Circling Back - Scary Hours During Demon Time

Episode Date: January 6, 2025

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All right, we're back circling back podcast. Happy 2025 to all who celebrate. My name is Will DeFries to my left. David Ruff. My name is Will DeFries to my left. David Ruff. Thank you, Will. So yeah, first part of 2025. Obviously, it's dropping on today, January 6. I think we would be remiss if we didn't mention that today. Kind of acknowledge that yeah, this is the day that Gustav Bauer, Chancellor of Germany, passed away in 1944 also. Alexander.

Gustav was a real one. He was. Are you sure? No. He was a real person. Okay. That's a troubling era for Germany, is all I'm saying.

Also noted Russian composer Alexander Skriabin of Prometheus, you may know him from that piece of music that he composed, passed away this day. Finally, Karl Straub, a German organist and conductor, born in Berlin, famously, died this day in 1950s. I'm surprised you're here today. You know, because of all the names you just mentioned and nothing else.

Because of Fred Niblo, American film director and producer. He did Ben Hur and the Mark of Zorro. Yeah, that's why I'm surprised you're here today on January 6th. Also, many others. Yeah. Yeah. Dylan Shivery. Man, am I happy and excited to be here. Happy New Year to everybody. This is the year I think I really hit my stride as a podcaster. Happy and excited to be here. Happy New Year to everybody.

This is the year I think I really hit my stride as a podcaster. You know, a lot of people say that when do we start? Eight years in, nine years in is when you officially settle in. It's a 10,000 hour rule. New me, new podcaster. This is I'm really just going to take the **** off is what I'm going to say is what I'm saying. Do you think you've done 10,000 hours of pods? Nine years, give or take four to five episodes a week

for nine years. A little back of the napkin math. Yeah. No, not 10,000. Somewhere between eight and ten. Can I fill you in on our on our friend, Gustav Bauer? You're a good dude. Gustav Bauer was not a Nazi. Oh, good. In fact, his political ideology and actions were diametrically opposed to the principles of Nazism. A real one. So he is a certified real one, barring other information that we do not have or have not taken in yet.

Could still be a scumbag in other areas, but not that one. I just don't want some TikTok to drop that's like, why white men shouldn't have microphones in 2025. And then it's the clip of me calling some Nazi a real one. Yeah. Gustav. Podcasting equipment should cost $10,000. The audacity? The audacity. What's she up to? She might've had a point. She was right. cost $10,000. The audacity? The one with the mustache? The audacity. So what's she up to? She might've had a point. She was right.

The audacity. She knew what was coming down the pike. I don't think she was super far off. Fuck pike. I did. See, I told y'all, this is my year, man. Yeah. These jokes are just gonna keep coming.

Y'all get, Randy, you better buckle up, buddy. I'm buckled. See? Welcome, Randy. How was your 2024? Yeah, the 2024, I turned 30. I did some stuff. It was great.

I am surprised you guys made me come in today. You know, I have my inter elevation today and I want you guys all to come, but Brett's old ads like he usually does. He always does on the big holidays. Didn't you say you were in demon time most of the time of 2024? Mm-hmm, I was.

What did you mean by that exactly? The insurrection celebration. I got a Pelosi pinata. We got a little face paint stand and everything, but I gotta be here for work. I meant the demon time thing, but that's okay too. That works too. Okay.

Thank you. Yeah. What did Pelosi do? What? It's just part of the celebration. Urban Dictionary describes demon time as any time of the night past 11 p.m. A time of pure fuckery when the boys,

when the fuck boys come out to play. People's feelings are not taken into account. Those are real demon hours. If you're in demon time. It's scary out there, scary hours. Wait, after 11 p.m.? You start disrespecting people at 11 o'clock. Sometimes if you're high enough in your bedroom,

it's also real eater hours. That's true. Hungry. Yeah. I can't eat anything in my home anymore I'm not going I need it. I'm in pretty decent shit. No, I don't think you need it either dog, but I don't know. I did let the uh, holiday eating, we'll get to ya. Buddy, let me tell ya. Yeah, I got some t-shirts that used to fit different. A lot of treats, you know, cookies and just heavy meals and laying around drinking eggnog and beers. You're not a real nogger. Are you? You're not a real nogger, dude. It's close.

I don't want to close there, Will. Oh, whoa. Oh. As an Ozempic. Right, okay. Yeah, I probably won't get on Ozempic. Okay. But thanks for the suggestion.

Oh wow, you just kind of dismissed that very like, huh. No, I mean, for some people I'm sure it's a fantastic. Take your shirt off. Let's see how shredded you are right now. I've been hitting it pretty hard beginning Jan one. So, I mean, it hasn't been long, but I'm getting back in shape. Okay.

I'm down under 190 again, which is good. I've been saying like, diet starts tomorrow. I've been saying like diet starts tomorrow. I've said that like five times. Okay. Anyone that's, no one, Brett's not doing so over January. That'd be physically impossible. Because he's an alcoholic, you're saying? Randy's doing it.

I'm doing it. What an idiot. Don't tell anybody that. I'm doing moist January. Okay. What does that, what does that tell? I'm just drinking a little bit. Just staying moist.

Brett's doing yoga. Hot yoga. Yeah, he just bought a head bit. Just staying moist. Brett's doing yoga, hot yoga. Yeah, he just bought a headband for yoga. Boy, that headband stinks. It's like the Baker Mayfield season four. Yeah, it's what quarterbacks with long hair wear. I don't care for it. I told him just to buy like a,

go down to Michael's or whatever it is now, buy a bandana, tie it up like Springsteen, old Springsteen, like 80s Springsteen, tie it around the head, just go to yoga, be that guy. You can't be festival brand. You can't be bandana guy. Why? It's very chochie.

It's chochie. He is a choch though, so that makes sense. Yeah. I think choch is a word we don't say anymore. Yeah. Cause we had an intern who called everybody a church bag and then we just, we couldn't, we thought it was like, wait, is this a thing? And then like we made it so. The burners doing it.

Who calls it church bag? Inter, remember intern Evan? He hit us with, yeah. He would call people church bag. And we like asked him about it and we made him so uncomfortable that like, I think he, we took it out of his vocabulary about it and we made him so uncomfortable that like I think he Took it out of his vocabulary Remember when we saw him in Florida? Yeah, and it's like he cut it. He cut his own hair. So dude, can we do that?

I mean, it was a weird haircut. It's like he cut it but also blindfolded. I want to do a grand ex reunion He had a he bought a bandana from from Michael. Did I still occasionally respond to the story? Shut up. I'm just good dudes chop Kentucky guy. Sure. I want to do a Grand Ex reunion, but I think there's some logistical issues with trying to put that together. One, I think a lot of people have moved out of Austin. Two, I don't think everyone likes each other. No, a lot of people don't. And three, I'm not gonna be the one to organize it, much like a West Texas road trip. I would show up. I had one yesterday. I would absolutely show up.

But we would just talk to each other. Oh no, it'd be weird. Yeah. It'd be weird. We had one yesterday, I saw Dan at the gym. That was the Grand Expo Union, you and Dan at the gym. Yeah, I saw him, I let him use my squat rack when I was finished.

You said he was looking real skinny, like he stopped working out for a while. What's the opposite of getting on Ozempic? Getting on steroids. Yeah. He's just getting on. Oh, and by oh, I mean, oh my God. Yeah, this guy's fucking huge. He's barrel chested. I'm gassing him up now. I said I didn't want to do it larger than I've ever seen him. And like not in and not necessarily bad weight. Is he on gear? I don't know, he didn't look like it.

