Circling Back - £37,000 Steak Dinners & Succession Season 3

Episode Date: October 18, 2021

On the heels of Micah's wedding, we decided we had to mob today. £37,000 dinners at Salt Bae's steakhouse, breaking down the first episode of season 3 of Succession, a mom who burns her child's Pokemon cards when he doesn't eat, and more. 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 YouTube: www.youtube.com/washedmedia Shop Washed Merch: www.washedmedia.shop (0:00) Fun & Easy Banter (13:27) Recapping This Weekend in Fun (27:45) £37,000 bill at Salt Bae London (37:40) Succession S3 E1 — Secession (50:52) Mom Burning Pokemon Cards (1:01:40) Brett’s Breaking News Support This Episode’s Sponsors Rhoback: www.rhoback.com (BACKER20 for 20% off) Birddogs: www.birddogs.com (STEAM) Rothys: www.rothys.com/steam Headspace: www.headspace.com/circling (free one-month trial) Crowdhealth: www.joincrowdhealth.com/fit (STEAM 30 days to try risk free plus the Fitness Wearable) --- 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 presented by row back get back or 20 for 20% off your first order. Sick. My name's Will DeFreeze. To my left, David Ruff. Hey, I wanted to start off the week by just congratulating all the barbecue joints that made Texas Monthly's top 50, or I guess top 100 barbecue joints in the state of Texas. Just going to get out ahead of it.

Beef by Dave did not make the list this year, but we're just happy that people were thinking about us. How many Austin joints are in the top 50? You're going to have to read it. Not very many. Really? Actually, there's a few that I'd never even heard of. Is Franklin's top 10?

Yes. Number six or seven. Very cool. Very sick. Yeah. But you know what? We're going to take this as motivation we're not mad about it it is what it is did you actually submit your your beef i did your meats yeah

are you beefing with the rankings you know just no love for uh for beef by dave beef by d. You also offer pork or chicken or turkey or anything? We do, but like kind of our, you know, the bell of the ball is the beef. Or the beef of the ball is what I say. I was going to do beef by Will, but we were having some Google issues when people were Googling BBW. What did they get? Buffalo Wild Wings? What did your dad call Buffalo Wild Wings?

Didn't he say like b b dubs no it was like b double is what people call it yeah but but i like there are people that like what is god what is it it's like buffalo i don't even know dylan how you doing today w3s is what a lot of people call it. Yeah, BW3s for some reason. I don't like BW3s. BW3s? I don't even get it. I don't either. Randy knows, but he doesn't have a mic. He's doing the veiny face kid over there. I feel like it's a Midwest thing to say, BW3s. Thank you for asking. Well, I am doing quite well.

Very happy to be here off of a pretty electric weekend. I see you eyeing my tie-dye rowback hoodie over here. You hit him with that Island Boy hoodie. Yeah. Island Boy. Not a dollar in the jar. No. Okay.

I'm doing $1 for the Island Boy jar. Are you still searching the text trying to find what your dad called it? Yeah, I just accidentally found where he's telling me about this protein shake. B-W-dubs or something. How are you doing, Will? You know what? No one ever asked you that. I'm doing pretty fine.

Doing pretty fine. Yeah. Okay. It was a long weekend. It's one of those Mondays where you're kind of excited to escape the weekend. It's like, all right, get me out of this. I need to get back in a healthy routine. I need to get back in a healthy state of mind.

I'm ready to get this pod. After that weekend, I'm kind of in a New York state of mind. Really? Why? A wedding. A lot of folks from the northeast. Good people. They kind of brought the house down when they played Frank Sinatra at the end there.

New York. If you were along for the ride on my live at DCRuff on Instagram, congratulations. If you thought you could wait till morning to check it out, no. That's a real-time enjoyment. I delete my lives the next day. And it's not because

I have anxiety and don't want to watch them. It's just because you have to be on that wave with us. It's not like a next like you have to be on that wave with us. It's not like a next day thing. It doesn't hit the same. Did you go live from Circling Back or did you go live from David Ruff? At DC Ruff on Instagram. Add me on the group.

I somehow missed that. At what point in the wedding did you go live? Can you download it next time so we can at least watch it the next day? What are you doing? I'm out here. I tried to save it, but it did not. I don't know. Maybe I have it on my phone. You phone like this big content guy but you're keeping

content from the people no not the people who were riding with me on sat on friday night they got to see it what time did you go live during the last song during uh new york new york oh shit okay yeah i almost fought the wedding planner at one point who was i didn? I didn't even know there was one. I don't know. I don't know why she came up to me and singled me out as the person, but she came up and she looked at me and she goes, you're not allowed to put him in a chair. Talking about doing a hot manegila. Wait, why? And I was like, I wanted to be like, first, why'd you go up to me and tell me this?

Did she hear you talking about it? I don't even think I was talking. I think she saw a look in my eye of like, where's the chair that we can go grab? This dude's looking for a chair. Everybody was thinking. And then she runs up to me and starts berating me about it. And I looked at her and I was like, we're doing it. Was it like a venue liability thing?

Probably. But I told her, I was like, we're doing it. And then the more I started thinking about it as I escaped the conversation, I was just thinking to myself, this is a Jewish tradition that we're going to honor. What's that song called? Hava Nagila. It it is incredible i love it is that the one that's like i am a island boy exactly yeah yeah it's a traditional jewish song yeah i'm an island boy are they so are you um are you here to say that they were trying they were trying to

eliminate the traditional Jewish dance? Whatever. I feel like the chair is actually safer than what we actually did, which is hoist him up. Exactly. I told her. I was like, there's no way. And then after I told her we wouldn't do a chair, she looked at me and she said,

you can't prop him up either. And that's what I told her. I was like, no, we're going to do that that's when you said bet what's she gonna do kick the groom out of his wedding yeah what are you gonna how are you gonna enforce this yeah i was like okay like like worst case scenario let's say that like micah falls and like he like shattered his shoulder or something like i mean you're not on you're not on the hook for that lady i wonder why she was so adamant about that she lost that battle yeah because we absolutely hoisted yeah we should have hoisted her up too we should have just grabbed her and just tossed her in the air i didn't know which one she was i don't know it could have been just

someone from the venue but i was not about that damn the second you get electric if i'm if i'm drinking draft beers at a wedding and someone tells me not to do something my my brain defaults to i have to do that thing right now i I wasn't really thinking about doing it, but now I absolutely am. I wanted to be like, hey, I've never been to a wedding where this is a thing. I would like to experience it. And you're ruining that for me. I've been to one traditional Jewish wedding, and we did that. And he broke the glass up there at the altar and all that stuff.

But we put him in a chair and we did that song and it was, it's so much fun. You ever been to a Greek wedding before? No. I had never been to one until it was right before I moved down to Austin. And what I was not aware of is that at Greek weddings, they just, everyone brings a bunch of cash and they just throw it on the ground. And so the entire wedding venue was just covered in cash and you're not allowed to pick it up. It's for the bride and groom only. You're not supposed to pick it up it's for the bride and groom only you're not supposed to pick it up and so the the groom who was my cousin told me he's like yeah he's like tell your buddy to come for like the late night portion of the wedding let's have some fun yeah and he's and somebody came up they're like hey make sure to tell your buddy not to touch any of the money on

the ground okay like it'll it'll be an issue have you heard of the the money dance thing the shmoney dance it's different than the shmoney dance. Yeah. I think it's a Mexican tradition. Okay. I think. They might do it other places too, but when I got married, since my ex-wife is half Mexican,

so we did the money dance. Basically, you pay to dance with the groom. You pay to dance with the bride. And it's just a way to like donate money to us, basically. I think there might be part of that in the Greek one. I could be wrong, but I kind of got the feeling that people were doing that.

