with the wifie, you got to put something on. MLB, it's playoffs. Yeah, but they play in the middle of the day. There's plenty of night games. Congratulations.

I did watch. I'm a big white socks guy. People forget that, I mean, that I am a sports guy. You are, man. It was a very good sixth inning for the White Sox yesterday. See, that's how you know he watched because he knows which inning was the good inning. Dylan Shivery's here. Two things.

First one, do not adjust your television set. Yes, I have that shit on today. Secondly, I had a something Parks told me last. night that just lit me up with pride we're talking music run the way back from his baseball game they took the L not a big deal and we're talking music and I was like what's your favorite kind of music man I want to I want to like show you some stuff he said I think rap I just I've never been more proud I think of my son I I'm just can I don't want to I don't want this that that is really cool it's a seminal moment for for any dad yeah I just

Can I ask you a favor? Can you just not show them anything? I have good taste in rap, easy. I'm gonna, I'm kicking it back old school first. I said, you gotta appreciate the goats of the, the goats of the past before you can listen to this new ish, this new mumble-ish. He likes Kendrick a lot. I don't know where, I don't know who's-man of culture. Maybe his mom's planning for him. I don't know.

It's like, all right, Kendrick's good, but let me, let me teach you about the notorious B-I-G. Snoop these guys All right Yeah Keep going Who else Let me tell you a little bit

About bone thugs in harmony All right All right Yeah What are you gonna tell them I'm gonna show I'm gonna play it for him You gotta play it for him

And then just sit there as he reacts I played it for him On the way home last night I was playing a forum And I was just I was singing along And I looked in the rear of your mirror He's kind of bopping

You're singing along Do you know all the words Some words I omit when I'm when I'm rapping them out loud also I've tried I got to find like clean I don't want him to listen to like the you know the hard shit I got to find clean versions of this stuff but I'm going to start to put together some playlist for them something man you should make them a mixtape you want to pitch in um I'll let you add a couple a couple Johns too many too many cooks okay it's difficult I mean like what do we you know for a kid of

how old sparks He's 11. You just got to kind of, it's just a very different world of music currently. It's just a different, it's a different thing. I don't love modern day rap so much. You famously said there hasn't been a good rap album in 20 years. I didn't say that.

You did say something like that. I think I said T-LOP was the last really good rap album. Which was like, what, 2015? 24, 16? Doesn't matter. Long time ago, decade-ish. That was the last, like, No Skips album for me.

There he is, folks. And that's rap. That's rap talk with Dorn. Man, I thought I heard that new Drake was really good. People are tweeting about it. Drake hasn't made a good song in a decade. But he has some really good old songs. So I'm kind of on the fence with Drake right now.

Are you sure he hasn't made a good song in a decade? Just a song. Okay, Jimmy Crooks was a good one. Drake will hit you with a good song. Jimmy Crooks. I need, I need, like, rapping Drake. I don't need singing Drake. But I feel like his best songs are always him singing.

Like, like, what? Hotline Bling. Okay. You're right. He's singing there. You're right. There are some good ones. I thought he's doing like these, these club bops that I just don't like so much.

There it is. He's doing the club box. I do like Drake a lot. He's doing the club box. Sometimes you got to sift through like a mile of shit to get to the good stuff. Well, in the air of Spotify, it's very easy to make your own pick and choose. You don't have to put on a record and let a ride. You're right.

But yeah, I'm not a big Drake guy. I thought for sure, Parks, Drake seems to trend. Drake? Trend better with the Udes. Yeah, progs. But good for Parks. Good for him. Kendrick.

That's a big miss on my part. I was not at the ACL or Kendrick played. I missed that too. Oh, that is cool. Yeah. I have no context, but that is cool. Yeah, this is some of the stuff. Basic white stitch shop, all one word.

Don't put any spaces in it. That's how I was having trouble finding it. But yeah, he's a pretty cool. This show so good. Very cool. These are pretty cool. Hey, rest in peace, Dennis Franchione. He just passed?

Yeah. Did not see that. Yeah, he passed away. RIP. RIP, former Texas NNL, TCU. Texas State, a winning coach, a winning coach. And a great head of hair, iconic gray head of hair. So rest in peace to Dennis Franchone.

All right. The franchise. Dennis Franchise. Okay. A old Denny franchise. That's what I would, if my name was Dennis Franchione, you guys would be calling me the franchise. Steve Francis, of course. True.

Great nickname. All time. Yeah. Fun NBA player. Yeah, he was. on my JFFB3 if I were to do a basketball players of the early to mid 2000s. Don't hate it. Hey man,

T-Mack. I'm just going through Rockets. It's a fun combo. Was. Never got over the hump. Maybe if Yao stays healthy, that foot. But that was a good team back then. Cool, man.

I love freaking sports, man. Team Mac, what, scored 19 points in like 30 seconds? That's a cool. That's a cool one. Make sure you show Parks that. Okay. I will. that's a good one unreal unreal but um you know i thought about it randy you kind of convinced me spooky season's back on

thank goodness oh my god we're gonna release it this afternoon yeah late this afternoon also we haven't recorded it yet what the hell you you had me with the summer i didn't know where you were going with that i was like oh shit what did i miss i was kind of like bracing myself for some really bad news You had a player. That's all I'm saying. You're on the edge of your seat. Yeah, the toll, the bell's toll has taken too much of a toll on Dave. Tolls for the.

Well, look, I just, I want people to be aware this, this episode, this spooky season episode will likely be rated R for really spooky. Oh. Like, I don't know. We haven't recorded it yet, as Dylan mentioned, but it's trending spooky. Well, it should be. That's kind of the whole thing. Are you going to dress up? Oh, yeah, I'm just going to reveal it.

