Circling Back - Salmon Cannons & Succession

Episode Date: August 12, 2019

People are shooting salmon through cannons, Dave and Will review the new Popeye's Spicy Chicken Sandwich, Bryson DeChambeau vs. Brooks Koepka, and a recap of the 'Succession' premiere on HBO. Support us on Patreon and receive weekly episodes for as low $5 per month: www.patreon.com/circlingbackpodcast (0:00) Fun & Easy Banter (2:22) 'Iron Cowboy' Documentary (10:25) The Salmon Cannon (23:24) Will Without A Beard (35:49) Popeye's Chicken Sandwich Review (44:58) DeChambeau vs. Koepka (1:03:44) 'Succession' Premiere Breakdown Shop Circling Back Merchandise: www.washedmedia.com/shop Earlybird CBD: www.earlybirdcbd.com (CIRCLINGBACK for 20% off) Liquid IV: www.liquidiv.com (CIRCLINGBACK for 25% off) Figs: www.wearFIGS.com (STEAM at checkout for 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 live from the Early Bird CBD studio in Austin, Texas. My name's Will DeFreeze. This is the Circling Back Podcast. To my right, Dave Ruff. I've got an unsolicited recommendation. What is it? Right off the top have you ever seen the movie

10 Cloverfield Lane? no well my recommendation to you is that you whatever you're doing stop right now and do not watch this movie did you buy it?

did you rent it for $20 on Amazon Prime? I didn't rent that by the way I bought that movie okay no I it was free on YouTube TV. I think I figured out why it's free.

I've been thinking about it. I think the reason it was free is because it's a terrible movie. Your recommendations are everyone to stop what they're doing and not hit play on this movie. I had an hour to kill in between dinner and succession. i jumped into it and then i had like 50 minutes left after

succession in the movie and i was just like i may as well finish this out see what happens this happened to me so dumb i was going through amazon prime and i was just looking through their free selection of movies and i thought to myself you know i'm just going to add a bunch to the queue so that next time i want to watch a movie, I can just sit down and choose one of these. I chose some movie and Sally and I started watching it and it was so bad that I almost felt like I was crazy. I was just like, did they really make this movie and think that it was at all good? Like, and I didn't want to believe that it was so shitty just because it on the surface

looked okay. Yeah, I was excited for this because John Goodman, love John Goodman. That's really the only actor I knew who he was in this movie. Honestly, shouts to him for still being alive. Yeah. God, he's an older guy, isn't he? I mean, he's never been... He's a larger fellow.

He's a man of size. He's a big boy. Louisiana's own. That makes sense I could see him and Coach O Just like Cracking light beers And watching a football game together

Should we introduce Dylan? Hey what's up man? Hey guys You've been awfully quiet over here Yeah how y'all doing? I watched a documentary over the weekend Iron Cowboy You guys seen this one?

No. This dude, this crazy man, does 50 Ironmans in 50 days in 50 states. Is he a cowboy? Wait, what's his name? James Lawrence. Oh, yeah. I've heard of this man. Imagine doing one Ironman, okay?

Then imagine doing that 50 times over 50 days. It's actually Ironman. No, it's just Ironman. An Ironman is 2.4 miles swim, 112 miles on the bike, and then a marathon. You did it every day for 50 days. After 30, you're just flexing. Doing 30 in a row, it's like, yeah, that's bad. After that, it's like, all right, dude, we get it.

Does he get into what he eats? How many calories?'s not very interested in how you recover like briefly mentions um there's actually some controversy around he briefly mentions like how much his calorie intake is but he doesn't talk about what he eats really at all what's the controversy uh he got ivs along you don't fuck don't what's he got ivs along the way oh that's like me partying in Vegas for an entire weekend. For like a legit competition, if you get an IV within two weeks of the competition,

it's considered doping. But for him to just be able to walk the next day, he got IVs. The other controversy... Dude, who cares? Sometimes... James is a cheater. The other controversy is

sometimes he would have to run indoors because of weather. Like you'd be on a treadmill. Like that's how you knock out his marathon. He did one of one of the legs on an elliptical because he was having knee problems. Oh, he didn't do it. A lot of people were like, yeah, dude, you didn't do it. It's still an amazing feat. All your men don't run on ellipticals.

It's hard to even go to the gym like five days in a row. Yeah. To do that. Okay, what he's done is amazing, but sure, the elliptical. Come on, dude. He mentioned his heart rate, like his resting heart rate, and then his. What's his resting? It's got to be super low.

I don't remember. It's probably like 30. So the last state he did was Utah, and it was pretty cold. So he did his swim outdoors, and his body fat was down to 4% for that. That's dangerous. And so he couldn't stay warm. It almost ruined the whole thing. It was fucking wild.

No, what ruined the whole thing is when he steps on an elliptical. Come on, dog. Yeah. Well, a treadmill, too, because, you know, a treadmill, you're not actually, like, pushing the ground. You know what I mean? Like, you're just basically lifting your feet up on a treadmill if you're using just i think it's easier to run on a treadmill than it is to

run out outdoors because it's easier to tune out outdoors like for me i always have trouble just zoning out and all i can think about is how long i have left in the run whereas on a treadmill i just my brain kind of turns off and i just move if i'm not sure if what you're saying is accurate or not you could be right yeah i mean you're not actually you're still pushing against the thing on a treadmill okay but like the treadmill so the tread is going backward you're pushing backward too so i don't think you're generating the same force with like your your the balls of your feet that you would from, like, a track or concrete or ground, I guess, is another easier way to say it, all-encompassing. He probably just turned...

He did what I do. I don't know. You just turn on E, and then you just zone out for, like, a couple hours. Yeah, I don't think he did that. And run. You take an E before you run? Yeah. That's weird, because you just stop to crank.

Yeah. He said his peak heart rate, like when he's doing the middle of a bike ride, for example, it's at like 110. That's basically as high as it gets, I think he said. I respect people that do Ironmans. I never will ever... You won't ever do one?

No, think that out. That's not something that I would ever even dream to do. It's not a dream that's like, like I don't care. Okay. It's tight and I respect the hell out of it. Like people who can do that, even like-

It's a loco. The mini Ironman, or what are they called? I think- Sprint. There's a sprint marathon. There are half Ironmans too. A lot of people do.

Yeah. Or half triathlons. Like it's tight. It's actually, it's called the aluminum man. Yeah. i don't get it anyway pretty wild uh i have thought this is saying a lot like this is like the guys like yeah i almost went in the military i thought about trying to get into triathlons and i started remember i was doing the swimming thing i was on a swimming kick and uh it's i haven't completely let that ship sail,

but I am just not good enough of a swimmer. Like to do the distance required. 2.4 miles is a long way. Yeah. I mean, yeah. Especially when you're swimming. Yeah. People, no one's talking about the fact that

I beat Dylan in a breath-holding contest. I'll give it to you, man. I didn't miss all that. You got me. It's because of my strategy. Dylan was expending too much energy, and I was just dead fishing in the pool, just floating there. That's what I was doing, too.

Nah, dude. No one dead fishes better than me. No one can be at a resting state harder than me. It's like meditation. Exactly. This weekend was one of those weekends, man, where I was like, hey, I think if you ran the tape and you asked what I was doing on this weekend and fun on Wednesday, I think I said I was intentionally doing absolutely nothing.

And I went harder this weekend than I've gone in a very long time all week. Yeah, I feel like we undersold what our weekend was going to look like. To be fair, we didn't know. This is all, and you know what? Cliche, but those are sometimes the most fun weekends, and had no plans up until 5 o'clock Friday. Yeah. I mean, even at 3.30 on Friday afternoon, I didn't know what I was doing.

I left the house, and I was meeting someone for a drink, and then little did I know that that would just be the first domino. Y'all turned up. I had two low-key apartment parties this weekend. Yeah, you really did. I've seen a lot of your place this weekend. No one ever comes over. It was good.

Made me kind of want to have some people over. It's fun having people over. We don't want to go over to your place, Dave. Okay. We're good. Made me kind of want to have some people over. It's fun having people over. We don't want to go over to your place, Dave. Oh, okay. We're good. I don't really have a pool. Yeah, we're good, man.

I got that little pool for Randy, though. We could probably splash around in it. Sure. We do need to have a meat smoking party. You know who's touching

107 this week? Dude, fucking... Catch me inside. That's why I'm leaving. This sucks. I gotta go. Yeah. Can I go with you?

Yeah. Dude, fuck this. No, you can't, because then I'd have to pod and stuff. I don't want to pod for the week. It's such hell. No, thank you, Dave.

