Circling Back - Santa Claus & Hot Austin Couples | Circling Back 12-8-25

Episode Date: December 8, 2025

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my name is dave that boy she just heard old headass dylan oh head no head ass get that coat on that rag and bone yeah i'm just i'm super cozy yeah i'm just i'm super cozy yeah i'm cozy right now man i'm just full cozy one i got viori joggers on too man people love posting a photo of like a blanket and being like um it's cozy time yeah people really be like that yeah ranald trumbacky hi dave gonna produce fresh off of a staycation just vibing do you feel relaxed and

rejuvenated I wasn't really a staycation I just don't know how else to describe you're right some time off you're right you just took some you time that's a staycation

didn't have to like go to the mall though doesn't have to like be in a hotel he went to the mall we'll save it for your weekend and fun dude well save it I'll save it was the mind flayer there

because if you're watching this show you guys hear about in this? Dylan had started season four Stranger Things. I did. I just finished

season three of Stranger Things. Did we just walk into Friday the 13th? Like, what's going on out here? I mean, I know what it is, but it's especially loud today.

Landscaper, lawnmower or leaf blower guys out there. So if you hear some stuff in the background, just other guys doing their jobs.

Everybody's got to do a job. Hey, man. Dylan Shivry. Oh, and a second intro. That's great. Just a reminder to do your job. Wow, two intros before two minutes in the show. I forgot my breakers today.

They're at home. Usually, let's keep them here, but I ran out and I forgot to bring in the backup. Did you ask Brett for some gum? No. I don't really like the gum as much. I'm a breaker boy through and through. You know that. Anyway, it's not going to affect me.

Why are you bringing it up? It's not going to affect me. I'm just saying, like, you know, usually I have it. And now I don't. you know what i mean you're um you're making excuses before the before the big game i feel like i feel like this is going to be a good episode no matter what happens you're listed is questionable with uh lack of breakers yeah um so when you play people come back man that's good that he played yeah he didn't have his breakers there it is there it is yeah it's one way to frame it exactly um

i'm freaking mad today today's freaking mad I'm just going to, I'll do my own little, I'll give you guys my own little crutch. I'm pissed off. Okay. Do you care to share why? Yesterday I was following, so they do a show where they announce the teams that are going to play in the college football playoff. My team did not get selected. Texas State Bobcats?

Which one? Which of your eight? Texas State. The Bobcats. It didn't get selected. Hey, we did see a playoff team when we went down to San Marcos. way to watch a football game on a Tuesday night. Head-to-head didn't look great with JMU as they blew our doors off.

But I'm pretty upset. It's a playoff team. I thought there was an outside chance that they may just be like, you know what? It's a cool little team down there in San Marcos. Let's put them in there. Let's just throw them in. Let's take the team. Toss them in there.

See what happens. Let's put them up against with these guys. With the team like JMU making the playoffs, I'm a little torn because half of me is like nothing's right he's torn half of me is like they earn their way in he's all out of breakers and like anyone should have an opportunity to win the national championship he's still doing the show the goals should be on the table for all teams he's putting forth a good argument the other half of me is like j phew doesn't belong in the playoffs is they're gonna get their fucking we're doing a larger discussion they're gonna get their shit wrecked you know we're gonna

do this segment like talent shouldn't have brought it up talent to talent who do they stack up against maybe Tulane, but that's another team that, you know, I don't know. I'm just saying, like, I don't know, man. And this isn't a Texas argument, by the way. Texas, I don't think Texas should have been in the playoffs. So don't come at me for that reason. I'm just saying, like, I don't know what we're doing. Typical t-shirt fan. Shout out to James Madison University, though. You're a t-shirt Texas state fan. I am. Yes. Don't you just think it would have been cool if they just kind of just threw them in there and, like, just as like a wild card? Sacrificial lamb. no it's like a like dude check it out miracles do that we know they don't belong but

yeah they won this is gonna be fun check it out nobody saw this coming cats cats are here and you uh you played georgia the first round yep good luck have fun go get them what a fun day on twitter man a lot of sound reasoning and good logic um big week it's a big week um we ended last week with Texas Dives. I guess that was Wednesday. But we still had Texas Dives on. Check that pot out. Listener voicemails last week was a banger.

Tomorrow, Patreon. Exactly five. Exactly five. Exactly five minutes. I'll put up a prompt. Do you have a question? Does Dylan have a question? I'm waiting for Dave to call on me.

Yeah. Can we announce a fucking theme already? Like, what are we doing? If not this week, then for next. But let's get a theme. I'm gonna let Randy pick the theme at the end of the show today. They're so fun. At the end of the show today.

That is so, that's such bullshit. Why? That's fun for you. You're so passing the responsibility to me. That's what that was. Rainy. Do it, man. Okay.

Randy is not up for picking a theme, even though we have like 20 on a whiteboard out there. I thought it'd be a fun, a fun thing. Randy's got too much on his plate to pick a theme mid-show. You want me to pick one instead? You know what? I do. If you're not torn.

I got it. Got it. You're going to save it? Are you going to do it now? I'm going to save it. We'll do a segment later called theme week reveal. Dillon's big reveal. Put it on the rundown because I could see it's forgetting it.

You want it to be this week or next? This week. This is for listener voicemails, which don't record until Wednesday. You've got plenty of time to get your calls in. Okay. Y'all are not going to believe what I pick. You're not going to believe it. Very excited.

I can't, you know what, Randy passed the buck on that. You're the podcast host who stepped up. Thank you. The buck was passed to me and I just passed it again. It was a little, it was a little, it was a little, it was a little, it was a little, I believe in enabling my people. You had an open layup and you said to dish it out to the fucking, the corner. Yeah.

And guess what? Now it's a three. Hopefully I'm, hopefully you, you sink it. Three points is better than two. I used to have the, the wet as fucking Jay. Moribol. I had the wetest Jay in my high school for a minute. That's the true story.

Then why didn't you play on the team? I played a freshman year. Why didn't you stay? Because I wanted to focus on baseball. Dude, Primrose threw my sneakers in the urinal because I had a better J than him. That's funny. He low-key punked you, not even low-key. And we were friends, too.

I was like, what are you doing? Primrose is one of those guys who's not real big. He's not much bigger than me, but you just don't really want to scrap them. Sneaky athletic. You said he was a great ball player. He was a great baseball player. And he's a dog. We worked with them for a long time.

he's he does everything he had zero power whatsoever as you can imagine not a big guy okay don't say zero power middle infielder so insulting he had he had he said he wasn't a power he had he flashed a leather just how he's just a slow bat he just just no power no pop he knows that he'll be the first to a minute yeah but the way you put it it's just so insulting zero power i had a lot of power i was nicknamed slugger i already told you that so I have the most power. All the people are saying I had the most power in Tebow. All little kids have the nickname slugger.

