Circling Back - Square Dancing with The Merchant of Death

Episode Date: October 7, 2024

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All right, we're back circling back podcast Coming from the wash media headquarters, Austin, Texas. My name is will defreeze to my left David rough I'm just peeping this Luke Bryan Beyonce back and forth not really a back and forth. It's mainly Luke Bryan Jumping into the fray here about her not being nominated for a CMA What I know you were pretty bummed that he support her did he go anti her? Well, you know, he had some some takes. I mean what he did to country music ain't better than What she did which I actually liked her stuff Well, the the country girl shake it for me singer spoke further about why the CMAs

May have decided to not nominate cowboy Carter for any awards. Would you like to hear what his take was? Yeah not nominate Cowboy Carter for any awards. Would you like to hear what his take was? Yeah. Everybody loved that Beyonce made a country album. I, let me just interject there. Not everybody loved that. There's a significant amount of people who were really mad for some reason. I like that domain, John.

I forgot what it's called. The most popular one. This ain't Texas. Texas Hold'em. Woo. That's the one. But where things get a little tricky. You do suck at identifying songs, don't you? Yes. Okay. That's pretty good. Where things get a little tricky and you know,

if you're gonna make a country album, come into our world and be country with us a little bit. The fuck does that mean? Tell me what the fuck that fucking means. I mean, this guy wrote, country girl, shake it for me. Like just like she needs to just go just country out with Luke Bryan. There's a song that came on we're uh Chelsea and I were cooking yesterday and the song came on like my playlist it was like serve to me whatever and I knew every word it was a great song it's probably 20 30 years old. I knew every word and I was thinking myself who sings this and what's it called and I came up with literally nothing That's how music give us some bars. That's how music stupid I am

When she give us a couple I don't remember what song it was anymore I'm kind of worried about your brain. It's weird, man I low-key wish you hadn't brought that into the fray here doesn't connect any dots It's really frustrating cuz now I want to know what song you knew every word to Okay, I'll try and find it. I can't I really can't because a country song. No, it was. Was it we bring the boom?

Come on, man, stop. It was it was a pop song. I don't know what like Luke Bryan's statement on this is not it's not swaying me either way. I don't really care. like Luke Bryan's statement on this is not, it's not swaying me either way. I don't really care. He stinks. I just find it funny that it's Luke Bryan.

His music stinks. Yeah. Yeah, it's better than Zach Bryan for sure. That's a really bad take, but it's okay. It's yours. It's your take. I'm not proud to say that in life, if you did a pie chart of my listening between Luke Bryan and Zach Bryan, it's about 98% Luke Bryan.

That's cause it's better. I had a face. It's okay. I just like drinking beer and wasting bullets, man. That's just what I do. You do pop off in the night sky a lot with that Tule. I like his song that's called hunting, fishing and loving every day.

That's the prayer. Why do you boy praise? Hey, why is why is pretending to brandish a weapon a penalty? He didn't shoot anybody with it. Is it is it an open carry state? He just showed us Thule. I don't understand why you can't do that. I'm sorry. Who did you see this?

I did not. So gun celebrations are like really big right now. And apparently the NCAA is trying to crack down on them. So, gun celebrations are like really big right now and apparently, the NCAA is trying to crack down on them. So, they're getting flagged. Oh, I did see someone put in a number of bullets into Jackson Dart. Yeah, that one. I will say that I can see why that one's inappropriate. We should not be loading a clip into a quarterback on the ground. Freshman Dylan Stewart. And then he went to, I don't know if this is before out to that play, but he went to the, he was on a sideline with his with his teammates and he just he offed

three of them same guy same same game but there was another game Dave I believe it was the USC game could be wrong but some DB made a tackle and he lifted up his jersey just to show like got that thing on yeah I got I got the thing and he got flagged for I don't think you should be flagged for sure like maybe he was to show on something I got the thing and he got flagged for it. I don't think you should be flagged for sure. Like maybe he was showing something else. Maybe he had the zinc canister like our friend Gordo has. The funniest part was the referee explained the penalty.

He said, for simulating brandishing a weapon, 15-yard penalty. It would've been more tight if he did the gun shooter, like had the fingers ready. Yeah. You know, just kind of like, come on, make your move, hombre. I'm really enjoying this new phenomenon of celebrations. the Gun violence is funny to you? Simulating gun violence is hilarious to me actually.

Not actual gun violence. I unload a clip on Randy like, I don't know, at least one day a week when he walks into the office. It's true. Usually give him the little finger, he loads on me. It's just how we do it. I'm surprised you have a voice, Randy, after going to ACL. I wasn't really singing that much.

I mean, the only band that I saw that I actually like had lyrics I want to sing to was Blink. Yeah, but you lose your voice just after a night party. It's over. It's not the singing that we were worried about. It was just you existing in that medium. Yeah. It was dusty. I'll tell you that much. Okay. Like dust in a baggie. Like on a bottle. A little dust on the bottle. Dust in the wind. Dylan's here too. Dylan. Drunk on you is his other hit. Is that drunk on you high on summertime? I bet it. Is that how it goes? You just stopped in my intro. You didn't step on it. I'm sorry dude. It's justified. This is timely stuff. We're talking about Brian's stuff. Here's a tie-in. He's got another one from 2015 called Kick the Dust Up.

Yep. Kick the Dust Up. I'm sure that's a banger. Do you like this one? It's called Rain is a Good Thing. That's a popular song that's always on the radio and it's terrible. That's a guy who understands how the climate cycle works. Rain is a good thing. Not too much at one time though. From 2013, the Crash My Party album, it's called Drink a Beer. That's that sounds like a hit. All right, go ahead. Dylan Shivery. Yeah, I reached a new dad milestone. I get to show Parks how to wear a cup. He is now a cup guy for baseball. I've never worn a cup. They've come a long way in the comfortability factor. Back when I was wearing a cup, it was just a jockstrap

and it was the worst. Now they have like these little sliding shorts that you just slide it into so they're more comfortable now but they're not fun to wear. We had a basketball tryouts in seventh grade and once they divvied everyone up between A team and B team your boy was 18 power forward no big deal had that length stretch the floor our coach approached us and said all right boys you gotta wear jockstraps in a cup now and I was like man I think I might just join the ski team I don't know if you need a cup for basketball he was a harto no I like

I'm when I say he was a harto, he was the most harto coach you could have had in our high school. And I was just like, man, I'm really not into playing basketball all season anyway. I think I'm just going to go to the ski team at this point. I didn't wear a cup for baseball in high school. I was an outfielder. Yeah. But what if you lost one in the lights and like a big game? Oh, man. Hit you hitting the crank.

If you lost it, if it somehow hit you in the crack, you really lost it. Hit me on the crank. If you lost it, if it somehow hit you in the crank, you really lost it. Hit me on the base of my glove right here. Not so not your penis. Not my penis. No. Yeah, that'd be tough. That's how you caught the ball. You just jump thrusted at it. It wouldn't make any sense. That's not good form. Don't do that. It's not recommended. This one's called but I got a beer in my hand. Sorry, he's he's really just a one trick pony and he's just it's just about beer. All of it. I don't know. This one's called

a Cowboys and Plowboys. Really? That's true. Really? Must be a farming play. Plowboys being one word. Just saying. See, I just change break album tailgates and tan lines. Dude, that's a good, I'd say my car right now. Two things I enjoy. Compact disc? Compact disc. I spun that vinyl too, that Luke Bryan Greatest Hits, volume one. Man, I would love to get a CD changer in my car. I was hopeful I had one. I was digging around in the back, seeing if I had a sick CD changer, just nothing back there.

You thought maybe one was just in the vehicle for some reason? Well, yeah, you don't. I don't know if they have that. Like, I mean, I think they assume that everyone's connecting to Apple CarPlay, but you never know if the old the old heads in charge of these cars are putting in CD players. Those CD changers that were in the back were so sick. It's sweet. It's fun having something loaded that's just stock in your car. Yeah, it's like it's like having a house wine at your restaurant. You gotta pull over to change it.

