Circling Back - Recapping The Listener Meet-Up, New Studio, and White Lotus

Episode Date: August 2, 2021

A trademark day for the Circling Back podcast: We are officially in the new studio. To see it in all its glory, head over to our YouTube channel that's linked below. We kicked things off by recapping all the action from this past weekend's listener meet-up, we expose Dillon for putting White Lotus spoiler's on the TL, discuss the dude who set his lawn on fire instead of mowing it, and Fred Durst's new look. We also do some Brett's Breaking News to round things out. 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 (16:40) Recapping This Meet-Up in Fun (42:03) Expose Him: White Lotus Edition (49:57) Dude Sets His Lawn on Fire (57:23) Is Limp Bizkit… Back? (1:02:01) Brett’s Breaking News Support This Episode’s Sponsors Vizzy: www.vizzyhardseltzer.com/washed Cuts: www.cutsclothing.com/steam (15% off!) Raycon: www.buyraycon.com/steam (15% off!) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/circling-back/message Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All right, we're back circling back podcast coming to you live from the lodge presented by busy heart seltzer. The only heart seltzer with vitamin C and superfruit acerola my name is will defreet to my left david mr meetup and self rough hello uh it just occurred to me that we we might need to get a subwoofer for the speakers do you think can we throw some i don't know any terms for this kind of stuff at this point what we're looking for is a 12 we need an amp and a 12 inch subwoofer maybe like a rockford fosgate hook it up give us just a little or just a sound bar we could tape tape not tape it we

could probably fasten it with something else like right under here just give us a little bit more beat but aren't these speakers just for us like Like, it comes through, like, digitally across the whatever's. Yeah, I understand how it works. You don't want... I'm just saying, I don't need a bump in here. I mean, it plays for 12 seconds, and then we just start talking. If this is your way of getting introduced early in the new studio, then, like, I don't really like what you're doing here.

Are we a new Stu Goofin right now? Yeah, we kind of are. It's kind of weird. This place is kind of sick, man. It's a different vibe. Yeah, totally. This is our fourth ever studio. No, fifth ever studio.

Let's ride. Is it fifth? Because we had our original studio, Grand X, when we had the three chairs. And then we moved to the glass room that had the worst acoustics of all time for about three months. Oh, my gosh. And then we went to the early bird CBD studio, moved into the lodge and had that. And now we got Lodge 2.0. We just keep upgrading. I kind of like lodge lodge 2.0 we just keep upgrading

dude i kind of like lodge 2.0 upgrade let me upgrade you know that song dave oh cool dude you like slovenia we get it man over the u.s okay actually yeah i will be pulling for the if it does come down to it wow Wow. I've renounced my citizenship. Not me, man. How much Olympics have you even watched? Quite a bit, David. Okay. Quite a bit, you dumb jerk. Okay.

That's probably unnecessary. Seems like a shot. Yeah, hey, thanks for having me on, Will. Yeah, dude. I'm still trying to figure out if I need to give you this one. We're going to get there. Just look at the people, man. That's why we're here.

It's for the peeps. They don't want to look into my eyes. Everyone wants to look into those eyes, David. I think Dylan's got the best seat because he can look at the people man that's why we're here it's for the peeps they don't want to look into my eyes everyone's looking at those eyes david i think dylan's got the best seat because he can look at both of us the entire time i do kind of feel like i have to turn towards david i wanted you to sit between us you guys just want to vibe with me the whole time you want to bounce off me look at me in the face just feel it feel the rhythm feel the rhyme all that stuff i needed will between us like because eventually i'm going to say something that's going to cause you to get up out of your chair,

and I need somebody to separate us. Getting in the way of just a good old-fashioned kiss fight is what you're saying. Yeah, that's exactly what I'm saying. He can't stop that from happening, let's be honest. Dude, we should – who's the guy on Around the Horn that has the whiteboard and he writes – is it Woody? Yeah. Woody Page, dude.

Yeah, Woody Page. Can I do that bit? Doesn't J-Bone do that bit? J-Bone already stole that bit. I'm going to steal it from J-Bone. Who does he think he is, man? Formula Bowne. Oh, yeah.

J-Bone thinks you're coming by the meetup, by the way, Bone, man. He's not listening. Yeah, he's not. He told me he's out. Someone might tell him about it. So should we explain why we're in a new studio for those people out there that are wondering? I don't even know why we're in a new studio. Because Randy forced it upon us?

I would like to hear this myself. Yeah, I think Randy was like inconvenienced by the old studio or something. He was like, guys, I think we should redo the entire studio. And now Randy's life is just super easy. So it is what it is. I think the real reason is because we wanted the people next door to just know everything that we're saying. I feel truly bad for the people that are next door to us now because I think the guy on the other side of the office, I don't think he cared, but I'm going to feel bad.

The guy on the other side, we had a very mutual understanding that we can just say whatever we want and we're just going to ignore it. These people, we don't know yet. He was in the office for about an hour a day, and he would get in there, put it on speakerphone, just pour out some subcontractor. I think he would quiet down when he knew we were recording. I think he was respectful in that manner.

He's a real one, dog. I haven't seen him in a while. I don't know if I rock with him, but he might rock with us. It was okay. He loved us alone at least. Dylan, you have a hilariously large coffee mug for the new stew. Yeah, I do. Thank you for noticing.

What does it say on it? It says I'm kind of a big deal. Wow, that's epic, dude. Yeah, I got this with you for noticing. What does it say on it? It says I'm kind of a big deal. Wow. That's epic, dude. Yeah, I got this with Bay during our San Antonio trip. I saw it in the store. I was like, you know what? I think I have to have this mug.

How many OZs is that in total? You could probably put about, if I had to guess, I would say 35 ounces of coffee in here. That is not 35 ounces of coffee. You don't think so? No. This is 40. This is 40. this is 40 you're drinking a 40 right now no no this yeti rambler is a 40 ounce rambler so i think i think definitely

35 dog you know uh dylan that's awesome and everything but i just want to point something out i think we might be over wired in here can we not can we not transition to all wireless dude randy's doing randy's doing the. Hey, Randy, can you hide these wires by the end of the day? Dude, we got all the wires. We're wired up. We have an HBO original, like Prestige TV in here, times 10. The wires. We're back up.

We're back up on the wire, yeah. You seen that show, Will? Probably not. Dude, I have way too much tv to talk to to die who is uh i want to talk white lotus so bad shut up dude just wait don't even bring up we'll get a rundown one time who's don't even tell me this real quick who ended up being your favorite character in the wire not named omar but it is omar okay well i don't think you just heard what I said. Yeah, are you deaf or are you stupid? Got it. You know, I really like Marlo.

I like he's just cold-blooded, man. I like Michael as well. I like Duke, Dookie, Daquan. Daquan. Daquan. Sympathetic figure in the wire. I feel bad for Dequan, man. Oh, you should.

He's got a raw deal. Well, good. Good. Dude, I like William Rawls. That's my wire question of the day. It's up to a new segment. I'm just going to shoehorn in every week. I'm a William Rawls guy.

No one's a Rawls guy. Yeah, you're not a Rawls guy. I like Irvin Burrell as well Rawls stinks you're really pushing the truce that we made before this pod I just looked up the worst wire characters ranked and I just read the first

ones on the list we agreed before this pod that we wouldn't look at each other's screens but I just violated it it's kind of a bummer, there's certain bits that I'm not going to be able to do now because Dave can see my screen in the new setup. I'm just going to be tracking you the entire time. When y'all were in elementary school, did y'all, and it was like test time,

did the teachers ever let y'all set up the barrier so no one could copy? Where it was like folders around, so you just had like a wall? That's so lame. Why would a dork do that? Everybody did it. The teacher made us in third grade. Oh, she made you. We had certain teachers that would ask us to put up like our trapper keepers and stuff.

And I was like, aren't there dividers that are just made for these desks that we can just do instead of like me having like my buddy's thing? Not a lot of funding for public school. And they started doing like three different versions of the same test, just like mix up the questions. Our school never got to that level. Oh, really? We did. There's no way we got to that level. Oh, yeah.