Don't default into a Trump impression. What a hack. Now Randy is trying to dig his way back into the. You know what? Randy's trying to get in the good graces now. And you know what, Randy? You're almost there. Someone said I employed the bump set spike routine.

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Hey, what do you think's in this? You dumb ass? Is that Stone Creek coffee? Yes. Is that the coal brew? Yes. Yeah. God, dude.

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what do you want to do shut off dude should probably recap our weekends at some point just saying yeah I forgot about that it's okay you don't need to you don't need to like tie it

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I never even opened it. There would be nothing less cool than a guy who kept cocaine in his arm pocket. Well, it came with cocaine. No, there's nothing in it. Okay. Well, let's talk about our weekend and fun, presented by Stone Creek. Bro, let's go out this weekend. There's a crazy event happening.

I like to turn off. Bro, there's a crazy event happening. We had the party, and it was lit. I got yelled out by a prostitute. Let's just go, have fun, and they'd go a little bit. Little more, girls, let's go. I'm going to let Randy lead off. Let's see if he can bring it.

No. Just do the fucking second. Okay. So I took Friday off. It was helping the girlfriend pack. You were still on Slack, though. I was. I told Adam because I gave him four or five clips right beforehand.

I said I'll be available for review. so uh helped her pack we went out to the mall we got some terry blacks dude best terry black experience i've ever had what time did you go we went three o'clock on a friday and it was empty there was nobody there like which is wild for terry blacks i've never like been able pretty much just walk up to the sides and start ordering that's pretty much what it was like there's so many open tables they gave us uh extra brisket gave us a burned end for weight they gave us pork ribs that we didn't even order. I was like, I've never had that happen at Terry Blacks before.

He got bonus ribs. It was amazing. It was awesome. And the first get was the best I've ever had there. And also the pork ribs was the best over there. So either way, so, Terry Blacks was really good. Did you park or did you guys? Yeah, there were so many parking spots too.

I don't know what was going on. Why no one was there, but amazing. Then went to the mall, thought about going to the cork. It was debating also getting a picture with Santa. Where'd you park? at the mall by JCPenney that's where I always park Oh

You gotta park at Nolords dude It's park at JCPenny Okay What are you going to the mall for Get her a little birthday gift Buy something nice Should end up just giving her a gift card No

I bought her something nice Where'd you take her? We went to We went to Macy's Nordstrom Dillards, Zales Forever 21 Okay all that I was getting here

necklace every kiss begins with k you got one yep does she like it yep what that set you back not gonna tell you oh that is not i'm not gonna tell you that's cute man um and then we finished decorating my apartment set up the christmas tree and everything it was a that was pretty much the weekend christmas present or birthday present it was birthday bladed because she was in egypt during her birthday. And then I guess Saturday went out to Jester King Brewery for Friends birthday. First time ever out there.

Pretty cool little place. Got to go feed the goats. That's cool. Well. And Sunday was just pretty much chores. Worked out my little project, my little side table,

the tree shelf side table. What was the mall vibe? It was. Was there a lot of cookie monster or sweatpants? Like pajama pants? Man, I didn't even really know. Was there a secret Russian base underneath?

Strange your thing, season three, ever, ever see it? You know what? He keeps making these references, and I don't remember that season other than Billy. Really? I mean, as you say it, I'm like, oh, yeah, but like, if you ask me to write it out, I would fail. I remember how it ends. I just don't really remember how we got there. The mall scenes were fun because they were super nostalgic for me.

They remind me being back at North Cross Mall as a kid. But, yeah, I'm trying to think, like, it was, there was, you know, there were some teenagers. There was a lot of families going to go do pictures with Santa. Teenagers holding hands? Teenagers holding hands. But it was, it wasn't too packed. But, uh, did you, uh, did you buy a, uh, one of those kiosk, like, helicopter things that you pull the string and it just shoots it up? I didn't see any of those guys.

There was no, like, really obnoxious toy, uh, kiosk vendors at, at barn. Did, like, a square. Fairly attractive young lady tried to sell you some cologne at a kiosk. No, no, but some aggressive guys did. They just like, threw like a clone sample out, like put it on like, I'm good. Dude, what? I was like, I stopped in the Fabletics just to check it out. Did they recognize you?

Yeah, it is. Like, hold on, aren't you that podcast? Do they ask for Dave? Is Dave with you? D-Man? And I actually did something. I actually did something that I, you know, I knew this is how it's going to happen. I did watch the Bears Packers game

just because I'm like you know what I probably should I'm like but I know I'm going to this is why I don't care about sports I told you guys out of proper game I told you guys out in the bullpen like if I really cared about sports this would have been a fucking devastating week for me Purdue lost after being number one

got their shit kicked in and then IU wins the championship and Bears lose to the Packers like that's like just three in a row would be just terrible I just don't really care and also I someone was talking about in the chat people are asking me aren't you happy for the state of indiana i never have understood that like

you don't employ the mr shivery i i don't get that fandom people ask me the same thing when the cubs won the world series like aren't you just happy for the city i'm like no rivalries are to the end like i totally agree but i don't think that many people are that way though i think that's just a few select people what the root have just happy for text team or an indiana team like when rangers fans were happy that the astros no one of the world so you're like fuck that no Yeah Get out of here First of all

With professional sports Especially like Dude there's no regional There's no connection To the cities for these players and stuff My dad aside I don't think many people Who aren't like

Subscribe to that Yeah it's just like It's to the end Like I don't It's literally the thing I don't want to happen I want any other team Except for my rival

I will tell you this If you are on Twitter And you are a sports fan Any any ability for you to root Like or feel good feelings For like a rival Or an in-state rival

especially is gone because of like just fan behavior on Twitter. It's like, no, you know what? I don't want that particular anonymous account that was chirping me two months ago. I don't want that guy to be happy. When Texas played a national, I think this is the 05 one with Ben Chung, when they played the Natty. Not many of people bought them, but A&M fans, there was a shirt that had the horns with, you know how they like to do the saw them off with the horns, you know.

there was a band-aid over, like, the sought-off part with the full horn, and it said, like, just for one day or something. Like, that's so soft. You suck. And I'm a Texas fan. That is so soft. Honestly, like, that would piss me off if I was a Texas. It's like being, like, just for one day.

You know what, guys? Let's put our differences aside. Like, hell. No, dude, that's. That's terrible. An olive branch, if you will. Like, I'm happy for my friends. I went to IU and IU friends.