No, you can switch in between the six but yeah, you gotta know. I mean to like swap out the oh yeah. Yeah. But it's fun having. It's just fun having something to rely on every once in a while. Alright, **** it. Hootie and the Blowfish. Let's ride. Hootie, man. Thinking about when I first wore a cup. Probably hockey. That makes a lot more sense than basketball.

Yeah, probably more than baseball too. In the football locker room, now it's not the baseball locker room, but the football locker room, there was always somebody who would like took wearing a cup to like a different level and they would want you to like throw stuff at, you know, they would like, they'd punch themselves in the cup.

You know, it's just another form of dick humor. Sure. Yeah. It's cute though, man. Little parks out there with a cup on, protecting his nuts. Yeah. I have a really uninformed take.

All right. Sick. And you know, you remember when I became a really uninformed take. All right. Sick. And you know, you remember when I became a rugby guy? I watched like one episode of one series on Netflix. Yeah. Caught some six nations. Boy, that was short lived. I think if we're trying to reduce like concussions

and stuff and the NFL, we just gotta get rid of helmets altogether. Maybe just pads altogether and make it more like rugby. There is a theory. Because the stats do say that rugby players have less likelihood to have CTE. No, there's a theory out there. Because you're protecting your head.

I mean, it's still not, the stats still aren't great. I'll say that. But I'm like, yeah, maybe we just get rid of the pads. I do think it's interesting that hardly anyone is choosing to wear the halo thing around their helmets. Yeah, but do you think that's like that's like when when I was little like skiing helmets weren't Huge when I was little do no one wore helmets when I was yeah as a kid And so then like once like a couple people started getting him

It's like well that that kids got dorky parents who are making him wear a helmet now It's standard and people should be wearing them Brett And but like let's just take these things away by coming to each other same thing for bike helmets and people should be wearing We if you step if you showed up with a helmet on we would have just beat the shit out of you Yeah, dude being safe for the hell stupid. Yeah being safe is for idiots. Just kidding. I don't mean now the helmets have mohawks on them Yeah, yeah Yeah, fritz's fritz's has just dinosaur Whatever it's called things on their back like the spines drippy as hell. Yeah, that's pretty cool We got a very special episode of spooky season tomorrow. We have a very big guest back. Like the spine's. Drippy as hell. Yeah. That's pretty

cool. Uh we got a very special episode of Spooky Season tomorrow. We have a a very big guest hopping on with us. We do. Um some people call him the Babe Ruth of our time. Not many people are saying that. I was saying in the office

earlier. What? A hell of a ballplayer. Dude's raking. He he he had a great season. He I'm not a pro. I'm not a noted athletic. I just want to talk ball with him. Now, we'll talk spooky. You can talk some ball. Okay. That'll be a blast. Yeah, I can't wait. That's tomorrow. Do you think he'll be

in costume? doubt it. I looked into acquiring an an Oakland A's hat and jersey and then I realized quickly that would be very expensive. Now that I would wear the hat going forward because they do have even though they're a division rival they have a sick logo and a sick color scheme. I didn't want to like steal valor from A's fans who were eulogizing the franchise being in Oakland. But when I was living in San Francisco and I was just broke as hell,

I had nothing to do at night besides watch baseball games. And I didn't want to watch the Giants because they had beaten us in the World Series. I just had a bad taste in my mouth. And so I kind of got attached to the Oakland A's for a little bit. I was just a big Roger Davis guy at the time. And like seeing that all go down, it was kind of sad.

Yeah. You build a connection with that kind of stuff. They, yeah, they lost their football team, baseball team, they're I guess no they have they have the Golden State Warriors but they moved across the bank. Yeah. They moved across the that's right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's a shame. Tell the Oakland Backers out there. We support you. Absolutely we do. Where can you find spooky season?

Patreon. Patreon.com slash circling back podcast. There's a seven day free trial. Dylan, do you want to speak to your article this week on washed weekly as it got a lot of critical acclaim? Oh, I would love to. Yeah, I wrote an article for washed weekly and you can find that of course, sub stack. Where is it washed dot sub stack dot com. Thank you. And the title of it was it wouldn't have gone down like that. And it was basically like survival one on one if you're if you find yourself in a horror film. And

if you get a chance to to off the perp, kill them, you know, basically, but it also includes some some other rules. What if you're gone off that perp? If you'd gone off that perp, then I can't help you. You're on your own. It's different. I included some other rules on how to survive. In a horror film. Number one. Don't show your titties is what I said. If you pop top your lady, especially if you have nice ones, you're dead within minutes. That's just standard one-on-one, like don't do it.

Nice ones, he says. Nice ones. Nice ones. Yeah. Okay. This is valuable for me. You're kind of giving spoilers to all these horror movies that I've never seen before. I'm going to be like, oh, she just popped out. She dead. The classic horror films. If you

have sex, if you're attractive, and if you show your boobies, you're done for. The one Halloween movie that I will commit to watching this year is not a horror film at all. But Dave, I'll watch Ghostbusters this year for the

first time straight through. Okay. It but Dave, I'll watch Ghostbusters this year for the first time straight through. Okay. It's just, you know me, not a big, not a big Halloween guy, big spooky season guy but uh I need to see Ghostbusters. I ain't afraid to know ghosts. It's uh

it's a classic. Yeah. Who you going to call? I think you'll like it. Hopefully. But if you don't, you know, I won't be, I won't hold it against you. I think I like it. Is Ackroyd in it? Ackroyd. I'll glaze Ackroyd anytime he wants. Is he, he's Canadian, but does he have a Detroit connection? A Michigan connection? I don't know, but I feel like, I feel like, I just like Dan Ackroyd, man. He's got such Midwest vibes. Maybe I think he's got Midwest vibes because of the Chicago connection to Blues Brothers. Maybe. Blues Brothers, I think Dan Aykroyd, man. He's got such Midwest vibes. Maybe I think he's got Midwest vibes because the Chicago connection

to Blues Brothers. Maybe. Blues Brothers, I think is underrated. I feel like he's an adopted son of the Midwest. Yeah. Yeah. Well, Dylan, while I do the this weekend and fun theme music, will you look up where Dan Aykroyd is from? I'd

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There you go. See, that's why I feel the connection, Dave, because I do consider Northern Michigan to essentially be Canadian. Okay, yeah, Ottawa. If we ever get to like do a national anthem at like a trash pandas game or something, do you think they'll let me hit a Oh Canada for a little bit? You're talking about a scenario when we would

sing. Yeah. I feel like they're going to that's up to Dylan because Dylan's the one who's going to sing. Do you know the the lyrics? Yeah II think I might know Oh Canada better than I know the start. If I had to write the words out, I think I might know Oh Canada better than I know the Star, if I had to write the words out, I think I could get a better percentage of Oh Canada than I could the Star Spangled Banner, because there's some, I don't know what it's called

when a word sounds like something, but it's actually something else. I always mix up words. 72 years old. Okay. Born to a French Canadian family. There you go. He has a tequila brand.

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Thanks for asking, Will. Had a pretty solid weekend, hung out with Chelsea Parks the whole weekend, really. ACL is going on, I live very close to ACL, to the park where ACL is located. So just vibes on vibes on vibes all weekend by my place. Went up to the rooftop and caught some Dua the other night. That was kind of sick.

Chapelrone was just filling the air with that. She sounded great from what I could hear. Like great. It was awesome. Yeah. Like I walked away from that performance. A chapel rung fan. Her music felt louder than the other ones for some reason. Maybe it was, maybe it was my imagination, but it was, she was bumping.