You know what I could use right now? A party wave. Go buy a party wave shirt. They're starting to arrive. People are getting very excited about them. They are. Yeah, we've gotten several people reaching out. I mean, just FYI, if you i mean just fyi if you tweet

your shirt at us like you're getting a retweet every single time yeah like it's not it's not really negotiable like we're gonna mash that retweet button major shout out to the couple who was suited up in the uh the big cat swims swimsuits one of them was like 11 months pregnant that was what's up yeah she's probably in labor right now. He had on our t-shirt, our swim trunks. It would have turned out she just wasn't pregnant. She had on the circling big, circling back. Circling big something else. Dude, chill.

One piece swimsuit. They were just killing it. I know. It made me so happy. I think he even had a DCO hat on. Like, he's D. Was that a DCO hat? I think it might have been.

Yeah, it looked like it. We need to know. It was either that or Crenshaw Coors. It was hard to say. Which weirdly looks the same. Not weirdly. It's a popular font. Whatever.

Whatever. Our final note. Meat smokers only. Tonight is meat smokers only. It's going to happen. Tonight, Bachelor in Paradise. Tomorrow night, Bachelor in Paradise. Wednesday, Patreon episode. Recapping all the Bachelor in Paradise. to happen uh tonight bachelor in paradise tomorrow night bachelor in paradise wednesday patreon episode recapping all the bachelor in paradise there's nothing more exciting than going

to patreon.com circling back podcast hey and if you get there soon enough you might even get some lens content oh yeah we'll talk about that in a sec. Time's a ticking. I think we need to start off with a little something that went by this weekend called the fish cannon. Salmon cannon. Is the salmon. I think they're both. They're both. I like salmon cannon more.

That's that feels good coming off the tongue. Is it only salmon that they're shooting? Do this thing is bad boy. I'm sure there's other fish that you could like. You could put pretty much anything into that, right? But salmon is. Yeah. Well, yeah. Okay, so if you haven't seen the video,

just go on Twitter or just, I'm sure at this point if you just Google it, there's a million news stories. It's certified viral. We tweeted it yesterday from at circling back pod and I still don't really understand the point of this or how they got to the point where it's actually, like, a functioning thing.

So, you construct dams, right? And they, it provides, like, obstacles for nature. Yeah. They don't belong there. Literally, like, the point of a dam is to be an obstacle in nature. Yes, it's to keep shit out. Yeah. Mostly water.

Where did they get the name from for dams? It's hard to say, really. What came first? The dam, like the actual dam, like on a river, or the swear word? We'll never know. You know they're spelled differently, though. Yeah, but still.

Damn. No. Damn! What was that video? Do you know what I'm talking about oh i thought you're doing a sale no it doesn't really make sense there's a viral video that says there's a guy saying damn but it's very old uh there's some funny tweets people are doing tweets with this stuff they're getting on twitter and they're taking it and they're they're adding like either like a humorous quote tweet maybe they're just responding and let me tell you there's some funny

ones i like the i like the thing that will you go to sometimes the little button and it says i am a male female salmon and that's that that box is checked and then it says interested in male female now being launched through the salmon cannon I don't know who this guy is. It might turn out he's some all right guy, but I might hit him with the RT. A lot of people think it just looks like it'd be a fun thing to ride. Oh, absolutely. Do you guys like water parks?

Love them. Dylan's big into water sports. I can't believe you do like water parks. I know. You're right. I love water parks. It is something that I've been thinking about more. As I've gotten older and lessened to germs,

I'm worried about getting some kind of little stomach bug amoeba, brain eating. Once I googled why you're not supposed to swim in a pool for two weeks after diarrhea, it freaked me out about water even more. And now water is very... Whoa, whoa, whoa. Is it two weeks? Dude, that's what I read. And I think that's just like super precautionary. Don't ever go to a public pool then.

Yeah. Because every kid there has diarrhea. Yeah. I mean, the reason I read it was because, I mean, I had a stomach issue. And I was like, I don't want to ruin other people's pool experience. So I was like,

I guess I'm not going to that pool that day. So I sat it out. This was a while ago. But it just freaks me out. That being said, I kind of want to go to a water park does the fish cannon does it use um like a vacuum air or does it is there a water flow the fish are in water right i don't think so they have to be wait wait while they're in the tube yeah they got there's got to be some water in there i mean i think they could survive long enough without being in the water to like but like there the tube? Yeah. There's got to be some water in there. I mean, I think they could survive long enough without being in the water.

But there's got to be water. If it was just a raw fish going through a rubber tube, I think we'd have like a... You'd get stuck? A thick-ass fish might get stuck. Okay. There's got to be water in there. If you put like a double-cheeked-up Chinook salmon through that thing,

and it dams the dam. It creates a backup? Yeah. You don't want that. You do when you're going down the black hole at Wet n' Wild, and you put your hands out, and you just stop it, and then your boys slam into you, and then you all go down at the same time. I'm sure fish have gotten stuck in there, though.

It happens. That's terrifying. As the fish? It's like when you get a smoothie, and you have a frozen strawberry stuck in your straw and so you start like sucking super hard you gotta suck you gotta like should i blow it out like what do i do now you can fuck your mouth up doing that dude it's scary i don't like that yeah sometimes i just be blowing it out brandy i mean but more people were into this on Twitter than like...

It was way more viral than I thought it would be. You see videos like this all the time. Black Twitter had fun with it too. What'd they say? Oh, just a bunch of fun stuff. You know how they do. Dude, this thing really gets going. Yeah.

Do we know how fast they're going? Did they give the stats in the video i was too amazed just by watching these fish just like careen through the sky right here says at least 100 miles an hour i mean i don't think it's 100 but it's pretty good yeah i like this i like this a lot it makes me happy that we're uh we're helping our uh underwater allies salmon where salmon might be my all-time favorite fish i don't i don't know if there's water in this thing dude shut up dude lubed up okay look at the end of this video near near the end of okay it's actually let me see there's got to be water in it dude at. At least moisture. There doesn't have to be. At least, how's it slick then?

Okay, look. We're in a bottle of lube down there. Look at the 22 second mark when it shoots out the end of the tube. You don't see water trickling out of the tube at all. It's just a big ass fish. Maybe it's not fucking trickling, dog. I think it might be.

It might, okay. It's definitely slick. There may not be actual water they're pumping through it. Think about like. So it's like a vacuum type deal. Yeah, that's what I. There may not be actual water they're pumping through it. Think about like... So it's like a vacuum type deal. Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. It is, yeah. I think you're right.

Which is scarier. No. Vacuums are scary. I think it's still kind of like a water slide. All right, man. Where there's still like a small amount of moisture in there to lube it up. I just worry about the fish is all, okay? Like imagine being a fish and living your whole life,

just like swimming around. And then one day you're firing through this tube to the other side of a dam. You're like, what the hell just happened? Well, that's like when you're a kid and you've never ridden like a rollercoaster before. And then your parents are on this thing. You're like, why am I not doing this all the time?

Yeah. But kids are a million times more aware of their surroundings than fish are. They know they're about to get on a water ride. Dude, 22 miles an hour. Up to. That's not as fast as I was hoping. How fast can, like, how fast is your same boat run? Like mid-20s, I think.

Okay. Pretty quick. Fish cannon. We're all just, we've all, I feel like we've all gone too far just looking at like the information regarding this.

Yeah, well, every, yeah, I can't stop watching it. Dylan, you were telling me that the entrance

for the salmon cannon reminds you of something. No, I didn't. I think that was Will actually that said that. I don't know what you're talking, I didn't say that Dylan. That was 100% you. It was like something that you put a fish in it. No, I didn't. I think that was Will actually that said that. I don't know what you're talking about. I didn't say that, Dylan.

That was 100% you. It was like something that you put a fish in. David, what do you mean? So is it just salmon? Did we figure that out yet? What damn is this over? What damn are they doing this for? I feel like we don't have that much information on it.

If this was fake, it wouldn't blow my mind. It's got to be the Hoover Dam it can't be fake look at the video no it's definitely real just have these fish just flying through the sky in this tube is there not another way like I feel like there's like a better way but this was the more fun way and they were like

alright should we do the practical way or the fun way and it's like yeah this guy Tom he really wants to be just sticking fish into a tube all day. They probably had a pretty big budget. They had a little surplus. They had a good year. And, you know, like, hey, let's fuck around and make, like, the Bubba Tub of fish cannons.