Like, that, sure. Like, I'm happy my friends are happy. but like that's about it. There was a kid in one of my, I think it was a psychology class at Texas State who I think was a, I don't know if he was the guy, but if you remember fire macbrown.com, he would always wear his fire macbrown.com shirt. And I always found that funny because it's like, I don't know. Just to wear that in public?

Yeah. It's weird. I was like, dude, I feel like Mac's been okay at that point. Yeah, that's my weekend Okay Dylan Played golf Friday Play with Dave actually

Played out at UT Golf Club Had a good time With our buddies Ryan and Blaine Dude sneaky fun I mean just a fun round It's a great time That's a good for some I had a great time

That was a kind of round That makes me want to like Flirt with the idea of getting back Your short game was dialed Dude my short game was You had a read on those greens With the putter that nobody else had Because everybody else was just

Running it way by Yeah, still pretty erratic off of the tea and with my long irons, which, you know, to be expected with as little golf as I play. But yeah, dude, I just had a great time. It was awesome. A little fireball. A little fireball, a little screwball shot, which I was previously unaware. It was kind of good. And then nothing Saturday, just kind of laid low.

And then Sunday went out to a place with my family called the Shady Lama. You hear about this place? No. It's a little hill country bar. between Driftwood and Wimbrily. It's a really cool place. And they have, as the name of suggests, they have llamas there and donkeys and view of the hill country

and, you know, cold drinks and a little barbecue truck. It was a really cool spot. It's all you need, Randy. Was that an Irish laugh because of Dorsey's donkey? Darcy's donkey, what is it? Don't worry about me, boy. Go home tour. Go to see it.

Make up with her. Then that's pretty much it, man Donkeys are fucking cool And then I power it through some stranger things You know a donkey will stomp you out If it has a chance If it views you as a threat To the rest of the livestock

They stomp out coyotes man That's why a lot of ranchers keep them around Yep I bet you didn't know that Don't catch a body I bet you thought they were just novelties For people to laugh at And do cartoon movies

But they're more than that Yeah, no It was a cute scene out there man My nieces had a blast Just didn't want to go home What's that drive looking like? 30 minutes Oh, that's not bad

Not bad at all Cool spot And that's that man What are you taking? 1628? We went 45 to 1826 Oh yeah There you go

It was a pretty drive too Well It's a good drive Oh yeah That's it Yeah man Okay Someone said shout out

To Dominic the Christmas donkey You know Dominic the Christmas donkey, don't you? Yeah, of course I do. The Italian Christmas donkey. I don't know Dominic the Christmas donkey. You don't know that? Is this Italian, you said? It's a viral sensation?

Oh, no, it's a big Christmas song. I would assume that you being an Italian would have known that song. I don't know the song. It's on Leverett Radio sometimes. Give us a bar. I just did. Is it? He goes, Italian Christmas donkey.

Okay. Okay. We'll play it for you later. People know. Okay. Don't mention golf. It was a cool round of golf, but there was never a moment where I felt cold. Now, I did lose some feeling in my upper, upper back in my neck after the guy who's driving my cart rear-ended a different cart. I didn't even. I wasn't going to bring that up. Hopefully he's not listening. Yeah, we got, Blaine and I were cartoners, and we got ended. Like it wasn't just like a love tap. It was an accident. We were looking over to see because we'd been, we had twosome on our ass. He took his eyes off the path. We both did. No, I was, I was fine. Yeah. Sort of my, well, not my fault, but I'm the reason why we stopped our cart short because I yanked mine left into the woods. So we had to stop pretty soon after we took off from the T-box. And yeah, Ryan just wasn't looking and he just, he blasted us pretty good.

it rocks me it's pretty funny it hurt initially but then i i felt fine so um no that was that was a good time uh thank you to blaine for hosting always a gracious host that breakfast taco was really good too yeah um went home i was pretty cooked man the cold weather golf kind of takes it out of you i took a top five i was now top eight shower of the year post round Post cold round of golf shower always hits. Oh, man, just steamed it up a little bit. Oh, it was phenomenal. Wife had supper club that night.

Supper club. I cook some steaks by myself at about 8 o'clock, and it was good. You know what I had on the side? Nothing. I just ate steak for dinner. Just straight protein. Didn't even think about cooking up a veggie. Damn.

caught up on pluribus oh my god dude we're we've really hit another gear things are happening things are moving along very nicely Saturday morning we ran it back at the brewery we did something that no one is done

started off at meanwhile go over there they had Santa there and this will be another segment in the show we're going to have a larger Santa Claus discussion but the fam got a pick with Santa always a good time hung out there did a did a cappuccino did a lager great time went home got the invite from another family hey in about the next I don't know four or five hours we're going to run it out to Vista brewing out in Driftwood we went we doubled down on breweries on Saturday what we hit that

Vista. Damn. This was Saturday? This was Saturday. Dog. Went out there. It's about a 28-minute drive. Really cool.

I'd never been there. Good beer. Great food had a great order of fish and chips. Instead of the small filets, they just put a giant fish filet that's fried right there on your plate. Really good fries. All and all, just a great experience. it's not as crowded it's kind of a hit i would say it's a hidden gem out in driftwood it's a little bit of a drive so people probably don't make it out that way especially if you don't have kids because

it's kind of a drive that you don't want to do if you're going to a brewery by your side with the boys because it's just it's not it's not something you go out there and drink and come back it's a lot of stuff but if you got the fam with you and you're going to take it easy and just eat and have a beer it's a really good spot they've got hay bales things like that they've got a big fire pit good stuff out there um got home boys were down immediately i was down immediately watched uh watch some ball uh great weekend yesterday was very low key snuck a gym session did a walk we had a nice little uh little coal front blow through some cool dry air blew in oh yeah crispy morning dare i say the first crispy morning of the season like legit

No. You don't think this was crispy? No. You guys, your crisp threshold is too cold. You're like, it doesn't have to be in the 30s for it to be crispy. Upper 30s. No. You start calling, you guys start calling crispy if it's like 55.

Yeah. That's not crispy. That's crispy. Yeah, it is crispy. That's crispy. Crispy is like, I'm wearing this and I'm like, ooh. That's cold. That's just, I might need to put a coat on.

30s is cold. Yeah. 38. 30s is, it's cold enough to be Christmas. It freezes in the 30s. It freezes at a very specific 30s. 32.

Low 30s, yeah, 32. 38. It was 38 and sunny. I'm going to put a pole up and I think you're going to be wrong, dog. I believe, yeah. I'm with Dylan on the sun. You're finally doing an only chance. I'm not going to frame it like to, I'm not going to frame it in a way that like makes my selection

win. I'll make it fair and balanced. You understand what I'm saying? God. A proper crispy morning to you. That's a chili morning. Crispy is chilly. Yeah.