You know what, I'll just do the show now. I'm asking if you're going, I didn't say, what are you dressing up as? Hey, are you going to dress up? Hey, little pumpkin, happy for another spooky season. This is a ghost story about the time. I'm not doing it. I'm not doing this show. This guy just can't wait.

This guy has no patience. You want me to just go ahead and play the nail bag music to all I'm at it. What does this guy want? It's a page out of all content. Hey, don't we have one. No, we don't. What is that? That was exasperated Randy.

What's the plague mask guy called? The plague doctor. That's going to be a hot one this year. I mean, that's what the thumbnail is. Why is that funny? I don't understand. We got a fresh plague hit in the streets, dog. Taking some fools out.

It's not funny. There's nothing funny about death. Yeah, get in or, hey, hold on. Wild way. I'm just saying it's going to be hot. Keep me out of the clip. I'm just saying it's a hot time to have that to be that cost. I don't think it was.

worked very well. That thing back in the day, if you remember, the plague killed a number of people. Yeah. What's with the long mask, the beak mask? They would put herbs and stuff in there. It was supposed to filter, but also I think just maybe keep the smell for the doctor, so they didn't have to smell all the courses. I'm smoking herb constantly.

Every day, smoking that herb. When's the last time you smoked marijuana? I did a gummy recently. Okay. Did you not to go? Did you smoke it? Did you put a little spoon? I melted it up.

Yeah, I melted it down. Put it. Melted it down and injected it. Oh, fuck. Can you imagine injecting a melted gummy into your bloodstream? Don't do that. What would that do to you? I imagine it would.

I don't know. No one to do that. We don't recommend that. Just chew it, swallow it. It gets the job done. I promise you. Check out early bird. Yeah.

We're not active with them, but there's probably codes on their website. We'll get active, though. I've been trying to get active. Oh, man, you better watch this show, Buster. You better watch this show on YouTube or Spotify. Watch it live on YouTube, YouTube.com slash circling back, actually. In Spotify, there's not a URL for Spotify. Just go circle, search circling back.

And you'll see us. You know what? I'm going to promise the Spotify listener or something. I'm going to promise them something. You ready? You ready for this promise, Dave? Can you tell me if you're ready or not? All right.

I'm ready. on our little upload platform, it is now the time of the year where it says, hey, creators, create a little video for your fans for their Spotify wrapped. I promise you we will do one this year. So if we're your top podcast, you will hopefully be getting a little message. Okay, make the promise as if you're JFK running for office. And I, and I promise this to you, my Spotify listeners, we will go to the moon and we will make a video. What if Obama were to issue a similar promise?

Uh, we're going to make a video. Okay. Okay. Okay. You're gonna make a video. It's gonna be fantastic. Don't do that. That's not good.

Doing the hands. Yeah. It's gonna be the best video you've ever seen. Yeah, we, we, everybody's got a trauma. Listen, listen here. No one's doing videos like this video. There's no, the voice is way off. I know.

I can't do it. You know I can't do impressions. Hey, Chuck, listen here is the monarchy. We're going to video. When I was a kid, We would go in there's a fly. A little soul on that Biden. Yeah.

Okay. Hey, man. We're going to do this video, man. Would you like to do any? I'm not going to do one. You guys pretty much. What if Ted Cruz would have issued a similar promise? Well, I have to say,

I, what was the promise? I don't remember the promise. We were going to do a Spotify video. There will be a Spotify. Spotify video of Spotify video. sorts. And I promise this to our top 1% of our Spotify listeners. I'll be covered.

I can make this guarantee to you, all Texans. I'll be covered in case. So head to toe. Head to toe. And I do. My wife works at Goldman. At the toe.

My wife does work at Goldman Sachs. And I'm going half on a sack with darn. What if Christopher Walking would have promises? Okay. That's a nod. Can I say that? I did not have sexual relations. with that video

on that video I've been saying Christopher walking in a hole I have a bad slick Willie Can I give a shout out to Charlie XCX? Yeah I'm fucking cool I know she is Whoa I'm badass Are you a brat?

There's a lot of hate going Maddo Rancho's way Yeah Yeah that'll happen when you're on the Spitzel Ranchos Mattle Ranchos And she done did a post from there

she got a post off of her table full of Tex-Mex cuisine and she liked it. And I think that's very cool. And that place is going to be a tough res. You can't really get a res. Well, I guess you kind of can. It's going to be tough to get in there if you got Charlie posting from there between ACL. So something to monitor. You point out, if you're in town, you're going to hit Matt.

So there's going to be a lot of college gals. A lot of brats. And guys trying to go to Matt's trying to get a celebrity siding. So check that out. Shout out to whoever sent that to the group chat. I think that one will to freeze. Yeah, she did hit us with the playing case. So good for her.

There we go. She got the taas. Look at that. That's a full-ass table. You know it smelled crazy in there. Looks like probably a Diet Coke or something there. Yeah. Blaring lack of ice in those waters.

You know, that's the real mats, man. Oh, mats. Yeah. You know, how about you just save some money, save some time, save yourself some gas, and just enjoy a factor meal? That's a great idea. I mean, look, travel plans, everything's slowing you down, maybe kids running you crazy. You got T-ball, flag football, soccer, lacrosse, rugby, water polo, all the sports. You don't have time to cook dinner.

I don't. How about you just mix it up with some chef-crafted dietitian design ready-to-eat-eat-eal so you don't have to choose between real food and convenience. Does that sound interesting to you, Dylan? Yeah, it does. You know I love factory meals, David. With over 175 banned ingredients, every factor meal is designed around what supports a healthier lifestyle and nothing that doesn't. I know you like that. Okay. Factor meals are ready in two minutes and require no prep and no cleanup. So even on days when your schedule is completely out of control, eating well is still achievable. I've been rocking the shredded pork. I love the shredded pork. I think it's very good.