You can kind of tell. You know what that means, Randy, to be on gear? I'm assuming that means that you're doing testosterone? Or trend? Just some kind of a growth supplement or chemical or hormone. Were you trying to get that at the bars? I was trying to get, oh, trend. Thinking it's a joke here is I was trying to get some

trim is the joke he's doing. And were you successful? No. I'm sorry, man. Yeah, it's okay. I didn't mean to put you on blast, but it's straight up scary hours in here right now. I got you. It was always good seeing Dan.

Scary hours. Yeah. Dan's always good for a sound bite. He told me, here he comes. He told me, he's came by, he was at the water fountain, he walked over, like, what's up? He's like, I haven't lifted in two weeks. He's like, I was like, what are you hitting today?

He's like, legs, but I just stopped doing squats. I was like, why? He's like, I was like mid-set, my lungs started burning. That's the gear. Is he vaping? I don't know if that's a side effect of gear. He's letting the gear talk. Maybe. I don't know that for sure. I'm just joking. No. It might be all natty. We don't know. Anytime you can feel the actual organ burning. You probably don't want that.

Yeah, you gotta stop doing what you're doing and assess. Yeah. Take a step back and be like, do I need to do that again? My lungs were burning. Yeah, yeah. What if your ears go numb from the pre-workout? Is that bad?

They tingle. No, I kinda like the little tingy. It's the top. Sometimes it gets my lobes too, man. Really? Oh yeah. I go like this. Shout out Lisa. If you see me like this, you know I'm on that shit.

Don't do that. Yeah. Let me see those things. They're getting saggy. No, they're not. What were you saying about grinding your jaw the other day when you're out? Does anybody have attached ear lobes?

I don't know. Answer Will's question. What'd you say? Can you confirm or deny that you hit a vape inside of a bar over the holiday still? I did. I did, yeah. And I coughed. Coughed like a bitch. Yeah, we were at Kelly's and I was on Guinness number, I think 24, and my came on he passed me his escobar and I hit it and I cough I mean if we get 10,000 patrons I'll release the video okay hey are you gonna tell people about your the cloud you tossed that I heard about over the you tossing clouds during this weekend and fun all right can we hear from our

friends over at this weekend and fun. Alright, can we hear from our friends over at this weekend and fun? Don't let him forget Randy. I'm an idiot. Yeah, we know. I switched the soundboard too early. Dude, classic, dude. Man, it's **** first Monday

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bod dot me slash steam Dylan how's your break mom man i had a pretty excellent break spent a lot of time with chelsea it's been a lot of time with my son parks and it was just great a lot of family time man hey you know how i was in madrid i went to europe recently for those who are new here. And I tried those churros in Madrid. They were like the best in the world. And I did a little video and like got,

everyone started talking about it. Like, oh, this is crazy. Those look so good. It's a world famous place. Remember? Yes. Yeah, dude. Okay. So the original location, Madrid, where I tried them. And I guess, you know, I am, you know what,

I am an influencer. There was one other location, Miami. I haven't been to that one. What if I told you that this place just opened up in Austin about a three-minute walk from where we're sitting right now? I'd say I told you about this like three weeks ago. What if I told you that I went there? They've tipped you off of the churros before you were even a real churro head. I'm telling the people David. Can I tell you something? I've never had a churro so I need to go. You've never had a churro? I went there. No. I went there. I'm not bragging about that. Straight up. It's on me. I need to have this churro. The churro

tastes pretty much exactly like the one I had in Madrid. Oh, take you back. Freaking excellent and I highly suggest everyone stop by Songinets on South Amar. You're getting paid on the side by a churro company right now. What's up with that? Maybe. Got

a little kick back. Working. Not a big deal. Little churro. Do you have an affiliate link you want to give to the churro people? Man, I just, I feel like I'm the one, I was responsible for it opening up here. Hey, pretend you're talking into a camera and do, do your best like voiceover as if you're influencing people on Instagram reels. New churro place. No, that's not it. That's fucking terrible.

You're not doing it right. Oh. Yeah, so there's this new churro, there's a new churro place on South Amar. And I went there the other day and I heard about this one influencer named Dylan. He tried them in Madrid and wine just opened up here. So I tried and it was really, really good. You dip it in this cup of hot chocolate and it tastes just like the one in Madrid according to influencer Dylan. No, it's really good. It's really, really good. That's good. Just wanna get that out there. You got a future influencer Dylan. I think so.

I sat down in a chair, which I love to do because chairs are good. And then I sat down at this other table because it had a better view. And wouldn't you know it, I got to see the skyline of Austin. They have fire pits outside. It was great, man.

It's a cool spot. That's great. Our table wasn't even, so I took some sugar packets and put it underneath it. There's nothing more beaten than having to do that. I took a dollar off the tip of our waiter. Do you still do the move when you go out? Chels told me about this. I was talking to Chels recently. Yeah, I was talking to Sea Dog too. You stack a bunch of ones on the table. Yeah. And then every time like the waiter like botches something, you just take it away.

And do that. Really like obviously and demonstratively. Yeah, they don't like it when you do that, but I still do it. I heard you've been lecturing waiters lately about their politics. Yeah, I do that too. I'm a pretty insufferable patron when I go to restaurants.

Check it out, Sanguiness. I think I'm saying that right. I know I am. Yeah, you lived there for a time. Yeah. If you could scan a churro with like an app, would it say that it's healthy? It'd probably say, don't eat this churro. Okay. But every once in a while, you gotta treat yourself. Okay. Yeah, I don't know, man. It was just a great break. I just ate churros. So time out. You're weakened and fine. We haven't done the show in like a month. Yeah. You came back like hung out with family, I ate a churro.

You know, I'll watch some football. Match that churro button. Got a hell of a family time in, man. That's, I respect that. Hell of a family time. I respect that. It was really great. Really great. They do coffee at this place.

We got a latte. It was good. A lot of churros? A latte, which is a coffee drink. It's got skin in the middle. We'll have an espresso one. I'm sorry? Shut up, dude. Fucking coffee.

My man drank coffee and ate churros the whole damn break. Dude, when I dip, you dip, we dip. I sang that when I was there. Yeah, man, that was, you know, that was my break. It was a great break. You had a wonderful Christmas. Parks, we got Parks set up with all kinds of gifts. He was, he had a big time. It was great, man.

I don't think you drank 24 Guinness at. No, the guy said, you know, you're, you already set the record. If you want to stop drinking I said give me a couple more bud. I need to split the G punch card from them ASAP. I Feel like you cheat when you do it why? I'm not that good. I don't think I'm cheat allegation good at it. No, you're not dude I can't even play that game anymore because every time I just chug the whole pier Just freaking chugging

Yeah, Kelly's was fun man. They wasn't there that's why it was so fun. I was not there. How about you guys? Dave I yield my time to you. I was eating churros the entire break. No I went home I too I spent some time with family and friends. I did something I hadn't done in a while. I too, I spent some time with family and friends. I did something I hadn't done in a while. Okay. Cocky sip, cocky sip. Just not going down midlothian way.

Linked up with the high school friends. Not my friends who were in high school currently, but my friends that I knew in high school. Thank you for clarifying. Did you guys all dress up in tracksuits and go to an Italian place? No, we didn't do that. I did see,

I did see him though. I did see a noted friend of the pod flounder for about eight minutes. I heard a story about how our buddy's house who we went to, Ryan, Tim, shout out to him. Did Tim both slice? You know to Ryan, Tim, uh, shout out to him. Do Timbo slice. You know, you know, Timmy, the Timster, uh, he bought his son a, uh, nice fishing rod for Christmas and founder, uh, accidentally broke it on Christmas day.