We did that. No. I straight up copied my entire high school geometry class final exam from the girl next to me. I didn't study for it with the pure intention of just looking at her the entire time. There were some absolute savages who would – they they were known, like obviously they're very smart and they would bubble in answers, the wrong ones, and then go back and erase it

because they knew the people around them were copying. That is so galaxy brain. I'm not saying that I ever was one of those people or that I ever fell victim to that method, but I knew it was happening. Let's just say that. You were on to him. Did you ever know that somebody was, like, about to cheat on an exam

and you just looked at them the entire time trying to figure out if they were going to get away with it? Like they'd have, like, a little note card on their lap or something. It was like, dude, they're going to get in trouble. It would distract me the entire time I was doing my exam. Not a big test taker. Tests stink, man. I remember that one test that we had i had to take

and like i wasn't prepared so my buddies like rented a van with like a little signal right outside and i would like whisper through a mic like the question and they would tell me the answer like they would look it up real fast yeah really it was pretty pretty advanced yeah then we had to do like a gymnastics routine. Man, I had some people in my school do some elaborate shit. Like they would make necklaces with like different colored beads that represented different answers. Like they knew, like they got the test beforehand somehow. I don't know how they did it.

Found all the answers and just like, that's how they knew. Insane. I mean, I'm not going to throw too much shade at Harper Springs High School. I think I got a great education there. But, like, you could – I think I had numerous teachers that used the same test 20 years in a row. So if my sister had it, I would just take that and just know exactly what was going on. The most underwhelming thing in college is fraternities that are like, yeah, we've got a test bank. It's got all the tests.

And it's like – there's like one test in there that's actually still being used yeah they the game has changed so your test bank is is from like 1998 and it's been passed down it's not helping anybody hurts no one stimulates the economy but yeah at the end of that routine uh a guy was like supposed to be the mascot he was trying to jump through a hoop that was flaming and it caught him on fire god Really? Got his mascot suit on fire. Dude, that's crazy. He freaked out. Is he okay? Yeah, he's fine.

He was a little red. He freaked out in the locker room afterward. Weren't you guys having a problem retaining your fraternity charter or something? Yeah, it was tough, man. The dean just hated us. Dean Pritchard, I think his name was. Seriously? Yeah.

I never heard about this until now. We went to college together. One of the guys had locked him in a dumpster at some point when he was younger. They called him Cheese. It was weird, man. Oh, yeah. Can we get some announcements out of the way before we get into a loaded episode? I got a lot more I can do, Will.

Are you trying to cut me off? No. First and foremost, go follow Circling Back Pod and Watch Media on the Grom. Leave a review And five star rating We got a couple new reviews You guys want to hear them One of them's long as hell Yeah let's go

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Is he really? Yeah. Can I read you guys the long review? He is no Spurs fan's favorite player. Dude, his name makes me laugh every time I hear it. Patty? Because you're mom's best friend. I hate Patty Mills.

My mom has a sister named Patty. I only recognize Patty. I don't think she listens. Patty Mayonnaise. Shout out to Patty Mayonnaise. Shout out to Patty Mayonnaise. Dude, I saw a recent photo of Patty Mayonnaise. She's looking good these days. Dude, I'm old man Riverwalk.

She's still slim thick. The cute ass. You should keep that thing on. Don't stop acting like you know the reference. This is so over your head. I'm with Patty Mayonnaise. I'm going to read this review from Clayton. You're good.

I have a feeling it's a good one. That's good. It says, boys, boys, boys, you've brought me countless hours of entertainment over the years. I'm a full-time bagger from New Hampshire. I have a ski house there y'all are welcome to anytime. P.S. Will's going to love it. East Coast skiing, some of the most incredible hikes in the Mississippi, plus swimming, fishing, and golf. Does the Mississippi reach New Hampshire? I don't even want to bring that up. Brett's right there. He can hear all this. mississippi plus swimming fishing and golf do they even is the mississippi reach uh new hampshire i

don't even want to bring that up brett's right there you can hear all this he said i'd like to start with dave the wild card of the group makes me laugh until i cry absolute legend of the streets dylan which he spelled d-y-l-a-n that's rude it's the bad little monster of the group i swear in another life he can possibly potentially make the minor leagues with his eastern bat and he said will where do I start? At first I thought you were a massive narc. However. You still are kind of a narc, though.

Dude, I'm not a narc. Not like Mike a narc. Like a different narc. Like low-key narc. Keep going. He said, Brett, man, I know we would absolutely crush a New England ski bar and enjoy each other's love for the game of hockey. I can't stop telling friends and family about the podcast.

One million stars out of ten. Let's fucking go ride, boys. Love from your New Hampshire pal, Clayton. Can we send that guy a t-shirt or something? What a guy. Shout out to Clayton. Big ups to Clayton. Love that.

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subscription option on Patreon now where you can save 10% off your Patreon subscription. Why do I feel like Dave has never broken them boys off before? He has no clue how to break anything off. It's so embarrassing.

I'll break them off real bad. It's like you're not even from the streets, dog. Did you not hear the last review? From the streets. He's from the streets. He's the wild card. Look at this new table. Are you kidding me?

They're sturdy as hell. Are you serious? You're stronger than the Olympic beds. It's fine. You're stronger than the beds in the Olympics. How do you know? The sturdy as hell. Are you serious? You're stronger than the Olympic beds. It's fine. You're stronger than the beds in the Olympics. How do you know? The cardboard one. How do you know?

Is that true, the cardboard Olympic bed? They really... It's true, but they didn't put them in there for the reasons of avoiding sex. They're actually fairly sturdy. Was there just the budget wasn't there for a regular bed? I think it was just a cheap option for beds, yeah. I feel like the Olympics shouldn't skimp on that. that i mean these are athletes they they've got you know they need to be in prime condition i'm of the opinion that if i'm an olympic athlete i am going to just

pack like the nicest air mattress that money can buy and bring that to japan with me if i'm olympian i'm just gonna pay you ask a sponsor or like someone like hey like a company just like hey can i just get this like nice we had we had a sponsor on the old podcast that would literally mail you a box, and you would just open it, and it would slowly unfold into a full-size mattress. Lisa. Okay, I wasn't going to give them the free pub, but go off. I still like them. Yeah, they're incredible.

For that matter, I do too. I was going to say I was going to pack that thing on me if I was going to the Olympics. Mattress, you look good. Why don't you pack that thing on me if I was going to the Olympics. Mattress, you look good. Why don't you pack that thing up? Hell yeah, Dave. Brett's not laughing at anything we're doing. No, Brett hates us. He's so zoned in on the deal he's closing right now that he's like,

he's not going to listen. That's the thing that this new studio is underrated or not talked about enough is the dynamic change between like bullpen, like KJ's in there just cooking up takes, but he's there with cool adam you know what who knows what they're gonna put together they might link and do something on their own you want it this what this finally allows for we have a couch that brett is currently sitting on in the studio we're right you know adjacent to the studio but in the same room don't say it i have sat in on the bobby bone show before when they were in austin

they had a little couch situation in the studios. It was a great experience. Every once in a while, we could have a guest in here, as long as they keep quiet, of course, sit in and observe. It'd be fun. It'd be fun. Like a make-a-wish situation. Is this a ticketed event?

Like a make-a-wish situation. We're going to get hit up a lot for this. Well, we're going to say no to almost everybody. Every now and then. Why? It hurts nobody. You know what? You deserve it.

Come on in. Come on in. We'll do a giveaway. nobody. You know what? You deserve it. Come on in. Come on in. We'll do a giveaway. Like Clayton who left that great review. Come on in, Clayton. We'll do a giveaway. Yeah. It'd be a thrill.

They can stay in your guest room. It'd be a thrill. For them, for us. Hurts no one. What if they keep that thing on them too? Grows the economy. What if they pack that thing too? What if they thought we were just the funniest and they were just cracking off?

They got to leave their thing outside. That would be kind of funny to have off-mic laughter. Yeah. Should we just do a laugh track? Hurts no one. No, we can't do a laugh track. Can we recap this weekend in fun presented by Vizzy Hard Seltzer? Yeah.

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And to get updates on their latest flavor drops and more, sign up for emails at VizzyHardSeltzer.com slash subscribe. Again, that's VizzyHardSeltzer.com backslash subscribe. Must be 21 or older. Dylan, what did you do this weekend? Oh, man. Friday night I had a little den-den situation on South Congress. So did Will. And we linked up, linked parties afterward.