It lasts for one song. And so basically during the song, I danced with like 17 different people and they just all donated. Oh, look at this guy. Mr. Big Stuff. It's tradition. Were y'all daggering?

Yes, we were. We were daggering. It says the male guests pay to dance with the bride and female guests to dance with the groom. I feel like that's been updated, that tradition. The money dance is an excuse to gift money to the couple, Dylan, as you noted. The gifted money is used by the newlyweds for their honeymoon or to set up a new home. From what I'm reading previously. So you're supposed to build a home out of money from your mind.

It seemed like you were reading that straight from your computer screen, but that was just right off the dome. I think it is a Mexican wedding tradition that arrived from Spain, if I'm not mistaken. I pretty much said all of that earlier. You didn't mention Spain. Well, I said a Mexican tradition. That arrived from Spain. You left out kind of a key detail.

I didn't know that it arrived from Spain. So you brought that to the table. So we thank you for that, that knowledge. And you knew that already, which is very cool. Can we get some official biz out of the way? Please. Major announcement alert. We were gun-shy about announcing this on Wednesday's podcast,

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Well, I went to Micah's wedding Friday night. Bay was with me. Her first time meeting Micah and Caitlin, actually. So that was great. And it was honestly a lot of fun. So thank you to Micah and Caitlin. I had a blast. I had an absolute blast.

Saturday, I was trying to meet up with you guys, but timelines kind of got messed up there. So Bay and I went to dinner at Matt's El Rancho. Met three very nice backers there. Forgot their names. I'm sorry. One of them ran into you, Will. Two of them actually ran into you.

I didn't know that you were there. I popped out of my Uber, which was my wife's car, and immediately got gassed up. Felt pretty good. Yeah. Yeah. They were very nice. In town from somewhere. I forgot.

Lafayette, Louisiana. Yeah. And then Sunday, I spent a lot of it with Bay and Low Bay and Parks. I went to the park, had a little breakfast out and about, and watched a lot of football. Damn, football's for the boys. Football is for the boys, and that was it. It was an excellent weekend.

Speaking of the boys, what did that boy get into? Pretty much the same, minus it was my family, not his. Oh. Yeah, I didn't hang out with his family. Were you texting with Parks the entire time, though? Yeah, but he said he was a little bit behind on the game, so, like, don't text me. Like, I don't want to know what happens, which is tough.

A lot happened. That wedding was great, man. It was. It was good. We had a little bus controversy, great, man. It was. It was good. We had a little bus controversy, Will. There was two pickup locations, one downtown, one in West Austin. My area, Dylan's area, actually a little bit, Oak Hill area, if you're familiar. And they, Will and Dylan, were going to the downtown one,

which we assumed was going to be the cool, vibrant one. That's the cool party bus. And then we had ours, which was fine. It was me, Club Cool's own Barrett Dudley, and his lady friend, Laura, and my wife. We got there really early, Alyssa and I, and ended up buying a bottle of rosé from the Residence Inn Marketplace. You know, the tiny little place they've got where they sell the frozen dinners? We got a bottle. They don't do by the glass.

I feel like you can just steal from there. We didn't really feel like stealing. No, but if you are staying at one of those late at night and you want something to eat from there, there's never anyone there, and it's like, well, what do I do? Do I leave my room number on a piece of paper or something? Be honest. Have you stolen from there? I've, I have stolen some late night snacks from one of those things because no one's there to look at it. And I was like, Hey, if they catch me on camera, I'll be like, well, I'll pay right

now. Sorry. Or you could do the thing where you just give them a random room number, which is very sorry, but they tried to catch me at 4k not happening. Drink a bottle of Rose before we got on the bus. And turns out it was the same bus. It just came by and picked us up. We figured it out when we were at the hotel that we were going to be picking you guys up. We wanted to be a surprise. We didn't tell you that we'd be scooping you. Yeah, it was a great surprise.

You were surprised you got on that bus to see us. Yeah, you know what? I kind of was. Yeah, it was fun. It was a good time. Yeah, great wedding uh glaring lack of chair uh when hoisting the the the groom but you know other than that good really good pretty lit man the band was good yeah i didn't mention the band they were actually a singer put on a fedora halfway through the show that's when you knew it was about to turn

up yeah exactly she's like you know what i'm gonna turn up. Yeah, exactly. She's like, you know what? I'm going to step away for a sec. I'll be right back. Oh, where's she going? How did Micah not get that fedora for his performance? He needed that fedora. Micah did sing. Have we posted that? Oh, yeah, we didn't talk about that.

No, Sally has the entire video. Sally also has the entire video of us on the dance floor doing the traditional dances and hoisting Micah up. Oh, yeah? We're going to have to do something with that at some point. Very fun. Should we cuck his photographer and just start posting the videos and stuff? I don't know.

I heard Mike refused to give his photographer any porterhouse steaks, so he deleted all the photos. That was my highlight, is when we knew it was porterhouse steaks. And in my head, I'm like, there's no way each person is getting a porterhouse. It's one of the larger cuts right if not the largest and uh i i look up and they brought it to me first and there's just i mean it's not just like a what was it like a 38 ounce porterhouse it was gigantic that they had already chopped up it was family style i was like oh okay and you know what for me perfectly cooked for some some some wanted it more well done.

Not me. So more beef for the D-man. Okay. Once I heard there were rumblings around our table that some people might have thought that it was a little too rare, I perked up a little bit. I was like, all right, that means more for Big DeFreezy over here. I'm going to be pounding porterhouse all night. Big DeFreezy.

D-man and Big DeFreezy over here. I'm going to be pounding Porterhouse all night. Big DeFreezy. Mm-hmm. D-Man and Big DeFreezy. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Dude, I had a weekend. Dude, the turf, too. The surf was good. It was surf and turf. What was the surf?

We surfed, too. What was it? Redfish. Redfish. Oh, the redfish. I forgot about the redfish. I love some good side redfish on a— Bonus redfish, if you will.

That's true. It was a tasteful amount of surf. It wasn't like not a surf or something. Okay. Austin band. Big turf guy though. Popular. My parents stayed in this back house.

What? I haven't told you about that? What are you talking about? No. Like the keyboard player from Not A Surf lives in Austin. And my parents did an Airbnb and it was his back house. How did they come to that? Did he have his platinum record?

Dude, they had some stuff on the walls, and I was like, they're really big Not A Surf fans. And then I started putting the pieces together. I was like, oh, this guy's just in Not A Surf. What is Not A Surf? It's a band. Never heard of them. They're middle-aged fellows at this point.

Only surfing I do is swag surfing. Really? Yeah. So you do the schmoney dance at your own wedding, and then you swag surf. fellows at this point they're they yeah only surfing i do is swag surfing really yeah so you do the schmoney dance at your own wedding and then you swag surf dude swag surfing is is lit i'd pretty much the same weekend you know your boy stepped out for that wedding did his thing um you know woke up had a little brunch tried to lick the wounds a little bit watched manchester united absolutely shit the bed shouts to everybody uh who also endured the Manchester United to Texas pipeline that day. Didn't end well for anybody.

And, yeah, then I met up with John Duda. What I didn't know about John Duda is that he's essentially the Wolf of Wall Street at this point. Dude, he's Jordan Belfort. Congrats to John Duda. That's the first thing he said to me when I walked into the bar. Like, he didn't even say hello. He goes, he told me he was the Wolf of Wall Street. I don't know why.