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Backer 50 off at factor meals.com. See website for more details. Let me respond to a backer. Got an email. Randy, if you could put up the photos I sent you on Slack. Yeah. It's a guy pulled to Dave. You guys might remember him.

I like that cutting board. Dude, shout out to the good cutting boards that get sent our way. Look at those steak frees. I got to do steak freights. Oh, my goodness. I've never done French fries in a quality way. This one did not come without some criticism of me. And maybe it's warranted.

Maybe it's not. You tell me. What's you got? Dave. Your lack of Midwest representation in the JFFB3 is, is sickening. SEC hasn't been to the championship game in two years. Ooh!

From Alex. True. And I want to respond, and I know we're not, this isn't a football segment by any means. This is a, this is me looking directly into that camera. This one. And saying, maybe be more fun. Whoa.

Maybe the Midwest should just be more fun. I mean, look, oh, you's not very fun. And last time I checked, I was thinking about that first JFFB3. Was there not a team or maybe it was the second? Was there not a team out around Stillwaterway? That's true. Squarely Midwest. I don't want to, I don't want to, I don't want to do a 360 slam dunk on this dude.

You're just yamming right now. I don't want to, I don't want to go between the legs and just throw it down, big man. Bill Walton style. But yeah, the Oklahoma State was on one of the first couple big JFFB-3s because they were very fun at that time.

It's a fun act. So, yeah, we've had Midwest representation. I can't understand if it's a bit or not anymore if you actually think the Oklahoma's in the Midwest

because it's not. Obviously, which region would you put it? I would put it in Texas's hat. That sounds like a great region. I don't, that's not recognized. Yeah.

Texas. hat. Texas's hat. My God, it's a Texas hat. It's just not Midwest. Randy, that's more offensive. It's more southern. That's more offensive to residents of Oklahoma than calling it the Midwest. They don't like to associate themselves with the boys.

The boys down Texas way. I don't care. They roll her joints all wrong. You think I fucking give a shit. As he's wearing the burn orange longhorn poncho. And it's the Red River rivalry shootout. Why would they be saying that? They're just in the cut chair watching.

They'll have their chance at Texas. Anyway, Randy, I think I'm the only one in this office who lived in Oklahoma. So I believe I think I as someone who is a former, I didn't change my domicile, but I didn't live there. I mean, I just, I can tell you, man. Other Midwest schools, Ohio State, look, I love Ohio State's offense. I love their offense. They've got the best receiver in the game. They probably have the best college football player in the game.

Yes, they do. That being said, it's not that they're not that fun. It's not that fun. They're not that fun. Their quarterback is not that fun. Maybe this person who wrote in doesn't understand the fun decks quite so well. Yeah, this isn't the best teams. Ohio State, there's a great chance they're in the Natty.

Ohio State, they've not a slide against Texas, sorry, guys. But they really have played like one, one and a half bad quarters of football, right? So maybe one half if you want to be. So. So I'm just saying, look, Wisconsin, hey, tracking Wisconsin. Okay. Okay. Tracking Wisconsin currently.

Okay. Minnesota, big win. Penn State. Coach is fun. Slow unies. We talked about that. It's not fun. It's not a fun uni.

What did this guy? What's, I mean, just, what does Purdue have to do to get into like? This guy doesn't even want Big Ten. He just wants Midwest. Well, I just want to like, what does it have to do? What does the team have to do? Like, my team Purdue. It's subjective.

It's a fun day. Yeah. Were they fun when they were the spoiler makers? Would you consider that a fun? And my wife's like, hey, I'm taking the boys to Penn's Mechanical. You can hang out here and just watch football. I got to put on that game and be like, well, this is fucking fun. There's a reason TCU, BYU wasn't anywhere near.

That's not a fun matchout. That was one of the worst college football. football games I've ever watched for a number of minutes. Watch for a good 25 minutes. It was terrible. Terrible. What about you? TCU's offense.

What about LSU? Their coaches on like multiple commercials. He seems fun. He's trying too hard. Dr. Pepper and Kit Kat. He's trying too hard. If he would try a little bit less, they might be fun. Anyway.

Not Midwest. That's all I'm saying. But hey, dude, the state frets look goaded. I can't remember. I don't know if you sent this in like last time. I fucked this up. Back in August, it looks great. What you've done here is great.

Our good friend Blaine, he's our accountant. He's also our good friend, but he's an accountant. Lute of the Year. B-Mart. Lute of the Year, the reigning loot of the year. He sent me a rib-eye that he did a couple weeks ago and looked great. Plastic cutting board. That's embarrassing.

What an idiot. I was like, bro, I'm not going to post this. I could post this right now and absolutely ruin you. Should we switch accountants? I looked into it. We can go back to our original ones. But like the whole, it's just going to be a lot of paperwork. So I think we stay with the unnamed accountant.

I don't want a guy cooking our books who has a plastic cutting board. Yeah, I was he going to cook him on plastic? What? I mean, what are you doing? I need to send you one of, one of Chechase, uh, rib-yce that she does. We have an impressive cutting board and an impressive steak. She knows what she's doing.

Go Sox, though. I'll send it to you, day. I'll see it. Oh. That's not what I want to do. Boo. Rupple-stiltskin. This guy's a Sox fan, so go Sox. Yeah, we probably should just go for. Yeah, we have.

But it doesn't matter. He's got kids too. I see he's got some, uh, You got some kiddos. Is you got some edamame? That's what I was wondering. Is that what that is? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

Those are dead soldiers. That's a nice little, uh, soy protein. Sure. I guess I don't know. Who fucking knows, man? I don't fucking know. Frankly, I don't give a fuck, dude. He was charging something.

