Circling Back - Roasting A Whole Lamb Down At The Sh*thole

Episode Date: June 26, 2024

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we are coming day after day we are coming all right we're back meetup week my name's will defries to my left mr meetup himself david roof i saw that our friend alex morgan is not gonna make the olympic team not on the roster how does that affect your viewing bro my roster is so deep that like i don't need to worry about like just like one like check dude you gotta sign out yeah dude dude dude how deep is your roster dude my roster is so deep dude dude i'm in like way too many situationships right now you're up it's not like a player oh dude my chill to pull ratio is just pretty good don't you don't you give her a roster spot

just for the vibes what is what's the vibe she'll be on the sideline right you know she's just she's great man she's one i mean she's one one she's one numerous that's great i don't know doesn't she do podcasting i'm not sure no it's possible she does man she's pretty lady i don't know that also very accomplished on the field in her profession yeah that too which i appreciate a lot um roster is a term that wasn't around when i was um in my prime dating days but it's a good one yeah here's the thing even if the term was around in my dating days i don't think i would have had the uh the means to use that word in the way that it's used. Yeah.

Dylan, wasn't your roster like left hand, right hand? I don't get it. What do you mean? Well, just like you had to register these two things as deadly weapons. Oh, yeah. That's true. With the police department. Because if you were to hit somebody and hurt them, well.

Yeah. I'm a, yeah. i have no follow-up to that yeah dylan shivery ladies and gentlemen i don't know what he's talking about but uh sure jacking off oh okay yeah i didn't have to register them believe it or not uh yeah just a quick just uh shout out to my aggie friends out there thank Thank you, y'all. Come on, dude. It's been a tough couple of days. This is sincere. I feel bad, man. Why do you feel bad?

Can you explain? For some people who aren't following college baseball as closely as you, can you explain why you feel bad for the Texas A&M Aggies? Sorry, if you rewind several days, Texas A&M was up one game to none in the College World Series final. Two days later, they lost. They lost two games in a row in the national championship to Tennessee. Shout out to the balls.

One day later, they lost their head coach and their entire coaching staff to heated rival University of Texas. It just had been a tough few days. That's all I'm saying. The burnt orange? How many recruits and players are they losing to that is uh yet to be seen rumors are that um a few players are gonna make their way to austin with ghost schloss do they have any like barry bonds types

any mark mcguire's in the bullpen uh yeah what yes they do i got some mark mcguire types in the bullpen that's tight yeah man for them just uh you know just thinking of you guys that's um you're mean no i'm being serious disrespectful dylan's been dylan's been dunking on people from his orange bloods burner account i'd be hurt i'd be hurt I'd be upset if I were an Aggie fan. So I can empathize. Is he a good dude? I don't know. I don't know much about him, to be honest. All I know of him is that he's a heck of a ball coach.

Yeah. But also that he is a complete dickhead in press conferences. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He could have handled the press conference better. Yeah. But I think the real winners here are just fans

because this is throwing a lot of fuel onto the rivalry fire here, and it's going to be fun. Are you going to go to College Station for the football game? I don't have plans to currently, no. You should. I think Texas fans should. They should make that trek. Maybe. That'd be fun. I'm not going plans to currently. No. You should. I think Texas fans should. They should make that track. Maybe.

That'd be fun. I'm not going to do it. Because I am primed to get my ass kicked. You won't get your ass kicked. You'll be all right. No, dude. I'm going to walk out of there with a steel-toed boot in my jaw. In your jaw?

Probably a square-toed boot, too. A lot of square toes in College Station. Yeah. Not as many as there are in Lubbock. No. But lots of them. Lots of them, a lot of M-frames, a lot of wraparounds. You know, that's a good point. It's more M-frame territory than it is square boot territory.

But, like, unironic M-frames. Right. You know what I mean? Like, they wear them because of the max coverage of the of the lens over the eye will did you ever see the um the old school internet photo that was it was the message board early message board meme and it was the aggie fan with the backward hat he was doing this looking at like covering the sun and people were like you could just turn your hat yeah as much as i love that meme it's it's very's very clear that the Texas A&M logo is photoshopped on. That's amazing.

Yeah. That makes it even better. Yeah, I know. Internet. I know. Dude, it's undefeated. Dude. Unlike A&M's football team.

I don't know why I'm doing that. That's just mean. You're already having a tough time. You're going to dunk on them? That's just mean, dude. Who's A&M going to hire? I'm sorry. I don't know.

I heard they're going to get Coach David Pierce from Texas. That would be awesome. I'm hearing rumblings of some other coaches maybe heading that way. Like who? You know. What are your sources telling you? My sources? Your baseball sources.

Well, I don't know. Where was Del Conte before? TCU. Who's TCU's coach now? Hard to say. Truly. Dude, I bet he goes there. I don't know if they. Nah, dude. I think they're thinking coach now? Hard to say. Truly. Dude, I bet he goes there. I don't know if they...

Nah, dude. I think they're thinking bigger. No offense to the Frogs. They better not look around Sam Marcus' way. That's all I'm going to say. That's where Schloss came from, is TCU. That's how he knows dope content. They were boys.

I think I'm going to train Fritz to be a baseball star, but I want him to be the guy that wears the work gloves instead of the baseball gloves. Bring that guy back. That guy's awesome. That guy was sick. That guy was crazy. That guy swung hard.

If that dude, if you just needed to move the runner, like situational hitting, he wasn't your guy. He wasn't going to do that. He wasn't going to lay down a bunt, no small ball. He's doing one thing, swinging hard. Like if any major league player decides to go with

work gloves over baseball gloves I will I will buy your jersey I want Fritz to be the first baseball player to play

in work gloves but also like his entire game is speed and small ball and just getting on base and drawing walks

yeah like he's a money ball guy but he wears work gloves for some reason it's not gonna look pretty

but he'll get the job done he's gonna work the count yeah it's like a smart hitter He's a money ball guy, but he wears work gloves for some reason. It's not going to look pretty, but he'll get the job done. He's going to work the count. Yeah. It's like a smart hitter. He's the opposite of Adam Dunn. The donkey.

That dude. He'll strike out 20 times in a row, then hit a home run, and it's like, all right, we'll keep him in the lineup. It's sick, though. It's sick, though. Not ideal if you have strikeouts going against you in your fantasy league. I'll say that. Here's a fun factoid.

He went to the University of Texas as a quarterback. So was he just one of those dudes in high school who was built like a 25-year-old who just could make shit go far? He lost his job to Chris Sims, I think. We never had a starting job, but he was buried on the depth chart, so he played baseball. And then Chris and Adam got their initials tatted on each other, right? Yes.

My confusing players, maybe. Yeah, Kyle Shanahan, the head coach of the San Francisco 49ers. We should do that in Chicago. I want Randy's. You're not getting a tattoo. How do you know I don't have one? Because I've seen you. You're not getting a tattoo how do you know I don't have one because I've seen you

you're not getting a tat dude you won't get a tat in Chicago I would not do one in Chicago I want to fly home with saran wrap on my butt or whatever why dude take off your QZ in the line in security line walk through

yeah I got some ink that's the line they send me to the insecurity line walk through. Yeah. I got some ink. I got some ink. That's the line they send me to the insecurity line. They're just like, Ooh, dude, take off your hat. Oh, what's going on up top. I'm like, all right, man, you're carrying a little bit more belly fat. You must be about to turn 40. Yeah, I get it. And you're just, it's just a bunch of teenage girls that work that way. Just point out everything bad. you. Just Gen Zers just like taking photos and they're like, this is going to be a big meme. Why are you wearing ankle socks?