I started calling him Wolfie. Just like, it really started enjoying the bit. I wasn't aware of him ever actually working on Wall Street. Dude, he's the Wolf of Wall Street. Yeah. Yeah, congrats to John Duda. He got engaged. We had to holster that on Wednesday's episode, unfortunately.

Yeah, we knew it was going to happen. Very exciting stuff. He was nervous in here. You told us. He's episode, unfortunately. Yeah, we knew it was going to happen. Very exciting stuff. He was nervous in here. You told us. He's like, I'm nervous, man. Yeah, you better be. Yeah. About to make a big decision.

I'm thinking about John being the kind of guy who would get nervous about that, but I guess it gets everybody a little bit. He did it on the Pfluger Bridge. No one's talking about that. Yeah. I'm surprised you didn't know where that was, Dylan. Yeah, I didn't. I knew about the bridge'm surprised you didn't know where that was, Dylan. Yeah, I didn't. I knew about the bridge.

I just didn't know what it was called. They got some great photos on that bridge. Shout out to... I don't think they had a professional photographer, but... They did. Did they really? Yeah. Okay, I thought it was just her sister.

But whoever took the photos... He told... Well, I don't have have confirmation but he told us that he hired somebody oh really yeah okay that was a that was a fun saturday sneaky sneaky long night ran into randy as well and brett wow the squad was mobbing didn't go minus me yeah you ghosted us but that's fine i didn't i did i mean did you did you go i didn't see i told man i i didn't know the ghost so early i plan to meet after dinner by the time my dinner ended y'all were like we were out and hammered and we really weren't it was already home will came will was

back will was out till like 10 o'clock no one had me coming back immediately i did immediately i was i got there it was a little bit. I was like, Will just left? And they're like, yeah, he had a dinner. I was like, well, we're not going to see Will again. I know how Will does at Matt's El Rancho dinners. No offense. But I've seen this play before. Not only did I return.

I returned within 30 minutes. You really did. I looked over from our street side view and saw Sally in your vehicle by herself. And I was like, uh-oh. I was like, what happened here? And, uh, you told me the story. It wasn't anything juicy, but it was just, well, Will's back. Guess who's back. It was good to see him. We were, we were betting on him to finish his beer. It's a game I'd never seen played before. And I didn't realize it was being played with me as the focal point, but, uh, I think Brett started the game and he decided to play a game where they guessed how long it would take me to finish my beer

without him knowing yeah and so i was just casually drinking my beer and suddenly i do a beer finish and everyone starts celebrating around me and i'm like what is going on right now and apparently i had finished it right under the uh allotted time shouts to me how much time was he were you given? I think Dan had a much different version than Brett. Brett was doing something around 9 minutes and Dan's description was around 18 minutes. Was there actual money changing

hands? Was it an actual bet situation? Hard to say. More drinks being bet. That's a good way to do it. That's fun. That's a good way to do it. You guys know I do carry cash now. I have a voluminous amount of $10 bills on my person at all times. No one has more $10 bills than David Ruff. They were calling me Davey 10.

Yeah, they were. I thought that was because of something. They're calling me the 10 man. No one's calling you the 10 man. Give me that oil. What are we doing? No, I had a good time closing down the night with Dan as I watched the last leg of his six-team parlay,

six-game parlay, just in real time, just crumble. Wait, so he hit the first five? Hit the first five. So he was, oh, okay. He was looking good, good. Was there a hedge situation, or he just let it all ride? No, it was, he said he was already up, but whatever. It was Utah, Arizona State,

and Arizona State blew like a 14-point lead in the second half, and it was just watching Dan just kind of resign to his own fate. How many units were on the game? I think it was one medium boy stack. Okay. How many units? Love talking in units. Man, how about my Cowboys?

Oh, boy. I thought you'd be a little more vocal on the TL. Well, a lot of people are wondering if I'm the magic part of this season. They're undefeated since being Will DeFries' Cowboys. You've been a fan for two weeks now? No, one. Just one? Just one, yeah.

Last week was when I watched them and I was like, you know what, this team's fun. And then this week I was like, yeah, they're my squad. They're still really fun. Dude, we are them boys. I forgot we're doing our windows up now with the weather being beautiful our window what is it windows open i guess is the better term or down

with the screen just kind of depends on your window no in the okay you're right okay i got you at home and uh as i'm as i'm doing my classic one hard clap yeah mother effer real loud and there's a neighbor like our houses aren't that far apart so i'm that guy they can deal my classic one hard clap, yeah, mother effer, real loud. And it was a neighbor. Like, our houses aren't that far apart. So I'm that guy. They can deal with it, dude. Let me tell you, as a Cowboys fan who also has C.D. Lamb on his fantasy football team, that last play was pretty electric for me to watch.

I mean, did you see these boys? Dude, how's your team doing, man? We're about to pull us to 3-3. We're in the thick. Cool, man. Yeah, we got some work to do, but We're about to pull us to three and three. We're in the thick. Cool, man. Yeah, we got some work to do, but we're there. Damn. Call you Larry Bird.

Let's talk about... Oh, weird. Speaking of birds, let's talk about bird dogs, my friends. Wow. That's a bird dog. That wasn't bad. It sounded more like a wolf. It's in the dog genus.

You thought it was John Duda? Yeah. It's in a wolf. It's in the dog genus. You thought it was John Duda? Yeah. It's in the species. It's in the family. What if I told the listeners out there that we had an opportunity for them to purchase some shorts that are not only the best and most comfortable pair of shorts that they've ever had, but they also have super soft built-in underwear? What if we got to put that out there to the people?

As someone who has owned these and worn them for a long time, it wouldn't be surprising to me. But if you're unfamiliar, yeah, that'd be some exciting news to hear. They're just out here kidnapping other people's people. Yeah, you know, we don't co-sign. We're not on board with kidnapping. But if you're going to do it, you might as well just go for the best designer in the game. Dude, they stole Lululemon's designer, and they're just doing it better now.

We should steal the best podcaster in the game. Let's steal Rogan. You just want to kidnap Joe Rogan? Yeah. Okay. Take a play out of Bird Dog's playbook. I don't know if I can lift Joe Rogan. I would not want to try to kidnap him.

No, he'd be a tough one to steal. He's like a bowling ball, a fire hydrant, or a thumb. If I was going to steal Joe Rogan, though, I'd probably do it wearing Bird Dogs, as they are very easy to do athletic things in. That's a great point. We should steal the Freakonomics guy. I'm sorry. He seems much more stealable than Joe Rogan. Yeah, I was thinking, like, Rogan's not

that stealable, plus Rogan's got some baggage, and I don't want to deal with it. Go get some bird dogs. Bird dogs, they're back, baby. Go to birddogs.com, enter promo code STEAM, and you'll get a special surprise in your package. Just think about that. That's birddogs.com, promo code STEAM, and boom.

You'll have to see what happens. I love my bird dogs. Bird dogs pants. They're my everything pants, Will. My happy hour pants, my golf pants, my lounging pants. Your lounging pants. They're my everything pants, Will. My happy hour pants, my golf pants, my lounging pants. Your lounging pants? I'll wear them at dinner. I don't care. They're my

beef pants. Do you smoke meat in them? I do. Wow. They pair well with beef. Speaking of beef, we're doing all the best segues today. Damn, Will. You're just... You see, some customer of Salt Be's is absolutely outraged right now that he had to pay $37,000 for his tab at Salt Bae's restaurant.

Is that dollars? Not dollars. Pounds. Sorry. English pounds. What's that conversion? British sterling. Someone look that up.