And they did. Bubba Tub? Bubba Tub is just an iconic ride at Wet and Wild Hurricane Harbor. I'm a Sitterbahn guy. Yeah. I've never been to either of these. Schlitterbahn's dope. You can catch me at Schlitterbahn, but I'll have nose plugs in,

and earplugs for that matter, and goggles. These orifices are closed. We get a lot of like, I'll borrow your butt plug. Being in the content game is tough, and you have to have a thick skin and everything. One of the most insulting things that someone said about me was that they think I hold my nose when I jump in the water. Wow.

I fuck off, dude. Yeah, I could see that. Dude, come on. You've seen my water entrances all damn summer, and I go all in. I sell out. You sell out? Yeah.

You do some Simone Biles shit? Yeah. Dude, she was on one. I can't stop watching that. That's up there with Salmon Cannon. She's the Salmon Cannon of gymnasts. I can't even wrap my head around how many things she does in the air. I also saw a dude on a skateboard on the Big Vert, the Big Air,

he's the first person to ever land some crazy ass spin like a 1260 or something i don't i don't i don't want these guys doing this stuff seeing tony hawk land a 900 was like so tight and now like you see dudes doing like 540s with no air in like street competitions i'm like lame. Also, all these kids are like 14 years old that are in the, like the street skating competitions. And it makes me feel like such a piece of shit. It also makes me feel weird

for watching a bunch of kids skateboard on TV. I don't really watch skateboarding that much, but I'll turn it on. I'll turn it on if there's like, if it's like, if ESPN is having a slow day and it's like, here's outside the lines,

X Games, Japan, or the lines, X Games Japan or... Dave, say it. Japan. There you go. It's been a while. Or World Series of Poker. Like, I'm going to go X Games Japan. Oh, you know I'm watching World Series of Poker.

Dude, there are still guys out there. No, you guys don't watch it to this day. Sometimes I'll watch it late night when I'm trying to fall asleep. Dylan and I FaceTime. Dude, stop doing that, Dylan. Why? Well, you guys don't watch it to this day. Sometimes I'll watch it late night when I'm trying to fall asleep. Dylan and I FaceTime. Dude, stop doing that, Dylan. Why? Because if they know that people are still watching it, they'll keep putting it on TV.

It needs to go. I don't mind it being on TV, though. Dude, it's so trash. It's not great television. Are they still like... Is Daniel LeGranu still running train and stuff? Is Phil Hellmuth still doing it? They play for so much money, man. Yeah, but it's not even their money at this point.

They're getting funded by people and shit. Oh, yeah. They definitely are. much money man yeah but like it's not even their money at this point like they're like getting funded by people and shit oh yeah they definitely and so like i i want to see guys that are like us who can lose it or who can't those guys are on there yeah like those guys are on there those those big tournaments anybody can enter no i know but by the end of the tournaments like you might have like one cinderella story in there but they're still just a bunch of like dudes i don't know and once once they start advancing people will start buying into like buying stock in them so they get a piece of the pie at the end of it or they get a cash out if they lose and it's it's all weird yeah i don't like that you you really still watch that sometimes yeah i was saying about the other day just like i can't believe that like this is still

like people are still watching people play cards on television. I would rather watch people play blackjack. Oh, that's much worse. Drunk dudes playing blackjack? I think cards is one of the things that I think would be better if people were drunk on TV doing it. I would rather watch a drunk bachelor party in Vegas go on a heater. Just like talking up the dealer like, You're killing me.

You're killing me, Kim. Like low-key hitting on the dealer too. Oh, yeah. Or obnoxiously hitting on the dealer, too? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Or obnoxiously yelling, winner, winner, chicken dinner. Come on. You know who you are. You're pretty quick at math, huh? Man, we got to get somebody else.

She's killing us, man. I hate sitting down at a blackjack table for the first time. Like, first table of the night. Like, I haven't really had that much to drink yet. drink yet and like you have to have the awkward conversation with everybody especially like when i was younger i was always very scared of being the young kid that fucked up some old dude's hand i'm still i still have that fear i don't have it nearly as much as i used to because i feel like now we're we're older looking so like if a 22 year old sits down at a table we're gonna going to look at them like,

what's up, you piece of shit? Don't fuck this up. Don't take my ace. There's nothing better than getting into a... You're like 25, it's one of your first bachelor parties, you get to Vegas. You haven't even put your bags in your room and you go sit down at a blackjack table

and next thing you know, you're like 300 down. Yeah, you just lose your ass. Weekend haven't even, like, put your bags in your room, and you go sit down at a blackjack table, and, like, next thing you know, you're, like, 300 down. Yeah. You just lose your ass. Weekend hasn't even started. Like, you haven't even gone to dinner. You're just already pissed off for the rest of the weekend. I mean, it's tough. And you just got to watch.

You're just standing behind your friends the rest of the weekend watching them play. Oh, that's the worst. And you're just getting the free drinks. Like, no, I'll just do, like, a whiskey Sprite. Thanks. See, that's part of the reason I stopped gambling. I stopped like playing cards in casinos, I guess.

Because like, I grew up 15 minutes away from a casino. So like through my 20s, we would just get drunk and be like, oh, let's go to the casino and play some cards. Yeah. And like, I don't like the feeling. You know, so an unshaven photo of you surfaced recently. Yeah, I have thoughts on this too. Unshaven Will looks like he would have a gambling problem.

Dude, also, I need to express the fact that the photo they chose was a photo of me after I had just spent literally two days drinking nothing but trout slayer beer in Montana like and that was my wake up after my sister's wedding trout slayer it was called trout slayer a man and I drank a thousand trout slayers in two days and then for some reason I was asked to take that photo in front of this lake and so like I feel like it's not fair if you look at the photo of me from two nights before, before the rehearsal dinner, I'm a different human. You're a dime.

Yeah. And, like, now I'm all swollen, like, looking like shit. To be clear, it's a wheat ale. Yeah, it's good. A bigger tail with every ale is what it says. Big Sky. Big Sky Brewing Co. That sounds, I like this.

No, it's great. They have Moose Drill as well. You've probably had a Moose Drill. I think I've had one with you. I have had a Moose Drill, yeah. like this. No, it's great. They have Moose Drool as well. You've probably had a Moose Drool. I think I've had one with you. I have had a Moose Drool, yeah. Same people. They fuck it up. Trout Slayer is like an alternate Game of Thrones character.

Trout Slayer. There are some times when people will talk about me without a beard. Most of the time, I don't really care. But there's some times where I will get upset. And I'm like, hey, just keep in mind that's my face. I can't change it dude i think what it is i think the problem is it's not that your face is weird looking it's definitely not it's just that the beard it's it's like if james harden when you

look at old pictures of him without a beard it's just you can't go back no i know it's just so also but like people out there they're like are you going to shave your beard for your wedding? Like, no, I'm just going to have it for five years leading up to my wedding and then shave it that day. Like, what the fuck is going through your head? Like, yeah, no, I'm also going to shave my head for my wedding too. Like, why would I just like automatically change how I look the day I get married?

I'm the most important day of my life. You should shave notch, like little notches into your eyebrows. Yeah, I was the day I get married. I'm the most important day of my life. You should shave little notches into your eyebrows. Yeah, I was thinking about doing that too. I think it'd be fair to ask me that question. If I were getting married next summer, like, Dylan, are you going to shave your beard for the wedding? But now I see pictures of you. Because my beard's so shitty.

No, it's not though. I see pictures of you from like a year ago, or I guess maybe two years ago, year and a half, whatever. When you didn't have a beard, you looked like a different human. You looked like a less evolved version of you from like a year ago or i guess maybe two years ago year and a half whatever when you didn't have a beard you look like a different human you look like a less evolved version of you it wasn't as hot man no you're way hotter now thank you it just i don't know but i only like yeah the reason i grew a beard is is it is a facial crotch and i just happened to grow a really good beard which is tight you do uh but like anybody that has the ability to grow out a full beard and who's never done it at least once, like had that phase, is weird to me.

Yeah. Well, a lot of people don't do it because of jobs and things like that. Yeah, dude, quit your job. Fuck jobs. I just didn't want to look like a piece of shit who didn't shave. Just do podcasts.

When I was in Michigan and I wasn't getting my beard professionally trimmed, I wasn't good at doing it. So when it got too long i would just shave it off completely because it looked better to do that than it did to have like one of those like bootleg i don't know you know the guy like guys that just like keep a totally unkempt beard that just gets huge that ain't me just call out malone dude no but he he's tight there's just i can't i can't do it on my face.

I feel disheveled. How do we get here? Hey, I want to give a shout out. First day of school, all the teachers out there, wife included. All the students out there, back to school. Back to school to prove to dad that you're not a fool. It's insane that Texas makes kids go back this early. It is.