He's totally like a midlife crisis boomer millennial type. This guy has no rants. I'll be honest. I feel like I'm treading water and sinking slowly right now when it comes to Do You Know It, a game show podcast. At this point, I feel like my biggest competition isn't even the other players in the competition because they're just so far and away above me right now

that I feel like my only competition here is the host. I need some softballs thrown to me at this point, and it's not going well for me. If you want to feel better about your performance, I was playing along in my head, and I would not have done well at all. You and I would have been competing for last place. Yesterday's episode was great.

It was a 4th of July, you know, America-themed episode with the 4th of July coming up. It turns out U.S. history and songs from our bicentennial, 1976, are much more in Brett and Dave's wheelhouse. And so there's a lot of regrouping going on. The DeFreeze camp over here probably deserve to be producing next month. It is what it is. It is what it is.

You'll be on the new rig here. New computer. I'm excited to test out the new rig. Take it for a little spin. See what she can do. Rev that engine. She does what the last one did, but just a little bit better. Okay.

Lights up, too. Okay. Lights up, too. The hard drive lights up. Yeah. Randy did the extra $7.99 upgrade to get everything that lights up, which is sick. That's just how it comes nowadays. No, Randy's new keyboard revolves colors.

It's actually cool. Are you hacking? The one at the desk? I didn't even know we were getting that keyboard. Ooh, what a nice surprise for you. No, I think Randy did some keyboard sprinkles on the order. Nope, because I already had this one that I was bringing in. Some keyboard sprinkles.

You're putting off the vibe of a guy who might be a hacker. Yeah. What are you doing? Are you Silk Roading? Are you in the mainframe right now now do we talk about the dude that hacked the north korean internet we talked about it but was it just around the office we talked about it on the pod i don't know i don't remember i feel like we did talk north korea but i can't i freak with that dude's vibe though i feel like that's a country easy to hack into oh he said he straight up said like it was very easy to hack into it's almost like one person set the entire thing up and like it's very very delicate so he's he does plan on

doing it more and he does plan on uh he said his main goal is he wants to show all of us what their their internet looks like i would love to see i would love to see too what randy little rocket man should focus a little bit more on cybersecurity and not building rockets. I bet it's just like five pages they're allowed to visit and it's all just propaganda for their country. Dylan just moved on from your joke. He didn't even acknowledge it. I'll give myself a patriot point.

Patriot point for Randy. He did say that America is much more fragile than what we realize too, but there's a lot more, you know. This guy sounds smart. A lot more hurdles. He sounds smarter than me. I use McAfee.

Pat? I use McAfee. It just stands up at all times when I tank top. It's hovering over my computer. It's protecting your shit? Mm-hmm. Every now and then it'll say something a little bit like, all right, we'll dial back.

For the most part, it protects my computer. Isn't the McAfee guy like crazy? He's dead what's his story did he die well is he oh isn't he kind of nuts but like in a fun way um and it might have killed a guy in south america or central america way oh yeah i think he went off the deep end a bit i think and like i think there are like legit theories out there that while he dead, that he might have faked his own death. He's got a fake your own death vibe. Yeah. Like out of anyone that could fake their own death right now, he's definitely on the short list.

He might have been. This was never proven, but I think right when the initial, like the, I guess it was probably the second or third Epstein raid. The one that everybody cared about for some reason. They didn't care about the first couple. They didn't have drone footage for the first two. He might have been behind the drone footage. It was just circling the island and getting all that footage of the numerous odd things. I was sitting at Grand X watching the drone footage

that was live on YouTube, and you could see federal agents inside of Epstein's house, and they were trying to cover up the windows with cardboard boxes when they saw the drone. It seemed pretty half-assed. It was the most hilarious thing, just seeing people being like, oh, no, there's a drone out here trying to cover it up. There was speculation that he might have been,

because he was on the run via boat. And people were like, that's McAfee doing that. And I don't know if that ever came to be true or not but he's allegedly dead but some say he's not it'd be annoying to be running around a boat it depends what's that boat yeah it's a big yacht you could do some running on it this weekend chicago if you live in chicago if you live in the chicagoland area if you want to fly in and come visit us we will be in chicago we're going to be doing a mugsy event on friday night we will be doing a listener meetup at sluggers uh the mugsy event will be at armidage

i don't know what to say that's a street that's how i heard it i had a backer i had a backer reach out to me and tell me how to say it phonetically in the DMs, and it didn't help me. I did too, and it didn't help me either. Yeah, I looked at it, and I didn't have the heart to tell him, like, hey, dude, this isn't moving the needle for me. Do you want me to just play it online? I could look it up with the new computer. I could do that now.

So this is from our friend, the Summer of George on Twitter, who's running the show. He said, it's Arma, and then he just spells it out. It's like he said, instead of Taj, it's T-I-G-E. But that still could be a number of. Armitage. It could be Tig, Teej, Teejay, Tajay. I like to put a little stank on it.

Armadage. Armadage. I'm going to start saying Armadage. Armadage is baller. Everyone go to Armadage for the Muggsy store. It's going to be fun. It's going to be a real good time. You guys know the rules around in meetups.

HPO, which doesn't really matter for you guys because everyone's hot. One shot per host rule. Dylan will claim to get absolutely obliterated and then not um that's my rule so it should be a great great meetup i stick to it do not bring me a shot please do you guys mind if we hear from our friends over at rocket money the personal finance app that finds and cancels your unwanted subscriptions monitors your spending and helps you lower your bills so you too can grow your savings i love rocket money not only do they sponsor a golf tournament in uh you know of Michigan, but I get an email from them every

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That's rocket money.com slash circling rocket money.com slash circling. Dylan, you had a column recently washed dot sub stack.com where you did some predictions for the Chicago meet meetup i did will yes um do you mind if i read a couple of these predictions yeah let's go a couple of these dictions yeah little dickies over here about randy you got something to say i i found a uh how to pronounce it okay we moved up past that yeah come on dude we want to see it hey well it's it is incorrect or it is correct uh this thing from

l stop tours so it's a chicago i bet l it goes real hard yeah it says that i know exactly what l looks like it's pronounced armitage not armitage because pronouncing it that way it gives it more of a chicago sound it makes the french cringe okay armitage is we're saying the locals armitage none of the none of the explanations in the dms displayed this correctly if i was going to do that i would say a-r-m-u-h-t-i-d-g-e yes yeah arm uh tid it leaves no doubt no doubt so i don't really care for that i fucking pissed on that one i hit that one over Fenway into a parking garage. It feels a little too industrial for me. I think Taj is how you're supposed to pronounce it, but Tidge I think is how Chicago is.

Well, Versailles, Ohio is just Versailles, but it's just Versailles, which is awesome. Versailles. That's the worst one. It's so good, though. But the best at the same time. They're like, nope, nope. We're skipping over it. It's just Versailles. We're taking all the French out of this one.

Just like Bernay, Texas is actually how it's pronounced. Yeah. Bernet. Well, just Blanco, Texas should be Blanco. I made that up, by the way. I don't know if that's true. Oh. I believe it.

