Circling Back - Pulling It Back

Episode Date: June 1, 2020

Addressing the events from this past weekend, Dave officially has Diverticulitis, El Negro The Chilean Protest Dog, a Florida high school that held its graduation on jet skis, and NASA chief "all in" for Tom Cruise to film on the space station. We also dip into which stores we'd most want to work at in the mall. Support us on Patreon and receive weekly episodes for as low $5 per month: www.patreon.com/circlingbackpodcast (0:00) Fun & Easy Banter (12:24) Addressing This Weekend's Protests (25:50) Dave Has Diverticulitis (36:20) El Negro The Chilean Protest Dog (41:49) Florida High School Jet Ski Graduation (50:43) Tom Cruise Filming In Space Crossrope: www.crossrope.com/circlingback (up to $40 off Crossrope sets plus free shipping) Postmates: Download the Postmates app and use CIRCLING for $100 in delivery credits --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/circling-back/message Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

all right we're back circling back podcast coming to you live from the lodge my name is will to freeze to my right david ruff can i share a little story from last week that I don't think we've talked about? Sure. Because I missed last Thursday's pod. More on that later. So I was standing out there talking in our lobby here at our office, talking to our old lawyer pal, Tim, who has a place in this office complex. in this office complex and i'm dressed wearing like uh some some joggers like a t-shirt a hat and um my my jordan won lucas i i was just giving a run like i they haven't got much play they've been in quarantine they've been isolating yeah you've been no one no one's been hornier to get a fit off with their new lucas and like you've been. So we just were talking right there, and a young lady from one of the offices next door

walked up to me with a trash bag and asked if I was the maintenance guy. And was like, do you know where I can get a maintenance guy? Where can I throw this away? And I was very surprised with how gassed up I felt. That's such a bold assumption to make about somebody. I was like, no, I get that a lot. And she kind of was embarrassed, and she walked off and didn't say anything. Like, didn't say a thing, just in defeat.

But I was like, if she's listening, that was the biggest compliment you could have ever given me. The fact that you thought I was competent enough to be a maintenance man to do some like actual man work dude around here like no one's wearing fresh jays out the box straight to their maintenance gig no it's not happening no do they have any creases on them there's no creases see like he's one like once before like i need how would i even kneel on those to like to like you know check under the sink or something yeah like you yeah you can't go down and fix a pipe with Lucas on. I went to a bar one time. It was a ski area, and I was skiing,

and I had a red fleece, and the red fleece, I would wear it as a layer. And what I learned at the ski area that I didn't go to all that often is that the uniform for that same place is just the exact same red fleece and black pants. So my black snow pants and red fleece just made me look like I worked there. I had people hailing me down for a drink order, and it's like, no, dude, I don't work here.

Stop. The funniest is when you see somebody who looks like a waiter at Olive Garden. I don't know why. It's just a funny thing. Like, dude, are you serving breadsticks, bro? Dude, yeah. I'll take some breadsticks right now. Are they doing curbside?

It's hard to say. When someone does khakis and a navy blazer and a tie over a white shirt, which is like the pledge. Yeah, the pledge uniform. That one's always funny. Oh, we got a lineup later, buddy? What's going on here? See, I'm glad i don't

think about that you're fucked tonight oh you're just at a wedding just pump faking dudes like making fun of their outfit you guys are so fucked dude that the blazer with khakis in a white shirt is is a look that just maybe outside of john duda it just it's a look that just maybe outside of John Duda it just it's a look that you shouldn't wear after well like 18 like the thing is like after your confirmation like that's probably what I would have worn to our rehearsal dinner in Michigan had we like had we done it there I probably would have been wearing that exact same thing because I don't have it in my head that that's what pledges wear before you acquire your first like real suit that's as nice that's as nice as you can look. That's like, you know, as an 18-year-old, that's fancy for you. Every kid gets a – or not every kid, but growing up,

you have your go-to blazer with the gold buttons that makes you look like Spalding in Caddyshack. It's some cheap brand, and you look like a bootleg Ralph Lauren model. And then you get to the age where your dad starts being like, well, I can just start giving you my hand-me-downs. are just it it's some cheap brand and like you look like a bootleg Ralph Lauren model and then you get to the age where your dad starts being like well I can just start giving you my hand me downs and I'm like well dad like my dad started doing it to me and I'm like dad like our bodies are kind of shaped differently no offense and also like the style is a little different these days I can't just walk in with like an MJ fitting suit on at church that's not

gonna be like a good look for me like people my friends are going to make fun of me in this. I used to try my dad's suits on when I was a kid and slick my hair back and walk out and say I was Pat Riley. It was pretty sick. Wish I could still do that, but I'm balding. So not to bring it down, but we're all right.

What's up Dylan? Oh, wow. I forgot that we haven't done that yet 444 Hey guys, very happy to be here A wild weekend, we'll get into it I'm sure But very happy to be here

Like I said, I got the homie with me again Schools are not open yet Or summer day camps I should say Are not quite open yet So he's with me out there on the iPad Just going to town on it It's a good day You love to hear it Not quite open yet, so he's with me out there on the iPad, just going to town on it. It's a good day, you know?

You love to hear it. Yeah. He's not flexing very hard with his outfit today. No, I let him pick out his outfit today, and he put on those pants. I was like, it's going to be a little bit warm outside. He goes, Daddy, these are really comfortable. I was like, you know what? All right, I respect that. So do your thing.

That's good fathering right there. You're allowing him to get a fit off without you weighing in. That's his version of a fit, yeah. Oversight? Sure. Is he going to look back at his Supreme shirt and be like, what were my parents doing? I don't know.

Or is he going to look back fondly on it like we did with Stussy and Umbro's? Man, that was so swagged out back then. I feel like the Stussy and Umbros stuff was my doing. I got to pick that stuff out. But before that, I was just wearing cheap pullovers that said soccer on them and had an embroidered soccer ball. We had some brand. I don't know what it was, but it had a frog on it. It was not Peace Frog.

It was like if Peace Frog had a couple beers and got like a little wild with it but we started wearing this like sock it was all soccer gear and these frogs were kind of just wild ass and we would just wear that i just thought it was the tightest shit in the world my mom always begged me to wear a polo shirt and to comb my hair back so he just let it either had like it spiked when i was a kid or i let it just fall in my face and she was like please just brush it back one time for me we had a kid that started he moved to our place he immediately became one of our friends in our friend group and he would wear a button down and khakis tucked in every single day to school and immediately upon my dad meeting this kid my dad was just like why can't you dress more like andrew and i'm like dude dad this is ridiculous i can't

be wearing this to school every day. I'm supposed to go skateboard after school and my button down tucked in? Andrew's a boner, dad. No, dude. Andrew was tight, but I was like, why is he doing this? Before his time, man.

I remember senior year, he showed up to school one day in a t-shirt and everybody was just like, oh, what are you doing, Andrew? Damn, Andrew. Andrew snapped. He wasn't back at it again, though. He was just doing his own thing.

Fourth grade, I was probably one of the more popular kids at that time. Flex. And I remember when a new kid came in, Marcus. You just beat the piss out of him? No, no, dude. He would have whipped my ass. His hair, he did the thing where he had it shaved all the way up on the left side and then parted and then combed over to the other side.

That's hard. And he had under the other side shaved also, but the hair was long enough to cover that. Skater vibes. He's a skater. He wasn't even a skater, though. And he just had this haircut, and he immediately was, like, the bad boy of fourth grade. And, like, I lost, like, people, like, I could feel, like, me losing eyeballs. Like, I was like, oh, what's going on?

What am I doing? Dude, I remember one time, I think it was first or second grade, and I was always kind of known in my class as a kid that was good at drawing. And then this new kid came in. His name was DeLoss, and he was the best artist in our class, hands down. No questions asked. I didn't know what to do. I was like, my identity just got stripped of me

because DeLoss just rolled into class just like drawing up a storm. Is that the only other person you've ever heard with that name besides DeLoss Dodds? DeLoss Dodds, yeah. I'll tell you guys, I don't want people to like go check this kid out or anything. I don't know what he's up to these days.