They shouldn't do that. Hey, man, you got to get in there and do two days, though. Get out to Junction. Man, first day of school, the excitement, the nerves. What fit are you going with? Man, I don't know, but you know I had it laid out on my bed. You had those really long basketball shorts. No.

Some faded-ass new balances. Describe me when I used to wear it at the gym, Dave. Like an RGT shirt from 1999. Just a beta design. No, I had my first day outfit picked out for weeks in advance when I was going through school. I bet yours was like a Tommy Gear shirt. You had Tommy Gear?

Tommy Gear. No. I had a Forest Green tommy hill figure crewneck sweatshirt that had the logo on it and then in cursive across it it was just said tommy and i remember i wore it to my first day of school one time and i thought i was just fucking killing it and i probably was you guys can't do like fall fits you can't do fall fashion first day of school down oh man well it's i mean it's technically still summer it's like 100 degrees first day of school down

here we didn't start school till after labor day every single year there's no way we were going back this early because you got a fresh pair of sneakers before the school year started oh dude and i would get like before i started getting into polos and stuff i would wear like mossimo stussy those like those kind of brands. I'm talking middle school right now, not high school. Did you actually go to the mall and go back to school shopping? Yeah. My mom took me.

I was fucking running some Bugle Boy Heavy. Bugle Boy? Yeah, Bugle Boy was tight. I remember one year, the best year, I had the pennies, the brand new Penny Hardaways. Ooh, the little scent sign. Weren't those trash? Dude, no, Penny was super tight.

And I remember they allowed us to wear hats in high school. What? Wow. And so it was like, I was a big hat guy. It was like, it was so exciting. It was a new time for me. No, they never let us do that. That's crazy.

I think they would let seniors do it once in a while, but you couldn't. You weren't wearing a hat. They hit us with a dress code before junior year or senior year, like high school wide. And it was either a red, white, or blue shirt. Didn't have to have a collar, but the logo could be no more than one inch by one inch.

And their whole thing was like, we're going to, we're going to try to get rid of the gang activity. So, so doing crips and bloods colors is definitely move. Correct. Um, what the hell?

Yeah. I don't know. I don't know what the, I'm going to need to look at the data. I don't know if that really curbed any kind of like gang activity. I literally saw a fight like every other day, my senior year, but,

um, yeah, so we kind of, so we decided to do bits like we would try to like i think some of us had shirts like to mock the dress code it said like we had like the one inch by one inch we just wrote it out on the shirt it was like that was like our way of like you know that's bad raising our fist and resist yeah taking a knee fuck you mr kreitzberg we never had like shout out mr kreitzberg my only thing we couldn't do is wear alcohol logos on our stuff my parents got me a shirt from a sailboat race in the virgin islands and it had like a little heineken logo on the back of it along with a bunch of other logos for like non-alcoholic companies got sent to the office come on how are you gonna do that to me yeah? Yeah, I had two dress code violations my entire high school career.

And looking back, they were both well-deserved. There's a Degeneration X t-shirt I bought at Monday Night Raw. I know this one. If you can't beat it, suck it. Not sure why they sold it, but me being in ninth grade needed it. You're a bad boy, Dave. And then there was the, so we were really into American Pie. I feel like our age group was really into it.

The song or the movie? The movie. Okay. And we made a shirt. Remember the website? There's an old website called mulletsgalore.com. It was like when the mullet thing, people were just starting starting to like the internet was just figuring out what a mullet was it was like 99 2000 and it was just like a website and they had like all these different mullet

classifications there was like the mini truck mullet there it was just like different photos of mullets in the wild and we took a photo from it and then under it for some reason we just put suck me beautiful the line from American Pie. We thought we needed to screen we were screen printing shirts and that one got me sent home. Rightfully so. That's a bad shirt.

Makes no sense. I'm on Mullet's Galore Wayback Machine right now. Dude, Mini Truck Mullet was my shit. They didn't have the Wayback Machine does not have the greatest archive

but I can confirm that this was in fact a website they were like the they were they were very early they might have been the the first in identifying what the mullet was dude there were some websites back in the day like that you like you and your friends would just go to and, like, never mind. This is such a half-baked thought. I can't think. There's this one website. E-bombs?

Dude, we used to go to this one website, and this guy would write a bunch of stuff, but he'd also animate things. Maddox. Dude, what happened to that guy? Dude, you're talking about Maddox. What happened to him? Okay. I don't know.

I actually thought about it the other day, because I used to read his shit. He used to do the funniest movie reviews. Like he would, the movie signs came out. My buddy would get me, he got me like a Maddox sweatshirt for Christmas one year. He wrote a book

and did book signings. He would shit on like little kids art. Like he was, he was funny. I think he got weird and might've had some distasteful takes.

I don't know if that's for sure or not, but I thought about him recently. This is in like 1998, 99. This is old school internet. Yeah. He,

so he definitely has done stuff since it was Maddox dot X mission.net. I remember as you are. That's literally what I'm on right now. It still exists. 20 years of literary excellence. It said, did you ever go to the site, Dylan?

No, never heard of it. It of literary excellence. It said, did you ever go to the site, Dylan? No, never heard of it. This, it was so ridiculous. And I just remember we, it was like our Bible for like a little bit as kids. He's still writing up until like, I mean,

he still will write things once in a while, but I don't know. So now he's all in on the, the crappy children's art stuff. Where he just, he just shits on the kids are kind of funny yeah he did yeah he did a movie review of like sideways i don't know either way that that was one of those sites that just takes me back to even think about like just sitting on my computer in front of it he did something to the movie signs i remember the movie signs liking it and then i read his review of it and it totally

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sitting in front of me was something that Dave inspired me to do. And that was by a Popeye's chicken sandwich. You're making that up. I swear. I swear. I really did. We had talked about it early in the weekend, how good the chicken sandwich looks from Popeye's. Is this a new thing? Yes.

How long has it been on the menu? Not that long. A few weeks. Oh, wow. At the most. That's brand new. It's a new boy. Okay.

Dave, you went. You were my entry into this. Yeah. Well, it's been getting a lot of hype. I've seen probably about 90 of what i've seen is very positive and me i like to be objective going in so i was i threw i took everything i thought i knew about chicken sandwiches and i just threw it out the window you had to so i went yesterday uh i posted if you go to add dc rough on instagram and you're early enough might be some

photos from my story on there. You should check out the Patreon page though. Right now. Check out our Patreon. If you're a, if you're a backer, I did, I did some,

uh, some video review of it. It's probably going to be gone by the time. That's true. Most people listen. I'll save it. Maybe we'll repackage it. Probably not.

But, uh, by the way, a lot of people were like, Oh, I'd love to know what Alyssa's thoughts were when she had to take this photo of you in front of Popeye's. Fun fact, Alyssa did not take that photo.

Oh. I went to Popeye's by myself. Someone else? You cast a stranger? I had a stranger take that photo. Are you serious? What did that stranger take? Are you kidding me?

When you put your arms out, was this person just like, why is this guy in this tucked in cowboy's t-shirt? She was in, okay, she was. In a dad cap. I think she, okay, so I thought, was this person just like, why is this guy in this tucked in cowboy's t-shirt? She was in, okay, she was. In a dad cap. I think she, okay, so I was, they did the thing where you go to the drive-thru, they're like, hey, we're, it's going to be a minute, can you pull around to the front? So I parked, and I was like, well, I got to get a pick off. And I was like, I don't want to do a selfie, though, because I'm like, I'm a little bit

tired, hungover, I don't want my face to look like shit, like even more than it already does. because I'm like, I'm a little bit tired, hungover. I don't want my face to look like shit, like even more than it already does. And I saw some lady, some girl, probably in our age demo. She might have listened to the pod. Shout out to you.

I saw her like she was like walking into Popeye's kind of quick. So I bet she was just going in to use the bathroom and I interrupted her. She was nice. She was kind of laughing. She had to get a two off and you were like. Yeah, I interrupted the two. I mean, you have to laugh at that. She probably crapped her pants.

But if someone's asked me to take a photo of them in front of Popeye's, I'm, like, doing it all. I'm, like, getting, like, I'm crouching down low, getting different angles. Because you immediately know it's a bit. Yeah. Yeah, you have to let them go off. It's not like you're a foreigner and it's,

oh, it's Popeye's place. I'm going to get a picture to capture the moment. Like, it's a joke, obviously. No, she might have gone back to her friends like, yeah, this Russian dude asked me to take a photo in front of popeyes i think jason garrett himself uh yeah so i got the spicy chicken sandwich red beans and rice and you know they kind of coat i normally don't get a drink but like with the combo you may as well so i go with the diet coke i don't know i like it i like the occasional diet coke

did they fuck up any of your order? No. I would have been very upset with that. They fucked up ours yesterday still. They managed to do that. We ordered a five-piece family meal, and then we ordered one sandwich because we were going to split it because we both just wanted some tenders and some gravy.

