Circling Back - Stranger Things, Ball, & Exposing Dillon | Circling Back 1-6-26

Episode Date: January 6, 2026

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Maddle Ranchos, Mattel Ranchos, and I'm at all ranchos, and Mattel Ranchos. All right, we're back. Circling Back podcast Tuesday morning. My name is Dave, and I'm just checking this year, cold call spreadsheet. for the upcoming Patreon episode that will record it to Central, two central today. You got some gas in there?

We've got some calls we're going to make. We can use some more. We posted on the Instagram and Twitter. The form you've got to go fill out, but we got some good calls. We'll make. Keep your calls in, huh? Producer Randy.

Hey, Dave. Double row backed up. Yes, that's true. I got the long sleeve and the shorts on today because it's going to be a high of 80. for today. Not cool. Not cool at all.

Exactly. It's warm. It's the opposite of cool. Yarr, it'd be the sun shining on us. I was in a full-on blizzard two days ago, Doug. Oh yeah, you were in Vegas. Vegas, baby. The price of a brick done went up with Venezuela.

The first cocaine joke for 2026 happened a minute 20 into Dylan's first podcast. You didn't listen to this. episode so now we went to brian head though did some sledding some tubing actually who's brian head is a mountain in utah and it was and you scaled it a mountain a cocaine a free solar it was dumping as the ski as real skiers unlike randy ski heads no it was dumping all right he's got a problem no yeah i'm constipated everybody dude it's it's travel it is when i was in when i was in utah So I went, I went like three days with just like little, little droplets. Don't.

I can't do that. I don't want to, I should, this is my fault. It looked like a, don't, don't, don't, like deer turd. Yeah, little raccoon turds. The three-a-time guy is constipated. It's been, without taking a normal one. It's been rectified, though. Rectified.

That's typically how it works. At the bloody storm. Come on. I hope your girlfriend's friends are still listening. Does Dylan even know about the bloody stool? Dude, I feel like that you are like sneaky, the grossest guy who does the pods here. What you're talking about?

How so? What you just said is one of the grossest things that's ever been said on the show. And I made it, I made a pretty gross one yesterday. I can't remember what it was. I don't know. Did y'all talk, did y'all talk, Randy Hartlunch yesterday? No.

Yes. A little bit. It was very. Randy, go follow at Randy Trebaki. Dylan, man. That was a cute situation. dude. Hey, buddy, if you want to talk about it, be on the show. Yeah.

We can't re-litigate this. People are mad about it. Good doing blizzards in Utah and Vegas. Was that real blizzard? Dude. Was it Reesies? It was coming in sideways, man. It was a whiteout.

Tard, just like Paul Wall. It's a total whiteout. Were you prepared with the wardrobe? Yeah. Sure was, man. Like an actual blizzard. Yeah. It was snowing.

It was snowing very hard. It was very windy. Like I said, it was coming inside. What were the dress looking like? Did they turn it upside down? That would be the dessert, the frozen treat. Yes. This is a differ.

I'm talking about the weather. He was my plunge, brother. You can't do pirate like an alien back to back. They're coming from the sky. Yeah. That's where snow comes from, man. I was talking about the aliens What a stupid four minutes of this show

Yeah, we could just reset It's a space pirate It's a live show We could reset the life show And give me your booty Did y'all miss me like at all Like not even a little bit? No, Will filled in

It was nice And he actually sat farther away Yeah That's weird No, I liked it This is You want me to do that? But also when you sat down

The couch broke It's like five times Like five times And I think he was a little bit embarrassed Like he thought like his his weight was doing that But I told him it happens to everybody I think that that seat specifically That's a tough one

Yeah I got this one pretty well dialed in Yeah You know what I'm saying Uh ladies and gentlemen back from vacation Dylan Shippery Man I'm just stoked to be back I feel I just feel like deep down in my bones

In my plums That this is going to be an excellent year For wash media Yeah, that's just how I feel. Feel free to disagree. It would be weird if I disagreed. I just think good things are going to... I just don't think it's going to be a good year.

Yeah, actually, it's going to be pretty shit. Good things are just happening, you know, and I feel really good about it. I'm happy to be here. I'm rejuvenated. I'm excited. Are you rejuvenated? A little horny about it. Oh.

Just or just in general. Speaking about deep down your plums, a prune is just a dehydrated plum, right? Yes. then why is it prune juice it's dehydrated why isn't just plum juice plum juice sounds gross you know what i don't know the answer to that someone let me know i don't know the answer to that doesn't make sense that's one i don't i have no guess for i don't do plums have the same digestive effect as a i would assume prune i don't know it hard to say let's get live live's hot boyfriend to explain it to us i see message

me. She was like, hey, I'd really appreciate it, y'all. Stop objectify. Somebody, like, somebody docks to him. Wait, actually? No. She didn't message me. She has no. No one's brought it to her attention. And if they have, she was like, it's not really worth the text. Probably not. It's fine. Like, those guys are in my past. I don't really think about them much anymore.

It's a time of my life. I look back some of it fondly, but a lot of it, like, being associated with them, not so fondly. Yeah, I get it. but that's life when you're a motherfucking frat star that's true x 2026 the year of washed media according to dylan shivery let's go mark it down um like i mentioned so we have a patreon we're going to do listener voicemails that'll drop friday tuesday we do a show and that is going to be cold calls today what's cold calls i'm new here i'm i'm friends with randy's girlfriend i've just started listening to the show hang on i'm new here dude i'm randy's like new acquaintance allow me to explain it to you go go ahead a guy who wasn't here yesterday but

is attractive yet gross we ask listeners to give us their phone number along with a prompt a topic of which they would like to discuss and from that list we choose people to call in cold call fashion during a very specific time slot i'm looking they're ready for us and hopefully they answer the phone if not we give them we put them on a black list and they're to call them again. That's not true. But we do want you to answer the phone. And it's a fun show. It's a fun show. And if you're going to put down a number of your friend, let us in on the bit and maybe we'll choose it. So if you want us to prank phone call your friend, at least let us know that we're prank phone calling. I'm going to be completely transparent. And I have not shared this

with anyone else in the company, and I probably should have. If this is not an A plus episode of cold call, I'm going to consider swapping out cold call. For what I don't know. already doing some swaps already do we want to talk about that is that video you sent me on slack something swap um just because i not that they haven't been good it's just like i feel like with the some of the calls where like the person doesn't realize that they're being called and we aren't in on it and there's like a about 45 second ramp up before it gets good i just feel I don't want it to stall momentum. Momentum in a podcast is real, in my opinion.

Oh, yeah. And I want to keep it. I want to keep it on cold. Yarr, we need to keep the wind in our sales. All right. You know, there's something to that. Yeah. No, I agree, Dave.