Sure? Yeah, we don't have to look at everything in the picture. Yeah, we don't have to go through the entire thing. Let's he got on these walls. Yeah, let's see. Let's see if there's any like social security numbers. Oh, anyways. Docs.

like we did new bread that one time we mean you you were a part of it you didn't stop me you just let me go you dummy why didn't you stop me because you can't this is live because once i get in that mode dude yeah charges the game anyway i'm well i welcome your criticisms and you're you know i look i'm i'm trying to be open minded here i really am hell organ state not midwest but you know what i'm saying that's that's out of left field literally literally I'll stop you know who's a fun socks are a fun team I know it's not college football but they're a fun team I'm glad you're having I'm glad you're watching

is Meg interested where's Meg's hometown where she from again she's from they're socks fans too she's she's South Chicago suburbs oh so she's actually she's actually from Illinois yeah so that's why you like her you're trying to get a little bit more cred sure I don't know he's trying to marry into that. When those bears come to Indiana. Sheesh. That's when I know, that's when I'll know when the empire is officially dead.

When the bears, like, not that the bears should have that much bearing on, like, America as, like, a society, but, like, you start moving, like, your institutions, your blue blood NFL. Across state lines? To India. No offense. To Indiana. Across state lines. I know it's like 30 minutes, 45. What are we doing?

I'm 15 minutes away from a place that has a Chicago address, not 45 minutes downtown, but pretty close. Pretty close. What made you latch on to the South Siders instead of the Cubs when you're... My parents grew up on Southside, so all my aunts, uncles and parents are all, you know, Chicago Sox fans. Enough said. Shout a little Kiki. Unrelated.

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All right. We'll just let Dylan take this one. I don't know. This isn't like a Dylan-specific one. Well, you had the joke series. You said some fools got God or something like that. Yeah, it's funny. You know, a 28-year-old Russian scientist.

Some Russian scientists. He's no longer with us because we got this pneumonic plague, different from the bubonic plague. This is pneumonia one. I don't know much about this plague other than they killed a fella and it's a lady. A lady. Sorry. Woman in STEM. Probably.

RIP, women in STEM. It's interesting how you assume gender. Wow. Wow. Wow, you're just on a hot streak today, dude. Keep going. How dangerous is this thing, Dave? Kill someone?

Yeah. It's a rare deadly lung infection caused by the bacterium ursinia pestis. That is, okay. The hot thing on Twitter is like, shouldn't worry. You could treat this with doxocycline treat it with antibiotics. But what I'm also seeing is like, yeah, that's if it's like the version we need. know about. We don't know. Is this like some weaponized version that it's been created? Because if so, all bets are all. Yeah. Can you treat it with antibiotics that have, you know, no use

anymore? Because some people are not saying who. Don't finish them. This does all go back to you. Are you putting the pneumonic plague on me? Yes. I'm saying that has become antibiotic resistant because of you. That's a great point. Point, Randy. Thank you. That's a, that's an interesting point for Randall. Thank you. Are you wondering how it's transmitted? Let me guess. Sexually. Pneumonic Plague is the only form of the bacterial infection that passes directly from person to person. Respiratory particles carry it when a person coughs or sneezes.

Droplets from infected animals can also transmit it. So it could be from necking. Yeah. It could be. Interesting. How was it treated? 10 to 14 days of antibiotics. Again, this is an underlying.

assumption that this is the strain that we have taken care of. We don't know. We don't know. The Russians are not being, they haven't given us a lot. What? You don't say. I saw some folks saying that the timing of this couldn't be better because of GTA 6 that's coming out.

Oh, so you're saying a pandemic? Looking forward to it. I'm not saying that. I don't want there to be a plague outbreak. I'm going to keep a buck with you. I would probably just go back to war zone. Yeah. Yeah.

I'm really not trying to jump back into the GTA. I'm strapping all the way up. I'm polishing that chopper. We're not going to get it hot. You've been doing that lately a lot of that? Polishing the chopper? Yeah. Yeah.

Oh. The thing's going to be singing in Verdansk. Got it. Two-year-old and a five-year-old. Just from like a being at home thing. the dynamic of being I guess quarantined with the kids and somebody was stuck inside all day

with two of them because it was raining oof wow oh man put up some tent a tent and then a tent space shuttle and just let them go but man they really need to be outside

yeah I don't like this man I don't like it one bit whatever you all need you'll need to stop trying to make bio weapons Stop. What the hell, man. Fucking stop. Hey,

quit that shit. So Russia is, they're not, they're not quick with the information, they're making this information available. Like how, like what's going on over there? They're probably not being forthright with the World Health Organization. If in fact that is still such a thing,

I think we defunded it or something. I don't remember. I don't know. Maybe I don't know. Get your plague doctor mask while you can for Halloween. Man, The mask technology has improved since the 1500s? I ain't getting one of those big face diapers.

Do they intentionally make those just scary as hell looking? Was that part of it? I don't know. No, it's for the, that's where they're housing the herbs. It's for the aura. They could have made it look less ominous. Okay, I'd like to see you design a mask that's less ominous. I mean, I've seen one easily.

Oh, really? How? Go ahead. Design it. Describe it. It looks like a, like a bird or something. Like a crow that just wants to kill. I don't know.

It's fucking scary looking, man. It's scary looking. That's what it sounds like. I don't know, man. I hope they get this shit under control. They should make it with like a bald eagle. Like lockdown was fun for a bit, but I think we had our fun ready to move on, you know?

It was, yeah, I guess I didn't have as much fun. I was too busy worried about the millions dying. But I'm glad you had a party, dude. That was badass for you. You had a super spreader event? Yeah. By the way, that Slack video, it says, Stepsister is Super.