Can I ask a question? Yeah. Did you know you were going to see me that night? Yeah. I had no clue I was going to see you that night. Remember on Thursday, I was like, hey, what time are you doing dinner tomorrow? It's because I was also having dinner on South Congress, which I informed you, but you just weren't listening, I suppose. But was there a discussion somewhere that I was not a part of that was like, hey, let's all meet up here?

Because when you walked in, I was oh i was gonna go home and my night just got a lot more no i had planned in my mind and during dinner i texted you and sally i guess you just ignored me my phone was in her purse well that's why i was trying to be present not a phone in sight that's weird i was at home and my phone was on me and i maybe you need to go to the apple store i saw you at the gym that day i've run out of storage and it's really i saw you at the gym that day. I do. I've run out of storage. I saw you at the gym that day. I said, hey, are you going to stay in tonight? Are you going to maybe step out? And you said you're staying in.

No, be honest. You didn't see me at the gym. You saw me at the pool. The pool that's part of the gym, yeah. Just want people to know. Anyway, luckily, Dave's Little Whiskey Girl had her phone on her, and she responded to me. She said, hey, stop by the South Congress Hotel.

And so we did, and we had a time. And Will and will bought me a mezcal drink which was very good dude i do you want to take yeah i think it's my new favorite cocktail in austin let's fucking ride it's called the half burn let's go do you even have burn the half burn it's called the half burn it's a mezcal uh drink served in a martini glass and there's lime in it. There's something about it. I got low-key twisted that night. It reminds me of the drink that I was having at my wedding the entire time. I think that's why I liked it so much. They tasted very similar. I think it took me back.

Mescal's just goaded at this point. You should do a post, like an old photo from your wedding and say, take me back. That'd be sick. Anyway, Saturday a little thing called the meetup, the Becker meetup at Eisenhower's. It was fantastic.

A lot of people showed out. A lot of people. Very nice folks. Good-looking crowd, too, I might say. Yeah. It was a great time. Barry Rigby showed up. Love to see that.

Alfonso showed up. Love to see that. We had the whole squad there. If you don't know who Alfonso is, Alfonso Ruiz did a bunch of the branding that we use for several different podcasts and several different things around here. If you don't know who Barry Rigby is, then you obviously don't listen

to Welcome to Wilmonds on Spotify. Some dude, when I'm told, paid the... I don't know who's in charge of the music there. Paid somebody 20 bucks to put... Was there a DJ? It was probably the band Neon Bridges. They were sick, by the way. They were pretty good. A little loud.

They were good. A little loud. Lost my voice for a time. But anyway, someone paid the bar 20 bucks to play Welcome to Wilmonds, and it just brought the absolute house down. Somebody's got some deep pockets. I was very happy when I was standing at the bar talking to some people, and all of a sudden I heard...

Dude, imagine if you're Barry, and you're sitting there chilling at a bar, and all of a sudden your song comes on over the loudspeaker. How good did he feel in that moment? Yeah, what would you do if you were in traffic and the person next to you was smoking a cig with their window down and you just heard, do-do-do-do-do-do-do, you'd be like, oh, hell yeah, let's go. It was crazy. Is that how it goes?

Do-do-do-do-do-do-do. A lot of folks flew in from out of state, which was a huge honor, I felt. It meant a lot. We had Los Angeles in the building we had los angeles in the building boise idaho in the building we had vegas some dude from vegas according to randy i don't remember uh sorry guy from vegas no one doesn't remember you lots of will mommies were there uh macy with shouts to macy she was there it was a very bread nine bread and i got our hands dirty bread and i went full promo crew and And it felt – it was fun.

It was like, dude, we're just in there like – people were like, oh, who are these guys? They're setting something up. And bartenders were very, very like curious. One of the bartenders grabbed like four shirts before the thing even started. Good. Shout out to that dude. That's sick. Yeah, it was really fun.

A lot of cool shit, man. It was like – we got there. Brett and I got there about 2.15, 2.30. Nobody there. There was like a handful of cool shit man it was like it was like it we got there brett and i got there about 215 230 nobody there there was like a handful of backers there and then popped off at three and then i feel like it's six it was just like all right everybody's gonna go eat dinner i got there i think 250 and it was already there were probably 30 backers deep at that point and hadn't thing hadn't started yet major turnout love to see what see it. Dude, what's up with Dylan wearing a long-sleeve, button-down shirt to the meetup? He's interesting.

I wasn't going to say anything. It was mad flirty. How are you going to flirt with fabric on your forearms? It was mad flirty. What are you doing? What were you hiding? Were you hiding your big arms? Were you embarrassed and that's why you wore a long-sleeve shirt?

See, I worked out that morning, so I had a little extra pump in the arms. It was really embarrassing. They just weren't going down. That's gross, dude. So I covered them up. Huh pump in the arms. It was really embarrassing. They just weren't going down. That's gross, dude. So I covered him up. I was a sweaty boy. I honestly almost brought a second shirt because I was worried that I was going to sweat through my first one. It was soupy.

We got some cloud cover to help. Dave, I'll be honest, man. Your shirt went real hard. Real, real hard. I'm just going to do that with Will sitting right here. Will's shirt was okay. Your shirt went hard as hell. I like i was taking a back like damn this guy's fucking bringing it well yeah i know you were a wavy boy like that what do you mean like you said you were breezy and stuff but like you were on a wave that day yeah i was man i'm kind of still on

it man are you this wave doesn't die wow great time thank you for everyone who showed up yeah yeah i tried to send out like a nice tweet yesterday but i was i was a little hungover and scrambling to go play golf when i when i did and then i'd say it may not have came off as like i was reading it and i was like okay this sounds like very like i'm just checking boxes but like i really it really is like to me when i see the same people that were at the first meetup like uh in austin and like dude like guys who come in from dallas and everywhere like you said it's like dude i first of all i can't believe you still listen to this show like i'm glad you do appreciate it but it's like it's it's crazy to me that like they don't it's not like a for me i would maybe go to one meetup and it's like i'm good i don't

need to go to the next one. These guys go to every one. Can I walk you through my thought process when I read your tweet yesterday? Are you sure Babe's going to be okay with that? It was so out of character. That's a thought process joke. Oh, wow. Jesus. It was out of character for you, I thought, to be like.

To show emotion? Like, when is Dave going to turn this into a joke? Because it was kind of a long tweet. It wasn't. Dude, I really, I was looking at it. So I'll tell the truth. I'll pull the curtain back. So Dan posted a photo.

It was me, Dan, Boosh, J-Bone, and I guess Randy was in it. But I'm just kidding, Randy. You don't need to catch strays. And I was just like, man, I had so much fun seeing those guys. Even though we see Dan and Jared somewhat regularly, I haven't seen Boosh. We don't see Boosh too much. I hadn't seen Dan since before the pandemic, man. To get all those guys together, I'm sure they were already going out,

and it wasn't like they were coming to support us. But it was like, man, it's cool to have them there. And just to hear the banter. Boosh is still one of the funniest people. He's the same person. He is. They just dragged Boosh there. But with better hair.

I wouldn't say hi to him. He goes, I didn't even know there was a meetup going on i was just i just got dragged to the bar and y'all were here well that makes sense is bush is the guy who that dude what the the best writer but like just checking email was not his thing can i extend an apology to intern timo real quick so timo was, and I was very happy to see Timo. Big red X on his hand, by the way, as he is underage. But I saw him there, and he was just kind of like, you know, hanging out,

and I was introducing him to some folks. And every time I introduced him, I'd be like, this guy is so talented. Like, he's Timo. He's so good at what he does. And I feel like I just made him really uncomfortable. Maybe I didn't.

Maybe I'm bringing too much into it. You're making me uncomfortable. I gassed him up so hard to all the listeners. I was like, man, am I doing too much for Timo right now? You were doing a lot. Timo was great. You're kind of being the weird uncle. Cool Adam was also there.

I said hi to Adam. He's a little bit late. Cool Adam, by the way, had like the coolest entrance. He showed up at about 530. You know, there's still a lot of people there, but he just walked in. He was fresh. He was ready to go. And like he made us all look bad because he wasn't all sweaty. You know, there's still a lot of people there, but he just walked in. He was fresh. He was ready to go.