And so in our five-piece tender meal, they gave us the single worst chicken tender I've ever received from a... Oh, it was just like a little fried batter? Yes, it was the worst. Sally almost threw it away, and I was like, no, just give it to me. I'll fucking eat it. Like, this sucks. And then they also forgot to put our mashed potatoes in and gave us two red beans and rice.

You know, that might be a net win. No, I love the mashed potatoes. I love them. Well, it was okay though my order was great and i said this on the uh patreon the only thing i wish i had done differently was get two sandwiches i do do you remember what i said to you when we first started talking about them i said they look like you might need two they're not small but you want more it's so good and here's here's what i like about it first of all the quality of the chicken breast is excellent. Like, it's juicy.

It's thick. It's not like some chicken sandwich places, you know, it's all batter. This isn't like that. The bun is great, and then the sauce and the pickles are great, too. How is the meat patty to bun ratio? Does it cover the whole bun? Oh, yeah. It's hopping. So you don't waste a bite of bread just to get to the meat patty to bun ratio. Does it cover the whole bun? Oh, yeah. It's a hop.

So you don't waste a bite of bread just to get to the meat? Have you ever gotten the giant chicken breast sandwich at Hooters? No, I have not. They've got an unparalleled ratio. I've never had that. This is almost on par with that.

Like, you're getting a lot of bang for your buck. This is like Chick-fil-A levels. I called it a patty. I guess it's not technically a patty. It's just a piece of... Does a patty have to be ground? I think so.

Yeah. Because you patty it down. Like there's a chicken patty at Pete Terry's that I've gotten a few times. Yeah, that's fine. That's not a good ratio. I'll never get that again now that I know that this exists. Yeah, fair. So I'm not willing to say that it's the greatest because I've only had it once.

And I'm going to compare it to Chick-fil-A because I think Chick-fil-A's got a great chicken sandwich. I have theirs pulled up right now. Whose? Chick-fil-A's. Okay. I will say that their photos on their website show a little more girthiness to their chicken than what I have traditionally received from there. Sometimes, dude, honestly, I've dealt with some inconsistency issues at Chicken Filet. The photo that I got or that I looked up of the Popeye's chicken sandwich ahead of it. It held up.

It held up. I don't know if they're putting their best foot forward because they know it's hot right now and they're trying to go micro. That's not their style. Mine was great. They're clearly targeting Chick-fil-A. It's a similar looking sandwich and it comes in the pouch. do they do a pickle yes oh dude it's good it's it's it's not good it's great i would tell you if it sucked i'm willing i will try to say it's the best i will i don't need i don't need to run it back i saw dave's i had my own it's the best so for me the

big three right now the big three chick-fil-a wendy's spicy chicken filet yes and popeyes thank you for respecting the wendy's chicken sandwich it's a good sandwich i have this has more girl that needs to be included in the conversation i know it's not a big three and you're making it for say shake shack needs to be in the conversation yeah that's a good sandwich you're right but that's one where you absolutely need to. We recommend a place in Austin called June's. It's a restaurant, and they have a chicken sandwich, and it's very good also. But I'm talking big three.

I'm talking I can get in and get out. I just wanted to give them a shout-out. My number one. That's all I want. After yesterday, my number one is Popeye's. My number two, I think, is Shake Shack, Chick-fil-A, Wendy's. Three through three, two, three, and four are very close.

It's a neck and neck race. But I think that Wendy's might get left behind as these new, these other chicken places start upping their game. Well, here's the problem with Wendy's. It's been around so long, people, it's just like a mainstay that people don't think about as much. People don't take it seriously. People don't take it seriously at all. But they've been doing the damn thing for a long time. You gotta respect that.

No, I definitely respect it. I prefer, here's what it might draw me to, like either Popeye's, probably Popeye's, or Chick-fil-A or Shake Shack. Scythe, man. Wendy's fries aren't great. No, they're trash. In Popeye's, I can get red beans and rice,

mashed potatoes, all the other things. Wendy's does make a bad fry. It's just very average. The thing that I think I don't like on my chicken sandwich from Wendy's is that they do lettuce and tomato, whereas the other ones do pickle. Yeah. And I like pickle a lot.

Or Shake Shack doesn't do pickle. Dude, the quality of lot or like shake shack doesn't do dude the quality of pickle on the popeyes it's like a it's a special kind of pickle great it's not like the little jar of like the little crinkle you know sandwich sliders that you get at the store how many do you get how many little pickle slices do you get three or four oh because you know chick-fil-a they do like one or two maybe they just you know you know, it's Popeye's. They may have fucked up and put like 10 on mine. Wow. I will say this,

the spicy, it's pretty spicy. Like spicier than I thought it was going to be. It might be spicier than Chick-fil-A. Yeah. They don't fuck around

with their spice. Look, all I'm saying, the game has been changed. Yeah. People were saying we couldn't do 15 minutes on fried chicken.

No. Everyone knew we could do that. Yeah. People were saying we couldn't do 15 minutes on fried chicken. No. Everyone knew we could do that. Everyone knew we could. I think we can wholeheartedly say that at the very least, it gets the seal of approval. And if you have a chicken sandwich, we'd like to see it. We'll be trying it, folks. And they're not paying us yet, so this isn't entirely free.

If you guys are thinking we're on the take, we might be. I hope we are at some point, but we're not paying us yet, so this isn't entirely free. If you guys are thinking, like, we're on the take, we might be. I hope we are at some point, but we're not yet. We can't, like, if, like, Shake Shack tries to sponsor us or something, like, that's going to be tough for us. Like, we're going to be like, there's a conflict of interest there, and they're going to be like, oh, do you already have a deal with Popeyes? We're going to be like, no, we just really like Popeyes. Like, sorry.

Like, we can't say that it's the best out there because it's not. I mean, it's called truth in advertising. Don Draper. Don Draper. That's true, Dave. Let's talk real quick about what happened in the golf world. I can fully say that I watched zero swings of golf this weekend. The tournament was not something I gave any shit about.

There's some good names. But I was here for the drama. Apparently the Corn Fairy tournament was lit. Yeah, I wish I had paid attention to that. People are earning their cards and stuff. It was pretty exciting, but I know we're not here to talk about that. Speaking of Corn Fairy, Friday night I went home. I guess it was Saturday night. i know we're not here to talk about corn fairy friday night i went home or is it saturday night i i did i did something i've done i did like three months

ago and and turns out will did it that saturday too and i texted you and you were like i'm doing the exact same thing dude it was weird because i'd been thinking about watching woodstock 99 limp biscuit and corn sets well the night before we we went pretty speaking of corn fairy yeah the tie-in the night before we went pretty hard and then of Korn Ferry, the tie-in here. The night before, we went pretty hard. And then we got done with dinner on Saturday night, and I was like, we were going home, and we drove Micah and Boo Boo home. We were like, I mean, do you guys want to come up

and hang for a little bit, maybe? And the next thing I know, we're deep in an MTV Spring Break wormhole watching Woodstock 99 videos, watching Korn live like randomly at places that I've never even seen and I was like what are we doing right now?

Are you doing this on your smart TV? Yeah, on the smart TV. No, I'm doing it on my phone and then showing people on the couch and I'm watching their reactions. Well, there's a laptop option

too, smart ass. No, but I said that because there's nothing worse than someone pulling something up on their phone and then like them showing you and then just watching you.

Yeah, that sucks. Like, yeah, this is cool, this is sick um sick video yeah so we had a little slope slow play has been talked about a lot this year and um so video came out of bryson bryson de chambeau who's i mean when vi do we have do we still have the video of him talking to us it's got to be somewhere. I have it on my phone. You do? I think, yeah. He was actually pretty nice in person. He was. He's kind of quirky.

He's a technical guy. Everybody knows that. Not known as a fast player. In fact, he's kind of got the rep as being a slow player. The video that came out was so tough to watch. It was egregious. There's one where he walks off a wedge shot, 70-yard wedge shot. I don't know how absurd that is,

but watching it on video, it's like, dude, this is taking forever. And then the putt, it was like an eight-foot putt. And he takes... The video could barely fit on Twitter. Yeah, over two minutes. Yeah. Okay, it doesn't help that he missed it

and jacked it by. Dude, it was a terrible putt. So you see JT off. He's playing with Tommy Fleetwood and JT. And JT's over just kind of out by the crowd, squatting down, just looking at his fake watch apparently. But it kind of came to a head. So he was getting chirped by all sorts of players.