We were pretty far back and it was, it was going. I was happy with the volume levels. Did she play my kink as karma? I don't know. She probably definitely did Good Luck Babe and maybe even Red Wine Supernova. Oh, Red Wine Supernova was the one that sold

me when she was done with that. I had heard some other songs and I had heard Red Wine Supernova before but once once she did that one, I was like, yeah, I get it. I'm a rony. Other than that, watching excellence, a sneaky excellent slate of

college football. One wasn't much hype going in on the weekend But it absolutely delivered we kind of shit on yeah, I like pretty pretty significantly so many upsets It was a lot of fun upsets are so fun when it's not your team. It is your team. I'm sorry Other than that, I got a swim off practice and baseball Yeah, just kind of just kind of vibe all weekend. Nothing's nothing special, but it was it was really really nice. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm I missed the most important thing. What the I was going to let him forget, dude. I was

going to let him forget. How could I forget? He didn't he didn't forget though. What was the beer you guys had in the keg? We had a Saint Arnold. They're good and it was so good. The guy at Party Barn said that it's his favorite fall beer. He ordered it for us. It was a really, really good beer. I have to say, as far as Texas breweries go, I don't think there's anything better than St. Arnold. I love almost every beer that I have from them and I think they just do it right. I'm a real ale fan. I like real ale quite a bit. Is that a is that a brewery? Is

that a is that a beer maker or is that a is that a beer from Saint Arnold? It's it's a beer maker. Okay. I believe they're located in Blanco, Texas. I saw that we left a little early. There were some kickstands going on. Yeah. At least one that I

saw. Yes. If you left before the sun went down, you didn't get to groove my friend. That's right. Yeah, pretty great weekend. I yield my time to David now. Yeah, Friday night was all about, let's see, do a little industry. We got two left and we'll be full. I say we, it's just me at this point. I say we it's just me at this point. I'll be fully caught up Probably tomorrow, okay You know who to text? Yeah, how about that bottle episode my dude?

We talked about it a little bit. I Don't know that I in when my when my wife eventually goes through makes her way through industry I I will probably watch a significant amount of it with her. That's one I'll probably skip. I don't need that one. I'm gonna re-watch that one for sure. Our friend Ryan informed me that he watched that one on a plane on the way back from a trip. And I can't imagine watching that on a plane. No, I'm glad that episode was not available to me

on a plane. It's just a lot. I honestly, there were moments over the weekend where I thought, do I need to be doing more to get an industry specific podcast going in this? I'll watch media. I thought you were going to say you're going to try to figure out a way to get six figures of gambling debt. I can't. It was like Uncut Gems in like 60 minutes. Oh yeah. Uncut jobs? Un can't. It was it was like uncut gems in like 60 minutes. Oh, yeah. Uncle John's. Uncle John's. Saturday was the day. We hit t ball early in the morning. Only three kids showed

up. Didn't have enough for a full team. It doesn't really matter as it's t ball. Yeah, what's the vibe of the parents when that happens because we've had a similar situation go down at? At our soccer games and I really don't resent the parents that didn't show up because I'm like, you know what? They're probably going through it right now. Yeah, we've all we've all been there, right? but It's just like it kind of for some reason that when it's only three kids it's that much it's more difficult to To keep them engaged They kind of sense that like well, there's a fuck it attitude. Yeah, clearly the matter. Yeah, so I guess

But now we we power through is our day to bring snacks Would you hit him with? Their cups Alyssa hit him with some spooky bags full of bring snacks. What'd you hit you're talking about the organic stuff. And we get like the all the all the nice the stuff that it's, you know, not necessarily the stuff that I didn't drink and eat when I was a kid. Like the polar opposite. Yeah, you should have done some shark bites. Needed shark needed gushers, honestly.

I will never slander gushers. Need to say there's too much sugar in. No, goaded. Next time it's up, it's on us. I'm going to I'm going to send the kids home with just gushers. Just it's going to make it all about me stuff from my childhood. Yeah Uh, and then we had we had the uh, charlie's birthday

What a time What a time we had a bounce house. We had a keg We had good company. Uh, we had chili So what where do you guys stand? Us northerners, we don't call them Frito Pies, or at least the small community that I'm from, we were always calling them walking tacos. I had my first walking taco at Chartoberfest.

But people call them Frito Pies, and we always called them walking tacos, which makes sense to me. But the way I understand it, a walking taco means you eat it from the bag. Yeah, but that's what Frito pies were, right? Or in our family. Frito pie, you eat it out of like a little paper bowl.

Yeah, we never ate it out of a Frito's bag. Yeah. Frito pie, there was like Frito pie day. It's the same. In the lunch line. It's the same food. It's the same composition. Just out of a different vessel.

It's a very hot topic in a group chat that I'm in that includes people not from Northern Michigan and people from Northern Michigan. What I like about the, the walking taco or the Frito pie is that you have the chili, of course, then you toss in the Fritos, right? You understand what I'm saying? For sure. So Randy, you have the crunchiness of the Frito with everything that the chili's bringing and the chili is often softer. Yeah, they're a little different, both of them,

in a unique way. So, there's something that happens in your mouth when you take that first bite. When you take your spoon and you scoop it up, you get some Frito, you get some chili, you get the soft bean if you choose to bean your chili. And it's the juxtaposition. Oh yeah. You know what I'm saying? Oh, that makes sense. And it was just a wonderful treat

to have at the birthday party. And it was a nice touch as some might say. So yeah, I hope to have one next time. You didn't get one? I thought there'd be a lot of leftovers. It went'am. There were none. Wow, there were none your boy got no dinner for your boy that night If you listen to a recent listener voicemails, you may have heard someone call in and Kind of go up my neck a little bit. Like what happened? I thought you were a barbecue guy You're not on your shit anymore. What are doing well i got news for that guy i uh

i smocked some ribs yesterday what did how'd that go for you uh very well actually uh it's about it's the closest i've gotten to the uh infamous ribs or the now famous ribs from uh the academy live stream from what was that a year ago i don know how long ago? Yeah, those were, you know how I feel about those dude. I did the same recipe. I did it the same way and they hit. They were very good. Normally we have a little bit leftover. We have no leftovers

because daddy had a lot of ribs yesterday. That's all I ate for dinner. I went full Dan Register caveman mode. I'm jealous. Yeah. I'm very jealous. It was full Dan register caveman mode. I'm jealous. Yeah, I'm very jealous It was good and I timed it up perfectly and then I stayed up till midnight watching fucking Sunday Night Football We don't boys I'm dragging saw that halftime score

Not exciting ugly didn't seem like the most exciting first half no No, but Anytime you can win it with 20 seconds left and you look up at the clock and it's like 1154 and you're like well I'm not gonna be I'm not gonna go just go lie down in bed right after this I need like a 30-minute cool-down period it's 1234 I got in bed is tough tough scene I'm here drink some beers in the garage it's kind of my Jordan game. Yeah. Beers in the garage.

How about you, Willing? My parents came into town for the first birthday party. So I hung out a lot with them. Whenever my dad comes into town, he likes to do a lot of gardening. And so, you know, we went to Lowe's Home Improvement Center. We did some home improvements. You guys familiar with Texas Sage?

The Texas Sage. Yeah, I am not. It's a plant that we tossed out in that garden. Apparently it's supposed to grow pretty tall and bushy. Excited about that. Unfortunately in the process, I not only cut my finger, but I cut the internet line. So we went all weekend, no internet. which is good when there's college football, baseball playoffs, premier league

just stuff you know. But overall it was a fun weekend yeah we we had a absolute shit ripper for our son Charlie's first birthday. You guys did miss the keg stands Hot Colin rolled up and he goes I'm not leaving here without doing a keg stand. So suddenly it was like, well, I mean, I'm the host of the party. I can't not do one. It was good. I did a longer keg stand than Sally did.

So that felt good. I didn't do a long one though. Hot Colin got you, didn't he? No, he was the first one and he didn't really put, he didn't put some big numbers up. So I did get him, but I did not have the longest of the night. I can't do keg stands very long anymore, man.