Pounds to dollars. Yeah. A Londoner who reportedly splashed out on a $37,000 dinner of food and drink at Salt Bay's restaurant in Knightsbridge was left outraged when the bill arrived. The meal for four people cost an eye-watering $37,023.10. Is that the word? I don't know.

Mike Pence. Yeah. What's the conversion, Doug? It looks like it's 50K. Yeah. A little slightly above, almost 51. All right. So the number one high ticket thing on here, actually there's two,

was the Golden Tomahawk Steak for $850 for pounds. Three herb crusted fries at $10 a pop. They also got what appears to be some bottles of champagne. That's what did them. And they got three bottles of champagne. One was a 1996 vintage for 9,100 pounds. And then the other ones, they got two of the 2003s. And those ran about 10,000 pounds each.

Was it the 03? Yeah, it was the 03. Oh, the Petrus 03? The only thing that makes sense about why this person would be upset to get this bill is if maybe the waiter or maybe they had a psalm there. I don't like my couple saying the full word. Just recommended something and they bought it without knowing the price.

Say the full word. Sommelier? Sommelier? Say the whole word as Christopher Walken. Sommelier. Sounds good to me. Is that perfect? It's pretty good.

Yes, can I talk to you? Sommelier. A lot of people say sommelier. Sommelier. Sounds good to me. Is that perfect? It's pretty good. Yes. Can I talk to you? Sommelier. A lot of people say Sommelier. Sommelier. No, but it's Sommelier. I said it better? I could be incorrect. Someone's definitely going to come at me for that.

I'd like to say Somm. Yeah. You can just say Somm. Because I'm not comfortable with that word. Yeah. So you shouldn't be surprised because you know that you're ordering. that word um yeah so you shouldn't be surprised because you know that you're ordering like if you were a 1996 bottle of whatever this is you know it's going to be pricey what were you doing in 96 if you're if the liquor you're drinking it's old enough to drink itself you're going to

be paying a lot of fucking money for that especially if you're at salt bay's restaurant i always like when something happens at salt Bays because everybody just posts about how shitty it is. Everybody's like, it's not that good. You're paying for the gimmick. The Golden Tomahawk, correct me if I'm wrong, it's like coated in gold, right? I don't know if this one was even coated. Oh, yeah, I guess it might have been. Well, this guy said, or no, never mind.

This was some commenter that said it. I'm not even going to repeat it. What's up with the baklava being 50 pounds, man? Have you ever had a waiter bring you wine that you did not realize was that expensive or was maybe the wrong one? There was a mix-up. Because this did happen to me in San Francisco. We were brought a...

It was like three of us or three couples. And they brought us like a $400 bottle that we did not order. Oh really? Like there was a mix up in the year or something. And it was kind of like a, uh, and then you feel bad. Cause like the waiter's probably going to have to eat this and you don't want that. Oh, the worst, the worst thing about that situation as a former waiter at a place that had very expensive bottles of wine is when you hear someone order that bottle of wine, you perk up and you're like, oh, this is going to be not only a great table, but I'm going to have a very good night financially.

And so if that's an error and if they don't want that, that's just going to completely derail. You've already spent that money by the time you're pouring that wine for them. Yeah. And it was really awkward because it wasn't – I mean, we were – we weren't, like, mad about it, but we were like, we don't want to be those people. But, like, we did – like, we got the bill and we looked because we drank the wine, right, obviously. And we were like, oh, this is really good. I drank the wine. So they billed you for the correct bottle, not the one that you asked for, correct?

Yeah. Yeah, okay. So we ended up getting a more expensive bottle than we wanted. And just kind of like, I don't know about this. And they were nice about it, but we gave the guy a healthy tip. I don't know if it was enough to cover the bottle. Hopefully they didn't. Hopefully it was a learning moment for him, and they brought him in the back,

and they said, hey do better we had a waiter recently that pulled up a pretty cool move with me I ordered a a mezcal Marg and they're like what kind of mezcal do you want I was kind of talking to I was like I don't really just whatever and he goes well let me recommend blank and I said okay that's fine and then five minutes later he walks back up he goes hey man um the one i recommended to you i'm sorry it's 64 a shot i don't know if you still want to stick with that one or not because it's more of like a sipping mezcal you know it's nothing for you

and i was like oh thank you for telling me please no i was just whatever's the cheapest one i thought that was a cool move well instead of just sticking me it would have been a really fucked up move had he just charged you 60 for a mezcal margarita yeah It was a cool move in the sense that he undid the uncool move. It was the right move. Yeah, it was the correct move. It's got to be kind of a fine line. You can speak to this as you were in the service industry, as you mentioned. Because you don't want to offend somebody by being like, hey, you sure you want this really expensive one?

Because you get a guy who's like, oh, what? You don't think I can afford it? Yeah, you got to feel out. Yeah, you got to be like, you just got to double's like, oh, what? You don't think I can afford it? Yeah, you've got to feel out. Yeah, you've got to be like. You just got to double and triple check it, right? I was lucky. I don't know if lucky is a word, but I was underage. So if somebody asked me for a recommendation,

I always went through the bar just to give them a recommendation because if someone's like, oh, what's a nice bourbon? I'd be like, I don't know, Jack Daniels? Yeah, what's this 16-year-old thing? I need to know what the 16-year-old prefers. Yeah. I used to drink in Jolt in Kentucky Deluxe on the weekend. Captain Morgan.

But because it was a wine-driven place, I did learn some various bottles that were good recommendations based on their budget, and so that was nice. But when it came to liquor and stuff, I was like, well, I don't fucking know. I'm drinking early times. So a lot of times when I was at Subway,

when somebody would order, they would like want double meat or something. I'd be like, okay, you sure you want double meat? You know it's going to cost you. And it was always tough because it's like you don't want to offend a person like I was mentioning. And like people are like, oh, you don't think I can afford double meat? Like, no, that's not what I'm saying. I just, I'm trying to be upfront here. It's a whole thing.

Then they left me off the schedule. I could see you being not allowed to use the register when you worked at subway why i don't know i was never a thief they no not because of that just like they just didn't trust you to work the register like they knew that you're gonna be giving people free double meat and stuff uh there was probably some of that going on one time working at singular wireless my drawer was short 100 bucks like exactly and they had like pulled the tape and like went through all this investigation i have no idea to this day what happened to the money i promise you it was very uncomfortable how long how many years was that investigation

it was it was a 10-year investigation really yeah they like interviewed me and they drilled me with questions it was it was tough so the guy who put $71 worth of pizza on the company card. I paid y'all back for that. You had a pizza party. You had a pizza party and didn't even invite us. I didn't have a pizza party. It sounds like it was a party. It was pizza for the whole fam.

$70 worth of pizza is always a party, no? That's a fair point. That's a good point, Dave. But, yeah, thenan uh yelled at me for drinking corona after hours in the um in the fridge at subway that's just bad boys shout out twan he's a good dude but i deserve to be yelled at me and my buddy norris were we uh we would skate we would skateboard behind in the alley behind Subway like in our breaks. Pretty much every Dave Ruff stereotype was achieved during my time at Subway.

Well, I respect that you would clear up by people that they could afford double meat. That's really big of you. Very big of you. The footlongs weren't always $5, Will. It's fair. Minus the champagne. What's the most egregiously priced item on this receipt? Let me pull it back up.

Oh, hold on. We got it here. Baklava is dessert, right? Yeah. And like that, you make that in a pan. Let's talk about that $11 Red Bull. 50 pounds per dessert is crazy. Should any asparagus ever cost $18?