I'm not saying it's a, it's not a do or die. But I would like it to be a great episode. Just pick up the phone, too, you know? Yeah. From one, excuse me, from two to three central. just pick it up just answer yeah that's your slow time at work anyway it's either going to be us or someone trying to give you a small business loan because if you don't and then then randy has to go back and do a lot of editing and you don't want to make randy edit you know don't make me don't make me edit you don't want to make randy do work yeah i mean i know he's not doing much like as far as like the wires in here days back on that still the wires are still here he thought 2026 it would be i thought i was the year the tech the tech is there i don't know if somehow we're going to do We are just... I don't know if the tech is there.

Some of it could be, but not all of it. I feel like that would be bad for our long-term health. If everything was like Bluetooth and... I know that there's not... I don't know if there's any... You don't have to worry about radiation in your balls. That's what I was thinking. Wait, why?

Because you don't have any. No, I do. You cut them off. No, I didn't actually. It was a vasectomy. Yeah, that's what they do. That's not how it works. That's not what I was told.

Anyway. They took me nuts Join the Patreon I'm gonna start calling up that Are you sick of pirate voice yet? No Okay You will be

But we did spend a good like 30 minutes out in the bullpen After the episode Just all of us doing it We had a call with flounder this morning Just called and hit him up He's like hey dude go try my He's got he's representing some

Beef brand WagUX Always a salesman man And he's like go and get it's central market Dude's really good it said the try tips excellent so try it um um i want to do this weekend and fun dylan edition presented by our good friends at factor bro let's go out this weekend there's a crazy event happening i like to turn up bro there's a crazy event happening we had the party and it was lit i got yelled out by a prostitute let's just go have fun and they'd go ahead let's go let's go

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Took parks to go meet some more of Chelsea's family. He'd already met her parents, but now we met, he met the brother and Chelsea's sister-in-law and their two little kids. kid's niece and nephew started in Vegas. I thought Parks would get a kick out of Las Vegas. And he didn't love it like I wanted him to. The casinos really threw him off because he's very young. Yeah. He's like, why is everyone smoking in here and smells terrible? I get it, man. That's just what happens in Vegas. I like that he recognized that. Yeah, they put all of his allowance on black or something. He did. Yeah, he lost it. I told him, I played a little bit of blackjack. I said, whatever I went, I'm going to split it with. He goes, okay, deal. What's the rule on kids in

the casino you can pass you can walk through a casino but you can't you can't like stand there and watch a game okay so he could yeah he could he walked through it but um when i played blackjack he had a chelsea had to bring him to a different area i did not win money so i didn't get to split it with him so you charged him yeah i lost 150 bucks and i sent him a sent him a venmo request for 75 no We had dinner at Dintai Fong, aka DTF, which is a soup dumpling place inside the area, Chelsea's favorite restaurant, and that was a big hit. Parks loved that. Yeah, and then we drove two hours to St. George, Utah, a little town in southwest Utah, a big-time Mormon country, which ties into the documentary I watched that I'll be talking about in a little bit. What, you didn't have time to see the BMG in Vegas?

The B, I did not see the BNG in Vegas. No. We were there for like 22 hours. I wasn't going to spend, you know, three of those going to a show. Okay. Okay. But it's not even a show.

It's an experience. It's the blue man. It's a lifestyle. I don't think the blue man was for me. I'll be honest. It's just not for me. Wow. So you've been lying all of these years?

I don't think I've ever gone on record saying it's for me. He's more Red Man, just doing all that freaking long cut. Yeah. I'm more for Redman. Okay. Redman group. More of a method man guy myself.

I just do chewing tobacco. Yeah, we did a day, like I said, at Brian Head went to sledding up there. And that was fun. Just good time, good family time. Do you wear a helmet? No, we went, we were tubing. Oh, okay. I guess nobody gets hurt tubing.

No one wore a helmet. I would have been the only just boner doing it. So I didn't do it. did you uh did you oil up the bottom of your trash can lid yeah and go i set a speed land speed record yeah yeah i did Utah is interesting especially this part of Utah so in in the middle of st. George Utah is a big Mormon temple and it like the whole town is like built around it seemingly and it's Mormon country we did um so we did swig which is a very popular with the Mormons.

Chelsea's family is not Mormon, by the way. I don't know. Not that he's clarification, but they're not. So they're, they're like an outlier, seemingly. Do they have really good drainage? Like, I just feel like it's... Everything gets soaked? Is that what you're gonna go for?

That was the joke he was trying to go on. No, I was thinking it might be susceptible to flash floods, just given, like, its proximity. Mormon country is interesting. It's interesting. Beautiful? Yeah. Is it, is, are Mormons kind of HPO? Oh, the people.

I thought you meant the area. Oh, the above, really. I wouldn't, I wouldn't say Mormons are generally better looking than other folks. No, I wouldn't say that at all. Okay. It's just an interesting place. What's interesting about it? Everything's about the church.

Like there's, I don't know what people do for fun really there. There's not much going on. Not much going on. Not much going on. They're very nice and friendly. They do have bars, but if you make a cocktail, there's a one ounce limit per drink. So they're pretty weak cocktails. Yeah, I'll take a triple.

Which Michael would like, you can't order a triple. Yeah, well, I'll fucking bring a flask. And so Swig, like, they love their sugar. That's the place that we were obsessed with like a year or two. Yeah, we took Parks to Swig and it is really good. Do you think it was cool? Yeah, they make dirty sodas. They're fun.

Damn. There's one coming in Austin. There is. Yeah. Yeah. He think he me. Yeah. Was he double-cupped up?

Yeah. Damn. Yeah. It was a great time. Yeah, do Mormons do lean? I don't know, Rainy. Probably not. I bet that dirty soda blew his mind.

Dude, they're good. We got the founder, which is Diet Coke. It has coconut cream in it, lime. Did it steal some guy's wife? Yeah. Did it cut costs by... Did it steal someone's a burger idea? It did.

Yeah. And then become a billionaire? He did. Didn't spend money. on ice cream and did powdered milk instead what a disappointing part of that movie yeah kind of kind of a dick yeah not a good guy shots to ray crook's family good movie by the way michael keaton underappreciated in that role it's like we're the only ones who watched it we were but it's a movie i'm glad i watched yeah it was interesting with my company yeah we watched that

we watched that with the company you remember that i do it was a squad outing i think we were supposed to get some message from it. I don't really know what it was. The message was to steal your business partner's wife. Maybe. Maybe. Don't get any ideas. Do everything as a handshake deal so you don't actually have to, you know, make good on it. Tar, a handshake means nothing no more. Everything is papered up. When Randy did his hard launch, I had to announce it to everyone that I was with at Randy Hard Launch. It was a big moment. I didn't even notice it because I started getting texts from my family members like what's going on what's going on did randy who's dating the internet we're happy for you was the general sentiment among the people oh some people i know weren't happy oh they were

they're like they don't want to see randy thrive too bad 26 year of wash media and the year of randy damn yeah and producer year i hope not that would be terrible oh we did zion too i didn't mention that We went to Zion National Park, which is a 30, 45-minute drive from where her brother lives and did a little hike through there. Beautiful, beautiful, area. You see any wildlife? Yeah. They had some, they had some deer that we saw, and that was it. I wanted to see a bear or maybe a goat, mountain goat, you know, something cool like that.