But when I tell you his last name off air, you're going to be like, damn, this guy's hard. It's a tight name. Yeah, he was cool. The loss. Dude, we got big news right now. Big news. Dylan? Oh, wow.

Sorry. That was my cue. I totally missed it. We have a new sponsor alert. New sponsor. I feel like you're not putting as much into your sponsor alert stuff You caught me totally off guard alerting new sponsor. Yeah, it's not really that sponsor alert if that alert goes off my phone I'm snoozing that vacation. I get it. I dropped the ball here. Yeah, nonetheless. We have a new sponsor

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Do you guys mind if we get serious for a sec yeah I think we probably should Dave you put up a I don't know what do you want to call it I want to call it

like a statement but you put up some thoughts that we all share on the Patreon yesterday open to everybody if you want to go check it out

at patreon.com slash circling back podcast damn was it a column it's not behind the paywall just to get that out there it is not behind the paywall. You know what's funny about that? I had that thought, like, I was like, man, we don't really have anywhere else.

I'm not going to do this in the Notes app. And I don't want to just do, like, two or three tweets. I don't want to do a tweet thread. But I was like, man, people are going to see that it's on Patreon. Are they going to think we're trying to, like, direct eyeballs to our Patreon? And I was like, man, I really don't have any other option. No, you didn't. We could have put it on the WASH site, but like honestly putting it on Patreon.

We do columns on Patreon on occasion. Yeah, and doing it on the Patreon is much more efficient when it comes to getting direct feedback from like our most valued people. We value all of our listeners. Oh, that's true. Part of the part of the thing that we like on patreon it just going there and having the comment section there having a bunch of people that get notifications for it it's just a lot easier for us to do it that way

sure yeah um if i stumbled through this at all like i apologize i didn't have the best night's sleep just kind of kept waking up little things you know randy woke up with randy taking up like two-thirds of the bed somehow oh as as someone who wakes up with rosie with her butt on one pillow and her face on the other pillow sally and i know exactly what you're talking about yeah it was weird um but yeah i mean i on this like we're you know we're a serious pot or we're not a serious podcast we um often we'll go, you know, we're a serious pod, or we're not a serious podcast. We often will go back and forth from serious topics like this to something like a reference, like human decanting or, I don't know, killer cardio.

But we talked about it a little bit last week with the murder of George Floyd. And it came up because we saw something trending on Twitter. We didn't know what it was. We were like, why is that trending? And then so we talked about it briefly. And then we jumped because we saw something trending on Twitter. We didn't know what it was. We were like, why is that trending? And then so we talked about it briefly. And then we jumped into something else, which is fine. But it's like, man, I feel like that didn't do it justice. So I wanted to put it down just so it's clear because we may not always strike

the right note in here. And at least that's how I view it. Like I'm self-conscious about that. Well, for me, on Wednesday, when we talked about it, when I woke up that morning and when I started preparing for the show, when I was in here, I wasn't even looking at the internet. I have bouts of time when I'm not really looking. It was fairly fresh, too. Dylan was the first person to be like,

I remember you were on your laptop and you were like, oh my God, this is awful. And then the second I saw it, I was like, like oh like i mean it was indescribable and i feel bad because i didn't really say anything and as someone who as i was talking to sally yesterday and i said to her i was like i don't like getting political i don't like talking about these serious topics because i'm not always that educated in it i'm not always the best orator when it comes to talking about afraid of saying something that can be misconstrued and people will take the wrong way and the way that sally said it to me yesterday

before we posted anything she was like well this is like even though there are political views on this like taking an anti-racism stance is not political that's right and so it was like and she kind of i don't want to say she convinced me because i was planning on doing something i just didn't know what i was going to do yet or say yet and this was mainly from scaries because i'm the only person that runs that account it's like the biggest account and i we had already talked briefly between the three of us about dave doing something for circling back and the more i talked about it with her the more i was like okay like she's right using your platform for good is something that i try to do during coronavirus it's something that uh i hadn't put too much thought into through the weekend just because

work wasn't on my mind but then it became very evident to me that silence is just as difficult to grapple with than saying the wrong thing. It goes completely against my nature to speak out on things. It's easy for me to just sit back and let other people do it and get the word out. I'm like, yeah, I agree with what the person has to say. It's just totally against my nature. we do have a platform though i mean enough people care about what we have to say that they subscribe to our podcast and they even pay us money for you know our premium content and they follow us on social media they care enough about what we have to say to where it kind of becomes a duty at some point to like, like you said,

not speaking out or not saying anything. You're complicit to some extent. Yeah. So it becomes your duty at some point to be like, look, this is not right. We acknowledge that. Just so you guys know we're behind you, that kind of thing. It's using your platform for good. It becomes a duty at some point.

Exactly. It's fun. Like our, our platform, our small to midsize platform, but one that has like, you know, a great audience, highly engaged. I was thinking about doing it on Friday and then Saturday. And I was like, man, I just couldn't like, I couldn't get in the right headspace to like say what I wanted to say. And then part of me was like, man, there's so many more intellectually gifted people with takes on this that can put it into words.

And actual people of color saying things about this that are way better at it than I could be. And then at the same time, it's like, well, I've got to put something down. And I guess that was yesterday. Just did it. I haven't written in down. And, yeah, I guess that was yesterday. Just did it. I haven't written in forever. I haven't written anything. And it was interesting to dust off the old pad and paper, but, yeah. Blowing the fingers a little bit.

Seriously, man. Hey, thanks for G2-ing it. There you go. It's a really obscure Grand X reference. G2G. Only remote writers will understand this reference i was waiting for dylan to hit me back be like uh there's no featured image yeah yeah the featured image is messed up on this title is kind of trash do you mind changing it did you forgot that was the thing i you can you can criticize me for the cop out on the title i didn't i couldn't

i sat there for like 20 minutes like laboring over title and i was just like yeah update yes it is kind of like people might be like oh company update and it is a little bit false advertisement but like it got more eyeballs so the utility of it yeah worked and uh yeah i just want to thank everybody for the feedback i mean it was it's important to us and it would be weird if we it would be weird as a weird as a podcast that doesn't like – or that gets 90% of our material from Twitter to not talk about the biggest thing going on in Twitter. And I like that you also included the fact that we rely heavily on black culture for the show. It's – like black culture is something that we've always all – it's affected our lives. I mean, like whether it's the media that we take in, whether it's the, the things that we watch, anything, just anything, the style that we have.

We love it. Yeah. It's, it's, it's something that like we all feel strongly toward. And so to not say anything, it's like, okay, well we'll support black culture when things are going great. Yeah. It's kind of, like you said, a duty to say something now. And I get a little uncomfortable talking about race, and that is because I was raised – I mean, it's not because of anyone, but it's because I was raised in an environment where it was not a diverse environment. It was not an environment where I learned a lot about race at an early age and was like it wasn't normal to me to be in a diverse place. Yeah. at an early age and was like, it wasn't normal to me to be in a diverse place. And so it's always been a little more difficult for me because even though I don't feel like I share any of these

racist sentiments that other people have out there, I have never fully been educated enough to speak on it in a way that I feel is eloquent and serves the proper purpose of speaking out. And so I began just sharing things and ways people can help. But even though I'm, I was doing that, I still just don't feel like it's enough. And so I don't know, sorry, I don't really know where I'm going with it, but it's just, I hope people can understand that like, for me, I am trying to become more educated. I'm trying to have an understanding of the struggle that black people face that is just there, that they were born with that. And so it's just hard.

I'm guilty of when something like this happens, when obviously the George Floyd thing, if something like this happens and there's a great injustice committed against a black person and makes the news, I read about it. I'm like, that's really sad. That's really upsetting. I feel for his friends and his family or her friends and her family. And then I just kind of go about my life. I don't really do much about it or speak out about it.

And that's because I'm just comfortable in my life and it doesn't really affect me directly, obviously speaks to the privilege you know yeah no it's like i don't i don't have to face these things on a daily basis like these people do and it's i'm guilty of it and i admit it and i think i need to do better about it um it goes against my nature but that's not really an excuse we have a platform and we kind of we owe it to people listening to say something but don't you think we should stick to human decanting the other thing is like we we're we try to do comedy right we joke around we try very hard we bullshit and so part of me is like do people really care about what the human decanting guy has to say about, you know, injustice and inequality?