I think chili's colder than crispy. I guess I just have a different tolerance for cold, you know? Corpus Krispies. I guess I'm different. And that's about it, man. It was just a good weekend. Low key. Good.

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The poll options. Number one, I got 32 and below, which no one's going to select that, right? Then I got 33 to 45. Yeah. Which is, I think. Wait, 33 to 45? No. What is it?

I would say 36 to 45. It's a big difference. Big difference. He's being no. Oh, okay. I'll give you 36 to 45. I guess you. You got to skew it so Randy can take the dove.

Then I got 46 to what? 65. 52? What is so what? I'm going to say 55. 47, okay. The increments need to be equal. Those are, those are equal.

Okay. And then obviously 56 to... 65 no no one's going to mistake 60s the 60s for crispy how are you asking the question that's at which temperature range is it crispy outside i got 30 to them below 36 to 45 46 to 55 should i say 56 yeah 56 to 65 no one's choosing over that that'd be stupid look i'm not going to waver on this and i understand like that a lot of people may not have the same tolerance I typically will wear shorts when it's cold because my legs don't get cold

I'm a little bit different I frequently cold ones so like what's crispy to me might not be as crispy to a guy like Randy got to change it to 35 and below because otherwise there's a little gap there okay I got it set okay and put it up there man

poll is live poll is live so to say what would you be voting for Dave just so we know upper 30s low 40s no low to mid you did you did You did move the goalposts a little bit.

How? Because you said 30s, and now you're saying 36 to 45. So that includes the bottom half of the 40s. Time out. Let Dave speak. Can I talk on my show here, guys? I mean, I still host the show. You're saying a lot, but without actually saying anything, Dave.

Today was 38, right? Yeah. Okay. Give me upper 30s. Okay. Give me upper 30s. Upper 30s, look, I acknowledge I'm probably going to lose this now that I'm really thinking about it, because I realize I might have gotten over my ski, so to speak.

But, you know, man, sometimes you got to take that L and wear it, man. That's fine. I'll deal with it. Let's do a larger Santa discussion. And that's crispy talk. That's crispy talk. um so i mentioned in the uh weekend and fun santa showed up at meanwhile brewery okay i'm going to give i'm going to give the parents a little

bit of us i'm going to say look this is going to be a if you're listening to this with your kids fast forward fast forward spoilers there's going to be some spoilers some real life spoilers um we're finally at the age roads about my oldest is about to turn five where we're firmly in Santa Land, of course, but he's asking questions. He's asking very good questions. And I've got a feeling that he is, I think kids these days figure it out way quicker because kids are just, they just learn this shit more. He's four, you said?

He's going to be five in January. Oh, man. And he starts asking questions in the way he's asking them. I'm like, dude, do you know? do you know he's like dude he's like dad i know he's magic but how does he get around the world the basics the ones that you know you want your kid to be that's a that's a good question that's the one i he caught me so off guard i kind of started talking about time zones and then i started to try to explain time zones and i realized what am i doing just go with magic don't you're overthinking

it i was like you see it's just because it's nighttime here doesn't mean it's nighttime everywhere around the world. That's a good argument, though. It is, but, like, then I have to, like, explain time zones. He understands. Time zones is a foreign concept to a child. It's just a, he's four, he's almost five. You get the flashlight out and you get a ball, and then you start rotating,

and you say, see how it's still this dark over here, but it's light over here. Randy, that's a good call. And then you explain to him that, not everyone gets presence from Santa. A lot of the world isn't Christian. And then you just start going to that, too. Yeah. And then he starts asking, like, is he always watching me? Because, you know, the song, he knows when you're sleeping.

Sounds a little creepy, does it. He asked me straight up in the last couple weeks, is Santa watching me sleep? That's cute, dude. It's cute, but it's also like, uh-oh, I don't want to creep him out. Nobody wants, no kid wants Santa to watch him sleep. And he, he's like, why would he watch me sleep? I'm sleeping. Does he know what I'm asking, like, smart questions.

I know, but it's like, maybe two, I'm like, no, I mean, like, he takes a break when he knows you're asleep. He's like, focus is like, all right, Rhodes is down. I'm off the clock. I'm going to go have some coffee. Dude, I'm fucking worried, man. I'm worried that this thing is going to be, first of all, I don't remember how old I was. I remember, like, I knew when I knew, I never told my parents. I didn't tell them right away that I knew.

I kind of went with it for at least a season. But I knew. I probably knew Santa was fake by the time I was like, I don't know, 16 or 17. I know exactly when I was first grade. And I still felt like I was early. I feel like third and fourth grade is really back in my day. It was like, okay, majority of third and fourth graders don't believe in Santa. I think I was six, which would be first grade also.

Parks was, so Parks straight up asked me. And I've talked to his mom about like serious quite, this is not that this falls under the category of being a serious conversation. but we just we we don't want to lie to him it's like we don't want to lie to him okay we can lead him down a path but if he straight if he's straight up like listen like i want to know like what's what's real here when then we're we're honest with him so he asked me and he like he was six he said dad kids at school are talking it's six and he said okay he said is santa claus real yeah and i was like buddy i wish you didn't ask me that but i'm going to be honest with you like he's not said it's just your parents

it's your parents do it yeah I feel like eight and nine is like old to be able to believe that sounds old I just don't I also don't want him to ruin it

for his little brother who at this point like he won't because Sammy's two I was afraid the presents were gonna just stop coming when I found out

like I think I didn't let my mom and dad know that I knew for the presents what if they stopped that seems like a good idea yeah uh yeah

man like I don't know. I don't want to be one of them. There's parents out there who like, they don't even, they don't even do the Santa thing. Like, they're like, I'm not going to lie to my kid about, just, you know what I mean? Yeah.

I'm not going to try to trick my kid, which I don't really, I think that's a little bit unnecessary. Yeah. You're a lot to, yeah. Like, people say, like, the truth is better. Like, your parents are going out and getting you these things and there's not this weird man.

like breaking into your home. But also like you want your kid to share in the Zite guys, the, the pop cult. Because it's fun as hell. It's fun as hell and like, do you really want your kid to be the one that's like off like smoking a SIG? Like you know Santa's not real, right?

Never real. Like a little four year old, yeah, you know. Look at these sheep buying into this, not me. It is interesting like, I have cool parents. That is a thing out there like Christmas movies. and I think in Miracle in Fortyf History, like, people are like, oh, Santa isn't real. So it's like little kids hear about that

from like that people think that Santa's not real. There's a lot of kids movies are premised on that, like where it's somebody doesn't believe and then at the end of the day, boom. Dude, there's an episode of Trash Truck. I don't know if you know trash truck. I do that. Trash truck kind of rules.