I didn't see that, but we saw some deer. We see deer here, but they were cool. Beautiful. Beautiful. Yeah. I always worry about snakes on those hikes. I don't know. I don't know what the snake situation is out that way.

Copperhead. Maybe. You know, we had Viper in here yesterday. Yeah. There was a viper in here. There was. Who let it in? He's owner of the company, partial way.

He was wearing his Grateful Dead vest. Over a belly strings t-shirt. Pretty cool one, too. Why are you calling him Viper? Because he's viper. So everybody calls him. They've been calling that since high school. You didn't know that?

Are we talking about Will DeFries? Yeah, we know him commonly as Viper. That's new to me. Okay, I'll start calling him that. Did not know. This guy. Don't even know about Viper. And that concludes Dylan's weekend in fun.

Thank you all for listening. That's so sick. I already forgot about Viper. It's the first thing I thought of when we walked in today. Oh, goodness. Let's that it look like a lovely trip, man. It was a lovely trip. Did you get a chance to bust out that FitBot app?

No, sadly, as you can probably tell. Hypothetically. Now, I can't tell your eight-day vacation or eight days since I've seen you, like you haven't put on too much mass. You look fine. Well, thank you. I feel gross. Let's say you were on a trip, hypothetically.

And you were like, man, all I got is this. If I were on a trip, hypothetically. And I didn't have access to like full gym equipment, but I still wanted to get a good workout in, body weight work. I would probably dial up the FitBod app and say, bingo. All right, here I am. I'm like, I don't have a gem.

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I know what this is about. I don't think this is a big deal. Well, I told them right before he got into this. Yeah. I heard him. You gave you a little context. So it was Will's birthday on January 2nd. By the way, maybe the worst day of the year to have a birthday.

By the way, happy Jan 6th. Happy January 6th. Yeah, I almost didn't come in. Surprise you didn't take today off. Yeah. Just to kind of reflect on. I thought that video, first of all, had that video not seen the light of day yet? I had never seen it.

I feel like I hadn't seen it. Oh, it was from New Orleans during Micah's Bachelor Party. And this was the last night we were there. We went to a restaurant. I don't remember that. name of it do you we ordered a pig head i will say it was it was a underwhelming restaurant mainly because we ordered a pig we ordered a pig head and you're like what is that like it's a it's a pig's head it's a pig's head it's the entire head they just put on a plate are

getting some swill at the boar's head we thought it'd be fun to order and you had to cut through like three inches of just fatty fat to get to the meat it was just it was disgusting just unnecessary It was so gross. I did not get pighead, but some people from the table ate from it. And I think Will was one of them, actually. If even got... You always had higher standards. If Will even got to the eating portion of the dinner.

Now, I don't know if Will did. I think you put him in an Uber. No, didn't you both leave? I had to take him home. That was your out. Yeah, I took him home. That was year out. And I stayed and hung around and got COVID-19.

And so Will was kind of passing out at the table because Will goes hard. We were on a bachelor party. and yeah I videoed it what's a big deal well I think it I think that video has seen the light a day before so I felt it was safe to let to let it fly did he was he upset I guess you'll have to listen to the show bud I know that I know that you guys talked about the egg video and we almost dropped it on Sunday scary will's gonna do that we're gonna drop it on scaries and tag you in put Monday oh that would have been just pull a lat I think I did.

What happened? More so in the ribs there. Oh, you had that procedure over the break. I don't think that would have been a proper response to the video that I post. Dude, he's going to drop it on scary. Yeah. And it's just going to say like me. That's the power of house.

Look at this fucking guy eating eggs. The scariest audience would be very confused by that content. He wouldn't lose any followers. He could do it. Then if he did, it would be marginal. Who hacked the scariest account? I just see a guy eating hard-boiled eggs. On a couch, it worked.

I don't think I crossed a line. Did I cross a line? I don't know, man. It's not really up to me. Only God can judge you. I almost did the Mattel Ranchos one. Remember the one that he... Him pouring the drink?

No, no, he passed out at Mattel Ranchos. Ah, yes, that's a good one. He gets the head bobs. I've seen that one before. So I was like, I remember a, like, sleeping will. at the table video but never I know that one Will's funny when he does that because his head

is it looks like it weighs a thousand pounds and he can't keep it up the first time I ever saw it in person I think was at like Perry's at our first the first ever Christmas party I went to like 20 20. He got that into it? He was getting it was getting a little saucy. Oh yeah that's when the wives were there

and he was I sat down at the table and he was already toasted. Yeah. It's funny I'm not a pass out at the table guy I don't think I did pass out standing up at, not the Golden Nugget. Golden Something bar in New Orleans one time. I passed out standing up and I went home. I've definitely fallen asleep.

That's when it's time. I'm pretty sure I've never seen this video because Dave pointed out a very good thing. I have never seen this face before. I feel like we both would remember that. Yeah, that face is. I don't think that's a face I've ever seen you made. That's the most cocky face you've ever been in your life. Dude, you kind of look like quagmire.

Like, your face is just... Gigitty. That's so good. Oh, man. Yeah, that's, you know, I... That just means it's time to go home. In the video, you can kind of see Pierce sitting next to Will, too. You don't get the full Pierce experience, but like enough of it to, for real ones to know, like, Pierce was in the building.

Do Pierce is the best. Do Pierce. I saw him most recently at Micah's St. Patrick's Day party. Really? Yeah, I guess that's what I saw. This is 2024. Yeah. So anyway, man, anybody else you want to embarrass any other coworkers?

You want to? Man, I thought that would be well received. I don't know. It's not like he's doing anything bad, you know. He's just had a good time. And eating eggs isn't bad too. That's actually high in zinc and a little bit of protein. That tell you the crazy move I'm doing?

What's up? Bro, let's go out this week. and there's a crazy move in the kitchen happening. Oh, shit. I'm now doing cottage cheese in my scrambled eggs before, like, whisking it in before I cook them, which is not a move that's unheard of. A lot of people do this, but I have never done it. And I'm officially doing it because, well, you could probably guess why.