And, like, he made us all look bad because he wasn't all sweaty. He was still able to, like, put together sentences. Dude, he hit us with the bruv core fit. He did. He was so bruv core. Dylan kind of went smush core. Don't really know what that means, but that sounds sick. Dylan went, like, beach vacation core. I didn't go smush.

Wait, what did you call it? Smush core. Like you were trying to go to the smush room with Rob. you were trying to go to the smush room with rob i'm trying to go smush room dog ran i was uh what core was i i don't know i was just i was flirt core man honestly you're not we're not doing uh i'm flirt core i was gonna say we're not doing flirt core but like the more i think about i think flirt core might have so you saw my buttons coming down yeah no i did someone made someone did make a good observation that of the photos that you posted you lost a button in every single photo and i like that yeah i like that a lot yeah um so saturday was the first time we've left uh our son with a sitter that is not an

immediate family member were they from the flagpole it was not harvey danger um thank you though um so i and it went well i just want to say but i i was just the whole time i was kind of thinking like dude what if this what if roads is just being like just a just a wild ass dude doesn't matter because you're out i know but like that's i know but it's just it's kind of uh your your mind's always there and she was there with randy too no randy's at the meet-up. No, no, no, our Randy. He was taking... Oh.

Original Randy. We should have had a babysitter for Randy at the meet-up. He was getting wild. Randy made it... He came in like a wrecking ball, man. First of all, he was late. Why were you late? He shows up and he was just like...

An hour late. An hour late. He made like a grand entrance to that place. You should have... Can I, Randy, can I tell some dinner stories? He's just pulling that ass through the crowd of people, just making a scene. I can't.

He was thrown in a circle. I'm not going to tell tales out of school, but so we ended up getting, I got separated from y'all, and it's my fault. Y'all did not leave me. I was, I don't know. This happens like every time we do something like this. It does.

There's a funny picture that Brittany took of me outside the bar looking and waiting for you to come out, and like, you're just not coming. I'm sitting there like a lost puppy. It was funny. Yeah. So I ended up – we all went to Matzo Rancho, and so I ended up eating with J-Bone, Randy, Omar, day one listener,

Mike Eisenhower, not the name drop, owns the bar. Probably guessed that. Fulton Oil and Gas, the gas the fog no one's bingo card had this group getting together for dinner we were just all yeah we were it was us who else was there james james sorry james um and uh well y'all were in the other room and it was you klein all the significant others everybody else and um one point one point, we could see outside. We could see the groups that were coming in. And Matt's El Rancho is a popular destination for bachelorette parties.

Big group of young ladies. And I'm not going to say who. Somebody bird-dogged them, spotted them. Like, hey, bachelorette party. Two members of the table got up and decided to go uh introduce themselves next thing you know they were gone for like 30 minutes buying drinks at the bar for the bachelorette party let me just say i wasn't a part of it i didn't know randy had that in him i wasn't gonna say who it was but it was definitely randy i heard it wasn't randy i heard it wasn't randy it was randy i heard it

was not randy and i i heard randy got it from the table tucked his shirt in so we could see that ass and he just walked over there was Was he doing the back tuck? Also, he walked backwards to the bachelorette party. I saw you. You were doing the front tuck. Yeah. You said you wanted to look frattier. Yeah.

It's called a frat tuck. Right. Right. Is that what they call it when you tuck the shirt in the front? Yeah. Frat tuck? That's terrible. It's awful.

I don't have washboard enough abs to even do that. I'd look just fat. You look sick. Let me just say, to everybody I told, we'd be at Parlor and Yard post-dinner. Sorry. Yeah, that's my bad. I guess Randy made it and Mike.

I didn't, and neither did y'all. I was like, you know what? It was a great time to go ahead and be in bed by 10. I was too twisted. I had to get home. Yeah, when Bae dared me to pound Will's martini, or it might have been you. It was Bae. It was Bae.

She's a bad influence. She dared me to do it, and I did it. Then immediately as I was finishing, I was like, yeah, this is it for me. I'll be going home. There's no way I was making it out after dinner. I almost didn't make it to dinner. I only did it because I didn't want to be the guy that skipped. Damn, fool. I was making it out after dinner. I almost didn't make it to dinner. I only did it because I didn't want to be the guy that skipped. Damn fool. I was tired.

Dinner was fun. Well, I had a rule. I had a rule going into the meetup. I said I was going to do one shot with one person that offered and I ended up doing more than that. Game changer is when the guy who owns the bars at the meetup and he's also a listener and he's like, you want to do a shot? You don't want to be that guy like that. By the way,

since we're talking about dinner, we have to mention that listener Blake, who was there, very, very nice man, bought our dinner. He did. We did not ask him to do it. He just did it. The waitress came up to us and informed us that our dinner had been paid for by, quote, unquote, a backer.

And then she said it's the guy out there. Blake, if you're out there, hit me up. Must have missed you, Blake. Hit me up, and I will make you a little promo code for the Watch Media shop. Blake and his buddy, I forgot his name, I'm sorry, really tall guy, 6'11". Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, they were some of my favorite backers that we ran into. No offense to the other ones.

I was standing on the patio, the elevated patio of Eisenhower's, and the tall dude, rocking a great hawaiian flirty as hell just like still towering over me yeah it's very embarrassing he's very tall i was trying to go to the i was trying to go to the bar to get a drink and i i had to go under his legs like mugsy bogues did you yeah i went over him like like vince carter i crossed him you dunked over him and went to the ball that seems really aggressive he did a mark so bad i went over the top of him it was interesting yeah yeah they tried to kick me out for crossing him over. You can't just be breaking ankles like that.

Did he fall? I think we'd be remiss if we didn't congratulate Brett for making it to Houston in time. Yes. Big ups to Brett. Big shouts to Brett. Dude, I don't even know why I ever doubted him, if I'm being honest. Brett always seems to pull through, and I'm very happy he made it. So I got down there, unloaded the the car Brett and Klein are across the way Brett's in full-on

like nice clothes tucked in and everything and I was like dude Brett is this happening and I was like well I at one point I offered to buy him an uber I didn't clear that by all but we almost almost got Brett at uber and he's like no no that's fine he made it and i was like dude there's and he walked out and i was like i looked at whoever the listeners were i was like there's no way i like dude he's he's getting there in four hours i had no faith but he did he made it we want to do anything else tight this weekend played golf yesterday uh what'd you shoot 86 didn't play well but um actually won wolf and uh wow everybody paid out don't that's sick yeah it was interesting to play 10 15 i i tried to pay him it was 10 yeah i told you to do that money buy bay something

nice very cool i did something crazy last night you ready for this i air fried something that i never thought i would air fry this is the segment I wanted to hear. Not to brag, but your boy air fried a ribeye last night. I don't even know what to think. So we'll drop this. We're in a group text. Dylan's not in. But Peter Hart and Kyle Bandujo, you guys know them,

maybe as Ice House and Kyle Bandujo from PGP days. And we just talked about dad shit and a lot of meat talk. We talk a lot of meat, smoking meats. And we'll drop that in there. And I was at first thinking you did like a chicken fried steak type thing. I understood where you were coming from. I thought maybe you battered it like tempura. I understood where you were coming from. I almost didn't send the text.

I almost didn't send the text because I was worried that I would be judged on doing that because I don't think that many people would be fans of doing this. So I hesitate to even admit that I did this. I feel like hardos out there are like, you can't air fry a steak. I was one of them. How'd it go? The lack of photos, in fact there were zero photos, made me wonder how it really went. Are you going to do it again?

I feel like you should have sent a gut shot. You know, if I had a grill or if I had a smoker, if I had something like that, I probably wouldn't do it again just because I like the taste that you get from a grill or a smoker. But living in a condo with very sensitive, you know, fire alarms, I think I'm going to have to do it again sometime. Hey, let's go. I think I'm going to try a different cut of meat next time, see what that does. But I'll be honest. It was flavorful.

It was juicy. It was easy. Did you have to flip it? Mm-hmm. How long each side? Flip it real good. Okay. What?

Devo. How long each side? We did nine minutes each side at 390. It came out perfect. Wow. Really? That's seen? Okay.

I would have guessed that it would be because a ribeye is not super thick, right? Or was this like a big boy ribeye? It's just like low-key thick. I'll say this. We got some chalky boys last night. It's kind of slim thick, honestly. With a cute ass. A lot of fat on it, which I like.