Drinking beer upside down when you're 37, getting closer and closer to 38 doesn't feel good. Who held your feet? My brother-in-law, Drew, Hot Colin, and then my absolute boy, Anad. I talked with him a little bit. Oh yeah, we got it done. Spent all Sunday just cleaning up.

He told me he's a adorn guy from back in the day. Dude, hell yeah. Which I was not expecting. He's told me that before. He's told me that before. Yeah, I had to, I mean, my body's all time sore today because if you spend the entire day moving tables and cleaning up, just getting huge garbages, it's just not how you want to treat your body after a kegger.

But then I went to ACL last night on top of it. I've officially been won over as a Chapel Rowan guy. Like she put on a performance. Everyone in the crowd is having a really good, dare I say, I mean, everybody was living in the moment. There was no one like, nobody was being annoying at that show. All the, all the Chablerone fans were just like the most pleasurable people of all time, just hanging out. And then we went and hit Sturgill.

Had great seats, enjoyed that. It was a fun time. I'm glad I, I'm glad I got out of the house to do it, but it's very rare for me to be out of the house at 11 PM on a Sunday night. So I don't think I'm going to be doing that for another minute unless Sally really wants to go next weekend to chapel. I know sometimes you got to go to chapel on Sunday, you know what I mean? I might catch you some chapel next Sunday.

It was fun. It was probably as far as performances on that stage go where I don't have a big investment in the person. Like for Jay-Z, like we tried to get up and we had good seats for that and stuff. But like with having no investment in her music outside of listening to it with my kids, I had such a good time at that show

that I would absolutely go back. But yeah, good weekend, great Austin weekend. I wish we had some more stuff. I wish we had some Bay juice in the studio, but it looks like Randy and all his absolutes just drank it all. There was four left and now there's three left because I had one.

The optics of you emptying the box into the refrigerator. So there was an empty box in the entrance of our place. It wasn't good when we immediately walked in. I did make some assumptions about our Bay juice being commandeered. I've had zero of those Bay juices until now. Dave has had like all of them. Well, Dave is significantly invested in the Bay juice.

Whenever I get a message. How is this about me? What a sorry asshole you are. Yeah. Dave has cleared for the Bay juice because we wouldn't have Bay juice without Dave's approval of the product. I just don't know why I'm getting lectured for having one of all time.

Ricochet over here, just dodging. ACL was fun. How about that? I got very emotional during Blink. I'm man enough to admit. What song? It was towards the end. They did the encore with One More Time, their new song, which I remember when it came out, they said the music video was very sad. Like everyone was saying, but like you listen to the song, it's about like the band splitting up and getting back together, but listen to it closely.

Well, what's really about is missing your boys. Your lutes? Yeah. If you listen to that song again, you'll understand like, yeah, Tom actually was well enough and crying at then. Mark made fun of him for it. We had to do a, I was in, I don't even know how to explain this,

was doing this thing the other day where we had to pick a song from an artist's side project. And I went straight to Boxcar Racer. And I was like, man, I can't believe they broke up for as long as they did. There is this Boxcar Racer, right? There is, yeah. Yeah, they played that.

Yeah. They did? Yeah. It was interesting. Okay, now I kind of want to they played that. Yeah, they did. Yeah. It was interesting. Okay. Now I kind of want to go. It was a very good show and seeing Tom almost crying. I was like, oh, man, I'm gonna shout out anybody from Boeing in the crowd like he did at the

Austin show for the aliens. He did talk about aliens for a second. Boeing dude, he was like my absolute boys in the front row here from Boeing. He's helped me a lot with my alien stuff and I was like, just play the song Tom Wow, probably had to because he knew what what would happen if he got on the wrong side of bone Oh, yeah, there might have been a drone strike that is how that shocks me that he's the one that almost cried cuz mark Mark marks the one who got a little bit. He got really sensitive. They're really sad at the show we went to.

But I guess Adam's song will do that too. Hey man, they've been through a lot. They were easily the most formative band of my entire life, easily. Yeah, I felt like you at that wedding. I was like, man, this is like, thinking about all my boys that I miss. I miss my boys right now. Hell yeah, dude.

Listening to all this music Do people create a pit at ACL? I don't know. We were kind of far back. I think it they really see it if there was okay Don't you gotta go and get in the pit try to love someone at Blink. Yeah You could handle a mosh. I'm throwing hey, man. Have you ever been in a mosh pit? You know, I've never been in a mosh pit that surprises are you scared of mosh pits? Are you just not like a fan of that situation? I'm not scared. I'm there. It not a fan of that. I'm not a fan of that. I'm not a fan of that. I'm not a fan of that. I'm not a fan of that. I'm not a fan of that. I'm not a fan of that. I'm not a fan of that. I'm not a fan of that. I'm not a fan of that. I'm not a fan of that. I'm not a fan of that. I'm not a fan of that. I'm not a fan of

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There are some like genres of music where the pits get like pretty violent. Oh yeah. Yeah. Like death metal. Yeah. Blink pits are pretty innocent. Yeah. Those are more like it's mainly it's the equivalent of like trying to get in a fight, but just

stretching out the neck like you're not actually fighting. You're just like simulating all of it. Yeah. It's just shoulder bumps. It feels good to have, you know, shoulder to shoulder contact in the middle of a song that's going pretty hard. Or like Avenged Sevenfold or like people start doing backflips and just like wailing their arms around. Like the uh two Celsius no coffees dude? Pretty much. Or sorry, no, what was it? No breakfast? No breakfast. You don't want to see that guy in the pit. That guy's awesome.

Go the other way. He was on my timeline the other day and I was like, yeah. He's still doing his thing, man. He's the man. You know Marsh Pit hate to see him coming. I want to talk to that guy. See what he's all about. I love that he's just doing pull-ups on random things in a bar. It's so sick. In my experience, the guys that do that are the coolest. That dude's got a fit bod. That's facts. Okay. Oh, whoa, speaking of that. Yeah, we're talking about FitBot, baby. You know, when you're working out, you gotta have milestones. If you don't have milestones, what are you doing?

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That's fit bod dot me slash Steve dot me slash Steve. We got someone back in the news cycle. Yeah, we have an update from our friend, the merchant of death. Remember him? Of course, the prisoner who was uh we traded a little little trade. WNBA star Brittany Griner was in a Russian prison of course and over here in the US, we had the merchant of death in one of our prisons, Victor Bout. What business was he in? Was it death? Death. Oh, he's like, it just says death, bro. Death. New job listings and

death. Bro, LinkedIn is such a beating, man. By the way, it's been two years already since that happened. Isn't that crazy? How are each other's seasons after the trade? Well, I'm about to give you an update. Why don't I don't know how Brittany Griner's doing.

I do. Is she putting up numbers? Bro, she's she's right around career average. Okay. Okay. Not bad. Baylor Gray.

What's she averaging? She's a monster in college. Both 17-6 and two of the season. That's those are numbers. I kind of thought she might put up double doubles every game. You know, there was a time where yeah, I would maybe she did that. She lost a step a little bit older now. Uh Russian prison will do that to you. That's true. Was it a straight up weed pen that she had on her? Yeah. Yeah. It's like a little cartridge. They they take uh that very seriously over there apparently. That's wild.

She should have brought a fume. She brought a fume, yeah. Fume? Not a fume. Don't bring that. Don't bring that. Don't bring that. Anyway, so that's how Britton Griner's doing.

I have an update on our friend, the Merchant of Death. Okay. We're gonna do a little multiple choice here. And I'm going to, I'm going to list off five multiple choice options. And you guess which one of these he's actually up to. Are you ready? Yes.