Poulter, I think Luke Donald, and I think Kepka said something. Obviously, he did because the next day, somebody from a golf magazine or one of those golf sites was talking to Brooks' caddy on the putting green before the round, and DeChambeau walks up to him and said, Hey, your boss has anything to say to me, he can say it to my face. Tell him to say it to my face.

I didn't know DeChambeau had the balls like that on him. Here's the thing. There's no audio of this. He had 100% chance he had shake voice when he said this to the caddy. Oh, yeah. But still to say that? If your boss wants to do anything? It was trying to do it. Still to say that. Yeah. If your,

if your boss wants to do anything, like it's weird to say, say it to my face and then say it to the, yeah, the caddy. Yeah. You can't just waiting for books to come out. You can't relate to somebody to say something to your face. So then apparently Brooks went up and said something.

He did. Apparently they went and talked it out. I don't know what happened from that conversation, but like, well, then didn't, didn't Brooks get into it with Chambly this weekend too? Like, the whole squad is in disarray. Chambly's right. He's saying that there's not a slow play issue with Bryson.

And I think Chambly said something. He got mad at Brooks for being in Rory's line of sight on a shot. And then Brooks Koepka tweeted something this weekend about saying, like, I can do that with Rory. He's not going to shank it at me, but I can't say the same about you. Which, no, that's pretty much it, which isn't like a sick burn. No. In fact, it's not that great at all, but it's something.

Well, imagine someone trying to burn you by saying that Rory McIlroy is better at golfing than you. Yeah, I get it. It's Rory. I'm Shambly. I won like once on tour. And the funny thing is, like, if Rory had a problem with that, Rory is the type that would say something. Rory has pretty much no filter. Yeah. And I think him and Brooks are probably

boys. Rory's probably one of like four players on tour that Brooks respects. They trade gym routines 100%. Oh, yeah. Like, they're at least they used to. I'd love to see that. Like, just a couple

beer breads. Brooks probably sent him a text. He was like, hey, dude, like, remember a couple seasons ago when you got super jacked?

Like, what were you doing there? It was like Dorn's AMA talking about his gym routine. There was one question about it. Stop. That was fun, by the way the way is it fun did y'all

read through all my all my responses i read through a lot but yeah i tried to keep up i was sorting by new as it was going i was also sitting by the pool a lot of one word answers from dylan's kind of boring yeah yeah don't see that i thought about just weighing in being like actually oh that'd be so messed up if i just cucked your ask me anything yeah actually ask me anything yeah go to reddit.com circling back podcast i think and check out no i think it's just circling back go find that subreddit and read dylan's thing so brooks bryson who you got one on one. No gloves. No cage. They're both big.

Something tells me Bryson can throw hands. Bryson's not some like skinny nerd. He's a big guy. He's low key thick as we told him. I don't know. It's not the worst. Brooks takes him but it's not the

worst matchup on tour at all. When it comes to size, I think they're very comparable. The way Brooks carries himself, it looks like someone who can also handle himself in a fight. He's got the athletic swagger. I'm imagining Bryson just running up to Brooks and throwing his Kangol hat at him and just throwing it at him and then attacking him from there.

I've always liked the move of throwing something at somebody as you're running up to them to fight. That's very Charging the Mound-ish. Yeah. That's a Peaky Blinders move, by the way. Yes, it is. What? You've seen it.

You throw a hat? Not really throw it, but use it as a weapon to slice. They keep, spoiler alert, they keep razor blades in the bill of their Peaky Blinders hats. What are they called? What are those hats called? No one knows. They look like the Kangol hats. Peaky Blinders hats. What are they called? What are those hats called? No one knows. They look like the Kangol hats.

Peaky Blinders hats. And they use them as weapons. They take them off and fling them at people. It's crazy. That seems... Do you understand now why that haircut...

Do you think Peaky Blinders is why the fuckboy haircut happened? Because they all have... I think the fuckboy haircut happened before the Peaky Blinders. Really? No. We used to call it the peaky blinder haircut and then people started the word fuck boy came out and then that's what it took over there's like been multiple seasons of the bachelorette when every

guy contestant on there has a peaky blinders jordan rogers season yeah that was it that was bad like the only people who didn't have it were, like, Chad and, like, the black dudes. JoJo had no choice but to pick someone with a fuckboy haircut. Luke, all those fuckers. Don't get me wrong. Like, there's some guys that look better with it. There's also a lot of people that look fucking stupid with it. Yeah.

If you're not already a little good looking, you can't pull it off. No. It just makes you look like you're trying too hard. You gotta have a good hairline, too. It's important. That's true. So, yeah, there's only a few guys i would actually like to watch square up with him thinking like and i'm talking about brooks on tour like and i'm thinking

just size wise like it would be a good matchup so like jason day i think jason day i don't know if he could handle his own is he shorter than them he might be but he's he's pretty thick he's dick jason day would go down with like vertigo or something that's very fair so bryson's one of them uh i think bryson can scrap yeah give me dj dj is long well strong lean uh ernie ells ernie ells is like known for being able to hold his own he's he's like a bar fight guy yeah he's like he'll fuck you up in fact he might be like number one on tour i'm just imagining ernie ells just putting someone in a headlock and giving him a noogie yeah he's big enough dude he could easily put someone in a noogie it doesn't take easy

doesn't take much to put his arm around somebody's neck but yeah bryson brooks would be a good match up i think brooks has got the the baseball background and i feel like if you played baseball at a competitive level in at least high school, you probably got into some kind of scrap. Whether it's on the field or in the locker room. Baseball guys, I just feel like they've been in some kind

of fight. Those are the guys who are going to meet up at the field to fight the dudes from the town over. Of course, this is all anecdotal. I'm relating this to my experience only. I could be full of shit I don't know Dylan you're the baseball guy you're beating up nerds in the locker room there was a group of football players

who did exactly that they met the rival football team in a field somewhere and they came back all bloody it was weird I was not a part of that crew what was the rival high school? McCallum across the tracks from Anderson weird. I was not a part of that crew. What was the rival high school? McCallum. Oh,

okay. Across the tracks from Anderson. Shouts to the McCallum Knights. I heard a story out of Dallas that, uh, police broke up a fight between the Highland park kids and the Dallas Jesuit kids. And it was like,

they were fighting over girls, which of course, Oh, you're not doing a bit right now. No, this really just happened to say like, yeah, like,

was there just a bunch of, like, ripped Vineyard Vines shirts in the alleys? Yeah. The parking lot was just lined with Tahos. Yeah. Brit, 2019 expeditions and shit. You know, those fucking sketchy-ass public school Highland Park kids.

If you looked at the register at, like, the jail, it's just, like like Tanner, Bryce. There's a new one of those going around. A teacher's first day of school board and it has all the names of her classmates. Do you remember Fly Fishing Charlie? Yeah. How could I forget?

No, do you like his tweet? Some of these I feel like are made up, though. It's like they do it intentional just to go viral now. Waylon. Waylon, okay. It's like Waylon Braden. Madison, but spelled M-A-D-Y-S-O-N. Alexia, E-L-E-X-I-A.

Fisher. Case with a K. Brantley. Jagger. Hunter. Fuck yeah. Breyer. B-R-Y-A-R.

Reagan. R-E-A-G-Y-N. And it goes on like this. Shout out to Brody. And also David. David's the one getting all the play because he's got the seemingly normal name. Eva's on there too. Eva's pretty normal.

Well, this was a year ago almost to the day uh our friend charlie who now no longer lives in austin but you can follow him at fly fishing teach he tweeted at all in one he was a teacher all in one class he had aiden a-i-d-e-n brayden b-r-a-y-d-e-n brainden that's not a good name. Reagan. Wait, Brandon. Yeah.

I thought bringing in the R a Y G a N Aiden, Braden. No, I Caden and Jaden. So he had Aiden, Braden, Brandon, Reagan,

Aiden, Braden, Caden, Jaden. Brandon sounds too much like brain dead. What, what region do we think this is from? I picture the southeast.

I mean, I feel like this could go all the way up the eastern seaboard. This is like, actually, you know what? This is some big little lies shit, too. Like those kids. Yeah, maybe. Amabelle. This is just any affluent. This is affluent white suburbs.