I mean, do people care? But people do because they know that we know how to get serious and we're smart guys and we have things to say too. It's not all jokes. Yeah. I mean, like, it's, yeah. I mean, it's one thing to, like, retweet stuff and people can see, like, how you feel about it based on that. It's another to, like, actually say it yourself. And even if you don't say it in the most eloquent way, which I don't think I did, but, you know, I think, I hope that my intentions were taken for what they were. Well, from the feedback that I saw, I think people did like what you said.

And coming from my perspective as somebody who was kind of unable to put things into words yesterday, reading what you wrote, I was like, okay, I'm really glad that Dave took the reins on this because what you said struck the right notes. What you said struck the right notes. I felt comfortable using that as the, I guess, I don't want to say statement, or I guess it was a statement, I guess, as an update, or as you referred to it. An update. An update from the company.

And so it's just, I'm glad that you were there because clearly I just am having trouble kind of putting everything into words. Yeah. Another part of me that it just holds back is I'm afraid of upsetting people with my good intentions. If I say something that I think I'm trying to get my thoughts across and support of everything, you hop on Twitter and you see people who will share their thoughts, and then it it'll be 90 of people who agree with it like oh well said blah blah blah and then 10 have a problem with it and they're just ripping this person apart who had good intentions and even this the thing that we put out we had a couple people

who were like not into what we said and it pissed them off and so i don't know it's it's just tough to get your thoughts out there sometimes you You know, that's not an excuse. Part of the reason I posted what I posted on Scaries, I posted a quote from somebody else, and I just put my thoughts in the caption, even though they weren't that eloquent. But it kind of speaks to what you're saying now, and it's how I have kind of felt.

It's that don't ignore what's happening because it makes you uncomfortable. Not everyone has to be an activist, but ignoring the conversation is a dangerous privilege position the second i read that i was like uh okay yeah yeah it's true that's that was kind of what i read in order to stop me from being worried about saying something for fear of saying the wrong thing when it makes way more sense to say something and get the thoughts out there because and honestly i was well i don't think i deserve i i don't think people with platforms necessarily deserve praise for talking about this no and so like when people say like thank you or whatever like it's just share things

put your own thoughts out there admittedly i'm trying not to read a lot of the comments because I don't want to get into dialogues with people who are – no, that's not right. Because by just talking about it on a podcast, we're talking to people who might be in the same position as us who might not understand the importance of speaking out on it. But I don't know. It's hard to read all the things going on it's hard to take in all the content that people are putting out there negative or positive true well said i don't know no i was that's that's what i got yeah yeah yes sorry man i'm i'm so gassed mentally i get it i just from not not like saying like yesterday was like a labor. Like it was just – it's just a lot of different things.

It's a lot. I've got diverticulitis. Dude, do you want to talk about your diverticulitis, David? Dude, I'm 35. Yeah, so I was out Thursday. That's a weird segue, but I guess I did it to myself. Yeah, I was out Thursday. it's a weird segue, but I guess I did it to myself. Um, yeah, I was out Thursday.

I take after the live stream fraud or Wednesday night, a message will cause will, and I both drank the same beer and it was a craft beer. It was very strong. It was very good. Shout out paradox. Yeah. And I hit up will.

And I was like, dude, did that, that beer upset your stomach? Like didn't make it feel. And we'll say, no, I'm good,

man. I actually drank like a few more. I was like, was like well I was like when you reached out to me about it I was like man uh I was like I get why this could upset Dave's stomach though because Dave's not drinking eight percent tall boys all the time I'm not and I'm not either but I could see how that could immediately upset my stomach and then I was thinking I was like oh this could hurt this could hurt all Davey over here well so I noticed, I just had like some pain in my lower abdomen and it felt weird. It was like crampy. And it was like, am I about to crap my pants?

I was on crap my pants watch all night. And it was like, am I gassy? Like, what's, what's this about? And I kind of had body aches. I was like, oh, cool. Body aches. That's, you know, where that can go. That can lead down a bunch of different roads.

So I took, I did what any normal person would do. I took a high amount of Benadryl and a melatonin and went to bed at like 9.50. And woke up next morning, got like a full night's sleep. But when I got under the covers, I was freezing. Took my temperature, didn't have a fever, or at least it didn't show up. And next morning i messaged y'all i was like dude i can't do the pod something's up and i was thinking like salmonella did i not air fry the air enough on my chicken thigh we were thinking appendicitis yeah i was

about to say goodbye to your appendix so i i think we talked about it dylan you've had your appendix out yeah and on webmd i was looking up stuff and like appendicitis was a real potential candidate right and i was like fuck that's serious i gotta get and you know you gotta get to it early otherwise it ruptures right and it's a big deal now you're in serious trouble so my wife took me to uh er went in dude which by the way the little ER over by Alamo on Slaughter is sick. Swag? They're the best. It's so clean.

It's so, like, pristine. Hell, yes. They were great. It worked out perfect. There was nobody in there. So they brought me back there, checked me out, did a CT scan, and it's diverticulitis. When's the last time you even, like, did any, like, swimming

or, like, spearing of fishes or anything like that? Yeah, no, when's the last time you even like did any like swimming or like deep, like spearing of fishes or anything like that? Yeah, no, that's, that's a great question. You've always been like a pencil boy too. So I don't understand. Like you're usually not going head first in the water. I did some spelunking not long ago. Oh, nice.

Yeah, man. Diver or diverticulitis as it's known to some. It affects the lower abdomen, I guess. I guess like the part of your colon way down there. And treat it with antibiotics. It can be caused by diet. She asked me if I eat a lot of red meat, and I was like, oh, yeah.

I'm the meatloaf guy on TV, so. Yeah, like have you seen me on the Food Network? Have you seen my work across numerous platforms? Travel Channel. I got a call yesterday from my mom regarding someone's face being on the golf channel yesterday, by the way. Your face. Your face. Mine and Dylan's.

Yeah, the texts are still trickling in from people who haven't heard from in a long time. Golf channel's getting a lot of run out of that. Yeah. It's other channels, too, that are airing it, by the way. It's not just golf channels. I was fast-forwarding through something the other day, some commercials, something I DVR'd, and I saw a Bird Dogs commercial come up. I was like, hold on, Sally, go back a little bit.

I haven't seen this yet. Did you see it? No, a different commercial. Oh, okay. Different commercial. I haven't seen it yet. Yeah, so it's not as serious as the appendix, and it's treated.

I'm nuking my system with two different antibiotics right now and i'm kind of kind of out of it from that man antibiotics i'm not a big fan of and like it is it weird is your body all thrown off right now because you're so used to probiotics instead of antibiotics well it's i'm cannonballing man i'm going anti and pro i'm worried about supplementing both all the biotics are like whoa what's going on he's anti whoa dude chill was pro just a minute ago vibes Chill vibes in your gut biome. Ironically, I have the trash gut biome. I was going to say, do we need to

start... Yeah, dude, fuck you. Do we need to start thinking about that? I feel bad for Dylan this entire time. Seriously, man. Put some respect on my gut biome. I mean, Dylan's just still trash. I think he's at an advantage, though, because he's actually already had his appendix out. You might get dill verticulitis, though. Oh, man, come on. I couldn't. All I could do... So, admittedly, I didn't dill verticulitis, though. Oh, man. Come on.