A, he acquired his teaching license and is now teaching ninth grade biology. Or B, is an avid gardener who spends his retirement tending to his garden. Okay. Or B. Is an avid gardener who spends his retirement tending to his garden. Okay. Or C. Sounds nice. He volunteers his time at a no-kill animal shelter. That's awesome, dude. I hope it's that. It'd be a beautiful like merchant of death to like anti. Yeah, I hope it's that one. I'm gonna ride with that one for now. He's rebranded. I need to hear the other choices though. D, merchant of life Open up a small neighborhood coffee and pastry shop in Moscow What's it called?

Death's door. Scones and drones. Scones and bones Or E. Everybody must get sconed. Or E. He's back in the arms trade. Brokering deals to supply small arms to Yemen's Iran backed Houthi with he who see rebels Which one of those you think he's actually up to? Um, I Do love a good turnaround. I like a good feel good. So redemption art. Yeah You know, I'm I'm thinking that he is volunteering at the no-kill shelter because it's kind of like it's a it's an irony play It's like yeah previously responsible for a number of deaths.

I've changed my ways. I'm a new man. Yeah. And this is how I want to spend my days. Well, you know, I think he took it a step further. And instead of just like no kill shelter, like those dogs are already, you know, there, those dogs and cats.

I think he's trying to regenerate his spirit from within. And I think he's going to the garden. I think he's planting things and actually becoming the merchant of life. That would be beautiful as well. Yeah, maybe he's putting in some Texas sage in his garden like I was. Do you have a guess, Randy?

Which one of these choices? I'm gonna be the pessimist of the group. I think old habits die hard and he might be surprised the Houthis. The answer unfortunately is E. Ah! He's back brokering arms deals, yeah, unfortunately. Dave, do you low key look just like this guy in a way?

Like he's low key like got a vintage 80s frat look. If you grew your mustache out. He's kind of sick looking. And got like a 70s looking wig, you could look like the merchant of death fairly easily. Tune into spooky season. Maybe we'll, maybe we can make this happen real in a 24 hour time. It's crazy that we released a dude called the merchant of death and he's decided

to become an arms dealer again, immediately. Was there some kind of stipulation written into this trade? It was like, Hey man, you can't go back to dealing arms. He had a non-compete that expired after two years. Did he violate it? They're really not in force anymore. Oh. It's hard, dude.

Like, you know, like when you say you're doing like sober January and stuff, like you're motivated for a little bit to stay away from the game. You can see a scenario where Dave looks exactly like him. I mean, Brynner, Brittany, Brittany Griner got back in the game. So.

Brittany Brynner is just. Brittany Brynner. That's what I do on Thanksgiving, dude. Brynner is my pledge brother. They both got back in the game. Her game is basketball Briner is just. Yeah, that's what I do. That's what I do on Thanksgiving. My pledge brother. They both got back in the game. She's her game is basketball though, so she's not hurting. Do you remember him?

Briner? Yeah, dude. He had to go back to Fort Stockton. He got his like fourth DWI. Yeah, it's his parents took him home. Ended up going to ACC. Yeah, he's back in man. What is he supposed to do?

That's what he knows. How unfulfilling would a job being a barista be when you're used to being the merchant of death? You know how hard it is for an ex-con to get work, man? You can quit the game. It's a stigma, Dylan. It's a joke. Can't quit you, man.

They throw out his job application before it even hits the eyes that need to see it. Just gets weeded out because of his past felonies and you know, war crimes. He needs to use the invisible ink thing where he puts like key words into the resume that you can't see. So that way, like the filter, it like passes it through. So it's just little tricks that he doesn't know

because he was in a prison for many years. So I see that you were a merchant of death and then there's this gap on your resume. What was that about? Bro, I was taking time to myself. I did some traveling. I walk about in Australia. Gap in there? It's great, man.

It's really great. I worked on farm in New Zealand. My pledge brother went with me. He got a haircut since this picture. He looks, he's a good looking man now. Looks great in this. I don't know what you're talking about. If he was allowed to just walk around prison with that stash.

Yeah. How did he leave prison with a dope stash? Like, what's that about? When you're, what's your mindset if you go to prison? Like, I don't, like, I feel like if you have nothing to do in prison, but you can just work out all the time and get shredded, you try to do that. But you also don't want to get too hot in prison. Why is that? You don't want to be the bell of the ball walking around.

Right. Like, damn, you see Will's gotten caked up in the last six months since he got in the pen. No one's fucking with a guy named Victor who spells it with a K. No, that's true. No, no, no. The second you see that. You see that, you're like, that's true.

Don't try him. A C and you're like, okay, yeah, whatever. A K though? No. K, C is so much more approachable than the K. Yeah, so that's some unfortunate news. Is he asking for two glasses of milk in that one photo? What's going on there?

Dylan, don't feel bad about mispronouncing the word. I don't. I was reading something earlier this weekend with my mom and I said the word, I pronounced something, Persephone, and she looked at me and she goes, Persephone? Like the name? And I was like, yeah, yeah, that's what I said. Persephone, that's good.

I told my mom, I was like, no one's had the name Persephone since you were a little kid. Like, I'm sorry. Persephone is a name? Yeah. Dude, I was in grade school and this kid was reading and he said cupboard once. What an idiot.

You think that's funny? Wow, dude. You think the seminal moment of my childhood is funny? Don't make fun of that. I'm still reeling from third grade when I said Sue instead of so Not sure how third grade are supposed to know the difference between SCW Hyperbole is one that I got wrong the first time I think I said hyper bowl. I get it hyper ball Hey, it's like Persephone like those letters don't always mesh like they do in that word

It's kind of a vibe once you understand it. You got to hear it while you're looking at it for the first time. Like, okay, I got it now. You open up. It's the hard E's at the end when they're supposed to be soft. You open up a restaurant. It's fast casual, of course. It's at the bottom of an apartment complex.

It's new, Soda Sopa. So it's going to be gone in a year? It's not going to be that long. You're going to lose your ass on it. But it's called Hyper Bowl. You go in and you look at the menu and everything's like the best bowl in town. Okay. The hottest place in Austin. You're like, wow. You got something there. Think about it. Yeah. Okay. And yeah, you're gonna lose your shit on it. It's gonna set you back a number of years. People aren't gonna go. No, no, because it's not a lot. And yeah, you're going to lose your shit on it. It's gonna set you back a number of years. People aren't gonna go. No, no, because it's not a lot. It's weird because

like there is foot traffic. But for some reason, just that part of town, no one wants to go to the businesses that are immediately under the because people live right above it. So they don't want to eat there for whatever reason. There's a stigma. People assume it sucks because it's right there. And like, I don't want to go get attached. It's actually really good if you just give it a shot like it's not gonna be there in six months so like if I go and I start to really like it it's

just gonna be gone I'm gonna be sad hyper bowl where do you guys stand on Kava I really like Kava it's good and got we went a little crazy on it when we were over in the old office and so much shit going on a lot of shit going of shit going on. Like there's too many flavors. Like I just start vibing in there and I'm just asking for things that I don't actually know what they are. And like suddenly I have this bowl that has all these different flavors and just too much spice. And I'm like, what did I do here? That's like the one bowl place where I just picked the pre-made ones. They just do that. I don't know what everything else is. Just do that. Yeah. Like, yeah, I just do that. I know what everything else is just do that. Yeah, like yeah, I'll do some harissa Is that the thing over there?

Yeah, the only thing I had is like make sure I get the pickled veggies cuz it was look good but otherwise Was vertes of this? Cava, you know your boy loves vert did verts turn into Cava though. No, it didn't there's similar They are similar but verts just started pivoting. They were like, alright, we can't we got to start Just doing bowls they Had some bad PR when this guy did a quick video about them and like it didn't really do any traction on Twitter Are there any more they all closed down? I don't know. I still have that video on my phone They're really good. Dave Dave is the white rice guy in the office I fancy myself to be a protege underneath him

the white rice at Verz is just all-time dry. It's just it's so bad compared to what it needs. You need that sticky You know, you know like that's a sticky day. Oh, man. I Was actually at Kava the other day and the dude making my bowl he kind of made it a little light and so I Pretended to brandish a weapon in front of him to get flagged Yeah, I got 15 Just pull out your phone and record it dude and kind of put them on you know what I'm gonna Thank every single person

I'm gonna thank every single asshole out there who did that at Chipotle because my bowls ever since that whole controversy came up have been absolutely buzzing. I would hesitate to get the brisket again after how I felt all afternoon after my brisket bowl, but it wasn't the worst thing I've ever had. Randy, I'm sending you this video clip of the brandishing thing because Dave hadn't seen it and it needs to. I wonder if it's just gun violence. Like if people sort out what they care. Yeah. What if you joust with your boys?