Bowie and Bowie. Dylan's first Chicago meetup prediction was he's disappointed once again by Chicago Deep Dish Pizza. His number two was he falls in once again by Chicago deep dish pizza. His number two was he falls in love with summertime shy. Number three, he complains numerous times about the Cubs not being in town. Oh, yeah. That's fair. Number four, we don't make our Friday night dinner reservation.

And number five, I'm able to move on from sluggers adding a rogue apostrophe from their new sign. Unable. Whatever. Yeah, unable to move on from it. It adding a rogue apostrophe from their new sign unable uh whatever yeah unable from it it's gonna bother me why is it gonna bother you because why is why is there an apostrophe in pianos yeah that's tough that's the guy who owns the bar yeah his name's piano peter piano dueling pianos yeah his name is dueling pianos his middle name dueling interesting i didn't okay polish i'm gonna apologize to mr piano when i see him you should he's gonna be there allegedly how do you do how does that happen how does that happen you know what pisses me off like the most on these signs it should be apostrophes but i hate it when they

put unnecessary quotations in it do they do that in this one no but when it's just dude i know world's best apple pie and i'm like what's up with this apple pie yeah why why is it hypothetically the the world's best it's been said i saw one i saw one that was like donut shop it's like do you or do you not sell donuts these hypothetical donuts that means that they're laundering money and they're just kind of giving you a little wink and a nod but that seems a little obvious to put it just right there on the side they're just doing you a solid like hey we might get raided while you're in here yeah this could go down okay yeah what if you're just like i dropped rosie off at the uh dog groomer earlier like what if you're just standing there and suddenly fbi agents are just weapons are on on you he's sick

man low key i don't know would you wonder if you did something wrong it's like wait have i been like embezzling money for years not realizing it what if you're holding i'm pretty straight laced what if you got a pocket full of poppers yeah you guys hear about this pink cocaine you probably have i haven't they're making pink what's up there's a new designer drug called pink cocaine that is it's not actually cocaine uh apparently it's a mixture of several drugs that can can kind of that's where i draw show itself in different ways. Sounds super safe. Yeah. I'm out on blended drugs. And the reason it's pink is just dye.

They just dye it pink. Oh, see, again, I don't do food coloring. That's additive. Yeah. We don't need that. Is it red 40? I don't know. It's UB 40.

Oh. Oh, I get it. I have a prediction for the meetup. What's up? I'm not going to do any pink cocaine at it. That's a good prediction. Unless offered. Ooh.

I'm going to smoke one cigarette, please. No, I'm going to do more than one. Who am I kidding? Who am I kidding? If you do that, then I have a prediction that I will take one puff of Dylan's cigarette and then be like, oh, I want to do that. Like, I'm not going to bring them with me, but I'm hoping that some backers have some. Like Gordo will show up with one? Yeah.

Just a pee funk. Who am I rooming with? Your boy. Did you not see the internal memo released on Circling Backs? When did we decide that? Why am I rooming with him? Here's the thing. You weren't a part of the decision. Randy and Brett made the deal, and I think Brett made the deal because of, not

because of one of my predictions, but I have a prediction based on Brett's deal that he made. Randy, you didn't want to stay with me? Well, here's, here's, here's my prediction.

I, I, go ahead. You say a prediction. My prediction is that Randy spends at least one night, not in the hotel. Oh, and this is why I think Brett wants to room with him so that

Brett can have a room to himself, possibly knowing that it's very likely that you two will sleep in the hotel room. You think this dude is going to find somewhere else to room to himself, possibly, knowing that it's very likely that you two will sleep in the hotel room. You think this dude is going to find somewhere else to put his little, I don't know. He could just crash at a buddy's place. Cute little head down. Yeah, what's more likely?

Randy goes home with a nice young lady, or Randy just crashes on his buddy's couch? How many buddies do you have that live in Chicago? He's at Bub City until 3 a.m. Probably like four that still live there. I think people are going to be coming by. But also, my big thing was that Brett and I more than likely will probably stay out till like 2 or late.

And you guys are probably going to turn in at like midnight. Ooh, that's a challenge. Also, I will be getting up definitely no later than 6.30. Yep. Doesn't matter. Yep.

That's the time I get up. Don't wake me up at 6.30, please. I can't. I can't, dude. I can't sleep in. No, I'm saying just don't like- You mean tippy-toeing around the room? I'm up, too.

I'm up. You up, bro? No yoga for me. That's my prediction. Unless you want to sneak up in my bed and get a little cuddle session, don't wake me up. Okay. You might just see me staring out the window. Can y'all drop my phone off for me when I inevitably just leave it in your room?

Yes. Make sure my wallet's on you at some point i got you fam okay i do have an over under set for beers drank by dylan at the meetup okay three and a half oh three and a half that's a very modest number that's a good number modest number i'm obviously that's not the only thing i'm gonna be drinking no i don't i think, okay, I think you have three. I think the over-under for your drinks consumed is three and a half. I think you're talking a big game. I want to see you at five or six. Okay.

Say less. Three and a half plus a shot is probably a good amount. I'm going to get strong-armed into taking a second shot at some point. I will not be doing what I did before the last meetup, which is drink three frozen margaritas at El Tiempo

and then come in just absolutely guns blazing. Well, that was just, we didn't know. Well, the second Flounder sat down, I knew I was about to get just wild. We kind of blew that a little bit. Also, I got absolutely bullied into taking the second shot. Yeah, me too. Me too. How about passing on your Malort shots?

You know, I might make a rule that the only shot i will do is malort i will do one if it's the first person that asked me to do a malort shot i will do it with them but with them they have to do a bit where no one asked randy to do a malort shot they return to a table with like 10 of them and there's 11 people there oh sorry randy you see me in the corner by myself doing a shot by myself putting it on someone else's tab no that backer bought it for me can you still get the cicada one are there cicadas do we need to frequent the cicadas while we're there i don't know i'll have to ask but there are not many in the city there they have been spotted there but nowhere close to really what randy's people are

telling them like we've spotted them all right what's brett wearing in this meetup oh no come on man come on my last prediction by the way did i oh shit there we go number five i hit the batting cages and played golden t at sluggers that's a given and number one brett bricks his fit saturday okay i think he's going golf polo, cocky logo. Cocky logo. And I don't think he'll wear... I think he's going to want to wear jeans. He's going to be wearing mugsies and a golf polo. It's not going to be so hot that jeans are not in play, right?

I hope he doesn't pack the Converse. It might actually be a little chilly. Let's see. I don't like the Converse. I just don't like Converse in general. I do like the Converse. You do? I don't like them with joggers. Like, no one does, but they look good. Like, he rocks them with those little pants. Do we need to force him to wear, like, a rowback and some Muggsies?

I don't know. Yeah. I am kind of wondering about the Muggsy meetup fit. Because I have... I mean, I'm going to rock my Muggsy jeans. Everybody knows that. But my up top might have to pick something up at the store what if we what if we do abercrombie model

shit at the mugsy thing we just wear jeans and no shirt you stand out front you can't acknowledge anybody what if we just tossed on a bunch of abercrombie fears say what up still the weirdest thing i've ever seen is a bunch of moms and their teenage girls just like taking pictures and like flirting with like a teenage model with his shirt off outside of abercrombie i'm like what's happening yeah counterpoint the moms were getting way too into it counterpoint like a lot of dudes just like you know posting up outside of victoria's secret store waiting for their wives to come out maybe taking some glances they shouldn't be. Yeah, I guess.