I couldn't. All I could do. So admittedly, I didn't know what diverticulitis was. I'd heard of it. It's one of those things that you hear in a commercial. It sounds like an old guy's disease. If you have diverticulitis, don't. I mean, it kind of is. When I looked it up to appropriately show sorrow to you, and I looked it up, I started

learning that it occurs naturally in men over the age of 40. And then I started reading more And I was like okay I now have the appropriate response to Dave about his diverticulitis And I think I just said Oh man that's tough What a sweetheart I am Yeah I had never seen that word before So I didn't know how serious it was

I was like Damn man it's already here I did get a COVID test The swab You got the up the nose thing right? Did you get the results? No it's already here uh i did get a covid test the the swab you got the up the nose thing right yeah you get the results no it's backed up i keep checking the lab corp they said it was supposed to take two days and now they're like oh it could be like five days i'm like i've heard it tickles it tickles it's not okay so they set it up where it's gonna be like awful they're like just to let you know this is this isn't it's not a good one it's a bad you know and i'm like yeah okay i get it i've seen i'm on twitter i do tweets i've seen the videos

i'm verified she brought it in pulled it out and i thought it was going to be like a thick ass q-tip it's not it's like a very skinny little thing with like a tiny little flare out at the end that they just shove up there and they just twirl it around for like five seconds or less. And it's not that bad. Both sides or just one? Just one. Makes your eye water and you want to sneeze. And she was adamant.

She's like, do not grab my hand when I'm doing this. So apparently they've had issues with people like instinctively. Did you sit on your hands? Yeah, I was preparing to get myself a stranger. Because, dude, I would have had to sit on my hands. There's no way that I would have been able to keep my hand away from swatting them away

or something like that. Yeah, I... Dikembe. I did not. Get away from the nurse. I would love to know the story about someone just grabbing the nurse's hand like,

get it out! Yeah, I heard it's not painful. It tickles. It's a weird sensation. It's weird. I think most people, not to stunt, but I had a deviated septum and I had that surgery done.

And most people don't realize how far back the sinus cavity goes. They never had anything all the way back in there. So I was a little bit ready for it. I've had a camera go back there. But yeah, I'm good. I'm good now. Stomach's about 90%. I was on a liquid diet for a couple days, a lot of bone broth. Cutting face. I was cutting, yeah. I had to make weight.

And it looks like my diet will be altered going forward. Seriously, I wanted to tweet this, but I was like, I can't tweet this right now. Because it would just, I don't know. If anybody has any experience with this or a family member and has any tips on diet, let me know. Just holler at Dave. I would love to know because, dude, it's such a weird feeling in your stomach. And I don't want this to happen every month or every year. It's unbearable.

Well, now I'm sitting around like, do I have diverticulitis? I woke up this morning and as someone who had a large amount of barbecue for dinner last night I was like oh man my stomach doesn't feel good right now do I have diverticulitis like Dave am I gonna have to miss today's episode

and like go take antibiotics it's like no dude you just ate too much barbecue yeah apparently I did too but over like a my entire life yeah

yeah shout out to me um good news though I have the honor of getting a colonoscopy very soon. Serious? Oh, yeah.

Huge. Cannot wait. I've still never had one. Colonoscopy season cannot get here soon enough. I am dreading that hardcore. What do they actually do? They put a camera up your butthole. Which, I mean, we've all been there.

Do they numb anything? They just go in. Actually, I don't know. Can they just knock you out and do it and be like wake you up all right you're done man i would prefer if i could get knocked out for every single thing i do at a doctor's office like if i have anything happen to me i just knock me out and do whatever you need to do with my body in order to tell me what i need to do moving forward just have your way with me and then wake me up if i'm getting my teeth clean like give me the laughing gas. Just put me down.

Chill me out. Wake me up before you check my butthole. That's good. Wait, you have to get it because of what? It makes me more at risk for colon cancer. And not to get too into it, but family history is not great for a number of things. So, yeah. So, you know, they say at 40, they say at 40 is like, you know, unless you're at risk,

like you should get your prostate checked in some fashion. And I'm, you know, I'm 35. I'm not like Dylan's age or anything. But I figure now is a good time to get it done. Should we just all go do it in solidarity? Let's hold hands. It's like, hey, can you guys get three doctors in the same room? No, we all like...

Can we just have Randy go with the GoPro? We're all heads together. Can Randy do it? Yeah, Randy can just... We hired a video guy for a reason. He's got a GoPro. Yeah. That has like the little head mount.

That's how like the coronavirus colonoscopy procedure is. It's like, well, do you have any friends with a gopro because we can guide you through facetime oh my gosh yeah i'm glad that you're gonna be okay t's and p's to me man it's just real tough yeah hey man we're gonna get you through it it's a tough scene man it is interesting like she told me to get on probiotics and i feel like I get a good amount of those naturally. So I bought this really nice over-the-top central market supplement because I'm like, man, I'm not going to lose my gut biome to this. And I'm like, how does this work?

Because it's like your antibiotics going in there and clearing out all the bacteria, and then you're like overnight throwing in the good stuff again. And then it goes out, and it's like a cycle. It's like, is your gut and my gut just like a battleground right now for biotics? Dude, it's a war zone in there. Dude. Everyone's just bowed up, like, what's up? Let's do this.

The Miz's dad. Can we talk about El Negro, the Chilean protest dog? Please, man. I thought you'd never ask. Did you guys see this? Did you guys hear about this? I just saw a picture of this badass-looking dog. I retweeted it.

It's from at respectable law lawyer. No, at respectable law. He is the respectable lawyer, if there is such a thing. Wow. Come on. Anyway, I think it's a fun thread um during all this it's about uh what's become like a a hero in chile and um it's el negro mata pacos the hero chilean protest dog who hated the police and uh apparently he was a stray. He would just show up to student protests in 2011.

Honestly, I'll admit, I don't know the nature of those protests, but he gained fame for never hurting a civilian but always turned aggressive against the police. Okay, apparently that name translates to black cop killer. Yeah, which that sounds bad. I don't think he was. Yeah, it's not what you think. He is a black dog. He's Chilean. Yeah. It's that sounds bad. It does. I don't think he was, yeah, it's not what you think. He is a black dog.

He's Chilean. Yeah. It's different over there. He was fiercely protective of protesters. There's photos accompanying each one of the tweets. And he would like, he was in like the shit with the protesters getting like. Dude. He was getting hosed by like the, you know, the power of the water spraying stuff and getting tear gassed.

Oh, yeah. Wow. He was just about it. And there's one. I don't know if you saw this one, Dylan. But he was actually. There's just a photo of him just mounting another dog in front of. Mid-protest.

He's staring at that. Mid-protest. Just getting in a mid. That's fantastic. A quick mounting. Okay. This dog. He might hate cops, but he loves water.

Because every time they get the water cannon out, he's just jumping right up in that stuff. Well, it says he hated the water cannons, but he never retreated. Oh. Yeah. Okay. Respect then. Dogs don't like being sprayed with water. They like trying to get it in their mouth, but I don't think they love getting sprayed.

No. I don't think so. But there's just so many photos. He passed away of old age. Aw. But he is like a borderline saint. There's like a translation here, the patron saint of protesters and street dogs. That's hilarious.

Yeah, I just saw that one. Yeah, it's really good. This is hilarious. I just saw the original picture. Dude, they have like – There's a parade. They're crowd surfing a giant figurine of El Negro. That's sick.

I want to be crowd surfed like this dog. This dog really is a hero. You could be the Chilean protest sock. Yeah. Should I be the American protest sock? We need Will in these times i know uh yeah man that's really funny i don't think i don't think rosie has this in her yeah i was wondering if randy was made up of this and randy's just been too pampered that's my fault yeah rosie won't even play fetch around other dogs at this point so it's like

okay what am i supposed to do she's not much of a protest dog. Man, they love this dog. This dog's tight, man. There's even, there's like cartoons. Yeah. A true hero. If you are knowledgeable in Chilean history or Chilean politics and know any more about this dog, feel free to chime in, man.

I would love to know. Yeah. I mean, I'm into it. Yeah. Can we talk about Postmates real quick? Please. I don't know if you guys are like me, but you're probably starting to think about what to eat for dinner or even lunch right now because you guys are just hungry boys constantly.

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No one wants to go to Walgreens right now. Nah. Like, I'm good. Yeah, when that percentage of your business is like a pharmacy, I'm not trying to go in there. Yeah, and it's like, oh, but you can wait in line. It's like, yeah, I would love to go get in the line of 20 cars out there. No, just Postmates this stuff. No, that's against my green initiative anyway.