It was fatty, but it was good. I think the fattiness helped. Okay. I don't know if I'm going to try this or not, but I'm interested. I will send pics next time I do it, which will probably be later this week. The fact that Pete Hart didn't completely back you down he took way too long

to respond and the entire time I was freaking out I was like I'm waiting to get dominated right now just waiting on it yeah

that's another guy Dylan couldn't score on okay I saw a tweet online earlier today and it said it asked if you had 30 minutes

in an NBA game could you score 30 minutes? yeah you had 30 minutes in an nba game could you score 30 minutes yeah no you get 30 minutes of playing time can you can you get a lot of playing time absolutely not it's like a ton of playing there's a ton of playing time wait i mean no i'll probably no what if the team was working to get you wide open shots you're like you're the dude who gets i just i feel like they're not gonna run the offense around me no they are it's gonna be like when the team's up 40 in the playoff game and they bring the dudes off the bench just to throw them in.

And the whole bench is going nuts when they get a shot. Yeah, I'm the 5'11 white dude at the end of the bench who only plays in blowouts. Maybe. I knew you were 5'11. Yeah, you're 5'11? No, I'm saying that's what that guy – Did you just expose yourself before?

We were going to expose you in a couple minutes here, but if you just exposed yourself for being 5'11.'m a solid 6'1 hey how was that last my last note on the meetup shouts to every backer out there who said that i was taller in person than what they would thought you are sneaky you're sneaky not a short guy if people were like i thought you were like i thought you were like 5'8 5'10 and i was like no i told you numerous times i'm 5'11 3 quarters i got that a lot too That you were just towering over people Dude like You're like a way more commanding presence in person

You just have like this aura about you Like you really know how to work the room And just dominate Like I'm very proud of you That's what a number of people said I heard some girls talking and they voted you the man meat of the meetup The man meat of the meetup the man meat of the meetup i don't believe that that's what they said dave is usually the main attraction at these things yeah

the man attraction loves him someday but then timo showed up and dylan is gassing him up so much yeah you know pretty much crowd surfed him out of there and put a crown on his head you know what's cool about being the the main attraction at one of these which i don't think i am uh i think we all feel are uh it means that people want to buy you drinks And Eisenhower's has a fantastic array of drinks I did not have one of the What's the champagne drink? Champagne I didn't have that

Yeah, champagne is what I was looking for Oh, they do a sangria there Sangria champagne Sangria mimosa I don't know, whatever it is It's very good It's a sangria It's in a big mason jar though

It's very heavy It's sangria Alright, man I only drink out of mason jar, though. It's very heavy. It's sangria. All right, man. I only drink out of mason jars. Yeah, I do, for sure. Because I'm just a down-home rich guy. That's why everybody calls me mason. I love this bar.

I did one other thing this weekend. I love this bar. I don't need to talk about it at length, but I did something else kind of cool this weekend that I'd never done. Dude, please tell us about it. I went to the Austin Q2 Stadium, and I watched a little U.S. men's national team game. Did they score a goal?

They did score a goal. What? Yeah. No, no, this wasn't Austin FC. Oh, that's right. Yeah, this was the U.S. men's national team. Follow Conca, California. They scored one goal.

And I have to say, they shouldn't have won the game. The amount of chances that Qatar just absolutely blew was great for me. But the Q2 Stadium goes. We've got to go there sometime and hang. I've heard good things. I have. I'm in. Very cool.

Shout out to the Gold Cup winning team, us, USA. Yeah, I wish I would have stayed up late enough to finish the game, Dave. Yeah, when I fired off to the too much dip group text, like that goal was sick and no one even acknowledged it. I was like, all right, I guess everybody's in bed. I really did all my sports watching during F1 yesterday. So I was beat last night. I went to bed at 10.15.

That's why I didn't watch White Lotus, which we'll get to in a second, actually. Can we hear from Kutz real quick? Y'all should watch White Lotus. It's so good. You're insufferable. But you know what's not? Kutz. Dude, we all strive for greatness.

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I was going to come in today and I was going to pitch like, hey, I'm in on this show that you guys have been talking about. Everybody's been talking about. But I'm only three deep. And then I look at Twitter, as I often do, and I see your tweet. What am I tweeting? I don't know.

We can't even read it because we don't want to spoil it. Hey, guess what? My tweet was just a minor detail. Oh, I feel like it's a pretty big plot line. And I didn't really even say what happened in the tweet. I just said he went in on somebody. That could mean like two things. Okay. Okay.

So I actually had a plan. I had a plan this morning that I was going to walk into the studio and say, hey, by the way, I have not seen any White Lotus. Let's not talk about this right now. It's currently, if they stay on the trajectory that they're on, this might be one of my favorite seasons of television in the last five years. It is such a good show. I was thinking last night, I was like, am I overrating this?

Because outside of sports, I have not watched much TV. I have not started a new show in forever. And I'm really enjoying this show. It's such a good show. We watched two Friday. We watched one last night. And my favorite thing is just hopping on Twitter where I do a lot of my work and just seeing like a major plot point.

Are you saying I spoiled something? You did. It was 12 hours prior. The episode had dropped. All you saying I spoiled something? You did. A major plot point. It was 12 hours prior. The episode had dropped. It wasn't like... You know what? Spoilers don't bother me. You can spoil shit for me.

I don't really care. It doesn't affect my viewing of a show. It 100% affects my viewing of a show? But I didn't really spoil anything. So I'd already... When you read my tweet, what did you think happened in the show? No. See, you're not going to do that to people. I don't want to see your reaction. Okay, did you know what happened in the show? No, see, you're going to get in my way. No, I'm not going to do that to people.

Did you know what happened in the show after reading my tweet? I know. I think I have a feeling. Well, Ross Bolin, yeah, I'm adding him. He doubled down and he actually said what happened. And I didn't take it that far. I left it vague intentionally. Oh, I saw Ross' tweet.

I thought it was just like a random ross tweet but there's actually damn it see you didn't know until he tweeted guess what dude you were the proximate cause of his tweet he wouldn't have tweeted that spoiler if not for yours he piggybacked on your you're getting too loose on the timeline i'm not responsible for his twitter fingers y'all are like a chicken fight he's on your shoulders how long after a show airs, like a brand new HBO top billing show? 48 hours. Do you think 48? Do you think Tuesday you can roll in with some takes?

You sure can. Man, I don't know. I don't know. Here's the thing. I tweeted the morning after. Dude, there's so much else going on right now that people are watching that you can't expect people to watch at the night of right now. It's just dicey. right now that people are watching that you can't expect people to watch at the night of right now it's just dicey we got outer banks season two out that apparently is the most bingeable season

of television of all time based on two people i've talked to one of them being brett who watched 10 episodes in a row that's insane we've got all the love island in the world going on uh the olympics let's not sleep on those like there's too much to watch to be putting out spoilers at this point i don't think i didn't reveal anything about the show. Dude, you're Mr. Spoily. I'm not a spoily boy. And the fact that you went out of your way to name the show with proper capitalization. Have you guys seen the HBO original White Lotus?

Did you watch last night's episode? Okay, I want to point out a couple things about the show that I love so much. I'm not going to give any plot points away, I promise you. The musical score of the show is brilliant, by the way. It is so strong. I'm not going to give any plot points away, I promise you. The musical score of the show is brilliant, by the way. It is so strong. And I don't usually notice stuff like that. It perfectly sets a tone. Yeah, what got into you? Perfectly sets a tone.

It's like Hawaiian-y sounding. It's incredible. Hawaiian-y sounding. Hawaiian-y sounding. And it creates anxiety. Low-key Barry Rigby vibes. It creates a little anxiety. It's awesome. My two favorite characters, Armand. He's low-key goaded.

And Daddario's husband, I forgot his name. He's so perfectly smart. He's the dude that's in everything on HBO, but you don't know his name. He's so good. He was also Plop in The Office. He crushes his character. I won't give any spoilers. I'll be honest. I stopped watching at that Office. He crushes his character. I won't give any spoilers. I'll be honest.

I stopped watching at that point. His seasons were not good. Everything gets better. What a great show. I can say this because I've already told Sally enough times, but he is Sally in the show. If there's something wrong on a vacation of ours, it just eats her alive until it's solved.