A, up the protein intake. You're only getting about six. If you get a huge egg, maybe seven grams of protein per egg. If I add some cottage cheese, I think I'm at a minimum adding maybe five, six grams to the overall meal, which is good. But B, in addition to the caloric intake being upped, my macros, it's also fluffing the eggs, the scrambled eggs. Is it? So, yeah. Cheat code?

It's a little cheat code, little chico. Okay, can you taste the cottage cheese? Not really. My big problem with cottage cheese is that I find it absolutely disgusting. You probably wouldn't like it, but you really can't notice it. I don't know. Well, then it's worth the show. It's worth a shot.

This guy. Hey, dude, live look at me taking shots in Utah. What the fuck? One ounce? Come on, man. Right? I think one fluid ounce is a pretty standard shot. Shut the hell up.

You know, this guy's being such an ass yesterday. What was I doing? I don't know. You're on your bullshit. But think if your cocktail is limited to one ounce of liquor. Like a margarita, you can't do like an ounce of tequila, plus some, you know, orange liqueur because it has to total an ounce, right?

Yeah. But I think an ounce is a standard drink. I don't know. I had to take that. I thought it was 1.5. It varies. I don't know. How much is that solo cup, little first ring?

That's how you know. Truly hard to say. You're probably right. I bet the chat knows. I think like a shot is like in a shot glass in one ounce. I got in a little bit of trouble when I was in Utah. because I sat down at the bar and the bartender

he said, you want more to drink? I said, yeah, but that's the problem. The more I drink, the more I drink. Oh, yeah.

And he's like, hey, you're done, man? You done with me closer? I said, no. The more are you drink? The more you drink? I said,

no. Mm-hmm. I said, I ain't drinking anymore. And he reached, he reached for my, and I thought, but I ain't drinking anymore.

Oh, man. That's good saying. Yeah. Yeah. You got to get out. We got to play golf sometime. Who's the scary. there.

What? Billy Joe. We saw the Toad on Friday. What a treat. We saw the Toad and Heasy. And D. Mack. D. McKinley. Wow. What a squad.

They were playing like in the group ahead of us. The Toad wants to play. He reached out. He said he wants to play. Sign me up. Golfing with the Toad. Does it get better? Probably eating some bananas too. Oh, yeah. know about that get get bananas from the halfway house not did uh dude so well you weren't there you

don't know toad did will meet toad for the first time was it the first interaction ryan met toad but well will might have met him passing okay but yeah it was it was uh the chapter was well represented don't get no better than toad man no ryan's like man he's big dude i was like yeah sad i missed that damn right he is he's the toad he's a lovable giant. So in conclusion, if we want to wash- drinking any less, Randy, what don't you understand? I get it. It's not clocking to Randy. If we want wash

media to start off on a good foot this year, I think we need to release the egg video. That's what I... Let's do it, dude. That's the conclusion that we have reached. You can't, you won't have this hanging over your big ass head. I don't want it out. It's so underwhelming. Why it isn't matter? Because it's like an idiot. I'm just on a couch eating eggs and for some reason. Get it out of the way. My friend decided to record me. Get it out of the way.

Someone called them the Eggstein files in the chat. It has, it's been released before. It was up for like 20 minutes. Yeah, you deleted it. Yeah, because I don't want it out. You redacted it. I'm going to log in and then you mean to delete this video. There's no payoff for this video.

The payoff will be actually great for you because it's out there. Yeah. You don't have to worry about it. That's not a payoff. It'd be like if you had a secret that, I don't know. And you've been, you were like, I hope nobody finds out. And once it's out there, it's like, oh, laid off my shoulders. It's, there's no, there's nothing I'm trying, it's not a secret, you know.

You have a secret egg video. Yes. Jeffrey Egg. It's still like a skeleton in my closet that, you know, is going to get released. It's a skeleton in our, our camera roll. It's not a skeleton. Tur. He's a skeleton.

It's a skeleton. I think I just need better friends. Go to Utah Convert I will say my Mormon friends in high school were extremely happy Well I have nothing against the Mormon people

I'm sure they I'm sure about that Because you said some slack videos I said I don't know what like what they do for fun But they have their own versions of fun You don't have to drink to have fun You could play a Nerf and stuff In the town there's like nothing to do really

Hiking except go to church church, hike, golf, shoot hoops at the local hymnacio. Yeah, who ever thought about shooting hoops? You ever shoot hoops at hemnosio? Yeah, I have. That's fucking guy. I heard Duda like, swat your shit out of the gym.

He did back you down. Oh, fucking shit. I got video of him taking you to the wreck. Imagine that guy backing me down. By the way, Henry from Stranger Things, Vecna, is John Duda. No one's talking about it. You always gave me a little Fulton vibes,

Fulton oil and gas. Yeah, it's John Duder. When he has those glasses on, come on. You're right. I know. We'll get to that in a minute. What do we have to do to get you to convert to Mormonism? Look, it's just not going to happen.

Okay, it's either egg video or converting to Mormonism. I don't think, I don't think. Do you think it's a bad thing? No, no, I don't think, no. Because it's kind of like, what is, what is? I respect all religions. All of them? Yeah. Church of Satan? Do you respect it? Is there a church of Satan? Because I don't think

there is. Okay. Are they tax exempt? That's, they should be under our current structure. I don't support Church of Satan. What about Scientology? Are you going to convert to Scientology? No, that's Will. Will's the Scientologists. You convert to Mormonism and I'm vibing. Yeah. I'm just going straight up Wiccan. I'll go Buddhist or something. You know? Why not?

Yeah, you know, I respect them all. I took the magic rituals and religions class at Texas State. I did too. And the professor was like a real, like, he was real edgy. He was like kind of a Hunter S. Thompson type. He could tell. He's, he liked teaching the class. But when he was like, when we got to Wiccan, he was like clearly like had an agenda and he was like describing the religion.

He's like, these are people who are you? neighbors and they're your best neighbors they keep their yards clean and they're very nice to you it was just I remember being sitting there being like what do we do what is Wiccan again Wiccan's like pagan us Wicin's like very uh is it's like a branch paganism no I mean there's like I think they believe in like the deity of the earth yeah it's very it's very witchy and very oh witchy not in like your not in your boy double double boil in trouble boil in trouble in trouble. I saw my, I saw a drunk Shakespeare. That was cool over the weekend or yeah. It doesn't count. It doesn't count as what? Whatever your list is doesn't count. It does

because it was sick. It was actually pretty funny. It was too close quarters. Yeah, it was very intimate. It was like a hundred patrons and then like the people performing, but it was really funny. It looks, I've heard good things, but what did you at all like feel like they were going to like call you out? Like you're going to become part of the show? I did. The people they did call out, they were in their face like too so i was like oh man this would be very awkward but they didn't call me out you got nothing they're just like what need to be a part of it that would be that's all i would think about is like oh god please don't hello they made super over the top at the mothership like one of the comics like just like held eye contact with me for more than like two seconds and i was

like fuck oh no like i don't really want to be part of this they're like oh what do you do for a I'm like, oh, podcast. Oh, an awesome guy of the podcast. Oh, wow. White guy with a podcast at Austin. He's got a mustache and a hat on. Look at him. And I was just sit.