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anytime you need it, Postmate it. You guys hear about this Florida high school that held their graduation ceremony on jet skis? I did. I did. Absolutely lit. During the whole coronavirus thing, people have been talking about how bad they feel for these seniors who can't go back to school. Because your second semester senior year, I don't know about you guys like it was lit i didn't lift a

finger no i almost didn't even i wasn't even i almost quit the tennis team just so i could make sure i had nothing i had to even think about it was an extended vacation basically yeah and like to be honest if i had to miss like walking for my high school graduation probably wouldn't have been that big a deal in my eyes i probably i actually don't even think i wanted to even walk in the first place because it's just boring. But, like, if they would have told me then, like, hey, what if we did this on jet skis? Then I'm like, you know what? I would say bring on COVID.

You're tickling my fantasy. Somerset. And your fantasy. And my fantasy. That is my fantasy. Somerset Island Prep in Key West, Florida. You got to think that, like. If you have island in the name of your high school, you know it's a situation. Yes. Well, Florida. You got to think that like... If you have Island in the name of your high school,

you know it's a situation. Yes. Well, okay. So the bummer about this, I was hoping it was like one of those massive schools. This is a small school that's doing it. This school like... It says nearly one dozen now graduates of the public charter school

each drove a jet ski to an anchored boat where the school's principal handed them their diploma. The principal handed the students their diplomas with a grabber through uh though in order to ensure social distancing protocols due to coronavirus blah blah everything was they followed the correct thing but you remember those grabbers you'd get at the toy store that just had like the little thing at the end that's what he was my dad was with that my dad my dad has one to pick up shit with. Oh, he's just chilling? Yeah.

Grabbing a beer off the counter? Yeah. Like here. Man, is this the gnarliest graduation ever? Well, so they have a video of it, and I'm not going to play the video because I don't think 90% of the people listening to this are listening and not actually watching on YouTube at youtube.com slash watch media. I have to say, I thought I was going to hate the video.

I actually ended up loving it. It also kind of reminded me of Ozark where they hand out their drugs and Bibles. Dude, the one thing I couldn't get past in Ozark along those lines was the floating church. Is that a thing? Is that real? Like the church on a boat, right? I'm sure it is. Really?

Yeah. Come on, man. Probably. You I'm sure it is. Really? Yeah. Come on, man. Probably. You can do church anywhere, I guess. Yeah. We did virtual church on Easter morning. You did an e-church? Yeah.

You ever been to a cowboy church before? What's that? No, it's a Texas phenomenon. It's cowboys. It's called cowboy church. If you're driving on 35, you'll see trucks with the stickers, and it's like a cowboy kneeling with his hat off in front of a cross. This is Church for Cowboys, all right?

It's just a church for a very specific people. The pews there must just be absolutely ruined with the six shooters just slamming into it all the time. Spurs. All the chaps and everything. Yeah, the Spurs. You try to kneel at that cowboy church, and you're getting a Spur right in the tush. Yeah, I think they probably don't have a no-weapons policy there.

You bring whatever you want. Every Sunday, they challenge the devil to a duel at noon. They're sipping Lone Stars instead of doing communion. Instead of communion. Bartender. Whiskey. Tortilla chips and Lone Star. God.

I mean. I mean, this is a chill situation. Yes. These kids, they're in all their garb, which I don't know how they're keeping the hats on their head. Because any time I get on a jet ski, the first thought in my head is how fast can i go yeah and like i think my cap would just be long gone yeah no cap like i'm not wearing a cap no cap i oh yeah see what i did like i'm not that that i don't know how that's staying on like there's video like this this one girl is absolutely like like, hauling ass.

Yeah, they're just cruising. I mean, was there, like, buoys that, like, designated, like, a no-wake zone before the transfer of the diploma? If it's my graduation day, I'm saying fuck those buoys. The water off of Key West, it is so nice. It's emerald green, man. Love to see that. Dude, I would be the dude who just comes in hot and just does like a sharp turn and just sprays all the administration.

Just spray everyone on the boat. Your principal. Yeah. Suck on that. Hey, do you want to hear what Todd German said? Yeah. Somerset Academy's governing board chair? Been waiting.

Of course his name's Todd. Yeah. Yeah. This school, it says that it's a public charter school, but I get a feeling that these kids, like, this ain't your grandma's public school. Okay, it says nearly one dozen now graduate. Was that the entire graduating class or just one group of people who decided to do this? I don't know. Can you imagine not deciding to do that?

Yeah, can you imagine saying no thanks? If you're a rising senior right now, are you just like, so what are we doing next year? If you're a rising senior right now, are you just like, so what are we doing next year? But like he said, well, sorry, Todd said the idea of having a jet ski graduation is the perfect example of the innovative mindset that permeates Somerset Island Prep. Go Todd, man. Is that the perfect example? Yeah, that's right, Todd. It probably gets better than that, Todd.

The move would be to get your diploma and then just like turn, like do a U-turn and just go back like into the middle of the ocean fade away into the sun how did they not hand out diplomas with like message in a bottle kind of things oh that's the move yeah there it is the police did it first yeah how did they get the how they build the little ships inside those bottles i don't know i had one as a kid and i would spend hours just staring at that thing they had to assemble it inside the thing with like uh tweezers or something like how do you i think they're inflatable i don't think they are it just seems really annoying i always thought that like the people that did the paintings with a strand of hair on top of like a needle thing i was like what why is that what you're dedicating your life to it's like dude no one cares that you created the mona lisa on that needle it's literally the least significant thing i've ever seen

i just wonder how they do it actually i don't i want to keep the mystery alive so if you know don't tell me yeah if we have any if we have any uh ship bottle makers out there please do not if you have diverticulitis reach out to dave if. If you make ships for a living inside bottles, do not talk to Dylan or me. Maybe they make the bottle around the ship. Also, maybe that's possible. It's hard to say. There's probably the technology there to do that. I'm kind of bummed that in quarantine

I never had a thing that I just did. I didn't learn a new skill in quarantine. I really wanted to learn a new skill and come out of this with my head held high. No, I'm just playing a new skill in quarantine I really wanted to learn Like a new skill and come out of this With like you know my head held high No I'm just kind of playing a lot of FIFA Yeah I kind of got into soccer Yeah Bundesliga Dave

Bundesliga Dortmund You actually watched more soccer this weekend than I did That might be two weeks in a row I know I know I only caught a little yesterday. I'm sorry. It's just been tough for me.

It got away from the team playing Dortmund very quickly. That'll happen. It was once, yeah, I was texting you about it, and I was like, so what's the deal? Which one of these teams do I need to root for? And then I looked up. It was 2-1, and it was 3-1, and then it was 4 four one i i went back and i listened to the time when you guys asked me about like bundesliga like what its standing is and like everything like that i could not have done a more terrible job of

describing what was going on and i very much apologize sorry it's okay can we just pull back the curtain and say what we got going on in here? Yeah. Look, I got to keep Parks occupied during this, and he's been working me since we actually – I got a text from Randy Wright when we started recording saying, hey, he wants to play on your phone. He's got a bunch of apps, games on my phone that he plays. Oh, we know. And he's been working me this whole time.

He keeps, like – I look back, and he's peeking his head through the window. I know what he's trying to ask me. And so finally I gave in. So I handed he's peeking his head through the window. I know what he's trying to ask me. And so finally, I gave in. So I handed my phone to Dave to pass to the home. It was a no-contact delivery. Hey, mash the button. Mid-pot air sip. Oh, wow.

You can only get that on the video. Dude, Dave just air sipped. Imagine. Dude, okay. Not to run back some Patreon content or anything like that, none of us rode for air-sips that hard. We just thought it was kind of a gnarly way of describing what it was. Dude, it's just the air, it sounds tight.

I think it's kind of funny, but yeah, I'm not like... People acted like, the comments made it sound like we were like, oh, dude, it's called an air-sip. Yeah, it wasn't a burger one-handed deal. I didn't think. I'm glad that I didn't have a great name for it because I just don't like sharing drinks with people. I didn't have a name for it. Yeah, I agree with that, actually.

It's just a non-contact sip. That's all it is. Even when Sally's like, can I have a sip of something? I'm like, what if you just got your own? Gross. It's sick. Do you guys see the NASA chief? NASA's chiefing now.