Abercrombie, the whole Abercrombie thing from 1999 through 2008 was just a weird time. Those photographers got to have some blood on their hands. If you raid their hard drives, they got to have some 17-year-old boobs on their hard drives that you just shouldn't have on there. Did you have to be a certain age to stand out front of Abercrombie with your shirt on? No.

I don't know, man. With your shirt off. If I had it like that, I might do it. You got to be diced. That's how you refer to yourself. I'm pretty diced. Dude, I'm diced. Hemp necklace.

Yeah. Cargo shorts that are sagging a little bit. Frayed at the bottom oh man maybe a hat that like has a fish hook in it just putting out the vibe when i was in eighth grade i was pretty skinny and small and i bought an extra small muscle fit tee from abercrombie that fit perfectly and i wore that thing four days a week for first semester. Just couldn't take it off. Things smelled like shit,

but I looked like a baller. Abercrombie was so, so sick. Didn't Les Wexner, yeah, he was, yeah, that was one of his brands. That checks out. Interesting. As was Victoria's Secret. That checks out.

Okay, yeah. Look it up. What's going on there? I believe his name is still on the one of the schools medical school maybe at ohio state oh really might be time to change that what's the name of his little community in ohio was he problematic or is he just tied to the problematic well i mean he you know from a from a bird's eye perspective, when you give Jeffrey Epstein – what's the lawyer term, Dave? Right of – Oh, power of attorney?

Yeah. When you give Jeffrey Epstein power of attorney, that usually makes you believe that something weird is going on. Oh, yeah. He was very probably it's epstein he was all over that stuff and i believe gave epstein his um 10 million dollar mansion in new york city in manhattan i just gave it to him it's interesting i'm just sorry i got derailed thinking about like what if they're you know how they have like yacht rock bands? Yeah. What if there was like a yacht rock band that was lawyer driven?

Okay. And instead of performing the power of love, they did the power of law. Okay. That's the power of law. Like this has, they all have briefcases. I'm sorry. Are their briefcases like decorative or are they playing have briefcases i'm sorry the briefcase is like decorative are they playing there's three of them and it says law and so when they say that's the power of law

and it's l-a-w that's terrible i hate it yeah i mean i just don't think that's gonna happen that sidetracked you that much just had a thought okay i'm glad i thought you're gonna go that's the power of attorney and again that's the power of attorney. And again, it was the syllable. That's the power of attorney. Too many syllables. We had this problem yesterday on the game show. That was too little syllables.

Evil woman. They put way too much emphasis on that. Evil woman. Well, I thought it was medieval woman. And when I saw him read it, I was like, oh, fuck, is that right? Dude, I thought it was medieval woman this entire time. I also thought Bad Moon on the Rise was Bathroom on the Right my entire life until I sang it and someone corrected me. I get that.

Shout out to my mom. How different of a song is it if it's just about a medieval woman? How horny are you if you're in the modern era and you're like, I'm going to write a song about medieval. There's a wench over here. I want that Friar Tuck looking broad. song about medieval there's a wench over here i read i want that friar tuck looking broad i watched robin hood and i've been thinking a lot about these women from this other time i've only been in two plays in my life both of them were robin hood you know it smelled crazy back then too friar tuck

what's friar tuck who's friar tuck what is that he's one of he's one of robin hood's dogs that boy oh i was talking about how it smelled crazy back then he no but he probably smelled too on account of the poor hygiene and the lack of lack of plumbing running water that kind of thing they're just throwing their poop pans over the out of their window right where'd they where'd they poop buckets really maybe they dug holes or something what they wipe with corn cobs corn nuts hard to say nuts hard to say really maybe they didn't well it wasn't until they weren't just ghosting their entire life they're phantoming they're praying for phantom yeah you can't phantom for life you ever think about how humans are the only only animals that wipe

yeah but we're also the only ones that have a civilized society i thought bears low-key do like do they all i just have like that residue dogs will do it once in a while on the ground just doing that scoot around but isn't that weird yeah we're rubbing your ass on a carpet to wipe it's weird as well maybe we're the weird ones we're the only ones that do that maybe maybe that's true dave we invented bidets it's gross back there yeah I need I need to cop a new bidet I left my old bidet at my old place you did just for the next tenant well it was kind of you know it had gone through a lot I'm asking for that to get removed yeah yeah it's for sale my old place is for sale if you're looking to buy. That is a cool place.

If I get into a new place and they're like, hey, check it out. The previous tenant left their bidet. I'm like, hmm. Yeah. I don't really want to share the memories with them. I'm asking for someone else to remove that bidet. I'm not removing it myself. Yeah, I'm putting that in the lease.

Property manager agrees to remove bidet. It was one of those situations where if I removed it, it would have really amplified the amount that the toilet seat was possibly broken from when we installed it. And so it was like, you know what? I'm just going to leave this on here. I'm just going to leave it here. I get it. You never hooked mine up, man.

Oh, dude. I know. Missed oppo. I don't know what it is. I think I was above never hooked mine up, man. Oh, dude. I know. Missed oppo. I don't know what it is. I think I was above the age of 30 by the time I first tried a bidet. And once I did it, I was like, oh, I get it now. My problem is I've never tried one, so I don't know what I'm missing. That's why I didn't hook mine up.

I mean, just a little. Yeah. Flounder's parents had a bidet. They were the first family I knew that had a bidet. And I was always like always like damn that's fucking you guys got you guys got it like that yeah i was at sally's grandparents house in florida and they had a bidet and i'd never used one before so i was like i want to see how aggressive this thing is i thought it was going to be like you know those water you remember

remember back in the day in like the science lab when they had like the things that would blow the water into your eyes if you got chemicals in there no one ever used it i thought it'd be like that kind of pressure like just kind of bubbling up and like i pressed the button and it shot out of the toilet and hit the wall on the other side and i was like dude if i did that to myself like that water might just come out of my mouth have you used one that's like its own structure because the ones we've used yeah the ones that the tushy ones i don't like insert one yeah i'd rather have the insert i don't want to i don't want to go from point a to point b yeah you just you just switch over yeah oh it's a lot of tension on your quads if you stay in that squat position you're just saying if you're serious about realizing gains like you might want to don't not dude per the conversation we have the roback guys last night

dylan's not serious about games honestly it was great for a really fit in shape guy to like co-sign my my theory on that felt nice he was talking about his calves which we talked about the whole leg you said you could grow hammies marginally which is what i've been saying it's marginal marginal sounds like some goalpost moving but yeah we'll move on medieval tiny ass legs i'd say that too but i don't so this guy went to the ren fair had such a good time met this tavern wench i was like i'm gonna write a fucking song not only am i gonna write this song but it's gonna stand the test of time so much so that a game show,

paywalled game show. Do we know it? Is going to be talking about this. And none of the guys are going to get the artist correctly. Nope. Who was it? Yellow. Oh, yeah.

I put Steely Dan like a silly bitch. I almost put Jimi Hendrix for some reason. I could just see him having a song called Medieval Woman. We should get AI Brett to do an AI song about a medieval woman. Yeah. But it's not in medieval music. It's like a modern, classic rock even.

I guarantee you there is a Ren Faire band that performs that song and does Medieval Woman. Probably. They're just on the loot and stuff. Are they just Ren Faire bands? Honest question. Are they just like Ren Faire bands? Yeah.