Was he just trying to rip some lips? Yeah. Just got out of control. He was showing him something and he re and he broke it. It's just, it's funny. funny. Noted angler clay. Did you guys drink any high end bourbon together? No, we just drank light beers. Oh, okay. It was kind of a light beer situation. This is like Christmas night. Okay. This is I took an Uber about eight miles south because I just didn't want to mess with it. Because I was like like there's a good chance if I don't Uber

that I'm sleeping here and I don't want to sleep at my friend's house. No, you don't want to wake up on boxing day. Someone else on someone's couch. You get it. Just boxing day. Dude, love it. You can't you can't wake up and then have to like Uber back

at 6 a.m. So you can be at home for the games, you know, right? What else did I do, Will? Ask me. I have a question. Please. What else did you do on the break? Thanks for asking.

Yeah. Well, Will, we got our sons some gifts. One of them is a baby, so he'll never remember the gifts, but the oldest, who will be four here in a couple of weeks. We got him a bike, a legit pedal bike with training wheels. So that is that's occupied a lot of the break. Is he a natural Mario Cipollini out there? It's hard for kids to pedal from a stationary position.

Yeah, they don't have a lot of legs. They don't have a lot of mass. Dylan, you can relate. That's unnecessary. I can pedal a bike, man. You can, yeah. I can. I don't know, you got an electric bike.

It's true. You do have it. You are kind of rocking the electric bike. Have you ever pedaled that thing? Sometimes when I bike with parks, I'll turn the electric part off and I'll just bike. I'd say that too. How are you? You ever hit a wheelie with the electric part on how's that how's

that work it doesn't have the kind of juice to wheelie feel like it could maybe it can't I don't know anything I'm not a wheelie guy they scare me you ever bunny hopped are you kidding I invented bunny hopping no you didn't yeah I did don't you're old you're not that old no offense no I don't bunny hop man can we just get to the fuck your fucking shit didn't. No, you didn't. Yeah, I did. When you're old, you're not that old. No offense. No, I don't bunny hop, man. Can we just get to your fucking shit? Didn't you say you were bunny hopping a lot in college? Yeah, just hopping from one bunny to the next.

Snow bunnies. What, Randy? He's right. 2025, hit the podcasting stride. Yup. Yup. Dude's on fire right now. You just need to master the cocky sip

and you'll be fully optimized. I feel like I invented the cocky sip last year, man. You're accusing Dave of stealing a bit? That's some real, those are some real allegations right now. There are 20 minutes into the episode and Dylan has got a true placero place to move to Austin. He invented the bunny hop and he has also invented the cocky sip. Randy, I want you to go back to real trailblazers, utilize AI tools, go back

to the pods from last year and see who had the cockiest sip. These were the cockiest sips from our podcast in 2024. That's a good clip. Uh, let's see. Uh, what else? What did Dave get for Christmas? I got a whiskey wedge. I don't know what that is. I got a whiskey wedge. Is that where you pour the whiskey into a wedge? It's a whiskey wedge. No it's not like that at all. It's an ice cube. It's like the cut the cube that's cut diagonally. Okay sorry. I regret to inform you that my question was very legitimate there. Yeah I know it it was a valid question I thought you know how those be I want to check your slack real quick my friend. Oh, okay. What else?

I'm sorry. Do I need to become a whiskey wedge and or big rock guy? I used to be anti-big rock. It will make you it'll make you go out of your way to drink. Okay Okay, you know Dylan just did he just pull the tape mid episode? He just pulled the tape mid episode. It's never been done. Maybe he's right about his 2025. It's never been done. What do we got here?

Thanks. We're talking to Sean Watson. You hear about this? Why'd you take a cocky swing of your cock? What's the date on that? What's your demeanor? It was like a talk show. It's like you had something to do with put like like getting in trouble. Oh, the talk show.

Yeah. 126 weeks ago, I guess. Damn. Oh, 20, 23. I guess I'm gonna have to leave it up to the backers. Or Randy. I'll give Dylan. I'll give it to him.

What's the caption on this Instagram? I'm on a couple podcasts if you want to check them out. Oh, wow. You fucking cooked with that. I'm a company man too. How many likes did that get? Have you thought about ghostwriting for Drake? Still going. Okay. August 2nd, 2022. How about that? Okay, just saying. That was three years ago. This is just kind of my year, you know. So it was 2022. And I did some other stuff, but it seems like Will is the only one who cares. We're doing Dylan will once again not care about anyone else's weekend and fun in 2025 so go ahead well you know classic stuff did not leave town spent

all of the break in Austin Texas had a very very chill Christmas the time in between Christmas and New Year's is all a blur at this point. It's a bad time. It's just all a blur. Just hanging out. I even came into the office a couple of times like an absolute idiot to get some stuff done. Do you want to hear about the infamous cloud? Fuck yeah. I can't believe you've been sitting on this, honestly.

Man, I shouldn't have told you about it. You didn't. Your boy Ryan told me about it. We're at the Goose concert. You guys familiar with Goose? They were mid-jam. I thought to myself, you know what? We might've snuck a little apparatus in. When the band's together, do you call them geese?

No, they're just called goose. It's called goosey. Yeah Okay, sorry. So we were like, you know, we we we have a we have an apparatus with a substance in it What if we hit that and it made the jam cooler? Know what I mean? I think you've been there buddy. I know you've been listening to some mount joy in your time, buddy I think I follow is it like a dr. Pepper can that you poke some holes in we had an apple So we smoked weed out of okay. No, and I was trying to be incognito about it and

I was trying to blow it downward so that you know It was pretty it was pretty sparse in our section. So I was a little worried that you know I might get isolated by the the security there Wait, would they have cared? Yeah, they were very aggressive at the concert. In a goose show? Yeah, same with Billy String's, man. You gotta be careful at that moody center. And so I tried to blow it downward,

but I think there might've been a fan on or something, and it just absolutely doused this woman in a cloud of vape smoke. Oh no. And she was not like young. I mean, she was an older woman there with her family. And it was just the way the light was hitting, the way that it just remained in the air for a long time. An older woman at a goose show, like that wasn't her first

time smelling that, buddy. No, I don't know. She didn't have like NARP vibes to her or anything like that, but like, I don't know. It might've been it might've been her first goos show based on how she was dressed. You look like your name was Patty Mills. He's selling it short. Was it Patty? Was it Patty Mills? Ryan told me that it traveled, like y'all watched it in slow-mo travel down, like a, he described it as a Patronus, Harry Potter. Sure. And it just slowly made its way down

almost in like an unbelievable spherical way. Yeah, I didn't even think I hit it that hard. Dude, you know your boy be taking hits though. Do you remember the dude who worked outside the old Grand Ex office? Yeah, we just stand out there and he would toss just clouds that would. Mega clouds. Oh yeah. They would toss just clouds that would mega clouds.

Oh yeah, they would make their way into the indoor elevator. Like see it from space. It was unbelievable. I don't even think you can make those clouds with like a little tiny weed pen. I think you have to have like the apparatus.

Yeah, you have to have the plug-in thing that recharges and then you have to have like the separate vape thing that like screws onto it. He went to like a vape show to buy that. Yeah, he's been to a cloud tossing competition.

Yeah. He'd walk in smelling like mango. There was no getting around it. He made sure you walked through that cloud. Yeah. That woman's white hair definitely smelled like weed smoke after. I feel bad. You go to a goose show.

She was at a goose show, man. You're going to end up leaving. I'm telling you our crowd, our section was weirdly sparse compared to the rest of the sections. I'm just saying with, with how many weirdly sparse compared to the rest of the sections. I'm just saying with how many people they were confiscating things off of, I was real worried for a sec there.