No. Like, I don't see a world where I see that and feel good about it. A Red Bull for $11. Well, the four golden baklavas for $50 each, 50 pounds each, that's just absurd. That is absurd. Who are the four people at the table that are like, no, I want the gold one? There are 20 total

baklavas. That's a lot of baklavas. I don't know what a baklava is. That's why I'm being quiet. It's like a pastry of sorts. Yeah, it's I couldn of baklava's i don't know what a baklava is that's why i'm being quiet it's like a pastry of sorts yeah it's it's um i couldn't tell you what's in it is it nutty like it's like eastern european in origin or something i don't know brett brett had the one red bull i'm gonna tell you this if i ever get fu money i will never ever order a golden plated any any meat yeah i don't need gold on my meat you know what i'm just i'm just not ever going to go to salt based restaurant i would go if i would go for the gimmick what if he's not even there i'd go for the

gimmick he's probably not he's only one man right if he's not dripping salt down his forearm onto my steak. What's the point? That's a great point. Right. Thank you, David. You know who can afford them? That's just taking... What's the Snapchat thing say? What does that mean? That's just taking a piss.

No piss. Yeah, that just means you've got to be kidding me. Okay, is that cool English slang? Yeah. I thought so. If somebody says something and you don't believe it, it's like, are you taking a piss right now? You gotta be kidding me Okay is that like Is that cool English slang Yeah Like so if somebody's Yeah like If somebody says something And you don't believe it

It's like are you taking a piss right now Oh I've never heard that I'm surprised you haven't gotten that On Love Island I may have And I just didn't understand What they were talking about Yeah probably

You know who can afford this meal The Roy family Yes You guys ever heard of these people? Dude. This is our succession breakdown. We're going to break it down. This family, man.

What are they going to get into next? Always something with this family. You know what I mean? Anticipation was at an all-time high yesterday on the timeline for some succession. And I have to say, I'd like to give a special shout-out to HBO's app for not crashing. I'd like to give a special shout-out to them app for not crashing. I'd like to give a special shout out to them having it up on time. We actually started a minute early.

Are you kidding? 7.59 last night. Very cool. Will there be spoilers in this segment? Yes, so if you don't want to, if you don't care, I mean it's the debut episode. It's not like the spoilers are going to be that spoil-y, you know? But just fast forward to the Rothy's ad if you want to skip this entire part.

Please do. Listen to that Rothy's ad, though. I bet it's going to go hard. I wish I had watched a little bit of, like, maybe the last two episodes of season two. Yeah, I watched the finale of season two. And then right before I watched last night's episode. It has been how long since it was on there? Two years? Since season two, and then right before I watched last night's episode. It has been how long since it was on there? Two years?

Since season two, I mean. A year and a half? Has it been that long? We recapped season two during the first year that we had Circling Back. Okay, so 2019. Wow. There was a character or two last night that I did not remember whatsoever. Who?

Mainly in Logan's crew. The guy who, when Tom was in the bathroom on the phone with Shiv, and he's knocking on the door, I don't remember him. You might not remember him because I think he lost a shit ton of weight. Okay. And I don't know how he lost that weight. I don't know if it was because he was working out a lot, he got sick or what but like he he looks a lot thinner than he did before like the dude is in a classic movie from the 80s that we all know really well like nerds

or porkies something long is he the guy from porkies i don't think he was in porkies no a good movie though porkies um and then also i i didn't it took me a second to make it for it to click that that was Kendall's ex-wife's home. Mainly when they said, this is my ex-wife's home. Have we not met her before? No, we've met her numerous times. We have, but I just didn't remember her.

Yeah, so Sally did a full rewatch. She watched every second of season two before season three, and while I didn't do the full rewatch with her, I saw a significant amount, and I'm glad that I did. It had a lot of people. The one person that we didn't get last night rewatch with her. I saw a significant amount, and I'm glad that I did. It had a lot of people. The one person that we didn't get last night who I wanted more of is,

I need Stewie in the mix. He was mentioned. He was mentioned, but we need more Stewie. I hated the guy. Yeah, but that's why he's perfect. He's a great character. Is it safe to assume that we're all Team Kendall? Yeah, I am.

But I really like Jerry. Yeah, but Jerry has no... Jerry's fighting for herself. Sure. I was a little disappointed that immediately after the press conference that Kendall kind of reverted back to, like, I wanted him to stay in like killer mode.

Dude, he can't. He's not about that live. He needs, he's in outside approval mode at all times. He was challenged by Logan. He's like, you're not a killer. He's like, all right, bitch, watch this. And he went and he pulled that move in the press conference. I wanted him to just flip that switch and stay in like killer mode.

He was like, can you believe we just did? Like, I don't know. No, dude, he sat silently in a bathtub yeah kind of swag move they did uh we've all been there yeah they did kind of nip any any thought that like there might be some like this was a kendall logan like super meta collusion and what that's what I thought was going to happen. And it becomes very clear that that's not the case. The way the finale last season ended, it like zooms in on Logan as he's like watching the press comments.

And you kind of feel like he was proud of him in that moment. I think he was. There's a little grin. He's an absolute socio. So there's a scene in last night's episode where you have Logan sitting down in a chair looking at a view or something. I think they were maybe in an airport or something. And he's clearly more shook by the fact that Kendall made a move on him and not the fact that they need to clean up the mess from this move. Like, he was more focused on the fact that Kendall did this and not the fact that, like, they had a mess to clean up.

What was the line, I'm going to grind his bones to make my bread or something like that? That's one that I've used a lot in my personal life. That's pretty cold. Yeah, that's usually the first thing that comes to mind when I'm mad at somebody. Yeah. Do you think they just sit around and they just, like, start saying shit and they're like, yep, that's good, keep saying that? I don't know.

I think they do. I don't think there's any way – Well, I actually kind of know they do. If you guys check out Micah's Read of the Week featuring guest editor Will DeFreeze. Wow. I did a piece featuring Adrian Brody where he talks about how it's interesting to sit down and just hear the things that come out of people's mouths during the casual nature of taping the show. We didn't get to see any Adrian Brody last night, though. Wait, which character? What? Adrian Brody last night, though. Wait, which character? What?

Adrian Brody is in season three. Okay, this will be his first appearance? Correct. Dude, I was completely scrambled there. I was like, I don't remember him being a part of the show at all. He's going to be in season three at some point. Okay. Okay.

You know what? That's fine um hey check out his um introduction of sean paul as he hosted snl if you're dude if you really and see if you can make it more than 15 seconds if you can you gotta think he well he's banned for life from snl for that it's i don't even want to explain it it's hard it's hard to explain it's impossible to watch it's not a good watch. Oh, I missed this. This is from a long time ago. He takes introducing Sean Paul on...

He goes full chat. And he went off script. They're not supposed to do bits. And he got banned? Yeah, he's no longer allowed to do SNL. Question. It's not a good look. In season two, I know they reference the president they don't say

which president but was did uh what's his name kieran colkin um what's the kid's name um his name escapes me yeah mine too if you had all of us put me on the spot i would have known it immediately but um did he mention did he reference like the crazy in the white house so they loot like what are they saying like because that's a big player they're trying to get the white house to do we know eliminate any investigation do we know like what what party is in the white house right now no that's what i'm trying to say like they they won't they they i don't think that they've said like oh yeah we gotta talk to trump to Trump. We're old friends. I'm assuming, but he referenced, I feel like they've alluded to the crazy guy in the White House.