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Concern with your play, call 1-800 gambler or visit www.n. www.n.n.combing.org in New York, call the 24-7-Hopline at 1-8778, Hope N. NY, or text Hope, NY, 467, 369. The guy never shuts up. A little sneaky ball talk? Yeah, dude Citrus Bowl Yeah

I was watching that Mostly on my phone Because we were traveling During it Arriving in Las Vegas Uh Arch dude Had himself a fucking ball game

Are people still surprised At the dude Just like straight up fast And just a really good athlete Um I don't know I think Because he had

Well, he had, it's the Florida game. Yeah. Yeah, that was an ugly game. I don't know. Yeah. Yeah. I really enjoyed that game. Arch looked amazing without a lot of offense, the guys on his offense that were out,

either entered the portal or just sat out, just did look or got hurt, actually. man i just you know tray wisner going to florida state i saw that okay interesting i'm afraid that texas let too many guys walk because i don't know the portal's gonna be so his his buddy parker livingstone that's like his boy

their boys why didn't like break them off or something like i don't know what the hell happened there man so reports are that uh he was offered somewhere in like the 500 500 k range and he was like no i'm worth more and so he he split and kind of stuck it to texas on the way out with the statement i don't know what's going on there but he is he just visited oklahoma i don't know if you saw that that i he's going to want to rethink that because they famously rolled their joints all wrong yeah yeah was like arch just like leaving the dishes undone or something like that was that part of the

problem yeah he was just he was just he would just apparently they were just straight-up boys the kid grew up with soap and never do anything with us the kid grew up a texas fan too like they There were pictures of him as a kid just like decked out in Texas gear. I don't know what's going on there, man. That's a weird situation. Yeah, we're mid-portal season. And Texas has some work to do what they want to be good next year. Go ahead, dude.

Get your licks in on tech. Say what you're saying in the group chat. What was I saying? No, I would never reveal that. All your jokes. All your, uh, tech. I don't want to say. The word exposed gets thrown around way too much in college football.

I don't think they were exposed exposed, but you're definitely seeing a team that plowed through a pretty weak schedule. BYU toys. Bad matchup for BYU. And then just got stomped out by working, man. I didn't put up any points. I did not see that coming. Here's what I said to my friend Astet guy who texted me about it.

He goes, I guess your hate watching has gone even better. Who is Aztec guy? Astat guy. Astat guy. Sorry. Gark. I was very confused.

Yeah, more of my end. This is what I told him. I said, look, I know you're disappointed, but. Y'all were texting about the game. Yeah, we were. I didn't know you're on a texting with him. Oh, yeah. It's funny that you're texting with a guy you previously muted.

I like him a lot. I just don't like when he trashed his text. This is what I said to him. I said, look, this is year one of the Texas Tech Big Spend era, right? year one because Cody Campbell and all that oil money, they bought Texas Tech a really good roster and they performed extremely well. Obviously, got a first round buy in the playoff. A great season for Texas Tech. This is year one of that era. Considering that, considering that the alumni base and Cody Campbell's, the pockets are still very deep. They're off to a great recruiting start for

next season already. They've already landed Brendan Sorsby in the portal. quarterback from Cincinnati, they're going to be, they're going to be back. They're going to be back. Their schedule next year is piss poor. They're going to cruise their way to the playoffs next year. They will be back. So like, you're probably a lot to look forward to.

Optimism should be sky high in Lubbock, even though that finish was very disappointing for them. Defense held up its end of the bargain, but man, Oregon. Shut them down, man. You know what? I have not been right about a lot of things, but if you've, if you've listened to me over the last three weeks, if you are the husband of one of the Majan wives and my wife's crew, when we're talking ball, which is kind of what we do, it's kind of what you do. You find the guys who you can talk ball

with, and those are the guys you gravitate towards in the neighborhood parties, right? Sure. I said, dude, I really like this Oregon team, and they're getting healthy at the skill positions. Decorian? Decorian. It didn't even have to. do anything uh like one or two catches um but dude their fucking their d line came to play which uh they had morton in a blunder but man texas tech was scared to step up texas tech wasn't just winning they were destroying teams yeah Oregon's a really good team although Oregon definitely lost the uniform battle it was a terrible that could have been a great tech looked great and they're black and red and then Oregon came in with the like the monster

energy can, like the white monster colors. Yeah, they did. And he's like, dude, what is this? Yeah. This could have been like a really good day. But let's go ducks. I'm rocking with the ducks. Hey, was there any part of you in Ole Miss when Georgia got the whatever happened there at the end with the safety and Georgia got the ball back and they got that last play? Were you kind of like love Brett. Happy for Ole Miss. It's a great story. They deserve this. But it would be kind of funny if they lost on this. I thought it would be pretty funny. I hate to admit this, but because of my travel,

I didn't watch a single snap from that game. It was hard to watch. I hate to admit this, but I'm very mad at you right now. Because that play was, it would have been, it was, it was just incredible. It was so hard to watch that, like, no one knew what was going on. It was just bad, bad way to end the game. I don't understand. Brett was saying, like, they didn't even go for the ball on the on-side kick.

And Brett was like, well, I didn't even know that no time would. go off. I'm like, if you recover a ball on the ground, I would automatically assume at no point with the clock start. Like, that just seems kind of clocking. I don't know. Yeah, it seems like kind of logic. I was just watching it. And it's one of those plays where they're like throwing it, you know, doing the throwing it backward. And like, it went on for a little bit longer than you'd like if you're an Ole Miss fan. You're like, um. And I was just kind of like in that moment, I just totally was like, ooh, this would be good content if this is how it went down. But, um, oh, Miss man. would have thought that of all the SEC teams

this year, the Ole Miss would be the one to make it to the semifinals. Yeah. I mean, Georgia, Alabama, A&M. Yeah. We're all there. Pretty wild. Indiana, though. Dude. Do I fucking love Mendoza?

They're fucking good. I want him. Boo. I know. Sorry, dude. I do like, that was my first time hearing Mendoza talk. I'm like, okay. Like, he's a leader of men.

They're the only. I believe, correct me if I'm wrong, the only first round by team to win their first playoff game. Yeah. By the way, that looked too, it appeared to really hurt tech that they hadn't played a game

in like three weeks. I think it was even more than that. Maybe it was not longer than that. Yeah. Yeah, no, you're right. And that kind of lets you know like how well coached they are. Yeah.