Those weed pens, they don't typically throw a lot of smoke or vapor as well. That's what made it so weird. We were both just laughing. Like what the hell just happened? Yeah. Was it a hero dose? Dude, dude.

Yeah, I hit some ice cream at set break. You had ice cream at the Goose row? I got some soft serve and some sprinkles on there. No one's doing that. Two of us were. You had the munchies. Sally was like, how are you? How was the concert?

I was like, it was good. Like we had a good time. We ate some ice cream at the set break. She's like, did you drink a beer? I was like, well, neither of us finished our first beer. So we just, we just got some ice cream. That's sick. Like real players.

That's so sick. You guys were on demon hours, weren't you? Yeah, we were on straight demon hours, dude. What'd you think of that opener, dude? It was pretty tasty. Big modern opener and they didn't close it out until night two? That's crazy, dude.

It was tasty. We ended up celebrating my birthday on January 2nd. We had got surgery for my dog to get lumps off of her back. And I wouldn't recommend scheduling dog surgery on your birthday. It was a rare Will L. She's good though. She's doing good.

She out here just doing good, just wearing a t-shirt for the next two weeks. Wearing a cone around. How's she dealing with that cone? You know, she feeling coney. Yeah. She's just barreling into my kids at all times. She doesn't have good cone awareness.

Few do, few do. Yeah, it's tough. There's a section of my yard where there's a tree next to a fence and without the cone she can run through it. With the cone it just kind of stunts her progress. It's taken her a while to figure that out. We tried to do the inflatable cone one time and the dog just ate it. Yeah. Facts. Just brought up and made another problem. Facts. So not only do you like you had surgery but now you have a you have cone in your body.

Not great. Yeah you never want cone in your body No, typically you try to avoid it unless you're David Cone's wife Do you not have a beverage me I'd love to see a sip right do you get the joke yeah a little bit of Cone Tell you what she does not want him to throw a no hitter Little bit of cone. Tell you what, she does not want him to throw a no hitter. She's good. This might be willsier too, guys.

Dude. Dude. So yeah, hope everyone had a great break. Sounds like Dylan's churros were the highlight of everyone's, I guess. Yeah, dude. Can't wait to try my first churro. I'm excited for some churros.

If you're gonna try a churro, this is a great place to try. Do they have other foods? They do. Finger foods. But I'm a little unsure about their full menu. We went kind of late and it was, they had like a bar menu.

How are you gonna have a generational churro and then question the rest of the menu? They gave me a menu with like five items on it. It was like four finger foods and a ribeye. I was a little confused about the situation. What's a four finger food? I just want four fingers of whiskey in my glass. Right, right.

We just got Churro and the aforementioned latte. You know Will told his wife, right? Whole milk latte. Will, I'm gonna tell him what you told your wife. Tell him, hey, I don't know if I can get it out, man. Dude, I was standing right there, dude. It was so, I was like, he ain't going to do it. What'd he say?

He do it, Randy. I had to sleep on the couch after this one, brother. Man, I've been sleeping in the garage. He said, Sally, when you get this accent, I ain't drinking anymore. And she said, that's good. That's good. New year, new you. Huh? I'm gonna get this accent. I up a river with no paddle. Oh boy. That's good, man. So did you put any pappy on that wedge? Make it a whiskey wedge.

I tell you about this. Make a little whiskey. I don't have happy. I've drink all my bourbon. All I had was some. I'm not going to out them, but it's not good back of the cabinet bourbon Dude, I drank. It was not good. I got a re-up. So if you're out there

Bring me some bourbon I've just been I'll pay for it. I've just been buying the same shit over and over Like subscription style or no. No, just like I go to the store. I want to mix it up. I panic because of all the options and I just buy the same shit that I've been drinking for the last year. It takes me like a year to finish a nice bottle of whiskey. You need to drink more. I'm selective. No, Dave. I told you, brother. What did you tell me? Tell him what you told me. But I ain't drinking any less. He did tell told him. Hey, boy. But I ain't drinking any less, brother. He didn't tell me that.

It is true. Speaking of drinking, shouts to the backers that brought us that wine and honey for me. Good honey. Good honey? Yeah. Do you make any toddies with that honey? No.

Okay. Berg, right? I didn't get a chance to think those folks, was it one person? Yeah, Dylan ghosted our nice backer friends who brought us wine because his friend had an or his son had an event at school or something like what where are your priorities at brother? Yeah, I just want to apologize but I will thank you now. I enjoyed

one bottle so far and it was quite good. So you ditched him for a churro didn't you? No. Were you eating churros? I was probably eating churros, yeah. The Berg Wine Co., out of Fredericksburg way, huh? Dave, I'm excited for you to try these churros, man. I am too, I've heard a lot about them. Yeah. Can we talk about our friends over at Rocket Money real quick?

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slash circling. Today that's rocketmoney.com slash circling. Again, rocketmoney.com slash circling again rocket money.com slash circling It's time to shrink the game boys I know you all been sitting around wondering man. I wonder what a bunch of frat dudes were doing over Christmas I wonder how they spent their Christmas breaks. Well, I got good news for you guys. I'm in the burner verse Not actually like I don't have a burner account, but i've been keeping tabs on these wild young men Can we go through some of the trends that i've isolated? Yeah, i'd love to I I thought about you a number of times over the break There are some real idiots out there. I do not condone some of the things said during this segment by some of the burners. There might be some words that are used that we

don't use in passing. It's simply not right. But Randy, can you bring up our first? It's not right. Can you bring up our first? Barber coats were a big gift. A lot of tags out here. You guys gonna need barber coats because uh Joseph D Chaplin uh got barber number two. He said, yes, it's quilted. Yes, I already own a waxed hashtag barber. I'm embarrassed to say I don't own a single barber jacket. Dude, what? NF confessions. What's wrong with you, dude? I'm sorry. What do you wear to football games a man enough to admit it? I

Don't think I knew what a barber jacket was Tom that you I'm not I definitely I really think you brought that into my world There was no I didn't have friends that were rocking barber maybe flounder, but they've been around for a minute, huh? Yeah, dog says on the tag, established 1894 or some shit. Oh, that's a long time ago. Sure is. They really isolated like, what? It's very low res image, I can't see what the tag says. It's higher res on my computer and it says 1894.

Dylan's a super recognizer. Yeah, I have 20-20 vision. So y'all didn't get barber number two for Christmas? I didn't even get barber number one for Christmas. No, I didn't realize I needed to put this on my wishlist. Yeah, dude. I mean, you got to have waxed and quilted, man. Something for all scenarios. Yeah. Okay. I mean, look, it is a good look. Randy, can you do our next one? This was on Reddit actually, but do you ask mind if I read this Reddit post? Please do. This is from big performance9785 says, does Zen flavor and Milligram affect game performance?

Recently in my D3 lax game, I was ripping like five, six milligram winter greens and I was buzzing like a fucking bee. Scored three goals and one B2B assist and B2B goal, Steez. Next game, I rip a Sena Zen six milligram singular and was playing like I was hung cheddar. I know you beast demolish both beer and Zen on a regular. So I'd appreciate any tips. Thanks, brothers.

What's hung cheddar? I feel like that's a negative, right? Yeah, I think being hung cheddar is a negative thing. You don't wanna be hung cheddar, dude. Your performance today has kind to be hung cheddar dude your performance today's kind of been hung cheddar well he said that he was ripped he ripped five six millis wintergreen and he was buzzing like a fucking bee so how come just the one senna's end six millie he was hung cheddar next game i ripped his senna's end and i was playing like i was hung cheddar so i know he

wants more he wants more yeah he's saying the six wasn't cheddar. So I know he wants more. He wants more. Yeah. He was saying the six wasn't enough. He needed five more. Yeah. Okay. No, he needed more, dude. I mean, he went from doing five, six milligrams ins

to one, six, like that's- 30 milligrams. To play D3, that's a lot. That's a lax, you gotta be, that's love of the game shit. Oh, love of the game, dude. Do you guys go back to your hometowns and toss the lax ball around with your boys love of the game **** Oh, love to travel. It's tough out there, dude. No, but cool kids didn't play it. We didn't have it. You had to travel.