I don't know. What if you get on one of your boys backs and you joust at one of the guys? Yep. USC, Minnesota. I think, I think this is totally allowed. Defense for simulating brandishing a weapon? Okay, wait a minute. The automatic course down.

The way he put it. In the whole country you could read his lips. Wow. So instead of the third and text. Alright, let's see. Let's see. Maybe he's just showing the abs. Dude, that's hard.

Like, I'm sorry, but that's a hard celebration. You could say that I was just showing off my abs. Yes, that's what I said. I'd be like, what the fuck? What if he was just telling everybody it's a situation? He was letting them know. I'm the new sick. Situation.

If I had abs like that, I would be fake brandishing a weapon all the time. The ref, the way he said that, it was almost like he couldn't believe it Brandishing a weapon. Yeah So funny take a look at that's brandishing brandishing you have to technically Brandish with the yeah, I don't know what the word brandish means. Okay. I didn't even realize it was in a very Consequential moment of the game. Yeah, it's close game Score game. Yeah. It was a close game and they were losing. It was a one score game.

Yeah, they were down. There were 46 seconds left in the fourth. Yeah, at the end of the game. Was there a post-game presser with this guy? Because I want to know his side of the story. He should have just said, honestly, I was showing off my abs. I've been doing a lot of work. I've got Fitbot.

I've been on that Huel. I said they were losing. I was incorrect. Minnesota was the one winning. So a lot of work. I've got Fitbot. I've been on that Hewl. I said they were losing. I was incorrect. That was Minnesota was the one winning. So that was almost imagine if they lost that game. Yeah. Don't get me wrong. Because he brandished a fake firearm.

Don't get me wrong. Like Minnesota, beautiful state. I'm sure it's great. If you're USC, are you a little bum that your away games are now like in the Midwest and you're not just going to baller schools out on the West Coast? Yeah. Brandish, wave or flourish as a threat

or in anger or in excitement. So yeah. He was just carrying. Yeah, that's not brandishing. Dylan, you've been getting tagged a lot in the viral tweets that have been going on with the old soccer player who simulated snorting the goal line.

Yeah, I've seen that one. That's pretty good. That's a great move. Did he get in trouble for that one? Yeah, I think he actually got like suspended. Like, bro, that's a funny celebration. What if he just got really into season one industry? I totally get it.

Yeah. No show is glamorized drugs more. And you're like watching like, oh, wait, no show is glamorized drugs more and you're like watching like And I got away. This is this isn't real. This isn't a sustainable life. Is it all violence? You can't celebrate now during football games Randy brings up a great question. If you fake if you Unsheath the sword. Yeah or drew your sword put differently if you remember last season this one was a really popular one that was like Quinn even did this one. You can't you can't randomly pop up into the crowd anymore. Yeah. And now it's like you can't do a crowd pop. Now

they'll remember the LSU receiver or DB of games going as a receiver. He just took a shot. He saw it off. Some guys head off. I don't know where the line is here. But all I know is that unloading the clip what the line is with his teeth and like fake lobbyist. That was a coach. Was that okay? I had like a minor league baseball game. That was like him throwing a tantrum after he got thrown out. I could see Zeke doing that. That would be sick.

I think it was the- If he ever gets in the Amzone. Did he throw the rosin bag from the mound? Yeah, you're right. Now that you're saying it, you're right. He threw it at home plate. He lobbed a grenade. That's good.

He lobbed a grenade at home plate. Yeah. We've got Premier League players using props now and I just feel like you shouldn't be able to use a prop. I don't like that. Like it's just too much. What's Daddy-O? Are you not familiar with this Dakota Johnson movie Daddy-O? I'm not. I do support Dakota Johnson. Love Dakota Johnson. Do you support Sean Penn? I'm not. Uh I do support Dakota my brain for the rest of my life. Like if I just met her at a bar, I'd be in love with her nonstop. You see 50 shades?

No, a player didn't see that. She's uh, she's in it. Yeah, I thought about seeing it, but like it's just the overt horniness of it. I don't know. I'm just gonna go watch Love Island where it's there. Well, Dada, of course, tells the tale of a woman getting into her taxi at New York Airport and gradually tells the driver about her unfortunate decisions that led to an affair with a married man. The driver also reveals more and more about his life.

Why is this significant? Why are we talking about this? This movie is kind of not talked about. It's not in the zeitgeist. The zeitgeist, Dylan, you understand? I do now, yeah. Australia's biggest airline apologized Monday after accidentally screening 40 minutes of penis and boobs to an entire aircraft full of unwitting passengers. Reported by the Guardian to have taken place on Qantas flight from Sydney to Tokyo, the cockpit cock-up apparently occurred after a technical fault rendered individual in-flight

movie selection unavailable. Staff held a quick poll, which resulted in a small selection of passengers picking this year's racy Dakota Johnson flick Daddio, featuring an erect penis, prolonged sexting exchanges, and profuse use of the word fuck to play on every screen. Every screen? It was apparently only about halfway through the movie that eyebrows were sufficiently raised for staff to then change it to something a little more family-friendly. The movie was clearly not suitable to play for the whole flight,

and we sincerely apologize to customers for this experience. How conscious are you guys of watching things on flights that have anything explicit in them? Quite, very, quite. Okay, so when I binged industry on our flight back from Italy, I knew that there were going to be some unsavory things

that I needed to scroll ahead for, but I wanted to watch it so badly that I was like, okay, if I miss a sex scene, I miss a sex scene. I'm just going to hammer that 15 second button. But that's on my iPad. I was going through all the movies on the screen in front of me trying to see what I wanted to watch, and I was like, oh, that Zendaya Tennis movie, Challengers. Sometimes there are some questionable options up there. And I'm like, I can't justifiably sit here and watch a movie where there's a three, like a lot of the movie hinges around the sex scenes.

Like putting that on, even giving people the option to put that on a plane is crazy to me. Yeah, I had a bad experience back in my 20s and so I will never do it again. Coyote Ugly, you seen the movie? Apparently you're not, so while they do have it as an in-flight option It's frowned upon if you uh pull out a blanket and cover the screen and cover yourself with it They're like what are you doing under there? I'm like well i'm just shielding the screen so people don't see that I'm watching coyote ugly. I don't want to offend anybody There's a whole thing. They're gonna drag me out of there. The theAA has a lot of regulations against airborne goon caves.

I mean, 9-11. Mobile goon caves. 9-11 ruined a lot of things, Dylan. Here, Dave, if I was on that plane and you were in your goon cave watching Coyote Ugly, it wouldn't have gone down like that. You would've stood up for him. You would've been able to watch the entirety of the movie.

That's because Marky Mark doesn't even jerk off. That's true, he doesn't. Facts, dude, he definitely raw dogs flights. That's the thing about New York City though. You could see anything there. Did I send you the super cut of him? No. Oh man. I saw a great super cut of him the other day,

just spouting some bullshit. He's an unintentionally hilarious human being. Not as unintentionally funny as James Winston. His clips, whenever they hit the timeline now, I'm like, yeah, I'm watching anything James Winston. Yeah, that checks. I watched a clip the other day that wasn't with James Winston,

but it was somebody talking about being in the huddle with him. And they said every play that he would call, he would act like it was a surprise all right now we're gonna do a sweep dude that was hilarious yeah i saw that too like it's just like his eyes get real big oh yeah but like whatever he talks and you can tell that he's got something he's about to say like his eyes get so he gets so excited to say it it's like you're running the secret play that you never thought you'd have to run annexation of Puerto Rico. It's just a sweep. Yeah.