Tell me more about this. The NASA chief is, quote, all in for Tom Cruise to film on the space station. It would make sense, as Tom Cruise is very likely a CIA asset. I have no evidence to prove that. I don't hate the theory. This is from the AP. It says, NASA is rolling out the International Space Station's red carpet for Tom Cruise to make a movie in orbit. The space agency's administrator, Jim Bridenstine, said before Wednesday's planned launch of two NASA astronauts aboard the SpaceX rocket

that Elon Musk's company is already getting customers eager to blast off that Cruise is one of them. He says he'll be leaving it to Cruise and SpaceX to provide mission details. This is tight. You know, okay, yeah. I mean, like, is it necessary? No. I mean, Interstellar is pretty pretty good and they didn't do that Okay I don't know anything

In space I don't know anything about SpaceX I know I know It's extreme space I know Elon is You know

A major player here So are like But Elon Musk is also like a little unhinged yeah so like why why are we prioritizing tom cruise going to space before like i don't know just doing shit in space that we like might just want to do we sent some dudes up there yesterday yeah so i'm still naturally i have not been that into the space stuff because my timeline's been filled with uh you know racial injustice so it's it's been kind of on the back burner yeah but i i'm not familiar with what we're doing in space right now i don't know the purpose yeah i don't know the purpose behind the mission

but this was the first ever collab between a government agency or not agency but nasa government entity i guess i should say and a private, which is SpaceX, which is kind of cool. They work together. Jim Bridenstine, or whatever his name was. I don't know if it was Jim. Yeah, Jim Bridenstine also said that he, how did I just lose this quote? He said, the question is, can Tom Cruise make a new movie that inspires the next generation's Elon Musk? And if he can do that, then we're all for it NASA's all in man I hope it doesn't take a Tom Cruise movie to do

yeah I really yeah it would be great if the the world wasn't inspired by Tom Cruise movies but that's just me but how many fired how many fighter pilots out there saw Top Gun when they were a little kid and we're like that's that's what I want to do now yeah I mean I at least thought about it for like an hour when I was like 12 saw Top Gun when they were a little kid, and we're like, that's what I want to do now. Yeah. I mean, I at least thought about it for like an hour when I was like 12. Yeah, it never panned out for you. Yeah, I didn't have the eyesight. Parks wants to drive a tank in the Army.

Yeah, that makes sense. I don't think he knows what all goes into joining the Army and all that. Yeah. But I'm all for it if he can get there. Yeah. You know? Dream big. I mean, driving a tank does sound tight,

but I feel like I wouldn't have the speed that I want. I told him, I said, what about a fighter jet, man? He goes, it's too dangerous. I used to want to drive the note. He's right. It's a lot more safe inside of a tank than maybe in a fighter jet. Is it? It's like you're a sitting duck in a tank.

I don't know. I guess it depends on your warfare. When it comes to the military, I don't know our capabilities at all. I would like to see how much a tank can endure. Because I've never really thought about that. Most of what a tank can endure, my knowledge of it at least, is based upon Band of Brothers, Saving Private Ryan, and Call of Duty. Sticky bombs, man. Sticky bombs.

Took them down. I used to want to drive the No Limit tank. Oh, shit. Oh, do they have one? Yeah. You're a No Limit soldier. Yeah, that was my late 90s. That's the only tank I wanted to hop in.

Yeah. Like P was in there. He was the colonel. Shit. Master P was? Yeah, he was the colonel of the motherfucking tank. How many NBA games did he play in? Okay, this came up recently.

I don't know. I feel like it was like, you know Tony Romo when he retired? He suited up with the Mavs and did the layup line. He didn't actually play. Was it one of those deals? Or did he play like actual minor league basketball? Well, his name's Percy Robert Miller. Yes.

And it says he was signed to two separate NBA contracts in the late 1990s, playing for both the Charlotte Hornets and the Toronto Raptors during the 1998 and 1999 preseason, respectively. He also owns his own basketball league, which I did not know, called the Global Mixed Gender Basketball.

GMGB. I did a couple years there. I also did not know that he went by the Ice Cream Man. Yeah. I didn't listen to a lot of Master P back in the day. No Limit was big for us. That was big.

This is when I was still playing football and basketball. That was like big locker room. I bought a couple, or at least one Master P CD when I was a kid. For sure. Get O.D.'s Iconic. Yeah, I averaged 11 and 6 in the GBD or whatever. He's the ice cream man. Apparently he got eight points in one game.

That's sick. That's eight more than I ever had in the pros. I just had a cup of coffee. Preach, man. Did you? Go to the post, mate. Is that what the coach says? That was Jerry Sloan yelling at John Stockton.

Australian basketball. Go to the post, mate. He did drop 17 in the 2008 McDonald's NBA All-Star Game. Did he ever do jock jam? He had done jock jam. Dude, that's right up his alley. He was hot during that era. He was probably the best.

He had to have. He had to have. I feel like we need to do a rewatch of these or something. Remember the hoop that they had that was like 50 feet in the air and people were just chucking it up there? That was so much fun. Dude, Timberlake was just feeding them out there, just hitting tray bombs. I also love the baseball one. I think the baseball one was just as entertaining as the basketball one. Yeah, it was awesome.

They got some legit big names to do those, too, were so much fun yeah i'm oh the biggest names the biggest names i don't know how they haven't brought that back like i want to see dan cortez facing off against justin bieber dude dan cortez but he's on rollerblades why was the person getting arrested on rollerblades you know it was in austin yeah what what happened here i don't know man she probably hit like a royale on the wrong rail something tells me that she wasn't like aggressive skating was she on quads no she was on inline skates man she was she looked like a savage i hope to never get arrested but if i do get arrested i hope that they're rolling me away with rollerblades on. Yeah, dude, that's ideal.

That's the chillest way to get arrested. I had so many thoughts when I saw that. Like, did they take them off before they put her in the car? Like, was she sitting in the back of the car cuffed with blades on? Dude, look at this. Like, I just searched Rockin' Jock basketball, and, like, one of the first photos that pops up is Jonathan Taylor Thomas and Flea just, like, in the just in the post together trying to get room.

Oh, dude. That was an intense mashup. You would not want to catch an elbow from Flea down in the post. I'll tell you this. JTT was not slapping the rock as hard as possible when he pulled down a rebound. He's soft, man. Yeah. I mean, why was Dan Cortez just in every single one of these?

He was the MTV guy. He was the guy. Yeah. Dude, what's he doing now? I think he had a cameo. Not a cameo, but he was in a couple of Seinfeld episodes. It wouldn't take that much swaying for me to just blindly give Dan Cortez a podcast for the Wash Media Network. Dan Cortez.

I'm going to Google this guy. People also ask, what happened to Dan Cortez? Is Dan Cortez a podcast for the Wash Media Network. Dan Cortez. I'm going to Google this guy. People also ask, what happened to Dan Cortez? Is Dan Cortez dead? I hope that, like, I mean, I know that we might not be doing this forever, guys. Like, I hope that we don't get to the point where, like, people are just Googling, is Will DeFries dead? He's 52 now. Apparently still alive. He was Tony on Seinfeld.

I guarantee you that he's still hot. He is a very handsome older man. Yeah, man. Absolutely. He looks like he's kind of got a Keith Urban vibe to him or something. Like he's had some work done. The hair's probably not real, but that's fine. He's 52?

Yeah, he's a 9 or 10 for 52 years old. Holy shit. Yeah, he's up there with Rob Lowe. I don't know how recent this is, but yeah, he's doing all right. Yeah, my theory was right. Dan Cortez is an absolute snack to this day. Shouts to Dan. Yep.

I think he's, if my eyes aren't mistaking me, I think he's been with the same lady for a really long time. Good for him. Maybe Cortez is just a really long time good for him maybe cortez is just like a really stand-up guy we just don't know it or there's some stuff out there and there's a reason that he's going away but this is the dan cortez i remember right here we're just looking at pictures that doesn't make for good no no but the dan cortez we all know is yeah backwards fitted cap long hair hair just flowing smile like you've never before. You can get lost in that dude's smile. Oh, yeah. Oh, man.