What is this? What? I don't know. Some shit you sent me. I don't remember sending that. You got to stop sending me stuff on the company slide. I don't just text me. I've never done that.

This is the problem. He's the head of HR, so he could just send us sexy videos. Yeah. And what are you going to do? Report it to me? Bro, let's go out this weekend. There's a super spreader event happening. Man.

Shouts to the Russians out there, dude. I made a little meme that if the office was made, see us sometimes people do like if the office was made today, said during the pandemic that Dwight would have showed up in a plague doctor, collar. Oh, yeah. You can make that happen with AI. I did it.

I did it myself. I photoshopped it back before, yeah. Back in the day when I had to do it all myself. Yeah, now you're in all that AI. slop that these guys are in on. I'm in on some AI slop. I got, I got,

I got so much blowback yesterday because I put on, instead of putting on the shittiest looking coffee shop with like, terrible jazz, I put on an actual video from 10 years ago on YouTube that was a stream, a little brook even. It was a real life stream. And it was just, you could hear the water,

just natural water. It sounded like an incubus song. It's just going through. And it was just, that's all it was. And then everybody was like, oh, this sucks. There's not. Glaring.

Glaring lack of, wasn't me. Glaring lack of quaint little coffee shop next to a cobblestone path covered in orange leaves. When AI takes our jobs, which will happen, we won't be doing this. I'm just going to point back to like this. I mean, like, this is, you were on the wrong side of history with your AI slop support. You know what came about from COVID? All the DJ set streams.

that we used to listen to and watch. People, you know, David Geta doing it, you know, shout out to his family. The guy did it in a hot air balloon. That's the stuff we should be listening to. He did it in a hot air balloon? Some other guy was, you know, DJing. What was he doing up there?

Super spreading? No, he was doing a set. Oh. Where were the speakers? Yeah, they were all plugged in. That's cool. To us, so we could hear it. And that's where David,

uh, David, uh, David Blaine was hanging on the That was a separate thing Ascension I believe is what it's called But yeah They do our 401K Or no maybe that's my health care plan Anyway

Ascension Is a great I do some shit It's a great It's a hospital group I think From Evan They do some I knew they didn't sell it

Uh Evan in the chat Asked Wait Dave live streamed A live stream Did you What's meta, dude? No, I have not tried Muse.

You didn't live stream a live stream. Did I do that? You said it was a brook. Was it a stream? Oh, yeah, yeah. Okay, I see what he's doing now. Took me a second. Yeah, it was a real stream.

And it was fine. It was fine. It was fine. I mean, streams don't, you know, they keep streaming. It's not like it's an old stream. I don't know. Things dry up. It's true.

Yeah, fair point. You're about the same climate change? You want to laugh about that too? Oh, dude, climate change is awesome. That's my impression of Dylan. Come on, man. It's a hoax. Dude, your Trump is just noticeably bad.

It's a hoax. These windmills. Why does he have, like, kind of an SEC. Killing the whales. It's a hoax. Or it's almost like a Delco. Relax. What's climate change, which made Don Vito.

We put relaxed problem. changes to hoax relax relax we're gonna put that on the board yeah yeah i bet are you too busy helping me a spooky yes you told he i'll put it on the board because dave mentioned me on slack to do it then dylan after yesterday's episode came in and said we should do it everyone wants relax pal on the board i will be putting on the board relax paul relax paul i heard that guy's killing it on ticto i did i mean seriously i don't know if he should is he a good actor is he a bad there and all this? I don't know. A legend? We didn't get an answer from him.

Which, okay, he was from the hazing? Yeah. Guy asked, were you one, were you hazed or were you one doing hazing? Relax, Paul. Relax, Paul. I want, can we get a drop of Chee-Chi saying, relax, pal in her most Santa Clarita voice? It's the perfect rat guy inflection. Relax, dog. I'll get Che to do it, yeah.

They filmed us and Santa Clara. That's not fair to her. We were watching, oh, we got watched Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Great one. Which she had never seen before. Did y'all make it all the way through? There's no way. She paused it three times throughout the movie and said,

this is So and So Ranch in Santa Clarita. I said, Chelsea, no, it's not. Stop. She goes, look it up. And she was right. Did you at least finish it? She was right. Did you finish it?

Yeah. She loved it. Great movie. When DeCaptember. is doing the acting scene in the old Western saloon there. That was indeed in Melody Ranch, I think it's called, in Santa Clarita. San Clarita, which is just a movie set. Really?

I like to visit Hidden Valley Ranch. So do I. I'm so bad. I put my, I dip my pizza crossed it out. Maybe you did live in the Midwest for a little while. We love ranch in the Midwest. It's kind of our thing. Dumbs must be better.

you don't have the brace on. Still hurting. Hey, if any of the listeners are out there watching, or I guess they'd be viewers, if you're a PT, physical therapist,

or you just know, like injury shit, what's this right here? It's kind of at the elbow, but it's where like the bone, it's between the forum, the top muscle and like the, this is a plea.

It's, mine's tight and I don't like it. When I fully extend, this is tight right here. I really want somebody to help me. I don't want to pay money to go to a doctor. Dave just trying to get a teledoc I really I really

I genuinely am dude It's really annoying It doesn't hurt as much It's just I can feel it tightening When I straighten it out And I don't like that Damn It's Melody Ranch

Not to I'm sure y'all are over this by now No no let's talk about it She was right She was right like she all usually is I'm glad you all Watch that movie It's a good movie This is filmed in San Korea

Seriously How long did it take y'all to watch that It's a long one Two nights Okay. Yeah. Which is great for us. Two hours, 42 minutes, I think.