Get him on college. Replace McAfee with Jameis and just put him next to Saban. Oh, I would love to see him just like talking. I don't know how to happen. I don't know if he'd follow direction well because he seems like he just goes

where his mind takes him, which I appreciate. Yeah yeah I watched the boys on a plane recently and Randy's like you shouldn't watch the boys on that episode specifically and I it was an all-time bad one there was a there's like a real there was a real human centipede uh-esque thing that went down there were a couple show good nights that I had to fast forward during. I think the in-flight options if you watch them they like blur any nudity if you're actually watching them from the thing. I don't have the guts to find out. I watch everything everywhere all at once. I didn't know if the actual movie was already blurred because there's definitely some nudity. That's the chaotic movie? Kind of. There was a couple watching that movie together

on a flight that I was on and I could see both of their screens. They were two seconds off of each other watching the exact same movie. And all I could do is sit there and be like, how is the person that's two seconds behind not super pissed right now that it's somewhat behind? That's not good.

Like just catch up and just try to get it perfectly so you don't have to think about this anymore. But instead it was just like scene, scene, scene, scene. Terrible. Maybe they didn't even know each other. Maybe they were just watching the movie and they didn't want to be on the same wave. I assume they were like husband wife. That would still bug the hell out of me.

If somebody was doing that, someone started the same movie as me while sitting next to me, I think I'd have to switch movies altogether and be like, we're not watching the same movie at the same fucking time. It's like ordering an entree when somebody's already ordered it. Especially when every scene is spoiled for you because it's right next to you.

Yeah. If you're like three minutes apart. Randy, did you ever figure out a way to get the blurring to go away in Japan when you're over there. No, no, they don't have it blurred over there. It's going to ask like, is that just a thing over here? I think they have but I don't know. I wasn't really going to do a lot

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Put on by our friends over at c3. Yeah, how do how do you rate? Dua Lipa's Austin trip. She got a list from a real Austin head on this one. I mean Alan's boots has become just a a tourist Spot it's an instagram. It's I don't think it's intentionally instagram. It's very people like getting Instagrams off in there because it does it gives Texas. It's very Bachelorette party friendly also. If you go in there on a Friday or Saturday. Really a lot of times yeah like Friday afternoon it's like the first stop for people when they get in town. I'm glad that the Broken Spoke. Brady out of office that please. I'm glad the broken spoke still exists

It's a cool spot and it's like surrounded by development and they're just you know holding strong and it's a you know An old Austin staple, but I don't know anyone who goes there. Brett and I had a period of time where when he first moved here And he became my absolute that he and I would go there every once in a while and the the first time we walked in, the bartender kind of looked at us like, who are these fucking jabronis? Yeah. It was, it was, I was surprised to get that reaction because I'd been in there before with no issue. But by the end of the night, she loved us. She was pouring us pictures of beer. Like, no, no question. It has the kind of crowd to where I don't know how many know that that's Dua

Lifa. Exactly. There's no way this guy knows who Dua Lifa is. Even if someone explains she's a famous pop star, he's like, I don't know how many know that that's Dua Lipa. Exactly. There's no way this guy knows who Dua Lipa is. Even if someone explains she's a famous pop star, he's like, I don't care, man. I'm in my glory years and I'm just trying to cut a rug out here with some ladies. When they found out like, hey, Dua's coming in, do they have a guy and they're like, all right, who's going to be the one? She's going to want to do some two-step. Who's going to be the guy? Do they have a guy like he's their ringer? He's the guy who's always there and he can dance with anybody? I mean you get the guy with the uh civil war looking mustache you know like that's they got the proper guy. The short brim cowboy hat. Something about me when I go to the broken spoke

is that I don't go to the square dancing area. I stay in the front bar and I do my work there. I don't need to be in the back, you know, getting dragged out there. I'm not gonna do very well. I gotta say, that was some of the worst two-stepping, not them, but in the background. Yeah. I was shocked by how, and not that I'm a good two-stepper,

I'm not, but I thought there'd be a little bit more out there. There was chino friction going on back there. Like if you're two-stepping, you don't want that much friction. It's become a place that all these all these popular famous musicians will just stop by. If like- Casey was there.

On a weekend like ACL, if you just hang out there, you're gonna see somebody. Garth Brooks did a secret show there. Mick Jagger, everyone goes there. Garth Brooks did a show there,. Mick Jagger. Everyone goes there. Yeah, Garth Brooks did a show there. That's right. If you're in Austin during a time when someone big is in town, it's never a bad time to go to The Spoke

because it's very possible that they're going to be there and it's not a popular place for other people to go to. It's never full in there. No. Deep Eddy has the same vibe as Broken Spoke from an old Austin institution angle. And you have to wait in line to get into Deep Eddy these days. There's going to be a time when The Broken Spoke from like an old Austin institution angle and you have to wait in line to get Into deep Eddie these days. There's going to be a time when the Broken Spoke catches that flame

That's all I was saying like I don't know I don't know anyone who goes there Yeah, the only reason we started I started going there is because I knew I could walk home easily from it and it was like Okay, Western Bar where I can walk home sounds good to me. I don't think I've been there in a decade How do we feel about her little barbecue play? Barbecue is excellent barbecue. It's really good move. Excellent barbecue. I have one edit for the barbecue Sometimes I think their sides are a little too smoky for your boy But I do think it's elite barbecue in Austin, Texas. Their meat is elite for sure elite meat

Mm-hmm It's right there with tells more about elite meat Did she do that before her show or after? I think the night before. I think she did it Friday. That's sufficient. I was gonna say, you don't wanna be doing the barbecue then going out and doing ACL.

You can't do bird dens before getting out there and doing levitating. Wonder what time of day she went. And also like, what's the procedure? Like, do they have their people call ahead? Was this her order? Yeah, it looks like it. Oh, she got a little bit of everything.

Good. Yeah, they got the family platter right there. That brisket looks incredible. That looks like the New York barbecue. I appreciate her doing that. That's nice. She helped a lot. I mean, I don't know how much help a barbecue needs,

but that's cool. Based on the lines that I've waited in there, I don't think they need much. Yeah, I see him black beans No, okay, I know they did black beans instead of pinto they might have both I Don't need I got enough going on in the stomach with the barbecue I don't need beans on top of that unless they're just straight-up classic baked Not tossing any black beans on top of that. That's fair. Yeah, I don't know if I need black beans in my barbecue Can we go to the slide where she was making the drink?

Did you see that one right? She's no yeah, she seemed to put like some type of spicy pickles or cucumbers in her drink. Um Here's the thing if dual leap is doing it I'll try it if I can figure out what it was I think it was diet coke jalapeno juice and pickle juice. I Was in such Gobble my last night that like I just put my pickles in my diet cup It actually doesn't sound terrible. Well the jalapeno. I don't know if I need the jalapeno, but I'll do pretty much anything pickle flavored at this point I'm a pea head for sure. That might have been a story. I don't see it. Yeah, I think I'm happy for and she's coming back weekend too, right? Oh yeah.

I had some, I had some of the pop up on my feed the other day that I missed for Wednesday's episode, which is why it's at the end of today's episode. Do you guys mind if we dip into this real quick before we uh mosey on? Are you guys familiar with, did you guys know that last week we had International Coffee Day? Seems like we might've overlooked something within the confines of the Washington media office not celebrating properly.