It's tough out there, dude. No, the cool kids where I grew up played roller hockey. You know, a lot of these SEC burner accounts come from, you know, the SEC, the Southeast, warm states. There's also been a lot of discussion about maybe barber jackets are more popular in the SEC right now because of all these northerners going to SEC schools. There's some controversy.

You wanna see how the northerners are spending their break? Speaking of roller hockey, how about this Dave? Fuck yeah. Can you go up a little bit? Sebastian Alvarez says something the SEC can't even fathom. And he's just playing a little pond hockey with the boys on the back property of his parents' house. That mobile fire pit just posted up by the lake there,

the pond, I mean. That's sick. That's sick. Dude, this takes me back to my childhood watching Mighty Ducks. That's about it. That's a fact. I've never skated on a pond. Fun fact about me. Look at the jerseys out there.

They did some absolute buttes. Do you think they're playing hung cheddar right now? I don't know, man. It depends how many millions they're rocking. There was a lot of SEC burner accounts that were pointing out that they played on expensive golf courses and that their parents were taxed at a 37% tax rate, which they noted was the highest. Checks out. They also noted that the clubs were private a lot of times.

There was one SEC burner account. I couldn't find the tweet of a guy who played Trump National. Said that he was on the putting green right next to Trump shaking the entire time. He also posted a photo of the Peter Millar that he bought with the Trump National logo on it and did clarify that, yeah, it's a large. It's good. You know he's a real one too because he did it with the Snapchat filter, the geo filter from Trump National. So he was not messing around. And in the replies, he replied to somebody and said, imagine sweating your dick off 24 seven.

I can't. He lives in a cold weather environment. It's fair. That's my guy. He's drinking a big wave. You think there's like a, an influx of guys who like are afraid to own medium. So they're just buying up a size and they just look like

me in the Arby's Polo. Yeah, there's absolutely. For sure, dude. They're drying it like seven times before they wear it. Should I get it to shrink a little bit? There's dudes that have definitely Photoshopped an L over an M on a shirt before posting it to their burner account.

Couldn't be me. I wonder if you can custo your tag. No dude, they need to have the ball nowhere fit. Just have an L, but make it a medium sized shirt, but put an L tag on it. Yeah, that's a good look. Can we play a little game called Flex or No Flex? No flex, zone.

That's the theme song for Flex or No Flex. This is from a dude named Jack. It says, buddy got up and hit the bathroom. Not sure if he did this on purpose to flex or if he's just a word that I'm not gonna say and he's got his new barber that he got for Christmas out and he left the tag in it and the tag gets flopped out of the chair. The way the tag is perfectly hanging over the chair this is absolutely on purpose. It's not like wearing a hat where you keep the

sticker on it like you got to take the tag off of the the wax jacket this is a wax John that irritates me if I could feel the interior dude yeah that's sick is it reversible I don't think so that's a real newb question I shouldn't have asked that what tax bracket do you think this guy's parents are in probably the highest one 37 yeah they don't pay taxes that they're at that echelon where like everything's offshore. So it's like they somehow don't pay anything. Yeah. They pay like 800 bucks. Sick. Our final exhibit from how our Burnerverse spent break was you're gonna have to zoom in a lot here. If you guys can see the photo on the screen, we've got a bunch of girls who they decided not to blank out their faces

because I think the Burnerverse might be a hyper sexist, but they blurred out the guy's face and it says, okay soldiers let's break down some film. What we have here is what some would call a suicide mission, but for real veterans of the game an easy opportunity to score or lay up if you will. What's the move here Jim? It's just a dude playing drinking games in a kitchen with like six chicks. Sick. Dude, he's breaking down the tape.

Was there ever a better feeling than being in someone's parents' kitchen over Christmas break playing drinking games? That's the move. I miss those days. You felt invincible. Definitely miss them. I was like, I have three weeks to sleep off

this hangover tonight. Yeah, nothing to do. You wake up at 1130 the next morning. Oh, dude, goaded. They absolutely had hot pockets in the freezer. Do you guys think this guy, dude slayed, pulled, or struck out? Can you zoom in on the guy?

Yeah, what's his- He does have cool sunglasses on. Looks like he might be wearing a barber vest. Shut up, Brandy. Is that a vet? No, that's a quilted jacket, John. Look at that Stanley in front of him too. God. Dude, all the girls are just drinking vodka and some crystal mix that they put into their Stanley. This dude's stance is giving little brother. He didn't get roasted for his height, which is unfair.

He's having a tough one next to the girl next to him who appears to be about five nine Nothing like watching a five four kid trying to Riz Athens bitches Hashtag he stands no chance That's a tough hashtag. Yeah Dude, they're from Athens. Do you have they felt his barber yet though? Dude, have they felt his barber yet though? Oh, that's really soft. Can you zoom in on the countertops? Look at the way the rain's just bouncing off his waxed barber. Dude, it's so good. Oh yeah, look at that.

Yeah, there's some Tito's right there. Yeah, some Tito's. I think he pulled. He pulled, for sure. Dude, a brand new roll of paper towels. That is a fresh roll. That's serious bounty. They're rolling high money right there. This is, yeah. Those look like they're like mega plied. Yeah, those are good PTs for sure.

Damn, dude. Oh man. And they've got the custom, they've got like the special soap dispenser at the sink. Like they're not rolling with the regular stock bottle. No, no. Damn. This is someone's parents' home. Dude, you know you're hanging with

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Shout out Connecticut. Come on, dog. Come on. I don't know what this is about. I don't, a stupid, I don't get this. What, Dave? Y'all just put this on here. I have no clue what this is in reference to let's talk about yucca Dave let's talk about it man

oh is that under that I fucking app that you introduced to everybody what you want to talk about yucca the genus of perennial shrubs and trees in the family of asparagus a it's a different this is a different yucca okay this is an application so not of the sub family of a good day. No, different one. They want you to go us and give us a breakdown, huh? Look, I think people should be aware of what they're putting into their bodies,

whether it's David Cohn's wife, or a person at the grocery store shopping around, seeing what they're going to feed themselves, the kids that we don't know. We had a listener who was here over the month of December, good friend of the show, Carl's Barkley. And was that a tum tum? I'm sorry. It's a little burp. Okay. Uh, she would, she, I, she had the app and I was unfamiliar with it. She, I was drinking a beverage that a lot of people in this office drink,

including myself, Fahrenheit walked over, walked over and said, Ooh, tough. And it said, basically it was just telling me I was drinking poison. I was like, what the fuck is this? Explain the app. I downloaded it. And now I have taken it upon myself to let people know. You put some trash in your body there, Hulce. Yeah, I'm in the office drinking or not drinking eating a think bar. And Dave's like, I don't eat those anymore. Like what we been eating these every day for the last two fucking years, myself included. He's like, yeah don't eat those anymore. I'm like, what? We've been eating these every day for the last two fucking years.

Myself included. He's like, yeah, it's really terrible for you. And hand up, this is sorry on me. I'm the one who made those like a subscription thing that we get like every month. But if you, the smell of a Think Bar, it kind of clues you in on, it's probably not the best thing for you.