There's a whole thing in Trash Truck where like the kids are like, oh, I don't know if Santa's real. They're real skeptical. And then next thing you know, there's Santa. Also, the show the kid's best friend is a fucking trash truck. Parks lost a tooth the other day. By the way, if you're unaware, and I don't remember this as a kid, they lose teeth for like eight years.

Dude, I remember Parks losing his first tooth. So he's 10. That feels like that was. And he just lost a tooth. Five years ago. And I forgot to put, we still did the tooth fairy thing, even though he knows it's not legit. And I forgot to put it under his pillow, the money. So I try to sneak in there the next morning, and he was awake.

And he was like, Dad, what he did? Like, you can stop this. It was so funny. It was like, come on, man. He just started laughing at me. Just, you shoot him a little Venmo. Yeah. There have been times where I didn't have cash on me.

I mean, you know, don't always have cash on me. So I left him like little I'll just pay them back later. My favorite thing about Santa is the joke of like when conspiracies theorists, like, I guess like the moon landing is one is like Santa, of course Santa is real. Do you know how many people would have to be in on it to have this lie perpetuated? And it's just like a funny thing to think about. It's like, yeah, we're all in on this lie. And like the, you know, the government's in on it. The marketing and the corporations are in on this lie of Santa. Only thing left to do is the clues. How old was, shout out Nick Maugh. How old was the kid who Trump was talking to? about Santa when he said it's... I think it's seven. Oh, marginal? Seven is marginal, right?

I mean, he's right. Seven is on the margin. Yeah. It's hilarious. He asked, you know, he's like, is that the real... The kids were all kind of like, is that the real Santa? And some of the dad... I let the dad's like, well, sometimes he has, like, his...

He has, like, his helpers go, man, it gets dicey. Well, look, your son's a little skeptic. I came over there dressed as Spider-Man. He was... You're not Spider-Man. He grilled your ass. He was, you choose to, like, interrogating me. Dude, I wish I had video ready.

What did you do? You did like a little. I did like a cartwheel, like flip thing. And, like, he was like, I think I see a zipper in the back. Why are you here, Spider-Man? I'm like, oh, my God, I thought I was just coming in here. Like, I didn't know I was getting interrogated. At least I knew who dot guys.

Just questions everything. Yeah. Am I getting cooked in this poll? I got a feeling I'm going to get cooked in this poll. It's not, it's not that bad. Someone did... Did you post it? Yeah.

Oh, you did a Twitter poll. Someone posted in the chat. I think I agree with them here. The crispiness has a way more to do with humidity due point than temperature. It's true. Which is a contributing factor. Yeah, it does have to be dry. You can't have to be dry.

You can't walk out and there can't be clouds in the sky. It can be misty. I really don't think there can be clouds. No, maybe you can get those really high winter, big sky clouds. You know what I'm talking about? Dry sunny. Is that a cirrus? Cirrus.

Seris. Dry sun. 20 and 52 is perfectly crispy to me. I can say it even being a little overcast. You guys have me in the pounder now. Yeah. I'm not used to getting attacked by the chat like this. Yeah.

People said, like someone said, a rare Dave L. I'm pissed off. Look at that. You know, man, we try to host this show, do good things, do be a force for good. And sometimes you miss. And sometimes what's crispy to one man? or one woolman

is not crispy to another wool man or man and I'm here to tell you man I learned that the hard way today what did the poll say I didn't look

but I'm gonna I'm gonna go ahead and say like you guys made I have to tell you you made a good argument you made a good argument it takes a big man to admit that he might be wrong

now put up an argument put up a poll to see if pizza's Italian food let's see how I do in that poll we need to clip that it is Adam did it Oh, really? Yeah, it's in one.

We'll post it. Hey, shout out to Texas Dives for just cutting his own clips. What a dude, man. I mean, we pick up followers every time. Dude, the Dibar community loves us. Do you see Clem Powell at Don's Depot? I did. I did see.

With your little, your little landman girl? I don't know if it's my landman girl. You like her a lot. I don't think I've ever said that She's cute She's definitely a pretty young lady Michelle Randolph Certified hot couple

Is there a hotter Austin couple right now Not that she lives in Austin But is there You and Chels are cute Thank you I think so too Randy And his girlfriend are cute He put in air quotes

Because they have yet to meet her Is she coming to the party Friday? She doesn't live here anymore Oh fuck she's gone already Damn. Oh, not back until April. Damn. Sorry to bring down the room.

But I think we're a pretty cute, awesome couple, but yeah, Glenn Powell is a very attractive man. Yeah, no offense. When you see like that kind of couple gets together, but you also know that he's got something coming out,

she's got something like that, you know, Landman Season 2. It's like, is this a real? You think it's publicity stunt? Well, do you think, I'd love to know. This is a little pervert, but it's like, you want to know if they're knocking boots? Are these things, are these things like, do they get put together like, like their, their, their, their management? It's like, let's get them together for some, like, you know, we'll send them to dons.

They're going to be in the same part of the state. That's certainly, that certainly happens. It's like a Mike Tyson now Kith situation, like that's what the production companies are doing. Yeah, that's it. Because to go to a place like Don's Depot, you know you're going to get sniped. Someone's going to get a video or a picture. Don's Depot that's routinely on the dive bar list. Also, Charlie X-CX was there like three or four months ago.

And they were like two-stepping on the dance floor. So it's like, yeah. You know the regulars probably hate that, by the way. That the celebrities are going to Don's up. Yeah. That's how you know it's a die bar, though. That there's a group of crotchety old regulars that are like, nah. Don's Depot is, the clientele there is pretty hilarious.

Hey, hey, let me tell you, Dave, look at me, you look at me. Westlake, Best Lake. Oh, yeah, that guy. Is that your boy? Yeah. Don's, yeah, that's where that incident happened. Don's Depot is like 40% like college students and like new grads probably. And then there's a group of just really old people there. They'll dance with their girl too.