And I assume they're talking about the orange man. Roman is his name. Roman. Excuse me. I don't know. That's. Yeah. They probably, if you ask like the writers, it probably just allude to some figure who's

not an actual real president, you know, just. They are not touching COVID this season or at all. Succession is not. You knew that going in? Sally told me. Okay. And I actually very much appreciate that. I don't really feel like – you can tell that the morning show is going in the COVID direction

very aggressively. And I'm excited to see what they do with it, but I don't want every single show that I watch to be covering COVID. Yeah. So Shiv is obviously going I watch to be covering COVID. Yeah. So Shiv is obviously going to go to Kendall's side. That's what it looks like. This puts Tom in a compromising position. But you have to think that just based on the general public sentiment towards Tom and Greg, that Tom is going to flip as well because his wife and his best little buddy Greg is over on Kendall's side.

How did Greg get wrapped up in the whole Kendall thing? He's just like chaperoning the – He's got the proof. He's got the papers. Because when they were burning the papers, when he and Tom were burning the papers, he decided to take a bunch of them, and I think Kendall knows that. I could be wrong. But when – yeah, when Kendall went to – like flew to the press conference,

But, yeah, when Kendall flew to the press conference, he took a helicopter to a PJ to a vehicle. Greg was with him. I was wondering why he went along for that ride. No comment. No comment. You don't have to say that. And so he just kind of defaults on Kendall's team because he was there with him. Good.

I want that. I want that. I like Greg and Kendall together. They make me happy. I'm glad. I want that. I like Greg and Kendall together. They make me happy. I'm glad to have the show back. I wasn't really looking forward to it. It was just like, oh yeah, I'll definitely watch, but it wasn't, I wasn't ready. Like I do wish I'd gone back. I still might go watch season two again. The show gets me really horny for just just corporate uh corporate you know boardroom stuff legal stuff um you know you're like oh man this would be awesome to be like this big high-powered corporate attorney representing the biggest media conglomerates in the world and then you remember it's like well realistically

i'm probably just going to represent like a pest control company in lubbock that like is is getting evicted and it's nothing like that then i, yeah, I think I made the right choice here. Personally speaking. I'm the opposite of you, and I was the most horny you could be to have this show back. The timeline was very thirsty yesterday. It was. Barrett called people out, and while that might have been a fair tweet,

I thought it was like, come on, Barrett, don't rain on everyone's parade. We're having fun out here. Are they not doing the show? He just made fun of the Twitter sphere, talking about how excited everybody was. Do you want to read the tweet, Dave? You want me to read it as Barrett?

Hey guys, just wanted to do a tweet about Succession because it's like the best show and oh my god, Roman is so funny and him and Jerry lol cringe and like all the characters are so bad but I love them lmao it's so good you have to watch and did I tell you about cousin Greg yet he's

yeah check out club cool okay subscribe that's that's a good Barrett why is that Barrett it's a good Barrett it's a good Barrett. Why is that Barrett? It's a good Barrett. It's a good Barrett. It's a good Barrett. It's a good Barrett.

They're definitely doing the show on OCC. You have to. It's a succession. It's like the most popular show going right now. It's a good show. Besides Squid Game. This guy responds, I'm sure OCC introduced a lot of people, myself included, to the show way back in season one.

You could think of it that way instead of being butthurt that everyone else finally caught on. Bear's just ruffling feathers out here. You'd love to see it. He's edgy, man. He's mixing it up. Kind of like the intersection of style and pop culture. Man, we're talking about pop culture right now, but I think we're about to talk style because I'm seeing some Rothy's stuff on the TL right now.

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He is into Pokemon. He's Pikachu for Halloween. Does he have Pokemon cards? He does have Pokemon cards, yeah. Actually, we played yesterday. What would he do? I don't really know how to play, but I just do what he tells me to do. So you have the swear jar and the thumb-sucking jar, right?

That is accurate, yes. What would he do if instead of having a swear jar or a thumb-sucking jar, that every time he did something wrong, you burned one of his Pokemon cards? Ooh, he would probably stop sucking his thumb immediately because he is very into Pokemon at the moment. Are you guys familiar with Liz Mayer? Not Liz Fair, Dave. I know you're a big fan.

Supernova. The swear part of the swear jar is for Dave. I know you're a big fan. Supernova. The swear part of the swear jar is for me. I know. Not for him. He doesn't cuss. You're a cuss boy, though. I let one slip yesterday, yeah. So Liz Mayer, who's apparently some kind of Republican person.

Communication strategist. Yeah, she strategically communicates with people. She definitely has a line to Logan Roy. She says, she tweeted, and this set the timeline on fire. She tweeted, she said, I've resorted to burning Pokemon cards as a punishment when my kid doesn't do the basic stuff he has to do. What you ask qualifies as baking or as basic stuff?

Well, it says eating. She clarified, he comes home without having eaten any of his lunch. Card burnt. He doesn't of his lunch. Card burnt. He doesn't eat enough dinner. Card burnt. Bear in mind, my kid is about 4'6 at age 7 and yet weighs less than 55 pounds. He needs to put some weight on, specifically muscle. Okay.

Wait a minute. Is this serious? Yes. So the punishment isn't for bad behavior. It's for not eating enough? Not eating. What the hell is going on here? She's not putting on enough muscle mass,

so she's burning his Pokemon cards like they're going out of style. Is 55 pounds small for a 7-year-old? I couldn't tell you how big a 7-year-old is supposed to be. How big is the homie? So Parks is 6. His birthday is in February, and Parks weighs 40 pounds. So Parks is a very small kid for his age. Okay. He's like single-digit percent 40 pounds. So Parks is a very small kid for his age. Okay.

He's like single-digit percentile weight. How tall is he? He is currently about 44, 45 inches. Okay. So he's four feet tall? He's just under four feet. Okay. So he's got six inches before he needs to be at 55 pounds where this kid is.

Yeah, this kid's a lot bigger than Parks. He's a year older. So are you going to start burning his Pokemon cards? No, but I have been very concerned about how much my son is eating, which is not very much. I've talked to his doctor about it. I feel like that's a problem on the rise, his kids not eating. Because I'm not going to call anybody out,

but I have a family member who's a very picky eater. And I feel like it's something I'd never really heard about until recently. I don't know. I mean, I've been very concerned about it so much so that i've i've had talks with his mom about it i've talked to other parents i've talked to his doctor his doctor said don't worry about it kids just hit growth spurts at different times um when he when he's ready to start growing he's gonna his appetite will pick up so i'm trying to talk myself down a little bit but but it does upset me. Have you thought about burning his dinosaurs? No, no.

Which one would you burn first? I wouldn't do it, Dave. But let's just say. He's a big dino guy. Yeah, I know. I didn't even have to think about it until right now. I mean, what, Fritz is about six months old? I haven't had to punish him for anything.

He's a baby. Yeah, yeah. I don't want to punish my child. I'm not ready for this i've like begged him to eat more and he gets upset it's been this whole thing it really concerned me i feel bad when i like tell him to stop like if he's like pulling my hair or you know ripping trying to trying to smack a glass in my hand i'm like stop i'm like oh man sorry bud i'm just'm just kidding. Fritz has discovered my beard. Yeah. He really enjoys tugging on it. It's a tuggable beard. As it turns out, I don't enjoy him tugging on it.

Aw. But I let him do it. That's a little Fritzy. I let him do it. Driving roads to his nanny today, I look in the rearview mirror, and you've got the mirror back there in the car seat. And I see him, and Randy's got his head there. And I see Randy's cheek, his little getting pulled out.

He's got a hold of Randy's whisker. Aw. And Randy's like, I was like, oh, dude, no, please, you know. You can only take so much of that. It's a cute scene, though. It is, but I feel bad for Randy having to just take it. When you were a kid, what was the worst punishment that you could get from your parents for acting up? Gosh. My mom did something for acting up? Gosh.