Cause it smells like nail polish remover. It does. Not like peanut butter and chocolate, like the, like, you know, it's probably not the best thing for you. Because it smells like nail polish remover. It does. Not like peanut butter and chocolate like the like, you know, it's supposed to taste like. Right. I just don't like these things in life. I already know when I look down at a bag of, I don't know, Cheez-Its, like I know that there's not a lot of nutritional value in that for me. So I have taste good. I have also downloaded the Yucca app. And it's affecting me. So I have taste good. I have also downloaded stop the Yucca app and it's it's affecting me.

Yeah, like I was telling Chelsea about it. She's like, Oh, I want to download it. She downloads it. She's in my kitchen. Which is where she belongs. She's kidding. I said, Yo, she's in my kitchen. So let's start scaling. I'm gonna start seeing the stuff around here. Chelsea knows that you're not a chauvinist pick, right? She does. Okay.

Burner vs. Dillon. She does. And she's just like walking around, opens the pantry and she's like, well, can't eat this anymore. Can't eat this. Oh, this is good. I buy nut thins, for example. Those are great. I switched to natural peanut butter from Jeff in 2024. That was a big development in my life because that's my favorite thing ever. I no longer eat Jeff peanut butter. It's so much worse to stir that shit than it is to take a spoon and just spoon out some of the top layer. I know. What are you doing now? Are you eating GIF or what? Don't you stir it with your fingers? Stop. What do you want peanut butter? You going to Central Market? I'm going to Central Market.

It's good. Natural peanut butter. It going to Central Market? I'm going to Central Market. It's good. Natural peanut butter. It has one ingredient. You're hitting them with the crank? No. I just buy the Artie jarred. It has one ingredient. It's peanuts.

That's it. And it's good for you. Peanuts are good for you. That's God. But some things, I'm, Tilla mook cheese, which I've been buying. I love it. I've been buying it for years. Terrible.

Got it. What? Is it the Tilla or the MOOC? So the shredded cheese, the additive has a coating on it, so it doesn't clump together, stick together. And that's not good. Clumping agent. A declumper. If you're shredding your own cheese, that's much better for you. Dan, this app really did ruin a lot of lives. It's, I mean, can I not do Chelsea's anymore? It's annoying. I walk into my pantry to like get myself a snack, maybe get my son a snack.

And I just look at it and I'm like, Dave's app would hate this right now. Yeah. But I can't just change my entire life because of Dave downloaded an app one time based on a listener recommendation. Oh, you sure can. No. And that's what's happening right now. It's like, it's's a it's a struggle at all times. So Carl's is to blame for all this. Yeah. What's the worst thing that you've scanned on the app? Oh um you could so it

saves your history which is actually pretty um helpful but it might be oh yeah goldfish cheddar crackers uh this has got a five out of 100. Oh we scanned something that was one out of I don't know if it's a typical but it might be oh yeah. Goldfish Cheddar crackers. Uh this has got a five out of 100. Oh, we scanned something that was one out of 100 the other day. I forgot what it was. It's probably any

of the snacks that we have in the wash media HQ right now. Yeah, it was one out of 100. We have the all time worst snacks we've ever had right now. Some of it it'll give it like if it has like a little bit too much sugar, it'll ding it and like that that, it's like, okay, I'm a little bit more fine with that than like, for me, it's like the additives and shit,

like the food coloring. I've gotten to that point and it's probably because I've got two young kids. So I'm like a little bit hypersensitive about what they're eating. I've been buying these Cheerios. It's like an almond something. And I was like, oh, this sounds healthy. He's got almonds in it. It's Cheerios. It's, you know, I And I was like, this sounds healthy.

He's got almonds in it. It's Cheerios. I'm not buying Fruit Loops. And it's just terrible. Just loaded with sugar and sodium. Can't do it anymore. Y'all sound like RFK. I want all the preservatives.

I got a zero out of a hundred. Wow. For what? Texas heritage beef sausage. Wow. But it's just sausage. One high risk, two risk free additives, way too much saturated fat and a ton of sodium. So you're telling me we can't even eat little smokies anymore because Dave downloaded an app. I'm just saying. I don't want to live in this reality. It's in my head. It's more of like look in my is this if it's something like like that

So that sausage we were eating that almost weekly like kind of our like Don't really want to cook but you need to do something quick. Yeah Sausage peppers onions olive oil, whatever on rice That's like kind of a quick Tuesday meal or something. And that was the sausage we were going to. And dude, did it cause some, create some waves in the house when I scanned that. Roommate wasn't real happy. She's like, why would you even tell me?

Yeah. What's zero? It's as low as you can get. Zero, that's not good. That's why I've gotten a zero. I've been casing my own sausage lately. Is that right? Yeah.

I bought it at the apparatus. Wow. That's fun. Here's how I do it. Okay. Okay. You just straight up casing. I made my first omelet ever. About a week ago. And I fucking crushed it. It was so good. Ever? I never made an omelet because it's like, you know, like scrambled eggs. A lot of dicing. It's just so easy. Yeah. I sauteed some peppers and some onion.

You don't have to vacuum. I threw some ham in there, grilled that up a little bit, and I tossed it in the omelet. It was delicious and it looked pretty too. How about that? Pig? No pig, man. I smoked a rib roast yesterday. My parents sent me home with like a frozen rib roast that they just didn't have room for.

And I smoked it yesterday and it was pretty good. That's pretty much all I have. I didn't scan anything. You didn't scan the rib roast? No, I think it would have said this rib roast is fine. It's gonna be more about what you put on it. Ketchup. A lot of ketchup, a lot of A1.

Pretty good. I will not be downloading this app under any circumstances. Yeah, it's annoying. I don't recommend it for anyone. I get it. I will not be telling Sally about the app. I will not be telling her about this segment. She doesn't know about the app?

No, she doesn't know about the app, brother. I told her. What'd't know about the app? No, she doesn't know about the app, brother. I told her. What'd you tell her, Carlos? He ain't downloading apps anymore. Wow. That's controlling, man. Scene control over here. I didn't tell her that.

She told me that. That'd be tough. Her Face ID opens my phone. The petition for divorce says, wouldn't let me download apps anymore. It kinda need help, that'd be tough. I need applications for my phone. The petition for divorce says wouldn't let me download apps anymore. It kind of need that. That'd be tough. I need applications for my phone. Just kind of a thing that we do. Sorry, I'm playing gun shy today. Why? Because after the whole, I almost stand a Nazi and then

he wasn't a Nazi. And then I told Dylan, then I talked to Dylan about his eggnog intake in a way that you're not supposed to. Like I took, if you listen back on the episode, I took a couple minutes off there. I was like, yeah, I gotta get it together. I'm firing from the hip and it's not going well. Yeah, one vowel there could have really ended this show for a while. Yeah.

It's not a live show. I don't know, man. Some people got there here to the streets. You just never know. Yeah, you can even bleep something out like until you know it when I said the answer and someone just assumed I said that and learned. The look on y'all's faces,

I thought I had significantly like insulted Dylan that he didn't drink eggnog at a rapid clip. And then I realized after what I said and what it sounded like, I was like, yeah. Did that's how clean your conscience is though, man. Facts. You didn't even know. It's mega clean. We haven't potted in many weeks Did that's how clean your conscience is though, man. Facts. You didn't even know. It's mega clean.

We haven't potted in many weeks. It's mega clean. Can you get you a churro, Hoss? I'm like, churro, it's not too bad in this weather right now. You're really done. And what's everyone wearing today for the cool weather? I see Dave's got that Everlane sweatshirt on.