That'd be fun to book just for something random. Ooh, we need a Ren Faire pop punk band. That's Dylan's bet payoff. He has to go watch them. I thought it'd be fun to have like, you know, a day rage style event in the washed media and other office suites, parking lots. But that dream died very quickly

when a happy hour fell through. So, yeah, I don't think we're going to get any medieval women to perform at our office complex. I sneaky love how much that bothers you. Dude, I just don't... I just think, socially speaking, like, it's just... You can't just no-show stuff.

Like, you gotta show out the text before. The fucking news are supposed to be. It'd be awkward that we can open the window and see them in there working from this room right here. Yeah, I can see you driving out. Hey, we're still, we're doing the happy hour. Hey, we cleaned our office for you. Got a lot of variety here.

Hey, Dave scrubbed the toilet. Dude, it was so clean out here. We took the garbage out. The bathroom's looking good. Yeah, the whole place is looking good. Yeah, I refolded all the merch in case you guys wanted any free stuff. We can give you free stuff. Yeah, no, it it's cool we put jolt cola in the bidet

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Certified frat. This guy sounds sick. Well. Any relation to Will? Will Mond? Yeah, actually. The backers dig it, man. Yeah, so a well-known Austin family, car dealership family.

And I believe Eric Mond had a house on the golf course at Austin Country Club. Like, obviously, it its family comes from a lot of money obviously they got money well yeah his dad owns a dealership eric mond um is currently in prison oh he stepped out on his wife um he was on a business trip and this i think this is pretty accurate what i'm about to say hired an escort um i think he like kind of fell in love with the escort and it ruined his life and he wanted the problem to go away and so he i believe had her killed i don't think he killed her himself but had her killed maybe someone else that was killed too i need i need i need to freshen up on the the facts of this

was the ex what the the wife was the target i thought i don't know i you know better than me i just heard it on the golf maybe i don't know better than you i'm not somebody somebody was uh somebody had a contract on their head yeah well the texas monthly wrote a story on this and uh one of the things to come from this is something that i think we need to enact with this company uh it says, a contingent of aging car dealers and other businessmen regularly gathers at a Central Austin hangout they call the shithole, basically a painted concrete man cave behind a shell station overseen by Salem Joseph, a longtime gambler and self-titled head motherfucker in charge. Over the years, it's drawn former UT football stars and other local luminaries,

lending it to a certain allure. The shithole crowd represents an older generation of hustlers and scrappers, some of whom had known Charles Maude, the founder of the family business. One of the days we visited, a massive TV playing ESPN was mounted over a dripping sink. Wooden floors offset the gas station vibe while a handful of men sat around a table cutting chunks off a block of Costco cheese. Okay. Can I subjectively say that dudes rock?

Dude, me and the boys just eating Costco cheese. Dude, do we need a spot like this? Like, we kind of have been treating the studio like this lately by coming back here and sipping some cold boys but like i think we need to i think we need to get a dingy you know back room somewhere and just start showing up there it's not this isn't dingy at all this is a perfect place for that which we we've only used like once or twice ever since moving into this space it needs to be dingy can it? It's almost like we all have an apartment right up south tomorrow that we just barely use. Why don't we just get like,

can we just get like a structure and attach it to the building and we can just have like a little side room that feels Soprano vibes-y? We built a studio. Like I want to feel like we're in the back room of Bada Bing. It doesn't feel like that in here.

No, you're right. It always made me uneasy on how easy people could just walk in the back door of the Bing. We have the bullpen out there. Should we just get a block of Costco cheese, toss it down on there, and start planning murders? I think we need more hustlers and scrappers hanging around. Mainly scrappers.

I don't think we employ one single person who could be classified as both a hustler and a scrapper right now. I think we have scrappers. I think we have hustlers, but I don't think we have a hustler and a scrapper. Randy's scrappy. I brought him blocks of fudge that we cut things out of. That's close to cheese. Yeah, but are you a hustler? I'm just saying.

Yeah, fudge and cheese are real close together. Randy's a scrapper. Yeah, they're very similar. Fudge and cheese. Thanks for bringing that fudge in. Have you had any of it? No. I have.

Where did you bring fudge in? Oh, yeah. You brought fudge for the whole squad, man. Yeah, dude. You haven't tapped into the squad fudge yet? Did I not get any fudge? There's still fudge out there if you want fudge. Did you not offer me fudge?

I'm offering you right now. There's still fudge out there. Is it still good, dude? Does fudge last? Yeah. Randy took a picture of all the fudges in the case so that if we want to know what flavor we're eating, he can reference it. There's a key lime fudge.

Except for the one that I ate that was cut off by Randy's dad finger in the photo it. There's a key lime fudge. Except for the one that I ate that was cut off by Randy's dad finger in the photo. Is there still some key lime fudge in there? Yes, there's still some key lime fudge. I might try that. Wait, what happened to your finger? You fingered the fudge? I did not finger the fudge, David. Did you finger the fudge or not?

I did not finger for the fudge. Yeah, you fingered the fudge, eh? No, they don't have them labeled on the little variety pack I got, so I just took a fan of the fudge. Yeah, you're a fan of the fudge, eh? No, they don't have them labeled on the little variety pack I got, so I just took a picture of the fudge and the display at Bucky's, and I missed one of them I didn't have the name for. Oh, it's Bucky's fudge. It's Bucky's fudge. I didn't know that.

Okay. All right, so back to the cheese. Do we have any luminaries here? I didn't really care for them. much ha oh hey it's good good band but it's good it's really good it kind of sold out a little bit should we show up to this place it's not that far is it is it an open invitation i don't think so something tells me uh something tells me that security might be a little up. You know here. I used to be scrappy.

I'm not as scrappy as I used to be. And I still try to hustle, but man, I'm just... Are these some tough hombres we're dealing with here? I feel like they've got gout. I mean... They go to the shithole. I like the hood of gout with this crew. They're not chasing us down. If we steal a neon sign from the shithole,

I don't think the bad motherfucker in charge is doing anything. Has Texas Dives done anything on this? This is a Texas Dives site. No, he needs to. He needs to. Is there air conditioning back there? They've got a portable unit. I can tell you it probably do smell crazy in there.

Yeah. Not medieval crazy, right you can buy those like sheds like a tough shed that we could kind of turn into like our own little thing just kind of put it take up a couple spots in the the people behind us who don't go to happy hours office uh parking lot and just we'll put it there and when they ask like hey did you guys have permission to just take up uh you know a tenth of our parking lot we'll say no but maybe you should have thought about that when you just no-showed our happy hour that we bought a lot of beer for that's what i would say hypothetically not saying we're gonna do should we storm their office suite yeah let's just go plop a big like

a 12 pack down like you're gonna drink this with us hey here are all the beers that you guys were supposed to drink i hope you're taking up i hope you enjoy them by the way we're inviting the australian guys yeah yeah we're worried about the integrity of our top shelf in our fridge so you guys can have these beers it's a forest happy hour if we're doing this right now also i invited some uh lumineers oh they're gonna do a quick little set acoustic it's gonna be fine they would probably be really excited about that yep my buddies from the shithole are coming down so you might want to hide your stuff hide your hide your lappies all right honey i'm going back down the shithole again i'll see you later that's a place say up for me that's a place you don't

tell your wife about no no it's a he-man woman haters club that's all it is that is yeah they just talk shit on their wives all the time they probably drink cuddy sark don't they i don't think they have a high-end liquor cabinet i'm gonna have so many cuddy sarks in chicago i bet there's a lot of dust on those bottles oh yeah but don't let it fool you i know what cuddyty Sark is, obviously, but some people at home might not. So how about you explain it to them? That's what Texas is going to do when the SEC runs through them. That's good, dude. That's good.