It's a long one. Yeah, I'm glad she liked it. It's one of my favorite ones I've ever made. It is a Tarantino movie. Yeah. Kay? Can you understand? I explained the, uh, the, the feet fixation that he has as it, they occurred throughout

the movie. Mm-hmm. He just like you. It was one of those movies where it set off like a fact-finding mission after. She's like, you want to know more about Sharon Tate, the actress that was actually murdered by the cult of, Right. You guys understood that it's not, that's not how it went down. Yes. I explained to her. I said this is very loosely based on actual events.

And I said, you'll see why at the end it's a very different ending. Unlike in Glorious Pasterds, which is very much a historical accurate movie. Right. Right. Facts. I believe it's historically accurate to say Poncha outdoors is like the best. I got two guys in this. I got two dudes in here just maugging on me. Randy's got the burnt orange. Got my game day.

Game Day official, Longhorn. Longhorn logo and I got the Texas and, hey, hook him. I love this shirt. I've been looking for a nice burnt orange, you know, short sleeve shirt and not. You can just settle for Texas, too. They got other options. Pearl snap. Other options.

Dylan, Dylan's got that Southwest vibe on today. I'm going to find you the name of this one because I know you're all wanting to buy it and look just like me. I get it because it's super dope. Give me a second. I'll find it for you while Dave continues the read. Let me tell you about the dead. denim, the flannel, and the corduroy. The denim is Western inspired, never stiff, built-in stretch,

made for performance. I rock the Marfa. It's like a lighter wash button down, pearl snap. It's great. The flannel, stretchy, soft, all-day comfort. Most flannels, I would say, they don't wick moisture and dry fast. This one does. It wicks moisture, and it dries fast, medium weight for durability. And that corduroy, rugged, but soft, worn in feel with a touch of stretch. It's great. A lot of, we've had some sponsors in the past. They've sent corduroy, and it's like you wear it and you're like, man, this is bulky and just feels like for Texas when you're going to have a cool morning, maybe a warmer afternoon, especially in the fall. Their corduroy is perfect. Rugged but soft.

I love it. I also like the graphic teas. I like the hats a lot. I got my son, the camo, one of the camo ones, and he loves it. It'll probably wear it for picture day. This season, go to poncho outdoors.com slash steam. enter your email and get $10 off and free shipping on your first order. That's P-O-N-C-H-O-Outdoors.com slash team.

Go there. Drop in your email and get $10 off and free shipping. Dylan, tell us. The pack mule. It is the flannel section of the website. This is called the pack mule. Medium weight for durability, of course. Stretchy and soft for all-day comfort, I see.

Pearl snap. Pearl snap button down. Get this guy some cheap bourbon whiskey. It's a song. Panchooutdoors.com slash stain. The saddle blanket, sorry. This is the saddle. The other one I described is not the pearls on.

The Pearl Snap one, like this one, it's called the saddle blanket. Well, you're really just adding the value. Yeah. I got Pearl Snaps right now, too, Dave. Look at this. Look at that. Rip it off. He snapped up, dude.

Joe, you're starting them, Randy. Snap it back. I want to do a real quick Texas Roadhouse check-in. I was looking at our friend Brandon. I always like to name drop Brandon. Bro Bible Brandon. Sometimes I pop on over there to check it out See if there's anything we need to talk about

And he has a they have a story up there about A guy went to Texas Roadhouse We've all been there You've been there? Yeah, love it You do like it That's a randy-coated place We were supposed to go for my fifth year anniversary

Story says Arkansas man Okay, maybe this wasn't in Texas Arkansas man tips 20% at Texas Roadhouse Then he realizes the tipping tablet's math is way off. Okay. What the heck is that about? It says they did something to where the number, the math wasn't mathing, Dylan. Okay. The math was not math. Following. The content creator said that, okay, so you have a $16.28 cent tip and it showed as 20% of his pre-tax bill. It's actually closer to 25% to 20%. So it's basically saying like, hey, this guy's mad because it was

giving him a number that was inflated based on his bill. So it said 20% and it wasn't. And that's interesting. I don't know if this is a problem with Texas Roadhouse. I don't know if they've commented. But the real reason we're doing this story is I was looking into the TikTok user. And I was just like, who is this guy? Who is this guy who goes and eats a Texas Roadhouse in Arkansas?

Well. Isn't me? Wasn't Randy. It was a guy on TikTok and his at was at whiskey and violence. Okay. That dude was very alpha. And that's it. Whiskey and violence.

So he had a bad time at Texas Roadhouse. You better look out. Buster. He's a loose cannon. Sure. He's not good at all. His wife probably has like a T-shirt that's like a skull and it says my husband is a welder don't mess with me or something like that you know what i'm talking

about that's badass somebody sent me a video my buddy from high school was just a guy waiting for his bride to like walk down the aisle and he was wearing his suit had his jacket had the mask from scream what paint you know the scream mask yeah like it was like when you shut it shut the jacket it was like the ghost face mask and you opened it it was just kind of like open but he was they were just really big into the horror scene okay so he was like i'm gonna get married on this day whatever float your boat he was rocking the mask from scream on the coat which is cool i bet i bet she vetoed him actually just wearing the mask from screen it'd be interesting looking back on in 40 years i had that mask when i was in high school at some point definitely wore that to something it's not a comfortable one

That's an all-timer, man. You ever see Scream? No. Really? I've never seen any, like, the horror movies. The original Scream is really good. Is it scary? It is scary.

It's a fun scary, though. It was a good girlfriend movie back in high school. Oh, you got to watch Scream, dude. If you like scary shit, it's definitely... I don't. I don't like scary shit. You don't? No. You're just set out spooky season.

You're being a little bitch about it. I know. I get terrified over here. Hey, we'll, hey. Just getting new bread up and moving. Warming up over there. Right now, I thought you did. Teach him how to produce after this.