Uh-huh. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Yeah. Dylan's rocking that. Road back hoodie. Wash 20. What's what's our code? Wash 20 will get you 20% off this hoodie right here and it is awesome. It's like our first day of cold cold weather. It's heavy. We've had cold days but we haven't had like cold

weather. No, it was it was crispy this morning. No, it wasn't even crispy. It was just **** cold. Yeah. I had to chip all the ice off my car. Is, it wasn't even crispy. It was just **** cold. Yeah. I had to chip all the ice off my car. Is that right? Yeah, brother. I had to I had to plow my driveway. Wait, why? Plow something. Snowed in. What?

What? What? What? Huh? I'm sorry? You guys are too deep in the burner burgers. Yeah. It's yeah. You've added some plays to your playbook. I'm just telling you, man. Yeah, you guys make any New Year's resolutions? Not really. I'm trying to eat more baked potatoes in 2025. I'm trying to download more apps.

Okay. To your phone? Yeah. I think we're gonna try to do a little more live performances, you know, performing arts. Clue's gonna be at the Bass Concert Hall, 15th, Mike, over to that. Clue? Hamilton's coming into town.

DJ Clue! I got Parks Clue the board game for Christmas. Well, they're doing a live play at Bass Concert Hall. Colonel Mustard. Mustard. In the ballroom, at the wrench. That's my impression of... Oh, he's got a wrench?

Really? I didn't know Colonel Mustard had a light. Is that right? This is the ballroom. That's my impression. Oh, he's got a wrench. Really? I didn't know Colonel Mustard had a light. Is that right? This is a dirty version. Well, people just know about it. I think there's some people out there who might want to start a side hustle in 2025. Supplement that income.

You know what I'm talking about, Hoss. Yeah, I know who we're going with this. What? What? Yeah, I didn't realize this was a whole transition the whole time. That's not what it might be. Come on, brother. You know you're working with some pros over here.

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Established in 2025 has a nice ring to it, doesn't it? Sign up for your $1 per month trial at Shopify.com slash circling. All lowercase go to Shopify.com slash circling to start selling with Shopify today again Shopify.com slash circling. David, this is mainly a segment where I apologize to Randy. Spent a lot of time apart from Randy over the break. You missed me you know Randy's a Unlimited doses Randy B can be really just a great guy to be around. Okay I'm joking now Randy. I like to send him some things some time to time on Instagram specifically and I

Think the term shrink the game comes into play because a lot of people are making music Thank you. Had that ready to go. If you've been on Instagram and you like to listen to music, you'll know you get served a lot of new music and a lot of up and coming artists or a lot of artists who are just coming. They're not really up or anything. They're just there putting out music and a few hundred people are liking it. But, but like Mary Cutter, this is the Mary Cutter extended universe.

This is like, but this is a step below. I've gotten, well, will you focused your, uh, your eyes to the burner verse I have focused mine onto the Instagram country music world. And I started sending Randy some stuff, because I'm like, Randy would probably find this funny. This is so fucking bad, Randy's going to laugh at this. So I sent it to him. And just by me sending it, then it's going to be like, oh, well, he likes this. Did you fully send it? It was a full send. We even communicated about it afterwards. So Instagram saying,

wow, he likes this shit so much. We got to serve him like 10 times the amount. Yeah. I think my problem was also commenting on one of them too. That was your, why would you do that, dude? So I'm a joke. I'm a poet. Yeah. And you didn't even tell me you commented. I noticed it like two weeks later I saw when you guys showed me the video. Yeah, I was like, is that a comment from Randy underneath it? It was that no one's I didn't see it Dude, but your your algorithm can get shifted so quickly on Instagram where you look at you go down one wormhole And then suddenly your discover feed is that for like weeks? I was looking at some shoes one day and suddenly I just had Adidas Sambas like I was getting them for Sally's birthday

It wasn't even for me. Now. My entire discover feed is just Adidas Sambas and like Grateful Dead in a random Sydney Sweeney reel Okay, that's not that that's not terrible. Nah, that's kind of vibey. Oh, we are here Well If you want to know like the status of like AI and algorithms, they are unable to differentiate. It would be weird if they could do this, by the way, when you're doing when you're sending something because it's so shitty and it's a bit and you're sending it to your friend

just to make fun of because that's predominantly what we're doing. But Randy informed me, Randy, you're now your algorithm is a little bit. Yes, it's gotten a little bit of these, these country guys. And I got, I got three at the ready from our DMS. If you, if you want to throw up. So we can show the folks at home here. Hey, show the folks pretty much all this, how diverse to content for me now.

Some of them will be in your head for weeks. Let's just start with the first one you sent me here. This is a, this is our boys. Oh, this is our boys. Let me let you put this on. Oh come on. Producer week. Oh yeah. I just want to make sure it's on the actual screen here. These guys are good. just nothing can bring you down. This Sunday morning, dressed your best in the church, few cross hell. This honky-tonks and bar fights, George Jones on the radio.

This up in the stand, waiting on a deer with a comp and ready to go. Dude, they're about to empty the quiver. These guys are just hanging out at honky tonks with George Jones on the radio. Those guys aren't getting in any bar fights. Okay. So, logistically speaking, do these

guys get an AI song with the lyrics written then remove the lyrics and then sing them themselves because I've heard AI lyrics and it like, I mean, actual like AI singers and they sound so much better than these guys. You know what? Maybe so. That's what they're doing. It's one route to getting into music but like I feel like that can only take you so far. You're going to get exposed for doing it.

Yeah. Uh like we are right now. It's and you'll notice something like a lot of this is hitting on many cliches. Bar fights, truck. Basically like this is our way of life. You know, nothing we haven't discussed before. But it does seem very AI generated. No, this is Mary Cutter's. At least Mary Cutter's got like some chops singing wise. I may disagree with

Some of the storylines of the songs but Mary Cutter who we've talked about is it is that a different level Are you questioning whether or not sloppy Joe was a bootlegger? We just don't know No, that was her grand her grandpappy was a bootleg. Okay, who was sloppy Joe? You know what the sloppy Joe he died That's all we know. He died. But then her grandpappy, he got over the bootlegging and he built a church. Sloppy Joe don't sound bad on a cold day like this.

You know her old grandpappy had a run in with Al Capone. Do you know that Will? Sure. If you're wondering, that's land law music and they have all of less than 3K followers. Well, all right. Mary Carter's selling, she's selling tickets to these small venues. We probably, if she comes through Austin way, I will be there.

I will be there for Mary. Just so we get this out there. You're not pay pig and Mary cutter or anything, right? I have not sent her any currency yet. Okay. Just want to make sure. Oh, you want this, You want the second guy? Yeah, I'm very interested in who you got queued up. This one is a Sea Wilder and make sure that you

share this one with a veteran to thank them for their service. So this one, this kid, this one, Randy commented on. No, no, I'll say that one for last. This guy's got a real niche here. The US military, the song is for you. Oh my god. I don't think he's playing that guitar. It's more of a prop. He's fist pumping the guitar. Has that guitar ever been played? There's no way.

It's a nice gesture. Just doing music exclusively for the vets. Okay, I can't. This guy's terrible. It's common because I've seen this is the one that I saw before. He just walks around I'm gonna be a good friend. It's it's it's it's common because I've seen this is the one that I saw before. He just he just walks around with the guitar. He doesn't play it ever go to the third video where he

allegedly is playing this guitar. There's no way I want someone to see this who plays guitar and be like, no, his hands are not in the right place. I'll make sure I feel like a lay person could tell you that. I mean, I couldn't tell you. I don't know.