I like it. I like it. I don't think you do. I like it. You were talking college football playoff last night. It's expanded to eight teams this year? Twelve. Oh, see, yeah, they're definitely going to make the playoff.

Yeah. Everyone's making the playoff this year. It's not guaranteed, but they got to win. They lose two, they're in. If you can't make a playoff with 12 teams,

you should just shut down. A lot of teams aren't going to make it. Nah. Only 12 will. It's a lot. Think about it like that. It's a lot.

Does that start this year? Yeah. Damn. Mm-hmm. Yeah, there's no excuse for Texas not to make it. Yeah. I'll say it. you're setting them up to 12 spots dude yeah six sec teams are getting in problems you know how it is with money right yeah randy randy knows he's a hustler everyone wants to claim everything he's a hustler. Everyone wants to claim everything. He's a luminary type.

I didn't know you had a musical talent. He does. He plays his briefcase. Yeah, I'm actually part of the power of law. It's good. Can we talk about another dude's rock situation? You guys hear of Jeff Black, spelled G-off? Did you want a picture of this place?

I did. Put it up. We're done now. But you know, it kind of went away. Way to go, Randy G-off. Did you want a picture of this place? I did. Put it up. Yeah. We're done now. But you know, kind of went away. Way to go, Randy. Producer week. I mean, I would have one single Vortex bottle at the shithole. Yeah.

Dude, they probably have them in the back. Probably. The shithole's a vibe. Yeah. Like, honestly, I could see the shithole taking off and being one of the more popular bars in Austin. Oh, can I ask you a question about your Vortex bottle? Yeah.

So you were gone, but Dylan and I did the stream a couple of weeks ago or whatever. And last week, I guess. And we were like, if we did like a thing, what would be the number of patrons that we could get that you wouldn't be mad if we drank the Vortex bottle? It wouldn't be that high. It wouldn't be that high. Enough patrons in the hopper. I would let someone have the Vortex bottle. Like if we converted like 500 people and then dylan and i just went to town on that

vortex bottle yeah even baby birded it i told dave it would cost us a friendship it would it would be a lot like it would be a negotiation for that'd be worse than the masters thing um i think i'd feel similarly at this point but i think the Masters will always be a hole in my heart that I can't mend. Okay. Like my pullover? Even now that you've been? Like my pullover. You just went.

That's my Masters pullover. Are you a little less angry with me now that you've actually been? How are you wearing that? It's hot in here. Yeah, what are you doing? It is not hot in this office. It's stiff. I put it to 73 today, and by the time y'all walked in,

somehow it already went back down to 72. I think's a setting yeah freezing when i walk setting is my right thumb bitch it's freezing in here i think i think the vent hits your must hit your desk because it is not maybe it's because i'm so breezy with it i'm i'm like a little uh sweaty not sweaty but like i'm getting i'm getting a little little moist over here a little dewy okay i don't want to stay with him okay uh okay uh jeff black let's talk about jeff black can i read you guys a tweet thread that he sent out that since been deleted because he got roasted off twitter he said longtime friend in his mid-50s hosted a guy's night this past weekend there was probably 50 guys there roasted a whole lamb ribs on the smoker ton of food and booze my friend had nothing

material to gain from hosting he doesn't quote unquote sell anything but he has always had a huge network and understands relationships very well. So why would he throw this party? Well, until the last couple of years, his home was always a beehive of family and friends coming and going. Most of his family moved away. Two kids left the house for school. He mentioned this year his big, beautiful home was feeling empty. And that's why he threw a party, simply to connect and make more friends. And it was pretty great. Some of the best conversations I've had was pretty great some of the best conversations i've had all year some of the best things in life are free there's some say the best things in life are free i say the best things in life are things that you're invited to generational glazing right

here dude can you like to be clear it wasn't free it was for him it wasn't the guy the host yeah the dude bought a whole lamb and they roasted that that's an expensive time do you spit roast a lamb how do you do it so they just they just made fun of the lamb the whole they're in the whole party yeah jeff ross it's good it's good so mean yeah lamb do they're calling him out for like mouth kissing his kids and shit this guy's brain is so linked encoded that he can't get away from the idea that like people just hang out i know like this is such a normal situation trying to portray a dude having a party at his house as like a non-networking event like he every event in this guy's mind is a networking event except for this one which is like he's like no dude this wasn't even a networking event this

is just people hanging out he thinks in terms of linkedin this is uh this is the guy who goes to south by and this is the south by guy who buys the week pass spends like a 1200 on it and goes to all the events not to like be like ah you know might be a cool band might have some cool it's to go and fucking network and this is the kind of guy i can't communicate with like this guy his brain can't fathom that someone would just want to hang out with friends. It's like a networking opportunity. It's probably not for this guy. Dude, probably just wants to throw a dope party. Friendship died after 35 so hard for this guy that he forgot what it was.

Like he just, he adopted the grind mentality and decided to go all in. It's so true. This guy just needed some time with the boys. What a boner this guy is dude just go have just go drink some beers with your friend eat some lamb and shut shut the hell up jeff black imagine like if i if i i had the kentucky derby little get together at my house my mom was in town imagine like just signing on twitter after and seeing dylan writing a tweet thread being like my friend will through a party he had nothing to gain from this like what no dude i just

want to just you just did this for the kentucky derby it was a great time i had friends not once did i think it was a networking opportunity we were just having fun drinking y'all down and be like so you hear about these knives we're just betting on the ponies and having a good time i did something similar in high school My parents were supposed to go on vacation, but the fucking keg guy got there early. Right? So my dad answered the door and was like, hey, what's this about? I was like, nothing.

Parents saw that, realized I was going to throw a party and decided to not go on vacation. I was like, weird move. It's already been paid for. So like the whole rest of the night, we had to find a place to throw this party. We ended up throwing it at the moon tower really yeah fight broke out nobody remembers who won or lost they just remember that there was a fight oh really yeah but it was wild dude did

anyone smoke cigarettes at the party yep a lot of cigs getting blasted people were smoking marijuana motherfucker that that fight was very one-sided i i heard it was like people i that one of the guys the guy who initiated it actually kind of expected people to break it up but it didn't work like that people just created a circle and it didn't allow anyone to break it up you know i did recently speaking of that movie um i went i took i took chelsea to dinner um near the the baseball field where that paddle scene was filmed mitch kramer getting his ass i've never been to that baseball field where that paddle scene was filmed. Mitch Kramer getting his ass whipped. I've never been to that baseball field.

I'd like to go to it. Because I used to play baseball in that field when I was like 12 and 13 years old. And so I was like, hey, have you seen Daisy Confused? She's like, yeah, once a long time ago. I took her to it and we got out and I was like, yeah, Ben Affleck right here, like a whole thing. And I just went there like the other night.

It was cool I the only I went to what what's the burger spot top notch I went to top notch for the first time earlier this year just solely because I'd seen it in the movie and wanted to go check it out it's fine yeah it's fine yeah it's just you know it's just an an old Austin the burgers taste like what it looks like there which is just old school and pretty dressed down. Like a charburger? I don't even know what you'd call them. I think it's charbroiled.