Every time Armand walks by, he's like, hey. And he has to bitch at him about something. It's so great. I'm so happy to see Steve Zahn flourishing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Am I, again, overrating this because it's the only new show I've watched,

but there's going to be an Emmy nod somewhere in here, right? There's some really good performances. The cinematography is great, too. What are you doing? I don't like film stuff. I call him Prestige Dylan over prestige dylan over here i call them pictures now it's a great picture dude do you remember how mikey used to watch claim to be a french noir guy yeah and he could never name a single french noir film like you think for purposes of his long-running bit maybe it's part of the bit and it's genius and it just went over my head he would know like one have a go to yeah

he didn't I agree just look up one this show is so popular I have two people texting me right now asking if I'm watching it oh this is great

I got tired of hearing y'all talk about it without me knowing so we got in and I'm really enjoying it to Will's credit he was the first one

to recommend it to me my buddy recommended it to me I was like what's it about and he was like oh it takes place at like a really nice resort and i was like say no more yeah like if i can go on vacation while watching television i'm all the way in i don't want it to end and then once i saw the cast when i saw that it was called white lotus i it doesn't the name white lotus have like horror film vibes to you not really i don't really know why i thought it

was going to be some creepy like scary show and and that's just not what I'm into. There's some of those underlying vibes. Not like a horror film, but you know. I thought it was going to be about just a white car. Right. Sure. A lotus is a flower, I believe. Like IRL.

Why are you looking at me like that? I'm trying to think of a Michelle Obama floatus joke, but I can't do it right now. I can't do it. You could do a Dr. Jill Biden joke. There's a number of first ladies. Weren't you saying she's not allowed to call herself doctor? That's not true.

Who was that idiot? There's nobody on here. Can I circle back? I want to give a shout out. I found something in my pocket after the meetup the next day. And this is exactly what you want to see from listeners. This is from the Circle P Ranch. This is healthy marbled beef, Wagyu beef.

No antibiotics, no hormones. We have a listener whose family has a ranch that raises Wagyu cattle. He told me that he gave his card to you and that I need to talk to you about this arrangement. If it's not from Japan, I'm not interested. Where is it? It's fair. It's from Texas.

Oh, yeah, I see. Oh, if this guy finds out that I air fried a steak, he's not going to give me any steak, is he? No. What if he air fried a Wagyu steak? Dylan, he said he has a promo code for you it's five percent off oh sick sick so check about circle p ranch which is that like copyright infringement because didn't that what no no what you called your dorm room no it's not we're still doing those jokes in the new studio yeah we're children we're all kind of feeling each other out here if it's been a little clunky it's not. We're still doing those jokes in the new studio. Yeah, we're children.

We're all kind of feeling each other out here. If it's been a little clunky, it's mainly Dylan being like 12 feet away. You guys just keep looking at me the whole time. It's really nice. You know what sucks? When I have to go to the gentleman's room like I'm about to have to, it's going to be very obvious, right? No.

What do you mean? I'm going to get up. I'm going to scoop. You always announce it. I know, but I feel like it's not on camera. Now it's like they can see. Well, now there's no door to open and shut. So we have to not deal with that anymore.

Yeah, that's true. We're thriving. God, what a sick episode this is, man. Can we talk about the dude that set his lawn on fire instead of just mowing his lawn? We have to. This might be my king because, like, I don't mow lawns. Everyone knows. Like, someone asked, like, how many patrons for me to mow a lawn this wasn't too much to have live stream the other day i said 4500 i'll

mow both your lawns if we get to 4500 patrons let's ride but i feel like you guys low-key like mowing your own lawn so like do you actually want me to do it oh i don't like mowing at all dave loves mowing his lawn i pay someone to do it i saw i was walking by dave's new place the other day just trying to get like a invite in because i haven't been there yet and i looked in dave's backyard and he was just wearing like these short jean daisy duke shorts and he was just he was just hitting lawnmower he was hip bumping it yeah yeah you're telling me i was i was hip hip thrusting into my lawnmower tomorrow that is like not an efficient way and it's battery power so i've got like 40 minutes of battery time i don't know man he saw it happen i believe will

my front yard currently is um just mud mud because we're having some work done, and they have not been able to do anything because of the rain. So very cool. We did need it, though. Guess who got back from the meetup and put his right foot directly in it? Completely oblivious. It was me. Into what?

Mud. Mud. Mud. Dude, people are still talking about my shoes I wore to the meetup. No, they're not. They were so sick. No, they're not.

People ask me what brand they were. Yo, I low-key had a backer tell me that they were overrated. No, he didn't. I swear to God. What?

One backer told me they were like, dude, Dylan's shoes are overrated. That's not true. I swear. Why would he say that? I thought they wronged

you a little bit with that. Why would he say that? I don't know. Name names. No, I don't know. I don't remember the name. I'll run up. I don't remember the name.

Dude, he was just mad chill. Was it E-Man from L.A.? Shout out to E-Man. Why are we burying... San Antonio rolled hard. Yeah, they did. There was like eight people from San Antonio. Eric, I got Eric a drink.

I was so appreciative of him flying in. What a guy. Big shout out to the E-Man. Our bar tab, the company tab was not that bad. Can we guess what it was? I don't even want to know. It was sub-five digits. It was still four, but...

It was four digits? No, I'm fucking with you. I just wanted to see your face. Dude, I was like, what? I thought it was just us three drinking. It was honestly sub-200. So we spent less at this meetup than we did at the one before. Yeah, we spent several grand at the last one.

Well, someone did. Oh, yeah. I was like, what? Hey, can we talk about the BC man who didn't feel like cutting his grass and is now fine? I forgot about that. It said Mounties on the Sunshine Coast say that they and firefighters were called to a home on the Port Mellon Highway. Kind of a really – that's a great address for Wilmonds, actually. For a report of heavy smoke on Tuesday,

the fire was called in by passengers on a passing BC ferries vessel. A lot of ferry content lately. This is a scene. They could see the fire from the water. It says, yeah, the dude just, it was about 10 feet in diameter, and he just didn't want to cut his lawn, so he just set it on fire. Do you think he listened to our episode about Woodstock 99 and was like actually this sounds tight so that's a thing that farmers do right they will set fire to their field to just kind of start from new like every yeah i don't know if it's yearly

but every now and then there is something there i don't know the exact reason for it yeah the use but i'll have to talk to circle p ranch i have a i have a contact that knows a lot about fire if you want me to reach out to her. Is he a firefighter? I said she. Is she a firefighter? Wow. You made an assumption there. All right.

There you go, Dylan. Yeah. More of a controlled burn kind of person, which is, I usually out of control burn, if you know what I mean. Yeah. Let's go. That's what I do. Burning not concerning.

No. Zero concerns. I've never really understood controlled burns but I I also understand that they're very important to the uh the landscape yeah I don't know anything about them but they sound sick is there what if we got 4 500 patrons and then I went over to one of y'all's place and just set your lawn on fire new podcast uncontrolled burn I don't hate it wow I don't hate it the takes man I I just got something to say. Just flamethrower after flamethrower.

Speaking of uncontrolled burns, I am not tied. I had a name tag put on me, I think by Macy. We did not bring name tags. That said tied. Someone did. And a lot of people were like, are you tied? No, I'm not tied. I still don't know who tied is.

I don't want to know who tied is because I'm happy with what they're doing with the Twitter account, and I don't think I need to know. There was a guy there that had Dorn on his name tag. Dude, I feel like people knew that it wasn't a hit. I don't know.

People kept thinking I was you. They're like, what's up, Dylan? Big fan. I'm not Dylan, man. Really? Yeah.

Wow. That's wild. It was weird. Oh, yeah, so about this guy's lawn. Oh, yeah. Why did he do it? What's the point here?

He didn't want to cut it. Bad boy shit, dude. I feel like you shouldn't. This is punk rock at its finest. Why is everyone not investing in a battery-powered lawnmower? The province is currently under several burn bans due to the risk of wildfires. And this dude just went. Because the summer's been hot and dry.

Where is this located? You've heard about the heat dome, right, David? Yeah, it's unprecedented. It's an unprecedented weather event. It's in Vancouver. Wow. That's on my list. I'd like to go to Vancouver one day.

I've heard nothing but amazing things about Vancouver. The entire area. It's really close to Banff, by the way. Washington. It's like a hop, skip, and a jump. Didn't you say you were looking for some heat dome at the meetup? I didn't say that. I don't know.