That's my ball take. Dude, Signetti, he's a dog. The memes have been good. I'm glad he's getting the good the proper memeage. The McAfee video where he's like It was weird seeing McAfee from behind

Right before kickoff. Yeah. Why was that weird? He's like this dude is so confident in his team right now. That was before kickoff. Yeah. That's so tight.

Yeah. I don't know who was announcing but on Miami won they're like the first double digit team to go into like the quarterfinals, semi finals. I'm like, haven't they just been doing this tournament

for like five years? Like that doesn't seem like that big of a deal. The 12 team format is this is what year, this is just year two? Yeah. So it was like, I was like, okay. Thanks for that. History has been made, Randall. Well, part of that, don't you understand?

I don't know. I'm trying to think that there's been any other noteworthy ball stories. I just think it's cool that the teams left are teams that haven't been there. Oregon has never won a title. That's true. Indiana is Indiana. no offense but they're you don't think of them as a football powerhouse offense them oh miss have they ever won a national title maybe like in the leather helmet era i don't remember

and then the fourth team Miami Miami of course it was really good the guys in the in the 20s talk like that because you don't associate like deep south guys like nah i don't know it's always just like mobsters from uh Chicago in New York. And Miami, of course, has like a very strong history. The 90s and the 2000s, they were very, very good. But of late, you don't think of them as much of a threat. So it's an interesting group of teams.

Miami's won some titles. For definitely. Is Michael Irvin doing too much? Yeah. Like he's doing, like, and I say this as a Michael Irvin, he's a Mount Rushmore. Dallas Sports for me, obviously. But, man, he just doesn't have to, it doesn't have to all be about him.

There's a little bit like, just take it back just a bit. He's a little look at me when he's on, he's on all fours on the sideline. I don't even, like, what are you doing? Have you ever watched a game like that? No. You're more of a look back at it guy.

I usually just sit my ass on the couch. I don't get on all fours, but if it works for him, he's taking his belt off and spanking a brick wall. Yeah, belt to ass. built a wall built a wall build the wall what what you guys talking about that hell right now what Dylan gonna make mexico who's gonna pay for it who's gonna pay for it mexico and they're like no we're not it's dumb what happens um yeah i mean i just like when there's like

a player getting interviewed after the game like he doesn't have to go over and like it's like hey man you'll have plenty of time to we know you played ball here dude yeah we're we know it's nice I'm happy for Jimmy. He's cool seeing Jimmy there. Oh, I didn't see it. Oh, Dylan checked his watch. He's telling me, I need to stand up. Why don't you fucking do it.

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How about that? Let's just call this an overall entertainment seg. Including the doc that Dylan watched. That is a video he sent me. And I have not watched. Is this you personally? Yeah, go ahead there, Bob. Yeah, Stranger Things. Stranger Things. You did watch it.

Season 5. I watched it. You finished it? Yep. Yeah, so there were going to be spoilers if you haven't watched yet. So I guess mute if you're on live or, you know, skip forward. Did you guys talk any of it yesterday? No.

None? No, we did not. Overall thoughts? You might have any overall thoughts? I think overall season 5 was really bad. coming back at it the writing was bad but i still enjoyed it and i really did like the finale but i thought the the writing was really really bad it seemed like every single piece of dialogue was either exposition explaining how they're about to do a plan or it was some touching heart to

heart it was like there was nothing else but that how many conversations have the group had where they're all just trying to figure out a problem and then someone just has an epiphany yeah we should do this this is what's going to happen yeah they hear a word and then they take a little they take some or like some objects around the room and like, this is this, this, this, this. They keep this. It's the same. It is the same format over and over and over again. Steve's plan for piercing the, um, abyss with the tower from the upside down. It was the most like, what? What? I was like, okay, I get it. And then as soon as it was like, oh, what if there was no like gap to the other world, the abyss? Like, they were off center.

I was like, yeah, you guys completely just like, I guess, banked on that that you would be able to get up there was a lot that had to go right plus he involved a slinky yeah the probably that was just a nostalgia play the slinky really didn't make any sense there was a blatant a lot of blatant product placement in this season it was like really bad i saw in the first i thought the morbid the obese kid eating doritos that and sure dude delightful day raid and there was like ritz a Kleenex all the it was just it was kind of annoying in that regard another major criticism I'm seeing is that Holly Wheeler was like a nobody character throughout the first

four seasons and then was like the star basically with a new actress mind you was the star of the final season I didn't mind that so much she was she was very young in the other seasons yeah I think people thought she got way too much on screen presence which I agree with but then some people were just mad about like all of her like part and like all that happened I liked her story I was like the stuff that was happening between and her, Max, were very important to, like, learning more about Vecna. Totally did not mind that storyline at all. I enjoyed it.

Didn't have a thought of, like, I'm getting too much Holly and Max. Now, I was like, how long are they going to be wandering through the desert here? But it was, it ended up being pretty good. People were dogging her acting. And maybe there were some not great acting. But I thought Vecna, Henry, the guy that played that, he did a phenomenal job every single time he was on the screen. Duda? Yeah.

You know what I didn't like about his story? storyline, which is like everybody's storyline, basically. I didn't like that there is a play on Broadway that provides context that I am not privy to because I don't have access to that play. Explain, I don't know what you're talking about. So like the guy with the suitcase, you learn much more about him and what's in the suitcase, among other things. And I'm just like, I don't like that there's people who have more information because they know about this.

play or went to the, I don't, it's just, that annoyed me a little bit. Which I was seeing stuff on TikTok before, like, the, even the second volume. I'm like, oh, I didn't know there's a play. Me too. People already knew about how Vecna Henry got his powers. So you got to know why he was, you could kind of piece it together, but like, why he didn't want to go in the cave. But was that this play's own interpretation of what was going on in the show or did it

actually tie into, like, the writing of the show? I think it's canon. So I think, like, it ties in. So whenever they were, like, going through Henry's mind and there was, like, the hallway in the high school and you saw like young joyce handing out the you know the play stuff that i think that whole era is what the play is so that's weird that that was unexplained in the show too like wait do they just not know that they went to school of vekna they were mainly just doing that so that they can get people involved in the play i think is that that that was the reason why that

those scenes were in the the show was because it ties into the play nothing much more than that um the 11 sister car is it carri collie collie callie callie callie a lot of people really hating on her i i yeah because people hated that episode dude yeah that was wild that that is like the most hated episode of all stranger things and for them to bring her back like i get why no i thought i'd have been i thought i'd have been weirder if they didn't bring her back in some capacity because it's like otherwise that season two would have been like kind of meaningless see that's funny because you just watched season two like a month ago yeah whereas me who watched you like forgot about i didn't i would not have batted an eye yeah i was not thinking that at all

a lot of people wanted to forget that episode um try to think what else the pregnant women that's the big thing on instagram like so what happened to them like yeah people are saying that but also the whole point of l sacrificing yourself and stopping the cycle was to like end it all so it's like they weren't going to save the pregnant women that were ideally like having kids with with superpowers like they were going to have to sacrifice them to to close the loop like i don't understand people's criticism with that the whole point was the l and to stop the cycle of superhuman kids they were going to have to get rid of all the so you think like the unborn babies and their mothers they needed to go is what you're saying that according to ell and collie interesting i don't think so what's your email