Yeah, they actually, the percentage of young people's probably bigger than that. They won't flipper, but they'll spin her. And then like 5% like people like us who are just like trying to, trying to fit in somewhere. yeah that's that's the lot of old people which it's a lot of old it's kind of fun that makes it fun that makes it same old people every time it is the same old people every time well good for glen man that's a good looking couple yeah yeah damn yeah i don't even know which one of them is hotter honestly honestly i don't know either have you watched the new layman yet no i'm not sure i guess i'll i guess i'll hop in i mean I did the whole my rule is your show has to

your show has to really really lose me in the finale has to be a huge pile of shit finale for me to not at least try the second season um hell with uh what's the show with the uh the girls team the the hunt the soccer team or whatever that uh yeah I know what you mean yellow jackets yellow jackets never watch that I even gave that a few a couple episodes in season two before i bailed and that that show just didn't do it um so yeah i'll do that um did you watch season one landman yeah and you're not gonna even try what chel's it's it's just chelps probably liked it a little bit more than i did uh just the the corneous writing

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I got to know. It is currently. Let me pull it up. up. You have 29.4% of the vote. But again, I do think it was a little tilted in your favor because we included 40 to 45. But it's 51.3% is 46 to 55, which is where I would have voted. Did you vote, Randy? I'm doing it right now. I'm voting right now. Wow.

First thing I just saw on Twitter was KJ's little handle. I like that he put the cactus and he's going full text. I don't know if you guys saw that this weekend. I did. I did. Could we post that? Can we look at the Tom Brady Instagram story? Big content guy on

Twitter found, or was tweeting about this and Tom's a Tom's in an interesting place. He's, does he suck at social media? He's bad at social media he posts things that like guys you went to high school with that haven't talked to

a long time might post like this that is uh is that tom or jerry that's tom tom cat that's tom right yeah tom from tom and jerry the cat smoking a cigar in a uh nice outfit a nice suit and it says i'm the CEO of my own life fuck your rules so he posts the meme on his story and then he says well said three exclamations comma splice by the way not a proper uh structured sentence there but that's okay on the meme yeah yeah can't use a comma there anyway who cares um yeah what big content guys it's just how did this resonate with tom brady when he saw it it's the um i don't know and it makes you wonder like what what he's because he seemingly has everything. I mean, he's doing the dude perfect podcast. He has a part

ownership in the Raiders, correct? He's still able to commentate games. Are people coming at him for his life choices right now? I don't know. I haven't seen that. What's he doing? That's controversial. He's a broadcaster. Seems to be good at it. He, I don't know, man. I really, I don't know where this is coming from. but as a big content guy notes he says Tom Brady with the most divorced dad Insta story of all time It is

It's just It's just not something you expect to see from the greatest quarterback in history Is this about the flight gate? Maybe that's what it's about See I feel like we're past that Yeah we're well beyond that It made like a decade

Decade plus I feel like 12 years ago at this point Could be though Yeah I don't know it's weird dude It's a weird thing to post Like I don't think there's a scenario where I would ever post this. I'm the CEO of my own life.

Fuck your rules. Yeah, that's how it works typically. All right. Okay. Who is he? Remember like when sub-tweeting was a real thing? Like people used to call it out a lot.

Like this is aimed at somebody. He's just not adding them. Giselle. Maybe. I don't know, man. But I hope he's doing okay. Listen, Tom Brady's doing just fine.

I promise you. I don't know, man. I feel like people who are doing well, don't post this. Life's going quite well for Tom Brady. I feel like this. That's a good point, Dave. I feel like you post this on Facebook. Like, this is 100% of

Facebook post. Yeah, I'm surprised it's not like a skeleton giving the middle finger or something like that. You know who posts this? Who's the guy on the Facebook he's like commenting and he posts something and somebody says, you should smile more or something. He's like,

I can got nothing to smile about that guy. Nothing in my life to smile about. Yeah, nothing in my life to smile about that's who might post this love that dude oh man that's all time he's like no fuck you i'm not smiling all right tom well i hope things pick up for you bud you've had a tough a tough run i know so let's say Alex says Brady needs a 22 year old girlfriend to run his life to the old belichick god what if this is all back goes back to belichick what if he's just warring with bill still bill will never know he'll never never see this but what a great meme this is the uh this would be a good

fantasy league payoff you have to post this no context on facebook so he just lives there oh my god it's just so ridiculous good for him though good for him it's like it also reminds me of like the old luney tunes uh like like illustrations or sponge bob bunny bunny the uh the bugs bunny the uh the bugs bunny Like with the pistole. About to go back to the old me? Yeah. Or like SpongeBob with like the money bands and the grill.

You want to talk a little ball? Yeah. Might as well. I mean, we already talked about it. So Texas State didn't make it. Did make the Armed Forces Bowl versus Rice. Okay. So.

Rice about to learn. It's not a playoff game, but it is a game that means a lot. bragging rights in the carboys group group text my longhorns also did not make it as we suspected would be the case resume buried a couple teams in there i don't know that's not for me to say maybe don't lose the florida Notre Dame was the uh I think the big omission here that people are talking about Notre Dame all uh two lost team they lost to Texas A&M they're Oh, and two. They lost to U.S.

Miami. No, no, they beat U.S. It lost to Miami. USC is probably their best one. Yeah. I don't think any probably about it. Obviously, Notre Dame is an independent program, so they are not a member of a conference. And it seems like they're getting penalized for that, which, yeah, I think that's just.

I think what added to this is the positioning from where they were in the last couple weeks. relative to Miami. If we're going to do, like, the Tuesday night show, the reveal where everybody's at. And then Bama gets their doors blown. It doesn't drop at all. No. Of course, the precedent so far has been like,

you're not going to get penalized for a conference championship game when BYU was because their second loss was to Texas they lost twice to Texas Tech and one of them was in the Big 12 championship and they have found themselves outside neither game was close also right but that's a really kind of point that

say you're not going to penalize teams for losing a conference championship game then explain BYU you right and they're I was kind of like thinking is there like an argument for like we've seen do you deserve to be in the

playoff if like there's another team that's in the playoff that like you have no chance of beating like compared to like Alabama beat Georgia earlier in the season right so it's not a really fair comp but BYU you I think most people agree they got boned

but also also in the back of my head I'm like and you're just not going to beat tech i was watching that game and thinking myself like what does b yu do well like how did they get here tech's a really bad match up for b yu because they do not have a dynamic quarterback yeah they're they have a good b yu has a good defense um quarterback plays just it's tough it was a cool story early on because that kid's a freshman right bear um oh yeah that's right but it's it's like dude you're yeah tech's tech has a like one of the best d lines in the

country. And like if you're really not a threat to throw the ball down the field, uh, not much you can do. I thought this was interesting. I'm going to leave the SEC out of this because Georgia won the SEC, but conference winners, Indiana, Duke, Texas Tech, three teams that you would not suspect to be on the top of their conference. Of course, Duke, seven and five, got the nod in the, in the ACC championship game and pulled that one out over Virginia, Yeah, which was funny than an 8-5 team. Pretty fun ending to that game, too. And Indiana, of course, with Fernando Mendoza, Kirk Signetti,

knocked off Ohio State. That was a fun game. Where are we out of Mendoza? Like, ball player-wise or personality-wise? Oh, the whole package, because for me, he is an endearing nerd. He's a likable dude. I agree. He's total nerd status, but it's like, you got it.