I never said that. People were saying. Nah, dude, baby's there. I wouldn't say that i don't know i never said that people were saying i do but he was there and i wouldn't i wouldn't say something reckless like that you guys aware about these raycon headphones i was listening to limp biscuit this weekend and like like no matter how i'm feeling about like getting back out there there's no denying that you know just getting back out there in general it's like uh it's it's kind of different in this environment right now. I was listening to Ray J through the Raycons. Really? Yeah.

I feel like it was only appropriate. I need some hype music when I'm going up to a social gathering at this point. You just toss the Raycons in and it's done. They're great for the live streams. We do the live streams. That's the heady I got in there. When the world gets too boom and loud, something I love to do is create my own soundtrack by popping in my Raycon wireless earbuds.

You just did a lot there. You guys know that I'm the biggest playlist maker in this studio. Have you heard of Dylan Faves before? Dude, you have one playlist.

I have a million playlists. I really don't. Sometimes you need some upbeat music to pump you up before you see people or stay calm with some guided meditations.

You know we stay strapped to those guided meditations. It could be a zen playlist, a playlist you get excited for for an upcoming party i just love it all i make new playlists all the time i've been listening to a lot of music lately you guys aware of that who ghanian from ghana oh for real yeah that's kind of sick dude fritz kind of likes it so i've been playing in the car it's really good i didn't know you had that in your repertoire man yeah i don't put the raycons on him but he's waiting for that day he's like dad when am i old enough to wear raycons well since they have the uh the adjustable earlobe sizes you might find one for him that's true everyone knows that raycons are the best way to listen they come with a bunch of gel tips for

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Circling back listeners can get 15% off their Raycon order at buyraycon.com. That's buyraycon.com to get 15% off. Buyraycon.com. I just mentioned Limp Bizkit. Why is Fred Durst rebranding? What's he up to, Dave? So they are the talk of Lollapalooza. I think there was one thing that might have been a little more talk of Lollapalooza.

What? Just the sheer size of the crowd. Those photos gave me anxiety. I haven't seen these yet. Oh, dude. A lot of people. I mean, not just too many people. Like a couple hundred? gave me anxiety just even in like i haven't seen these yet oh dude a lot of people like i mean like not like just too many people like a couple hundred yeah it gave me like a flashback to acl

for like drake and just being in the middle of like a crowd a sea of people more people at lollapalooza or our meetup i'm looking at a question i feel like probably lollapalooza and i don't think it's particularly close i'm'm looking at the numbers right now, and it looks like Lollapalooza had more attendees. It might have been the fact that they had, like, I don't know, like famous music acts there. We had Barry Rigby, though. Yeah, and Neon Bridges. True.

I forgot about Neon Bridges. Dude, they were a heap. Yeah, so I guess maybe the rebrand might be like a response to the Woodstock 99 doc that kind of paints Limp Bizkit in an unfavorable light. And, like, I think Fred Durst is actually pretty self-aware. He has become a punchline since the early to mid-2000s, right? I don't shy away from it. I've been to a couple Limp Bizkit shows back in the late 90s.

But, Randy, fill the photo up. Yeah, Durst, his signature move was the backward Yankee cap, the red, inexplicably red Yankee cap. And now he's just since pivoted. But it's so funny seeing Twitter do a 180 on Fred Durst, and now he is bae. He is Twitter bae. I don't know what team he has behind him,

but he legitimately flipped the script of getting blamed for Woodstock 99 only to go play Lollapalooza, and now everyone's in on him. He looks like he's a sabotage guy from the Beastie Boys video. One of my favorite videos of all time. It's a good video. I think it's a little overrated. I don't. I disagree.

Good song, too. I went back. This brought me so much joy i uh i went back and re-watched the uh limp biscuit 99 set last night after uh white lotus you gotta stop doing this i do it's it's a thing that i do i just wanted to see because i was like okay let's see how let's see how violent they made the crowd or whatever because like one of the things in the crowd, they're like, or in the doc, they're like, the bass player walked out and flipped off the crowd. And I was like, in my head, I was like, that's a thing that like, I don't know.

I feel like that's a thing that happens. It's not noteworthy. Yeah, I don't think that, I think it was more about the hot temperatures and the $4 water and the bad amenities. Not necessarily blaming the bass player, but went back and watched it. And I just want to say, water and the bad amenities let you know not not not necessarily blaming the bass player but went back and watched it and i just want to say there's a moment where if you look on the side

of the stage you catch uh puff daddy and kid rock just chumming it up on the side watching limp biscuits so he performed like a like a regular he performed like this is what he looks like now he's got a biscuit set just that. And everybody said the set was good. People were like... The crowd... Look. That's kind of a vibe, honestly. The crowd was into it. Well, dude, I just...

I have a lot of respect for Fred Durst because a lot of people don't know about his upbringing. Are you guys aware that he came into this world as a reject? If you look into his eyes, then you'll see the size of the flames. There you go. See, that would hit different with a sub. Yeah, I think you're right.

I think we need to get a sub. That's fair. I think we need a sub. The people under us will really enjoy it. Are you bummed you didn't see Posty shut it down at Lollapalooza on Saturday? Did he shut it down? I guess so. God, he's such the man, dude.

He's such the man. He's such the man. Is he? Posty? He's so freaking He's such the man, dude. He's such the man. He's such the man. Is he? Posty? He's so freaking talented. Might be back out on Posty. Oh, I'm so in. He's got a new joint out.

It's pretty sick, man. I forgot what it's called. Wow, it must be really fucking good. If and when Limp Bizkit gets to Austin, can I pencil you all in to go with me to a Limp Bizkit show? I'll go. Don't ask. I know you would go. I'm mainly doing this so Dylan doesn't feel singled out.

As long as it's in pencil, yes. You can pencil me in. You reserve the right to? I reserve the right to use the eraser. Okay. That's fine. You don't have to actually do it. It's kind of like a symbolic gesture.

Dude, we're about to have our brand new guest in the studio. I mean, some of you know him as the bullet driving to Houston. He's my guy right here. I get to touch him and everything. A little bullet. Appropriately. Stop groping Brett right now. It's very annoying.

I'm glad that Randy still has to do some work. Randy didn't have to stand up to change the camera now. We're living in Randy's world at this point. He's taking over, man. Brett, do you have any breaking news for us? As a matter of fact, I do. Thanks for having me on the show, Dad. This is cool. First, it projects

differently. Dude, this episode sucks, man. I'll tell you what. From an unbiased standpoint, your first episode you guys were leaning on bits heavily to kind of feel out early on but you have hit your stride since the first couple minutes I'm not going to lie

this is the most nervous I've been for a Circular Back episode ever I had a thought should we have done a test recording I thought that but unfortunately when I had that thought we were five minutes into this podcast you see my big coffee mug? Yeah, you don't have any coffee in it, though. I drank it.

Dylan's got new bits. He's got an oversized coffee mug. So how bad do you have to pee? I'm straight. Oh, so you drank 40 ounces of coffee and you don't have to pee. And you're fine. It wasn't full, guys. Everyone knows that coffee goes through you faster than I do. It wasn't full, you dum-dum.

You have like a shot of espresso in there. It's all dried to the bottom. You don't even get to drink it. Brad, what was your favorite part of the pod? What's up with this breaking news, man? What was your favorite part? Highs and lows of the pod. Highs and lows of the pod.

You can be honest. Pull the curtain back. The low, you guys leaned on, on woated. You leaned on another. We didn't do much woated. I didn't say woated. I don't think we said any woated. What was the big y'all lean on?

Dylan didn't say somebody was goaded or something. Something like that. No, he said something was low-key goaded. His shoes, maybe, that people thought he was barefoot for a while. Okay, so a little bit too much of that from Dylan. High-key. Dylan. Sick.

But yeah, the meet-up talk, I was there for a couple minutes. I had a hard out, 3.30. Dude, congrats to you. I would not have been responsible enough to do any of that at your age. I made it. I was early, too. I was in Houston by 5.59, which suggests some speeding was involved. And they're right about that.