Not a smashburger type. I'm sick and tired of hearing about y'all's fucking smashburgers. Just stop. We get it. Love just putting it on there and smashing it. It's just everything's a smashburger now. Like, shut up. It's fine.

It's still a cheeseburger. It's true. It's just smashed. Smashing, baby. you have to say that every time you smash it you put the little grill thing on it if i'm jeff black friend he's not invited to my next kickback like dude you just ruined the whole vibe yeah dude it's not good we're just trying to have fun and drink beers and like get away from the you know yeah now everybody knows i'm like sad and i don't really talk to my friends much get away from the wives a bit. What are you doing? This guy needs to get out.

You went straight to Twitter? I like how you said he had nothing to sell, which means that this guy hasn't gone to an event. So depressing to think about. This guy's been invited to so many networking events where he's obligated to do something. When I go to my friend's house, I'm not expecting to be sold on something. I just want it just to hang out. You park. You're like, well, what is it going to be this time it's like they're selling advocare selling kitchen knives like you remember advocare oh yeah it's still a thing but it'd be like guys i'd like to talk to you about

spark yeah it's great for mental clarity i have an investment i thought we were just hanging out today investment opportunity for you guys like oh well i just brought a sixer i thought we're just gonna watch the ball game no yeah nope okay no sir all right sit down here what a dork got a powerpoint for you small to mid-sized podcast how do you make money okay and people pay paywalled content okay has jeff Black ever been to a Hooters? Dude, no. No one's invited Jeff Black to a Hooters. Dave, do we need to give you the rock? I just want to, give me the rock for one minute.

Okay. So it came out yesterday. Hooters will close underperforming stores across the United States. The Atlanta-based chain operates more than 420 Hooters will close underperforming stores across the United States. The Atlanta-based chain operates more than 420 Hooters restaurants, Will, in 42 states and 29 countries. You ever been to Hooters in another country? I haven't. What's your top country to go to Hooters in if you have the opportunity? Sweden.

Yeah, it's trending Northern European. Sweden. I'm going Brazil. Ooh. Jeez. Those little booty booty shorts you kidding me in brazil dave i bet hooters in brazil are wild i bet it's a fucking scene there yeah i bet you someone has daggered inside of hooters before absolutely are you kidding i bet they're doing it right now somewhere. I don't know about that. I found out they're closing one in Arlington, Texas, on Little Road, which is one that we used to go to quite a bit in our 20s, play golf,

go play one of the munis. Then the boys would all take our sweaty asses over to Hooters, sit there, order wings, have some more beers. Those are the days. And the fact that they're closing a number of these Hooters, um, it's disappointing. And I'm looking at you fellas. I'm looking at the boys. I want you to know that this is on you. And if you're listening to this, like, who is he to call me out? Well, I'm Dave and I'm calling you out because you haven't been supporting your local Hooters.

First of all, here's the thing about Hooters. The wings are good. They're not the best, but they're good. You can bring your wife to Hooters. Some people,

my wife, my wife, she likes the wings and we've been to Hooters together. Daytona style? One time. I don't remember. Probably.

I fuck with Daytona. They're good. And I just want to, I want, I'm asking guys, I'm asking men, be better, be better. There's people there who have jobs that rely on this stuff. A lot of tips, a lot of networking. I don't know if you've been to Hooters, but I've been to a Hooters and I've known, um, I've heard of waitresses getting hired at prominent oil and gas companies just based on networking and being a good waitress that happened. True story. It's beautiful. Um, so just support your Hooters. They're closing and there's going to come a time when your kids grow up and they're going to go, what was Hooters? And you're going to be like, Hey, how much time you got? Let's go spit roast a lamb and talk

about it. How far do I have to drive to get to the nearest Hooters? I feel like you got to go up around Round Rock Way. I think you're right. There ain't one in Austin. It closed. I think you're right. There's one by Lakeland Mall, I believe. John Duda used to live about 20 yards from one.

I know. And he used to just go eat there. That one has been shut down as well years ago. That was years ago. You're going to have to go real south down... Selma? Down Selma Way? Down Selma Way? years ago that was years ago yep you're gonna have to go real south down uh selma down selma way down some away no there's gotta be one you got or you can got to go up flugerville way flugerville next time i go up and see the in-laws i'll make a pit stop support my local hooters they say it's between a rock and a weird place round rock and well that's

hooters might be between a rock and a hard place. It's Round Rock and Austin. Well, those Hooters might be between a rock and a hard place, my friend. That's right. Oh, yeah. Very hard place. I don't want Hooters to go away. Even if you have to support them remotely, even if you have to just order some wings for your boys who are in striking distance on the DoorDash apps, Uber Eats,

things like that, just make it happen. Or maybe you want to host a party yeah invite 50 of your your guy friends over you're not going to try to sell them on anything but like maybe they want some wings yeah you know you could just do that sure twin peaks has a better menu but don't forget about hooters um do you think how many pay pigs do you think have been spawned from from hooters that's the original side of the it really is yeah it had to have been like uh patient zero yeah it was the it was the wuhan lab of pay pigs hey honey you got a venmo yeah why you'll see you'll see you're never going

to see me again but i am going to send you a significant amount of money each month. And I want you to have fun with it. Can you imagine Tim Robinson just sitting on like a sectional couch in a nice house with a game on, a bunch of people around him, and he's just like eating some lamb off of his plate, and he's looking around. You're not trying to sell me anything? Lamb is an interesting choice.

Yeah, like a whole lamb whole lamb like i ordered lamb chops on my birthday last year it's like way more expensive than i thought it was gonna be just a whole lamb you just this guy was just walking up people be like all right so what do you got unless unless you you own lambs how do you acquire a whole lamb you you get them it's very cultural you got a lamb guy no but a lot of my Serbian friends have lamb roasts, especially for holidays and their stuff too. He just culturally dunked on your bitch ass. Actually, my friends have just had one the other day.

Randy, I'm asking you a genuine question. Can I come hang out with you and your Serbian friends next time, y'all mob? That sounds dope. Because that sounds awesome. I didn't know you had Serbian friends. Do they free with mint jelly? They're all back home in Chicago. Oh, okay.

Well, let's roast a lamb with them on Saturday. We got nothing to do during the day. Can you acquire a whole lamb? Get a whole lamb by Saturday? I can hit up my lamb guy. Okay. See, not only a keg guy, I do have a lamb guy. Okay.

Got a lamb guy. Just eating lamb with the boys. You'll meet some of them this weekend in Chicago. Lamb chops go crazy if they're done well. I love a lamb chop, Will. Like, oh my God. They go dumb. Mm-hmm.

The worst thing I ever did was try it at a restaurant recently and know what it tastes like in a good way. All the other ones I've had before have been dry. Weak. Can't have that. Hmm. I might need to do this soon. What's the best way to make a lamb chop?

Usually you just smoke the whole thing. The whole lamb. Well, 50 are your best friends. You invite 50 friends over. Oh, true. All males. You can sing a lot to chops for yourself. We'll eat the rest of it. We should have a lamb roast at the D 50 friends over. Oh, true. All males. You can sing lots of chops for yourself. We'll eat the rest of it.

We should have a lamb roast at the Dick's Saloon. Oh, God. Can you imagine just sipping Cuddy Sark and then just roasting a lamb? Mm-hmm. A non-network night at the saloon. Having a lamb roast out of the shithole. He didn't try to sell us on anything. It was weird.