I like spooky stuff. I don't like scary stuff. You got to watch Scream now. It's a... Then what? Then what? Then watch Scream 2, then Screen 3, then Friday the 13th, then Nightmare and Elm Street?

I don't have... I don't have time to be getting a scared. It's a cultural, cultural classic. It's more scary from like a slasher. It's a slasher film. It's not like a paranormal. Well, yeah. i'm aware drew barrymore gets slimed right away you fucking asshole it's how old is that's what's the

point of you even watching what is it 25 years old want to spoil a movie you can spoil the movie that's that old it's fine i've seen scary movie the spoof off of it so i've almost that checks out for you it is funny you saw the spoof it didn't see the ridge come on first two scary movies are really good just think if you had context for all the parody there you go think it was a good enough movie that I didn't even need the context. Dude. I don't know what to do with you sometimes. Don't you sit me down.

Turn off the lights. And I can curl up next to you while we watch screen. Okay. Come over. Then we can eat your little pumpkin pancakes. Fuck, love that's a great. I've never made popcorn in the manner that she makes popcorn in that movie. The old-fashioned way.

With the stoke top pop. Yeah. We're always a microwave fam. I think most people are. Now we do it the old-fashioned way, like the real old-fashioned way. Which is? We just buy the popcorn pre-popped. Okay.

Yeah. Okay. I've been on my smart food-ish. I notice those Doritos collabs and went real quick. Yeah. Megan actually makes it the old way. Put a little oil in the pot and like just pops it up in an actual pot. How about that?

She thinks she's better than us? Yeah. I actually take a helicopter over an active volcano and I just dump a bunch of the Really? Popcorn kernels in there and it pops. That's what happens when you're not afraid of magma and lava and stuff. You just can do shit like that. That's pretty cool.

I just wait until one of my family members or something has like they're raising money for some event. And then I have to buy like a $78 bag of popcorn. Yeah, for Boy Scouts or something. It is the best popcorn. Dude, the Christmas tent. And popcorns are so good. They used to be better back the day. Really?

I was just in the Chicago airport. You think private equity bottom? Maybe. Ms. Kemp, now they change the ingredients. Well, they used to be bigger. I'll tell you that much. And they used to be, have a bunch of different branding of, like, shows and TVs. Like, I remember we always used to make those into our rooms garbage cans.

And, like, because they would have, like, toy story ones and stuff. So you just get one. And you put a little plastic bag in there. And then it's your kids. Trash cans. Stuff used to be better. Now they're all just like AI Christmas with puppies and that's it. It's like where's the soul?

You know, Dave? Where's the soul? Yeah, Dave. I think it's some popcorn butter mist and it's good. You know, if you look at the ingredients, there's actually not butter in it. I know. It's just flavored oil. So that's what you can get an aerosol can from the store and it's just like mist.

But it's really good. And you can just make movie theater at your own. They're theater butter. You can lube up with it too, Dylan. How about that? Rocket money. I'd like to tell the folks at home about rocket money. You probably already know.

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slash circling. Take it away, Dylan. All right. We mentioned that this weekend is Texas OU and of course that this is not a football segment, by the way, that occurs inside the state. Fair of Texas. Shout out big techs. New big techs. He caught fire several years back, so there's a new

big techs on the streets. Oh, I'm good. Odie folks. I'm sorry. I'm back. I'm better than ever. Private equity don't bought me out. Look at my privates. Is there some equity in this private? He's got them Dickie's jeans on. I got that shit on, don't I? He does kind of have that shit on. I've been doing lunges and hip thrusts and even squats. Ass is looking fat, ain't it? He doesn't say those things. Bitch, I'm from Texas. Well, if he just did big exa plug the whole time.

One relevant cool point for Randy. Wow, that's two points on today's show. So the State Fair of Texas is known for several things, one of which being their outlandish food offerings. They wouldn't let me wear gray jobs. talking pants. They said it was too revealing. All right, I'll stop that.

Everything's bigger in Texas, huh? Okay. Yeah. Including. Fletcher's Corn Dogs is a staple there. What is that? Funnel cakes. Do you want to go new food?

Salt water. Taffy is a staple there. Check out my laffey taffy. They have deep fried everything, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. They have deep fried pizza, deep fried butter is a thing. Deep fried soda. Does it count as playing my Zocard if the pizza is deep fried? Yes, it does.

Okay, thanks. There's still pizza in there. Thanks, they do deep fried, like I said, Coke, so they take like the syrup, I guess, just mix it with some batter and this drop in the deep fryer. I've never had that. They better not deep fry my Coke. I get so fucking fried when I do Coke, dude. Relax, pal. Oh.

Okay. Look at that canoli. All right. They have some, every year they announce their new food offerings. And there's some, some caught my eye this year. We're going to go through a few of them. One of which being a 3D fruit ice cream. Stop.

3D fruit ice cream, which is creamy mango or peach ice cream dipped in a thin chocolate shell shaped like a peach or mango. Randy, you're going to like this one. The candy watermelon. which is a giant ice cold watermelon slice, the size of your head, wrapped in six feet of fruit by the foot, drenched in sour chamo, I don't know what that is,

and topped with the heavy sprinkle of tahine. Look at that day. That is so randy-co. That is so... That is disgusting. Oh, I thought this was corn. The butter-dipped toffee crunch nutty bar. Yeah.

I thought that was a low-tech. They have, if you keep going down a little bit, you'll see deep fried ranch. Oh, yes, I would love to try this. Which is a pocket-sized snack. It's probably really good. That it is, let's see, it's stuffed, it's ranch stuffed inside a creamy,

I'm sorry, it is stuffed inside a little puff, basically, and then deep-fried. Well, imagine burning your mouth on that. Yeah, it's like toceas pizza rolls. You bite into that, you got a, top of your mouth is just fried. Deep-fried bourbon banana bread,

which actually sounds fantastic. It's really good. Deep fried Thai, I'm sorry, Thai tea trace leches cake. I need a guess that's stay fair at some point. This, this all looks, I want everything. Dirty Dr. Pepper dosy dough float. They're going to have to change my pants.