So, yeah, I don't think we talked more than two seconds on Tom Cruise filming in space. Did we know what they're filming in space? Like what the premise of this is? They're not doing like a Mission Impossible in space, right? Along those lines, I'm those lines i thought that was it i don't know is he that all in like does he have a part ownership of the mission impossible movie i bet yeah he's probably getting some points is he an executive producer or anything the most recent one was real good didn't see it still maybe i'll check it out maybe i'll check it out

we're thinking about getting a new tv in our bedroom so maybe that's the first thing i toss on there wow yeah our current TV does this really awesome thing like numerous times an hour where it just switches to a different input without telling you. Oh, that's cool. Yeah, it's really nice.

I want to get one of those. Yeah, it's good. Very sick. Very cool. Any TV recommendations anyone has out there, just holler at your boy because we talked about this

the other day. I don't understand why TVs are just plummeting in price, and it makes me just think that every single one of them is shitty. Yeah. Because I remember back in the day, if you wanted a 35-inch flat-screen TV, you had to pay like $500.

Now it's like, all right, give me $100, and I'll get you that. Anytime a new technology is released, like the older ones, they just go way down. Like OLED is the jam now. They're still really expensive. Really expensive. I didn't even know it was pronounced OLED. What is OLED?

O-L-E-D. What does that mean? I don't know what the O, I forgot what the O stands for, but that's top of the line. And like a 65-inch OLED is like a couple grand. Really? Yeah. So your boy shouldn't be, I shouldn't be shopping in the OLED section. $1,500. $1,500.

$1,500. It's still a lot. That's still higher than what I wanted, Dylan. I try to stay under four digis with TV. Yeah, I've never bought a TV. I don't think I've ever bought a TV more than like $350. Even though the TV is probably your centerpiece, it's just like, it's so hard to justify like dropping $1,200 or whatever when there's one that looks a lot like it for $6 or $4. I was in Best Buy before I got my latest TV,

and the guy was going over all the differences and everything. He said, this one has, the color just pops on this one. He explained why it was more expensive. I said, I'm kind of colorblind. He goes, oh, you don't want this TV then. Come get this one. It's basically the same for you, but it's $600 less. Thanks, sir.

Wow. It was funny. Dude, shouts to him. Yeah, he's just honest with me. He's gotten that. Finally pays off for you. He's gotten that question before, clearly. Yeah, no, did they give you the, do you do any gaming?

Do you do a lot of gaming? Watching a lot of movies on this? You watch sports? You watch a lot of sports, yeah. Of course I watch. Come on, man. Because if you're watching. The fast movement of the sports, you need a fast processor.

You'll notice it with the golf ball as it's flying across the screen. You'll see a little bit of a streak. It's very subtle, but it's noticeable. You'll want this one. It's the 12K. Just tell us, Dave. Did you work at a Best Buy? No.

Okay. I can see you parlaying your sandwich artist time with being like the TV guy at Best Buy. Wait, did I? No, I didn't. No. Subway and UPS are my... If you had to work at any store in the mall, what would you work for? Sharper Image.

Yeah. Sit in the massage chair all day? Yeah, and just be on the cutting edge of technology all day. I feel like the Brookstone and Sharper Image guys definitely think that they're like better than every other person at the mall they do they're like they're selling people the future yeah it's like it's like they they've they've seen what's next they know they're the elon musk of of mall employees that's where elon got his start really that's really cool it's not talked about no it's literally not talked about i know where it's literally not talked about.

I know where Dylan would work. Dylan would work at Lids. I was going to say, you put out Lids vibes. No way, dude. I hate that place. It's kind of stressful how many hats are on the wall. It's too many hats. Flatbill Central.

Too many hats, and they were always just a little bit out of my price range. It was always super busy in Lids, too, and I was like, how many of these hats have been tried on by other people right now? I want to buy mine online so I can make sure that I get like a crispy boy. Yeah. That was a weird thing too. Trying on a hat and I'm like, are you guys, what are you guys doing? You guys disinfecting these like bowling shoes? How does that work?

Because I have to try on a hat. I'm very particular about the fit on the hat. Yeah, you have to. This is, this brings up a good, good hypothetical. Like where would you, what's the number one store to work at in the mall? It's not Nordstrom. Because everyone returns Nordstrom stuff,

and I feel like I would just convince people to buy stuff, and then my paycheck would get docked, like, the week later. And I think they work them pretty hard. They also, like, Nordstrom will take back anything. Oh, yeah, no questions asked. I don't want to deal with that. How is Dippin' Dots not just sold in Sharper Image?

Why is Dippin' Dots so amazing? I used to have you with the Orange Julius place was like my jam back in the day. Yeah, OLEDs are expensive. Are you just checking it out? I'm on Amazon. They started around like $1,800. Are you just checking it out? I'm on Amazon. They start at around like $1,800. Are you kidding? For a 65.

Man. That's like low end. I take back what I said about TV prices just seeming really low for like what they used to be. I don't own an OLED. They're just too much. I've inherited both TVs in our apartment right now. So I've spent a total of $0 on TVs. I don't think I've bought one since.

I have not bought one since before 2010. In 2010-ish, I got a 54-inch Panasonic Plasma for $1,200. How much is that now? Like $4? Plasmas, that's old technology. They don't even really do it anymore. Yeah, dude. Come on, bro.

What if I wanted one with like magma oh yeah you can do magma it's the sony magma sony magma is like eight grand laser beams the mag the magma vox 12k crazy resolution well it wouldn't shock me if you said that you did a couple months or a summer at hot topic no i mean, I mean, Hot Topic always gave me anxiety because even though I probably would have worn some of the stuff in there, like I felt like a majority of their stuff at the time when I would have been shopping there

was like Slipknot and Marilyn Manson t-shirts and things like that. And to be honest, if I'm being honest, Slipknot and Marilyn Manson always scared me. They always made me feel very uncomfortable. And so I always kind of steered away from from anything that dealt with them Dave's a kiosk guy yeah I'm just harassing people to sell cricket Wireless I'm the one who like walks up to you with my like the the mini helicopter I'm flying

just like buzzing the tower on people's heads or like what's the thing like you pull the string and it just like circled the shoots slowly comes down Slowly comes down. You rip that thing out. And like I'm like walking in the path. And you're so good at it. It just falls right in your lap, man. No, I'm the dude like with the clipboard. Like you might not have come back taking a survey. We did that once. Dude, I'm not doing your fucking survey.

When we were kids, we did that. We got creeped out. We got the fuck out. I could see J-Bone being like the guy when you walk into like a Brookstone. Like he's really good at doing one of the games in there. Like so suspiciously good. It's like how long have you worked here for yeah like you've been here for about 10 years just doing this game every single day um no dude i would not have mind i'm minded working at like fast forward fast forward was like did you have

that no it was like i don't know more it was like gadzooks or Hot Topic, but more skater-friendly. Spencer's. Yeah. Or, dude, PacSun. PacSun might be the move. PacSun might be the move. Because I feel like that was a hot clientele. If you would have told me as a 12-year-old that I could work at Nike Town for the rest of my life,

I would have 100% done it. Footlocker. The second we walked into Nike Town in Chicago on vacation, all bets were off. I was like, get me there. I've never seen a Nike Town before. Dude, it's heaven. Dude. One of the most uncomfortable things I've seen in a mall outside of Abercrombie, they like hired some, some kid who couldn't have been more than 17 to just stand shirtless. And he was ripped up, like just stand out. Okay. And like, there'd be like moms with like 12 year old girls who I could buy like, oh my gosh. And like taking pictures of the guy I'm like, dude, this is creepy. It's weird,. And there would be moms with 12-year-old girls walking by like, oh my gosh, and taking pictures

of the guy. I'm like, dude, this is creepy. It's weird, dude. Wow. Weird. This dude is 16. There's probably old scummy dads that are like, why can't they do that if it tore a secret?

You know what I'm saying? Let's get a girl out here. So we were going through old photos on a Zoom the other day with my family. We were just kind of screen sharing and going through some old photos. And there was one of me, and I was wearing an Abercrombie shirt. And it was a shirt that I wore four days out of five days of the week at school because I was just obsessed with it. And it was an extra small muscle fit.