I took 2.90. I avoided 71 and I-10. Ooh, you went through some towns where they don't take kindly to speeding. Well, you've got to know when to slow down. There's those. You go 75 to 55 in a minute. Are you a Waze guy? I Wazed it. If I need

to be somewhere quickly, I'm a Waze guy. If I'm along for the ride, I'm a Google Maps guy. I like their interface more. I'm an Apple Maps guy. I am too, man. I have no issue with Apple Maps. Waze has put me in circles before. Waze over thinks it. I don't need

cartoon men. I don't need little cartoon men. I don't know. I don't either. I don't trust all these narts in the road who are like, oh, you ought to watch out for this here. I don't know. You know what? I'm not supposed to text and drive, but I'm supposed to approve cops on the side of the road? Let me say this. I don't need to know that there's a parking cone

on the shoulder. Yeah, I'm all good with that. There's a car stalled up ahead. It's like police. Tell me about police and traffic. Sheesh. On the shoulder. Yeah, I'm all good with that. I'm fine. There's a car stalled up ahead. It's like police. It's like police guards off the road. Tell me about police and traffic. Sheesh. Yeah, I've got some breaking news. Sure.

I don't break the speed limit, so I don't need to worry about where the police are. Are you serious? I've got breaking news. Where's the least edgy driver? Nah, I'm just kidding. I'm trying to throw him off my set. What is it? 10 you're mine, 9 you're fine?

That's kind of how I live. So I know 84 and 75. Cruise. I was told 7-11. What's that? The 7-11 rule. If you're on like a normal street, you can go 7 over and you probably won't get pulled over. If you're on the highway, you can go 11 over and you probably won't get pulled over.

That's what I abide by. Who told you that? 11's my cousin. He's actually a big backer. Shout out to your cousin. Shout out to his family. As far as breaking news go. It's you.

It is you. Would you guys like to go bacon, the weekend, or nuggets? Is this the weekend, like the end of the week, or like the musician? The musician, the weekend. Okay. Well, I think because it's so epic, I think we have to start with bacon. Sure. Bacon, according to ABC News, may disappear in California as new pig rules take effect.

Okay. So are we about to become drug runners for bacon in California? We could have a bacon bootlegging operation. I'm fine with that. Sure. What are these rules? What's going on here? I'm curious.

So the problem is there's a law taking effect January 1st that's making pork more expensive and harder to find in the state of California. But why? What's causing the price increase? Like this specific law, they can't just raise the price. Is it because they're making it more difficult to raise pigs? I think they're finding less work at pig farms, which therefore is bottlenecking the pig supply. Okay.

I didn't know if they were cracking down on factory farming or something. Dude, I heard there's just a slop shortage. There's just not enough gob of slop? Yeah, like they just can't find any slop. They can find slop. I made them extra sloppy for you. No, there's no slop out there. I know how you use pigs like I'm extra

sloppy. They're also saying the current treatment of pigs and pork farms is inhumane, so they're going to open up the space a little bit. Agree. Yeah, but okay. They're still going to eat chicken and stuff? Like, chicken aren't exactly...

We know there is a chicken shortage as well, Will. Hey, poultry farmers, you're next, baby. Yeah, because Popeyes are just buying it up. Speaking of, that's my second breaking news. I had the nuggets this weekend. Low-key mid? Is that between goaded and woaded? No, I mean...

Wow, you said low-key mid. I don't know, man. They were fine. They didn't blow my mind. They were good. Not a game changer. Yep. The sauces have been changed, though,

which is interesting. Do you go with the Blackened Ranch? I go with the Bold BQ, which is their barbecue. It's like barbecue, but it's bolder. Why don't they just call it Bold Barbecue? I agree. I'm just a gravy boy. Why are you roast-handing me? I'm just telling you, It's like barbecue, but it's bolder. Why don't they just call it bold barbecue? I agree. I'm just a gravy boy.

Why are you roast-handing me? I'm just telling you it's like barbecue, but it's bolder. Yeah, why are you directing at me with a roast-hand? It's like you're not getting this. I'm watching you process it, and it's just not clicking. I got it. What's there to get? Dylan's brain is crumpled right now by bold barbecue.

It's just bold barbecue. He's got no clue what it is. I fucking understand. You have no clue what's going on. I also have to say, I went to a Popeye's in the North Houston suburbs. The biscuits are about 50% smaller than normal. Wow. Really?

So I recommend going to your local Popeye's. And if you're a frequenter of that establishment, take a look at the biscuit size. They're cutting back somewhere. And I think that's there. I've been a little upset lately. I've had to switch supermarkets where I buy my lunch from recently, my pre-made lunches. I've been doing snack packs that I know Dylan's been a fan of in the past. Sick.

They underfill them at my new place. Wow. Same price, underfilled. I think I'm out. Huh. Hey, breaking news. What's your new place? Just the north location instead of the south location.

CM? Central Market. I didn't even know there was. They have this little chicken salad thing that I eat for lunch every day. Bacon's there all the time, man. I'm kind of bummed, man. I never expected Popeye's to have Lent biscuits. See what he did?

I'm going to come on this show every time and Dylan's going to have something like that. He just wants a slap guy. I need a slap guy. I need a guy to slap during the show. Will, you're familiar with The Weeknd, right? I'm talking about the musician. Dude, I literally just had one. Well, he is coining a new term. He's officially sober light, which means he's staying off hard drugs but still smokes weed and drinks alcohol. Okay, so he's okay just

dialed it back a little dude i love that i love that that's big for him he didn't go full california sober i'm not gonna okay so friend of a friend i i met a guy at a wedding this guy guy doesn't drink anymore okay which shout out to him but his family he does this guy doesn't drink but he does cocaine and i was just like okay oh okay i good for you go on your choice i just i'm like man i feel like that's that's uh that's pretty hardcore yeah how does he just he doesn't say i'm sober right right? No. No, because by definition, not. He's certainly not. Because of the cocaine habit that he has.

I know everything can affect you differently, but I was just like, man, that is wild to just be sober doing that. Yikes. We need new diet terms. There's paleo, where you eat fish and stuff, right? No. What's the fish one? I mean, you can eat pescatarian. Pescatarian. There's vegetarian, pescatarian. Pescatarian.

There's vegetarian, pescatarian. I just man-sporting diets. Paleo's the caveman diet. That's the caveman diet. That's right. That's right. It's the Steve's on episode three diet. Uh-huh.

See, why Lotus? No spoilers. Not yet. No spoilers there. I thought, I'm in the will camp where I thought it was, I thought it was a scary show. Like a horror movie or something. Yeah, wait, Lotus. Hey, I got an idea.

How about you start watching the damn show? Because I watched 10 episodes of Outer Banks yesterday. Is it worth it? I'm just kidding. Gets an A? Will, it's the best show I've ever watched on TV. I was really late to watching season one. And once I finished season one,

I was so devastated that I waited so long to watch it. I love that show. It's National Treasure mixed with American Pie or name your coming of age drum com here. Do they still have the orange filter on every single scene? Yes. Everything is sepia toned. I never understood that. Can Timo explain

why they do that? Billions is coming back. September. I've never watched it. Really? I've seen the first episode, but we didn't have the Showtime membership or whatever. Showtime's like the one thing we don't have access to, so I haven't watched it. I use hashtag Chad's account. Really? Not the hashtag.

You can now watch it on, I think, Amazon Prime. Sick. But I have not taken the dive yet. There's just too much in play. Yeah, get on Outer Banks, though, Will. It's astonishing what happens this season. Say no more. Okay.

That's it for breaking news though sober light wait till the weekend that's it okay he does have a for him a song called i can't feel my face which is only about cocaine it's about doing right so you gotta think that might be out of the rotation maybe his septum will thank him he called i can feel my face again uh frank ocean headlining uh coachella. That's far out. I love me some Frank Ocean. You just do a cool reference from like 1976? No, no.

I mean, it's 2023. It's 2021. It just feels like a – I thought you were bringing back far out. But it is far out. That's groovy. Dude, that's gnarly. Have they even announced like the 2021 lineup?

Probably if they're doing 2023 already, you dumbass. I'm sorry, man. That's an aggressive end to this pod. I'm sorry. I didn't. I take that back. Why do you like this? Can we just edit that out?

I guess they're not even having a 2021 one. It's just 2022. Way to go, Dylan. Yeah, I should be applauded for not having to take a tea break, but I'm about to. So let's get out of here. No one's that impressed, man. It's been real. Bye.

Bye. Bye.