From dividend dots, huh? Oh my gosh. Footlong fries. Look at those, Rainy. You're getting those. That's some big old potatoes. How do you find a potato that big? He just got a boomstick.

I did get a boasted. Those are monster potatoes, man. Oh, look at the facotch. You like the facch? A little salsa verde. It's a little, uh, little text mix twist on a Italian fave.

Fried butter chicken. Ooh, the gobbler roll. So they used to call you. Come on, dude. I'll call me that. Oh, I need to do the frozen ranch water. Oh.

Yeah, this is, um, look. Wait, hold on. It's probably a 50-50, proposition on whether the item is going to be just so outlandish, you don't want to try it. I mean, but a lot of this looks great, man, that Love Me Jam Sandwich.

And then just a classic turkey leg, a mini smoked turkey leg. What about the triple chocolate flautas, Dave? What does that do for you? That might be a little too much fun. Krispy corn tortillas that are stuffed with fudgey brownie, molten fudge, and melted chocolate chips, fried to golden perfection, and finished with billowy whipped cream, a chocolate drizzle, and a shower of chocolate sprinkles. I just, you just...

For locks, Paul. Texas brisket pierogies. They, Randy, that's a... What about the Twinkle, twinkle brisket star? Which is, uh, gosh. It's a twinkie that's slow-moat, sorry,

filled with slow-smoked brisket, bacon, fresh jalapinos, and cream cheese, dipped in special batter rolled that's the one. And Panko breadcrumbs. That's the one. And deep fried in a golden-crowns.

The sweet, savory creation is finished with a drizzle of raspberry chipotle sauce and topped with bacon crumbles and fresh jalapeno slices. Yeah, that might be the one, dude. What? What? I'm interested. I would have a bite of that, for sure. What is this? New Orleans nachos.

What's in the New Orleans nacho? Experience getting a taste in New Orleans while experiencing the sights and sounds of the fair. Okay, enjoy crawfish etoufei. Yeah. Good job, Brandy. Krispy kettle style chips topped with lettuce, cheese, tomatoes, jalapinos. It's a walking taco, but I think it's like in a Zaps bag. It's a Frito pie.

No, no, no. This is a walking taco because it's specifically in the bag. You're right. That is the difference. I guess it's not. But okay, my question, is the rock sauce like a zip sauce? Like, what's going on here? Can you tell?

I don't know. I can't. If you put it straight on the stone. That's her one rule. Fetuccini Nutella crepe. There needs to be casino butter on something. All right. This is good.

I mean, look, if you're going to the fair, you got to. You got to try some wild-ass shit, which is part of it. You got to go eat there. Even if you don't even get the crazy stuff, like just go in that big auditorium. I don't know what it is. Feels like you're in just a big warehouse and there's just boots. Have you been to the fair randle? No.

Oh, you would make you go. You would love the food. You would love the fair. Maybe next year. I can't this year, but. No, you should go, dude. We'll give you the day off. No, no, wait.

She's got friends coming to town. I'll go into ACL on Friday. But I would love to go next year. Relax, ma. You need to check it out. This deep fried ranch looks really good. Yeah, this is very randy-coded. Don't be deep-fried ranch, dude.

What about the cotton candy cooler? Frozen lemonade just got sweeter, Dylan? You don't need to make it sweeter. Chicken-fried steak biscuit there, your final meal. That looks fucking good. Oh, my God. This segment made me so hungry. The candy watermelon's the real winner here.

I can't wait to eat lunch. after this because the way you were talking about the food, I got so hungry. Look how big that watermelon is. No one is eating all of that. No, I literally would. Dude, it's wrapped in, how many feet of fruit by the foot? Six feet.

Six feet. Six feet. Yeah. By the foot. Give or take. It's marginal. Right. Well, he's as tall as eternity at the same time,

while also being just a little bit above after. Do's a Mustang. Just a little bit above after that. Who's a Mustang? I see you link the regular food here. Did you want to go through? go through that or no i mean i i talk i talk through some of the

the old ones it's kind of also it's kind of tough to navigate i think yeah but this new stuff looks really good just go get you a fletcher's corn dog hans get you the original corn dogs there are awesome god one of everything oh my god take me back bring your insulin or something pretty much oh you think diabetes is a joke now too i'm not joking is honest he's looking out for you Dave yeah I'm I'm not diabetic

I'm not pre diabetic I'm blessed in that in that sense but you're just flexing on the diet well you told you directed it towards me and I'm just letting you know I don't have insulin but you are pre pre pre diabetic no I'm pre something else

oh what pretty cool that's pretty good David. Oh my god. The Fettuccini Nutella crepe. Can't wait to do spooky season, man. I can't believe it. And I had, I paired it with the Ferris wheel fizz. And you know y'all had to do the dirty Dr. Pepper. Doce doce do. I almost said dozy do flowed. Oh, dozy do. What an idiot. That is so funny if you start on those. I would have lost my Texas card. Oh my gosh, Santa Clara. It's okay. Poor Chelsea. Is she in the chat?

Nah, I haven't seen it. She's got a busy day today. All right, well, I do too. I'm gonna, I gotta go. I got a bunch of stuff I gotta do this afternoon. Like spooky season? No, not that. I gotta go home and get the,

I gotta take the casino butter out of the fridge, let it thaw. I gotta go run back to my place and get the lights for the spooky season. We gotta put up the caution table. Ooh, in the spooky table. I wonder if there's really a crime scene. probably not. All right.

Bye-bye. Bye.