It's a guy you root for. He is like a pivot away from Kirk Cousins, like that level of nerd. But he's not all the way there. He's like in a good sweet spot where I like the guy. And it helps that he plays for Indiana, which is like a non-threatening program. And he's a baller. Yeah. If you played for Alabama, like, okay, fuck this dude.

He's just a corny. Yeah, I guess there's something about Indiana. Yeah. I mean, just they're just like a harmless, you know. I.U. Randy. And then, of course, Texas Tech.

Texas Tech, you got to give them their flowers. I got to tell you, so college football has kind of ruined the overall sauna experience in the mornings for me. There's like this morning was a lot of Notre Dame talk, some A&M talk. And then something I find fascinating is how many people who I guess aren't Big 12, don't know much about the Big 12 that don't understand that tech, like they're surprised that tech is good. Like, just listening.

I'm not even in these conversations. Just like six dudes in there. One of the, they're talking about some instructor who's a Notre Dame fan. And they're talking about the playoff. Like, yeah, Notre Dame flag, they should be in a conference. All the arguments you just made, blah, blah, blah. And like, they're talking. They're like, in tech, man.

They're like tech's, tech shocked a lot of people, man. Like tech's actually better than expected, blah, blah, blah. And the way they talk about tech, it's like, you guys don't really understand. It's like they think it's like, I don't think tech has a chance to like win a game. Yeah, they, they, I'm telling, there's a lot of people who I think aren't that into it that just think tech's your classic big 12 team. So tech, obviously with the, you know, influx of funding, they, they spent a lot of money and they acquired a lot of talent. But you got to give them credit for like the talent that they did acquire because they, they, they nailed some evaluations, man. Like they, for sure.

They have some guys that are probably, they probably were not household names at all before this season and now. absolutely are. You see teams get like have sick talent like old A&M teams are like the last eight years maybe that have had five stars, four stars and just never really put it together whether it was coaching or just I don't know and but but tech did in like their first real big splash year. That being said like presumably going to play Oregon. That's a that's a banger, dude. Yeah, the competition for tech is about to get a major upgrade because no offense to the rest of the Big 12, but it wasn't the strongest conference this year. No, I mean, the game they lost Arizona State was without their starting quarterback. Without their starting

quarterback, I don't know, Oregon's just a whole new offense. Yeah. And I don't know what the health of those receivers is going to look like. But yeah, I don't know. I kind of hate Twitter during during this stuff because a lot of people are like, no, this is what makes college football great is like the debate. But like most of the arguments are really shitty. Like people, people will say things that just don't seem rooted in like any kind of. It's like, did you think about this before you put it out there? It's people, a lot of pandering to fan bases from like the big accounts. And then there's the whole, you mentioned this at the beginning of the pod, like the people who don't like the outlarge thing at all. Um, I don't envy the people.

people in the committee because they people are going to get pissed off no matter what happens people are going to say they're they have no idea what they're talking about kind of bummed about my my boys at UNT yeah um but yeah I mean so Tulane JMU I mean you mentioned it we saw JMU in person it's like a good team like a well-coached solid football team but right with when they face like real talent like real you know like in Oregon or an Ohio state talent. Yeah. Are they going to,

is this going to be a TCU, Georgia from a few years ago where it's like, you made it to national championship. That's great. And then like they face a team with like far superior talent. And it was just really ugly. How long before those teams with Bias play another football game? So I think the first games are the 19th. And so a week after that, around around Christmas,

time right after Christmas, right? Yeah. Something like that. Or maybe it's, maybe it's, maybe it's a year's, yeah, yeah. Because we're, we're supposed to go to Trail of Lights the night of that game. And like Alyssa was like,

I didn't think you'd care about this game. I was like, do you not know, no Decorian Moore is like the top freshman wide receiver in the country? I should know the schedule for the bracket, but I just don't. I kind of want to watch Oregon. I think they started in the 19th, though, which is a Friday.

Okay. the first round and then of course by they don't play for another week going to trail lights on a friday sick i'm sure i won't be a beating or anything as i just think out loud is it walk through now is there still a drive-thru i think it's all still walk-through what i don't know i think we got the fast pass though okay because i knew it was it was drive-thru during covid and i didn't know if they ever changed it back to walk walk about i don't think i don't think i ever did the drive-thru. Yeah, did I.

Okay. Anything else? Portal. Any notes? Sam Levitt is in the portal. Arizona State, they can't enter yet. He's announced he will be in the portal. That's probably the biggest name so far.

Texas had a couple of guys, backup quarterback, and then CJ Baxter, the running back, who's coming off in ACL. I saw Sam Levitt, wasn't it like the ASU, like, awards banquet? Which is sorry. That kind of bums me out a little bit. Like, I like that program. I like Dillingham. He seems like one of, he'll end up at one of three.

I think we got Oregon, Miami. Both those teams pretty much are living on portal quarterbacks at this point. And then Texas Tech is another possibility for Sam Lovett. Pretty close to Arizona State, as is already. Okay. We don't have to go too far. Of course, they have very deep pockets and they're losing. Barron Morton, I believe.

Yeah. Okay. That's interesting. He's fun as hell to watch. He's good. I glazed him quite a bit at first half of the season. Heisman, Mendoza, I'm guessing. I think Mendoza has it locked up, yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Any more blowback from Square Tail Mafia? No, they've been pretty quiet. Well, although I haven't checked. TikTok where Randy posted the video. Let me see. I'll give it a look-see.

No, they've been pretty quiet. Do we, theme week reveals? We still have that coming up, by the way. We're letting you pick it. I know. It's up to you. I'm ready to announce it whenever. Well, how about instead of announcing it, we just go to Squarespace and create a domain,

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Dylan's big reveal. Oh, wow. Are you guys ready for this? This is for listener voicemails. This week, which we will record Wednesday afternoon. The number to contribute to this upcoming theme is 888-618-48-44-22. Getting get out, be tactical. Try to keep it at a minute or so.