Randy at washedmedia.com I just people are playing that out as like a plot hole and like oh we're just going to forget about them like that they were trying to end that whole cycle and they were unfortunate casualties in that in that way wow I didn't think season five was as bad as people are saying

I thought it was fine I thought the finale was a proper finale I really liked it I liked how they wound it up I saw some people upset they're not upset they landed the plane we didn't need to know we they thought they gave maybe me and you were talking about this like they gave all the characters too much time to like instead of doing a montage like where are they now yeah it was like 30 40 minutes left in the show i didn't really mind after vectna died and then it's like i was wondering how they're going to fill that time and that was because you know these

kids like they grew up together obviously like not just the actors but you know the kids on the show and they've been dealing with this crazy monster world for you know a good chunk of their childhood so it was like an emotion you know i get it while they did all that it was a little not cringe but it's a little much for me i think but also problem is they have so many characters that like they want to give as many as possible like you know where they're going to go i think i thought it was a good job and and i think leaving open to interpretation whether l's alive or not was kind of nice she's in new zealand backpacking but she she's dead like i think that's very obvious that that's just like them accepting like

like a reality that isn't true. I believe she's still out there, but in reality, she's gone. Because if she were still out there, why wouldn't she reconnect with them? Yeah. Because she's like, I'm,

there are people are still looking for. She's got to get off the grid. That was, I don't really like how the, and I did see some stuff on this, but it was just funny how, after all that, Hopper, everybody,

they do all that shit, all those dead soldiers, all that stuff. and it's just like, you guys can go for me. Yeah, L's not here. It doesn't matter, you guys created, like, it was high treason, but, you know, see ya. Yeah.

You guys did a lot of bad things. Yeah. There's mowing down, like, members of the military. Yeah. Mowing them down. Mowing them down. That's more of, like, a suspend disbelief. I really like that they went into Vecna, like,

oh, you're just a vessel, too, and, like, trying to be like, let's get them on our side and then not doing that, because I feel like that's been such a trope. like let's turn the bad guy into the good guy and get him on our side for like them to show that he tried that and vekna being like no i'm i'm the bad guy here made the decapitation yeah easier also did the town of hawkins did they know about any of this ship that was happening or they all thought there was an earthquake and they think that there was an earthquake and then all that

the polyps or like the dust that came out from it that's why the whole thing was quarantined because it was like we don't that's what the military is saying is like we don't know what all that dust that came it could be like a contagion so they didn't know they just thought it was an earthquake and that something came up from the ground and they were just in the dark i was glad the teacher got involved though that was cool that was good um now the elephant in the room yeah you've even you've been you've been the room of this all thing the room of goo oh oh what the fuck was that i don't know they didn't really explain that too well that scene just went on And on.

Jonathan and Nancy just really just, they love each other, but they're just not right for each other. What was it just like the walls melting? What was it? Also, this room is made of goo, Dylan. But what was the goo? It was goo. And the mat, that matter thing was just melting the walls and stuff.

But it hardened. Yeah. It did. Because it just stopped going crazy. While Jonathan was unproposing. And breaking up. That was a breakup. I did not realize that the Duffer brothers had to come out and be like, yeah, they broke up.

And I did not think it was a breakup. It was vague. I thought it was vague. I thought it was pretty clear. Oh, yeah. I thought it was definitely like, okay, you guys, no one, first of all, nobody breaks up like that. Yeah, I thought it was more of like, hey, I was going to propose to you, but we have some stuff to work on. They were talking about how, yeah. I thought it was pretty clear, but whatever. I mean, it was like, I was watching it. And honestly, I was like, thinking up tweets. It was kind of one of those, look at my phone and do something else things. These are two of the weakest characters in the show. I don't really care what's happening. And also, like, we know that she's going to. And also, like, we know that she's. getting a spin-off so the whole final fights yeah you know they're together in real life yeah why is she getting a spin-off I don't know she's getting a spin-off and like so that whole final scene when she's like I'm going to be the bait I'm like like well we know you get a spin-off so it's not

like this is any high stakes here also she's just absolutely nasty with the with a fully automatic rifle somehow dude she was mowing down the elite like Delta force yeah what's going on fucking put her taking down like have heard of Venezuela man

it was fucking ridiculous how good she's at with that topical reference you see what you did yeah yeah will's gay yeah will's gay that was it was building up to it the whole season and like I'm very glad that they did not do it in the finale that it was like they did it right beforehand

it was very dramatic it was very dramatic and it because he felt that his his secret was going to expose no matter what so he's got out in front of it but see there you maybe you could learn from will yeah you want me to come out of the closet we no i want you to post egg video oh okay vchna would be just in your dome sexuality is your egg video

if vekna is going to expose all my skeletons so he had to get out in front of it and stop down he had to get the get the squad together and be like here's the deal it was such a dramatic scene yeah so i get i get the point it was like he didn't want to be fearful of anything and then like with that he was able to open his mind and you know control himself and be able to be more powerful in his mind space to control Vecna. I get the point of it. It did just like drag down for like seven episodes. And then you were texting me.

You just don't agree with his lifestyle. Is that right? I've been really, unfortunately, enjoying the memes of people putting in like Jeffrey Dahmer. That and like Jeffrey Dahmer in the 80s. He was like, no, Will's going out of it again. Have you seen those ones? I've not.

I've seen, this is one of the most mean things of the last, like shows. like content wise it has dominated my algo so that's why i knew about the play yeah people thought that uh he was going to milwaukee after the episode like the season because apparently the the fictional city sounded like Milwaukee that uh mike said so they're like wait he's a gay man in like the nine early 90s in Milwaukee like oh no but Jeffrey Dahmer he's a famed serial killer infamous i should say but i think he ended up in new york i think both him and his brother end up in new york Um, yeah. What happened to Robin's girlfriend?

I think that she just like when she was doing her last speech on the airwave, she said something about overbearing partners. So I'm assuming they're still together. They just never showed it. I thought, okay. I liked her character. Robin, not the girlfriend. She provided some, a little levity. Yeah. Emphasis on little. Oh, this is the biggest one where I like was like, really? When did the Wheeler's mom just become a total badass? I've got some real issues with the logistics of her plan to the three Dima Gorgans. Yeah, in the laundry room. I'm like, what was she thinking?