And that's the only way. It was still baggy on me. But I was like, dude, I'm the only eighth grader wearing Abercrombie because no one else can fit in this shit. Oh, my God. I felt like such a G. Abercrombie for like no one else can fit in this shit. Oh my God. I felt like such a G. Abercrombie for me, you know who got me into it was Clay. And it was when –

And this will make sense. Dude, you weren't shit if you didn't have Abercrombie. Well, this is before they like pivoted because it was almost like Orvis. It was like an outdoor brand, like L.L. Bean type. And it was like, oh, Abercrombie. Okay, cool. This is like – I don't know. It put like uh northern fall vibes yeah yeah that's what it used to be just a straight up outdoors like fishing hunting company yeah clay clay was clay got us into it and like we had like

the hats and we would like you know curl and then they started like really going all in on like the novelty yeah unlike and then like they started sending out catalogs with like naked chicks in them and stuff they did um there was very little swag in 1999 i had some cargo pants from there not proud of it but i had them man they had the they had the the cargo shorts that hit six inches below the knee i always hated the cargo shorts that had the strings that were at the bottom yeah that was abercrombie hated. The fray? Hated them. The fake fray? No, no. They were just like... The straps that came down. Yeah, they looked like military grade straps

that would tighten. I was like, why would I need these straps? If you were... I'm not wading through a river right now trying to like... I'm not forging anything. In 1999, if you didn't have an Abercrombie hat that you cut into a visor,

cut the top off and wore it around during the summer. Like you were a little bitch. Yeah. There's no way I ever did that. You keep so much shit in those cargo ships. Or I had a fish hook in the bill. Oh, that was, I hated that. I made fun of you if you did that.

It let people know. I had an Abercrombie hat. A hook and a frayed bill. It was the original Peaky Blinders. You rubbed the end of the bill on the sidewalk to get it to fray? Yeah. Trash. You got to buy it frayed i think you just do it yourself i remember just taking it like a coke can and just wrapping my hat my hat around the coke can and then putting rubber bands around it so that it

would have like the most aggressive like flex of all time and it was what a terrible look i still don't know what's cool on regular hat bills. Yeah, I don't know either. I've posted some photos with hats and people are like, don't be afraid to curl that bill, bud. And I'm like, if you curl it too much, you look like you're a high school baseball guy or something. Which is weird because now college baseball guy, or at least a while ago, was flat bill. Like aggressive flat bill. Oh, yeah. It's just like, I don't know what the, it's all over the map with the bill curling. Yeah like i don't know what the it's all over the map

with the with the bill curling yeah i don't know what to do either overly curled is a bad look correct and you don't work you don't want a visible crease either no no yeah i didn't know what to do what about the bottle caps around the bill of the hat you've never did no that's the worst that was so bad that sounds very chill i might do that a cali like when those white collegiate hats you know those? Those were very popular. I still like those hats. I do too. They're classic.

I don't know why we don't see more of those around. I just remember walking into Abercrombie and just sneezing because it just smelled like bad cologne. I mean, after I had that one shirt that fit me because it was muscle fit and extra small, I would just go to every single t-shirt in the store and try to find muscle fit. Nope, they don't have this. Those collegiate hats, the most popular one was South Carolina because it just said Cox across it. Remember that one?

Mm-hmm. Yeah. I had a good Michigan hat on. They're the Gamecocks, David. Yeah. I had a really good Michigan one and a nice looking young lady stole it from me at a tailgate and I never saw it again. Ugh.

Nice, dude. I was like, oh, dude, she wants my hat. I'm in with her. And then all of a sudden, I was just at the game. She just wanted my hat. Nice, dude. I was like, oh, dude, she wants my hat. I'm in with her. And then all of a sudden I was just at the game. She just wanted my hat. Good sunburn. That was the ultimate flirt move.

If a girl stole your hat, she wanted it. That's what I thought. It was over. I was like, wow. Oh, it's over. What was the other? I always liked the state hat.

I think it was NC State. It just said state. It was tight. That was cool. Dude, if it was NC State, get me one that says Wolfpack on it. Wolfpack's tight. Oh, shit.

Yeah, the Cox hat was like, you knew that that was, you knew if you went into a movie theater if you want to see like a movie on a friday night and there's like a row of kids and one of them has the cox hat on they're gonna be fucking the movie up for you yeah you're gonna you're gonna be asking you're gonna be finding someone to ask him to ask him to quiet down a little bit troublemaker like these kids are gonna be like shooting spitballs on the screen making making fart noises, doing the old bottle trick where they just roll a glass bottle and it just slowly and loudly rolls down the – That's a classic. I was in a theater one time where these two kids were on the front row intentionally being disruptive, like talking really loudly.

Probably me. And someone from like 10 or 15 rows back threw a shoe at them. Yes, dude. It hit the little girl in the head, and they ran out. I said yes before I knew. Someone was actually struck with his shoe. Well, they were asking for it. It was funny.

She was okay. They got an applause from that one. Anyway. What movie was it? I don't remember. This is 15, 20 years ago. We got accused of pulling a fire alarm once, and we never did that. And the manager, people pointed to us

because we were, before the movie, kind of being a little bit wild. Did you all have a Cox hat in the squad? Is that why? I mean, well, I could name the dude. Chris B., I'll leave it at that. He was definitely rocking one. Chris Berman?

No, it was not Berman. He was significantly older. Okay. It'd be weird if he was with us. Yeah yeah if your squad included chris berman that'd be weird we'd be like dude chris where do you want where do you want to sit back back back we're sitting way back back back back back he's just so stupid. You're like watching a sports movie. He's just like, what?

What have we just now found out that Dave Squat included Chris Berman? You're watching Friday Night Lights when it came out in theaters, and he's just tossing out commentary mid-movie. It'd be so annoying. Jeez. It's like, dude, lay off the That'd be so annoying. Jeez. It's like, dude, lay off the fucking cherry Coke, Chris. What are you even doing? Should we get out of here?

Let's just end this on a high note. How did this go? How long was this? Too long. No, not too long. Somebody on Twitter, I'm not going to at this guy, but he came at us saying that he's unsubscribing if El Negro is not memorialized on the pod today. Do we have a surprise for you, sir?

Yeah, man. Hey, surprise. We did it earlier. So if you're hearing this, you probably already heard it. Yeah, dog. Did he recently die? Is this why he's come to light? 2017.

Okay. No, I think it's just like- Because of all the protesting. Yeah. Oh, okay, okay. Because I wasn't sure if this was something new. No, this is a story that I wish we would have known about back then. It's entirely possible that we just covered it on Touching Base and we didn't realize it.

Also, by the way, we were almost on extreme circling back story watch last night with the Oakland Zoo, with the tiger apparently being unaccounted for. Then they just recounted, like, oh, actually, he's still here. Yeah, he's here. We missed him. They'd count. Just kind of err on our part i feel like you you gotta you know cover all bases before you put an alert like that out in the public as much as i'd love yeah as much as i'd love like our phones get like an amber alert from like the austin zoo and it's like

four lions have escaped the zoo yeah we're all sitting in pine house and we're just like gotta go it would be as much as it would be a fun story, like it would end poorly for the tiger. Yeah. Yeah. They wouldn't like just go like sedate the tiger. Come on, come back in your cage. Yeah, if you're a tiger and you live in Texas, you don't want to escape.

Dude, what if they went down to Mexico and got those two vaqueros to come up and lasso the tiger? That'd be tight. Oh, man. Do we talk about that? I don't think we did. Why were those dudes... One guy had a folding chair that you would hit somebody over the back with in a wrestling match.

A couple guys in cowboy hats. And he lassoed the damn thing. Lassoes are... I mean, it's pretty impressive what people can do. You saw. They won the Junior Goodwill Games with it in D2. That's true. Just had one on the bench, weirdly.

I would love to know how actual refs would have handled that. Yeah, I feel like you're kicked out forever. If you leave the bench and have a lasso, and you lasso an opposing player to avoid a body check that was about to happen, and it was like a 25- like build up to said body check we'll never know we'll never know should we get out of here bye bye you