My mom did something real messed up to me. We had a card store called The Game in the town over. It took about 15 to 20 minutes to drive there. And they had the best card selection out of anybody. Not Pokemon cards. I'm talking sports cards. Yeah. And it was called The Game.

And my mom hated going there because I would beg her to go there pretty much every day because I loved sports cards. I would always try to get like expensive cards and she got tired of telling me like no i'm not going to spend 30 on a damon stoudemire fucking card that sounds sick yeah but you wish you would have now i know i know and so uh i did something that was a very minor offense in my opinion and instead of like punish me accordingly she banned me from going to the game for a month and it was solely so she didn't have to worry about it but now i'm a father i'm like i get it yeah i get it if i can x that out i'm gonna do that my parents are just always threatened to send me to wayfair really yeah the dave armoire to to traffic you yeah they're gonna send me out

trafficking i don't know about that. Jesus. Is that how Wayfair gets their kids? They just find kids that are in trouble and then acquire them? They're like, you know, if you want to punish your kid, you can just send them our way.

Dave, I see that you're on Liz's timeline. Does she have any other stuff? Is she in trouble now? She's a tweeter. She seems scorched earth. I was trying to find... I was trying to find the tweeting question here, but she's a tweeter. October 17th appears to be a day where she was just going in.

She looks like a fake human. She looks like a character out of an SNL skit. Who are you talking about? It's Liz Mayer. I don't know who this person is. She's the one who's burning her kids know who this person is. The person where, she's the one who's burning her kid's Pokemon cards, dude. Oh, that's her name.

We're doing a seg. You're not a fan of the noted Republican strategist, Liz Mayer? Rank your top Republican strategist. I don't want to. I'm not going to do that. Yeah, I don't know.

It seems a little unnecessary. The whole burning, maybe throw them away or just rip them in half. I mean, burning them is a whole thing. Maybe throw them away. Or just rip them in half. I mean, burning them is a whole thing. Just take them away. Yeah, you don't... You don't have to burn them.

The kid's not even acting up, man. He's just not... He's not hung... He's not... Come on. Should we start doing this to Randy when he acts up in the studio? Start burning his Pokemon card? Yeah.

I'm going to burn his... Devastate him. Randy's... Randy has to... Instead of putting stuff in the Island Boy jar, Randy has to put a Pokemon card? Yeah. I'm going to burn his Pokemon card. I'm going to devastate him. Randy has to, instead of putting stuff in the Island Boy jar, Randy has to put a Pokemon card in there and we'll burn him

when we have time. You know when they do the, when you become a made man in the mob and they burn the saint card in your hand and you have to hold it in there as it burns?

We should do that to all new employees with a Pokemon card. Okay. They have to hold it in there and then they take the oath. I'm fine with that. Is that what you have to do when you're a made man?

I haven't become a made man yet. Allegedly. I'm still waiting for the books to open back up. What exactly does that mean, to be a made man? You're made, dude. Imagine not knowing. Bro, have you not seen Casino or Goodfellas? Yeah, but I've never fully understood

what that means you're untouchable you're protected yeah you're protected and uh except for by the higher-ups the bosses yes you have to have approval to go out yeah someone someone steps you in public and you got you got a bunch of people behind you going oh no one's truly safe in that life please oh hey have you watched the Have you watched the Sopranos movie yet? I'm not going to. Okay. I'm avoiding it. I don't know.

There's been such accusations of overacting that I just don't know if I'm ready for it. I don't know if I'm ever going to watch it. Sorry. It's okay.

I want to. I want to support it. Why did Netflix do it and not HBO? Or am I wrong in that? Was it not Netflix? It was HBO. Okay. I want to support it. Why did Netflix do it and not HBO? Or am I wrong in that? Was it not Netflix? It was HBO? Okay.

I was going to say, that's a weird move. Can we skip this next story so we can get to Brett's breaking news and really party in here today? Wait, what's the next story? It was a lame story that I just put in here. It's about a South Carolina elementary school teacher who was arrested after she had some edibles in the reward box. Marijuana edibles. Yeah. I was going to piggyback off that and talk about all the warnings that come out this time of year about trick-or-treating and how dumb it is. Oh, yeah.

No one's giving away edibles. Yeah, what's up with the syringe hidden in your Snickers bar? I hate when that happens. Right? If there were actually people in Austin handing out edibles, I think we would all be showing up there. Do you think that they're going to put the Edmund Fitzgerald in a Snickers bar, Will? Maybe. They might. Are you referencing a great're going to put the Edmund Fitzgerald in a Snickers bar, Will? Maybe. They might.

Are you referencing a great boy? No, what was it? I don't know. One of those trash can Paul. Amazing. That's so stupid. What's up with that breaking news though? Dude, it's presented by CrowdHealth, baby. You know, no more than half of Americans are on a high deductible health insurance

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Had a good time with Dave and Will. Dude, new haircut Brett was on a fucking prowl. Sorry, I missed you. You're looking good. Thank you. That is a good look. On a prowl to have fun and drink beers, not to like. Oh, yeah.

No, no, no. I'm just saying he was just out there. Promiscuous boy. Just a weapon. I'd never seen it styled. What did you think? I was like, okay, Brett, we get it. You're tall.

Let's go. I was like, okay, Brett, we get it. You're tall. Let's go. The Dell Technologies match play thing being hung up are throwing me off. Yeah, I think Randy did this on Friday after I left the studio. And I have to say, it's kind of tying the room together a little bit. Randy, I do appreciate you leaving space for mine, which is at home. I need to bring it in.

Bring it in, please. Yeah, that was thoughtful of you. Would you like to go? Oh, how's your neck? We're on the road to recovery. Okay. Yeah, it's definitely a lot better than it was the other day. Was it because you were blowing people's backs out on the dance floor?

No, no. No, it wasn't that. It's not it, but I was doing that. I did have major concerns about your back and neck situation at the wedding. I was like, Dylan's going to leave at like 9. He's going to call an Uber and go home because he's going to be like, I can't even dance. No, no. Get out of here with that.

I can't dance. Call an Uber in from the drip. I'm not doing that. I did say, Randy and I made it to the after party. That makes two of us. From there, did you make it to the hotel lobby? No. I knew that if I went to the after party,

we were going to be on Will's zombie alert, so I decided to not go to the after party. My bus didn't get back until 1230. And I was like, best case, I get down there at one, and then I've got, what, 40 minutes, 45 minutes? And then not an insignificant drive back. Or we would have Ubered Or I would have Ubered back

No way Alyssa was going to make it And it was just Yeah So I apologize To everybody I told Hey I'll be at the after party I called it I knew you weren't going

Yeah Well you didn't go either Yeah I said that too Well you know You kind of had an air about you In the comment Made me feel bad

Brad break some news Would you like to Break some news So we can break this tension. Antiques, niche Austin real estate, or Taco Bell? Well, can I get a clarification

out there before we answer which one we want to go with? Sure. Is this antiques like old things or is this antiquing like when you take some flower and throw it in your boy's face? It's more of a business model

that was illegal that involves antiques. I wish it would have been the thing you referenced. But I definitely want to hear about it. Sure, we'll go there. Shouts to KJ for this story. Murdad Sadegh, who has operated Sadegh Gallery

in Midtown Manhattan since 1982, he's been selling counterfeit artifacts from like Egypt for decades. Love that. He's been saying, oh yeah, these were taken from the tombs. Oh, my tombs. And he said he was driven by

financial greed in the official plea agreement. Hell yeah, that's pretty much it. Love that. That's very forthcoming. He would also convince people to write fake positive reviews about his store. That's like every business. That's every dry cleaner in the metropolitan area.