Bing bong. Anytime there's a national Bing bong day, feel like we need to be at the forefront of that. But the New Yorker, they said in honor of International Coffee Day, they're remembering the 19th century French writer. I don't know how to say his name. Dylan, can you say his name for me? Where is it? Oh, um,

I can barely see it. Okay, this dude looks like such a fucking alcoholic. I love it. He does honor honor a day Ballsack You drink 50 cups of coffee a day Okay, so two things are going on here His name is funny Ballsack, but also he's doing 50 cups a day, which I think most doctors will tell you you shouldn't do How many could he do in a day? I just I just don't believe it

Why why are you questioning him dude because he's made up of the same shit? We are we're human beings We can't handle. Yeah, but you don't know anything about ball sack, dude. You've never read the magic skin You you're missing out on a key point here. This guy's cut from a different cloth That's a that's a very different cloth. He's a your skin. You you're missing out on a key point here. This guy's cut from a different cloth. That's a that's a very different cloth. He's a different breed. You've never read. 50 cups a day. You've

never read Eugenie Grande. You don't know what he's like. If I do four cups, I'm I'm tweaking and I'm a regular coffee drinker. I can't fit at three every single day. I've been drinking busy cold brew lately. B I Z Z Y and uh, and it says per serving,

they got about 303 milligrams of caffeine, and I think it's ruining me. You're telling me you're able to do that? That's a lot. I didn't use to be, like I drank so much tea through COVID that I became a caffeine whip, and now I think I have numbed my caffeine

and take so much that like I can just do it. Imagine how you would feel if you had 10 cups of coffee. Just imagine that for a second. And then then being like, I'm going to do 40 more. There's no fucking way this is true. But this is like a person that smokes like two packs a day. Like they don't even get the benefit. They don't even get the relaxation from the cigarettes anymore. Like I know they're just doing it. But like I what I was saying is i i'm a regular coffee drinker i drink coffee every single day like two cups which is not a ton but it's like it's you know i drink coffee i've never yeah but you're not a real i'm not developing like you know not a real bing bong head yeah

it still affects me i know how i know how my body reacts to this stuff. Two, I'm fine. Three, I'm okay. Four gets dicey. Five. It's real time. Okay, and then what about 45 more? It's more real time. Any other questions?

That's how you setting them off. I didn't say shit on. He's like me. I'll set you up. This guy looks like Matt Berry from what we do in the shadows. People know him. I'm not gonna lie. I'm not gonna lie. I'm not gonna lie. I'm not gonna lie. I'm not gonna lie. I'm not gonna lie. I'm not gonna lie. I'm not gonna lie. I'm not gonna lie. I'm not gonna lie. I'm not

gonna lie. I'm not gonna lie. I'm not gonna lie. I'm not gonna lie. I'm not gonna lie. I'm not gonna lie. I'm not gonna lie. I'm not gonna lie. I'm not gonna lie. I'm not gonna lie. I'm not gonna lie. I'm not gonna lie. I'm not gonna lie. I'm not gonna lie. I'm not you see, he's gripping his about to die. Well, he's but I'm fucked up bro. Did

of death back on his bulls 49 and be like one more. I one more. Keep him coming. had enough. I can see this in a bar and screaming the most sexist shit you've ever heard. This dude has sexually harassed someone. He looks like Ron Jeremy a little bit.

Oh, yeah. That's what he is. This guy walks into the bar, and you're like, this guy's going to drink straight liquor on ice, and he is going to be loud and not good. We're going to kick him out for being inappropriate. The girls at the end of the bar, they're telling, they had to go get the pounce.

They're like, this creepy guy who's tweaking, I don't know what his deal is, but he keeps offering to buy us coffee. It's a crime to buy coffee for curve now? I write about you now. I am the great Ballsac. Think Ballsac directly translates in French. Is this dude French?

Yeah, why am I assuming he's French? French writer, yeah. He's French. He's French. All right, you can just tell. Yeah, his name's Ornery de Balsak. You're French. I apologize to his family, but this dude is problematic.

Yeah. Is it possible this dude doesn't exist and yeah. This guy shows up to the function, it's time to go. He's all, he's had like 78 cups of coffee. Yeah. He's fucked up. You guys mind if I bring my friend in town or that who's in town for the weekend of the group dinner?

He's chill, I promise. He just brings a thermos of coffee. 50 cups of coffee later. Oh my God. He's won't stop drinking coffee. This dude's a real pisser. Every day. Oh my God, dude. This dude This dude's a real pisser. Every day. Oh my god. This dude walks in the bathroom and he's just spraying it everywhere. His insides are just

like begging for help. Please, please honor A. Please ball stack. Just stop. Oh my god. That dude's one dip away from his system just quitting on him. His bladder's just about to pop. Yikes. The coffee gets down in that bladder. It just starts. It starts popping off. Yeah. Yeah. Wait, is it who does the what fans do this? That's tech. Like our tech fans gonna get flags for doing crowd pops. For getting their guns up. It's an interesting double standard. What's the who what's it what does a big 12 even consist of these guys a lot of teams

Well, you are you Utah Arizona? This top had that 12 teams in like 20 years you of H And then the regular guys I'm missing anybody Arizona Arizona State, I'm more concerned about Colorado be 12. There's so many schools, Colorado, Utah BYU Cincinnati I'm gonna start an adi right? Yeah, you know what? Okay, there's a Florida school to write UCF UCF. I'm going on record. What happened now? Now that I don't have a big 12 school. I need a big 12 school. I'm gonna roll attack

Please please don't do that. Don't do that. I'm roll with tech. Don't don't roll much like dumb fucks I'm gonna force them to like me. I'm gonna infiltrate them from the inside I'm gonna get some steel-toed boots I'm gonna start with Landry square toe and steel toe All right So I can kick your ball sack even if you have a cup on it's gonna hurt You tied the entire episode together with that, you know, he did that right? You realize please don't kick my nine-year-old son in the ball sack

Yeah, dude. Hey, hey honor a ball sack. Do you want to do we're gonna paint a portrait of you and this is gonna live forever This is how people will remember you what pose you want to do. I put hand over hotly. How do they talk? He's doing that You want he's made heart attack in this picture. Do you want to know what he died from? Heart attack? AIDS. It's from gangrene associated with congestive heart failure.

So yeah. Yeah. Wait, why did gangrene? I don't know. They didn't have the... But like with the heart... All right, never mind. The advancement in medicine wasn't quite there.

I always thought gangrene was... You got a bad wound and it gets infected. Maybe so. Maybe he got in a bar and knife fight and he got infected. He looks like he'd get knifed. Yeah.

I guess bro is a pretty big deal. It's getting compared to Charles Dickens and shit. The French Dickens. Balzac. The French Dickens. Balzac. The French Dickens. Oh, Balzac. The French Dickens. Dickens and Balzac. They go hand in hand. Yeah, are these guys doing bits the entire time? I'm going to read this dude's Wikipedia page instead of his written works.

Are we going to hear it? Are we going to hear from somebody, some like French literary expert? Like you guys actually should look into some of his written works. Are we going to hear it? Are we going to hear it from somebody, some like French literary expert? Like you guys actually should look into some of his stuff. Luckily for us, Dave, I don't think we have any French literary experts who casually listen to Circling Back. Our producer used to be into French noir. Yeah. The fact that he cannot name one fucking French noir film

honestly pisses me off. He went to that, he was in College Station for that game and he didn't say a word. No, he was silent. Oh, that's right. Yeah, he went to say a word. He skipped Chartober Station for that game and he didn't say a word. No he was silent. Oh that's right. Yeah he's he's getting a Chartoberfest for the game. I thought he was the one getting like who got tweeted about. I was hoping. I actually I forgot. You could easily see Micah spouting off and then Boo Boo having to drag him out of there. His sober wife. Didn't go like he hoped it would

go. No it went the opposite. No yeah. It was it was a straight up bf. It was a bf thoroughly. No. Yeah. It was a straight up BF. It was a BF. Thoroughly. Okay. Shouts to the ballzags out there. Yeah. All right. We'll see you tomorrow for Spooky Season with noted MLB player Brent Rooker. Bye. We are coming. Thanks for watching guys!