Dude, shut up. we're just hanging out what are you expecting dude sitting on the couch scrolling his linkedin app when people are talking about the game he brings his laptop what are you doing jeff that's he's got a name he's got a pre-made name tag on he's just hello i'm jeff he's just sitting there with his like business cards like the people in vegas hanging them out where's the table for the business cards like what stop i mean you put the beer in the cooler if you want what are you talking about he shows up with a tray full of schlotzky sandwiches i thought this was a lunch and learn is it not we are gonna learn right what a dork dude i need someone to be jeff's friend bad bad i need them to to reignite

his friendship in his heart right he needs to anakin he's anakin meme he's starved for friendship which one you will be selling me something right right the natalie portman one yeah it's a verbal meme show so i look do i like a verbal meme i still want to do a segment where randy presents us with one recent Yeah. It's a verbal meme show. Dude, I like a verbal meme. I still want to do a segment where Randy presents us with one recent photo and we have to live meme it. Oh, yeah. What happened to that? Do it, Randy.

Let's do it. Do it right now, buddy. Come on, Randy. Find a good meme photo. Actually, Randy, hold up one moment, actually. Here. Here's a photo. That's a lamb.

That's how lamb roasts are. That doesn't look very good. Trigger warnings are. That doesn't look very good. Trigger warning, bro. That doesn't look very good. I'm going to be honest with you. Yeah, that kind of just ruined it for me, man. Yeah. You kind of just take the vibe.

I feel bad for that lamb right now. Most dead. I'm not going to your lamb roast, Randy. Yeah, dude. That's what you're bringing to the table. That's weird. Bro, let's go out this weekend. There's a crazy event happening.

I like to turn up. Bro, bro, bro. There's a crazy event happening. Let's just go have fun and let go a little. Let's go out this weekend. There's a crazy event happening. I like to turn up. Road, road, road. There's a crazy event happening. Let's just go have fun and let go a little. David Ward-Rose, let's go. This weekend in fun. Or is it this weekend in Chicago? Presented by our friends over at Mugsy.

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Straight off. Catch me at the Muggsy store just sipping Frosty Boys with the squad, with the backers coming and getting 20% off. Dave's getting a commission. Glosses everywhere. No, it's going to be fun. I'm so excited. Do you have anything off the radar that you're fixing to do while we're there? No.

I mean, if there's an actual mob tour going on happening i'm gonna i'm gonna i'm attending if dave if you want to step away and do that i'm with you well you did ask me like hey do you plan on being out of the hotel room for a significant amount of time i just want to schedule it up so i can get some rest i don't think i said that i don't really understand why prove it prove i said that why can't you rest in there? Just weird. I'm interested. That has my attention. I've heard that the museum, the art, whatever it is.

If I go to one museum, I'd like to go to the Art Institute just because it's baller. Apparently, I've heard it's dope. Can you take classes there? All the museums in Chicago are pretty sick. Like, you're not going to... If you go to the Shedd Aquarium, you're going to have a blast. If you go to the... I'm not an aquarium guy. Really?

Yeah. Parks is, so I've been a bunch. You're scared of it collapsing on you and all the water going in, suddenly you're swimming with the fish. Ah, barracuda. I'm surprised you didn't want to go to planetarium. Yeah. There's a planetarium.

I went there in eighth grade, bro. I'm sure it's awesome, but I mean, I can't do everything, right? Why? We got all Friday, we got all Saturday. Hit that planetarium, dude dude no one's trying to sell you on anything i want the capone tour you know i get it i want to see where someone got got whacked you know ew that'll be our room come on down to the dick saloon a lot of whack i'm pumped man i'm super excited i haven't we done anything like this in a minute.

It's going to be exciting. Yeah. Yeah, there's a... The news is going to be there. I got some things to think about because all of those things you just mentioned sound dope. I do like museums. I do like aquariums. I do like planetariums, Randy. I like all that stuff.

A boat tour, the architecture tour. Sounds delightful. I'm not getting on a boat. Brett said he wants to do an architecture tour. I had someone ask me why you guys didn't want to. Apparently they have Mimos. I've done it before. Also, Mimos don't move the needle for me.

Architecture doesn't move the needle for me. Yeah, I don't need a Mimo. I don't need a Mimo to have fun. I get off on architecture. I can walk around and look at architecture. I don't know what I want to do. I'll tell you what, though. I'm going to be doing it with a cold beer.

Exactly one. I'm going to have one beer Friday, one beer Saturday. It's the perfect amount and i'll tell you what don't even ask because i ain't even drinking anymore okay but i ain't how fucking pissed would be if we showed up at muggsy with tequila and they were like or would they be happy that people's clothes were falling off so then they could put them in new clothes yeah then they buy replacement clothes yeah yeah okay muggsy's officially a bring your own tequila situation if any backer shows up naked with a bottle of tequila we'll

buy you an outfit but please don't do that it might get real weird you can't just walk down armitage with a hog out no dude if you're going down armitage with your hog out like that's crazy yeah armitage oh man i'm pumped i haven't been in chicago in a really long time are we sticking it are we staying whoa what are we gonna stay at sluggers or is there like a move i don't know i'm gonna let it materialize tbd man i'm gonna let it materialize if i've learned anything is that if you try to plan something for after a meetup it's not gonna work because we always end up staying longer than we anticipate and you just don't know you just don't know we're gonna go where the vibes take us i'm gonna try to be in bed fairly early friday i i got news i'm gonna have to be in bed early

both nights because i can't physically stay up past midnight unless i'm playing video games i think that's plenty late yeah oh yeah midnight's late. Midnight's late for your boy. I'm excited. I'm excited. We get in pretty early on Friday, right? Our flight leaves at 8-something here, right? 8-12, I believe. Sounds right. Do we have a good idea of the seating situation on this plane? It's American, so they're assigned, right?

Yeah. Do we have to check in or do you have to check in, Dave? I have no idea. Okay. There's a very non-zero chance that our American flight just doesn't take off in time because it's American Airlines.

Yeah. And they stink, baby. I'm going to go ahead and bank on it. I'm going to get there. I fucking hate American Air, dude. It's the worst. It's not like the worst when you're on the plane

and you're flying. Like, it's actually pretty nice. But like, I just think they cancel more flights than they actually take off. Cancel flights, they're double booked, they're delayed.

It's the worst. Flying to the Midwest, like, you have to do American. It's just a bitch. I'm proud to be an American. I'm proud to be... Can I get a Patriot point, please? Thank you, Randy. Thank you.

I'm only 20 points back still. Look, am I going to have to check in for everybody? I've got Sally doing flashcards with me on billboard charts from the last 25 years. I don't get it. Why would I going to have to check in for everybody? I've got Sally doing flashcards with me on billboard charts from the last 25 years. I don't get it. Why would I have to? Because I booked it. Because you booked it, dude.

You're a bookie boy. I shared the itinerary with everybody. You're going to do a great job checking us in. No, I'm going to download that app. I don't know what to tell you. Yeah, get the AA app. That app is coming for you. How do you got it, dog?

No, you don't. All right. No, you don't. You're Riz-less. Okay. Just kidding. All right, man. is coming for you how do you got it dog no you don't all right no you don't you're risless okay just kidding all right man hey we're really looking forward to seeing everybody in chicago should be an absolute blast but before that we got listener voicemail so don't forget to check those out patreon.com circling back podcast if you're only on the free feed we'll see you guys next week or we'll see you in chicago and we're going to convince you to become a patron see you guys later bye bye