He would also... He hired a company to bury negative reviews on Google. Love that. So they would just farm positive reviews, which I don't think is what we do. No, it's definitely what we do. Right. It's definitely what we do. We pay them with content.

Yeah. The reviews that I read at the beginning of every Monday episode, we write those. But part of me is like, you know, he hustled for 30 years. He was pulling us off for 30 years? Yeah. Did he have any legitimate? I feel like he should be like grandfathered into just doing it legally at this point. They look fucking real too.

I mean, these things are like. Look at those. He's got like the sphinx. He has so many of them. It's like that would raise a red flag to me. How did you acquire all this? How did you get all these, dude? A sphincter says what?

Wow. Got him. You see Wayne's World? You're familiar with Taco Bell, right, Dave? No. Sometimes you got to live Moss. Right, the student section thing. Well, you're aware of the crunchy chicken taco sandwich.

Is it a sandwich? The thing is, so many people had that idea, Dave, that it's now gone. They're sold out. The limited time offer is over. Was this a sandwich that has the chicken as the bun? Correct. Well, apparently. No, no, no, no.

The bun. It's like a half taco, half sandwich situation. Oh, that, that, that. It's almost like a hot dog. Because when they were doing the... They had a sandwich that had chicken as the bun. Or was that KFC? One of them had it and keto people went crazy for it. If you're keto...

You're not eating KFC if you're keto. Posers, posers. Just saying. I know, I'm just saying. Just want to congratulate Taco Bell on the success of their limited time offer. Are they trying to take a page out of Popeye's book where it's like, we just can't keep these things in stock. Maybe we'll bring it back like eight months from now. Undoubtedly. With a Twitter campaign that goes viral.

Correct. That's what they're doing. I just want to say they executed well on part one of that plan. Congratulations. Honestly, I would like to try it. well on part one of that plan. Congratulations to them. Honestly, I would like to try it. And now I can't. Too late, man. Too late, dog.

They had too many good tweets like Kendall wanted. What was your... More good tweets. After we got blitzed on Saturday with John Duda and co. What was your meal order? Oh, it was... I've never heard of this chicken poise, but I had, I was at the Mean Eyed Cat.

I called my Uber. Cool spot. I postmated. They're back. A meal. I know. I know. Like to meet me at my house or to be at my house when I got back and we arrived at the

perfect time. We were synced up. Really? So I had basically chicken strips and waffle fries, but they were waffle fries that tasted like they had the Arby's curly fries seasoning on them. Now we're talking, David. Drop the at. I'm going to drop the at.

While Dave does that, Will, what did you do? I ended up ordering some pizza from Fantasma, which is right down the street from my old apartment, but I was very into the idea of having some thin crust pizza so I ordered them to the place for Sally and then by the time I got home it was still warm baby I was just feasting

Sam's crispy chicken shout out to you what neighborhood are they in? I think it's in the downtown area place looks great, David. I have to admit. I went Domino's and it was phenomenal, as always. I think you would like it.

I think everybody here would. I almost... They got a good menu. Anyway, the last story I have is Niche Austin Real Estate. Because I've been exonerated. No one ever doubted... We doubted you the first time you dropped this. Mako is officially closing October 27th.

I think you just got lucky here because you talked about this so long ago that there couldn't have been plans for a closure at some point. The only reason I knew it was going to happen was because the development filings take years to do, and they're going to build a 60-story tower, which will be Austin's second-highest building, on top of it. The up-in-the-air part of it was they didn't know if it was going to be mixed-use,

so it would be retail on the bottom floor. So there was a potential in for Mako to stick around after construction, like Container Bar is doing, at their high-rise. Yeah, but everyone knows that once the high-rise goes above you, that business is going to absolutely tank. Yeah, this city, man. This city-rise goes above you, that business is going to absolutely tank. So Mako has

nine days left, which I will be attending because I've never had their sake, mac, and cheese. No one needs sake, mac, and cheese. What did you call it? Sake, mac, and cheese. Okay. No one needs that. That is unnecessary. Call it the Hill Country.

Dude, it's Happy hour, but in reverse. Dave, speaking of the Hill Country, I'm glad you went there. Violet Crown Amphitheater is coming to the Hill Country. I call it home. 20,000-seat amphitheater with a 96-bay driving range, two apartment towers complete with pools. And it's at the corner of Southwest Parkway and 71. So Dylan and I have a driving range in town. That's fantastic.

Because this is one of the worst driving range towns in the world. Agreed. I can't tell you a worse one. Saratoga had like four. Or at least major towns. I can't tell you a worse one that I've ever been to. You're right. It is bad.

It's trash. They took the one that was near me. They tore it down and put it up like a hospital. Okay. Yeah, I'm trying to piss on it. Yeah, I'm trying to flop shot. Did you hit the range at all at Coronado Municipal Golf Course? I did.

I enjoyed that range because it's one of the only ranges I've ever been to where there are numerous people walking around giving unsolicited swing tips. Wait, really? Yes. I've never seen so many parking lot dudes just be like, oh, yeah, no, you got a little caught up there. Try to get those hands down fast. I had fun at that course, man.

It's an awesome place. Yeah. I like how this is just one dude who's like an old guy who owns a property development place now. He retired from his previous job and just wants to build his dream. He's like building Jerry World for himself. He wants a dope music venue, but he has to have a driving range too. Also a distillery and tasting room. I always say when I'm hitting golf balls, He's like, he wants a dope music venue, but he has to have a driving range too. Also, a distillery and

tasting room. I always say when I'm hitting golf balls, I'm like, man, I wish there was like a concert going on. Wait, where is this going again? The intersection of Southwest Parkway and 71, heading out towards B2. So it's five minutes from me and eight minutes from Dylan.

Just keep going up the hill past Conner. Very sick. Very sick. Very cool. What's the expected? When are they breaking ground? Later this year with the driving range completed in spring 2023. Distillery and tasting room in summer 2023. Distillery and tasting room. Correct.

So I can go hit balls. Yep. I can go listen to a cover band. Not only is there the big music venue, there's an acoustic music venue. Oh, yeah. And also... Let's get Twiddle up in there. This is cool, I guess. It's cool. I mean, I'm never going to go to this place, I'll just be

clear. A life-altering... No, we're going to go. It's in the hill country? It's like just past my house. Yeah, you live too far away though, dog. I don't live that far away. In the middle of the hill country. It would take, well, 14 minutes to drive from his front door to my front door. I'll show you 14 minutes.

I'm just tired of them paving paradise to put up a driving range. I'm not. We need at least two. Put up a driving range. That's one I'd be like, you know what? Pave the hell out of it. Why don't we ever go to Topgolf? You guys are both big Topgolf guys. This place stinks. It's far. That's one I'd be like, you know what? Pave the hell out of it. Why don't we ever go to Topgolf? Because you guys are both big Topgolf guys.

Place stinks. It's far. It's far. I don't want to go to the domain. It stinks. It's a golf. Not even going to entertain that question after my experience at Topgolf. You were in a league.

A league? Trey Kennedy scarred him. Yeah. Trey Kennedy was the cherry on top of the league. The league had me out on Topgolf and then Trey Kennedy. The fact that Topgolf allows people to just steal other people's food right out from under their noses, I just can't fuck with that. Their wings.

Beer sports. Yeah. Shout out to Trey. Do we need to leave? Yeah, it's time. Hey, go buy a candle. VeloBox.com slash circling dash back. Do you even burn?

Circling dash back. Okay. You questioning my URL? It just sounded weird. Never question my URL. I learned that lesson the hard way. Bye.