I just picture, like, Alabama grass with big hair. You know? know yeah what's up you're talking about yeah i know aiden my big hair i'm talking about the mommies yeah like what oh like how don't you just look at your kid's birth certificate and think like this is gonna be a resume one day yeah it's yeah brandon like what are you doing wait was this when he was in Austin or Colorado? Colorado. Oh, wow.

So that's... Okay, so is he in like... He's in Boulder, right? I don't know where he is. But I picture Boulder. He's thinking about moving because someone keeps stealing his fucking mattress. All right.

I wish he still lived here because you could always count on him, his, I think now fiance, and their dog being at every one of our events. Yeah, it's tight. Just imagine for one second that we're hiring someone. We need a marketing person. The year is 2028. We need a marketing person.

And we get three. Why 2028? Because that's where we are. Because now these kids are old enough to be, like, applying for internships. Okay. And we have Zerachiel, like, applying for a job. Like, dude, what? Dude, is that a biblical name?

I don't know. I feel like they took three biblical names and put them all into one. But, like, then you get Reagan, R-E-A-G-Y-N. It'd be like, dude, we can't, we can't hire you, Reagan. We can't hire you, dog. I'm sorry. We can't, we can't introduce like if someone clicks on watch media on LinkedIn and sees that we have a Reagan spelled that like, that's not a good look.

We didn't even talk about Trapper. Yeah. What? Well, there's a, in that, in this one class, there's Trapper and Hunter. Alexia with an E. Like, oh! Trapper's just cooking it up in the kitchen, getting that work. Trapper's kind of tight.

Trapper. Kind of is. If he wasn't in the class with all these other terrible names, and just, like, you just met a Trapper, like, okay. If it was a bunch of Daves, Dylans, Wills, and then Trapper, Trapper's tight. Like, Trapper's a cool guy in the group. See, he gets wronged.

I used to want to have a kid named Bear. Like Bear Grylls? Ipper yeah it'd be tight like Trapper's a cool guy in the group see he gets wronged I used to want to have a kid named Bear like Bear Grylls I just thought it'd be tight Bear DeVries yeah I think this name's gonna get shot down

but I would love to name my kid Chopper like the dude from the MTV show I think Alyssa might shoot that one down or was he Choppa that was Choppa

okay but I just want I just want him to be like oh where's Chopper Chopper style at Dave's doing the the day i'm so excited for teddy bridgewater this season did you bridgewater dance is the best did you do you have any alternate names for parks or were you all in on parks the pima pretty much all in on parks okay yeah because uh it's a family name in dallas did you

did you feel pressure before naming your kid that like if you name him something stupid, he's going to be a dumbass for the rest of his life? I didn't feel any pressure because I have, I have common sense. Okay.

Yeah. Okay. God, I wish that you would have gotten stuck in like that, like shitty name phase and you had like a kid with a dumb name

that we could just make fun of behind your back. Dude, no way. That's the thing about trinity names, man. They go,

they go out of style, you know, so be careful. Maybe stick to the classics. On the mail-in the other day, you guys were talking about people with Roman numerals in their name. We were. You got to stop those.

No, I didn't say you got to stop those. At some point, you have to break that line. I don't think you do. I think it's tight. Will DeVries, the 13th. You're just flexing. How about HV3? He punched his card to the BMW.

He had a really good week. Oh, he did? Yeah. I wasn't paying attention. He was out. I mean, it's the FedEx or whatever. Nobody knows how it works. You don't like him.

He had multiple birdie putts within 10 feet that he missed. He could have put him in a playoff with Reed. Fuck. Yeah. I turned it off. I didn't watch. I have to admit. I pulled for him.

He's a Callaway guy. Good dude. Seems like a nice guy. HV3. Hey, do you know what everyone wants us to do right now? They want us to talk about succession. But you know what we can't do? We can't talk about it until we do our new sponsor alert.

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is just big of us succession is back when that theme song came on last night like were you just like horned up I absolutely first time I felt can I say this show is in a rare class of shows and that it makes this this is going to sound bad,

it kind of makes me want to drink. Like it makes me want to either have a nice glass of wine or last night I was looking for a bourbon or a scotch. Turns out I have neither because I haven't been drinking it lately. But yeah, it does. It just makes me, it puts me in a great mood. The show just makes me want to sit like alone

in a giant building or property that like no one else is at, but it's just me. And it's worth like $12 million. They're all just, because like they're so rich, they just have all the space in the world just to walk around and like be dicks to each other. That's pretty much it. This family sucks. Like they suck.

I get why people are down on this show sometimes because they're just so mean to each other, but that's what makes it amazing. That's what makes it tight. I'm not down on the show. I just take it honestly. Some people are like, it's hard to watch because they're mean to each other.

This family isn't a family. It's a bunch of CEOs that got put in a room together and have to deal with each other. It's tight. A bunch of CEOs and then Conor. Sneaky shouts to Conor. He's like one of the only people I could do without. He might be the most believable character on there.

For sure. He's probably who I would be if I was in that family. Yeah, it's so good. Is he still planning on running for president? Okay, they didn't talk a lot about that. I feel like they thought... They might have mentioned... I feel like they realized that was a mistake

and now they're just going back on it. A lot would have to happen. Camera from Ferris Bueller's day off. I can't look at him without thinking about that. Wasn't he on news radio or something too? Or am I thinking of... I don't know. I'm thinking of Spin City.

Was he Spin City? Dude, I think he was. Oh, dude, I used to like Spin City. I mean, yeah. Spin City was awesome. Yeah, dude. No, this was a good episode. Even though you didn't get

a lot of the fringe characters that I think make this show really, really great. Well, you got just... They set the stage, and you get to see where this is going to go. I was amazed that they gave us some of the information they gave us last night with Shiv.

Granted, this is going to... Okay, who's playing who in that? Logan or Shiv? Because, okay, I'm thinking, you know, Logan, they show the previews, and Shiv's got her political connections. I guess the old Senate guy that's running for president. Yeah. The fake Bernie Sanders guy.

I kind of forgot about this. Yeah. And he apparently is going to give her a potential appointment if he wins. So is she going to go, we don't know. Is she, is she going to fuck over Logan and not, you know,

or is Logan just telling her that she's going to be the next CEO? I don't know, man. Cause you can't trust Logan. Logan's still a piece of shit. You got to see that when he talked to the contractor about the raccoons in his chimney. Like he has not changed.

He's still just absolute scum. But Shiv's not a bad person to be CEO. No, I don't think so. Like, she's better than... Connor. She's better than Connor. Roman is too... He's the wild card. He's too much of a wild card.

Like, that's got PR nightmare written all over it every single time. And Kendall is a shell of a human being. So, like, Shiv is really the only person for it it's also i mean i don't they probably didn't think about this it's also 2019 i'm sure a major media company would love to name a female ceo dude just sell yeah that's okay that's like he's not giving it to her right like he's, he's not? I mean, just... It seems too easy. He'll be off the show when he dies. Like, in real life.

Like, they're never gonna... There's no way that this season, like, any power changes. Right? Right. He's not gonna be around forever on the show. I don't want him to die, though. I don't either. Because I don't want there to be a resolution

I know but he said that he would leave the company to Kendall but Kendall wouldn't be CEO is that my understanding correct there yeah well so no I think the idea is you say look Kendall's gonna be the CEO when I leave

I think they actually didn didn't he pitch it? It was Kendall and Roman running it like co, like together. It wasn't for the position of CEO though. Oh, it wasn't? No. Okay. Well, I think the idea is just like a temporary one and then you two, I don't know, quell investor worries.

You say, look, no, this is going to, you floated out there privately that Shiv is going to be it. Like you say, he's going to fast track her. track her because i mean she's been she hasn't been working if you're hurt you don't want to hear that that's a private decision you want that to be public so you can't go back on it no that's that's true like you need that out there or you need at least need writing dude if they can get 10 bill though, you've got to sell. 10 bill is a lot of money. People don't talk about that. People don't talk about how much money that is. If you can immediately become a billionaire, normally

you take that. Well, and they're in a dying industry. That's the interesting part. You've got Roman who conceivably understands that, and you've got Logan who's just so old school, newspaper, and news. Well, if they sold the company company we could feasibly make a play for roman yeah that we could use a media exact oh we as in us yeah okay yeah i i would we'd have to fire scott van pelt and terminate

his contract because i think we'd need the cash flow but i think roman might be a good person to do this i mean the ringer just got Rosillo. It's true. It's basically the same thing. Yeah. You'd have to have pretty thick skin because Roman is just – he was on fire last night. I mean, he didn't miss a beat. He's always on fire.