I don't know. It's not plugged in, Will. I mean, no, but I mean like, no, no, no. I just mean from the standpoint of like, if he's actually playing, if it was plugged in, would it be playing the notes? You know, he's doing some bar chords. I feel like he's having to remind himself

to move his hands. Yeah, glaring lack of amp that the guitar hooked up to. I mean. That got the troops through a lot of dark nights. The funniest thing is just thinking about like that they went out and videotaped us. Yeah. They were like, we got to go do the video. We're going to go out and you're just going to bring the guitar and pretend to play it. People are going to be walking by. They're not signing waivers. They're going to be in the video. Oh yeah. Okay, let me get this last one up here.

Yeah, some of your favorite one, Randy. Oh no. Okay. This guy's just got to find a new bit. He's just posted up back against the wall. Chill guy. Randy commented. He looks so uncomfortable. Stop this.

First of all, I got to compliment him. I have some questions. I have some questions. That's not even his voice. That's just true of AI. Yeah. If this guy doesn't have time for college and he's got no college degree and he also flunked out of the school of hard knocks, where is he getting his education? I'm very confused. Craig, are you? I do, I just have questions.

He's leaning against a brick wall with his hands in his pocket. He looks like a youth minister. That's what I said. When you're trying to sing AI country music, but you're just a chill guy. Okay, so if you flunk out of the school of hard knocks, does it mean like you got your ass kicked? Or like you were were kicking too much? You were too bad ass for the school.

They're like, oh, okay. I didn't think about that. We can't even, we can't even teach this guy anything. Yeah. Like you should be teaching the class. Yeah. Like come up here right now. And I want you to tell us about things. I gotta say the fit though, this is pretty much Dave from age 22 to age 26 going after bars. He's dressed like Jerry Seinfeld. I was kind of doing this. I don't know what's on the feet, but I can imagine it's maybe a nice Lucchese,

maybe a Tikova. Yeah, I know this fit. Maybe some Nike Monarchs. Maybe some Monarchs. Randy, when did you comment on this video? That was three days ago. It's got all of two likes. I don't know if Chill Guy is Geisty anymore.

No, it wasn't. And looking at this, I got it reversed. He's got the reverse Chill Guy on. The hands are still in the pockets though. Hands are in the pockets. The colors are different, you know. But they're just close. There's so many people out there who are just waiting,

putting these out, just hoping one pops, because that's all it takes. You need one to pop. What do you do if you go to Nashville to meet up with a bunch of producers and they're just like, putting these out, just hoping one pops, because that's all it takes. You need one to pop. What do you do if you go to Nashville to meet up with a bunch of producers and they're just like, all right, so what's your process looking like? So, well, I type a prompt into AI,

and then I film a video in front of a brick wall singing it. Yeah, it's pretty easy, actually. Can you guys make me famous? I mean, to be honest, the one I just said, that's 165,000 views. These guys are getting, they're getting views, but it's a bunch of people. It's just people making fun of them.

Yeah, exactly. Like, you share it with your buddies, like, look at this idiot. Yeah, and neither of them, no one has over 3000 followers. But soon, you know, we could be early on these guys. I'm worried that you even looking at these videos on the shared internet is going to infiltrate my feed,

which I don't want. It absolutely is. Everybody here is now a mark. Yeah, this is trouble for everybody. I don't know. I just like the idea that him and the boys are just yelling at the TV. They're just mad at what NBC is putting out there.

Dude, they're just cussing NBC. This isn't the news, this is fake. Dude, the PC police are trying to handcuff him. Who? Someone tried to arrest him? I don't understand. The PC police. One of my favorite comments was there was, thank you for showing us where you handcuffs go. Yeah, he did grab his wrist. Typically, that is where they go. The one time he took his hands out of his pockets was to show you where the cuffs go. Yeah. Yeah, that's tough. Well, all right. Randy, I'm sorry. I mean, we just made it worse. Yeah, I'm going to say that didn't help. But-

This is Brett's future, by the way. Thing is, Brett and I could make, we made some AI country songs just for fun. And I think with our production capability, we could make something that actually looks good. You guys should do a parody video like this and see what happens. You guys have a couple that are actually like, that you wrote the song, you just didn't put it to music. That's up your alley, you would crush something like that.

I think we could do it. And the thing I told Dave is like, none of these guys have any moxie at all, not an ounce. So like, just a little bit. They're very uncompromising. There's no showmanship. That's because they're not honing their craft. They're not passionate about it. No, they think they could just put this out there and it's just going to happen for them. Randy, please do this with Bray. I think we're going to have to.

I want you all slowly walking through Kelly's Irish Pub, just mouth them the song. And that's your video. It's fucking demon time. Just us down at like, uh, bar and Springs, just splashing around. Okay. It's not demon time. Dude, scary hours during demon time. Well, thank you, Randy. Well, no, no, Dave, what are you saying? It's demand time.

That's it's true. It's it is. It's I'm feeling good about 2025. Just wait. It's fucking scary hours last five days. Today might get even scarier. We going to the Capitol or what? Let's go down to the Texas one. See if there's any riff raff down there. I'll meet you down there. Let's go fight the PC police down there. Ooh, they're trying to handcuff me. Let's go cuss off NBC. Show them where to put them. Like all right here. All right

I think we can skip this last segment We'll save it table. We'll keep it in the back pocket. Okay I'm just telling you dude. I've been into it a good good first part of the new year boys Yeah, can we since Dylan's since Dylan's actively trying to improve a podcast performance I think each of us should go around and rate how he was today. Yeah, since Dylan's actively trying to improve his podcast performance, I think each of us should go around and rate how he was today. Yeah, can I go first? Well, we put it on a scale of like 10?

I don't know, sure. You can go first. Dylan asked if he'd go first. Yeah, I'm going to give myself a nine five. I can still improve, but that was really, really strong. Randy, what do you put Dylan at right now? I'm going to give him an eight two. I think his bragging about creating stuff

was very good today. There were some good jokes. I think the misogyny joke. We pulled tape. We pulled one down. Yeah. No one's ever pulled tape. He did pull tape.

Yeah, but you did say that women deserve to be in the kitchen. Yeah, he did immediately retract. Well, just his. You know what, the pulled tape, I'll bring it back to eight, seven. I'll put you at eight, seven. Okay, eight, 87's good.

Will? Taking the glaring misogyny into account, I'm gonna put you at a 7.9. Ooh. I don't like that. There's room for improvement. I pass, but like I can do better. Ooh, yeah, that's interesting because I 7.9 I'm gonna go 7.5.

Wow. Give Simpson some room to grow. Wow. But you start out at 9.5. You want to keep me hungry. I get it. You want me to grind harder. You want to come in day one you had one good practice. Now you think you're the starter. Like no you got you got a humble, you got a guy, you came in, you've got, you got your four star five star on two, four, seven, but some outlets, depending on who you look at. Sure. And, uh, you got some veteran dudes you're trying to knock off. So we want to keep you hungry.

Okay. I respect that. You can't roll in Chris Sims in the limo first practice. Wow. So call back. Wow. Okay. But you also can't end up major Applewhite bone in your best player's girlfriend. You can't do that. It's a callback. Wow. Okay. But you also can't end up major apple white

bone in your best player's girlfriend. You can't do that. I've been saying that. You can't do that. You understand? Yeah, this is for real horns like myself. The Johnny Menzel pod. That's true. Hook em horns. Did you see at the Texas State Bowl game? They showed the crowd and there's, it was a lot of Bobcat fans there and they showed a lady in a Bobcat sweatshirt and she threw up the horns. I'm just like, God damn. Really?

Can we just, can we not? That's great. Like, do we have our own? You don't have to show it. Love that. Bobcats take that game? Yeah, we do. Hell yeah.

We played a real season quarterback. Hadn't started a game since eighth grade. Shout out to T-Man and UNT. That's sick. All right guys. Bye bye. Bye.