Like, how did she think that was going to go? It was also like, how did she even know? Because they came over to the speakers and said there's a demo here. Like, they were speaking in code. And she never knew what a demigorgon was. Also, her husband, just somewhere getting, just hanging out in that hospital. No one cared. Yeah, did he still here.

Do we see him at the end? Yeah, he was at the grandkids. the graduation but it's like nobody even like mentions him like none of the kids are like i wonder how pop is yeah so i mean i enjoyed it i still liked watching it there was just some very not yeah i was like honestly like it's science fiction though you have to suspend reality for a bit to really dig into the plot line listen to this guy which is listen to this guy you know it's sci-fi man but yeah i really hope that clip that that actor that does that did vecknon henry like he gets more work

because I was, every single time he was on screen. He was, he was very good. Played a good creed. I thought 11 was good. I thought 11 was good. A lot of people were,

what is it? She was doing? The lip fillers? So she was like, mauging and just. Her mogging face? She clearly had, yeah. She mewing.

Mewing, yeah. She clearly had some stuff going on with her face. Yeah. I thought the scene were, were Hopper unloads and on the tank. I was like, that's a fucking good ass.

That's a good scene. I was like, that was such a brilliant move by Vecna, all that. Classic Vec. You know the Vec, dude. What was a good move by him? But, like, going in the Hopper's mind and, like, getting him to, like, shoot the tank and disrupt everything that they were doing there. That's old Jeffrey Vexstein.

I must have missed that. No, you know that scene. Well, she's in the tank with... Vecta controlled Hopper? Pretty, he, like... Yeah, where he was, like, shows himself in the room. Yeah. He, like, pretty much tricked him.

He, like, showed Hopper, his, like, dying daughter and then, like, showed him that, like, El was going to die and then pretty much pretend, like, he was in the room, I think, and then, like, he shot at him. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. And went through him. That was, I was like, uh-oh, how are they going to get out of this one? Yeah. So you said tank. I was picturing, like, a military tank. I don't remember that at all.

No. Yeah. The bath tank type thing. But, yeah, it was good. Elle's definitely dead. I think they made a big point to show us that the. like little hedgehog sonic devices were not pointed at her and people have also pointed out that collie would have like been at the epicenter of that explosion so she would have died first

and she wouldn't have been able to do that you know elusion yeah oh so like yeah it's pretty much them just saying like this is what we're choosing to believe as a non dungeons and dragons guy I had to just kind of go with what they're saying about the spells and stuff yeah yeah fine He seems a little convenient. Did all the D&D references clock to you? Yeah, but they kept on making sure that they said that Will was a sorcerer. And I've seen other people say this, and I agree. He's more of a warlock than his sorcerer.

I've been telling you that. I think back in those days, those, like, those classes didn't even exist in the 80s. They were just like magic users. It was the class it was back then. More of a warlock, really? Yeah. Warlock. All right.

But, I mean, it was good. Do some warlocking. I enjoyed it. It was a very good way to wrap it up. Shouts to them. All right, let me talk real quick about this documentary since I already teased it. Oh, yeah. Let's talk about it.

It's called Evil Influencer, the Jody Hildebrandt story. I saw some trailers from this on Netflix. I was downloading shows before my flight, and I was like, oh, this is number one on the show. It's got to be good. It was really interesting to me because the whole story took place in Santa Clara. Utah, which is exactly where Chelsea's parents left. So I was like, oh, fuck, this is like, I just left this exact spot. But yeah, centers around the Mormon church. And this woman, Jody Hildebrand grew up in the Mormon church. And she became an influencer, basically,

and wrote books and recorded podcasts and like videos. And she was a psych, not a psychiatrist, but like a family counselor, basically. And she counseled couples and families. And it was, really weird because one of her biggest things that she did was like separate families so if a man was like she'd have these one-on-one like therapy sessions with them and she would they would confide in her like yeah I watched porn and she's porn was a big a big topic because she's like oh well you're you were a sex addict even as like you watch porn once in the year like you're a sex addict and so she would convince these families that the dad who who admitted to watching porn would have to leave the family for over a year like just separate them like you have to go figure

your shit out meanwhile i'm going to look after your family while you're gone um but it starts off this little kid who's like 11 or 12 years old walks up to a house rings a doorbell this old man answers it he's like oh what's going on the kid has duct tape around his his arms and his, his ankles. And he had been, and he also, like, really emaciated, like, starving, basically. Is this, like, actual footage? The actual footage. Okay.

So, like, a ring camera or something? It was a ring camera, yeah. And so this woman, Jody Hildebrandt, had, like I said, convinced the dad to leave the family. And, meanwhile, two of the kids and the mom of this family were living with Jody, and they were basically like torturing these kids she said they're deviant and they don't like they did so she would just punish them by like tying them up and starving them it was fucking disgusting it was really really terrible but it was just super interesting to me because i was like just there and so i you get like a feel for like the culture there and it was just fucking bizarre and this woman's in prison now

and so is the mom because they literally tortured their kids it was just fucking weird man and Ooh. Yeah. I was hoping this is going to go a different way. Like, she was like sleeping, she was like breaking out the families and sleeping with everybody. There was, well, there is speculation that this woman and the mom became a couple because they started sleeping in the same bed together and they would close the door for like five hours and emerge from the bedroom. And she's like, oh, Jody saw visions, like what, now we know what God's supposed to, like what we're supposed to do because God talked to her kind of thing. Do you think anyone's ever referred to you coming out of the bedroom is emerged

I don't emerge from he emerged from his slumber it was it was bizarre and dark and ugly and and this is not the pain a brush over the you know the Mormon culture is like they're like that this is a sick fucking woman what she

locked up uh I don't know what her true story I fell asleep on the plane the last like 10 minutes of the show but she but she is in prison I don't know how long for and that's that man it's an interesting watch

an interesting watch for sure she is in jail oh damn she will not exceed 30 years she also lived in a $5 million like compound in Utah and she basically she charged a lot for her services

like helping these families they would just it was nuts so what did the dads do and they got separated they just go golf and shit i don't know but they brought the dad in for questioning they brought into the you know police department and they were like he was last time you've seen your kids and like he's there's like it's been over a year and like they explained to him that his son is emaciated and had been tied up and had been tortured basically and he was just he just like broke down he had no idea and the shit was going on it was awful am you hear that randy i hear it did you have you watched porn in the last year because you might

be a sex addict in 2026 you have to separate you from those hands fucking guy all right well fun show yeah we'll see uh 2 p.m. central for cold call make sure you're monitoring those phones and you answer those answer it submitted a thing just answer it bye bye bye Thank you. Thank you.