He's always on fire. Just a sharp-tongued young man. When does Kendall snap out of this 1,000-yard stare? Soon. I think episode two. Yeah. I hate it. I mean, I think everyone hates it.

No one wants to see Kendall like this. He's just shell-shocked still. He's just a beaten-down puppy. Like, it's sad. It is sad. I hate to see it. He's definitely going to get away with murder, though. He's got something on deck, though.

He's got a plan. Maybe. Okay, how about what Shiv told Tom?. He's got something on deck, though. He's got a plan. Maybe. Okay, how about what Shiv told Tom? So, Shiv's lying to Tom, too. Yeah. She's got to, though. She doesn't like Tom. Yeah.

What about Tom's turtle neck? She knows she's married to an absolute, like, beta. He's a boner. Figurehead. Like, Tom has to know that he's getting cheated on, like, all through their marriage. Is Kendall ever going to become clean? No,

dude. I didn't think you don't do part Coke. That was, that was, I think that was the scene last night, Greg. We've never, I don't think any of us have ever been in this scenario where we're buying

Coke for our bosses, but we've all been in a scenario where we try to do something to make up for the fact that we couldn't do the task at hand oh yeah just you start just trying to legitimize it to them and you're like yeah this is going terribly maybe he's like no it's through a connection so like he's known for you know his great people like greg because he's kind of on paper he looks like a dumbass but he's really just super machiavellian right it's like is he actually trying to to kill kendall with some park coke like maybe some lace shit maybe he wouldn't do that i don't know man but i'm surprised kendall even did i'm not i guess i'm not he's an addict i'm he'll

do park he just needed a little bit just to get his edge back for the in the meantime then he'll get clean then he'll get clean yeah yeah We didn't get a lot of Greg. No, we... That was it. I was a little surprised. Tom and Greg, we got none of them. Yeah, we need some Tom and Greg together. Something tells me the next episode,

I'm calling this now, the next episode is when we get Kendall to snap out of it, and we get Tom and Greg back together. They need to have a conversation. Is there a chance that Greg's one of those characters who they didn't really plan big things for, and then it was such a good big audience reaction to that character.

They're like, okay, well. They knew. Dude, they had to have known. Remember when he walked in with the boat shoes and Tom just roasted him for it? That was one of my favorite things ever. Oh, man. Who was the MVP of last night's episode?

You guys didn't know i was asking that question dude i'm going low i'm going logan i might have to go uh i might have to go logan as well logan actually he kind of snapped off last night i'm going with the pig that was or whatever was stuck in the uh raccoon yeah was that a raccoon it wasn't a pig whatever the way that it came out of there, it seemed way bigger than a raccoon. Dude. Yeah, that made me sad. Logan gets fits off when he's on vacation, though. Oh, yeah. Like, when they're not in the office.

Like, he's got, like, baller shit only. Companies we haven't even heard of. By the way, that house that they just, like, moved into. Who owns that? I mean, just the family as a whole? No, not an IRL. Who bought the house? Who's going to be living there?

It was just a vacation home. It was a vacation home. I thought it was a vacation home. I wasn't really sure about that. Hamptons, probably. Why is everywhere Kendall's going? Why is he going everywhere on motorcycle? Because it's fast.

Is that part of him getting... The only reason I can think about it? Yeah. Like why can't they just pick him up and ride in the limo anymore? The only reason I could think about that was because I believe in New York

like motorcycles you don't have to like sit in traffic like you can still like weave and I think they were trying to get him to Manhattan quickly. That's the way I took it from there. That's plausible.

Get on the helicopter weave. Why do you need to chop Get on the helicopter. Weave. Why do you need to chop her down to the building? Yeah, don't they have a pad on top of that bitch? Absolutely, they do. They're expensive. They use it all the time. Yeah, just chop her to the top of the building.

You own a company. Dumb bitch. Okay. You're loaded. His buddy that he was going to sell the shares to and do the hostile takeover with. Yeah. Great character,

but he kind of fucked Kendall initially. No, that guy's a total fuck. So it's like him acting so shocked. It's like, dude, you're not innocent in this. No, you're a scumbag. You put Kendall in this no-win situation last season. Yeah, he has to go against his dad. Yeah.

Which, I mean, Kendall should have seen it coming, but goddamn, I love a good hostile takeover. Me too. Me too. Damn. We need to get into that. We're going to get another vote of no confidence this year because I was so horned up for that vote.

What company do y'all want to bear hug? Yeah, I don't know. That's tough. We should look into this. Should we bear hug somebody? Yes. I don't know if we're there yet. Dude, let's bear hug.

Let's bear hug somebody. Bear hug I don't know if we're there yet. Dude, let's bear hug. Dude, let's bear hug somebody. Bear hug the ringer? Are they public? Again, I don't think we have the capital for something like that. Not yet. Okay.

We'll get there. I love just two titans of industry willing to go all the way bankrupt just for a pissing contest. I'm worried that we're not going to get any like... No, I worried that we're not going to get any like

no I mean we're definitely going to but like we got a wedding last year we got a bachelor party like we had some really good like scenes

and I hope that we get some of that this year I don't want it to all be like boardroom and shit no I don't think it will I was very pleased with last night's episode I was way more pleased

than I thought I was going to be I was worried that it was just going to set the stage for the rest of the season. I thought that the Shiv information was really good. I thought that they're setting it up to be immediately dramatic from the beginning, and that's what I was worried wouldn't happen. It got me pretty psyched for fall. Because the fall fits in this. The winter fits are just amazing.

Yeah, absolutely. God, I hope we get some cool temperatures. Luckily, it's going to be 107 this week, like Dylan said. Be patient, Dave. I know. Get those flannels out eventually. How about that yacht that Chivin... That was a yacht.

You got to think that cost at least six figs. Yeah. Have you guys seen Jeff Bezos' yacht? No, have you guys seen uh jeff bezos has he got nobody yeah it's quite large pretty nice it's unsurprisingly it's big turns out he has some money to spend yeah yeah i think since we started talking about jeff bezos 10 seconds ago that he's already made in those 10 seconds more than we'll make all year. Easily. Of course. Hey, is a succession theme song, that's got to be the best on TV right now. What's better?

People have said that our theme song has succession vibes to it, and I don't think they're wrong. The Peaky Blinders theme song is really good. Still haven't heard it. I will soon. Really good. Tommy! Dylan! I loved Big Little Lers theme song is really good. Still haven't heard it. I will soon. Really good. Tommy! Dylan!

I loved Big Little Lies theme song. Oh, yeah. It's just a good song. Like, I listen to it still. Oh, it's on my playlist, dog. It's a great song. It was on my 2018 most played. Cold Little Heart, is that what it's called?

I don't know. I think so. You should know. Yeah, I think that's what it's called. Sick. Man. We got anything else i don't think so i need more from connor's uh escort wife or girlfriend she feels so out of place in those in those family sit downs what was her comment

i think selling would be cool or what she said why is i'm surprised i didn't make one of the kids all in on selling well roman has the most to gain from selling and that was that convo with shiv and him where she's like you know you would do the best because you know if if they sell you could arguably stay on i don't know what the power play there would be but he's wanting him to sell go on sorry no go ahead last night during that conversation i realized that succession needs to be a subtitles show for me there was an exchange about five sentences and i like sat there and i was like i don't know anything they just said like i don't know any of the words that just came out of their mouths they could be speaking lithuanian i i was very confused they did switch to lithuanian

for a couple minutes so maybe that was weird oh yeah maybe that maybe that was scottish yeah i i rate that highly do you know do you know what their rotten tomato score is succession of Rotten Tomatoes scores? Succession? 71%. Dylan? 69%. 93%. That's pretty damn good. See, that's surprising. I thought you were saying it because it was going to be surprisingly low. No. Otherwise, I would have said 90s. I'm surprised that they haven't gotten more like... They don't get like the

Emmy nods or anything, do they? Do they not? I don't know. That's very silly because there's some great performances. It's hard to say. Well, we'll, we'll circle back on that and figure it out.

But either way, stay tuned for next week. We'll talk about it on Monday as well. If you're not watching succession, it's easy to catch up on. It's a phenomenal show. It's really good. I loved every single episode last year.

Not one episode was I like, Oh, they mailed it in. Just go watch it. Is that all? Is that all she wrote? it was a very full podcast it was no one thought we were going to talk salmon cannon all the way to like succession no one's doing that all right guys if you want to shop our stuff go to washmedia.com slash shop we've got everything up there new product dropping this week as well you You have my word on that. And also, if you want to hear our listener voice,

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