This is going to be a fun one. Randy, got any guesses? No, I was looking at it. It's still getting some comments. Can you do a drum roll, man? You know what a drum roll button? no the theme for this week is i'm blind what's going on that's a joke for randy probably only uh the theme is ladies week

of course it is ladies week we want to hear from the ladies only if you're a guy maybe just maybe just hold off pal i do a girl voice sit this one out chief sit this one out bub it's ladies week we want to hear from the ladies all right we need more we need more ladies up in the up in the inbox i'm not gonna i don't want to yeah what do you want to hear from call the boys um yeah like what what in particular could we heard from some ladies during fumble week uh they can call about um i want to hear from the lady who said she's not a backer anymore or not a paid backer anymore because we're not feminine enough because we'll left is that

that was a real one there's an exit survey word is different feminine and I was like well that's I was like I did like the uh

Alonzo morning on the bench just kind of like well yeah okay it's ladies week talk to us about I don't know holiday parties or

bitch about a man bitch about a dude maybe bitch about us maybe we're not we're doing something you don't like talk about Randy yeah yeah just

whatever you got Barrett, not our Barrett, in the chat, comments, put a girl on. Put a girl on. Put a girl on. Micah was just texting me about JMU, by the way. I don't know if he's watching the show, speaking of. Yeah.

No one loved that more than Micah. No one. No one. Full girl on. 888618-18-48-48-4-2-2. Ladies, hit that pipeline. We want to talk to you. It's been a while.

Yeah. Frankly, it's been too long. I might, you know what? And you got to show up. We need content. We need stuff to talk about. This is on you guys. Listener voice.

Let's mix it up. Dylan, why don't you host the show? You want me to host? You're kind of a ladies. You're kind of a ladies. Ladies, man. I want you to host it.

Okay. So ladies. So ladies, you're talking directly to Dylan. Yeah, you're going to pick the voicemails. All right, ladies. I will be reading or listening to your voicemail. Let's mix it all. Come with it.

oh come with it you know what ladies and if it gets weird dylan will just do a little shoulder roll dance and roller skate off like just like is that what it was i don't remember man but there's definitely there's definitely like a shoulder shimmy like kind of like that did you do i didn't no i didn't do that okay do we need to watch the ditty documentary i've been seeing a lot of stuff just about 50 cent i have too kind of want to see it a lot of people commenting that like he only did an interview on ABC because he knew that that's the only news outlet that Diddy can see in prison? Is that true?

I don't know, but if it is, it's great. I need to figure out the root of that beef. 50 versus Diddy? I don't know. Anyway, ladies, if you want to talk about that or whatever, let's do it. How's the poll doing? It's getting ugly for you. Is it getting ugly?

Oh, the year. It's 57.8% now for the, for 46 to 55. I'm sorry, I'm built different. Yeah, I think you are getting a, you're getting a little bump from those, those like 45, 44, 43, but. Okay, I'm already losing the poll. You don't have to act like I'm getting any kind of action. Yeah, don't yam on him, dude. Whatever.

It's subjective. It doesn't matter. It's okay, Dave. It's subjective. You're a big man for admitting it. Who sent you that, may I meet you mug? I don't know. Show the people at home the mug.

Someone sent me a may I meet you mug. And I, while I do appreciate it, I don't know who sent it. Dude. Yeah, there was no, no card. There was no note, no return address. Speaking of mugs, I went to the mall, as I told you guys. Stopped the dispensers. Why not?

Sick. You brought the girlfriend to spensers? Yeah, just wanted to go in and see what it was in there. And the mugs in there, Dylan, there are some big boob mugs. I'm talking like, it was like this big and it was just boobies. Some serious sloppers. Why didn't you get one for them? There was also one that was that size.

That was a huge nut sack, and I was thinking about getting it for you. No, we don't want to do that. No, man, I'm good on that, dog. We respect the female body, not the male. I'm good on that, fool. But, yeah. So, Spencer's shouts. Jeez.

Some big slopo-ooski's what he's telling you. Like, comically sized mug. Did you go back to the back and, like, peel through the posters and get a study hard one? No, no, just checked out all the, the weed. Ah, black light weed poster? We made posters looked at the anal beads You know what it is

Okay Did you get a You didn't get the poster That has like Like 50 cocktails And like tiny print How to make each one No

That was one that we would go look at When we were like 15 And be like Oh we gotta make a screw We gotta make one of those dude I want to go in there Parents wouldn't let you get the poster But you could remember like

That's how you make a screwdriver The main reason we went in there was because I was talking about Brett's little holiday party that he's going to be having. Why'd you say it so like, oh, his little holiday party? Is it a little holiday party? Why'd you dismiss it? Because it's, because I made fun of him in here.

I don't know if I've done it on the podcast yet. On the, that he said, leave the ugly Christmas sweater at home. Okay. Because it's very, he wants to do an upscale turlneck, all that. So I've been making fun of him for that. And I've said that I'm going to combat his Christmas party with the tacky, wacky, trumbacky, Christmas spectacular. Yeah, you're going to be.

solo you can do all the bits you want tacky wacky trombacky Christmas spectacular coming at you some some year but uh so they had a lot of crazy Christmas sweaters right in the storefront of Spencer's I'm like I just want to kind of like go look all these these are super over the top

I think you should wear tucks I think you should mock the formality but I can like imagine like a family not knowing what Spencer's is going in like oh look at all these cool Christmas sweaters and then they get to the back of the store and there's just fucking vibrators everywhere and lava lamps so they're just Spencer's just sell

Sex toys now? Yeah. I didn't realize that. I think they always happened. Back in my day, they sold like fart machines. Back in my day, they did. But it was like a smaller section. Like when we went in there, like it was like the whole back wall was just sex toys.

Really? It's crazy. Yeah. But it is what it is, I guess. Maybe it's a different kind of spinster. No, it's got to be. Ain't your grandma Spencers, too. Yeah.

Yeah, it was like posters. It was like, yeah, posters and lava lambs and eight balls and shit like that. Now it's just Benoit balls. Mm-hmm. Yeah. You understand? Yeah, I do. Last year at Alyssa's Bunko, Majan, Majan, Majan Christmas party with, like, the people I don't really, I didn't know them that well at that time.

I wore our Popeye's elf inspired one. Mm. You know, the lady on the bench just like dawn. And I was like, I felt pretty good about it. And I was like, you know what? no one's going to wreck it. No one's going to get the meme. But it's a cool, it's a good looking sweater. And you know what? I'll be damned. Someone said something? No, not a single person. No. Didn't no one even like ask. That's too bad, man. No one even like, not like so,

I got to ask. It was just me wearing this sweater. It's a good sweater. Still on the website. Go check it out. All right. Well, great show. I might have taken an L. We'll find out. Time will hell. How long is this poll up? Three hours. Fuck, I'm so cooked. Yeah, you're cooked. Chat? I'm cooked.

Chad, you're good. They already said so. All right. All right. Bye. See tomorrow. Bye. You know,